709: Chapter 474 709: Chapter 474 The red-clothed woman was not a cultivator and was very curious about how practitioners went into seclusion.
However, when she arrived at Tang Feiyang’s courtyard, she was stopped and could not enter the specific room, only able to wait in the living room.
Servants brought food and drinks to let Miss Table wait comfortably.
The red-clothed woman observed the living room; there seemed to be no change at her cousin’s place.
During the wait, she could only drink tea and eat.
She even had the impulsive thought to sneak into her cousin’s room while the workers weren’t paying attention.
She actually found an opportunity.
After sending the workers out, she pretended to be well-behaved, eating and drinking, while secretly glancing outside the window.
Seeing that the workers were not looking her way and no one was guarding the living room, she considered that she had come to her cousin’s place many times.
There was a door in the living room that led to her cousin’s room.
The red-clothed woman tried every means to get through this door, which was not marked as “in seclusion”.
She had seen how her cousin opened the door and mimicked his method.
There was a mechanism, and upon opening it, one could enter.
When she opened the mechanism and entered the room, she didn’t see her cousin.
His room was as plain as any other man’s, decorated simply.
Besides the bed, there were some furniture items that made the bed seem like it hadn’t been used for a long time.
The red-clothed woman looked around the room.
With her cousin not in and in seclusion, she figured his room must have a secret passage, but she hadn’t gotten through it.
The secret passage was just her assumption!
In her search, the red-clothed woman couldn’t find the secret chamber even after an hour.
At first, the household workers didn’t pay attention to Miss Table.
It was almost lunchtime when they noticed that she was not in the living room.
The doormen also said that Miss Table had not gone out, and the workers started panicking and wondering, thinking of the door in the living room that led to the young master’s room.
Some workers opened the door and found Miss Table right in the young master’s room.
They knew they were in trouble for not keeping a good watch over Miss Table.
If the young master’s secret was leaked, they could be punished with wooden sticks or expelled from the family.
In their fright, they pulled Miss Table out of the young master’s room.
“I won’t leave; I want to wait for my cousin, I want to build my cousin,” she said.
Two workers each took one of the young lady’s hands, intending to drag her out forcibly.
“Miss Table, please, don’t make things difficult for us.
Just because you came into the young master’s room, we’re already going to be beaten with sticks!”
The red-clothed woman was unmoved by the workers’ pleas: “Serves you right, if you drag me out, I’ll tell my cousin, and you’ll still get beaten with sticks!”
The workers couldn’t care about so much anymore.
Failing to keep watch was, to them, scarier than offending Miss Table.
They stopped arguing with Miss Table and forcefully carried her out.
“Let go, let go!” The red-clothed woman was lifted up and carried out of the room, with hatred and resentment in her heart, and her hands struck the others.
The workers, hit by the red-clothed woman, silently endured and took her back to the living room, then locked the door again, standing guard like Door Gods.
“Hmph, when my cousin comes out, I’ll make sure he punishes you!”
The red-clothed woman, unable to enter her cousin’s room, stamped her feet in frustration.
The knowing maids outside quickly served lunch to Miss Table and went especially to inform the young lady.
Upon learning of this cousin’s arrival, Tang Feiyang’s sister was reluctant to meet her and also didn’t want her older brother’s cultivation to be disturbed.
She had no choice but to come to the living room of her older brother’s courtyard.
Seeing the red-clothed woman, she rolled her eyes and said:
“Cousin, how come you didn’t get invited into my big brother’s place?
My brother is a man; don’t you have any shame?
Moreover, if my brother really liked you, he would have agreed to your family’s marriage proposal by now.
It seems my brother doesn’t like you at all!”
Tang Feiyang’s sister sat down opposite the red-clothed woman and spoke provocatively.
The red-clothed woman was indeed angered.
She didn’t believe that her cousin didn’t like her; loving someone was just a matter of time.
As long as she put in the effort, she was sure she could make her cousin like her.
She rolled her eyes at her cousin and thought to herself that if one day she truly could marry her cousin, she would definitely teach this girl a lesson, letting her know the consequences of offending an older sister-in-law.
Thus, the two women gave the guarding guards a taste of how venomous a woman’s quarrel could be, belittling each other to no end.
One could say that even the walls of the living room were about to collapse under the force of their voices.
The guards endured the demonic noise of the women’s quarreling, restraining their amused expressions, for fear of unintentionally drawing the fury the women had for each other onto themselves, which would only add to their injustice.
Tang Feiyang felt the flow of energy in his body taking root in his Dantian, those dots of stars entering the Dantian and forming a tiny round dot.
He knew he had entered the Qi Refinement Realm but wasn’t sure which stage he was at.
He needed something to test his Spiritual Root to find out its type.
After practicing the whole celestial circuit, Tang Feiyang knew many days must have passed and that it was time to end his seclusion.
His family had been in seclusion for so long that they might not even be aware if the outside world had changed.
As the eldest disciple, he couldn’t focus solely on cultivation and neglect the academy.
Now that he had formed a Spiritual Root, as long as he practiced daily, he believed his strength would grow rapidly.
Another reason Tang Feiyang decided to end his seclusion was to find Ye Tian and seek his guidance on the cultivation secrets.
He had heard that Ye Tian had brought a guest back, and if this guest was an Alchemist, capable of creating Pills, could he also help to solve Tang Feiyang’s puzzles?
Tang Feiyang left through another door and saw that it was already dark outside, probably night by now.
Feeling a slight hunger, he appeared outside his room, and everyone in the courtyard came over to congratulate him with surprise.
“Congratulations, heir, on your breakthrough!”
In a good mood, Tang Feiyang waved his hand and rewarded the servants with Silver.
“Thank you, heir!”
The servants who received the Silver were all very happy and proceeded to prepare dinner for the heir.
Tang Feiyang learned from the guards that his cousin had come yesterday morning and had been returning home before dark for the past two days, only having left just a moment ago.
He knew his cousin was willful and didn’t like her character.
Since she had no cultivation, they were destined to be people of two different worlds.
Such had been his thinking in the past, but now that he had a body with a Spiritual Root, he yearned even more for his partner to have a Spiritual Root, ensuring better genetics for the future.
This thought suddenly crossed Tang Feiyang’s mind as the servants reported to him.
Previously, when they practiced Confucianism Tao, they would seek a life partner who cultivated the same path, sharing life and death together.
But now it was different—His partner could have other cultivation skills, and they could advance together.
Tang Feiyang dismissed thoughts of the woman in red; he had not been to the academy for several days.
After dinner, he planned to visit his family members.
He discovered that his grandparents, father, and mother still had not ended their seclusion.
He could only return to the academy first—if the junior students didn’t listen to their superiors in his absence, they might cause trouble and turn the place upside down.
When he arrived at the academy, he found that the shoes were not there.
Tang Feiyang asked a teacher, who just wanted to tell him that recently, a wealthy Scholar had been treating guests, inviting many students to gather, eat, drink, and be merry.
Named as a pre-exam networking session, with the host being so generous, the whole Imperial City, whoever considered themselves a bit scholarly and intent on taking the exams, joined the gathering for free fun.
The teacher was also helpless; Tang Feiyang, as the head senior disciple, had been absent for many days, making the students’ claims all the more credible.
For some time, this head senior disciple didn’t allow his juniors to study earnestly in the schoolyard, for the sake of maintaining order.
The students begged to interact with some people, and as a teacher, he had no choice but to agree.
Tang Feiyang recognized the teacher and remembered what Ye Tian had said about the Crown Prince transforming into a Scholar, squandering wealth as if turning stones to gold!
Such recklessness, how many people would suffer because of it?
Tang Feiyang decided to meet this person, adopting the persona of a Scholar to see if the other was indeed a soul turned human, and whether he could discern if the other was a Soul Body.
Now that he had reached the Qi Refinement Realm, Tang Feiyang didn’t have a Flying Treasure.
He understood that with his current abilities, he probably couldn’t fly with a magical treasure yet and would have to ride his treasured horse to the gathering place the teacher had mentioned.