Born with immortal seed

Chapter 216 Bai Family Ancestral Hall
"Let's go with this one. I remember the longest lease for a shop in the market is now 100 years? Let's sign it for 100 years. I'll have someone send the spirit stones to the market later."

Bai Zichen cut through the mess quickly and spoke swiftly.

"Clan leader, go and find Yingge'er's descendants. Train him for three generations within the clan... As long as a descendant with spiritual roots appears, transfer the shop's profits to him for his cultivation. If no descendant with spiritual roots appears after three generations, then forget it and take the shop back into the clan."

“Good, the spirit stones for renting the shop can be provided by the clan.”

The shops in the heart of the market, with a history of over a century, are like a golden goose, Bai Xianzong's eyes widened when he heard this.

"No need, just rent it in my name. The Bai family can't stop people who are envious of a hundred-year lease... The clan just needs to manage the shop well. I don't want to see any accidents happen to Ying Ge'er's descendants, or the spirit stones go missing."

Having the shop lease registered under Bai Zichen's name can both keep out those who are envious of the profits from the shops in the market.

It's important to know that most shop leases are for ten or twenty years, which allows Qingfengmen to adjust prices at any time.

Another point is to make those who want to exploit others think twice before they act.

This is a shop under his name. He only transferred the spirit stone profits to Bai Ying's descendants. If you want to take action, you'd better think carefully about whether you can withstand the wrath of a future Core Formation True Person.

"I will bring Bai Ying's descendants to the clan tomorrow and raise them under my watchful eye."

Bai Xianzong shuddered at Bai Zichen's meaningful gaze and immediately spoke.

The Bai family is relatively harmonious and peaceful, unlike some cultivation families that split into several branches and tear each other apart over a little bit of cultivation resources.

But to say that they are friendly and respectful to each other, and that they are humble and yielding to each other, is impossible.

A market shop that can be passed down for a hundred years will only increase in value as long as Qingfeng Gate stands.

The allure of high profits is tempting, and it's hard to guarantee that no one will be blinded by greed and take risks.

"Clan leader, I would like to pay my respects at the ancestral hall."

Only after everything was arranged did Bai Zichen make this request.

"Of course, of course... The Bai family has produced such a talented person, we should comfort our ancestors."

Bai Xianzong dismissed the group and led Bai Zichen to the back hall of the main hall, passing through a deep and secluded corridor.

"By the way, where's Bai Wei... Could he have also perished during the Ghost Spirit Sect's invasion?"

Because of the fat man's matter, Bai Zichen thought of Bai Wei.

When he and Bai Ling were found to have dual spiritual roots, they were regarded as the future foundation-building seeds of the Bai family.

As long as they don't perish halfway through, they should at least have reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

"Alas, this child is biased and stubborn... He insists that the family is biased and secretly bestowed upon him a treasure, which is why he can cultivate so quickly."

Bai Xianzong shook his head helplessly, looking like he didn't really want to talk about it.

"His cultivation stagnated, and he almost suffered a qi deviation. The key issue was that it affected Bai Ling, who used the resources provided by her family to exchange for various pills in an attempt to help Bai Wei recover."

"Fortunately, I discovered that Bai Ling's cultivation progress was not right when I came out of seclusion. She had been stuck at the eighth level of Qi Refining for seven or eight years... I only found out about this after investigating further."

"Bai Wei has been confined to his room and is not allowed to go out."

Bai Xianzong's mere confinement of a clansman who harbored resentment towards the most outstanding cultivator in the Bai family's history and nearly ruined the future of another Foundation Establishment cultivator was already a display of leniency and magnanimity, taking into account Bai Ling's feelings as well.

"Pity."

Bai Zichen said calmly as he stepped across the long corridor lined with candles as thick as a forearm.

It sounds simple to say that you don't need to rely on external resources, but how many people can actually do it?

But for someone like Bai Wei to go astray, believing that everyone around him owes him something and that the unfair treatment he received is what makes him less outstanding than Bai Zichen, already indicates a major flaw in his character.

As for Bai Wei, decades later Bai Zichen was a Core Formation True Person who lived for five hundred years, while Bai Wei was nothing more than a handful of yellow earth.

Why would I care about that?

"When we evacuated Hanxiu Peak, we took the memorial tablet with us, and after returning, we rebuilt the ancestral hall on the original site..."

Bai Xianzong stood before a heavy door, inside which was dark and unfathomable, with only a few candlelight flickering.

"I'll wait outside. You can go in and pay your respects."

Bai Zichen walked into the ancestral hall without saying a word and offered incense to several ancestors.

Then he stood before the nameless memorial tablet of the Bai family's ancestor, his mind racing with countless thoughts.

No wonder the ancestral tablets in the Bai family ancestral hall are completely blank, without even their names.

No wonder the Bai family, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivation family, possesses the secret techniques for forging second-tier flying swords and the inheritance of talisman treasures.

No wonder the Yi Mu Qing Shen Technique can only be used by members of the Bai family to mutate and advance spiritual plants; when others use it, it's just a common spiritual plant support spell.

"Ancestor, why didn't you leave behind a single word so that future generations could better understand the inside story of the destruction of the Fish-Dragon Sect back then..."

By comparing the information from Youlongmen, it can be clearly deduced that the Bai family patriarch was one of the disciples who were sent out before the destruction of the Fish-Dragon Sect.

These disciples, each carrying a portion of the Fish-Dragon Sect's legacy, dispersed far from the outer seas to various locations inland.

The Bai family patriarch, possessing the most important sacred beast's blood essence, traveled the farthest, almost reaching the Black Mountain in the far north before stopping.

They spread their branches and branches in the Black Mountain Range, forming the Mozhu Bai clan.

"Since our ancestor was granted the essence of a sacred beast, he must be the most core and valued disciple of the Fish-Dragon Sect... Even if a Nascent Soul seed at the Core Formation stage is too conspicuous and might attract the attention of Dragon Lord and others, finding a core disciple at the Foundation Establishment stage should be quite simple."

Bai Zichen thought to himself that as an observer from hundreds of years later, he had too little information.

Upon careful consideration, I discovered many inconsistencies and illogical points.

It is certain that the ancestor Bai Muxing's cultivation stopped at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, and that he passed away at around two hundred years old.

There is no possibility of faking death to escape the world.

Would the Fish Dragon Sect really entrust such an important treasure as the essence blood of a sacred beast to a Foundation Establishment disciple who looks ordinary and has little hope of forming a core?
Moreover, the cultivation methods practiced by the Bai family disciples are all very ordinary. Apart from the secret sword-forging technique, there are no top-level techniques of the Fish-Dragon Sect, such as the Dragon Transformation Scripture, which directly leads to the Nascent Soul realm and has powerful magic.

"Was it because our ancestors didn't receive the top-level inheritance of the cultivation techniques, or were they worried about their descendants being implicated, so they concealed the part about the Fish-Dragon Sect's cultivation techniques..."

The Fish-Dragon Sect has a history of tens of thousands of years and is located in the outer sea. Bai Zichen did not believe that they had not made contingency plans for the great calamity of the extinction of their lineage.

They definitely have various backup plans.

However, the demon race's strength exceeded expectations when they attacked, and there were also inside agents who sabotaged the great formation, which is why many methods could not be used.

Gun Gun, who had been quietly perched on Bai Zichen's shoulder, suddenly started barking excitedly.

The emotions conveyed through the spirit beast contract were extreme fear and panic, as if encountering a natural nemesis, or rather, a suppression from the source of one's bloodline.

"What's going on? Take it slow... don't get agitated."

Bai Zichen comforted Gun Gun, holding it in his arms and stroking its fur. Gun Gun's body trembled, terrified.

"Beneath the ancestral hall, is there an aura that terrifies you and is irresistible?"

The intelligence of a first-tier peak spirit beast is limited, but fortunately, it is a spirit beast bound by a contract, and after a lot of effort, it can vaguely sense its meaning.

Bai Zichen extended his divine sense, radiating outwards from the ancestral hall, but found nothing even at his limit.

When one's divine sense penetrates into the earth, it is affected by spiritual veins, minerals, and soil. Originally, the range of one's divine sense was 360 feet, but it would be considered good if it could penetrate 200 feet underground.

"Gun Gun Gun has the ability to find treasures because it has mixed the bloodline of other demonic beasts and is extremely sensitive to spiritual energy... Could it be that it sensed the aura two hundred feet underground, which is why it is so panicked?"

Bai Zichen patted Gun Gun's back, and the little thing shrank into a ball in fright, making a squeaking sound like a mouse.

Who would have thought that this is the Tai Chi Bear, known for its fierce and combative nature?

"Even though they are hundreds of feet apart, just a wisp of their aura can frighten Gun Gun like this... But the little guy's sensing ability is really extraordinary. Even if they are both demon beasts, a normal second-tier demon beast would definitely not have this ability."

Bai Zichen's heart beat slightly faster. He tried his best to think about other things to calm himself down and not let his emotions show.

Hidden hundreds of feet underground in the ancestral hall, even a wisp of its aura from that distance could paralyze my spirit beast, leaving it utterly powerless to resist...

What's hidden underground is either that drop of sacred beast's essence blood, or at the very least, a treasure related to it.

He was unclear about the specific classifications within the demon race, but to be called a sacred beast, even a drop of its essence blood was something that the top-tier demon beast Dragon Lord among the fourth-order transformed demons was determined to obtain, and he did not hesitate to gather a demon army to destroy the Fish-Dragon Sect for it. It must be at least a fifth-order demon beast, and very likely more.

Such a single drop of essence blood already contains boundless energy, exceeding the imagination of ordinary cultivators.

Although he didn't know its function, the fact that it was equivalent to a spiritual item of the fifth rank or higher was hidden hundreds of feet underground in the family ancestral hall made him impulsively want to dig up the ground right now and collect the essence of the sacred beast.

"Excavating the ancestral hall is simple; it just requires persuading the clansmen and spending more manpower and time... But if what's hidden below is truly the essence of a sacred beast, with so many clansmen watching, it's impossible to keep it a secret. The aura it exudes will quickly let people know that I've obtained a great treasure."

Bai Zichen paced back and forth, countless thoughts surging through his mind, only to be suppressed by him.

"Given the quality of the sacred beast's blood essence, once it appears, it will at least display the aura of a fifth-tier spiritual creature, or even higher... Can I protect it?"

The ancestor Bai Muxing hid the essence of the sacred beast underground for hundreds of years, and no one ever discovered it.

If he hadn't brought Gun Gun with him when he came to pay his respects at the ancestral hall today, he wouldn't have noticed the strange phenomenon either.

It is estimated that only a Core Formation cultivator standing here, fully utilizing their divine sense, could sense the anomaly underground.

"Perhaps the ancestor's idea was to wait until a Core Formation cultivator appeared among the Bai family's descendants before they would be qualified to know the secrets of the Fish-Dragon Sect back then? Without this level of cultivation, even if you know the ins and outs, you can't do anything."

A moment later, Bai Zichen looked normal, bowed to the ancestral tablets again, and turned to leave.

Since the essence of the sacred beast has been safely hidden underground in the ancestral hall for hundreds of years, let it stay there for several more decades.

Once I have formed my core, it will be time to draw out the essence and blood of the sacred beast from the earth.

(End of this chapter)