Chapter 369 - Qilin

Chapter 369: Chapter 339: Qilin"Who ordered the Lingzhi, ginseng, pickled brown sugar with oyster and tiger whip goji berry rice?"

"I did."

Outside the Immortal Court, reporters from all directions were waiting for the court to resume while chatting and eating their takeout.

The mortal world’s commerce was so developed that even Spirit Roots could be bought, rented, or even speculated on as futures.

The divorce case between Xiao Shui and Miao Yin involved vast wealth, drawing countless eyes from the Cultivation World and harboring endless business opportunities.

"I used the Xuanwei Spirit Identification Technique to thoroughly analyze their micro-expressions as they left the court."

A square-faced reporter said seriously, "Xiao Shui’s expression was slightly relaxed, indicating that the first round of debate was in his favor. Miao Yin’s face didn’t look good, but it wasn’t to the point of being frantic either."

"The real-time odds for Xiao Shui losing, tying, or winning the case might have adjusted from to ."

"I bet three hundred Spirit Stones, won a Joyful Union Sect young model, and lost to working at the sea."

"Just three hundred? I stole my dad’s Cave Mansion Property Certificate and sold it, even mortgaged my own Earth Spirit Root, betting everything on Miao Yin getting control of the Xiao Shui Sect. I just want to see Xiao Shui explode right now..."

"Damn, dude, you’re ruthless, leaving no way out for yourself? I bet both on Xiao Shui winning and shorted the Xiao Shui Sect’s stock price plunging, a risk hedge..."

Most of those participating in the discussion were young reporters in their fifties or sixties. Some older reporters looked at them and continued calmly eating their takeout, not joining the discussion.

In the end, young people are still too young, thinking they can easily arbitrage in the financial market with their journalist identities, broad networks, and insider information,

not knowing that the stock market is more perilous and unpredictable than the three-thousand-year battle of Gods and Demons.

The real stock market crocodiles are the seemingly declining old sects outside the top ten rankings.

The Supreme Elder Ba Feite of the Taixuan Sect,

uses the Heavenly Destiny Technique, borrowing the Xuanwu Turtle Shell to deduce future stock market trends, each divination consuming fifty years of life—from voluntarily dedicated inner disciples.

The previous Sect Leader Suo Luosi of the Blood Sea Sect,

practiced the Faceless Manipulation Skill, utterly emotionless, devoid of desire, using inner demons for his own ends, maneuvering through the stock market, attacking international currencies, starting financial storms, causing countless monks to throw themselves off cliffs along with their families.

There is also the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion, playing with technical analysis and market prediction, all disciples gouging out their eyes to replace their physical vision with the market-eye that sees the smallest resistance lines in the K-line river.

Monkey Fruit Mountain playing with quantitative trading, each monkey hair representing an algorithm factor.

The Sighing Void playing with fortune fluctuations, refining a country’s economic fortune into a magical weapon, controlling bull and bear markets, and, if necessary, sacrificing ten Cave Void Stage monks to forcefully lock the upward limit for three days.

Although the couple from the Xiao Shui Sect are commercial geniuses with lively business minds, low moral baselines, and a moral vacuum, they still lack a bit of foundation compared to these ancient sects that don’t reveal themselves.

"They’re coming, they’re coming! Xiao Shui is here!"

The reporters quickly put down their lunch boxes, picked up their magical tools, and started taking pictures.

Compared to the first time, Xiao Shui’s mood was much better this time. While stepping up the stairs, he even had the leisure to politely nod at the reporters.

"Xiao Shui, there are reports that if Miao Yin wins the divorce case, you will lose control of the Xiao Shui Sect. What is your comment on this?"

"I believe the Prison Law Heavenly Palace will abide by the law, giving the outside world a truth and the parties a fairness."

With that, Xiao Shui, surrounded by lawyers, walked into the gate of the Prison Law Heavenly Palace.

Some sharp-eyed reporters noticed that this time, the lawyer named Pi Ant was missing from Xiao Shui’s side...

"Court is in session."

The gavel fell, meaning the divorce case reconvened.

The Judgment Chief glanced at the plaintiff’s seat and said indifferently, "Is the new evidence ready?"

"Ready."

Howard pulled out a stack of papers from his bag, provocatively looking at Yuan Zhixia at the defendant’s seat.

The latter was unfazed, seizing the few hours during the recess, instructing Xiao Shui to use all available reliable Strength at hand, to the sect, to the shops, to the bank, in any way to destroy potential criminal records.

Simultaneously, locking up those internal whistleblowers who might betray Xiao Shui and disclose criminal details, along with their families, to prevent their betrayal.

These measures filled at least eighty percent of the loopholes. It would be difficult for Miao Yin to produce solid and reliable criminal evidence to unilaterally threaten Xiao Shui.

If they didn’t want everyone to be jailed for life, Miao Yin’s side would have to accept the forty million Spirit Stone compensation with no enterprise stock control rights...

Wait, something’s not right.

Yuan Zhixia’s eyelids twitched violently, vision enhanced, clearly seeing the words on the papers Howard handed out.

There was no proof of Miao Yin’s real age, marriage registration related materials, nor criminal evidence during the development of the Xiao Shui Sect.

There was only one piece of information, the Rice Mist Mountain Cloud Formation Cave.

Howard smiled broadly and said, "This court session, we demand Xiao Shui fulfill his alimony obligations for the non-marital children born during their cohabitation."

"What."

Zhang Wei immediately stood up, full of shock and disbelief, "Wait a minute, when did they have non-marital children?"

All life forms in this world are six-base species, inherently more complex than Earth life.

And the higher the monk’s realm, the more transcendent their Life Essence, making it harder to reproduce offspring.

Xiao Shui and Miao Yin didn’t have children when they were young, thinking it would affect their careers in middle age, and the difficulty of conception increased with higher Cultivation stages, delaying until now.

Zhang Wei’s eyes widened, "Cave Void Stage monks’ pregnancy lasts at least three years. When did they have children, how could they have children?"

Similarly glaring were Xiao Shui himself, his face stiff and numb, unable to say a word.

"All I said was, the child’s mother is Miao Yin, but I never said the child was born by Miao Yin herself."

Howard sneered, pulling out several photos from the materials and floating them in the air for all to see.

In the photos was the Cave Mansion, amid the hidden mountains with serene scenery, stood an exquisite luxurious palace like the Dragon Palace.

On the cobblestone ground in front of the palace lay a five-meter-high Qilin-like Strange Beast with golden scales and wings on its back.

The Qilin lazily lay on the ground, its mane moving without wind. The surrounding flowers and plants, feeling the noble aura of the Strange Beast, rapidly grew, blooming visibly.

"That’s... a Rainbow Qilin." The Judgment Chief frowned slightly, recognizing the species of the Strange Beast.

"Precisely. In the 3295th year of the Buzhou Calendar, fifty-eight years after their marriage, Xiao Shui, already a Body Integration Realm cultivator, in order to expand the sect’s business, explored an Ancient Secret Realm and brought back a severely injured female Rainbow Qilin.

For the following century, he kept the Qilin as his spirit pet and mount, taking it everywhere, doting on it greatly. Fifteen years ago, the Qilin’s old injuries relapsed, and it died of illness in the Xiao Shui Sect.

The sect spent a fortune building a statue for it with Purple Gold Cold Iron."

Howard said, "That’s just public knowledge. In fact, the Qilin didn’t die but became pregnant instead.

Xiao Shui secretly embezzled sect funds to build the Cave Mansion in the Rice Mist Mountain Cloud Formation Cave, hiding the Qilin and the child he had with the Qilin in the Cave Mansion, out of everyone’s sight."

In the closed courtroom, everyone’s eyes were focused on Xiao Shui, whose face was ashen, even Miao Yin’s group of girlfriends, serving as the atmosphere group, were too shocked to speak.

A younger judge couldn’t help but mutter, "I remember a Rainbow Qilin is an Ancient Benevolent Beast, incredibly handsome and pretty in human form, regardless of gender..."

"It’s not like that."

Howard shook his head, smiling, "The Rainbow Qilin was under two hundred years old when hidden, still a youth in the race, not yet able to take human form."

The young judge looked back and forth between the five-meter-high Qilin in the photo, several times larger than an elephant with a majestic and sacred presence, and Xiao Shui, back and forth, feeling like his left brain was attacking his right brain.