Fan Chu was an official of the Astronomical Bureau.

He was born in a township in Nanling. Fortunately, his parents had some land and attached great importance to his education. Fan Chu was very hardworking. He overcame many tests at a young age and successfully passed the imperial examination. He thought he would become a diligent minor official in the Daxuan Dynasty in this life, but fate gave him a surprise.

During his physical examination, the court discovered that he actually had immortal bones, which meant he was qualified to practice Taoism. So he was directly transferred to the Bu Tiansi and became an apprentice clerk in the Bu Tiansi, responsible for coordinating the affairs between the court and the immortal sect.

When Fan Chu heard about this transfer, he was so excited that he didn't sleep well for three days and three nights. That was the Bu Tiansi in "Heaven Divination and Earth Exploration"! Bu Tiansi was in charge of the sacrificial ceremonies of Daxuan and all matters related to Xuanmen. It was a top department. How could he not be happy?

What's more, he was found to have immortal bones, which means he can also start cultivating immortals! Although he is a little old and his aptitude is average, as long as he has something to do with cultivating immortals, it means he can live forever! Even if he lives a few years longer than ordinary people, it is still longevity, not to mention other various magical things.

But when Fan Chu actually came into contact with Bu Tiansi, he realized that everything that looked glamorous on the surface actually contained unspeakable bitterness inside.

Although Bu Tiansi can be said to be treated like a "state teacher" in the mortal dynasty and his various magic skills are extremely magical, but compared with the real Xuanmen, what he has is no different from playing house.

The people in the immortal sect have always disliked the mortal world, and they hate their imperial court even more. Whenever Fan Chu was forced to reveal his identity to them, he was always worried, fearing that these hermit masters would kill him in anger. Killing him was just a matter of a breath. Anyway, the imperial court was weak, and no one in the world could restrain their behavior. If they wanted to kill him, they would kill him. There was no place to appeal.

At first, Fan Chu didn't understand why the people from the Immortal Sect hated the imperial court so much, so he secretly went to ask his senior Bu Tiansi. The senior didn't want to tell him at first, but because Fan Chu was so persistent, he secretly told him the reason for this situation.

"You must never tell anyone what I told you, especially to that group of people," the senior pointed to the sky, keeping it a secret, "Do you know the 'Immortal Emperor'?"

"Well, I've seen it in the files," nodded Fan Chu, who was still a young man at the time. "It is said that the Immortal Emperor was the tenth emperor of the previous dynasty, Daren, and was posthumously named 'Ren Lizong'. He was ambitious and had been in power for decades, with constant wars. He unified the entire continent but was still not satisfied, and wanted to point his whip at the major immortal sects entrenched in the areas with the best resources. In the end, he paid everything for his arrogance. He was jointly wiped out by those who dared to resist tyranny, the country was destroyed, the people were displaced, and he himself was stripped of his bones and flesh, and his body was exposed in the wilderness. His followers spent a huge price to get his body back and buried it in the Immortal Emperor Mausoleum, which is the treasure trove that people talk about with relish. To this day, no one has really found the location of the Immortal Emperor Mausoleum."

"Haha," the senior sneered, "These are just records in history books. Do you know who wiped out the Ren Dynasty, whose military strength was several times greater than that of our Great Xuan at its peak?"

"The book says that it's because the people were suffering from the continuous wars, and uprisings broke out in various places to resist tyranny..." Fan Chu looked at his predecessor's solemn expression and his voice gradually faded away.

The senior said in a deep voice: "How could the iron army that can sweep across the entire continent be defeated by the rebels in just one year! And with the help of those people, even the best-equipped and most rigorously trained army is no different from an ant in front of them!"

Suddenly, thunder struck outside the window. The dazzling light and loud roar gave Fan Chu goose bumps.

"The Immortal Sect's representative Ling Fengyue once made an agreement with the mortal dynasty that cultivators who could shake mountains and break seas would never be allowed to participate in mortal struggles. However, thousands of years have passed, and the current True Immortal Ling Fengyue has long disappeared. The Immortal Emperor's grand plan has shaken the interests of the Immortal Sect, so..."

Fan Chu felt cold all over. In a few days he would take part in an exchange mission to Rulu Temple and submit the documents for establishing diplomatic relations of this dynasty. He suddenly felt a little scared.

The senior seemed to see Fan Chu's concerns, patted his shoulder, and comforted him: "You don't have to be nervous. As long as you don't offend the disciples of the immortal sect, generally speaking, your life will not be in danger."

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In this way, he went from being nervous at the beginning to being at ease later, and "Fan Chu" gradually became "Lord Fan" in the mouths of his subordinates. Fan Chu worked in the Bu Tiansi for decades and held all kinds of positions. Finally, the court, considering that he had worked for so many years without any faults and was gradually getting old and frail, sent him to the lucrative Jiangning as a resident official to be in charge of local work.

Fan Chu thought he was about to start his retirement life, but little did he know that fate was playing a joke on him again.

In Jiangning, where he is in charge, there is the Shanhai Academy, which is known as the "No. 1 Academy in the World". Many people in the court have studied in this academy, so it is secretly called "Jiangning Imperial College" by many people. Now the struggle situation in the court is severe, and he is now sent to Jiangning. It is indeed a bit sensitive. He does not want to take sides, so he tries to stay away from people in the academy and avoid making friends with them. But one day, the principal of the academy, Li Mo, came to him alone to talk.

Li Mo told him that Jiang Ning had a magical fantasy product and needed Bu Tiansi's help to protect it.

He didn't want to be involved in matters related to the academy, but Li Mo told him the origin of the item and said that if Fan Chu could assist the academy in accomplishing this feat, then Fan Chu would achieve earth-shaking political achievements.

Blinded by greed, Fan Chu sided with the Shanhai Academy. He also used his power to mobilize officers and soldiers and members of the Bu Tiansi to guard around the "Desire Realm Red Dust" prototype every day.

Later, the fortune teller wrote letters to all the senior officials of the Bu Tiansi, informing them that the remnants of the Immortal Emperor would collect the fragments of the Heavenly Dao to subvert the world, and asked them to pay attention to the situation in their own territories.

Fan Chu immediately thought of the "Desire Realm Red Dust". He told the fortune teller about the situation there without telling Li Mo, and the fortune teller told Emperor Xuan about it. Emperor Xuan was also a very ambitious emperor. He had long been dissatisfied with his ancestors' tolerance of the Immortal Sect. He also learned about the fragments of the Heavenly Dao from the national teacher, so he sent his most capable son, Lu Xiuhong, to Jiangning.

But man proposes, God disposes. Before Lu Xiuhong could get the fragments when the immortal sect was not paying attention, something happened to the Ouyang brothers and sisters. What happened afterwards was like a tangled mess.

In the end, Fan Chu fell to the ground and looked at his body in the distance which was still spurting blood. He still couldn't understand one thing: why did they have to die?

Also executed by Lu Xiuhong were the officers and soldiers who had participated in guarding the "Desire Realm Red Dust" and the personnel of the Bu Tiansi. Lu Xiuhong trusted no one except his own people and his subordinates.

"All of them are dead... Then, there is only one person left..." He stood by the window and looked into the distance, "A casual cultivator named An Ling..."

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