Cultivating a family of immortals

Blood kept gushing from Xuan Hezi's mouth and nose as he hurriedly ran out of the dark room.

He felt a wave of dizziness, and his life force was rapidly draining away.

"Damn it, a bunch of ants almost killed me. That talisman... it's incredibly powerful. I wonder what kind of spiritual root that young man possesses, that the Haoran Sect would bestow such a treasure upon him to save his life..."

"It'll be soon. Once we get out, we'll board a spirit boat to the Chaoyang Sect, kill some cultivators, refine them into blood pills, and consume them to survive..."

There is only one corridor connecting the dark room to the upper wing.

When he entered, it was only a few steps for him, a cultivator, but now that he was leaving, Xuan Hezi felt an immense sense of profound meaning.

Finally, he fought off his sleepiness and stumbled out of the corridor.

The ground was stained red with blood.

Looking at the night outside, he breathed a sigh of relief, then laboriously made a hand seal, trying to summon the spirit boat.

Just then, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

He looked up and stared blankly.

She was a woman.

I saw him during the day.

She seems to be the matriarch of the Xu family, named Li Rongping?

She held a wood-chopping knife in her hand, her hands trembling slightly.

"How dare a mere mortal attack me..." Xuan Hezi suppressed the pain in his chest that was about to burst, and reached out to kill the man.

However, Li Rongping's hand holding the woodcutter's knife suddenly steadied, and then a surge of spiritual energy flowed from her body.

"Three layers of fetal breathing..."

Xuanhezi murmured.

"An entire family cultivating immortality—how absurd..."

This was the last thought in his mind.

Li Rongping's machete came down.

She had never killed a person, but she had slaughtered chickens and ducks, and knew that the quickest way to kill these creatures was to cut off their heads.

So she beheaded Gensuke.

Blood spurted onto her face, but she was still not satisfied, so she swung the knife again and stabbed him in the heart, repeating the attack more than a dozen times.

Under the moonlight, in the back courtyard of the Xu residence.

Li Rongping was covered in blood, as if she had been soaked in blood plasma.

Before her lay a corpse, long since dead.

She kept stabbing, trembling.

Until it became a bloody mess.

It's unrecognizable as a human being.

…………

Two hours later, in the dark room.

Xu Wanghe and the others collapsed to the ground, staring at the corpse lying there.

The orange candlelight reflected on everyone's faces, not with warmth, but with the lingering fear of surviving a disaster.

When Li Rongping returned, her body was still trembling slightly.

"It's all taken care of. I've turned over fresh soil to cover the bloodstains, and the corridor has been cleaned up as well."

Xu Wanghe rubbed his head, looked at Xu Guanyi who was meditating and regulating his breathing, and asked:

"Are you feeling better?"

Xu Guanyi slowly opened his eyes, his face somewhat pale.

"The spiritual energy within my body is churning quite violently, but I've managed to suppress it for now."

Zhou Xingyao leaned against Xu Changle's chest, her eyes red. Xu Changle gave a bitter smile, "I never expected that selling some pills would lead to such a disaster."

Li Rongping's face was full of worry.

"If we kill this person, what if his sect comes looking for us later?"

Xu Wanghe shook his head and said, "The matter was handled cleanly. Even Immortal Master Fang didn't notice what happened here. How could his sect members have found us? There's no need to worry about this."

As he spoke, he looked wistfully at the dozen or so spiritual herbs quietly placed on the wall and sighed.

"From now on, the pills refined by Xingyao can only be used by our own family and can no longer be sold."

"Father, there's no need for that. From now on, we can use ordinary spirit seedlings instead of these spirit seedlings for refining."

Xu Changle said.

Xu Wanghe patted his forehead and said with a wry smile, "I was really scared."

Zhou Xingyao listened from the side and knew that these robust-looking spirit seedlings probably had a great background. In addition, Xu Changle did not allow her to enter the dark room, so she knew that the Xu family must have a secret.

But she didn't ask.

Since her husband doesn't want her to know, then she should just keep quiet.

After resting and calming themselves down, the group began to deal with Xuan Hezi's belongings.

Xu Guanyi stepped forward and rummaged around for a while, finding a storage bag and a jade pendant on his body.

They opened it, took out all the contents of the storage bag, and laid them out on the ground. Their eyes immediately lit up.

The storage bag contained over a thousand mid-grade spirit stones, and even fifteen high-grade spirit stones that Xu Guanyi had never seen before.

In addition, there were some talismans, books, and a disc-like object.

"I wonder what kind of immortal sect this Xuan Yuan Immortal Sect is, that a mere deacon possesses so many spirit stones..."

Xu Guan sighed, then picked up the round object and examined it carefully. After a moment, he exclaimed in surprise:

"Could it be a spirit divination tool?"

The group of people flipping through the books looked over curiously.

Xu Guanyi fiddled with it for a while, then raised an eyebrow and said with delight, "It is indeed a spirit-testing disc."

As he spoke, he poured his spiritual energy into it, and the disc slowly emitted a soft green light, just like the one he had tested on the stone platform in the Immortal Guiding Pavilion earlier.

"Today I inquired about the Spirit Testing Plate in the market. The steward of Qingyun Pavilion said that this item is extremely rare in the Haoran Immortal Sect. Even if I were to buy it, I would have to pay a deposit of fifty high-grade spirit stones. I never expected that this item would be delivered to us now. Brother, why don't you give it a try?"

Xu Chang took the spirit-testing disc and said first:

"Have you asked why this spirit-testing compass is so rare?"

Xu Guanyi was taken aback and said, "It is said that many cultivation families can use this item to detect spiritual roots and then conceal it from the Haoran Immortal Sect, so that the cultivator can cultivate within the family."

Xu Chang nodded thoughtfully.

"Brother, you should try it."

Xu Changle smiled, placed his hand on the spirit plate, and infused it with some spiritual energy.

A moment later, four beams of light appeared on the spirit-testing disc, one each of gold, green, blue, and yellow.

"Four-colored spiritual roots?" Xu Guan asked in surprise, "Why not a different kind of spiritual root? Or at least something better..."

Xu Changle, however, was quite content and said with a smile, "Four-colored spiritual roots are already good enough. Don't be ungrateful."

The next few people took the test.

As expected, both Xu Wanghe and Li Rongping possessed the five spiritual roots. Given their advanced age, their ability to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm by consuming Qi Condensation Seeds was already a great stroke of luck.

When it came to Zhou Xingyao, two colors appeared on the spirit-testing plate: red and gold.

"Two-colored spiritual roots!" Xu Guanyi was taken aback.

Xu Changle and Xu Wanghe exchanged a glance, both understanding each other's intentions.

It turns out that the younger the person who swallows the green liquid in the small green bottle, the stronger their spiritual root will be.

Zhou Xingyao didn't understand what a two-colored spiritual root was, and asked curiously, "Second Uncle, is my spiritual root good or bad?"

Before Xu Guanyi could speak, Xu Changle said with a smile, "Of course it's excellent, even better than my spiritual root. Our Xu family will have to rely on you from now on."

"Brother Le, please don't laugh at me," Zhou Xingyao said shyly.

The whole family burst into laughter.

Then we got down to business.

The group's gazes fell upon the books placed on the small table.

Xu Wanghe picked it up and flipped through it one by one.

They stopped at a book called "Spirit Sealing Technique Array".

"This formation can be set up using spirit stones of different grades (low, middle, and high). The number and grade of the spirit stones used determine the power of the formation. At its highest, it can prevent the spiritual sense of a Foundation Establishment cultivator from penetrating it."

Xu Wanghe recited softly, then his face lit up with joy:

"This formation will be of great use to my Xu family!"