Chapter 53: Encouragement, Celestial Demon Spirit Root!

“Regret? Not really, but sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it.”

Li Feiyu shook his head slightly, speaking with some emotion.

People grow over time. After more than four years at the Lu Family, he had also mellowed out and was no longer as bold and brash.

Lu Changsheng was silent for a moment upon hearing this.

He recalled his own past life.

After graduation, filled with ambition and vigor, yet years later, he began to take it easy.

Li Feiyu’s situation was even more pronounced.

In the mortal world, he was the deputy leader of the Red Whale Gang, an extraordinary talent at eighteen. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say he was a prodigy.

But after coming to the realm of cultivation and becoming a son-in-law of the Lu Family, though he embarked on the path of cultivation, his life was all about having children, seeing little hope in his cultivation journey.

How could such a life remain filled with passion and edged ambition?

He stood and patted Li Feiyu on the shoulder, saying, “Feiyu, I still remember what you said when you chose to come to the Lu Family.”

“‘A hundred years in a dream, and if one finds celestial fate, it must not be missed.'”

“We are fortunate to possess spirit roots and a celestial fate, walking an immortal path and witnessing vistas unseen by ordinary people, already more blessed than ninety-nine out of a hundred in the world.”

“One must strive forward with courage and diligence, lest the heavens’ generous gifts be wasted!”

“The quest for immortality may be arduous and perilous, but these are merely views along life’s journey.”

“Stay true to your original aspirations, and advance with fortitude, for even in failure, there will be no regret.”

“Otherwise, possessing spirit roots and celestial destiny yet abandoning oneself, ending a mediocre life, would you be content?”

Lu Changsheng spoke to Li Feiyu with a firm voice.

He did not want to see his good brother, once so spirited and single-minded in seeking immortality, worn down by this life and ending in mediocrity.

Furthermore, these words were not only meant for Li Feiyu but also for himself.

To others, he always appeared ambitionless, desiring a stable life.

But in reality, from the moment he awakened memories of his past life and knew there were immortals in this world, his heart was filled with an endless yearning to cultivate immortality!

There’s no why.

Immortals are immortals. With immortals, one must pursue!

No reason is needed, nor is there any reason.

However, he had a system and could see hope, so he was full of hope for his future!

Listening to Lu Changsheng’s words, Li Feiyu was stirred to the core.

Unexpectedly, this brother who always seemed ambitionless and only wanted a plentiful family would say something so vivid and awakening.

But he also knew that Lu Changsheng was comforting him, giving him encouragement.

Yet in the next moment, he recalled at the three-year agreement gathering, Han Lin mentioned that Lu Changsheng had once achieved first place in the Azure Cloud Sect’s fourth trial, ‘Heart Platform.’

‘Heart Platform’ tests a person’s Dao Heart.

Meaning the mindset and will to seek immortality!

Lu Changsheng could achieve first; how could he truly lack ambition or give up on seeking immortality?

“It must be that Changsheng knows of his Ninth-Tier Spirit Root, realizing there’s no way in this life to immortality, hence he seeks the path differently.”

“By marrying and having children, he continues his desire for immortality through his descendants.”

Li Feiyu thought.

At this moment, he seemed to gain clarity.

How could someone ambitionless, only obsessed with women and having descendants, sell a flying sword and spend all Spirit Stones to learn talisman making so shortly after arriving at the Lu Family?

Moreover, in four and a half years, he went from a son-in-law to a middle-tier Talisman Master and married the granddaughter of a Lu Family elder!

Clearly, this isn’t something someone without ambition, full of thoughts of women, could accomplish.

If his good brother could do this, how could he be inferior?

Looking at Lu Changsheng, his gaze gradually firmed, and he said, “Content? Naturally not!”

“Changsheng, you’re right. Celestial fate is hard to find. We are fortunate to gain celestial fate. How could we easily give up?”

“Ordinary people seek only fame, wealth, beautiful women, and power. We seek immortality and longevity. How could that be simple or easy?”

“Precisely because of this, we need to pursue it with even more effort, with a heart that knowingly strives despite the odds!”

“A hundred years in a dream, upon seeing celestial fate, how can one live a mediocre life!”

“Thank you, Changsheng!”

Li Feiyu spoke, his eyes energized, burning with a sharp flame.

“Why thank me?”

“I just don’t want to see you, having not truly stepped into the cultivation world, be worn down.”

Lu Changsheng said.

He didn’t have many friends in this world, really just Li Feiyu before him.

He hoped that in the future Li Feiyu could walk further on the path of cultivation.

“I, Li Feiyu, am not that easy to defeat.”

“Now, I am no longer bound by a contract. When the child grows a little, and I break through to the mid-stage Qi refinement, I will venture out and truly see this cultivation world.”

“Otherwise, at this rate, all edges and ambitions might really be worn away.”

“If I turn into a pile of bones in the future, I’d trouble you to look after my wives and children.”

Li Feiyu said with a carefree smile.

Coming from a martial background, he took life and death lightly but could not let go of those close to him.

“Don’t set up your flag so early.”

Lu Changsheng’s mouth twitched as he replied.

“What do you mean by setting up a flag?”

Li Feiyu asked.

“It’s nothing. If something does happen, I’ll care for your family!”

Lu Changsheng laughed and shook his head.

Li Feiyu didn’t mind and continued to reminisce with him.

Ever since Lu Changsheng moved to Qingzhu Valley, they rarely met and chatted.

Lu Changsheng took out the Emerald Bamboo Wine he just bought from the Fifth Elder and shared a drink with Li Feiyu.

After a small drink, Lu Changsheng didn’t stay long and went to the Fourth Elder’s residence to convey the resolution of Li Feiyu’s matter.

The Fourth Elder worked efficiently and settled Li Feiyu’s matter the next day, releasing him from the contract with the Lu Family.

With Uncle Fu’s arrangements, given Li Feiyu’s martial and blade skills, he chose to become a Spirit Butcher.

A Spirit Butcher is similar to a secular butcher.

Their work involves flaying hide, deboning, marrow drawing, and extracting core from spirit beasts.

Many special spirit beasts, after being hunted, can be troublesome to handle and easily waste or damage materials if done personally.

In such cases, skilled Spirit Butchers are enlisted for dissection and material extraction.

As Li Feiyu chose to become a Spirit Butcher, the Lu Family naturally had veterans to guide him.

Had it not been for his lack of strength, Li Feiyu would’ve wanted to join the Lu Family’s patrol and hunting team to hunt spirit beasts.

Seeing Li Feiyu freed from childbearing duties and starting to learn a craft, Lu Changsheng was relieved.

It was all he could currently help with.

……

On the border of Qingzhou and Jizhou in the Jiang Kingdom.

A place with steep mountains, strange rocks, filled with dense fog, deep into the abyss cliffs.

“Whooo—whooo—”

“Wooo—wooo—”

Wind howled through the valley of the cliffs, filling it with gray mist, sending chills down one’s spine.

In the center, the once blood-colored lake had dried up.

Leaving only a huge blood cocoon and a pile of bones.

The blood glow on the cocoon brightened and dimmed like a heart quietly pulsating, eerie beyond words.

At that moment, the blood cocoon emitted a deep heartbeat, reverberating like a giant drum, shaking the valley.

A moment later, an old man and a youth appeared in the void.

The youth wore a wide black robe, his dark hair tied with a wooden hairpin, exceptionally handsome, his charm strangely timeless, beyond his age.

“No wonder it’s the Celestial Demon Spirit Root, merging with the demon lord’s blood so quickly and completing the baptism.”

The youth looked at the blood cocoon and chuckled with an unusual friendliness.

“Congratulations, Patriarch! Best wishes, Patriarch!”

The old man immediately bowed, offering his congratulation.

The youth smiled, raised a hand, and pointed lightly at the blood cocoon.

Instantly, the blood cocoon began to fragment into luminous red particles, revealing the man encased within.

This man, in his twenties, appeared scholarly and handsome, his skin fair and smooth, yet a blood-colored half-moon lotus faintly appeared on his forehead, adding an indescribable diabolism to his appearance.

He slowly regained consciousness, his eyes different from normal, emitting a dark and deep blood glow, captivating.

“Where am I?”

“I remember I… encountered mountain bandits, then jumped off a cliff…”

Qu Changge awoke as if from a dream, his blood-red eyes filled with confusion, rubbing his forehead.

But the next moment, he saw his hands had turned pale as jade, his nails sharp and crimson, causing him a shock.

“Thi-this-this.”

Then he noticed the surrounding bones, frightening him further.

As he was startled, a young man appeared before him, speaking with a laugh, “Today, you are my disciple.”