txolops Chapter 161 Encountering a Broken Engagement
Chapter 161 Encountering a Broken Engagement
This year's Lunar New Year's Eve.
The Tongzhou Society held a long-awaited reunion, with six Foundation Establishment cultivators gathering at Immortal Peach Mountain.
At that moment, everyone present felt as if they had been transported to another world.
They all clearly remembered that Li Ping, the first person in the Tongzhou Society to achieve Foundation Establishment, did so approximately twenty-four years ago.
In other words, when the Tongzhou Society cultivators gathered twenty-four years ago, only seven Qi Refining cultivators were present.
These seven Qi Refining cultivators swore brotherhood and sisterhood, intending to gather the strength of everyone else to help Li Ping, the eldest brother, establish his foundation. Then, Li Ping, who had already established his foundation, would help the others establish their foundations.
At that time, their approach seemed more like wishful thinking.
If you tell other people, it will only invite ridicule and mockery.
But who could have predicted that in just twenty-four years, starting with the eldest brother Li Ping's foundation building, the remaining five would all be able to achieve foundation building one by one?
Now, apart from Teng Feng, who had an accident during the beast tide, everyone in the Tongzhou Society has become a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Even now, when they think about it, it feels unbelievable.
"What a pity for Sixth Brother..." Zhang Tie thought of the seven siblings, six of whom had already reached the Foundation Establishment stage, while only Teng Feng had unfortunately perished. He couldn't help but feel a deep sorrow, as could the others.
Fortunately, these emotions came and went quickly.
Soon, everyone snapped out of their memories of Teng Feng's death and started talking about their recent experiences.
As the second oldest descendant after Li Ping, Zhang Tie's eldest descendant is already seventeen, but unfortunately, no spiritual root has been detected.
Among mortals, only one in ten thousand possesses spiritual roots.
Even the descendants of cultivators cannot be said to possess spiritual roots 100% of the time; it is just that the probability of having spiritual roots is much higher.
It wasn't until last year that Zhang Tie had his first offspring with spiritual roots.
When talking about his son, he was as happy as any modern parent whose child has been admitted to university.
Gu Musheng was the same; he was a bit luckier than Zhang Tie, as his first child possessed a spiritual root.
Now, under his careful guidance, he has cultivated to the second level of Qi Refining.
Seeing this, Cheng Yao couldn't help but feel a little down.
In the process of cultivating immortality, cultivators are actually gradually shedding their physical bodies, and their life essence is constantly transforming and becoming stronger.
Cheng Yao and Wang Xingwei are both Foundation Establishment cultivators, so their child has a very high chance of having spiritual roots, and their aptitude will not be low.
However, the stronger the source of life, the more difficult it is to conceive offspring.
Even Bai Qing has married and had children, but they still haven't been able to have any offspring.
……
Li Ping watched them chat and talk, and before he knew it, it was already broad daylight.
Just as everyone was preparing to take their leave, Qi Hanmo suddenly spoke up: "By the way, I sent a message back last time asking everyone to find a doctor named Yan Buping. Do you have any leads?"
"Hmm?" Li Ping frowned.
The others shook their heads, indicating that they had never heard of Yan Buping.
Cheng Yao also mentioned that Wang Xingwei had gone to Yue Kingdom to investigate for several months, but had not received any news.
Qi Hanmo looked disappointed.
Seeing the change in his expression, Li Ping smiled and asked, "Hanmo, why is your senior sister looking for Yan Buping?"
After Yu Menghan came to him asking him to treat the Seven-Colored Illusionary Light Butterfly, he thought that Qi Hanmo was looking for Yan Buping on her behalf, but now it seems that the situation is not so.
Next, in Qi Hanmo's explanation.
Li Ping realized that it wasn't Yu Menghan who had contacted Yan Buping through him, but Xiao Yunzhi.
As for the specific reasons why Xiao Yunzhi wanted to find Yan Buping, Qi Hanmo did not know.
However, during the war in the Yuan Kingdom, he accidentally fell into a dangerous place and almost died. It was Xiao Yunzhi who saved his life, so he was eager to find Yan Buping for Xiao Yunzhi.
"Xiao Yunzhi is looking for me?" Li Ping fell into deep thought.
He couldn't help but wonder if Xiao Yunzhi remembered the salted pig's trotters he had eaten on the last day of her treatment, and that's why she wanted to demand an explanation.
If that's really the reason, then Li Ping himself feels very wronged.
Because that time it wasn't intentional; it was Xiao Yunzhi's unconscious action while she was unconscious that led to him passively taking liberties with her.
"Forget it, let's wait until she comes knocking on our door." Li Ping shook his head.
He wasn't afraid if the woman was being unreasonable.
……
Qi Hanmo returned for a while, stayed for more than half a year, and then hurriedly returned to Jixia.
For him, Jixia is where his career truly lies now. His sect, master, senior sister, senior brother... are all in Jixia. Fenglan Immortal City can only be considered his rural hometown, and it is impossible for him to live here for a long time.
Li Ping saw him off, but didn't prepare any resources for him either.
He had already made up his mind that once those around him reached the Foundation Establishment stage, they would have to rely on themselves for everything.
He would only invest in a product if there was hope of it reaching the Core Formation stage; otherwise, he would not interfere with its growth.
……
After Qi Hanmo left, Li Ping returned to his original, regular life.
Aside from treating the Seven-Colored Illusionary Butterfly once a month and accepting feedings from wealthy women, he rarely went out and devoted himself to ascetic cultivation.
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Another year passed, and Bai Lin successfully broke through to the ninth level of Qi Refining. That year, she was forty-three years old.
To be honest, Li Ping thought that reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining at this age was a bit slow.
But at least he was able to cultivate to the peak of Qi Refining before the age of forty-seven, which qualified him to attempt Foundation Establishment, so it was still not bad.
At the same time, he gradually began to use the power of the Nourishing Life Technique to restore her original state in his daily cultivation, so that her physical condition could be restored to its peak.
Four years is enough for him to finish all of this.
He hoped that Bailin could successfully establish her foundation.
……
After leaving Jixia Academy, he took Xu Guike and Ayun to Liang Kingdom to search for spiritual materials.
Five years later, Dai Sangyu finally found the spiritual materials he needed and returned to the Immortal City.
Because she did not conceal her whereabouts when she returned to the city, many people learned of her return.
This naturally includes Huang Yan, who has been waiting in the Immortal City for more than ten years.
He was sent by his ancestor to the Immortal City to marry Dai Sangyu, but because Dai Sangyu was traveling and had disappeared without a trace, he was unable to see her at all.
In order not to miss Dai Sangyu's return, and to avoid making this Core Formation stage Daoist partner feel neglected.
Furthermore, returning empty-handed might lead the patriarch to deem them unusable.
Therefore, he had to wait in the Immortal City for more than ten years.
Fortunately, he was fortunate enough to befriend a high-level alchemist who was able to refine the Heart-Soothing Pill; otherwise, it might have delayed his cultivation.
"Finally back!" Thinking of becoming a Daoist partner with a female cultivator at the Core Formation stage, Huang Yan couldn't help but feel secretly excited: "I'll go see Fairy Dai right now!"
……
The palace atop Qinglong Mountain.
Dai Sangyu is telling his master about the gains and losses of this trip.
From accepting Master Xu's reincarnation as his disciple, to refining treasures in Jixia City, to accidentally discovering the Soul-Nourishing Wood Ring where Lady Qi's Nascent Soul was hidden, reaching a deal with her, and then going to Liang Kingdom to find spiritual materials.
He recounted all the matters one by one.
Master Fenglan nodded repeatedly as she listened. Finally, when she heard that her disciple had obtained a secret technique that could transform his "Heaven-Mending Body" into the "Creation Dao Body," she was even more astonished.
Dai Sangyu smiled and said, "Master, although my senior uncle's reincarnation only has five spiritual roots, with the blessing of his unique physique, his cultivation of the Heaven-Slaying Sword Dao is progressing by leaps and bounds. In just twelve years, he has already reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, and his cultivation speed is comparable to that of a person with two spiritual roots."
With two spiritual roots, the cultivation speed would certainly not be so fast that it would take twelve years to reach the fifth level of Qi Refining.
The main reason was that she spent a lot of time teaching Xu Guike to read and build his foundation. At the same time, Xu Guike was not always able to have the conditions for cultivation during his travels with her.
Now that he has returned to Qinglong Mountain, with a fixed spiritual place where he can cultivate in peace, he will soon be able to show the true cultivation speed of the Heaven-Slaying Sword Body.
"Oh? Is that Senior Brother Xu's reincarnation?" Master Fenglan extended his divine sense and quickly saw the sword-browed, star-eyed youth sitting cross-legged outside the hall.
In a daze, Master Fenglan seemed to see the spirited and peerless swordsman from more than two hundred years ago.
"Master, would you like to see the reincarnation of your senior master?" Dai Sangyu asked cautiously, noticing that her master's condition was not right.
Master Fenglan shook his head: "No need. I have no regrets in this life to see my senior brother's reincarnation again. I only have less than eighty years left to live. In the future, the lineage of Tianxuan Sect will still be inherited by you and your senior brother's reincarnation. You should teach him well for me in the future."
"Yes, Master." Dai Sangyu nodded respectfully.
She understood her master's concerns. Her master's reincarnation was in the prime of his youth, while her master was already an elderly man of over four hundred years old.
Master will not be an old cow eating young grass.
Furthermore, although Xu Guike is the reincarnation of his senior master, he has no memories of his previous life, and his personality is quite different.
The master never forgot the peerless Xu Pingsheng, not the current Xu Guike.
"By the way, do you remember Huang Yunzi? One of his descendants has been in the Immortal City for more than ten years, perhaps for the purpose of becoming your Daoist partner." Master Fenglan brought up another matter.
Upon hearing this, a hint of disgust flashed in Dai Sangyu's eyes: "Hmph, he's only after the 'Heaven-Mending Jade Liquid' inside me."
Master Fenglan nodded: "Since you have obtained the secret method that allows you to transform the Heaven-Mending Body into the Creation Dao Body, it is naturally impossible for you to become his Daoist partner again. Explain this clearly to him and give him some compensation."
"Yes, Master!" Dai Sangyu nodded in agreement.
……
Huang Yan presented his visiting card and quickly received a reply from Meng Qingyi, who said that Senior Sister Dai would be meeting with him and asked him to wait a moment.
With a smile and a nod, Huang Yan waited in the hall.
Soon, a figure in a gray robe entered the hall, her gaze falling on Huang Yan.
Huang Yan was about to speak when Dai Sangyu interrupted him directly: "You are Huang Yan? I know why you're here. It's impossible for me to become your Daoist partner. Consider this bottle of 'Essence Pill' as compensation, as it will help you break through the bottleneck of the late Foundation Establishment stage."
Upon hearing this, Huang Yan's smile froze.
The next moment, a jade bottle landed on the ground in front of him, and after saying this, Dai Sangyu left on his own.
Standing there, Huang Yan was trembling with anger.
He never expected that after waiting for more than ten years, this would be the result.