71: Chapter 71 Owl Yang Source Fruit

[ "It's an Immortal! An Immortal has descended!" ]

[ Suddenly, terrified yet excited shouts erupted from the servants and guards in the front courtyard. ]

[ Your eyes snapped open, your pupils constricting sharply. ]

[ After waiting for so many years, they had finally arrived?! ]

[ You flashed forward, smashing through the wooden door of the quiet room and rushing to the center of the courtyard. You looked up, staring fixedly at the sky. ]

[ Under the cloudless blue sky, a small flying shuttle, its entire body shimmering with a cyan halo, was hovering above Linyuan City. Two people stood on the shuttle. ]

[ The old man had white hair and a white beard, wore a grey Daoist robe, and had a gaunt face. His eyes were half-closed, as if he didn't care at all about the Mortal city like ants below. The Middle-aged Man wore a brocade robe embroidered with dark patterns; he had a stern face and sharp eyes, and was currently looking down at a "map" in his hand that seemed to be made of neither silk nor paper. ]

[ "Third Uncle, this is it! It can't be wrong!" the Middle-aged Man's voice was somewhat excited. "Master Qingling's Immortal Cave must be right around here!" ]

[ The grey-robed old man stroked his beard, a flash of greed and joy crossing his eyes. "Good, good, good! Master Qingling was a Loose Cultivator, a lone wolf with not even a single successor. Since he fell here, that 'xiaoyang source fruit' must still be inside his Immortal Cave!" ]

[ The Middle-aged Man clenched his fists, yearning, "As long as we obtain this xiaoyang source fruit and take it back for the Sixth Brother to consume, our Ziyu Li Family will also be a power with a Fourth-Rank Foundation Establishment Immortal Master guarding it! When that time comes, we will definitely make the Pingyang Qi Family pay a bloody price!" ]

Outside the simulation, the lying Lin Shuangwan sat up abruptly.

She stared fixedly at the light screen before her, her brain working at high speed.

This didn't seem to be the same group of people Wei Feisen had met back then! This was a completely new Cultivation World Family—the Ziyu Li Family.

[ "xiaoyang source fruit? Foundation Establishment? Fourth-Rank Foundation Establishment Immortal Master? The Qi Family?" ]

Fragments of information collided rapidly in her mind.

The "source fruit" they were looking for seemed to be closely related to the strength of the Foundation Establishment Realm? This started to align with the fragmented information she had previously obtained from the Ancient Tomb stone walls.

[ "It seems this so-called xiaoyang source fruit is definitely a very precious resource for Immortal Cultivators." ]

Lin Shuangwan turned her gaze back to the simulation.

[ You stood in the courtyard, looking up at the scene that felt like a myth descending, your heartbeat accelerating involuntarily. After waiting for so many years, you had finally... waited for it! Although the gender didn't seem right, the door to the Cultivation World had finally cracked open a sliver before you. ]

Lin Shuangwan raised an eyebrow, thinking to herself.

[ "It seems that I in the simulation did not hear the conversation between these two." ]

This could be considered a benefit or perhaps a bug of the simulator, allowing you to know things that your simulated self didn't know, but you could not communicate with your simulated self.

[ In the simulation screen. ]

[ The old man put away his smile, his gaze coldly sweeping over Linyuan City below, and instructed the Middle-aged Man: "Don't be happy too soon. First, find a Mortal to ask which direction the 'Daliang Mountain' marked on the map is located." ]

[ "Yes, Third Uncle." ]

[ The Middle-aged Man nodded, his hands quickly forming seals, his fingertips glowing with blinding white light. He wiped them over his eyes, his gaze scanning the city below like a searchlight. ]

[ Countless Mortals within the city flashed past his eyes like ants. ]

[ Suddenly, his gaze paused, locking directly onto you as you stood in the center of the Lin Family courtyard. ]

[ It wasn't because you were particularly outstanding, but because your aura, amidst this turbid Mortal "energy field," was like a firefly in the dark night, relatively much more "clear" and "robust." The blood and Qi of a Great Grandmaster Martial Artist were, after all, different from those of Mortals. ]

[ "Whoosh—" ]

[ The flying shuttle turned into a streak of cyan light, instantly diving down from high altitude and hovering ten zhang above your courtyard. ]

[ The powerful air pressure overturned the weapon racks in the courtyard, and several guards were pressed to their knees by an invisible force, shivering. ]

[ The Middle-aged Man looked down at you from a high position, a flash of surprise crossing his eyes. ]

[ It then turned into undisguised contempt and disappointment. "Mortal, I ask you, is there a mountain range called 'Daliang Mountain' nearby? In which direction?" ]

[ A flash of doubt crossed your mind. Why were they looking for Daliang Mountain? Wasn't that the place where Xiao Wang stayed? Could it be that there was something there worth an Immortal Cultivator's attention? ]

[ You suppressed the shock in your heart, raised your hand, and pointed to the northwest. "In response to the Immortal, travel three hundred li northwest from the city, and you will reach Daliang Mountain." ]

[ The Middle-aged Man looked in the direction you pointed and nodded. ]

[ "Two Immortals." You took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said loudly, "This Mortal woman has long admired the Dao of Immortal Cultivation and has sought it for half a lifetime. I wonder if the two Immortals could tell this Mortal woman the direction to the Cultivation World? This Mortal woman is willing to offer all her worldly possessions, only begging for the Immortals to point the way!" ]

[ You knew this was very risky, but this was the only way you could access concrete information about the Cultivation World. ]

[ And you also knew that getting someone to take you to the Cultivation World was almost impossible unless you had something they needed, but asking which direction the Cultivation World was in, maybe that was possible? It would also be good preparation for the next life. ]

[ "Pfft." The Middle-aged Man acted as if he had heard some joke, the corners of his mouth curling into a playful arc. He didn't answer, but his eyes glowed slightly, and a more intense "gaze" swept over your entire body like a physical substance. ]

[ You felt a slight stinging sensation and a sense of being completely exposed, as if even the trajectory of the True Qi in your Dantian had been seen through. ]

[ He paused, his gaze lingering for an instant on your face, which, although aged, still showed beautiful contours. He said with a somewhat patronizing tone, "However, your bone structure is actually quite good, and your blood and Qi are also quite abundant. If you were thirty years younger, your appearance and temperament might have allowed you to enter my Li Family as a bed-warming concubine. If you were lucky enough to give birth to offspring with Spiritual Roots, that would be your good fortune. As for Immortal Cultivation?" He shook his head. "You do not have Spiritual Roots, so don't even think about it." ]

[ Your heart sank, but your face showed nothing. You had expected this, hadn't you? ]

[ "That's enough, why waste breath on these Mortal ants?" The grey-robed old man interrupted the Middle-aged Man with some impatience. "The xiaoyang source fruit concerns the Family's century-long plan and must not be lost." ]

[ The old man swept his cold gaze over Linyuan City below, as if looking at a nest of ants. "Clean it up. This matter must not be known by anyone; not a single whisper can leak out." ]

[ "Understood, Third Uncle." ]

[ The Middle-aged Man put away his playful expression, and the spell signs in his hands changed. ]