Who cares about childhood sweethearts when they can become immortals?

Chapter 43 What do you want?

Xu Ji was a little helpless, but looking at his father's appearance, it was obvious that he had no room to refuse.

"Let's go." Xu Wuwei stood up from the sofa, patted Xu Ji's shoulder, and said with a smile.

Xu Ji sighed slightly and had no choice but to follow his father silently. Today's training plan could only be ruined.

Instead of taking Xu Ji to control the flying sword in the air with his aura, nor driving his own car, Xu Wuwei just took his son to stroll on the streets of Qingyuan City.

Xu Ji silently followed her father on the street. Even though Qingyuan City was just a small town, its city center was quite prosperous. Even though it was a working day, the streets were filled with all kinds of pedestrians.

After walking through the streets, Xu Wuwei took Xu Ji to a somewhat remote park. Even though it was a park in the city center, except for some old people who would bring their children, almost no young people would go to this place.

Xu Wuwei waved to Xu Ji and motioned for him to come and sit down on the bench beside him.

"Xiao Ji, I know you practice hard, but why are you practicing so hard?" Xu Wuwei looked at the children playing not far away and chatted with Xu Ji casually.

What is the purpose of practicing?
  Xu Ji was slightly startled. Does practicing have any other uses besides becoming stronger?
  "To become stronger."

"Okay, become stronger, then why are you becoming stronger?" Xu Wuwei continued to ask.

Xu Ji was silent. In Su Hui's awakening, he had died of illness on a hospital bed in his previous life. The feeling of powerlessness and despair of watching his life passing by was deeply rooted in his mind along with that memory.

That's why I practice so hard, for the sake of immortality!

I am afraid of death. I don’t want to face the passage of my life like in my previous life and have nothing to do. I don’t want to turn into a pile of loess. I want to live, and I want to live longer!

Among the Immortal Alliance, the foundation can last for two hundred years, the golden elixir can live for five hundred years, and the Nascent Soul Dao Lord above that can even span the spring and autumn of a thousand years.

So, what about further up?

How long can a deity live? How long can one live above the gods?

If I take the path of immortality to the extreme, can I achieve immortality and immortality?
  The appearance of the proficiency panel allowed me to see hope for the future, and every bit of my efforts could be effective, so I grasped it tightly in my hands like a life-saving straw.

However, in my heart, I was involuntarily worried that it would disappear as suddenly as it appeared.

That's why I will seize every minute and every second to practice while I have it, so that even if the proficiency panel disappears one day, I will have a solid enough foundation to explore the top of the immortal path.

Seeing Xu Ji fall into silence, Xu Wuwei smiled gently and said: "Becoming stronger is just a means, a way to achieve the goal. Becoming stronger should not be used as an end, but just a means to achieve the goal."

"There are many roads in this world, and everyone has his or her own. So Xiaoji, what is the road you want to take if you want to become stronger?"

Xu Wuwei turned his head and looked at Xu Ji with gentle eyes. He did not continue to urge him, hoping that he would understand his heart through thinking and not just choose to become stronger for the sake of becoming stronger.

"Longevity, what I want to become strong is longevity, 200 years of foundation life, 500 years of golden elixir life, and eternal life of Yuanying. I want to live longer, see the scenery I have never seen before, and see more people and things."

Looking at Xu Wuwei's gentle gaze, Xu Ji couldn't help but reveal the deepest desire in his heart. "Eternal life..."

Xu Wuwei was slightly stunned, but he did not expect that what his son longed for at such a young age would be immortality. He originally thought that wealth, beauty, power, and fame would be the desires that most attract young people.

What do worldly desires like wealth, beauty, power, and fame mean in the face of eternal life?

But, how difficult is it to live forever?

Xu Wuwei sighed secretly in his heart. Even if he was the great emperor in ancient times, who could move mountains, fill seas, and chase stars and the moon, who wouldn't want to live forever? But how can he be safe now?
  Even if Yuanying Daojun lives for thousands of years, there will be an end after all! And what does a lifespan of a thousand years mean compared to the world under your feet that has existed for hundreds of millions of years?

However, my son, a qi cultivator who has just practiced for less than two and a half years, should seek longevity for 500 years of golden elixir, right?

After thinking about it, Xu Wuwei said: "The pursuit of immortality is indeed a good path. So Xiaoji, if you can really live forever, what do you want to do?"

doing what?
  Xu Ji was startled for a moment: "To see the scenery I have never seen before, to see more people and things..."

Xu Wuwei interrupted: "Then why do you have to wait until you pursue the immortality you want to do before you do these things?"

Xu Ji's voice suddenly paused.

Xu Wuwei continued: "Human desires are endless. To practice qi, you want to build a foundation. To build a foundation, you want to build a golden elixir. The golden elixir wants to be the Yuanying. The Yuanying wants to transform into a god. Even the transformed god wants to further evolve into an immortal. There is no end to cultivation.”

"In the past week, have you seen any scenery you have never seen before? Have you seen more people and things?"

Xu Ji was silent. He spent most of this week in the underground training room practicing the Vientiane Life Skill. He had never even gone out of the manor. How could he see the scenery he had never seen before, and how could he see more people and things?

Seeing Xu Ji's silence, Xu Wuwei understood that Xu Ji must have fallen into thinking at this time, so he smiled and said:

"The passing away is like this, never giving up day and night, the long river of time rolls by and never stops. No matter regret or not, today will eventually become yesterday."

"Instead of placing your hope in the distant future, why not base yourself on the present? Don't wait until the future is trapped in the level bottleneck during cultivation and regret it. Don't wait until your life is about to end and look back on your life to find that you are just chasing the shadow of immortality. Never really lived."

Xu Ji was silent. Was he worried about gains and losses because of the proficiency panel? Keep squeezing yourself to take advantage of the panels because you’re worried that they will suddenly disappear.

Is it because you don’t have confidence in yourself? Is it because you are worried that you will not be able to reach the top of the immortal path just by relying on your own talent? Are you not confident in yourself?
  That's why I want to lay a foundation for immortality before the proficiency panel disappears.

But what if I think wrong? If the panel doesn't disappear, will my future be spent in this underground training ground where I worry about gains and losses and continue to practice?

So is what he is seeking immortality or prison?
  What if the proficiency panel really disappears one day? Aren't these gains that you have gained because of your hard work? Wouldn’t he stop practicing without the proficiency panel?

"Father, I understand, I'm going to be a street kid right now!"

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