5 Homewrecker?
Zack was right now slumped over the comfortable sofa in his living room.
He had a bowl of popcorns he made for himself in his hands, he seemed to be like someone who was enjoying his Sunday watching Netflix just chilling but in truth he was seriously thinking about something right now.
'There are still a few days till Qingyue's marriage, what should I do till then?' He asked himself seriously, relaxing for sometime was one thing but he didn't like wasting his time so much.
'Should I make a trip to the new moon city to sell the earth profound core I got after killing that bear?'
'I think that Cang yue will also be in the new moon profound palace.'
He mentally evaluated and came to a decision that it will be most reasonable to visit new moon city rather than sitting here doing nothing.
He stored his 'house' in his pocket and then ordered the navigator to show him the way to the new moon city.
"So convenient" He muttered with his gaze on the arrow pointing at the West direction.
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It didn't even took him half an hour to reach his destination, he kept flying this time because he wanted people to notice his existence and sure enough, almost everyone on the street was looking at him in slight awe and respect.
Finding Black moon merchant guild was a rather easy job with that symbol and the name written in big words on the building.
He descended in the front of the building, Right now he was wearing a black cloak with black pants and the plunderer mask.
For some reason, system would mostly only give him black clothes.
Did black suit on him that much?
He shook his head to clear away any unnecessary thoughts and entered the building.
A young woman in her early twenties immediately greeted him "Good morning, does this customer wish to sell or buy?"
She asked in a polite tone while staring at his clothes with curiosity.
"Sell... Profound core." Zack let out with a heavy voice.
She nodded her head and said in the same polite tone: "Please make your way to the third floor"
Zack followed her instructions and went to the third floor, reaching there he was greeted by another attendant…
"Greetings customer, we deal with the exchange related to profound cores on this floor, do you wish to buy or sell?"
"Sell"
"What grade of profound core is on the sale?" She asked politely.
"Earth profound core." Zack let out in a heavy voice.
The young woman's eyes widened into saucers, she never expected this customer to sell an earth profound core.
It is to be noted that in the new moon city, there are many earth profound practitioners here but that doesn't mean that an earth profound cultivator can kill a earth profound beast, so it is a big deal for a profound core of this grade to appear.
She hurriedly called an elder to deal with this respectable customer as she thought that Zack will get angry if he doesn't get proper attention.
A man who seemed to be in his thirties approached Zack with an amiable smile on his face "Honarable customer, I apologise to make you wait, please show me the profound core and then we can negotiate the price."
Zack didn't said anything and just put his hand in his cloak and pulled out a profound core, in reality he pulled it out of the inventory but that doesn't matter.
Elder's eyes shined brightly looking at the profound core, he carefully picked it up and started examining it.
Right at this moment Zack thought of something and evilly grinned to himself under the mask.
The elder was examining the profound core when suddenly a loud and violent voice resounded in his mind.
'Who dares to touch my home?!'
The elder was baffled and surprised, as he nearly dropped the core from his hands.
"Who?!" He was a little annoyed for being distracted while doing his work.
'I am the spirit remnant inside the profound core in your hand, you idiot human'
The elder looked at the profound core in his hand in shock and amazement.
Spirit remnant? Inside profound core? This is the first time in the history something like this has happened. What would be the price of this core if he gave this to main headquarters. Will he get a instant promotion?
These type of thoughts were going on inside his mind.
But in reality, it was Zack who was using his skill 'Telepathy' to communicate with him.
Now, the elder working in this type of place shouldn't be scammed and fooled so easily, after all even some cultivators can send spiritual message to someone using profound energy.
But in that case, one person is basically sending a wave of profound energy to another person's mind, which the brain feels and comprehends the spiritual message.
But this was not a case here, the fact that the voice just suddenly appeared in his mind gave the Elder further justification.
Even though he was having these type of thoughts, the elder continued examining the profound core like usual.
After a few moments he placed the profound core back on the table and said in a business-like tone: "Esteemed Customer, this is indeed an earth profound core of a profound bear, I offer 300 purple profound coins in exchange for it."
The price the elder offered was very high for a earth profound core but Zack was not impressed.
"500" Zack said in a heavy voice.
The elder looked at the profound core with a complicated look, if this profound core really has the spirit of the beast then even 1000 coins were a reasonable price.
The only suspicion he had was why did the spirit only communicated with him and not Zack, but he accounted that to the fact that Zack was the one who killed it, and other than Zack only he had touched it till now.
He finally resolved his mind and said "Deal"
Zack internally smirked, he wasn't in a immediate need of money but it was still not right to remain broke.
Zack nodded his head in a reluctant manner, trying to seem like he was still not satisfied.
The elder didn't even wasted a single second and immediately handed over a purple card to him and took the profound core.
Zack also didn't delayed and left the Black moon guild, some distance away he removed his mask and cloak and changed it to his snake hoodie.
Then, he made his way to the new moon profound palace.
Entering it was obviously not a big deal, he was casually strolling inside, trying to remember the general outline of the place.
Who knows, he may visit this place again for some business in future.
Locating Lan xueruo's room was not that difficult with the 'help' of some disciples and the fact that the room was bigger and more luxurious then the others only made his discovery easier.
The room was very tidy with the bed already set and the books arranged in the bookshelf. He plopped down on a chair at the corner of the room, waiting for the arrival of the princess.
It didn't took long for her to enter her room, she was completely unaware of Zack's presence until he moved his body a little.
"Keeey" She exclaimed in surprise. She was going to change her clothes right now when suddenly she saw movements from the corner of her eyes.
Zack who was completely uniterested in a live strip show made his presence known himself otherwise the careless girl would've even slept without noticing him.
Cang yue finally took a look at the facial features of the intruder, she was awestruck for a few moments while just staring at his handsome face until she realized something….
He can be someone sent by one of her brothers!!
She reprimanded herself in her mind to be so careless and even showing such defenseless for a few moments.
But the situation was not entirely correct, when she was dazed by him, he could've just took advantage of that or even when she was about to change, he could've just watched her but he didn't.
This confused her a little 'Why is he here? If he isn't here to attack me then that means he is at least not sent by one of my brothers.'
"Who are you?" She asked him in a neutral tone, after all even if he wasn't here to attack her, he still sneaked into her room and almost saw her naked….
Zack didn't said anything and continued to observe her for sometime which made her a little uncomfortable.
After a few moments a clear and amused voice resounded in the silent room.
"How about a deal?"
...…
Zack is back at the mountain in the floating cloud city in his precious home.
In the backyard, he was currently holding a wooden sword and swinging it around, from his thrust and slashes, one could easily discern that he was still not experienced with the way of sword.
It has been an hour since he started practicing Swordsmenship, and his efforts were rewarded when a new floating screen suddenly appeared in front of him.
[Skill 'Swordsmenship created.]
[Skill Swordsmenship has reached the max level.]
[Skill swordsmenship is evolving into skill sword mastery.]
[Due to reaching max level Sword mastery a new skill 'Sword intent' is being created.]
[Skill sword intent reached max level.]
Zack smiled at this as he felt that he was holding the sword in a wrong manner.
He readjusted his posture and made a vertical slash, a golden arc formed and pushed its way to a far away place before dissipating.
Zack was a little startled as he saw all the trees and even the ground in its way we're destroyed and there only remained a scene like world war has happened in that place.
'Awesome' He thought looking at the wooden sword, if only a wooden sword can cause this much damage then what about better swords.
'Better swords huh? I don't think the swords in this planet will even be able to withstand the attacks I will use, this wooden sword is basically already unusable after one attack.' He pondered in his mind and decided to learn the Blacksmith skill to create his own weapons.
This went on for a week in which he learned skills like 'Blacksmith',
'Formation mastery' and 'Alchemy'.
Including Swordsmenship and cooking he learned five skills in a week.
Today was the day of Qingyue's and Yun Che's marriage. Normally, when the marriage between the 'big' clans happen, the city gets into a jovial and festive mood but that was not the case for today.
Walking in the streets he heard some people cursing and insulting Yun che to be a lucky bastard or he was just a cripple, others were pitying the beautiful girl whose future was supposedly 'ruined' in their minds.
Zack felt a little amused hearing the whispers of the people from the crowds, in reality he knew that they all were hypocrites.
They were saying stuff like Yun che was not 'qualified' to be Xia Qingyue's husband but if they were allowed to marry her themself then they wouldn't care if even if they were trash.
For those who were pitying her they were thinking of themselves like those most knowledgeable and profound elders that are sitting in seclusion somewhere, they think that what they say and think has already come true.
Zack ignored them and went to top of a house from where he can overlook the whole crowd and the street.
He knew that Yun che will come from the same path to escort his 'bride'.
He looked above him in a certain direction and saw someone floating in the air…
'Like I thought, you are also here…' Zack was not even a little bit surprised by her presence, it would be weird if she was not keeping an eye on Qingyue.
Sure enough, after waiting for about half an hour, the escorts from Xiao clan could be seen coming from the left direction…
Leading them was a young man riding a horse, his facial features were not that bad and he had an aura of confidence around him.
Zack knew that the Yun che from his second life on azure cloud continent has already transmigrated in the body of his first life.
The wedding process went like normal until Yun che tried to hold Qingyue's hand to help her into the carriage.
Zack sensed that she used ice laws to freeze the cells of his hand from inside, even though it won't do any permanent damage it would still give unbearable pain.
'Hoh, interesting… From what I know she should've used only a little amount of her arts to make his hands cold… Is it that she knows that I may be watching her or is it because of her master.' Zack pondered her actions but the answer with most probability was that she was frustrated over the week and just let it out on the poor guy.
The fact that there is a chance that she could know where her mother is must have weighed heavily on her mind, all that thinking must have resulted in her becoming a little frustrated, Yun che only became her Target to let out some steam when he tried to touch her.
Zack faintly smiled looking at the beautiful figure of Qingyue and said in a low voice "Just be patient for a little more, dear… I will make you mine soon."
He then proceeded to disappear with a gust of wind, he had many ways to travel at a fast speed like using wind element or using lighting element…
But he used his skill cosmic shift for now to teleport near Xiao clan.
A figure appeared at the mountains behind the Xiao clan, it was Zack and the first thing he did was to clench his stomach and crouch down on the ground…
'Damn, who knew using this skill was so dangerous' He thought feeling nauseous.
Normally, he wouldn't have suffered like this with his total mastery over space element and max leveled skill but the issue here was not that…
What he was suffering from was motion sickness, due to instant movement over place to another.
He hurriedly activated his active skill 'Calm mind' in order to save himself from the current crisis.
His mind felt clear and the feeling that he was about to puke went away, he was extremely grateful for receiving this skill at these type of moments.
He turned around to get the work done he was here for, he knew that Jasmine would crash at this mountain region here, so he placed a formation over the whole mountain to inform him of every person that will enter it using his formation mastery.
Feeling satisfied with his work he disappeared again to wait for the time to set his plans in motion.
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(Qingyue's POV)
Today was the day of my marriage with the son of uncle Ying who saved my life when I was born.
But that was the last thing on my mind, during these last week I could only think about the deal which that mysterious person proposed.
I couldn't even sleep properly at night, I tried using my cultivation art to freeze my heart to stop this feeling but that only helped temporarily.
The escorts from Xiao clan and my supposed 'Husband' have already arrived here.
I absentmindedly followed the instructions given to me by my father and maid while still deep in my own thoughts.
Suddenly I felt someone trying to touch my hand, I instinctively used my ice arts but unknowingly I used it more than I intended.
I could see the pained look on his face as he shouldn't even be able to move his hand.
I felt a little bad but that was all, it is the rules of the sect after all that I shouldn't let any man touch me.
I sat in the carriage and eventually went back to Xiao clan, for some reason the fact that I'm getting married didn't even bothered me at all, maybe because I never accepted him as my husband or the fact that I will soon go back to the sect.
….
I was sitting in the bridal room when a smell of wine and alcohol spread to the whole room.
Yun che walked into the room with staggering footsteps acting drunk but I could easily tell that he had his Conciousness.
"Im sorry to make you wait, my wife" he said.
I didn't wanted to be bothered at this moment so I used the most simple method, by using profound energy I pushed him out of the room and closed the door.
I sighed internally, my temperament is really becoming a little violent due to stress and lack of sleep.
He continued knocking on the door again and again, after a few minutes I opened the door.
"You are not allowed to be within five steps from me." I said with a faint and calm voice.
He asked me where he will sleep, I offered him to sleep on bed but he declined saying that he was a man.
He asked me for seven profound gem grass, purple veined heaven Crystal and Earth profound core to repair his profound veins. I declined saying that it was impossible for me to gather these while not believing that he could reality his damaged veins.
After that, he went out saying that he can't sleep and wanted to see stars.
I saw no problem with that, it's his choice what he wanted to do.
I laid down on the bed, the only thing going on in my mind was what would've happened if I accepted his proposal that day? Would I still be here doing nothing?
The only reason I wanted power was to reach the place where my mother went to, that is the reason why I joined the sect even though I also knew in my heart that the rules were quite ridiculous.
But if someone was giving her an definite path towards her goal, then wouldn't it have been wise to take it?
Unknowingly two hours have passed and he was still outside, I stood up from the bed and walked out of the room.
I sensed two people in the mountains behind the clan, the room I was in was the closest to the mountains.
I walked to the forest in the direction of the people I sensed, it only took me a few moments to reach there to see….
Xiao che was peacefully sleeping with a smile on his face, there was also a girl in his arms who I recognized as his little aunt.
Normally, it wouldn't be that much of a big deal but it was his wedding night and his hands were not on an appropriate place.
"Was it worth it?….. To lose your opportunity for this?…"
A low voice whispered in my ears, I knew whose voice is this….
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(Zack POV)
I waited till the night until I suddenly felt that a single entity has entered the mountains through my formations.
It wasn't that late so I knew that this was Jasmine who fell here.
Without wasting any time I arrived beside her in an instant.
There I saw a girl who looked to be either twelve or thirteen years old and wore a messy dress. Her daintily cute and petite body was curled up like a frightened kitten. Below her skirt's hem revealed two slender snow white legs but upon closer scrutiny, there was actually a distribution of little fine scars. She wore one black shoe on her foot, with the other shoe no where in sight. Her naked foot was like a delicate ice lotus and her exquisite toes were as clear and translucent as a jade carving. The most noticeable feature about her was her Scarlet red hair.
(Zack POV)
Zack instantly recognized her as Jasmine, he immediately placed a formation on her which will help her to suppress the poison in her body.
Her eyelids fluttered a little as she opened her eyes a little, she barely moved her hand with quite some difficulty.
Zack felt extreme pity watching the poor girl in this condition, all he wanted to do was to take her in his embrace and keep her safe but he didn't wanted to freak her out.
He kneeled down by her side and spoke in slow voice "It's alright princess, let me take care of you."
Zack could see that she heard him but she barely had any strength to even nod her head.
Zack picked her up in a prince carry as gently as possible, he could feel her wariness and distrust towards him but he didn't care, his main priority right now was to take her home.
He flew in the air with Jasmine in his embrace, he could've used cosmic shift but he didn't wanted to hurt her as even he felt nauseous for the first time.
He opened the door to his house which was in the woods near the floating cloud city and proceeded to lay her body down on the bed of one of the spare bedrooms.
He then placed some formation on the room which will help her suppress her poison and alert him when she woke up.
This time around she didn't lose her physical body because he used formations to help her and arrived by her side early.
He saw her sleeping face while standing by the door and couldn't help but feel slight anger towards the people who were responsible for her condition.
He used his skill 'Calm mind' and his mind became tranquile again, he left her to sleep and regain her strength.
He felt two people entering the mountain by his formation, he knew their identity, Yun che and Xiao lingxi.
A smirk made its way on his face as he said "Everything is going as planned, now it's time to give a final push."
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A soft voice whispered near Qingyue's ear "Was it really worth it… to let go of such an opportunity... for this."
Qingyue was currently looking at Yun che and Xiao lingxi's sleeping figures.
Zack's voice was like a Devil's whisper to her, she subconsciously started thinking about what he said and asking herself….
Was it really worth it lose such a chance? Why did I refuse in the first place? Was it because of this fake marriage or sect rules? Maybe I was too proud.
Subconsciously she started to release her aura while thinking all these causing the two 'love birds' to wake up.
Yun che opened his eyes and looked at Qingyue with surprise and a little bit panic but soon calmed down…
But the same could not be said about Xiao lingxi, she was panicking after seeing Qingyue and misunderstood that she was releasing her aura because of anger.
She hurriedly tried tried to explain the situation while trying to save his nephew: "Sister in law, you are misunderstanding the situation here, we just fell asleep while we were star gazing."
But the explanation looked very funny when Yun Che's hand was still on her shapely butt.
Qingyue realized what she was doing and immediately retracted her aura but this short amount of time was enough to alert Chu Yueli who sensed her aura due to the same cultivation art.
She arrived by her disciple's side in a few moments and saw the same scene, Her eyebrows turned into a slight frown as she said "Qingyue, if I'm not wrong that man is the one you married right?"
Qingyue nodded her head and Yueli's expression turned into a scowl "hmph, I told you to not act too compassionate, Qingyue, now you see what I meant, men like him aren't worthy of your kindness."
Yun che who was till now silent said with an angry tone "Even if the one in front of me is a fairy from frozen cloud Asgard, I won't let anyone insult my character and nobility as a man."
Chu Yueli coldly snorted at him and said in a cold voice "The evidence is front of my own eyes, even though we forbade Qingyue from consummating the marriage, it is still not acceptable for you to be spending night with another girl ok your wedding night, it is the evidence of how much Noble your character is and what your morals are…"
Yun che didn't remained silent after this, he knew that what she said was correct, it would be very questionable in the eyes of people if they knew that he was sleeping with his little aunt on his wedding night.
"Even though I am at fault here, it is also true that my marriage with Qingyue is in name only as you said, the respectable fairy doesn't expect me to cry over her for the rest of my life, right? So it should be acceptable for her if I take a concubine in future?" He said the last part looking at Qingyue who just nodded in agreement.
Lingxi had mixed feeling while watching all this, she knew there was a possibility but it turned out to be true that Qingyue was a disciple of frozen cloud Asgard.
Zack was just standing at the side while enjoying the whole show which was going on… it was all going on according to his plan…
When Qingyue saw Yun che with Lingxi she just felt a little uncomfortable looking at his hand placed on her… By the way, that was all she didn't felt betrayed or anger, she has already given him consent to have concubines.
Aside from that she thought that it was a little inappropriate to sleep with another woman on their wedding night, he could've at least waited until she went back to her sect.
"So you want to forget about it and pretend like nothing happened?" Chu Yueli said in contempt.
Yun che remained silent, he was trying to think of a way to get out of the current situation but couldn't find any easy way out?
"Hmph, I want you to stay away from Qingyue from now on, I want you to divorce her right now so that there is no relationship in between both of you."
"The marriage will still be intact in the eyes of people but you will not seek her in the future, do you understand." Chu Yueli said with a snort, why would she miss such an opportunity? With the current situation she could free her disciple from the marriage, so why not do just that?
Yun che hesitated after hearing her words, at this point Lingxi voiced out in a worried manner "Sister in law, this was really a misunderstanding… please don't take it to heart."
"I never took it to heart, We are just from two different worlds… even without the divorce our marriage would still be in name only, so it is wise to just end it like this." Qingyue calmly said in a soft voice to lingxi.
Lingxi bit her lips in frustration and guilt, she felt like she was the reason her nephew's marriage was being annulled like this.
Yun che placed a hand on her shoulder and said in a soothing voice "It's alright little aunt, this marriage was never supposed to happen in the first place" He then proceeded to take out the marriage certificate and hand it over to Qingyue "Its your choice now, if you want then you can tear this marriage right now."
Chu Yueli nodded her head with a satisfied look on her face when she saw the marriage certificate in Qingyue's hands.
"I am going back to the room, if you want you can sleep with your aunt like you were doing before." With that said Qingyue went back to the room but not before looking around a little trying to find a trace of certain someone, not finding anything she felt a little disappointed.
Her master also went back to the inn she was staying at.
Yun che and lingxi kept standing at the same place for quite some time before Yun che voiced out "Little aunt, I can't go back to the room as it will only make things awkward."
Lingxi just stared at his face for a few seconds before she nodded and both of them went to sleep again like before but this type they were not acting that much intimate with each other.
Zack was still in the shadows, even chu Yueli didn't noticed his presence, he enjoyed the whole show from the sidelines, he looked at Xiao lingxi who was sleeping with Yun che and shook his head a little in dissapointment
'Such a pity.' With that thought he teleported back to his house and entered inside.
He checked the condition of his little princess before he also laid down on his own bed. Suddenly out of nowhere a strange thought entered his mind
'Am I a homewrecker?'
He shook his head to clear unnecessary thoughts like these and entered his own Dreamland.
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