Yao'er, Xiao'er, It's Time to Tell You!

"But."

"Becoming an immortal is not that easy. Didn't the Zhou family's little sister say she was taken away by an immortal a few years ago? But all these years have passed, and she hasn't returned. The day before yesterday, I saw Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou, and their hair has turned quite a bit white. They must miss their daughter too much."

"That's why I don't seek immortality. The path to Immortal Destiny is elusive, and nothing is better than being by my parents' side."

Lu Yao wrinkled her nose, as if she had a whole set of theories.

Ao Le, who was watering the flowers nearby, couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard his daughter's words. "Maybe your dad is a great immortal."

"Then I must be a fairy."

Lu Yao laughed.

The family of three chatted happily.

Creak.

The courtyard gate was pushed open, Lu Xiao walked in dejectedly. When he saw Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le, he forced a smile and said, "Father, Mother."

He called out.

They were about to walk inside.

"Xiao'er, come here."

Lu Qingfeng called out to Lu Xiao.

"Father."

Lu Xiao forced himself to stand up and walked over to Lu Qingfeng. He looked up at Lu Qingfeng, wondering why his father had called him.

"It's just that Zhang Kui left, why are you looking so dejected?"

Lu Yao glanced at Lu Xiao and interrupted.

Lu Xiao lowered his head and remained silent.

Upon seeing this, Lu Qingfeng smiled at Lu Yao and said, "It's not just Zhang Kui; your older brother has suffered a double blow."

"Ah?"

Lu Xiao was taken aback and looked up at his father.

Lu Yao, standing nearby, also became interested. She stopped what she was doing, looked at Lu Xiao, then at her father, and asked, "Besides Zhang Kui leaving, what other setbacks have we faced?"

Lu Qingfeng pursed his lips.

He said to Lu Xiao, "You tell me yourself."

"I--"

"I'm fine."

Lu Xiao was clearly unwilling to talk about it.

"Oops!"

"Stop beating around the bush, just tell me!"

The less Lu Xiao said, the more curious Lu Yao became, and she kept urging him to speak.

Lu Xiao pursed his lips and remained silent.

Seeing this, Lu Qingfeng didn't press his foolish son, and instead said to Lu Yao, "The young lady from the Zhou family on West Street has achieved great success in her cultivation and returned with her fellow disciple. Your older brother went up to greet them with great joy, but unfortunately, that girl was very cold and unwilling to acknowledge him, so—"

How did Father know?

Lu Xiao blushed, feeling both ashamed and suspicious.

"So it's Zhou's little sister who's back!"

Lu Yao immediately understood.

The youngest sister of the Zhou family had always followed Lu Xiao around since she was little, calling him "Brother Xiao" repeatedly; their relationship was very close. Now that she had entered the immortal sect and returned to Celebration City, she was a member of the immortal family. Naturally, she had distanced herself from Lu Xiao, who was now just a mortal.

Lu Xiao excitedly went to say hello, but the other person was completely unwilling to talk to him, so he was in a bad mood.

"You're spineless!"

"If someone ignores you, just ignore them too. Why get upset?"

Lu Yao said angrily.

"I am not."

Lu Xiao blushed deeply and retorted.

"Why are you doing this?"

Lu Yao didn't believe it.

Lu Xiao listened, a stubborn look on his face, "Anyway, I'm not one."

He wasn't angry because Zhou's younger sister ignored him.

Rather, it's because—

"Xiao'er felt that Zhou Xiaomei had become a member of the immortal family and had become distant, and could never return to the close relationship they had in their childhood. He also felt that becoming an immortal was not so good, and worried that after Zhang Kui joined Yangwater Immortal Mountain, he would also become distant from him, just like Zhou Xiaomei."

Ao Le, carrying a watering can, came up to Lu Xiao and chuckled.

"Becoming an immortal isn't all that great!"

Lu Xiao took the watering can from his mother's hand. Ao Le had seen through his thoughts, which made him feel quite frustrated. However, he was still a little unhappy and felt somewhat aggrieved.

He is honest and simple-minded.

This morning, he saw Zhang Kui off a long way, and then returned alone. When he passed by West Street, he happened to see Zhou's little sister, who had actually returned from her cultivation journey. Having not seen Zhou's little sister for a long time, he excitedly ran up to her, but Zhou's little sister only nodded and smiled at him, without saying a word.

He didn't notice at the time.

He went up to talk to Zhou Xiaomei and inquire about Zhang Kui's pursuit of immortality, but before he could get close, he was blocked by a wall and crashed to the ground, looking rather disheveled.

When he fell, he saw Zhou Xiaomei glance at him with a slight frown.

Although Lu Xiao is honest and straightforward, he is not stupid.

The look of disgust was still evident.

After getting up, he glanced at Zhou Xiaomei, said nothing, and came back.

"Cultivating immortality makes you lose all your humanity, what's the point?"

Lu Xiao pursed his lips.

For many years, I had been thinking about seeking immortality and inquiring about the supernatural Divine Ability of Heaven-Soaring and escaping, but now I no longer want any of that.

He saw that after Zhou Xiaomei returned, Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou were busy taking care of her, with smiles on their faces. It was as if Zhou Xiaomei was not their daughter, but a princess from the capital.

He didn't want to end up like Zhou Xiaomei.

He didn't want his parents and Lu Yao to treat him with the same respect they showed to the Crown Prince of the capital.

Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le exchanged a glance as they listened.

Ao Le smiled, pursing her lips.

Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but laugh.

"Father, Mother."

Lu Xiao and Lu Yao looked at the two of them, not knowing what they were laughing at.

Ao Le reached out and patted Lu Xiao's head, grinning from ear to ear. "Silly Xiao'er, how many immortals have you even met? All you know is that cultivating immortality can make you lose your humanity?"

"I--"

Lu Xiao was taken aback.

Then he heard his father smile and say, "Two cultivators at the Soul Condensation Realm, when did they become immortals?"

"Soul Condensation Realm?"

Lu Xiao looked completely bewildered.

Lu Yao was intelligent, but she didn't understand what strange things her father was saying.

Lu Qingfeng shook his head and said to Ao Le, "I never expected that there would be such an evil sect in this Jing Kingdom."

Over the years, he lived in Celebration City without actively using any Divine Ability, just like an ordinary person. Celebration City the cultivation sects of the Jing Kingdom.

I had no idea.

Within the territory of the Jing Kingdom, there are even heretical sects that practice magic using living people.

"Back then, I didn't pay attention to which sect the Zhou family girl belonged to."

"However, this girl is inherently somewhat opportunistic, and it's not surprising that she showed it once she embarked on the path of cultivation."

Ao Le spoke in a language that Lu Xiao and Lu Yao could not understand.

Seeing Lu Xiao and Lu Yao looking blank, Lu Qingfeng didn't rush to explain. He just said to Ao Le, "Xiao'er and Yao'er are almost twenty years old. Ao Jun has been carefree for so long. It's time to let him take care of things."

"Um."

Ao Le nodded and smiled.

In the blink of an eye.

Lu Xiao and Lu Yao are nearly twenty years old, and it's time for them to officially begin their cultivation.

"Father, Mother, what are you talking about?" Lu Yao asked, looking bewildered.

Lu Qingfeng smiled but did not rush to respond. Seeing Ao Le nod, he opened his palm, and two streams of black energy immediately shot out from Lu Xiao's body and landed in Lu Qingfeng's palm.

"Ah!"

Lu Xiao was startled. "What is this?!"

Lu Yao also looked panicked, "Evil Method? Someone wants to harm Lu Xiao?!"

Still in shock.

Then she looked at her father, "Dad—"

The black aura looked sinister and menacing, clearly Evil Method. Lu Qingfeng was able to see through it immediately and even extract the black aura. After her initial surprise, Lu Yao looked at Lu Qingfeng with a mixture of astonishment and suspicion.

"A crude method of deceiving people's minds."

"Not worth mentioning."

Lu Qingfeng waved his hand, dispelling the two wisps of black energy, and said, "Yao'er, Xiao'er, it's time to tell you. Actually, your father is an immortal." "An immortal?"

Lu Xiao Lu Yao were stunned for a moment.

This is like a farmer's children, whose father, who was working in the fields, came home one day and said to them, "Children, your father is actually the emperor."

My first reaction was disbelief.

Lu Qingfeng wasn't in a hurry to explain to Lu Xiao and Lu Yao.

But the next moment—

With a swift breath, two clouds appeared. Lu Xiao and Lu Yao looked down and saw that the clouds gathered beneath their feet, lifting them off the ground and rising higher and higher.

"Father!"

"Father!"

Once they had risen above the courtyard, the two of them came to their senses, looked down, and hurriedly called out. Lu Xiao hastily reached out to grab the floating cloud, while Lu Yao was also somewhat flustered.

"Don't scare them."

Ao Le glared at Lu Qingfeng, but without making a move, he flew and landed between Lu Xiao and Lu Yao.

"Mother."

Lu Xiao lay on the cloud, looking rather comical, staring wide-eyed as Ao Le flew up from the ground, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

Lu Yao, on the other hand, was more carefree. Seeing this, she exclaimed excitedly, "Are my parents immortals? Am I really a fairy?!"

Look down at the ground.

Lu Qingfeng suddenly rose into the air, his long hair flying, looking like a celestial being. Who would have thought that this was actually the philanthropist Lu from the Black Sand Apothecary in Celebration City?!

"An immortal!"

"It's an immortal!"

Pedestrians on the ground saw the auspicious clouds in the sky, and they all looked up and exclaimed in surprise, causing a commotion.

Some people even recognized it—

"It's Lu Shanren!"

"That's the Lu family, the philanthropist from the Black Sand Apothecary!"

"It must be because Mr. Lu did many good deeds that his whole family ascended to heaven!"

Pedestrians and neighbors shouted and knelt down.

Celebration City, West Street.

In the Zhou family courtyard.

"The Soul-Mesmerizing Spell has been broken?!"

A resolute young man dressed in black frowned. "I never expected that someone in this small Celebration City would be able to see through the Great Law of my Treasure Vase Sect."

As he spoke.

He turned to the pretty woman beside him and said, "Junior sister, take me to meet your childhood sweetheart."

The woman paused, about to nod.

But then they saw clouds rising in the sky, and in a moment they arrived at West Street.

"Soaring through the clouds!"

The resolute young man was taken aback. He couldn't sense any aura, but he knew that the newcomer's strength was immeasurable. He instantly realized what was going on, his gloomy expression vanished, and he hurriedly rushed out of the courtyard and stood respectfully.

The pretty woman followed her out.

There were also two people in the courtyard, a man and a woman with graying temples who looked haggard, who also jogged to catch up when they saw this.

He left the courtyard.

The resolute young man and the beautiful woman bowed respectfully towards the sky and said, "Wang Chao and Zhou Yujing of the Treasure Vase Sect pay their respects to the seniors."

Then the floating clouds descended.

The two looked up and were both startled.

Zhou Yujing exclaimed in surprise, "Lu Xiao?!"

Lu Xiao, standing on auspicious clouds, looked down at the respectful expression of the Zhou family's younger sister. His mind was a jumble of Chaos emotions, utterly confused and clueless. Seeing this, Lu Yao's eyes darted around, and she whispered in her mother's ear, "Compared to Father and Mother, which is more powerful, this Treasure Vase Sect?"

There are few people in the world more capable than your father.

Ao Le guessed the meaning behind his daughter's words, but did not feign modesty.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yao burst out laughing, "I thought the Zhou family's little sister had joined some powerful sect, but it turns out she's not as good as ours."

Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le, who were standing nearby, couldn't help but laugh.

Although this girl is a bit domineering towards her brother on ordinary days, she cherishes him dearly in front of outsiders. Previously, she thought that her family was just an ordinary mortal, while Zhou Yujing herself was a member of the immortal family and had immortals behind her. Although Lu Yao felt indignant for Lu Xiao, she only dared to say a few words and did not dare to go to Zhou Yujing to stand up for Lu Xiao.

To avoid causing trouble for my parents.

Now the situation has changed dramatically.

Lu Yao immediately retaliated in kind, showing no mercy whatsoever.