blueteamnovel Chapter 466 - 354: After the Old Friend
Chapter 466 - 354: After the Old Friend
Chapter 466: Chapter 354: After the Old Friend
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1730.
Renyin year, Gengxu month, Xinyou day.
Three years of cultivation felt like the thirty years of seclusion I experienced in the past—the feeling of being a prodigy is marvelous. In the old days, I was like a study genius, nodding off and playing games every day and still managing to score full marks.
Life in seclusion was unbearably dull, so I took out the yellowed books and began to write in my diary once again.
From writing my first diary entry at the age of 20 in the thirty-ninth year of Chongming to this present age of 8421, I have experienced much friction...
From Oiran to Number 8, from Spring Breeze Building to Yihong Courtyard, countless faces come flooding back to me.
Cultivators never forget what they’ve seen; with so many memories stored within the soul, reflecting on those distant pasts, those lost friends, is like looking at flowers in the fog, or gazing at the moon in the water. Walking the Dao alone is also a form of pain.
Heart filled with sorrow, to prevent the rise of inner demons, I descended from the mountain to celebrate.
...
Half a month passed.
Zhou Yi returned to the Mysterious Primordial Sect and opened his diary.
“Feeling content and my thoughts clear, one should not live in the past.
Upon reciting the last diary entry, I noticed a problem—the sentences were pretentious, not at all like speaking from the heart...
Well, even now they aren’t from the heart!
Only the celebration was truly good—indeed, the way of cultivation should be balanced between tension and relaxation.”
...
Once Zhou Yi emerged from seclusion, he found many unfamiliar disciples within the Mysterious Primordial Sect.
Summoning Jing Yi, the current Sect Leader and one of the rare female leaders, graceful with her Foundation Establishment cultivation already perfected.
“Reporting to Uncle-Master Ancestor, in recent years we have taken in a batch of disciples, placed within the Ming generation.”
“I’ve moved up another generation?”
Zhou Yi shrugged helplessly. Below his own Jing generation was the Tong generation, and below that was the Ming generation.
The Qing generation disciples he accepted back in the day mostly had passed away, with only one advancing to the Golden Core, ranking among the Supreme Elders.
Jing Yi’s eyes and brows were alluring, her posture enchantingly graceful, her voice trembling ever so slightly, “Uncle-Master Ancestor—”
“Disciple has some doubts about my cultivation, my meridians are not flowing smoothly, could you provide some guidance?”
“I’m busy with other matters, go ask the City God in Huaining Prefecture.”
The Scalper was very efficient, fetching from the Heavenly Court’s treasury Ten Thousand Years of Empty Green and Thousand Illusion Immortal Ganoderma, top-grade Spiritual Objects for Divinity Transformation.
It wasn’t in vain that I raised this bovine for over eight thousand years—finally saw the loyalty returned!
Certainly a reason to celebrate!”
...
Zhou Yi squandered another two years and left the Spring Breeze Building with embarrassment. Returning to the mountain, he wrote in his diary to express his resolve.
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1765.
Old Zhou, oh Old Zhou, you can’t continue to degenerate.
If I can’t cultivate mana, I can cultivate Escape Skills, I can recite Daoist scriptures... in any case, I mustn’t go celebrate again!”
...
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1767. The taste of the Oiran is genuinely wonderful!”
...
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1770.
During a visit to Huaining Prefecture, I unexpectedly discovered a secret meeting that was actually organized by remnants of the Flying Immortal Pavilion.
I presented my Supreme discount card, but they called my bluff and threw me out; they definitely weren’t legitimate heirs of the Orthodox Flying Immortal Pavilion.
I immediately reported it to Xuan Yu—there are cultivators posing as impostors!”
...
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1771.
The charade at the City God Temple that claimed to be the Flying Immortal Pavilion was taken down, and I was revealed in the process.
I was careless; I forgot to use a spell to seal the memories of the female cultivator!
Xuan Yu ordered me to retreat for seclusion. Until I achieve Nascent Soul, I’m forbidden from descending the mountain. If I’m to play the role of a Golden Core Cultivator, then I must obediently go back...”
...
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1772. Accomplished a Divine Skill, certainly a reason to celebrate.”
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1773. Refined an Escape Skill, certainly a reason to celebrate.”
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1774...”
“Emperor’s Calendar, Year 1775.
The most precious thing for a person is life; when reminiscing about the past, one should not regret wasted time nor feel ashamed for repeated idleness. At the moment of death...”