Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 68 A big dream

The two men, holding the spirit horses, turned around suddenly.

A man with a weathered face stood up from a street restaurant and came out to greet them.

Although he was wearing brocade clothes, they were obviously ill-fitting. The most important thing was that his right arm was empty.

"Gangling!"

"Brother Dong! Your arm..."

Li Ji'an and Zhang Tiezhu came to the front of the restaurant, their eyes fell on his right arm, and Zhang Tiezhu exclaimed in surprise.

"This... is a long story, please sit down first!" Dong Jiangling welcomed the two into the restaurant with one hand.

While the two men were looking at Dong Jiangling, Dong Jiangling was also looking at them.

After ten years of separation, Dong Jiangling had not sent back a single letter. Zhang Tiezhu had complained to Li Ji'an before, saying that Dong Jiangling had forgotten them after entering the cultivation world and was an ungrateful person.

As the five people who have come here after experiencing life and death from the Xianci Dynasty, they should be considered the closest and most understanding people to each other in the entire cultivation world. In fact, they should unite and help each other, and most of them would even choose to huddle together for warmth.

However, these five people are different from ordinary people. They are all geniuses of the Xianci Dynasty.

In addition to their extraordinary aptitude in physical training, their personalities and insights are also extraordinary, and they are all very opinionated.

Therefore, even when facing the unknown world of cultivation, they are all full of fighting spirit.

Li Ji'an still remembered Dong Jiangling's attitude when he left. He was actually a little angry, and was a little pessimistic about him and tried to comfort him.

This is human nature and also reality. After all, his spiritual roots are too poor.

"Brother Li, Tiezhu, ten years have passed. Are you all doing well?" Dong Jiangling's face was a little bitter, especially when he saw the spirit horse that Li Ji'an rode for the first time and confirmed that it was of a grade that he could not afford.

"Let's not talk about us first, let's talk about you. Why haven't you received a letter in ten years? And what about your arm..." Zhang Tiezhu seemed a little anxious.

Dong Jiangling bit his lower lip, smiled suddenly, and lowered his head: "It's all my fault. At first, I thought I would contact you after I achieved something, but in the end..."

In short, after Dong Jiangling left the gathering area and went to the United Market, it didn't take long for him to see the plight of the helpless independent cultivators. Not to mention practicing, even surviving was very difficult, and there was no hope at all.

He was full of ambition at that time and finally decided to go north to look for opportunities.

As a former genius, he could not accept the life of an ordinary person.

On the day he left the market town, he looked back at the place deeply and made a vow in his heart that he would make a name for himself, otherwise he would never come back.

As a result, the journey to the north was not smooth. He encountered a robbery cultivator and narrowly escaped death. In the end, he escaped with the help of his physical cultivation strength.

That ambush made him see Li Jian killing monks on the sandstorm road, and his heroic spirit, which he thought was not too bad, was completely extinguished. He then restrained his edge and managed to survive all the way to a larger market in the north.

As a result, there was no difference for him except that there were indeed more resources for cultivation.

At that time, he faced a choice: either join the family with his physical strength and start from the bottom, or join a trading company and work as a bodyguard and handyman.

However, due to his status in the Xianci Dynasty, his eunuch grandfather had a huge influence on him. Although he was famous, he was always ridiculed, insulted and looked down upon behind his back. So ever since he was sure that he had a talent for martial arts when he was young, he vowed that he would never be anyone's slave in his life.

It is precisely because of this determination that he chose to become the most difficult independent cultivator.

It is not easy to be a casual cultivator. If you only rely on regular trades, you will never achieve anything in your life and will be a slave for the rest of your life.

But he also didn't want to be a dirty robber who robbed and looted.

During a monster hunting trip, he happened to hear some stories about the Son of Luck from his fellow cultivators, and from then on, he began his adventure.

Sheer cliffs, deep rapids, mass graves in the wilderness...anywhere where few people go, he will risk his life.

As a result, I got to know several fellow Taoists who were equally ambitious and courageous.

During this period, he did get some opportunities and successfully practiced Qi, but he was often surrounded by dangers.

Four years ago, an ancient relic was discovered in the north. He broke in and had one of his arms torn off by a strange creature in the relic.

If it weren't for a female cultivator who came with him to rescue him, he would have died in there long ago.

It was also at that time that his ambitions were completely extinguished. His spiritual roots were already inferior, and his Taoist body was further damaged. There was no hope for him to make any further progress in this life.

In fact, he had already made up his mind to die and was prepared for the rest of his life.

As a result, the female nun took care of him for a year, which made him look back on his life and finally wake up.

The immortality I pursued since childhood was a vain hope, and I missed out on the joys of my youth. My quest for immortality after arriving in this world was also a delusion against heaven, a hope without any basis, and I missed out on the scenery along the way.

The entire first half of my life...was just a dream!
Fortunately, the dream finally ended.

Three years ago, he married the female monk and lived in a nearby gathering area.

He also gave up the path of practicing magic, and while hunting monsters to support his family, he continued to delve into physical cultivation.

Now that he is a mid-stage first-level physical cultivator, he has the same status in that gathering area as Chen Zhaohu once had.

Two years ago, his fellow Taoist gave birth to a daughter, and now they are living happily together.

His wish for the rest of his life is to provide his daughter with a good environment for cultivation, to make up for the regrets he and his fellow Taoists had in their cultivation in this life.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh. This robe was found by me at a senior's tomb a few years ago. Now that you know I came to see an old friend... Hahaha, I'm so ashamed." After saying that, Dong Jiangling simply took off the first-level robe on his body and put it into the storage bag.

After listening to his ten years of experience, Zhang Tiezhu looked heavy-hearted and subconsciously looked at Li Ji'an, hoping to get some of the same emotions from Li Ji'an.

But he was disappointed.

Li Ji'an was not surprised by Dong Jiangling's experience. The sensitivity of his six golden spiritual roots was also of low quality, and he was already 23 years old at that time, about the same age as him.

The potential is very small.

However, the path he chose is indeed a path where miracles are likely to happen.

But... where are so many Destined Children?
Relatively speaking, he was lucky, at least he did not become a dried-up skeleton in the wilderness.

There is still a chance to face reality.

Zhang Tiezhu felt a little uncomfortable.

He was actually relatively timid, so the choice he made ten years ago was relatively safe, and he found a family to rely on.

Moreover, during the ten years when the two families were fighting, he spent most of his time being sneaky and cunning, relying on his martial arts skills to bully the weak and fear the strong.

I have often advised Li Ji'an to take risks, but I don't dare to go to those dangerous places like Dong Jiangling.

He always maintained hope and aspirations.

He even imagined that if his cultivation level was higher, he could enter some secret places and ruins like Dong Jiangling, and maybe he could become an immortal.

But now, Dong Jiangling's experience and ending made his hopes and aspirations suddenly seem illusory.

He was a little panicked.

"Brother Li, Tiezhu, it seems that you have truly embarked on the path of cultivation? Congratulations!" Dong Jiangling's tone and posture were very steady today, and he looked very sincere.

Li Ji'an smiled and shook his head: "Practicing is not easy. Whether I can cross the threshold of the middle stage of Qi training is still unknown. Perhaps this is the end of my life."

Dong Jiangling was a little surprised when he heard this, after all, Li Ji'an's spiritual horse today was a top-grade spiritual horse, but then he suddenly realized.

He came to the reunion today, and Cui Niang allowed him to wear a robe and pretend, and Li Ji'an might do the same.

He didn't say anything inspiring, just nodded silently.

Zhang Tiezhu had been feeling somewhat superior on the way here. Not surprisingly, he felt that he had walked the furthest among the five people.

After all, he was the youngest and had relatively good spiritual roots. Most importantly, he chose the right path, joined the Yan family, and obtained the Breakthrough Pill. Now, at the age of 28, he had reached the fifth level of Qi training, which was higher than some members of the Yan family who had the same low-grade spiritual roots and were of the same age.

But after hearing Dong Jiangling's experience, he felt a little discouraged.

So what if you are at the fifth level of Qi training?
So what if I take a few more steps than Dong Jiangling and Li Ji'an?
"Hey, Brother Li is right, we are all the same!" In the end, he lost any sense of superiority and sighed heavily.

Zhang Tiezhu and Li Ji'an then shared their experiences over the past ten years.

Compared with Dong Jiangling's experience, their experiences were unremarkable. Only the fact that Li Ji'an was favored by the eldest daughter of the Yan family surprised Dong Jiangling.

However, this was what Zhang Tiezhu said, but Li Ji'an denied it outright without giving any reason.

"I wonder if Sister Zhao and Linxian will come?" Zhang Tiezhu drank a few glasses of wine before regaining some composure. He thought to himself that Dong Jiangling's failure might not represent everyone's success. Maybe Zhu Linxian had already succeeded?
This made him look forward to it again.

"Lin Xian...I'm afraid he is not ordinary!" Dong Jiangling said after thinking for a while.

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