Druid Fairy

Chapter 36 Cultivating Immortality is No Easy Task

Cultivating immortality is extremely difficult.

The first step, testing one's spiritual roots, filters out 99% of the people.

Based on the information Li Pingcan has collected over the years, no one in the entire Peach Blossom Village has ever been born with a spiritual root in the past hundred years. Looking at the entire Peach Blossom Mountain and Pantao Town, there are only a handful of people with the aptitude for spiritual roots.

This shows how rare spiritual roots are and how difficult it is to cultivate immortality!

Furthermore, the high-level authorities' blockade of knowledge about cultivation has resulted in the general public having no idea about how spiritual roots are formed or what they are, except for awe and worship of cultivators.

Without entering the cultivation circle, even knowing a single fragment of information is a luxury. Most of the rumors circulating are a mixed bag, true or false, and cannot be entirely trusted.

Li Pingcan is still confused. He only knows that spiritual roots seem to be related to bloodline. Even if the descendants of cultivators do not have spiritual roots, the chances of their offspring being born with spiritual roots are much higher than those of ordinary people!

Testing one's spiritual root is like winning the lottery; it seems like a matter of probability, but in reality, the outcome is predetermined.

But this remains the greatest hope of millions of people to achieve great things.

Once one's spiritual root is detected, one's career will soar to great heights, with even one's family and relatives rising to prominence. Not only will sects eagerly recruit them, but the imperial court will also bestow spirit stones upon them to cultivate at the Heavenly Palace Academy. Their future will be immeasurable, making them a prospective celestial official.

"If I had spiritual roots, I could cultivate immortality discreetly and achieve success naturally."

"If you haven't awakened your spiritual root, you have to find a way to understand the principles of spiritual roots."

Give up? That's impossible.

He came into this world in order to seek immortality!

Having lived in an era of information overload, Li Pingcan has an open and unconventional mind. In his previous life, there were artificial hearts, artificial steel bones, artificial cochleas, and the Druid profession. He might just be able to create artificial spiritual roots!
To do that, we might have to find a way to dissect a cultivator.

This idea is a bit dark and extremely difficult; it's just a preliminary thought.

Even if it's impossible to create a "pseudo-spiritual root," one could improve the family's status, marry a descendant of an immortal, and then bless the offspring with the "Gift of Nature," which might give them a chance to have offspring with spiritual roots.

With each generation of refinement through the "Gifts of Nature," the spiritual talents of the family's descendants will only become more and more outstanding!
"So regardless of whether I have spiritual roots or not, I have to remain calm."

For the sake of his family, Li Pingcan thought very far ahead. Cultivating immortality was not something that could be accomplished in one generation. As the most crucial link in the entire family plan, he had to remain steadfast as Mount Tai.

When you take a long-term view, your mindset becomes more peaceful, free from the anxiety of gain or loss, and you don't dwell on temporary gains or losses.

Spiritual roots—to gain them is my fortune, to lose them is my fate!

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Li's courtyard.

The expanded residence is in the layout of a traditional courtyard house. Due to the need for martial arts training, the courtyard is extremely spacious, with the ground paved with smooth bluestone bricks, resembling a small martial arts training ground.

Li Pingcan was sparring with his older brother, while Xie Yuan looked up at him with her little head tilted back.

Although it was called a sparring match, it was actually the same sparring mode that Li Pingfu and Li Rongzhou had used three years ago. Li Pingfu stood still and could not move, and could only use one hand.

"Brother, I'm here!"

Li Pingcan shouted, not to use any underhanded tricks like "32...0", as such tactics were nothing compared to Li Pingfu.

His figure resembled a crane, his movements were graceful and agile, his moves were unusually swift, and he aimed straight for Li Pingfu's heart. The moment he was blocked, he used his arm to hook backwards, and the White Crane Spreads Wings turned into a monkey stealing peaches!
The previous straight punch was merely a smokescreen to conceal the true intention.

"Hey bro, you're up to some dirty tricks too!"

Li Pingfu suddenly crouched down, turning stealing peaches into groping breasts.

Li Pingcan touched it a couple more times, tsk, big brother's pectoral muscles are rock hard, I'm so envious!
"Hey, I learned it all from my older brother," he said, kicking his legs to dodge and then kicking again to launch another attack.

The two exchanged blows, and after the sparring session ended, Li Pingfu gave detailed instructions on which movements were not standard and which moves had too many flaws.

Li Pingcan listened attentively.

In martial arts, his physical strength and innate talent are only due to the accumulation of the [Moonlight Glow] and Purple Centipede Ointment over time; in terms of talent and comprehension alone, he is not as good as his elder brother.

At this moment, absorb the valuable experience like a sponge, transform it into your own insights, and you can avoid many detours.

After explaining the moves, Li Pingcan asked about throwing techniques. With Li Pingfu's patient explanation, he suddenly understood and had a clearer understanding. He had even more ideas about the Thorn Magic Stone Technique and was just waiting to try it out. "Big brother, are you about to break through?"

"It's almost there. The bottleneck has loosened up recently." Li Pingfu looked at his younger brother and sighed inwardly. If it weren't for the Purple Centipede Ointment, it would have taken him at least two or three more years to break through.

Not only does one need good physical constitution to practice martial arts, but also a lot of medicinal herbs.

His progress today is largely thanks to his younger brother.

Li Pingcan nodded, knowing that once his elder brother broke through to the "Muscle Realm," the entire family's strength would reach a new level.

I wonder how long it will take me to break through to a higher realm?
Several more days passed.

Li Pingfu successfully broke through to the "Muscle Realm" and completed the first three forms of the four basic martial arts techniques.

Li Rongzhou is very proud of himself. When he was fifteen, he was still struggling in the leather industry, but now his son has surpassed him.

A feast is the best way for a family to celebrate.

On the square octagonal table, there was braised pork hock, braised pork belly, scrambled eggs with mushrooms, crucian carp and tofu soup...

"Drink less alcohol." Qin was disgusted by the smell of alcohol on her husband's breath and wiped his face with a warm handkerchief.

"I'm so happy today...so happy!"

Li Rongzhou doesn't actually like drinking. He always felt that drinking too much would make it difficult to hold a gun steadily. But today, he was unusually drunk, and his tipsy face was full of smugness.

"Pingfu, Pingan, Pingcan," he said with joy and anticipation, "you three brothers must be friendly and respectful to each other, help each other, and make our Li family stronger."

The three brothers smiled at each other and said in unison, "Yes, Father."

“Me too,” Xie Yuan retorted, her voice crisp and clear. “Yuanyuan can help her brothers too.”

"Good, good, good!" Li Rongzhou picked up Xie Yuan and laughed heartily, "Yuanyuan is also a child of the Li family, so it is only right that she be treated this way."

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Three more days passed.

Upon learning of Li Pingfu's breakthrough, Zhou Enxian paid him a visit.

"A fifteen-year-old martial artist at the Tendon Realm, my brother, you have a worthy successor!" Zhou Enxian offered his heartfelt congratulations.

Ten years ago, he was at the peak of his life and wanted to reach a higher level of martial arts, but he failed. So he married and settled in the beautiful Peach Blossom Mountain.

But for some reason, he had no children in middle age, and this became a source of great anxiety for him.

Logically speaking, martial artists shouldn't have the same difficulty in having offspring as cultivators.

There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and no one is the greatest.

Recently, he wanted to try taking a concubine, which caused a huge fight with his wife, and even his cousin, Li the wealthy man, got involved.

Seeing the Li family, with their harmonious brotherhood, loving father and filial son, and their flourishing prosperity, I felt both envious and depressed.

'Martial artists at the Qi and Blood Realm are ultimately just third-rate figures in the martial world. To gain absolute power, one must reach the Divine Fiend Realm.'

He thought to himself, if he were at the Divine Fiend Realm, why would his wife disagree with him taking a concubine? He would also have no fear of that immortal official from the Li family.

"It's all thanks to Brother Zhou's excellent guidance." Li Rongzhou personally brewed tea for Zhou Enxian. "May I ask what brings Brother Zhou here today?"

Because of Li the wealthy man, their two families did not have a very close relationship on the surface.

But with Li Pingfu acting as a bridge, and all of them being outsiders, there was a sense of turning a blind eye to minor matters and sticking together through thick and thin.

"I won't beat around the bush."

Zhou Enxian took a sip of tea and said, "I would like to have Pingfu participate in the 'Martial Arts Tournament' in Pantao Town. I wonder if you would agree?"

(End of this chapter)