After driving off this wave of Golden Core Cultivators, Lu Xiaotian did not linger. He controlled the Golden Core-level puppet and rode it onward for a while, avoiding several groups of treasure seekers. But he also encountered ordinary mortals.
Later, he came across a middle-aged couple carrying an infant. They were merely ordinary mortals, so Lu Xiaotian put away the Bull-Headed Giant puppet. With his face ashen and his steps unsteady, he looked as though he were gravely ill. When the middle-aged couple asked about him, they learned that he was alone and assumed he had no one to rely on.
The couple had no children, and it was only in middle age that they finally had a daughter, Yu Xiaoqiao. Yu Xiaoqiao had been sickly since childhood. The couple had gone everywhere seeking physicians, but to no avail, and they could not change her frail constitution. A doctor told them that with Yu Xiaoqiao's physique, it would be difficult for her to live past ten.
The couple were heartbroken. With nearly all their family fortune spent, they once went to a temple to burn incense and drew a fortune stick. It advised them to accumulate joy and do good deeds, saying that a benefactor might come to their aid.
The couple had always been kindhearted and charitable. To accumulate blessings for their young daughter, they learned that Lu Xiaotian had nowhere to go and warmly brought him to Red Fish Town, lodging him in the rundown winery of a brother. As it happened, the elder brother's son had placed highly in the provincial examination, and the whole family was moving away, so they gave the winery to the Yu couple. Lu Xiaotian was thus able to settle down there.
By then, Lu Xiaotian had already inquired into the circumstances