All along the way, Xiao Hua swept out his divine sense. He could see clearly that the Zhu family truly had some skill. Though they did not have many people, they distributed grain far more methodically than he had back then. Unless something unexpected happened, the more than six hundred thousand survivors in the three towns would no longer need fear for their lives.
As for Zhu Cheng, he had actually begun to understand why Xiao Hua had brought him along. Xiao Hua had once come with Xun Qing to seek out the ancestral shrine; this surely had something to do with the bone fragment Zhu Cheng had given him years ago! It would have been unrealistic to say Zhu Cheng had no thoughts of his own. But when he considered Xiao Hua's kindness to him that day, then his kindness to the three families last night and today, and his kindness to the more than a million ordinary people of Wuyuan County, Jingyue County, and Fanchang County, Zhu Cheng might have felt bitterness in his mouth, but he had already made his decision. For a cultivator of such great benevolence and righteousness as True Person Xiao, a few petty selfish thoughts truly amounted to nothing.
The four of them burrowed underground, but after traveling only several hundred zhang, Xun Qing could no longer endure it. Once Xiao Hua noticed, he simply swept his sleeve and carried Zhu Cheng along with him as they tunneled deeper into the earth.
As they went ever deeper, Zhu Cheng and the others were all appalled. They had never imagined that their family's ancestral shrine had been hidden so secretly. If Xiao Hua had not led them here, they could have searched for ten thousand years and never found it.
"It's here!" Even Xiao