Rebellious Old Servant: From Gatekeeper to Immortal Emperor

"What? Is there some kind of superstition surrounding my herb garden?"

Li Ruoyou looked at Madam Li with a puzzled expression.

Madam Li's expression changed slightly, as if she had something difficult to say.

He glanced at Qin Xiao and Xu Yiren, then said awkwardly, "Please wait a moment, I have something to discuss with this child privately."

After saying that, without waiting for Li Ruoyou to speak, he grabbed her sleeve and walked out.

After arriving at a secluded corner outside, Madam Li stopped.

"Mother, what are you doing? Yi Ren and Uncle Lin are both trustworthy people. You're clearly being wary of them."

Li Ruoyou looked at her mother with some displeasure.

"Silly child, this secret is of utmost importance. It concerns the biggest secret of the Li family. How can we casually tell it to outsiders?"

Madam Li looked at her silly daughter speechlessly. She was already the head of the family, yet she didn't even know the importance of keeping her wealth hidden.

If they didn't have no other children, the position of family head would never have fallen to that idiot Li Ruoyou.

"I want to hear what secrets that herb field holds, that makes you so cautious."

Li Ruoyou said somewhat unhappily.

"Ruoyou, do you really think that my family's medicinal herb field could be cultivated simply by relying on a spiritualized body?"

Madam Li looked at Li Ruoyou with a heavy gaze.

"What, isn't it?"

Li Ruoyou finally realized that there were many things she didn't understand, and stared intently at Madam Li, trying to figure out what was going on.

Her family's medicinal herb garden seemed to be much more precious than she had imagined.

"I should have told you this secret sooner, but now that we are irreconcilably at odds with the City Lord's Mansion, you have to know."

Madam Li sighed, then looked solemnly at Li Ruoyou:

"Ruoyou, haven't you ever considered that while a spirit-transformed body can indeed accelerate the growth of medicinal herbs, the cost is extremely high and the effect isn't that significant? Yet my family's medicinal field can accelerate the growth of medicinal herbs on a large scale, and the effect far surpasses that of your spirit-transformed body. What is the reason for this?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ruoyou suddenly realized what was happening.

Yes, she had wondered before why her spiritual body couldn't compare to the effects of her own medicinal field.

The medicinal field was merely created under the influence of the spiritualized body, yet its constitution is inferior to that of the medicinal field. What is the logic behind this?

She used to think it was because her spiritual body hadn't fully matured, but after hearing Madam Li's words, it seemed that wasn't the case.

"Mother, what is the reason?" Li Ruoyou's gaze also became serious. She realized that her family's medicinal herb field seemed to be much more mysterious than she had thought.

Without wasting words, Madam Li revealed a shocking secret that completely stunned Li Ruoyou:

"Because beneath that medicinal herb field lie the corpses of my Li family ancestors and all the clan members who have attained spiritual form throughout history!"

"What?!"

Li Ruoyou was dumbfounded, and even doubted whether her ears were broken.

Her family's medicinal herb fields have always been the greatest asset of the Li family, bringing them prosperity and countless riches.

They thought this medicinal herb field was the pride of the Li family.

Who could have imagined that the answer would be so bloody and cruel!

It's even disgusting.

In an instant, Li Ruoyou became furious, her beautiful eyes filled with anger and doubt:

"Were our ancestors crazy? Why would they do such a thing?!"

To bury the corpses of one's ancestors in a medicinal herb field—what is this if not the act of a madman?

How could the ancestors of the Li family sleep soundly after selling those medicinal herbs to others?

At that moment, Li Ruoyou wondered if her ancestors had lost their minds.

She had been proud of her family, but now she suddenly felt disgusted and ashamed to the extreme.

What difference is there between our family and other families in the city when we do this kind of thing?

Madam Li gave a bitter smile, then said with reddened eyes:

"Do you think our ancestors were all wicked and immoral people, beasts who lost all conscience and humanity in their pursuit of wealth?"

"No, they had no choice."

"Have you ever wondered why my Li family, so wealthy and with a history no less impressive than the three great families, is so small, with only you as our only daughter?"

"That's because there's a curse in my family's bloodline. Every member of the Li family is destined to meet with misfortune and die a violent death before the age of forty!"

"What?! My family members won't live past forty?!"

Li Ruoyou's delicate body trembled, her gaze fixed on Madam Li, "Could it be that Father's death from a serious illness was also because—"

She always felt something was amiss about her father's death.

His own father was a master at the late stage of the Bone Refining Realm.

He was physically strong and also well-versed in medicine.

Logically speaking, you shouldn't get sick at all.

However, he suddenly fell ill and died.

Li Ruoyou had always found it hard to understand, thinking that the city lord's mansion had secretly killed her father. But now, listening to her mother's words, it seemed that things were not so simple.

"That's right, your father died because of a blood curse."

Mrs. Li's face was filled with pain. "Not only your father, but you won't live to be forty either."

"How could this happen!"

Li Ruoyou's mind went blank.

She thought she was still young and had a long future ahead of her, and even had the hope of cultivating to the legendary Refining God Realm, and perhaps even achieving immortality.

As a result, she didn't even live to be forty!

Li Ruoyou felt a sharp pain in her heart and looked at Madam Li in disbelief:

"Then what does this curse have to do with the medicinal herb field? And why did our ancestors repeatedly bury corpses in the medicinal herb field?"

"That is the biggest secret of the Li family!"

Madam Li sighed, then said with an extremely solemn expression, "You must never tell anyone what I'm about to say, not even your future husband, understand?"

This time, Li Ruoyou did not refute, and nodded solemnly.

Then, Madam Li spoke in an extremely solemn tone:

"Beneath that medicinal field lies a complete divine weapon!"

"What?! A divine weapon!"

Li Ruoyou stared wide-eyed at Madam Li in disbelief.

Divine weapons are legendary supreme artifacts that possess all sorts of incredible supernatural powers, capable of changing the world, moving mountains and filling seas, and even manipulating natural disasters.

That kind of treasure has always been a legendary item for the people of Black Mountain City.

Li Ruoyou couldn't believe that her family actually possessed such a treasure.

"No, what if my family possessed a divine weapon!"

Li Ruoyou suddenly spoke up, "We have already suppressed the entire Black Mountain City with that divine weapon, so how could the City Lord's Mansion and the three great families be so arrogant?"

She felt that her mother was bragging.

After all, it's a divine weapon, and a complete one at that. This is simply unbelievable. With the Li family possessing such a thing, how could the City Lord's Mansion possibly bully them?

A single divine weapon could easily destroy the city lord's mansion and even catalyze the entire Black Mountain City.

After all, that was a divine weapon.