A hundred lifetimes of cultivation, merely seeking immortality in the cultivation world.

Shen Taozhu still left.

She felt that Xue Pan loved her.

Lu Qingyun felt no regret, no attempt to keep him, and not a trace of sadness.

"But can things in this world really go as people wish? Not necessarily."

No emotion is ever truly trustworthy.

Xue Pan and Shen Taozhu have indeed developed feelings for each other, and he is indeed not a womanizer; he seems to be a devoted person.

However, Shen Taozhu had not considered how she, a servant girl with no spiritual roots, would conduct herself in the Xue family.

He hadn't considered how he would handle things once Xue Pan got annoyed and fed up with him.

When we grow old and our beauty fades, will we still be able to cherish the hazy feelings of love we have today?

Shen Taozhu hadn't thought of that.

She took nothing with her except her personal belongings; all the spring flowers she had planted in the garden remained at the Lu residence.

Shen Taozhu walked further and further away, eventually descending Dongshan Mountain.

Her eyes were filled with tears, and she kept crying.

For some reason, she felt a pang of regret for her decision, and she cried while wiping away her tears.

With a flicker of his sleeves, the magical power on them could no longer be concealed, and a mid-grade spirit stone shattered and fell to the ground.

boom!

Upon hearing the sound, Shen Taozhu instinctively looked over and saw the crystal-clear fragment of the spirit stone.

It's worth a full hundred spirit stones, enough for a mortal to pay the exorcism tax for a lifetime and live a life free from worries about food and clothing.

Shen Taozhu cried even harder, knowing that this was a gift from Lu Qingyun.

"Young Master... Tao Zhu was wrong! Tao Zhu is so sorry..."

Shen Taozhu looked towards the direction of Dongshan.

But she could never go back.

She cannot, and does not deserve, return to the once peaceful and carefree Lu family mansion.

Shen Taozhu cried as she unknowingly walked to the outside of Master Xue's mansion.

The mansion was not grand and was located at the foot of the Western Hills.

Most of the officials of the Great Yun Kingdom reside here.

The Xue family is an ordinary family. The only members are an ancestor who is at the sixth level of Qi Refining and Xue Cheng, a fifth-level Qi Refining official in the Ministry of Personnel, who have some status.

The Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel was only a sixth-rank official, far inferior to a Vice Minister of a department, and his status was equivalent to that of a rogue cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Compared to the Lu residence located halfway up Dongshan Mountain, it is naturally several points inferior.

"Miss Shen, please wait a moment, I will inform the young master immediately."

The maid at the door saw Shen Taozhu arrive and hurriedly went in to announce her arrival.

"Let them arrest us. As long as they don't arrest my Xue family, let them do whatever they want."

Xue Pan and Xue Cheng were in the study, discussing the recent absurd events in the Dayun Kingdom. The Dan tribe had set up a side hall in the Western Hills and unexpectedly kidnapped the children of the Ministry of Revenue's assistant commander.

The position of Assistant Commander was to assist the Assistant Directors of various departments in their work. It was an even lower official rank, only the eighth grade.

Those people in the side hall of West Mountain, seeing that a minor official from the Ministry of Revenue dared to cause trouble for the Ministry of Alchemy, wiped out the entire family of that official and sent them to the Pure Land.

This caused trouble for Xue Cheng, who had to spend time organizing the files of those qualified to serve as assistant officials in the Ministry of Revenue, and then hand them over to the Ministry of Revenue soon.

A maid entered.

After Xue Cheng inquired about the purpose of the visit and learned about Shen Taozhu's appearance, he probed outside the mansion with his divine sense and frowned.

"I previously told you to travel around the city more, and if you met a woman of noble status, you could befriend her. You brought back this Shen Taozhu and told me that she is a relative of a big shot in Dongshan."

"But now, looking at her like this, it's as if she's been kicked out. You should be more careful about your marriage. Although my family is not a high-ranking one, if you're going to marry, you should marry a woman with spiritual roots."

"I understand Father's intentions, but I am still young and there is no rush for me to get married. Regardless of whether she has been abandoned by a powerful figure, it would be fine to bring her to our home."

Xue Pan didn't mind and cupped his hands in greeting.

"If she can be of help to my Xue family, then a happy marriage is certainly possible."

"If we are helpless, it's just a game; after all, my child is still young."

"Pan'er has grown up."

Xue Cheng nodded.

Outside the mansion, Shen Taozhu had been waiting for a long time.