175 The flabbergasting and annoying martial arts community 1 (1/2)
”She refused to come with you at all costs?”
The enchanting voice was laced with a sliver of interest and surprise, and the rustling of silk could be faintly heard from within the curtained bed.
Shen Haoren gulped at the enticing experience, his mind lapsing into a heavily passionate and emotional experience he had recently enjoyed with his adorable and absolutely beautiful wife, his eyes glazing over with a giddy smile.
”Haoren?” the voice reminded with a gentle but cold chill.
”Ah? Oh, oh yes, where was I,” the middle-aged man shivered with fear at the incoming sign of danger.
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”That young girl – she refused to come along even after I mentioned the Shen Family's name, or when I applied social pressure. From her tone, she seemed extremely adamant against the idea of interacting with others, regardless of their status beyond what was necessary.”
Shen Haoren's lascivious smile had disappeared, replaced by a cold and calculating gleam discernable only in the finest of businessmen.
The middle-aged man patted his round belly for a few moments, his eyebrows furrowed in deep thought.
”Second Elder Sister,” he abruptly parted his lips to blurt.
”Could that… lass you spoke of not be from Bone Spirit Town? Her mannerisms were unlike that of the ordinary residents I observed or even that of the domestic clans. Though her aura was dubious at best, I can only assume that she is from a higher developed city or district not unlike our own –”
”Have you been besotted with fear?”
The voice of the elusive Second Senior Sister caused Shen Haoren's throat to anxiously contract and force down his desire to eagerly nod his head and wash himself clean of the matter.
The middle-aged man directed a furtive peak towards the maidservants guarding the door, only to be disappointed by a pair of stone-clad countenances.
They probably – no, they definitely won't let him escape, ah.
”I don't think I fear her,” Shen Haoren tread on the thin ice with his tiptoes.
”However, I do think that it would be prudent for our Shen Family to act in securing the seven-tailed fox through negotiation and not pressure. Furthermore, we should lay low for a while, for the young lass to detach herself from the incitement of the Fang Clan.”
”…En.”
There was a brief pause before a throaty sound of approval rang from within the bedchamber.
Hearing the implicit praise, Shen Haoren's fat – suffused cheeks wobbled with delight, prompting him to perform his exaggerated bow of extending his left hand, the palm facing the sky in obeisance.
The middle-aged man's heart soared towards the ninth heaven in joy, but he dared not reveal his excitement towards his strict elder sister.
Hence, he remained still in his kneeling position, clearly aware that the Shen Manor's Elder was intending on speaking further.
”…Haoren, do you know the importance of a seven-tailed fox?”
The middle-aged man blinked in confusion, his lips parting and flapping shut in his hesitation.
The Second Elder Sister of the Shen Manor spared him from prolonged suffering, the enchanting voice emerging from within the dense curtains once again.
”Many people would exclaim that a seven-tailed fox would mature into a Nascent Soul Realm spirit beast, which is a force many, many times stronger than an individual practitioner of the same realm of cultivation,” the woman giggled in laughter.
”However, not many know of a specific secret, even after the passing of many hundreds of years.”
”Secret?” Shen Haoren mouthed in surprise, his eyes narrowing in suspicion.
”Second Elder Sister, you mean to say… since our Shen Family is aware…”
”Yes, the secret does involve our Shen Family; then again, it involves many other powerful clans and entities we cannot provoke. That secret, lays within the seven-tailed fox's blood.”
Blood?