Immortality and Cultivation: I Have Too Many Talents

Chapter 121 The Shadow of the Demonic Sect (10,000-word update, please subscribe)

The next day.

Shen Xuan and Ding Yuyao rented a carriage.

I unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance.

It was none other than Old Liu, the stable boy from Qinglongwan Market back then.

We haven't seen each other for over twenty years.

Old Liu's hair was completely white.

"Master Shen?"

He recognized Shen Xuan at a glance.

However, I still don't quite believe it.

More than 20 years have passed.

Shen Xuan, on the contrary, looks younger and younger.

"Old Liu, still doing this?"

"It really is Master Shen and Madam Shen!"

Old Liu quickly bowed.

"Songjiang Prefecture, Hongcheng County, do you still remember the way?"

"Remember!"

"Let's go!"

Shen Xuan helped Ding Yuyao into the carriage.

"Be careful! Otherwise, I'll dock your fare!"

"Don't worry, Master Shen! Old Liu may not have any other skills, but he's been driving for fifty years, he's very reliable!"

In the carriage.

Ding Yuyao hugged Shen Xuan tightly.

As if afraid he would leave without saying goodbye.

This caused Shen Xuan to feel a strange sense of melancholy.

If he were still a low-level rogue cultivator in the early stages of Qi Refining.

He will definitely grow old with Ding Yuyao.

Even as beauty fades with age, they will stay together until death.

However, after awakening the cheat ability.

The path has been restored to light.

He could not possibly allow himself to sink into depravity and spend his life at the bottom of the cultivation world.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, his body was strengthened.

Even the dual cultivation between husband and wife could not satisfy him.

In fact, they had rarely practiced dual cultivation for several years.

Even when he did it occasionally, he was always very careful, afraid of hurting Ding Yuyao or not being able to enjoy himself to the fullest.

Zhu Yingying, on the other hand, made Shen Xuan have a wonderful time.

This time, after Ding Yuyao returns to Hongcheng County, she will no longer accompany Shen Xuan.

There is a difference between immortals and mortals.

Ding Yuyao, with her mortal body, was destined to be just a passerby in Shen Xuan's long life.

……

The gentle spring breeze and light rain silently nourish a magnificent mountain in the northwest corner of Qingyang Prefecture, which is shrouded in white clouds all year round.

This is Feiyun Mountain.

Qingyang Prefecture is located on the border of the Song Kingdom, on the edge of the Qingyun Sect's sphere of influence.

A little further west lies the Weiwu Prefecture of the Liang Kingdom.

The Song Kingdom was dominated by seven major Daoist sects, while the Liang Kingdom was led by six major demonic sects.

There is a second-grade high-quality spiritual vein in Feiyun Mountain, where the Su family has lived for thousands of years.

It was late at night, and the spring breeze in the drizzle still carried a chill.

The council chamber was brightly lit.

The powerful elders of the Su family gathered together.

"This time, out of respect for our former ancestor, Master Gufeng has sent a disciple to support our Su family for thirty years!"

The head of the Su family was in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. His temples were already frosted with white, and a rare smile appeared on his wrinkled face.

"I've heard that this Foundation Establishment cultivator named Shen Xuan is highly skilled and is a second-tier talisman master!"

"A talisman master? A talisman master is great!"

A respected elder stroked his long beard and said with a smile.

"If you would be willing to take a few clansmen as disciples and teach them talisman techniques, that would be wonderful!"

The other dozen or so clan elders then spoke.

They highly praised the Su family head for enlisting the help of Master Gufeng's disciples to assist the Su family.

With the passing of the Su clan's patriarch, the Su family declined at a visible pace.

Apart from the spiritual fields and mines within Feiyun Mountain, the surrounding business markets have all been devoured by the surrounding cultivation families.

Of the more than a thousand clansmen, only five were Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Moreover, only one of them is a second-tier spirit plant cultivator.

The other four, including the head of the Su family, did not possess any second-tier cultivation techniques.

Previously, out of respect for the Su clan's patriarch, the other three major cultivation families in Qingyang Prefecture would show the Su family considerable deference.

If there are any benefits, give a share to the Su family.

Nowadays, they no longer share profits.

The previously established income is also gradually shrinking.

The crisis came quietly.

The head of the Su family waved his hand.

The murmurs gradually faded away.

"Everyone, Master Shen has come on the orders of Master Gufeng. Please restrain your juniors, follow the rules, and do not make a fool of yourselves, so that people will look down on our Su family."

The elders were slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

A hint of wariness crept into their eyes as they looked at each other.

The head of the household's meaning was very clear.

The benefits brought by Master Shen are for the entire Su family.

The elders should not resort to unscrupulous means to fight each other, lest they make things worse and harm the overall interests of the Su family.

"Gentlemen, please forgive my bluntness. Master Shen is a Grand Master of the Great Sect, a True Person disciple. If anyone disregards the overall situation and harms the interests of the family, don't blame me for being ruthless and enforcing family rules!"

"This is what the head of the Su family said solemnly."

"Rest assured, Patriarch, we wouldn't dare!"

"We will follow the patriarch's instructions and treat Master Shen with the utmost respect."

"We'll take our leave."

The elders, each with their own thoughts, dispersed one by one.

Soon, the council hall became deserted, with only the head of the Su family remaining.

At that moment, a slender and graceful young woman with bright eyes and white teeth walked in.

"Grandpa, I don't want to go!"

"That Shen Xuan is over eighty years old!"

"What's there to welcome!"

"He was merely a disciple of Master Yang in name only!"

The head of the Su family looked at his direct granddaughter with a hint of doting affection.

"Yuanyuan, listen to me! Go and handle this situation!"

“Master Shen is a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the sect, so we should still give him face.”

He had originally intended to matchmake his granddaughter Su Jiayuan with Shen Xuan.

Let's see if we can get Shen Xuan to stay for a few more years.

After all, Shen Xuan was a disciple of the Lone Peak True Person of the Qingyun Sect.

Even if you do nothing, just stay in the Su family and be a mascot.

It can also have a huge impact on the Su family.

The other three major cultivation families in Qingyang Prefecture, when they are openly and covertly fighting with the Su family, must take into account the attitudes of the Qingyun Sect and the Lone Peak True Person.

……

The same time.

In a deep mountain hundreds of miles away from Feiyun Mountain.

This place is located on the border of the Liang Kingdom, where spiritual energy is scarce and the area is desolate.

Beneath a desolate, hundred-foot cliff, perpetually shrouded in a faint, blood-red poisonous miasma, life has vanished.

At this moment, a figure in a gray robe arrived in this area aboard a flying boat.

As soon as this person arrived, the blood-red poisonous miasma seemed to sense something, and immediately began to churn, surging up layers of mist that swept towards the gray-robed figure.

The gray-robed figure lightly waved his sleeve, and a dark green spiritual shield lit up around him, blocking the seemingly living, blood-red poisonous miasma.

"Master Luo, you've arrived!"

A sinister voice suddenly rang out.

"I dare not. Old Luo pays his respects to the Holy Son!"

The man in the gray robe bowed in greeting.

The blood-red poisonous miasma churned to both sides, making way for a passage.

A blood-red figure gradually solidified and appeared in front of the gray-robed man.

Both of them were at the Foundation Establishment stage.

The gray-robed man's status was clearly even lower.

Blood Shadow Man's gaze turned towards the direction of Qingyang Prefecture in the Song Kingdom.

"As the Holy Son, I should have a foundation to rely on. Master Luo, you have been lying low in Qingyang Prefecture for many years, what advice do you have?"

The gray-robed man pondered for a moment before saying, "Holy Son, Qingyang Prefecture is within the sphere of influence of the Qingyun Sect of the Song Kingdom. The Qingyun Sect has many Golden Core cultivators and is currently at the height of its power. I'm afraid..."

"It doesn't matter!"

The Blood Shadow Man said quietly, "The Song Kingdom's Daoist Sect and the Liang Kingdom's Demonic Sect have long reached a tacit understanding. Core Formation cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage must not act rashly, lest it trigger a war between the two countries!"

"That's good! If the Holy Son wants to establish his empire, I, Luo, am willing to be his vanguard, devoting myself to the cause until my dying breath!"

"Now there is a good opportunity. The Su family patriarch of Feiyun Mountain has passed away, the Su family head failed to break through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, and the family's talents are dwindling."

Blood Shadow Man laughed and said, "Great minds think alike. That's exactly what I was thinking."

"However, I heard that the Su family patriarch and the Lone Peak Master of the Qingyun Sect have a close relationship. The scouts reported that the Lone Peak Master has dispatched his disciple Shen Xuan to support the Su family for thirty years, and he is on his way."

(End of this chapter)