Chapter 75: Mingxuan's Return Date, Xu Deling

Three more months passed.

The Xu family cultivated one first-rate martial artist after another, and finally someone in the guard force became an innate martial artist.

As for those children's soldiers cultivated from a young age, people continuously became third-rate martial artists, though they were only around ten years old.

All were talents with hope of reaching peak Postnatal realm in their early twenties.

Among them, two or three with outstanding bone structure had hope of reaching peak Postnatal realm before age twenty under the Xu family's cultivation.

Dragon Elephant Martial Hall grew increasingly powerful.

After discussion, the brothers Xu Mingwei and Xu Mingyuan even opened Dragon Elephant Martial Halls in the four surrounding counties, recruiting martial talents and children with extraordinary bone structure for the Xu family.

Moreover, every child was tested for immortal cultivation aptitude.

Now, although every county had an Immortal Affairs Bureau, testing required payment. For county seat families, having all children in the family tested was easy but for ordinary commoners in surrounding villages, this expense was considerable.

Even betting on a slim chance, they would want to try.

Dragon Elephant Martial Hall's public statement was naturally recruiting martial artists. The aristocratic families and Immortal Affairs Bureau in the county seat naturally wouldn't think they possessed testing crystals for immortal cultivation aptitude.

As a result, in these months they actually discovered two people.

One boy and one girl.

The boy was seven years old, the girl nine.

The Xu family immediately sent people to contact the two children's parents, then reached terms for migrating to Dongxi Village and becoming Xu family vassals.

Both families' parents and immediate relatives could live affluent lives, while the two children would follow Xu Chuan at Jade Cold Pool to cultivate Qi Refining immortality.

"Gou'er, Sanniang, these names aren't proper. I'll give you new names. Is that acceptable?"

"Thank you, old family head."

Xu Chuan looked at the two children before him, first speaking to the boy, "Gou'er, your father's surname is Wu. From now on, you'll be called Wu Tao."

"Sanniang, you'll be called Shen Qingyi."

"Can you read?"

Both shook their heads.

Xu Chuan thought for a moment and looked at Xu Dezhao, "Zhao'er, spend two hours daily teaching Wu Tao and Shen Qingyi to read and write."

"But Grandfather, I still need to practice martial arts!"

"Listen to Grandfather. This will also temper your restless mindset."

"Understood, Grandfather."

Wu Tao had pseudo spiritual root aptitude, while Shen Qingyi had miscellaneous spiritual root aptitude.

Xu Chuan had the two become close with Xu Dezhao naturally hoping that through spending time together from childhood, they would become Xu Dezhao's right and left hands in the future.

Martial path, immortal path.

Immortal path as primary, martial path as secondary, this was the Xu family's future path.

At this time, the Xu family merely lurked hidden among mountains and wilderness, silently gathering momentum and awaiting the time.

Only waiting for wind and thunder to suddenly rise, a flood dragon to leap from the abyss, stunning everyone with a single sound.

…

Another year-end sacrifice.

Great Wei border.

Xu Mingxuan's heart yearned for his homeland. Feeling stifled, he walked out of his tent to stroll around.

Ge Xuanhong returned from the commander and happened to encounter him. Seeing his sorrowful face, he approached to inquire.

"Commandant Ge." Xu Mingxuan cupped his fists, but Ge Xuanhong raised his hand to stop him, "No need for formalities today."

"Seeing your mournful face, you're missing home, right?"

"Yes." Xu Mingxuan looked at him and nodded heavily.

"Six years now. Who doesn't? When I enlisted, my youngest daughter was just six months old. Now she should look like a little girl."

Commandant Ge gazed at the sky emotionally, then turned to look at Xu Mingxuan, "Who do you have at home?"

"Father and Mother are still alive. Above me are two elder brothers. Below are younger siblings. There's also my eldest nephew who wasn't yet one year old... no, now seven years old."

"The population isn't much. Seeing your strength reaching peak Postnatal realm, I thought you were a descendant of a Yuehu Commandery great family." Ge Xuanhong said with surprise.

Xu Mingxuan smiled, "Thanks to my father's generation and elder brothers' efforts, our Xu family can barely be considered a small aristocratic family in the county seat."

He followed Xu Chuan's words to act low-key.

Therefore, he hadn't exposed that he'd already broken through to the innate realm.

"Reaching peak Postnatal realm in your early twenties, even among commandery capital great family descendants, that's above average."

The corners of Ge Xuanhong's mouth curved up with a faint smile, "Your Xu family is not simple."

"For a county seat aristocratic family to cultivate such talent, besides one's own martial talent and perseverance, they probably have to devote the entire clan's strength."

"After all, in terms of martial resources, county seats simply can't compare with the commandery capital."

Xu Mingxuan looked at Ge Xuanhong's expression of thinking he saw through everything, and couldn't help but secretly laugh in his heart.

I won't tell you I have an elder brother who broke through to innate realm before age twenty, and that our Xu family eats Qi-Drawing Pills like beans.

"Alright, we've chatted enough today."

Ge Xuanhong stood up, planning to return to his own tent. But after walking two steps, he lowered his voice, "Next year at the latest, by late spring in the third month, you can return home in glory."

"Commandant Ge..."

Ge Xuanhong made a silencing gesture. Xu Mingxuan saw this and immediately closed his mouth. However, his heart pounded violently. His yearning to return home was more intense than ever before, almost bursting from his chest.

At this moment, he really wanted to shout to the sky and earth, "I can go home!"

However, he clearly knew that doing so would only harm himself and harm Ge Xuanhong who told him this news.

Because he was too excited, Xu Mingxuan didn't sleep all night.

…

On the other side.

Dongxi, the Xu family.

Year-end sacrifice day.

Naturally, the whole family gathered together for a reunion meal.

Yang Ronghua held an infant in her arms, just born less than two months ago.

A baby girl.

When she was born, Xu Mingwei was almost wild with joy.

Whether it was a tradition passed down from Xu Chuan, or because there were too few women among the Xu family members.

Everyone from top to bottom was extremely delighted and doted on her.

Xu Mingwei named her Ling'er, Xu Deling, meaning decisive and efficient.

This name had a kind of martial heroism of "northern wind carries metal watchman's clappers, cold light shines on iron armor."

Half a month ago was her full month celebration.

Xu Chuan followed custom by dripping blood into the genealogy.

[Xu Deling: Xu Family Third Generation]

[Age: One]

[Spiritual Roots: Complete Five Elements, True Spiritual Root Aptitude]

[Talent: Crimson Hawk Spirit Eyes]

[Bloodline: None]

[Crimson Hawk Spirit Eyes, fire attribute innate spirit eyes, can break through illusions, can condense spirit light, power is extraordinary]

Xu Chuan thought his eyes were blurry. When he saw clearly her [Spiritual Roots] and [Talent], his heart was shocked, then his eyes filled with wild joy.

The Xu family's first immortal cultivation genius!

Not only born with true spiritual roots, but also possessing innate spirit eyes. Her potential probably exceeded even earth spiritual root aptitude immortal cultivators.

"Shitou really knows how to make children, better than me." Xu Chuan teased with a smile. After a moment, he pondered again, "However, if everyone were an immortal cultivation genius, it would be disaster rather than fortune."

"Looks like Wen'er can only walk the martial path."

Three in a row being geniuses, though Xu Chuan felt it was coincidence, outsiders might not necessarily believe it.

"Still need to have Shitou make two more."

Thinking thus, he immediately called Xu Mingwei to the study and gave him instructions.

Hearing that Xu Deling was a true spiritual root immortal cultivation genius and possessed the rare innate spirit eyes of the immortal cultivation world, he was incomparably shocked.

"Little Ling'er will definitely walk the immortal path directly at age six. But among your children, three in a row are all geniuses. It's fine now, but will eventually leave hidden dangers in the future."

Xu Chuan patted his shoulder, "So, Shitou, you'd better have two more. They can walk the martial path with Wen'er. Zhao'er and Ling'er walk the immortal path. This would be proper."

"Father, children aren't something you can have just by wanting to."

Xu Chuan smiled faintly and patted his shoulder, "Father believes in your capabilities."

The corners of Xu Mingwei's mouth twitched twice.

Of course, he was only twenty-six now. According to the frequency of his intimacy with his wife, he felt certain there would be more children.

It was just that the former was a reproduction plan assigned to him by Xu Chuan, while the latter was human nature, the appetite for food and sex.

These two had completely different impacts on one's mindset.