Xue Kong is in a peaceful state of mind, and no one or anything can shake his heart. A hundred years of suffering have tempered his will and made his character more resilient.
Now starting over, Xue Kong has only one thought in his mind.
That is immortality.
The purpose of this Xue family gathering was indeed as Xue Yang and the other two had said, which was to select clan members with the qualifications to cultivate immortality, so as to provide them to the fairies of the Three Immortals Dao Sect. They hoped to be selected and become disciples of the Three Immortals Dao Sect, soaring to the sky from then on.
In his previous life, Xue Kong had an immortal body and cursed body, and ordinary people could not see his physique.
At the fairy guru's Dharma Assembly, the fairy guru saw through Xue Kong's physique at a glance and brought him back to the Three Immortals Sect. Xue Kong thought that he would become a disciple of the Three Immortals Sect, embark on the path of cultivating immortals, and rise to prominence.
However, the fairy lady secretly imprisoned him. Although she taught him the method of Qi Condensation to improve his cultivation, it was only to take his Yuan Yang when his cultivation was about to break through so that he could advance.
The fairy lady from the Three Immortals Sect was the female cultivator who had tortured Xue Kong for a hundred years in his previous life.
She was an elder of the Three Immortals Sect. When Xue Kong met her, she was just an ordinary cultivator in the late foundation-building stage.
Over the course of a hundred years, by continuously asking Xue Kong for Yuan Yang, her cultivation level rose from the late stage of foundation building to the late stage of Jindan, becoming the strongest cultivator in Jingwu, a third-level cultivation country.
Finally, he used Xue Kong's remaining Yuan Yang to break through the Jindan stage overnight and entered the Yuanying stage, becoming a Yuanying cultivator who did not belong to the third-level cultivation country.
Scenes from the past emerged in Xue Kong's mind. Those painful imprisonment and torture, those dark years, made Xue Kong feel a chill to the bone when he felt them now.
It is precisely because of this century of hardship that he learned to restrain his emotions and strengthen his future goals.
Get rid of the identity of a medicine man and no longer be someone else's furnace.
The venue for the clan meeting was in an open square. When Xue Kong and Honglian arrived here, the square was already crowded with people, whispering to each other and making a lot of noise.
At the entrance of the square, as Xue Kong and Hong Lian appeared, a middle-aged man in a green robe quickly walked up.
"Lian'er, why are you here just now? Why are you dawdling? Come with me to the center."
"Deacon Hong." Seeing the two of them ignoring him and turning away, Xue Kong called out softly.
Honglian's father, the only steward of the Xue family who was not of the same surname, the middle-aged man in a green robe raised his head, as if he had just seen Xue Kong, and nodded slightly at him with an expressionless face: "Third Young Master Xue."
Among the three generations of the Xue family, Xue Kong is the third oldest. Servants and outsiders generally call him the Third Young Master Xue.
As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for Xue Kong to respond, Deacon Hong pulled Honglian and quickly walked towards the huge crowd in the distance, as if he was avoiding the plague god, and was unwilling to talk to Xue Kong any more.
Xue Kong remained calm and unconcerned about this. He raised his feet and followed.
"Father, why do I feel that you are a little afraid of him? He is just an unpopular third-generation member of the Xue family. Why do you always deliberately avoid him?" Honglian was dissatisfied with Deacon Hong.
She thought this was too cowardly, so not only did she send her own daughter to Xue Kong as a personal maid, she also avoided him.
Deacon Hong sighed softly: "Lian'er, your father is not afraid of him."
"Then why is it so?" Honglian turned her head away, not accepting this explanation.
"As a father I feel...guilty."
"Where does the guilt come from?" Honglian looked at Deacon Hong again with a puzzled look on her face.
"Hey, Lian'er, have you ever wondered why the Xue family has only one deacon from another family?" Deacon Hong slowly explained the reason and asked back.
"Because my father is the most advanced cultivator in the Xue family!"
"That's not the case. Back then, your father was just a casual cultivator. I took you and your mother with me, and we were hunted by our enemies. When we were desperate, we were rescued by a cultivator named Xue. Later, I brought you and your mother with me to the Xue family."
"That cultivator named Xue... is Xue Kong's father."
Honglian opened her eyes wide, her face full of disbelief. Her father actually had such a past. Xue Kong's father was actually the savior of her family.
She was not aware of this matter before, but only now learned the truth.
"I, your father, am deeply grateful to Xue Kong's father. To repay his kindness, I have agreed to his request to stay with the Xue family. I will fight alongside him in the battle of Silver Willow City and face all the Xue family's enemies together."
Deacon Hong's tone was filled with melancholy, yet there was also a hint of the heroic spirit that accompanied Xue Kong's father in the battles. "Silver Willow City originally had five major families. Thanks to the efforts of Xue Kong's parents and I, we were able to wipe out the other families in one fell swoop and destroy the five major families."
"That's how the Xue family came to be the largest family in Silver Willow City, the sole overlord... How else do you think the Xue family got their reputation as the largest family?"
"Unfortunately, Xue Kong's parents died in this battle to protect me." Deacon Hong looked a little dejected. "They gave everything they had, not only to help the Xue family seize the throne of the first family, but also to save my life twice."
"I have no way to repay this kindness."
Honglian was stunned and shocked: "Father, you are kidding me, right?"
"If his parents made such great sacrifices for the family, why did he end up with no one to care about him, with only me by his side?"
Although she said she didn't want to believe it, Honglian actually believed it to some extent in her heart.
Otherwise, with Deacon Hong's cultivation level of the sixth level of Qi Condensation, it would be impossible for him to stay in the Xue family, and it would be even more impossible for him to send his only daughter to Xue Kong to be a personal maid.
There is only one reason to do this... that is to repay a favor!
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