Without them, Xu Mingyan would have died long ago, which made everyone feel mixed emotions.

Aunt Tao burst into tears again, and Uncle Xu tried to comfort her.

Aunt Tao used all her skills to cook a delicious meal——

Salted fish and eggplant casserole, boiled chicken, mountain snails fried with basil, chicken offal fried with pickled radish, three kinds of farm-style cured meat, fried chicken shreds with crispy bamboo shoots, vegetarian dishes include fried tofu and stir-fried cabbage with black fungus, and cold cucumber salad, plus a soup.

Gu Lingze was unable to move at the end of the meal, thinking that the food in this dynasty was so rich and not any worse than the place he came from originally.

After dinner, Aunt Tao insisted that the three siblings stay at her house.

It was inconvenient before because Xu Mingyan was ill and they were afraid that his illness would be passed on to the children.

Now that Xu Mingyan has recovered, Aunt Tao and her family would definitely not want to let the three siblings go back to that thatched hut.

Gu Lingze left his brother and sister-in-law behind, saying that he had something else to do in the thatched cottage. Aunt Tao saw that she couldn't keep him, so she had to give up.

"You have to be good. Big brother will come over early tomorrow morning. You can have a good sleep in the warm Aunt Tao's house." After saying that, he rubbed the two children's heads and walked towards the thatched hut.

Gu Lingze returned to the thatched hut, and as soon as he entered the room, he crossed his legs and lay on the bed. He looked inside his dantian and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Today, he had used up almost all of his spiritual energy to exorcise the evil spirits for Xu Mingyan. The cyclone that he had cultivated was already barely visible, and now it had simply disappeared.

But if I were to choose again, I would definitely save myself. If the spiritual energy is gone, I can still cultivate it.

Gu Lingze immediately focused his five hearts upward and practiced his mental method. The speed at which he absorbed spiritual energy was several times faster than before. He couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

This was a blessing in disguise for me, so I quickly concentrated on practicing my mental method.

Gu Lingze sat like this for the whole night.

When it was dawn, his whole body suddenly shook, and then he made a series of hand gestures in front of him.

After sitting for a while, he slowly opened his eyes.

Gu Lingze couldn't believe that he had actually entered the first level of Jiangdan realm.

This is truly a pleasant surprise. I didn't expect that I could cultivate to this level after only being here for two days.

Before he could test his strength, the scene changed and he was back to the foggy place before.

Gu Lingze was feeling doubtful and uncertain when he suddenly saw an altar appear in front of him.

When the thick fog dissipated, he took a closer look and found something on the altar that gave him a surprise.

On it were placed the finest cinnabar and yellow paper, as well as a sword.

As soon as Gu Lingze grasped the hilt of the sword, he felt a sudden inspiration. After taking a closer look, he discovered that this was the long-lost Mo Shuang sword of their Guiyi sect. He was immediately delighted.

This altar is full of good things. Just as he finished thinking this, Gu Lingze saw a pagoda-shaped black lump. What is this?

Gu Lingze shook it with his hand, then looked at it carefully from top to bottom, but he had no clue at all.

There was a letter under the tower-like object. Gu Lingze put down the black lump, picked up the letter, and saw that it was written on the envelope: Dear friend Lingze.

The content of the letter roughly describes the origin of these things -

This is a cave left behind by an ancient immortal. The things on the altar were the former possessions of Taoist Master Lingyue, but this black lump was placed here when he came in. Until he ascended to heaven, he was unable to figure out what this thing was.

So they were all left to Gu Lingze, asking him to practice well, eliminate demons and defend the Way, and the final signature was Lingyue Taoist.

Gu Lingze was silent for a while and felt that Taoist Lingyue was such a good person. He actually left him a secret realm for cultivation and so many good things. It was like pie in the sky.

On second thought, this is not the time to get excited. The biggest problem now is how am I going to get out?

What if they can't go back? Kaneko and Reiko will be so worried.

At this moment, his eyes suddenly blurred and Gu Lingze was back in the thatched cottage. He calmed his mind, thought about the scenes in the secret realm, and instantly appeared in the secret realm again.

This secret realm is very convenient to come and go, it is worthy of being called an immortal cave, it is truly magical.

Later, I tried to produce cinnabar and yellow paper directly from the secret realm, which was also very successful. Not only did I no longer have any worries, but I also had weapons to support my hands. It was really killing two birds with one stone.

Now with cinnabar and yellow paper, Gu Lingze can finally do what he has always wanted to do.

It was almost dawn and without further delay, he walked out of the thatched hut and headed towards the back mountain.

Now that the key issues have been dealt with for the time being, the next step, of course, is to deal with the murderer of Kaneko and Reiko's father.

If he wanted to cause trouble, it would only take a piece of talisman paper, but Gu Lingze always adhered to the principle that every wrong should be punished.

Revenge would only be satisfying if the real perpetrator came himself, Gu Lingze thought so with a meaningful smile on his face.

In this dynasty, there are men, women, and young men like him.

The world itself discriminates against boys, because boys are not as strong as men to farm for a living, and even if they can give birth, their fertility is not as strong as that of girls.

If you meet heartless parents, you will be beaten or scolded from the time you are old enough to understand, and all the dirty work will fall on you.

In this dynasty, father was still called "daddy". If the son who gave birth to you was a younger brother, he would be called "daddyqin" to distinguish him from his father.

Jinzi's father is such a boy who was beaten and scolded when he was young and is very cowardly.

Jinzi's father died, and her mother's family returned to the village as soon as the seventh day after the death and introduced a widower to Jinzi's father.

This widower was a butcher who killed pigs. He only cared about Jinzi's father's pregnancy and gave birth to Jinzi and Lingzi.

After giving his mother's family some money, he took Jinzi's father away. This butcher would not raise someone else's child for free, so naturally he only took Jinzi's father, Chen Si, away. Jinzi and Lingzi didn't care at all.

Chen Si could only secretly send some food to them from time to time, and even so, Jinzi and Lingzi would often go hungry for a day or two.

Until one day, the butcher found out that Shen Si had helped the two children. He grabbed his collar and punched him in the face, leaving Shen Si's face covered in blood.

Jinzi was right next to him at the time. He pounced on the man and started hitting and biting his legs, then was kicked into a corner by the butcher.

Jinzi was unconscious for a whole day. Later, the butcher went to the county town to bring in human traffickers, intending to sell Jinzi and Lingzi.

Jinzi was naturally a slave indentured to death by someone else.

But looking at the way the human trafficker looked at Lingzi and the extra money he gave her, she knew that Lingzi would definitely be sold to a brothel, where she would be trained from a young age, and when she grew up, she would work in that low-class place as a prostitute.

When Shen Si saw this scene, he was scared to death. He knelt down and begged for mercy in front of the butcher. Later, he saw that he had accepted the money from the human trafficker and was about to sign the contract.

He turned around, rushed into the kitchen, picked up a knife, gritted his teeth, pointed the knife at the butcher and demanded that he return the money.

But the butcher didn't take him seriously at all, and no one in the village cared. Everyone knew that the head of the village was the butcher's brother-in-law, and the butcher often gave him gifts as a filial gift.

Shen Si watched as the butcher was about to take his children away, and he desperately swung his knife to stop him, but was slapped to the ground by the butcher.