When Li Qiuchen woke up, he found himself lying by the riverside, soaking wet. His bundle had been scattered, and gold and silver trinkets were strewn all over the ground.
The several pills he'd stolen from Grand Uncle's house had all dissolved into dicinal soup, and even that cultivation thod book was completely soaked through.
It could only be described as utterly wretched but Li Qiuchen didn't complain. He sat down on a rock by the river and laughed heartily.
He'd finally escaped!
Since he could rember, he'd lived in the village, or rather, lived in that pig pen.
The more he knew, the more oppressed he felt.
Now that he'd finally escaped the cage and regained his freedom, no matter what price he'd paid, it seed very worthwhile to him.
Boss Guan and Hong Yang were nowhere to be found. Presumably they'd been washed to other places by the river water.
This was already the best outco. At least the crayfish spirit hadn't broken its promise. Being scattered in the end was a matter of its capabilities, not a matter of its demon character.
Only, it was a pity about Yingcao, who hadn't been able to escape.
Li Qiuchen also hadn't expected that Grand Uncle would be so utterly conscienceless as to strike at his own direct blood relative. By the ti he realized the problem, it was already too late.
Although the deep mountain forests were full of dangers, no matter what, the environnt was still better than the pig pen of Songlin Village.
At least now he could finally cultivate in peace without worrying about strange things growing out of his body...
After recovering his condition, Li Qiuchen began to sort out his belongings.
Besides these things he'd rolled up from Grand Uncle's house, he didn't have a single hair on him, and he also hadn't eaten in a long ti.
Wilderness survival was a big problem for a child.
Fortunately, heaven leaves a way out for people.
While drying out the books, Li Qiuchen noticed that the several pills that had dissolved in water attracted fish from the river. So fish even leaped onto the shore, eagerly competing to gulp down the flowing dicinal liquid in big mouthfuls.
He almost effortlessly caught seven or eight plump fish over a chi long with his bare hands, then carefully stored away the pill residue again.
Although it looked like people couldn't eat them anymore, the fishing effect was still quite good. For his ti in the mountains coming up, he'd probably have to rely on them to solve the food problem.
He built a fire. While roasting fish, he also dried his clothes. After this ordeal, the clothes on his body were also tattered and torn. If the weather weren't warm, he might have frozen to death in the mountains at night.
Li Qiuchen sat by the fire and sorted through his harvest.
Grand Uncle's house had a lot of gold, silver, and jewels, but he'd only taken a few ingots of silver. He hadn't taken much of anything else.
First, to reduce weight and facilitate escape. Second, out of caution.
There was an old saying about "a child carrying pure gold through a busy market." This saying was mainly used to describe an idiot.
Although gold was precious, right now he didn't have even a bit of self-protection ability. Not only could he not spend it, it would easily invite deadly disaster.
Part of the silver in the bundle had been lost in the river. Now only twenty taels of scattered silver remained. Saying it was a lot wasn't much, but saying it was little actually wasn't too little either.
The truly most valuable thing was actually the tree core he'd snatched from the old peach tree.
This was completely a gambling act of pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth, but if it weren't for this thing, Li Qiuchen couldn't possibly have pulled Boss Guan and the crayfish spirit onto his pirate ship.
The piece of tree core he'd obtained weighed about two or three catties. White and tender like new bamboo shoots, it faintly emanated a strange peach blossom fragrance. Just slling it made him feel that the accumulated pain and fatigue in his body were swept away.
This was a superior dicinal ingredient. It could be eaten raw like the crayfish spirit, or taken back to be made into dicine like Boss Guan. Or perhaps if he encountered soone knowledgeable in the future, maybe he could even sell it for a good price.
In any case, the benefits were nurous.
After filling his stomach, Li Qiuchen picked up the half-dried "Jingyunzi" and opened the wrinkled pages.
This book had been soaked in water and could no longer be preserved long-term.
Fortunately, what it described was the Li family's exclusive inherited ocular arts. After cultivating, at worst one could obtain a photographic mory divine ability and morize all the content in the book.
Having transmigrated and been reborn in this world for many years, finally escaping his shackles and able to formally step onto the cultivation path, Li Qiuchen's mood was also very excited.
"Jingyunzi" wasn't purely a cultivation thod. It was actually an autobiography written by the Li family's ancestor, Li Jingyun.
Li Jingyun's family had fallen on hard tis in his youth, but he was intelligent from childhood. Relying on talent and effort, he was admitted to Beihai Academy, one of the four great academies of the northern frontier. Afterward, he traveled the four directions and guarded Shilong River for a hundred years, but still couldn't break through the Golden Core realm to nurture a Nascent Soul.
However, during this period, he happened to encounter the dicine Master manifesting divine miracles and comprehended the great Dao of longevity.
dicine Master...
Li Qiuchen was now a bit sensitive when he saw this term.
In the book, Li Jingyun provided a very lengthy explanation of the "dicine Master."
The so-called dicine Master was essentially the great Dao of longevity.
Cultivating immortality also cultivated longevity, but it was sowhat different from the dicine Master's longevity.
Immortal cultivation's longevity was a ans. The ultimate goal was freedom and ease. While the dicine Master's longevity focused on longevity itself.
In the dicine Master's eyes, "life" was above all else. They believed that the suffering of all beings had its roots in death, and only longevity could achieve liberation.
This "life" could be one's own life or could be others' lives.
The dicine Master's great Dao itself had no distinction between good and evil, right and wrong. You could cultivate yourself alone, or you could universally save the world.
But cultivators naturally focused more on their own lives. To extend their own lives they would stop at nothing. Among them, the simplest and most effective thod was none other than plundering the dicine Master's blessings from others to extend their own lifespan.
Over ti, these dicine Master believers who only cared about their own longevity and had no moral bottom line beca notorious evil demons and heretics, inviting pursuit and killing by righteous cultivators. It could only be said they brought it upon themselves.
In the book, Li Jingyun recorded in detail the ans of receiving the dicine Master's blessing and plundering others' blessings.
The dicine Master's great Dao universally aided all living beings in the world. As long as one worshipped devoutly and praised the divine na, one could obtain blessings and extend one's lifespan. This thod had no aftereffects, but the lifespan gained wasn't very obvious either and was difficult to quantify specifically.
For example, if you were originally supposed to live to eighty, but because you believed in the dicine Master you lived one more month, this little bit of added lifespan, unless you looked at the Book of Life and Death, you fundantally couldn't feel it yourself.
To further obtain more of the dicine Master's blessings, one needed cultivation thods corresponding to the dicine Master's great Dao.
Li Jingyun left behind an incantation in the book, as well as three pill formulas.
Cultivating according to the incantation and supplented with pills, one could obtain longer lifespans.
Li Qiuchen directly skipped over this passage of text. Right now he really didn't want to have any connection with the dicine Master.
Not until the latter half of this book did Li Jingyun begin recording the family's inherited Yin-Yang Dharma Eyes cultivation thod.
The cultivation thod's na was very plain and simple, just called the "Li Clan thod," divided into body tempering and ocular arts, two parts.
It likewise ca with several dicinal formulas for body tempering.
As for the dicinal formulas paired with the ocular arts, they weren't in this book. Perhaps Li Jingyun was exceptionally talented and felt it unnecessary.
On the contrary, the Li family's descendants couldn't reach that kind of talent of the old ancestor, so they compiled the "Wisdom Eye Collection" as a supplent.
Whether this cultivation thod was high-grade or not... without other reference objects for comparison, Li Qiuchen really had difficulty evaluating it but having it was better than not having it.
Moreover, I'm a grand transmigrator. How could I remain depressed and long dwell beneath others?
At this point, shouldn't the system co online?
After reading through all of "Jingyunzi," the sky had also darkened. Li Qiuchen, cherishing dreams of a beautiful future life, curled up under a tree root, closed his eyes, and entered dreamland.
Hah...
At the third watch of the night, Li Qiuchen sat up with a start, covered in cold sweat.
He'd been frightened awake.
In his dream, Li Qiuchen had already been living a beautiful life of eating big chunks of at, drinking from big bowls, with beautiful wives and concubines embracing him left and right.
Suddenly, a pair of flawlessly perfect jade feet appeared before his eyes.
In a daze, he looked up and saw countless erald green shoots lunging toward his face.
A voice as if from an extrely distant place whispered softly in his ear.
Thus have I heard...
Li Qiuchen's hair stood on end. He instantly woke up, only feeling a stuffiness in his chest and abdon. He couldn't help but retch.
A mouthful of fresh blood mixed with not-yet-digested roasted fish spewed from his mouth. Mixed in were also so erald green shoots and tender leaves...
But I clearly didn't eat any grass roots or tree bark!
Li Qiuchen was extrely terrified, realizing he'd probably fallen into the sa situation as Yingcao.
A spiritual root was growing from inside his body!
But I clearly didn't do anything...
Wait, I finished reading "Jingyunzi"!
The old ancestor was really harmful! He actually poisoned the book!
However, different from Yingcao's situation back then, Li Qiuchen hadn't lost consciousness, and the spiritual root also hadn't grown out from his body. Instead, it looked like it had been digested by him.
After calming down, Li Qiuchen closed his eyes and, following the ocular arts cultivation thod recorded in the book, perford internal observation.
Actually, his eyes had long since awakened the family's inherited talent. He just hadn't cultivated it. Now that he'd obtained the correct cultivation thod, he could use it directly.
Closing his eyes and silently circulating his energy, casting his vision toward his own body, everything including skin, flesh, and bones was clearly visible. Even his own energy circulation ridians could be seen very clearly.
Li Qiuchen carefully observed and discovered that extrely tiny tender shoots were continuously growing inside his body, but these shoots hadn't yet grown large before being absorbed and digested by his own body.
Just like plants performing photosynthesis, even if he completely didn't cultivate now, just relying on digesting these shoots could also increase his own strength.
Could this be... the dicine Master's blessing?
A flash of inspiration struck Li Qiuchen's mind, then he beca even more terrified.
What did I do to receive the dicine Master's blessing? I only read a book. Old ancestor, there's no need to scam people like this, right?
But thinking it over, he felt it shouldn't be a problem with that book.
If reading books could really receive the dicine Master's blessing, then why would Grand Uncle painstakingly grow spiritual roots? He could just refine pills and read books at ho every day.
Then where exactly was the problem? How did I, soone who fundantally doesn't believe in the dicine Master, receive such an honor...
Li Qiuchen suddenly shuddered. He thought of sothing.
"Jingyunzi" recorded that devoutly worshipping and praising the divine na was only the simplest, lowest-grade thod.
As long as what you did aligned with the true aning of the dicine Master's great Dao, you would receive the dicine Master's glance and blessings would descend.
And over these years, he'd only been wholeheartedly doing one thing.
That was surviving!
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