Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Xia Jin's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this.

I never expected that my casual question would lead to this guy actually having information about the terrestrial immortals within the Great Qian Imperial Palace.

"Let's go," Xia Jin said with a smile, looking at Liu Tongtian. "Find that information and bring it to me."

"Alright, I'll go right away!!" Liu Tongtian, enduring the sharp pain in his knees, got up from the ground and led the way. "Sir, please follow me."

He limped along, leading Xia Jin out of the room, and then to a woodshed in the backyard filled with firewood.

"Don't tell me that such important information is hidden in this place!?" Xia Jin looked at the woodshed in front of her with a strange expression.

Liu Tongtian could only manage a couple of dry laughs. He moved to the corner of the woodshed and cleared away two piles of firewood. Then, he stomped hard on the ground with his uninjured left foot and pressed his hand against the wall next to him a few times.

With a soft "click," a stone slab on the ground sank, revealing a hidden compartment about the size of a palm.

Liu Tongtian crouched down, took out a black wooden box, and respectfully handed it to Xia Jin. "Sir, what you requested is here."

"Are you sure?" Xia Jin narrowed her eyes, looking at the wooden box in her hand, "that this contains information about those terrestrial immortals in the Great Qian Imperial Palace?"

Liu Tongtian gave a bitter smile and hesitated for a moment before saying, "My lord, I really can't be sure. This wooden box was passed down from my grandfather, who said that it contains the greatest secret of the Great Qian Dynasty. It must never be shown to anyone unless absolutely necessary. Today... today, in order to save my own life, I have no choice but to disobey the ancestral teachings."

"Returning to ancestral precepts?" Xia Jin's gaze lingered on Liu Tongtian's face for a moment, and he was certain that the other party was not lying.

Since that's the case, let's open it and see. Xia Jin pressed the lid of the box directly, about to open it.

"Wait! My lord, wait!" Liu Tongtian suddenly shouted again.

Xia Jin paused, looking at Liu Tongtian with a hostile gaze: "What is it now?"

Liu Tongtian swallowed hard. "Sir, once this wooden box is opened, its contents will automatically burn after ten breaths. So... if you want to see it, you must write it down as soon as possible."

Xia Jin nodded and opened the wooden box, inside which was only a slightly yellowed parchment. He reached out and took out the parchment, quickly reading its contents.

The content above was not much, only a few short paragraphs, but Xia Jin's expression suddenly changed after reading it!

"The Great Qian royal family actually has three ancient monsters at the Land Immortal Realm, and these three actually treat the entire Lu clan as livestock for food?"

Even Xia Jin, who was well-informed, couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

Just as Xia Jin was processing this horrifying information, the long-absent system notification sounded in his mind:

[Ding! Key information detected: 'Lu Tiancheng, Lu Lingfeng, Lu Lingxiao'... Information matching in progress... Match successful!]

[Trigger Quest Selection: Slay the Land Gods with Your Sword!]

[Mission 1: Slay Lu Tiancheng, the Land Immortal of the Great Qian Dynasty. Reward: Soul Weapon Shaping Technique (Beginner Level), 600 years of cultivation!]

[Mission Two: Slay the brothers Lu Lingfeng and Lu Lingxiao, the Land Immortals of the Great Qian Dynasty. Reward: Divine Shock Thorn (Entry-level), one thousand years of cultivation!]

The host can freely choose the order in which to complete the tasks, and will receive a corresponding reward upon completion of each task.

"I... damn it!!" Xia Jin snapped back to reality when the system notification sounded.

However, when he saw the two tasks hanging on the system panel, he immediately wanted to curse.

With his current cultivation at the sixth level of the Divine Realm, even relying on powerful techniques like the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, he is virtually unmatched in the Divine Realm. However, that is, after all, the Earth Immortal Realm. Let alone killing him, whether he can even survive against him is a question.

Just as Xia Jin was inwardly complaining, the writing on the parchment in his hand quickly faded and disappeared. Then, starting from the edge, the entire parchment spontaneously combusted without fire, turning into a small pile of ashes.

Liu Tongtian had been nervously observing Xia Jin's expression. Seeing the parchment self-destruct, he cautiously asked, "M-Sir, are you... alright? The information on it should be useful to you, right...?"

What he feared most was that Xia Jin would think the information was useless and take her anger out on him, in which case he would lose his life here.

"Liu Tongtian." Xia Jin clapped her hands, looking at Liu Tongtian calmly.

"Your Excellency is here!" Liu Tongtian quickly bowed and replied.

"From this day forward, you will serve me. Rest assured, I never mistreat my own people. The benefits you receive will only be greater than what you currently gain guarding this 'Thousand Gold Pavilion'!!"

Liu Tongtian was stunned. Before he could react, he saw Xia Jin raise her right palm, and faint lightning flashed in her palm.

"My lord... I agree! I agree! Don't kill me!!" Liu Tongtian's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he subconsciously tried to back away, but there was no way he could escape.

Xia Jin gently placed her palm on Liu Tongtian's head.

In an instant, Liu Tongtian felt an incomparably pure power pour into him from the top of his head!

It seemed to have condensed into a tiny seed in his dantian.

Then the force continued to impact his meridians, and the bottleneck that had kept him stuck at the peak of the ninth level of the Grandmaster realm for many years was shattered under the impact of that force!

"The Realm of Freedom and Unfettered! I've actually broken through to the Realm of Freedom and Unfettered!"

Liu Tongtian clenched his fists, seemingly in disbelief. After a brief moment of stunned silence, he knelt down before Xia Jin: "Thank you for your life-saving grace, my lord! Liu Tongtian is willing to serve you with utmost loyalty, even unto death!"

Xia Jin withdrew her hand and looked at Liu Tongtian with a smile: "Alright, get up! From now on, 'Qianjinfang' will continue to operate as usual. Tomorrow, send all the news related to the Great Qian royal family to the inn in the west of the city!"

After saying that, Xia Jin tossed a token over.

"Rest assured, sir, I understand!" Liu Tongtian replied hastily after accepting the token. However, he was taken aback when he saw the character "Xia" on the back of the token.

"This...this token belongs to the Great Xia royal family..." He looked up, but Xia Jin had already disappeared from his sight.

......

Back at the inn, Xia Jin looked out the window and a slight smile crept onto her lips.

"Really... I didn't expect that."

These so-called three ancestors of the Great Qian royal family, three terrestrial immortals! were actually not members of the Lu family.

On the contrary, they secretly treated the entire Lu royal family as "food" and kept them in captivity!

If this news gets out, it will probably cause a huge uproar throughout the entire Great Qian Dynasty, no, the entire Eastern Xuan Continent.