Rebirth of the Useless Bastard Son

Cheng Qi found it peculiar how Li Tianyan managed to be embarrassed.

“It’s so dirty, and you still pick it up.” Li Tianyan looked at the item in Cheng Qi’s hand with disgust. It was stained with filth and had an unpleasant odor, yet Cheng Qi held it as if it were nothing.

“It doesn’t matter; I will wash it clean.” Cheng Qi wrung out the water from the clothes, refolded them, and placed them beside him. “Young master, do you know how we got here?”

“Why did you call me ‘young master’?” Li Tianyan found it amusing. Li Wu and Xiao Liu were servants who referred to him as young master, but Cheng Qi seemed to join in on the act.

“I don’t know what to call you.” Cheng Qi pinched his fingers in embarrassment, glancing from side to side.

“We’ve changed the Geng Tie and got married. What do you think you should call me?” Li Tianyan’s mouth curved into a slight smile. He never thought he had such a mischievous side, but seeing Cheng Qi’s reddened face, he couldn’t resist teasing.

As expected, Cheng Qi blushed at his words. However, recalling what he had heard from Cheng Mansion’s servants about Li Tianyan being in love with the eldest sister, he came to his senses. “I… I’ll still call you young master, okay?”

Li Tianyan noticed Cheng Qi’s change, realizing that the little shuanger must be naturally optimistic and cheerful but was forced into this state. After sighing, he stopped joking and spoke cautiously. “You can call me brother.”

“Brother?” Cheng Qi tilted his head, thinking for a moment. It seemed inappropriate to call Li Tianyan just ‘brother,’ so he settled on, “Brother Tianyan.”

“Do as you like.” Li Tianyan shrugged indifferently.

“Brother Tianyan, do you know why we came here?” Cheng Qi, after grappling with the question of how to address him, brought up the important topic.

Li Tianyan: “…” He hadn’t forgotten about it.

Seeing Cheng Qi’s expression of curiosity, Li Tianyan explained, “It was the teleportation talisman that sent us here.”

“Teleportation talisman?” Cheng Qi blinked in surprise, suddenly recalling the yellow talisman that Li Tianyan held at the door. It turned out the talisman was for teleportation. “That’s amazing.”

Cheng Qi looked at Li Tianyan with shining eyes. With such a small piece of yellow paper, one could travel wherever they wanted.

“Where are we now?” Cheng Qi was curious about everything around him. It was his first time seeing such a large lake.

“This is the outskirts of Jincheng. Haven’t you been here before?” The original owner had ventured outside the city with his friends in the past, so Li Tianyan was familiar with this area.

Cheng Qi shook his head, “No, mother never allowed me to leave, and I don’t know what Jincheng looks like.”

Li Tianyan also recalled the shuanger of the Cheng family had been confined to the mansion all year round. If not for the marriage causing a stir, many people in Jincheng might not even be aware of the existence of the Cheng family’s shuanger.

“I will take you out to see if I have a chance in the future.” After Li Tianyan said that, he quickly washed his body. He didn’t know what Li Tianyan had eaten, but there were so many messy things hidden in his body.

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When Li Tianyan was thoroughly cleaned and returned to the shore, the odor on his body was no longer covered up, and the smell of everything around him could not escape his keen sense of smell.

“It smells good.” Li Tianyan sniffed and found that there was an alluring fragrance among the mixed smells. No matter how strong the fragrance was, it made Li Tianyan felt more comfortable. This was clearly a spiritual thing. But it was strange for spiritual beings to appear in the mortal world.

Li Tianyan carefully identified the source of the scent and finally targeted Cheng Qi. Sure enough, when he took a few steps closer, the smell became more obvious.

“Brother Tianyan, what are you doing?” Sensing Li Tianyan’s approach, Cheng Qi subconsciously covered his face with his hands but was stopped by Li Tianyan.

“Don’t move yet.” Li Tianyan looked closely at the birthmark on Cheng Qi’s left eye and continued to sniff around him. He didn’t take a step back until he had the answer in his heart. “I remember that the Geng Tie said the year of Jiaxu on the Xinhai month is your birthday?”

“It’s mine.” Although Cheng Qi didn’t understand why Li Tianyan suddenly asked, he still nodded obediently.

Seeing that Cheng Qi didn’t look like he was lying, Li Tianyan suddenly felt even more strange.

“What’s wrong?” Cheng Qi blinked in confusion. Li Tianyan’s reaction suddenly made him a little nervous.

“Maybe your mother remembered your birthday incorrectly,” Li Tianyan suggested, feeling that this was the only explanation for now.

If he read correctly that Cheng Qi should be born with a Yin Yuan body, but the birth date on the Geng Tie’s horoscope of heavenly stems and earthly branches did not belong to pure Yin. His year, Jiaxu, contained Yang while the month, Xinhai, had Yin. It was impossible to give birth to a Yin Yuan body at this birth date.

But everything about Cheng Qi was very consistent with the recorded of Yin Yuan body. It was not uncommon for cultivators to have special spiritual bodies in the Tianyun Continent. However, spiritual bodies weree also divided into good and bad grades. For example, the natural Tian Yuan body was superior qualifications, people with this kind of physique could practice rapidly, with almost no bottlenecks, and the path was extremely smooth.

The names of Yin Yuan and Tian Yuan were only one word apart, but their properties were thousands of miles apart. Yin Yuan was a top-notch physique for dual cultivation. If such a person was born in the cultivation world, he would be like a fat sheep falling into a vicious wolf. The people had little chance of growing up.

Li Tianyan still remembered in Jinyue City where he lived in his previous life, there was a powerful family who suffered a disaster because of the birth of a Yin Yuan body baby. Most of them were sent to the mortal world by their parents when they were just born, to live their life like a mortal.

However, Tian Yuan body and Yin Yuan body had one more thing in common, that was, people with these two physiques were usually born with a charming appearance. Although Cheng Qi was not a girl, he did not have strong yang energy like ordinary men, but it was still affected to some extent. The birthmark on his face were the phenomenon of blocked yin energy.

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“Is there something wrong with my birthday?” When Cheng Qi heard Li Tianyan say that his birthday was wrong, he immediately remembered what his mother said and had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Li Tianyan looked at Cheng Qi’s youthful face and sighed. Those with the Yin Yuan body were destined for a grim fate; he wondered if this young fellow could alter his destiny. “Have you ever witnessed Tianfan Immortal Sect selecting disciples, particularly the outer elders?”

“No,” Cheng Qi replied, shaking his head. He had been unwell during Tianfan Immortal Sect election and hadn’t even left his room.

“That’s good,” Li Tianyan said, relieved. It was better for Cheng Qi to avoid exposure to those so-called immortals. One could never be certain if this sect possessed special means to detect spiritual body.

Li Tianyan exchanged a few words with Cheng Qi before finding a place to sit down and regulate his breathing. To use the teleportation talisman and return, he needed his spiritual energy to recover.

Fortunately, with Cheng Qi beside him, the wild scents were masked by the fragrance emanating from his body, providing relief to Li Tianyan’s sense of smell.

Cheng Qi sat quietly with his chin in his hands, his eyes were irresistibly drawn to the colorful bead in Li Tianyan’s hand. He couldn’t shake the feeling there were many intriguing aspects on Li Tianyan.

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“Young madam, where did you go just now?” Xiao Liu asked as Cheng Qi pushed the door open, quickly standing up to greet him.

He just went to wash clothes. When he returned, he noticed the young madam and the young master were missing. Xiao Liu searched many places but couldn’t find them, not daring to alarm the people in Li Mansion. He just waited worriedly.

“I was out for a walk,” Cheng Qi said to Xiao Liu with erratic eyes, confirming that he indeed went for a walk with Li Tianyan in the countryside.

“Walking?” Although Xiao Liu found it a bit strange to go for a walk in the middle of the night, he didn’t press further, saying, “It’s late at night, young madam, please rest soon.”

“Okay, Xiao Liu, you should go to bed,” Cheng Qi added.

After he finished speaking, he took off his shoes and went to bed, noticing Xiao Liu preparing to make a bed on the floor by the door. Perplexed, he asked, “Xiao Liu, aren’t you going to sleep on the bed?”

Li Wu was used to sleep alone in the side room before, there was only one bunk bed in the room. Xiao Liu could not sleep on it without crowding Cheng Qi.

“No, no, young madam, you can sleep there, I can sleep on the floor,” Xiao Liu quickly waved his hand, stating it was against the rules for him to sleep in the side room, let alone in the same bed as the young madam.

“Come up, the place is pretty big anyway,” Cheng Qi insisted, patting the empty spot next to him. “No one will know if I don’t tell anyone.”

“This…” Xiao Liu hesitated, but in the end, Cheng Qi persuaded him. Moving the quilt to the bed, Cheng Qi laid down contentedly, quickly falling into a deep sleep.

Note:

I’m not sure about the birthdate of Yin Yuan Body, but from my rough calculation and understanding. Jiaxu is the dog sign so it contains yang energy, thus it couldn’t be a pure Yin birthdate.