Lu Xuan probed with his divine sense.
They discovered that several of Yu Qingzi's direct descendants were hiding in the cellar.
"what happened?"
Lu Xuan asked a simple, honest villager, who, upon seeing Lu Xuan standing in mid-air, was so frightened that he involuntarily opened his mouth and stammered:
"You are a celestial master!"
"A miracle has happened! We're saved!"
At this moment, an old man with white hair led a young girl out of the cellar. The two looked at Lu Xuan calmly and said:
"You must be a cultivator from the sect my good-for-nothing son belongs to! It seems he hasn't forgotten us poor family members. Take us away quickly! That demonic cultivator might be coming again soon!"
"Yes, please, Immortal Master, take us away! Please save us!" the girl beside her said, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Yes, of course. I am the one who was sent by Sect Leader Yuqingzi to rescue you and bring you to Tianhai Gate!"
Lu Xuan then learned the details of the matter:
A moment later, Lu Xuan learned that three days ago, several Qi Refining cultivators from the Heavenly Demon Sect had been wreaking havoc in the surrounding area in order to find mortals with spiritual roots in this small mountain village to join the Heavenly Demon Sect, causing many people from the surrounding villages to flee.
Only some elderly people and children in this small mountain village were unable to escape.
"Heavenly Spiritual Root, ah!"
Lu Xuan had just casually examined this young girl, a direct descendant of the Jade Purity Sect Leader, and discovered that she actually possessed an extremely rare Heavenly Spiritual Root!
"You have a Heavenly Spiritual Root, do you know that?" Lu Xuan asked the girl in front of him with a faint smile.
"I don't understand. I'm just a mortal who makes a living by gathering herbs. I have no idea how to cultivate immortality or what spiritual roots are."
"You're lying?"
Who is Lu Xuan? He has lived two lives, and in this life he grew up in the treacherous world of cultivation. How could he not see through the girl's lie?
"Please forgive me, Immortal Master."
The girl then said in a panic:
"My name is Zhang Ya! I do know that I have an extremely rare Heavenly Spiritual Root, and I am also the granddaughter of your sect leader, Yu Qingzi!"
"Oh? Then why doesn't the sect leader take you to cultivate immortality? You know, with your Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude, cultivating to the Foundation Establishment realm would be a piece of cake, and it could increase your lifespan by more than a hundred years. Don't you want to cultivate immortality?" Lu Xuan was very curious.
The girl before him clearly possessed an extremely rare Heavenly Spiritual Root and was also the elder of one of the nine major sects. Why wasn't she cultivating immortality? Foundation Establishment? Seeking the opportunity to form her Core?
Lu Xuan had barely finished speaking.
All I heard was the girl in front of me saying with a bitter expression:
"My grandfather had long ago warned me that the path of cultivation is as difficult as overcoming thorns and brambles; if you don't advance, you fall behind! If you want to gain a foothold in the cultivation world, you must get involved in the struggle between good and evil!"
Then, the girl continued:
"From then on, I also learned about the dangers of the cultivation world, and decided to become an ordinary mortal. I never expected that the Heavenly Demon Sect would search everywhere for mortals with spiritual roots! My great-grandfather and I had no choice but to hide in this cold and damp cellar."
At this moment, Lu Xuan looked at the white-haired old man beside him and asked:
"You look to be over a hundred years old, sir. Did Sect Leader Yuqingzi give you some kind of longevity-enhancing elixir?"
Upon hearing this, the old man clapped his hands and said:
"Little Immortal Master, you truly live up to your reputation as a cultivator! You saw through my condition at a glance! Indeed, according to my calculations, I am already one hundred and twenty-nine years old this year!"
"Oh? What kind of pill did you take?" Lu Xuan asked curiously.
It's already quite good for an ordinary person to live to be over a hundred years old. It seems that the old man in front of us must have taken some kind of peerless elixir, which should be as valuable as a bottle of precious pills for those in the Core Formation stage!
The old man made no attempt to hide a secret and replied without hesitation:
"It's nothing. My son Yuqingzi didn't leave me any pills. He's afraid that the demonic cultivators from the Heavenly Demon Sect will come looking for trouble with us, so he hasn't returned to the village for many years!"
"I want Grandpa Yuqingzi to come back to the village to visit us, but he hasn't been back for twenty years!" The girl next to her said with a hopeful look.
"Hmm, I see."
The old man then revealed the truth: "More than fifty years ago, my youngest son, Yuqingzi, was just a farmer! One day, while working in the fields, he discovered a strange golden snake. In his pursuit of the snake, he found a peculiar little tree in a cave!"
"What tree?" Lu Xuan's heart skipped a beat. Why hadn't Yu Qingzi told him about this?
"It's a small tree that bears nine golden fruits!" the old man said.
"After eating a few fruits, he embarked on the path of cultivation and developed magical power. Later, he was discovered by a passing Tianhai Sect cultivator, who then learned that he possessed a rare Heavenly Spiritual Root! I heard that he later became the sect leader of your Tianhai Sect?"
“That’s right, Master Yuqingzi is indeed the head of our Tianhai Sect!” Upon hearing this, Lu Xuan sighed with emotion.
Who would have thought that Yu Qingzi rose to prominence in this way!
"Are you a disciple of Yuqingzi from my family?" the old man asked in surprise.
"Yes." Lu Xuan nodded.
The old man then made no attempt to hide anything:
"The reason I've lived to be over 120 years old is because I ate the fruit of that golden sapling! But now that the demonic cultivators have arrived, I'd like to ask you to take that sapling to Tianhai Sect. We don't have the magic power to do it!"
“Alright!” Lu Xuan agreed.
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