Fast Passage

There is a continent called Yunhai Continent, which is divided into two categories: mortals and ascetics.

Mortals lack the innate talent for cultivation and cannot absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so they can only adapt to nature, experiencing birth, aging, sickness, and death. However, cultivators can improve their physique and lifespan through cultivation, and learn various techniques.

Mortals established kingdoms, with power controlled by the rich and powerful and by aristocratic families, while cultivators established sects, established sect rules, and pursued enlightenment and immortality.

Lingyun Sect is the largest righteous sect in Yunhai Continent and recruits students once every three years.

This is a world where strength reigns supreme. Once one enters the Dao, all worldly matters cease to matter. Even the monarch of a nation must be respectful in front of a cultivator.

Today is the Lingyun Sect's disciple recruitment event held every three years. A young master dressed in luxurious clothes and resting with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes.

After taking in the surroundings, he closed his eyes again. Suddenly, a memory entered Li Yu's mind, and after absorbing the memory, Li Yu's face turned pale.

He was originally the eldest son of the head of the Li family. He was engaged to Shen Qingli, the daughter of the Shen family, an ally of the Li family, since childhood.

The two grew up together and can be considered childhood sweethearts.

It was not until the spiritual roots were tested at the Lingyun Sect's disciple recruitment examination site that Qingli found out that it was a rare natural spiritual root that was rarely seen in a century, while the original body had no talent for cultivation.

Everyone thought that Shen and Li would stage a break-up drama, including the original self.

After all, the gap between them is too big. One is Tianjiao, who has a long life and will surely occupy a place in the world of cultivation in the future, and the other is a mortal who will turn into dry bones after a hundred years. It is impossible for them to be together.

However, unexpectedly, Shen Qingli not only did not cancel the engagement, but instead proposed that the condition for joining Lingyun Sect was that the original body also joined Lingyun Sect.

At first, the original body was very grateful to Shen Qingli for leading him into the path of immortality, and also gave him some elixirs to strengthen his body and cleanse his tendons and marrow.

But in such a world where cultivators despise mortals, as the only mortal in Lingyun Sect, even if he is just a sweeper, his strength can surpass his original body.

As the sect master's direct disciple, when Shen Qingli was around, others were naturally friendly and amicable to the original body. When she was not around, others looked down on the original body without any concealment.

His original body had no spiritual roots, and his body could not retain spiritual energy. Even the effect of elixirs on him was greatly reduced.

The original body was unable to beat those people and was too embarrassed to complain to Shen Qingli. Gradually, he became more and more gloomy and no longer took the initiative to talk to Shen Qingli.

Until one day, Shen Qingli went into seclusion. She originally planned to stay in seclusion for two years, but her spiritual roots were so gifted that she broke through twice in a row. As a result, this seclusion lasted for ten years.

When Shen Qingli came out, she had achieved the Golden Core at the age of thirty, becoming the number one genius on the continent, and her life span had increased to five hundred years, but her appearance remained at the age of twenty.

However, the original body's face was already covered with fine lines. Even if Qingli wanted to give the original body a rejuvenation pill, the original body's mortal body could not withstand the effects of the medicine.

The original body looked at the person who was more beautiful than ten years ago, and felt resentment in his heart.

Why, why bring a mortal like him into the world of monks?

Why should he be allowed to see the road to immortality but not set foot on it?

Why would Shen Qingli, the disciple of the first sect's master, not help me get a spiritual root? Why? Why?

The hatred in the original body's eyes happened to be seen by the Demon Lord who wanted to cause trouble.

Afterwards, the original body coincidentally picked up a book that could take away other people's spiritual roots to nourish his own practice.

The original body was too eager to practice cultivation and could not resist the temptation. He used the protective magic weapon given by Shen Qingli to kill a menial disciple and seized his spiritual roots.

But the disciple's spiritual roots were too poor. After only two days of cultivation, the original body's spiritual roots dissipated. However, the original body did gain a little more cultivation.

Afterwards, the original body killed another servant and seized the spiritual root, but before he could start using it, he was discovered by Shen Qingli, who took him to a cave and locked him up.

Afterwards, Shen Qingli began to search books everywhere, looking for a way to crack the original body's skills.

A few days later, Shen Qingli took action personally, destroyed the original body's magic power, and used secret methods to cover up the bloody evil aura on his body.

From then on, the original body hated Shen Qingli completely.