My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 799 Investment
"No need to be so polite. My name is Ziyan. I'm not much older than you. Just call me Sister Ziyan."

The woman's eyes sparkled with a friendly lightness, and her voice was as cheerful as a mountain stream.

"I wouldn't dare. The Pavilion Master's strength is unfathomable. I cannot treat him as an equal."

"Heh, I'm just lucky to have a good background, which is why I barely managed to reach the Divine Realm at this age. If you were in my position, you would probably have achieved far more than me!"

Ziyan chuckled softly upon hearing this, a self-deprecating smile curving her lips, her tone tinged with a faint melancholy.

As she spoke, her shoulders slumped slightly, her dark hair cascading down her shoulders, and a thin mist clouded her clear eyes, revealing a delicate fragility that evoked pity.

Such an attitude is enough to stir the heart of any man, making him wish he could protect her under his wings and shower her with tenderness.

However, Shen Changchuan's mind was suddenly shaken.

My vigilance has reached its limit!
As a mere cultivator at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage, and born in a remote and desolate place, he naturally had no right to pity those who were born at the pinnacle.

Moreover, given that she was able to manage such a large organization as Wanbaoge, Shen Changchuan would never believe that the other party was some naive and innocent person.

Seeing that he remained silent, Ziyan frowned slightly, a faint blush rising on her cheeks, and she lightly spat out a hint of reproach:

"Oh well, another clueless blockhead."

She twirled her fair wrist, her jade-like fingers swaying like scallions, the tips of her nails adorned with bright red nail polish, a sight that dazzled the eyes.

Shen Changchuan, however, remained clear-eyed and unmoved, like a rock.

Ziyan wasn't annoyed; instead, she looked him over with interest, her long fingernails lightly tapping the table, producing a crisp sound.

"Actually, I only met you because I was a little curious."

"After all, in a place like this, and given your background, Brother Changchuan, to be able to pull out 30,000 high-grade spirit stones at once, to be honest, I was quite surprised when I first heard the news."

Thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones

This is definitely not a small amount!
If converted into low-grade spirit stones, this number would already reach over 300 million!

For the top families of Zhongzhou
Perhaps 30,000 high-grade spirit stones wouldn't be a big problem.

But for the Southern Region,

Especially the Tiannan Domain, the most barren of the thirty-six minor domains in the Southern Domain.
This is probably the accumulated foundation of a Divine Travel Realm power for over a hundred years!
Take the Shen family, from which Shen Changchuan came, for example. Even after hundreds of years of operation, the wealth stored up in the entire Tiannan Shen family is probably only tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones!
This may seem unbelievable, but it is perfectly reasonable.

After all, the Shen family is a large family, and although their annual income is considerable, their expenses are also substantial.

Being able to save 300 million low-grade spirit stones already indicates that the family is quite wealthy.

However, this sum of money, which was an enormous amount of resources for the remote and desolate Tiannan Region where he came from, was easily taken out by Shen Changchuan, who used it all to buy Pure Yuan Mingdao Pills, which were considered luxury items!
How could Ziyan not be curious?
Yes,

After learning about this, she had someone investigate Shen Changchuan's specific background.

You wouldn't know unless you checked, and what you found was quite surprising.

Leaving aside the recent storms involving him within the Immortal Sect's inner circle.

The other person's past growth experience,

In Ziyan's view,
That's simply unbelievable!

Born into a small local family as an illegitimate son, he was not valued and was sent to a remote rural area when he was just over ten years old.

Oh, it's not exile.
According to the investigation, the other party applied to go there voluntarily back then.

However, given the complex family power struggles behind it, it was also a brilliant move to escape the family vortex. Afterwards,

This young man began his rise to prominence in that extremely barren and desolate wilderness.

That's almost unimaginable!

In Zi Yan's view, the so-called Dawan Village where Shen Changchuan initially settled was...
It was a barren land with even less spiritual energy than the lowest-grade farmland in their home.

Once they end up in such a place...

They should remain forever mired in the mire, with no chance of ever getting out again.

But rather,
Shen Changchuan succeeded!
They emerged from that quagmire and rose step by step.

From those barren wildernesses, we have gradually come to where we are today!
Even in the recent Immortal Sect Inner Sect Competition, they swept aside and defeated those Immortal Sect geniuses whose birth conditions were many times better than theirs, winning first place.

Ziyan asked herself, if she were in that situation, would she have a chance to escape the quagmire with her own abilities?
But it is absolutely impossible for them to achieve such success as quickly as Shen Changchuan did at such a young age!

The other person's upbringing made her somewhat alarmed.

So much so that her phoenix eyelashes trembled slightly, and her eyes, as she looked at Shen Changchuan, held both amazement and a hint of gentle charm.

however,
Facing the other person's gaze,
Shen Changchuan's expression was somewhat cold, and his tone was rather stiff.

"I have never heard of needing a background check to buy something from Wanbaoge!"

"Oh dear, it seems that Brother Changchuan is quite concerned about this. I'm sorry, this is Ziyan's fault. I'll offer you tea instead of wine to apologize!"

As they spoke, Ziyan slowly picked up her cup, drank the tea in it in one gulp, and then gave Shen Changchuan a gentle smile.

Shen Changchuan's mind did not relax at all; instead, his brows furrowed slightly.

"If you have something to say, please feel free to speak."

The other party's attitude

Something's not right.
This made Shen Changchuan a little more wary.

Therefore, even though the other party was clearly much stronger than himself, Shen Changchuan's voice still carried a hint of rejection.

She is a smart woman.

Shen Changchuan didn't want to have too much contact with intelligent women.

"Alas, my brother Changchuan is like this, which makes me very sad. But the reason I called you here is simply because I wanted to see such a remarkable person as you."

Seeing Shen Changchuan's extremely guarded attitude, in order to avoid making things worse,

Ziyan stopped using cryptic language and spoke frankly.

"My brother may not know this, but there is a saying in Zhongzhou that someone like you, who can rise from a remote place to become a top figure of his generation, is called a child of destiny."

"The so-called chosen ones are blessed by heaven and earth, and not only do they cultivate extremely quickly, but their ultimate achievements are also limitless."

"I originally thought that such rumors were just rumors, but I never expected to meet someone like you, Brother Changchuan."

"I used some of the privileges of a branch pavilion master to allow you, my brother, to receive the Pure Yuan Bright Dao Pill ahead of time. All I wanted was to do you a favor, to curry favor with you, Changchuan."

(End of this chapter)