Chapter 5: Rushed the Realm and Got Dizzy

In the main hall of the county government office, a woman with a graceful figure was holding a teapot, respectfully pouring two cups of fragrant Mingqian tea.

The so-called Mingqian tea is not a brand, but refers to the tender tea buds picked before the Qingming Festival, with a green color, elegant fragrance, mellow taste, and beautiful shape.

But Yuyang County does not produce tea, so such a cup of tea is often very expensive.

It can be seen that "a county magistrate who has been in office for a year has a hundred thousand silver taels," especially under this tax offering system, it is even more so.

"Cao Jiaoxi, Ding Shijie Pei, please have some tea."

Heavenly Tian Shuyuan Cao Jiaoxi Jingsong picked up the teacup, squinted slightly as he savored it, and immediately felt transparent.

On the side, Pei Ruyi, the chief disciple of the outer courtyard, obviously had no interest in tea. After turning the teacup, she opened her mouth: "We are going to Shengjing with us tomorrow. Have you packed your things?"

Fang Ruoyao nodded immediately: "Reporting to Ding Shijie, it has been packed properly."

Cao Jingsong stroked his long beard and also opened his mouth: "After entering the academy, remember to be diligent in cultivation and don't waste time. You must know that even if you enter the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, you are not considered to have entered the immortal Dao. The true immortal Dao..."

"The true immortal Dao?"

"No, it's nothing."

Cao Jingsong smiled lightly and took back the rest of his words.

The Azure Cloud World has seven great Dao traditions, but they basically follow the three-five realm Qi-refining method passed down from the Heavenly Dao in the ancient times.

That is, the Lower Three Realms, the Upper Five Realms, and the Approaching Immortal Realm, until the final loud laugh, ascending.

For cultivators, the first three realms are just to temper one's own internal body realm, considered the foundation of cultivating the Dao. Only by condensing internal spiritual essence can one be considered to have initially entered the immortal Dao, also known as the perfection of the Lower Three Realms.

It was just that Fang Ruoyao's aptitude was not excellent, and Cao Jiaoxi didn't want to put pressure on her too early, lest the Dao heart be seeded with demons.

In fact, the aptitude of the students accepted by the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan over the years was getting worse and worse. Even though they chose descendants of immortal sects or children of wealthy families, there were only two who had reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms before the age of twenty this year.

Back then, when the Seven Great Sects jointly formulated the Azure Cloud Immortal Regulations, they listed a rule: those who reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms before the age of twenty could enter the immortal register regardless of their background.

But now, there were very few who could achieve this.

Fang Ruoyao looked at him with a half-understanding expression, when suddenly she saw a small servant run to the courtyard.

"Young Lady, Young Master Kuang is requesting to see you outside, wanting to see you off."

Fang Ruoyao thought for a long time before saying: "I am pouring tea for the immortals; please ask Young Master Kuang to come again tomorrow to see me off."

Pei Ruyi couldn't help but smile lightly after hearing this: "The journey is long and the mountains are high. Since he came specially to say goodbye, you should go and see him."

"Then... then Ruoyao will withdraw first."

Fang Ruoyao hesitated for only a moment before agreeing and walked toward the side hall.

Xiang Kuangcheng was also brought in by the bailiff at the door. The map of the Yan Kingdom was very short, and he opened his mouth to ask Fang Ruoyao to help the Qiu family.

In fact, Fang Ruoyao had long guessed that he would do so.

After all, Xiang Kuangcheng's reputation as a gentleman was known throughout the county, so she didn't want to come. Now that she heard him say it in person, she refused even more decisively.

"The Heavenly Tian Shuyuan is naturally the Great Xia Sacred Sect, but the Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion is also a great sect of the world. Although the two great Immortal Sects have been fighting in secret for many years, they have always been in harmony on the surface and do not interfere with each other's affairs."

"What you saw in the book is not wrong. The Heavenly Tian Shuyuan does have the responsibility to protect its disciples and their families, but I have no relationship with the Qiu family. If I forcibly come forward, wouldn't it make people accuse my Heavenly Tian Shuyuan of interfering in the affairs of other sects?"

"Moreover, I haven't entered the academy yet, and my words carry little weight. How would I dare to trouble the immortals?"

"Young Master Kuang, I am setting off tomorrow. I am grateful that you could come to see me off, and it is precisely because of this that I was willing to see you. But I don't want to cause any more trouble. I am truly powerless in this matter."

Fang Ruoyao was now a disciple of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan. Although she hadn't learned immortal magic yet, she already had a bit of a transcendent aura, no longer looking like the little family girl from back then, but rather like a proud swan.

After all, being able to become a cultivator had already destined her to be noble in this life.

Xiang Kuangcheng was silent for a moment: "Is the life of a five-year-old girl not worth a try for Miss Fang?"

"In this world, who can save whom?"

"It is precisely because of this world that we should save people!"

"Young Master Kuang, do you know that we cultivators need to have no distracting thoughts to be natural in Dao law?"

Xiang Kuangcheng was slightly startled, then realized that the person in front of him was already an immortal, and his expression became much more respectful: "Please forgive my disturbance, goodbye."

Watching him turn and walk toward the outside, Fang Ruoyao thought for a long time before opening her mouth again: "You went to find Seeing Ji You, but he didn't dare to come, so you came yourself?"

"Correct."

"The Qiu family has great grace toward him, yet he can pretend not to know?"

"What does Miss Fang want to say?"

"When the Ji family was destroyed back then, I took the opportunity to break off the engagement with him, which received a lot of criticism. Some said I, Fang Ruoyao, was kicking someone when they were down, and others said I was not keeping the woman's way. Now it proves how innocent I am. How could that ungrateful person be a good match for me?"

Xiang Kuangcheng didn't speak after hearing this and left the Fang mansion with a flick of his sleeves.

He couldn't agree with Fang Ruoyao's words, because an engagement is an engagement, and character is character. Just like merits and demerits cannot offset each other, they cannot be generalized.

If Fang Ruoyao really didn't like that Seeing Ji You, she could have chosen a suitable way to break off the engagement, leaving some dignity for both sides.

But she chose to take advantage of the situation, forcibly breaking off the engagement when Seeing Ji You couldn't even get out of bed. Her character hadn't necessarily been any better.

But at this very moment, although Xiang Kuangcheng was full of reasons, he truly had nothing to say, because that Young Master Ji hadn't even dared to step out of the door until now.

Xiang Kuangcheng didn't like Fang Ruoyao's way of doing things, and he looked down on Seeing Ji You's cowardice, so he could only help neither.

She was about to become a person of the immortal Dao and didn't want to have any more contact with old people and old things.

If she really begged the instructor and senior sister, and it was known in the future that she had an engagement with a village husband, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to hold her head up in front of fellow Daoists.

Fang Ruoyao splashed the tea in her hand into the flower bed and stood up, intending to go to the main hall. However, at this moment, a roar suddenly came from the northwest outside the window.

Following that, a ray of rosy light rushed up into the clouds, merging into the evening daylight.

Before she could see it clearly, the rosy light quickly converged and disappeared behind the clouds, as if it had never appeared, making her feel inexplicably confused.

But what Fang Ruoyao didn't know was that the two immortals who were still drinking tea in the front hall had already drawn their swords and left the mansion, coming to Archway Street in Yuyang County with solemn expressions.

The fire-red clouds that stretched across the sky for a thousand miles were now cut off in the direction of Archway Street, with a ten-mile break, like an immortal waving a sword.

And that ray of rosy light had already been restrained and disappeared behind the clouds, as if it had never appeared.

This place was remote and barren, and there was no immortal family dojo. The only Fengxian Shanzhuang was thirty miles west, far away from here, so the Dao sound and daylight wouldn't have pierced through the clouds.

Private cultivator!

There was a private cultivator in Yuyang County who had just broken through to the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding!

But this aura was restrained so quickly that even they couldn't continue to catch shadows at this moment.

"Wang Jiaoxi, can't find it."

"Hmm, disappeared."

Cao Jingsong whispered, sweeping over the Ji family's door plaque without a trace, shock floating from the bottom of his eyes, then quickly disappearing.

Yuyang County is not big, and interesting news can spread throughout the county in an hour. Immortals have clear eyes and ears, and some things naturally cannot be hidden from them.

He knew about the Qiu family girl, spiritual light piercing the top; the Ji family young master, not yet twenty...

Pei Ruyi discovered the instructor's gaze, then frowned and looked at the Ji residence: "Could that private cultivator be hiding in this courtyard?"

"No, I know for sure without even looking."

"?"

Cao Jingsong turned and left, but his hands couldn't help but tremble in his sleeves.

Fang Ruoyao had a fiancé who was spurned by the whole county. It was said that he was not yet twenty and was as timid as a mouse...

Not yet twenty, not yet twenty, not yet twenty, not yet twenty!

Pei Ruyi followed behind him, thinking to herself that the instructor's leg strength was truly invincible; even walking made him tremble as if he were practicing.

At this moment, just one door and two courtyards away, Seeing Ji You closed his eyes tightly, his forehead covered in dense beads of sweat, which fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

A moment later, he opened his eyes and looked up at the twilight outside the window, only to realize that thirteen hours had passed outside.

Almost rushed until dizzy...

Sure enough, a youth is easy to grow old and learning is hard to achieve; an inch of time cannot be taken lightly.

He looked inside his spiritual spring and saw that the spring was full, just waiting to be smelted, nine deaths and one life.

In the blink of an eye, it was dusk, and the sky was getting dark.

Fang Ruoyao was preparing things in the room and found that Cao Jiaoxi was looking at something in the courtyard, so she called her father over.

"Father, I am setting off tomorrow. Is the carriage to Shengjing ready?"

"It's ready, but..."

Fang Zhongzheng reached out and took out a visiting card: "Fengxian Shanzhuang is coming to visit tomorrow. The immortals have agreed."

Fang Ruoyao paused slightly: "Didn't they not agree before? Why did they suddenly agree? I also invited some old friends to come here to see me off tomorrow."

"Delaying an hour or two doesn't matter. It's also good to let them see the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan immortals and broaden their horizons."

(Modified, the chapter discussion might be messy...)

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