Hearing what Lin Xiao said, Liao Pantu stroked his beard and smiled faintly, "Not bad, you've improved a lot. It's certainly much better than that time you recklessly went head-to-head with the Silver Frost Python Demon, accidentally got poisoned, and almost lost your life."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao didn't know for a moment whether he was being praised or mocked. He had no choice but to put on his all-purpose smile to show his politeness.
It wasn't like he wanted to do that back then, but if he hadn't gone, who knows how many more people in the village would have died? Besides, how was he supposed to know it was a Python Demon that could even spit venom...
If he had been given a comprehensive encyclopedia of demonic beasts, he absolutely would have calculated all the damage to avoid those dangers, okay? Otherwise, giving him an omniscient perspective wouldn't be bad either, letting him have everything under control!
System: ...
[This system is merely an auxiliary and not the main character. Please do not be lazy, Host. Work diligently and earnestly to develop the sect, improve your own strength down-to-earth, and welcome the day of ascending to immortality.]
Discovering that the system actually didn't respond to his every plea like it usually did, Lin Xiao felt a bit regretful in his heart.
"It's just that by doing this, you actually still haven't considered things thoroughly enough—" Liao Pantu looked at Lin Xiao with a slightly smug expression, looking as if he was saying, "Hurry up and ask me what else there is!"
Seeing him like this, the rebellious factor in Lin Xiao's heart acted up wildly. He turned his head, walked to the bed, and said:
"Oh, thank you for your guidance, Senior. Now that I've finished saving the person, even if there is anything to regret, time cannot be turned back. Then I'll find time to ponder over what else wasn't thorough enough myself. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. I'll just treat it as a lesson for myself."
After saying that, he activated the Peach Blossom Spirit Gathering Array and began his daily meditation and cultivation.
Seeing this, Liao Pantu shook his head with considerable regret, sorry that he couldn't give this kid a good lesson and show off his years of experience.
However, he then smiled soundlessly, sat by the window, and drank his tea while watching the bustling street scene outside, not intending to chase after Lin Xiao to tell him what the problem was.
After all, for a person, standing up through one's own struggles and falls along the way is what's called true growth.
Others might be able to offer a few pointers occasionally or lend a hand, but they can never support another person for a lifetime.
Everything realized step by step on this path of life by oneself is the most precious.
Early the next morning, Lin Xiao went to that medical clinic again. However, he didn't dare to use his divine sense to investigate; he merely glanced inside while passing by on the outside.
He happened to see the doctor feeding medicine to Liu Chun.
With just one glance, Lin Xiao noticed that Liu Chun's complexion was much better than yesterday, and the man had also woken up.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao quietly left the vicinity of the medical clinic.
After all, this person was very likely injured by the Wu family. If the Wu family's original intention was to kill him, and they found out that he was the one who saved the man, it would be very troublesome.
As for the doctor in this clinic, he wasn't worried. When he unlocked this part of the map before, he had learned that the doctor here seemed to be from a branch family of the Yuan family.
Moreover, having mingled in the streets for a few days, he had also heard that in this Yuanling City, other families seemed to have a decent relationship on the surface, but the Wu and Yuan families were quite at odds with each other.
Therefore, this clinic probably wouldn't be discovered by the Wu family's people. Even if they did discover it, they probably couldn't do anything to the doctor.
With this in mind, Lin Xiao tossed the matter aside and stopped worrying about it.
After all, Liu Chun was a Foundation Establishment cultivator no matter what. It was enough that he lent a hand to save him when they met; there was no need for someone like him, who had only been cultivating for a few months, to worry about him afterwards.
Having done a good deed without leaving his name, Lin Xiao felt refreshed and clear-headed. He found everything on the street much more interesting.
He enthusiastically began his life as a street loiterer for the day.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the fifth day since Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu entered the city.
Today was the day the Ice Plains Mystic Realm opened.
The Ice Plains Mystic Realm was a new mystic realm that had appeared in the last century. Limited by the laws within this mystic realm, the highest cultivation level for cultivators entering it was the Foundation Establishment stage.
Those at the Golden Core stage and above were unable to enter.
The entrance to the Ice Plains Mystic Realm was not in Yuanling City, but at the end of a mountain ravine in a mountain not far west of the city.
Fully prepared, Lin Xiao, carrying Liao Pantu who was huddled in the Soul Nurturing Pendant in his robes, left the city and arrived at the entrance of the Ice Plains Mystic Realm.
At this moment, three long queues were lined up here. At the very front of the queues was a group of people wearing red clothes with silver patterns, whose cultivation levels were much higher than Lin Xiao's, organizing discipline.
According to Senior Liao, those few people were all Golden Core cultivators from the Heavenly Profound Sect.
Although this Ice Plains Mystic Realm was a completely open mystic realm with no ownership, because its entrance was originally discovered by a family disciple of the Heavenly Profound Sect, even though it didn't belong to them, people from the Heavenly Profound Sect would travel thousands of miles every year specifically to maintain order at the entrance.
Lin Xiao guessed that this was a method for the Heavenly Profound Sect to declare their sovereignty.
Moreover, he heard that it wasn't just this Ice Plains Mystic Realm. In the Southern Spirit Domain, basically all the scattered mystic realm entrances were controlled by the Eighteen Sects respectively.
It was great being a large sect; they could casually assert their presence, and no one dared to object.
When would their Lingxian Sect reach this level? Existing as the ones in charge of everything.
Just thinking about it made boundless lofty ambitions surge in his heart.
He rubbed his hands together like a fly.
The surrounding cultivators cast sidelong glances at this tall young man who seemed to have no cultivation base. Seeing him suddenly become as excited as if he had been injected with chicken blood, they couldn't help but curl their lips in disdain inwardly.
It was probably another kid who sneaked out of his house and hadn't seen the world.
Now that a few months had passed, Lin Xiao's height had shot up again. His height was now between seven and eight chi (between 1.68 and 1.85 meters, roughly around 1.75 meters). Paired with his twelve or thirteen-year-old face, although he looked very handsome, it was slightly mismatched because he still had a childish look.
At this time, the entrance to the Ice Plains Mystic Realm ahead was slowly opening.
At the end of the mountain ravine, in the midair where originally there was nothing, a speck of starlight suddenly emerged.
Immediately after, that speck of starlight began to expand little by little, and in a short while, a small opening was torn in the air.
The opening expanded outward at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before long, it became large enough for one person to pass through. It wasn't until it grew large enough for ten people to pass through at once that the entrance stopped expanding.
Seeing this, those Golden Core cultivators from the Heavenly Profound Sect began to instruct the crowd to enter in an orderly queue.
Lin Xiao, who was lined up at the back, didn't care about the various gazes cast at him from his surroundings just now. He only looked expectantly at the moving crowd ahead.
After entering this mystic realm, he would find Senior Liao's soul body, and then he also had to obtain as many resources as possible from within this mystic realm.
He had to work hard! Develop the sect well, so that their Lingxian Sect could also have a place in this cultivation world!
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
