Chapter 165 This matter is over!

died!

This thought popped up involuntarily in Ye Xiaotian’s mind.

No one knows better than him how dangerous the Chaos Star Sea is today. Back then, on that deserted island, it was constantly attacked by monsters.

He could even encounter a sixth-order monster. How could a young cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage be successful every time he went out to hunt monsters under such circumstances?

In order to obtain resources for cultivation and to go further on his path, Ye Xiaotian understands their difficulties.

The Dao is ruthless, but this world is fair. Human cultivators hunt monsters, take their skins, flesh, and bones to refine into elixirs, magic tools, and even take their inner elixir for their own use to improve their cultivation.

Humans can hunt monsters, and monsters can naturally hunt human monks in return. There is no right or wrong in the battle between humans and monsters. Both sides are just fighting for survival, for achieving the great way, and for immortality.

In essence, there is no difference between humans and monsters.

Zhao Hu went out many times, and probably countless monsters died at his hands.

It is not surprising that he died in the mouth of a monster now.

After hesitating for a while, Ye Xiaotian finally spoke to comfort him, “Old man, although we go out to hunt monsters once every three months, the missions are always changing, so it is normal to be delayed on the way. What’s more, this time it is Xinggong who leads the team to clear the monsters along the way, so there shouldn’t be any big problems.”

Zhao Hu has not returned for three months.

Ye Xiaotian knew in his heart that there was a high probability that he had died, but facing such an old man, he still couldn’t bear to tell him the truth.

What’s more, what if Zhao Hu didn’t die?
Although Ye Xiaotian felt that the possibility was very small.

“Ahem!! Hu Zi, he told me that he had accepted a mission from the Star Palace this time, and would go out with the big shots of the Star Palace to hunt monsters and clear the waterway. It was agreed that he would be back in three months at the latest. How could there be any mistakes?”

“Boss, tell me, has Hu Zi had any trouble outside?”

The 90-year-old man coughed a few times while leaning on a cane, then sat down on a chair nearby with the help of Ye Xiaotian.

Looking at the old man in front of him, Ye Xiaotian couldn’t help but sigh. An ordinary mortal could live to over 90 years old. This lifespan is longer than that of ordinary Qi-refining cultivators. He extended his spiritual sense and looked him up and down, and he immediately understood.

The old man in front of him has abundant qi and blood in his body. Although his internal organs are old, they are still full of vitality. If he has not suffered external injuries, he will not have any problems in the short term and he may live for a few more years.

It seems that the cultivator named Zhao Hu is truly filial. He used the resources he earned by risking his life while hunting monsters to exchange a lot of elixirs for his old father.

Otherwise, with the normal lifespan of a mortal, he would have passed away ten or twenty years ago.

There is no way he could live to this age.

This scene made Ye Xiaotian think of Han Li’s father and mother in Tiannan, who were also his adoptive father and mother.

When he traveled through time, both his parents had died and he was completely alone. As a member of the urban class, he was not like those children in the countryside who were born with the ability to farm. With the help of the villagers, he was able to survive.

Ye Xiaotian didn’t know how to farm at all and had never done a day of farm work. If leeks, wheat seedlings and weeds were placed in front of him, he couldn’t tell them apart. The only thing he could tell apart was leeks, which he could tell naturally by putting a handful in his mouth and chewing them.

Looking back to the beginning of the time travel, Han Li’s family was not rich. His eldest brother and second brother had already gone out to make a living, but as an ordinary farmer, life was still very difficult. The food at home could not even provide food for Han Li and his younger sister, but could provide food for the family of four.

Even so, Han’s father and mother still accepted Ye Xiaotian, allowing him to have something to eat so that he would not starve to death.

A scene from the past appeared before my eyes: working in the fields, hunting in the mountains, and the family sitting happily at the table. The dishes were simple, and even the sauerkraut could not be called a dish at all.

But the happiness and ease of that time are long gone.

Since embarking on the path of cultivating immortals, Ye Xiaotian dared not stop intentionally.

When he entered and left the Huangfeng Valley, he knew that there would be chaos in Tiannan and the four demon sects would invade, so he did not dare to stop for a moment. He put all his strength into it and used every possible means to build his foundation.

After successfully building the foundation, he still dared not stop for a moment.

In order to find a way out for himself, he hurried to find that ancient teleportation array.

After obtaining the Great Teleportation Order and the Heaven-Bulding Pill, the war broke out before he could even catch his breath. He could only hastily flee to the Chaos Star Sea with Han Li and his party.

But is the Chaos Star Sea safe?
Can I just take a breath?

In this world of cultivating immortals, the strong prey on the weak and only the fittest survive. Facts have proved that those who are weak will be bullied no matter where they go.

When refining Qi, I worry about building the foundation.

After successfully building the foundation, he worked hard to catch up in order to form the elixir.

I always thought that once I swallowed a golden pill, my life would be in my own hands, and I would finally have some ability to protect myself.

But after reaching the initial stage of Golden Elixir, he suddenly felt the vastness of the universe and the insignificance of life. He knew that in the upcoming chaos in the Chaos Star Sea, only by reaching the Nascent Soul stage could Feng reap all the benefits and prepare for the advancement to the Divine Transformation stage.

What happens after becoming a god?
How to safely ascend to the spiritual world is another big problem.

Ye Xiaotian suddenly realized that since he started practicing, he had been chasing after everything and hadn’t really calmed down and enjoyed life for a long time.

Even during this time of tempering his mind in the mortal world, he was like an ordinary person. Most of the time he no longer used his own magic power, let alone his spiritual sense. When he was cold, he would cover himself with a quilt, put on clothes, and wear a blanket. He would even squat when he urinated or defecated. Many mosquitoes would stick to his skin and bite it, although they could not break it.

Ye Xiaotian has been practicing body cultivation since he started, and he has never been defeated by a group of ordinary mosquitoes. It is simply impossible for them to bite and break his skin.

He has tried very hard to transform himself into a mortal.

Like the countless real mortals around you, live and survive in their way.

But even so, it’s not real relaxation.

Ye Xiaotian knew clearly in his heart that the reason he did this was because he was fed up with the side effects of the soul refining technique. If he delayed it any further, he might really go insane.

I came up with this solution as a last resort.

The worldly world trains the mind.

Deep in his eyes, scenes from the past flashed through his mind again. The huge rock that had been weighing on his heart began to crumble and fall away bit by bit.

At the same time, a tear flowed from the corner of Ye Xiaotian’s eye.

Tick ​​tock!

Tears slid down his cheeks, hit the ground, and splashed everywhere. At this moment, everything around him, the heaven and earth, seemed to be still for Ye Xiaotian.

The window paper was finally broken.

The second level of the soul-refining technique!

Become!

It seemed like a long time had passed, yet it seemed like just a moment.

At this moment, Ye Xiaotianzi had just helped the old man sit down, and then he came back to his senses. After listening to the old man’s nagging for a few words, he smiled and responded without thinking: “Old man, don’t worry. I do business here, and I am the most informed. If something really happened, it should be your Zhao Hu who didn’t return. But now the situation is that none of the monks who went to hunt monsters with him have returned. Maybe something delayed them on the way.”

“Otherwise, with so many cultivators traveling together, it would be normal for one or two to die, but we can’t all die in this chaotic sea of ​​stars, not to mention that there are people from the Star Palace traveling with us, so this possibility is very rare, so you should put your mind at ease.”

After comforting the old man for a few more words, Ye Xiaotian helped him walk out of the store and followed him all the way. Only after seeing that he had returned safely did he leave with peace of mind.

He himself took off into the air and flew rapidly in one direction.

On the pier.

“Senior, three months ago, we did make an appointment with Zhao Hu to go out monster hunting together. However, he was sent by the Xinggong monks to explore the way while hunting monsters. As a result, he encountered a fifth-level monster. None of the six Qi Refining monks who went to explore the way survived. They all died in the monster’s mouth.”

Ye Xiaotian, the Jindan master, did not speak for a long time. He thought he had offended the other party, so he quickly said, “Senior, everything we said is true. If you don’t believe it, you can ask others or ask the Xinggong monks for confirmation.”

“Alas! Things in the world are unpredictable.” Ye Xiaotian had no intention of making things difficult for these young Qi-refining practitioners. After getting the result he wanted, he turned around and turned into a stream of light and flew away.

At the same time, a bottle of medicine floated in front of the three people.

“There are three of these Spiritual Transformation Pills. With these three pills, the three of us brothers can break through to the late stage of the Refining Stage!”

The three brothers were extremely excited holding the pills in their hands.

“Brother, the Jindan cultivator just now seems to have a close relationship with Zhao Hu. He has a Jindan cultivator as his backer, so why would he take the risk to go out with us to hunt monsters?”

“Oh! Don’t tell me you don’t understand now. I don’t understand it either, big brother.”

“That’s right. If Zhao Hu had no relationship with this Jindan cultivator, how could he have made this Jindan cultivator come to investigate in person after his death?”

“If that’s the case, the two of them should be very close, but if they were, why would they go out with us to hunt monsters? This is a dead end, right?”

The three brothers looked at each other, all speechless.

He looked at the pill in his hand again and became cheerful again.

What exactly is Zhao Hu’s situation, and what does it have to do with these Qi-refining practitioners?
The pill in your hand is the most real one!
It was impossible for Ye Xiaotian to just listen to one family’s words. After visiting several places in succession, the information he obtained was completely different. He was used as bait by the Xinggong monks and died tragically in the mouth of the monster.

It is exactly the same as Ye Xiaotian’s previous guess.

Half a month later.

“Boss, are you telling the truth? Did Zhao Hu really join the Lieyan Sect and go to Kuixing Island and find an extraordinary master? After he successfully builds his foundation, he will come back to see me?” Zhao Hu’s elderly father looked at Ye Xiaotian in disbelief and said.

“How could this be false? This is a handwritten letter from Zhao Hu, and he specially asked me to bring it to you.” Ye Xiaotian assured solemnly and took out a letter from his arms.

The old man took it tremblingly, and after reading it, he couldn’t help but burst into tears.

“I know, I know everything. Logically, I shouldn’t have lived to this age. I should have died from a serious illness more than a decade ago.”

“It was all thanks to Hu Zi. He used his own spiritual power to go to the Star Palace and ask for a pill for me, which allowed me to live for more than ten or twenty years. He only said that it was an ordinary pill and that he asked for it from a doctor, but I know it myself. If it was an ordinary pill, how could it make my old and decayed body healthy and sharp?”

“Now, Hu Zi has been accepted as a disciple by a cultivator at the peak of the foundation building stage. I feel relieved. It was me who dragged him down. If it weren’t for that serious illness, Hu Zi should have been able to build the foundation long ago, right?”

“Cough cough cough!!!”

The old man coughed violently, and Ye Xiaotian hurried forward to support him.

“Boss, I’m telling you the truth. I’m just an ordinary person. I’m very satisfied to be alive today. There’s nothing left in this world to be nostalgic about.”

“We have lived together for so long, and now that Huzi is on the right track, it is actually not that important whether we see each other for the last time.”

As the old man spoke, he supported his body with a cane and slowly came to the courtyard. He sat on the recliner, leaned back slowly, faced the sunset, and slightly closed his eyes.

Just like countless afternoons before, this small recliner just kept rocking, and the old man’s life was frozen at this moment.

Ye Xiaotian stood in the courtyard, looking at this scene, speechless for a long time.

The next morning, he found the owner of the coffin shop and asked for a high-quality coffin.

He buried him on the hill behind his shop, next to a small lake.

After standing there for a long time again.

Ye Xiaotian turned around slowly and saw that two new people had moved into the cave that originally belonged to Mr. Sun. They were a couple who had just successfully built their foundation.

“The two little girls of the Zhao family are dead, Zhao Hu is dead, his father is dead, and Master Sun is dead too.”

“Ah! I’m going to temper my heart in this world. Too many people who have had interactions with me are dead.”

“Is this the heavens telling me that if I don’t have the strength, I will end up like this?”

Ye Xiaotian smiled dejectedly, walked down the mountain, and gave one of his shops to the Zhao family. He gave it to the only male in the Zhao family, the youngest son who was only eight or nine years old.

then.

The whole person flew into the air and returned to his cave.

at the same time.

It can also be said that at the same time, two rays of spiritual light shot up into the sky, and the huge momentum shook the heaven and earth, attracting the attention of many cultivators.

“These two cultivators have formed their elixirs together. Such a magnificent sight is rarely seen in hundreds of years.”

(End of this chapter)