Chapter 137

Northwest side of the Azure Cloud Continent, central Youzhou, Shanyin City.

This place is home to a hundred households, arranged in the eight directions of Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun, with uniform houses extending outward in order.

And in the very center, there is a spacious mansion.

This building style is simple and ancient, with immortal light flashing and whistling across the sky, and the people in the city, whether they are foot soldiers or peddlers, are at least in the Realm of Dim Illumination.

There is no other reason, only because they all have the same surname.

So even for the branches of branches, as long as they are people of the same surname, they are qualified to receive spiritual awakening from the family.

And along the eight main city roads inward, there is a simple, solemn, and towering manor, with a plaque hanging on the gate, engraved with the two characters "Chu Family", and a river flowing around the garden, with the sound of water gurgling.

At this time, in the deepest part of the entire manor, in a dense bamboo forest.

Dozens of servants carried a huge iron box inside, then tossed about in the forest for a long time, clattering, and then carried the empty iron box out.

And with their footsteps stepping out, black smoke continuously rose in the forest and overflowed outward, drifting in wisps, causing everything in front of them to be chaotic and unclear.

The current head of the Chu family, Chu Xiong, was standing outside the forest, his aura majestic and surging, obviously having reached the Spirit Travel Realm, only one step away from the perfection of the Upper Five Realms.

Such a realm can only be seen within an immortal sect.

And families and immortal manors under the immortal sect, if they can have one, can already be counted as top-tier.

After all, without the permission of the orthodoxy, they cannot enter the Approaching Immortal Realm, and the perfection of the Upper Five Realms is the last realm of their lives.

At this time, Chu Xiong turned his head slightly and looked at the old servant standing behind him: "Where is Chu Chu Xian? Why haven't I seen him these past few days?"

"Reporting to the Manor Master, the eldest young master went to Yunzhou a few days ago and is currently on his way back to Youzhou, and will be here soon."

"Did he return to the Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion?"

The old servant bowed his body and said: "The Xuanyuan Abbot has been in closed-door cultivation for many years, and the young master is acting on behalf of the sect affairs. That Abbot's son is a demon king, so the young master inevitably has to run around, which is truly hard work."

After hearing this, Chu Xiong nodded slightly, then cast his gaze into the bamboo forest, watching the black evil energy continuously overflowing.

This process lasted for nearly two hours, until the sun began to sink to the west, and the evil energy slowly shrank back toward the center of the bamboo forest.

And with the convergence of this aura, the vision in the bamboo forest gradually became clear and bright.

In front of Chu Xiong, his second son, Chu He, was sitting in the depths of the bamboo forest, sitting cross-legged, and the evil energy that was originally whistling in the forest was slowly sinking into his body.

Until the evil energy gradually disappeared completely in his body, the forest became clear, and the aura around Chu He became incomparably vast and profound.

At this time, his eyes also gradually opened, looking at Chu Xiong outside the forest somewhat blankly.

In the confrontation, Chu He's eyes came alive bit by bit, changing from lifeless to dazed.

"Father?"

Chu Xiong looked at his son with a smile: "Son, how do you feel?"

Chu He came back to his senses, looked at the energy continuously dancing around him, and took a deep breath: "I feel I am very strong now. This is only one day, if it continues like this..."

"Young Master, you have been back for two months." The old servant behind Chu Xiong couldn't help but remind him.

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Chu He was stunned upon hearing this, and a trace of daze appeared in his eyes again.

Because in his memory, he returned home the day before yesterday, and then was brought into this bamboo forest.

Then he closed his eyes to enlighten, and felt countless strong auras continuously dissolving in his body.

That aura was strong and resilient, greedily absorbed by him, and the energy around his body began to become increasingly strong.

But he didn't know that so much time had passed, and he had absolutely no memory of returning to his room to rest or eating after finishing his daily enlightenment.

Chu Xiong looked at his son's confused eyes and didn't say much, but turned to look at the old servant behind him: "Send the second young master back to his room and let him rest well."

"Yes."

Seeing the old servant walking toward him, Chu He also got up from the forest, and after a long silence, he spoke: "During the cultivation process, I seem to feel something talking in my brain..."

The old servant was slightly stunned, then couldn't help but look at him: "Perhaps the young master is too diligent and has already been able to communicate directly with the Heavenly Dao."

"Can the Heavenly Dao talk?"

"Why can't the Heavenly Dao talk? The Great Dao is myriad, everyone's insights are different, and the feedback they get is naturally different. Being able to hear the murmurs of the Heavenly Dao shows that the young master's talent has far exceeded ordinary people, which is not something ordinary cultivators can reach."

Chu He raised the corners of his mouth after hearing this: "Mere rural private cultivators..."

The old servant reached out and patted his back, then returned him to the bedroom in the front yard.

And at this time, a carriage surrounded by pearls and emeralds was slowly driving into the Chu family's manor.

As the carriage stopped, a man with a face like jade got off, wearing a purple immortal robe and a glazed immortal crown, his appearance quite similar to Chu He's.

It's just that his aura, even if restrained, was far stronger than Chu He's.

Chu Xiong had already left the bamboo forest at this time and was waiting here. Seeing him get off the carriage, he brought him into the ancestral hall of the Chu family.

This ancestral hall was very spacious, filled with hundreds of spirit tablets, with incense smoke curling around, accompanied by the surroundings of candle flames.

Chu Xiong held three sticks of incense, knelt down to the ancestors, and then looked at the eldest son beside him: "Chu Xian'er, I have thought about it for a long time today and feel that our actions are still a bit risky."

"Where does Father feel it is risky?"

"Is such a cultivation method truly tolerated by the Heavenly Dao?"

"The Heavenly Dao has a problem; it no longer has the power to control this world."

"But a few days ago, the Pill Sect's immortal cauldron overflowed with pill Dao."

Chu Chu Xian also inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner, knelt back on the cushion, turned his eyes to look at him: "There may be many reasons for the overflow of pill Dao, I cannot confirm it, but the Zheng family ancestor breaking through the Approaching Immortal Realm and even opening the path to becoming an immortal is evidence of this. Otherwise, the Demon race and the Barbarian race would not be so restless."

Chu Xiong gazed at the ancestral spirit tablets, his brows deeply furrowed.

The sacred artifacts of the Seven Great Immortal Sects can move with the thoughts of the wielder, but at the same time, they can also move because of the Heavenly Dao.

Many years ago, the Spirit Sword Mountain's Spirit Inspector chose its master on its own, which could be seen as the Heavenly Dao acting on its own initiative. Otherwise, the orthodoxy would not have fallen from the Heavenly Jianfeng to the Profound Jianfeng.

But since the Zheng family ancestor could ignore the restrictions of the orthodoxy and directly enter the Approaching Immortal Realm, and even almost stepped on the path to becoming an immortal, it means that the Heavenly Dao can no longer restrain this world.

Thus, the Demon race began to take action, and the Barbarian race on the Northern Plains also came fiercely.

But not long after, the Pill Sect's immortal cauldron overflowed.

This has nothing to do with the thoughts of the wielder, which means that the Heavenly Dao is still overlooking the earth. This itself is a contradictory phenomenon, making people feel uneasy in their hearts.

Just as Chu Xiong was constantly pondering, the eldest son's voice sounded again from his ear.

"How is Chu He's cultivation now?"

"The cultivation is going smoothly, and there are no adverse reactions. It's just that there is a stumbling block to entering the inner sect, which is the student named Ji You."

Chu He entering the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan and being worshipped as a personal disciple of the Five Halls after entering the inner sect was something decided before last autumn.

In their view, with Chu He's talent, it should be too easy to enter the inner sect.

The Lu family daughter of the same period, although she is also a perfection of the Lower Three Realms under twenty, is ultimately a cultivation base piled up with the most essence of spiritual core energy, which is not to be feared at all.

But no one would have thought that a heaven-defying rural private cultivator would break into the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan this year.

If it were on a normal day, it would not be so difficult for our Chu family to enter the inner sect.

Chu Chu Xian only frowned slightly after hearing his father: "I spent so much effort to supplement him. Now his strength has far exceeded the existing realm division. That rural private cultivator is just an ordinary Realm of Profound Understanding. Even if his talent is high, what can he do?"

"That kid seems quite extraordinary. It is said that he is a Sword Heart Clear body, and he learned some sword Dao after staying at Spirit Sword Mountain for three days."

"No matter, in the next few days, I will stay at home and teach Chu He personally."

"That's all we can do..."

Chu Chu Xian stood up from the cushion at this time, then patted his sleeves and walked out of the Chu family's ancestral hall.

And the old servant who had just sent Chu He back was already guarding the courtyard in the night. Seeing Chu Chu Xian come out of the ancestral hall, he stepped forward to follow.

"Young Master, the one who escaped from Fengxian Manor has been dealt with."

Chu Chu Xian stopped after hearing this: "Although I am acting on behalf of the Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion now, using their people to do this is still a bit too risky. I only blame myself for being soft-hearted at the beginning and not willing to use my clansmen."

The old servant bowed to the ground: "The young master is kind-hearted, which is the blessing of our Chu family."

"You can't be so kind-hearted in the future, otherwise there will be problems. That old thing has great vigilance against me. If it weren't for his son being a piece of trash, I wouldn't be able to achieve the current position of personal disciple."

"The young master is absolutely right."

Chu Chu Xian spread his palm backhand, and a trace of black energy emerged from his palm: "If the Zheng family ancestor had succeeded that day, we wouldn't have to work so hard to cover it up, fearing being strangled by the Heavenly Dao."

(End of chapter)