Chapter 57: Returning Home
Birth, aging, illness and death are all natural phenomena.
Flowers bloom and fall, following the natural order.
Cultivation is a path against heaven, snatching life from heaven, and defying heaven.
To defy the heavens is naturally difficult. On the path of cultivating immortality, resources and mental nature are both indispensable.
Those who lack resources have slow progress in improving their abilities. Relying on daily and nightly practice can naturally enhance one's abilities, but lifespan is limited, and the path to immortality is boundless.
Those with poor character, no matter how many resources they have, will still find many detours and difficulties on the path to immortality, and will be easily misled by demons. Those with poor character are also difficult to cultivate into immortals.
Cultivating immortality is originally a great undertaking of willpower.
Because cultivating immortality requires resources, the residence of cultivators is often located near places with spiritual mines. Generally, powerful cultivation forces choose better spiritual mines, such as the Qingfeng Immortal Sect, a second-rate immortal sect, which has a spiritual stone mine next to it. This spiritual stone mine is between inferior and lower-grade spiritual stone mines and has been mined for nearly 800 years. If this mine is depleted, the Qingfeng Immortal Sect will basically have to relocate. Of course, in such famous mountains and rivers with abundant spiritual energy, the mine won't be depleted so easily.
The Immortal City is a city without a sect or mountain gate, where scattered cultivators reside. The strength of such an Immortal City is generally weak, so it's impossible to occupy high-quality spiritual stone mines, and they're usually adjacent to spiritual sand mines. Spiritual sand mines are troublesome to deal with, requiring the extraction of sand from the spiritual sand before refining it into spiritual stones, resulting in low efficiency and a small amount of spiritual stones. However, this is an unavoidable situation, given the weak strength of the Immortal City.
Xia's Immortal City is an ordinary immortal city. Next to it is Danxia Gorge, where there is a spiritual sand mine.
Yan Zhen's home was in the Xia Zhi Xian City. Yan Zhen rode his horse straight to the city, and after some time, he finally returned to the Xia Zhi Xian City.
To enter the Xia's Immortal Cultivation City, if you don't have a resident certificate of this city, you need to pay five taels of silver as an entrance fee. Yan Zhen took out her resident certificate and entered the city. The Xia's Immortal Cultivation City was bustling with activity.
"Selling fine swords, top-quality swords, only three inferior spirit stones, a big bargain!" A man with a pile of swords on his back was showing off the swords while shouting.
"Selling talismans! Absolutely genuine products from the Yang Symbol Gate of the Second-Rate Immortal Sect. Take a look, the cheapest ones are only half a low-grade spirit stone. Come and buy quickly!" A man in his forties was shouting, but what he was selling was likely to be fake goods.
"A mid-grade Huangjie secret technique, an absolute mid-grade Huangjie secret technique. I found it when I was exploring an ancient ruin." A man shouted, now everything likes to lean on the ancient, as if not leaning on the ancient can't show off this secret technique's prowess. The cultivation world has also formed this habit, the more ancient things are, the more valuable they are. You say that nowadays, few people understand these things.
Yan Zhen listened from the side and couldn't help but laugh silently. A mid-grade Huangjie secret technique is obviously something common, yet it dares to be called an ancient relic. This era is really ridiculous. However, thinking back, she realized that she had joined the second-rate immortal sect Qingfeng Immortal Sect, so she thought of mid-grade Huangjie as common goods. But in reality, for many scattered cultivators, mid-grade Huangjie techniques are probably also very good."
"Dan medicine, the best dan medicine, absolutely top-notch. This dan medicine has all sorts of uses, there's the Refining Qi Cream that increases cultivation speed, and the Building Foundation Cream that increases the chances of successfully building one's foundation. Are you worried about your cultivation being too slow? Come quickly and buy some dan medicine!" A voice came from a nearby dan medicine shop, causing Yan Zhen to laugh silently. In reality, the effects of these dan medicines were all exaggerated, especially that Building Foundation Cream. Building one's foundation was the first major hurdle for cultivators, and it was unknown how many people would be eliminated at this stage. Most cultivators would likely remain in the Refining Qi stage their entire lives. The Building Foundation Cream that claimed to increase the chances of successfully building one's foundation was just a boastful claim, but in reality, it had no effect on overcoming this first major hurdle.
In the Nada Pharmacy, another shouting voice came: "People are floating in the immortal world, where can't be beaten by swords. Here is the best wound medicine, guaranteed that after taking the wound medicine, you will be reborn and vigorous within an incense stick of time, and can fight against the enemy again."
There is also a shop next door, on this shop
The sign reads "Introduction Shop". In fact, this kind of introduction shop is doing brokerage business. They can be found in every cultivation city. The role of the introduction shop is actually very simple. Introduction shops generally have a familiar relationship with some nearby cultivation sects and receive certain benefits from each sect for recruiting people every year. Each cultivation city has many scattered cultivators who want to send their children to the introduction shop, hoping to get a chance to enter a cultivation sect through the introduction shop. These scattered cultivators naturally need to pay money, which is how the introduction shop makes its brokerage fee.
Yan Zhen back then entered Qingfeng Xianmen of the second-rate immortal sect through the introduction of a matchmaker.
Yan Zhen walked through the streets and alleys of Xiāo Zhī Xiūxiān City, with a feeling of bustle. A bustling that was completely different from the one on top of Fēngyún Mountain. Yan Zhen enjoyed this bustling noise and the familiar feeling of his youth, leading his horse to walk and stop occasionally, until he arrived at the gate of the Yan family's residence.
Yan's home is an ordinary three-section house.
The swallow's home is very small.
The current Yan family, both I and my sister have left to study the arts, so at home there should only be Father Yan Tieyi and Mother Lin Ying, plus some servants. These servants are basically ordinary mortals. It's very normal for even an average cultivator to have a few mortal servants, after all, there is a hierarchy within the cultivation world, but compared to mortals, cultivators have a natural advantage, standing above them.
After Yan Zhen entered, a servant immediately led his horse and a housekeeper said: "The young master is back, the old master and mistress are in the main house."
Yan Zhen immediately rushed to the main house and saw his father and mother in the middle of it.
His father, Yan Tie, had a national character face, quite dignified.
Lin Xiang's mother looked around thirty years old and was still quite beautiful.
Yan Tieyi and Lin Ying knew that this year's Dragon Boat Festival, their son and daughter would return home. However, when they saw their son come back, they were still quite excited. Yan Tieyi, being a man, hid it better. Lin Ying was slightly teary-eyed and asked Yan about his well-being.
Yan Iron Clothes coughed lightly: "Yan Zhen is back, how's your recent cultivation in the Clear Wind Fairy Gate?"
Swallow truly awaits the answer to his own cultivation reaching the first heaven of the foundation period. This sentence will surely shock and amaze everyone. The foundation period is indeed extraordinary, building the foundation, building the foundation, laying the foundation for the Great Way. Once the foundation is established, it's immediately different. This phrase is popular in the Xianmen sects, and even more so among the Xian families.
At this time, Lin Ying, the mother, interrupted and scolded: "The son has just returned, and he hasn't even rested properly. What are you talking about?" However, Lin Ying knew that her son's cultivation level had always been mediocre. She was afraid that asking would not yield any good results, but instead put unnecessary pressure on her son, so she cut off Yan Tieyi's questioning. This is a typical image of a loving mother.
Lin Xiang's face was filled with a smile as she asked, "Son, you once sent a letter saying that you and a girl surnamed Yan were in love. This time, why didn't you bring the girl surnamed Yan back? When can we meet her?" Indeed, mothers are most concerned about their son's marriage.
Yan Zhen's face stiffened slightly, but she said, "Mother, I've already broken up with Yan Xiaozhi."
Lin Xiang heard this and the smile on her face stiffened for a moment, but she immediately smiled again: "If we're going to part ways, then so be it. Anyway, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming up soon, and at that time, there will be many nice girls from good families returning home nearby. If you take a liking to any of them, just let Mother know, and Mother will definitely help you dig a good match."
Yan Zhen smiled and said, "Mother, I have set my heart on the Great Way, determined to cultivate immortality, and am not in a hurry to get married." This sentence is placed in the immortal world, it is "the evil slave has not been exterminated, how can we talk about family?" This sentence is placed in the mortal world, most people are shouting slogans, but there are a few people with extremely firm determination who are steadily practicing this sentence, their Dao heart is pure and simple.
"Hey, updated some stuff tonight, sorry about that."
