Mysterious mirror hanging high

"Given time, my Sword Pavilion may have another Sword Immortal."

"Brother, you really tortured me..."

Ling Yu Zhenren smiled and said, "Okay, I won't keep you any longer. After I meet your precious son, I'll come visit you again in a few days. You and I can have a few drinks together..."

Guan Zhen said goodbye to Master Ling Yu and hurried towards his own cave. After turning several mountain roads, he finally found a quiet valley. A small bamboo courtyard was located in the valley, and beside the courtyard was a clear spring. Next to the spring stood a stone tablet with the three words "Washing Sword Spring" inscribed on it.

Guan Zhen looked closely and saw a pretty young woman sitting at the Sword Washing Spring, washing a sharp sword. Next to her was a child about five or six years old, holding a wooden sword and practicing a set of ordinary sword techniques in a very serious manner. There was a hint of technique in his every move.

"Wan'er, Lingxiao!"

Guan Zhen showed a smile on his face and strode forward.

"Husband!" The woman washing the swords heard the voice and looked over. Her eyes lit up, and she hurried forward to shake Guan Zhen's hands. "Husband, did your outing go smoothly? The power of the Sword Pavilion is not as great as it used to be. I was afraid you might encounter difficulties out there."

"Don't worry. Although there are no Spiritual Transformation cultivators in the Sword Pavilion anymore, it is still one of the three pavilions in Zhongzhou. There are still three sword cultivators in the late Yuanying stage in the pavilion. How could an ordinary cultivator dare to offend them?"

Guan Zhen laughed.

"Daddy!" The little boy threw away the wooden sword and threw himself into Guan Zhen's arms.

"Good boy." Guan Zhen patted the back of the child's head and said with a smile, "You performed that sword technique quite well just now. Where did you learn it from?"

This child was none other than Guan Zhen and Yang Wan's son [Guan Lingxiao]. Although he was only five years old at the time, he was far more intelligent than an ordinary child. Upon hearing this, he smiled and said:

"My mother taught me this, but this sword technique is not very interesting. I only took one look at it and I already understood its essence. After all, it is just an ordinary sword technique and not worthy of being shown on the stage."

"You're really aiming too high." Guan Zhen flicked Guan Lingxiao's smooth, plump forehead with his finger and laughed. "The immortals' [Sword Controlling Technique] is a glorious and righteous path, slaying enemies across thousands of miles, entering and exiting the azure sky—it's truly joyful, but it's the immortal path after all! Without spiritual roots, wouldn't all be lost?"

Guan Lingxiao puffed out his chest and said, "I am my parents' child, so I must have spiritual roots."

Yang Wan, standing by, said with a smile, "This child will have his spiritual roots tested in a year. I wonder what his aptitude is like... If he has good aptitude, we can find him a famous teacher who can teach him carefully. He will have a promising future."

"If your aptitude is inferior, or you are simply a mortal, then there is nothing wrong with living a peaceful and happy life under the protection of my husband and me."

Guan Zhen lovingly pinched Guan Lingxiao's delicate face: "After all, he was born after I formed a pill, so the chances of him having spiritual roots are quite high..."

Suddenly, Guan Zhen's eyes fell on Guan Lingxiao's neck, and he found that there was a sword-shaped stone piece on his son's chest, strung with a red thread and hanging around his neck.

"What is this?" Guan Zhen's eyes fixed.

"Ling Xiao found it in the mountains while playing on the peak a while ago," Yang Wan said casually. "I was afraid it was a treasure lost by one of my fellow disciples, but after my divine sense penetrated it, I realized it was just an ordinary stone slab, but it had a natural sword shape, which made it look beautiful."

"Ling Xiao refused to throw it away, so I strung it with a red string and hung it close to his body. He really liked it."

Guan Lingxiao slowly penetrated the stone with his Golden Core Divine Mind and carefully examined it for a long time. He found that it was indeed just an ordinary stone, without any spiritual energy fluctuations. He was relieved and said with a smile:

"This kid seems to be born to practice swordsmanship. Any stone he sees in the mountains can be transformed into a sword shape naturally..."

"By the way, regarding Jiange's affairs..."

Guan Zhen's face showed a worried look. "This time, I came down the mountain to oversee the repair of the mundane industries damaged by the earth dragon. I have earth-type cultivators from subordinate sects at my disposal, so the work is going quite smoothly. However... earthquakes have been far too frequent in recent years!"

"In the area under the jurisdiction of my Sword Pavilion alone, there have been more than ten major and minor earthquakes in the past five years..."

"A True Lord who is well versed in the study of earth veins once said that the earth veins in Penglai Immortal Continent have been fluctuating frequently in recent years, which may be the main cause of the constant earthquakes. But why did the earth veins that had been dormant for many years suddenly become active in recent years? No one can explain it."

Yang Wan was also a little worried: "Natural disasters are constantly happening, and there will definitely be disasters... I wonder what big things will happen soon!"

Perhaps it was Yang Wan's bad luck, but as soon as she finished speaking, the entire Lingxiao Peak suddenly shook violently. Guan Zhen's expression changed, and he quickly picked up Guan Lingxiao. He didn't care about Lingxiao Peak's no-fly zone rule, and lifted his body with the sword light, rising into the sky and looking around.

At the same time, almost all the immortal mountains in Jiange were shaking, even the thousand-foot immortal sword on the main peak of Jiange that was inserted obliquely into the mountain was trembling slightly.

Countless confused disciples of the Sword Pavilion flew into the sky on their swords and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Senior Brother Lingyu!"

Guan Zhen, holding Guan Lingxiao, saw Ling Yu Zhenren and hurried forward to greet him, "What happened? Our Jiange's Shenhua formation has the magical effect of stabilizing the earth veins. Even if the earth dragon turns over, it will definitely not be able to shake the Jiange's mountain gate! Why..."

Master Ling Yu looked sternly into the distance, "Junior brother... this earthquake source..."

"It seems to be the direction of Penglai Mountain!"

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Zhongzhou, Penglai Mountain

The [Penglai Holy Land], which had originally closed its mountain gate, was shaking violently that day. The huge commotion almost drowned out all the noise. The originally extremely stable [Penglai Mountain] actually had dense and shocking cracks on its body. Hundreds of monks in dark green Taoist robes flew out of the mountain and descended into the world.

The next moment, the entire mountain of [Penglai Mountain] shattered, and from the largest gap, a tall and thin old man with white hair and beard, wearing a dark yellow robe, flew out.

The old man's aura was extremely majestic, and the overflowing spiritual pressure almost condensed into substance, causing many cultivators who flew into the sky to groan in unison and fall from the sky like dumplings.

"Hahahaha!"

The old man in the dark yellow robe was about to fly out of the gap in the mountain, but suddenly four emerald green vines flew out from the gap in the mountain and wrapped around the old man's limbs, making it impossible for him to escape.

Two cultivators, one male and one female, whose faces were blurred and who seemed to be of the same level as the old man, suddenly appeared. They looked at the old man who had turned Penglai Mountain upside down and shouted sternly:

"Qiu Dongxuan! How dare you!"

The old man named Qiu Dongxuan laughed wildly:

"Hahaha! Master! You've already ascended, and my junior brothers and sisters aren't advanced enough. This trapping formation can no longer hold me back!"

After he finished speaking, his entire body was covered in dark yellow light, and the four emerald green vines shattered into pieces in front of the shocked gazes of the cultivators!