Mythological origins

"Only by going further can we find a bit of respectability."

"I never expected that after all the hard work of becoming an immortal master, life is still hard."

The two strong men who passed by Bai Mo complained about their lives.

Dali and Aqiang used to be coolies in Yong'an Town. They came to the town from the same village and looked after each other.

Carrying bags and goods is their daily work. They can barely make a living. They work one day at a time.

Because they were lucky enough to move the luggage for an immortal master passing through this town, they saw the style and pomp of that person and never forgot it.

Since then, the two have had another dream, dreaming that they can become immortal masters one day and show off in front of everyone, so that they will have no regrets in their lives.

It's a pity that even princes and nobles, if they don't have the good spiritual roots that are picked out of thousands, can't seek immortality, let alone the two ordinary coolies.

Only in dreams can they play the role of immortal masters.

Sometimes they also think that if they had never seen the immortal master and never knew all that, they might not have so many unrealistic daydreams.

The more they know, the more they feel insignificant and powerless.

Like other coolies, they get their rewards after work, drink two bowls of turbid liquor, and order a plate of salted beans. After drinking, they lie down half drunk and half awake for a night, and continue this life the next day, until one day they get sick, tired and have no strength, and die in a corner of the road.

Drinking, carrying bags, sleeping when drunk, waking up to work, is the whole life of many hardworking people.

…

If it weren't for what happened eight months ago, their dreams would probably be just a dream until they die.

Eight months ago, the 20th outsourcing team of the Yin-Yang Sect came to this Yong'an Town and announced that they would teach immortal methods to the outside world, with a tuition fee of fifty taels of silver per person.

At first, few people believed it. After all, how precious is the immortal method? How can it be compared with a mere fifty taels of silver? It must be a swindler.

But the two of them, who dreamed of being an immortal master every day, believed it blindly.

They dug out the money they had intended to use to beg for a wife from the earthen jar under the bed and gave it to a lecturer who looked about the same age as them, but might actually be younger.

The two coolies were illiterate, and the early stage of the training class was to eliminate illiteracy and learn to read day and night.

If it weren't for the food and accommodation provided, they really didn't have money to study without working.

After three months of study, Dali and Aqiang both felt the trace of undetectable magic power in their bodies and successfully entered the first level of Qi Refining.

What they never expected was that after they finished their studies, the instructor not only returned the full tuition of fifty taels, but also gave them two spiritual stones each.

Then the two coolies, who were so grateful that they almost treated the instructor as a living Bodhisattva, hurriedly sent away the training class.

It was not until later that they learned that the Yin-Yang Sect would give five spiritual stones as a reward to everyone who learned the Yin-Yang Five Elements Secret.

The mentor of the two actually embezzled three of them, leaving only two for them.

…

"The mana of the first level of Qi Refining is only enough to activate five low-level magic talismans, or use three elementary fireball spells." Daniu couldn't help but complain.

"Even a few soldiers with weapons may not be able to deal with them."

"The magic talismans are so expensive, the lowest-level fireball talisman costs five spirit stones each..."    Nowadays, in this small town with less than 10,000 people, there are hundreds of "cultivators" like them. The mysterious veil of "immortal master" has been completely torn off and thrown to the ground and trampled by thousands of people.

The status of ordinary immortal masters in the town is only equal to that of guards, and even because of the serious oversupply, their treatment is not as good as that of the previous guards.

In a small town of just a few thousand people, where can there be so many resources to support more than a hundred immortal masters who do not work.

It's not that there are no Qi Refining cultivators with ulterior motives. After possessing the power of magic, they set their sights on the rich families in the town and played the role of a bandit.

But they were too weak and had not received any combat training. Although they caused some losses to the rich families, they could not get any good things for themselves.

Of course, this was only a temporary defeat. As long as there were more and more "immortal masters" without work, there would soon be a bigger gang to kill and burn for the golden belt.

If ten people with bad intentions at the first level of Qi Refining could not rush down, what about one hundred or two hundred?

Three fireballs per person, that would be three hundred fireballs...

In view of this, some landlords with a keen sense of smell have begun to plot to leave.

The number of poor monks outside can continue to increase, but they cannot increase their servants indefinitely, and they cannot afford to support so many people. If they stay here, they will not be able to stop these guys sooner or later.

…

“We will leave tomorrow, and we must go farther and faster than the lecturers.”

“Yes, wherever the lecturers go, they will teach a large number of low-level cultivators like us, and then the status of immortal master will become worthless.”

“How about… we also join the lecturer group? As long as we teach one person, we can get a few spiritual stones…”

After experiencing the speed of cultivation with spiritual stones, they felt that without spiritual stones, their pseudo-spiritual roots would be as slow as a turtle, so at this time, all their thoughts were only one thing left - to get spiritual stones.

“But I heard that this lecturer group still needs to be assessed… At least the second level of Qi Refining is allowed in.”

“… Could it be that we have wasted ten years of our lifespans, and after leaving this training class, we still have nowhere to stay?”

After seeing the wonderful world of cultivators in the Yin-Yang Sect training class, the two of them could no longer settle down. They lived their lives as ordinary laborers in the small town in a numb and mechanical way.

"Let's go to Duanping Town, 800 miles away. One of my uncles does business in that town."

"But will there still be the Yin-Yang Sect there..."

"It shouldn't be so soon."

They had inquired before that this small town with a radius of 300 miles had been infiltrated by the Yin-Yang training class, and there were quick-trained first-level Qi-refining cultivators everywhere.

"Graduation means unemployment."

Dali, who had little education and had not read many books except the Yin-Yang Five Elements Secret, suddenly recited the words mentioned by some storyteller a few days ago. The more he read, the more he felt that it was appropriate and described himself very well.

It's not that they really couldn't find a job to do, but there was no job that could satisfy their full minds.

Originally thought that after graduating from the training class, they could become immortal masters and immediately become the upper class, completely getting rid of the poor life.

Not to mention the high officials in the city, at least the small rich people in the villages and towns would definitely be fooled by a few magic spells of the first level of Qi Refining, and then treat themselves as guests of honor.

As a result, now even a decent job has a lot of "immortal masters" fighting for it.