After the destruction of the Immortal Realm, I took in the fallen fairy.

Yu Zhiyue's expression puzzled Lin Heng.

It wasn't because Yu Zhiyue, this fairy, was so complex that even he couldn't see through her.

On the contrary, Yu Zhiyue is not only not complicated, but she is also the kind of person who wears all her emotions on her sleeve.

What puzzled Lin Heng was that he noticed a look of apprehension, even fear, on her face after he mentioned the Yunling Sect!

But the Yunling Sect is in the Immortal Realm...

Isn't this the prestigious and authentic sect that everyone wants to join?

At least during the Demon Calendar era, when Lin Heng heard his two disciples from the Yunling Sect, as well as Yun Yue, the sect leader of the Yunling Sect, mention it, that was his impression of the Yunling Sect.

But why is it that Yu Zhiyue, the princess of Tian Shu Kingdom, seems to be on the opposite side of Yun Ling Sect?

"Do you have some kind of conflict of interest?"

Lin Heng asked in confusion.

"Well... that's one way to put it, but it's not entirely true."

After hesitating for a moment, Yu Zhiyue shook her head.

If it's not a conflict of interest, then it must be a conflict of positions?

After pondering for a while, Lin Heng asked a question that even he himself was somewhat unsure of: "Could you be a heretical cultivator?"

"what?"

Yu Zhiyue stared blankly at Lin Heng.

After a long while, she gripped the hem of her dress tightly with both hands, bit her lip lightly, and said, "How could I possibly be an evil cultivator... If we have to name an evil cultivator, then it's the Yunling Sect that's evil!"

"Is the Yunling Sect a heretical sect?"

Lin Heng looked at Yu Zhiyue with disbelief.

"..."

After being asked several questions by Lin Heng, Yu Zhiyue looked at him suspiciously but did not answer. Instead, she asked, "Young Master Lin, you don't seem to know much about the Yunling Sect?"

Even the sect leader of the Lianyunling Sect knows her thoroughly, so how could he not know her sect?

However, to say I don't know...

Lin Heng also thought it was fine.

After all, he had never actually seen the Yunling Sect in the Immortal Realm.

So he replied to Yu Zhiyue, "Alright, I've only heard about it in the mortal realm."

"Is that how it is?"

Yu Zhiyue immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

She pursed her thin lips, looked at Lin Heng and slowly nodded, saying, "That's true. After meeting me, Young Master Lin never mentioned the matter of fellow cultivators, so he probably has no connection with the Yunling Sect."

"Fellow practitioner?"

Lin Heng seemed to have discovered something crucial.

It seemed that ever since he met Yu Zhiyue, she had been constantly mentioning fellow practitioners to him.

From the former bandits to the current Yunling Sect...

"Young Master Lin, it seems you don't know much about the Immortal Realm these days?"

Lin Heng's reaction made Yu Zhiyue wonder again.

"I already told you, I just arrived in the Immortal Realm."

Lin Heng shrugged lightly.

"Well... alright, I'll put in a good word for Young Master Lin."

Seeing that Lin Heng didn't seem to be lying to her, and that he had previously helped her deal with a celestial bandit, Yu Zhiyue said to him, "The celestial realm these days isn't actually as glamorous as it appears on the surface..."

Lin Heng nodded, signaling her to continue.

"More than half a year ago, when I first entered the Immortal Realm, my uncle, who had already become an immortal, personally came to greet me at the Ascension Grounds.

"He was once the prime minister of the Tian Shu Kingdom. Back in the mortal realm, he was a junior to my grandfather who was both capable of assisting in government affairs and knew how to respect his elders. To me, he was also a kind elder who carefully guided my cultivation."

"So I was very happy to see him again in the Immortal Realm, especially when I heard that he had established a sect there."

At this point, Yu Zhiyue poured herself a cup of tea, held it with both hands, and took a sip as if she was somewhat unwilling to accept reality.

She continued, "On the way he led me to his sect on a sword, we stopped at an inn in the Immortal Realm. I woke up in the middle of the night and happened to pass by the next room when I overheard my uncle's conversation."

"In that room, he and several leaders of major sects in the immortal realm were discussing a cultivation technique that could assist in cultivation and surpass most of the immortal predecessors."

"And this cultivation method... involves cultivating with a fairy with high spiritual root purity, absorbing her spiritual root, and improving one's own spiritual root purity."

Is this a way to improve the purity of one's spiritual roots?

Lin Heng stroked his chin, but if this technique could truly improve the purity of one's spiritual root through fellow cultivation, it could indeed greatly help one's cultivation.

After all, the higher the purity of one's spiritual root, the more thoroughly one can comprehend the power of the rules after reaching the Enlightenment Realm, and the smoother one's subsequent cultivation will be.

Therefore, in the immortal realm, the purity of one's spiritual root is often a reflection of a cultivator's potential.

So the former prime minister of Tian Shu Kingdom found a way to improve the purity of one's spiritual roots, which is said to surpass most immortals, and that's not entirely untrue.

"And I heard my uncle arguing with those sect leaders about who I should cultivate with after I was taken back."

At this point, Yu Zhiyue had already bitten a deep tooth mark on her thin lips.

"No, wait, no."

Although he had expected it, Lin Heng still couldn't hold back after hearing Yu Zhiyue voice her guess: "He's not your uncle? And he actually wants to be with you..."

"No, that's not it."

Yu Zhiyue quickly shook her head, "My uncle wants to give me to his personal disciple."

"I see..."

Lin Heng nodded.

At the same time, he also confirmed Yu Zhiyue's spiritual root purity once again through the Immortal Slave Manual.

As a fairy with a spiritual root purity of 99%, Yu Zhiyue would naturally have a better effect than ordinary fairies if she could be used to improve her spiritual root purity through fellow cultivation.

Therefore, it is not surprising that her uncle and those sect leaders would have such thoughts about her.

"etc."

Suddenly, Lin Heng felt that something was wrong.

He asked, "Are you saying that the cultivation techniques your uncle and those sect leaders possess require cultivation alongside a fairy, and male cultivators are not allowed?"

"Um."

Yu Zhiyue nodded.

"But what does this have to do with the Yunling Sect?"

Lin Heng was puzzled.

He hadn't forgotten that the real reason he had asked Yu Zhiyue to bring this up was because he wanted to ask her about the Yunling Sect.

Yu Zhiyue said, "Because the Yunling Sect is also using this method to improve the purity of its disciples' spiritual roots."

This doesn't make sense, does it?

Lin Heng frowned.

If what Yu Zhiyue said is true, then neither Yun Qinghe, the future successor of the sect, nor Yun Yue, the sect leader, would need to use this technique!

So Lin Heng asked directly, "Are you sure that among those sect leaders, Yun Yue, the sect leader of the Yunling Sect, is one?"