Chapter 1: Golden Core Family

"Twelve years have passed; how slowly time crawls!"

Ye Qingxuan walked out of the library wearing a green robe. His delicate, handsome face showed a sense of contentment. After stretching, he sighed slightly.

He had been in this world for twelve years.

According to what he currently understood, this world was called the Di Xuan Realm, divided into nine domains.

These were the five inner domains: Central, Eastern, Southern, Western, and Northern.

And the four outer domains: Eastern Extremity, Southern Barbarian, Western Desolation, and Northern Departure.

Each domain was divided into ninety-nine great provinces, and each great province was more than a hundred times larger than the Earth Star where he had lived in his previous life.

It could be said to be vast and boundless; an ordinary person could not walk out of a single great province in their entire life. The counties and prefectures under each great province were countless.

The region where Ye Qingxuan currently resided was the Di Xuan Realm's Eastern Domain—Qing Province—Daoguang County—Qingmu Prefecture—Ye Shixian City.

More importantly, this world possessed the type of immortal cultivation system he had yearned for in his previous life.

This knowledge was all learned by himself from the library he had just walked out of.

The library was specially established by the Ye family to broaden the horizons of their mortal clansmen; inside were some common knowledge and information about Qing Province.

Because the Ye Shixian City occupied a very vast area, there were fully a thousand such libraries in the city, distributed everywhere.

He had died accidentally in his previous life, but he never expected to be reborn into this world, encountering the kind of opportunities protagonists in novels from his past life had.

When he first arrived in this world, after the initial panic, what followed was curiosity about this world.

So, ever since he learned to read, he had frequently visited the library to understand this world.

In this life, although he was born into an ordinary family, he was a mortal clansman of the Golden Core Ye family.

Although it wasn't a perfect start, it wasn't too bad either.

"I'm really looking forward to it! Tomorrow is the family's annual spiritual root testing day. I'm twelve years old this year, so I've finally reached the standard for testing."

As Ye Qingxuan thought this, filled with anticipation and nervousness, his pace toward home unconsciously quickened.

Ever since he knew of the existence of immortal cultivators, he had been looking forward to this moment every second, and also fearing it.

"Spiritual roots!

These twelve years have truly been an ordeal, but tomorrow there will be a result. This feeling of one's fate being beyond one's control is truly unsettling."

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

Along the way, the streets were filled with Ye clansmen coming and going, but Ye Qingxuan was basically unfamiliar with them.

This was only because although the Ye Shixian City was just one city, its area was astonishing, and there were fully over ten million people living in it.

However, most of these people in the city were just mortals without cultivation; the Ye family's true immortal clansmen mostly lived and cultivated on the mountain spiritual veins not far outside the city.

Although the Ye family was only a Golden Core family, it had already been passed down for ten thousand years.

With the accumulation of such a long time, the Ye family had tens of thousands of immortal clansmen, and mortal clansmen numbered over ten million.

This was still because the territory was insufficient, and the Ye family had tried to control the population; otherwise, there would be even more mortal clansmen.

There was no help for it; although the Ye family was a Golden Core family, in this region of Qing Province, they were not considered too strong, and the territory they were allocated was only the size of one city.

However, outside this city, a radius of ten thousand miles was the Ye family's territory.

It was just that mortals were too fragile and could only live in the city and various resource strongholds under the protection of immortal clansmen, which led to the limitation of their numbers.

After all, the birth of a single demonic beast outside would be enough to make mortals powerless to resist.

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

Walking into the house, Ye Qingxuan looked at his mother, who was busy, and said:

"Mother, I'm back!"

Ye Qingxin looked up at the sound, seeing her precious son, and was very happy:

"Xuan'er, sit down first; dinner will be ready in a moment."

Hearing his mother's words, Ye Qingxuan nodded and looked around the courtyard, but did not find his father's figure, so he asked:

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

Seeing Ye Qingxuan ask, Ye Qingxin stopped what she was doing, put her hands on her hips, and said coldly:

"Your father has gone out to play chess again, not seen all day long. If he has the ability, he shouldn't come back to eat, hmph!"

Seeing his mother's state, Ye Qingxuan wisely didn't respond, curled his lips, and shook his head helplessly, though he didn't pay much attention to it.

As mortal descendants of the Ye clan, although most people couldn't be rich and noble, relying on the Ye family, they could at least be free from worry about food and clothing.

They didn't need to work hard; they only needed to occasionally take on some small jobs distributed by the clan to live very comfortably.

After a while, when Ye Mu's dinner was almost ready, a middle-aged man walked in slowly at the door.

As soon as the man entered, he first glanced at Ye Mu, who had a bad expression, rubbed his head, then looked at Ye Qingxuan, laughed heartily and said:

"Xuan'er, you're back! Tomorrow is the day for the family to test spiritual roots. How is it? Are you nervous?"

Ye Qingxuan shook his head, smiled, and said:

"Father, I'm not nervous!"

Only, his hands were involuntarily clenched tightly.

Looking at his son's state, Ye Qingyou stepped forward and patted Ye Qingxuan's shoulder:

"Hehe, don't be nervous. Back then, your old man was tested too, and it was just like that. No spiritual root, yet isn't your old man living quite freely? Hahaha!"

Ye Qingyou didn't hold much hope; that spiritual root thing was basically one in a thousand, and it was normal if it didn't fall to his son.

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

At this time, Ye Mu walked over, directly pinched Ye Fu's ear, and scolded angrily:

"Enough, you are idle all day long, don't lead the son astray. What is wrong with our son? Maybe Xuan'er has a spiritual root?"

"Ouch, it hurts, hurts, hurts, mother of the child, let go quickly, I was wrong, is that not enough?"

Seeing his parents' bickering, Ye Qingxuan felt relaxed for a moment.

Being able to live another life, he had already earned it, so why bother with gains and losses he couldn't control?

Moreover, he wasn't without any reliance.

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

Having been a person for two lives, Ye Qingxuan's soul seemed to have undergone special tempering; even without cultivation, he could look inside his own mental space.

He saw that in a special space at the center of Ye Qingxuan's mind, Ye Qingxuan's phantom slowly emerged.

And in front of him, at the center of the mental space, floated a mysterious yellow bead and a glazed-colored little turtle!

This bead was a family heirloom from Ye Qingxuan's previous life, which he had always carried with him; he never expected it to travel with him to this world.

It was just that so far, Ye Qingxuan hadn't obtained any information from the bead.

And that glazed-colored little turtle was the clone he accidentally contracted when he traveled here—the Eternal Turtle!

The Eternal Turtle was a strange species of the myriad worlds, existing only in the depths of dimensional space and not appearing in the human world, possessing the two major characteristics of being immune to all laws and having eternal life.

The only drawback was that it had no attack power.

It was just that, for some reason, the Eternal Turtle clone in his mind couldn't be released, as if it was suppressed by some force.

Fortunately, after Ye Qingxuan traveled here and accidentally contracted the Eternal Turtle as a clone, his main body also inherited one of the Eternal Turtle's characteristics, which was eternal life.

Unfortunately, it was eternal life, not eternal existence; although there was no limit to his lifespan from now on, he still couldn't be exempt from external harm.

But even so, with the characteristic of eternal life, as long as he could possess a spiritual root, no matter how his talent was, he had the confidence to reach the peak.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan opened his eyes again, a fiery look appearing in them, which couldn't calm down for a long time.

Possessing such an opportunity, he didn't believe he wouldn't have a spiritual root. ===== CHAPTER 2 =====