Longevity

Noon.

After everyone finished their cultivation, they finally had the chance to surround Lin Xiao and chat endlessly about various topics.

Especially Jiang Youfu.

He wished he could recount every single detail of what he had eaten and done every day during this period to Lin Xiao.

This was the first time since he was born and had memories that he had been separated from his Brother Xiao for so long.

Upon learning that he had successfully broken through to the Golden Core stage, everyone eagerly asked him what the Golden Core stage felt like.

Lin Xiao thought for a moment and did not choose to use analogies related to martial prowess to explain. Instead, he pointed in the direction of the spiritual fields in the sect and said,

"For fields as large as the spiritual fields in our sect, I can water ten or a hundred times the area with just a wave of my hand."

"Oh—!"

Hearing his description, with the exception of a few, the vast majority of people let out gasps of amazement.

At the same time, many people were thinking in their minds that if they also reached the Golden Core stage someday, wouldn't they be able to farm even more land? They could easily farm a massive piece of land!

Then everyone heard Lin Xiao say,

"After reaching the Golden Core, I seem to have suddenly gained a sense of my own lifespan. If no accidents occur and I live peacefully, I can live to be over three hundred years old."

"Over three hundred years old!"

"Wow! Brother Xiao, doesn't that mean you're going to become an old immortal!"

They saw Liao Pantu on the side say,

"What's that? Wait until you reach the Nascent Soul stage, you'll have a lifespan of around eight hundred years."

Generally speaking, the lifespan of each realm doesn't actually have an absolutely precise number.

There is only a rough range.

Like the Golden Core, it is around three hundred and fifty years, while the Nascent Soul is around eight hundred years.

The exact amount depends on how solid an individual's cultivation is, as well as how well they maintain their body and mind.

If one's cultivation relies entirely on piling up pills, and breakthroughs depend on sheer luck and hanging by a thread rather than steady progress over time, with an unstable state of mind, and their body and mind are like a broken sieve full of obvious and hidden injuries, even if they desperately hold on to prevent their realm from falling, their lifespan will inevitably be the shortest among those in the same realm.

On the other hand, if one improves their cultivation very steadily, with a particularly stable and solid state of mind and cultivation, their lifespan will definitely be the longest in the same realm.

After hearing Liao Pantu explain this to everyone, each person silently kept it in mind that they must proceed steadily and not rush for success.

It was Jiang Youfu who became a bit unsettled.

He asked somewhat anxiously,

"Then, then what about me? I went directly from the sixth level of Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment in just one day back then. What should I do? Brother Xiao, will I be the one with the shortest life among us..."

Lin Xiao wasn't clear about this either, but he felt that Fuzi's situation must be different from those with unstable foundations. So just as he was about to speak up to comfort him, he didn't expect Senior Liao to beat him to it and say,

"Little fatty, do you know why you reached Foundation Establishment in one day?"

Hearing this, Jiang Youfu shook his head in confusion.

At that time, everyone was just happy seeing him suddenly reach Foundation Establishment, and because Lin Xiao was in a hurry to arrange his secluded cultivation, he didn't have the chance to say anything to him.

Jiang Youfu himself never asked either. After all, how could he have known back then that there were so many intricacies to immortal cultivation? He just felt that since he had reached Foundation Establishment, he could barely keep up with Brother Xiao's pace and that was enough. He happily cooked every day and never even thought to ask about it.

Liao Pantu, seeing this, suppressed the envy in his heart and answered,

"A situation like yours, achieving sudden enlightenment and directly reaching Foundation Establishment in a single day, is extremely rare in the cultivation world. At least, I have only heard of it in rumors.

It is said that people like you who achieve sudden enlightenment and directly reach Foundation Establishment do so because they form their own Dao foundation, following nature, rather than borrowing the Dao of others and copying a foundation by walking someone else's path. Thus, heaven and earth spiritual energy is poured into them. This kind of Foundation Establishment has the most solid foundation possible, so you don't need to worry at all."

After hearing Liao Pantu's explanation, Jiang Youfu finally relaxed. Looking at Lin Xiao and the others, he said cheerfully,

"Hehe, then I won't have a short life, hehe."

Hearing this, everyone was also very happy for him.

"Fuzi is amazing!"

And Liu Chun, who was on the side, only then realized that this fair-skinned little fatty who didn't look very old was actually at the Foundation Establishment cultivation level, and had even reached it from the sixth level of Qi Condensation in a single day!

Because everyone usually carried Peach Leaf Pendants with them, their cultivation levels couldn't be seen. Furthermore, Liu Chun basically spent every day either cultivating or making talismans, and didn't chat much with everyone, so he could only get a rough idea of everyone's cultivation levels from the spells they cast in daily life.

And Jiang Youfu usually didn't participate much in various farming activities or the practice of the four arts of cultivation, only burying his head in studying his culinary skills.

So Liu Chun was even less clear about Jiang Youfu's situation.

He did know that Sun Yigao had reached Foundation Establishment.

Because Sun Yigao had reached Foundation Establishment in the cultivation room.

At that time, the flow of spiritual energy all around poured into Sun Yigao, creating a much bigger commotion than when he himself had reached Foundation Establishment.

It was hard for him not to know.

Now Liu Chun looked again.

Good heavens, what kind of immortal youths were in this sect he had joined.

Before he even had time to marvel at the fact that his sect master had advanced to the Golden Core stage before turning thirteen, here popped up a little fatty who reached Foundation Establishment in one day, plus that scholar who was busy teaching at the foot of the mountain all day and conveniently reached Foundation Establishment as well.

Originally, he had always felt that his cultivation speed was decent. Thinking back to when he first joined the sect, he was only at the early Foundation Establishment stage.

In just a short half a year, he had broken through to the mid Foundation Establishment stage, and he still felt pretty good about himself.

But now, his sect master was under thirteen and at the early Golden Core stage; the sect master's first disciple was under thirteen and at the early Foundation Establishment stage; the sect master's second disciple was fifteen and at the early Foundation Establishment stage.

Comparing himself with these young people, Liu Chun suddenly felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

He was almost forty-five years old.

And only at the mid Foundation Establishment stage.

Lest in a year or half a year, the entire sect reaches the Golden Core stage, and he is still at Foundation Establishment!

Thinking of this, he suddenly really wanted to hurry back to the cultivation room and continue cultivating.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao and the others had already shifted from the previous topic to the New Year.

That's right, the New Year was approaching.

Today was Major Cold, and tomorrow was New Year's Eve.

As early as half a month ago, Liu Yunan had already prepared the New Year's goods for their sect.

That's right, this year, apart from ancestor worship, they planned to spend the entire New Year together as a sect!

The Lingxian Sect's New Year's Eve dinner had already been taken charge of by Jiang Youfu.

What remained was the need to decorate the sect a bit.

So everyone chimed in one after another, assigning the decoration tasks.

It was the New Year, so everywhere definitely had to be filled with the New Year atmosphere, right?

Even though they were on a mountain and were an immortal cultivation sect, it didn't stop them from loving the New Year!

For families like those of Lin Xiao, Jiang Youfu, Tietou, Liu Yunan, and Qin Jianghe, they also had to prepare for the ancestor worship matters in the village on New Year's Eve.

And at this time, after the villagers at the foot of the mountain returned home, they were also reminiscing about the dreams they had on the Peach Blossom Mountain path today, while methodically making preparations for tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner.