"Seedling, there was actually another reason why Father planned to buy Clear Dew Mountain.
"A few nights ago, while Father was sleeping soundly, I suddenly dreamed of one of our Jiang Family ancestors standing beside my bed.
"He pointed toward Clear Dew Mountain and said that the spring on the mountain would grow richer in spiritual energy by the day. Within ten years at most, it would nurture a spirit vein."
After considering it again and again, Jiang Fu'an ultimately decided to reveal the matter of the spirit vein.
As for the claim that an ancestor had visited him in a dream, it was not entirely fabricated.
He had previously heard Miao Ruolan mention in passing that among great families with lineages stretching back several centuries, whose ancestors had produced Spirit Transformation cultivators, descendants would occasionally receive guidance from their forebears in dreams.
Jiang Fu'an himself did not know whether the Jiang Family had ever produced such a figure, and Seedling presumably knew even less.
That gave his story some room to maneuver. Even if she pressed him for details, he could muddle through.
But he had not expected that Seedling would not only fail to doubt him, but that her eyes would suddenly light up.
"Father! Was the ancestor who came to you in the dream the one called Jiang Ming?"
Jiang Fu'an froze.
Jiang Ming?
He had never heard that name before.
Could the Jiang Family truly have produced some extraordinary figure in its early days?
Suppressing his surprise, he answered truthfully.
"The ancestor in my dream did not mention his name.
"Father has never heard the name Jiang Ming. Which generation of our family was he from? Where did you learn of him?"
"Big Sister Jiang told me."
Seedling eagerly reached into the storage pouch at her