Li Tao returned home and had a long discussion with his family.
He fabricated a believable story about the inheritance, carefully mixing truth with lies. He explained that his decision to choose Murong Qing was influenced by the "vision-like guidance" from that inheritance.
The Li family believed him almost instantly.
Everyone… except Li Jing.
"Pervert!" she shouted, pointing at him. "You just fell for her looks!"
The room burst into laughter.
Li Tao rolled his eyes. "You'll understand when you grow up."
"Grow up your head!" she snapped back.
Everyone laughed.
Li Tian asked about the pills.
Li Tao replied calmly:
"I unlocked part of the inheritance after forming a bond with Qing'er. Some resources became available… but I still can't access everything."
Li Tao became serious.
He asked everyone to divide based on gender and gave them two Marrow Washing Dan each to improve their talents.
"The pills I have are too strong to be used recklessly," he explained. "We improve your foundation first. Strength will come naturally afterward."
He then distributed a small batch of auxiliary pills, ensuring no one overloaded their body.
He redeemed a total of 20 pills from the system, spending 2,000 points, and carefully distributed them among the family.
By evening everyone had gone through a drastic transformation. After taking a cocktail of pills including Washing-Marrow Dan + Auxiliary Pills everyone felt like they were a different self.
By the end of the week, the Li Family underwent a visible transformation.
Li Tian and Li Cheng stabilized at the late-stage of the Grandmaster realm, their foundations still slightly unstable.
Song Mei and Aunt barely stepped into the Grandmaster realm, requiring time to consolidate.
Li Jing reached the late stage of Internal Energy, just one step away from breaking through.
As for Li Tao—
He stood at the peak of Internal Energy, with faint signs of breaking into the Grandmaster realm at any time.
{Too fast… even for a cheat. I need to slow down.}
Li Tao used 10,000 points to refine his body and reached the Half-step Grandmaster realm, stabilizing his foundation afterward.
The Li Family had now become one of the strongest forces in Fortune City, second only to hidden powers like the Murong Family and the Good Fortune Mountain.
Li Tao casually revealed a portion of the Murong Family's strength—not out of kindness, but to ensure the Li Family understood the cost of acting recklessly.
In this world, ignorance was far more dangerous than fear.
Li Tian and Li Cheng abandoned their City takeover plan at that moment.
After all the spending, he had around 2,000 points left. He decided to keep them in reserve for emergencies.
Li Tao spent a lot of time with Murong Qing and their relationship grew closer. Now the favorability level has reached 69, which can be categorized as an improvement.
After absorbing the spirit stones he provided, she reached the peak of the early stage of Qi Refining realm, which in turn pushed him to the peak middle-stage of Qi Refining realm as well, nearing Qi Condensation.
Good news came soon after. Murong Leitian had already been stuck at the Half-step Transcendent realm for years.
The sudden surge of pure and mysterious qi released during Qing'er's transformation resonated with his own cultivation, loosening the bottleneck that had restrained him for so long.
Seizing that fleeting opportunity, he successfully stepped into the Transcendent realm. He went into seclusion to consolidate his realm till the day of the marriage.
.....
Today was the day when our Protagonist walked down the mountain, he bid his master farewell one last time and walked towards the Fortune City.
Due to the world will's correction, his strength which should have been early-stage of the Internal Energy realm was now middle-stage of Internal Energy.
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Neo stole a lot of points from this scenario. Making his creating points reach a new high of one hundred thousand points.
He was amazed by the sudden jump. He spent 100 years in the previous world to earn 500,000 points but 10 days of this world caught up with 20% of the progress.
{Worthy of a White world that is upgrading to Yellow grade.}
He planned to generously use the Cauldron of Creation's right of use as the main reward for the wedding mission, but the dream shattered like glass when he saw the prompt....
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Ye Feng entered the city and walked all the way, enjoying the scenery. He entered a bar and happened to encounter Xu Yue being bullied. She was the common family heroine who fell in love with her hero as soon as they met.
He bravely fought the bullies and entered her house in the name of not having a place to stay. Relationships heated up quickly from thereon.
Both Murong Qing and Li Tao had their people monitoring on both Ye Feng and Xu Yue. Li Tao wanted to monitor them, while Murong Qing was curious about the Qi of Luck entanglement Li Tao mentioned.
Both of them were surprised, Li Tao was shocked by the difference in strength of Ye Feng in his previous life and current life.
Murong Qing was amazed by how naive and careless this Daughter of Luck was. She let him enter her home without any caution. Just because he saved you, he is not a bad guy? He could have planned all this, or he could be their boss.
She sighed and asked Li Tao about the reason. He told her that it was her destiny to follow this path. Even if you warn her about Ye Feng, she will either argue with you or still end up by his side. Ye Feng wouldn't 'attack' anyone without luck because of his special body called
She was spared because old dog Xiao is afraid of Grandpa.
Murong Qing sighed in relief after hearing all this. For a moment, she wondered if she was part of some story—but quickly dismissed it. Even authors wouldn't dare write something like this.
"Tomorrow come with me to the Lin family, okay? I will take you to watch a play and earn some interest out of the Lin family," he said.
Then he gave her a peck on her lips and ran away while she was still engrossed in her thoughts.
'perv!'
...
Next Day,
Li Tao, Murong Qing, Aunt Ling, and a few servants drove towards the Lin Family. Originally, He and Murong Qing were invincible in the city but he still took others with him because:
One: He cannot lose status as the son-in-law of the Murong Family. Even giants of the capital are watching all his moves.
Second: He wanted to rely on his subordinates to overwhelm Ye Feng if needed so, Ye Feng wouldn't lose the will to fight.
They arrived at the Lin Family villa by noon. When they entered Lin Baitian and his wife personally welcomed him and his party. Telling that Lin Bingxue was not home yet but would be here any minute and his father was troubled with diseases.
Mrs. Lin was way ahead of Lin Baitian when it came to buttering. She comes from a regular family, and she knows without the Li Family's umbrella they would not be able to survive this man-eat-man world. Lin Baitian was able to sit in his position as head thanks to Li Tao offering treasures to increase his realm to the middle stage of the Internal Energy realm. He who has seen his deeds at the Golden Treasure Pavilion maintained his distance to not offend this disaster star.
They came inside the hall and saw one old and one young man talking and laughing about the past.
The old man was Lin Zhengtian, the patriarch of the Lin Family while the young man was the protagonist of our story, Ye Feng. He was busy telling stories about his master 'Divine Doctor Xiao'.
Lin Zhengtian was laughing and smiling all the time while praising him and his master. They looked like friends from different generations.
They noticed Li Tao coming in but decided not to pay attention but Ye Feng couldn't look away when he saw Murong Qing's face behind him. He was sitting there perplexed. He knew who she was but being the gentleman he was, he asked, "Master Lin, who are these people?"
Lin Zhengtian cleared his throat to dispel the awkwardness and introduced, "This is Li Tao, the young master of the Li Family in the Fortune City, and these must be his friends."
"Young Master Li, this is Ye Feng, the closing disciple of Divine Doctor Xiao. Please feel free to talk to him. It will be good for your future. Master Ye is well versed with both medicine and martial arts."
Li Tao ignored them, walked toward the hall, and sat down. Murong Qing and Aunt Ling sat beside him while others stood behind them.
Lin Zhengtian's face turned ugly seeing this but he kept his smile being an adult who does not care about young people's mistakes. Ye Feng was still looking at Murong Qing's face.
For a brief moment, the hall grew unusually quiet.
It was not fear.
It was instinct.
Even Lin Zhengtian, who had seen countless storms in his life, felt a faint unease rise in his chest.
Something about the young man seated there… was wrong.
Not arrogance.
Not hostility.
But something deeper—like a calm lake hiding a bottomless abyss.
Li Tao gave a faint gesture.
A'Fu moved instantly.
No shouting. No warning.
Just intent.
A'Fu stepped forward silently.
"Young Master, should I handle him?"
Li Tao didn't even lift his gaze.
"Go."
Ye Feng's gaze lingered on Murong Qing for just a fraction longer than necessary.
That single moment—
The air shifted.
As if the world itself had subtly tightened its breath.
A feeling he could not explain rose in his heart.
As though… he had been marked.
The space between them compressed.
A'Fu's fist arrived like a falling iron hammer.
A faint warning flashed in Ye Feng's instincts.
Danger !!
His body moved before his mind could fully process it—both forearms crossing in front of him.
*boom* *crash*
Ye Feng underestimated the power behind this punch and was knocked away by the force, crashing into the chair he was sitting on. Lin Zhengtian got up and helped him up.
Lin Zhengtian wanted to say something but the door suddenly opened.
Outside the hall, footsteps approached.
Slow.
Measured.
Every step carried a faint pressure that seemed to freeze the atmosphere inside the room.
Even the servants unconsciously lowered their heads.
The door creaked open.
Our heroine, Lin Bingxue was here.
Lin Bingxue stepped into the hall.
Her expression was calm—but the moment her eyes landed on Li Tao, a subtle hesitation flashed across her face.
Just for an instant.
The room's atmosphere became heavier.
"What happened here?"
Ye Feng slowly stood up, brushing off the dust from his sleeve.
His expression remained calm, but his eyes had already evaluated every person in the room.
None of them felt weak.
Yet none of them made him feel afraid either.
"Nothing." Ye Feng tried to be a saint while hiding his clumsiness.
"What are you doing here?"
Lin Bingxue's voice was cold, but sharper than before.
"I already told you. I don't like you. Are you here to pressure my family again?"
She froze when she noticed Li Tao sitting with them.
Li Tao ignored her and said to Ye Feng, "Next time you look at her…" Li Tao's voice turned cold.
"I won't miss !!!"
No anger.
No emotion.
Just a statement of fact.