Mortal: I possess a copy of the Jade Manual of the Sea of ​​Consciousness!

After leaving the Seven Mysteries Sect, Wang Xuan began to look around at the familiar yet unfamiliar surroundings.

For the past four years, he has stayed in Shenshou Valley to cultivate and has never truly come out.

Now that I've stepped out, I feel a sense of disorientation.

Putting these distracting thoughts aside, Wang Xuan began to ponder his next move.

After leaving the Seven Mysteries Sect, he became a lone cultivator, without any support or assistance.

Although he cultivated the Evergreen Wood Technique, and his spiritual power purity was 10% higher than that of ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators, his lack of spiritual stones and magical artifacts became his weaknesses.

In the world of cultivation, if you don't have money, you can't buy magical artifacts to boost your combat power or elixirs to accelerate your cultivation.

They may spend their entire lives in mediocrity and die with regrets. This is the reality for the vast majority of independent cultivators, and it is also why disciples of sects look down on them.

Therefore, the most urgent thing is to head to Tainan Valley and find the Immortal Cultivation Market.

At worst, one can become a thief and a robber; murder and robbery have always been one of the fastest ways to make money in the cultivation world.

As he continued his journey, when he reached Wuligou, Wang Xuan stopped again to look at this sparsely populated village.

The simple thatched huts stood scattered about, and every now and then a few men would carry hoes to work in the fields.

Some little mud children played and frolicked one by one. Although they lived in poverty, they were still happy.

When he went to the world of cultivation, his starting point was not much different from these girls. The only difference was the jade manual in his sea of ​​consciousness!

This is the key to his comeback in the cultivation world!

"Let's go see my family in this life first. Although they don't have much affection for me, they did give birth to me."

Only when one's thoughts are clear and everything is handled properly can one steadily embark on the path to immortality.

Following his memories, Wang Xuan arrived at his "home" where he had lived for ten years in this life.

This was just an ordinary, simple thatched hut, not much different from the four houses next door.

Inside the house, a middle-aged couple were drinking porridge and eating steamed buns. He hadn't sent them any money for the past four years, all in revenge. Four years ago, he sold himself directly to the Seven Mysteries Sect.

Although the couple may have received some silver at the time, they may have spent it all in four years.

knock knock!

"I'm back," Wang Xuan said calmly, standing outside the house.

The couple inside heard the noise and looked out in surprise.

They had no close relatives, and their only offspring were the Wang brothers.

But one of the children went to the Seven Mysteries Sect, while the other was still an infant.

Xiao Xuan hasn't replied to their letters for four years. They wonder how he's doing at the Seven Mysteries Sect.

They must be complaining about their parents for selling him directly to the Seven Mysteries Sect.

"Who are you?"

Wang Liang asked in confusion, looking Wang Xuan up and down.

The other person looked very young and was dressed very neatly, like a child from a wealthy family, but why did he feel a sense of familiarity from the other person?

Wang Liang simply couldn't compare the boy in front of him with the frail Wang Xuan he remembered.

The woman, however, stared at Wang Xuan for a long time before asking uncertainly, "Are you... Xiao Xuan?"

"Xiao Xuan? How is that possible? I think you've lost your mind, you old woman!"

"How could this young master be Xiao Xuan? Come over here and apologize!"

When Wang Liang was young, he worked as a servant in a powerful family. He was kicked out for making a mistake and eventually settled down in Wuligou.

Therefore, he took the concept of hierarchy very seriously, especially the idea of ​​not saying the wrong thing to someone of higher status than himself!

Those powerful and influential people are extremely capricious. Sometimes you may just be saying something inappropriate, but in their eyes, it is an unforgivable trampling on your dignity.

The woman trembled with fear at Wang Liang's rebuke and immediately offered an apology.

Seeing this, Wang Xuan sighed and stopped them.

"No need to apologize, I am Xiao Xuan, I've come back to see you all."

"Uh..." Wang Liang was speechless upon hearing this, but a glimmer of hope for the future seemed to appear in his eyes.

Upon hearing Wang Xuan's admission, the woman immediately tried to rush forward and hug him.

But seeing the clean clothes on Wang Xuan's body, and then looking at his own dirty coarse linen clothes, he stopped moving.

"Xiao Xuan, do you know how worried your mother was when you didn't write back for the past four years?"

"When the Seven Mysteries Sect came to recruit last time, my family was so poor that we couldn't even afford to eat. We had no choice but to send you to the Seven Mysteries Sect for the selection test."

"Later, your father and I thought about it and realized we regretted sending you away to suffer so early. The money the Seven Mysteries Sect gave our family back then, your mother has been saving it all this time!"

The woman, with tears streaming down her face, said, pulling out a tattered cloth from her bosom, inside which were a few pieces of silver.

Seeing this, Wang Liang's eyes darkened, and he stood silently to the side.

Only when he saw the silver fragments in the woman's hand did Wang Xuan's face show any expression.

Wang Xuan's expression was complicated. Looking at the elderly couple who were going through so much hardship, the thread in his heart eased slightly.

However, only for a moment, Wang Xuan's heart hardened.

What happened four years ago is already over. What good is their regret over these four years? Do they really want to snatch people from the Seven Mysteries Sect?

Taking a deep breath, Wang Xuan's expression was resolute as he watched the two of them pull out a small cloth bag from their pockets.

Inside were several silver ingots and some loose silver, which he had saved up over four years in Shenshou Valley.

Severing ties with the mortal world with silver is probably the simplest way.

The elderly couple lived a frugal life, but with this money, they would be financially secure for the rest of their lives.

"This is some silver I saved up at the Seven Mysteries Sect. I'm giving it to you to say goodbye."

"This parting may be the last time we see each other. I'll call you Father and Mother one last time. Father, you should understand what I mean. I hope you two can forget about your son. Goodbye."

Wang Xuan placed the cloth bag on the table and left Wuligou without looking back, leaving behind Wang Liang with a complicated expression and a woman who was covering her face and weeping.

Wang Liang picked up the cloth bag and weighed it in his hand. After a long silence, he finally took out a pipe of tobacco from his pocket.

He smacked his lips twice and said in a deep voice, "Our little Xuan has really made something of himself!"

"But this has little to do with us now. What's the use of regretting it now? Stop crying, we still have to go up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables later."

"I hope Xiao Xuan will have a smooth life in the future. We, as her parents, are just a burden to her."

……

The sun was shining brightly.

The blinding sunlight shone on Wang Xuan's face, exposing every detail of his skin.

To be honest, he wasn't in a good mood at the moment. Feelings aren't something you can just sever; you can only forget about family ties with the passage of time.

"Forget it, cultivators have a lifespan that is much longer than that of mortals. Perhaps decades from now, I will still be as valiant as they have become a handful of dust."

Regaining his composure, Wang Xuan continued towards Tainan Valley.