After reaching Foundation Establishment Stage, people basically abstain from food, but eating fasting pills too often also becomes tiresome.
Moreover, who doesn't have an appetite for food?
It's not like they can't afford it!
So, every family would raise some spirit poultry and spirit livestock for consumption.
The taste of spirit poultry and spirit livestock is much better than ordinary livestock, and their meat contains spiritual qi needed by cultivators.
Of course, raising these poultry and livestock is also more troublesome. What they eat isn't ordinary food, but spirit grain and the like that contain spiritual qi.
It can be said that one hundred ordinary chickens cannot be exchanged for one spirit chicken.
The Liu Family has a large population, and they don't eat meat frequently, perhaps once every three to five days.
Even so, they must raise a large number of spirit poultry and livestock to meet everyone's needs.
Therefore, their breeding ground has about a thousand chickens, ducks, and geese, and dozens of pigs, cattle, and sheep.
These poultry and livestock are basically excellent grade, with high breeding difficulty and value.
Calculating everything together, this breeding ground is worth quite a number of excellent-grade spirit stones.
Moreover, this isn't just about the money, the breeding itself is very difficult!
After all, those are living creatures that move, and caring for them is extremely troublesome.
To take care of these chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, and sheep, the Liu Family hired quite a few people to work.
Now, all the animals in the breeding ground have been stolen?!
Liu Junxing's younger brother, Liu Junxiong, ran to the breeding ground and angrily discovered that it had really been emptied, with only some feathers and lingering smells left inside.
Liu Junxiong was furious and immediately summoned the steward for questioning.
The steward was also very panicked and directly knelt down, stating that they hadn't heard a single bit of movement!
Logically speaking, these spirit poultry and livestock are very alert and would resist when encountering danger.
—Every time they catch chickens or ducks, they end up getting injured.
But this time, they heard no movement from these animals, as if they had been placed under a restriction and kept completely quiet.
Thus, the Liu Family summoned their alchemist to examine the entire situation.
Soon, the alchemist finally found out that all the servants and guards here had been drugged.
It was precisely because they were drugged that all the poultry and livestock were stolen without anyone noticing.
After learning the truth, the entire Liu Family was shaken.
Those who can drug others are either alchemists or poison masters.
But no matter which one, they are not ordinary people!
To make so many animals not resist and to silently drug all personnel unconscious, they must've been done by a very powerful expert.
If it was an alchemist, they must at least be an intermediate alchemist.
The Liu Family has always been good at conducting themselves and would never offend such figures, lest they bring disaster upon the family.
Moreover, such figures wouldn't stoop to stealing chickens and dogs!
With their abilities, they could easily attach themselves to any family as a guest and live comfortably, with no need to steal.
The Liu Family was completely bewildered, everyone was confused and felt like it was inexplicable.
Was someone playing a joke on them?
Even Liu Zhenyang was alarmed and went to inspect personally.
However, after confirming that the one who did this was an intermediate or higher alchemist, Liu Zhenyang quickly made a decision.
—This matter wouldn't be pursued and would be let go.
Although the Liu Family suffered losses, it wasn't enough to shake their foundation.
Perhaps one day this alchemist would suddenly appear and say that it was just a joke?
No matter what, it's better to show goodwill first.
It's not like they couldn't afford the loss.
Of course, they currently had no time to pursue this matter, because Liu Junxing was "pregnant"!
No one knew who spread the news, but now the entire Changhua City was discussing this.
Previously, when Liu Junxing was brought back from the Shi Family in disheveled clothing, the Liu Family covered it up, so logically others shouldn't have known these things.
However, who knew who fanned the flames, making the story vivid and detailed, and the news spread very quickly.
Both the Shi and Liu families tried to suppress these rumors.
But unexpectedly, after just two days, Liu Junxing suddenly began vomiting violently!
His symptoms were exactly like a woman being pregnant.
The smell of fishy or greasy things made him want to vomit, and he would suddenly vomit until he was completely drained.
Combined with the previous rumors, people immediately concluded that he was pregnant!
Heaven knows how absurd the Shi and Liu families found this rumor!
—What man can get pregnant?!
Isn't this a damn joke?!
Besides, even if a man could get pregnant, it wouldn't show symptoms in just two or three days, right?!
Did those spreading such rumors even have brains?!
The entire Liu Family was furious, this was too humiliating.
However, the people outside had their own explanations regarding this.
"I heard the Liu Family elder is carrying the Shi Family third young master's child!"
"Wow, that's explosive!"
"Tsk, isn't the Liu Family elder over fifty? The third young master is only in his twenties! When did they get together?"
"Oh, true love doesn't care about age or gender!"
"No wonder I heard the Liu Family elder and the third young master were very close before. So that's the relationship! Tsk, these great families are really chaotic!"
"But it's impressive, it's just been a few days and he's already pregnant!"
"I heard the Liu Family elder is vomiting like crazy now, and his belly has even started to grow!"
"God damn! It's only been a few days, is it actually that fast?"
"Of course! Maybe the third young master is exceptionally gifted?"
"Or maybe the Liu Family elder himself is exceptionally gifted? Otherwise how could a man get pregnant?"
"Oh, you're all mistaken. Maybe they were already together long ago, and only got pregnant now?"
"Tsk, truly a rare sight!"
These rumors quickly spread throughout the entire Changhua City, becoming more and more outrageous.
The Liu Family was furious and wished to find the culprit and tear them to pieces.
However, going out to refute the rumors was useless, because too many people were talking, far more than they could silence.
Lü Jiayue washed her face with tears because of this, shutting herself in her room every day, not daring to go out and face anyone.
Whenever she thought of what happened between her husband and Tianjie, she felt nauseous.
Who would accept their husband being with another man…
Although Liu Junxing said nothing had actually happened, thinking of him being hugged and kissed by Tianjie made Lü Jiayue almost vomit, unable to look directly at him.
Liu Yici and her two brothers also didn't dare go out.
When they went out, they were mocked by the young masters and young ladies of other families.
What made it worse was that they couldn't even refute it!
Because Liu Junxing could only lie in bed now, vomiting miserably, just like a pregnant woman bedridden with morning sickness.
Whenever someone said, "If it's not true, let your father come out and explain it himself," they couldn't say anything to that.
In the end, Liu Yici could only return to Linlan Sect to avoid the situation.
The entire Liu Family was in total chaos.
Meanwhile, Qin Yiwei and the others, who had stirred up the situation, had already returned to Wanxuan Sect with the thousands of spirit poultry and livestock inside the Beast Dwelling Ring.
Just as they arrived at the entrance of Wanxuan Sect, they saw a group of Golden-Eyed Jade Monkeys running out of the forest, shouting "woo woo woo."
Then, one after another, they jumped into the moat that had just been dug.
The few of them: ????!!!