longevity road trip

"The Journey to Longevity" Author: A Bai Chi

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There are few pedestrians on Changsheng Road, only cyclists and Taoists.

The story of a young cultivator in the Qi refining period who walked out of his family and embarked on a vast immortal journey.

Author custom label mortal flow

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Chapter 1 White Ape Mountain Zhang Family

The land of Nanzhou is vast, and the mountains are rolling. The closer to Beizhou, the more dangerous the mountains are, and the southerly the sea is, the terrain becomes flatter.

The Baimang Mountains, starting from the western desert and ending in Nanzhou, stretch across the two places for tens of thousands of miles, with high mountains and deep forests, shrouded in clouds and mist, haunted by poisonous insects and beasts, and extremely precious exotic flowers and plants grow in places with abundant aura. Grass, attracting many immortal cultivators.

The first immortal cultivators reported to the group here to keep warm, which was the prototype of the sect.There are also immortal cultivators who have taken root here, forming one after another immortal cultivating families.Of course, there are monks coming from all directions, the number of casual cultivators is the largest, and the cultivation conditions are the most difficult.

In Baimang Mountain, there is a spiritual mountain with a height of more than 400 feet. It is called Baiyuan Mountain. It was occupied by Zhang Shilong, a casual cultivator of foundation building, 400 years ago. .During these [-] years, with the increase of Zhang family members, the seven spiritual mountains near Baiyuan Mountain were also occupied by Zhang family.

These seven spiritual mountains are all first-order spiritual mountains, and the Qi training monks of the Zhang family are practicing on them, while the two foundation-building monks of the Zhang family are practicing on the second-level spiritual mountain of Baiyuan Mountain.

A blessed land with abundant aura is essential for immortal cultivators. Immortal cultivators can control their dantian acupoints after they have reached the Qi training stage, and their magic power will not be diffused in places where mundane aura is scarce. Progress must be extremely slow.

Of course, there are also monks who use spirit stones as the foundation and set up spirit gathering arrays for cultivation, but there are a few monks in the ordinary qi training period who are willing to use the few spirit stones in their hands for daily practice.

Every piece of spirit stone contains pure spirit energy. When the monks in the Qi training period are fighting, if they reach the stalemate stage of magic power, they will compete for wealth. Whoever has more medicine pills and who has more spirit stones will have a better chance. survive.

Zhang Shiping knew this very well. There were many monks in this Baimang Mountain. When they were away from home, others would not show mercy just because they were members of the Zhang family.

In order to eliminate future troubles, ordinary monks are more decisive in attacking sect monks or family monks. There are various methods of destroying corpses and traces, planting blame and framing.

Zhang Shiping is the younger generation of the Zhang family, a monk with the three spiritual roots of earth, fire and wood, and his aptitude is moderately low, but fortunately he has a three-yang spirit body, and he is more compatible with fire-attribute exercises.

The three-yang spirit body is an ordinary physique among many fire-attribute spirit bodies. If Zhang Shiping is a six-yang spirit body, after he builds his foundation, he will condense the Qingyang fire, which will be of great help in refining tools and alchemy.And the chances of the three yang spirits being able to condense the Qingyang fire are really very small.

However, there is a chance after all, so the patriarch of the Zhang Family Zhuji specially designated a cave with excellent aura for Zhang Shiping to practice in Xiaoyuan Mountain, one of the seven first-order spiritual mountains.

It took a long time, from the age of eight to 16, Zhang Shiping practiced for eight years, and he has already cultivated to the fourth level of "Qing Xuan Yu Huo Jue", and his cultivation has reached the level of the fourth level of Qi training, although it is far inferior to those sects Tianjiao, but he is already a leader among the younger generation of the Zhang family.

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At the foot of Little Ape Mountain, a middle-aged man in black clothes climbed up the bluestone steps in the mountain. The middle-aged man's face was somewhat similar to Zhang Shiping.

This is Zhang Shiping's father, Zhang Tong'an, who practiced at the ninth level of qi training, and was one step short of reaching the completion of the qi training period. He is only 49 years old now, and has the possibility of advancing to the foundation building stage. He is one of the six monks at the ninth level of qi training in the Zhang family.

Zhang Tongan's footwork is fast, and he came to Zhang Shiping's cave mansion on the mountainside in a blink of an eye just at the foot of the mountain. Zhang Shiping's cave mansion is next to the cliff waterfall in the mountain. Formation, in case others accidentally break in when you are practicing, but the most important thing is to isolate the sound.

Zhang Tongan patted the gray storage bag on his waist, and a sound transmission talisman written with yellow paper and cinnabar hung in the air in front of him. His lips moved slightly, and the sound transmission talisman turned into a ball of red light and merged into the array. In the French cyan mask, there were layers of ripples.

Zhang Shiping, who was meditating in the quiet room of the cave, opened his eyes, and his eyes were bright. He didn't get up directly, and the kung fu had only been running for more than half a week. At this time, half a week's effort of getting up and doing exercises will be wasted.

After half a cup of tea time, Zhang Shiping got up and got up, strode out of the quiet room, recited the formula, waved his right sleeve, the blue mask of the stone gate of the cave twisted and dissipated, and the stone gate opened with a bang.

Zhang Shiping came out of the stone gate, bowed and said: "Shiping pays homage to his father, he has kept him waiting for a long time."

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Tong'an said, he stepped into the cave, Zhang Shiping followed behind, and then closed the stone gate, the formation of the cave revived, and the blue light enveloped it again.

Zhang Tong'an was very familiar with the layout of Zhang Shiping's cave, so he sat directly at the top. Zhang Shiping was about to make tea when his father called him over, "Shiping, come and sit, don't bother."

"Yes."

Zhang Tongan said: "My heart is surging for my father, and I will retreat in three days. This time, I will either achieve foundation establishment or die." The only ones who are worried here are you and your second brother, your second brother's pseudo-spiritual root aptitude is basically hopeless in his life, and being a steward in the family is a good choice to spend his life in peace."

Zhang Tongan paused, looked at his worried son with a smile and said, "Shiping, your aptitude is mediocre. If you practice in the family, you will have to work hard for 30 to [-] years to reach the ninth level of Qi training, let alone Zhujidan." After thinking about it, I can only close myself like a father to fight for the slightest chance. In half a month, Zhengyangzong will open the mountain gate to accept disciples. Do you want to go? There is a good friend of mine who can take care of you for a few days. point."

Zhang Shiping lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said: "I am willing." The one who cultivates immortality is himself, and he is fighting for his life. Zhang Shiping has a ruler in his heart. If his father doesn't mention it today, he will wait for him to practice Qi in a year or two. On the fifth floor, he also wants to go out for a tour, and now it is ahead of schedule.

When Zhang Tongan heard that his child agreed, he took out a letter and a sound transmission talisman to Zhang Shiping. His good friend in Zhengyangzong was called Chen Wenguang.

As long as a monk is not a pseudo-spiritual root like the four spiritual roots and five spiritual roots, it is normal for a monk to rely on water to hone his kung fu during the Qi training period, and it will take five or sixty years to cultivate to the sixth or seventh level of Qi training. That is, after the seventh floor, it takes a lot of effort to break through each floor.

People with insufficient talent either rely on formations or take elixir, striving to store more mana in the dantian, so that the gaseous mana can condense into liquid in the dantian, reaching the state of foundation building.

After the establishment of the foundation is the early stage of foundation establishment, after refining the evil spirit is the middle stage of foundation establishment, and after the completion of the foundation is the later stage of foundation establishment, one step at a time, there is no sloppy at all.

There are as many monks in the qi training period in the world as there are stars, but among dozens or hundreds of people, not one can succeed in building a foundation.This situation is more common among casual cultivators or small cultivators, and the reason is the lack of Foundation Establishment Pills.

A monk who has completed Qi training can only succeed in building the foundation without the help of the foundation building pill. Otherwise, the dantian will decay and lose all mana, and the most serious will be death on the spot.

The Foundation Establishment Pill can increase the chance of foundation establishment, and more importantly, it can protect the qi training cultivators who have broken through the realm. Even if they fail, it is only a serious injury. After three to five years of cultivation, there is still a chance to rebuild the foundation.

Most of the medicinal materials needed for Jidan are hundreds of years old. Most of these medicinal materials are grown in secret realms now, and the entrances to these discovered secret realms have long been snatched up by various sects. build!

Zhang Tongan is worried about his own son. The Zhang family is too small. Now there are only two foundation-building monks, the patriarch and the great elder. Both of them succeeded by luck without the foundation-building pill. His retreat this time is not too big. Be sure, but if you don't fight while you are strong, your chances will be even slimmer when you are old.

His generation is almost like this, he doesn't want his son to go his own way, the future is uncertain, Zhang Shiping can only get the foundation building pill if he joins the sect.

Chapter 2 Leaving Home

Ordinary people say that parents are still there, so they don’t travel far, but it’s different for Zhang Shiping, a 16-year-old boy. In the evening, he finally arrived at Shengxian Town where Zhengyangzong accepted disciples.

Zhengyangzong opens the mountain gate once every three years to accept apprentices. This Shengxian Town is the place where Zhengyangzong's seniors have collected low-level monks over the years. If the nearby monks want to worship Zhengyangzong, they will come to participate in the Shengxianhui .There are also monks who are extremely confident in themselves and directly go up the mountain to knock the door, break through the eighteen barriers set by Zhengyangzong, and become inner disciples directly after passing the test.

Zhang Shiping didn't think this was the case, the first of the Zhengyangzong's [-] checkpoints was the spiritual root aptitude test, and if he wanted to directly become an inner sect disciple, he needed at least two spiritual root aptitudes.

I still follow the rules of the Ascending Immortal Association, first join the outer sect of the Zhengyang sect, practice steadily for eight or ten years, do more sect tasks to accumulate merit points, and wait until the late stage of Qi training, enter the secret realm to see Can you collect some valuable medicinal materials and exchange them with the Zongmen for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Zhang Shiping led the Huang Puma and walked on the street thinking about his future life. His father had already been locked up. The news would come from at least three months to a year or two. He silently wished his father success in building the foundation in his heart. Another foundation-building monk was added to the family.

Several shops on both sides of the street hung up lanterns, and some shop boys took off the lanterns with bamboo poles, blew on the torch to light the lamps, covered the lampshades and hung the lanterns high.

Shops selling talismans, utensils, and elixirs are one after another. Zhang Shiping did not stop in these small shops. Room.

Zhang Shiping took out beans from the cloth bag on the horse's back and fed them to Huang Puma, and then took out a few more beans and chewed them boredly.One person and one horse walked quietly, people came and went on the street, Zhang Shiping walked towards the place with the brightest light.

At the end of East Street here, in front of a restaurant with six strings of red lanterns hanging in front of each door, Zhang Shiping watched many people coming and going in and out of this inn, chatting and laughing.He looked up and saw the big characters on the plaque above were "Yingxian Inn", at this moment the blue-clothed boy who was guarding the door came up to welcome him, saluted Zhang Shiping and said: "Is this young master a top student or staying in the inn. "

"Eat a meal first, then prepare a room for me, and take care of my horse." Zhang Shiping said to the boy, he took the burden from the horse's back, and handed the reins to the boy in blue, and the boy waved After that, another boy came up to lead the yellow puma to the stable.

The boy in blue led Zhang Shiping in, and Zhang Shiping booked a middle room with the shopkeeper, asked them to prepare hot water, ordered some small dishes, and found a table in the hall to sit.

Zhang Shiping drank tea and waited for the food to be served, and listened to the chatter at other people's dinner tables with his ears up. There were a lot of irresponsible people in this kind of place, and the news was relatively well-informed, but usually it was about irrelevant things.

For immortal cultivators, if they wanted to discuss some private matters, they would at least set up a sound-proof formation, so they couldn't just probe in with their spiritual sense and provoke the other party for no reason.

The hall is very large, with 25 tables. There are people sitting around Zhang Shiping, and the one in front is three middle-aged men drinking. They have no inspiration at all, and they are bragging about some boring things.

It wasn't about the Shengxianhui that Zhang Shiping wanted to hear, so he didn't pay much attention.On his right is a man and a woman drinking tea. The woman is about 23 or [-] years old, and the man is about [-] or [-] years younger. Under Zhang Shiping's celestial eye surgery, you can see a faint spiritual light on their bodies. The aura on women is thicker than that on men.

The table behind Zhang Shiping and the table on the left were also monks. After Zhang Shiping served the food, he ate slowly, and it took him twice as long as usual to finish eating.

The table on the right should be two siblings, probably from a small family like him.The remaining two tables behind and on the left are casual cultivators. These people are probably at the level of [-]rd to [-]th level of Qi training. Zhang Shiping didn't pay too much attention to observe, so he can only give a rough idea of ​​their cultivation.

What these people said was nothing more than the time, place, and process of the Ascension of Immortals. He, Zhang Shiping, knew it well in his heart. His father's friend, he wants to call him Uncle Chen.

Thinking about it, who would discuss secret news in public. If there was such news, it would be too late for him to hide it, so how could he tell it.

However, he heard some useful news about the past few days. Many monks came here not to join the Zhengyang Sect, but to exchange things. They set up stalls to sell things that were of little use to them in exchange for Lack of training resources.

For example, some monks who major in fire-attribute skills get water-attribute spirits, but they can’t use them themselves, and they sell them to shops, and they are severely bargained, so they keep the spirits in their hands and wait for this time to exchange them with other immortal cultivators. thing.

It's getting dark outside now, Zhang Shiping doesn't know if there are monks setting up stalls in the stall market, there should be some, but I don't think there will be more than during the day, if I want to see if there is anything I need, I have to wait until tomorrow .

Zhang Shiping picked up the baggage on the table and went upstairs to the room where he was resting. The room was not big and the decoration was average, but it was clean and simple. The hot water that he had ordered them to prepare earlier was also ready.

The white heat from the big wooden barrel kept rising, Zhang Shiping locked the doors and windows, washed off his exhausted body, changed into white casual clothes, and sat cross-legged on the bed to meditate.

After he calmed down, he sat up cross-legged. However, in such a noisy environment of an inn with people walking around and making noise outside the door, it is really not suitable for practicing "Qingxuan Yuhuojue".He didn't want to be practicing, but was suddenly interrupted by others, so he was just breathing out spiritual energy, quietly cultivating himself.

Perhaps it was because of the proximity to the Zhengyang Sect, the nearby aura was abundant, and in this kind of inn with a large number of people, the aura was similar to that in his own cave.

The main peak of Zhengyang Sect's sect is Zhengyang Peak, a fourth-order Lingshan Mountain. It is rumored that there is a Yuanying ancestor on this main peak who is in retreat. Seniors like this can exist for several years and decades at a time. Secretly envious in my heart.

Time passed slowly, Zhang Shiping breathed out the spiritual energy of the night, and when the sun rose in the morning, he was still in high spirits, without any sleepiness at all.

After practicing all night, Zhang Shiping got up, washed up, and went out with his luggage on his back.Not having a storage bag is troublesome. Zhang Shiping shook the burden on his back and went down the stairs, just in time to meet the pair of siblings who were sitting nearby last night.

The two of them happened to go out together, and the ten-year-old boy was more innocent, "Hey, it's the fellow daoist who sat nearby yesterday, little brother Lei Mo, a monk from the Lei Family of Qingli Mountain, I don't know where the fellow daoist is from."

Zhang Shiping looked at the woman next to the young man, never thought that his younger brother was so familiar, and said helplessly to Zhang Shiping: "For disturbing fellow Taoist, my younger brother just went out, please forgive me."

"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, my name is Zhang Shiping, and I'm a monk from the Zhang Family of Baiyuan Mountain. I'm going to the stall market. I don't know where you two are going." Zhang Shiping said.

The boy Lei Mo said happily: "Brother, my sister and I are going to the market too, let's go together."

Zhang Shiping didn't shirk it, he just went along the way, besides, it was much safer inside Shengxian Town than outside the town, and he didn't have to be in a panic like when he was on the road ahead.

Chapter 3 Market Market

Zhang Shiping and the pair of siblings walked together, and the stall was in the west of Shengxian Town.During this short journey, the boy kept talking until his sister couldn't help but stop drinking. Then he had a grievance on his face and stopped talking, but his eyes rolled around, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

This young man seemed to be going out for the first time, he was curious about everything, he wanted to go over and have a look and touch, he looked more like a pampered secular son.His older sister is more normal. She treats people well along the way, and she is also somewhat vigilant.

Zhang Shiping didn't know how the Lei family of Qingli Mountain educated the younger generation of the family, how could they teach such an innocent boy.His Baiyuanshan Zhang family pays more attention to the cultivation of the younger generation. The cultivation should be down-to-earth, calm and decisive when encountering problems. The 16-year-old Zhang Shiping also had more than [-] lives on his hands, all of whom were bandits who did all kinds of evil in the world.This kind of killing, the younger generation of the Zhang family must accept it once, just to see the blood.

Also, which family is the Lei family in Qingli Mountain? In fact, Zhang Shiping doesn’t know. The Baimang Mountain Range is so big. Who can remember.

It was him, Zhang Shiping, who said he was the Zhang family of Baiyuan Mountain, so he was afraid that the siblings on the opposite side would not know where Baiyuan Mountain was?

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The layout of Shengxian Town is simple. There are only two streets running from north to south. There are three avenues from east to west. There is an open space in the middle. Will accept apprentices here.

The three walked around the high platform, and after walking for a while, they saw many monks sitting cross-legged on the ground in the west of the town. In front of them was a piece of brown cloth about seven feet wide and one foot long. There were many things on it, but there were also stalls. There are very few things on the table.There is also a wooden sign on the booth, with words written on it with a brush. This is to write what you lack on it. If the monks passing by have something in their hands, they are willing to exchange it, so that the two sides can discuss in detail.

When they arrived at the stall, Zhang Shiping bid farewell to the pair of siblings, the two separated, the young man was a little bit reluctant, and was directly pulled away by his sister.The two sides had known each other for less than half an hour, the relationship between passers-by, and Zhang Shiping felt that this young man talked too much, he likes to be quieter, this young man is so talkative, too noisy, and his personality does not fit.

Only then did Zhang Shiping look at these stalls. He wanted to find some elixirs that could increase mana, but he had little hope. Most of these elixirs could only be found in a few big shops in Shengxian Town.

Zhang Shiping was just thinking about it, and he went to the stall just to have a good time, to see if he could buy one or two good things at a low price with his own eyesight.

His father, Zhang Tong'an, had bought a first-tier middle-grade spirit ring magic weapon of earth attribute at the price of a low-grade magic weapon at the Ziyuefang City stall near his family four years ago.The surface of this set of spirit rings tightly holds a layer of bronze, a first-order middle-grade magic weapon, its own breath is not obvious, and with the bronze wrapping, the breath of the magic weapon is even more faint, similar to a first-level magic weapon , Zhang Tongan picked up a big deal with sharp eyes.

At that time, Zhang Shiping still remembered that he was very happy to see his father, and thought that he could also find good things in the market.This kind of thing depends on luck. Over the years, he spent 12 yuan in spirit stones, but he bought ordinary things. He didn't make any money or lose money. It's better to go directly to those shops with a full range of goods to buy, and save some time.

The stall owners in the stall market here are male, female, old and young. Zhang Shiping passed through six or seven stalls, and some of the stall owners were much higher than him.There are also stall owners with very low cultivation bases, who can only practice Qi at the third level at the age of 50 or [-], and they are probably monks who have become monks halfway.

Zhang Shiping walked through more than ten or twenty stalls in a row, just glanced at them, and the things on them were all half-truths and half-false things that seemed to be full of aura, just like he saw a few three-legged statues on a fat stall. Each of the foot tripods exudes the aura fluctuations close to the first-order high-grade magic weapon.

The way the fat man did it was fine, but Zhang Shiping didn't agree with this way of selling. How could a monk who practiced Qi at the fourth level like him have so many good things on hand.

If Zhang Shiping came to set up a stall, he would only take out one thing that was mixed with ordinary things. Another point, at least Zhang Shiping would not use tricks to stimulate spiritual energy like that fat man, for fear that others would not see it.The thing about setting up a stall is that a volunteer takes the bait. You think you have made money, and I think I have made money. The world is peaceful and everyone is happy.

Zhang Shiping has done this kind of thing before, he has dozens of spirit stones in his pocket, and he has gained a lot of income for nothing.

Zhang Shiping wandered around the market, there were fake things and real things, and there were more things he couldn't understand.He bought two stacks of yellow paper for making charms from a stall of a woman in colorful clothes.

One stack of twenty sheets of yellow paper, two stacks of forty sheets.These yellow papers are soft and high-quality. He spent eight spirit stones to buy them, which is cheaper than the store.

This kind of yellow paper is made of a perennial yellow daylily, and the older it is, the better the quality.The yellow daylily withers and grows once a year, and is harvested in autumn when the grass leaves are half green and half yellow, leaving the grass roots, so that the quality of the yellow daylily will become better and better when it grows again in the next year.

The burden on his back is really troublesome. In Zhang Shiping’s wallet, there is only one middle-grade spirit stone and 14 yuan low-grade spirit stone left. In the baggage are a change of clothes and talisman-making things such as cinnabar yellow paper wolf pens. .

He exchanged this piece of spirit stone with 100 yuan for low-grade spirit stones from his family. The price of lower, middle and upper third-grade spirit stones is usually one hundred to one in the world of cultivating immortals, but because high-quality spirit stones have always been scarce in the world of cultivating immortals.It is also normal to exchange one hundred and twenty yuan for a low-grade spirit stone in exchange for a middle-grade spirit stone.

There are quite a lot of people in the stall, but the noise is not too noisy. Many stall owners put out their things, sit cross-legged and meditate, waiting for others to come to the door.Some stall owners would yell a few times when they saw monks passing by.The monk stopped to take a look if he wanted to, and walked away if he didn't.

Unknowingly, Zhang Shiping walked more than half a circle in the market. He saw a dozen people surrounding a booth from a distance. Zhang Shiping walked over and saw an old man with a blue face pulling a young man in brocade clothes. The two were arguing about something.

There is a bronze lamp under the two people's feet, which looks like a lady in deep clothes sitting on her knees. The outstretched hands that used to hold the lampstand are now split into two pieces.The bronze lamp with mottled patina was under their feet, full of dust.

The young man was from the Lei family in Qingli Mountain, who had just separated from Zhang Shiping, Zhang Shiping wondered why his sister wasn't around, and he didn't want to get involved in the incident caused by this young man.

It's just that the sky didn't do what people wanted, and the blue-faced old man grabbed his hand and touched Lei Mo. He happened to see Zhang Shiping and shouted: "Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang."

He was reluctant in his heart, but he still stood up and walked towards the two of them.

The blue-faced old man saw that the young man was calling someone, and he still held Lei Mo's wrist tightly and said, "Who are you? .”

The blue-faced old man spoke very loudly, Zhang Shiping felt helpless, this old man obviously looked like an old fritters, he was the first to set the tone.

Zhang Shiping asked the old man to wait, and asked Lei Mo what happened. The young man hesitated to speak, and the bronze lamp broke into two pieces when he picked it up. Naturally, he wanted to buy it if it broke, but the blue-faced old man asked for an outrageous price.A lion with no spiritual energy opened his mouth and asked for ten spiritual stones.

No one was convinced. The blue-faced old man firmly insisted that the bronze lamp was a magic weapon, and the aura disappeared after it was split into two pieces. The ten spirit stones he got from the ancient monk's cave were very cheap.

"Come on, come on." Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Zhang Shiping separated them.He was almost clear about the matter. In all likelihood, Lei Mo had been tricked, but the situation was beyond his control. "Why don't you say it's an ancient treasure, a piece of spirit stone to compensate you for this broken lamp, you see if it's okay or not."

"How can this be, at least eight spirit stones." The blue-faced old man made an "eight" gesture.