MEIWITA Chapter 711: Boast and Show Off

Three days later, the Feng Clan held a family recognition banquet.

The clans invited to participate this time were all first-class and second-class clans that generally had a good relationship with the Feng Clan, and usually, peak-class forces wouldn’t be invited to such clan gatherings.

But this time, the Feng Clan invited the Mercenary Union. After all, Lou Mu Yan joining the Mercenary Union was well-known, so it’d be unreasonable not to invite them to this recognition banquet.

Although Ming Xiu represented the Ming Palace Royal Clan, but everyone knew that he was Lou Mu Yan’s betrothed, so others thought that it was only natural for him to come.

Among them, there were several Celestial Unification Realm powerhouses who were friends of the Ancestor. They came to build face, then left with the Ancestor of the Feng Clan.

After this banquet, all the large and small clans in the Human Realm knew that the Feng Clan had two more direct descendants surnamed Lou, and they were very valued by the Feng Clan, because even the Ancestor of the Feng Clan who hadn’t shown up in public for many years came out to support them in person.

After the Ancestor of the Feng Clan brought those top experts to the purple bamboo forest, he showed off the spiritual wine brewed by Lou Mu Yan.

“How about you try this grade 8 spiritual wine.” He poured everyone a glass of spiritual wine brewed from grade 8 spiritual fruit and Millennium-Old Royal Jelly.

The people didn’t take it seriously at first—after all, they could all buy grade 8 spiritual wine from the Stream Reflection Restaurant or other grade 8 spiritual wine masters, but after tasting it, all of their eyes lit up.

The grade 8 spiritual wine brought out by the Ancestor of the Feng Clan was very pure, with a sweet, mellow, and cold taste, very delicious, and after drinking it, there was even the traces of pure elemental energy in the dan’tian within the body.

“Old Feng! You’re too unkind, you’ve been hiding such delicious spiritual wine and only now offer it to us to drink. “An elderly man in white complained while savouring the taste of the spiritual wine.

Another golden-clothed elderly man also nodded and complained, “That’s right, you should’ve brought this spiritual wine out long ago for everyone to taste.”

The other three people also responded one after another, agreeing, while the movements of their hands remained fast, and the jug of wine was finished in only a short while.

“This spiritual wine was brewed by y Yan girl. As soon as it was brewed, I invited you all to come and taste it, but you’ve all got the nerve to complain.” The Ancestor of the Feng Clan said without a good attitude.

However, he couldn’t hide the smile on his face and the pride in his eyes.

“Yan girl? Is that the little girl that your Feng Clan recognised this time?” The white-clothed elderly man asked in disbelief.

The Feng Clan’s Ancestor said with a smile: “Yes, she’s not only a grade 8 spiritual wine master, but also a grade 8 alchemist.”

“What? I think her bone age is only twenty years old!” The golden-clothed elderly man in surprise.

After reaching the Upper Unification Realm, one could directly see the age of the other party without touching. He had accidentally discovered Lou Mu Yan’s bone age earlier.

“Nonsense, she’s a peerless genius of our Feng Clan, and she’s also proficient in smithing, arrays, talismans, and taming.” The Ancestor of the Feng Clan looked smug.

“What sort of dog-crap luck did your Feng Clan step on?” Another elderly man in black said enviously: “You can recognise into your family such a peerless genius so randomly, no wonder you called all us old fellows to come to the gathering, you’re obviously here to show off.”

Forget about the other specialisations, just a twenty-year-old grade 8 alchemist and grade 8 spiritual wine master were enough to shock the reclusive old fellows like them.

“That girl’s really the one who brewed the spiritual wine?” The golden-clothed elderly man took another pot of spiritual wine and poured a glass. He discovered that it had another taste, obviously brewed with different ingredients.

The Feng Clan’s Ancestor rolled his eyes at him and said: “When have I lied before?”

He changed his mind: “If you don’t believe me, there’s a way to prove it.”

“How to prove it?’ The white-clothed elderly man asked.

The Ancestor of the Feng Clan said with a smile: “I can ask Yan girl to come here to brew it for you lot to watch, but you as seniors should give a meeting gift.”

“You old thing, didn’t we just give a meeting gift?” The white-clothed elderly man said without a good attitude.

“The previous one was just a meeting gift for the recognition to family, but the one now is a meeting gift to observe the wine brewing.” The Ancestor of the Feng Clan had a look on his face as if to say ‘watch or not, up to you’, “If you don’t want to watch it, then forget it.”

“You old thing, if you just want to extort us, just say it, you don’t have to act like this.”

The elderly man in gold laughed and said: “Call that girl over, it’s rare to have such fun. It’s just a meeting gift, as long as she really has the ability to convince us, it doesn’t matter if we gift a few more good things.”

“Good!” The Ancestor of the Feng Clan immediately called Lou Mu Yan over via voice transmission.

A while later, Lou Mu Yan and Ming Xiu came to the purple bamboo forest together.

“Mu Yan/Ming Xiu greets seniors.”

“No need.”

The elderly man in white looked at Lou Mu Yan with a smile and said: “Little girl, your Ancestor said that you can brew grade 8 spiritual wine?”

“Replying to Senior, this Junior can indeed brew grade 8 spiritual wine.” Lou Mu Yan replied with a smile.

“I have some spiritual fruits and spiritual herbs here that are specially used to brew grade 8 spiritual wine. Brew a few pots of spiritual wine and let’s taste it.” The white-clothed elderly man paused, then said: “Your Clan’s Ancestor said that you can brew wine in public.”

“Yan girl, just show off your performance to these seniors, they’ll give you a great gifts after brewing the spiritual wine.” The Feng Clan’s Ancestor said with a smile and a wave of his arm.

Lou Mu Yan wasn’t argumentative either, and smiled as she took the spiritual herbs and spiritual fruits provided by the elderly man in white, took out the things for brewing, and began to brew in public.

The spiritual fruits provided by the elderly man wasn’t suitable for adding Millennium Royal Jelly together, so she didn’t waste it either.

While Lou Mu Yan was brewing the spiritual wine, the elderly man in gold looked at Ming Xiu and joked: “Stinky brat, why didn’t you abduct your wife back to our imperial family and instead benefited this old thing.”

Ming Xiu touched his nose helplessly, and replied with a slight smile: “I sure want to abduct her back, but my wife’s maternal clan’s right here, so I can’t, even if I want to abduct!”

The elderly man in golden clothes rolled his eyes at him without a good attitude, “Useless.”

Ming Xiu replied with a smile: “Imperial Ancestor, to be able to marry a wife like Yan’er is already the best I can do.”

The elderly man in gold choked, “Stinky brat, no wonder your father said that with a wife, you’ve forgotten your dad. I think you almost forgot what your surname is after having a wife.”

“Aren’t I still surnamed Ming.” Ming Xiu smiled innocently.

“HAHA, if he wants to marry into our family instead, we’ll be happy to accept him.” The Ancestor of the Feng Clan said with a cheerful smile.

The elderly man in gold glared at him, “Keep dreaming you old thing, if you have this stinky brat marry into your family, that protective father would fight to your Feng Clan’s gate.”

“As long as he’s willing, we’ll accept him.” The Ancestor of the Feng Clan raised an eyebrow and said: “You think I’m afraid of that Emperor Ming kid.”

They were all powerhouses at Celestial Unification Realm. Even if his strength wasn’t as deep and unfathomable as Emperor Ming, but it wouldn’t be easy for Emperor Ming to defeat him either.

“The spiritual wine’s finished brewing.”

While the two were arguing, Lou Mu Yan immediately offered the brewed spiritual wine, which resolved their discussion about whether Ming Xiu should marry into the family and become a live-in son-in-law1 or not.

1In ancient times in China (and perhaps in other cultures), the daughter would marry out and live with the husband’s family, but there were cases where the husband would marry into the wife’s family and live with the wife’s family—I believe it’s usually often only done by men who had a lower status than the female (at least from my experience in watching and reading Chinese novels and dramas hahahaha). In such cases, sometimes, if not most of the times, the children’s surname would even be the wife’s surname and not the husband’s.

Random Note: To be honest, when I first translated this chapter, I was disappointed to not get more LMY and MX action *sob*