Who cares about childhood sweethearts when they can become immortals?

Chapter 44 Knowing one’s heart and one’s nature

With an empty mind, Xu Ji realized that it was only now that he seemed to have truly left the underground training ground under the manor, so he made a joke with his father.

Is the proficiency panel important to you?
  It is undoubtedly very important. With the proficiency panel, you can gain something with every teleportation technique and every practice. This speed is not only several times faster than practicing alone?
  But if there is no proficiency panel, will I have no choice but to give up practicing?
  Obviously not. Even without the proficiency panel, I will still walk firmly on the path I have chosen. The road ahead may be confusing and full of thorns, but how can I give up easily before the last moment?

After awakening to the wisdom of the past life, your understanding is even higher than that of ordinary people. If you renounce the immortal path just because there is no external assistance, then your own path will be too weak!
  After thinking about all this, Xu Ji no longer worries about the gains and losses of the proficiency panel. It is true that the proficiency panel can help his practice go more smoothly, but even if the proficiency panel disappears as suddenly as it appears, Xu Ji can accept it calmly. , and will not waver in his path of cultivating immortality.

When cultivating immortality, you are always cultivating yourself!
  In an empty state of mind, Xu Ji felt that he had fallen into a kind of relaxation that he had never felt before. Everything around him was so clear and fresh in his eyes, and even the spiritual energy flowing in his body seemed to be more active. point.

Know your heart, see your nature, and understand your original heart!

Xu Wuwei once mistakenly thought that Xu Ji had reached the state when he awakened to Su Hui. But now Xu Ji has truly reached the state of knowing one's mind and one's nature after figuring it out.

Xu Wuwei smiled: "There is nothing wrong with being a street kid. At least this is the life you have chosen for yourself, but would you be willing to stay in a mere Qingyuan City and be a street kid?"

"No!" Xu Ji also smiled, but his answer was decisive.

"That's it." Xu Wuwei patted Xu Ji's shoulder, "After entering the Taoist Temple, there is another vast world waiting for you. Only after you enter the Taoist Temple will this vast and vast world truly exist. The veil is slowly lifted before you.”

"And your opportunity to enter Fengling Taoist Academy for study tomorrow will give you an opportunity to be exposed to all this in advance, so enjoy your study trip."

The real world of immortality?
  Xu Ji couldn't help but look forward to it when he heard this. Although the compulsory stage of cultivating immortals was also cultivating immortals, it was more like cultivating a defective version of the immortal way.

For example, the spells taught in the compulsory cultivation stage are only basic spells. Even if you want to learn other spells, you can only have the elders redeem your cultivation qualifications for them. However, monks who are still in the compulsory cultivation stage do not have access to the library. Qualifications for learning magic.

Or maybe other magic weapons and various arts of cultivating immortals can only be touched after entering the Taoist Academy after the Immortal Alliance Competition.

After all, a good magic weapon is of great help to a monk. Even if a monk in the early stage of Qi training can only borrow a little bit of the power of a second-level magic weapon, it is enough to seriously injure a monk in the late stage of Qi training.

Moreover, magic weapons do not require hard work to master like spells. Therefore, in order to ensure the fairness of the Immortal Alliance Competition as much as possible, the use of magic weapons, talismans, elixirs, etc. is strictly prohibited during the Immortal Alliance Competition.

Now, I will go to Fengling Taoist Academy tomorrow to study, and maybe I will be able to see how magic weapons can improve monks during this period.

Seeing the expectation on Xu Ji's face, Xu Wuwei couldn't help but smile. This is the reaction that a normal high school student should have when facing going to a Taoist academy to study. Like before, he had been locked up in the underground training ground to practice and didn't care about anything. The situation is really abnormal.

Getting up from the bench, Xu Wuwei patted Xu Ji and said, "Let's go and have something to eat together."

"Drunken Dragon Residence?" Xu Ji said subconsciously.

Zuilongju, where he used to have lunch with Zhong Longhu, is the most famous restaurant in Qingyuan City, so when Xu Wuwei mentioned that he wanted to eat something, Xu Ji subconsciously thought of Zuilongju. However, Xu Wuwei shook his head and let it slip with a hint of mystery: "It's not Zuilongju. This time I'm taking you to a place you've never been to before."

Xu Ji was confused, but he didn't say anything more and just followed his father silently.

A place you haven’t been to before?
  Xu Ji glanced at the sun that was still hanging in the sky. The door should not have been opened at this time...

After twisting and turning all the way, Xu Wuwei finally stopped in front of a somewhat shabby fly shop and said, "This is the one."

Xu Ji was a little surprised. So the place his father mentioned that he had never been to was the Fly House? Although it is true that I have never been here in this life due to my wealthy family background, in my memory of my previous life, I started from scratch and preferred the fly tavern on the street to the big restaurants.

Because it was lunch time, there were only a few tables of customers sitting in the store. Xu Wuwei took Xu Ji to an empty table and sat down. He wiped the greasy table with the paper on the table.

"Did you notice any difference between this place and the stores you went to before?" Xu Wuwei asked Xu Ji after casually ordering two noodle soups.

In fact, no matter the environment, size, decoration, hygiene, ingredients, or cooking skills of this small restaurant, nothing can compare with any restaurant that Xu Ji has ever been to in this life.

But Xu Ji nodded, and replied with some uncertainty, "Everyone here seems to be a mortal."

Xu Wuwei glanced at Xu Ji in surprise. He didn't expect that Xu Ji could understand what he wanted to ask in such a short time, so he nodded and said: "Yes, in this store, whether it is the boss or the customer, everyone is They are mortals, not even a monk.”

Xu Ji did not speak, but quietly waited for his father's next words. There must be a profound meaning in bringing him to such a fly tavern run by a mortal.

Xu Wuwei smiled and said: "Under the current system of the Immortal Alliance, even mortals with no cultivation can live with dignity in the city if they are willing to work hard."

"In the corners of the prosperous city that you can't see, there are many mortals like this that you have never seen before. They are also running for life. They have also built this city together. They are also one of the sentient beings in this mortal world. .”

"They are not the background in someone's story, they are the protagonists in their lives."

Xu Ji understood what his father meant. He had previously said that he wanted to see scenery he had never seen before and see more people and things, so his father brought him here.

Do you want to tell yourself that apart from monks, countless mortals belong to this world?
  Xu Ji still looked at his father with somewhat confused eyes, but Xu Wuwei did not respond. Instead, he smiled and took the freshly prepared noodle soup from the boss's hand.

"Eat the noodles, they won't taste good if they get cold."

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