Five years have passed by in a flash, and Jiuhua Mountain is still the same Jiuhua Mountain, with lush trees and exotic flowers and plants everywhere, but you can still find them by walking a few steps.
As the ice and snow melt in the early spring, the entire Jiuhua Mountain is revealed to be green, and there is a vibrant scene everywhere.
There was a loud "rumbling" sound.
Yuyang Cave, which had been sealed in dust for several years, also opened up on this spring day with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
A handsome young man wearing a green robe walked out of it.
All I could see was his sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, a clear-cut face, and a long body. Isn't this Chen Zhiyu who has been in seclusion for five years?
A warm breeze blew across his fair face, and the air was filled with the scent of flowers. Chen Zhiyu stretched out regardless of his appearance.
He thought to himself: The air in Jiuhua Mountain is better. I wonder how my brothers and sisters are doing?
Thinking of Chen Zhiyu rushing towards his small courtyard like a strong wind, he was shocked by the Chen family members who were working beside the rugged path.
Chen Zhiyu is now twenty-one years old. He broke through the seventh level of Qi training three years ago.
It can also be said that Chen Zhiyu was forced to stop when he was about to break through the seventh level of Qi training in his third year of retreat.
The reason is very simple. He was kicked out of the Glazed Golden Light Tower, which made him look confused. He didn't expect that this magic weapon could be so temperamental.
After being kicked out, some more information came into Chen Zhiyu's head. Only then did Chen Zhiyu learn that although the glazed golden light tower had incredible functions, it still had great limitations.
It is true that this glazed golden light tower can assist people in their cultivation, but the premise is that this glazed golden light tower is complete.
The Glazed Golden Light Pagoda that Chen Zhiyu got now is a defective product. The reason why Chen Zhiyu was able to practice in it for six years was because the owner of this pagoda had been dead for many years and accumulated some spiritual energy.
Now that the spiritual energy is exhausted, if Chen Zhiyu wants to enter it to practice again, he can only find some missing fragments of the Glazed Golden Light Tower or wait hundreds of years before entering to practice again.
Not only that, Chen Zhiyu also has to find five high-level spiritual stones with different attributes to stabilize the space on the first floor of the Glazed Golden Light Tower. Otherwise, in a few hundred years, the time flow advantage of the first floor of the Glazed Golden Light Tower will disappear.
, becomes an ordinary tower.
So although Chen Zhiyu now has a golden finger, he can only eat those spiritual peaches, drink some spiritual water and various acres of second-level spiritual fields.
However, Chen Zhiyu was also very satisfied. After all, he had gained three years in vain. Otherwise, with his own qualifications, he would not have been able to break through to the seventh level of Qi training at the age of twenty-one.
It is said that after he was kicked out three years ago, he harvested the first-order spiritual grass he planted.
At that time, Chen Zhiyu poured some spiritual water produced in the space on these first-order spiritual grasses. In addition, the spiritual field was of second-order level. Therefore, although these first-order spiritual grasses had only grown for six years, their medicinal effects could be said to be negligible.
Not inferior to those first-order spiritual grasses that have grown for more than ten years.
In this way, Chen Zhiyu can start preparing to start refining alchemy.
As for Chen Zhiyu's two younger brothers and sisters, they had their spiritual roots tested four years ago. Unexpectedly, both of them had spiritual roots. This made Chen Zhiyu's family extremely happy, especially his parents.
His sister Chen Fang was found to have three types of spiritual roots: water, wood, and earth. Among them, the purity of the earth spiritual roots is as high as 70%. She is considered a little genius in the Chen family.
As for his younger brother, he is a bit miserable. Like his second brother, he has a fourth spiritual root, and the purity is not high. I am afraid that there is no hope of breaking through the foundation building in this life.
So two more people were added to the Zigzai generation, and now there are fifty people.
However, the younger sister's name was homophonic with the second brother's. After the spiritual root was detected, the elder Chen Yuhong felt that this was not good and changed her name to Chen Zhifeng.
It means that the Chen family has a phoenix, soaring nine thousand miles and traveling in the sky.
It is indeed a good name, and Chen Yuting and his wife also agree very much.
Inside the Chen family courtyard.
"Where did mother go?"
Chen Zhiyu looked at his father Chen Shifeng and his two younger brothers and sisters with a puzzled look on his face and asked.
After all, every time he leaves seclusion, his mother will prepare a meal on time to greet him. Why she didn't show up today is a bit strange.
"well"
Chen Zhiyu's father, Chen Shifeng, sighed, but did not answer.
"Feng'er, Zhong'er, tell my brother, where is your mother?"
Chen Zhiyu asked his two younger brothers and sisters softly.
"Mother... mother, she's gone!"
Although Chen Zhifeng occasionally seemed mature, she still looked at her father when it was a matter related to her mother, and then stammered about it to the brother who loved her the most.
"Father, what's going on!"
Chen Zhiyu said excitedly to his father Chen Shifeng.
"Come with me!"
Chen Shifeng turned around and entered the room where he usually lived, then took out a letter and handed it to Chen Zhiyu.
Chen Zhiyu scanned it briefly and found that it was mother's name.
The letter said:
"When my son came out of quarantine, I think my mother had already left Jiuhua Mountain.
My son, don’t blame me. I have been practicing hard for my mother for decades, and now I am about to pass the age of foundation building. I am really unwilling to be a mother, so I am ready to go out and explore and look for opportunities to build this foundation.
Your two younger brothers and sisters simply have spiritual roots. If you can spare some time in the future, please help.
Especially Feng'er, she has a good spiritual foundation. If you, the third brother, have the spare capacity, you must help her build the foundation. This is the only thing that my mother can't worry about.
Also, if mother breaks through the foundation building, she will definitely come back, if not..."
After reading it, Chen Zhiyu suddenly realized that his mother was already sixty-seven years old, only thirteen years away from eighty.
My mother is a casual cultivator. Her qualifications are not bad and her practice is not slow. All she lacks is one or two foundation-building spiritual items.
I only blame myself for always focusing on my own cultivation and selfishly thinking that my mother is willing to grow old with my father until he dies.
But now it seems that this is not what he thought.
He turned his head and looked at his father, who was already full of sideburns, and realized that his father was already in his nineties this year, and he was only about ten years away from death.
"You must be wondering why your mother left me and went out alone to look for opportunities!"
As he spoke, he looked like he was reminiscing about the past.
"Actually, I don't have much affection for your mother!"
"When I rescued your mother, she was poisoned..."
What Chen Shifeng said next simply broke all the good memories of Chen Zhiyu's past.
It turns out that his mother was only forced to be with his father, and his father also had two children with a mortal concubine.
Although these things are very common in the world of cultivation, but now that Chen Zhiyu heard his father say it with his own ears, he felt differently.
When Chen Zhiyu was about to walk out of the room in despair, his father's voice came over
"Zhiyu, this is what your mother left for you!"
As he spoke, he handed a yellow animal skin book bound in thread to Chen Zhiyu, then turned around and left.
When turning around, Chen Shifeng patted his son's shoulder and said:
"Zhiyu, no matter what, your mother and I love you and your younger brothers and sisters. We hope you will go further on the path of cultivation. There is no doubt about this."
After saying that, Chen Shifeng turned around and left.
Chen Zhiyu walked out of the room in a daze, looked up at the sky, and felt that just a moment ago the sky was blue and clear, but now it was covered with dark clouds and the sky was full of sorrow. He thought this was probably because things in the world are impermanent!
Chen Zhiyu returned to his Yuyang Cave in despair under the eyes of his younger brothers and sisters.