Chapter 152

The next morning, the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan party decided to set off for Guiyun Commandery to meet another student.

However, before leaving, he still sent Ji You to see Xiang Fu again.

Because he felt that Ji You was so handsome, maybe he could make that little girl change her mind.

"If she refuses, you just gently pull open your collar, just like that day..."

"You have so many fiancées, I don't think I need to teach you. Maybe you should even rein it in, lest you scare this little girl."

"?"

Ji You thought to himself, you are going to get me killed. Do you know that kicking someone in the Boundless Realm hurts even more?

As a result, when Cao Jingsong threw two taels of silver on the table, he still couldn't resist using his looks to be a lobbyist, but he didn't get any good looks in return.

Because Xiang Fu was indeed inclined toward the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion, and she was also very disdainful after hearing yesterday that this group of people was eyeing the Falling Moon Immortal Villa.

In her view, the Falling Moon Villa where she had lived since childhood was her second home, and now these people all wanted to snatch it, so they were naturally not good people.

"I will not join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, and I advise you not to have any designs on the Falling Moon Immortal Villa."

Ji You looked at Xiang Fu: "That place is a waste if it's left empty. Besides, according to the Azure Cloud Immortal Rules, I can indeed use any mansion."

Xiang Fu raised her eyes after hearing this: "So the person who wanted to occupy my Falling Moon Immortal Villa is you? It's really funny to make snatching someone else's mansion sound so high-sounding."

"For Fengzhou, the Falling Moon Immortal Villa is the one that has forcibly occupied this place."

Xiang Xuan was listening outside the door at this time and couldn't help but knit his brows.

Although he was inclined toward the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion, he didn't want to offend the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, so he wanted to find a servant to go in and tell Xiang Fu to express clearly that she didn't want to join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan and leave it at that.

However, just at this moment, a servant named Fu Sheng hurried over from outside.

"Master, someone is visiting."

Xiang Xuan's expression changed: "Could it be that the people from the Bai Xia Immortal Villa have returned?"

The servant shook his head immediately: "It's not the Bai Xia Immortal Villa, it's Inspector Liu of Fengzhou. He also brought his only son, Liu Jianbei, saying he wants to pay a visit to the immortals of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan."

"?"

The Inspector was a provincial official and held the status of a censor, holding a much higher official position than him, the Prefect.

Moreover, this Inspector Liu An had a very close relationship with the current Prime Minister Wei and could be considered one of his disciples.

A few days ago, the Emperor's new policies were implemented, establishing the Immortal Supervision Bureau, and taking advantage of the chaos in the cultivation world, he stripped Prime Minister Wei of his power, causing quite an impact.

Liu An had just returned from the capital after visiting Prime Minister Wei and had been back for less than two days.

Xiang Xuan didn't understand why he had rushed over without stopping and specifically asked to see the immortals of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, but he still went out to greet him and bowed to him.

"Brother Xiang, Liu came here in such a hurry this time without prior notice, I have truly disturbed you."

"Inspector Liu, what are you saying? Even if you didn't come here, I was planning to go and pay a visit."

"Brother Xiang is too polite, but I think you already know the purpose of my visit. May I ask where the immortals of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan are now?"

"The immortals have been arranged by me in the east wing."

"That's great, then I will take my son to pay a visit."

Xiang Xuan looked toward the east wing: "Do you need me to introduce you, Inspector?"

Inspector Liu waved his hand immediately: "That won't be necessary, I will take my son over myself."

After watching the father and son leave, Xiang Xuan stood in the courtyard, his brows furrowing once again.

Mortal officials visiting immortals on the mountain was not a strange thing. After all, although the nine provinces of Azure Cloud were all territories of the Great Xia Dynasty, everyone knew that immortal power was far above imperial power.

But Liu An, like him, was closer to the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion, so he didn't understand why Liu An was in such a hurry to visit under the cover of night and even brought his only son.

Xiang Xuan pondered for a long time before looking at the servant: "Fu Sheng, brew a pot of tea and send it over."

"Yes, Master."

"Listen to what they are saying when you go, and then report back to me."

After arranging this, Xiang Xuan sat in the courtyard of the east wing and saw Fu Sheng bringing the tea.

However, he didn't rush in, but waited in front of the door.

Because if he went in now, he would at most hear pleasantries; he had to wait a little while to possibly hear useful information.

However, just during the wait, the door of the east wing room was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

The son of Inspector Liu walked out of the room, seemingly wanting something, but was stunned when he saw Fu Sheng outside the door, so he beckoned him to enter.

Xiang Xuan picked up his teacup, stared for a long time, and was confused.

After a while, Fu Sheng came out of the room with an empty tea tray.

"What are they saying inside?"

"Inspector Liu's son just offered tea to Instructor Cao and formally joined the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan..."

Xiang Xuan opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a long time: "Joined the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan? Did you hear that clearly?"

Fu Sheng nodded immediately: "Young Master Liu just came out to get tea to offer to his master."

"?"

Prefect Xiang held the teacup, falling into deep thought at this moment, an endless sense of disbelief appearing in his eyes.

Inspector Liu An of Fengzhou had always been adept at social maneuvering and was skilled in scheming. The situation of Fengzhou being carved up by countless immortal villas, among which the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion was stronger due to its geographical location, was something Liu An knew better than himself.

At the level of immortal sects or thousand-year noble families, the barren Fengzhou might be far less important than the other eight provinces.

But for mortal noble families like them, who had lived in Fengzhou for generations, Fengzhou was the world in their hearts and naturally had to be managed painstakingly.

So he couldn't understand why Liu An would suddenly abandon the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion and turn to such an urgent need to enter the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan.

Xiang Xuan couldn't figure it out, and then he saw his wife walking over from the front courtyard with a letter in her hand.

"Husband, a letter from my brother."

"Oh? What is it about?"

Lady Xiang's expression was strange: "He said he wants Fu'er to join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan."

Lady Xiang's maiden name was Wen, and her brother was also an elder of an immortal villa in Fengzhou, also a disciple of the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion.

So for her brother to want his daughter to join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan was truly mind-boggling.

Xiang Xuan opened his eyes wide and was stunned for a long time: "Did he say why?"

"My brother said that a local noble family will rise in Fengzhou in the future, and that person will come from the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan."

"..."

At this time, in the Prefect's mansion, Cao Jingsong was accepting the tea offered by Inspector Liu An's son, Xiang Xuan was reading the letter with his wife in the side room, and Ji You was getting up from in front of Xiang Fu, intending to leave.

Beauty was of no use.

This little girl treated the Falling Moon Villa as her second home; as long as it wasn't someone from the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion, anyone who came was a snatcher.

She seemed to have never thought that immortal villas coming from other places to establish themselves here and eating up all the offerings of the local people was the real robbery.

【Go and see the mansion I just snatched】

Xiang Fu also stood up at this time, watching him leave, a trace of disgust appearing in her brows.

When she first saw Ji You, she thought he was handsome and elegant, and although she couldn't see his cultivation, she felt that he was at least a little higher than herself, so she developed some good feelings.

Especially after hearing that he was also from Fengzhou, she thought that after the five-year period expired, he would leave the immortal sect and return to Fengzhou, and they could become dao companions.

But she didn't expect that under this handsome appearance, there was also a heart of robbery.

Xiang Fu left the side hall, then found her parents in the side room, and found that her father was looking at a letter at the table, his expression appearing somewhat complicated.

"Father."

Xiang Xuan came back to his senses: "Where is that Ji You?"

Xiang Fu sat down at the table: "I just found out that the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan wanted my Falling Moon Villa's mansion, and it was all this person's idea."

Lady Xiang glanced at her daughter: "Actually, he can indeed use that mansion."

"?"

Xiang Xuan held the letter tightly at this time: "Fu'er, you have always wanted to go to the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion, and Father supported you, but now Father hopes you will reconsider. Join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan."

Xiang Fu was startled upon hearing this: "Why?"

Xiang Xuan stretched out his hand and handed over the letter in his hand.

Her brother's letter not only urged Xiang Fu to join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, but also contained information about Ji You.

A wild private practitioner from a village in Yuyang County, who should have been beheaded for his crimes, but reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms before the age of twenty and was admitted to the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan as an exception.

In the same year, he stepped on the second son of the Chu family and gained enlightenment from the Little Little Tian Shu in front of everyone.

After the first month of the following year, he killed a practitioner of the Merging with the Dao Realm with his sword in Qiling, saving the direct disciples of the Pill Sect and a group of Heavenly Tian Shuyuan students.

Later, he asked about the Dao on Spirit Sword Mountain and learned the sword path of Spirit Sword Mountain by shattering the Sword Forest.

In the autumn of the first year of Taiyuan, during the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan's autumn battle, he shattered the hand bones of the Chu family's second son, entered the inner courtyard, and obtained the qualification to establish a noble family.

Xiang Fu's eyes grew wider and wider, feeling that she knew how to read every word in the letter, but when combined, she couldn't quite believe it.

You know, for mortal official families like them, the most they usually came into contact with were immortal villas, and even noble families higher than immortal villas were hard for them to reach.

The Xiang family had also spent countless amounts of money over the years to buy elixirs and spirit stones for their daughter, and often paid tribute to the Falling Moon Immortal Villa, only then cultivating the only daughter in the family with cultivation talent to the level of being able to enter an immortal sect, which seemed unreachable in the past.

But according to the letter, that person could stir up clouds and rain even within an immortal sect.

The Chu family...

What kind of existence was the Chu family?

Even though they were in Fengzhou and news was blocked, they knew that the Chu family was the true master of Youzhou.

He actually managed to shatter the hand bones of the Chu family's second son and enter the inner courtyard.

Xiang Xuan finally understood why the Bai Xia Immortal Villa didn't want to conflict with him yesterday, and even gave up the mansion they had been coveting and turned to leave.

Because this monster mentioned in the letter was originally from Yuyang County in Fengzhou and was a local of Fengzhou.

In other words, the one who would be the master here in the future was not those outsider immortal villas, nor the Provincial Governor.

That young man who stayed in his mansion for one night was the true master of Fengzhou.

Why did Inspector Liu act against the norm and bring his son to join the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan? It was because he knew that the pattern of Fengzhou would change because of this.

With a local noble family rising here, the outsider immortal villas would no longer have a say.

And at this time, Xiang Fu had finished reading the letter, and the figure of the man leaving couldn't help but appear before her eyes, her eyes full of disbelief.

Those at a lower realm could not confirm the level of those at a higher realm.

Moreover, Ji You had never made a move here.

What she couldn't believe was not just the rumors about the man in the letter, but also because that man had actually entered the Upper Five Realms.

What shocked her most was that he was originally just a wild private practitioner from a declining landlord family.

Living in one's own small world, everyone would actually feel that they were the protagonist, just like Fang Ruoyao in Yuyang County back then.

When she learned that she had obtained the quota to enter the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, she also had an "immortal aura" before entering the immortal gate, and even her father, Fang Zhongzheng, had to be careful when speaking to her.

But after leaving Yuyang and entering the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, she discovered that the true protagonist had always been the fiancé she had tried her best to abandon.

Xiang Fu yesterday had the same mindset as Fang Ruoyao in Yuyang County.

She had decided early on to join the Profound Origin Immortal Mansion, but seeing the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan also scrambling to want him, she naturally felt a bit smug.

And Xiang Fu today was just like Fang Ruoyao, who saw the truth after entering the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, only then knowing what a true protagonist was.

Xiang Xuan looked at his daughter's expression, knowing that she had finished reading the letter, then stood up and took her to the east wing.

Cao Jingsong had just finished drinking Liu Jianbei's tea and saw the Xiang father and daughter walking over, and he already understood in his heart.

"News in Fengzhou is blocked, and Junior Brother Ji's deeds may not be known to anyone yet, but I don't understand why the instructor didn't say it out first."

"It will destroy their Dao heart."

Pei Ruyi was slightly startled: "Destroy their Dao heart?"

Cao Jingsong stroked his long beard: "Let them enter the academy with Ji You as their goal. What they will eventually see, just like Chu He, is only despair."

(I had a fever yesterday, my brain was very muddled, but thinking that I had already updated two thousand words less the day before yesterday, I didn't dare to ask for leave. I forced myself to write, and as a result, there were a lot of typos, far exceeding the usual, which seriously affected the reading experience. I ask everyone to forgive me.)

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