Becoming An Immortal Begins With Marrying A Wife

Chapter 68 Mortal Cultivation Technique (33)

Leaving his home, Chen An headed straight to the market.

While passing along a small path by the river, he saw a familiar figure squatting by the riverbank, staring at the rippling water beneath his feet.

It was Mo Lifang's son, Da Bao.

When Chen An saw this small figure, now the only one squatting by the riverbank lost in thought, his heart was filled with mixed emotions.

He calmed himself down and walked over to Da Bao, smiling as he asked, "Da Bao, do you still remember me?"

"Yeah, I remember. You're Chen Dan, Uncle Chen, who lives diagonally across from my house," Da Bao replied with a somewhat vacant expression.

Chen An sat down beside him and smiled, asking, "Da Bao, why are you sitting alone by the river lost in thought?"

"I'm waiting for my mom to come find me," Da Bao answered innocently, unaware that his mother was already dead, and the person who killed her was sitting right beside him.

Chen An looked at Da Bao beside him, then looked up at the sky, feeling indescribably melancholic.

At this moment, a voice of an elderly person suddenly sounded from ahead.

"Da Bao!"

"What's wrong with you, always running to the river?!"

"If it weren't for me saving you last time, you would have drowned. Do you still expect me to save you every time?!"

Following the sound of the loud shout, Chen An saw an elderly cultivator walking towards them.

He looked quite old, with a hunched figure, lacking vitality, and many age spots on his face. He had a very old and feeble appearance.

Chen An recognized this cultivator. He was a small fisherman who made a living by catching spirit fish in the northern alley. Chen An had seen him a few times when he set up his stall in the market.

"Master Chen, what are you doing here?" the old cultivator said, revealing a mouthful of almost falling-out yellow teeth as he smiled with wrinkles all over his face.

Chen An smiled and said, "I was planning to go to the market to buy something. When I passed by here, I saw a familiar child sitting alone by the river, so I came over to see what was going on."

"I see..." the old cultivator nodded.

Seeing that the old cultivator cared so much about Da Bao, Chen An started chatting with him.

He asked about their relationship and took the opportunity to get to know him better.

After some idle chat, Chen An learned that Da Bao had been adopted by the old cultivator.

The old cultivator's surname was Hu. When he was young, he focused on cultivation and stayed away from worldly desires in order to achieve Foundation Building. However, after practicing for several decades and breaking through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, he could no longer make any further progress.

When he realized that his path to immortality had come to an end and he wanted to return to a mundane life, get married, and have children, he found that his body had aged too much and he was destined to be childless.

Helpless, he could only continue to live alone until his life came to an end.

Two days ago, while fishing, the old cultivator saw Mo Lifang heartlessly pushing her own son, Da Bao, into the river.

Being accustomed to such things, the old cultivator knew that this was a female cultivator who had been overwhelmed by life and wanted to get rid of her burden and remarry.

So after Mo Lifang hurriedly left, the old cultivator pulled Da Bao out of the water.

Seeing that Da Bao was still young and could be raised well, he thought of adopting him as his own son.

This way, he would have someone to take care of him when he died.

After learning all this from the old cultivator, Chen An's guilt in his heart lessened a lot, feeling that Mo Lifang deserved her fate.

He took out a few bottles of Qi Nurturing Pills from his pocket, smiled, and handed them to the old cultivator to build a good relationship, saying that the old cultivator should keep them for fresh spirit fish in the future.

Then he turned and left, setting off once again for the Treasure Pavilion in the market.

Qi Nurturing Pills are a type of pill used by novice cultivators to help them absorb spiritual energy into their bodies.

By giving these pills to the old cultivator, he was essentially giving them to Da Bao, the old cultivator's adopted son.

From then on, this karmic relationship came to an end.

...

In the market, at the Treasure House.

As soon as Chen An walked in, the shopkeeper Liu warmly greeted him.

"Master Chen Dan, are you here to sell elixirs again?"

"No, this time I'm here to buy something."

Chen An smiled.

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper Liu's eyes lit up and he jokingly said with a smile, "Master Chen Dan seems to have struck it rich quietly, saving quite a bit of money."

"I haven't saved much, just enough to get by."

Chen An lowered his voice slightly, not wanting to be too ostentatious.

The shopkeeper Liu stopped joking and asked, "May I ask what Master Chen Dan would like to buy?"

Chen An took a step forward and leaned in, lowering his voice, "Shopkeeper Liu, about a year ago, I came to inquire about the price of a book called 'Lovebirds Soaring Together.' Is it still available?"

"Yes, yes, please follow me, Master Chen Dan."

The shopkeeper Liu also lowered his voice.

After saying that, he led Chen An into a small compartment specifically for storing such cultivation techniques and took out the book 'Lovebirds Soaring Together' that Chen An had been longing for, with a sly smile on his face.

"Hey, Master Chen Dan, this is the 'Lovebirds Soaring Together' that you wanted."

"A thousand low-grade spirit stones, right?"

"Yes."

"Shopkeeper Liu, since I often supply elixirs to the Treasure House, can you give me a discount on this 'Lovebirds Soaring Together'?"

Chen An began to bargain.

The shopkeeper Liu looked a bit embarrassed, "Master Chen Dan, it's not that I don't want to, but I'm just a proxy shopkeeper, only responsible for bookkeeping, and I don't have the authority to adjust prices."

"I see..."

Chen An pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "In that case, I won't trouble you, Shopkeeper Liu. I'll go check out other shops."

After saying that, he turned around and left without any hesitation.

"Hey, wait, Master Chen Dan, wait!"

The shopkeeper Liu became anxious and quickly stepped forward to stop Chen An, smiling as he said, "Although I don't have the authority to adjust prices according to the rules, as long as we keep it low-key and do it privately, there shouldn't be a big problem."

Chen An smiled and said, "Then I wonder, what is the maximum discount you can give, Shopkeeper Liu?"

"At most, a 5% discount."

"How about 30%?"

"Master Chen Dan, you're asking for too much..."

"Then 40%."

"30%, just 30%, take it!"

The shopkeeper Liu threw the 'Lovebirds Soaring Together' in his hand to Chen An and asked him for 700 low-grade spirit stones.

Chen An gave the shopkeeper Liu 4 medium-grade spirit stones and 300 low-grade spirit stones.

Afterwards, he thought of his young wife at home and asked the shopkeeper Liu, "Shopkeeper Liu, do you have any cultivation techniques that ordinary people can practice?"

"Yes, yes, we must have them!"

The shopkeeper Liu became enthusiastic again.

Chen An further asked, "May I know what cultivation techniques you have?"

"We have the 'Body Tempering Technique' for strengthening the body, the 'Meditation Technique' for calming the mind and sharpening the brain, and the 'Health Preservation Technique' for prolonging life. Currently, the shop only has these three cultivation techniques that ordinary people can practice, and they are priced at 20 low-grade spirit stones each."

The shopkeeper Liu took out three books and introduced them with a smile.

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