Chapter 342

To this, Zhu Dafu felt no surprise, merely speaking calmly:

"I wish to see Fu Dingtian."

Hearing Zhu Dafu's words, that person sneered and refused outright:

"That brat Fu Dingtian sees no guests. Begone!"

Seeing the other party refuse his request without even announcing his arrival.

Although Zhu Dafu had already expected this, he did not anticipate the other would go so far.

Anger surged in his heart.

Zhu Dafu's pressure erupted completely, pressing down upon the other.

Facing Zhu Dafu's pressure, that person glanced disdainfully at him and erupted with his own pressure.

Seeing the other erupt with terrifying pressure to resist him.

Zhu Dafu sneered and said:

Hearing Zhu Dafu's words, that person's face suddenly changed.

In his final moments.

"You may enter!"

Fu Dingtian was the illegitimate son of a direct-line descendant of the Fu family.

Fu Dingtian's mother knelt for a long time at the Fu family's main gate with the young Fu Dingtian, begging the Fu family to take him in.

Ultimately, the Fu family, constrained by face and reputation, reluctantly agreed to take in Fu Dingtian.

Facing the other's gloomy gaze, Zhu Dafu sneered without fear.

"What? You wish to fight me within the Xuantian Sect? Does your Fu family truly treat the Xuantian Sect's blessed land as your own territory?"

Zhu Dafu knew the situation regarding Fu Dingtian.

After suffering repeated blows, Fu Dingtian's mother was soon plagued by illness.

Therefore, he was not surprised by what happened at the Fu Yuan blessed land.

He did not even go in to ask if Fu Dingtian was willing to see Zhu Dafu.

He glared gloomily at Zhu Dafu for a moment, then finally compromised:

He was merely dissatisfied with the increasingly audacious attitude of these outer-clan members of the Fu family within the Fu Yuan blessed land.

And Fu Dingtian's mother, after the Fu family agreed to take in Fu Dingtian.

Plus, Fu Dingtian's talent was nothing outstanding.

So the Fu family never recognized Fu Dingtian as a member of the Fu family.

Because Fu Dingtian's mother was of low birth, even a mere mortal.

The Fu family was one of the top-tier vassal forces of the Xuantian Sect, with a Void Realm expert stationed within the clan.

Having spoken, he stepped aside.

Then he fled directly toward the deep mountains, toward the node leading to the Fu Yuan blessed land.

Finally, she drew her last breath and passed away.

Shortly after Fu Dingtian's mother passed away.

Fu Dingtian was sent by the Fu family to the Xuantian Sect to contract a starting blessed land for the Fu family.

They prepared to let Fu Dingtian use his remaining life at the Xuantian Sect to create residual value for the Fu family.

It was laughable.

From start to finish, Fu Dingtian and his mother never set foot in the Fu family's true ancestral lands.

What they knelt before that day was merely a Fu family villa.

After the information was reported.

From the death of Fu Dingtian's mother to Fu Dingtian being sent to the Xuantian Sect to contract the blessed land.

Not a single direct-line descendant of the Fu family, not even Fu Dingtian's father, ever came to visit Fu Dingtian and his mother.

The Fu family has inherited for nearly one hundred thousand years, with countless clan members.

In the eyes of the Fu family's high leadership, only those who can create value for the Fu family can be called Fu family members.

And Fu Dingtian's mother, of mortal birth, and Fu Dingtian, with low talent, were clearly unworthy of stepping through the Fu family's true gates.

Fu Dingtian's father even regarded Fu Dingtian's birth as an insult.

He never treated Fu Dingtian as his own offspring.

If things had ended there, it might have been a release for Fu Dingtian.

Unfortunately, the Fu family having Fu Dingtian contract the blessed land was not to let him live in ease.

Even the resources of a mere first-tier blessed land were insignificant to the Fu family.

They were not even enough for certain direct-line descendants to snack on.

But the Fu family, or rather those outer-clan members, were unwilling to give up the blessed land contracted by Fu Dingtian.

Before Fu Dingtian entered the Xuantian Sect, they even forced him to sign a contract akin to selling himself.

According to the contract terms.

For the blessed land contracted by Fu Dingtian, aside from the spiritual plants required for the Xuantian Sect's planting tasks.

All other output belonged entirely to the Fu family.

In short, although Fu Dingtian was called the master of the blessed land, he was actually a puppet working for free.

Even the naming of the blessed land was done arbitrarily by some lowly underlings of the Fu family.

Beyond that, Fu Dingtian had no say in the number of attendants for the blessed land.

Other blessed cultivator attendants were required to sign harsh contracts, submitting themselves to the blessed cultivator.

Only then can one obtain a retainer slot.

However, Fu Dingtian's retainer slots were privately designated by outer-circle members of the Fu family.

No contract was ever established to impose restrictions.

Among Fu Dingtian's retainers, whenever someone breaks through to the Soul Transformation realm within the Xuantian Sect.

That person automatically forfeits their status as a Fu cultivation retainer and returns to the Fu family.

The Fu family then dispatches another person to take over that retainer position.

As long as these outer-circle Fu family members occupying the retainer slots do not attack Fu Dingtian or violate the Xuantian Sect's rules.

They can act with impunity within the Fu Territory, without fear of punishment from the Xuantian Sect.

Fu Dingtian's Fu cultivation slots belong to the Fu family, and the contract signed between Fu Dingtian and the Fu family is protected by the Xuantian Sect.

Therefore, as long as Fu Dingtian is not directly harmed.

On the surface, the actions of certain Fu family members will never violate the rules established by the Xuantian Sect.

The cultivation world is, by its very nature, a cruel world.

As a dominant power in the region, the Xuantian Sect has already done its utmost by ensuring the safety of low-level disciples through its rules.

In a cultivation world where the strong are revered.

The Xuantian Sect cannot possibly attend to every detail for these low-level disciples or act as their nannies.

As long as their lives are not endangered, these tribulations can be viewed as trials for cultivation.

If one overcomes them, the path ahead may not be entirely smooth.

But at least the Dao heart will be firm, reducing many obstacles in the future.

If one cannot overcome them, it simply means they have no fate with the immortal path; the Xuantian Sect will at most protect their safety until they grow old and pass away.

In the eyes of the powerful.

Among the myriad beings, who is not constantly rising and falling within this vast era?

Therefore.

The Xuantian Sect or other dominant sects.

Do not fail to conceive of, or establish, more perfect rules.

It is simply that they are unwilling to do so.

Compared to the various ordeals one must endure on the immortal path outside the sect.

The struggles within the sect, constrained by rules, are hardly worth mentioning.

After Zhu Dafu met Fu Dingtian.

Fu Dingtian was sitting atop a peak within his own Fu Territory, lost in a daze.

The once clever little Fatty had now become expressionless and incredibly thin.

Seeing Fu Dingtian's hollow gaze, Zhu Dafu felt a pang of reluctance in his heart.

Although he had not interacted much with Fu Dingtian, he still felt great sympathy for Fu Dingtian's plight.

Compared to Fu Dingtian's suffering, the conflict between him and the Zhu family seemed trivial.

"Sigh!"

Letting out a soft sigh, Zhu Dafu approached Fu Dingtian and gazed into the distance alongside him.

He did not directly persuade Fu Dingtian to join the Fu Cultivation Alliance; instead, he said:

"Do you wish to break free from the Fu family's constraints and truly control your own Fu Territory?"

(End of this chapter)