Chapter 69: Immortal Cultivation Extra 1
In 2150, the last group of C-level monsters in Antarctica were killed by Gu Fan and his six companions, and then turned into ashes in the raging flames released by Fenghuo.
At this point, the mutated monsters that were once produced by the great radiation have completely become extinct on Earth.
This also announced that the apocalyptic era that had enveloped the Earth for a hundred years had officially ended, and humans had once again become the masters of the Earth.
"It's finally over."
The beacon fire lay in a pile of snow, facing the blue sky.
The air here is cold, but the sky is extremely blue, pure without a trace of other colors.
Perhaps because he felt so comfortable lying there, Meng Lianying, Xinghe and Qingteng also lay down.
Gu Fan smiled and lay down on the other side of Qingteng.
Only Lu Ya was still standing upright in the snow.
Because he wanted to be treated specially, Gu Fan's attention fell on him.
Lu Ya is already seventy-eight years old, but because he has taken the marrow cleansing pill, he now looks only forty years old. His eyes are deeper and more reserved, and there are some wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. The years have indeed left traces on him, but it has not diminished his charm at all. Instead, he has become more charming.
More than thirty years ago, there was no trace of monsters on any continent, humans achieved freedom on land, and the population increased rapidly.
Gu Fan went back to the base with the team several times. Every time he went back, Lu Ya would gain a new group of young female fans. The girls looked at Lu Ya with the purest and most enthusiastic admiration.
She was just an ant who accidentally stumbled into the world of cultivation on Earth, but Lu Ya was the true pride of the world.
Gu Fan could understand those girls' admiration for Lu Ya because she was one of them.
Even though Lu Ya began to show his old age, in Gu Fan's heart, Lu Ya was still the unattainable young commander of the base when they first met, the reserved man who secretly stuffed a pot of flowers into her tent. Over the past fifty years, her feelings for him grew deeper day by day.
"No need to fight monsters anymore. Qing Teng and I are planning to have some kids. What are your plans?"
After resting enough, Fenghuo smiled, sat up and asked his companions.
Qing Teng glared at him but didn't refute.
Except for Gu Fan, they all look to be almost forty years old. After fighting monsters for so long, Qing Teng also wants to start a small family.
For example, Sheng An, who was so rebellious and carefree in his youth, married in middle age and stopped hanging out with them. Fenghuo speculated that Sheng An didn't have the marrow cleansing pill and was jealous of their youth and good looks, so he stopped playing with them. Otherwise, how uncomfortable it would be to see everyone so young, while Sheng An, the youngest, looked like a man in his fifties or sixties.
Xinghe said, "I want to open a library and be a librarian. It has always been my dream."
Meng Lianying laughed heartily. After he finished laughing, he thought for a moment and said, "I'll open an adventure club and take those unworldly children to explore the mountains and rivers of our motherland. Cousin, Fanfan, what are your plans?"
Gu Fan looked at Lu Ya. As far as she knew, Lu Ya was very popular among the Chinese people, and everyone hoped that Lu Ya would go into politics.
Lu Ya looked at Gu Fan: "Wherever you are, there I am."
"Ah, ah, ah, my teeth are so sore!"
Meng Lianying erupted in an exaggerated jeer.
Gu Fan teased Lu Ya: "If I want to go into seclusion, will you wait by my side?"
Lu Ya nodded.
He spent the first half of his life fighting for the base and for humanity. From now on, he just wanted to stay with Gu Fan until the end of his life.
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Xinghe and his three companions returned to China.
Today's China is no longer a country of ruins. Cities have been rebuilt in various places, and former tourist destinations continue to be open to tourists.
Except for the Fairy Peak in Anshi.
Fairy Peak was cordoned off separately and still belonged to Gu Fan's private territory.
Gu Fan and Lu Ya returned to Fairy Peak.
Beneath the cave, the pot of red flowers, transplanted by Lu Ya to the surface, had been growing naturally, now forming a sea of flowers. It was early summer, and the vibrant red blossoms were in full bloom, their delicate fragrance wafting through the air.
It had been a few years since he returned, and the cave was covered in dust. Gu Fan used the dust removal technique before the two of them walked in.
"I may need to go into seclusion for a while." Gu Fan said to Lu Ya.
A while ago in Antarctica, her cultivation finally broke through the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
The level of the cultivation technique in Gu Fan's hands was too low, which caused her to practice very slowly through meditation. If Gu Fan had not been killing monsters for fifty years in a row, relying only on meditation, she might still be in the sixth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Lu Ya knew that she wanted to consolidate her realm, so he let her retreat with peace of mind.
Gu Fan: "Do you want to go back to the Lu family? Your aunt is old, you should spend more time with her."
Lu Ya pulled her into his arms, touched her cheek which still looked like a girl and said, "I'll go after you finish your retreat tomorrow morning."
I will be in seclusion tomorrow morning, so I will naturally have to do other things tonight.
Since he was so proactive, Gu Fan took another wave of Yuan Yang from him without hesitation.
After a night of lovemaking, Lu Ya left as soon as Gu Fan went into seclusion in the morning, and agreed to come back in five days.
On the rarely visited Fairy Peak, Gu Fan was completely immersed in cultivation.
She didn't know how long had passed. When her state of mind stabilized, Gu Fan opened her eyes and swept her spiritual sense outside. She saw that Lu Ya had returned and was sitting on the sofa, looking at a pot of flowers on the coffee table.
Gu Fan smiled. He really liked flower pots. After growing a big one, he got a smaller one.
After changing into a black skirt, Gu Fan walked out.
"How long have I been in seclusion?" Gu Fan sat down beside him, then skillfully lay in his arms, resting his head on one of his legs.
Lu Ya lowered his head, stroking her long black hair with one hand and gently touching her face with the other, his eyes gentle: "A month."
Gu Fan grabbed his hand and kissed it: "I'm sorry for making you wait so long."
This was an obvious invitation. Every time Gu Fan went into seclusion for a longer period of time, he would definitely compensate Lu Ya well after waking up.
After receiving her signal, a smile appeared in Lu Ya's eyes. He leaned over, and his mature and handsome face gradually approached Gu Fan.
Gu Fan closed his eyes and waited for the familiar throbbing.
However, Lu Ya's kiss was still not coming.
Gu Fan opened his eyes in confusion.
Lu Ya looked at her who was so charming and confused, and finally revealed a helpless smile: "There is something I must tell you."
All the monsters have been killed, what else can delay Lu Ya?
Lu Ya put his big hand on her and helped her up.
Gu Fan became even more confused, sat down and waited for him to speak.
Lu Ya coughed, walked to the cave entrance, looked up at the sky and asked, "Do you remember the barrier in the sky?"
Lu Ya rarely coughs, especially this kind of fake cough before bringing up an awkward topic, including the helpless smile he just had.
Gu Fan felt something was amiss, but Lu Ya's words suppressed the strange feeling in time, and he answered first: "I remember, what's wrong?"
Lu Ya still looked towards the sky and coughed again: "I know where that barrier came from."
Gu Fan: ...
She doesn’t know, how could Lu Ya know?
She looked unconvinced, but Lu Ya had already begun to explain, "In your world of cultivation, the realms of cultivators, from the lowest to the highest, are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refining, Fusion, Mahayana, and Crossing the Tribulation. From Crossing the Tribulation, one ascends to become an Immortal. Among cultivators in the Void Refining stage, the Nascent Soul within their bodies can transform into a Primordial Spirit. With a Primordial Spirit, one can condense an avatar. The avatar shares the same mind and thoughts with the original body. Once the avatar's realm has also been cultivated to the Great Perfection of the Void Refining stage, the original body and the avatar can merge into one. Once they survive the thunder tribulation, they will advance to the Fusion stage."
Gu Fan: ...
Her realm was too low, so low that she had only heard of the magical powers of the Yuanying stage cultivators. She knew nothing about the realms above that.
How did Lu Ya know?
"you……"
"Listen to me first," Lu Ya interrupted her gently, continuing, "There was a cultivator in the Nascent Soul Refinement Stage. After fusing his true body with his clone, he encountered a thunder tribulation. There are seventy-two thunder tribulations, but the last one isn't just a thunder tribulation. It destroys the cultivator's physical body and plunges his spirit into a small world. If the cultivator can resolve the tribulation in that small world, he will be considered to have successfully survived the tribulation and advanced to the fusion stage."
"The small world this cultivator has entered is Earth. His calamity is a matter of life and death, not just his own, but that of all humanity. If he can help humanity regain its vitality and overcome the calamity, he will be able to attain the fusion stage and return to the path of immortal cultivation. The barrier surrounding Earth was set up by him before his reincarnation to prevent interference."
Gu Fan subconsciously asked, "Then how did I get through?"
Lu Ya lowered his eyes, a complex smile playing on his lips. "When that cultivator had just broken through to the Spiritual Transformation Stage, he encountered a powerful enemy and was wounded, hiding in a cave to recuperate. There was a man and woman in the cave at the time, and the cultivator, out of kindness, saved the female cultivator from being humiliated. After the healing was over, he wanted to leave, but the timid young woman begged for his protection. Even though she couldn't offer any reward, she boldly followed him. He found it interesting and protected her all the way. Before they parted, he even gave her a defensive talisman."
Gu Fan was completely stunned.
This is her experience.
Lu Ya finally turned around. Before he turned, he still looked mature and mature, about forty years old. When he stood facing Gu Fan, he had regained the handsomeness of his twenties. His face was still the same familiar face, but his temperament had changed. He looked at her with a somewhat casual and helpless look. "Gu Fan, I am your savior after all. Do you really not remember my face?"
Gu Fan felt cold all over, but tears rolled down his face uncontrollably.
She remembered this face, remembered that it was the face of Lu Ya, a human from Earth. Now the owner of this face has become that master, so where has her Lu Ya gone?
"Where is Lu Ya?" She bit her lip and asked, holding back her tears.
Lu Ya: "I am Lu Ya. I looked like this in the world of cultivation, and I look like this when I was reincarnated on Earth. From the beginning to the end, there is only one Lu Ya."
Gu Fan's vision blurred: "I want the Lu Ya who is with me."
"Is that so?"
Gu Fan wiped her tears and looked again. The master Lu Ya in front of the cave entrance had turned into the cold-faced Lu Ya in his forties again.
But she knew that his appearance had only changed slightly, and he was still the spirit of a master inside.
So, that cold-faced Lu Ya who secretly gave her flowers will never come back?
Gu Fan closed his eyes, unable to control his tears any longer.
"Don't cry. How can I explain it? He is me and I am him. If I didn't want to hide it from you, I could have continued to accompany you the same way I just did." Lu Ya walked quickly to the sofa and wanted to wipe away her tears.
In the past fifty years or so, she had never cried so sadly.
"Fanfan..."
Gu Fan turned his head and covered his ears, not wanting to hear him call him that.
Lu Ya sighed. He could make clouds appear on the surface, but he didn't know how to stop a girl from crying.
Never mind, I'll give her time to accept it.
Lu Ya sat at one end of the sofa, looking outside, then at her, and then at the flower pot on the coffee table.
Slowly, Gu Fan stopped crying. She lowered her head, still puzzled: "Even if you gave me the defensive talisman, what does it have to do with me coming to Earth?"
Lu Ya: "The defensive talisman is dead. In some dangers, you may not even have time to take the talisman. Therefore, I left a trace of the soul and a teleportation formation on the talisman, which can teleport you to my side when you are in danger."
At that time, he had already reached the Spirit Transformation Stage, and he looked down upon even the Yuanying Stage masters. When he met Qi Refining Stage disciples, he treated them like grass.
But there happened to be a timid yet courageous little female cultivator who accidentally broke into his world.
She was afraid of death, but not greedy. She did not admire his handsomeness nor care about his cultivation. She followed him all the way, and once they reached a safe place, she thanked him obediently and prepared to leave.
He looked at her childish face and casually took out a defensive talisman that he had collected in his early years. When he was about to give it to her, he realized that the talisman might not be of much use. On a whim, he attached a trace of his soul to it.
As a result, eighty years later, when he was about to forget the little female cultivator, this trace of soul actually sent her to the small world where he was undergoing his tribulation.
Perhaps, this is the fate between him and her.
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