Ye Shubai was rescued by Meng Tianyuan and Su Jiuli on the black market. That's right, at that time he was just a commodity in the hands of those human traffickers.

He was only nine years old that year. He came from a fairly good family, a gentry household. Although no one in his family held official positions, they were well-off and had no worries about food or clothing.

But fate was unkind. First came drought, then locust plague, then war and chaos, and starvation was everywhere. Not to mention a small gentry family like theirs, even the county government was overrun by the rising tide of refugees.

Then came the endless escape. In the end, his parents died at the hands of refugees fighting for food. He was lucky enough to survive, but he was left all alone in the world, utterly destitute.

He finally managed to escape to a place with food, and some people set up soup kitchens to help the disaster victims. He thought that even if he suffered a little, he could survive. Then, after he washed his face, he was targeted.

He was simply too good-looking; even though he was pale and thin, his bright and dazzling eyes couldn't be hidden. Moreover, he had been studying since childhood, and his temperament was incomparable to that of ordinary refugees.

Then he was bought by someone. He thought he was going to be a page in some wealthy family, but he accepted it. With his intelligence, he believed that he could make a name for himself one day.

Then he wandered to a place full of children, all of whom were locked in cages. Although he had never seen such a place before, he knew what it was.

He wasn't too panicked. So what if he was sold again? Wasn't he just bought at a high price this time?

But he never expected that his spiritual root would be discovered, and that he would be sold to someone as a slave.

The steward would tell them what a slave cauldron was, so he was very averse to girls. This aversion eventually evolved into feeling cold whenever he saw a girl.

Fortunately, he was lucky and was rescued by Meng Tianyuan and Su Jiuli before he reached that point, and eventually he successfully joined the Tianling Sect.

As he grew older, his aversion to women gradually subsided. He would blush when he saw girls and was unwilling to interact with them. Everyone just assumed he was shy, so be it.

However, it's different with his senior and junior sisters. He's just shy because they're his family, and he simply doesn't know how to interact with girls.

Second Senior Sister was naturally aloof, and seeing his shyness, she didn't talk to him much. However, he never lacked pills, as they were all given to him by Second Senior Sister.

Later, a junior sister arrived. She was much more lively. He felt that if he weren't the senior brother, she would be even more audacious as to flirt with him.

As he spent more and more time with his junior sister, he found that getting along with girls wasn't so bad, just like getting along with his junior brothers. Gradually, he stopped blushing so easily in front of her.

Later, he met Gu Yunyan from the Lotus Sword Sect. This female cultivator was different from those delicate girls. He didn't dislike her and even became friends with her. Then he gradually changed.

In his spare time, he also liked to tinker with strange and unusual things. He was naturally interested in these things and was curious about anything he had never seen before. He especially liked formations, as he found the feeling of wits and courage to be very enjoyable.

The life of a cultivator is very interesting. He really likes the unrestrained atmosphere of the Heavenly Spirit Sect. However, one thing after another happened, which made even someone like him who only likes to stay at home and study strange things get angry.

The successive deaths of his third and second senior brothers and sisters had already fueled his anger; otherwise, he wouldn't have been so audacious as to try to use the Heavenly Tribulation to perish together with those demons.

Then, the death of his junior brother fueled his rage. Although he enjoyed tricking this naive junior brother, his feelings for him were genuine, yet he was driven to the brink of death by that scoundrel Taoist.

He only regretted that he was too weak at the time; otherwise, he would have killed that dead Taoist priest even if it meant dying together, and his junior sister would not have almost exhausted her lifespan.

Fortunately, the final outcome was good, and everyone was still together. He was especially excited when he arrived at his junior sister's hometown. Although there was no spiritual power here, the technology was so amazing that he didn't want to leave.