Chapter 90 - Yun Long is an... Orc?

Yun Long and Xiao Lingxi eventually returned to the Xiao Clan as he returned to his personal courtyard before removing his lightning mask.

He then brought Xiao Lingxi to her courtyard (66th) before heading to sleep, however when he went to go back out and return to his sleeping quarters, she stopped him.

"Big Brother, come sleep with Xi'er today!" as her voice rang out Yun Long just turned around to see her hopeful yet cheerful face.

Yun Long had previously been scolded by Xiao Lie to stop sleeping with the girls as he has already come to an age where such activities are not what girls and boys of that age should be doing

'Well cultivators have a really old mindset… if they were to see how the modern age was they may all puke blood'.

But then Yun Long thought 'Bah… that old fart cannot control the decisions this young master makes…' so he nodded his head to Lingxi.

"Alright little girl, since Big Brother made a mistake today I will sleep with you so you feel better, after all I will be tempering your mother's meridians from tomorrow" to which Xiao Lingxi just replied by jumping up and down while spinning, her arms waving about like her favourite sports team just won the championship "Yay!!! Big Brother is really the best to Xi'er!!!".

Yun Long looked at her and just smiled, before changing into his pyjamas and heading to sleep.

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Yun Long awoke the next morning before feeling an odd feeling on his ċhėst, only to find a sprawled out figure leaking a pool of saliva onto his ċhėst…

"Haiii, little girl how can you treat your Big Brother like your pillow…" but he saw the happy expression on her face and thought she was having a good dream, so he pinched her nose slightly before placing her in a more comfortable sleeping position before writing a note saying that he was going to temper Hua Mei's meridians, then he kissed her forehead and left.

What he didn't know was that Lingxi had already woken up, and just wanted for her big brother to pamper her since she learnt of how he does so from her Big Sister Qingyue.

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He then entered the Icy Springs, which was the secret realm he had created previously that only allows those with the Ice Phoenix bloodline enter.

With only Dongxue being the exception since he altered her Divine Concealing Amulet and altering the formation surrounding it to allow those wielding that specific amulet entry, when she needed access to temper her meridians.

Hua Mei was cultivating trying to gain a little bit of inspiration to understand the Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon.

Yun Long greeted her when he noticed her exit her cultivation state with a hug "Good morning mommy, did you get any luck understanding the Ice Phoenix God Investiture Canon?" he asked even though he could already tell from her aura.

Hua Mei just ruffled his head and said with a cheeky smile "Only you little monsters can cultivate with such ease, we old people need to spend a while trying to understand things you know?"

Yun Long just smiled "Wha… who would dare call my most beautiful, most gentle, most intelligent mommy old and stupid?! Mother, quickly tell me where they are… I need to bash their heads before it leads to serious brain damage!" he shouted with heroic vigour, to Hua Mei's enjoyment.

"Alright brat, you have been mentioning meridian tempering this whole time, but you actually have not told me any details regarding it, quickly tell your mother what your plan is" Hua Mei quipped back

"Huh… mother I already explained it at the dinner last ti…" then Yun Long paused then shut his eyes as he accessed his memories.

Hua Mei noticed he was doing something odd before he started to blush as he coughed.

"Cough… I see, I forgot mother was in closed door cultivation when I explained it previously, well the method to temper your meridians is by the use of this Divine plant, Buddha Heart Lotus of Nine Resurrections, which will grant you the Buddha Heart Divine Veins" Yun Long stopped explaining so she could process the information.

Hua Mei just nodded after a few seconds and just asked Yun Long "How do you make use of this lotus Long'er"

Yun Long replied "I will snap all the meridians within your body, which would allow me to use the Buddha Heart Lotus of Nine Resurrections petal to repair your meridians, tempering them, and after 81 days of snapping and repairing your meridians you would then possess the Buddha Heart Divine Veins, making your veins like an impregnable fortress"

Hua Mei twitched at the way Yun Long mentioned something so brutal such as snapping all her meridians like it was an everyday procedure.

"Long'er, how could you make your mother go through something so cruel… *sniff* it seems my Long'er really does want to break his mother…"

The way she ended her nonsense really threw him off…

'The f*ck does she mean by breaking her… sounds like something a ten foot orc would do to an innocent woman…'

"Ugh… come on mother don't play around… normally one would have to go through that pain since it would temper their mental strength at the cost of going through unimaginable pain that would increase daily, but I had learnt a method to put you in a state where only your body would receive the pain, not your mental, spirit or soul" Yun Long explained with a tired voice

Hua Mei heard him and just responded in a way that surprised him "Long'er, I would rather go through the mental tempering as well" as she thought 'You are always trying so hard for our family Long'er, how can I take shortcuts at your expense'

Yun Long paused "Mother, you needn't think you are taking advantage of me, I would rather you not go through such pain honestly I would…" but he was interrupted before she retorted.

"When you get your meridians tempered will you experience the pain?" to which Yun Long just nodded.

"Then how can you expect your mother not to go through it, I wish to know what my son goes through in his life you know" she added with a cheeky smile, but her eyes filled with gentleness and a faint worry

Yun Long knew he couldn't convince this tigress and hoped after the first time she would change her mind and listen to him.