Rebirth of the Celestial Miracle Doctor

"It's fine," Yun Mu chuckled lightly. "No matter where you are, arranged marriages by big families are always the painful part for the younger generation. I admire your spirit of rebellion. 'My fate is my own' – that's a noble character trait that yearns and esteems love."

Qingcheng: ...

"But alas, I'm the one who's out of luck, being used as a human shield and even nearly losing my life. Actually, with my former foolish personality, if you had just been honest, I would have accepted, as after all, you, Qingcheng, are the number one beauty in the capital. If I were afraid, I wouldn't run away."

Qingcheng: ...

"Alright then, if you were just apologizing for this matter, I've already forgiven you. Both of us are adrift in this world; we should support each other – that's the characteristic befitting of wanderers like us."

Having stared at Yun Mu for a while, Qingcheng suddenly felt that he was very different from before – could it be because he had a shocking experience after his brush with death?

"Yun Mu, I'm glad and thankful that you can be so open-minded."

"There's no need for thanks," Yun Mu waved his hand and then said, "Since we're just play-acting a marriage, we should each have our own private lives, right?"

"What?" Qingcheng didn't quite understand.

"Wife, since we're just husband and wife in name, in reality, we still lead our separate lives – that's what it means, right?"

This time, Qingcheng nodded.

Yun Mu smiled faintly and said, "That settles it, then. In the future, I will continue to act as your husband, fending off the arranged marriage imposed by your family. As for you, you will provide for my living, my daily expenses, but you won't interfere with my personal life. If I want to flirt, I'll flirt. I still retain my own personal freedom – you can agree to that, can't you?"

Wu Rou: ...

She now seriously doubted whether the Yun Mu in front of her was still the same Yun Mu as before.

The previous Yun Mu was not only extravagant but also foolish and very libidinous. Just because she wouldn't let him touch her tonight, he had gone out to pick up girls. However, the person she was talking to now, although his speech betrayed a libidinous nature, was actually grander and seemed to make a lot of sense.

Considering that she had indeed been using him as a shield, Qingcheng found no reason to interfere with his private life and thus nodded, "I can accept that. I'll provide for you but not meddle in your life."

"OK, I just love how straightforward and clear-headed you are, wife. If there's nothing else, I'm going to get some rest in my room."

"Wait, there's something else."

"What is it?"

"Could you not call me 'wife' in the future?"

"Alright, 'dear.'"

"'Dear' doesn't work either."

"Do you want me to call you 'madam'? That seems a bit old-fashioned, doesn't it?"

Qingcheng's pretty face darkened as she said, "What I mean is, when it's necessary, you can call me 'wife', but at other times, like Jiajia, you can call me 'Chengcheng sis.'"

Yun Mu was stunned for a moment. He didn't see an issue but then said indifferently, "The title doesn't really matter to me, but they say 'habit becomes second nature.' If it doesn't become a habit, I'm afraid I might slip up at some point."

Thinking it over, Qingcheng realized Yun Mu's point was valid. People would surely be investigating both public and private matters, and if she slipped up on this detail, it wouldn't be worth it.

Her sensual lips trembled slightly in reluctance as she said, "Alright then, just call me 'wife.'"

"Hehe, that's what I thought. Goodnight, obedient wife. I'm going upstairs to sleep; you should get some rest early too."

Yun Mu chuckled and turned to go upstairs, leaving Qingcheng with a slightly flushed, pretty face, her beauty beyond compare.

Halfway up, Yun Mu suddenly remembered something and turned his head to tell Qingcheng to take care of the corpse of the young man who had died before he returned to his room.

As for the group of people who had beaten him up and then buried him alive, it didn't take a genius to figure out that it must have been orchestrated by the Zhong Family from the capital city. Moreover, even if Yun Mu didn't go after them, once they knew he was still alive, they would surely come looking for him.

Closing the bedroom door behind him, Yun Mu didn't sleep because he knew he couldn't.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he felt the cushion beneath him give way, making his whole body sink slightly, so he furrowed his brows and decided to sit directly on the carpet instead.

He began to practice the Taiyin True Skill of the Heavenly Dragon sect, using the scant amount of True Qi in his body, and prepared to forcibly open his Qi Sea to successfully perform Qi Absorption in preparation for Foundation Establishment.

If Yun Dong failed and didn't even manage to absorb Qi, let alone attempt Foundation Establishment, he would be at best just slightly stronger than the average person.

And now he himself was stuck in the mire. If the Tong Family could strike at him once, they would do it again and again, becoming an endless source of trouble.

Yun Dong was, after all, a cultivator, accustomed to facing all manner of life and death tests. Thus, he saw life and death in a detached way. However, he held strong to the belief that one's destiny should be in one's own hands, and he greatly disliked the sensation of his life being controlled by others.

Yun Dong didn't ponder on it further. The Heavenly Dragon True Technique circulated within his body, his Qi navigating through the eight extraordinary meridians before finally converging in the Dantian Qi Sea.

"Damn it, open up for me!"

Pfft!

Yun Mu spat out a mouthful of fresh blood onto the floor.

Da*n it, helplessness was indeed everywhere. Here on Earth, where there wasn't enough Spiritual Energy to break through the Qi Sea, did he really have no way to step back into the realm of cultivation and return home to reunite with his senior sister one day? Yun Mu felt somewhat desperate in his heart.

"Eh?" Yun Mu relaxed his mind and carefully sensed his surroundings.

"That suitcase!" Yun Mu hurriedly ran over, opened the suitcase, and rummaged through it frantically until, finally, at the very bottom of a box filled with miscellaneous items, he found a translucent stone. Yes, it was a stone!

Seeing this stone reminded him of his deadbeat dad.

That's because his deadbeat dad wasn't from the Yun Family. He was but a pretty boy who caught the eye of a woman from the Yun Family, who then brought him in as a son-in-law, which led to Yun Mu's birth.

Five years ago, his deadbeat dad had come to him in a hurry, handed him this worthless stone he now held, and solemnly instructed him to take good care of it and never lose it.

A few days later, his deadbeat dad disappeared without a trace.

What did Yun Mu, this worthless piece of trash, understand? Like father, like son. However, deadbeat as he might have been, he was still his dad, so even if he didn't like him, Yun Mu had kept the stone and hadn't thrown it into the river.

Before seeing this object, Yun Mu had thought the Spiritual Energy in his body was something innate from birth. Now, it seemed more likely that it was left inside him by this stone. He examined the stone several times and almost jumped up and yelled in excitement.

This was a top-grade spiritual stone.

On Star Continent, the world was filled with Spiritual Energy, giving birth to countless Spirit Stone veins. Ordinary martial artists used the Spiritual Energy for cultivation to achieve great Divine Skills, reaching the peak of the Postnatal realm and taking one more step to enter the Innate Realm, qualifying them to use Spirit Stones for body refinement.

For cultivators, Spirit Stones were essential treasures for their cultivation. Spirit Stones were categorized as top-grade, high-grade, mid-grade, and low-grade.

The higher the quality of the Spirit Stone, the more abundant and purer the Spiritual Energy it contained. Even in Star Continent, top-grade spiritual stones were exceedingly rare, found only in the main veins of major Spirit Stone mines.

Yun Mu had once been the young sect master of the Heavenly Dragon sect because his father was the current sect master, granting him an exceedingly high status within the sect. However, despite this, receiving a piece of top-grade spiritual stone the size of a thumb in a year already made countless cultivators envious.

And yet now, Yun Mu held in his hand a piece of white jade stone that was undoubtedly a top-grade spiritual stone, and it was even three parts larger than a fist. It was clear that even on Star Continent, this stone was considered a first-class treasure, let alone on the heavily industrialized and polluted Earth, where it was even more precious.

Seeing this Spirit Stone, Yun Mu, whose spirit was nearly crushed, suddenly felt a raging fire of hope ignite within him. He believed that with this top-grade spiritual stone, he could absolutely return to his peak strength, reach the Nascent Soul stage, and if Earth possessed top-grade spiritual stones, it must also have its Spirit Stone veins. If he could find the veins, his return to Star Continent was just a matter of time.