Time went back an hour.
Just coming to Little Chongyang Temple had taken a great deal of courage from Zhong Xueran.
She had fled the Zhong Family not merely for the melodramatic reason that her family wanted her to hurry up, marry, and produce offspring, but also because of bad memories stretching back to childhood.
The Zhong Family was indeed a family of Daoist priests, but what ordinary people did not know was that the education Zhong Xueran had received since childhood had always been rather different.
When children her age were looking at picture books, she was looking at picture books too, except hers depicted all sorts of bizarre Vengeful Ghosts.
How could a child possibly enjoy looking at those grotesque, eerie things?
It was already no small feat that Zhong Xueran had not grown into a lunatic or a pervert.
She also knew that all the Zhong Family's "treasures" were hidden in Little Chongyang Temple, but she had never gone to retrieve them.
After all, for a long time, Zhong Xueran had felt that if she had been destined from birth to enter the [Eye Realm], then this cursed bloodline might as well end with her generation.
She had no intention of marrying, much less having children.
Only recently, after what had happened to Xu Yi, had her outlook gradually begun to change.
People did grow, but growth was always accompanied by pain.
Yet when she decided to return and retrieve her family's remaining possessions, she discovered that not only was the temple no longer hers, but the items had long since been taken away too.
This Daoist Li was merely someone appointed by the authorities.
After learning the name "Paleontology Research Association" from Daoist Li, Zhong Xueran said goodbye and left.
The Paleontology Research Association was an