Chapter 401: Shamanic Cultivator (I)
Chapter 401: Shamanic Cultivator (I)
"Those people look quite unfamiliar. Do you know them?" Lin Zheyu asked, pointing at the strangers speaking with General Wei Yun.What Lin Zheyu truly wanted to know was the identity of that young man. Although the other party had concealed it well and the mockery and hostility had only flashed by for an instant, he was certain his perception had not been mistaken. Li Yin and Guo Yu both shook their heads, indicating they did not know. The group consisted of five people, two women and three men. Aside from the leading man, they all looked quite young, around twenty years old.
"They're from the Directorate of Celestial Observation," Zheng Shan suddenly said.
Seeing everyone look over, he explained, "My mother's third aunt's sister-in-law's nephew happened to join the Directorate of Celestial Observation by chance, so I know a few people from the Directorate of Celestial Observation."
Zheng Shan then shrugged and said with a smile, "But they do not know me."
The Directorate of Celestial Observation was a very mysterious organization that possessed many terrifying experts. Lin Zheyu did not know much about it. The only people he could come into contact with were ordinary individuals like himself.
"You mean they are... immortal cultivators?" Guo Yu asked in a lowered voice, his tone full of surprise.
Those were immortal cultivators. Who would not envy them? In the legends, immortal cultivators could move mountains and fill seas, destroy stars with a wave of the hand, and achieve immortality. Such terrifying power was far beyond what martial artists could compare to.
"I do not know about the others, but the one in the lead probably is. My distant cousin can only return home once every few years after joining the Directorate of Celestial Observation. When I heard about it back then, I went over to see the commotion. One of those times, my cousin returned together with that leading man, and my cousin addressed him as 'Senior Brother,'" Zheng Shan said with a nod.
Zheng Shan felt that his distant cousin's fortune was astonishing. The boy had been weak and sickly since childhood and grew up constantly holding a medicine jar. After turning ten, he suddenly fell gravely ill and grew weaker by the day, nearly dying. His mother refused to accept that the son she had raised with such effort would perish, so she took him to countless famous physicians, yet none could help.
In the end, she had no choice but to pray to the gods and invite spirit mediums to perform exorcism rituals. After the spirit mediums came, the boy miraculously recovered. His remarkable aptitude was then discovered, and people from the Directorate of Celestial Observation came to take him away.
After hearing about it, Zheng Shan envied his distant cousin immensely. The Zheng Family had relied on that cousin's favor to rise in a short time from a small, esteemed family to one of the leading families of Wuling City. When one person attains the Dao, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.