"Pulse? Isn't that a beverage? And you call it 'expert'? Are you kidding me!"

"What is this beverage? This is a level of cultivation in the Guangyuan Continent. Once you reach the Pulse Stage, you can refine your body and cleanse your marrow, undergo a complete transformation, and comprehensively improve all aspects of your physical qualities. Moreover, you can release photons and freely gather thoughts, making it both offensive and defensive, with unparalleled power. You really are a savage, not even knowing this. Hurry up and come with me to see the village elders, they're getting impatient!"

As he spoke, the child had already walked away, leaving Li Sisui behind, bewildered: "Cultivation? Transformation? Why do you make it sound so real!" Although Li Sisui had many questions, he still followed, thinking that no matter what, he might as well make the best of it, find out what was going on first, and then make a plan.

The child led Li Sisui to a particularly lush tree. Three people were sitting around a wooden table under the tree. The one in the lead was the first person Li Sisui had seen when he woke up a few days ago. The child walked up to the man and said, "Village elder, I have brought that savage."

The village elder nodded and said:

"Alright, go find Chen Jing and continue your cultivation." With that, he turned and asked the two old men behind him.

"What do you think of this person? Should he stay or leave? Although he surprised me before, it seems that was just an illusion. It took him more than three days to truly complete the absorption. His aptitude is only passable."

A hunchbacked old man with a pipe in his hand, a small nose and small eyes, laughed:

“Old villager, you really have wild ideas. You think you can just pick up someone like that? Even though the deadline is approaching, you don’t need to use some random person to make up the numbers. This person may be mediocre, but he’s young and strong. Old Zhang’s apprentice went up the mountain to mine a few days ago and hasn’t come back. He probably won’t be coming back. He needs a strong helper, right, Old Zhang?”

As he spoke, he smiled and looked at the old man who had remained silent beside him. The old man glanced at Li Sisui and said:

"OK."

Li Sisui listened for a while, realizing that these three old men had sold him out as a laborer with just a few words. He was about to object, but then remembered the child's advice and decided to play along. Seeing that Li Sisui didn't react, the village elder didn't explain further and directly said to Old Zhang:

“Then you can take him away. This wild man is probably just beginning to develop intelligence and is still a bit confused. You should give him some pointers and make sure he doesn’t become a burden to the village.”

Old Zhang seemed to be a man of few words, and without replying, he pulled Li Sisui toward a dilapidated, low house not far away.

The large chimney on the roof was particularly eye-catching, belching black smoke. Various tools were placed at the door, including hoes, bows and arrows, etc. It turned out that this was a blacksmith shop. When Li Sisui saw this place, he thought that he finally had a place to stay. Although he had thought about it for three days and three nights, it was hard for a normal person to accept the reality of time travel, including Li Sisui. He still couldn't accept that he would be inexplicably time-traveled while sleeping at home. This was really unscientific!

Lost in thought, Li Sisui finally fell into a deep sleep in a small hut in the blacksmith's shop. He didn't know what would happen when he woke up; he only knew he was exhausted. This was Li Sisui's first real sleep in this strange new world. Old Zhang glanced at Li Sisui sleeping in the corner, expressionless, turned and walked away, closing the hut door behind him. Behind him, the soft snoring of someone could be heard from inside the hut…

In the blink of an eye, Li Sisui had been in Hidden Dragon Village for two months. These two months had allowed him to learn a great deal and gain a new understanding of this unfamiliar world, completely overturning his previous outlook on life and values. Starting with his outlook on life, Li Sisui's previous philosophy, at its most noble, was to pursue inner happiness; at its most vulgar, it was to work hard to make money and live the life he wanted!

However, the people here have a life philosophy of diligently cultivating themselves. Anyone with the aptitude for cultivation is given high hopes, and those who succeed in cultivation not only bring honor to their ancestors but also achieve immortality at higher levels, living as long as the heavens. What shocked Li Sisui the most was that ordinary people here, barring accidental death, could live up to two hundred years, while those who succeeded in cultivation saw their lifespan increase dramatically, eventually leading to immortality.

There is a saying circulating in the Guangyuan Continent: All things can enter the Dao, and all spirits can become saints.

The so-called Dao is the Dao of cultivation; the so-called Saint is the highest known state of cultivation, where one is not born into the six realms of existence, does not die into the cycle of reincarnation, has an indestructible mind and body, and is thus a Saint.

Li Sisui simply couldn't imagine it. Could people really live forever? As for cultivation, when Li Sisui asked how to cultivate, the answer he received was: "I don't know."

In the parlance of the Guangyuan Continent, a thousand cultivators will have a thousand different cultivation techniques. There is no strongest cultivation technique, only the one that suits you best. This is completely different from the wish-fulfillment novels Li Sisui read. Li Sisui felt that as a transmigrator, he should obtain an ultimate cultivation technique, then cultivate all the way to sainthood, finally destroy all evil forces, and then live a carefree and happy life with a harem of wives and concubines.

But the reality is that he's still here, working as a blacksmith's assistant, completely powerless. As for values, let's not even go into Li Sisui's; it all boils down to one word: "money." In that materialistic era, that was the embodiment of value.

The values ​​of the people here are very simple: strength and survival.

Li Sisui didn't know much about the world outside the village, but he had heard that the outside world was very brutal. Without strength, one wouldn't even know how they died. Moreover, it seemed that the people in the village didn't know much about the outside world either, because many creatures they had never seen before had appeared there. After so many years of learning, they only knew that in addition to humans, there were also demons, monsters, and spirits on this continent. They didn't know exactly what they were, but they knew that people outside called these alien races.

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