Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone
Chapter 48 Complex Emotions

Chapter 48: Chapter 48 Complex Emotions

After bidding farewell to the Grand Elder, the two of them left.

"Xiaoxue, you’ve reached the Foundation Establishment Stage. Even if you go to the Dan Yang Sect, it will be quite safe. At this stage, no one can perform possession on you anymore!" Lu Xuanji said, "On the contrary, you’ll be valued."

"The factions within Dan Yang Sect are numerous, with internal strife and open secret struggles incessant. If I join, I’d surely get entangled in all sorts of conflicts and intrigues. I might even become cannon fodder, falling to someone’s schemes. Nothing compares to the safety and freedom of the Lu Family."

Ye Feixue said this quite nonchalantly.

Lu Xuanji was taken aback.

It was as if someone preferred running their own business, being their own boss, rather than working for a Fortune 500 company and enduring the pressures of foreign corporations.

"Actually, none of these are the real reason; the real reason is I can’t bear to part with you. If I were to join the Dan Yang Sect, we might not see each other for ten or twenty years, and by then, I’m afraid I might forget you." Ye Feixue said as she moved closer to Lu Xuanji, the distance between them decreasing.

From twenty centimeters to ten.

Finally, pressed close together, feeling each other’s heartbeat, sensing the breath that was so close, feeling that familiar aura.

Ye Feixue seemed drunk, or maybe she was in a dream-like trance, "Because of you, the world has value. Because of you, I feel like I’m alive. Only when I’m with you does my life have meaning, and am I happy. If one day you were gone, even becoming a Golden Core Ancestor would mean nothing."

Saying this, she couldn’t hold back any longer and leaned in for a kiss.

She took the initiative, without a hint of hesitation.

This was the man who had brought her out of the quagmire, introducing her to a whole new world.

This man was her light, her sun.

In the past, she had always been self-conscious, with an unspoken silence.

But upon entering the Foundation Establishment, her courage kept growing, becoming bold, and she directly kissed him.

Her face turned red with shyness, her eyes closed, trying to hide her embarrassment.

As she kissed, feeling the beauty of the moment, Lu Xuanji slightly frowned, about to instinctively push away.

Having spent more than twenty years together, being so close, it was hard for Lu Xuanji to feel any emotional or romantic stirrings for Xiaoxue.

All these years together, at first, he treated her like a daughter; later, more like a younger sister.

Still, it was difficult to spark romantic love between a man and a woman.

Perhaps it was because the distance was too close.

Too close, making it hard to find beauty.

Instinctively wanting to push away, but at the moment of doing so, he stopped.

To push away like that would hurt Xiaoxue.

They kissed, they entwined.

A moment later, the two separated.

Ye Feixue’s face was flushed, seemingly a bit shy, only pretending to remain calm.

"Xiaoxue, you refused Fairy Qingxue, which is quite dangerous."

Lu Xuanji shifted the topic, speaking of another matter, perhaps to remind her.

"If I refused her, is the Dan Yang Sect going to send someone to kill me?" Ye Feixue laughed.

"They wouldn’t do that. The weak kill with knives, the strong kill with rules." Lu Xuanji said, seemingly recalling something, "The strong make the rules and naturally wouldn’t break their own rules or damage their own reputation just to kill someone. Instead, they use various rules to kill."

"Why is it that cultivation families near the Dan Yang Sect can’t develop? First, it’s the resources, continuously squeezing these families; second, they absorb a lot of talent from them; finally, there’s the ongoing wars with the Demon Race and Demon Cultivators, with our family cultivators always sent to the front lines, to the most perilous places, engaging in the fiercest battles. After each war, cultivation families suffer heavy losses, with many cultivators either severely injured or fallen."

"But can we say the Dan Yang Sect is abusing their power and intentionally oppressing the cultivation families? We can’t. Fighting the Demon Race, protecting the territory, is a cultivator’s responsibility. Besides, in those dangerous areas are also Dan Yang Sect cultivators fighting bloody battles and falling; the Dan Yang Sect itself suffers great losses."

"After the cultivators from the cultivation families fall, Foundation Establishment Cultivators killed will be compensated with a Foundation Establishment Pill, and for Purple Mansion Cultivators, a Purple Sun Jade. Through such processes, the actions of the Dan Yang Sect appear fair and according to the rules, leaving no room for criticism."

But what seems reasonable is actually the greatest unreasonable act.

It’s as if the Dan Yang Sect drafts cultivators for war, using the Demon Race to exhaust the powers of various cultivation families, as well as the dissenting factions within the Dan Yang Sect, all done openly according to rules. This is an unveiled strategy.

No one could present any objections.

Or rather, the objections are too trivial to be mentioned as they would only bring embarrassment.

"Brother, I refused Fairy Qingxue. The next time during a beast tide, the Dan Yang Sect will send us to some dangerous region," Ye Feixue said.

"That is inevitable."

Lu Xuanji said, "If the Dan Yang Sect doesn’t suppress the growth of those cultivation families, gradually, these families will start threatening the power of the Dan Yang Sect’s leaders. However, the Dan Yang Sect will also restrain from pushing the cultivation families to a dead end, always acting fairly. Without those families sharing the pressure, the Dan Yang Sect would also suffer tremendous losses."

"Fortunately, the Ye Family, Wu Family, etc., have Purple Mansion Ancestors holding the fort, with dozens of Foundation Establishment experts. They are the primary targets of the Dan Yang Sect for reduction. As for our Lu Family, we don’t even make the list, so the crisis we face is relatively smaller."

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To ensure Ye Feixue has an accurate understanding and doesn’t make misjudgments due to bias, Lu Xuanji did not overly denigrate or discredit the Dan Yang Sect but provided a relatively objective and fair evaluation.

Lu Family’s feelings towards the Dan Yang Sect are complex.

On one side, the Dan Yang Sect acts as a protector for the Lu Family.

The Dan Yang Sect is the main force fighting against Demon Beasts and Demon Cultivators, and with their deterrence, the Lu Family can peacefully farm and develop industries.

The Dan Yang Sect established rules and through them, order in Chu Country’s Twelve Commanderies was achieved, ending the chaos in the Cultivation Realm, maintaining relative stability. The competition and internal conflicts among cultivators are restricted by these rules, avoiding random exterminations and killings as before.

In this aspect, the Lu Family should be grateful to the Dan Yang Sect.

But on the other hand, the Dan Yang Sect is constantly siphoning resources from the Land of the Twelve Commanderies, recruiting talent, suppressing some cultivation families, and utilizing wars to dramatically reduce the population, stunting the development of many cultivation families.

This makes the Lu Family itch with hatred.

The emotional shifts within this matter require careful understanding.

Regarding the Dan Yang Sect, one must maintain a balance—not too close, as that would lead to being devoured or duped, just like the Beautiful Country from previous lifetimes; but also not too distant, as the Dan Yang Sect is the dominating force in the vicinity, with a single policy capable of making countless families rise or fall.

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