Chapter 5: Against the Gods Summary Chapter 0 to 10
On Divine Secret Mountain, Cloud's End Cliff which is one of four most deadliest places on Azure Cloud Continent, a youth who was bruised all over was surrounded by a dark crowd of people. Crowd was addressing this man as Yun Che and they were demanding some Sky Poison Pearl from him. Crowds were shouting words of justice and righteousness. The crowd consisted of the hotshots from strongest clans of Azure Cloud Continent. Yun Che laughed on the crowd seeing their desperation to acquire Sky Poison Pearl. He disdained this crowd. For him all of them are sly, filthy and hateful. There was a Justice sect in this crowd who killed his teacher for the greed of this pearl. He was hating himself for not being able to destroy this Justice Sect in whole seven years. Yun Che was raised by his master. Yun Che doesn't even know who his real parents are. His master named him Yun Che, in hope that his heart would be as pure as clouds and as clear as water; so that when he grows up, he will inherit his craft as a healer to rescue the dying and cure the injured with a heart void of corruption.
His teacher can cure all diseases or trauma with the help of this treasure Sky Poison Pearl hidden in his body. But this pearl can also be used as poison. He taught everything to Yun Che too but his secret treasure was exposed somehow. Then he gave Sky Poison Pearl to Yun Che and ordered him to escape. While he stayed behind he was killed by major sects in hope of robbing him from his pearl. When Yun Che received news of death of his master he was broken, he cried for days and hatred filled his heart. He no longer practiced the medical stuff from pearl and instead absorbed the poison from the pearl. He wanted only revenge now. After seven years he has currently mastered the poison and began his revenge. He killed countless people by spreading poison in thousand of miles. Whole Azure Cloud Continent was in panic and horror. This started the hunt for Yun Che and he eventually got cornered.
Suddenly Yun Che swallowed Sky Poison Pearl when he was cornered by everybody and dived to free fall in the valley behind him after mocking everybody that they are unworthy of killing him. Only regret in his lives were that he was unable to find his biological parents and his inability to take revenge for his teacher's death. He held a silver pendant in his hand which was only thing found by his master when he had found him as baby. He closed his eyes while falling in endless dark abyss.
After some time he regained consciousness and was surprised to see that he is not dead. A girl called him Xiao Che and showed exclaimed expression on seeing him awake. By first glance she seemed to be only 15 or 16 years old. Yun Che unconsciously spoke two words towards her, "Little Aunt?" Girl asked him whether if he is feeling uncomfortable anywhere and Yun Che shook his head. She told Yun Che to rest well and she will go to inform Grandpa about good news of his waking up. She informed Yun Che that when he has fainted his grandpa went crazy and personally went to Dr. Seto for him.
After girl was gone, Yun Che checked his memories and found that he is in Floating Cloud City which is located in one of the Seven empires of Profound Sky Continent. He was the only grandson of the fifth elder in the Xiao Clan and is 16 years old. Suddenly, his memory overlapped with Azure Cloud Continent's 20 plus years of memory and he felt confused. He doesn't know if he was dreaming about Azure Cloud or he got dead in azure cloud and took over body of Xiao Che. But he felt everything original in both memories so he can't tell what's true and what's false? He tried stabilizing his brain.
He recalled that today it was his wedding day, he put on the red robe and ate porridge prepared by Little Aunt and then lost strength in his body and then woke up now. Suddenly he smelled something strange and figured it out as Murdering Heart Powder which is a colorless and odorless poison, as per the memories of Yun Che. Due to Sky Poison Pearl in his body he is impervious to any type of poison too. Now his memories started getting clear and he understood that he has reincarnated in a dead body of Xiao Che. But then how is he having antitoxin ability. He checked his body and found an circular green imprint on his palm which looked similar to Sky Poison Pearl. He looked towards mark and subconsciously whispered, "Sky Poison Pearl". He felt dizzied and His entire world flooded in green color which was a wide and open world inside Sky Poison Pearl.
After his swallowing the pearl he crossed over in this world together with pearl which became part of his body now. He tried exiting green world and was successful. He felt excited and thought that maybe even the gods couldn't watch his suffering of the two lives, took pity, and gave him a chance to live again. However his current body is only average which could be said as epitome of weakness. Although he is from noble birth, being the grandchild of strongest Fifth Elder Xiao Lie but he still was unable to level up his cultivation from eight years and is stuck at level 1 of Elementary Profound realm. Dr. Seto examined him and told the reason for his paused growth. He is born with damaged profound veins. He became laughingstock in entire Xiao Clan. Only his grandpa dotted on him. The reason for his murder attempt today with expensive Murdering Heart Powder is his wedding with Xia Qingyue. She was also 16 years old like Xiao Che, however her strength is at 10th level of Elementary Profound Realm. She was just one step away from Nascent Profound Realm. She is an unmatched genius in 100 years of history of Xia Clan. Xia Clan has high hopes that she can become first person in their clan's history to reach Earth Profound Realm or even Sky Profound Realm which is unseen in entire Floating Cloud City. She is also claimed to be topmost beauty of Floating Cloud City. Therefore it was natural that all male youths drooled over her. And it was obvious that her marrying with the trashiest son of Xiao Clan must have made countless youths jealous.
Xiao Che sighed saying women to be root of troubles, but he was secretly happy that this can be said as nice beginning with such a beautiful and talented woman in this new life of his.
Someone entered his room. Xiao Che asked her if his grandfather is back. She was Xiao Lingxi who was daughter of Xiao Lie. Moreover she was one year younger than Xiao Che at 15 years of age. She was charming beauty with 6th level of Elementary Profound Realm but of course she was incomparable with Xia Qingyue. But for Xiao Clan she was still a good asset. Before she can answer his grandpa came in. He felt relaxed to see his grandson fine. Behind him was housekeeper Xiao Hong and number one doctor of Floating Cloud City - Dr. Seto. Xiao Lie told him to let the doctor check himself to ensure that there is no problem as today is his wedding day. Being an experienced man, Xiao Lie was also suspicious about Xiao Che's sudden collapse. But doctor couldn't found any problem and claimed him to be in perfect health and joked that probably he got way too excited for getting married with number one beauty and that's why blood rushed in his head making him faint. Although it was not visible from his words but Dr. Seto was contemptuous towards this marriage too. Xiao Lie was happy and told Xiao Hong to escort Dr. Seto out respectfully. After they left the room Xiao Lie once again confirmed from Xiao Che that he is fine as he still was suspicious that excitement can't make him faint. But Xiao Che didn't revealed the murder attempt towards him and said that he is fine. He was very impressed by this grandpa of his who dote so much upon him.
Xiao Clan consists of five elders and although Xiao Lie was fifth one but still he was the strongest of all at border of Spirit Profound Realm 10th level. He was fifty five years old but all his hair are snow white. His only son Xiao Ying who was also the father of Xiao Lie was number one genius of Floating Cloud City. At twenty three he had broken through Nascent Realm and entered True Profound Realm making him pride of Xiao Clan. A month after Xiao Che was born someone attempted to assassinate Xiao Ying. Few days before this assassination he had saved Xia Clan's daughter and during this rescue he was forced to use his profound power and maybe that's why he couldn't fend off the assassins that came few days later to kill him. He drew his final breath during this assassination attempt. His wife was broken with loss of her beloved husband and she also left her physical body to meet his husband in heavens. Nine months later Xiao Lingxi was born. Xiao Lie didn't told about the sad news to her wife who was pregnant. After her delivery, she also suffered pain and depression from news of losing her only son and died. These three simultaneous deaths of his son, daughter-in-law and wife caused heavy blow on Xiao Lie's heart making his hair white overnight. He has not been able to find the murderer of his son till now which is another burden on his heart. He put all his hopes with Xiao Che but he got damaged veins which paused his cultivation permanently and this was yet another sad event in his already pitiful life. Still Xiao Lie never showed any kind of disappointment or anger on Xiao Che. Instead he is always searching for ways to repair his veins.
To Xiao Che his grandfather is greatest, his eyes brightened as he has got meaning to live this second life. He is after all successor of a medical saint and capable of healing his broken nerves himself within three weeks as long as right medicine is found. His grandpa took his leave to prepare for his grandson's wedding. After Xiao Lie left, Xiao Lingxi showed unhappy expression on knowing that he fainted because of beauty of Xia Qingyue as she felt herself inferior against Qingyue's beauty. But Xiao Che made her happy saying that if this was the reason of his fainting then he would have fainted his whole life as his aunt accompanies him everyday. They got engaged in idle chatter and suddenly there was knock on the door by Xiao Hong. He asked Xiao Che to come out as it's time to meet his bride. Xiao Lingxi hurriedly helped Xiao Che dress up.
Today he was going to marry Xia Qingyue but he knew that she has no love for him. It's just because of agreement between their fathers Xiao Ying and Xia Hongyi, or otherwise she wouldn't even give a glance to trash like him. Only people that are nice towards him in whole world are only his grandpa and this little aunt Xiao Lingxi. In childhood she followed Xiao Che everywhere and used to cry whenever he goes missing from her sight. But after growing up she knows the meaning of being her aunt but still she likes him and train daily in hope to become stronger and protect the weak Xiao Che.
Although Xia Qingyue is about to become Xiao Che's wife but she would remain something that could be seen and not touched as per assumption of Xiao Che. He thought that if he had married his aunt instead then it would have been a perfect combination. When she was arranging his hair he kissed her lips suddenly. Xiao Lingxi got startled and scolded him. Xiao Che reminded her that when they were kids then they used to play Kiss Kiss game but these days she get shocked whenever he try to do that again. She preached him that they aren't kids anymore and she is his aunt. He is about to be married and allowed to kiss only his own wife Xia Qingyue in future. Xiao Che stubbornly asked that what should he do if he can't control desires to kiss her? She angrily retorted him that he should have married her instead then. In future if he dared to steal a kiss again then she will complain to his wife and get him punished from her. Meanwhile housekeeper Xiao Hong called for Xiao Che again as they are getting late. Xiao Che started moving towards exit door but Xiao Lingxi grabbed his hand and asked him to repeat the promise they made yesterday. Xiao Che remembered it from his memories and sincerely repeated that promise to her. After his marriage he won't forget her little aunt just because he has a wife now. He will spend same amount of time with her like before. He will present himself to her whenever she summons him. After hearing this, Xiao Lingxi praised him as a good boy and urged him to add another thing to this promise. Although Xia Qingyue is about to become his wife she cannot take higher place in Xiao Che's heart than his little aunt. Xiao Che didn't declined but told her to kiss him first for this promise. But she retorted him and defended her by urging him to marry her instead for her kiss. But it was impossible for him to do so as she is his aunt so he felt defeated in this argument. Xiao Hong's hurried voice sounded again and Xiao Che went towards door but turned around and said that there is no need for such promises as she is already number one in his heart and even 100 Xia Qingyue's can't replace her status. She felt very happy after hearing this. Xiao Che also exited from the door.
Xiao Hong addressing him politely as young master urged Xiao Che to get on the horse. He also told him that he will be protecting him along the way. Xiao Che thanked him addressing him as Grandpa Hong politely too. But suddenly two youths arrived on the courtyard congratulating Xiao Che for this marriage. They were Xiao Yulong and Xiao Yang. Xiao Che's eyebrows furrowed but asked them calmly whether they are here to see him off?
Xiao Yulong was son of leader of Xiao Clan. He was top talent in every aspect within Xiao Clan currently. His cultivation is Level 3 of Nascent Profound Realm at 20 years age. His father Xiao Yunhai is proud of him and considers him as future hope of Xiao Clan. He is not arrogant and treat others politely and kindly. He never mocked Xiao Che for his disability too. And Xiao Che also admired this man for his kindness. But these feeling were from previous Xiao Che.
Xiao Yang was second elder's youngest grandson who is currently 19 years old and at Level 9 of elementary Profound Realm. He followed Xiao Yulong everywhere and listen every command of him. However he was not kind towards Xiao Che. Whenever Xiao Che striked conversations with him he either ignored him or talked arrogantly with his nose held high.
Yulong replied Xiao Che, "Of course. Since you have the chance to marry the treasure like Xia Qingyue, your brother here is very happy for you. Of course, I am also envious and ashamed as well. Hahahaha."
But Xiao Yang changed the tone of the conversation to mocking by his comment, "Brother Yulong cracks such a funny joke. With Brother Yulong's talent, the entire women population of Floating Cloud city is yours to pick from."
Xiao Hong was experienced and he smelled the trouble so he urged Xiao Che to immediately leave on excuse of getting late. Xiao Che understood and nodded. The wedding escort team rode towards Xia Clan's home through courtyard with beating drums and gongs.
When Xiao Che disappeared from sight of Xiao Yulong he slapped Xiao Yang with such force that his face swelled like balloon. He immediately fell on the feet of Yulong and told him that he has done his job perfectly and added the Murdering Heart Powder in porridge of Xiao Che. And he has received news of collapse of Xiao Che earlier as well. He is not sure himself that how is that guy still safe and sound even after consuming the poison.
Then Xiao Yang suggested that its still not too late they can instigate other nobles who covet Xia Qingyue to attack Xiao Che along the way. But Xiao Yulong retorted him saying that if it was that simple then he shouldn't have spent so much for acquiring Murdering Heart Powder. Although Xiao Che himself is nothing but his grandpa is strongest in whole Floating Cloud City and nobody will dare to provoke him by attacking his grandson. Even Xia Qingyue's father didn't object to this marriage due to existence of Xiao Che's grandpa. Moreover Xiao Hong is personally guarding him along the road.
Xiao Yulong was seething in anger but he was helpless. On seeing Xia Qingyue for the very first time he swore to make her his woman but his own clan's weakest member gets to eats swan's flesh instead in front of him. How can he remain calm? Xiao Yang consoled Yulong once more that Xia Qingyue's doesn't shoot her glance to even most handsome and talented youths of Floating Cloud City then how can she be interested in Xiao Che. She is just being forced for this marriage by the agreement of past and thus she won't let that fool even touch her hair. Moreover boss (he addressed Yulong with respect) can meet her daily after her coming in Xiao Clan. He will get more chances to impress her than nobles from other Clans. Xiao Yulong was impressed by this and thought it as reasonable point.
Floating Cloud City is actually smallest city of Blue Wind Empire. The residents mock themselves for the size of their city. It is more appropriate to be called as town instead of city. However city was lively today. Although no one cared for Xiao Che but wedding of Xia Qingyue's can be said as biggest sensational event of Floating Cloud City. Xia Clan specialized in many businesses and was very wealthy. Xia Clan has two children - Xia Qingyue and Xia Yuanba but they were never interested in inheriting business and instead focused on cultivation. Xia Hongyi (father) never opposed this decision of them. Everybody knew the talents of Xia Qingyue so in future when she will make her breakthrough to Earth Realm then Xia Clan will become most dominating force with both wealth and strength. Xia Clan has prepared a long red carpet for welcome of their groom from Xiao Clan. Xiao Clan's wedding team appeared. Various mocking whispers from crowd entered the ears of Xiao Che. Some were mocking him and some were pitying misfortune of Xia Qingyue. Somebody even recited the helplessness of Xia Hongyi who was bound by the promise with Xiao Ying.
Xiao Che was unfazed towards those comments and was instead smiling. Countless girls lost their hearts as their eyes misted in adoration of this man as Xiao Che was very handsome if not powerful. He rarely went out so his skin was delicate and very white and appear like living doll. Due to his low appearance rate nobody knew about his appearance from this crowd of girls before. Xiao Che heard few positive comments this time. Wedding Procession was moving at normal pace. When they saw main entrance of Xia Clan someone shouted, "Brother-in-law" from Xia Clan. He was Xia Yuanba, little bro of Xia Qingyue. He was fifteen years old with Level 4 of Elementary Profound Realm but was so strong physically that he could fight on par with Level 6 Element Realm Experts. He was also the best and only friend of Xiao Che outside his clan. They often played together as kids. He was often bullied for his dark skin in childhood by others. He is 15 years old too but he has very strong physical body of monstrous proportions with very tall height. They exchanged pleasantries with each other and then he urged his brother in law that bride is waiting for him. At door he greeted Uncle Xia (Xia Hongyi) who was there to welcome him with smiling face. Xia Hongyi reminded Xiao Che that he is not his uncle anymore. Xiao Che corrected himself and addressed him as Father-in-law politely this time. He always respected Xia Hongyi as he was sworn brother of his father. Xia Hongyi never mocked him for his disability of damaged veins in past too. Moreover even after knowing his disability he has upheld his promise with his father, for marrying his daughter to him. Xia Hongyi praised Xiao Che and encouraged him that he is son of Xiao Ying, and in future he won't remain ordinary person. He also asked him to treat her daughter well and ignore nonsense of the jealous people. Xiao Che showed determined looks and declared that he will soon heal his profound veins and then rise as a sleeping dragon awaking from a dark abyss. He will make everybody shut up who are thinking him as wastrel today. Xia Hongyi was surprised by sudden outburst of Xiao Che. He appeared totally different today. Xia Hongyi felt happy by confidence of this kid and told that he will be waiting for this dragon to resurface and also reminded him that bride is waiting. He went inside. Xia Qingyue was helped by two bridesmaid. She was dressed neatly and appeared like Fairy with her bridal dress. Xiao Che stretched his hands towards bride to help her bring towards bridal chair. Xia Qingyue lifted her hand but when contact was made between their hands piercing cold energy was transferred to his arm and he felt sharp pain which froze his hand. However he remained calm and didn't show any expression showing that he is in pain. The chilling cold energy soon disappeared. Xia Qingyue was surprised but still remained cold. Xiao Che took his seat on his horse and wedding procession went on. The Xia clan's wedding team followed in direction of Xiao Clan. Xiao Lie was stationed at Xiao Clan's entrance this time to welcome their guests. Most of them were for Xiao Lie and Xia Clan and didn't cared much for Xiao Che personally. After some ceremonies bride entered the main hall of Xiao Clan. All members of Xiao Clan were present including the leader of Xiao Clan. They didn't showed on face but they were disdainful towards Xiao Che as their clan is famous for raising powerhouses but Xiao Che is the trash in terms of strength.
Xiao Che didn't cared much about ceremonies or disdainful glances of others. He was still contemplating about the cold power used by Xia Qingyue on his hand which immediately immobilized his arm. He was unable to figure out what that mystifying power was even with memories of this world? Bowing Ceremony was being carried and after bowing towards elders, this is the time for bride and groom to bow towards each other. Everybody especially male youths were expecting to see Xia Qingyue making a scene and showing her disapproval for marriage. But she bowed towards her husband and proceeded with all ceremonies normally as if this marriage is not forced upon her. Finally wedding ceremony came to end and everybody congratulated fifth elder but a wise person can immediately figure out that its not a heartfelt congratulations but a mocking instead. Xiao Lie didn't get angry and thanked everybody for their congratulations.
Before leaving the hall, Third Elder bragged about his grandson Xiao Chengzhi reaching Level 7 Elementary Realm. Xiao Lie got little angry at this as this was day meant for his grandson wedding and yet they are bragging about their grandsons achievements here. Atmosphere was getting weird so master of ceremonies Xiao De hurried with remaining wedding process and told bride and groom to proceed towards their bridal chamber and rest of the guests were told to move towards banquet hall. The small room of Xiao Che was decorated today which will serve as bridal chamber today. Xia Qingyue's maid escorted her inside and made her sit on the bed and then left the room. Xia Qingyue remained silent and motionless. Xiao Che also didn't approached her and stood at the doorway. Xia Qingyue striked the conversation after some time by asking whether he is upset for his grandpa getting disrespected during his own wedding? Xiao Che didn't replied to her question and instead suggested her to remove her phoenix coronet instead as it's too heavy and wearing it for long will cause discomfort to her. Generally husband should do this stuff but Xiao Che was too prideful to touch her again. Xia Qingyue removed her coronet herself. Xiao Che was stunned by her beauty and praised her that her reputation precedes her. She retorted that "But you are not the same as rumors say." She praised the state of mind of Xiao Che as he can stay calm even after usage of profound power by her who is much stronger than him. He remained calm even after getting mocked in his own clan's hall. Xiao Che was surprised that she can see through his state of mind so easily. Xiao Che also had suspicions that maybe this girl is also reincarnation of somebody just like him after seeing her mystic magical arts. Now she has seen through his mind and heart in very fine detail. Suddenly Xia Qingyue touched his chest and a cool aura spread in the body of Xiao Che. Soon she took her aura back and reported to Xiao Che that his disability is not natural and someone has directly destroyed his profound vein instead. Xiao Che exclaimed at this as grandpa and everybody said that he was born with damaged profound vein. Xiao Che was shocked too by the abilities of this girl. Xia Qingyue told further that earlier nobody noticed this maybe due to heavy damage in them that time. But it was repairable that time, but now when he is grown up its not possible to repair it. Xiao Che showed confident looks and replied to her that he can definitely fix them. Xia Qingyue took her words back on seeing the confidence of Xiao Che and blamed herself that she was rash and ignorantly made her previous claim. As the Profound Sky Continent is vast and probably there may be someone who can really fix his vein. In these few words, her impression improved in heart of Xiao Che dramatically. Now Xiao Che took the effort and asked her about her icy cold powers as they don't appear to be from Floating Cloud City. Xia Qingyue after few moments of silence replied that they are called 'Frozen Cloud Arts'. This sounded familiar to him and he linked them with 'Frozen Cloud Asgard'. She nodded that her master is indeed from Frozen Cloud Asgard.
The only person who knows about this secret is her father and now second person is Xiao Che and she told her this to show her respect for him as his wife.
Frozen Cloud Asgard was most powerful sect out of four major sects of Blue Wind's Empire. All the four major sects (Heavenly Sword Villa, Frozen Cloud Asgard, Xiao Sect, Burning Heaven Clan) were not something ordinary people of Floating Cloud City can hope to even see and yet this girl got selected there as disciple of the topmost sect.
Xiao Che calmed himself after knowing this important secret and asked her that why doesn't their family reveal this to outsiders as people will come knocking their doors to curry favors after hearing such accomplishment of their clan. She replied that, "It's because of you". The entire Floating cloud city is in uproar just after knowing her identity as Xia Clan's daughter. If she had revealed her identity as Frozen Cloud Asgard's disciple then this matter have caused huge uproar in all other powerful sects too as difference between both of them will become too vast. Xiao Che asked then why had she married him then? Then she sincerely told that she respected her father 'Uncle Xiao Ying' a lot for saving her life when she was kid. Also she is the reason of his father's death too somehow as if his father has not used his profound power to save her life then he could have easily survived the assassination attempt on his own.
She revealed another fact that as disciple of Frozen Cloud Asgard she must remain pure and uncontaminated for her whole life. Although they are married due to promise of their fathers, she can't love anyone in this lifetime.
Xiao Che didn't mind this and calmly said that even if she wasn't a disciple of Frozen Cloud Asgard he didn't have much hopes from receiving love from her. Xia Qingyue explained that he is misunderstanding her and she doesn't despise him or look down upon him. She further showed her down to heart character by saying that she has just started her journey and don't have right to look down on others as per teachings of her master. Xiao Che was impressed by this girl even more now. No wonder why Frozen Asgard showed interest in her, her state of mind is exceptional too just like himself. Xiao Che asked her to reveal her true cultivation levels to him as he believed that this girl is more than what she looks. But this time she didn't replied him signifying that doubts of Xiao Che are indeed true and she is hiding her cultivation. She changed the topic and told him to go for the toast. Xiao Hong called him for toast too from outside and he exited the door.
When Xiao Che was gone another beautiful woman in white robe who was Qingyue's master arrived in the room and asked her if she wish to return to Frozen Cloud Asgard now. But Qingyue replied her master that she will stay for a month here otherwise her husband will suffer even more by endless ridicules. She doesn't want to hurt her husband by leaving immediately and she also won't allow others to make fun of her husband during this time. Her master nodded and praised for the kind and compassionate heart of Qingyue and gave her time of one month to deal with her new family affairs. Also Qingyue asked for the cure of his husband's disability but her master didn't knew about any cure for that. White robed lady told her that she shouldn't worry too much as even after one month her secret of being Frozen Asgard's disciple will be leaked out for sure when she will leave Xiao clan. And then her husband will gain a new identity of being husband of Frozen Asgard's disciple too. And then at least Floating Cloud City people won't dare to harm him. After some more chatting, both master disciple said their goodbyes and white robed lady left.
In Main Hall of clan, guest house was fully packed. Xiao Che respectfully presented a cup of wine to his Seventh Uncle Liu. Uncle Liu accepted his glass and gave blessings to him for happy marriage. Then he moved towards First Elder. Elder Xiao Li didn't said anything but accepted the glass from Xiao Che giving him some face. Xiao Che didn't said anything himself and moved towards next table, but before that he heard Elder Xiao Li spitting and then ridiculing him, "Such a delicate flower has now been inserted into poop. Bah!" Xiao Che remained calm and moved towards Second Elder and offered him cup. He called his grandson Xiao Yang to help him finish this wine. Xiao Yang drank it himself instead. It was a sort of humiliation in Chinese culture. Xiao Che didn't minded this as well and continued but again he heard taunt from Second Elder calling him trash. Xiao Che pretended to not hear his taunting and moved on. Finally the toast was over and Xiao Che sent the guest out with smiling face. Only a few hearty congratulations were received by Xiao Che and rest were all showing disdain, anger, jealousy and contempt.
Xiao Lie patted Xiao Che's shoulder and told him to go and rest. He showed a gentle smile. But he was calm for the sake of this grandson of his otherwise when he was young he was famous for his bad temper. No one dared to provoke him that time. He try to endure and control his temper to the best of his capability and this way there won't be any enemies that would come back to get revenge on his grandson after he had passed away.
However the current Xiao Che is not the same timid person anymore which his grandpa remembered. This new reincarnated Xiao Che is best in remembering favors and never forget his grudges too. Xiao Che smiled and declared in his heart, "You guys.....will be sorry...."
After this he went towards bridal chamber acting like a drunkard who is under effects of alcohol. He even rubbed some wine on his face to make his body feel smelly. He earlier collected wine in his Sky Poison Pearl to show others that he is drinking. He opened the door and entered and looked towards Xia Qingyue and said, "Hehehehe, my wife… I have let you wait for a long time… let's go… we can now… use the bridal chamber…" Qingyue simply waved her hand and cold force erupted and blew off Xiao Che who directly crashed outside the room. He fell in the courtyard on his bottoms. He blamed her for using so much force as he was just joking around. He went towards door again and tried to open it but it was sealed shut. He became depressed seeing that even his jokes are being taken so seriously by his wife. After long waiting in cold night the door was not opened yet by Qingyue. If it was some other day he would have slipped in her Little Aunt's room but today is his wedding day so it is inappropriate for him to go anywhere else. After some time he got urge to kick the door but this time he found that door is already open. He dashed inside and shut the door. Xia Qingyue declared that he is not allowed to come near her to five steps of distance. Xiao Che mischievously asked that where will he sleep then? She simply offered him to sleep at bed and stood up to sleep on floor. But Xiao Che refused her suggestion immediately as he is a man afterall. Even if this girl is 100 times stronger than him he can't let a girl sleep on the floor while he himself is sleeping on bed.
After sitting at a corner of room for some time he got bored and asked again from Qingyue if he has to really sit there whole night? She didn't replied and turned off the lights. Xiao Che got angry on this and thought of jumping on her but remembered that it is impossible for him to do so as he is a weakling. He continued chat by revealing that he didn't even took one sip of wine and was just joking earlier and she has no sense of humor. Xia Qingyue coldly replied that she knew that but she hate men who defecate and urinate anywhere. Xiao Che was startled as he thought that while he was pouring out wine from Sky Poison Pearl she must have misunderstood her as urinating instead. He tried to explain her that he never did such uncultured and filthy stuff at all and he was just pouring wine out there. He continued explaining more and more to show his innocent and pure character but suddenly he was flabbergasted on hearing Xia Qingyue saying, "I was joking too". Xiao Che cursed her and almost spurted out his blood. This woman really knew how to joke around. He felt helpless and depressed, and went back to corner of room and became silent. After some time he asked Qingyue that when will she return to Frozen Cloud Asgard? Xia Qingyue didn't replied in surprise towards this question. Xiao Che continued and told her that he know that Frozen Asgard's disciples are not allowed to marry and they have surely made exception for her due to her talents which should be unmatched even in the disciples present over there too. He revealed few other secrets of Frozen Cloud Asgard that shouldn't be known to a commoner like him. Xia Qingyue didn't talked much but revealed that she is here for one month only. Xiao Che thanked her as he understood that Xia Qingyue must have asked them for this month or otherwise they won't delay training of such precious gem themselves. She replied that there is no need for thanks but she was shocked to know that Xiao Che could make out so many things on his own even when she didn't provided him with any hint of her leaving. And everything he said was truth. Xiao Che continued chat and told that earlier he has thought her to be someone who will mock him like others or ignore him. But he was so wrong and she is not only top beauty with talent but also has a kind heart. She praised her to be flawlessly perfect. Qingyue remained quiet. Xiao Che again urged that as she is so kind she shouldn't let her husband sleep in corner whole night especially on their wedding night. He also told that his bed is large enough to accommodate two persons. Before he could finish his words completely cold murderous aura filled the room and Xia Qingyue shouted that if he continued spouting rubbish then she will again throw him out. Xiao Che immediately shut up and returned to his lonely corner. Suddenly Xia Qingyue noticed someone outside and alerted Xiao Che. But the footsteps sound started going far as if whomsoever was trying to sneak in towards courtyard changed his mind.
Xiao Yulong couldn't sleep whole night. Xiao Yang came inside his room. Yulong asked him how is it going? He reported that Xiao Che doesn't seem to have been locked out. Yulong was disappointed hearing this news. Xiao Yulong decided to check out himself that his Xia Qingyue is still pure and untouched by wastrel like Xiao Che.
Back in bridal chamber Xiao Che still didn't sleep and was instead checking his palm which was giving faint green light in the darkness of the room. He has used up all poison power within this pearl to wreak havoc in entire Azure Cloud Continent. He couldn't feel the usual toxicity of this pearl as if its poison has been sucked dry with overuse. Today's Sky Poison Pearl only had the most basic of detoxification, refinement, and fusion capability and apart from this it can be used as storage. If the powers of this pearl get exhausted then there's no way for him to rise up as his profound nerve is damaged. So his first priority is repairing his nerve before Sky Poison Pearl lose its powers. He has to destroy his old profound vein and recultivate a new one for this and that will require three items. He asked for Xia Qingyue if she is asleep addressing her as wife. She angrily retorted him to call her by name not wife. But he continued calling her wife and asked, "I have something to ask." She retorted again to call her by name. But again he teasingly called her wife and asked, "Wife, after you go to Frozen Cloud Asgard, are you able to obtain the Seven Profound Gem Grass, a Purple Veined Heaven Crystal, and a beast core of the Earth Profound Realm?"
Qingyue immediately opened her eyes after hearing name of these three objects and asked him that what does he intend to do with them? As Xia Qingyue didn't rejected immediately Xiao Che believed that she must have a way to acquire these items. But she told him that even her master can't acquire these three items as she never heard about Seven Profound Gem Grass. Second item requires killing of Earth Profound beast to obtain his core but there are only few people capable of doing this task in entire Blue Wind Empire or even four major sects. And third item Purple Veined Heaven Crystal can make even experts from four major sects go crazy as it is a priceless immortal treasure. She again asked what's his purpose of acquiring such items? He honestly replied that he can heal his damaged vein with them. She declined flatly that she is not capable of helping him as she didn't believed that even after acquiring those items healing his nerve is possible as if it was possible her master should have told her earlier about such method. Xiao Che told her that he was just casually asking her for those items as those are difficult to obtain. He again asked her that when she leave for Frozen Asgard will they be able to meet again addressing her as wife again. This time she shouted loudly not to call her as wife. Xiao Che shamelessly started preaching her that he is her husband and she is her wife, they have bowed to each other and gone through complete wedding ceremonies, so if he can't call her wife then what shall he call her? Xia Qingyue got speechless at this and after some pause told him, "Whatever, suit yourself." He repeated his question again that will he be able to see her again? She flatly declined, "NO". Xiao Che told her that its really good and she should leave immediately so as not to delay her training. He also said that she doesn't need to worry about him as he will gain more fame after revelation of his wife as disciple of Frozen Asgard and nobody will dare to provoke him at least in this Floating Cloud City. She coldly replied him, "As you wish..". He continued his teasing and said, "Mmm, this is more like it, since you would never see me again. If you do not let me get a concubine, I might really divorce you." Xia Qingyue kept her calm even after having continuous urges to kick this man out of her room. After this he went towards door. Qingyue hurriedly asked that where is he going? He replied that he can't sleep and is going outside to watch stars. He was cursing in her heart that this woman should try to squat on the floor and see if she can sleep or not. He went outside towards middle of the courtyard and started thinking about healing his vein. He thought that even if he had acquired those three items success rate is only 50 percent in repairing of his vein. To add to the problems with his current ability its impossible for him to acquire even single of this item. Suddenly he felt throbbing on his left hand and saw glimmers of flashing faint lights from the pattern of Pearl on his palm. He turned his direction towards north. There is another ability of Sky Poison Pearl and that is to sense nearby toxic medicinal herb ingredients but with prerequisite of being a high quality. It will tell direction towards its target too via flashes. Even on Azure Cloud Continent this pearl flashed six times only and every time he found rarest of the most exotic treasures. This is his first day in Profound Sky Continent, the Sky Poison Pearl is actually so restless. The direction given by pearl is north which is Xiao Clan's mountain. His own courtyard was located at one of the dangerous location out of all Xiao Clan's properties because over his courtyard walls were the mountains. Occasionally low level beasts climb over walls to reach his courtyard. Xiao Che didn't hesitated and climbed over the wall. Xiao Che arrived at the foot of the mountain after following light's direction for some time. Now his pearl was shining with highest frequencies which indicated that treasure is within ten steps range. However this place must be frequently visited by Xiao Clan's pharmacists then how can the herb still remained undiscovered? Xiao Che's vision felt on a large mass of weeds and a weed growing at the edge of one rock there. There was a small chasm hidden in between weeds. The hole has the area to grow only two blades of grass, but that grass didn't seemed ordinary. They appeared for a second and then disappeared. Under the faint green light of pearl they appeared again. He recognized the grass as 'Star Concealing Grass' and was really excited. He recovered them from soil and held them in hand. Generally its hard to harvest herbs as risk of damaging them is high but with pearl's effects it was a piece of cake for him. He had found only one Star Concealing Grass in Azure Cloud Continent in his entire twenty four years of his past life but here he found two of them on the very first day at his own clan's mountains so easily. He was very excited and felt himself really lucky. The existence of this herb is known only to five or so experts even in Azure Cloud Continent and refining it is impossible without Sky Poison Pearl so that's why it was unnoticed by Xiao Clan till now. These two heavenly treasures can help him survive even if he dared to rob or kill people. He sent the two blades inside Pearl's storage. He turned to go back home but suddenly he saw an obscure white shadow.
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