The Cheng family's rise along with the end of his father's career had brought a tremendous amount of pain to Jiang Xiu and his mother. He detested the Cheng family from the bottom of his heart yet his dark emotions towards Cheng Lingran were also equally true. His feelings towards the Cheng family were quite complicated, and sometimes he would reveal this subconsciously.
Jiang Xiu's gaze turned cold, "You want this Deity to rely on others to make money, that too the Cheng family?"
Wang Xuetang had drafted this plan before Jiang Xiu had taken over the Wang family. As the family was acting too conservative, he adopted this method, cooperating with the Cheng family to share the risks so that the elders would agree with him. Since the contract was already signed, he was planning to proceed with it so that he could obtain achievements as soon as possible. But Wang Xuetang wasn't expecting that he would anger Mr. Jiang.
Wang Xuetang's face turned pale, "Mr. Jiang, I'll immediately amend the plan. I won't make such folly again."
The people present there were all experienced persons, so they had read between the lines already.
Mr. Jiang's first sentence wasn't strange as with the wealth he possessed, he could do anything and didn't need to ask other's help, but his next sentence was indeed thought-provoking - 'that too the Cheng family'. This revealed that Mr. Jiang had an encounter with them before.
"You know what to do?"
Cold sweat formed on Wang Xuetang's forehead, "Yes!"
Jiang Xiu didn't like cooperating with others. This was because he lacked trust in them and it was also related to his experience. Although he had made many acquaintances, there was no doubt that he was a person who was slow at warming up to others. A contradiction between the other party and him would arise when cooperating, even more so when he disliked them. Let alone, the other party was the Cheng family this time.
"Is there anything else?"
"Mr. Jiang, a few big shots of Hang City have come to pay respects to you." Tang Zhenshan stated.
Jiang Xiu pointed towards Wang Xintong, "Tell them to meet her. They can tell her anything they want to convey." Jiang Xiu's ambitions laid somewhere else, so he didn't have the mood to play social niceties with these people. He was already a bit impatient due to Wang Xintong disturbing his cultivation yesterday night.
"Alright!"
Jiang Xiu began cultivating with a peace of mind once these people left.
He took the inner core out. He had already refined it, so it wasn't glowing like before. He threw it lightly before him, after which it floated while again releasing a bright radiance.
This inner core was different from the Heavenly Dao Religion's God and Li Mi, they were souls, i.e. spiritual energy and could be devoured directly, but the inner core needed to be absorbed slowly.
"Hmm. A Millennium Inner Core."
He discovered that it was a Millennium grade Inner Core when he began absorbing it. However, the energy inside this inner core wasn't pure. He speculated that the River Swallowing Toad had rushed its cultivation, thus reducing the quality of the inner core.
"Bzzt!"
The Divine Race bloodline in his body pulsed, showing the signs of another awakening. Jiang Xiu pressed on and absorbed the energy from the inner core more fiercely.
The pale light from the inner core hit Jiang Xiu's body strongly, getting absorbed into his body in the end.
Boom!
His body trembled as if he was about to explode, releasing an energy pulse with him at the center. Jiang Xiu's divine force increased again.
The 6th divine regalia appeared on his arm.
Awakening Stage's 6th Mythical Realm!
He raised his arm to take a look. The pattern was faintly discernible now after the appearance of the 6th divine regalia, resembling a character. If he had the Divine Race Regalia Design Chart, he could have predicted what Godhead it is by comparing each one of them.
He continued to cultivate without any intentions of stopping.
Boom!
Boom!
Jiang Xiu cultivated with an overwhelming force. The Divine Race bloodline continued to awaken like a mad demon. He had evoked another five divine regalia on that day, reaching a total of 11 divine regalia. He only stopped after his body felt tired and could no longer absorb the inner core's energy easily.
"This pattern looks like a letter…"
He had finally obtained a clue after awakening 11 divine regalia. The pattern resembled an ancient character.
"Not bad…"
According to what he knew, character-type divine regalia belonged to the strong divine races. The character itself was a very mysterious thing, and it took the form as divine regalia, this was something incredible. Octaspell Divine Race, Shadow Emperor Divine Race, False Immortal Divine Race… all their Godheads were formed of character-type divine regalia, and they possessed abilities which even Jiang Xiu envied.
As for which race Jiang Xiu had awakened to, he could only figure that out after the first letter became evident, concluding the process of turning into a real god. If the character became a glyph, it'd be even stronger and might also produce a Grand Dao Art, which was a heaven-defying existence.
Jiang Xiu became excited thinking about this. He wished he could return to the Immortal Martial Continent and cultivate to maturity by exploiting the resources there so that he could pry into the complete pattern of his divine regalia.
Since it was a bit clear after he had awakened several times, Jiang Xiu didn't act radically anymore and selected to purify the divine force in his body so that his boundary wouldn't become unstable.
Ring-Ring. His cell phone started ringing. Jiang Xiu took a look and saw that it was from his mother, Lin Yueling, so he had to receive it.
"Son, did you have a fight with Susu again?"
"No, why?"
Jiang Xiu didn't know whether Cheng Lingsu had revealed about him to Lin Yueling.
"Why did Susu return home silently then?"
It seemed like she hadn't revealed it. Jiang Xiu thought that this complied with her nature as she wouldn't praise him, "I also don't know."
"Stinky brat, Susu is your fiancee. How can you say you don't know?" Lin Yueling felt a headache. Her husband had deceived plenty of girls during his youth, and she had also got coaxed by him. She really wondered how she had given birth to such a slow-witted son.
"Hehe…"
Jiang Xiu had almost forgotten she was his fiancee.
"She'll be your wife in the future."
Lin Yueling was quite dissatisfied regarding Jiang Xiu's vague actions so she reminded him of this so that he could act more clear-headed and understand the relation between him and Cheng Lingsu.
"Wife?"
His wife wasn't Cheng Lingsu in the previous timeline, it was Cheng Lingran who had sacrificed herself to complement for the harm that the Cheng family had done to Jiang Xiu. Jiang Xiu felt a bone-piercing pain when he remembered this.
A woman's miserable fate of using her love to heal a man who she didn't love at all was itself a tragedy. It was like entering one unhappy tale after another.
The suffering tormented them both.
"Hey, why aren't you replying? Okay, Mother will stop speaking about this to you. Since Susu came back, you can also return and go to the Cheng family to see her."
Jiang Xiu was stunned, "You want thi… me to visit her?"
Lin Yueling raised her voice all of a sudden, "What attitude is this? You'll go since I told you to go! Foolish son, quickly come back then visit Susu. If I heard you didn't go, see how I deal with you then!"
Jiang Xiu wished he could cry. He felt it quite difficult to accept such a lessoning tone, being disciplined by his mother suddenly after living an unhindered life for 3000 years.
"Do I have to go?"
Deity Xiu asked in a pleading tone. He had nothing to say to Cheng Lingsu and didn't wish to see her.
"I'm not discussing it with you here. This is an order."
Lin Yueling's tone was quite firm.
She wished for her son to understand how her view on this matter was. Jiang Xiu must marry Cheng Lingsu.
"Mother, actually…"
"Beep-Beep-Beep…"
Lin Yueling ended the call without even giving Jiang Xiu a chance to explain. Jiang Xiu hadn't expected his mother's grudge to be so deep. This was also no strange matter as their entire family had declined. His mother had suffered the most during all these years.
Lin Yueling hated the Cheng family. Jiang Xiu also hated them, he wanted to thoroughly destroy Cheng Lingsu, the woman who had destroyed him in the previous timeline, but he couldn't bear to make Cheng Lingran suffer. She wouldn't be able to bear it if anything happened to anyone in the Cheng family.
After thinking about it, he remembered that Cheng Lingran had come to visit for the holidays. He speculated that she would be at home if she didn't go outside.
"Prepare a car for me. This Deity is going back to Jiang City…"
Jiang Xiu called Wang Xintong.
"Alright!"
Wang Xintong arranged a chauffeur and a car for him quickly. It took only 2 hours to return to Jiang City. Cheng Lingran was indeed there when he reached the Cheng family. She was the one who opened the door for him.
She had worn a pink headband to bind her hair and wore a relaxing summer dress which emphasized her curves. Her warm gaze bewitched Jiang Xiu.
"Sis!"
Cheng Lingran was also happy seeing him, "Little Xiu, you're here! Quickly come inside."