The spiritual energy was restored, and he became a mortal immortal in two days.

In the courtyard.

The pure white moonlight poured down, and the faint starlight twinkled in the sky.

A stone table and a few stone stools are the only furnishings here.

Chen Xuan stood in the courtyard, quietly watching the two, as if he had expected their arrival.

Lin Xiaoman rubbed her eyes. For some reason, she felt that Chen Xuan was bathed in moonlight.

He stood apart from the world, like an immortal, seemingly ready to ascend to the moon at any moment.

"Taibai greets the senior."

Li Bai took a deep breath, stepped forward, bowed, and said, "I apologize for disturbing you so late at night."

"Since you know you're bothering me, why don't you hurry up and help me skewer the skewers?" Chen Xuan said irritably.

He was about to fall asleep when this guy woke him up; it was a miracle he didn't get grumpy in the morning.

"what?"

"Grilled...skewers?"

Li Bai didn't react for a moment.

"Fourth Senior Sister, my squid is skewered, please help me grill it, please!"

"Fourth Senior Sister, my roasted chicken legs are ready! Do you want some? They smell amazing!"

"Xu Xiaoer, don't you dare steal my sausage! I waited so long for it to be grilled!"

"Waaah—"

"You're all bad people, all you do is eat! I can't even keep up with all the food!"

……

It was only then that he noticed several bonfires lit in the yard, and seven or eight children were grilling around them.

The faint smell of cooking, the strong aroma, and the sounds of children playing blend together seamlessly with the entire courtyard.

"Don't look at me like that. If you want to eat it, go grill it yourself. You can't just eat it for free."

Chen Xuan held a chicken foot and gnawed on it, occasionally spitting bones onto the ground.

Li Bai: ...

Lin Xiaoman: ...

Okay, that must have been an illusion. This doesn't look like a celestial being at all; it looks more like an ordinary person from the marketplace.

It's Friday. Since we were woken up, we decided to invite everyone to have a barbecue. Chen Xuan hadn't had one in a long time and was craving it.

"Senior, they are all..."

Looking at the group of little ones, Li Taibai's eyes showed some hesitation.

The chaotic scene before him was completely contrary to his expectations of meeting a master!

"They're all my junior brothers and sisters. It was a bit noisy, but it was quite lively, which was nice."

After finishing the chicken feet, Chen Xuan started preparing the roast chicken, which was his specialty.

A strange light flashed in Li Taibai's eyes, because through his senses, he was surprised to find that none of these people had any talent for cultivation.

No, I almost forgot about Lu Yao, who is also the fourth senior sister they were talking about.

Of all these people, she was the only one with spiritual roots, but they were extremely poor, almost negligible.

"Senior, you are so amazing, how come your junior brothers and sisters' talents are so... mediocre?" Li Taibai couldn't contain his curiosity and asked.

"It's really a bit bad."

Chen Xuan nodded. "I've been refining pills lately, and I'm trying to find a way to help them improve their situation."

Li Taibai exclaimed in surprise, "Senior, you also understand alchemy?"

Chen Xuan nodded: "Having lived a bit longer, one naturally knows a little bit about everything."

"But spiritual roots are bestowed by heaven and earth, determined at the moment of birth, and probably cannot be changed," Li Taibai kindly reminded him.

Actually, he had already put it very tactfully.

To be precise, it is absolutely impossible. This has always been the case throughout history. This is an ironclad rule of spiritual practice that no one can break.

"If Heaven and Earth will not grant it, I will." Chen Xuan smiled faintly.

Li Bai's mouth opened slightly.

Senior, isn't that a bit too arrogant?

He has always been unrestrained and wild, but in front of his seniors, he seems like a greenhorn, very naive.

Beside her, Lin Xiaoman didn't care about anything else; she had already stuffed her mouth full. "Mmm...this is delicious, so delicious!"

"Sit down and have a drink."

Chen Xuan gestured to him and poured him a glass of wine.

This wine was recently brewed, using daily dew from Qingcheng Mountain and the purple mist of dawn, and fermented on its own.

"Thank you, senior."

Li Bai sat down respectfully, holding the wine cup with both hands, and took a small sip.

Then, his eyes lit up instantly. "Good wine! Truly good wine!"

"Even the wine I refined in my past life using the Demon King is not as good as one percent of it."

"I don't need your praise, of course I know how good my wine is."

Chen Xuan slapped away the guy's hand that was sneaking towards the wine cup. "One cup is enough. Don't be greedy. Your newly recovered soul can't handle it."

"...Okay~_~"

Li Bai regretfully stopped, then carefully poured the remaining wine into the gourd at his waist, not wanting to spill a single drop.

Just that light sip had greatly shaken his soul, making him more harmonious and restoring much of his sword skills.

"The drinks are finished, let's get down to business."

Chen Xuan drank a cup himself and spoke lazily.

"Senior, there's something I've never been able to figure out," Li Taibai said hesitantly as he put down his wine gourd.

"explain."

"How did you destroy the Sword Tomb back then? After all, it was the core of the sword path, the source of the sword path, and only an immortal could destroy it."

In fact, at the height of his power, Li Bai returned to the Sword Tomb and, looking at it, still felt a deep sense of unease and fear.

Chen Xuan looked at Li Taibai as if he were an idiot. "It's simple, I'll just become an immortal, won't I?"

This guy seems pretty smart, how come he can't even figure out such a simple question?

Li Bai: ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Senior, don't you want to listen to the outrageous things you're saying?

Becoming an immortal... is it really that simple?!

He considered a million possibilities, but he never dared to think in this direction!

For five thousand years, no one has become an immortal. Even the realm above the Nascent Soul stage has not been broken through by anyone in the Sword Dao Era.

Senior, you became an immortal just by opening your mouth like that?

"But that's not right either, I didn't become an immortal later." Chen Xuan sighed as he mentioned this, and then added.

At this point, Li Bai admitted he didn't understand, but was deeply moved.

"Senior, what level did you ultimately reach in your swordsmanship?" Li Taibai took a deep breath and asked again.

He had always wanted to know what the ultimate goal of swordsmanship was, but unfortunately, although he was among the top in his previous life, he never even touched the threshold of the Void Refinement Realm before he passed away.

"I don't understand. I'm not even very clear about your realms."

"After that, I stopped repairing swords and started repairing other things."

Chen Xuan waved his hand and walked towards the fire grill. The roast chicken was ready and smelled delicious.

"Oh well……"

Li Bai's eyes were filled with melancholy, and he felt immense regret.

It must have been those damned sword cultivators back then, blinded by greed, who made the senior completely disillusioned with the way of the sword.

"Here, take a chicken leg home."

Chen Xuan tore a chicken leg off the Tai Xuan Sword and handed it to Li Taibai.

Li Taibai was only then surprised to realize that Chen Xuan had actually used the Tai Xuan Sword as a grill, skewering a chicken on it and roasting it over the fire.

He was momentarily stunned and fell silent.

"What's wrong? You don't like it?"

"Don't be so picky, kid. If it weren't for seeing you comprehend sword intent from the sword seed I left behind, I wouldn't have given you this chicken leg."

Chen Xuan said unhappily, then used the Tai Xuan Sword to scrape the ashes and picked out a few sweet potatoes from them.

"This...this..."

Li Bai has always regarded the Tai Xuan Sword as his ancestral sword.

But no one expected that the Tai Xuan Sword would be used as a fire poker in Chen Xuan's hands, which greatly shocked them.

The barbecue lasted until 3 a.m. before slowly dissipating.

The next day.

Li Bai's autobiography, "A Thousand Years of Poetry and Sword," has been officially released!