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Chapter 12

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Wen Qiao stretched out her palm and slightly used her mind. In a while, a tiny seedling appeared on her palm.

Wen Qiao intentionally placed the tiny seedling on her palm beside the flowerpot of the Beauty Retaining Flower to identify the differences between their breeds. In her observation although the spiritual plant looked alike when they sprouted, they were different in other ways.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

It was funny that she almost thought that she thought of herself as a Beauty Retaining Flower.

Even though Wen Qiao rarely went out, she knew that the Beauty Retaining Flower couldn’t be cultivated into becoming a person. Maybe it would happen in the Upper Realm, but not the Tanglin Kingdom. The Beauty Retaining Flower’s only function was to retain one’s beauty. Her half-demon bone wasn’t that useless, right?

After a long period of observation, Wen Qiao knew that the tiny seedling in her palm was closely related to her demonic bloodline. The awakening of her demonic bloodline made her able to germinate the growth of plants and also absorb the vital essence of wood.

This was impossible for a normal cultivator.

At least she had never heard about any cultivator that could send their spiritual energy to a seed of a spiritual plant to germinate their growth. It was impossible even for a cultivator with a wood attributed physique making it such a scary thing!

But a person with a mystical bloodline could achieve such a feat.

Wen Qiao knew that her bloodline was able to stimulate the growth of a spiritual plant.

What was the concept of accelerating the growth of spiritual plants?

Wen Qiao instinctively sensed danger and didn’t dare to reveal her half-demon bloodline.

The vital essence of wood was different from spiritual energy, but it was the purest essence between heaven and earth one could absorb. Its effects weren’t inferior to a single attribute of spiritual energy. It could even heal her frail body and reduce her pain.

Wen Qiao knew the origin of her half-demon bloodline was strange, so she was afraid to reveal her bloodline easily. She was wary while absorbing the vital essence of wood after generating the growth of spiritual plants.

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During the sunset, Ning Yu Zhou came back.

He saw Wen Qiao when he walked into their bedroom. His eyes became warm and gentle.

Wen Qiao put down her book and got up slowly. She pondered and asked with a soft voice, “When did you come back? Have you eaten your dinner?”

“Nope.”

Wen Qiao immediately ordered the maidservants, who were waiting outside, to prepare dinner.

Since one of them was unable to cultivate and another one had only the cultivation rank of Entering Yuan Realm, the both of them had to eat three meals a day as a mortal.

After the dinner was ready, Ning Yu Zhou asked Wen Qiao to sit down and eat with him as they talked.

Ning Yu Zhou told Wen Qiao that ten days later they would be attending the Lin Tai Valley Hunt. He was called away by the steward in order to discuss the arrangements. In the following days, he would be busy.

He looked sorry because he couldn’t accompany her.

Wen Qiao slightly turned her head and stared at him with a puzzled look, “I’ll be fine alone when you’re busy and I won’t need people to accompany me.”

Ning Yu Zhou stopped his actions of handling chopsticks and sighed in his heart, ‘She’s still a child’. He said laughingly with a gentle look, “We are newlyweds. In the world of mortals, a husband would be criticized for leaving his wife at home while being busy.”

“Since the Tanglin Kingdom isn’t the world of mortals, you can ignore it.” Wen Qiao said with a serious look.

The conversation couldn’t continue anymore.

Suddenly, Ning Yu Zhou couldn’t help as he laughed. He changed the topic of their conversation and advised, “I won’t be at home in the following days. You can ignore whoever comes and let the steward outside handle it.”

Wen Qiao nodded with a cute look.

After they had their dinner, the couple sat at the flower parlour and drank tea.

They were having spiritual tea. The elegant scent of the tea filled the air. Since the spiritual energy had a warm nature, it was good for nourishing health. It was edible for cultivators as well as mortals.

As Wen Qiao was drinking a cup of warm tea, she thought that Emperor Cheng Hao doted on the Seventh Prince. Everything in the Seventh Prince’s Palace was full of spiritual energy, there were no inferior goods here.

Ning Yu Zhou looked at the flower pot on the window and realised the seven-term seed had sprouted; he said surprisingly, “It’s already sprouted.”

“Yes. It sprouted a few days ago, but I didn’t know that it had grown this tall.” Wen Qiao said earnestly.

Ning Yu Zhou brought the flower pot to have a look. Since he didn’t look closely yesterday, he didn’t notice that it had sprouted. But the seven-term spiritual plant seemed to be growing a little too fast as if it had been watered with spiritual water to ripe.

He took a glance at Wen Qiao.

The lady opposite him was sitting quietly with a harmless look.

Lastly, Ning Yu Zhou said, “It grew well.”

The corners of Wen Qiao’s mouth slightly raised. Although her expression looked calm, her voice was already filled with joy, “This is a seven-term spiritual plant. I’ll raise it well.” After a short pause, she asked abruptly, “Do you know what kind of spiritual plant it is, Your Highness?

“Husband!” Ning Yu Zhou said.

Wen Qiao felt muddled. After she understood the situation, her face blushed and she felt it was hard to say.

But Ning Yu Zhou persisted, “We are married. You don’t have to call me ‘Your Highness’. You can call me by my name or ‘husband’.”

Either his name or husband, it was hard for her to call him.

However, the gentle and considerate man seemed as if he would never give way to a thing he had stuck his mind to.

Lastly, Wen Qiao called him ‘husband’ with a low voice.

Ning Yu Zhou’s expression looked more gentle, looking at her with his tender eyes. He said in a soft voice, “If I’m not mistaken, it must be the Beauty Retaining Flower, right?”

Wen Qiao’s eyes became bigger, “You know?”

Ning Yu Zhou’s heart slightly fluttered, he wondered what she meant. He said with a calm expression, “The staff of the Ling Xu Pavillion said that it was from an ancient site. The Beauty Retaining Flower is an ancient seven-term spiritual plant then gradually vanished. Nowadays, the Beauty Retaining Elixir made by alchemists doesn’t include the Beauty Retaining Flower but uses other replacing ingredients. It is inferior to the Beauty Retaining Elixir made by the Beauty Retaining Flower.”

He looked at the flower pot and continued, “Although this Beauty Retaining Flower just sprouted, the five silver-white veins on both sides of its petals meet the conditions of the Beauty Retaining Flower and its scent……”

Wen Qiao’s eyes became big. She completely changed her impression of the Seventh Prince while listening to his words.

Wen Qiao knew its breed from the information transferred from the Beauty Retaining Flower. But Ning Yu Zhou could confirm its information through just his observation, it could be seen that he knew a lot of information about the world of cultivators. Although Ning Yu Zhou was unable to cultivate, he knew as much as a normal cultivator, even those who professed to be of distinguished descent wouldn’t know more than him.

The most important thing was the Beauty Retaining Flower wasn’t a common breed thus it was impossible to know the details.

Suddenly, Wen Qiao felt the Seventh Prince was becoming more mysterious.

After he knew that the spiritual plant in the flower pot was the Beauty Retaining Flower, Ning Yu Zhou still treated it as a normal spiritual plant. He didn’t treat it as a precious plant as if it was a common spiritual plant that could be seen in the garden. He paid a bit more attention to it because it was grown by Wen Qiao.

If he hadn’t treated his money like dirt, the Beauty Retaining Flower wouldn’t have been able to make him take it seriously.

No matter which situation, Ning Yu Zhou’s behaviour made Wen Qiao feel unpredictable. She had to keep it in her heart and decided to observe him in the future.

For the following few days, Ning Yu Zhou went out early in the morning and came back during the sunset as he said.

Ning Yu Zhou was finally free after a few days of busy work.

Wen Qiao didn’t know what he was up to, but she didn’t ask him. She continued her peaceful and quiet cultivation life.

In order not to arouse suspicion, she didn’t overdo it when she was stimulating the growth of the Beauty Retaining Flower. Once she stimulated its growth, she would absorb its vital essence of wood to keep it from growing an inch a day.

However, since it was given by the Seventh Prince, the maidservants in the Seventh Prince’s Palace liked the Beauty Retaining Flower very much. Luckily they didn’t know it was a seven-term Beauty Retaining Flower. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have thought it to be so simple.

In the eyes of the cultivators in the Sheng Wu Continent, the remote Tanglin Kingdom was a marginalized barren land. No one knew that there was a pot of Beauty Retaining Flower here. The Seventh Prince’s Palace became the best protection.

Meanwhile, the Ninth Princess Ning Yao Zhu came to visit once.

Wen Qiao listened to Ning Yu Zhou’s words. With the steward’s help, she didn’t meet her and concentrated on her cultivation.

As time went by, the day of the Lin Tai Valley Hunt had come.