Change of the Sect Leader

But on second thought, when he first saw that this sect's cultivation method didn't even require a spirit root to practice, hadn't that already overturned his decades of understanding?

Thinking of it this way, he felt relieved again.

During the days since he joined the Lingxian Sect, this sect had constantly been refreshing the inherent knowledge he had held for decades.

However, all of this was a good thing for Liu Chun.

Because now, he was also a part of this sect.

Two days later, Liu Yunan received letters from both Qin Jianghe and Prefect Tong at the same time.

Because the tracking voice transmission talismans Liu Yunan had given Prefect Tong last time contained his own spiritual power, Prefect Tong's tracking voice transmission talismans were now transmitted directly to him.

Looking at the two points of light in front of him, Liu Yunan first tapped on Qin Jianghe's.

Then he heard Jianghe tell him that some rumors had recently appeared in the city.

It was said that a cultivator with profound cultivation had blocked the mountain gate of the Shangyang Sect to cause trouble. However, because the Shangyang Sect's mountain-protecting grand array was fairly strong, it had not yet been breached.

But that cultivator kept blocking the outside of the Shangyang Sect's mountain gate without any intention of leaving, seemingly swearing to break that mountain-protecting grand array.

Some Shangyang Sect disciples who had finished their missions outside did not dare to return to the sect, terrified that they would be used as a target for the mighty cultivator's anger.

Qin Jianghe said that this matter seemed to have been going on for many days, but it had only gradually spread among the common people in the last two days.

He reminded Liu Yunan that it would be best to arrange for people to keep watch around the village recently. If they noticed anything unusual, they should quickly notify the villagers to enter the sect. Otherwise, if a cultivator came to cause trouble for them like this, their Xiushui Village did not have a mountain-protecting grand array.

Even if the villagers were stuck on the Path of Questioning the Heart, it wouldn't matter, because Lin Xiao had previously said that people inside the Path of Questioning the Heart were protected by it.

As long as someone probed into it with either their own spiritual power or divine sense, they would be completely pulled in by the Path of Questioning the Heart and begin their journey of questioning the heart.

Having said this, Qin Jianghe's voice disappeared.

So Liu Yunan immediately opened Prefect Tong's tracking voice transmission talisman.

He didn't expect that Prefect Tong's message would be somewhat related to Jianghe's.

The news Prefect Tong sent was that a message had come down from above stating that the sect master of the Shangyang Sect had been replaced.

As a prefect, the only reason he could know this news was that the Shangyang Sect's sect master replacement this time was not a conventional handover.

After the replacement, the Shangyang Sect did not offer any explanation or state their stance to the imperial court.

Moreover, they did not reply to any of the official documents sent by the imperial court.

For a time, the imperial court could not distinguish what the Shangyang Sect's current attitude was. Therefore, they issued an official document to notify all the officials in Hufang Province, telling them not to send any more tributes or official documents for help to the Shangyang Sect until they received a new notice.

After listening to these two seemingly related messages, Liu Yunan pondered for a moment, then immediately got up to look for Tietou.

He decided to first arrange for people to take turns patrolling and guarding around the village.

Meanwhile, Wen Keming, the magistrate of Anqun County, couldn't wait for his official document to reach the capital. He figured that it would take quite some time before the imperial court saw his reported document and sent a reply.

He was restless at home every day, so he ran to Xiushui Village every few days.

He waited outside the Path of Questioning the Heart, wanting to build a relationship with the immortals above.

Once, unable to hold back, he gritted his teeth and stepped onto the Path of Questioning the Heart.

As a result, it didn't take long for him to be pushed out by the Path of Questioning the Heart.

Looking at the Path of Questioning the Heart in front of him and thinking of the dream he just had that felt so real, Wen Keming felt lingering fear.

He couldn't help but touch his heart.

Fortunately, it was fake.

However, he didn't dare to go in again.

But making him easily give up the idea of befriending the immortals was impossible.

After thinking about it, he ordered his trusted aide to go in.

The result was the same as him; not long after, the aide was pushed out by the Path of Questioning the Heart with a bewildered face.

Then, no matter how he coerced or bribed this trusted aide, the latter refused to go in a second time.

Finally, Wen Keming was out of options. His eyes rolled, and he thought of his youngest son, Wen Yuejun.

Hadn't he gone in before?

And he heard that after he went in, he wasn't pushed out, but walked out himself.

So he quickly asked his trusted aide to go back and bring his youngest son over.

But unexpectedly, there was no need for him to call; Wen Yuejun rushed over on his own.

However, he naturally wasn't there to help his father go up and visit the immortal sect, but to drag his father back.

Recently, the fact that his father, as a county magistrate, abandoned his official duties to come to Xiushui Village—a place rumored to have immortals—every few days had long spread throughout the upper circles of their county.

Wen Yuejun felt that his father's behavior was too shameful.

This made him unable to hold his head up in front of his friends these past few days.

As a result, the father and son broke out into a fierce argument in front of the Path of Questioning the Heart.

In the end, the two parted on bad terms.

As the rumors spread, more and more people knew that immortals might appear in Xiushui Village, and it seemed as if an immortal sect existed there.

Consequently, the number of people coming to visit Xiushui Village increasingly grew.

With the increase in foot traffic, more and more families in the village started to take up side businesses.

Along with it, their village's agricultural products became bestsellers.

Because many people felt that since there were immortals and an immortal sect here, perhaps this place was exceptionally blessed with natural beauty and outstanding people, which was why the immortals chose to take root here.

Could the place chosen by immortals be wrong?

Of course not!

Since it wouldn't be wrong, didn't that mean the land here was definitely better than elsewhere, and the things grown and raised here would certainly be better than others?

They might even be tainted with a bit of immortal aura!

Thus, in a short period of time.

Every household in Xiushui Village had a lot more silver in their hands.

Their fruits and vegetables could be sold at city prices!

Sometimes there wasn't even enough to sell, and the tourists would bid against each other.

Some quick-tempered ones almost came to blows over it.

Fortunately, Village Chief Du Liushui stepped forward and stopped these people on the grounds that they could not cause trouble at the foot of an immortal sect.

He also finalized a price slightly more expensive than in the city and established a first-come, first-served rule.

The elders of several major surnames also supported the village chief's decision one after another.

The majority of the villagers had always listened to the village chief and the clan elders, so after hearing this rule, although they felt a bit regretful that they couldn't earn more, they didn't have any dissatisfaction or objections.

A small number of people, seeing that the money they had finally gotten their hands on was ruined by the village chief's rule, felt extremely indignant.

The village chief knew some villagers would be dissatisfied, so he found a day to hold a meeting for the whole village, and then broke down the pros and cons in great detail for everyone to understand.

Finally, he asked everyone:

"Do you want to make quick money a few times and enjoy yourselves for a while before it's over, or do you want to turn this into a specialty of our village and run it for a long, long time?"