After being reborn, I took my childhood sweetheart to cultivate immortality.

"My God, the village chief's grandson also has spiritual roots."

As a beam of green light shot into the sky, the villagers couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

The village chief's family is so lucky; both of their children have been found to have spiritual roots.

Does that mean their family will have two immortal masters in the future? That's so enviable!

Xu Qingman and her husband never expected that two people with single spiritual roots would be found in an ordinary mountain village, and that they would even come from the same family.

Xu Qingman asked the two brothers, Tudouzi and Tudouzi, to stand aside and wait, while she continued to test the spiritual roots of the other children in Qingshi Village.

Unfortunately, there were no more families with such good fortune as Shen Changsheng's.

In Qing Shi Village, there are more than fifty eligible children in total. Apart from the two brothers in their family, only four children were found to have spiritual roots.

Two of the boys were the children of the Shen brothers, who were hunters in the village. One of them had two spiritual roots, and the other had three.

Although he doesn't have the top-tier talent of a single spiritual root, he's still quite good because of his young age.

The other two with spiritual roots are two young girls, each with four spiritual roots. Although their aptitude is not very good, they are given this opportunity because they are both girls and have a relatively resilient personality.

Families whose children possess spiritual roots are overjoyed. As for those whose children don't, while they are somewhat disappointed, it's not too difficult for them to accept.

Although they were all country folk with little experience, they understood that not everyone was suited to learning immortal arts.

After all the children had been tested, everyone else left, except for the six children whose spiritual roots had been detected.

Looking at the six children who were both excited and a little nervous, Xu Qingman said, "Although you have all been found to have spiritual roots today, it does not mean that you will definitely be able to stay."

Having spiritual roots only means you have this opportunity; everything else depends on yourselves.

You should all go back first and return before the end of the 5-7 PM today. After that, all six of you will stay here. Starting tomorrow, we will begin teaching you the methods of cultivating immortality.

We will only stay here for six months. If we cannot draw qi into our bodies within six months, we can only become servants of the Xu family or go home on our own.

Those who successfully cultivate internal energy within six months can only be considered members of my Xu family's guard team. Only those with superior aptitude who pass our tests will have the opportunity to become our personal disciples.

After giving them a lecture, Xu Qingman told them to go back.

If I'm not mistaken, quite a few more people should come to have their spiritual roots tested this afternoon.

After the people from Qingshi Village left, I heard many people saying that their village had finished testing and that the village chief should ask them to inform their relatives' children.

Sure enough, more than a hundred children arrived one after another in the afternoon, but only five were found to have spiritual roots, and all of them had mixed spiritual roots, with four or five spiritual roots.

Xu Qingman and the other woman didn't say they didn't want them; they both gave them a chance. If it really didn't work out, they could keep them as servants.

Anyway, their family needs to develop and is short of people right now. Even if their aptitude is a bit lacking, they can still cultivate to the Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment stage with more time.

At the end of the Yin hour on the second day, all eleven children with spiritual roots were awakened.

From that day on, Xu Qingman and her husband taught them to write and how to guide their qi into their bodies.

All eleven children were from the countryside, and apart from the Potato Brothers, the other nine had never had the opportunity to learn to read before.

Furthermore, most of the names were chosen haphazardly, such as "Stone" and "Cloth," "Big Ya" and "Third Ya." To facilitate management later, everyone retained their original surnames and were given new names.

Thinking that the Xu family would definitely need a constant stream of new members in the future, and that they would need to be ranked according to their seniority, the couple decided that all the people they would take in later would be ranked according to the eight characters "万古长青" (meaning "everlasting prosperity") and "源远流长" (meaning "long-standing lineage").

These are the first batch of disciples, and their names all begin with the character "万" (wan).

The eleven individuals are Shen Wanxing, Shen Wanrong, Shen Wanjie, Shen Wanhui, Shen Wanyun, Shen Wanhui, Zhang Wanyu, Zhang Wanrong, Chen Wanxing, Zhao Wanying, Lin Wansong, and Chen Wandong.

The village chief's eldest grandson, Shen Wanxing (formerly known as Tudouzi), knows most of the characters. Upon learning that his grandfather taught him all of them, Yu Jinchen specially invited the village chief over to teach the children to read.

Incidentally, two women were also invited from the village to cook for the children.

Xu Qingman and her husband spend their days either instructing others on how to guide qi or searching for children with spiritual roots in the neighborhood.

Half a month later, when some of the children finally began to cultivate spiritual energy, the couple brought back fifty or sixty more children with spiritual roots from outside.

After that, Xu Qingman and her husband did not go out again, but stayed in Qingshi Village to focus on guiding this group of people in their cultivation. There were only two of them, and their energy was limited. It was already enough that they had taken in so many people at once.

Six months have passed in the blink of an eye; it's time to go back.

A total of 68 people were recruited this time. Everyone was very diligent. When the time was up, only 15 people had not yet successfully guided the Qi into their bodies.

The other fifty-three people not only all managed to draw in Qi, but some even reached the second level of Qi Refining. Among them, the most outstanding were the two brothers, Shen Wanxing and Shen Wanrong, from the village chief's family.

These two successfully guided Qi into their bodies in less than half a month, and are now almost at the third level of Qi Refining.

As expected of someone with a single spiritual root, cultivation is much easier for them than for others.

Before leaving, Xu Qingman gave everyone fifty taels of silver and two sets of new clothes. She also gave them a few days off so they could spend more time with their families.

Even those who hadn't yet achieved Qi cultivation received their clothes and money in full. However, whether they would return after going back was up to them and their families to decide.

As soon as he got home, Shen Wanjie excitedly shouted, "Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

"It seems like his dad, our Hu Gua, is back. Go open the door quickly."

"How could that be? Isn't our son learning cultivation from a celestial master?" Shen Wanjie's father muttered as he ran to open the door.

Seeing that it really was his eldest son, whom he hadn't seen for half a year, Shen Dashan panicked, "You brat, what's wrong with you? Are you too stupid to learn and that's why the immortal master sent you back?"

"Father, how can you not understand your own son? We are leaving here to go to the cultivation world. We were worried that our family would be concerned, so we were given a few days off."

"Hu Gua, come in quickly, don't mind your father. I never thought my son would become a celestial master too. How I will miss you!" With that, Shen Wanjie's mother began to sob.

“Mother, don’t cry. I will definitely come back to see you when I have completed my studies. Look, this is the silver that the two masters gave me. Take it. Isn’t my eldest sister getting married? Buy her more dowry.”

As for his two younger brothers, they are still young. Once my son becomes successful, I will definitely make sure they live a good life.

Also, the two masters have given my son a name, Shen Xingjie. Please don't call me by my childhood nickname anymore; it's too much of a burden.