Longevity Begins With Zongmen Handyman

Chapter 156: The Origin of Sisters

Twenty-two years later.

On the ruins of the once prosperous Tianyang City, various green grasses have grown, and some tall trees have emerged. The broken walls and ruins seem to be on the verge of being covered by the forest.

This is the power of nature. No matter how glorious the creations of any species or living beings, when civilization falls, nature will weave a brand new future for them.

The heavens are merciless.

Outside Tianyang City, a small river flows under the moonlight. The water is clear, and two wild rabbits come to the riverbank to drink. After drinking, the male rabbit lovingly licks the fur of the female rabbit.

Suddenly, it seems like a crocodile emerges from under the riverbed--

The two rabbits are startled and about to escape, but then they are hit by two water arrows, and both of them lose their lives.

A figure falls by the water's edge. Although he jumps out of the water, his body is covered in old mud, dirty and smelly.

This person quickly puts the two rabbits into a storage bag, then glances at the unfamiliar ruins forest in the distance. Without hesitation, he directly uses a third-grade flying talisman to leave this place--

The small river continues to flow, quickly smoothing out the depression in the riverbed, as if nothing had ever appeared.

...

Fleeing from outside Tianyang City, Li An runs for five hundred miles before finally stopping in a desolate forest at the break of dawn.

He, a Foundation Building cultivator, is actually panting from exhaustion!

Mainly because seventeen years of wasted time has made his cultivation somewhat unstable. Moreover, in order to escape, he exerted all his strength and is truly tired.

Despite this, he still holds on to his fatigue, digs a hole in the ground, covers it up, and uses a set of first-grade superior concealment formations to protect it before jumping into the hole.

He takes out hundreds of spirit stones and starts replenishing his spiritual energy frantically.

Crack, crack, crack!

The spirit stones in his hand keep shattering, emitting a mournful sound as if being forcefully suppressed...

He stays here for two days and two nights!

On the third night, he finally emerges from the hole and goes to a nearby stream. He vigorously rubs off the years of accumulated mud on his body, rubbing off seven or eight jin of black mud.

As a cultivator, he can cleanse himself with a simple spell.

But at this moment, he desperately needs to experience the feeling of being human.

So he does it himself.

After a long time.

The stream water is icy cold, as if telling him that he is still in the world!

He shaves off the beard and long hair that has grown for over a decade, changes into clean clothes, and clears away the traces of the hole and his presence before setting off.

His destination is the Sijing Mountain Range!

The Sijing Mountain Range is located at the northernmost part of the Northern Frontier, sandwiched between the Sword Sect and the Beast Sect, belonging to a power vacuum zone.

It is not far from there to enter the neighboring Yan Kingdom!

Li An is not planning to stay in the Great Li Empire any longer. After the battle in Tianyang City and the twenty-two years of suffering... this damn demonic cult can go far away.

He wants to leave voluntarily.

Moreover, he still has a pawn in the Sijing Mountain Range...

A puppet!

When he was still in Baihu City under the identity of "Wei Ming," Xu Qiuhui had tried to test him and seemed to have guessed that he was Li An.

To conceal his identity, Li An had created a puppet and sent it to Zhaojia Town to impersonate him, thus diverting attention.

That puppet later went to a mountain stronghold in the Sijing Mountain Range and became a leader, doing quite well.

He can stop by and see him on the way, and plan for the future in the Sijing Mountain Range.

As for Baihu City and the top-grade elemental elixirs he buried...

Li An won't go to retrieve them in the short term.

He is completely in the dark about the current situation outside and needs to find a stable place first.

...

Half a month later.

Li An finally arrives at the Sijing Mountain Range!

After half a month of trekking, he finally breaks free from the boredom, emptiness, and vigilance of being trapped in a stinking ditch and returns to a normal state.

In the Sijing Mountain Range, he senses it faintly.

The puppet Zhao Yi is still there!

Good.

Li An doesn't rashly approach Zhao Yi's stronghold. Instead, he finds a cave in the forest about seven or eight li away and temporarily settles down.

After setting up formations and other things, he enters the cave and finally opens his spiritual platform for the first time!

Inside Li An's spiritual platform.

His elemental spirit emerges from the soul fire and stares at the "frail girl" in the corner.

The elemental spirit of the "frail" girl still bears some scars from being burned by his soul fire. Obviously, during the three months when he was unconscious in the stinking ditch, this frail girl must have tried to possess him!

But she was injured by his powerful soul fire.

In fact, the elemental spirit of this frail girl is of a very high level!

However, for some reason, this elemental spirit is very weak, even weaker than Li An.

So, Li An was fine during the coma.

Later, when Li An woke up, she never did such a stupid thing again.

"Gou An..."

Inside the spiritual platform, the spirit of the "weak girl" looked at Li An with a complex expression on her face. "You should change your name. From now on, call yourself Gou An, not Li An."

Li An couldn't help but smile.

"Born with a demonic body, the fusion of three powers. I really can't understand. Those born with demonic bodies are all exceptional talents of their generation, fierce and ruthless, growing up in blood and fire. How could there be someone like you, so mediocre... and yet you still have so many opportunities."

Her expression clearly showed some melancholy.

The fusion of three powers was also one of her lifelong dreams...

Although her status and position were extraordinary, she only cultivated the Honglu Gong of the elemental spirit furnace and the Yin Yang Molten Furnace Gong.

Moreover, she didn't like the way the Yin Yang Molten Furnace Gong was cultivated, so she hardly practiced it, mainly focusing on the elemental spirit furnace Gong.

What she had been desperately pursuing, Li An had already achieved!

This meant that Li An was definitely the legendary born with a demonic body, and she had encountered Li An several times, but missed the opportunity...

"Born with a demonic body?"

Li An frowned.

The weak girl said, "Yes, born with a demonic body."

"It's normal for a wild born with a demonic body like you to not know your own situation... But I can tell you, only those born with a demonic body can cultivate my Yin Yang Molten Furnace, Blood Flesh Furnace, and Elemental Spirit Furnace simultaneously, and can also fuse the three powers and awaken the demonic inheritance. It's very difficult for anyone else to achieve this easily!"

"Even though my sister has obtained all three techniques, she probably hasn't completely fused the three powers and obtained the demonic inheritance!"

"You are the only one!"

Li An couldn't help but be stunned.

Born with a demonic body?

What is this...

Being able to merge the three major demonic techniques into one, is that what it means to be born with a demonic body?

No! The reason he was able to achieve this was purely because of... the Life Nurturing Immortal Technique.

Li An pondered, suddenly feeling that his cultivation of the Life Nurturing Immortal Technique was probably closely related to the demonic sect.

Was that why he was targeted by that giant figure from the demonic sect?

"Perhaps my sister never thought about it... Hehe, what she has been desperately pursuing, the born with a demonic body who has fused the three powers has long been achieved."

The weak girl sneered inexplicably.

"Your sister?"

Li An asked.

"Yes, my sister."

The weak girl looked at Li An. During Li An's coma, she had been thinking and had already made a plan, so she didn't hide much information and directly said, "My sister's name is Shangguan Shengxian, and I am Shangguan Xiaoxiao."

"A thousand years ago, my sister was being chased by someone and escaped from the spiritual realm to this Emperor Yuan realm. I followed her and had been looking for her until two hundred years ago when I finally found her trace..."

"Her remnant soul is hidden in Tianyang City and gave the Yin Yang Gong to Jingbei Wang Sanyang... Unfortunately, I mistakenly thought that Jingbei Wang was her target for reincarnation, but I didn't expect that Jingbei Wang was just her bait."

"You are her true furnace."

She briefly explained the process.

It was quite consistent with Li An's speculation.

Baihu Mountain had deliberately targeted the Jingbei Wang Mansion. After Jingbei Wang broke through the Nascent Soul stage, they attacked.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao thought that after Jingbei Wang formed his Nascent Soul, her sister would possess him.

So, when she saw Jingbei Wang being "possessed," she appeared and was ready to kill Shangguan Shengxian.

But she didn't expect that the one possessing Jingbei Wang was not Shangguan Shengxian's main spirit, but only a clone!

So, she rushed into Jingbei Wang's body to kill her sister, but her sister took the opportunity to take over her body and used the Soul-Annihilating Demon Flame to burn Shangguan Xiaoxiao's main spirit.

However, Shangguan Xiaoxiao also left a back-up plan.

A weak remnant spirit hidden in a maid in the Jingbei Wang Mansion!

Moreover, Shangguan Xiaoxiao had also made some arrangements for herself.

So, when Shangguan Shengxian discovered that Li An was her main target, Shangguan Xiaoxiao used all her strength to activate her final back-up plan and blocked Shangguan Shengxian's attack.

Rescuing Li An!

...

After listening to the whole process, Li An remained silent for a long time.

This was the cultivation world. Everyone who dared to get involved in such a situation was not a fool.

Back-up plans and hidden cards... They were endless. Whoever had more would survive and win.

"You come from the spiritual realm?"

This was the news that interested him the most!

The spiritual realm!

...

(End of this chapter)