All Chapters of The Hidden Supreme Son-in-Law : Chapter 401
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Chapter 401
The back of the Phoenix was wide, but no one spoke on it.Lian Haofeng stood to the left, his eyes occasionally drifting to the young man standing casually in the middle, enjoying the high-altitude wind as if he were taking a stroll through a market. Lian Yushuang stood to the right, and unlike her brother who kept his curiosity neatly tucked away, she didn't bother hiding the watchful stare she had fixed on Kael's back.Kael had noticed both of them from the very first second. He let them sit with it for a moment before finally saying, "Just ask what you want to ask. No need to hold back."Lian Haofeng didn't waste time. "Where are you from? I'm fairly certain you're not from this region."Kael knew this question was coming, so he already had his answer ready."You're right," said Kael. "I'm from the Sky-Piercing Sacred Dragon Sect's territory. When the conflict between them and the Heaven-Splitting Celestial Sword Sect broke out, I decided there was no point staying. I traveled sout
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The entire Lian family fell silent for a moment.He was making a condition? Seriously?Lian Boxuan stared at Kael with an anger he was barely keeping in check. "Since when do you have the right to make conditions?"Kael furrowed his brow, his expression like someone who had just heard something that made no sense. "Why not? Feng Quanyi got the right to take over every medicine and herb shop in Lotus Cloud Market just for claiming he could help. Why can't I, who am only asking for something far simpler, have the same?""Because he was the finest physician in this region!" Lian Boxuan's voice rose a notch. "While you are nothing but a nameless traveling physician!"Kael smiled slightly. "Starting today, I am the finest physician in this region. Because I am more capable."Silence.Lian Yushuang opened her mouth, then closed it again. Even Lian Haofeng, who had already seen this young man's abilities firsthand, couldn't fully hide the surprise on his face."What unbelievable arrogance!"
Chapter 403
Lian Zhenyu's room was at the end of the eastern wing corridor, behind a pair of sandalwood doors carved with blooming lotus motifs. The moment the doors opened, the smell of medicine greeted them, a blend of dozens of herbs that had been burned and boiled over days, yet none of it seemed to have produced any meaningful result.The room was spacious, its ceiling high, its windows large but with the curtains drawn shut, leaving only the dim, warm glow of several hanging lanterns. In the center of the room, on a silk-draped bed with posts carved in small dragon shapes, lay a young boy.Lian Zhenyu looked to be around fifteen years old, but his condition made that age feel like something that was slowly leaving him behind. His skin was pale to the point of near-translucence. His jawbone jutted sharply, his cheeks sunken, his neck far too thin for a boy his age. The hands resting on top of the blanket looked like bones wrapped in a thin layer of skin. His chest rose and fell with shallow,
Chapter 404
The first thing Kael did was remove all but two of the candles and lanterns in the room, then ask everyone to step back three paces from the bed.No one objected. They trusted Kael fully by now.Kael unwrapped the cloth bundles one by one, arranging the ingredients on the table in an order that had already been mapped out in his head from the moment he first examined Lian Zhenyu. His hands moved at a rhythm that wasn't rushed but didn't waste a single second either.Blue Dragon Root was sliced crosswise using spiritual energy he shaped into a blade at his index finger, each cut the exact same thickness. East Wind Crystal was ground into fine powder using a flat stone he'd asked one of the guards to fetch. Dawn Dew Seeds were peeled one by one, the husks discarded, the insides separated from the seeds with precise fingertip work.Lian Yushuang watched those hands without blinking. No one had ever taught her much about herbs in depth, but even she could see that the young man was treati
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The changes came one by one, like spring arriving after a winter that had gone on far too long.The color in Lian Zhenyu's face kept warming itself back to life. Not an excessive flush, just the color that was supposed to be there, the color of life that had been gone for a long time. The dark purple beneath his eyes began to fade. His dry, cracked lips looked wetter, more whole.Then his chest expanded fully for the first time in a while, longer than anyone could quite remember.And from the boy's throat came a sound.Not the screams of pain they were used to hearing in the middle of the night. Not a groan either. Just a small, hoarse sound, the sound of someone who hadn't properly used their voice in a very long time."Fa... father."Quiet, imperfect, half a whisper. But it split the room like lightning across a clear sky.Lian Boxuan was at the side of the bed before he even realized his legs had moved. His large hands reached for his son's thin ones, holding them gently, the way s
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Everyone in the room went silent.Madam Lian Wei stared at her husband with a look of pure surprise. Lian Haofeng blinked once, the only reaction that made it out of him. And Lian Yushuang stood with her body suddenly going very stiff.Her cheeks flushed red before she could stop them.What had her father just said?!She meant to be angry, but something strange was happening inside her chest, something beating at a rhythm that had no business being there. She didn't look into that feeling any further. Her eyes shifted toward Kael, and her cheeks went even redder.Kael looked at Lian Boxuan for a moment, then answered, "My apologies, Grand Leader. I decline.""Why?" Lian Boxuan held his gaze. "Is my daughter not beautiful enough?"Kael turned toward Lian Yushuang. The girl immediately looked the other way, pretending to find something interesting near the window. But her flushed cheeks couldn't be fooled by where her eyes were pointing."Your daughter is very beautiful," said Kael."Th
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Lian Chengbao looked at Kael calmly, his eyes reading the young man from top to bottom.Low-level Celestial Realm aura. Second or third level at most, nothing beyond that. Yet this young man had taken down twenty Order Keepers and Feng Quanyi, both of whom far outranked him, then healed an illness that had been considered incurable for months.The way he concealed his true strength, the way he moved, the way he spoke. All of it pointed to someone who had been through far more than his age suggested.Who was this young man, really?He kept that question inside his own head. It wasn't his job today to ask. His job today was far simpler.He turned behind him, where several Golden Lotus Sect cultivators had already landed carrying tools and building materials."Begin the renovation," he said briefly.They moved without question.The door to the Thousand Leaf Herb Shop opened, and Bai Ruomei stepped out with Bai Junlin peeking out from behind her shoulder. Both of them looked at the crowd
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Within a few hours, the Thousand Leaf Herb Shop no longer looked like itself.The walls, once cracked here and there, had been replaced with finely varnished sandalwood, gleaming under the afternoon light. The shelves that used to lean and creak when touched were swapped out for new ones, wider and deeper, with small dividers that made grouping the herbs far easier. The counter that had always felt too cramped for two people to stand at together was now three times the size, with hidden drawers built into the underside.The floor was replaced with white marble, cool underfoot. The ceiling was raised, the windows widened so light could pour in more freely. At the front, a new signboard hung above the door, the carved characters deeper and neater than the ones before.Thousand Leaf Herb Shop.The same name, but a different place.On the second floor, the staircase that used to creak at every step was now solid and silent. Bai Ruomei's room got a new bed with a thicker mattress. Bai Junl
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At that point, the sound of large wings beating came from outside.Bai Junlin, who was sweeping the inside of the shop, peeked through the window and immediately set down his broom in a rush. "Grandma! Brother Gao! A Phoenix!"Bai Ruomei came out of the storage room at a pace quicker than usual. Kael set down the herbal mixture he was working on and followed from behind.Outside, a golden Phoenix had already landed in the front courtyard, its wings folding slowly. From its back, eight people descended one by one. Lian Boxuan in his full Grand Leader robes, Madam Lian Wei at his side. Lian Haofeng with a calm expression, Lian Yushuang, and three Grand Elders with gold embroidery along the hems of their robes.And among them all, walking with steps that were still slightly slow but steady, was a fifteen-year-old boy with cheeks that had already started to fill out and eyes far clearer than the last time Kael had seen them.Lian Zhenyu.Bai Ruomei bowed respectfully the moment Lian Boxua
Chapter 410
Three weeks passed like water flowing without pause.Every morning, Kael swept the courtyard, sorted the herbs, and had the shop ready before the doors opened. Every afternoon and evening, a line waited outside. More than a hundred people came within that stretch of time, from low-level Celestial Realm cultivators all the way to several Transcendent Realm ones who arrived with reluctant expressions but no other option.The Thousand Leaf Herb Shop could no longer fit everyone at once. Bai Junlin was forced to set up a numbering system, writing numbers on small strips of paper, something the shop hadn't needed in its hundreds of years of history.Even people from the Sky-Piercing Sacred Dragon Sect's territory showed up, traveling long distances just to stand in the same line as ordinary folk at Lotus Cloud Market.From them, Kael collected more information than he had ever asked for.The war between the Sky-Piercing Sacred Dragon Sect and the Heaven-Splitting Celestial Sword Sect was g