Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 1 Fully Relying on Father
Tianshui Village suffered from a severe drought, and locusts did not spare the village.

In fact, the entire Xizhou was a victim of this natural disaster.

Wei Xi was a mute, and her father took her to her aunt's house in the neighboring village to borrow food.

Wei Dong, our heroine's brother, according to Wei Xi's very impolite idea, was swollen like a steamed bun and was waiting for food to save his life.

Wei Lao San limped ahead, a rag bag of grain tucked into his belt. Wei Xi's mother was a skilled handicraftsman, and the clothes of both father and daughter didn't have many patches.

But good skills could not change Wei Xi's pale and thin face, which made her eyes look frighteningly big.

Wei Xi was very satisfied with the effect at first.

Because she could stand quietly behind people, pretending to be a monster that had returned to the human world, and scare the kids who bullied her into screaming.

But as these children disappeared one by one in the famine, Wei Xi reluctantly gave up the idea.

The water in Kushui Village is bitter and astringent, and its arable land is largely saline-alkali soil. Only a type of bitter wheat, said to have grown on the horns of an immortal blue ox, can survive in this saline-alkali soil.

During this drought, only Ku Shui Village could barely survive by relying on this bitter and coarse wheat.

Wei Laosan wiped the sweat from his forehead. The sun miraculously replicated the cracks in the earth on his resolute face. He turned his head and stopped to look at his little daughter. She was holding a tiny leg bone in her hand, her face flushed, and she was panting as she followed him.

From an old hunter's perspective, the bone in Weixi's hand should never appear in the hands of a child.

Wei Laosan sighed silently, snatched the bone from Wei Xi's hand and threw it away.

Wei Xi's eyes were glued to the leg bone; she knew how to deal with her old man. Wei Lao San, also helpless against his mute daughter, said nothing more, only taking out the water bag and handing it to Wei Xi, whose face was covered in sweat.

The gears of fate began to turn slowly.

Wei Laosan saw from afar the men, women, young and old from Ku Shui Village gathered together.

Wei Laosan scratched his graying temples and moved to the side to block his daughter.

"Erya," Wei Laosan's throat was dry, "wait here for daddy."

Wei Xi nodded and hid behind the barked tree trunk holding her father's water bag.

After confirming that his daughter was well hidden, Wei Lao San walked towards the crowd. As a tall and strong hunter, he naturally squeezed to the front.

It turned out that the immortal sect came to recruit disciples.

Several immortals, dressed in various robes, gathered around a large rock. All the children of Kushui Village who could walk and were under fifteen, both boys and girls, were present.

Wei Laosan’s nephew Liu Hu was also among them, standing in the middle of the team with a bald head.

Wei Laosan was just about to ask his sister what was going on, but then an idea suddenly struck him and he rushed towards Wei Xi's hiding place.

Wei Xi was sitting on the ground with a water bag in her hand. Wei Laosan went to look at her feet: sure enough, she was kicking a rat's skull.

Wei Laosan pulled his daughter up.

"Erya," Wei Lao San spoke quickly and hurriedly, unusually for him, "you will stand behind your brother Hu Zi in a moment. The Immortal Master is here to choose a disciple, and you must be chosen! Remember this! You must remember this!"

Wei Xi, confused, nodded vigorously and tried hard to hold the rat skull with his toes in his straw sandals.

Wei Lao San basically dragged the skinny Wei Xi into the crowd of people from Kushui Village. But a dozen strong men from Kushui Village surrounded Wei Lao San in the crowd. "I'm sorry, Hunter," said the village chief's tall and strong son-in-law, leading the group. "Go back to your village!"

Wei Laosan released the hand that was holding Wei Xi, and said in a pleading tone, "Give the child a chance to live!"

"Go back!" The burly man said this with a dozen of his accomplices standing behind him, adding to his credibility. "The immortal master is almost chosen, and this mute of yours wants to cultivate immortality too?"

Wei Xi stared at the strong men fiercely like a little wolf cub.

Wei Laosan is a man of few words, but he is well-known as an honest man in the nearby villages, otherwise no one would have the courage to stop a hunter.

The honest man Wei Laosan showed a simple smile, then kicked Wei Xi on the butt.

As Wei Xi was kicked through the crowd, all she could think about was: This is how Wei Dong felt when he was kicked. Face down on the ground, Wei Xi looked up and could only see straw sandals and various calves.

At this moment, his father's voice clearly fell into Wei Xi's ears through the crowd: "Crawl forward! Wei Xi! Crawl forward! Listen to Dad!"

When Wei Xi heard her name, she knew the situation was serious. She ignored her aching butt and subconsciously followed her father's instructions and crawled forward.

Most of the people in Kushui Village hadn't reacted yet. Unfortunately, those who could have caught Wei Xi in the chaos were queuing up in the fenced-off area.

Covered in dust, Wei Xi rolled and crawled: she even kicked a young man who tried to catch her, and finally succeeded in breaking through the crowd and getting into the open space.

There was a girl in a blue Taoist robe standing on a high platform. She saw Wei Xi: several strong men bent over to grab a girl who was crawling forward very quickly. It was hard not to be conspicuous.

The girl in the blue Taoist robe gestured to a young man holding a sword beside her to go and check.

At this moment, Wei Xi was trying to crawl towards her cousin, whom she had bitten several times. The strong man behind her wanted to catch her, but he underestimated Wei Xi's years of experience. Wei Xi could crawl faster than she could run!

"Senior Sister sent me down to investigate," the young man said, holding his sword between Wei Xi and the burly man. "Why did you capture her?"

The burly man was about to explain when the goat-bearded village chief stopped him breathlessly, "Children are ignorant. Sorry to bother you, Master. These children in our village are just playing around."

The young man looked at the village chief hesitantly, but Wei Xi had already crawled near her cousin. The village chief glared at the strong man, who was a little confused.

"Master, all the children of school-age in our village are here. How many of them are lucky enough to be admitted into the Immortal Sect?"

"On this trip down the mountain, the Northern Frontier sects are recruiting fewer than fifty people," the young man put away his sword, "and that's even taking into account the Qingcheng Sect's admissions standards."

"Master Immortal," the village chief said with a forced smile, "The children of Kushui Village are able to endure hardships. It would be an honor for them to touch the steps of the Immortal Gate in this lifetime! Can you take a few children up the mountain to do odd jobs? It would be a blessing for them."

"We don't need any chores," the young man said with hesitation. "The Huaixin Sect doesn't need these. We just recite the incantations."

The village chief wanted to say something, but the young man was attracted by the movement on the field.

"It seems like you have a cultivator here," the young man nodded at the village chief, flew back on his sword, and left a message for the village chief, "But this is probably a new disciple of the Qingcheng Sect."

The village chief turned his head and found that it was the hand of the mute girl of the hunter's family in the neighboring village who was pressing on the stone brought by the immortal master. The stone was shining but only a little, or to be more precise, it was a little black.

Wei Xi had no idea what she was doing. It was her cousin who had just finished the test who nudged her and said, "Second mute! Are you going to practice Taoism?"

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