Time flies, day and night are gone.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Jiang is 160 years old, but his cultivation is still at the ninth level of Qi training. This makes Lin Jiang very helpless. The qualifications of his body are really too poor. Lin Jiang wishes he could travel through time again. He doesn't need a genius, but a second or third spiritual root is fine.

"Two years, at most two years, I will break through."

Lin Jiang set a small goal for himself. He is still one step away from the great perfection of Qi training, and he will definitely succeed in two years.

"Uncle, uncle, come and help me, the big sand sculpture bullied me again."

There was a scream outside the door. Lin Jiang shook his head helplessly and stood up.

When he walked outside the door, Cao Ying had been forced into a corner by the big sand sculpture. The big sand sculpture was very angry. He flapped his wings, rolled up a strong wind, and sand and stones flew towards Cao Ying.

"Why are you messing with the big sand sculpture again?"

Lin Jiang walked over, pinched the neck of the big sand sculpture, and pulled it out.

You don't need to look to know that it was Cao Ying who took the initiative to provoke the big sand sculpture. When she was five years old, Lin Jiang began to teach Cao Ying to practice boxing and kicking kung fu. Cao Ying, who had learned some kung fu, suddenly became arrogant and would practice with the big sand sculpture from time to time.

The big sand sculpture had a good temper, but was often irritated by Cao Ying. Once the big sand sculpture was serious and wanted to deal with her, Cao Ying would start to ask for help, and then repeat it over and over again, enjoying it.

"I didn't provoke it, I just wanted to pluck a hair from it to make a shuttlecock. It has so many hairs, what's wrong with plucking one?"

"It seems that I have spoiled you, then I don't care, let the big sand sculpture beat you"

"No, no, no, uncle, I'm kidding"

"You are already a big girl, can you stop being like a child?"

Lin Jiang rolled his eyes. Cao Ying is already twelve years old this year. In this world, she is already a big girl. If she were a mortal, she would get married in two years. In some places, people even get married at the age of thirteen.

"I'm still young, uncle."

"Okay,

okay, you're a child." "Uncle, is the cake ready? Today is my birthday, I want to eat a whole cake."

"Not yet, let's talk about it tonight."

Lin Jiang waved his hand. He was thinking about other things.

He treated Cao Ying very well these years. He really treated her as his own daughter. He never owed her material things. She lived much better than most of the children of casual cultivators in Yunzhong City. He also tried his best to enrich her spiritually. He taught her to read and write, bought her a lot of books, and taught her boxing and kung fu to exercise her body.

All these measures made Cao Ying slowly forget her parents. After the age of six, she almost never mentioned her parents again, and lived a simple, happy and joyful life.

Looking at Cao Ying's cheerful appearance, Lin Jiang was very hesitant. He hesitated about whether to let her practice immortal cultivation.

This world is the world of immortal cultivators. Without immortal cultivation, it must be unsafe. You are in danger of dying at any time. You may die in various accidents. For example, the fight between immortal cultivators, the aftermath of any move, mortals can't resist.

But the world of immortal cultivators is not as good as imagined. Once you embark on the path of immortal cultivation, you will have to bear countless causes and effects. Immortal cultivation requires resources, and you have to fight, work hard, run around, kill, and if you are not careful, you will be killed.

If you are not qualified, you may work hard for decades or hundreds of years, but in the end, you will end up with the same result as ordinary people. Lin Jiang has heard that many immortal cultivators regretted cultivating immortals when they were old. In order to cultivate immortals, they abandoned many things and neglected their families, but in the end, it was all in vain.

"Uncle, what are you thinking about? You seem unhappy."

"Cao Ying, come and sit down. Uncle wants to discuss something with you."

"Uncle, tell me."

"Do you want to cultivate immortals?"

"Yes."

"Why do you want to cultivate immortals?"

"Because I want to fly, the big sand sculpture and the small sand sculpture are so stingy that they don't take me flying once a year. If I can cultivate immortals, I will fly by myself. I don't ask them to do that. Hum,"

Cao Ying said hatefully, and cast a contemptuous look at the big and small sand sculptures. They refused to carry her to fly once, and they were so stingy.

"Just because you want to fly? You know, cultivating immortals is very hard and boring. All day long, you either earn spirit stones or meditate to practice."

"I'm not afraid of hardship. Besides, I don't want to burden my uncle. I'm grown up,"

Cao Ying said. In recent years, their lives have returned to the lives of ordinary casual cultivators. There are still many people who ask Lin Jiang to go out to work, act as guards, hunt monsters, explore, etc. Lin Jiang refused on the pretext of taking care of Cao Ying.

Cao Ying felt that she was a burden to Lin Jiang, so she also wanted to cultivate immortals, so that she would not burden her uncle in the future, and maybe she could help.

"Uncle doesn't want you to cultivate immortals, because cultivating immortals is very hard, tiring and dangerous, but it's your own life, I think you have to consider it yourself, so uncle respects your choice. I'll give you a month. After a month, I will ask you again. If you still want to cultivate immortals, uncle will arrange it for you,"

Lin Jiang said after thinking about it. Cao Ying is not his biological daughter, and he feels that he has no right to make decisions for Cao Ying.

So Lin Jiang thought that this month, he would tell Cao Ying about the world of immortal cultivators, the good and the bad, the light and the dark, and show her fairly and justly. If she still wanted it, then Lin Jiang would fulfill her wish.

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"Are you sure you want to cultivate immortality?"

A month later, Lin Jiang once again asked Cao Ying if she wanted to cultivate immortality, and got a positive answer.

"Uncle Lin, just let me cultivate immortality. Everyone in Yunzhong City cultivates immortality, and I want to cultivate immortality too,"

Cao Ying replied. She couldn't understand why Lin Jiang wanted her not to cultivate immortality intentionally or unintentionally. Isn't cultivating immortality a matter of course? There are so many people in Yunzhong City, except for children, who are all immortal cultivators.

"Okay, you are not young anymore. I respect your choice. I just hope that you won't regret it in the future."

"I promise I won't regret it."

"Come on, I'll test your spiritual roots. If you don't have spiritual roots, there's nothing I can do."

Lin Jiang nodded. He took out a spiritual stone from his storage bag. This thing costs one hundred spiritual stones and can detect whether a child has spiritual roots. It is one of the standing magic tools in the world of cultivating immortals.

It is said that some big forces have more advanced spirit-testing platforms that can more accurately measure the quality of a child's spiritual roots, but the spirit-testing platform is a magic weapon, and it costs tens of thousands of spirit stones. Not everyone has one.

Lin Jiang took out the spirit-testing stone, pierced Cao Ying's finger, and dripped a drop of blood on it. Soon, the spirit-testing stone reacted and emitted light. Lin Jiang sighed.

This was within his expectations. Cao Ying's parents were both foundation-building cultivators. The probability that she had spiritual roots was more than 70%. The next thing to see was how good her spiritual roots were. I hope she is not like him, a waste with five spiritual roots.

After the spirit-testing stone came into contact with Cao Ying's blood, it first burst into light, and then five colors kept fluctuating, which represented five spiritual roots. However, soon, only one red color was left flashing among the five colors, and Lin Jiang was shocked.

"One color, a single spiritual root genius?"

Lin Jiang exclaimed. Single spiritual roots are also called heavenly spiritual roots, which are extremely rare geniuses in the world of immortal cultivation.

Among mortals, if both parents and ancestors are mortals, the probability of having spiritual roots is about one in ten thousand. Even if there are spiritual roots, four or five spiritual roots are the main ones. The fewer the number of spiritual roots, the more scarce they are, and the more genius they are.

"Uncle, you said I was a genius, oh yeah, I am a genius"

"Don't worry, try again"

"No, uncle, it hurts"

"Xiaoying, be good, try again"

Lin Jiang coaxed Cao Ying to squeeze out another drop of blood and test it again, but the result was still the same, there was only one red color, and red represented the fire spiritual root.

"Xiaoying, how about another try?"

"No, no, uncle"

Xiaoying refused directly, hiding her hands behind her back. If it happened a few more times, she would refuse to cultivate immortals. Who would be willing to cultivate immortals in such pain?

"Okay, fire spiritual roots are fire spiritual roots"

Lin Jiang replied, but Cao Ying was a single spiritual root genius, so Lin Jiang could not bring her with him.

Because he didn't want to ruin a genius, Lin Jiang knew what he was capable of, and he had some idea of ​​it. He was best at drawing talismans, but in fact, his talent was just average, and it all depended on time accumulation. In terms of comprehensive quality, he was not much better than other casual cultivators.

Cao Ying followed him, it was a complete waste of talent,

so he had to find a famous teacher for her. "Since you want to become a disciple, why not just find a big sect? Those famous casual cultivators may not have many advantages."

Lin Jiang made up his mind to find a big sect for Cao Ying. With her qualifications, all the sects in Yunzhou could join, and they would even rush to join. A sect must have a steady stream of talented disciples to stay strong. Once the generation is interrupted, the enemy will not give you a chance, and the competition between sects is also very fierce. If

you want to find a big sect, it must be Zhongxing Sect, Yunjian Sect and Wuxing Sect. These three sects are the leaders of Yunzhou, and other sects are not good enough in front of them.

"Uncle?"

Cao Ying saw that Lin Jiang's face changed very quickly, and asked with some concern, wondering if he was going to prick her finger again.

"Xiaoying, I've agreed to your cultivation. I'll take good care of your body in the next few days,"

Lin Jiang said. He didn't dare to teach Cao Ying how to cultivate in advance, fearing that some sects would dislike her. They wanted a disciple as pure as paper.

But Lin Jiang could take care of her body, eat more spiritual food to nourish her body, and take a medicinal bath with spiritual medicine to strengthen her meridians. These were all things to lay the foundation.

In the past, few people in the Lin family had this treatment among the second generation of Lin Jiang, but the third and fourth generations of Lin Jiang, as well as the second generation born later, all had this treatment because the Lin family had money at that time.

And the benefits of doing so are also obvious. The younger generations of Lin Jiang were much faster than them at the beginning of their cultivation, which was a lifelong benefit.

Lin Jiang is not short of money now, so he is naturally willing to spend money on Cao Ying, which can be regarded as repaying her parents' favor.

And Lin Jiang also needs to find out during this time which sect Cao Ying should join. The three major sects have their own characteristics and advantages, so they must be cautious.