Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit

"Of course there is!" his aunt, Liang Xuemiao, nodded and said, "The Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm is a small world all its own. The five elements are complete within it, spiritual energy is abundant, and it is extremely suited to planting all kinds of spirit medicines and spirit plants."

"The powerful families qualified to take part in the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm evaluation basically all open up herb gardens, fruit groves, and the like inside the secret realm, planting rare spirit medicines and spirit fruits."

"Then, every so often, when the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm opens for the powerful-family evaluation, they enter and harvest it all."

Liang Zhaohuang listened and gave a slight nod.

Spirit Source Ore, spirit medicines, spirit plants—clearly, the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm was not merely a place used for powerful-family examinations.

It itself was an important resource point for the various powerful families within the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty.

The profits powerful families could obtain from it were simply not something a Humble Gate could imagine.

"Great Jin Immortal Dynasty! Ninth-rank powerful families!"

At this moment, Liang Zhaohuang could increasingly feel the foundation and advantages of these powerful clans and noble families that formed the basis of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty's rule.

"If I can't change it, then join it! Become one of them and enjoy the benefits within!"

As his thoughts turned, Liang Zhaohuang suddenly thought of a question. He looked at his aunt, Liang Xuemiao, and asked:

"Aunt, this Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit you mentioned—it couldn't be a spirit fruit planted by one of the county magnate families in the county seat, could it?"

"Of course not." Liang Xuemiao shook her head and said, "Within the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm, there are not only the herb gardens and fruit groves opened up by the few county magnate families currently in Ludong County's seat."

"There are also some ownerless herb gardens and fruit groves inside!"

"Ownerless?" Liang Zhaohuang was taken aback, then quickly reacted and said, "They belong to those county magnate families that have perished?"

"Exactly!" his aunt, Liang Xuemiao, nodded and said, "The Great Jin Immortal Dynasty was founded eight thousand years ago, and it has been nearly seven thousand years since Ludong County established its cauldron."

"Over these years, there have been at least a dozen county magnate families that rose and perished in the county seat."

"And the herb gardens and orchards these perished county magnate families opened up in the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm did not perish with them. Instead, they were preserved and became ownerless resources."

As Liang Xuemiao spoke, she gave an example: "Just like this time—the eighth-rank county magnate Sun Family of Hundred Beasts in the county seat was exterminated by the Commoner's Alliance. The herb gardens and orchards the Sun Family opened in the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm became ownerless things. Any family that enters the secret realm, so long as they have the ability, can enter them and pick spirit medicines and spirit fruits."

Liang Zhaohuang gave a slight nod at that, only to then frown and say, "In that case, the orchard where the Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit you want is located—could it already have been occupied by some current county magnate family?"

After all, according to what she said, any family entering the secret realm could exploit an ownerless resource point if they had the ability.

On the path of cultivation, the more resources, the better. There was no reason for the few county magnate families in the county seat to leave those ownerless resource points alone and not occupy them.

His aunt, Liang Xuemiao, however, was quite confident. She shook her head and said, "Because Spirit Demons exist within the Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm, the families who open up herb gardens and fruit groves all set up various formations to protect these resource points."

"Even the resource points left behind by those perished families are also protected by formations."

"These formations vary in strength. Some are not something the current families in the county seat can open and occupy."

"At the very least, as far as I know, no family has yet been able to open and occupy the resource point with the Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit."

Liang Zhaohuang looked thoughtfully at his aunt, who was brimming with confidence, and could not help asking:

"Aunt, where did you get all this information?"

Hearing this question, his aunt's bright face instantly darkened, like dark clouds blotting out the sun, but then it dispersed at once. She said in a low voice, "Wang Chunlin told me."

Wang Chunlin was that young master of the Crimson Cauldron Wang Family who had taken a fancy to his aunt and married her as a concubine—his aunt's husband.

And judging from his aunt's reaction, she clearly was also unwilling to say much about her husband.

But several thoughts had already surfaced in Liang Zhaohuang's mind at this moment.

"Was it intentional or unintentional that he told Aunt this information at this time? And what is his purpose?"

"Then, Aunt." Liang Zhaohuang looked at her and continued asking, "Did he tell you what this Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit does?"

"What do you want this Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit for?"

"Of course!" At this moment, his aunt Liang Xuemiao's eyes brightened again, and her face grew even more radiant. Somewhat unable to hide her excitement, she said, "The Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit has the effect of reviving the dead and clothing white bones in flesh. It can let a person shed their mortal bones and be reborn, repairing all injuries!"

"As long as I have one Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit, I can rebuild my foundation, have hope of Foundation Establishment, and continue my immortal path!"

Liang Zhaohuang knew that back then, when his aunt was given to that Wang Chunlin as a concubine, a concubine was in truth a cultivation furnace. All her cultivation and foundation had been harvested and supplemented by her husband, Wang Chunlin, fulfilling Wang Chunlin instead. But his aunt's body and foundation had become a sieve full of holes, with no hope of Foundation Establishment, no hope for the immortal path.

Without a doubt, this was also his aunt's greatest knot in her heart.

And now, according to what she said, as long as she had one Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit, it could let her shed her mortal bones and be reborn, making her body and foundation whole again, regaining hope for Foundation Establishment and the immortal path.

No wonder she was so excited. Even while bearing resentment and having had no contact with the family for decades, she could put everything aside and come to them for help.

Only, after Liang Zhaohuang heard the effect of this Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit, his heart could not help but give a sudden jump.

Almost instantly, he thought of the appearance of County Magistrate Lin Changdao in the rear hall of the county yamen earlier, with his left arm severed.

"Aunt, can that Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit make a severed limb grow back?"

Liang Zhaohuang could not help asking.

"Of course it can!" his aunt, Liang Xuemiao, said directly. "Shed mortal bones and be reborn, repair all injuries! Even severed limbs can regrow!"

Hearing this, Liang Zhaohuang could not help frowning into silence.

"The Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit can make a severed limb regrow. Then does the Black Thorn Lin Family know about this?"

"They definitely know! The Black Thorn Lin Family is the only seventh-rank county magnate family in Ludong County. How could they possibly be unclear about the situation inside the county seat's Spirit Cauldron Secret Realm?"

"Then, would the Lin Family set their sights on the Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit?"

Whenever Liang Zhaohuang thought of County Magistrate Lin Changdao's severed left arm, he felt that this was simply beyond doubt.

"So why would my uncle-in-law, Wang Chunlin—the young master of the sixth-rank commandery clan, the 'Crimson Cauldron' Wang family—tell Aunt about this Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit at a time like this?"

"Could it be for love?"

Liang Zhaohuang could not help shaking his head. If it were really love, Aunt would not have remained a concubine all these years.

"This is to make our Liang Family go fight the Lin Family for this Millennium Sacred Heart Fruit."

Liang Zhaohuang had already come to some understanding of the other party's goal.

But his lack of response—only frowning and shaking his head—made his aunt and cousin beside him grow anxious.

"Cousin!" Wang Hui hurriedly spoke up then. "You have to help us this time."

"Father promised with his own mouth that as long as Mother can restore her foundation, he will raise her to the status of equal wife!"

"When that time comes, I can also be entered into the Wang Family genealogy and obtain the status of a legitimate son, thereby receiving the Meditation Method and breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm."

"Otherwise, I can only wait until those legitimate-son brothers of mine have all broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, or until I've rendered enough merit, before I can obtain the Meditation Method from the family and gain the chance to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm."

"Who knows when that would be? It would just waste time in vain. And the longer it drags on, once the best period has passed, the hope of successfully establishing my foundation will become even more remote!"

Wang Hui stared tightly at Liang Zhaohuang, his expression stirred with emotion as he said, "So this time, you absolutely have to help! This concerns the future of both my mother and me!"

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