I Want to Cultivate Immortality!!!

“…Le Yan…Shen Le Yan?”

Shen Le Yan’s spiritual power was almost drained away, and his mind was blank. After a while, he heard Chen Jing calling him.

“Senior brother.”

Chen Jing held his wrist and sat up reluctantly: “It’s really you… I thought I was hallucinating… As your Senior brother, you saved me again.”

“Senior Brother, don’t talk for now.”

The other party’s voice was hoarse, obviously affected by the cartilage powder, and he couldn’t recover immediately after taking the antidote.

“I’ll go feed the antidote to the other senior brothers and sisters first…”

“Le Yan, your spiritual power is almost exhausted. You can’t lose it to others, otherwise it will damage your spiritual roots. The cultivation of senior brothers and sisters is higher than mine. They should just be unconscious-did you come here alone?”

Shen Le Yan shook his head and took out the sound transmission talisman: “I’ll ask Sect Master Lu to come over.”

He just activated the sound transmission talisman and hadn’t spoken yet when a noisy sound of footsteps came from outside the cellar.

“They sent that kid to the cellar for so long and he hasn’t come back yet. Something has happened.”

“That kid is a cultivator. If he casts any spells, I’m afraid we can’t beat him…”

“Cultivators are also mortals, not gods! Once the fire is lit, everything will be burned to ashes!”

It seemed that a bucket of water was poured down from the wellhead, and Shen Le Yan smelled a strong smell of alcohol.

He said the words “Return quickly to save lives” in a concise manner and sent the sound transmission talisman out.

 He helped Chen Jing up: “Senior Brother, can you still use spiritual power?”

“Not yet.”

Several barrels of wine had been spilled outside. Shen Leyan tried to condense the wind blade, but the spiritual power in his dantian was almost exhausted. The wind blade only appeared in its embryonic form and then dissipated.

The villagers at the well were holding machetes and hoes. Seeing that they could not use any magic, they showed a mocking look on their faces.

“I kept you alive to see if you could break the curse of having no children in the village. Since you are a bunch of useless good-for-nothings, there is no point in you living.”

After the villagers finished speaking, they threw down all the torches in their hands.

When the torches touched the wine, flames several feet high immediately rose, blocking the well mouth.

The hemp rope that could go up was quickly burned to ashes in the flames.

Fuck!

 “Senior Brother, do you have a grudge against fire?”

Chen Jing smiled bitterly: “Maybe you have a grudge against fire… Le Yan, go into the cellar and see if you can recover some spiritual power. If you can, leave first and don’t worry about us.”

“Sect Master Lu will be here soon–“

“It will only take a few minutes for the fire to burn over.” Chen Jing pulled him and protected him behind him.

Shen Le Yan saw that the meridians on the other party’s wrist actually lit up with a faint white light, which quickly spread to the dantian and the center of the eyebrows. However, where the white light flashed, black lines soon appeared.

He felt the surging spiritual power fluctuations on the other party’s body.

 “Last time in the village at the foot of Yunxizong Mountain, you were trapped in the ancestral hall, and I couldn’t think of a way to save you.”

“Senior Brother! It’s unlucky to say this now!”

Chen Jing patted his shoulder: “If you don’t let me show off now, I don’t know how long I will have to wait for the next time I want to show off. Please let me.”

The warm color of memories appeared on Chen Jing’s face.

 “I have wanted to cultivate immortality since I was a child because my parents were killed by demons, and it was the cultivators of Yunxi Sect who saved me. The sect’s teachers often say that cultivating immortality is to help the weak and hope for world peace.

After I entered the inner sect, many people told me that my mixed spiritual roots were too poorly endowed, and I might not be able to reach the level of Nascent Soul in my lifetime, and I would not be able to accomplish anything great.

I didn’t want to do anything great, and saving one person is also saving one person… Don’t you think so? As your senior brother, I can’t always let you protect me and take advantage of you, right?”

The raging fire, fueled by the wine, pounced on them like a beast. The other disciples of Yunxi Sect in the cellar had just woken up and were trying to mobilize their spiritual power, but the half-month of cartilage powder had made their bodies extremely weak. It was very difficult for them to even stand up.

Shen Leyan didn’t care about the flames that were about to burn his body, and grabbed Chen Jing’s sleeve.

“Senior brother, you can’t–“

The fire suddenly came!

 A high wall with various spiritual powers rose from the ground, like a natural moat, blocking the raging fire outside.

The scorching temperature was completely blocked, and the flames seemed unwilling to give up, tearing the entire high wall fiercely.

Chen Jing showed a smile on his face.

Behind the other party, several senior brothers and sisters supported each other and tried to get up.

Shen Leyan didn’t know how the other party could use spiritual power to block the incoming flames when he was unable to mobilize spiritual power just now.

But just looking at the black lines on the other party’s hands, revealing an ominous death aura everywhere, he knew that the other party must have used some means that he shouldn’t have used.

 “…I’m fine. Didn’t you say that Sect Master Lu would arrive soon? He healed my injury with a wave of his hand.”

“Sect Master Lu is just a mortal!” Shen Leyan was anxious, “And that man is only good at fighting. He is not even proficient in fortune-telling, and his medical skills are definitely not good!!!”

“…Leyan, are you really not Sect Master Lu’s biological son?”

“I am his father so I can’t be his son – what situation is it, senior brother, can you stop joking?!”

Chen Jing laughed: “Don’t worry. You still owe me a drink, I will definitely go back to Yunxi Sect with you.”

The black lines spread all the way to Chen Jing’s shoulders and were still climbing towards his neck.

The high wall built by spiritual power faintly rippled, as if it could be broken at any time.

 Shen Leyan tried to force out the spiritual power in his Dantian to transfer it to Chen Jing, but as soon as his spiritual power touched the black lines on the other party’s body, it turned into a wisp of black gas and dissipated completely, and could not pass through at all.

Where those black lines appeared, the meridians seemed to have completely necrotized, like a long-rotten corpse…

“No need to transfer spiritual power to me, I can still hold on for a while.” Chen Jing turned his head and smiled at him comfortingly, “But Master Lu seems to be a little slow.”

Shen Leyan: “…”

“Senior Brother, I forgot something very important.”

“Ah?”

“Master Lu, he is a damn road idiot.”

In a cave somewhere in the southwest jungle, the spider demon was singing a lullaby to the children.

Suddenly, a burst of snow drifted outside the cave, and the young man with white hair and golden eyes who had been away for a while appeared in the cave again.

Spider demon: “⚆_⚆?”

Since the other party restored her children to human form and she couldn’t beat him, the spider demon was polite.

“Aren’t you going back to Yaozu Village? Why…”

“Lead me there.”

“?”

“I’m lost. Lead me there. Be quick.”

…

The fire was extinguished. The circle of grass around the well had been burned black, and the air was filled with a pungent smell.

The yamen runners who rushed from the county town arrested the villagers who set the fire and sent them to prison one by one. The whole village cried and shouted that they were wronged.

Shen Leyan stayed beside the unconscious Chen Jing. The black lines on the other party’s body had covered his chest. He tried to send spiritual power several times, but he couldn’t get through these lines.

 He looked at the person who was checking Chen Jing’s pulse, and suppressed the slight tremor in his voice: “Master Lu, Senior Brother Chen Jing…”

Lu Yuanyi’s face was cold, and he didn’t answer.

The young man’s eyes turned red, and his Adam’s apple rolled: “Is there any elixir that can cure him? I…”

He wanted to say that no matter how rare or hard to find the elixir, he was willing to find it. However, when he thought of his own cultivation, these words were stuck in his throat and couldn’t be said.

[…If I hadn’t traveled with Master Lu and Senior Brother Zheng, I wouldn’t have been able to reach Yaozu Village safely, so how could I find elixir? ]

“…He destroyed his spiritual roots and forcibly mobilized his spiritual power. Many meridians have been damaged. I will temporarily freeze his body, and reshape his meridians after getting the Fire Sun Divine Tree.”

Shen Leyan’s eyes were absent-minded for a moment. He watched Chen Jing’s body covered by a large piece of ice crystals. The black air on his body was trapped by the frost and stopped in place. 

“I will find the Fire Sun God Tree.” He whispered, and continued after a moment.

“Sect Master Lu… I want to cultivate.”

“Fire Sun God Tree…”

The young man lowered his eyebrows and said guiltily: “My current cultivation level is not enough to obtain this elixir, but I will practice hard and must get the Fire Sun God Tree back as soon as possible.”

Lu Yuanyi paused. He raised his hand and wiped the gray and black on the young man’s cheek.

“I mean, the Fire Sun God Tree is in Yunxi Sect.”

Shen Leyan was stunned.

“If I remember correctly, there should be several more.”

[⊙_⊙]

“Although his injury is a bit serious, it will not endanger his life, so… don’t cry. The yamen runners over there have been watching us.”

Shen Leyan turned his head and saw several yamen runners carrying a stretcher covered with white cloth, hesitating whether to come over to carry the “corpse”.

 “…I didn’t cry.”

The young man quietly lowered his head and wiped a tear from his clothes.

“But Senior Brother Chen Jing’s spiritual roots are destroyed. Does it mean…it will be difficult for him to cultivate immortality in the future?”

“Mm…there is no spiritual medicine in the world that can cure damaged spiritual roots. Whether the spiritual roots can be restored depends on his own luck.”

His fluctuating mood calmed down a little.

“…I still want to cultivate immortality.”

Lu Yuanyi paused and raised his eyes: “Even if his life is not in danger, there is no need for you to look for medicinal materials?”

“Yes, even so, I still want to cultivate immortality.”

The young man’s pupils were stained black by the undried tears. After the faint color of memories surged, they gradually became firm.

 “Brother Chen Jing said when he was protecting me in the dry well… the sect teacher told him that the purpose of cultivating immortality is to help the weak and hope for a harmonious world.

I originally…wanted to find a place far away from the disputes between demons and righteous sects, and live in peace for the rest of my life.

But I forgot that the way of heaven is cruel and the world is unpredictable. When you are unlucky, you may be stabbed by a psychopath when you go out, or you may be stabbed by a scumbag when your friends and relatives are out to eliminate demons and defend the way…

Will I really find a deserted place and cry at the doorstep every day after receiving obituaries?

It is too difficult to help the weak and hope for a harmonious world. But I want everyone around me to be well and live well.

So, I want to cultivate immortals!!!”

[How to fight, cultivate! ]

After he said this, the yamen runners not far away carried the stretcher away.

He heard the two yamen runners muttering.

 “Is that young man mentally ill? I didn’t daydream so much when I was fifteen.”

“… Maybe his senior brother is dying, he is too sad, and there is something wrong with his brain.”

“Alas… pity him. And the one with white hair, the elder sent the young man away, even more pitiful.”

Lu Yuanyi: “?”

Shen Leyan: “…”

He stood up.

“My senior brother is not dead!!!”

After a while, a few copper coins were stuffed into his hand.

The yamen runner said to him in a coaxing tone: “Be good, go to the pharmacy to get some medicine, and take a good look at the disease.”

Chen Jing’s body was sealed in an ice coffin made of spiritual power by Lu Yuanyi. The spiritual power inside can prevent the black lines from continuing to expand, and on the other hand, it can also warm Chen Jing’s meridians and damaged spiritual roots.

But carrying an ice coffin on the road is a bit too weird. If the people see it, they will definitely be surrounded.

 Unless they fly on the sword all the way back to Yunxi Sect and don’t go to the town to buy things.

“Sect Master Lu, how about this? When it’s time for dinner, you fly on the sword with the ice coffin and wait for me in the sky outside the city. I’ll go to the city to find delicious food. If I find it, I’ll pack two portions and bring them back. How about that?”

Lu Yuanyi nodded, put the ice coffin on the Jiang Xue Sword, and glanced at him lightly.

“Don’t take it personally.”

Shen Leyan followed and stood on the Jiang Xuejian, saying righteously: “Am I such a person?”

While silently giving up the idea of ​​eating alone.

The villagers in Yaozu Village who participated in drugging and arson were taken away by the yamen runners.

The dynasty that now rules the human world is the Great Xia Dynasty. The royal family and government of Great Xia have always had close relations with the immortal sects, especially the important Yunxi Sect. Even the royal children have to show some courtesy, and the local government dare not offend them.

Once these people are convicted, the verdict will be sent to Yunxi Sect by express horse. They are most likely to be sentenced to immediate execution.

The remaining villagers knelt at the village gate, crying and sending off the yamen runners. They kowtowed to them again and again.

“Immortal – we know we are wrong – please give us a way to live!”

“If the spider monster comes here again, what should we do?!”

“Please be merciful and give us a way to live -“

Shen Leyan did not look at these villagers, and just pretended not to hear these words.

Cause and effect, retribution will not be missed.

The spider monster is not a monster that kills innocent people indiscriminately. There are no villagers in the village who have committed murder, and the spider monster has let them go. The rest of them all deserved it.

He would not kill these people himself, but it was impossible for him to save them.

The Jiang Xue Sword’s sword light left a line and flew towards the north.

 In order to prevent the two of them from getting lost again, Shen Leyan asked the yamen runner for a map of the southwest before leaving Yaozu Village.

“Flying this way, we won’t go wrong.”

Shen Leyan put down the map, grabbed Lu Yuanyi’s sleeve before he closed his eyes, and hesitated for a while.

“… Sect Master Lu, when will our Yunxi Sect accept disciples next time?”

Most sects in the cultivation world accept disciples every five years. According to the time, Yunxi Sect should also accept disciples this year, but he didn’t know the specific month.

Although outer disciples can directly enter the inner sect to practice after testing their spiritual roots, they can only attend the big classes taught in the sect, but they don’t have their own master to guide them individually.

Only at the apprenticeship meeting can you officially become a disciple.

He still remembered… Senior Brother Chen Jing told him that he wanted to worship Zheng Ziheng as his master before he tested his spiritual roots.

 Hm… He thought about it for a while. Zheng Ziheng was about the same age as Senior Brother Chen Jing. Chen Jing respectfully calling Senior Brother Zheng “Master” seemed a bit scary.

Lu Yuanyi answered him: “Yunxi Sect will accept disciples in October this year.”

October, that’s coming soon.

“Sect Master Lu, does our sect have elders with wind spiritual roots? Or those who are particularly good at practicing wind-related magic?”

“Wind spiritual roots are not cabbages.” Lu Yuanyi pulled his sleeves back from his hands, “Yunxi Sect does not have elders who specialize in wind-related magic.”

Shen Leyan sighed regretfully and frowned in distress.

[If that’s the case… Do I have to go to other sects to become disciples? ]

[But I’m a little reluctant to leave Yunxi Sect. What if other sects are not as open as Yunxi Sect?]

“I don’t remember any elders from other major sects who specialize in wind magic.”

Shen Leyan: “…”

“But just because there are no elders who specialize in wind magic now doesn’t mean there won’t be any in the future.”

Lu Yuanyi lowered his eyes, and the young man lay beside him. His handsome eyebrows were stained with a hint of sadness, and he was as quiet as a cat.

“If the news spread that there was a disciple with a wind spiritual root who wanted to become a disciple, I think those elders would immediately switch to wind magic.”

Shen Leyan was skeptical.

[It shouldn’t be… so exaggerated, right?]