The Wandering Immortal

Chapter 15 My wife, I'm counting on you from now on.

A month later, Jiang Yuan felt much better, but he still couldn't sense his spiritual root. Guan Canghai's body was probably a useless body, which made Jiang Yuan very frustrated.

Having cultivated for over a thousand years in his previous life, he had explored all sorts of cultivation techniques and possessed a complete encyclopedia of cultivation knowledge in his mind, but very few of them were suitable for his current situation.

For example, abandoning physical cultivation to practice ghost cultivation techniques is definitely not the right path, and it will be impossible to ascend to immortality in the future. Moreover, in the early stages, one will not be able to suppress ghost energy, and may even be hunted down by itinerant performers like Bai Xiazi!

Even possessing the body of someone with spiritual roots is impossible; without any magical power of his own, he simply cannot defeat a proper cultivator.

Unless a cultivator with spiritual roots dies in front of you, and you have to use your soul power to resurrect yourself, how can you expect to have such a good opportunity?

Qinghe's progress is enviable; she will soon be able to enter the Qi Refining stage. Jiang Yuan finally understands the sour feeling in the hearts of his fellow disciples in his previous life!

There's no other way but to focus all our efforts on nurturing Qinghe; we might need her to save our lives in the future.

Qinghe practiced swordsmanship during the day and meditated on the "Yi Mu Jing" at night, which generated two streams of true energy, which she guided out of her body on her own.

At first, Qinghe didn't quite understand why she had to expel the true energy she had cultivated. Couldn't she have kept it to use magic?
Jiang Yuan patiently guided him, explaining that the true energy generated at the beginning of cultivation was not the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but rather the turbid energy within the body.

Repeat this seven or eight times, and you should be able to feel the true spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, the town where the Guan family lives is indeed very ordinary, with almost no spiritual energy. Whether you can capture it depends on luck.

After more than a month of cultivation, Qinghe's appetite has increased several times.

I feel a little embarrassed to eat too much when I eat with my parents-in-law during the day, but I'm always hungry.

At first, Jiang Yuan went to the kitchen to get some meat and vegetables to give Qinghe a snack back in her room.

Later, Qinghe would go to the kitchen to get things herself, and she could devour a whole fat chicken in one meal, eating with her mouth full of oil, and she was always a little embarrassed.

"Since you're currently focusing on body cultivation, you naturally need to eat more; otherwise, how can you cultivate true qi?"

"Once you have established your foundation, you will be able to abstain from grains and simply eat the wind and drink the dew!"

Qinghe naturally obeyed her husband's every word and no longer had any doubts.

The Guan family's large-scale sale of land and disposal of shops naturally aroused gossip among the neighbors. The old man of the Guan family explained to the public that a relative had become successful in the north, and he would bring his wife, children, and elderly parents to seek refuge there.

One night, a group of petty thieves came to the backyard.

Jiang Yuan has always been a cautious person and had made preparations long ago.

Reluctant to use Bai Xiazi's true talisman, he drew some incantations without magical power and set up an array around the entire mansion. It couldn't harm anyone, but it was enough to provide early warning.

The group scaled the wall and entered the Guan family's residence, only to be met with a sudden burst of golden light that illuminated the courtyard as bright as day. The thieves were terrified and fled in panic.

This reminded Jiang Yuan that money can be a powerful motivator!
The Guan family sold off their land and shops, accumulating millions of copper coins in just over a month, enough to fill several large chests. Naturally, this attracted some underworld gangsters to take risks.

Jiang Yuan only needed to take out a few genuine talismans to properly arrange the front and back courtyards.

Two days later, the gang of thieves indeed visited again, and this time, with Xiu Jia leading the way, they broke the free talisman array.

As soon as the group entered the courtyard, a Taoist priest, radiating golden light and wielding a magic sword, suddenly leaped out of the old well. His divine power was terrifying, and the thief fled once again.

Old Master Guan was also scared. He wasn't afraid of thieves stealing, but he was afraid of thieves eyeing his land. This kind of trouble couldn't go on forever, so he had to sell off the remaining poor land at a low price, and even give some of it away to his former farmhands.

When moving the whole family, it's impossible to take so many people with you; you'll have to pay off most of the farmhands and servants.

The main Guan family actually consisted of only four people, with no other branches. There were a few servants surnamed Guan, but they had no blood relation to the main family; they were all people who had come to rely on them in the past.

Those who wanted to follow could follow, and those who didn't would be given some money and land, and it would be an amicable separation. Many were even stripped of their lowly status, and those people were all deeply grateful.

The only people Jiang Yuan cared about were the three people who bought Qinghe from Wuling County: Steward Chen and the two old women.

He told his elderly father that they were the benefactors who saved his son and that he would take care of them in their old age and see them off when they died. Grandpa Guan naturally agreed.

Jiang Yuan wasn't lying. The three men knew Qinghe's background, especially the legendary peach wood hairpin, which they had all seen with their own eyes. They treated them like family, since they didn't have many years left to live.

Three months later, when the Guan family was nearing the end of selling off their assets, Qinghe actually managed to enter the Qi Refining stage, which surprised Jiang Yuan.

Qinghe had only expelled her true energy five times. One night, while meditating, she suddenly received a trace of spiritual energy, which excited her inexplicably.

Jiang Yuan quickly reminded Qing He to calm her mind and use the "Yi Mu Jing" technique to guide the wisp of spiritual energy to cleanse her meridians, hoping to open up a certain acupoint.

If this wisp of spiritual energy can settle in the body's acupoints, one can be considered to have entered the Qi Refining stage and become a true cultivator.

The spiritual energy circulated through the meridians of the body for three hours until dawn, and it actually broke through the Zhangmen acupoint.

Jiang Yuan was overjoyed when he heard Qinghe say it was the Zhangmen acupoint.

Whether it was Qinghe's good luck or her exceptional talent, the Zhangmen acupoint is the most important point on the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian, and can be called the Gathering of Spirit. Her cultivation speed will be very fast in the future, and it also has many wonderful uses.

The most direct benefit was that it extended Qinghe's lifespan by thirty years. It is extremely rare for a cultivator to obtain a life-extending spiritual vein before establishing their foundation.

Wood element governs growth and development, greatly facilitating the cultivation of healing spells, including alchemy, which is a major path to wealth for cultivators.

Jiang Yuan sat on the futon to consolidate his cultivation, while he himself couldn't help but pace back and forth in the room, utterly excited.

Qinghe was somewhat surprised. Her young husband was not as composed as usual. He stopped his cultivation before asking, "Is this... considered good?"

"It's not just good, it's absolutely fantastic!"

Qinghe burst out laughing at his incoherent ramblings.

After having breakfast, when Qinghe went to the inner courtyard to practice her sword, she was shocked.

Only then did I realize what it meant to be as light as a swallow, and the sword danced in the wind without any hesitation.

As the dance progressed rapidly, Jiang Yuan could see three or five afterimages, and he murmured to himself, "My wife, I'm counting on you from now on!"

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The Guan family mansion was the last major item sold, along with previous farmland and shops, totaling 5.6 million coins, which was no small sum. Even if it were converted into gold and silver jewelry, it wouldn't be safe to transport it on the road.

A safer method was to deposit the money into Buddhist incense money accounts. Many Buddhist temples within the Tang Dynasty allowed people to withdraw money from other places using these incense money accounts, which was equivalent to the banking credit system of later generations.

Jiang Yuan hired a security escort agency to accompany Master Guan in transporting the money to the largest Buddhist temple in Wuling County, where they deposited five million coins.

Afterwards, the Guan family, consisting of eighteen people, men and women, traveled south along the official road in five horse-drawn carriages.

What lies ahead, no one knows.

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