Cultivation Starts When Ancestors Manifest

You offer a stack of funeral paper to the ancestor in the ancestral shrine, and your ancestor gives back a ladle of golden fortune. Three months later, you pass the county-level examination.

You offer ten stacks of funeral paper to the ancestor in the ancestral shrine, and your ancestor gives back a golden luck bead, helping you grow a seven-aperture exquisite heart.

You offer ten ingots of gold to the ancestor in the ancestral shrine, and your ancestor gives back a red dragon bead. Smoke rises from your ancestral grave, your fortune turns blue-purple, and your fate changes.

Since Zhang Jian became powerful through filial piety, his path has grown more and more unorthodox.