Sheng Fu

Yuwen Jun subconsciously placed his hand on Chu Yu's shoulder.

Hengyun cut to the chase, saying, "This place can be used for some calculations, but it would be best if we could find Chu Yu's parents."

Yuwen Jun looked down at Chu Yu, whose expression seemed somewhat unnatural, and asked, "Do you still remember the way home?"

Psychological traumas left over from childhood can accompany a person throughout their life.

"I remember," Chu Yu said softly.

Yuwen Jun smiled knowingly and said, "Don't be afraid, this time we're all behind you."

Chu Yu nodded and then walked to the front, with Yuwen Jun and the others following closely behind.

Seeing this, Ling and Wang remained silent. Everyone has their own troubles, and besides, Ling and Wang also felt a deep-seated disgust for those who bullied young children...

The area around Yunmeng Great Swamp has always been a favorite place for demonic cultivators to explore and seek secrets. Exploration teams have been wandering around the area for many years. However, compared to the last time Yuwen Jun came here, the area around Yunmeng Great Swamp is much quieter.

After all, last time, there were two injured Snow Rocs, and everyone wanted to get those two Snow Rocs to strengthen themselves.

Yuwen Jun was also fortunate enough to obtain those two snow roc birds.

For the rogue cultivators of the Demon Clan, the truly valuable things in the Yunmeng Great Swamp are nothing more than some spiritual herbs of mediocre quality, or mother metal for forging weapons, or perhaps a cave dwelling that might contain the cultivation techniques left behind by a senior master.

For independent cultivators, as long as their cultivation reaches the Great Yellow Court Realm or the Breakthrough Realm, they are already considered an insurmountable mountain.

Along the way, the group left no trace in the snow.

"Actually, I don't know if they're still alive," Chu Yu suddenly said.

If that couple were to die, then we would have to rely entirely on the most meticulous calculations and deductions of a master from the Taoist Xuanzong lineage.

Hopefully, they are still alive.

Yuwen Jun gently comforted her, "It's alright, their value is not irreplaceable."

Chu Yu hummed in agreement and continued leading the way.

The outer perimeter of Yunmeng Great Marsh.

Yunshan Town is situated here, with a flat terrain covering hundreds of miles around and little hilly terrain.

The people in Yunshan Town can be roughly divided into three types. The first type is the independent cultivators, who will go deep into the Yunmeng Great Swamp to explore its mysteries at any time. Sometimes they can return safely, and sometimes they stay in the Yunmeng Great Swamp forever. This type of person usually chooses to act alone.

The second category consists of various expedition teams, which include both independent cultivators and ordinary people with relatively strong physiques. They form teams to venture deep into the Yunmeng Great Swamp in search of spiritual herbs and other cultivation resources.

The third category is merchants, who either sell weapons to expedition teams or buy various medicinal herbs, spiritual jade, and monster cores brought back by the expedition teams.

Generally speaking, the people in Yunshan Town all rely on Yunmeng Marsh for their livelihood.

Although it was a time of great strife, it never affected Yunshan Town. Perhaps the Demon Army or some politicians felt that the people in Yunshan Town were really useless.

When you really look at it, the rogue cultivators and merchants are nothing more than a motley crew.

However, Yunshan Town was indeed lively for a while a few years ago. At that time, news of the two Snow Rocs disappeared without a trace, and it was said that the Demon Clan capital sent a group of experts to investigate the intelligence.

Yuwen Jun never knew that when he was searching for soul practitioners in the Yunmeng Marsh with Wu Mi and Dugu Li, many of the people around him were actually members of the Eternal Night expedition team disguised as explorers.

Fortunately, Yuwen Jun acted extremely swiftly that time. After Yinglong instantly suppressed the entire area, he vanished into the Yunmeng Marsh without leaving any evidence. Of course, if a powerful expert from the Wuji realm had entered the Yunmeng Marsh to investigate Xue Peng's whereabouts, Yuwen Jun would have been in serious trouble.

That investigation into Xue Peng's deeds was, in a way, a good thing for the entire Yunshan Town.

Some of the children in the town with decent cultivation talent also came into the sights of the important figures of the demon race. They were either recruited by Yongye or taken into the fold by the orthodox sects of the demon race.

Therefore, some gossipy women or people who love to talk nonsense in the town often say that in a few years, a great figure with earth-shattering cultivation will surely appear in Yunshan Town.

For the people in this town, reaching the Breakthrough Realm in cultivation is considered a momentous achievement.

On the edge of town, inside a simple wooden house.

A middle-aged couple sat around the fire. The man was burly and weathered, while the woman, though somewhat pretty, had a mean-spirited appearance.

In the cradle behind them was a baby boy, less than a year old.

Both husband and wife have entered the mid-stage of the Saintly Realm.

Unfortunately, their foundations were weak and their true essence contained many impurities. For them, the mid-stage of the Saintly Inheritance realm was already the pinnacle of their cultivation career, and they could no longer make any further progress.

The couple had lived in Yunshan Town for many years and had visited Yunmeng Daze many times.

Sometimes there are gains, sometimes there are losses.

In fact, over the years they have accumulated a decent amount of cultivation resources, enough to leave Yunshan Town and find a more peaceful place to live.

But their child is still young, and raising a child requires a lot of cultivation resources.

At their age, they are in their prime as independent cultivators, and naturally they think about going to the Yunmeng Great Swamp to explore cultivation resources in the future, so as to lay a reliable foundation for their children.

The path of cultivation is bizarre and unpredictable. The strong roam freely across the heavens and earth, while the weak are like ants on the ground looking up at the sacred dragons in the sky. This disparity is so great that it can lead to despair and resentment.

For a family of independent cultivators with no one to rely on, it takes several generations, or even more than ten generations, of painstaking accumulation to have a chance to cultivate a powerful expert at the Great Yellow Court level.

Those children who are valued by sects or by reclusive masters are ultimately only a very small minority, or even negligible. Most children who want to enter the path of cultivation will face an incredibly high threshold.

Even after crossing that threshold, the road will not be smooth sailing; instead, you will see more formidable and treacherous passes that will leave you breathless.

When Jing Peiyao was young, she caught Pu Weiqing's eye; when Xiao Huangyue was young, she caught Jing Peiyao's eye. Everyone wants to be such a lucky person, but everyone has their own sorrows and helplessness...

In fact, many children with remarkable talent for cultivation spend their entire lives wielding hoes in the fields or struggling in the streets, never realizing that they truly possess extraordinary talent for cultivation.

While some sing high in the sky, others crawl in the dark, sunless gutter.

Nothing in this world is more cruel than this...

The charcoal fire flickered slightly as the night deepened.

"Going up the mountain tomorrow?" the wife asked, giving the man a disdainful look.

The wife always thought how wonderful it would be if she had been chosen by a wealthy young man when she was young. She knew she could not become the legal wife, not even a concubine, but she did not care about that.

I don't even need a title. If a noble young master like that just gave me a little bit of cultivation resources, my life wouldn't be so difficult. In fact, not just anyone can become a cultivation furnace.

She herself was a failure, and the man who slept with her was also a failure, but she couldn't bear the thought that her child would also be a failure. (End of Chapter)