Chapter 1: Jin Dan Family

"Twelve years, and time has passed so slowly!"

Ye Qingxuan, dressed in a green robe, stepped out of the library. His clear and handsome face showed a sense of ease; after stretching, he sighed slightly.

He had been in this world for twelve years.

From what he currently understood, this world was called the Di Xuan Realm, divided into nine regions.

These were the Inner Five Regions: Central Region, Eastern Region, Southern Region, Western Region, and Northern Region.

And the Outer Four Regions: Dongji, Nanman, Xihuang, and Beili.

Each region was divided into ninety-nine Great Provinces, and each Great Province was more than a hundred times larger than the Earth of his past life.

It could be said to be boundless; ordinary people could not walk out of a single Great Province in their entire lives, and the commanderies and prefectures under each Great Province were countless.

Ye Qingxuan was currently located in the Eastern Region of the Di Xuan Realm: Qingzhou Province, Daoguang Commandery, Qingmu Prefecture, Ye Immortal City.

More importantly, this world possessed the cultivation system he had longed for in his past life.

This knowledge was all learned by him from the library he had just left.

The library was specially established by the Ye family to broaden the horizons of their mortal clan members; it contained only common knowledge and some information within Qingzhou.

Since the Ye Immortal City covered a vast area, there were over a thousand such libraries scattered throughout the city.

He had died unexpectedly in his past life, yet never expected to travel through and be reborn in this world, experiencing the kind of encounters that protagonists in novels of his past life had.

When he first arrived in this world, after the initial panic, came curiosity about this world.

So, from the moment he learned to read, he frequently visited the library to learn about this world.

In this life, although he was born into an ordinary family, he was a mortal member of the Ye family, a Jin Dan family.

It was not a heavenly start, but it was not too bad either.

"I'm so looking forward to it! Tomorrow is the day of the family's annual spiritual root test. I am twelve years old this year, finally meeting the standard for the test."

Thinking this, Ye Qingxuan, filled with expectation and nervousness, unconsciously quickened his steps on the way home.

Ever since learning of the existence of cultivators, he had been expecting this moment at all times, yet also fearing it.

"Spiritual roots!

These twelve years have been torture, but tomorrow there will be results. This feeling of fate being beyond one's control truly makes one uneasy."

Ye Qingxuan suddenly stopped, took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, calmed his mood, and walked forward again.

As he walked, the street was full of Ye clan members coming and going, but Ye Qingxuan was not familiar with most of them.

This was because, although the Ye Immortal City was just one city, its area was astonishing, with a population of over ten million living within its walls.

However, most of these people were mortals without cultivation power; the Ye family's true cultivator members mostly cultivated and settled on the mountain ranges and spiritual veins not far outside the city.

Although the Ye family was only a Jin Dan family, it had been passed down for ten thousand years.

Under the accumulation of such a long time, the Ye family had over ten thousand cultivator members, and the mortal members numbered over ten million.

This was still after the Ye family controlled the population due to insufficient territory; otherwise, there would be even more mortal members.

There was no help for it; although the Ye family was a Jin Dan family, in this region of Qingzhou, it was not considered too strong, and the territory allocated was only the size of one city.

However, beyond this city, ten thousand li in all directions were the Ye family's territory.

It was just that mortals were too fragile, able to live only within the city and various resource outposts under the protection of cultivator members, which limited their numbers.

After all, the random birth of a single beast in the outside world was enough to make mortals powerless to resist.

Ye Qingxuan walked a considerable distance before arriving at the entrance of a courtyard house.

Walking into the home, Ye Qingxuan saw his mother busy and said:

"Mother, I'm back!"

Hearing the voice, Ye Qingxin looked up, saw her beloved son, and was very happy:

"Xuan'er, sit first; dinner will be ready soon."

Hearing his mother's words, Ye Qingxuan nodded, looked around the courtyard, did not see his father, and asked:

"Mother, where is Father? Hasn't he returned yet?"

Seeing Ye Qingxuan ask, Ye Qingxin stopped her work, put her hands on her hips, and said coldly:

"Your father went out to play chess again. He's never seen all day long. If he has the ability, don't come back for dinner, hmph!"

Seeing his mother's expression, Ye Qingxuan wisely said nothing, pouted, shook his head helplessly, but did not mind too much.

As a mortal member of the Ye clan, although most could not become extremely wealthy or noble, relying on the Ye family, they could live without worry about food and clothing.

They did not need to work hard; they only needed to occasionally take on small jobs assigned by the clan to live very comfortably.

After a while, just as Ye's mother was about to finish dinner, a middle-aged man walked in slowly at the door.

The man, upon entering, first glanced at Ye's mother with a bad temper, scratched his head, looked at Ye Qingxuan, and laughed:

"Xuan'er, you're back! Tomorrow is the day of the family's spiritual root test. How about it? Nervous?"

Ye Qingxuan shook his head, smiled, and said:

"Father, I'm not nervous!"

However, his two hands unconsciously clenched tightly.

Seeing his son's appearance, Ye Qingyou stepped forward and patted Ye Qingxuan's shoulder:

"Hehe, don't be nervous. Your old father was tested back then, and it was just like that. Without spiritual roots, didn't your old father still live quite freely? Hahaha!"

Ye Qingyou did not hold much hope; spiritual roots were basically one in a thousand, so it was normal that his son didn't have them.

He just saw Ye Qingxuan was nervous and wanted to guide him, to make his son relax a bit.

At this moment, Ye's mother walked over, pinched Ye's father's ear directly, and scolded angrily:

"Enough! You are idle all day long; don't corrupt our son. What is lacking in our son? Perhaps Xuan'er has spiritual roots?"

"Ouch, ouch, ouch! Mother of the child, let go quickly. I was wrong, okay?"

Seeing his parents' scolding and pinching, Ye Qingxuan's heart relaxed for a moment.

Being able to live a second life was already a profit; why bother worrying about gains and losses beyond his control?

Besides, he was not without any backing.

After dinner, Ye Qingxuan returned to his room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and focused his attention within his mind.

Having lived two lives, Ye Qingxuan's soul seemed to have undergone special tempering; even before cultivating, he could turn his spiritual sense inward to observe the space within his mind.

At this moment, in a special space at the center of Ye Qingxuan's mind, a faint shadow of Ye Qingxuan slowly materialized.

And before him, at the center of the mind-space, floated a black-and-yellow bead and a small glass-colored turtle!

This bead was Ye Qingxuan's family heirloom from his past life; he had always carried it with him, never expecting it to travel with him to this present world.

However, up to now, Ye Qingxuan had temporarily received no information from the bead.

As for that glass-colored small turtle, it was his avatar, accidentally contracted when he traveled through: the Eternal Turtle!

The Eternal Turtle is a unique creature of the myriad heavens, existing only in the depths of dimensional spaces, unseen by the mortal world, possessing two major traits: immunity to all spells and eternal lifespan.

Its only drawback is that it possesses no offensive power whatsoever.

However, for some unknown reason, the Eternal Turtle avatar within his mind could not be released, seemingly suppressed by some force.

Fortunately, after Ye Qingxuan traveled through and accidentally contracted the Eternal Turtle to become his avatar, his original body also inherited one of the Eternal Turtle's traits: eternal lifespan.

Pity that it was eternal lifespan, not eternal life; although he was now free from limits on his years, he still could not escape harm from the outside world.

But even so, with the trait of eternal lifespan, as long as he could possess a spiritual root, no matter how his talent was, he was confident he could reach the peak.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan opened his eyes again, a fiery light flashing within them, unable to calm down for a long time.

With such an opportunity, he did not believe he would lack a spiritual root.