Ch. 3 Wife

"That should be one thousand gold pieces in all." the cashier tells me before giving me my spatial bag. My mouth twitch when i hear that but I refrain from commenting when I remember the prize of the spatial bag—a solid 600 gold pieces.

The money in this City which I later learn as zhang city consists of copper, silver and gold so the weird looking crystals with different colours which i find stack in the same place as the gold must be a money of another city or another country.

The imperial Zhang family is the one managing this City, giving rules and regulations. They are one of the six major clans of this country; Xianghai country is named after the biggest sect here in the east, the Xianghai sect.

After completing his purchase Ling xi decided to look for the young man, going to the place where the guard pointed to him to look at. He trek a narrow path, going deeper and deeper into the shrubbery until a dead end stop him on his track.

A dilapidated hut is in the corner, a tattered clothes acting as a door doing poorly on covering a boy still wearing the blue uniform but shredded at the back. Blood keeps dropping on the floor, staining the already stained wooden floor ghastly red painting a mesmerising drawing.

The young man, shivering on the corner of the bed, makes a heartbreaking scene making Ling Xi to enter the hut, bring out the a heavenly grade high level medicinal pill body reconstruction and regenerating medicinal pill and putting it on cheng Li's mouth. Ling Xi know that the pill is priceless. All the cultivators wants to obtain even just a single piece even if it is just a low grade one because after consuming it, it is like going in a rebirth, but with much improve body constitution and spiritual root. it could also help the cultivators bearing lightning tribulation. all who use it became geniuses. He only have a single one, the soul of his body consider it as his lifetime achievement because making it is so hard, many alchemists ruined their soul and dying by overusing their soul capacity trying to make one. Until now only ten people successfully form one. So if master or sects found out that he casually give it to just a wounded person they could sure vomit blood,but he doesn't care, alchemist have no use of it and he doesn't have any .

Cheng Li feels his body became hotter and hotter by the minute, he feels how his wound is closing up, even his past injury is healing up, his meridian, and dantian are quickly brimming with spiritual qi making him feel so comfortable, after guiding the spiritual qi toward his dantian his entire body felt rejuvenate. The exhaustion from before was all gone.

Cheng Li open his eyes looking at his benefactor, to be greeted with a boy age fifteen to sixteen years old. Having a delicate and fair radiant face. Not very thin but small body. He recognised it as the one who he assisted in the shop. He is looking at him, shock and disbelief is on his face. He even keeps opening and closing his mouth making a funny face making cheng Li became intrigued by his expression. This is his first time he seeing someone with so many expressions showing and face.

"Why is your face became different?" after a moment, Ling Xi spokes, using his hand to point, still looking at his face.

"eh?" then he realised his guise, is broken. He been hiding and using this disguise to avoid his enemy for two years now acting as an orphan boy. He knew that without his cultivation, he can't open his spatial ring and pocket dimension because it requires his own soul force to activate. He done it to avoid someone stealing it from him but it backfires when they crippled his dantian and root bone making him just a human and even making him a child. After doing all of that they make him run and hide. Them going after his track to kill him, making him with nothing to do but to disguise his face by wearing his magical mask which he happen to hide on the sole of his boots together with his spatial ring.

But now he can feel his dantian again circulating in his spiritual awareness making him feel shocked and elated at the same time. He really wants to just start meditating right now, even though the spiritual qi is sparse in this place, he can still draw some qi on his dantian making his cultivation higher but first he has to think about what he should do to this young man. Killing him would be the safest option he decided to give him a chance to live if he has something to offer after all he is his benefactor.

Seeing Cheng Li smiling face, Ling Xi shivers, he found out that the young man still laying on the bed gives off a dangerous vibe. 'I don't mean to know you're secret, I'm just trying to help' he really wants to say that but decided not to when he saw Cheng Li's aura and demeanour changing.

"I… I should be going now, don't worry, I did not see anything." saying this he turned around trying to run when a hand grip his arm, tightening it to the point of producing bruise. Ling Xi can feel a killing intent pointing towards him.

"Going somewhere?" a lazy voice says, a rustling of clothes can be heard indicating that he is getting up.

"eh… eh" Ling Xi stammer, he is completely terrified at the very moment. What a dog shit luck this body has.

He awaits for the death to come when a hand hold his chin making him slightly look up, the young man who he thought is small is towering him for half a foot.

The young man smiles sweetly making Ling Xi who is already shivering broke out in a cold sweat, goosebumps all over his skin. He laughed his smile became overbearing, like a bloodthirsty beast looking at its prey.

"Since you have seen my true face, I don't have a choice now but to kill you. You should probably say your good bye now. Say, should i behead you or drown you perhaps?" an overbearing voice says right to his ear, very different from his voice an hour ago.

"Great God, Can you just let me live? I promise that i would never say your secret to anyone." Ling Xi pleads in a small voice, eyes already dripping in tears. He knows that he is a coward but he just wants to preserve his life.

He is still smiling, still holding his chin, he arched his eyebrows in a questioning manner.

"What do you have to offer then? You are my benefactor so I'll listen so it better be good or I'll just kill you on the spot."

'you know that I'm your benefactor yet your trying to kill me' he thought to himself but to afraid to voice out.

"Uhm, i would give you home and clothes, cook you food, and I could even make some medical pills to aid you in cultivation, well I'm still studying how to make some but i have pills on my spatial ring right now to give to you"

"Okay and then?" Cheng Li askd again, still not satisfied.

"If you want, I can give you my pocket dimensions, even my spatial ring." one on one, he laid all his treasures out.

"But I don't need those, i have mine." Cheng Li refuse without a single pause. All he says, he has all of them in his disposal.

"then, then I can only give you myself" Ling Xi speaks currently in his wits end, if worse came to worst, I'll become his servant he thought to himself.

"Deal! You're going to become my wife." Cheng Li agree immediately making the young man speechless.

It's good that I can now use my spatial ring again after so many years. The pill this little one give me really is good, making this useless self that he became, became a cultivator again. He found out that he is now currently a third level of essence condensation, just a little fly in the cultivation world, a far cry to his past cultivation but over all he is happy. He still has his spatial ring containing all his

'Wait for me little brother, You can't betray me without expecting a retribution' Cheng Li thought before looking at the boy standing still, clearly shocked by what he says.

"But I'm a boy?" a questioning voice broke him out of his reverie.

"So?" Cheng Li ask still not knowing the problem in what he said. Man and Man becoming a dao companion is not that big a deal so why is it that this one is so surprised.

"Wait, what's your name? Or if you want i can just call you wife?"

"I'm Ling Xi, and don't call me wife, I'm the man!"

"Then should i call you husband ne?"