"Uncle Clan!"
"I've met my clan uncle."
"Uncle Zifan."
As they walked along, people intertwined with each other. The tribesmen who were walking happily stopped and saluted after seeing Zhang Zifan, who also nodded slightly in response.
"It has only been a few years, and the clan is already full of juniors." Zhang Zifan couldn't help but sigh. He who was once young is now quite senior.
All the way back to his residence, there were dozens of small courtyards scattered on a high cliff, and he occupied one of them.
"Husband!" A woman with long hair tied up looked at Zhang Zifan's return, her face filled with joy.
Many words stuck in the throat, and finally turned into a plain hug, "It will be good to come back."
Zhang Zifan smiled on his face and patted the woman on the back, "Don't worry, madam. I'm just practicing Qi. The family won't let me participate in anything too dangerous."
After speaking, some doubts appeared in his eyes unconsciously.
The woman's name was Shi Yu'er, and she was one of the many women arranged for him by the Zhang family shortly after they came to Chilang Gorge. Of course, he was asked to choose the one he liked the most.
Zhang Zifan didn't want to do this. He wanted to practice and become an immortal. Even if he couldn't ascend, he still wanted to be closer to the nine heavens.
He longs for the Immortal Path, not just for immortality.
But he failed. Once, when he was in Yunmengze, he had already built a foundation once. That time, he failed and ruined all his future.
This is the case for monks who inherit the Immortal Law. If you advance, you will never retreat. Once you retreat, it will be impossible again.
After failing to build the foundation, he naturally became the long-term guard of resources for the family. He could not refute this, and the family also saw his efforts over the years.
But he still couldn't build the foundation for the second time, and the shackles between Qi training and foundation building disappeared.
This kind of thing should be a happy situation for everyone, but for people like them who failed to build the foundation once, it is the most desperate blow.
This means that Xianlu is unwilling to give them another chance. Like mortals, he failed and was abandoned outside the gate of immortality.
Therefore, after arriving at Chilang Gorge, the middle-aged man was assigned a Taoist companion by his family, a Sansun disciple who was at the fifth level of Qi training.
The woman is very kind, gentle and virtuous. After experiencing the initial shyness, the two depended on each other.
Zhang Zifan was helpless with this ending, and he finally gave up his efforts and stopped wasting resources on the road to immortality where there was no future.
Shi Yu'er, on the other hand, has made use of the Zhang family's shareholder style and Zhang Zifan's resources to gradually enter the later stages of Qi training over the years. However, since she is not qualified enough, she may have to stop there in the future.
The two are in love, but there is no quarrel about it. Perhaps this is because the spiritual practice world in Shenting is too prosperous, and there are so many monks that they are no different from ordinary people.
Zhang Zifan's heart gradually became ordinary, and he was accepting his own ordinaryness.
but……
One day, something changed.
During the war with the Yan family, Zhang Zifan returned from a serious injury and was recuperating at home when his brother from the Bairen clan found him.
People from the Zhang family are naturally familiar with the latter, but Zhang Zifan is curious about why this person came to him.
Brother Zhi asked, "Do you still long for immortality?"
Both of them are not young anymore. Even though Zhang Bairen has reached the peak of foundation building and looks young, neither of them has the same mentality as before.
Naturally, he would not think that this was a joke from his clan brother, so after being silent for a long time, he only answered one sentence.
"Can my clan brother grant me immortality?"
Zhang Bairen nodded, "Yes."
On that day, Zhang Zifan felt that his heart had never beat so fiercely, and his dusty dreams were so exciting that day that he forgot everything.
"willing!"
On that day, Zhang Bairen sat opposite Zhang Zifan for a long time. Finally, as dusk fell, he placed a finger on Zhang Zifan's chest.
His heart was not broken, but his Dantian was broken. Zhang Zifan was horrified to find that his cultivation and his magic power were boiling violently like a flame ignited in a frying pan.
His dantian was shattered, and his mana began to gradually flow upstream along the bone marrow and flesh, gradually gathering in his heart.
Boom~boom!
His heartbeat was filled with extraordinary vitality.
He was shocked, but Zhang Bairen looked at him expressionlessly, "This is your only chance. If you fall in front of a certain bottleneck, you will be unable to save yourself."
Zhang Zifan ignored such words. He used to be young and frivolous, but after the foundation building failed, he understood the fear of being cut off from the road to immortality better than Zhang Bairen.
He is no longer the same person he used to be.
"When the dantian disappears and all the mana flows back to the heart, brother can try to build the foundation again. If successful, remember that the heart will become your most fatal weakness, even if you grow golden lotus."
Zhang Zifan remembered this sentence, but he was also more concerned about his possible future.
"Is it really possible..." He was worried inside, fearing that this was a joke that would come to nothing.
Because today, all the magic power of his ninth level of Qi training is finally almost completed.
"Yu'er, I want to go into seclusion." He stroked the woman's back gently, and under the astonished eyes of the woman, Zhang Zifan walked into the secret room alone, activated all the formations, and took out all his resources.
The light of the spirit stone flickered, and Zhang Zifan sat cross-legged in the center. At a certain moment, his Dantian completely disappeared, replaced by an extremely active heart, which contained the magic power of his ninth level of Qi training.
With his heart beating, Zhang Zifan found that there were dense cracks on the pile of spiritual stones closest to him. After dozens of heartbeats, these spiritual stones suddenly turned into powder. At the same time, the majestic spiritual energy of heaven and earth spread around.
They surround the body, being devoured in the rhythm of the heartbeat.
Feeling the mana beginning to grow in his body, Zhang Zifan was extremely excited and his eyes were shocked.
"It actually worked!"
Half an hour later, the secret room opened. Zhang Zifan saw the worried lady and stepped forward to pick her up.
"Madam, I successfully built the foundation!"
At the same time, a thousand meters away, on the tallest steep slope of Chilang Gorge, Zhang Bairen also felt something.
Sitting cross-legged, a grand heartbeat sounded in the void around him.
It seemed that the sound of the heartbeat awakened other beings, and the second heartbeat also sounded, followed by the third...
It was as if war drums were beating without any rhythm, and the heartbeat was chaotic and disorderly. But amidst this heartbeat, Zhang Bairen's aura became deeper and deeper, becoming more and more terrifying.
The illusive red lotus wrapped around his whole body and became more and more solid.
No one in the entire family felt this strange fluctuation. The huge heaven and earth phenomenon of Zhong Jinlian didn't seem to exist here with Zhang Bairen.
Quietly, there was no ripple in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, until a few days later, Zhang Bairen stood calmly on the peak, overlooking the peaks of Chilang Gorge.
