Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 53: Quota for the Ruins
"Lu Qingshan greets the patriarch, the great elder... True Man Qingling." Lu Qingshan ignored the divine thoughts that kept lingering over him and bowed to the three Jindan cultivators one by one.
He hesitated for a moment when calling Lu Bei, and finally chose to call Lu Bei by his Taoist name.
The cultivator sitting on the main throne is the current head of the Lu family, Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan had been the number one person in the Lu family for a long time, until Lu Bei appeared, and this situation changed.
"Well, Lu Qingshan is only fifteen this year. When he took the spiritual root test at the age of five, the result was just an ordinary spiritual root. He has never been able to successfully sense Qi over the years. But after he disappeared three months ago, when he reappeared in the Lu family, he was already a cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining."
Lu Yuan's gaze scraped over like a sharp knife, as if he could see through Lu Qingshan.
"Among all the children of my Lu family over the past hundreds of years, your resume is unique. Why? Is it that the feng shui of my Lu family is bad? It caused you, a genius who could perfect Qi training in three months, to be covered in dust all the time? It was not until you left the Lu family that the dust was gone and the light was born, shining through the mountains and rivers?"
Although there was no direct question, the questioning intent in the words was unmistakable.
Lu Qingshan remained calm and said, "Patriarch, please don't joke with me. I just had some opportunities during the time I was missing. I couldn't sense the Qi before, naturally it was because I didn't have enough talent. How dare I blame the Feng Shui of the Lu family? I don't even deserve the title of genius that the Patriarch said."
"Haha, it's just an opportunity?" Lu Yuan sneered, "The opportunity that allows a mortal like you to achieve perfection in Qi training in three months is no ordinary opportunity."
"I am very interested. Could you tell me about it? I want to see if there is anything worth learning from it and emulate it, so that the children of my Lu family can also improve their cultivation. If so, I will definitely give you a great credit."
"Opportunities are something you can only encounter by chance. I was able to encounter this opportunity because of my fate. It is unlikely that I will be able to have it again." Lu Qingshan was not bothered by Lu Yuan's sarcasm and replied calmly, "Since it cannot be replicated, what good is there for the Patriarch to hear?"
"Don't be so nonchalant! Just answer the master honestly whenever he asks you something. Do you think you can get away with talking nonsense and playing some tricks?" The old man sitting at the lower right of the main seat suddenly said angrily.
This is Lu Zhou, the great elder of the Lu family and also the oldest person in the Lu family today.
In terms of seniority, it may be traced back to several of Lu Qingshan’s great-grandfathers.
Lu Qingshan's face straightened, and he stared at the Great Elder Lu Zhou, asking, "Does it mean that in the Lu family, if the younger generation encounters any opportunity, they must report it? I remember that there is no such rule in the family rules? If that's the case, if this opportunity is useful to the Great Elder, do I have to give it to the Great Elder?"
Lu Qingshan's words were sharp, but he showed no fear at all towards the Jindan cultivator Lu Zhou, and had no intention of backing down.
Lu Qingshan refuted like this, and Lu Zhou looked a little ugly.
A strange atmosphere was brewing in the hall.
Suddenly, a gentle laugh was heard.
Lu Bei looked at Lu Qingshan, who was still calm in the face of three Jindan cultivators, and chuckled, "He's right. Doesn't our Lu family have this little bit of tolerance? If a big family can't tolerate the opportunity of a younger generation, then what is the meaning of this family's existence, and what is the cohesion? "
Then, he turned to look at Lu Zhou, who was standing beside him with his eyes wide open. "Great Elder, in my opinion, we should just let this matter go."
Lu Bei's tone was gentle, without any authority or overbearing intent.
However, Lu Zhou, who was originally furious, showed a change of expression after hearing Lu Bei's words, and finally gave up questioning.
The head of the family, Lu Yuan, glanced at Lu Bei, but in the end, he didn't say much.
It seems that my father has a very high status. The head of the family and the chief elder are unwilling to oppose him.
Lu Qingshan saw all of this and immediately understood.
Suddenly, a jade slip appeared out of thin air in Lu Yuan's hand.
At the same time, a hazy spiritual light appeared in Lu Yuan's hand, and Lu Yuan lightly touched the jade slip with his fingertips.
Immediately, the information in the jade slip appeared in the air.
This jade slip was exactly the one on which the black-robed monk had recorded Lu Qingshan's oral information in the Deacon's Hall.
After showing the information in the jade slip to Lu Qingshan, Lu Yuan raised the sleeves of his robe, and the words in the air disappeared instantly.
"According to you, you disappeared because you were attacked by evil cultivators, and then it was Zhishoulou who saved your life?" Lu Yuan asked slowly.
"That's true." Lu Qingshan naturally would not go back on what he said.
"Do you know what Zhishou Tower is?" Lu Yuan asked with a fixed gaze.
With Lu Yuan's status and position, he naturally understood the existence of Zhishou Tower, and even more so its terrifying nature.
So after knowing that Lu Qingshan had contact with Zhishoulou, he would definitely ask about the specific situation.
"I didn't know it before, but I found out later, it's a huge monster." Lu Qingshan chuckled.
These are all information he revealed intentionally.
The questions Lu Yuan asked were all within his expectations.
Lu Yuan's eyes sparkled, and he suddenly asked, "Could the opportunity you mentioned be related to Zhishou Tower?"
"I guess so." Lu Qingshan thought for a moment and answered in a deep voice.
——Indeed, if it weren’t for Yuanshan Tower, he would not have been able to receive the two huge amounts of experience points from Master Xueshi and Master Kuhun.
If it were Zhishoulou, it would not be difficult to create a cultivator of the tenth level of Qi Refining in three months.
After hearing Lu Qingshan's answer, Lu Yuan seemed to be thinking about something. He looked at Lu Qingshan back and forth, and for a moment he couldn't figure out the relationship between Lu Qingshan and Zhishoulou.
If Lu Qingshan really had some relationship with Zhishoulou, they would never want to offend Lu Qingshan, and would even regard Lu Qingshan as the cornerstone of the family.
Lu Qingshan looked at the patriarch who was lost in thought and took the initiative to speak: "I can understand that the patriarch has many concerns, but no matter what, I, Lu Qingshan, am a member of the Lu family, there is no doubt about that."
The subtext of his words was to express his attitude to Lu Yuan.
He is a member of the Lu family. No matter how he transformed from a mortal into a cultivator of the tenth level of Qi Refining within three months, it is definitely a good thing for the Lu family.
In terms of bloodline, the Lu family is his family, and this cannot be changed.
Moreover, Lu Qingshan in this world has lived in the Lu family for fifteen years, and there has never been a bloody plot in which someone in the Lu family bullied him because of his mediocre qualifications.
Therefore, unless there were special reasons, Lu Qingshan was unwilling to have conflicts and contradictions with the Lu family.
"You haven't felt Qi for many years. According to what you said, you were lucky enough to encounter some opportunity, and within just three months, you have completed the cultivation journey that would take ordinary people ten years or even longer. But how can we determine how long this opportunity of yours can last and to what extent it will reach?" Lu Yuan raised the most core question.
According to common sense, Lu Qingshan has reached the tenth level of Qi Refining at such a young age. Even considering that it only took him three months from sensing Qi to completing Qi Refining, the Lu family would spare no resources to vigorously cultivate Lu Qingshan.
But the problem is that if Lu Qingshan is like Lu Bei, who has been gifted since childhood and has practiced very quickly, then the family will naturally have no hesitation in allocating a lot of resources to him to train him.
But Lu Qingshan was just a mortal before, and he became a cultivator because of some opportunities.
This leads to a possibility:
What if this is the only opportunity Lu Qingshan has?
Next, they invested a lot of family resources in Lu Qingshan, but Lu Qingshan was unable to continue this amazing performance and break through to the foundation-building stage and then to the golden elixir stage?
It can even be said that even if Lu Qingshan could reach the foundation-building stage, it would not have much effect.
Because for the Lu family, although the foundation-building cultivators are the backbone of the family, the ones who can truly determine the family's status can only be the high-level Jindan cultivators.
A family's resources are always limited.
If a large amount of resources are invested in Lu Qingshan, but Lu Qingshan fails to play his due role, the Lu family will fall into a long period of depression.
Therefore, Lu Qingshan needs to prove that he is worthy of the family's investment of resources.
Only then will they start to vigorously cultivate Lu Qingshan.
Regarding this, Lu Qingshan waved his hand calmly: "My cultivation does not require the support of the family's resources. I only have one request, I want one of the family's quota for the Xujie this year."
He doesn't need the Lu family's resources, nor is he interested in them.
The reason why he wanted to go back to the Lu family, besides because he wanted to visit Lu Zhi and Lu Xun, the most important reason was this quota for the Xujie.
He now needs a foundation-building technique to advance to the next level.
And this world of ruins happens to be related to a foundation-building technique.
A Taoist-level foundation-building technique!
