Five years after leaving, a brief return followed by ten years of separation, everything still seems to be the same as in memory, and full of strangeness.
When Li Qiao got close to home, she changed into ordinary clothes. After feeling that there was no problem, she started walking.
As I walked, I thought about the question I had been avoiding for a long time: Will my cultivation of immortality involve a showdown with my family?
If you don't tell them, if you don't come back for a long time in the future, it will cause unnecessary worries for your parents.
Knowing that one has become an immortal, it is normal for a person to be delayed due to some things and not return to the mortal world for decades or hundreds of years, so he will not think too much about it.
Moreover, Li Qiao still has some spiritual stones in his hand, which he plans to keep at home. The spiritual stones are indeed very important to him, but his relatives are equally important to him.
Wangxian Town sells elixirs that mortals can take, which can make them live longer and prevent them from getting sick. Even if he dies unexpectedly, he will not have any regrets in his heart.
After thinking about it in his mind, Li Qiao planned not to tell anything until he returned home, and to tell everything when he was about to leave at the end, but the secret was revealed as soon as he returned home.
When he first arrived home, his father was not there. His mother held him and cried for a while before speaking. His younger brother, who was born a few years ago, looked at his strange brother curiously.
After Li Jixiu came back, he was stunned for the first time when he saw Li Qiao, and then his eyes showed a little panic, but he quickly calmed down.
"Qiao'er, follow me here. I have something to ask you!"
In just a short moment, Li Jixiu hid his emotions and said this.
His father's reaction fell into Li Qiao's eyes. As he followed him, he used his spiritual consciousness to observe himself again, but found no flaws.
Li Qiao didn't notice anything unusual. It was because he was used to everything about himself and lacked the experience of ordinary people's lives.
In Li Dongxiu's eyes, Li Qiao is indeed his son Li Qiao, but he looks too young. He is in his twenties and looks just like sixteen or seventeen.
The first thing he thought of was that his son was practicing privately. If so, the whole family would be severely punished by the clan, so he was frightened.
But he quickly thought that if this was the case, the clan would have discovered it long ago, and it would be impossible for Li Qiao to come back in such a big way, but without asking, he couldn't rest assured.
After suppressing some of the complicated emotions in his heart, Li Jixiu's first words were: "Qiao'er, are you practicing privately?"
"Why did father ask like this?" This question did not surprise Li Qiao. He was just a little surprised how he was seen. After all, his father was just an ordinary mortal and should not be able to detect abnormalities between mortals and immortal cultivators.
"You look too young. Did you eat something? Or is there something else?"
One sentence made Li Qiao understand the problem. He originally wanted to talk about it before leaving, but now that it had been seen, he didn't want to hide it.
"Back then, the tribe allowed some ordinary people to receive spirits..."
He briefly recounted what had happened over the years, without mentioning a word about the dangers he encountered.
"So Qiao'er, you are an immortal cultivator now? Because you are different from normal cultivators, you are not really recognized by the family?"
"That's basically it!"
"You can't just practice privately!" After saying this, Li Jixiu looked at Li Qiao, hesitant to speak.
He somewhat blamed this choice, but it was already like this. After thinking about it, he said: "Since you have become a monk, you should live well and don't take risks outside."
"The patriarch said that if I could become a foundation-building monk, I would be recognized by the family. I would be a blood relative for five generations. Wouldn't my father want that?"
Normally, to become a monk of the Li family, if you have children, you will be counted from the children. If you have no children, you will be counted from the parents. They will be protected and taken care of by the family until the fifth life.
"Silly boy, do you really think your father doesn't understand? If you have the same opportunity to build a foundation as a normal monk, how can your family not really recognize it? Rather than using your life to exchange for that slim hope that has no hope, I hope you can be good. Stay alive."
Such words made Li Qiao feel warm in his heart, and his thoughts were a little shaken.
After being quiet for a moment, he slowly shook his head: "It's also for myself. Now that I have practiced once, how can I be willing not to work hard, otherwise I wouldn't have made such a choice back then."
After chatting for a few more words, Li Qiao took out two hundred low-grade spiritual stones from the storage bag and said, "Save these for the family, father can make the decision."
Li Jixiu was very surprised to see his son quietly taking out so many spirit stones.
"It's not easy for you to practice cultivation. How difficult it is to get these spiritual stones. If your family can't help you, forget it. How can they hold you back? Take them back quickly."
In this regard, Li Qiao just asked: "If there is a child with the qualifications to cultivate immortality in the family, will the father accept this spiritual stone?"
If this happens, Li's father will accept it without hesitation. However, several of his children have been tested one after another as not having the qualifications to cultivate immortals. He has already given up, but Li Qiao's words undoubtedly gave him something to think about, just in case. Did it appear?
Thinking of this, I hesitated.
"Father, accept it. If there are no younger brothers or sisters who are qualified to cultivate immortals in the family, use these spiritual stones to buy some body-nurturing elixirs in the town. You and mother will take good care of your health. I think you can watch me become a foundation-building monk." .”
In the end, Father Li collected the spirit stone.
After staying at home for several months and spending time with his parents and relatives, Li Qiao ran away in a panic. It was not because of any danger, but because of his father Li Jixiu's last instructions.
There are two points in total:
One is to tell him to put his own safety first in the world of immortality, not to take risks easily, and not to easily make grudges with others.
This was nothing, mainly because of the second point. After asking him if he had any girls he liked, I suggested that he go to the Huaxiang Pavilion in the town before leaving so that he could know the value of some things so that he would not be easily deceived by some beautiful female nuns.
There are beautiful mortal women in Huaxiang Tower, but they only serve immortal cultivators. They are all virgins, and the price ranges from one piece to several pieces of low-grade spiritual stones.
Although he came outside Huaxianglou obediently, he only took a few glances and left after completing his father's instructions.
Although his mind has been focused on cultivation these years, he still understands what he should know, but Li Qiao can easily think of his rotten body back then, and then think of his experience of almost being strangled to death.
After leaving Wangxian Town, he did not return to the clan, nor did he wander around the edges of the clan as before. Instead, he flew directly into the distance, away from the family.
All that needs to be done is done, and all that is left is to fight for your own path to immortality.
On this day, this monk who was a little beyond common sense and had reached the eighth level of Qi training at the age of twenty-three began to enter the world of immortality.
