From space to the world, it takes trillions of years

The spiritual energy in the mundane world is scarce, and progress is difficult.

Liu Yuji, who left home alone, first came to Hanshi Town, not far from Liujia Village.

He had passed this place only twice. The first time was when he followed his father Liu away from home to search for immortals. He was still young at that time and had no memory of it.

The second time was when he went back to Liujia Village with his father. There was a butcher named Wang in the town. After recognizing my father, he warmly entertained the two of them.

This time he set out again. The first thing he did was to bury his father, and the second thing was to visit Uncle Wang.

Uncle Wang saw him coming and quickly prepared a table of delicious food and poured two catties of rice wine for him to drink. At the table, Liu Yuji explained his purpose.

When the drunken butcher Wang heard that he also wanted to continue searching for the immortal, his expression suddenly turned cold.

"Don't you know what your father has become?

Seeking immortals, seeking immortals, just know to seek immortals!

When your father wanted to look for immortals, I advised him not to do that, asking him why he should give up his good life and go looking for immortals.

Can this immortal be found?"

"Your family used to have hundreds of acres of excellent paddy fields, but what about now?

If it weren't for Xunxian, even if he was just living on rent, he should have found a wife for you long ago.

He should have been enjoying his old age with his grandchildren, but his whole family was ruined and his people were killed because of this search for immortals!"

At this point, tears welled up in Wang the Butcher's eyes, and then he lay on the table and cried like a child.

Liu Yuji seemed to have heard or seen nothing. He just sat there blankly, neither drinking nor answering.

Uncle Wang cried for a while, then murmured to himself, "Your father has been kind to me, even though I thought it was absurd at the time, I couldn't stop him.

I tried to persuade him for a while, but he refused to listen, so I had to give up. You have been with your father for so many years, wandering around, and when you came back, your clothes were all rotten like a sieve.

You have experienced the hardships of this search for immortals, how could you, how could you, be as stupid as your father! "

Liu Yuji stood there without saying anything. He waited until Wang the Butcher had expressed his deep regret before he gently replied, "I am leaving now. Uncle Wang, you don't need to persuade me anymore."

Before leaving, Wang the butcher was already drunk. Liu Yuji bowed deeply and was about to leave.

Uncle Wang, who was half drunk and half awake, suddenly called out his daughter.

A girl of about sixteen or seventeen walked out from the backyard, wearing green clothes, and looked at him timidly.

Who would have thought that a butcher also has tenderness in his heart? There are lush green crabapples in the backyard of the butcher shop.

This is probably the best age in a person's life. She stood under the crabapple tree, bright and beautiful.

"Nephew, you are already over 18 years old, why are you still looking for an immortal? I only have this one daughter, and when you marry her, I will hand over this butcher shop to you."

Liu Yuji looked at her, and she also looked at this "weirdo".

She looked away, as if she was accepting the humiliation. "You are the best match in the world, how can you entrust yourself to a bad person like me?"

He took a deep breath, bowed deeply, and left in silence.

Next stop, he followed the river to a small town called Xishui.

After hiking in the mountains with my father for many years, I learned that it is now the Daning Dynasty, the 37th year of Tianshun.

In this world, secular dynasties are the mainstream, and cultivating immortals is nothing more than rumors and nonsense spread among the villagers.

Occasionally, a few alchemists presented elixirs to the emperor, but they were nothing but charlatans.

The previous emperors believed in sorcerers and took elixirs, all of which resulted in short lives, leading to political turmoil. This emperor suffered greatly in his early years, and the first thing he did after ascending the throne was to behead these sorcerers as a warning to the public.

After that, he worked hard and diligently for decades. With good weather and good harvests in most years, the country has been peaceful for a long time under the rule of His Majesty.

Even if he was a low-level casual cultivator, his footwork was much better than that of an ordinary person. When Liu Yuji first started cultivating immortals, he was quite confident and it took him only one month to reach the imperial city.

Along the way, I felt that the closer I was to cities and crowded places, the slower my cultivation speed.

Although he had started practicing Qi, he still did not understand many aspects of Qing Yuan Gong. The attitude of the casual cultivator he met before was not good, but after all, there was a difference between immortals and mortals.

Liu Yuji only hoped to meet another kind monk who could explain things to him, even if that meant letting him be his servant for a few years.

For several months, he circled the imperial city countless times, and even sneaked into the palace in the dark and windy night, but he never found his companions.

There were some martial arts experts in the inner palace. Although their attacks did not have any spiritual energy fluctuations and their strength and speed were much inferior to his, their techniques were tricky and they fought with him for several rounds.

Until the other side brought out many powerful crossbows, he sensed the danger and fled in panic to avoid being shot into a hedgehog.

There were too many people here, the spiritual energy was weak, and his cultivation was not done properly, so he could not make any progress.

In desperation, Liu Yuji had to temporarily abandon the palace and come to the deep mountains with rich spiritual energy, preparing to slowly grind away with time.

This mountain is called Qinghuan Mountain, the largest mountain range in the territory of the Daning Dynasty. According to legend, if you climb the mountain for 460 miles and climb over 81 peaks, you can see the main peak that once housed immortals, called Qixia Peak.

However, tigers and leopards are rampant in these mountains, and it is said that there are also intelligent monsters lurking among them.

Even the boldest hunters and the most experienced herbalists only venture on the outskirts of the mountains.

Liu Yuji, who had just started practicing Qi, naturally did not dare to go deeper. The trip to the imperial city made him more awed by the unknown.

Ordinary weapons can still make him feel threatened, and if he is not careful he will fall into the ditch, let alone monks with higher cultivation than him.

Liu Yuji built a hut in the mountains forty miles away from a small town outside the mountains and settled down.

In the past seven years, Liu Yuji has already wasted four years on the third level of Qi training.

Without a master or a panacea, it is not easy to reach this point with just above-average qualifications and a general technique.

I am already twenty-seven years old this year, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to practice Qigong.

If he didn't look for a way forward, he would eventually turn into dust in a hundred years. In desperation, he finally decided to venture into the mountains to look for traces of the immortals.

As soon as he entered the depths of the mountains, he encountered the tiger, which was a huge tiger that had become a spirit.

This mountain monster is comparable to a cultivator at the first level of Qi training, and I think he is just beginning his journey of cultivation.

It was because of encountering it that Liu Yuji stopped and dared not go deeper into the search for immortals.

There are monsters on the outskirts of the mountains, although they are not strong, but who knows what is in the depths of the forest?

The tiger, which has become a spirit, is agile in its movements, but upon closer inspection its strength is the same as it was seven years ago, with not much improvement.

Liu Yuji solved the problem easily and continued his journey deeper into the mountains.

We encountered some little monsters on the way, all of them were only at the first or second level of Qi training.

Liu Yuji became more and more confident, and regretted that he had been too cautious before, fearing that he had missed many opportunities.

On the way, we encountered a small cluster of Ganoderma lucidum guarded by monsters, which seemed to contain a lot of spiritual energy.

Guarding the Ganoderma lucidum is a huge poisonous python, which is quite difficult to deal with.

Unfortunately, there were only seven Ganoderma lucidum. After tasting them, they were not poisonous, but seemed to have the only effect of replenishing spiritual energy.

However, the increase in spiritual creatures is good news.

Liu Yuji, full of confidence, finally arrived at the legendary Qixia Peak.

Just as he was feeling emotional, before he could understand what was happening, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his soul and died.