Evergreen Immortal.

Yu State, Yunzhou, Anning Prefecture, Qinghe County.

Come winter, it snows all night.

Ugly time.

The door of a small room in the southeast corner of Zhu's house was pushed open with a creak.

Li Rui put his hands in the sleeves of his cotton-padded jacket and walked to the stable shivering with his boots crunching in the snow.

He would come to the stable every night to check whether the two cubs were slacking off. Of course, at this age where he wet his shoes, he had long lost the habit of sleeping in.

Seeing the piles of hay in the manger, Li Rui walked back to the house with satisfaction.

A horse cannot grow fat without night grass.

The Zhu family's horses are more valuable than people.

If the Zhu family master notices that the horse is thin, even he, an old groom who has been working as a horseman for fifty years, will inevitably suffer.

Return to the warm room.

Li Rui was no longer sleepy. He took out a cigarette rod from beside his pillow, knocked the brass pot on the heel of his shoe, stuffed it with tobacco, and took a few puffs. For a while, the room was filled with smoke.

He leaned back comfortably and looked at his withered, old, calloused hands.

"How can you live so long?"

In the spring of next year, he will be seventy years old. In this era, it is extremely rare to live to the age of seventy. Maybe the magistrate will come to see him then, and the Zhu family will grant him permission to leave his humble status.

It just means nothing to him anymore.

Looking back on life.

Nothing good, nothing gained, nothing accomplished.

Well, smoking dry tobacco counts as one.

"What a sin, I'm a modern person."

Yes, Li Rui is a time traveler.

He is just the most miserable of all time travellers. He has no cheats or cheats and has stayed in this world for fifty years.

His predecessor's family suffered a disaster and he was sold to the Zhu family. He couldn't bear the hardship and froze to death in one winter. Only then did Li Rui occupy the magpie's nest.

Relying on his literacy and cleverness, he managed to get into the position of the groom.

As a skilled worker, the salary of a groom is much better than that of other domestic servants. At least he has no worries about food and clothing.

Use past life knowledge to change your destiny?

He is a lowly person, and if he does something too different from ordinary people, he will only be treated as a monster by his master and beaten to death.

Later, as he got older, his status in the Zhu family also increased. People he met would call him "Mr. Li", and he accepted two more apprentices, so he didn't have to feed the horses himself.

Life was pretty good.

He had never thought about marrying a wife and having children. He signed a red contract. Unless the master was gracious, he would not be able to escape his lowly status even if he spent a ransom.

According to the laws of the State of Yu, a person with a low status will be a member of the family from generation to generation, which means that his children will be slaves and maids after they are born.

Why bother letting our children and grandchildren come and go again?

He did have a few good friends in his early years, but the youngest one also passed away a few years ago, and he was the one who buried her.

He passed on his horse-raising skills to his two apprentices, hoping that when he died in a few years, he would be buried in a thin-skinned coffin and have a good death.

Everything is fate, nothing is up to you.

Just then——

Lines of small characters appeared before his eyes.

[Host detected, congratulations on starting a perfect life! 】

"Goldfinger?"

"Why are you here!"

Li Rui's calm heart has once again stirred up waves, but what the hell is a perfect life?

He is already seventy and about to be buried, how can he still have a perfect life like this?

The next second, another small word appeared, interrupting his train of thought.

[You were born with a vision from the sky, and you are a rare gift of martial arts. The moment you were born, you were destined to be number one in the world! 】

Li Rui's expression became strange.

This life is perfect, but it seems to have nothing to do with him at all.

Not to mention being born with martial arts skills, he had practiced martial arts with the martial arts master in Zhu Mansion for several days in his early years.

Number one in the world?

He can't even touch the threshold of martial arts. Practicing martial arts requires extremely high standards. Even if an ordinary person wants to get started, it will be extremely difficult for ordinary people.

Moreover, he is already seventy years old!

What the hell are you born with martial bones? !

But soon, a light screen panel appeared in front of his eyes.

[Get talent, martial bones! 】

[Name: Li Rui]

【Age: 0】

[Talent: Martial Bones (rarely encountered in ten thousand years, born invincible)]

[Achievement: 0/100]

The moment the panel appeared, Li Rui felt that there really was something in his spine. His originally cold hands and feet became warm in an instant, and his energy and blood were many times more abundant than before.

Really martial arts? !

Li Rui's eyes widened in disbelief.

But this warrior came too late.

According to the average lifespan of ancient people, he has already exceeded it by several decades. It is an optimistic estimate that he can live for another ten years. Even if he has a martial bone, what use will it be?

"Humans have life span but immortals don't have life span. Since they all have martial bones, maybe there are immortals in this world. Seventy years old would be an old person in the ordinary world, but in the world of cultivation it would be a prime year!"

Li Rui suppressed the excitement in his heart.

"There are martial artists in Anning Mansion who practice health-preserving skills and live for a full two decades. Martial arts are not all about bravery and ruthlessness. There are also skills that can prolong life."

"It is common for the Taoist sects of Yu State to see old immortals with fluttering white hair. Their strength cannot be measured by their years."

Moreover, compared to the human body with natural martial arts, he has one biggest advantage.

That's stability.

If a child is born with a miracle, extraordinary bones, and a precious treasure, he will definitely be envied. If the parents are not strong enough, then this martial bone is not a blessing, but a disaster. Only things that can be received can be truly regarded as one's own blessing.

A senior named Huang is the best example.

It is not a good thing to get some things too early.

Seventy years old is just right!

And it seems that there are more rewards besides martial bones.

He looked at the achievement column and saw countless small words appearing in front of him.

"Successful in the list of gold, famous in the world, and powerful on the battlefield."

As long as you complete the achievements of these entries, you can get achievement points, and the achievement points you get can unlock new rewards.

When he saw "becoming an immortal and a ancestor", his belief was strengthened.

Li Rui calmed down.

These achievements are too far away from him. Now all he has to do is practice martial arts.

"I remember that Yang, the guard of the Zhu family, got drunk a few days ago and boasted that he had a martial art that could make him live to a hundred years old, called Eight-Section Brocade. I'll go to him tomorrow to ask for it."

With Wu Gu in his body, why worry about not being able to practice a small Eight-Section Brocade.

Early in the morning.

Li Rui put on his cotton jacket and walked towards the Zhu family's martial arts arena. The Zhu family was a wealthy family in Qinghe. There were more than a dozen guards alone. Ordinary bandits didn't dare to provoke them. Nothing had happened in decades.

He could walk around the Zhu family's house with his eyes closed. He came to a vacant lot at the back of the Zhu family's house with ease.

This is where the Zhu family's guards usually practice martial arts.

A middle-aged strong man who was seven feet tall saw Li Rui and grinned: "Old Li, why are you here at the martial arts arena? Do you want to stretch your old arms and legs?"

The other guards also laughed in agreement.

Li Rui was used to this kind of scene and ignored everyone.

He found the oldest guard in the corner and said, "Old Yang, does the Eight-Section Brocade you mentioned before still count?"

The old guard named Yang Yong was stunned: "Old Li, do you really want to learn martial arts?"

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