Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

Chapter 194

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Xu Guike's expression was strange.

What appeared in his consciousness was a small Turkic tribe.

Such small tribes usually have only one or two monks, with a population of no more than a thousand. They do not have fixed camps and live a nomadic life, following the water and grass.

With such weak strength, a blizzard, a flood, or a hurricane could cause them to disappear completely from the grasslands, leaving no trace.

He knew that there were many such small tribes on the grasslands.

Although small in scale, they mostly existed as vassals of larger tribes.

Therefore, they also participated in this invasion of the Western Wilderness.

Of course, they may not necessarily participate in the war directly; they may provide logistics and transport looted resources.

These resources include supplies, as well as human slaves.

On the flying boat, Xu Guike used his divine sense to look at the blood-stained figure below: "This must be Fellow Daoist Li's junior named Ji Shuxuan."

Considering his intention to escape the Yan Kingdom, Xu Guike inquired about the backgrounds of all the immortal cultivators who were traveling with him to the Yan Kingdom.

He paid special attention to Ji Shuxuan.

After all, he and Li Ping hit it off immediately, and Li Ping had given him many precious talismans before he set off.

When Ji Shuxuan went missing, he searched for him several times while on missions.

Unfortunately, he couldn't find them, and he thought Ji Shuxuan was dead.

Unexpectedly, he became a slave to a Turkic tribe tens of thousands of miles away.

"Should we save him?" Xu Guike's eyes showed a struggle.

When cultivators exhaust their magical power and are unable to use magical artifacts or cast spells, they are actually not much stronger than Turkic warriors.

Therefore, if he doesn't intervene, it will be very difficult for Ji Shuxuan to regain his freedom on his own.

However, if he were to save Ji Shuxuan, he might expose his own whereabouts, adding more risk to his journey to the far north.

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Guike finally made up his mind.

Save Ji Shuxuan!

He planned to destroy the small Turkic tribe below and eliminate all traces of them. At the same time, regardless of whether Ji Shuxuan was willing or not, he intended to take him to the far north.

He was worried about sending Ji Shuxuan back to the Western Wilderness!

Whoosh!

A flying sword shot out from his sleeve, transforming into a silver streak that swept towards the Turkic tribe below...

……

Li Ping arrived at the Sword Casting Manor about half a month later.

The ceremony for Yan Hengchuan and Yu Peiling to become Daoist partners was officially held on a small island in the middle of Bifeng Lake.

The Yu family has a wide circle of friends, and on this joyous occasion, cultivators from all the major and minor cultivation families in the Jiang Kingdom came to offer their congratulations.

On Yan Hengchuan's side, only Li Ping, the Ji family, and the Yan family cultivators were present.

However, Li Ping was a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the cultivators from the immortal families in the Jiang Kingdom treated him very politely.

after all.

Among the cultivators present, apart from the Jiang family patriarch, who was a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, his cultivation level was the highest.

Li Ping simply smiled and nodded at the cultivators who came to greet him and try to build rapport, without intending to engage in any further conversation.

The other cultivators realized that he wasn't a sociable person, so gradually no one bothered him anymore.

Soon, witnessed by the head of the Jiang family.

Yan Hengchuan and Yu Peiling officially announced to the world that they had become Daoist partners and would cultivate the Dao of Immortality together from then on.

The couple received congratulations from all the monks present, and after the ceremony, the wedding banquet reached its climax—the feast could begin.

During the meal.

Yan Hengchuan led a gentle-looking woman to Li Ping and introduced her with a smile, "Grandmaster, this is Pei Ling!"

After saying that, he gestured to Yu Peiling: "Hurry up and pay your respects to your grandmaster."

As he spoke, his eyes were full of excitement, clearly still immersed in the happiness of winning the heart of his beloved.

Yu Peiling glanced at Li Ping a few times and whispered, "Grandmaster."

This wasn't the first time she had met Li Ping; in fact, she was quite familiar with him.

Thirty years ago, Li Ping visited Bifeng Lake.

At that time, the ancestor sent someone to invite the mother to accompany him, but after hesitating for a long time, the mother ultimately did not go.

She noticed that her mother's expression was off, so she pretended to deliver tea and secretly appeared in front of Li Ping, where she met him.

When she told her mother about it, her mother just sighed and said nothing.

She later learned the truth from her elders in the clan.

It turns out that my mother had a good relationship with Senior Li when she was young, and they were likely to get together. However, my mother later married into my father's family, and Senior Li went to Xiancheng, so the two lost contact.

Yu Peiling didn't understand at the time why her mother was unwilling to see her old friend.

But when she saw Senior Li again thirty years later, and saw that Senior Li still looked as young as he did back then, with almost no signs of aging, she finally understood the sadness in her mother's heart at that time.

I understand the vicissitudes of life in the line, "The trees in the courtyard do not know that everyone has left, but when spring comes, they still bloom with the same flowers as before."

……

"Peiling." Li Ping nodded with a smile.

He then took out a bottle of Qi-Nourishing Pills from his storage bag and used his magic to make it float in front of Yu Peiling: "I am considered an elder to you and Hengchuan, so consider this bottle of Qi-Nourishing Pills a gift for our first meeting."

"The Qi-Nourishing Pill." Yu Peiling was somewhat surprised.

As a pill that can enhance the cultivation of Foundation Establishment cultivators, the value of the Qi Cultivation Pill is self-evident, worth at least a hundred spirit stones. She didn't expect that this Master Li would take it out so casually; ordinary mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators wouldn't be so generous.

Thinking of this, she hesitated for a moment; she definitely wanted the pill.

However, she was a little embarrassed to accept it so readily.

But just as she hesitated, Yan Hengchuan said casually, "Peiling, this is a gift from your grandmaster, so hurry up and accept it."

It was just a bottle of pills; Yan Hengchuan didn't think about it as much as Yu Peiling did. He didn't care at all.

After all, over the years, he had taken countless pills and spirit stones from his master for free, and he was already used to it.

This is our grandmaster, not just anyone.

Biting her lip, Yu Peiling accepted the pill and softly thanked her, "Thank you for the gift, Grandmaster."

"Mm." Li Ping smiled and nodded.

After paying their respects to Li Ping, Yan Hengchuan then led Yu Peiling to greet the other guests.

……

Just as the banquet was about to end, a figure dressed in a red robe came to Li Ping's side.

This is a woman who looks to be around sixty years old. She has many wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, but you can still see her youthful charm. Her long hair, mottled with gray, is neatly combed and meticulous.

Before Li Ping could speak, she smiled and said, "Long time no see, Fellow Daoist Li Ping."

Her tone was deliberately nonchalant, but her voice betrayed obvious tension and panic.

Li Ping looked up and smiled, "It has indeed been a long time, Fellow Daoist Xuewei."

The person standing in front of him was Yu Peiling's mother, Yu Xuewei.

When they were young, the two shared similar interests and had a close relationship. They often drank and talked about their ideals.

However, since Li Ping went to Immortal City, the two have not seen each other for more than fifty years.

Over the past fifty years, Yu Xuewei has experienced the ups and downs of life: getting married, having a daughter, losing her husband, and so on. She no longer has the pride she had in her youth.

Li Ping, however, is still the same young man, both in mindset and appearance.

More than 30 years ago, when Li Ping returned to Jiang State to visit the Yu family.

Perhaps because her life was a complete mess and she didn't want Li Ping to see her in such a sorry state, or perhaps for other reasons... Yu Xuewei did not meet with him.

But this time...

At her daughter's Daoist ceremony, she took the initiative to seek out Li Ping to reminisce.

Li Ping knew that she had probably resolved her inner conflict.

……

The two chatted like old friends, reminiscing about their youth and occasionally bursting into hearty laughter.

It was as if it were still more than fifty years ago, when the two of them were strolling by the lake.

At that time, Li Ping worked hard every day in the market to earn a small amount of cultivation resources. He was always worried that he would not be able to pay the rent for his cave dwelling next month and would be kicked out of the market.

I wish I could break a single spirit crystal in two.

For him at that time, Yu Xuewei was a bright spot in his miserable life as a wandering cultivator.

Later, he finally managed to cultivate to the fourth level of Qi Refining, and by saving every penny, he managed to scrape together half the travel expenses to Fenglan Immortal City.

"Half-fare travel expenses" means that he has to do things for the caravan without pay during the journey, including but not limited to dangerous tasks such as scouting and fighting bandits.

Just before he was about to leave, Yu Xuewei came to his door.

Li Ping still remembers their conversation from back then.

"You should marry into the Yu family."

"I plan to go to the Immortal City to seek the destiny of Foundation Establishment."

"Have you decided?"

"It's decided."

Will they come back?

"I won't come back until I've established my foundation."

silence.

"My family is going to arrange for me to find a husband."

silence.

"Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Xuewei."

……

There are now four people on the airship.

The extra person was Ji Shuxuan.

Not long ago, Xu Guike used his sword to slaughter the Turkic tribe he encountered and saved him.

To avoid being discovered by the Turks and causing trouble, Xu Guike then used a fireball spell to destroy the evidence before leaving with Ji Shuxuan.

Ji Shuxuan has now cleaned up the bloodstains on his body and put on a clean robe.

He sat cross-legged, holding two spirit stones in his hands, meditating to restore his internal magical power.

After a long while, he opened his eyes and exhaled.

Seeing Xu Guike looking at him, he quickly stood up and said, "Thank you for saving my life, Senior Xu."

Xu Guike waved his hand: "You are a descendant of Fellow Daoist Li. I have received much kindness from Fellow Daoist Li, so naturally I cannot stand by and watch you become a slave of the Turks."

Upon hearing this, Ji Shuxuan's eyes also revealed a look of relief.

The past year or so has been the most agonizing time of his life. Fortunately, he met Senior Xu, which allowed him to escape his suffering.

He looked down at the airship and saw that as it moved forward, the grasslands became less and less, and were replaced by vast stretches of Gobi desert.

He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Senior Xu, where are we going?"

Xu Guike didn't hide his thoughts, and said softly, "We're heading to the far north!"

"The far north." Ji Shuxuan asked in surprise, "Aren't we going back to the Western Wilderness?"

"The far north." Ji Shuxuan asked in surprise, "Aren't we going back to the Western Wilderness?"

Xu Guike shook his head: "I'm not going back."

As he spoke, his eyes sharpened: "I will not return to the Western Wilderness unless I successfully form my core one day!"