Longevity: Starting with Only One Life, Cultivation Depends Entirely on Survival

"The foundation of a country actually lies in its people."

"When a country prospers, its people suffer; when a country perishes, its people suffer."

At the end, Jiang Mu added this sentence.

The Emperor Guangwu paused holding the wine glass, and a gleam of light shot out of his eyes.

"Well, well said!"

"When a country prospers, its people suffer; when a country perishes, its people suffer!"

"Sir, you are indeed a great talent!"

After Jiang Mu's long talk, Emperor Guangwu's address to him has changed to Sir.

This is an affirmation of Jiang Mu's talent and also a respect.

"Nowadays, the world is in chaos, and the most serious one is the ten-year war in the southern border of Song. Although it has been quelled by General Li, it is still eyeing it covetously."

"When countries are in chaos, it is the country that perishes and the people who suffer. In your opinion, what should we do?"

Emperor Guangwu stared at Jiang Mu with his eyes.

Jiang Mu looked at Emperor Guangwu's eyes, and he was radiant at the age of more than 40, with a gleam of light in his eyes.

Jiang Mu has a better understanding of this world. He knows that there are four major countries on this Kyushu continent: Song, Dagan, Dawu, Yuanqing, and many small countries that are dependent on each other.

Jiang Mu took a sip of wine and smiled faintly: "Hasn't your Majesty already had the answer in his heart?"

Emperor Guangwu has ideals and ambitions, and wants to be the only emperor in history who can unify the Kyushu continent.

Jiang Mu can see this naturally.

Emperor Guangwu immediately stood up and kowtowed to Jiang Mu: "Please teach me, sir!"

In front of Jiang Mu, Emperor Guangwu no longer used the word "I".

For a long time, Jiang Mu did not respond.

Emperor Guangwu stood up, and he was not discouraged. He continued: "I know that you are a cultivator and do not want to participate in worldly struggles."

"So I would like to worship you as my teacher, and only ask you to teach me some ways to govern the country."

Jiang Mu still did not respond.

So Emperor Guangwu stood up again and gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, you may not know that my ancestor was also a Jindan-stage cultivator. It was not until my grandfather's generation that he lost the qualification to practice, so he became an emperor on earth."

"So if you are willing to teach me, I am willing to give you the ancestral practice method!"

Jiang Mu stood up suddenly and said solemnly to Emperor Guangwu: "It is our duty as cultivators to save the people from danger!"

Emperor Guangwu's old face: "(゜ロ゜)"

So in this Luodu City, Jiang Mu often came to the palace to teach Emperor Guangwu, and as for the success or failure in the future, it all depends on his own luck.

Three years passed in a blink of an eye.

Li Jiu and Li Shengyi gave birth to a son, and Jiang Mu often played with his grandson.

"I didn't expect that I would have a grandson at such a young age."

Jiang Mu sighed.

From the perspective of a cultivator, he is still very young, and from the perspective of a mortal, he is already in his sixties or seventies at this time.

Seeing Li Jiu's family happy and harmonious, Li Jiu was in a trance.

Yes, I... am old.

But, Master, brothers and sisters, why haven't you come back yet?

Didn't they say they would come back to see me?

They don't know that they are immortal. In the case of good health, according to the limit of mortal life, Jiang Mu will die in another ten or twenty years.

Why don't you come back?

In the past three years, Jiang Mu has used all available channels, but he has not found out what Qingzhou is.

He has never even heard of the name of Yuanye Sect.

What exactly is that place?

Seeing Li Jiu's family slowly getting older and the younger ones growing up, Jiang Mu knew that it was time for him to leave.

In this world, everyone has their own life.

He can only be a bystander and watch Li Jiu and the others slowly grow old.

"Master, are you really leaving?"

"Sir, are you really leaving?"

Jiang Mu smiled, "I feel like there's a sign of a breakthrough in my heart. I'm going back to Qingxuan Sect to retreat."

"From now on, it's up to you guys."

Leaving this sentence, Jiang Mu left Luodu.

With the current relationship between Li Jiu and Emperor Guangwu, they should be living well without worrying about it.

And if Jiang Mu really got some different techniques from Emperor Guangwu, it would take some time to digest.

A volume of techniques that can support cultivators from Qi training to the early stage of Jindan is still useless to Jiang Mu. A volume of body techniques called "Stepping Song" is said to be able to increase one's movement speed by three levels on the original basis when it is refined to perfection!

This movement speed includes running speed and flying speed. Of course, there is also an upper limit, which is that it can only support cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage. Once the Nascent Soul is broken, this technique will be useless.

The last volume of boxing techniques, named "Hundred-handed Meteor Fist", can be practiced to perfection, and can send out hundreds of punches in a breath that exceed the speed of sound. Each punch has the power of a million tons of impact force, but it is extremely difficult to practice.

Jiang Mu was very satisfied with "Stepping Song" and "Hundred-handed Meteor Fist". One is a weapon for escape, and the other is a martial art in the world. Only speed can't be broken.

So Jiang Mu began to practice.

The practice of magic is divided into actual practice and meditation.

For cultivators, actual practice is just to see how much they have really mastered. If they want to understand a magic, they still need to meditate, simulate practice in the spiritual world, and understand every move.

This is also why high-level cultivators retreat for at least ten years and at most a hundred years.

There is no concept of time in the consciousness of monks. It seems that it is only a short moment to penetrate a method, but in fact, a long time has passed at the speed of time in the outside world.

This is why monks stay in seclusion and don’t know anything about it until they sit down and die, because they don’t know how much time has passed outside.

Jiang Mu put up a sign saying "retreat in seclusion and do not disturb" in the living room and started practicing.

In the first year, because he could not live without food and often had to eat, Jiang Mu's "Ta Ge Xing" made no progress.

The next year, Li Jiu came to visit Jiang Mu. The five small countries in the north united to invade. The war in the Song Dynasty broke out again. He was about to go on an expedition. He asked Jiang Mu to take care of Luodu's wife and children. . www.x33xs.com

Jiang Mu agreed.

In the third year, Jiang Mu occasionally went to Luodu to take care of him, and he gradually started to practice "Take Xing".

In the fourth year, Jiang Mu learned from Emperor Guangwu that Li Jiu had been sent to attack the State of Wu, and Jiang Mu continued to take on the task of taking care of his wife and children.

…

Another decade.

Li Jiu went from being a general in Zhennan to becoming a well-known military god in the Song Dynasty.

He fought on the battlefield, conquered one city after another, and slowly expanded the map of the Song Dynasty.

Jiang Mu checked the qualifications of Li Jiu's son, Li Rushi.

This name was given by Jiang Mu.

It's a pity that Li Rushi, like his father, has no spiritual roots.

In the blink of an eye, time flies by, and the next ten years pass quietly.

After Li Rushi studied with Jiang Mu for a while, he followed in his father's footsteps.

As the saying goes, a tiger father has no dog son, Li Rushi's performance on the battlefield was even worse than that of his father.

In twenty years, the Song Dynasty had regained most of the territory of Kyushu, leaving only the Daqian Kingdom and a few small countries in the northeast still resisting tenaciously.

Emperor Guangwu's great wish to unify Kyushu is just around the corner.

But Emperor Guangwu was already over sixty years old at this time, and I wonder if he would have the chance to see the day of reunification again.

In the past twenty years, among Duan En and Lao Wang, three of them could not bear the passage of time and passed away quietly.

Only Duan En, Lao Wang and Jiang Mu were left drinking tea.

"The Great Dao is ruthless. Our qualifications are limited and we will not be able to successfully build the foundation in our lifetime!"

Lao Wang's temples were gray and he sighed, now he is the only one left without foundation, and in a few years, he will become an immortal.

Jiang Mu was silent. He had already expected that a few people would break through the difficulties, so he distributed the few remaining spirit stones to a few people for cultivation.

And with the rise of Qingxuan Sect, it came into contact with the outside world and obtained a lot of spiritual stones. Under such circumstances, several people failed to build a foundation.

"Haha, in fact, we can get a glimpse of the way of cultivation. Compared with ordinary people whose life span is only seventy or eighty years, we can die without regrets."

Lao Wang is actually very optimistic.

In the twenty-second year, Lao Wang passed away.

Lao Wang walked away peacefully. He chose to sit on the hilltop of the original Five Immortals Gate on a bright moonlit night with few stars.

"Old Duan, you have to hold on, the whole Qingxuan Sect is counting on you!"

Jiang Mu said to Duan En.

Duan En looks very young, probably in his fifties, and he should have a lot of life left.

"Lao Jiang, in fact, some of the later disciples of our sect are not bad, and eight or nine of them have succeeded in building the foundation. You can rest assured that they will watch over the sect with me."

Several old friends left, and Duan En seemed a little disappointed.

Jiang Mu nodded, but stopped talking.

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