The Long Journey to Immortality

For the two women, who were already wealthy, the extra Heaven-Mending Pill was the reward they valued most among all the prizes.

Compared to the usually reserved and gentle Wen Erya, Han Lu seemed much more approachable.

Naturally, on the flying boat, more fellow disciples gathered around Han Lu, hoping to get close to this promising cultivator and satisfy their curiosity by learning the specifics of the story that took place in the Northern Dynasty.

However, since the sect had not revealed much, and Han Lu had not agreed on a consistent story with the sect's leaders, she could not speak carelessly.

After briefly revealing a few vague words, Han Lu nimbly shifted the topic to cultivation.

Most of the cultivators who came to support the epidemic area were just ordinary cultivators from their sects, who came for the rewards from the inner treasury.

After advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm, they would at most be nominally associated with a Golden Core cultivator, lacking any real guidance.

Apart from having more cultivation resources, their daily lives are not much different from those of independent cultivators.

Naturally, they don't have many opportunities to learn from an outstanding cultivator of the same realm like Han Lu.

Once Han Lu changed the subject, everyone's interest only grew.

One question after another was thrown at Han Lu, giving her a taste of what it's like to be a teacher again, after she had recently tutored many Qi Refining cultivators.

Watching Han Lu, who was surrounded by her fellow disciples yet still moved gracefully, Wen Erya, sitting in a corner of the ark, felt a strange mix of emotions.

It felt like I was wearing a strangely colored hat.

Soon, Han Lu also noticed her "forgotten" friend.

With just a few words, Han Lu successfully pulled Wen Erya into the crowd.

Han Lu knew that Wen Erya's cold demeanor was just a protective facade.

She knew very well that Wen Erya longed to get along well with her fellow disciples.

Holding Wen Erya's hand, Han Lu exchanged a glance with her, and the two smiled knowingly.

With Han Lu mediating, Wen Erya naturally got along well with her fellow disciples on the flying boat.

The other disciples were just as curious about Wen Erya as Han Lu was. Coincidentally, the plague was also related to mortals, so some of them asked Wen Erya, the princess of the Southern Dynasty, about the current situation of the secular dynasty.

With just a few words, the conversation was smoothly launched. Han Lu quietly took a backseat, occasionally uttering a word or two, handing the stage over to Wen Erya.

After returning to the sect, Daoist Yunmin held a small commendation ceremony for Han Lu and Wen Erya in the circle of Golden Core cultivators at Dongshan Academy.

At the meeting, all the Golden Core cultivators praised the two highly, which made Piaomiaozi feel a sense of vigilance, as if his two outstanding disciples were about to be poached by their fellow disciples.

After one month and twenty-three days, the epidemic has been successfully resolved. Congratulations!

Chapter 498 Fang Lin's Wedding

The plague was successfully resolved by the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, allowing the vast majority of people in the Southern Dynasty to enjoy a peaceful New Year.

After returning to her sect for only a short while, Wen Erya had to rush back to the capital to continue fulfilling her responsibilities as a princess.

As the only cultivator in the royal family with the potential to advance to the Golden Core realm, Wen Erya had to appear frequently at New Year's events as a representative of the royal family's cultivators.

According to her, this kind of busy life of worldly affairs every New Year will not end until she advances to the Golden Core realm.

Unfortunately, being a princess brings both prestige and convenience to Wen Erya's cultivation, but it also means she has to shoulder many responsibilities that ordinary cultivators don't have to.

Therefore, Wen Erya never complained much about things she disliked.

Even if there were any, he would only say a few words to his friend Han Lu.

Compared to Wen Erya, Han Lu's New Year became much more monotonous after the plague.

It wasn't much different from usual.

The only trouble that might fall on her head is the annual "recruitment".

Without Han Lu even needing to ask, Piaomiaozi directly rejected the matter.

After all, this time, the cultivator representing Dongshan Academy to recruit new potential disciples was not Piaomiaozi, and Piaomiaozi had no need to arrange for a heavyweight disciple like Han Lu to appear and support the other Golden Core cultivators.

It would be a waste to have a cultivator like Han Lu, who is almost certain to become a pillar of the sect, serve as the "master" of a new disciple.

Creating a good cultivation environment for Han Lu as much as possible so that she can advance to the Golden Core realm as soon as possible is what Piaomiaozi values ​​most.

This meticulous protection allowed Han Lu to continue her monotonous life.

He would spend three days in seclusion, eating only one meal, and occasionally visit Piaomiaozi to discuss Taoist practices or go to the library to improve himself through books and classics.

Even though she was already so wealthy, Han Lu never forgot to collect her monthly sect supplies.

She was extremely generous with her cultivation, and her daily expenses were even higher than those of a poor Golden Core cultivator like Piaomiaozi.

It's always better to accumulate as many spirit stones and pills as possible.

Having grown accustomed to a life of hardship, Han Lu was not about to waste the sect's good intentions.

With an incredibly stable cultivation environment, sufficient time invested, outstanding talent, and a compatible cultivation method, Han Lu achieved visible results in this stage where long-term accumulation is required to approach the bottleneck.

In just a year and a half, the liquid spiritual energy in his dantian had accumulated to nearly two-thirds of its original amount.

Although there is no sign of a breakthrough yet, the speed of this accumulation cannot be simply described as "encouraging".

Han Lu even felt that there was a slight possibility that when Yi Qiyan came to the Zhengyi Sect to fight her again, she had already used the tricks in the Seven Kill Sword Technique to successfully solidify the spiritual power in her dantian, giving birth to the sun, moon and stars, and completing the breakthrough from the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

However, this so-called slight possibility is only about 10% or 20%.

Accumulation takes time, not to mention that performing the secret techniques in the "Seven Kill Sword Technique" requires the assistance of special metals.

Even so, after more than twenty years of arduous cultivation, Han Lu can only describe her current situation as one of complete satisfaction.

Not forgetting to go to the inner treasury to collect the free supplies, Han Lu naturally wouldn't forget her monthly trip to the Moon Pearl World.

Unfortunately, the weather was uncooperative, and it rained several times on the night of the full moon during this year and a half.

Although Han Lu spent that time slowly accompanying Feng Jiao in order to avoid experiencing Senior Wang Han's sermon too early, she still encountered another major event in the ancient cultivation secret realm.

Fang Lin, the national idol of the Eastern Human Race, is getting married.

Fang Lin's marriage is only mentioned briefly in ancient books.

The ancient book only briefly recorded the approximate time of the event and provided a simple description, without even mentioning who Fang Lin's spouse was.

It's as if they're saying, "Cultivating immortality means you should be single."

After all, for "modern people" who care about the history of the ancient cultivation era, this is just a small matter and not worth mentioning.

But for someone like Han Lu, who has practically experienced this period of history firsthand, it is a truly momentous event.

It would be an exaggeration to say that the entire wilderness is paying attention to this matter, but any race that cares about human affairs would think of using Fang Lin's wedding as a topic of discussion.

After all, the rise of humanity in the wilderness is an unstoppable trend. Using such a major event, which has nothing to do with diplomacy, as a weapon to "break the ice" or "annoy people" is definitely a good choice.

Therefore, even the dragon race, which was already at odds with the human race, sent a special envoy to show their support.

The Eastern Humans also wanted to take this opportunity to express their "goodwill" and convey their idea of ​​"not firing the first shot," so they were naturally willing to cooperate with all the races to make this wedding a big event.

Although Fang Lin disliked this arrangement, he simply wanted to complete the ceremony discreetly with the girl he had met by chance.

But as the first cultivator of the human race, he had to make a small sacrifice for the human race, turning a ceremony about love into a diplomatic occasion.

This is a very important event, and Han Lu will choose to experience this moment slowly at one speed, but she doesn't think there will be any useful opportunities for her.

It was just out of curiosity.

I'm curious about what weddings looked like in the ancient times of cultivation.

I'm curious about how Fang Lin at the wedding differs from Fang Lin in everyday life.

I'm curious to see what a grand scene I'll witness at the wedding.

Curious what strange things the dragon envoy would do at the banquet.

Curious about what rare gifts each ethnic group will bring as congratulatory presents to increase their penis size.

I'm curious about what kind of woman would be the spouse of such a powerful figure as Fang Lin.

What Han Lu was curious about was exactly what Feng Jiao was curious about as well.

Naturally, Feng Jiao, who had a slight liking for Fang Lin, took the Moon Pearl and inquired about a lot of information about these things.

Through the images, Han Lu learned all of this information, even after 100,000 years.

What Han Lu cared about most was the identity of Fang Lin's spouse and the story of how the two met and fell in love.

When Han Lu learned that Fang Lin had met his lover, who was still just an ordinary mortal with no cultivation, his expression was even more exaggerated than when he saw the spiritual sword that fell from the sky.

Even after learning that the lucky woman had come into contact with cultivation because of Fang Lin and had been "promoted" to the Golden Core realm, Han Lu's surprise did not diminish in the slightest.

Feng Jiao's performance was similar to Han Lu's.

The night before the wedding, Han Lu learned about the love story of Fang Lin, the number one sword cultivator, from Feng Jiao, an old acquaintance of Fang Lin in Fengyang.

Chapter 499 Fang Lin's Love Story (Part 1)

Feng Yang knew Fang Lin when he was still a Nascent Soul cultivator, so she was naturally very familiar with her old friend Fang Lin's love story that began when he was in the early stages of the Divine Transformation Realm.

Even before Fang Lin established a relationship with his soon-to-be spouse, Feng Yang, as someone with experience, advised Fang Lin.

However, this advisor seemed more like someone called in to offer some hindsight advice, to say a few good things about Fang Lin, so that he could stick to his own ideas and carry on with this love that seemed somewhat unbelievable to outsiders.

Fengyang, being one of the few people in the know about this matter, and wanting to educate his daughter on the correct "view of love," naturally laid a lot of groundwork before speaking.

These preparations had many benefits, not only piquing Feng Jiao's curiosity but also making Han Lu's imagination run wild as she listened.

However, Han Lu must admit that reality is often more absurd than illusion.

She thought about it a lot, but she couldn't figure out how a mortal could be brought together with a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage and become a couple.

Leaving aside the differences in strength and lifestyle, the lifespans of the two are vastly different.

In the ancient cultivation era, human cultivators in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm could roam freely in the mortal world for at least three or four thousand years. Fang Lin, an outstanding figure, even withstood multiple "life-extinction lightning tribulations" in the mortal world and remained active there for nearly five thousand years before ascending to the Spirit Realm.

And what about the mortals of the ancient cultivation era?

In that turbulent era, the average lifespan of ordinary people was around forty years.

Forty and five thousand?

The two numbers are vastly different.

To put it bluntly, if Fang Lin encounters any bottleneck, he might want to go into seclusion for a hundred years.