Inside the cave.
Cheng Hongtao remained silent for a long while.
He knew this was an opportunity for the family to rise.
Likewise.
He also knew this was the fate awaiting the first descendant with Three Spiritual Roots.
This was the duty that shouldered by a descendant of the Prefecture City branch.
Not to mention that Cheng Hongtao himself was the branch head of the Prefecture City line.
For the family's glory, it was the duty every member of the Cheng clan was bound to fulfill.
But as a father, he did not want his youngest son to become a spy.
There was no need to ask, nor any need to say it!
Once the Immortal Sect discovered him, his youngest son would be as good as dead.
After all, even among mortals, once a spy was discovered, Cheng Hongtao knew exactly what awaited them...
Amputation, facial tattooing, boiling alive, castration, hanging, the Five Punishments, death by a thousand cuts, being torn apart by five horses, being cut in two at the waist, flaying and stuffing with straw...
And that was not even considering the Immortal Sect.
Their methods were even more mystical, and even more vicious. There was no need to mention the punishments—he would surely be trapped between life and death.
Seeing this.
Cheng Buzheng understood the other man's concerns and slowly said:
"You need not worry about him being exposed. So long as your youngest son does not know the true circumstances of our clan beforehand, he will merely believe himself to be an ordinary person born among mortals. There will be no possibility of exposure at all."
"Once he has settled down in the Immortal Sect, five years from now, I will have Ancestor Liu return and personally tell him the true circumstances of our clan."