A mortal dynasty?
Those words struck like thunder out of a clear sky.
The bewilderment on the Lu Clan elders' faces instantly turned to shock.
A mortal dynasty...
Could raise a monster like this young woman?
Lu Changfeng and Lu Gexian exchanged a glance, each seeing undisguised astonishment in the other's eyes.
Was that land truly so nourishing?
Or perhaps...
Her talent was so monstrous that some blessed Grotto-Heaven had taken notice and accepted her as a disciple, and now that she had mastered her studies, she had returned to give back to her homeland?
Whichever possibility it was.
It was enough to prove one thing.
The woman before them was no coldhearted ingrate who forgot her roots after obtaining a fortunate opportunity.
Who was Lu Gexian?
Though he had spent years in seclusion, paying no heed to clan affairs, how could his wits fall even a fraction short of a younger man's?
If even Lu Changfeng could understand the reasoning, how could he fail to see it?
The future achievements of such a prodigy were beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Now that she needed something, it was no trouble for the Lu Clan-it was an opportunity as vast as the heavens!
Delivering charcoal in the snow was worth far more than adding flowers to brocade.
At that thought.
Lu Gexian had already made his decision.
The old man drew a deep breath, all his earlier shock and uncertainty vanishing from his face. "Your devotion to your homeland is admirable, young lady. What does a mere incomplete volume of the Golden Body Method amount to?"
"The Lu Clan is willing to devote the strength of our entire clan to helping the Great Tang transition to the Incense-and-Fire Divine Path!"
The Great Tang.
Since the day Jiang Yuechu left