The Long Journey to Immortality

"Only by using this as an aid can we accurately locate the target."

"In other words, to find a world, a world that is not too far from here, we must use something from that world as a starting point and try it out in order to have a chance."

Hao Zun looked at Han Lu and asked, "Fairy Han, do you have anything from the Eastern Lands with you? If so, why not try it now?"

When it comes to work enthusiasm, Haozun is second to none.

However, Han Lu lacked the "means of production" and was unable to put Hao Zun's idea into practice.

Han Lu said, "How could I possibly have anything from the Eastern World? I've never even been there."

"Your situation is like the chicken and the egg problem."

Hao Zun scratched his head, pondered for a moment, and then said, "By the way, Fairy Han, didn't you say that there is a cultivator named Zi'e from the Eastern World in the Zhengyi Sect? If she knows how to use the divination method, she might be able to divinate the location of the Eastern World."

Upon hearing this, Han Lu clapped her hands and said, "That's right, that's one way to go."

But when Zi'e was mentioned, Han Lu had another question: "If that's the case, then how did the Eastern World know our location and send scouts to investigate us one after another?"

This question stumped Hao Zun.

Unable to answer from a professional perspective immediately, he could only offer a roundabout answer.

"They probably didn't use divination, but rather used some kind of spatial method to find our location."

Although there is no basis for it, it makes sense.

After all, the fact that the Eastern Lands chose to take the initiative and more specifically predicted the collision between the two worlds indicates that either the Eastern Lands had a "master" guiding them or possessed methods unknown to Han Lu and other cultivators from the Central Plains to accomplish these two things.

Hao Zun's words caused Han Lu to fall silent for a moment. After a while, Han Lu stopped mentioning the "calamity" and instead began to test Hao Zun's divination skills.

"Haozun, help me calculate how many years the owner of this thing has left to live."

Han Lu felt a pang of sadness as she said this, but she still handed a red jade hairpin to Hao Zun.

"Just ordinary, mundane ornaments...it seems to have been carved fifty or sixty years ago."

Hao Zun picked up the jade hairpin, examined it for a while, and then began to perform divination using his own methods.

Hao Zun filled the cup with tea and muttered incantations while holding the jade hairpin.

Immediately after he finished reciting the incantation, he suddenly plunged the jade hairpin into the tea.

Water splashed up, wetting the table and forming a pattern.

After glancing at the pattern, Hao Zun pouted, wiped the water stains off the jade hairpin, and returned it with both hands.

“There are still 4,856 days left,” Hao Zun calculated in his mind, then said, “Thirteen years and one hundred and seven days.”

Chapter 984 Hao Zun's Views on Love

Upon hearing this number, Han Lu made a slight change to her return date, so as not to miss the day to send off her former friend on his final journey.

Predicting one's lifespan is not difficult for a Golden Core cultivator; it is quite simple.

For a Golden Core cultivator, knowing when their lifespan will run out and they will die naturally is very important, as it determines how they will plan their future cultivation life.

Knowing that their days are numbered, a person will have all sorts of strange thoughts, such as wanting to prolong their life, wanting to pass on their lineage, or wanting to take risks and try their best to advance to the next cultivation level.

Although she had some knowledge of divination, Han Lu couldn't calculate how much of her friend Yi Qiyan's lifespan was left because of their close relationship. She had to rely on someone else to do it.

Now that she knows the answer she was prepared for, Han Lu is even in a slightly better mood than when she asked the question.

“There are at least thirteen years left. If you calculate it, she will have lived to be nearly one hundred and ten years old, which is considered a long life,” Han Lu thought to herself as she rubbed the patterns on the jade hairpin. “It is probably because Qi Yan’s cultivation has made a small breakthrough during the years she has been missing that she has been able to gain seven or eight more years of good life out of thin air.”

With another soft sigh, Han Lu said, "Fellow Daoist Haozun's divination skills are indeed outstanding. Thank you."

Judging from Han Lu's expression, Hao Zun could roughly tell what kind of help he had given.

"Please accept my condolences, please accept my condolences..." As soon as he said this, Hao Zun realized that it was a bit inappropriate. Before Han Lu could react, he quickly stopped talking, but he couldn't think of a better word to say, so he could only smile awkwardly.

Han Lu didn't care about this detail. "It's okay, what you said isn't wrong."

“I have at least four or five thousand years left to live. If you have only thirteen years left, it is no problem for you to tell me to stop your grief.”

"Hehe, yes, yes," Hao Zun echoed.

Seeing Hao Zun's appearance, Han Lu felt that she had found the reason why this Hao Gu Niao, who was so good at divination, could not find her other half.

Thinking of this, Han Lu changed to a lighter topic and asked curiously.

"Haozun, have you ever had your marriage fortune told?"

"You care so much about this matter, you must have spent a lot of time divining when you will find your other half."

Speaking of this, Hao Zun became very excited and said, "I've actually calculated this matter several times."

"A hundred years ago, it was all shrouded in mist, and nothing could be seen clearly."

"Fifty years ago, a glimmer of light appeared, foreshadowing that I would soon find my ideal partner."

"Ten years ago, I drew another fortune stick, and this time it was the best one. It said that I would find my other half at this bird festival."

At this point, Hao Zun leaned back in his chair and said, "That's why I signed up for this matchmaking event, planning to get a match here."

"I hope that, just as the fortune slip I drew says, I will find a beautiful love."

Seeing such a young man who was passionate about and pursued love sitting in front of her, Han Lu couldn't help but have an idea.

She decided to inquire about Haozun's views on love to see if there was anything she could learn from him, so that he could corroborate her own ideas.

"Haozun, are we friends now?"

Hao Zun nodded, "Of course, I couldn't be happier."

"Then tell me, what is your ideal partner like?" Han Lu asked.

Hao Zun rarely shares these kinds of thoughts with women, but he opens up to Han Lu without any pressure.

This is completely different from Han Lu's idea of ​​a partner or a romantic partner.

Hao Zun replied, "I don't have high requirements for a partner. I would be satisfied if they were younger than me and about 70% as good-looking as Han Xianzi."

That's what he said, but Hao Zun's real requirements were yet to come: "However, you must be able to take care of children and help with housework."

Upon hearing this, Han Lu raised an eyebrow, feeling as if she wasn't dealing with a magical beast at the Transformation Realm.

"Your statement sounds like that of an ordinary person," Han Lu commented.

Hao Zun scratched his head and muttered, "This is probably why I'm over three hundred years old and still can't find a partner."

Following this topic, Haozun began to describe his ideal married life to Hanlu.

"My partner must love me, and I will love her too."

"Have at least two children for me, preferably a boy and a girl."

"I will pass on all my divination skills to both children."

“When a boy reaches the Transformation Realm, he should be sent to the Great Yu Dynasty to train, help mortals with divination, and accumulate good karma.”

"Girls should be kept close by, given the best of everything, and made happy every day."

……

The ideal married life that Hao Zun described in simple language was indeed nice in Han Lu's eyes, but it was not what she longed for.

However, it did give Han Lu some inspiration, allowing her to act more confidently according to her own ideas.

There's no right or wrong answer to this kind of question anyway.

Feeling much more at ease, Han Lu realized that her conversation with Hao Zun was incredibly successful, resolving both business matters and personal issues—a win-win situation.

Afterwards, Han Lu exchanged some experiences and techniques about divination with Hao Zun, a natural expert in divination.

She even demonstrated "water divination" in front of Hao Zun, hoping the expert could give her some pointers.

Hao Zun didn't hide anything and gave Han Lu a lot of help.

Especially in the divination technique of "water divination," which Han Lu occasionally used, Hao Zun taught Han Lu many of his own "tea divination" techniques, which helped her improve her skills in this area.

Although she hadn't reached the level of being able to personally divine the location of the Eastern Lands, Han Lu had crossed a small threshold and could vaguely divine the fortunes of those close to her.

After repeatedly expressing her gratitude and inquiring about the exact location of Hao Gu Niao's settlement in the wilderness, Han Lu finally saw this potentially great helper off.

The following day, a large portion of the Bird Society's special issue was devoted to reporting on the handsome men and beautiful women at the beauty pageant.

The ten highest-scoring contestants all received at least half a page of color illustrations.

The roc, which received the highest score, even had its own section on the page.

A phoenix with exceptional painting skills created a huge full-body portrait of him, while another well-informed phoenix published all the information he had gathered about the contestant in the newspaper.

The story doesn't involve any "tragedies or joys," but it does make the handsome young man's character more complete.

Although beauty pageants are supposed to be "judging by appearance," judges and guests are happy if they can see some other "nature-related" highlights in the final winner.

Chapter 985 Qin (Musical Instrument) Competition

With a two-pronged approach and a combination of old and new methods, the atmosphere at this year's Bird Festival was even better than the previous one.

Feng You and the other two clan leaders of the Fire Phoenix and Ice Phoenix clans were in high spirits upon seeing this situation.

Furthermore, the Fire Phoenix, the wealthiest of the three phoenixes, contributed even more resources from its treasure trove to enrich the prizes on the reward exchange form, striving to make this year's Hundred Birds Gathering held in the Three Phoenix Forest as perfect as possible and to make the other phoenix clans look good in front of them.

Han Lu didn't have any special plans for that day.

However, she didn't stay cooped up in her room while the grand event was in progress.

Han Lu's plan for that day was to take the initiative to find Feng Hong and bring her younger brother, a "second-generation official" who was still a fledgling phoenix, to participate in the Hundred Birds Gathering.

Feng Hong was naturally eager to spend more time with her sister before heading to Phoenix Perch Forest.

At his request, Han Lu also brought along Feng Hong's "old flame," Feng Luan, so that the two fledgling phoenixes, who originally had no "entry qualifications," could experience the Hundred Birds Gathering, a grand event for the true spirits and magical beasts of birds, from the sidelines.

It was called an experience, but it was more like being led around and talked about from a distance without actually participating.

Even so, the two young phoenixes were extremely excited.

The two mouths kept asking questions, wanting Han Lu to explain everything they saw that they didn't understand or recognize.

Han Lu could imagine that in a few days at the nursery, the two fledglings would have something to brag about to their friends.

On the fifth day, Han Lu no longer had the leisure she had on the fourth day.