23: Chapter 23 The child in her belly is mine

Hum—!

As the spatial fluctuations subsided, Lin Qingxue felt a blur before her eyes, and her feet landed on solid ground.

"Is this... the Su Family?"

She instinctively looked around, and her previously tense nerves were instantly replaced by a sense of immense absurdity.

Before her eyes were the familiar pavilions and towers; even the rockery she had climbed as a child was still there.

But... this atmosphere is wrong!

Lin Qingxue took a deep breath.

Boom!

A surge of pure Spiritual Qi, so dense it was almost liquid, rushed through her nasal cavity straight to her crown!

With just a single breath, the Golden Core within her body trembled joyfully, equivalent to three days of arduous cultivation in the Outer Sect of the Lingxiao Sect!

"This... this concentration of Spiritual Qi?! It's more than ten times higher than Saintess Peak?!"

Lin Qingxue widened her eyes, her face full of disbelief.

Looking up again, although invisible to the naked eye, relying on her heightened perception at the Golden Core Stage, she could clearly sense that a terrifying existence capable of changing the color of the world seemed to be coiled above the entire Su Family, continuously swallowing the essence of heaven and earth from a hundred-mile radius to nourish this small Family.

"Is this what Su Feng meant by... safe?"

"How is this a mundane Family? This is clearly a branch established by some hidden Holy Land?!"

Lin Qingxue felt her worldview being reshaped.

She had originally thought that returning to the Su Family was to seek refuge, and she had even prepared herself to eat chaff and vegetables and hide from place to place with Su Feng.

As it turned out... she had clearly married up!

"Yo, isn't this our high and mighty Saintess of the Lingxiao Sect?"

Just as Lin Qingxue was still doubting her life, a voice filled with a hint of laziness, playfulness, and a touch of jealousy came from the side.

Lin Qingxue turned around to see a stunningly beautiful young girl wearing a red gauze dress, her snow-white feet bare. She was holding her slightly rounded belly, one hand supporting her waist, the other holding a spirit fruit, looking at her with a half-smile.

Although she hadn't met her in person, this alluring aura that permeated from her bones...

"A Demonic Cultivator?" Lin Qingxue frowned slightly, instinctively protecting her belly.

"Don't be so nervous, little Saintess Lin."

Yan Ling'er took a bite of the spirit fruit, walked over with a swaggering gait, circled around Lin Qingxue, and clicked her tongue in wonder:

"I am Yan Ling'er. What's wrong, that old hag Yun Liu didn't mention me to you? Back then, to sever your mortal ties, she begged me to come and exterminate the entire Su Family."

"But... things are unpredictable."

Yan Ling'er deliberately stuck out her belly, looking at Lin Qingxue provocatively:

"As you can see, this young lady is now the mistress of the Su Family. As for you... didn't you make a fuss about breaking off the engagement and severing mortal ties back then? What's wrong, can't survive in the Lingxiao Sect anymore, so you've come running back to eat the grass you already grazed on?"

These words were too poisonous.

It was practically stabbing Lin Qingxue in the heart.

Lin Qingxue's face turned pale; she wanted to retort but couldn't find the words.

After all, what Yan Ling'er said was the truth; she did break off the engagement, and she did indeed come running back in a sorry state.

Moreover... looking at Yan Ling'er's similarly rounded belly and sensing the powerful aura within that was no less than that of her own child.

Lin Qingxue felt a complex mix of emotions.

So... he already had another woman, and another child.

"Alright, say less."

Just as the atmosphere reached an extreme point of tension, Su Feng's figure appeared out of thin air.

He first glanced at Yan Ling'er and shook his head helplessly.

Ever since Yan Ling'er became pregnant with his child, she had been extremely protective, fearing he would be snatched away by another woman.

"Since you've returned, just settle down and give birth to the child."

Su Feng walked to Lin Qingxue's side and placed his hand on her belly. A thick stream of Pure Yang Spiritual Qi flowed into her body, instantly soothing her restless blood and Qi.

Feeling that familiar warmth, Lin Qingxue's nose tingled, and she obediently lowered her head, not saying a word.

Seeing this, Yan Ling'er rolled her eyes and muttered in a low voice:

"Damn green tea bitch, pretending to be pathetic."

At this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps approached.

Su Mu, Lin Xiaotian, and the others heard the commotion and rushed over.

When they discovered that the person who had arrived was actually Lin Qingxue, their expressions instantly became incredibly colorful.

Su Mu let out a cold snort, still angry about Lin Qingxue's breaking off of the engagement. He was now at the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, just one step away from forming a Golden Core, and his confidence was very high.

In contrast, Lin Xiaotian, because he lacked the Su Family Bloodline, was still at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

Su Feng did not make things difficult for this father-in-law by convenience. The reason was that Lin Xiaotian had always been diligently managing business for the Su Family, and everyone in the Su Family did not treat him as an outsider.

"Qingxue... you... why did you come back!?"

Lin Xiaotian looked at his daughter, both heartbroken and angry, his voice trembling.

"I'm sorry, Father, it was your daughter who was wrong."

Lin Qingxue fell heavily to her knees with a thud, but she discovered a subtle, ethereal force supporting her knees—it was Su Feng's Spiritual Qi.

She looked up at Su Feng, her guilt deepening.

"Sigh..." Lin Xiaotian didn't know how to respond and could only let out a long sigh.

Su Feng didn't think that much.

This world was the same as his previous life; if you have no money and no power, women will run away sooner or later. Wealth, Method, Companion, Land—no matter where you are, wealth is always ranked first.

Therefore, Su Feng was not like those pure-love warriors who obsessed over desperate, life-or-death romance.

In his values...

Love is a verb! Do it a few more times, and naturally, there will be love.

Lin Xiaotian was just about to help his daughter up when his gaze suddenly fixed on Lin Qingxue's slightly rounded belly.

"This..."

Lin Xiaotian's pupils dilated, and his expression changed drastically in an instant.

He pointed tremblingly at his daughter's belly, then glanced at Su Feng beside him, and finally, all his words turned into a face full of grief, indignation, and guilt.

"Nephew!! Your Uncle Lin deserves to die!!!"

Lin Xiaotian beat his chest and stamped his feet, tears streaming down his face:

"This daughter of mine has no virtue; she's only been out for a few months and already... already..."

"I have no face to face your Su Family! Please allow me to repay your life-saving grace by being a beast of burden in the next life! Today, I will take this unfilial daughter and get out of the Su Family!"

In Lin Xiaotian's view, since his daughter had broken off the engagement to cultivate immortality and now returned with a big belly, she must have been impregnated with someone else's bastard and abandoned!

This was putting such a huge green hat on the Su Family!

Su Mu also had a complex expression; he had regarded Lin Qingxue as his daughter-in-law since she was young, and seeing her like this now, he could only secretly lament that fate plays tricks on people.

He walked over, reached out, and patted Su Feng on the shoulder, his tone heavy:

"Son, since it's over, make a clean break... Our Su Family is not what it used to be; what kind of woman can't we find? This type of... sigh."

Yan Ling'er, watching this massive scene of misunderstanding from the side, really couldn't hold it in.

"Pfft!"

She laughed out loud, and when she noticed everyone looking at her, her little face turned red, and she quickly waved her hands:

"Sorry, I thought of something happy."

Lin Qingxue's face burned; she knew everyone had misunderstood, but looking at her father's heartbroken appearance, she was both ashamed and anxious, not knowing how to explain.

"Where have you all let your minds wander?"

Su Feng shook his head helplessly; the imagination of these elders was truly something else.

"Uncle Lin, please calm down."

"Calm down? How can I calm down!" Lin Xiaotian's eyes were red, and suddenly his breath hitched as he asked with hope.

"Could it be that Qingxue... she isn't pregnant???"

"Uh... the pregnancy part is true." Su Feng coughed.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaotian swayed, almost fainting, and returned to his state of preparing to die to apologize.

Just then, Su Feng added calmly, his voice not loud, but it sounded like a thunderclap:

"However, the child in her womb... is mine."