"After hiding for almost several hundred years, I look like a young man in his twenties. At this age, there won't be much change within ten years. I can pretend to be older, and they won't be able to tell."
"Because I was an excellent blacksmith, I earned a very high wage. I was also tall and strong, and many women in the neighborhood liked me. Their parents all hoped that their daughters would marry me."
“I chose a girl who seemed reliable to be my wife. Our Changsheng tribe has a rule that Changsheng men can only marry Changsheng women.”
“The older generation of the Longevity Clan believes that if two Longevity Clan members marry, they can support each other and live longer. But I have a different opinion.”
"I think I've already suffered enough, and I don't want my children to suffer even more. So I'll marry an ordinary person and have children who are basically ordinary people."
"This is also why the immortal race does not marry mortals. Whether it is a man or a woman of the immortal race, if they marry a mortal, the children they have will all be mortals."
Wang Tiezhu took a few more deep drags on his cigarette to relieve his frustration.
"Your immortal race has always wanted cultivators, so becoming a mortal is not a good choice."
Han Feng asked.
“If our child could cultivate, we would naturally be very happy. Immortality is good, but it is far less carefree than achieving success in cultivating the Dao.”
Wang Tiezhu sighed and said, "If we have children with ordinary people, we won't achieve immortality, but we also won't be able to cultivate. We'll just live a mediocre life."
"Moreover, some children have a high chance of developing a condition called dementia, in which the child is born an old man and then gradually becomes younger."
“Back then, I was young and impetuous. I thought it was just a matter of chance that I would get sick, and that it wasn’t a big problem. I was willing to gamble. The immortal race can live forever, but they are not happy.”
“I had a life of wandering since childhood, and I dared not stay in any place for more than ten years. Ordinary people do not need to have this concern and can stay in one place for a long time.”
Han Feng asked, "And then?"
"Later, I got what I wanted and learned the lesson of not listening to the words of the previous generation of immortals."
Wang Tiezhu's eyes reddened: "My wife and I have several children, all of whom are very healthy and no different from ordinary people."
“I felt very lucky at the time. The curse of the immortal race did not happen to me, and I even enrolled my children in school.”
"Back then, the Celestial Dynasty was not as enlightened as it is now. The schools mainly taught the great principles of governing the world, and occasionally imparted some immortal techniques."
"After getting married, the household expenses increased significantly, and I stopped working as a helper in the blacksmith shop. I opened my own blacksmith shop. I have lived for about 50,000 to 60,000 years, and blacksmithing has taken up most of my time."
"It can be said that few people can compare with me in terms of blacksmithing skills. My blacksmith shop is doing very well, and my family's life is getting better day by day."
"I had expected that my child would only be a mortal and unable to cultivate immortal techniques, so I wasn't too disappointed."
"Having a virtuous wife and loving mother by my side, and a large family of children, this is the best life. I used to think that time would stop and I could stay like this forever."
Wang Tiezhu recalled some sad things, and tears welled up in his eyes.
The heavy rain outside gradually subsided, and the rain pattered softly on the eaves.
Smoke billowed from the town's chimneys, and the air was filled with the aroma of food.
Wang Tiezhu put down his pipe and wiped away his tears with his hand.
"But time is the most ruthless thing. I want time to slow down so I can enjoy more of my family life, but time will not stop."
"In the past forty years, everything around me has changed. My wife is no longer young and her face is full of wrinkles. I am a member of the immortal race and still look like I am twenty years old."
“It’s dangerous in the small town I live in. Sooner or later, many people will notice my abnormality. My wife wants me to leave. She doesn’t want to see me die in front of her.”
“I discovered an immortal right next to me. Before he fell into the hands of the cultivators, he was captured by the villagers and devoured alive.”
"There is still a saying in the Southern Region that eating the flesh of us immortals will grant you immortality and make you never age, not to mention what it was like in the past."
“My people were killed and bled like pigs, and every part of their bodies was made into food. People in every town ate it, and people in every town were murderers.”
“If I were discovered, my fate wouldn’t be any better than this person’s. My children might also suffer. So I had to leave the town where I had lived for forty years.”
"After leaving the small town, I stopped pretending to be old. Looking at myself in the mirror, I found that I still looked like I was twenty years old. Time has not left a single wrinkle on my face."
"But I just couldn't be happy. Once I left, it would be hard for me to come back. I adjusted my mindset and went to a small town in the Immortal Dynasty. This time, I didn't choose to continue blacksmithing."
"I'm tired of blacksmithing. I want to try something else. I've been a shop assistant, a peddler, a constable, and so on. Anyway, I have an unlimited lifespan and an unlimited amount of trial and error to make."
"After finishing these things, I realized that I still love blacksmithing. Every time I forge iron, I think of my parents, wife, children and so on."
"It's not good for people to live too long, because their minds will be filled with too many memories."
Wang Tiezhu stood up from his chair: "I've finished smoking the pipe, I'll go get some more tobacco."
"The real immortals should be people like Wang Tiezhu."
Han Feng recalled that when he first started cultivating, all he wanted was an endless lifespan.
Once he broke through to the level of an immortal, he no longer worried about his lifespan.
Han Feng continued to improve his cultivation level in order to protect himself and those around him.
He felt that he wasn't the only one; none of the cultivators had reached the same level of understanding about immortality as Wang Tiezhu.
Wang Tiezhu possessed an endless lifespan, yet he could never escape the strange cycle of immortality.
Han Feng initially believed that true immortality could not be achieved through the great Dao of time (years).
If he could control the Great Dao of Time, he could reverse life and death and manipulate time at will.
During his time in Changsheng Town, Han Feng realized that he was wrong.
The Path to Immortality is the Path to Immortality, and the Path to Time is the Path to Time; the two are fundamentally different.
If the path to immortality were so easy to comprehend, it wouldn't have remained undiscovered for so long.
Han Feng wants to break through to the early stage of the Heavenly One Realm and surpass other cultivators of the same level in strength.
Therefore, he must have his own path, rather than breaking through the foundations laid by others.
Each Great Dao has its strengths and weaknesses; the Dao Domain is correct on this point, but the Vast Starry Sky is wrong.
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