I have a proficiency panel for alchemy and immortality

Chapter 150 Wishes and Karma

Song Jie smiled and shook his head, saying, "It's not that easy to find an immortal.

“However, I did learn some spells over the years.

"Although I am not an immortal now, I am also a cultivator."

“Then my second brother can be considered half an immortal. No wonder he still looks so young after so many years.

"Is this related to the magic my second brother learned?"

Song Yi looked at Song Jie's youthful appearance, her eyes full of envy.

Song Jie nodded and said, "Yes."

Just then, a young man's voice was heard outside the house.

"Dad, are there any guests at home today? I saw a carriage parked outside."

As the voice sounded, a young man in his early twenties walked in.

Judging from her appearance, she looks a bit like Song Yi when she was young.

Without asking any questions, Song Jie knew that this young man must be Song Yi's son.

Following the young man in came a woman who was also in her early twenties and a little boy who was about three years old.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, I'm back!"

As soon as the little boy entered the room, he immediately threw himself into Song Yi's arms.

Song Yi touched the back of the little boy's head lovingly and said with a smile, "Xiao Hu, are you having fun outside today?"

"I'm so happy! Daddy took me to dig snails today. We dug up a lot of snails."

As the little boy spoke, he broke free from Song Yi's arms and ran to the young man, pointing at the bamboo basket in the young man's hand and said excitedly:

"Grandpa, look, there are a lot of snails here."

"Grandpa saw it."

Song Yi smiled and called the little boy over, then pointed at Song Jie and said, "Xiao Hu, this is your uncle, come and call him uncle."

"Hello, uncle~" The little boy looked at Song Jie curiously.

Although he didn't know what "uncle" meant, his grandfather told him to call him that, so he called him that.

"Xiao Hu is so good. Come here, uncle will give you a small toy."

With a smile on his face, Song Jie took out a rattle from his storage bag and shook it twice in front of the little boy.

The little boy first glanced at Song Yi, and when he saw the other party nod, he took the rattle from Song Jie's hand.

She said in a baby voice: "Thank you, uncle~"

Song Jie nodded gently, trying hard to put on a kind smile.

Before he came, he went to the sundry shop and bought some small worldly gifts just to deal with the situation before him.

The young man standing next to him looked at Song Jie, who was about the same age as him and even looked a bit similar to him.

He immediately remembered that Song Yi once told him that he had an uncle who had left the village a long time ago to seek out an immortal to learn skills.

Although his intuition told him that Song Jie was his father's younger brother, and therefore his uncle.

But looking at Song Jie's youthful appearance, he really found it difficult to connect him with his uncle.

Immediately, the young man looked at Song Yi with a questioning look.

Seeing that his son still looked a little unconvinced, Song Yi's face immediately became serious.

“What are you looking at your father doing? Why don’t you say hello to your uncle?

"You are so old, but you are still not as sensible as Xiaohu."

After being scolded, the young man looked at Song Jie and bowed to him somewhat awkwardly.

"Hello, uncle."

The young woman standing next to the young man also saluted.

"Hello, uncle."

Song Jie nodded with a smile, looked at the young man and asked, "What's your name?"

"Uncle, my father named me Song Renjie."

"Song Renjie... a nice name."

As he spoke, Song Jie took out two mundane little gifts from his storage bag and gave them to Song Renjie and Song Renjie's wife respectively.

Song Renjie and his wife did not refuse and accepted the small gift from Song Jie.

"Thank you uncle."

The two men bowed to Song Jie again.

Song Yi, who was standing by, watched the scene with a smile, and then joked, "Second brother, you are being unkind.

"Why do my son and grandson have gifts, but I don't have any?"

"Yes, I have everything. This time I came back, I also brought some delicious food."

Song Jie laughed and took out one thing after another from his storage bag.

There are exquisite cloth, luxurious jewelry, and various supplements...

Like ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, deer antler...all kinds of mundane good things.

These things can be said to be worth a lot of money to ordinary people.

But to Song Jie, a famous alchemist, they were just ordinary things.

Song Yi's family just watched Song Jie as he produced one valuable item after another out of thin air, just like a magic trick.

Song Yi's eyes widened.

"Second brother, did you use magic to conjure up all these goodies?"

Song Jie smiled slightly and shook his head, saying: "Magic cannot transform these things, these were bought before I came back.

"It's just stored in a place you can't see..."

Song Yi nodded, not quite understanding.

While marveling at the magic of the spell, he asked, "These things must cost a lot of money, right?

"Brother was just joking with you, but you actually bought so many things.

“What a waste of money…”

Song Jie smiled and said, "Fortunately, compared to the money I usually spend on cultivation, these mundane items don't cost too much."

"That's right, second brother, you are now a cultivator, different from us mortals."

Song Yi couldn't help but feel a little sad.

He was indeed very happy when Song Jie just came back.

But now, Song Yi discovered that Song Jie and they were no longer from the same world.

He knew that this time when Song Jie came back, it would probably not take long before he left again.

Putting away the emotion in his heart, Song Yi didn't say anything polite to Song Jie and asked Song Renjie to keep all the gifts that Song Jie brought back.

Then I talked to Song Jie about the changes in his hometown over the years.

Song Jie just listened quietly.

Not long after, old man Song Liangmin came out of the kitchen.

The mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law followed behind and brought out the hot meals.

Afterwards, the family sat around the table, enjoying the long-awaited reunion and delicious food.

Because Song Jie came back today, Song Liangmin specially killed two old hens and made a pot of hen soup for Song Jie.

Drinking the chicken soup in the bowl, Song Jie felt the warmth of home for the first time after traveling to the world of immortal cultivation for so long.

After dinner, Song Liangmin talked to Song Jie for a long time.

He talked about some embarrassing things that happened to Song Jie when he was a child, and also talked about what happened after Song Jie left the village.

Song Jie also told Song Liangmin about his experience in cultivating immortals over the years, half-truthfully.

There were some things that Song Jie felt there was no need to explain too clearly to Song Liangmin.

For example, there was no need to truthfully tell the original owner about his unhappy experiences in Xinyue Market, as that would only make Song Liangmin worry.

In response, Song Jie lied that he had learned skills from others in his early years, but because he was not good enough and had not yet become a master, he never came back.

After completing his studies and becoming a master over the years, he was allowed to go home to visit his family.

In short, Song Jie explained why he did not go home in the early years and only came back now.

At the same time, he also stated that he was living a good life now and asked Song Liangmin not to worry about anything.

Song Liangmin didn't quite understand what Song Jie said about cultivating immortals, but he heard the news he wanted to know, and that was enough.

It was late at night when Song Liangmin ended his conversation with Song Jie and returned to his room to sleep.

Song Jie also returned to a room that Song Yi had arranged for him.

Compared to the house he rented, the room in front of him seemed small and simple, and was not much different from the environment he lived in when he first came to this world.

Song Jie doesn't have any requirements for the living environment.

Looking at Chen Siyao who was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, and Jin Jiao who was lying next to Chen Siyao, Song Jie couldn't help but smile faintly.

Because of limited rooms, Song Yi could only make room for Song Jie.

So Song Jie and the other three had to squeeze into one room to spend the night.

After covering Chen Siyao with the quilt that she had kicked aside, Song Jie found an empty spot at the foot of the bed, sat cross-legged, and began his practice tonight.

……

The next day, accompanied by Song Liangmin and Song Yi, Song Jie went to the grave of the original owner's mother to pay a solemn tribute.

After the ceremony, Song Jie stayed at home for another two days, using his spiritual power to secretly regulate Song Liangmin's body and eliminate some hidden diseases in Song Liangmin's body.

In the past two days, news in the village spread quickly like a spring breeze.

The villagers heard that the second child of the Song family had learned the true teachings from an immortal.

When they returned home to visit their relatives, they came to Song Liangmin's home with curiosity and admiration, wanting to find out the truth.

When these villagers saw Song Jie with their own eyes, they all showed shock on their faces.

Song Jie's young face had hardly changed much from the boy in their memory, which made them certain that the man in front of them was the second child of the Song family, Song Jie.

Without Song Jie showing any magic, the villagers had already confirmed from his unchanging youthful appearance that Song Jie had indeed learned real skills from the immortal.

In the past two days, when the villagers talked with Song Liangmin, their tone was full of flattery towards the Song family.

This made Song Liangmin feel very proud.

In the two days since Song Jie returned home, the smile on Song Liangmin's face has almost never stopped.

Even when he was sleeping at night, there was always a smile on his face.

It’s a pity that Song Jie couldn’t stay, and Song Liangmin knew this in his heart.

Therefore, when Song Jie proposed to leave, Song Liangmin did not persuade Song Jie to stay.

I didn't even dare to show too much reluctance.

In his heart, Song Jie's future is more important.

Although Song Liangmin was not a cultivator of immortality, he had heard that immortals were not tainted by the mundane world and could not be bound by worldly emotions.

So, Song Liangmin just wiped his tears and waved goodbye to Song Jie.

Song Liangmin had no regrets as he knew before his death that his daughter Erya was still alive and living a good life.

After saying goodbye to Song Liangmin, Song Yi and others, Song Jie took Jin Jiao and Chen Siyao, drove the carriage, and slowly drove out of the village.

Before leaving, he left behind some worldly money.

Although it is not a lot, it is enough for Song Liangmin to live on in his old age.

In fact, with Song Jie's current financial resources, he could leave behind a sum of money that would be enough for three generations of the Song family to use for their lifetime.

But Song Jie felt that leaving too much money might not be a good thing.

So in the end, he left some money for Song Liangmin's retirement.

As for Song Yi's retirement issue, it is not Song Jie's concern.

……

When the carriage drove into an uninhabited area, Song Jie handed over the driving rights of the carriage to Jin Jiao.

As for him, he got into the carriage and started making medicine.

After refining a batch of pills, Song Jie sat cross-legged in the carriage as he did before, quietly practicing Changchun Gong and began to recover the spiritual energy he had just consumed.

I had just entered the state of cultivation and was in a trance.

Song Jie felt as if he was being pulled into a dream.

What appeared before his eyes was a peach forest full of blooming peach flowers.

Looking through the peach blossom forest, he could see a familiar figure standing deep in the forest, waving at him.

Song Jie, feeling something in his heart, walked towards the figure without hesitation.

When he walked into the peach blossom forest and came in front of the figure.

As expected, I saw another him.

"Are you the original owner?"

Song Jie looked at the man in front of him who looked like him, and did not feel the slightest bit of surprise.

"He is already dead. I am the obsession he left behind before he died."

The man who called himself obsessed smiled at Song Jie.

Song Jie nodded and said, "Has his wish been fulfilled?"

“Yes.” The obsessed man nodded and said, “I want to thank you in person on his behalf, so I pulled you into the dream. I hope you don’t mind.”

Song Jie shook his head and said, "You don't need to thank me, because after I took over his body, I have already taken over his karma. This is what I have to do."

"No matter what, thank you."

The obsessed man bowed to Song Jie and continued, “Before he died, his only thought was to go home.

"You helped him fulfill this wish, and from now on you will be his."

Song Jie nodded with understanding and said, "If I hadn't gone to his hometown and helped him fulfill his wish.

"Then I will never be able to truly own this body, is that right?"

“Yes.” The obsessed man nodded and said, “Just as you said, you were resurrected in his body, just taking over his karma.

"You have fulfilled his wish, and this cause and effect can bear fruit.

"Only in this way can you truly become him."

Song Jie continued to ask: "Now that I have become him, what about you? What will happen?"

"My mission has been completed. When you wake up, I will disappear...

“So, this is my first meeting with you, and also the last meeting.

"Maybe you will still have obsessions in the future, but that will no longer be me."

The obsessed man looked calm and composed, as if it was not him who was about to disappear.

Song Jie was silent for a while, then asked: "What do you wish for?"

The persistent man smiled calmly and shook his head.

"You have fulfilled my wish for me."

"So is there anything else you want to tell me?"

The persistent man looked at Song Jie deeply, nodded and said: "Be careful of Xu Yuan!"

(End of this chapter)