Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 2: The same destiny
This is Fang Jingxuan’s destiny, so what is destiny?
It turns out that when the cultivators in this world begin to practice, they will awaken their own innate nature. This innate nature appears in the sea of ​​consciousness. At first, it is just a phantom. Later, as the cultivation level increases, it will gradually become magical, and finally even awaken the innate magical power.

However, this life form could be a blade of grass, a tree, or some kind of living being, a building, or a broken object.
In short, there is no pattern in the awakening of the cultivator's destiny, as if it is completely random and depends entirely on fate. What's worse, some people awaken three or four destiny in a row, which is very bad.

Because each natal chart needs to be cultivated and practiced, although the more natal charts are awakened, the more magical powers can be obtained, but cultivating the natal chart not only takes time, but also requires compatible fellow practitioners.

The so-called fellow practitioners are things that are in harmony with one's own destiny. The more these things are in harmony with one's own destiny, the stronger the effect of one's practice will be.

However, for some cultivators, the life force they awakened was so strange that they could not even find a suitable counterpart in this world. Therefore, the cultivator's cultivation was stuck and they could not make any progress.

In addition to the innate ability and fellow practitioners, the spiritual roots, aptitude, understanding, and compatible techniques of the cultivator also determine the speed of their practice.

Therefore, the path of cultivation is not easy. For example, if you are a casual cultivator and cannot find suitable fellow practitioners, how can you improve your cultivation quickly?

In the big sects, the things collected by fellow practitioners over hundreds and thousands of years can fill up the entire hall. There is a high probability that the newly born disciples can match their own destiny, so their practice can also make rapid progress.

Fang Jingxuan was not so lucky. He did not have a single life force. If it was just a tree, it would be fine, or even a cicada shell. However, when the two were combined, the difficulty of practicing would be quadrupled.

In addition, Fang Jingxuan only has three spiritual roots, talents of gold, wood and water, which makes his practice more difficult. Compared with those cultivators with only a single innate talent and a single spiritual root, one hour of meditation for them is equivalent to Fang Jingxuan's twelve hours.

Therefore, Fang Jingxuan could not get the favor of those famous sects at all. So after his master passed away, Fang Jingxuan could only be a small casual cultivator in Qinghefang, doing some odd tasks to make a living.

Of course, these were all experiences before Fang Jingxuan awakened his wisdom from his previous life.

Three months ago, Fang Jingxuan had an argument with someone over stealing business and was severely beaten up. He then awakened his wisdom from his previous life and was no longer the dull, inflexible and naive young man.

It was at that time that Fang Jingxuan finally understood what his destiny was, and his cheap master had asked someone to read his destiny, but it turned out to be wrong!

That still cost a hundred low-grade spirit stones, and he hired a fortune teller who was at the ninth level of the late Qi Refining stage, and used his [Red Gold Spiritual Pupil] to see Fang Jingxuan's fate. But in the end, he could only see the cypress tree in Fang Jingxuan's fate.

The conclusion given by the fortune teller was that Fang Jingxuan's natal tree was a top-grade [Evergreen Cypress], which had the three images of prolonging life, recovery, and tenacity. The magical power that would be awakened in the future would most likely be one of them.

As for the remains of the golden cicada lying on the evergreen cypress tree, the fortune teller simply believed that it was a first-grade mid-quality [Three-winged Golden Cicada], and it was still a remains. The flesh and blood in the middle disappeared, and the meaning was unknown. In the future, the only image that could be regarded as the golden cicada shedding its shell was the image of a golden cicada.

The awakened magical power is most likely to be fake death, which is a kind of magical power of little use.

One [Evergreen Cypress] and one [Three-winged Golden Cicada], these were the natal charts that were revealed after spending a hundred low-grade spirit stones.

However, Fang Jingxuan knew clearly what his two natal energies were.

And this is Fang Jingxuan’s own golden finger, a fragment of rules carried by his soul when he traveled from the original world: digitized vision!
[Real name: Fang Jingxuan]

[Age: twenty-three]

[Cultivation: Qi Refining Level 2 (258/300)] [Birthright: [Thousand Spirit Cypress], [Formless Cicada Shell]]

[Kung Fu: "Three-turn Wheel Meridian Sutra" (Yellow Rank, Mid-grade) This martial art is a mixture of the three elements of gold, water, and wood. The perfection of the martial art can only reach the ninth level of Qi Refining, and it is impossible to build a foundation due to the entanglement of the three elements.

"It's a useless technique! It appears to combine all three elements, but in reality, none of them are particularly effective. Its only advantage lies in its stability – metal doesn't cause trouble, water doesn't attract disaster, and wood doesn't stand out. It's just the right way for mediocre people like us to survive." (Bai Xiaosheng's Essays on Baishan's Low-Level Techniques, Volume 3)

[Innate magical power: Moonlight Jade Dew, sudden inspiration.]

[Companion Beast: Tuoyuan (First-rank low-grade water-breathing turtle, Qi Refining Level 3 cultivation, bloodline)]

The above is the data panel that only Fang Jingxuan himself can see. Perhaps it is because Fang Jingxuan was a senior game player in his previous life before he got lucky, so the golden finger he most hopes for is also a data panel.

However, this panel can only display data belonging to Fang Jingxuan himself. It has no other functions, such as issuing tasks, drawing rewards, mall recharge, etc. There is no trace of it at all.

Fang Jingxuan was very satisfied with this golden finger. He had poor talent to begin with, and it took him twelve hours of practice to be able to match the talent of a genius with only one life force and one spiritual root in one hour.

If such a talented cultivator were to practice in a blessed land or a high-level spiritual place, and take elixirs to assist him, wouldn't his practice speed be twenty-four times or even forty-eight times faster than his own?
We are all practicing, why are they so smooth? We are all practicing, but I don’t even have the qualifications to participate?

In the world of cultivation, the consequence of practicing slowly is that anyone can bully you. Even a cultivator of a high level can kill you at will, which is just like stepping on a small ant. At that time, who can you go to for justice?

So, Fang Jingxuan thinks, since you have more than ten lifetimes, hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation from your ancestors, and I don’t have it, I can only choose to cheat, otherwise I won’t even be qualified to stand in front of you people.

Just as Fang Jingxuan was immersed in communicating with the phantom of his own life in his sea of ​​consciousness, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, causing him to break free from this state.

[On a whim] Start!
This innate magical power is the first magical power awakened by [Formless Cicada Shell], and its main function is to provide Fang Jingxuan with foresight of danger.

As long as there was malicious intent directed at Fang Jingxuan, he would be able to sense it some time in advance and be on guard.

It’s a pity that Fang Jingxuan’s cultivation is still low at present. He can only activate this innate magical power once or twice a day. Moreover, his perception is vague, and he cannot clearly know where the danger comes from.

But this reminder was enough. Fang Jingxuan opened his eyes and said to the four passengers behind him without turning his head:
"Everyone, the waters ahead are somewhat dangerous. We need to dive deep underwater. Please raise the protective shield."

After Fang Jingxuan said this, the four passengers had no complaints. They were all out there to hang out, and they all understood one thing: at a time like this, it would be right to listen to the ferryman at the helm.

"Hold on tight, everyone! We're entering the water!"

Fang Jingxuan shouted, and Tuoyuan understood and dived into the Qinghe River below.

The data panel only displays the status of the protagonist intuitively, it is not a system, please forgive me.

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(End of this chapter)