Cultivation: Being Immortal

North State, the farthest northern region

Lin Jiang woke up from the cave and immediately checked the system panel to determine how long he had been in seclusion.

"Another five hundred years, and I’m already seventeen hundred years old."

Lin Jiang mumbled to himself. At this point, Lin Jiang’s cultivation had reached the later stage of Nascent Soul, and he was just a little bit away from reaching the perfect state of Nascent Soul.

The main issue was that all the elixirs had been consumed a hundred years ago. For the past century, he had relied solely on refining spiritual energy, which naturally slowed down his progress.

"The thing I’m most worried about has actually happened."

Lin Jiang glanced at his remaining lifespan, realizing that in the past five hundred years, he had often delved into profound seclusions, causing him to forget to track his time. As a result, he had lost a lot of lifespan unnecessarily. However, he still had over four hundred thousand lifespan left, which would be enough to outlive several generations of Tao Achievers.

"I’ve used up everything, following the three end policies. It’s about time to come out of seclusion, or else I’ll become depressed."

Lin Jiang checked his storage bag and found it almost empty. Only a few of his well-drawn spiritual talismans remained, and even some of the earlier ones were about to expire, with their spiritual energy dissipating.

Lin Jiang glanced at the Spiritual Herb Garden, where most of the previously planted spiritual herbs had died, leaving only about thirty percent surviving. Lin Jiang planted some new ones to replenish the garden, but he didn’t pay much attention to it afterwards.

These medicinal herbs are only five hundred years old and are not very valuable, so Lin Jiang didn’t think about picking them, he just left them to continue growing.

Lin Jiang tidied up and sealed the formation again, then went back to the previous cave.

"Brother, I have been looking for you for many years. Where are you? If you see this message, please come to…"

"Brother, I miss you so much. There are bad people outside."

"Brother, I am injured. I am hiding here to heal. May I borrow three medicinal herbs?"

"Brother, I went to the Wilderness. I want to become the Demon King. From now on, I’ll be your big brother and protect you."

"Brother, I have become a Demon King at the advanced fourth stage, but I am injured. Can I borrow two more medicinal herbs? Once I recover from my injuries, I will return and become the Demon King. Remember to come find me."

Inside the cave, Lin Jiang saw Small Shadiao’s message. It had indeed come back, and not just once. From the last message, Lin Jiang guessed that it had been around a hundred years.

Seeing that Small Shadiao became the Demon King in the Wilderness, Lin Jiang was very happy. Finally, all of Lin Jiang’s efforts were not in vain, as he had driven Small Shadiao away from his side.

Lin Jiang looked around the Spiritual Herb Garden and indeed, some medicinal herbs had been picked, and Small Shadiao also added some more.

Lin Jiang busied himself in the Spiritual Herb Garden for a while, picking all the spiritual herbs that were over a thousand years old, and then replenishing some more before leaving.

From the far north, as they traveled south, the climate became warmer. When they reached the place where Xiaotian City used to be, there was no more ice and snow all year round. Of course, Xiaotian City had already disappeared, replaced by the territory controlled by the Tianxuan Sect, which actually controlled the North State.

Now, the territory of the Tianxuan Sect spans the widest range in the cultivation world, from Zhongzhou to You State, and then to North State. Their territory is vast, and their power is very strong.

Using his stealth technique, Lin Jiang sneaked into Xuanmiao City. Zhou Huaiying was no longer in charge of Xuanmiao City. He had already become a respected figure in Tao Achieving and had no need to work anymore.

Xuanmiao City wasn’t much different from a thousand years ago, except for the ever-changing faces. Lin Jiang briefly visited the old place and quickly left. He couldn’t defeat Zhou Huaiying, so there was no point in staying.

Traveling southeast from You State, they soon arrived in the central region. Lin Jiang went to Tianxian City in the Danxia Sect. He sold spiritual talismans and medicinal herbs there in exchange for some cultivation resources.

Lin Jiang also inquired about the new talisman technique. The new talisman technique had been proposed by Yang Luo almost seven hundred years ago. In these seven hundred years, countless Talisman Makers had participated in the improvement of the new talisman technique system.

During Lin Jiang’s seclusion for the past few hundred years, the second, third, and fourth ranks of the new talisman technique had almost been perfected. Many new style talisman practitioners had completely abandoned the traditional talisman technique and started learning the new talisman technique from the beginning. There were already a large number of new style talismans available on the market.

But it’s still not perfect above the fifth level. The main problem is that there are too few Talisman Makers above the fifth level, so we can’t achieve the effect of working together as a group.

"I can already draw high-quality talismans at the fourth level. It’s a few hundred years behind and I can’t keep up with the latest trends."

Lin Jiang thought to himself that the new style Talisman Maker at the fourth level is not as popular as before, but it’s not something that anyone can have. It can completely support oneself.

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"Your parents don’t love you at all."

"That’s a lie, my mother says I’m her little treasure."

"Really? Then let me ask you, did your parents invite you to the feast when they got married? They didn’t even invite you to the feast. How can you say that you’re their little treasure?"

"Ah····"

"My mother doesn’t love me anymore."

In the West City area of Tianxian City, Lin Jiang sat on the second floor of a teahouse and saw a cultivator downstairs joking with a group of little kids. Hearing this conversation made Lin Jiang think of Small Shadiao.

Watching a group of little kids crying loudly, an elderly cultivator quickly rushed out and grabbed the ear of that cultivator, scolding him, "Are you dumb? Your father was once deceived like this, and you still go and deceive children?"

"Just joking, Dad, don’t hit me. I’m already 200 years old."

"Even if you’re 200 years old, you’re still my son. Show some respect."

"Respect? Who cares about respect? Hurry up and go home with me."

"Old man, if you don’t show me respect, I will tell everyone about that time when you competed with someone to pee and ended up peeing in your own mouth. Oh no, I better run before you kill me."

The cultivator accidentally revealed the old man’s embarrassing story from the past, causing everyone nearby to burst into laughter. The old man was so embarrassed that he covered his face and fled into the teahouse.

"Boss, come out and settle the bill."

"Alright, sir."

"Senior, more, gave more."

Lin Jiang threw two medium-grade spirit stones to the old man, who quickly said he gave too much.

"The remaining is considered as a reward."

"Ah, thank you very much, senior."

"No need to thank, I envy you."

"Senior, where should we start?"

"I envy you for having a happy childhood. Think about it, weren’t you happy when you were little?"

"That’s right. When I was little, there was a strange uncle in my neighborhood. We called him Uncle DanDan. He had high cultivation, but didn’t focus on his work. He would come every day to cheat us out of our snacks."

"You were also intentionally deceived, right?"

Yes, we all know he’s tricking us, but we don’t mind. Why? Because everyone treated us like little kids back then, only he genuinely wanted to play with us. We really wanted to grow up at that time.

It’s a pity, when we grew up, we realized how happy it is to be a child. No worries, just thinking about what tricks Uncle Dan Dan will use to deceive us. If he uses tricks we’ve seen before, we’ll tease him.

"This is why we envy you. Look at the guests around us, ask them if they envy it."

Lin Jiang pointed at the surrounding guests and said, many people were eavesdropping. When they heard Lin Jiang saying this, many people burst into laughter. Having a happy childhood is something many people envy.

"You don’t have to be like this, elder. The elder missed out on childhood, but the elder’s children will definitely have a happier childhood."

"Haha, thanks for your kind words."

"It will surely be so, elder."

"Okay, give me more."

Lin Jiang threw out another medium-grade spirit stone, then turned and left.

Little Shadiao can give a group of people a happy childhood, which is a good thing that deserves support.

"Hey friend, want to have a drink?"

As Lin Jiang walked out of the tavern, he heard a voice from across the street. He looked up and saw it was coming from a tavern diagonally opposite.

"Why?"

"I heard everything you just said. You’re an interesting person."

"Sure."

Lin Jiang thought for a moment and agreed. He had traveled for fifty years and had met many interesting people along the way, often inviting them for a drink.

They walked to the tavern across the street, and when Lin Jiang got a clear look at the person, he was instantly shocked.

"Do you know me?"

"We have met a few times by fate."

"It seems like we are even more fated today."

"Yes, so today I invite you to drink."

"Okay."

"Shopkeeper, bring us your best wine, the spiritual wine. We want all of it."

Lin Jiang yelled loudly towards the restaurant. In no time, thirty barrels of good wine were brought over, almost filling up the entire corner.

"Thank you, brother, for the three hundred years of Immortal Drunkenness."

The person across from Lin Jiang picked up a wine barrel, smelled it, and drank directly from it, without the grandeur scenes of drinking half a barrel and pouring the other half that Lin Jiang remembered from TV dramas. Not a single drop was left behind.

"Bang."

After finishing the whole glass of wine in one breath, the man put down the wine jar and reached out to grab another one, but Lin Jiang stopped him.

"Brother, are you reluctant to let go?"

"No, you can drink as much wine as you want, but not like this. Drinking to drown your sorrows only makes your sorrows worse. It’s such a waste to drink this good wine just to get drunk."

Lin Jiang shook his head and said that if you’re not a cultivator, this way of drinking can easily kill you.

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