"Where are you, Xiao Ying?" Xiao Yun had been trying to find his daughter but he couldn't find a clue of where she was.
Suddenly, he sensed a large amount of Qi not too far from him so he decided to fly there.
When he reached the place, he saw dead bodies of the Ape all over the place but he didn't care about those as he saw his daughter.
As he flew down and checked her, he found that she was fine but her Qi was almost drained out from her body.
"Did the Qi I just felt was from her?... Maybe I will ask her later" He then transferred Qi into her.
After ensuring that her body was stable, he started looking at the young man who fainted next to her.
"A normal person?... Time is running out, I should bring both them back fast"
When Xiao Yun raised his hand, both Xiao Ying and Sun Zhen disappeared just like they were never there in the first place.
Seeing no more reason to stay, Xiao Yun flew back to the city.
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"Not yet... My Hero" Sun Zhen started to open his eyes as he heard the voice of the Goddess again.
He felt like he was haunted by her voice but he really didn't mind at all. Just by hearing her voice, he would never forget her face.
After waking up, he looked around and found out that he wasn't in his old room. Instead, he was in a room that looked like a bedroom from the old Chinese.
"We have been saved. But where is Xiao Ying?" He thought.
He then got out of the bed and found out that he was not in his leather armor and he was wearing clothes just like what Xiao Ying wore.
Suddenly the door opened and a woman, who dresses like a servant, came in with a bowl of warm water but when she saw Sun Zhen, she was startled and dropped the bowl.
"Oh, it just you" She sighed as she finally knew who he was.
"Sorry for scaring you, but can you tell me where I am?" Sun Zhen asked.
"You are in Xiao Clan house. Please wait here, I am going to call the Patriarch" Before going, she picked the bowl and asked him not to go anywhere.
Not too long after that, Xiao Yun and his daughter came in with the servant behind them.
"Damn that a tall guy" He thought as he saw Xiao Yun.
"Sun Zhen. Thank god for you wake up. I thought you were going to sleep forever" Xiao Ying jumped and hugged him.
But the reunion was stopped as her dad didn't like seeing his daughter hugging another man.
"Ahem, Ying. You should make space for the young man" Xiao Yun coughed.
She then let go of him and ran back to her dad while giggling.
"This kid" he sighed as he realized that his teaching was wrong for her because she didn't notice the boy and girl boundary despite she was now old enough to know.
"Sun Zhen, right? You have been sleeping for a long time now so I am thinking that you must be hungry. How about you go with us to have breakfast?" Xiao Yun asked.
"I would love to" Sun Zhen answered as he was very hungry.
On his way with them, Xiao Ying told him everything that happened after her dad rescued them.
He found out that he had been sleeping for 3 days, that explained the hungry state of his. Then she said that the city decided to open a large hunt on those Ape after my dad informed the Tower Master because they became demonic.
"Your spear and the bag are now being held by my dad, I will ask for them after breakfast" She said
"Okay thanks for telling me" he said but he was sure that her dad was suspicious of his items.
As they were walking the hallway, he saw that the whole place was related to a Xianxia world which confirmed that cultivation would be a must for him.
The whole place was very lively, servants and guards walked around as they were working. He even saw some old men meditated in a large yard but the most bizarre thing he saw those old men were floating 1 meter above the ground.
"These are the Elders, the Clan Guardian" Xiao Ying told him as she saw him curiously looking at the elders.
"Are they stronger than the Juqi you talk about? In fact, what is a Juqi?" He asked.
"Juqi is the first step into cultivation. Whoever steps into that stage, will have control of Qi surrounding them. Qi is the life force, it is everywhere around us and help the world going. There are also better stages and each stage divided into mid, late and peak" Instead of Xiao Ying answered him, her dad told him.
"...Yeah, what he said" She said while making an angry face.
"I just afraid that you will give him wrong answer, you never study much about that" Xiao Yun said.
"But I did, I study a lot" She talked back.
"Then tell me what is after Juqi?" Her dad asked.
"Um?!!....That is cheating, I haven't reached 2nd stage yet" She said.
"We will discuss this later" He said while thinking he should have forced her to study some.
As they stopped talking, they finally reached the dining room where Sun Zhen saw a very long table.
"That is a lot of food" He saw all kind of food were arranged from the begin to the last of the table, he even wonder if this really breakfasts.
"Cmon Sun Zhen, let go" Xiao Ying started pulling him to the table on the top.
When they sat down, Xiao Yun called the servant to call the rest of the family. The servant nodded and she went to a large bell then hit it with a stick.
The bell sound was very loud and less than a minute, people started to come in and they dressed like Sun Zhen. He then saw the elders walked in and sat next to Xiao Yun, the Patriarch.
"Let eat" When the whole table was full of people, Xiao Yun nodded and signaled them to dig in.
As soon as he said, the people ate like a monster. Each dish was cleaned clean less than 1 minute.
"What the heck" Sun Zhen was shocked because he never saw people ate this crazy, the food wasn't that good.
Afraid of not having enough for his stomach, he also ate like them and he chose to swallow most of the time.
"Eat faster," Xiao Ying told him as she ate faster than others.
He realized that because of this environment, Xiao Ying had to adapt to eating very fast.
As for Xiao Yun and the elders, they ate like a normal person and their dishes didn't get touched by anyone.
The Xiao family had a very weird tradition.
The early ancestors of the family had a hard time to get food so sometime when the whole family got a big feast, they all fought for the food and tried to eat as much as possible, even the children and the women.
Only the strong and the elder's food were untouchable because of seniority.
The time had changed, they could get food easily but the tradition stayed with the family.
Some of the other family didn't like how rude the Xiao family were but they didn't care and still eat like there is no tomorrow.
About 10 minutes later, the breakfast ended with no more dishes or leftover. Sun Zhen on the other hand, got his stomach was bloated with food.
"Wow, you also eat very fast but you should improve your chewing skill" Xiao Ying said to him while looking at his miserable state.
"There is also chewing skill?" He thought.
Soon, people left the room while only him, Xiao Ying and her dad stayed back.
"Xiao Ying, go back to your class. Me and Sun Zhen will talk in private" Her dad said.
"Please dad, the class is so boring and I already reached the mid-Juqi stage about 2 days ago" She argued.
"Tell me the first chapter of Peace Cultivate" Her dad asked her one of the basic knowledge in class.
"Um the star...no, wait...Flower bloom...Fine, I will go back to class. I hate you" She said while running out and told everyone how big jerk her dad was.
"Hah, kids. One moment of wishing them to stay with you forever, the next day you want to kick them out of your life" Xiao Yun thought.
After that, he looked at Sun Zhen and suddenly he snapped his finger then they disappeared from the room.
"Again, What the heck" Sun Zhen didn't know how he got into a strange office room, he just saw her dad snapped his finger and they appeared here.
He then noticed that he was sitting on a chair while her dad was sitting in front with a desk between them. He felt like the time he was interviewed for a job.
"Sun Zhen, what is your motive here and don't try to lie to me. If you lie, I will make sure you never walk again" He said (No homo)
"What?... Sir, I will not lie to you. I just wanted to go to the city while she led me back with the map in her hand" Sun Zhen answered truthfully.
"How did you fight back the Demonic Ape?" He seemed to satisfy with Sun Zhen's answer but he wanted to know more about the day when they got attacked.
"I used items inside my bag and my spear" Sun Zhen answered without adding anything more.
"Hum, Ok. I know you had your own secret so I will not bother you about that but I want to ask you who saved you guys on that day? Is my daughter the one?" He was still confused about that and her daughter said that she didn't know about that.
"...No sir, it isn't your daughter but someone else" He answered both truth and lie because the one who saved them wasn't Xiao Ying.
"One last question, do you want to cultivate like us? The family will help because you protected her despite you are only a mortal" Xiao Yun offered him a deal to make him into a cultivator.
"Yes, please" He stood up and answered excitingly because he could now have the chance to become an immortal.
"Haha great, I will also give your own place inside the clan as a thanks gift for protecting my daughter. There are your stuff and books on how to cultivate inside the room so read them. Now I will teleport you to your place, ask for help if you have any problem" Xiao Yun snapped his finger and Sun Zhen disappeared.
After Sun Zhen was gone, another person walked out from the corner of the room.
"Are you sure the boy is our best option?" It was one of the elders and he seemed like the oldest among them.
"First Elder, our family Juqi stage were all over 15 years old except for my daughter while our new generation won't up for the challenge, even if they reached Juqi stage less than 10 years old. The boy was about my daughter age and he shows the potential to become a Juqi stage. Besides, the boy could go up against 2 demonic Ape that required peak stage Juqi to take down. I trust him"
Xiao Yun didn't just give Sun Zhen all those things for free, he wanted Sun Zhen to do something for him in the future.
"Are you sure?" First Elder asked
"I hope so. If not, our family will cease to exist in the next generation" Xiao Yun answered as he looked out of the windows and watched the whole clan.