The Mysterious Race

"Hee-hee! The little fatty has sixth-level cultivation, and with that weight of his, I don't think it's possible anytime soon! You can just wait every day for us to go rescue you!" The moment Tian Linger thought of how Zhang Xiaofan had been pinned beneath the little fatty and couldn't move, which was why he hadn't been able to get up and cook, she was so delighted she couldn't close her mouth, giggling nonstop.

"I... I..." Zhang Xiaofan's face flushed even harder. So embarrassing! he thought, somewhat helplessly.

"Don't always bully your junior brother!" Su Ru could not hold back her laughter either, but still admonished Tian Linger.

"Giggle! That fatty really is heavy! I couldn't even drag him with the Amber Vermilion Silk!" Just thinking about it left Tian Linger speechless. That little junior brother who only knew how to eat and sleep really was heavy!

"All right, hurry up and sort out the collapsed rooms. Have someone repair them quickly. Leaving them like this, wouldn't that just let people from the other peaks laugh at us?" Tian Buyi cut off everyone's joking and gave instructions to his disciples.

"Yes, Master!" Song Daren led his junior brothers in bowing to accept the order.

"Your mistress and I are taking your little junior brother out for a trip." Tian Buyi picked up Luo Yunji, who was still asleep sprawled over the table, and left the dining hall with Su Ru.

"Dad! Mom! Where are you going? You haven't eaten yet!" Tian Linger looked curiously toward their backs at the doorway and called out.

"Cultivate properly at home, and listen to your senior brothers. We're going to Heaven-Reaching Peak and will be back soon!" His voice came clearly, but the person himself had already gone far away.

Tian Linger looked speechlessly at the empty courtyard.

"Little junior sister! You have to work hard! Little junior brother's cultivation has already reached the sixth level! Among us, your aptitude is the best. The heavy responsibility of surpassing little junior brother is now yours!" Seeing that Tian Linger was in a poor mood, Fourth Brother shifted her attention and said.

"Hmph! I won't lose to that fatty!" Tian Linger's attention was successfully diverted, and she instantly shouted with fighting spirit.

"Let's work hard together!" Sixth Brother also looked serious. Then, seeming to think of his little junior brother's monstrous cultivation speed, he lowered his head. "Having a junior brother like this really gives us senior brothers a lot of pressure!"

Inside Jade Purity Hall on Heaven-Reaching Peak, the heads of the seven branches had gathered together and were looking with great interest at the little fatty still asleep, sprawled in a chair.

After a moment, "I don't see anything unusual," Shuiyue said, shaking her head as she glanced around at everyone.

"I don't see anything strange either!" Shang Zhengliang, the head of Morning Sun Peak, also shook his head.

Cangsong Daoist of Dragon Head Peak and Tianyun of Sunset Glow Peak also shook their heads, indicating that they likewise did not see anything wrong.

"Junior brother! Why would you suspect Martial Nephew Yunji's identity?" Daoxuan True Person had not seen anything unusual either, and was rather curious about the purpose of Tian Buyi's visit.

"Senior brother! Look at this boy's cultivation!" Tian Buyi reminded him, somewhat smugly.

After hearing this, the others all extended spiritual power to check Luo Yunji's cultivation, and with that one look, the various heads all drew in a cold breath in unison.

"Sixth level! This child is only about eight or nine this year. Why would he have such high cultivation?!" Everyone looked in astonishment at Tian Buyi and Su Ru.

"The little brat... this little disciple of mine broke through the day before yesterday without the slightest warning. The place where he broke through was affected, and a large section of the house collapsed. After breaking through, he actually had no awareness at all that his cultivation had advanced." Tian Buyi described it with a somewhat strange expression.

"This..." The several heads did not quite know what to say.

"Mother of mine! He's here to show off, isn't he!" The expressions on the heads of the various branches instantly became not very friendly!

"I've heard the disciples under me mention this little disciple of yours," Zeng Shuchang said after thinking for a moment.

Everyone in the hall looked toward him. After recalling for a while, he said, "It seemed they said this child spends all day in dreams..."

"Who said that..." Before he had even heard half of it, Tian Buyi was unhappy. The way he said it made his little disciple sound like a pig. "He is awake when he eats!" Though he was not clear-headed, he could still open his eyes halfway.

After hearing this, everyone was speechless. Their expressions odd, they glanced at Tian Buyi, and seeing his utterly serious face, they all turned their gazes away, looking left and right, up and down—only no one looked at the couple from Big Bamboo Peak.

He would have been better off not explaining. Now it had truly confirmed the fact that the little fatty before them did nothing but eat and sleep, no different from a pig...

"Could this child have some hidden ailment?!" Zeng Shuchang looked at Tian Buyi and his wife, weighing his words as he quietly voiced his guess.

"That is exactly what we're afraid of. We couldn't find anything ourselves, so we asked all of you senior brothers to take a look at this child!" Su Ru tugged at Tian Buyi's clothes, signaling him not to act rashly, and explained.

"I didn't find any hidden ailment!" Then, one after another, the others all said they saw no hidden ailment in Luo Yunji's little fatty body, and under Daoxuan True Person's signal, they left in succession. In the end, only Daoxuan, Tian Buyi and his wife, and Shuiyue, who stubbornly refused to leave, remained in Jade Purity Hall.

"Speak. I saw that in front of the other junior brothers, you seemed to have something difficult to say." Daoxuan looked at the three before him and asked Tian Buyi.

"Senior brother! Do you think this child could be... of another race?" Tian Buyi quietly voiced his suspicion.

After hearing this, Daoxuan True Person's face darkened. He hurriedly stepped forward and pinched the sleeping Luo Yunji's little arm, extending a thread of spiritual power into his body and carefully probing him all over again.

After a very long time, Daoxuan True Person's expression finally eased somewhat, and he shook his head. "I can confirm that this child is indeed human! Not a demon!" Hearing Daoxuan True Person's words, all three of them let out a breath in unison.

The day before yesterday, Su Ru had gone to Small Bamboo Peak and told Shuiyue about the worries she and her husband had. Shuiyue had likewise been very worried. Now that they had heard their sect leader senior brother's confirmation, the great stone in the three of their hearts could finally be set down.

"Why would junior brother have such an idea? Could it be only because this child's cultivation is advancing too quickly?" Daoxuan True Person looked curiously at the three before him. He did not believe that something like cultivating too quickly could make the three before him come to him, gathering the heads of every branch just to examine whether a child had anything abnormal about him.

"His cultivation isn't what surprised me the most!" After Tian Buyi finished speaking, he looked toward his wife. The two had lived together for many years and had long since developed tacit understanding. Su Ru knew what Tian Buyi wanted to say. Now that things had reached this point, she was no longer afraid of the sect leader senior brother blaming them, so she nodded.

"This child's body is somewhat special." Tian Buyi weighed how to say it while observing Daoxuan True Person's expression.

"Oh! Tell me." Daoxuan True Person became interested.

"Well, he seems able to bite through magical treasures." Tian Buyi spoke with somewhat insufficient confidence.

Tian Buyi felt it would be better to let Daoxuan True Person have a buffer, so he first threw out the matter of his fourth disciple's magical treasure.

"Bite through? With his teeth?" Daoxuan was very astonished after hearing it. No wonder his junior brother and sister would suspect the child's origins.

"Uh! Yes!" Tian Buyi briefly recounted the matter of his fourth disciple's magical treasure, the Rivers and Mountains Brush, being bitten through.

"There's such a thing!" Daoxuan looked with great interest at Luo Yunji, who was still in dreamland.

"And... and also..." Tian Buyi looked toward his wife, somewhat halting.

"What else?" Daoxuan did not look at him, only continuing to gaze with great interest at the little fatty sprawled on the chair sleeping. So he did not see the interaction between Tian Buyi and his wife.