Just now, he had clearly felt that there was only a tiny amount of the Yuan Family Ancestor's inner demon left. Coincidentally, his own spiritual power was also about to be exhausted, so Lin Xiao decided to call it quits.
At present, the Yuan Family Ancestor hadn't woken up yet. Lin Xiao guessed that he was trying to completely eliminate the last bit of the inner demon right then.
Lin Xiao didn't leave immediately. Instead, he walked up to Jiang Youfu and sat down cross - legged to recover his spiritual power.
This place was indeed the secluded cultivation area of the Yuan Family. It was estimated that there were formations like the Spiritual Gathering Formation set up here. The concentration of spiritual energy was quite high, and Lin Xiao's state was rapidly recovering.
Since Lin Xiao and the others had arrived early, when the purification was over, it was still late at night outside.
Hearing the voices of conversation inside, Yuan Bi and Yuan Qing outside knew that the matter inside was finished.
So Yuan Bi opened the huge stone door, and the two of them walked in.
When they saw their family ancestor's appearance recovering at an astonishing speed, they were overjoyed.
Then they saw Lin Xiao sitting in meditation. The joy that had risen to their throats was immediately swallowed back, and they quietly stayed aside without making a sound to disturb him.
After a long time, after the Yuan Family Ancestor finally completely eliminated the residue of his inner demon, Lin Xiao's spiritual power in his body had also recovered to a certain extent. The two of them opened their eyes one after another.
Although Lin Xiao's spiritual power hadn't fully recovered, he didn't want to stay in the Yuan Family for too long. Since the Yuan Family Ancestor was awake, it was time to get down to business.
The Yuan Family Ancestor opened his eyes, his eyes full of joy.
The inner demon that had troubled him for many years and which he had thought he might never be able to solve in his lifetime was actually completely eliminated in these two days!
For the Yuan Family Ancestor, this was truly a life - saving grace!
He looked at Lin Xiao, suppressing the excitement in his heart. He got up and bowed to Lin Xiao with his hands clasped in front, saying,
"Fellow Daoist Lin, I will never forget your great kindness. In the future, if you have any requests, I, Yuan Ruogu, will definitely comply!"
Lin Xiao quickly helped him up and said,
"Don't talk about requests. Senior Yuan, you're embarrassing me. Let's just be friends in the future."
Seeing that Lin Xiao didn't make any requests but only wanted to make friends, Yuan Ruogu sighed in admiration and smiled at him, saying,
"Fellow Daoist Lin is an upright person. It's my great honor that you're willing to be friends with me."
While Lin Xiao was politely saying "You're too kind", he clearly heard the system prompt in his mind:
[Ding - Congratulations to the host for successfully befriending five cultivators with the Foundation - Establishment stage or above cultivation. The side quest of sect construction, the experience in the cultivation world (1), has been completed. The task reward has been sent to the private storage. Please check it carefully.]
So, regardless of the people in front of him, he immediately opened his private storage and quickly scanned it. He was overjoyed to find that the number of [Floating Island Fragments] had indeed increased from two to three.
After exiting the private storage contentedly, Lin Xiao didn't interrupt Yuan Bi and Yuan Qing, who had been waiting patiently, to communicate with their family ancestor. He glanced at the sky outside and said,
"It's getting late. Our companions are still waiting for us at the inn. We'll take our leave first."
Since the family ancestor had been invaded by the inner demon, he had hardly been sober. And he was extremely weak yesterday. So Yuan Bi had never had the opportunity to communicate with him much. Now that the ancestor was in good condition, there were naturally many things and situations accumulated over the years that he needed to talk to him about.
Therefore, Yuan Bi didn't pretend to keep them. Instead, he quickly stepped forward and said to Lin Xiao,
"Fellow Daoist Lin, we will always remember your noble deeds. We won't force you to stay now. We'll hold a private banquet another day. We hope you'll give us the honor to come and have a good drink together as friends!"
Since there would be food, Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu naturally agreed. Moreover, Lin Xiao was thinking that maybe there would really be something he needed their help with in the future.
It was definitely good to have one more friend, especially one who was a local big shot in Yuanling City.
Just like this, after saying goodbye, Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu left the Yuan Family.
Yuan Qing didn't stay in the cave either. He knew that his uncle and the family ancestor had many important matters to discuss, so he very consciously excused himself and returned to his small courtyard.
Although he had joined the Tianxuan Sect a few years ago, the main family of the Yuan Family had always kept the small courtyard where he used to live for him.
Only the Yuan Family Ancestor and Yuan Bi were left in the cave.
Yuan Ruogu waved his hand, and the huge stone door outside closed. Then he started to communicate with Yuan Bi.
On the other hand, when Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu returned to the inn, they saw the waiter carrying a huge bucket of hot water up the stairs. The bucket was so big that it could hold two or three people.
They were a little curious.
It wasn't that they were curious about the waiter's great strength. After all, this was the cultivation world, and even a waiter had some cultivation.
It was just that this bucket of hot water was obviously for taking a bath. They were curious that there were still people in the cultivation world who preferred to take a bath rather than use the Dust - Removal Technique to solve the problem of hygiene.
But they just took a curious look and then withdrew their gazes.
They followed the waiter up the stairs.
Their guest room was on the third floor, and they found that the waiter was also going to the third floor.
There were rooms on both sides of the stairway. Their room was on the right, and they found that the waiter was also going to the right.
However, they didn't think much of it, because there were a lot of rooms on one floor.
It wasn't until they followed the waiter not far behind and all the way to their own guest room that they stopped.
Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu were both puzzled.
Presumably, only Liu Chun, who had gone to see Elder Zhang and come back, should be in the room now. Because of Lin Xiao, he definitely wouldn't invite Elder Zhang to the inn. Did Liu Chun suddenly feel like taking a bath?
Before they could think further, the door of the guest room was opened from the inside.
Liu Chun inside took the hot water, saw Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu behind the waiter, was stunned for a moment, and then gave them a faint bitter smile. He stepped aside to make way for them to come in.
The waiter walked away with his head half - lowered, not looking around.
Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu entered the room.
Since there were many of them, the room they had booked was quite large, divided into an inner room and an outer room, and both areas were of a considerable size.
After entering the room and closing the door, Lin Xiao asked,
"Elder Liu, how is your sister? Do you have any news?"
Liu Chun, carrying the huge bucket of hot water, forced a smile at him and said,
"Sect Master, please follow me."
Then he carried the hot water into the inner room.
Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu followed him behind, not knowing what was going on.
When they entered the inner room, they saw the person lying on the bed at a glance.
This was a beautiful woman. One could tell from her eyebrows and eyes that she resembled Liu Chun. She looked only in her twenties.
The woman was tightly wrapped in a thin quilt, with only her head exposed. Her eyes were closed tightly, and her brows were furrowed, as if she was caught in a nightmare and was completely unaware of the arrival of Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu.
And there was a talisman pasted on her head.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
