Longevity Begins With Zongmen Handyman

Chapter 155: Twenty-two Years of Perseverance

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

Under the moonlight, the north wind howls, blowing sand against the ruins of Tianyang City. The city, already reduced to ruins, is desolate and overgrown with weeds.

Some mice, wild rabbits, and other creatures freely run under the moonlight, unnoticed by anyone.

Somewhere beneath the almost dried-up mud in a ditch, something seems to be slowly wriggling, wriggling...

Finally, a mud shrimp forcefully drills out of the ground, crawls to the other side, and flips over, spreading its two pincers, as if resting under the moonlight.

Within this tiny tunnel that the mud shrimp drilled out of, a slow and gentle breeze blows in, as if blowing into the depths of the mud...

Ten meters to the left and right beneath the mud.

Li An finally breathes in the first breath of air after half a year!

This air carries a strong earthy smell and the stench of years of mud.

But for Li An, it is enough to make him excited and experience the true joy of life.

In fact, he woke up from his coma three months after burying himself in the mud. The slow nourishment of the Life-Nurturing Immortal Technique has already restored some of his vitality in these three months.

Then, he began to control the mud shrimp to dig a breathing passage for him!

After all, even if one has achieved the peak of Foundation Building, it is impossible to hold one's breath for a lifetime.

Half a year is the limit!

Fortunately, there are many mud shrimps in this stinky ditch.

One dies, another takes its place.

One dies, another takes its place.

With the spirit of the Foolish Old Man Moving Mountains, generation after generation of the mud shrimp family worked diligently as slaves in the past three months, finally digging out a ten-meter-long breathing passage for him.

If he had prepared a reed pipe before entering the water, perhaps the mud shrimps wouldn't have had to sacrifice so selflessly.

But there are no ifs.

He stopped after taking a few small breaths.

Instead of using his divine sense to explore outside, he listened attentively to everything outside with his ears.

Divine sense could be discovered if actively probing, but listening with his ears was passive acceptance and required no action, so it was safe.

But there was no sound.

"Aren't you going to escape? It's been half a year, and it's already safe," the voice of the young girl Xiao Xiao came from Li An's spiritual platform.

She had been locked inside Li An's spiritual platform, and in the past half a year, she was amazed by Li An's actions...

Who could possibly endure to this extent?

In the stinky mud, he remained motionless.

During this time, there were even many smelly yellow eels and bugs crawling around Li An.

He remained motionless, like a stone.

And he had such patience, using the mud shrimps to dig a breathing passage...

She suddenly understood why, even though she had many encounters with Li An on Baihu Mountain, she still didn't notice anything unusual about him...

It wasn't that she wasn't smart enough.

It was because some people were just too cautious!

Now, in her eyes, it was already completely safe.

But Li An remained motionless and directly closed off the spiritual platform, making it impossible for her to speak.

...

In the blink of an eye, another two years passed.

Li An remained motionless!

"It's been two and a half years, aren't you going to escape?!" the demonic sect girl in Li An's spiritual platform became somewhat frantic.

"Are you crazy... Is it necessary??" she said, trying to persuade Li An, suppressing her inner restlessness.

But Li An remained unmoved, completely ignoring her.

This made her feel helpless.

Another three years passed!

Li An has been in this stinky ditch for over five years, relying on fasting pills and the mud shrimp tunnel to survive, concealing himself with the Life-Nurturing Immortal Technique.

"Are you crazy... Is it necessary??" the demonic sect girl became increasingly agitated. "You're just wasting time! You're truly crazy..."

At first, when she discovered Li An's actions and realized that he had actually evaded her sister's investigation, she was shocked. Li An could be said to be the calmest and most decisive person she had ever seen!

After half a year passed, seeing Li An remain motionless and as hard as a rock, she thought Li An was being cautious.

But now, after five years...

She vaguely felt that Li An might be sick!

It's been five years, who would still care about a stinky ditch?

But just as she was feeling dissatisfied with Li An for various reasons, a powerful divine sense suddenly swept through the ruins of Tianyang City!

The divine consciousness investigation was extremely meticulous!

Li An, who had been hiding in the stinky sewer for five years, had already merged with the sewer, unable to distinguish between each other. Therefore, although this divine consciousness made him feel frightened, he couldn't discover anything.

The investigation continued for several hours before finally dissipating.

"You... did you already know that someone would come to investigate?" The girl in Li An's spiritual consciousness seemed somewhat shocked.

Five years had passed, and there would still be people coming? At this moment, her impression of Li An seemed to have changed once again...

Li An's actions were not without reason; they were not meaningless.

"But actually, there was no need. Even if she escaped a month ago and now she comes to investigate again, what's the point?"

But she still felt... there was no need.

Li An, however, did not think so.

He did this for a reason.

The other party was too strong!

Who knows if this kind of powerful figure from the demonic cult had left behind any formations or monitoring devices near Tianyang City?

He dared not use his divine sense; he had no idea what the situation was outside Tianyang City.

So, he could only wait, only endure.

Endure until the other party lost patience, interest, and even gradually forgot.

At that time, he would come out.

Facing this level of strong opponent, safety was not absolute, it was absolutely unsafe.

So he would rather wait, no matter how long.

Anyway, he still had time to consume.

"Now that she has finished investigating, she must have left. Escape now--" She urged Li An again.

But Li An's response to her was still to close his spiritual consciousness.

...

And at this moment.

In the ruins of Tianyang City, hundreds of miles away, in a certain place in the void.

"There are no changes, no traces, hasn't she come back?" A "sickly girl" stood with her hands behind her back, whispering to herself, then turned and left.

...

Following that, two more years passed...

And then three years...

In the blink of an eye, Li An had been hiding in this place for thirteen years!

For thirteen years, he remained motionless, like a fossil.

"What kind of person did I follow??" The demonic cult girl in his spiritual consciousness was completely dumbfounded!!

She even began to feel a little desperate.

Could it be that Li An was mentally disturbed and prepared to die here?

It had been thirteen years.

Still not leaving!

Still not leaving!!

Li An was tormenting her to the point of madness. She felt that Li An had exceeded the bounds of caution and was probably going crazy...

In the end, she simply stopped asking.

She became withdrawn, she became depressed.

"Brother, I call you brother, if you don't leave, can you let me go? Can you let me go??" In the seventeenth year, she was really on the verge of collapse, and even doubted whether Li An was still alive!

Now, Li An was also hesitating.

In seventeen years, he had been waiting in vain, except for the one time he sensed the divine consciousness investigation in the fifth year, there had been no movement.

Now he had no knowledge of the situation outside.

In seventeen years, he had never used his divine sense to explore outside even once.

He relied solely on his hearing.

He seemed to have heard the howling of wild wolves, the sound of some small animals approaching the stinky sewer...

Was it safe?

Could he leave...

He pondered... and finally made a decision!

Let's wait another five years!!

If there is no movement in five years, then he can leave!

And the demonic cult girl, Xiaoxiao: "..."