After everyone was reborn, I was strictly disciplined.

"Chengyuan... Chengxue..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she clearly felt the changes in her body.

The heavy fatigue and pain receded like a tide, and a warm feeling spread through my limbs and bones. Even my breathing became light and long, and the tightness in my chest disappeared without a trace.

She subconsciously moved her fingers and could clearly feel the touch from her palms, no longer as withered and weak as before.

His gaze swept across the room, finally settling on Xie Xingran, who was dressed in luxurious robes, and he instantly understood the reason.

This child has an extraordinary bearing and is dressed in fine clothes. He is clearly a noble person from a celestial sect. It must be him who saved me.

Overwhelmed with gratitude, Lu's mother, despite the lingering soreness in her body after her recovery, tried to get up by supporting herself on the edge of the bed.

"Mother!" Lu Chengyuan and Lu Chengxue exclaimed in unison, and hurriedly reached out to help, but were gently pushed away by their mother.

She staggered out of bed, and as soon as her feet touched the ground, she knelt down in front of Xie Xingran, her knees hitting the cold, muddy ground with a soft thud.

"I will never forget the Immortal Lord's life-saving grace!"

Lu's mother bowed slightly and kowtowed solemnly to Xie Xingran. Strands of hair fell across her forehead, obscuring the emotion and humility in her eyes.

"If it weren't for the Immortal Lord's intervention, I would probably have already perished today, never to see my two children again. I will repay this kindness even if it means my own destruction."

Lu's mother was extremely beautiful. Even now, with her face bare and dressed in patched coarse linen clothes, the beauty between her brows had not been worn away by the years and poverty.

Her eyebrows were like distant mountains shrouded in mist, and her eyes were like autumn waters reflecting stars. However, the fine lines at the corners of her eyes and the vicissitudes in her eyes concealed a life of wandering and displacement, and one could vaguely glimpse her stunning appearance in her youth.

No wonder she was able to give birth to such outstandingly good-looking children as Lu Chengyuan and Lu Chengxue.

"Of course you should repay me." Xie Xingran raised an eyebrow, her tone self-assured, showing not a trace of humility after bestowing a favor.

"Otherwise, wouldn't my Healing Pill be wasted on you?"

In his view, it is only natural to expect something in return for kindness, especially since he did not save people out of kindness but was just going with the flow. Now he can take this opportunity to ask for what he wants.

Upon hearing this, Madam Lu was slightly taken aback, clearly not expecting this noble person from the immortal sect to be so direct, but she did not hesitate and quickly looked up and said:

"If you, Immortal Lord, have any orders, I will do my utmost, even if it means going through fire and water, I will not hesitate in the slightest."

"It's not really a difficult task." Xie Xingran chuckled, took out a jade pendant from the storage bracelet on her wrist, and waved it in front of Madam Lu, her tone carrying a hint of inquiry.

"You should have another one of these jade pendants, right?"

Lu Chengyuan's gaze suddenly froze, staring intently at the dusty jade pendant. It was a gift from his mother that Xie Xingran had taken from him earlier, and he never expected Xie Xingran to suddenly bring it up.

Madam Lu's gaze sharpened, and she nodded gently as she looked at the jade pendant: "Reporting to the Immortal Lord, I do indeed have another one."

She then turned to look at Lu Chengxue, her voice gentle: "Xiaoxue, go and get your jade pendant and give it to the Immortal Lord."

"it is good."

Lu Chengxue obediently responded, quickly walked to an old wooden box in the corner, carefully opened it, took out an identical jade pendant from under the coarse cloth at the bottom of the box, and presented it to Xie Xingran with both hands.

The two jade pendants were placed side by side in Xie Xingran's palm. They were both grayish in color, without any patterns or decorations, and looked unremarkable, as if they were inferior jade materials that could be found anywhere in the mortal world.

Looking at the jade pendants, a trace of melancholy flashed in Lu's eyes. She slowly explained, "These two jade pendants are the only things left by my parents. When I was still an infant, my parents suffered a tragedy, leaving only these two jade pendants with them."

"After Chengyuan and Chengxue were born, I gave the jade pendant to the two siblings. It wasn't a valuable item, but I kept it as a memento to let them know that they were not without roots."

These words also stirred up memories that Lu's mother had kept buried for many years.

She was an orphan with no parents, and grew up in the mountains, barely making ends meet by collecting and selling herbs.

That year, while gathering herbs in the mountains, she accidentally encountered the Lu family head, who was being chased by his enemies and was seriously injured. She kindly saved him and hid him in the thatched hut she built, taking good care of him.

As they spent their days together, the gentle and refined head of the Lu family and the resilient and kind-hearted woman developed feelings for each other, and their love gradually deepened.

After recovering from his injuries, the head of the Lu family insisted on marrying her despite the strong opposition from his family and parents, and even defied public opinion to make her his principal wife.

The years after her marriage were the most peaceful and sweet time of her life. The head of the Lu family treated her very well. Later, Lu Chengyuan and Lu Chengxue were born one after another, and the family of four lived a warm and harmonious life.

But people's hearts are fickle, especially when faced with the entanglements of interests among cultivation families, that love ultimately cannot withstand the considerations of reality.

After she gave birth to Lu Chengxue, the attitude of the Lu family head gradually turned cold.

He began to regret marrying her, this helpless orphan girl who had neither family power to rely on nor the talent for cultivating immortality to help her, and was of no help to the increasingly weak Lu family.

Moreover, the Lu family head himself was not particularly gifted and gradually fell behind his peers, causing the Lu family's situation to deteriorate day by day.

For the sake of the two children, the head of the Lu family was not too heartless, but that tenderness was long gone.

He still held a sliver of hope that the two children would be able to discover exceptional spiritual roots, thus bringing honor to the Lu family.

However, when the spirit-testing stone showed that both Lu Chengyuan and Lu Chengxue had ten spiritual roots, the Lu family became a laughing stock among their fellow practitioners.

The legitimate son and daughter of the prestigious Lu family are actually useless people who can't even break through to the first level of Qi Refining.

At that moment, the last bit of tolerance from the Lu family head vanished, and overwhelming regret drowned out all affection.

Without hesitation, he drove the mother and her two children out of the Lu family's gate, and then married a fairy from a cultivation family of equal social standing, attempting to reverse the Lu family's decline by leveraging the woman's family's influence.

After being driven out of the Lu family, the mother and her two children were left destitute and had no choice but to settle in the remote Wu Family Village.

To support her two children, Lu's mother returned to her old profession, going up the mountain to collect herbs before dawn every day and selling them at a stall after coming down the mountain. She worked hard day and night, which led to her illness.

Fortunately, Lu Chengyuan was later accepted into the Fire Marrow Pill Holy Land, and finally had a stable monthly income. However, this income was just a drop in the bucket compared to the expensive medicine.

Lu Chengyuan worked tirelessly in the Holy Land, just to earn more spirit stones to buy medicine; Lu Chengxue also took on the responsibility of making a living early on, going to the market before dawn to set up a stall and sell the small items she made.

Even though the brother and sister tried their best, they could never fill the gap in medical expenses and could only watch helplessly as their mother's health deteriorated day by day and she fell into a coma.

If Xie Xingran hadn't come today and given her that healing pill, she probably would never have woken up again.

Xie Xingran stroked the two jade pendants in her palm, her gaze lingering on Lu's mother's beautiful yet weathered face. Combining this with her background as an orphan, she instantly understood.

According to the novel's plot settings he knew, this Lu mother was no ordinary orphan girl, but must be the long-lost direct descendant of a certain immortal cultivation family, and these seemingly ordinary jade pendants were tokens for recognizing her ancestors and returning to her family.

In the future, Lu Chengyuan will surely find his maternal clan with the help of the jade pendant, and with the help of his maternal clan, he will make a comeback and achieve great success.

As for why Lu Chengxue wasn't the chosen one, Xie Xingran had his own guesses.

Perhaps because she is Lu Chengyuan's sister, she is destined to be a sacrifice to highlight the protagonist's growth.

Isn't that how it's written in novels?

The successive deaths of his mother and sister ignited the protagonist's overwhelming hatred and bloodlust, allowing him to break through the shackles of his talent and gain the power to cultivate against all odds.

He secretly pondered that if he hadn't arrived today, the fate of the mother and her two children would probably have been sealed long ago: Lu's mother would have died of illness, Lu Chengxue would have either starved to death or been harmed by rioters, and Lu Chengyuan would have erupted in extreme pain and embarked on his predetermined path of reversal.

Thinking of this, Xie Xingran's lips curled into a playful smile. He looked up at Lu Chengyuan and asked, "Lu Chengyuan, do you know about the Marrow Cleansing Pill?"