Dragon King's Son-In-Law

by Dragon King

  After the class began, Xie Yujia was engrossed in taking notes while Hao Ren flipped through the Grade 8 Math Practice Booklet and prepared the night’s materials for Zhao Yanzi.

  They didn’t look like a couple in love. Instead, they had returned to the relationship of childhood sweethearts.

  In the evening, they took the bus together and headed to Zhao Yanzi’s home.

  The setting sun was as beautiful as a picture. Looking quietly at the scene outside the window, Xie Yujia said abruptly, “You were quite thorough with the preparations for Zhao Yanzi.”

  Hao Ren’s mind had been on other stuff. Hearing her words, he looked up with a bitter smile. “It’s useless since she’s not serious with her studies.”

  “Actually, she is a sensible girl. It’s just that sometimes she is too combative,” Xie Yujia said.

  “Sensible? She’s sensible?” Hao Ren had his doubt.

  The bus arrived, and they walked to Zhao Yanzi’s home together.

  Today, Zhao Guang was also home. Zhao Hongyu prepared a lot of dishes for them.

  “Uncle, Auntie.” Seeing Zhao Guang’s stern face, Xie Yujia was a bit nervous. She greeted them respectfully.

  “Hehe, come in and take a seat.” Zhao Hongyu greeted Xie Yujia warmly and ushered her and Hao Ren into the house.

  Zhao Yanzi had returned home from school. She sat on the couch with the TV remote control in her hand, ignoring Hao Ren and Xie Yujia.

  Hao Ren looked at her closely and found no special radiance. However, her temperament felt different from yesterday.

  Her eyes were brighter, and her delicate skin looked smoother. Although she sat on the couch leisurely, a vibrant, youthful energy emitted from her.

  “Come on, the dinner is ready! We will be troubling you two to tutor Little Zi after dinner.” Zhao Hongyu held Xie Yujia’s hand and pulled her to the dinner table.

  Her words were aimed at Xie Yujia. After all, after two hours of tutoring, Zhao Yanzi had reached level 1 of the Qi Refinement Realm in one night.

  The progress looked insignificant, but it was important to Zhao Guang and Zhao Hongyu!

  It meant that Zhao Yanzi could still cultivate despite her loss of the dragon core! She could get on a brand-new road of cultivation.

  The more solid her cultivation foundation was, the better odds she would have in successfully receiving the dragon core in the future.

  Zhao Hongyu was moved by Xie Yujia’s sincerity in tutoring Zhao Yanzi despite the latter’s prejudice against her.

  “Auntie, you are too kind.” Xie Yujia was a bit overwhelmed by Zhao Hongyu’s warmth. She sat at the dinner table, blushing.

  Zhao Guang sat at the table expressionlessly with the temperament of the family head.

  However, when he happened to see the faint fluctuations of nature essence around Zhao Yanzi this morning, he was more excited than anyone else!

  Since Zhao Yanzi was back on the road of cultivation, she would be able to take elixir pills without any side effects, and she wouldn’t be as fragile as a mortal.

  “Yujia, did you go to LingZhao Middle School in the past?” Zhao Hongyu chatted with Xie Yujia while they ate.

  “Yes, Auntie,” Xie Yujia answered politely, a bit reserved.

  “Ms. Luo is very proud of you. You must have been the top student in LingZhao Middle School back then…”

  The conversation was all centered around Xie Yujia, and Zhao Yanzi who busied herself with eating got more and more grumpy.

  Zhao Guang kept the stern look as the family head while he ate, and his presence made Zhao Yanzi not daring enough to throw a tantrum.

  Afraid that Xie Yujia would regard her as a nagging mom, Zhao Hongyu turned on the TV after consulting with Zhao Guang.

  On TV, the local news was being broadcasted.

  “A couple of days ago, LingZhao Middle School set a new standard for liberal education by producing a school play…”

  The news attracted the attention of the people at the dinner table.

  “Mom! It’s me!” Zhao Yanzi yelled in excitement.

  At the center of the stage, Zhao Yanzi in the company of the boy playing Romeo looked like a beautiful princess. The scene immediately caught the eyes of Hao Ren and the others.

  Hao Ren looked at the Zhao Yanzi on TV before glancing at her from across the table and found that her temperament had indeed improved.

  This news report that was about a dozen seconds ended quickly, but Zhao Yanzi’s excitement was not abated.

  Half a minute later, Zhao Hongyu’s cell phone began to receive calls one after another.

  “Hehe, it’s ok. As a girl, it was a good challenge for her…”

  “You are too kind. And your Qianqian is also pretty…”

  “No! There are no plans for national performances. Ok, I’ll bring her when we have dinner next time. And you must bring Yuyu; she’s almost five years old now, right?”

  Zhao Hongyu finally ended the last incoming call.

  Obviously, they came from Zhao Hongyu’s friends who had watched the news. Zhao Hongyu sounded modest, but her smiles showed that she was quite proud.

  “Zi’s performance that day was indeed excellent,” Xie Yujia took the opportunity to praise her.

  Glancing at Xie Yujia, Zhao Yanzi wanted to retort but controlled herself. After all, she was secretly pleased with Xie Yujia’s compliment.

  Seeing Zhao Yanzi’s full-blown excitement, Hao Ren didn’t flatter her. Instead, he said calmly, “It was ok.”

  Instantly, Zhao Yanzi rolled her eyes at him.

  After dinner, Hao Ren and Xie Yujia walked upstairs with Zhao Yanzi, one teaching her the basic cultivation technique while the other tutoring her school work.

  Due to her appearance on the news, Zhao Yanzi was still excited while subconsciously thinking about her classmates’ reactions when she goes to school tomorrow. So, she didn’t act defiantly with Xie Yujia; instead, she followed Xie Yujia’s guidance and circulated the Qi Refinement Scroll.

  Then, she quickly finished the test papers Hao Ren gave her without any conditions. In the middle of her work, she got a call from Little Ling and chatted with her for more than ten minutes.

  On the other side of the line, Little Ling predicted that Zhao Yanzi would become a big movie star in the future, and Zhao Yanzi was so happy that she rolled on her bed while talking to her friend on the phone.

  Hao Ren and Xie Yujia looked at her in exasperation and amusement.

  Knock! Knock! They had finished tutoring and were packing their stuff up when someone knocked on the door.

  “Come in!” Zhao Yanzi yelled.

  Thinking it was her mom, Zhao Yanzi’s tone was playful. From the look on her face, she wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight. After all, she was only in Grade 8 thus easily got dizzy with vanity.

  However, it was Zhao Guang instead of Zhao Hongyu who walked into the room.

  Zhao Yanzi thought her dad would scold her for yelling in the room and immediately sat up.

  However, Zhao Guang just glanced at her before turning to Xie Yujia. “Yujia, you want to make elixir pills, right? I’ll take you there.”

  287 Making Beauty Pills!

  Xie Yujia had indeed been thinking of making elixir pills, but she didn’t feel comfortable mentioning it to Zhao Yanzi’s parents again.

  Zhao Guang’s suddenly appearance solved the matter for her.

  She nodded. “Ok!”

  “Ren, come along!” Zhao Guang glanced at him and seemed to have sensed his concern.

  Without a word, Hao Ren stood up.

  “Dad! I want to go, too!” Zhao Yanzi jumped up.

  “You…” Zhao Guang hesitated for a second before nodding. “Ok.”

  It was only one hour before the curfew in the dorms, so they couldn’t make it back if they went to make elixir pills.

  However, Xie Yujia didn’t mind. For the past few days, she had been practicing the procedure of making elixir pills that the old Grandma had taught her, an
d she could only get less anxious if she successfully created the elixir.

  Zhao Guang drove the three of them to the seashore before walking to the dragon palace along the usual tunnel.

  Premier Xia had gotten the news and was at the gate to greet them. Among the four people, he was actually closest to Hao Ren.

  “Premier Xia, sorry for the trouble,” Hao Ren said when he found that their guide was Premier Xia again.

  “It’s my duty,” Premier Xia answered with gratification.

  During the hundreds of years of being the Premier of the dragon palace, this Fuma was the most considerate person he had ever encountered.

  The inside of the dragon palace was still heavily guarded despite the retreat of the West Ocean Dragon Clan. Without the powerful support of Zhao Kuo, Zhao Guang couldn’t let his guard down. After all, compared with the other three dragon palaces, East Ocean was the most wealth but also the weakest.

  Since they were in the dragon palace now, they were going to pay a visit to Su Han first. This time, Xie Yujia wasn’t blindfolded and saw all the sceneries.

  Her expression sometimes showed astonishment and sometimes showed admiration; she almost acted the same way as Hao Ren when he first came to the dragon palace.

  After crossing a small plaza, they came to the palace where Su Han was recovering from her injuries. In the small garden before her bedroom, Su Han was practicing sword techniques in a white robe.

  She was still pale due to her injuries, and the surrounding flowers flew around under the force of her sword energy. It was a beautiful sight.

  She put away the white jade sword and turned to look at the five of them. Her pale face blushed a little as she cupped her hands in greeting.

  Although she was living in the East Ocean Dragon Palace, she didn’t have to be this polite as an inspector.

  Zhao Guang nodded slightly to greet her as well.

  “Sister Su!” Zhao Yanzi ran over to her. “Your sword techniques were so beautiful!”

  Su Han patted Zhao Yanzi’s head lightly before turning her gaze to Hao Ren and Xie Yujia. “What are you doing here…”

  Before she could finish her sentence, she looked down at Zhao Yanzi in surprise. “Huh? You have nature essence on you? Can you cultivate now?”

  “No… I’m just cultivating for fun,” not wanting to admit that she was technically Xie Yujia’s disciple, Zhao Yanzi mumbled.

  “We are here today to make elixir pills,” Hao Ren said before adding, “to make Beauty Pills.”

  “Beauty Pills?” Su Han’s eyes lit up.

  “Yeah. The old Grandma taught me how to make elixirs, and today, I’m here to borrow the venue and get the materials for the elixir,” Xie Yujia said in a low voice.

  “You… make elixirs?” Su Han rarely showed her emotions, but she was surprised by Xie Yujia’s words.

  She could tell that Xie Yujia was only at level 3 of the Qi Refinement Realm, and she had never heard that a cultivator in Qi Refinement Realm could make elixirs! The most they could do was to control the fire.

  “Yes,” Xie Yujia answered with a smile.

  “Ms. Su, if you are interested, please come with us,” Zhao Guang offered.

  “Ok!” Su Han said immediately.

  She put on another long white robe which elegantly trailed on the ground. While she walked crisply, she looked magnificent in the robe.

  Elder Xingyue was studying scrolls in her room, and she hurried out to greet Zhao Guang. When she heard that they were going to make elixirs, she wanted to go with them, too.

  After all, with her experience, she couldn’t believe that a Qi Refinement Realm cultivator could make elixirs.

  The group of people went to the underground elixir making rooms in the Godly Treasure Palace.

  The Godly Treasure Palace was an important structure in the dragon palace, and the elixir making rooms that were hidden underground ground were even more critical; even ordinary elders couldn’t get access to them without permission.

  Of course, Zhao Guang had personally arranged a room for Xie Yujia’s use, so the restrictions didn’t apply to her.

  Even with the great wealth of the East Ocean Dragon Clan, they could only build three elixir making rooms which used the 10,000-year earthly fires from under the bottom of the sea. The elixir making room in the middle had the purest and most powerful fire.

  “This room is usually used by Little Daoist Zhen. But recently, he shut himself in his room, studying dharma treasures and hasn’t been coming. So, you may use this room to make elixir pills for the time being,” Zhao Guang said when he walked into the room in the middle.

  The others followed, and the most curious one was Zhao Yanzi who had not known that such an elixir making room existed. She looked around with interest.

  Bang!

  The moment they entered the room, they were greeted with a surge of hot air!

  The 10,000-year earthly fire!

  Su Han immediately threw out an energy sphere around Zhao Yanzi to protect her from the heat.

  Standing next to Xie Yujia, Zhao Guang was about to put out an energy sphere to protect her when two notes jumped out of her body. One gold and one silver, the two notes surrounded Xie Yujia, forcing the hot airwaves back half a meter!

  The notes emitted waves of energies and jumped up and down mysteriously as if they were alive.

  The silver and gold blinking lights showcased the powerful protection they offered.

  “Your Majesty, the materials are prepared as instructed by Inspector Su.” Premier Xia opened a box and presented it to Zhao Guang and Xie Yujia.

  “Ok.” Zhao Guang nodded slightly before backing to one side.

  Su Han was still weak, so she sat down on a steel chair in the room, looking beautiful in her white robe.

  Zhao Yanzi stood by her side, holding onto one of the armrests of the chair so she wouldn’t be pushed back by the sudden surges of hot airwaves.

  Hao Ren also backed up several steps and watched Xie Yujia quietly.

  “Hao Ren, it’s time to let out Little White,” Xie Yujia said to him abruptly.

  “Oh. I almost forgot…” Hao Ren immediately tossed out Little White from his necklace. He usually let this spirit beast out three times a day. For the rest of the time, it would be inside the necklace so that it couldn’t cause trouble.

  The moment Little White landed onto the ground, it sensed the hot airwaves. With a booming sound, it turned into its snow lion form to block them.

  “The main ingredient of Beauty Pills are these three Beauty Flowers. Other supplementary ingredients include two Seven-Star Grass, one Dual-Hearts Wood, one section of Stone Bamboo, a 1,000-year purple ginseng…”

  With all the materials prepared, Su Han was still uncertain. She told Xie Yujia about the herbs in the box.

  “Ok, I got it.” Xie Yujia nodded cautiously.

  Her right hand moved forward, and the golden note hovering in front of her flew forward.

  Bang! The lid of the Profound Steel Furnace that was as heavy as 1,000 pounds was instantly lifted!

  288 Making Elixirs with Notes

  Xie Yujia tossed the herbs in the box into the furnace one after another. The earthly fire under the furnace had been burning for thousands of years without stopping, and the inside of the furnace was already bright red.

  The moment the herbs were tossed inside, they turned into essence liquid and merged slowly.

  Cautiously, Xie Yujia threw in the most critical herbs, the three Beauty Flowers.

  At the wave of her arm, the golden note blinked and moved the lid to its original position.

  Xie Yujia’s movement of lifting and closing the furnace lid looked quite smooth as if she had practiced it hundreds of times. Su Han looked at her with satisfaction and astonishment, wondering how a weak cultivator in the level 3 Qi Refinement Realm could move a furnace lid weighing about 1,000 pounds. The dharma note Xie Yujia used was indeed powerful.

  Elder Xingyue was also surprised. She
had never seen or heard of this method of making elixirs with dharma notes.

  Elder Xingyue believed that Xie Yujia must be the disciple of a grandmaster.

  In the furnace, the five elements in the herbs were instantly turned into essence liquid by the hot earthly fire. However, it was still a mortal fire and couldn’t extract the five elements purely and merge them into each other.

  That was why five-colored mists floated above the furnace.

  “Little White, it’s your turn!” Xie Yujia glanced at Little White that was by her side.

  Little White looked at Xie Yujia and then at Hao Ren behind it, wondering what it was supposed to do.

  “Silly dog! Spit fire!” Hao Ren rushed over and gave it a light kick at its rump.

  Little White jumped forward and finally hissed out a red flame from its mouth.

  The flame merged into the surging earthly fire; it looked weak, but the combined fire instantly leaped up by three feet.

  The red fire had blue flames on the top, and the blue flames were obviously more potent than other flames.

  A faint aroma of the mixed herbs appeared.

  Little White’s demon fire was, in fact, the samadhi true fire, the fundamental fire for making elixirs!

  As a level 2 elixir pill, the Beauty Pills were not difficult to make. It was due to the rarity of the mature Beauty Flowers in the mortal world that caused the Beauty Pills to be long lost.

  The five-colored mists transformed slowly, signaling the merging process of the essence liquid in the furnace.

  However, making elixirs was not done after tossing the herbs into the furnace. One must continuously adjust the power of the fire and the combinations of the herbs. The process was almost the same as cooking which was not done the moment you dump the materials into the pot.

  Sitting in the chair, Su Han watched the process without blinking, so was Zhao Yanzi who had never seen people make elixir before.

  Half a step behind Zhao Guang, Premier Xia, and Elder Xingyue were also observing Xie Yujia’s movements and the slow turning of the furnace.