Chapter 9: I Have an Older Brother?

  Green Peach and Emerald Bamboo looked at the small beast that seemed to have not changed one bit, very puzzled. Just now when Miss advanced in rank, this small beast also benefited from it, but after being baptized by the Heavenly Rules, why was it still its original self?

  "But has Xue Er been promoted?" Leng Qing Tian, who was originally handling matters in the study, felt the arrival of the Heavenly Rules and hurriedly ran over from the study.

  "It's Miss Jin's promotion." Green Peach hurriedly said.

  "Great, it's really great!" Leng Qingtian was overjoyed, his happy mood written all over his face.

  "Master, the baby also got some benefits just now, but why didn't the baby change at all?" Cui Zhu said with a puzzled expression, looking expectantly at their family's master.

  “……”

  "This little thing can't be measured with common sense." Leng Qingtian said thoughtfully.

  Normally, when the master advances in rank, his spiritual beast will also advance in rank. However, this little thing not only didn't advance in rank but still looks as weak as before, what's going on he has no idea!

  “……”

  "Miss should be out soon!" Cui Zhu said, alas, it turned out that their old master didn't know either.

  "It won't be that soon, you all continue to guard here, if anything happens notify me immediately." Leng Qingtian said as he returned to the study room. Xue Er had successfully advanced, so he was at ease.

  In the secret room, Leng Ruoxue underwent a baptism of the Heavenly Rules, her meridians expanded by more than twice, and her absorption of spiritual energy accelerated. She remembered her grandfather telling her that when advancing to the Spirit King stage, the Heavenly Rules would descend, and absorbing more spiritual energy before they dissipated would be beneficial for future cultivation. So she continued to work hard to absorb spiritual energy. As the Heavenly Rules dissipated, Leng Ruoxue stopped absorbing and released a thread of spiritual energy from her fingertips, which was shallow gold in color, a color only Spirit Kings possessed. To her surprise, she had already reached the peak of the initial Spirit King stage, just one step away from becoming an intermediate Spirit King.

  Starting from Ling Wang, the subsequent Ling Huang, Ling Zun, and Ling Shen, each level is divided into four stages: primary, intermediate, advanced, and peak. When the spiritual power is stored to saturation, it will automatically advance to the next stage. However, advancing from primary to intermediate, advanced, and then to peak does not involve the descent of heavenly rules. Heavenly rules only descend when advancing from Ling Wang to Ling Huang, Ling Zun, or Ling Shen.

  Although Leng Ruo Xue successfully advanced in rank, she stopped absorbing spiritual energy and instead began to cultivate high-level spiritual techniques. Only those at the Spiritual Emperor level could cultivate heavenly-level spiritual techniques, so she decided to first cultivate the high-level spiritual techniques of the fire and wind systems before leaving, giving her some self-defense capabilities.

  The high-level fire-type spiritual technique "Starfire Sweeping the Plains" is one of the strongest attacking techniques in the fire-type spiritual techniques, and it's also a group attack technique. It can be considered as an upgraded version of "Explosive Flame Technique", but its power is several times stronger than that of "Explosive Flame Technique". Another high-level fire-type spiritual technique with the strongest attacking power is "Fire Feather", which is a single-target attacking technique. The wind-type high-level spiritual technique "Pursuing Wind Technique" mainly increases speed during battles and is an upgraded version of "Gust Technique". These few high-level spiritual techniques are what Cold Snow is most interested in, and she's also the first to cultivate them. After mastering these techniques that interest her the most, she plans to leave the sect, so as not to keep Grandfather and the others waiting. The rest can be cultivated slowly later on.

  As soon as Leng Ruoxue opened the door of the secret room, a fluffy little beast suddenly appeared in her arms.

  "Sister, sister, baby misses you so much!" The baby who was lying in Leng Ruo Xue's arms said coquettishly.

  Leng Ruo Xue looked at the baby lying in her arms with some helplessness, she also didn't know why this little thing liked to stick to her so much.

  "Sister also misses you." Leng Ruoxue cooed.

  "Sister is not here for a while, baby is obedient or not!"

  "Sister, baby is very well-behaved!" The little beast raised a small paw as if making an oath.

  "Miss, the baby said he wants to protect you and hasn't left the entrance of your room for days." Cui Zhu looked at her own miss with a face full of admiration.

  Her eyes, as cold as snow, cast a downward glance at the small beast in her arms, which looked somewhat shy. Originally, she had thought that this little thing was just talking nonsense, but unexpectedly, it really stood still and guarded the door of the secret room to protect her. Without saying anything else, just this intention was enough to move her. The last bit of anger she had towards the small beast in her heart also dissipated with her emotions. From this moment on, she truly regarded it as a younger brother to dote on.

  "Where's Grandfather?" Leng Ruo Xue's beautiful eyes searched around.

  "Master is in the study." Green Peach hastily said.

  "I'll go see Grandpa," said Leng Ruo Xue, and then she carried Bao Bao towards the study.

  "I said old thing, your precious granddaughter has woken up, aren't you happy?" The middle-aged man sitting opposite Leng Qingtian in the study room said calmly.

  "Of course I'm happy."

  "You're all so happy that you've forgotten you have a grandson!" The middle-aged man snorted, his face full of discontent.

  "How could this be? Ruo Han is my most proud grandson."

  Leng Ruoxue arrived at the study, and before she even approached, she heard voices coming from inside. She couldn't help but stop in her tracks. Grandfather has a guest? She was hesitant about whether to go in or wait and come back later to see Grandfather, when the door to the study opened.

  "Xu?r, hāhāhā, yéye de bǎobèi ěr zhōngyú chūguān le, lái, kuài ràng yéye hǎohǎo kàn!" Lěng Jīng Tiān kàn dào ménkǒu zhàn zhe de bǎobèi sūn nǚ, kāixīn de dà xiào le qǐlai, yībǎ ba jiàng Lěng Ruò Xuè bāo jìn huái zhōng.

  "Hmm!"

  "Does Grandfather have a guest?" A cold hum was heard, and Snow's beautiful eyes slowly turned to the owner of the voice. It was a middle-aged man who wasn't particularly handsome, but had an extraordinary air about him, clearly someone who had been in a high position for a long time. Although his aura was restrained, no one would doubt that he was a strong person. However, this person seemed to dislike her, and she couldn't recall having offended him before.

  "Xue Er, he is grandfather's old friend, just call him Lin Ye Ye." Leng Qing Tian introduced simply.

  "Grandpa Lin is good." Leng Ruoxue greeted politely.

  "Hmm, old thing, no wonder you're so fond of this granddaughter. I didn't expect that this granddaughter of yours is also a rare talent, already a Ling Wang at such a young age." Lin Liang's sharp eyes scanned Cold Snow up and down like a searchlight.

  "Grandpa Lin is being too modest, Xue Er's smooth promotion was all thanks to the Ling Yuan Dan." Leng Ruo Xue explained, this was a statement she had discussed with her grandfather.

  "Lingyuan Dan? No wonder, with the Lingyuan Dan even if one's talent is inferior they can become a Spirit King. You old thing, you're really biased, when Lin Feng was advancing in rank, you didn't even spare the Lingyuan Dan for him to use!" Lin Lei shouted in dissatisfaction.

  "If Han is a genius, he can advance smoothly even without the Lingyuan Pill. With you as his master, would you let him be in danger? You're not unaware that taking the Lingyuan Pill to advance is the worst strategy. Have you ever seen any genius use the Lingyuan Pill?" Leng Qingtian retorted back, those who took the Lingyuan Pill to become a Spirit King would have a much slower cultivation speed than those who advanced on their own, yet despite this, the Lingyuan Pill was still extremely valuable and hard to come by.

  Lingyuan Dan can not only help with promotion, but also reduce the risk of promotion. However, it is only effective for high-level spiritual masters. Since ancient times, many spiritual masters have been stuck at the level of high-level spiritual master and cannot be promoted. The position of high-level spiritual master is slightly higher than that of ordinary people, but once they are promoted to spiritual king, their identity and status will change immediately. This is why Lingyuan Dan is so valuable.

  "You're just being biased!" Lin Liang shouted.

  "Grandpa, you have a guest. Xue Er will come to see you in a while!" said Leng Ruo Xue, it's better for her to avoid this situation at this time, lest she becomes cannon fodder.

  Returning to Tingxue Xuan, Leng Ruo Xue immediately summoned Qing Tao before her.

  "Lü Táo, do I have an older brother?" Lěng Ruò Xuě asked directly.

  "Miss, you're thinking of Young Master's return?" Green Peach said somewhat uncertainly.

  "No, I really have a brother? How come no one ever mentioned it to me?" Cold Snow was somewhat displeased.

  "The young lady has been angry with Young Master all along and doesn't allow anyone to mention him." Green Peach explained.

  Leng Ruo Xue closed her eyes and slowly searched through Sha Ruo Xue's memories, finally finding what she wanted to know in a small corner.

  It's related to the Seventh Prince again. Zhaoruo Xue, apart from having a grandfather who dotes on her, also has an older brother who loves her dearly. When the Seventh Prince bullied her, her brother fought back and injured him in order to avenge his sister. But somehow, Zhaoruo Xue found out and refused to acknowledge this brother of hers anymore.

  "Snow, snow."

  Just as Leng Ruo Xue was flipping through this memory, she heard her grandfather's voice. She quickly opened her eyes and looked at her grandfather who had walked in from outside.

  "Grandfather, brother he......?" Leng Ruoxue's beautiful eyes stared at her grandfather without blinking.

  "Xue Er, are you still feeling the cold? If Han is really hurt by you." Leng Jing Tian couldn't help but ask his granddaughter with a hint of probing, although he knew that both his hands were made of flesh, but he also knew that he was more fond of Xue Er. Moreover, his precious granddaughter had lost some of her memories due to injury, which made him even more heartbroken.