After the Skyfall

Chapter 378 Meeting Fan Zhizhou Again

After capturing the strange beast, Li Yi returned to the city and planned to go home to have a good rest.

However, just when he reached the intersection near Ping An Building, a ragged, smelly, disheveled man suddenly rushed out from an alley, then knelt down with a plop and tried to grab Li Yi's hand.

Li Yi reacted quickly, thinking it was a scam, and dodged almost instinctively.

"beggar?"

It’s such a long time now, and there are still beggars in Tianchang City. He hasn’t seen one for many years.

But I didn't have any money on me.

Li Yi subconsciously touched his pocket, and then remembered that there was a golden coffin in his storage magic tool. How about breaking a piece of it off?
Just as he was thinking this, the beggar spoke: "No, not a beggar, Li, Brother Li, it's me, Fan Zhizhou, don't you recognize me?"

"Fan Zhizhou?"

Li Yi was startled, and then hurriedly helped him up: "Brother Fan? I haven't seen you for a while, how did you become like this?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Fan Zhizhou, who had been extremely strong, suddenly burst into tears. He seemed to have suffered a great injustice and started crying like a child.

"Brother Fan, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? I see that you have healthy limbs and no illness or disaster. There's nothing wrong with you. It's just that your Qi and blood are a little weak."

Li Yi took a look and found that Fan Zhizhou's strength had not improved during this period. Instead, his blood and energy had declined a lot, and even his martial arts realm had regressed.

"Brother Li, I'm suffering." Fan Zhizhou howled, attracting the attention of passers-by nearby.

"It's okay, it's okay. There is no hurdle in this world that cannot be overcome. Aren't you still alive and well?" Li Yi comforted her while feeling confused.

I haven't seen him for a while. How did Fan Zhizhou become like this?

He remembered that when he parted with Fan Zhizhou, he gave him several million. Together with the medicaments he brought back from all over the world, it was enough for him to make a good living in Tianchang City. At worst, he would not become the only beggar in Tianchang City.

Fan Zhizhou wanted to say something, but his stomach started to growl. He then grabbed Li Yi's arm with trembling hands and said, "Brother Li, is there anything to eat? I haven't eaten for several days. I'm almost fainting from hunger."

"Hmm?" Li Yi's silver eyes shrank slightly when he heard that.

It seems that your deficiency of qi and blood is caused by hunger.

That shouldn't be the case.

In just how long, you've spent millions and used up a backpack of medicine?

Li Yi didn't think much about it, and immediately took out a bottle of extraordinary nutrient solution from the storage magic weapon and handed it to Fan Zhizhou.

It's not that Fan Zhizhou has not changed at all. At least he has become very familiar with things in modern society. After taking the extraordinary nutrient solution, he immediately opened it and poured it into his mouth, looking like a starving ghost. In less than a few seconds, he had finished the bottle.

As the extraordinary nutrient solution took effect, Fan Zhizhou's feeling of hunger began to disappear rapidly.

He put the bottle down, looked up at the sky, tears welling up in his eyes, and finally heaved a sigh of relief: "Finally I'm alive again. After this meal, I can last another ten days."

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When Li Yi saw him like this, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

But it can be seen that Fan Zhizhou has been having a very hard time recently.

"Brother Fan, go back to my place first, take a shower, and rest for a while. We can talk later if you have anything to say."

Fan Zhizhou nodded with tears in his eyes and said, "Thank you, Brother Li. If it weren't for Brother Li's help, I, Fan, would have starved to death on the street today."

Li Yi brought Fan Zhizhou back to the Peace Financial Building, and asked him to take a shower. He also called Zheng Lan to prepare a set of clean clothes for Fan Zhizhou to change into.

"Li Yi, who is he? Why does he look like a beggar? Is he a cultivator who has returned from a dangerous area?"

Zheng Lan asked curiously while handing over the clothes. In her opinion, only people who ventured into the danger zone would be in such a miserable state.

"No, he is a friend I brought back from another world." Li Yi said.

Zheng Lan immediately became interested: "Is that person from another world? Which world brought him here?"

She also knew about cross-border affairs, and she was very curious about people from other worlds.

"I'll tell you later. Don't ask too much now." Li Yi said.

"Then I won't ask now. You must tell me the story of the other world later. I'll go make you a cup of tea first." Zheng Lan didn't ask any more questions, but left immediately.

After a while.

After taking a shower, Fan Zhizhou came out of the bathroom wearing clean clothes. He regained some of the demeanor of a noble family, but for some reason his eyes were always filled with tears, and he looked like he had been wronged. His eyebrows were also full of decadence, which was similar to the state of Li Yi when he just came back from World No. 36. "Brother Fan, sit down and tell me, what happened to you recently? How did you end up as a beggar in Tianchang City?" Li Yi said, motioning as he sat on the sofa.

Fan Zhizhou sat down. In order to better integrate into this world, he cut his hair, and his long hair became short hair that fell over his shoulders. When Li Yi asked him this, he suddenly lost his mind, as if he was recalling past events that he could not bear to recall.

Li Yi did not urge him, but just waited quietly. After a long time, Zheng Lan handed him a cup of brewed black tea, which made Fan Zhizhou come back to his senses.

Fan Zhizhou picked up the hot black tea and looked at his decadent appearance reflected in the tea. His tears fell down uncontrollably. Then he wiped his tears and drank the hot tea. Then he sighed and said, "Brother Li, this matter is a long story."

"After I said goodbye to Brother Li in the Abandoned City last time, I took the four million given by Brother Li and various medicines and precious pills prepared by my family, and stepped into Tianchang City with full confidence. At that time, I felt deeply the vastness of the universe and my own insignificance, so I decided to put aside the status of a disciple of an aristocratic family and start from scratch."

Li Yi nodded and said, "That's good, there's no problem."

Fan Zhizhou continued, "I also followed your advice, Brother Li, and found a meditation room to learn how to practice evolution. In this way, I can practice both martial arts and Taoism, and I will definitely achieve something in the future."

"That's a good idea." Li Yi nodded again.

"But the nightmare started from then on," Fan Zhizhou's expression suddenly became painful. "I found a meditation room called Tianxing. Although the cultures of the two worlds are different, there is no problem in normal communication. The owner of the meditation room asked me to pay 10,000 yuan to join the meditation room and become a member."

"I thought at the time that the price was really cheap, so I paid the money without hesitation, and planned to learn while better integrating into the world."

Li Yi said: "There is no problem with this. Your arrangements are very reasonable."

If it were him, he would do the same. After all, Fan Zhizhou is also a smart man. It is impossible for him to turn into Long Aotian and run rampant in the city. Only after he understands the rules of this world and masters the practice methods of this world, and then slowly explores and gains a foothold, can he survive better.

Fan Zhizhou continued, "I thought everything was going fine, but when I went to the meditation room for class the next day, I was told that the teacher was giving a lecture to silver members today. I paid 10,000 yuan but was only an ordinary member, so I was not eligible to attend the class. If I wanted to attend the class, I had to become a silver member, and becoming a silver member required 100,000 yuan."

"I thought the money was not expensive, so I paid 100,000 yuan and became a silver member, but the meditation room staff asked me to come tomorrow because today's class has already started. New students have missed a lot of knowledge. If I go to the class in the middle, it will affect the quality of subsequent practice. The meditation room is also for everyone's benefit."

"At that time, I felt that becoming a silver member was really worth it. The service attitude was much better, so I went back to find a hotel to rest for a day, and came to class on the third day. That day, the teacher did talk about some knowledge, from the Tianqing incident to practice and evolution, and also talked about how to meditate and absorb cosmic energy. I was very happy at the time because I felt that I had mastered the cosmic energy practice method."

Li Yi said, "Although it cost 100,000 yuan, it was worth it to learn this. Isn't this great?"

Fan Zhizhou smiled bitterly and said, "But my aptitude is too poor. No matter how hard I meditated, I still couldn't guide the energy of the universe into my body and couldn't start the path of cultivation. At that time, some people advised me to give up and find a job to make some money instead of practicing. But how could I give up? So I asked the teacher if there was any way to change this situation."

"The teacher in the meditation room said that he could act as my guide, directing cosmic energy into my body and helping me open the door to spiritual practice, but the price was very high, 10,000 yuan an hour."

After hearing this, Li Yi felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

Seeing that Fan Zhizhou was unable to enter the room, the teacher in the meditation room acted as a guide. It was normal. The price was also the industry price and there was no intention to overcharge customers. After all, the meditation room was also open for business.

"It took me ten whole days and I spent one million. The teacher kept helping me guide the energy of the universe, but I still couldn't get started." Fan Zhizhou said in pain, holding his head.

"Forehead"

Li Yi remembered something at this time.

It seems that the cosmic energy in the four seas and eight continents is thin, and the bodies of the people there have degenerated. They are not sensitive to cosmic energy and it is difficult for them to become evolvers. This is just like the earth in the beginning. When cosmic energy just appeared, spiritual practice had not yet begun. As time passed, the bodies began to adapt to the energy under the immersion of cosmic energy, and thus the path of spiritual practice began.

When Li Yi helped his junior sister Zhao Qian to start her cultivation journey, he mobilized the energy of the knife coins and performed the White Bone Viewing cultivation technique to gather a large amount of cosmic energy. Finally, he used the guiding technique to infuse the cosmic energy into Zhao Qian's body, forcibly breaking through the threshold and succeeding.

In Tianchang City, if Fan Zhizhou wants to succeed, he can only stay in the strange object training room for a few days to start the road of practice, or he can live in Tianchang City for a period of time and wait until his body adapts to the environment here before he can practice.

The teachers in ordinary meditation rooms are barely capable of matching the abilities of psychics and inspirations. It is simply wishful thinking for them to want to help people from all over the world to embark on the path of spiritual practice.

"Later, seeing how dedicated I was to practice, my teacher introduced another method to me. That is to buy a few bottles of practice water unique to their meditation room. It is said that after drinking it, ordinary people can immediately start the path of practice. However, the price is a bit high, one bottle costs one million." Fan Zhizhou said.

"Pfft~!"

Hearing this, the red tea in Li Yi's mouth sprayed out.

I'm afraid that the teacher in the meditation room has already seen that Fan Zhizhou is stupid and rich, and has started to take advantage of him.

"I thought, one million is not expensive, anyway, as long as I start practicing, I bought a bottle, but after I used the practice water, it still had no effect, but I felt more energetic." Fan Zhizhou said: "The teacher said that my physique is very poor, as if I have not evolved, one bottle may not be enough, I need two bottles."

"However, silver members are only eligible to buy one bottle. If you want to buy two bottles, you need to apply for gold membership, and becoming a gold member requires a one-time payment of 500,000 yuan."

"." Li Yi looked at Fan Zhizhou with a strange expression.

The person in the meditation room calculated the money on Fan Zhizhou very carefully.

He only has four million in total.

If he bought three bottles of cultivation water, plus a silver membership and a gold membership, it would cost 3.6 million. After spending on daily food and drink, Fan Zhizhou would almost be broke.

Fan Zhizhou didn't understand the cultivation in this world, but was eager to start his cultivation journey. In addition, he was a disciple of an aristocratic family and didn't care much about money, so he would definitely fall into the trap.

(End of this chapter)