Chapter 9: Wife, Are You Asleep?

Having married a wife as beautiful as a heavenly immortal, yet on their wedding night, he could not touch her, could not stroke her, and could not even get into the bed; he could only silently hold his knees, leaning against the wall as he curled up into the corner...

Xiao Che truly felt the malice of this world.

The red candles flickered faintly, casting an ambiguous glow over the bridal chamber. The room instantly fell into a prolonged silence. Both individuals were clad in deep red garments; one sat coldly proud and tranquil by the edge of the bed, while the other curled pitifully in the corner of the wall, able to hear only the faint sound of his own breathing.

After a good long while, Xiao Che finally could not resist, speaking up to ask, "You wouldn't... really just let me spend the night here like this, would you?"

Xia Qingyue's long eyelashes stirred slightly, and her graceful silhouette turned a fraction as she lay down upon the bed. The crimson bed curtains cascaded downward, ensuring that Xiao Che could only perceive a blurry, beautiful outline under the illumination of the candlelight. Immediately after, Xia Qingyue swept her pristine hand, and the two red candles were abruptly extinguished at the same time amidst a gust of cold wind... leaving Xiao Che unable to see even a shadow.

"..." If it were not for the absolute impossibility of defeating this woman, just based on her coldly proud demeanor, he would have definitely forced himself upon her.

"I really was just joking just now. Never mind being drunk, I didn't drink even a drop of wine the entire afternoon... To think you can't even take a small joke, you really have no sense of romance at all," Xiao Che muttered with a face full of grievance.

"I know you were not drunk," Xia Qingyue finally spoke. "But I find men who relieve themselves anywhere highly disgusting."

Relieve oneself... anywhere?

Could it be... it was the "clattering" sound of rushing water made when he discharged the wine from the Sky Poison Pearl earlier?

Holy crap!!

Xiao Che's eyes widened, and he leapt up in anger on the spot: "You say I relieve myself anywhere? Which of your eyes saw me relieving myself anywhere! What you heard was the sound of me pouring out wine! Pouring wine... pouring wine, okay! I am a seven-foot-tall man of the Xiao Clan, how could I possibly do something so uncultured and unrefined! You can look down on my profound strength, but you cannot insult my noble refinement and integrity!!"

Xiao Che bellowed furiously for a stretch. After a brief moment, he heard Xia Qingyue's leisurely voice: "I was also joking."

"!@#￥%..." Xiao Che nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Xiao Che sat back in the corner in dejection, not uttering a word for a long time... This woman actually knew how to joke!!

On normal days, one could still sleep comfortably in a bed, yet on his wedding night, he could only sleep in a corner... It would be a wonder if he could fall asleep! After holding it in for a long time, Xiao Che finally spoke up once more: "By the way, when are you returning to the Frozen Cloud Asgard? Tomorrow, or the day after?"

Xia Qingyue: "!?"

Xiao Che smiled faintly, his expression calm and indifferent as he said, "Although I know very little about the Frozen Cloud Asgard, I at least know that the Frozen Cloud Asgard only accepts women, and forbids emotion and desire. The Frozen Cloud Asgard possesses countless beauties, yet I have never heard of a single one getting married. And yet, you married me. It seems that even within the Frozen Cloud Asgard, your talent is still astonishing; perhaps, you are a supreme genius rarely seen in a century. Otherwise, the Frozen Cloud Asgard would not have broken this precedent because of you."

Xia Qingyue: "..."

Xiao Che tilted his head up, gazing into the expanse of darkness above him, and continued to speak, "A person like you, the Frozen Cloud Asgard will definitely want you to enter the Frozen Cloud Asgard within the shortest time possible. There reside peerless experts whom ordinary profound practitioners would find difficult to witness in a lifetime, and there exist countless natural treasures and earthly materials. Under these conditions, both your profound strength and status will soar into the sky within a short period. You should be leaving very soon, right?"

Xia Qingyue remained silent. For a long while, only then did she emit a hazy voice: "One month."

"One month?" A trace of surprise surfaced on Xiao Che's face. Then he smiled slightly, lowered his head, and said softly, "Thank you."

Xia Qingyue: "?"

"This one month should be what you fought for on my behalf, right? If it were the Frozen Cloud Asgard's side, they would definitely be unwilling to let you waste such a long time on a piece of trash like me. You are the favored daughter of heaven. Judging by how highly regarded you are by the Frozen Cloud Asgard, your future achievements might perhaps be sufficient to reach the level of the Frozen Cloud Asgard's Mistress. Others mock me, ridicule me, and never place me in their eyes, yet you, who are bound to look down proudly upon the Blue Wind Empire in the future, not only willingly married me, but have also been doing your utmost to preserve this laughable dignity of a man... Although I know you do all this merely to repay the favor to my deceased father, I still thank you."

"No need," Xia Qingyue replied devoid of emotion. Within her heart, however, there was a slight ripple of emotion, because those words of conjecture he made were not wrong in the slightest. When her master found her, she had told her that her talent, even within the Frozen Cloud Asgard, was rarely seen in a century. She had even said that after bringing her into the Frozen Cloud Asgard, she had the confidence to make her break through the Spirit Profound Realm and reach the Earth Profound Realm by the age of twenty... a realm that Floating Cloud City's number one expert, Xiao Lie, had failed to reach.

Reaching the Earth Profound Realm before the age of twenty... to the people of Floating Cloud City, this was a fantasy they did not even dare to imagine.

"Before marrying you, I originally thought you would look down on me with disdain just like most people, but in truth, you are much better than I imagined. Not only do you look beautiful and possess shocking talent, but even your disposition is very kind. As a woman, you can truly be said to be perfect..."

Xia Qingyue: "..."

"Mm, since you are so kind, you definitely would not be willing to see your husband sleep in a corner on his wedding night, right? My bed is still quite large; it definitely won't be crowded for two people to sleep..."

Before Xiao Che's words could finish, a wave of icy killing intent rushed directly at his face, causing his entire body to involuntarily shiver: "If you speak absolute nonsense again, I will throw you out!"

Xiao Che twisted his mouth, obediently shutting up, and his buttocks, which had just left the ground, sat back down resentfully.

"Someone is coming," Xia Qingyue suddenly said.

After a good long while, Xiao Che heard a stretch of extremely faint footsteps. If it were not for his deliberate and full attention to listening, he absolutely would have been unable to detect this footstep. The owner of the footsteps first lingered at the courtyard gate for a moment, then approached with absolute caution. After reaching the center of the courtyard, they no longer moved forward... because inside the room was a Xia Qingyue whom he could not afford to offend. After peering around sneakily in the courtyard for a long while, they then departed with absolute caution.

As it reached late into the night, Xiao Yulong had not slept. His gaze was low as he looked out the window, his complexion changing from time to time.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, and Xiao Yang walked in with hurried steps. Xiao Yulong turned around, slanted his eyes, and asked, "How is it?"

"This..." Xiao Yang glanced at Xiao Yulong's expression and said with absolute caution, "I just went to check. Xiao Che, he seems... seems to not have been locked outside."

"..." Xiao Yulong's expression instantly became profoundly gloomy.

Xiao Yang's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly said, "But Big Brother, you don't need to worry. Xia Qingyue has always held absolute disdain for the young masters of the Governor's Mansion and the Yuwen Family, so it's impossible for her to take a liking to that trash Xiao Che. Him not being driven out should be... should be out of pity for him, fearing he would be ridiculed... Although he is in the same room as Xia Qingyue right now, it is absolutely impossible for him to be on the same bed. Perhaps he is lying on the floor right now... it must be so." Xiao Yulong's expression shifted through dark uncertainty. He looked with a low gaze in the direction of Xiao Che's small courtyard, his hands clenching tightly: "Xia Qingyue is the woman I want, no one is allowed to lay a finger on her!! Tomorrow, call Xiao Che out for me. I want to personally test him! I absolutely cannot let him touch Xia Qingyue!!"

"Yes!" Xiao Yang hurriedly complied.

Xiao Che curled up in the corner until the middle of the night, yet he still possessed no desire to sleep. He opened his eyes, raised his left hand, and looked toward the palm of his left hand. In the darkness, the faint green glow coming from the Sky Poison Pearl was exceptionally conspicuous.

In the Azure Cloud Continent, by relying on the divine might of the Sky Poison Pearl, he had single-handedly stirred the clouds and winds of the world, leaving the entire Azure Cloud Continent turbulent and uneasy... but, it had also nearly exhausted all of its poisonous power!

Now the Sky Poison Pearl had fused with his body, yet from the Sky Poison Pearl which had already become a part of his body, he could perceive almost no existence of any poisonous power. In that pursuit that drove him to his death, he had used the poisonous power of the Sky Poison Pearl to kill numerous peerless experts, but it had also overdrawn the strength of the Sky Poison Pearl, causing its poisonous power to run completely dry... and overdrawing and using up were two different concepts. Using up could still be slowly recovered; overdrawing, however, meant that even the power of the source was nearly exhausted, and perhaps even recovery was impossible.

The current Sky Poison Pearl basically only retained the abilities of detoxification, refining, and fusion... of course, there was also storage.

The current him possessed crippled profound veins, and the poisonous power of the Sky Poison Pearl was also crippled, and he was furthermore situated within a small city that was never regarded by anyone. After a prolonged silence, Xiao Che's heart felt entirely at a loss... A me like this, let alone protecting Grandfather and Little Aunt, I don't even possess the qualification to keep myself from being ridiculed...

What was even more unbearable was... he didn't even possess the ability to force himself upon the wife he had married into his doors!

If he wanted to possess sufficient strength, the most fundamental step should be repairing his destroyed profound veins.

Repairing the profound veins...

Xia Qingyue had said with absolute certainty that his profound veins could not possibly recover to be like those of an ordinary person. But to him, this was not any kind of impossible matter, because he was the successor of the Medical Saint! His master had told him more than once that the principles of medicine were just like the Dao of cause and effect; where there is a cause, there must be an effect, and where there is an affliction, there must be a cure. In this world, there never existed an illness that was impossible to treat, only physicians with insufficient capability.

As for how to repair his crippled profound veins, Xiao Che had already thought about it for an entire day today. His profound veins were not damaged after growing up, but were damaged at birth, crippled thoroughly and completely, rendering it entirely impossible to repair using conventional methods. Thus, if he desired to repair them, he must first purify the existing defective profound veins and allow them to regrow. The process was basically no different from destroying the current defective profound veins and regenerating a complete set of profound veins. Setting aside how great the difficulty was, the risk alone was exceptionally high. The profound veins were connected to the lifeblood; the slightest carelessness during the process would directly result in the loss of life.

And to achieve the destruction of the old veins and the nurturing of the new veins, he required at least three items...

"Wife, are you asleep?" Xiao Che called out to ask.

After a good while, he did not receive any response.

"Cough cough, Wife, you wouldn't really be asleep, would you?" Xiao Che asked once more.

"My name is Xia Qingyue!" Xia Qingyue's voice carried a clear coldness within its gentleness.

"I know your name is Xia Qingyue." Xiao Che scratched the space between his brows, saying in a very strange manner, "Wife, I have a matter I want to ask you about."

"Call me Xia Qingyue!" Xia Qingyue grew angry.

"Oh, fine!" Xiao Che nodded, and then asked in a serious and proper manner, "Wife, if you go to the Frozen Cloud Asgard, do you have any way to get ahold of these three things: the Seven Opening Exquisite Grass, the Purple Veined Heavenly Crystal, and the profound core of an Earth Profound Realm profound beast?"

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