Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

Burn incense, savor tea, and peruse ancient books.

After paying respects to her adoptive father, Mu An returned to her own home.

The house is quite large, with three courtyards and three exits, and its structure is somewhat similar to that of classical Hui-style architecture.

White walls and black tiles, green bamboo groves, winding streams and wine cups—it has everything.

The house, which is over 1,000 square meters, has nearly 20 rooms, but there are not many people living there. Besides Mu An herself, there are only two maids who are over 30 years old.

They were all people who took care of Mu An when he was a child. When he was a teenager, his adoptive father bought him into the family and took care of Mu An, who had just come into this world.

Theoretically, the two could be considered Mu An's wet nurses, but in reality, Mu An had called them Xiao He and Xiao Lü since they were very young.

When the child is young, no one finds it strange; they just assume it's a child's instinctive imitation. Over time, they gradually get used to this form of address.

There were other people in the house, all of whom were people arranged by the Mu family village after their adoptive father died.

Most of them were young boys and girls.

The boy hoped that Mu An would train a few subordinates and place them in the patrol department to find jobs when they grew up.

The girl hoped that he could choose a wife he liked from among these people.

Mu An was displeased, so she simply sent them all back.

Since no one in the Mu family was better at fighting than him, and given his adoptive father's precedent of rebellion, the elders didn't say much.

Every large family needs someone to play the bad cop, and Mu An plays that role.

Those who practice martial arts and work as black gloves are often more short-tempered.

Perhaps out of love, or perhaps for other reasons, Mu Ping publicly declared that Mu An was his biological son, and his name was included in the Mu family genealogy.

In the eyes of the elders of Mu Family Village, Mu An was Mu Ping's illegitimate son with a certain woman.

They were all family. Although he was an illegitimate child and not someone to be respected, Mu An's martial arts talent was indeed amazing. Based on the principle of not making enemies unnecessarily, the elders of the Mu family simply acquiesced to Mu Ping's decision.

He was a young man who was promiscuous and had an immoral private life.

This is the general perception of Mu Ping among the people of Mujia Village.

Only Mu An himself knew that Mu Ping never married, and that he was picked up from the river by Mu Ping at the beginning of his transmigration and raised by him.

He did not want to comment further on his adoptive father's private life.

I cannot fail to repay the kindness shown to me over the past two decades, which has been like that of my own child. Everything else is now insignificant.

For twenty years, the essential system for every time traveler has never appeared.

Mu An was slightly bothered, but not much, just a tiny bit.

The reason is simple: at the very beginning of his transmigration, he had already realized the ultimate dream of countless cultivators.

Immortality.

Mu An did not know where his abilities came from, nor did he have the ability to find out.

All that is known is that he came into this world with an ancient book, but it had no title and no physical copy.

It appeared in his mind in the form of consciousness, engraving an unknown cultivation technique into his brain.

Also etched in is the fact that he has achieved immortality.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that he is not practicing martial arts techniques, but rather immortal arts.

The spiritual power they cultivated, and their cultivation method, which was completely different from that of martial artists, both prove this point.

Cultivating alone, Mu An was unsure whether his cultivation speed was fast or slow.

There is no reference point for comparison, and as many folk tales and novels have mentioned, the spiritual energy in the human world is scarce and not suitable for cultivating immortality.

If this theory is followed, it would be perfectly reasonable for it to take hundreds of years to achieve anything significant.

Compared to those characters in novels who spend hundreds of years cultivating spiritual power without accumulating any, Mu An felt that he should be considered somewhat talented.

He cultivated in the mortal realm without the assistance of any spiritual objects. Over a period of more than ten years, he developed a strong physique and some spiritual power that could be used as true energy.

Light and agile, able to see in the dark, he could even exchange a hundred or so blows with top-tier martial arts masters.

Well, in a hundred or so rounds, he could cut an ordinary top-tier fighter into dozens of pieces.

As for stronger innate grandmasters, Mu An had never fought one, but he felt that if it was just a matter of feigning injury, it wouldn't be a bad idea.

As for the legendary immortals and gods, Mu An remained silent, indicating that he also knew how to bring rain, but the rain was a tiny bit light, barely enough to water the little flowers on his desk.

Ultimately, this world is still too dangerous.

It is not obvious on the surface, but it hides many things that are difficult for ordinary people to access.

It's difficult to understand something if you don't reach the corresponding level.

All these factors have combined to create the Mu'an we know today.

I don't have any grand ambitions, nor many ideas.

He only wanted to guard the small plot of land left to him by his adoptive father, sit in the patrol post, and stay in Qing'an County for decades.

The Daqi Dynasty implemented a national policy of separating military and political affairs. In specific regions, patrol offices were established to consolidate local security. These offices were formed by the local authorities after being appointed by the imperial court and were hereditary.

The hereditary position of patrol inspector was the most precious thing Mu Ping left him.

Although their rank is only ninth grade, they are in charge of local security and wield immense power, making them the core of local self-governance.

The entire Qing'an County has a population of over 200,000. Due to its location on a major transportation route, it has three patrol stations under its jurisdiction.

Among them, the Anshan Patrol and Inspection Office is the largest in scale and has the strongest armed forces. It is the largest local armed force in Qing'an County and is responsible for the security of 100,000 villagers in Anshan.

They have been entrenched in this land for over a century and represent the local power in Ansan.

The position of patrol inspector has been passed down through generations of the Mu family.

The county government had no more than a hundred people in all its departments, and its armed forces numbered no more than eighty.

The Ansan Patrol Office had a force of two hundred soldiers.

With soldiers, one naturally gains a voice.

There were no deep-seated grudges or feuds. Last winter, my adoptive father passed away because his old illness relapsed and there was no cure.

While her adoptive father was lying in the hospital bed, Mu An did her best to do everything she was supposed to do.

In his final moments, Mu Ping held Mu An's hand and pleaded with him to protect the Mu family's twenty years of peace.

Mu An, who had no interest in the martial world for the time being, would not refuse. He would do his best to fulfill his adoptive father's request, both out of courtesy and reason.

As early as when Mu An was thirteen years old, he had already participated in the affairs of the Anshan Patrol Office.

Over the course of seven years, he solved numerous cases with his own abilities, accumulating considerable prestige.

After Mu Ping's death, Mu An, who was invincible throughout the county, naturally took over his adoptive father's position and became the head of the Anshan Patrol Office.

In Qing'an County, no one could control Mu'an anymore, and life became peaceful.

The people in the county are all very nice-talking, and they are all talented. There are always people who try to send him things.

Especially those small cliques, who send gifts every year without fail.

They were living a very comfortable life.

Mu An's life revolves around two points: clocking in at the inspection office to handle official business, and enjoying tea and cultivating her spirituality at home.

Feel free and unrestrained.

In a sense, it can be considered as directly realizing the ultimate ambition of his previous life.

With a government job, I started receiving a government salary.

Mu An plans to live this kind of life for several more decades.

When ordinary people reach an age where they are about to fail, they change locations and identities, continue to live a life of quiet desperation, until they become invincible.

In a world where immortals may exist, the secret to immortality must never be revealed until one becomes invincible.

The day I emerge from the mountains, I shall be the best in the world.