Golden Core Family

"Twelve years already. Time really crawled!"

Ye Qingxuan walked out of the Library in a green robe, his delicate, handsome face carrying a look of contentment. After stretching lazily, he let out a soft sigh.

He had been in this world for twelve years.

From what he had learned so far, this world was called the Dihuan Realm, divided into Nine Domains.

They were the Inner Five Domains: the Central Domain, Eastern Domain, South Domain, West Domain, and North Domain.

And the Outer Four Domains: the East Extremity, South Barbarian, West Wilderness, and North Li.

Each domain was divided into ninety-nine Great Provinces, and even the smallest state among them was more than a hundred times larger than the Dixing of his past life.

It could be said to be boundlessly vast. An ordinary person could exhaust an entire lifetime without ever leaving a single state, while the commanderies and cities beneath each state were even more numerous than the hairs on an ox.

Beyond that lay the Endless Sea Domain, whose area far surpassed that of the Nine Domains, as well as countless islands, continents, and more within it, scattered like stars across the sky.

Ye Qingxuan was currently in the Eastern Domain of the Dihuan Realm—Qingzhou, Daoguang Commandery, Qingmu Prefecture, Ye Clan Immortal City.

More importantly, this world possessed the cultivation system he had longed for in his past life.

He had learned all this information from the Library he had just left.

The Library had been specially established by the Ye Family to broaden the horizons of Mortal Clansmen. It contained only basic knowledge and information about Qingzhou.

Because the Ye Clan Immortal City covered an enormous area, there were more than a thousand such Libraries throughout the city, scattered across every corner of the Immortal City.

He had died unexpectedly in his past life, yet he had never imagined he would transmigrate and be reborn into this world, encountering the sort of fortune that belonged to the protagonists of novels from his past life.

When he had first arrived in this world, after the initial panic faded, what followed was curiosity toward this world.

Thus, ever since he had learned to read, he had frequently visited the Library to understand this world.

In this life, though he had been born into an ordinary family, he was still a Mortal Clansman of the Golden Core Family, the Ye Family.

Though it was not a heavenly opening hand, it was not too bad either.

"I'm really looking forward to it! Tomorrow is the family's annual Spiritual Root Test. I'm twelve years old this year, so I've finally met the requirements for testing."

As Ye Qingxuan thought this, anticipation and nervousness filled him. Even his steps toward home unconsciously quickened.

Ever since learning that cultivators existed, he had been looking forward to this moment at every instant—and fearing it as well.

"Spirit Roots!

These twelve years have truly been tormenting. But tomorrow, there will finally be an answer. This feeling of having my fate beyond my own control really makes one uneasy."

Ye Qingxuan suddenly stopped. He took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. After calming himself, he continued onward.

Along the way, the streets were filled with Ye Clan Clansmen and carriages, but Ye Qingxuan was familiar with hardly any of them.

That was because, although the Ye Clan Immortal City was only one city, it covered an astonishingly vast area and housed more than ten million people.

However, most of those people were Mortals without cultivation. The Ye Family's true cultivation clansmen mostly cultivated and settled upon the mountain ranges and Spirit Veins not far Outside the City.

Though the Ye Family was merely a Golden Core Family, it had already been passed down for ten thousand years.

After such long years of accumulation, the Ye Family had over ten thousand cultivation clansmen, while its Mortal Clansmen numbered more than ten million.

That was after the Ye Family had found ways to control the population due to insufficient territory. Otherwise, there would have been even more Mortal Clansmen.

There was no helping it. Although the Ye Family was a Golden Core Family, it was not particularly powerful in Qingzhou, and the territory allotted to it amounted to only a single city.

Yet Outside the City, everything within ten thousand li was Ye Family's Territory.

It was simply that Mortals were too weak. They could only live within the city and at the various resource sites, where they received the protection of cultivation clansmen, which limited their numbers.

After all, if even a single Demonic Beast was born in the Outside World, it would be enough to leave Mortals powerless to resist.

After walking a considerable distance, Ye Qingxuan finally arrived before a quadrangle courtyard.

Entering his home, Ye Qingxuan looked at his busy mother and called out,

"Mother, I'm back!"

Hearing him, Ye Qingxin looked up. Seeing her treasured son, she was overjoyed.

"Xuan'er, sit down first. Dinner will be ready soon."

Hearing his mother, Ye Qingxuan nodded. He glanced around the courtyard but did not spot his father, so he asked,

"Mother, where's Father? He hasn't come back yet?"

When Ye Qingxuan asked, Ye Qingxin stopped what she was doing, planted her hands on her hips, and said coldly,

"Your father went out to play chess again. He's nowhere to be seen all day long. If he's so capable, then he shouldn't come back for dinner either. Hmph!"

Seeing his mother like this, Ye Qingxuan wisely did not respond. He pursed his lips and shook his head helplessly, though he did not take it too much to heart.

As a Mortal disciple of the Ye Clan, although most people could not become rich and noble, with the Ye Family at their backs, they could still live without worries over food or clothing.

They did not need to toil bitterly. They only needed to occasionally take on small jobs assigned by the clan to live quite comfortably.

A while later, just as Mother Ye was nearly done preparing dinner, a Middle-aged Man strolled slowly in through the gate.

As soon as he entered, the man first glanced at Mother Ye's unpleasant expression. After stroking his head, he looked towards Ye Qingxuan and laughed heartily.

"Xuan'er, you're back! Tomorrow is the family's Spirit Root Detection day. How is it? Nervous?"

Ye Qingxuan shook his head and replied with a smile,

"Father, I'm not nervous!"

Yet his hands had unconsciously clenched into tight fists.

Seeing his son like this, Ye Qingyou stepped forward and patted Ye Qingxuan's shoulder.

"Hehe, don't be nervous. Your old man got tested back then too, and it was just that. I didn't have a Spirit Root, but haven't I still lived quite freely? Hahaha!"

Ye Qingyou did not hold much hope. Spirit Roots were something found only once in a thousand li; it was perfectly normal if his son did not have one.

He had only seen Ye Qingxuan's nervousness and wanted to comfort him, to help his son relax a little.

At that moment, Mother Ye walked over, grabbed Father Ye by the ear, and scolded angrily,

"That's enough! You loaf around all day, so don't lead our son astray. What's wrong with our son? Maybe Xuan'er will have a Spirit Root!"

"Ow, ow, it hurts! Mother of my child, let go! I was wrong, all right?"

Watching his parents bicker and fight, Ye Qingxuan relaxed for a time as well.

Being able to live another life was already a gain for him. Why should he fuss over gains and losses beyond his control?

Besides, it was not as though he had no support at all.

After dinner, Ye Qingxuan returned to his room, sat cross-legged on his bed, and concentrated his attention within his mind.

Having lived Two Lives, Ye Qingxuan's soul seemed to have undergone some special tempering. Though he had yet to cultivate, he could already peer inward into his Mind Space.

At that moment, within a special space at the center of Ye Qingxuan's Mind, Ye Qingxuan's Phantasm slowly emerged.

Before him, at the center of the Mind Space, floated a Mysterious Yellow Bead and a Glazed Little Turtle!

This bead had been Ye Qingxuan's family heirloom in his past life. He had always carried it on his body, yet he had never expected it to transmigrate with him into this world.

However, so far, Ye Qingxuan had not obtained any information from the bead.

As for that Glazed Little Turtle, it was the Clone he had accidentally contracted when he transmigrated here—the Eternal Turtle!

The Eternal Turtle was one of the Myriad Heavens Exotic Species. It existed only deep within Dimensional Space, never appearing in the human world, and possessed the two great traits of Myriad Laws Immunity and Lifespan Eternal.

Its sole flaw was that it possessed no offensive power whatsoever.

For some unknown reason, however, the Eternal Turtle Clone in his mind could not be released, as if it were being suppressed by some force.

Fortunately, after Ye Qingxuan transmigrated here and accidentally contracted the Eternal Turtle as his Clone, his main body had inherited one of the Eternal Turtle's traits as well: Lifespan Eternal.

Unfortunately, Lifespan Eternal was not the same as life eternal. Though he would no longer be limited by Lifespan, he still could not escape harm from the Outside World.

But even so, with the trait of Lifespan Eternal, as long as he possessed a Spirit Root, no matter what his talent was like, he had confidence that he could set foot upon the peak.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan opened his eyes again. A blazing light leaked out from his eyes, and he was unable to calm down for a long while.

With such an opportunity in hand, he refused to believe that he would have no Spirit Root.