Chapter Thirty-Two: Yuanzong's Offerings

  Inside Huichun Valley, the high peaks were broken off, the river water was cut off, and the lake water had all dried up. All the medicine fields had been dug up clean, not a single blade of medicinal grass remained. Countless large and small dan furnaces had been moved away by people using great force, leaving behind only a scene of devastation. The Huichun Valley, which spanned over a hundred miles, was now just a flat expanse of rubble, without any valuable items left behind. Even the cold spring water from the back mountain's Cold Spring Pool had been scooped up by people into containers and taken away to be used as materials for refining yin evil treasures.

  The Demon Dao cultivators conducted a thorough search of the Hui Chun Valley, going as deep as three hundred zhang underground. The accumulated wealth and resources of hundreds of generations of Da Luo Dan Dao's ancestors were completely cleaned out by them.

  Lin Xiao woke up to find himself lying on a flat, round stone slab about the size of a room. Underneath him was a layer of soft, long grass, and he was covered with two green Taoist robes. His mouth still lingered with a wisp of clear, fragrant aura. On either side of him sat a young male and female cultivator, both wearing moon-green Taoist robes, their eyes fixed intently on him as they sat cross-legged.

  These two young cultivators, the man was handsome and elegant, with eyes like lightning, yet had a single pupil with a hint of cloudiness between his pupils, clearly he had refined his cultivation to the extreme and had also cultivated some kind of mysterious technique in his eyes; The woman on the other hand was as pure and elegant as a lotus flower covered in dew, surrounded by a faint aura that was barely visible to the naked eye, not a speck of dust could be seen on her body, with a gentle smile like water, even Lin Xiao who had long since become heartless couldn't help but feel slightly taken aback when he saw her, what a woman who made one involuntarily want to get close to.

  When Lin Xiao opened his eyes, the male cultivator nodded slightly and smiled at Lin Xiao. However, when he saw that Lin Xiao's gaze only paused for a moment on the female cultivator before returning to his own face without expression, the male cultivator couldn't help but be taken aback, his mouth twitching as he secretly smiled at the female cultivator.

  The female cultivator glared at the male cultivator, her voice ringing out melodiously as she said: "Lin Xiao, my friend, I am Yuan Zong Yixin. This is my senior brother, Yuan Zong Yi Xian. We are in Hui Chun Valley."

  Lin Xiao's body stiffened, staring blankly at the desolate landscape of Hui Chun Valley. The ground was littered with white rubble and broken tiles, devoid of any greenery. Not only were the spiritual herbs in the medicine fields plundered, but even the slightly older flowers and trees were swept away by the demonic cultivators. Even the valuable jade tiles and golden bricks from the Dan Qi Ling Xiao Temple were thoroughly ransacked.

  Looking at the unbearable scene in front of him, Lin Xiao's numb face twitched. Yixin and Yihang raised their eyebrows, about to say something, but Lin Xiao slowly lifted his hands and asked faintly: "My Shifu... Ya'er... where are you?" Lin Xiao looked at Yixin blankly, his newly healed eye corners cracking open again, and another string of blood dripped down.

  Her face fell and she gazed at them with a hint of resentment.

  One glance at Lin Xiao, and he nodded towards him: "That little girl is the Medicine Girl, right? Her body has been infected with the 'Thousand Poison Evil Toxin' of the demonic path. In three days, she will turn into a Hundred Poison Zombie. That's why I have already ordered someone to refine her with true fire." One glance at Lin Xiao with some concern, and he comforted him in a gentle tone: "Don't be too sad, young friend. When we arrived, we coincidentally ran into the Blood God Old Ancestor leading a group of demonic disciples away. He said that the souls of everyone in your sect have been preserved, which is a great fortune amidst misfortune."

  "Soul!" Lin Xiao's eyes had a hint of luster, he stared at the line, his voice low and even: "The soul is still there, what does it mean?"

  The vast information in the Da Luo Dan Jing flashed through Lin Xian's mind like a stormy sea, and he stared blankly at a line of text that read: "Does the soul still exist? Can they be reincarnated?"

  "Yes!" A line was silent, but in his heart, he said: "Moreover, the soul of a cultivator is stable, and after reincarnation, it is likely that some memories of the previous life will still be carried."

  "No need for past life memories!" Lin Xiao's face revealed a hint of joy, he lowered his head and chuckled: "As long as they can still reincarnate, it doesn't matter. Use the 'Rebirth Pill' to awaken their past life memories, use the 'Dream Recall Pill' to solidify their heart and soul in this life, and then use various pills to enhance their cultivation. As long as I can find the people they reincarnated into, I can save them, I can save them!" Lin Xiao suddenly jumped up wildly, his hands waving and feet stomping as he shouted towards the sky: "Heaven! I can save them!"

  A line, a heart without worries, mutually forgot in one glance.

  The Wheel of Rebirth Pill and the Dream Recall Pill, these two types of pills they had also heard of, but that was only mentioned in their sect's highest classics. That is even more precious than the legendary Heaven-grade Spirit Pill, a true immortal pill! Not to mention whether Lin Xiao remembers the pill formula and spiritual incantation for refining this immortal pill, even if Lin Xiao knows the required spiritual incantation and pill formula, how can the current cultivation world gather the materials needed to refine the immortal pill? Those rare materials, even in the heyday of the cultivation world thousands of years ago, were hard to come by once in ten thousand years!

  However, Lin Xiao was already a bit crazy and didn't say a word to disturb him.

  Yi Hang stared blankly at the few sword lights flashing across the distant sky, while Yi Xin was staring blankly at Yi Hang, muttering to himself in a low voice: "Having something to look forward to makes it slightly easier to get through the days, even if that something is elusive. Having something is better than having nothing."

  One of them seemed not to have heard Yi Xin's whisper. Three golden sword lights, several tens of feet long, with a faint thunderous sound, flew rapidly from afar and stopped three feet in front of Yi Hang. Three middle-aged Taoist priests wearing moon-blue robes bowed to Yi Hang: "Master Teacher Brother, we searched the entire Hui Chun Valley, and except for Lin Xiao, all other fellow Taoists on Da Luo Dan Dao were killed."

  A middle-aged Taoist took a few steps forward, placing a partially burnt book and several broken wooden boards in front of Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao picked up the book and the wooden boards, flipped through them lightly, let out a soft sigh, and asked with a pleased expression: "Lin Xiao, my young friend, isn't this your family tree and...your father's and relatives' memorial tablets?"

  Lin Xiao was stunned, he rushed to the front of a row, and hugged the incomplete book and spirit tablet tightly. He couldn't even cry, he just held these things tightly, big drops of blood and tears rolled down from his eyes, dripping the family tree and memorial tablet with scarlet dots.

  A row of Taoist priests stood quietly watching Lin Xiao, not a single one making a sound.

  After a long time, Lin Xiao slowly put the genealogy and the plaque into his cuff, and asked in a hoarse voice: "How did senior know my name?" Only then did Lin Xiao slightly react, this person was a member of the Yuan Sect, and those Taoist priests actually called him Shifu Xiongdi (Senior Brother), wasn't that saying that he was the current leader of the Yuan Sect? By generation, he was someone at the level of Lin Xiao's great-grandfather.

  One of them said calmly, "Dān Yīng Dào Yǒu sent a letter to our Yuán Zōng through an array formation a few days ago, saying that there was an evil demon in the Dà Luó Dān Dào region who had been punished by heavenly thunder and asking us to come and investigate. The letter also attached your portrait and introduction, saying you are a rare talent of Dà Luó Dān Dào, achieving Jīn Dān at the age of eighteen, and the letter highly praised you."

  "So that's how it is." Lin Xiao said dully: "But, Dan Feng Shibo he..."

  He bowed his head and said in a low voice: "If nothing unexpected happens, I'm afraid the entire Dadao Sect will soon have only one person left - Xiaoyou."

  Lin Xiao was silent, standing there motionless, the excitement and agitation he had just felt were already gone. He thought back to the records of the wheel-turning dan and the dream-returning dan in the Great Luo Dan Jing, only then did he realize that refining such a dan was an extremely difficult task! Moreover, finding those reincarnated Dharma door people from the Great Luo Dan in the boundless and endless cultivation world was many times more difficult than searching for a needle in the ocean.

  It's just like a traveler who is about to die of thirst in the desert, suddenly finds a crystal clear lake less than 100 meters in front of him. When he excitedly wants to rush towards the lake, he is shocked to find that there is a deep and bottomless cliff with a width of tens of meters between him and the lake!

  Having hope, but suddenly despairing.

  This was another heavy blow, and Lin Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood.

  A furrowed brow, a darkened complexion, and he hastily advised: "Young friend, having hope is always better than complete despair. Returning to Spring Valley is no longer suitable for living, if you agree, would you be willing to become the spiritual offering of my Yuan Sect? You only need to refine some elixirs for my Yuan Sect every year, and in return, my Yuan Sect can provide you with various medicinal materials, even help you search for the whereabouts of your fellow practitioners who have transmigrated, are you willing?"

  Yuán Zōng! One of the three strongest sects in the Orthodox Cultivation Realm, Yuán Zōng! Almost the entire Qǐ Yuán Star is a stronghold of Yuán Zōng!

  Lin Xiao's eyes flashed with a faint light, and he slowly raised his stiff hand to bow: "As you wish, I naturally agree. In the future, I will trouble you all again!"

  He raised his head, looked at Lin Xiao with a hint of pity, and nodded slightly. Then, he glared at her with a hint of annoyance, as if blaming her for making arbitrary decisions on his behalf.

  She raised an eyebrow and gave him a provocative glance.

  He silently nodded and lowered his head again.

  The youngest of the Xī Yuán Xīng Yuán Zōng was born.