Chapter 106

«The Spear Cultivation Family? No, no, no, the entire direct lineage practices Divination!»

【Today, let’s take a closer look at a so-called spear cultivation family.

The children of this family usually appear ordinary, with no significant achievements or failures, but when it comes to crucial moments, they always seem to have extraordinary luck.

Every major member of the family has never failed in significant secret realms. Every single time, mind you, they come out with abundant gains. Of course, in some less important secret realms, the family members have sometimes left empty-handed.

Because their luck isn’t always exceptional, it fluctuates, and therefore, others never think much of it.

Whenever a member of this family gains something, they humbly attribute it all to their good fortune.

Moreover, one member’s fortune has been recognized by the entire cultivation world, with many believing that it was pure luck when he stumbled upon a cultivator’s cave and became extraordinarily wealthy overnight, achieving the path to immortality.

But is it really just luck?

Then why has no branch of your family ever experienced such good fortune? Only the direct line gets to enjoy such wealth?

Because it’s not about luck.

It’s about your family’s ancestral divination technique! And this technique is passed down only to the direct descendants, not the collateral branches!】

The cultivators started their day with a juicy piece of gossip!

This gossip was posted on the Three Thousand Cultivators Exchange Area.

As everyone knows, this is a place where cultivators share insights about their cultivation experiences. Most of the posts here are about topics like “Basic Cultivation Techniques Sharing,” “Basic Spell Exchanges,” “Experiences After Foundation Building,” and so on…

This was the first time a post unrelated to cultivation appeared on the Three Thousand Cultivators Exchange Area.

But this post… somehow caught everyone’s attention!

The poster didn’t specifically name the spear cultivation family, but the commenters had already started guessing.

【Who is it?】

【Don’t know? The poster almost named them directly!】

【I’m just a loose cultivator, I really don’t know which family the post is talking about.】

【Some details may be unclear, but one thing is obvious. Most of the cultivation world knows about a certain person who got incredibly lucky and stumbled upon a cave of an ascender. The poster is talking about that family.】

【Whether this news is true or not, we don’t know yet. It could just be a smokescreen released by a rival family to mislead us.】

【Actually, I tend to believe this post is true because some members of their family really do have extraordinary luck sometimes.】

【But, whether this is true or not, isn’t it still their ability to find a cave? What’s there to investigate about that?】

【I don’t get it. Anyway, it has nothing to do with small cultivators like me.】

【So the question is, which family is it? Can we stop playing guessing games now?】

At this point, a cultivator who had been following the thread gave their guess, 【Could it be the Jin family? Isn’t their Mahayana Cultivator famous for his good fortune? Didn’t he accidentally find the cave of an ascender and become incredibly rich overnight?】

This guess received support from many.

However, some cultivators still thought this wasn’t much of a deal.

Cultivators rely on their own abilities; if their family’s divination technique led them to find treasures, what’s the problem?

While many cultivators thought this way, the poster updated the thread.

【Do you know how many times the core members of their family have struck it lucky?

How many times have you heard about?

The most famous one, the one who became incredibly wealthy overnight after finding the ascender’s cave, right?

Is he the luckiest among the direct descendants?

Of course not!

He’s just the most flamboyant one. His name became widely known because of his flashy personality.

But did you know there are two other direct descendants in their family?

One inherited the Saint of Medicine’s supreme skill.

The other got the third-ranked Sacred Artifact on the list: the Map of Mountains and Rivers.

Which one of them is any less impressive than that guy?

But you probably never even heard their names, and you don’t know there are two other Mahayana Cultivators in their family!

You probably don’t know the value of the Saint of Medicine’s skill or the Map of Mountains and Rivers either.

Now, let me tell you all about it.】

When the post updated, many cultivators were stunned!

What?

This family has hidden two Mahayana Cultivators?

What are they planning?

And how can two Mahayana Cultivators hide themselves?

The tribulation they undergo is so grand, how can it not be noticed?

Cultivators’ minds began to turn.

Relying on their ancestral divination to get rich isn’t that big of a deal. Everyone cultivates based on their own abilities.

But looking at how this family behaves, there’s something more to it.

Is there some hidden plot here?

【They really have a Sacred Artifact?】

【I’ve seen the Sacred Artifact rankings in ancient books, but I thought all Sacred Artifacts were destroyed in ancient times.】

【Map of Mountains and Rivers, what a beautiful name. What’s it used for?】

【Poster, update already!】

【Can’t wait!】

【Ah, I’m going crazy. Am I about to witness history?】

【Tsk tsk tsk, once the poster dropped this, the cultivation world is going to be in chaos.】

【Indeed.】

Many sharp cultivators had already sensed that a storm was brewing.

Whether it’s the Saint of Medicine’s skill or the Map of Mountains and Rivers, these are enough for the old-timers to take action.

The next few years would probably not be peaceful.
After raising the cultivators’ curiosity, Ning Xu leisurely began to eat his breakfast.

She planned to release the information bit by bit. There was no need to rush, it had to be done slowly.

Let the Jin family members enjoy the fire while it’s hot.

The Melon-Eating System grinned, 【The cultivators are already itching to know more.】

Ning Xu calmly nibbled on his pastry, “It’s normal.”

Such juicy gossip was enough to keep them talking for years, or maybe decades. People would still be chatting about it in the future.

The Melon-Eating System, 【Before this post, no one posted any gossip in the “Three Thousand Cultivators Exchange Area.” Host, could we be the pioneers of the gossip world?】

Ning Xu: …

This… might actually be possible.

In the world 3,000 years later, gossiping on the Three Thousand Realms Cultivator Exchange Area wouldn’t be a big deal.

But back then, the forum didn’t have posts like these.

It’s possible that they pioneered this trend.

The Melon-Eating System, which thrives on the drama, said, “Host, the Jin family is starting to get chaotic.”

“The illegitimate children are asking on family forums if the rumors are true, hahaha.”

“They are all from the Jin family, yet only the legitimate heirs benefit, while the illegitimate ones get nothing. The dirty and tough work is all done by the illegitimate children. How could they be satisfied?”

“Well, let it be chaotic. The more chaotic, the better. These people from the Jin family are no better than Xu Hua; they’re all the same—nothing good about them.”

Ning Xu took a sip of soy milk.

The soy milk was a bit too sweet, causing her to wrinkle her brow slightly.

If Innocent Cultivator had prepared her breakfast, the sweetness of the soy milk would have been just right.

Ning Xu quickly pulled herself out of her thoughts and refocused on the Jin family.

“Do they have any plans for hiding the existence of those two Mahayana cultivators?”

The Melon-Eating System was silent for a few seconds before replying, “Of course, they have plans.”

“But it has nothing to do with us. We won’t stay in this era for too long.”

They were just passing through; they couldn’t make a significant impact on this era.

Some established facts couldn’t be changed.

For example, the war between the human race and the demon race, or the fall of the Sword Immortal…

But some small changes might bring unexpected surprises to them in the future.

With this in mind, Ning Xu hurriedly finished her breakfast and continued editing the post.
After waiting for more than an hour in the Three Thousand Realms Cultivator Exchange Area without any new posts, the cultivators became restless and couldn’t focus on their cultivation.

Meanwhile, the Jin family was holding a discussion meeting that only core disciples were qualified to attend.

“Who is this person who knows so much about our Jin family?”

“This doesn’t make sense. How could this person know even the biggest secret of our family?”

After speaking, the person looked at the other family members with a scrutinizing gaze.

Someone scoffed and said, “Old Fourteen, what kind of look is that? Do you think there’s a traitor in the family?”

After being caught in his thoughts, Old Fourteen didn’t deny it but directly countered, “Otherwise? This is the family’s core secret. Only the people here know about it. How could this person know? And what’s worse, this person exposed our biggest secret!”

Another person spoke up at this moment, “It’s too early to draw conclusions. The purpose of this meeting called by the family head is to uncover that person’s true identity, isn’t it? The family is already chaotic enough, we can’t add to the disorder.”

At this point, the family head, who had been resting with her eyes closed, slowly opened her eyes.

With a calm gaze, she looked at the core family members below and said slowly, “Old Seventeen is right, you cannot lose your composure.”

When the family head spoke, everyone fell silent.

The ones discussing earlier were all younger disciples, and the three Mahayana cultivators in the family had not spoken.

The family head looked at the three Mahayana cultivators and asked, “What do you think about this?”

Jin Shen, who had been said to have bad luck, furrowed his brow and said, “This person is not here with good intentions.”

The family head then turned to the other two and asked, “What about you? What do you think?”

The female cultivator who inherited the Saint of Medicine’s supreme skills said slowly, “What we think isn’t important. What matters is that this person—must die!”
Several hours later, the post was finally updated!

The cultivators hurriedly spread the news and cheered.

They eagerly looked at the newly updated content.

The latest update read as follows:

“First, let’s talk about the Saint of Medicine’s supreme skills.

In the history of cultivation, there was only one person who could be called the Saint of Medicine.

The Saint of Medicine’s tomb is located in a not-so-remote place, and although many people have come and gone over the years, no one has discovered any clues.

This is because before passing away, the Saint of Medicine specifically set up a maze around the tomb.

To find the entrance, one must have a token.

And this token looks ordinary ,It’s a blue marble.

This marble doesn’t have any magical properties, nor is it anything special, just a marble worth a few copper coins. However, this marble held extraordinary significance to the Saint of Medicine. When he was young and poor, it was a kind-hearted person who gave it to him while he was begging.

Before passing away, he threw the marble casually, waiting for a fateful person.

This marble was later picked up by the seventh child of the Gu family—Gu Xiaoyu—by accident.

She cherished this marble and never parted with it. She just happened to be the fateful person the Saint of Medicine had been waiting for. Furthermore, the person who gave the Saint of Medicine the marble was also from the Gu family, and strictly speaking, she shared a blood relation with Gu Xiaoyu.

Unfortunately, someone wanted to find the Saint of Medicine’s tomb. Using ancestral techniques, they calculated the marble’s location.

To inherit the supreme skills, this person stole the marble from Gu Xiaoyu and, fearing that the truth might come out one day, killed her and her thirteen servants.

That year, Gu Xiaoyu was only seven years old. And that same year, the person successfully opened the Saint of Medicine’s tomb and inherited all of his lifelong knowledge.”

“Some of you must be slapping yourselves in the face now! You said that the person only got the treasure through ancestral divination skills, but can that be considered an ability? Is murder and theft an ability?”

“I remember Gu Xiaoyu. This caused quite a stir back then. She had a mutated ice spirit root and was a promising prospect that the Gu family was focusing on. She was also very cute. When she went out, she always had a Nascent Soul servant accompanying her. Who would have guessed this would happen?”

“Actually, the person did a good job covering their tracks. Until today, the Gu family didn’t know who killed Gu Xiaoyu.”

“This happened nearly a hundred years ago. Over these years, the Gu family has been searching for the killer but has had no leads.”

“If it was indeed that family, the original poster did a great service.”

After the post update, the Gu family couldn’t sit still.

No wonder they had never been able to find the killer of Gu Xiaoyu—it turned out they had been looking in the wrong direction all along!

They thought Gu Xiaoyu was targeted because of her extraordinary talent, but who would have thought it was because of a marble?

This marble was well remembered by many of the older Gu family members.

At the time, Gu Xiaoyu would even sleep with the marble pressed against her.

The Gu family head had also once asked her why she loved the marble so much, and Gu Xiaoyu couldn’t explain it clearly. She only said that she felt destined to have this marble.

Because of this marble, Gu Xiaoyu’s age was frozen at seven.
The Melon-Eating System clicked its tongue twice. “Host, the Gu family is preparing to deal with the Jin family!”

Ning Xu responded with a faint “Mm.”

But that’s not enough, far from it. The Gu family isn’t heavy enough yet.

She and the Melon-Eating System still need to stir the pot further!