Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation

The two men, leading their spirit steeds, abruptly turned around.

A man with a weathered face rose from a roadside tavern and came to greet them.

Though he wore brocade robes, they were clearly ill-fitting, and most noticeably, his right arm was empty.

"Jiangling!"

"Brother Dong! Your arm…"

Li Ji'an and Zhang Tiezhu arrived in front of the tavern, their gazes fixed on his right arm, Zhang Tiezhu exclaiming in shock.

"This… it's a long story. Let's sit down first!" Dong Jiangling ushered the two into the tavern with his one hand.

As the two men sized up Dong Jiangling, Dong Jiangling was also taking them in.

Ten years had passed since they last saw each other, and Dong Jiangling hadn't sent a single letter. Zhang Tiezhu had previously complained to Li Ji'an, saying that Dong Jiangling had forgotten them once he entered the world of cultivation, calling him an ungrateful wretch.

As the five individuals who had come here from the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty through life and death, they should have been the closest and most understanding people in the entire cultivation world, and should have united and helped each other, even choosing to band together for warmth.

However, the five of them were different from ordinary people, all being the proud prodigies of the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty.

In addition to their exceptional aptitude in body refinement, their minds and insights were extraordinary, and they were all very opinionated.

Therefore, even when faced with the unknown world of cultivation, they were all full of fighting spirit.

Li Ji'an still remembered Dong Jiangling's attitude when he left, which was somewhat ambitious, and he was not optimistic about him and comforted him.

This was human nature and reality, after all, his spiritual root was too poor.

"Big Brother Li, Tiezhu, how have you been these past ten years?" Dong Jiangling's face was somewhat bitter, especially when he first saw the spirit steed ridden by Li Ji'an, confirming that it was a grade he couldn't afford.

"Let's not talk about us, tell us about you, why haven't you sent a single 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 about contacting you after I had achieved something, but…"

In short, after Dong Jiangling left the gathering area, he went to the United Trading Market, where he soon saw the plight of the scattered cultivators without support. Not to mention cultivation, even survival was difficult, and there was not a trace of hope.

At that time, he was full of ambition and ultimately decided to go north to look for opportunities.

As a former prodigy, he couldn't accept falling into the life of an ordinary person.

On the day he left the market, he turned back and took a deep look at this place, and also swore in his heart that he must make a name for himself, otherwise he would never come back.

As a result, the trip north was not smooth, he encountered rogue cultivators, survived nine deaths, and finally escaped with his body refinement strength.

That assassination made the heroic feeling that he wouldn't be too bad after seeing Li Ji'an kill a cultivator on the Sandstorm Wasteland Road completely disappear. Then he restrained his edge and eked out a living all the way to a larger market in the north.

As a result, apart from the fact that there were indeed more cultivation resources, it made no difference to him.

At that time, he faced a choice, either to join a family with his body refinement strength and start from the bottom, or to join a merchant house and work as a镖师 or handyman.

However, his status in the Immortal Bestowal Dynasty and the influence of his eunuch grandfather were too great. Although he was famous, the ridicule, abuse, and contempt behind his back were never lacking. Therefore, since he determined that he had martial arts talent when he was young, he vowed that he would never be anyone's slave in this life.

It was because of this ambition that he still chose to become the most difficult scattered cultivator.

It was not easy to be a scattered cultivator. Relying only on regular industries, he would never want to be successful in this life, and he would be a beast of burden for the rest of his life.

But his ambition was also unwilling to be a dirty rogue cultivator who robbed houses and plundered.

During a monster hunting trip, he accidentally heard some scattered cultivators talking about the stories of the sons of destiny. From then on, he began to take risks.

Cliffs, rapids, wilderness cemeteries… wherever few people went, he would risk his life to rush there.

Because of this, he also met several like-minded and courageous friends.

During this period, he did get opportunities and successfully practiced Qi, but more often than not, he was in danger.

Four years ago, an ancient relic appeared in the north, and he broke into it. As a result, a strange object in the relic tore off one of his arms.

If it hadn't been for the rescue of a female cultivator who was traveling with him, he would have died inside long ago.

It was also that time that his ambition was completely wiped out. His spiritual root was already inferior, and his Dao body was damaged again, so he had no hope of going further in this life.

In fact, at that time, he had already lost his will to live and prepared to end his life.

As a result, the female cultivator took care of him for a year, allowing him to look back on his life and finally wake up.

The pursuit of immortality that he had pursued since he was a child was illusory, and he had missed the joy of his youth.

His pursuit of immortality after coming to this world was also going against the sky. He had no foundation and was delusional, missing the scenery along the way.

His entire first half of his life… was a big dream!

Fortunately, the dream finally woke up.

Three years ago, he married the female cultivator and settled down in a nearby gathering area.

He also gave up the path of Dharma cultivation, hunting monsters to support his family while continuing to cultivate the path of body refinement.

Now, as a first-order mid-stage body refiner, he also has the status of Chen Zhaohu in that gathering area.

Two years ago, his Dao partner gave birth to a daughter, and now he can be considered to be living happily.

His wish for the second half of his life is to provide a good cultivation environment for his daughter to make up for the cultivation regrets of him and his Dao partner in this life.

"I made you laugh. This Dharma robe was obtained by my humble wife from a senior's tomb earlier. This time, she knew I was coming to see old friends… Hahaha, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed." After saying that, Dong Jiangling simply took off the first-order Dharma robe on his body and put it into the storage bag.

After listening to his ten-year experience, Zhang Tiezhu looked heavy and subconsciously looked at Li Ji'an, wanting 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. His six strands of golden spiritual root sensitivity were also low-grade, and he was already twenty-three years old at that time, almost the same as him.

The potential is very small.

However, the path he chose was indeed a path that was easy to produce miracles.

But… how many sons of destiny are there?

Relatively speaking, he was lucky, at least he didn't become a dry bone in the wilderness.

There is still a chance to recognize reality.

Zhang Tiezhu felt a little uncomfortable.

He was actually a little timid, so the choice he made ten years ago was relatively stable, finding a family to rely on.

Moreover, during the ten years, he mostly loafed and took advantage of the two families' battles, bullying the weak and fearing the strong with his martial arts strength.

He often persuaded Li Ji'an to take risks before, but he didn't dare to venture into those dangerous places like Dong Jiangling.

He has always maintained hope and longing.

He even fantasized that if his cultivation was higher, he could enter some secret realms and relics like Dong Jiangling, and maybe he could become an immortal and ancestor.

But now, Dong Jiangling's experience and ending made his hope and longing suddenly become illusory.

He panicked a little.

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

Li Ji'an shook his head with a smile: "Cultivation is not easy. It is still unknown whether I can cross the threshold of the mid-stage of Qi training. Perhaps this is the end of my life."

Dong Jiangling was slightly surprised when he heard this, after all, Li Ji'an's spirit steed today was a high-grade spirit steed, but then he suddenly understood.

He came to meet today, and Cuiniang was able to let him wear Dharma robes to pretend, and perhaps Li Ji'an was the same.

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

Zhang Tiezhu originally had a sense of superiority on the way here. If nothing unexpected happened, he thought he should be the one who went the furthest among the five.

After all, he was the youngest, his spiritual root was relatively good, and the most important thing was that he chose the right path, joined the Yan family, and obtained the Rank Breaking Pill. Now, at the age of twenty-eight, he was at the fifth level of Qi training, which was already higher than some members of the Yan family who also had low-grade spiritual roots and were of the same age.

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

So what if he was at the fifth level of Qi training?

So what if he took a few more steps than Dong Jiangling and Li Ji'an?

"Hey, Big Brother Li is right, we are all the same!" In the end, he didn't have any sense of superiority and sighed heavily.

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

Compared to Dong Jiangling's experience, their experiences were unremarkable. Only the fact that Li Ji'an was favored by the eldest lady of the Yan family made Dong Jiangling a little surprised.

However, this was what Zhang Tiezhu said, but Li Ji'an denied it outright and did not say the reason.

"I wonder if Sister Zhao and Linxian will come?" Zhang Tiezhu took a few drinks before regaining some ambition, thinking that Dong Jiangling's failure did not necessarily represent everyone, perhaps Zhu Linxian had already succeeded?

This made him look forward to it again.

"Linxian… I'm afraid she's not ordinary!" Dong Jiangling thought for a while and said.

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