Liu Qinghuan walked westward along the Tianyuan River, retracing his steps back the way he came.
The Tianyuan River is adjacent to the Qushang Swamp and runs through the entire Zhongyu Prefecture, and then to Xiling Prefecture, which has high mountains and long waters. He and Yunzheng walked for several months back then, but Liu Qinghuan rode a small hoofed horned beast and it only took more than half a month to arrive.
To Tongda City.
Tongda City is a capital city for mortals. Merchants from the south and north gather here, creating a prosperous scene.
Liu Qinghuan did not fall down. He only glanced in the air and then ran straight towards the Hengwu Mountains. It took him a long time to find the small mountain col.
The green mountains were faint and the green water was long. He drew Qi into his body for the first time. Half of the small cave where he set foot on the path to immortality had collapsed, and the remaining half had become a nest of foxes.
Liu Qinghuan did not disturb them. She concealed all her breath and quietly landed on the big tree at the entrance of the cave. She touched the trunk of the tree with great nostalgia and drifted away.
The section of cliff where he fell stood quietly in the same place, and even the broken silver hidden in a tree hole was still the same. Liu Qinghuan silently put away the blackened silver, stepped lightly under his feet, and followed the wind up the cliff that was once insurmountable.
The cliff was thrown beneath him in a few clicks.
Now he is no longer that teenager, and decades have passed. When he takes the same escape route, he seems to see those people whose faces are swollen from hunger again, and hears the wails and sounds of despair coming from the night.
Step after step, Liu Qinghuan seemed to see the overlap of time and space. On the left was a hungry and panicked mortal boy, dragging his feet numbly in despair; on the right was a young man cultivating immortals in fluttering clothes, with starry eyes in his eyes, walking forward in silence.
Old Man Liu, have you seen that? The little beggar you adopted has walked out of his own life with the help of the "divine book" you gave him, and the dream you have been chasing for your whole life has come true in him.
It was just that the war in Ning'an City forced him, who was only ten years old, to run for his life in a hurry. He couldn't even bury Old Man Liu in peace, so he only used rags and rotten grass to cover his body.
Liu Qinghuan slowly walked along Qingshi Street towards the north of Ning'an City.
The houses in the north of the city are still the shabbiest place in the whole city. The narrow and low thatched huts are crowded together to form dark and dirty alleys.
All the people passing by looked sideways at Liu Qinghuan. Although he was only wearing ordinary Tsing Yi, he was neat and straight, completely unlike the people in this place who had lost their color due to hard work.
At the corner, two women were chatting together. They looked at Liu Qinghuan who was walking by. They pointed and said without hesitation: "Is this a scholar from some academy? Why did he end up here?"
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"I don't look like a scholar. Look at his style, tsk tsk! He must be a young master from a wealthy family!"
"You can pull me down. The second young master of the Chen family has always had his nostrils turned upward. The street is not even wide enough for him. He wishes he could have a pair of pants ten feet wide! I think only people who have read books are like this.
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"Speaking of this, have you heard that Mr. Chen has fallen in love with the little daughter-in-law of the Xie family who is suffering from tuberculosis? I heard that he has been pestering him several times. The Xie family is almost mad to death, but they dare not
Make a sound..."
The two people spoke without suppressing their voices, and the topic turned to Young Master Chen with irrepressible excitement. Liu Qinghuan was just a passerby, and it was rare for him to say a few words to them.
The gossip of the world came intermittently, but could not enter Liu Qinghuan's ears.
He looked a little dazed, and slowly looked for the beggar's den. However, the streets in the city had changed several times, and they were completely different from before.
But this search is extremely meaningless, so what if we find it? The beggar's den is not the same as it used to be, and Old Man Liu's body will not be there anymore.
There was not even a grave bag, so Liu Qinghuan couldn't even pay homage. He could only walk around in the winding alleys, as if wandering in his memory.
Old Man Liu was a wealthy young man who spent all his wealth in pursuit of immortality. He also carried the "Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting Immortality", a true guide to becoming an immortal. However, because he had no spiritual roots, he could only waste his life and end up in a beggar's den with no one at his old age.
Collected dead bones.
Thinking about the time when he handed the "Zuo Forgetting Sutra" to him, he probably didn't expect that he would actually embark on the path of cultivating immortality. And if he didn't have this sutra, he would probably wander around in the secular world for the rest of his life, and in the end he would just be
Just a handful of dry bones.
And even now, he is already a foundation-building monk. If he fails to pass the level of elixir formation, his fate will still be the same. There is not much difference.
The road to immortality is never-ending, just like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat.
Liu Qinghuan had reached the deepest part of the alley, and saw a thatched hut with a big hole standing at the end. A beggar with hair like a cobweb squatted at the door, digging hard with half a broken bowl.
The beggar felt Liu Qinghuan's gaze and raised a ferocious face. However, after looking up and down, a look of suspicion and fear appeared on his face, and he turned around and slipped into the dark room.
Liu Qinghuan knew that many pairs of eyes were secretly looking at him from the dark. Except for a few who were slightly younger, they were either old, young or sick.
He didn't care, he just stood there.
What I didn't expect was that although other places may have changed, the Beggar's Nest was still the same one as before, except that the holes in the roof of the thatched hut had been changed, and the extra cracks in the wall had been blocked with clods of earth.
Liu Qinghuan was having a lot of mixed feelings, but a few young beggars rushed out with sticks, puffed out their skinny chests, and shouted: "Boy, where did you come from? What did you want to do standing here for so long? This is not your place.
Get out of here wherever you are, or your little body won’t be able to survive the stick sores!”
Liu Qinghuan put away all her thoughts, just nodded, turned and left.
There were shouts of triumph and wanton ridicule from behind.
But he knew that behind these laughter were a group of people suffering in the world, holding on to the last bit of dignity.
Turning a corner, Liu Qinghuan disappeared, and in an instant he was over Lin'an City.
The Hengwu Mountains get higher and higher as you go west, and there are many monsters and beasts in the mountains, which are even more dangerous than the Qushang Swamp. However, it is only the outskirts of the mountains from here. The Shaoyang Sect is in the mountains, and there are more monsters all the way to the north.
Going up from Xingyue Palace, there is Namo Temple, which can be said to have many sects of cultivating immortals.
Liu Qinghuan planned to go all the way north along the Hengwu Mountains, over the towering Kunwu Mountains, to the Yinxian Sect in the north, and then circle back to the Eagle's Nest City for a short tour.
But before flying out of Ning'an City, countless frightened screams suddenly came from the ground!
Looking down, I saw that whether it was a mountain peak or a flat land, they were all undulating like waves. The houses in Ning'an City were swaying with the waves as if they were built on water. They collapsed instantly when they could not withstand the rubbing, and cracks appeared on the ground.
The gap is like an abyss!
Liu Qinghuan's expression changed drastically, but she turned to look to the west!