58: The surprise brought by the young master

Jingchu Royal City, Nanyang Town.

Long Aotian didn't expect that Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju would choose to hide here.

This was a place of great sorrow for the Shi Family.

A small branch of the Shi Family was wiped out here, which was when Shi Xiaodan, whose wife and children were harmed by Shi Youse, slaughtered over a hundred thousand people in Nanyang Town to conceal his true identity, Incarnate as a Shi Family member, and infiltrate the Shi Family to avenge his wife and children.

Such a remote, small place, and also a place of sorrow for the Shi Family, naturally wouldn't have any Shi Family members coming to search it thoroughly.

One had to admit, Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju were truly good at picking locations.

Now, after ten years of development, Nanyang Town had gathered nearly a hundred thousand people again; although it still hadn't recovered its former bustle and prosperity, it had gained a considerable amount of popularity.

The main reason was that after the slaughter, the houses in Nanyang Town became empty and ownerless. At this time, many impoverished small villages and remote mountain villages seized the opportunity to move their entire villages in, and the town quickly regained its popularity.

Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju, on the other hand, did the opposite of these villagers who moved into the town; they chose to move into a village that had relocated to the town. In a place called Zuoqiu, they carved out an underground Cultivate Immortal Cave, and normally spent their time in seclusion within the underground Cultivate Immortal Cave, not coming out.

However, after several months, the Cultivate resources they had received from the Family were all used up, and they now faced the awkward problem of having no Cultivate resources for Cultivate.

Of course, they could also absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for Cultivate, but the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the Eastern Barrens was simply too thin, several times slower than when they used Low-Grade Spirit Stones for Cultivate.

Having experienced the convenience and pleasure of using Cultivate resources for Cultivate, how could they endure this?

These past few days, Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju had been deeply troubled by the issue of Cultivate resources.

Go out and earn Cultivate resources?

Too dangerous!

The Long Family's enemy was the Shi Family, the head of the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City. Once the two sides started a war, the entire Eastern Barrens, though not vast, was not small either. If they sent Soul Emergence Realm and Divided Soul Realm powerhouses to conduct a carpet search, they could scour the entire Eastern Barrens in less than a year.

Now should be the critical period of the Family's war with the Shi Family, so how could they cause trouble for the Family? They should just absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and make do with Cultivate for now.

But unexpectedly, at this very moment, Long Aoxue brought them an unexpected surprise.

She brought the Young Lord.

The Young Lord could finally Cultivate!

And his Cultivation was even higher than Long Aomei, the eldest sister, which also stunned the four of them.

After a joyful reunion, Long Aotian's face was once again successfully kneaded into a small biscuit by his four Clan Sisters.

And no matter what kind of Young Lord he was, first and foremost, he was their most beloved Clan Brother, a Clan Brother they had kneaded into small biscuits, fed into a little fatty, and played with since childhood. This heavy sense of familiarity left Long Aotian somewhat at a loss when facing this group of fierce Clan Sisters.

He was completely dazed from all the kneading!

He truly had no status!

Clan Chief, Clan Chief, Young Lord, please let someone else take over!

Long Aoxue, who was standing by, saw him being bullied by his four Clan Sisters until his cheeks were red. Not only did she not rescue him, but she even showed an auntie-like smile.

Seeing her auntie-like smile, Long Aotian felt a tingling sensation on his scalp and quickly diverted their attention, asking about the whereabouts of the other Ten Disciples.

Indeed.

Their attention was quickly diverted, and as Long Aoxue expected, Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju really did know the hiding places of the other several Ten Disciples.

They were all in Jingchu Royal City.

Not far from Nanyang Town.

Long Aotian, in his capacity as Young Lord, assigned their first task to the five of them: to find the five Ten Disciples, Long Aoyu, Long Aohong, Long Aohuang, Long Aowu, and Long Aoju.

Within three days, the Ten Disciples of the Long Family's Ao Generation gathered in Zuoqiu, Nanyang Town.

Ranked by age, Long Aomei, at twenty-eight, was at the head, and Long Aowu, who was only two years and two months older than Long Aotian, was at the tail. They were:

Long Aomei, Long Aoyu, Long Aolan, Long Aozhou, Long Aozhu

Long Aohong, Long Aoju, Long Aohuang, Long Aoxue, Long Aowu

That is:

Female Disciples: Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, Long Aoju, Long Aoxue (filling in the last spot).

Male Disciples: Long Aoyu, Long Aohong, Long Aohuang, Long Aowu (at the very end).

Among the ten, the eldest sister, Long Aomei, had the highest Cultivation, currently at the Transformation Sea Realm Second Revolution Stage. Her Martial Arts Talent was extraordinary, and her Prodigy-like demeanor was subtly emerging, with an initial estimate that she was at least a Millennium Genius.

What was surprising was that Long Aohuang, the Clan Brother ranked seventh, who was only three and a half years older than Long Aotian, had a Cultivation Breakthrough to the Transformation Sea Realm First Revolution Stage, second only to Long Aomei, the eldest sister, and showed a faint momentum of catching up to her.

After that, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju were tied for third with Spirit Spring Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage Cultivation, while Long Aoxue, at Spirit Spring Realm Eighth Revolution Stage, was thereby pushed to sixth place among the Ten Disciples, and suddenly felt quite displeased.

Long Aoxue wanted to become the strongest battle General under the Young Lord, but now, it was uncertain if she could even achieve that. If she didn't work hard to Cultivate and catch up, she might very well end up at the bottom, or even be squeezed out of the ranks of the Ten Disciples.

Long Aoxue was both anxious and a bit aggrieved at this moment. It was all because of that damned scoundrel Shi Jing; if it weren't for him making her waste so much time, she would have at least broken through to the Spirit Spring Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage by now, and her ranking wouldn't have been surpassed so severely!

Fortunately, the Young Lord had already avenged her, otherwise, she felt that Shi Jing could have become her Heart Demon on the Martial Dao.

Now?

Shi Jing was dead.

What did she have left to hate?

What did she have to resent?

It was meaningless now.

Her next task was to Cultivate diligently, quietly surpass everyone, and strive to become the Young Lord's top battle General.

However, the idea was beautiful, but reality was cruel.

Immediately after, she also encountered the problem faced by Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, and Long Aoju: she had no Cultivate resources for Cultivate. Even the storage ring that the Family had rewarded to their Ten Disciples had been snatched by that scoundrel Shi Jing.

Among the Ten Disciples, no one was poorer or had a worse time than her. If it weren't for the Young Lord's quick rescue, she would have almost lost her chastity.

As soon as she thought of this, Long Aoxue's heart was filled with even more grievance, and she immediately burst into tears.

“This, this, this, this…”

Long Aotian was dumbfounded.

My dear auntie, what's wrong now?

Young Lord, I'm always the one being bullied, okay? Why are you crying first?

Long Aotian was somewhat exasperated.

However, unable to bear a girl crying, he couldn't help but step forward to comfort her: “What's wrong? Why are you crying? How much grievance have you suffered? Tell me, if someone bullied you, Young Lord will bully them back for you. If it's another problem, we'll all think of a way to help you solve it.”

“Young Lord, you're so kind!”

Saying that, she embraced Long Aotian and sobbed: “My storage ring was stolen by Shi Jing, boo hoo, the storage ring contained resources for me to Cultivate to the Spirit Spring Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage, boo hoo, now it's gone, everything is gone.”

“...Oh, is that all?”

Long Aotian immediately felt speechless and said somewhat amused: “I say, Sister Xue'er, are you silly? Shi Jing was killed by me, as were a group of the Shi Family's Nascent Soul Realm Elders, Soul Emergence Realm Protectors, and even six Divided Soul Realm Ancestors.

If you want storage rings, if you want Cultivate resources, don't I, the Young Lord, have plenty on me?”

“...”

“⊙∀⊙!”

Aside, Long Aomei, Long Aolan, Long Aozhu, Long Aoju, Long Aoyu, Long Aohong, Long Aohuang, Long Aowu, and Long Aoxue, who didn't know about their Young Lord's glorious deeds, were also utterly dumbfounded...