Chapter 8: Young Master is an Immortal

Gazing at Ji You's departing back, the corridor filled with people seeing him off was silent.

Not long after, Fang Ruoyao muttered a "why," waking everyone from the shock just now, and at this time, Xiang Kuangcheng had already finished reading the copy of *Xia Law Immortal Regulations* in his hand again.

It turned out that the answer had always been in this book, but what he and Ji You saw were not the same.

"Those who reach the perfection of the Lower Three Realms before the age of twenty can enter the immortal register themselves. Any of the Seven Great Sects of the world will break the rules and accept such people. Because... such people will surely enter the Upper Five Realms in the future. And what can truly determine the religious fortune are these Upper Five Realms disciples."

Xiang Kuangcheng raised the corners of his mouth: "I asked him to beg Miss Fang, but he refused. The world thought he was timid and cowardly, but now it seems that Miss Fang probably wasn't his choice from beginning to end."

This double entendre instantly made Fang Ruoyao change her face: "Commoners privately cultivating immortality is a capital crime; this is clearly the iron law of Great Xia."

"Azure Cloud Immortal Regulations have always been higher than Great Xia iron law from ancient times to the present."

Hearing this, the crowd fell into silence, not knowing what to say at this moment.

For these days, everyone thought Fang Ruoyao was the key to breaking the situation. After all, she was the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan disciple known to the whole county.

So, Old Qiu knelt in front of the government office for a whole day, and Xiang Kuangcheng also put down his face to beg her. And Ji You, in everyone's heart, was a shrinking rat who didn't even dare to step out of the door.

Only now did they understand that no matter how noisy the outside world was, how sarcastic, he remained unmoved because he didn't need to beg anyone.

At this moment, Fang Ruoyao looked blankly at the direction Ji You left, suddenly realizing that Xiang Kuangcheng's words were not false. That person didn't look at her once from coming to leaving.

"I won't necessarily be worse than him after entering the academy."

"He... just started earlier than me."

Fang Ruoyao said with a pale face, but still didn't let her face fall to the ground.

And at this time, Dong Wei, who was standing on Xiang Kuangcheng's right, began to have soft legs, and his lips kept trembling.

He suddenly remembered that two days ago, he and Jia Sicong had mocked Ji You in the restaurant, and he was now an immortal, who could make people live or die.

So he turned to look at Jia Sicong, but found that the other party was not as liver-and-gall-cracked as he was.

"Brother Jia, you... why don't you tremble?"

"I treated him to ten cages of fresh dumplings, and you, my brother, you didn't."

"???"

Just as the crowd was still discussing, Ji You had already brought the Qiu family father and daughter to the county monument at the city gate. At this moment, there was no wind for ten miles in Yuyang County, and the sky was clear.

Just at this place, Ji You stopped his steps with a sallow face: "Old Qiu, you take Ruru home first."

Old Qiu raised his head upon hearing this: "Young Master, what about you?"

"I want to go back to... the ancestral home..."

"Young Master?"

Ji You waved his hand, and before he could open his mouth again, he turned and left.

Seeing this, Old Qiu couldn't help but straighten his back, which had been slightly hunched over the past two years, and watched him leave in a hurry.

Qiu Ru also raised her head, looked at the Young Master, then looked at her father, and her gaze fell on her own chubby little hand.

She had just thought it was raining, but after scanning it, she found that it wasn't rainwater on the back of her hand, but a faint bloodstain.

Old Qiu didn't see this scene. He was still thinking about his wife who had fainted at home when she was taken away in the morning, so he hurriedly returned home with his daughter.

At this time, Li Shuping, who had fainted, had already woken up, but had been lying on the bed, her empty eyes staring straight at the roof beam, not drinking a drop of water, not saying a word.

Because Auntie Liu next door had just gone out for a trip and said that the grain transport carts had started to set off from the city one after another, which meant that the offerings had started to be transported up the mountain, among which, perhaps, there was a young girl who was ignorant.

The people in the room didn't know what to say, because in the face of a mother who had lost her daughter, any more words seemed pale and powerless.

Thinking of this, some people couldn't help but scold the fallen young master a few more times in their hearts, thinking that it was already this time, and he still didn't come to see?

"Auntie, what's wrong with my mother?"

"Ruru, you play by yourself for a while, your mother is now..."

Auntie Liu's words were only half spoken, her eyes suddenly stiffened, and she turned her head to look back.

The five-year-old girl stepped over the threshold with a "hey," looking at everyone in the room with surprise, her expression somewhat blank.

And Li Shuping on the bed cried out when she saw her daughter, crawled from the bed to the ground, held her tightly in her arms, and then saw her husband also enter the room, crying even more bitterly.

"Are those immortals not catching our Ruru to make medicine? Are they? I said, how could there be spiritual energy in Ruru's body..."

"It's the Young Master."

Li Shuping raised her head with teary eyes, somewhat happy: "Did they change the medicine material to that Young Master of yours?"

Several farm women around also clapped their hands: "That Ji You is ungrateful, didn't even dare to show his face, he deserves to die!"

Steward Qiu was silent for a long time before opening his mouth as if he hadn't woken up from a dream: "Young Master... turned out to be an immortal."

"Wha... what?"

"I don't know exactly what happened, but the Young Master is actually an immortal. Those people knew, so they didn't dare to take Ruru to refine medicine."

Upon hearing these words, Li Shuping, who was sitting on the ground, remained stunned for a long time. In her mind, the image of that down-and-out young master who came to beg for meals every day couldn't help but surface, her eyes filled with bewilderment.

And the several village women around looked at each other, thinking they had heard wrong.

That Young Master Ji who had escaped death from the mountains only knew how to beg for meals on a daily basis, and upon hearing that Qiu Ru was being targeted by the Fengxian Villa, he didn't even dare to show his face. How had he suddenly become an immortal?

"I was thinking earlier, did the immortal master make a mistake? Our family has never been in contact with cultivators, how could there be... what spiritual energy in Ruru's body."

"But do you remember, when Ruru was two and a half, she had whooping cough, Physician Li said she wouldn't survive that winter, but later she recovered inexplicably. Although she hadn't eaten any meat, she grew sturdier and sturdier."

Old Qiu pursed his dry corners of his mouth, turned to look at his wife and said: "The Young Master is an immortal. I heard that immortals can nourish the roots and bones of mortals..."

Li Shuping still looked at him blankly, then lowered her head to look at the daughter in her arms, feeling lost for a long time.

It turned out that although that down-and-out young master came to beg for meals every day, from beginning to end, he had never owed their Qiu family anything...

Yuyang County was not big, and just an hour after Old Qiu returned home, what happened in the Yuyang County government office had spread.

Because many people saw Young Master Ji go to the county government office, then many people saw the bailiffs helping each other, bruised and swollen, go to the medical clinic.

Then someone saw Young Master Ji bring the Qiu family father and daughter out of the county government office, and even more people watched him return to the Ji residence with a face of iron, with divine power covering the world.

Young Master Ji is actually an immortal, broke into the county government office and drank back Fengxian Shanzhuang, and scared the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan immortals so much they didn't dare to speak. This story didn't know where it originated, but it began to spread among the crowd.

"However, if Ji You is really an immortal, why didn't he make a move when the Ji family suffered a disaster?"

"He, at that time, hadn't reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms."

"What is the perfection of the Lower Three Realms?"

"You don't even know this? Young Master Ji hadn't reached the perfection of the Lower Three Realms that day. Exposing his cultivation was a capital crime, so he had to endure!"

Someone stepped on the stool of the restaurant, and the folding fan in his hand slapped the table with a "pa-pa" sound.

Among them, there were not a few who had laughed at Young Master Ji. The Ji family disaster, the Fang mansion breaking off the engagement, the Qiu family incident—gossiping had become a habit.

But no one expected that Young Master Ji was a hidden immortal.

Rumors are like this, half true and half false, but enough to make everyone feel shocked, to the point of silence.

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