Chapter 90

Zhu Lingwu completed his small experiment and couldn't help but stop his cultivation with satisfaction.

As his soul consciousness moved, the spiritual energy halo that had been circling around his body instantly dispersed, transforming into five beams of different colors and returning to their respective Xuanming Ghost Heads.

Soon, these Xuanming Ghost Heads, one after another, drilled into the Xuanming Ghost Refining Flask, which Zhu Lingwu then hid back in his right sleeve. He stood up from the cultivation platform.

At this moment, Zhu Lingwu saw the little white fox beside him. Thinking of the ridicule it had given him over the past few days, he took a few steps to the white fox, reached out, and picked it up.

"Ha ha, Little Daji, you mocked me, didn't you? Now you see, your master is human, a smart human. So even if this body has poor potential, your master can still create external aids to cultivate! What, you don't understand what external aids mean? Uh, you wouldn't understand anyway, so let's talk about it later!"

Zhu Lingwu was now very pleased, feeling as refreshed as eating an ice watermelon in July or drinking warm chocolate in the cold winter.

The little white fox weakly resisted Zhu Lingwu's caressing of its fur, baring its teeth and pretending to bite him, but its expression was somewhat strange. It really hadn't expected Zhu Lingwu to come up with such a method to cultivate.

It couldn't help but wonder about Zhu Lingwu's true identity, the one hiding in this seemingly childlike body. What was his background?

In terms of age, this little white fox was over a hundred years older than Zhu Lingwu. Having grown three fox tails, it had been cultivating for a long time.

A thousand-year-old nine-tailed fox means that a nine-tailed fox would need to cultivate for a thousand years at a normal speed to grow nine tails. However, as a special breed of spirit fox, their intelligence level is actually very high.

In the past, this little white fox lived in the Ten Thousand Demon Ridges, facing only beasts and spirit beasts, so it naturally remained as simple and pure as the mountain spirits.

It's like a person with the intelligence of Einstein, if they spent their whole life in a mountain village, farming and growing vegetables, they would only be a smart farmer, not a scientist.

Now that it has come to human society, it observes human life every day, broadening its horizons. It can truly learn to think like a human, which is why many demons, after taking human form, travel to the human world. Only then can they truly possess human intelligence.

Although this little white fox is a newcomer to human society, it is not completely ignorant. Its mind is filled with knowledge about the human world, but it needs to experience it bit by bit.

This is the common wisdom inheritance of the beast race. Even beasts and spirit beasts with little intelligence can learn how to hunt and survive under the guidance of their elders, receiving the survival inheritance of their clan.

For a spirit beast like a nine-tailed fox, the inheritance from their ancestors is naturally not lacking. Many pieces of knowledge about the human world, like stories we hear from childhood, are stored in the little white fox's mind. Now, it is beginning to truly understand the true meaning behind these stories.

So, the little white fox now knows more about the world than Zhu Lingwu did when he first arrived.

Previously, after hearing Zhu Lingwu's conversation with Meng Yishi, the little white fox thought Zhu Lingwu might be the reincarnation of a powerful cultivator. However, as it observed and interacted with Zhu Lingwu, it increasingly felt that Zhu Lingwu didn't seem to be a cultivator with a significant background.

It realized that despite knowing Zhu Lingwu for so long, it still knew nothing about him.

Today, Zhu Lingwu's actions made the little white fox speculate about his background again. This guy really has ideas, coming up with such a method to cultivate.

"I wonder if this guy has a way to help me speed up my cultivation as well?"

For some reason, the little white fox thought of this. As it thought, its gaze towards Zhu Lingwu became more complex.

Unfortunately, the pleased Zhu Lingwu didn't notice the change in the little white fox's expression. He just held the little white fox in his arms, played with its smooth fur for a while, and then left the cultivation room.

After that, Zhu Lingwu didn't go directly to the family's transmission hall. He first returned to his private courtyard, changed into a set of scholar's fine clothes—there was no way around it, this was the face of a scholar's son when going out—and then had a servant prepare a carriage to take him to the family's transmission hall.

The family's transmission hall, a place that is the foundation of a scholar family, is naturally built in the central area of the family.

The transmission hall is next to the family's ancestral hall, and only members of the Zhu clan can enter. Outsiders have no right to enter, even the many loyal family servants who follow Zhu Lingwu can only wait outside obediently.

The servants who serve here are also commoners of the Zhu clan. They were originally part of the Zhu clan, but they lost their innate spiritual energy in their bloodline and were removed from the Zhu clan's genealogy, becoming ordinary commoners.

But with their former status, they can still work in special places like the Zhu clan's ancestral hall, which is a higher position than ordinary family servants.

The Zhu clan's ancestral hall is located on a hill about 700 to 800 meters high in the Zhu clan's ancestral land. Zhu Lingwu had just been there recently to participate in the family's grand ceremony on New Year's Day.

At that time, the entire hill was crowded with people, and Zhu Lingwu didn't make it to the top. He just waited on the steps of the hill, completely unaware of the ceremony on the top. He only followed the words passed down from above, kneeling and bowing with the other clan members.

Since the ancestral hall is on the top of the hill, the transmission hall is also on the top. On such an ordinary day, there weren't many people on the hill, making it look desolate.

At the foot of the hill, there is a large mountain gate guarded by more than a dozen family guards holding magical staves.

When Zhu Lingwu arrived, these family guards held their staves and blocked the carriage. The leader of the guards came forward to ask who was in the carriage.

These family guards are also Zhu clan descendants, cultivating postnatal martial arts techniques. Although they are not qi cultivators, they still display a good aura.

Their reliance is not on their martial skills but on their status as family guards. They are the enforcers of the Zhu clan's laws.

Zhu Lingwu didn't dare to act rashly here. His carriage had already stopped, and his personal servant Liangcai got off to answer the guard captain. Then, Zhu Lingwu obediently got out of the carriage.

The guard captain came forward, verified Zhu Lingwu's identity, and then greeted him, inviting him to enter the mountain gate alone.

Zhu Lingwu didn't cause any trouble, took a few steps, and walked through the mountain gate up the hill...