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Kong Jinxu’s eyes lit up as he stretched out his hand, staring at Tianmiao with desperate yearning.

The Heavenly Dao was right before his eyes, right before his eyes!

”You will never Ascend in this lifetime!” Su Yu stomped down on Kong Jinxu’s hand, pinning it to the ground, and spoke in an icy, exhilarated tone.

Su Yu tossed the Broken Sword in her hand onto the ground, spat, then straightened up. A smile of release spread across her face as she strode toward Tianmiao, and in the end she simply broke into a run. She was running toward her new life!

”My lord, thank you, thank you.” Su Yu once again knelt before Tianmiao, tears of joy and excitement streaming down her face. She had finally shaken off her painful past and gained a new life.

”Get up.” Tianmiao smiled. ”Take Yuanyuan and go straight to the East Sea. There will be a boat waiting to pick you up. After you arrive, Dong Xiao will tell you what you need to do.”

”Yes, yes!” Su Yu stood up, nodding over and over in excitement.

”I still have important matters to attend to. You two go ahead.” Tianmiao patted Yuanyuan on the head, then added, ”Once you’re at the Heavenly Dao Sect, make sure this child is well-nourished. When I come back next time, I want to see the real Yuanyuan.”

Su Yu couldn’t help laughing. ”Mm, I will. I’ll soon raise Yuanyuan into a properly round Yuanyuan.” Though she was laughing, hot tears kept sliding from her eyes. In that moment her heart ached, yet even more than the ache was a warm, gentle feeling.

Su Yu took Yuanyuan and headed toward the East Sea.

Tianmiao was also preparing to set out again.

Kong Jinxu struggled to his feet and followed behind Tianmiao.

Yet in the next instant, Tianmiao’s figure was gone from before his eyes; she had simply vanished.

Kong Jinxu stood there in place, dazed, for a very long time. In the end, he turned around and also walked off in the direction of the East Sea.

Right now he didn’t know where he should go. Maybe if he followed behind Su Yu, there would still be a sliver of chance for a turnaround? Maybe there was still hope for Ascension?

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Kong Hou flew all the way toward Ancient Well City.

Ancient Well City was a small city, named for the several hundred ancient wells within its walls. For generations the common folk there had drawn all their water from these ancient wells.

The City Lord of Ancient Well City bore the surname Lin; the Lin Family was a Cultivation Family. But in recent years they had suffered a decline in talent, each generation worse than the last. The current City Lord’s Cultivation had only reached the seventh level of Foundation Establishment. No matter how he devoted himself to Cultivation, he could no longer advance even half a step. Even he himself had fallen into despair, believing that the Lin Family was going to slowly and completely sink into ruin.

Yet after his eldest son was born, hope rose in him once more.

Because this eldest son was brilliant of mind and extraordinary of aptitude. From a young age he displayed astonishing talent for Cultivation, and by the age of ten he had already reached Foundation Establishment. This drove the Family Head mad with joy; he believed the hope for the rise of their family lay upon this child’s shoulders. Thus he early on established him as the Young Master.

In the early stages, they could still meet the Young Master’s needs for Cultivation resources, but as time went on, the already somewhat declining Lin Family simply could no longer supply enough resources for the Young Master’s Cultivation. Ancient Well City was only a simple, honest little city besides; it had no extra resources to offer.

This left the Lin Family’s Family Head so worried that his hair began to fall out. In the end, on the advice of one Elder, he sold a young maiden from a branch family to a powerful cultivator as a Furnace, in exchange for some resources. Naturally, this matter was kept from the Young Master.

Once there is a first, there will be a second.

When the resources traded for by selling the first person ran out, they sold a second.

After they had sold off seven or eight young girls of the clan, the Young Master finally learned of this.

The Lin Family’s Family Head was deeply worried, worried that once the Young Master learned of this matter it would affect his state of mind, and thus his Cultivation.