Leaving

This news made quite a few factions green with envy. After all, it was an Ethereal Fruit Tree, not a single Ethereal Fruit.

With that one fruit tree, they would basically never lack Ethereal Fruits again, a core ingredient for refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

Some factions wanted to get involved as well, but before they could make their move, the great battle between the Yu Family and the Huang Family had already ended.

The Yu Family had seized that Ethereal Fruit Tree from the Huang Family.

For a time, the Yu Family became the center of everyone's attention, and countless cultivators and cultivation families burned with envy.

Su Yu had no thoughts about the Yu Family obtaining an Ethereal Fruit Tree. He merely felt that drawing so much attention to themselves might not necessarily be a good thing.

Especially when Demonic Cultivators and Bandit Cultivators were still frequently appearing nearby.

However, this had nothing to do with Su Yu.

The materials for the Tier 2 Low-Grade Dragon Crocodile Puppet Beast were coming together rather slowly. He planned to return to the family soon and prepare to head for Moon Worship Immortal City.

Of course.

Before leaving, Su Yu needed to stockpile some Tier 2 Low-Grade Thunder Fire Talismans.

Otherwise, he would not feel safe.

Over the next half year, Su Yu spent roughly a thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones to purchase twenty sets of Talisman Paper and Monster Beast Essence Blood suitable for drawing Thunder Fire Talismans.

From those twenty sets of materials, he successfully made a total of eight Thunder Fire Talismans.

Alchemy Pavilion.

Su Yu looked at Su Gutong, whose hair had begun to turn slightly gray, and said, "For the time being, Uncle Gutong will watch over the Alchemy Pavilion. I'm returning to the family."

"As for who will manage the Alchemy Pavilion afterward, that will depend on the family's decision."

Su Rui'an could not help asking, "Elder, are you really leaving Cloud Mountain Market?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Yu nodded faintly. "Cloud Mountain Market is too small, and Cloud Sword Sect is pressing down upon it. Apart from Cloud Sword Sect disciples, it is difficult for anyone else here to gain any convenience."

"Only Moon Worship Immortal City has more of the things we need."

As Su Gutong, Su Rui'an, and the other Su Family members listened to Su Yu speak of Moon Worship Immortal City, a trace of longing appeared in their eyes.

Su Yu did not chat with Su Gutong and the others for long. Once he had made all the arrangements, he chose to leave.

He had come as a youth. Though Su Yu was now forty years old when he left, he still felt like a youth.

The face of a youth, the mindset of a youth.

After staying in Cloud Mountain Market for twenty years, Su Yu reined in his spirit horse and turned back for one final look at the market behind him.

"I'm leaving!"

"Hahaha!"

Su Yu laughed heartily, his laughter brimming with ease and joy, then urged his spirit horse into a swift departure.

Within the market.

At Heavenly Script Pavilion, the old man dozing behind the counter suddenly woke with a start. His divine sense swept out, and he saw Su Yu leaving the market.

"Eh? Is that kid leaving?" the old man murmured, a trace of conflict on his face.

"Forget it. I'll give him a stroke of good fortune."

In the end, the old man let out a faint sigh.

Over all these years, Su Yu was the only one he found even a little pleasing to the eye.

As he extended a hand, a Jade Slip appeared in it. Yet in the next moment, with a wave of the old man's hand, the Jade Slip vanished instantly.

More than ten li from Cloud Mountain Market, Su Yu was urging his spirit horse toward the Su Family.

Suddenly, a black speck fell from the sky and struck him on the head without warning.

That blow nearly knocked Su Yu off balance and sent him tumbling to the ground.

"???"

Su Yu retrieved the Jade Slip from the ground into his hand, his pupils abruptly shrinking. His divine sense swept in all directions, yet he found no trace of anyone.

He had no idea how this Jade Slip had appeared.

Hiss.

Run!

Su Yu jolted, hurriedly spurring his horse into a mad gallop. He raced for several hundred li in one breath, only stopping after hiding in a desolate forest.

"What the hell is this thing?" Su Yu took out the Jade Slip, frowning.

That thing had struck his forehead hard enough to raise a lump on the body he had tempered to the ninth level of Crocodile Demon's 108 Forms Body Refining Technique.

That was downright bizarre!

After hesitating for a long while.

Su Yu cautiously sent his divine sense into the Jade Slip. In the next instant, a complete inheritance of a high-grade Rank 2 talisman master flooded into his mind.

It took more than an hour before Su Yu recovered from that vast torrent of information. He stared in dumbfounded disbelief.

This!

A high-grade Rank 2 talisman master inheritance had fallen from the sky?

Moreover.

This inheritance was far from ordinary. It had actually originated from an Ancient Era cultivation sect named the Golden Jade Immortal Sect.

It even contained the complete inheritances of the three incomplete ancient Talismans he had previously picked up from Heavenly Script Pavilion.

Heavenly Script Pavilion—

Su Yu's heart stirred as he thought of that old man in Heavenly Script Pavilion.

"Could this be..."

Su Yu turned back toward Cloud Mountain Market, a complicated look appearing on his face. When he had previously asked the Heavenly Script Pavilion Shopkeeper for a talisman master inheritance, he had been firmly refused. Yet now that he was leaving Cloud Mountain Market, a high-grade Rank 2 ancient talisman master inheritance had smashed into his forehead.

He did not believe this was truly a fortuitous opportunity falling from heaven.

He bowed toward Cloud Mountain Market. "I will remember today's good fortune."

Afterward, Su Yu mounted his horse again and urged the spirit horse onward toward Azure Mountain in Jiang City.

Three days later.

Azure Mountain Blessed Land, Jiang City.

Returning after many years, Su Yu saw a flourishing scene within Azure Mountain. Nearer the blessed land, the Su Family had opened up plot after plot of Spirit Fields for planting spirit rice.

The original garden fields, meanwhile, had continued expanding outward. Nourished by the spiritual energy of the first-grade Spirit Vein, even the areas slightly farther out could grow spirit herbs well.

The Su Family's manor within the blessed land had expanded greatly, and figures could be seen everywhere among the fields.

More than twenty years ago, the Su Family had only slightly over a hundred cultivators.

But now, the number of Su Family cultivators had nearly reached one hundred and fifty.

Besides the nearly twenty new cultivators born within the family, there were also over thirty cultivators from other surnames who had come to pledge themselves to the Su Family.

Yet once Su Yu entered the manor, he could sense an oppressive atmosphere in the family.

A short while later, in the Su Family hall.

Family Head Su Peng, Grand Elder Su Yun, Second Elder Su Chang, Third Elder Su Ruosu, and Fourth Elder Su Jingbang had all arrived.

"You're back?" Su Peng had begun to show his age.

He was already over seventy. Though he cultivated the Family Head's Wutong Greenwood Art and had a longer lifespan than an ordinary ninth-level Qi Refining Realm cultivator, at his age, he had reached the final peak of his life.

In a few more years, Su Peng's hope of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage would become exceedingly slim.

"Family Head, Master, Second Elder, Third Elder, Fourth Elder." Su Yu greeted them one by one.

Then, with a slight frown, he asked, "What has happened to the family this time?"

"Alas."

Su Peng sighed and said, "The Jiang Family sent word. The legitimate eldest son of their main branch wishes to take Xiao Zhi as his equal wife, and they want us to persuade Xiao Zhi to accept."

Su Yu's expression changed slightly. The Jiang Family?

For a moment, he was somewhat confused. Why had the Jiang Family set their sights on the Su Family? And why had they taken an interest in Su Zhi, who was still in Cloud Sword Sect?

Su Yu frowned deeply. "So the Jiang Family is putting pressure on us? They want to force Sister Zhi to accept this marriage?"

Su Yun, who had become the Grand Elder, said quietly, "That legitimate eldest son of the Jiang Family's main branch is quite close to the Cloud Sword Sect Sect Master's Personal Disciple."

"And Xiao Zhi belongs to the faction of Cloud Sword Sect Grand Elder."

Sect infighting!

Su Yu's pupils contracted slightly, anger rising in his heart. This was truly immortals fighting while mortals suffered. Did the Jiang Family think the Su Family was easy to bully?

But after giving it serious thought, compared to the Jiang Family's strength and influence, the Su Family really was quite easy to bully.