The matter didn't escalate; only a few family members knew about it, and it was handled fairly well. The only slight dissatisfaction from Lu Xiuwen was that Lu Ji and others who knew the truth weren't silenced. However, he didn't want to cause trouble with his own daughter over such a matter.
With that bitch Lu Xuening dead, his second son might have a better future. Although he had long since given up on Lu Yunchuan and didn't intend to entrust him with any important responsibilities, he was still his own son, and he always thought the best of him.
Then he learned that A Yao had already reached the early stage of the Void Refinement realm. After learning this, Lu Xiuwen had a very complicated feeling.
This feeling is like an emperor looking at his crown prince: he wants the crown prince to be independent as soon as possible, but he also doesn't want the crown prince to be independent too early.
He was under a lot of pressure because of his daughter.
This girl is a monster! Her cultivation level increases like drinking water. She's already reached the early stage of the Void Refinement realm in less than sixty years. In less than a hundred years, she might surpass him, her father. He knows perfectly well that A Yao doesn't have much of a father-daughter bond with him, and at that point, the Lu family might not be so reliable anymore.
When word got out that A Yao had reached the Void Refinement stage, everyone was shocked. None of those who had bet on when A Yao would reach the Void Refinement stage had won.
Three years after Lu Xuening's death, the Lu family experienced another momentous event that shook the Southern Region and even the entire Canglan Realm: Dongxuan Zhenren, one of the Lu family's three patriarchs, re-entered the Integration Stage. Dongxuan Zhenren, whose cultivation had been reduced after being injured by the demons in the Kongmeng Realm, had finally returned to the early Integration Stage. For the Lu family, this was a cause for great joy.
After emerging from seclusion, Master Dongxuan was in a very good mood. However, he did not summon his son, Lu Yin, as if he were unaware of his existence. He only summoned A Yao after hearing that she had reached the early stage of the Void Refinement realm.
A towering ancient pine tree, hundreds of feet tall, had many vines entwined around its thick branches. The vines hanging down were like a green curtain. Using the branches as a path, there was a small pavilion at the end of the path. The pavilion was very quiet and secluded. Two people sat beside a small table.
One of these two men was Lu Xiuwen, A Yao's father, dressed in white, and the other was Dongxuan Zhenren, one of the three patriarchs of the Lu family.
Although Dongxuan Zhenren was over 20,000 years old, he looked very young. Like Lu Yin, he had white hair hanging down his back, narrow eyes with a sharp light in them, and skin as white as jade with a lustrous glow.
Although the True Man of Dongxuan was the ancestor of the Lu family, many members didn't know what he looked like, and even the core members rarely saw him. In her previous life, Ayao had never seen him. Now, standing before the True Man of Dongxuan, her first thought upon seeing him was:
So Lu Yin is his son!
In reality, Dongxuan Zhenren and Lu Yin's facial features are only moderately similar. The Lu family often engages in consanguineous marriage, so this degree of similarity does not actually arouse much speculation.
Few members of the clan have seen Master Dongxuan. It's not that Master Dongxuan is afraid that they will guess anything from his appearance. The other two ancestors are also rarely seen by the Lu family members. They simply want to cultivate in seclusion after reaching a certain level of cultivation and find the younger generation noisy and disturbing.
Ayao didn't discern the relationship between Dongxuan Zhenren and Lu Yin from their appearances, but rather from their auras, their bloodline auras.
"Xueyao greets Ancestor! Greetings Father!" Ayao clasped her hands and bowed to Dongxuan Zhenren and Lu Xiuwen.
Master Dongxuan looked at Ayao, and after scanning her with his divine sense, a satisfied smile appeared on his face. He said to Lu Xiuwen, "You are truly blessed to have such a daughter!"
After he finished speaking, he looked at A Yao again. He remembered how beautiful and delicate A Yao was when she was a child, and smiled:
"When you were a month old, the old ancestor held you in his arms."
Hearing Master Dongxuan say this, Ayao was surprised. "Is that so?" she thought. She truly didn't remember anything from the time of the full moon. She had almost no memories before the age of three. How exactly she was lost when she was three, Ayao didn't know either.
I can't remember anything at all.
"Time flies! In the blink of an eye, you've grown up and are already at the early stage of the Void Refinement Realm. You're more promising than all the members of the Lu family. The future of the Lu family depends on you." The Ancestor of Dongxuan looked at A Yao with loving eyes.
Ayao said, "The Lu family still has a father."
She didn't want the Lu family.
The Old Ancestor of Dongxuan looked at Lu Xiuwen and said with a smile, "When your father was your age, he was far inferior to you."
Lu Xiuwen: "..."
Upon hearing this, Lu Xiuwen thought to himself: Ancestor, why are you criticizing me for no reason?
He admitted that he couldn't match his daughter's cultivation speed, but it wasn't just him who couldn't match it. Even you, Ancestor, couldn't compare. In the entire Canglan Realm, there had never been anyone with such an abnormal cultivation speed.
"Sit down!" Master Dongxuan said to Ayao.
After bowing respectfully, A Yao sat down next to Lu Xiuwen. Master Dongxuan simply wanted to meet A Yao; after a brief chat, he bestowed upon her two celestial artifacts and magical treasures, and then A Yao departed.
After she left, Lu Xiuwen said to Dongxuan Zhenren, "I plan to let Lu Yin and Xiao Qi cultivate together. What do you think, Ancestor?"
Master Dongxuan said, "Lu Yin, I'm afraid Lu Yin is not good enough for your daughter."
He had been observing Ayao for a while and found that he couldn't quite understand her.
Lu Xiuwen looked at Dongxuan Zhenren with surprise in his eyes.
"Since I re-entered the Integration Stage this time, I have had a feeling that a storm is brewing. Something big is probably going to happen in the Canglan Realm," said Dongxuan Zhenren. Ever since he came out of seclusion, he had had an ominous premonition. Although the premonition was not strong, he could not get rid of it. He tried to deduce it, but to no avail.
"In recent years, the situation in the Canglan Realm has indeed changed a lot. An organization called the Phoenix Alliance is expanding its territory everywhere."
“Now the entire Western Regions are controlled by the Phoenix Alliance, and many sects in the Southern Regions, Northern Regions, Eastern Regions, and even the Eastern Continent have submitted to the Phoenix Alliance.” Lu Xiuwen frowned as he spoke of this.
"The Phoenix Alliance?" asked the Mysterious Immortal.
Lu Xiuwen said, "It is said that the leader of the Phoenix Alliance is named Feng Yao, and her strength is already at the late stage of the Integration Realm."
Late stage of fusion?
Upon hearing this, the True Man of the Cave Mystery's pupils suddenly contracted.
As a Nascent Soul cultivator, he knew how difficult it was to reach the Nascent Soul stage in the Canglan Realm, and he was even more aware of how difficult it was to advance from the early Nascent Soul stage to the middle Nascent Soul stage—it was practically impossible. If he hadn't been seeking to advance to the middle Nascent Soul stage and higher realms, why would he have gone to the Kongmeng Realm back then?
The laws of the interface are suppressing cultivators in the Integration Stage, preventing them from advancing normally.
This is an unconscious act by the Canglan Realm to protect itself.
This small world simply cannot withstand too much damage from cultivators in the Integration stage!
Therefore, it not only suppresses cultivators in the Integration stage, but also suppresses those in the late stage of Void Refinement, preventing them from breaking through the bottleneck of the Void Refinement stage.
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