Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 21 Martial Arts Catastrophe
Surprisingly, Su Jishi, who usually has a bad temper, was particularly silent at this moment.

After a moment of silence, Su Jishi and Chen Xiaosheng looked at Li Ji'an with a strange look in their eyes.

"Is your determination to become an immortal so strong?"

Their first reaction was not Li Ji'an's rejection of the peerless martial arts, but his determination.

At such a young age, he actually has such aspirations to become an immortal!
Their martial arts can be regarded as the best in the world, and they are old. They have experienced too much and have seen and heard too many aspirations to become immortals, but most of them are only superficial and are just pursuing worldly wealth, fame and status. Li Ji'an, however, can still be so resolute in the face of peerless martial arts, which shows his intentions.

Seeking immortality, seeking immortality, who among them didn’t dream of becoming an immortal in the beginning?
After all, that is truly extraordinary and out of the world, and it is possible to live forever and as long as the sky. All the worldly wealth and worldly pleasures will be nothing but a handful of yellow earth and a passing cloud after a hundred years.

Especially now that they are on the verge of death, they feel this even more deeply. If they were given a choice to live again, they would definitely do their utmost to pursue immortality even for that slight chance.

The older people get, the more afraid they are of death, and the more they understand the horror of death and the beauty of life!
The more I understand how precious that glimmer of hope of becoming an immortal is.

Unfortunately... there are no ifs and no redos in their lives.

They are all losers and have given up long ago.

And almost all of them gave up after being eliminated in the first Immortal Seedling Ceremony.

He spent his entire life on the prosperity and wealth and the rise and fall of his family over the past few decades.

In the end…what you bring into this world you cannot take out.

If you don't become an immortal, everything will be in vain.

At this moment, Li Ji'an's perseverance made them subconsciously feel a little ashamed of themselves.

Because when they were at Li Ji'an's age, they thought more about wealth, status and position. They even held the idea that they did not seek the length of their life, but the height of it. They would rather have a short and glorious life than live in obscurity forever.

"Okay!" Finally, the two of them nodded with a little loneliness in their eyes, and said nothing more.

Instead of blaming Li Ji'an for his audacity, he gave him some encouragement.

This made Ning Haichan, who was originally planning to play the good guy, get stuck in his throat.

"This... that... well, good, good, my dear nephew Ji An has this determination, good, good, then you can step back and prepare to set off..." He believed that the probability of Li Ji An becoming an immortal seedling in ten years was almost zero, and by then, his thoughts would naturally change, so there was no need to rush.

After leaving the military tent, Ning Sujin and Ning Yutan looked at Li Ji'an's free and easy back, and a warm feeling surged in their hearts.

"I will definitely wait for you in the fairyland! I believe you can do it!" Ning Yutan's heart was beating fast, mistakenly thinking that Li Ji'an gave up his wealth just to be with him in the fairyland.

"Bah! Who loves you? If others knew how slick and frivolous you were before, would they still believe your nonsense?" Ning Sujin spat lightly, thinking that Li Ji'an's ambition to seek immortality was to be with her.
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From then on, everything went smoothly.

Half a month later, the group arrived at the imperial city!

Walking in the most prosperous and central imperial city, Li Ji'an became more cautious.

There are many troubles under the emperor's feet. Once you are involved, you will die without knowing how you died.

He declined Duke Dingguo's invitation and decisively reported to the Immortal Palace first.

The first time he saw the Immortal Palace, the slightest doubt in Li Ji'an's heart about the existence of immortals in this world disappeared.

Compared with the world in the previous life, even if those feudal rulers ruled the people with superstitious beliefs such as being appointed by heaven, they would never be like the royal family in this world. The fairy palace is the most magnificent building in the entire imperial city.

And it is located in the center of the entire dynasty.

No matter in terms of area, location or building scale, it is better than the emperor's palace!
This shows the emperor's attitude towards immortals.

In the center of the fairy palace there is a giant golden lacquered stone sculpture ten feet high.

A statue of an elderly man with a sage-like demeanor and benevolent eyes stood erect, offering a gesture of aid to all living beings. "Is this the immortal master that the founder of the Xianci Dynasty met?" Li Ji'an, in awe, followed the instructions of the state minister on the way and performed the ceremony respectfully.

It was not until we entered the Immortal Palace that we saw that under the statue of the Immortal Master, there were hundreds of densely packed "sculptures" of ordinary people of all sizes, all kneeling on the ground, apologizing.

Seeing these "sculptures", Li Ji'an took a deep breath and suppressed the negative emotions in his heart.

This is because these "sculptures" are all real people, and most of them are people on the master list of the entire Xianci Dynasty fifty years ago. Each of them is cast from molten iron, with an iron exterior and flesh and blood inside.

These iron statues are here to warn all the martial arts geniuses who enter the Immortal Palace not to have any wishful thinking and try to challenge the power of the immortals!

The turmoil of fifty years ago could even be called a great catastrophe in the martial arts world. Li Ji'an had heard about it in his first life in this world.

At that time, I thought it was just a lie used by the rulers to intimidate and threaten the warriors of this world.

At this moment, combining what he had seen and heard in his three lives, he was almost certain of the authenticity of this matter.

It is said that sixty or seventy years ago, some people's martial arts cultivation reached the pinnacle of this world - the great perfection of Qi and blood, and their Qi and blood were like a furnace.

However, there is no further progress.

And as life goes by, death is inevitable.

After enjoying the top status and wealth in this world, he is even more unwilling to face death.

Especially since they have actually seen the immortal master and know that there are immortals, they naturally yearn to become immortals and achieve immortality.

However, they knew more clearly that they were people who had been screened out and were not qualified to become immortals.

So gradually some people began to look for a glimmer of hope in despair. Initially, they just hoped to find other ways to enter the fairyland besides the way of the immortal master looking for the immortal seedling.

This was also the ambition of the royal family, and they secretly funded and supported it.

So, for nearly twenty years, almost all the masters of the Xianci Dynasty were exploring the map.

Finally, after countless attempts and efforts, even the largest recorded supply convoy with hundreds of thousands of people, consuming nearly 30% of the country's grain, the result was obtained - the Xianci Dynasty was surrounded by endless desert!
The longest record is that the endless yellow sand stretches for thousands of miles.

This simply made them despair!

I finally believed what the immortal master said, that the immortal world and this mortal world are not in the same place.

Apart from the immortal master guiding them, they can no longer see any hope of becoming immortals.

And they are precisely the ones who have been excluded.

Some people are desperate, some are crazy, and some are secretly happy.

The royal family was despairing but secretly delighted, because they were the only mortals in the world who had been received by the Immortal Master. They were the true leaders of mortals, controlled martial arts resources, and also had the job of working for the Immortal Master. They had the possibility of receiving rewards from the Immortal Master, so they wholeheartedly served the Immortal Master, only seeking rewards.

However, those big figures on the Grandmaster List who are old and have not much time left to live are really unwilling to accept this. In order to seek a chance to become an immortal, they finally set up a secret organization and decided to go all in.

If you follow the will of heaven, you will perish; if you go against the will of heaven, you will become immortal!

Since you don't allow us to become immortals, then we will kill them!

Thus, the catastrophe that happened fifty years ago came.

Seventy percent of the masters on the Grandmaster Ranking, hundreds of Grandmasters and tens of thousands of warriors from around the world, gathered together to attack Immortal Master Lin Chen at the Immortal Ceremony that year...

(End of this chapter)