Immortal, I have mediocre qualifications

Green bricks and tiles, pavilions, flower pavilions are dotted with lush spiritual grass, and there is a bright poetic and painting atmosphere everywhere.

In the courtyard, there was an old figure, his eyes were unruffled, and there was a dead silence, showing no sign of being affected by the environment.

Zhou Lie knew the teacher's intentions and wanted to help him get out of his sadness through the interaction between man and nature. However, after learning that Zhou Huang's grudge was settled, he thought about it even more.

Empty and void, living is just a moving body.

When Chen Sheng saw this scene, he felt very uncomfortable. Zhou Lie was aging not only physically, but also mentally. There was no hope, he was gray, and he naturally lost his vitality.

He may also enter this state one day in the future. When everything disappears, immortality will become a kind of illness.

Teacher, I've made you tired.

Chen Sheng's arrival put a touch of color in Zhou Lie's empty eyes. Looking at this figure, he felt a sense of guilt in his heart.

Throughout his life, he was incompetent in both literature and martial arts. After having Zhou Huang, he thought he could share the burden with his teacher, but he failed again.

As a disciple, he really failed.

I have never asked you for anything, nor have I asked you to amaze the world. As long as you spend your life peacefully, I will be satisfied.

Chen Sheng is an immortal person and has already satisfied his greatest desires. He takes it lightly for many things that ordinary people are obsessed with.

He didn't ask Zhou Li to be invincible for a lifetime and spread his reputation, nor did he ask Zhou Li to collect cultivation resources for him and act like a cow or a horse.

This disciple who has been raised since childhood plays the role of teacher and father. He hopes that this child will be healthy throughout his life.

Even in the current situation, he still had this thought. As long as Zhou Lie was healthy and happy, that would be fine.

Disciple, I will work hard.

Zhou Lie nodded. Even though he found this request very difficult, since the teacher wanted him to be happy, he had to work hard to be happy.

I feel bored. Ask your mistress to cook you a good meal. When you were a child, didn't you always like her cooking?

Chen Sheng knew about Zhou Lie's situation. He was respected as the ancestor in his family and had many descendants who admired him, but none of them could express their sorrow.

There was only Yaolu, and he and Luzhu were the only ones Zhou Lie could rely on.

When I was little, I remember it, and I always remember it.

There was a trace of nostalgia in Zhou Lie's eyes. It was really an extremely happy time, and he didn't have to worry about anything.

Now he has many things, and the authority in the medicine house is envied by countless people, but he can't be happy no matter what.

“Regain that joy and don’t be pessimistic.”

Chen Sheng patted Zhou Lie on the shoulder with a little force, as if he wanted to pass on this firmness to this disciple who had a rough second half of his life.

He could give Zhou Lie authority, training resources, and offensive weapons, but he really didn't have the means to make the other party come out.

After all, this life is your own, and no one else can interfere. Only when you feel comfortable can you truly understand your thoughts.

After coming out of Zhou Lie's place, Chen Sheng thought for a while and walked into the bookstore of Yaolu. He looked through the alchemy books and chose a recipe for Little Holy Grass Pill and asked his subordinates to prepare the elixir. Grass.

Afterwards, he entered the secret room and planned to break through to the early stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Over the years, he has been focusing on the alchemy path. He has responsibilities, but he has also been focused on studying, delaying his practice.

Now that the progress on the alchemy path has stagnated, the magic power has naturally overflowed, and it is time to break through.

What suits you is the best.

What Chen Sheng has been practicing so far is the Health Preservation Sutra. This Qi refining method has a very good foundation. The magic power he cultivates is neutral, peaceful, solid and pure, which is extremely good.

Of course, it is not without its shortcomings, but for more than a hundred years, he has been trying it with his body and has made countless modifications to this health-preserving scripture, which has been tampered with beyond recognition.

It cannot be said that the Health Sutra he is practicing now is the highest method, but it is definitely the most suitable and suitable for him.

With a slight movement of his hand, the exercise route running through the Health Sutra was instantly activated, absorbing a steady stream of spiritual energy from heaven and earth towards the outside world.

Rumble...

In the secret room, Chen Sheng's body was blooming with brilliance, and the spiritual energy gathered around him floated like smoke, making him appear as divine and ethereal and majestic as the sky.

The surging spiritual energy of heaven and earth penetrated through his mouth, nose and ears, followed a circle of skills, turned into solid mana, and fell into his dantian.

There was a dense mist in his Dantian, and there was a small lake underneath, with mana constantly dripping like raindrops.

As the endless mana continues to be replenished, the edge of the small lake gradually expands.

This situation lasted for a day and a half, and finally reached a limit.

The mana in Dantian became active all of a sudden, like an extinct volcano coming to life, changing.

boom

The energy in Chen Sheng's body was also rising, and it reached a limit, but was stopped.

That is the pass in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

His mind was calm, and he concentrated on running the Health Sutra, allowing the accumulated mana to be wasted in the attack on the pass.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a roar, but the barrier in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm was broken, and his mind and spirit jumped into a new world.

Cultivation is difficult, building the foundation is difficult, and passing the test is difficult.

After Chen Sheng broke through to the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, he felt a little happy and returned to normal.

He could feel the limitations of his qualifications. For cultivators without talent, it would be too difficult on this road to immortality.

Fortunately, when he came here, the sky and the earth were thick, and his body was blessed with supernatural powers, which prevented him from turning into a pile of bones when he was in the Qi Refining Realm.

He stood up and walked out of the secret room. Although he had restrained his breath, there were still traces of the breakthrough.

In the middle stage of Foundation Establishment Realm, you are just like me.

Lu Zhu was fine, waiting boredly outside the secret room. When she saw Chen Sheng breaking out of the secret, her eyebrows suddenly curved up, with a smile full of smiles, like willows in the spring wind, giving people a soft and graceful look. A feeling of harmony.

Your talent is slightly better than mine, so you can spend more time practicing.

A smile appeared on Chen Sheng's face unconsciously, but because of Zhou Lie's incident, his feelings about life, separation, and death deepened, and he couldn't help but say something.

I don't have a firm heart to seek the Tao. My qualifications are only above average. If I can cultivate the foundation, I am very satisfied. It is not good to force too much.

Lvzhu is self-aware. She is able to achieve the foundation-building realm because of some luck and God's mercy. She doesn't have too many obsessions with the path.

In this life, she felt that it was good to be able to stay by Chen Sheng's side and be safe.

It's up to you...

Chen Sheng didn't know whether to feel happy or smile bitterly. Lu Zhu's mentality was very good, but his obsession with cultivating immortality was not strong.

I think knowing about immortality is too elusive, so it is better to live in the present and be free and easy.

He said no more, this kind of life is actually quite good.

…

Elder, the spiritual herbs you asked me to prepare have already been gathered.

No one dared to slack off on what Chen Sheng had asked him to do before retreating, and he had already done it.

The visitor's attitude was extremely respectful, and he was holding a storage bag in his hand, which contained the spiritual grass needed to refine the Little Holy Grass Pill.

good.

Chen Sheng put away the things and walked to the alchemy room, intending to refine a furnace of small holy grass pills.

He rarely refines first-level elixirs, but this time he prepared them for Zhou Lie, and he was very careful about it.

This little holy grass pill is a life-extending pill. It is a first-class high-grade pill. It is complicated to refine and uses many materials, but it is very effective and can extend the life of a monk in the Qi Refining Realm by ten years.

Buzz...

In the alchemy room, the fire was burning brightly. The lid of the rainbow trout furnace was set off by the upward fire, and the mouth of the furnace was red, like a world in fire.

Chen Sheng opened the storage bag, and various spiritual herbs were put into the alchemy furnace one after another, and were licked by the flames to burn away the excess impurities.

The world inside the furnace is like a nine-story pagoda, with layers of flames. Various kinds of spiritual grass are burned away and transformed into a clear appearance.

Roughly counting, there are hundreds of kinds, flowing with gleaming brilliance, like amber glass, unstained by dust.

Under the illumination of the fire, Chen Sheng's cheeks were as red as red jade, and he looked as bright as a god. Every move he made showed the charm of calmness and ease.

He has practiced the eight methods of fire control to an extremely advanced level. There is no pressure to refine the second-level elixir, and there is no problem with the first-level Little Holy Grass Pill.

Every spiritual grass was refined by him to its most pure state. From the perspective of a second-level alchemist, it was perfect.

That's it, pharmacological blending is now possible.

Chen Sheng refined this furnace of Little Holy Grass Pill with great care. He made sure that there was no trace of impurities in the refining of the Holy Grass. He made sure again and again before proceeding to the next step.

Buzz...

With a thought in his mind, various spiritual herbs began to blend together, and threads of mysterious energy emerged, possessing thousands of possibilities.

What the alchemist has to do is not to let the pharmacology interfere randomly and move in the optimal direction.

Time passed little by little.

In the fire, hundreds of pharmacological properties were intertwined into a prototype of an elixir, which was a little heavy, like a gold and stone artifact, and was flowing with precious light.

Chen Sheng observed the world inside the furnace with a calm expression, and slowly controlled the fire to burn the prototype of the elixir, allowing the many mysteries inside to condense into one.

What can be seen is that the prototype of the elixir is becoming more and more rounded. One glance at it and the word perfect immediately comes to mind.

At this point, the Little Holy Grass Pill has been refined.

call……

The rich alchemy energy soars into the sky, and along with the rich vitality, pours out from the mouth of the furnace. The flame inside has been extinguished, but the furnace wall is still burning red, with the brilliance of red gold.

At the bottom, nine green elixirs are quietly placed. Their medicinal properties are restrained and full of vitality. They are treasures among first-order elixirs.

Such a life-extending elixir, if it appears at an auction, will definitely make the old Qi Refining Realm give up all his wealth.

…

Five years passed by in one go.

This is not a long period of time, but for a person with an old body and a dead soul, it is enough to drain away the last bit of hard work and vitality.

Compared with the lush flowers in the courtyard, the surrounding rows look like a piece of rotten old wood, the foundations of which have been chipped away by time.

His body was very thin, his eyes were empty, and he no longer cared about life or death.

clatter.

The sound of footsteps came.

Zhou Lie looked over and saw that it was the teacher. He looked exactly the same as in his memory. There was no change. He still looked like a young man, with a tall body and warm eyes. He was wearing luxurious clothes and looked like a heavenly being.

He looked at himself again. He was as rotten as a dead tree, and his face was old. He couldn't help but lower his head, and he had no face to face it.

Training resources.

Secret skills.

Medicinal weapon.

He didn't lack all of these, and his conditions were much better than those his teacher had when he was a young man practicing Taoism. However, he ended up in this situation. It can only be said that his life has been wasted.

This is a small holy grass pill that can extend your life by ten years.

Chen Sheng came to Zhou Lie and took out the Little Holy Grass Pill. Now that Zhou Lie was in this situation, he had to use the pill to survive.

Teacher, when was it refined?

Zhou Lie was a first-level top alchemist. He could tell at a glance that the quality of the Little Holy Grass Pill was frighteningly high. It was definitely not the work of a first-level alchemist.

Then, it can only be the teacher, a second-level alchemist, who made it specially for him.

five years ago.

Chen Sheng said calmly.

He thought of today five years ago.

Zhou Lie was greatly saddened by his body. As an alchemist, he was the best at transferring the body away from his body. It was easy to live a hundred and twenty years old.

Now, at the age of one hundred and five, he is on the verge of death and can only use elixirs to extend his life.

Disciple, I have always been a worry-free person. I have always made the teacher worry.

Zhou Lie looked at the Little Holy Grass Pill and did not take it, but he was very grateful for Chen Sheng's kindness and thought of a lot.

When he was very young, he became a teacher.

Got...too much care.

At the age of seven, he was fed by his teacher and lived a carefree childhood.

When I was young, I was confused and was awakened by my teacher during the competition in the outer sect. I left my baggage behind and traveled to the world of immortality.

When he was young, he married a wife and had children willfully, ignored the teacher's arrangements, and missed the age of foundation building.

When he lost his wife in middle age, he went to the teacher to seek comfort. When he lost his son in his later years, it was the teacher who led his people to destroy the demons of General Fu Shui and avenge his grievances.

Throughout his life, he has been living under the wings of his teacher, but he has not been able to give back at all. It is really...a failure.

You are very good. I have no regrets about accepting you as my disciple.

Chen Sheng didn't think so. Zhou Lie had been a very well-behaved person since he was a child.

He respected his teacher and would never do anything that would undermine his dignity.

If you don't fight for power, you are afraid that it will be difficult for him.

In the face of Yaolu's fairness and personal power, Zhou Lie gave in many times, allowing many people to ascend to high positions.

Therefore, when the rainy night was raging, many people chose to believe and support Zhou Lie, so that he could do his best to do what he wanted.

That was the credit he had accumulated over many years of upholding the rules.

Very good……

Hearing what Chen Sheng said, there was a gleam in Zhou Lie's eyes, and then he muttered, I want to be willful again and not take... the Little Holy Grass Pill.

He said it was extremely difficult, not because he was afraid of death, but because he rejected Chen Sheng's wishes.

This makes him feel very guilty.

Decided?

Chen Sheng said silently.

Yes……

Zhou Lie knew that he was willful again, and letting the teacher watch him die was an extremely excessive and cruel thing.

But he was... really tired.

good.

Chen Sheng and Zhou Lie looked at each other and saw emotions such as shame, relief, pleading, sadness, etc. His heart softened, he closed his eyes and nodded.