Chapter 219 Undertaker Chu Ning

The mountain does not know its own strengths.

The earth knows not how wide it is.

Therefore, the river flows continuously.

Just fifty years.

A bird flew into the gate of Xiyue Sect and landed on Niantang Mountain.

For fifty years, the peach blossom forest in Nian Tangshan has been the most popular among the female practitioners of Xiyue Sect. Behind the forest, a figure walked out.

"Has it been fifty years?"

Chu Ning looked a little dazed; this was the longest time he had been in seclusion.

After fifty years of seclusion, he finally broke through to the middle stage of the Golden Core.

If counted from the time he entered the Golden Core stage, it took him nearly ninety years from the early Golden Core stage to the middle Golden Core stage.

Ninety years is a long life for ordinary people.

"There is a peach tree forest on the mountain, which was planted by my wife when she left. Now it has grown tall and majestic like a canopy."

Looking at the peach blossom forest, Chu Ning whispered.

This peach blossom forest was planted by him and Tang Ruowei personally before Tang Ruowei left Chengshan Area.

Fifty years have passed since Tang Ruowei left.

Fifty years later, the thought of Mount Tang has reached a thousand feet high.

Such a height would be considered a high mountain in the previous life, but in Chengshan Region, the thousand-foot peaks are still very immature.

In the Sun and Moon Mountains alone, there are hundreds of peaks over a thousand feet high.

Chu Ning sighed softly and raised his right hand. The bird that flew into the mountain turned into a rainbow light and flew towards him. Finally, when it landed in his palm, it turned into a jade slip.

This letter was written by Ji An. After reading the contents of the letter, Chu Ning looked towards Liang Chao with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

Liang Dynasty, Raozhou.

Liu Mansion.

The two old men were sitting in the courtyard, and Liu Jianan, who looked middle-aged, was walking back and forth anxiously.

As the head of Shangyun Sect, he, who is in the late stage of foundation building, has not had such an anxious expression for a long time.

"Why are you waving in front of us? You're an eyesore. Get out." Liu Junshan held up his eyelids with some difficulty and cursed.

"father……"

"Jian, go out, let Yaya and Jin'er come in to keep us company."

Chen Jingyi then spoke, and Liu Jianan was helpless. He could disobey his father, but he would never refute his mother.

"Okay, I'll let Yaya and Jin'er come in."

Liu Jianan walked out of the yard with his head down. Outside the yard, a beautiful woman was standing there with two children.

"Yaya, Jin'er, go in and keep grandpa and grandma company."

The two children happily ran into the yard. The beautiful young woman looked worried: "Jian, father-in-law and mother-in-law don't want to take medicine?"

Life-extending pill.

It can add ten years to one's life span. Her husband had spent a great deal of money to get it, just to extend the lifespan of his parents-in-law.

But her parents-in-law directly refused. She didn't understand why they refused. Living ten more years is always a good thing.

"Father and mother don't want to eat. They are waiting for Brother to come."

Liu Jianan shook his head. As early as a month ago, he had written a letter to his senior brother, in order to ask him to persuade his father to take the life-extending pill.

"Brother?"

There was confusion in Zhang Qian's eyes. This was the first time she heard Ji'an mention that he had a senior brother.

"Well, I have a senior brother who is my father's disciple, not one of the senior brothers from Shangyun Sect."

Liu Jianan held his wife's hand and said, "My senior brother's situation is a bit special. He doesn't come here on weekdays. When he comes this time, I will introduce you to him."

"good."

Zhang Qian nodded. From what her husband said, she knew that the senior brother’s identity was very extraordinary.

How special could it be that her husband never mentioned it in the past?

Her husband is already in the late stage of foundation building, and her father is a Jindan powerhouse. It is impossible that senior brother Ji'an is also a Jindan powerhouse.

Thinking about it, Zhang Qian felt it was impossible.

His father-in-law was only in the late stage of Qi Condensation, how could he be a Golden Core disciple? Ji'an was able to reach his current level of cultivation because of the training of Shangyun Sect.

One day later.

Heavy snow.

"Come out, do you think you can eat this life-extending pill by hiding from your master?"

In the yard, Liu Junshan suddenly whispered, and after a while, a helpless voice sounded.

"Master, why are you and your wife so stubborn?"

Chu Ning appeared in the yard and stood in front of the two old men.

He had arrived as early as yesterday. The reason why he didn't show up was that he hoped the teacher would take the life-extending pill in order to wait for him to come and see him for the last time.

But he didn't expect that the teacher had seen through his thoughts. If he didn't show up, the teacher would not take the life-extending pill.

"Are you willing to show up?"

Liu Junshan snorted coldly. Chu Ning touched his nose and said, "Master, you and Master's wife don't have to be so stubborn. These two life-extending pills are Ji'an's filial piety. You have to help Ji'an."

"I have fulfilled your filial piety this time. How about ten years later, will I fulfill your disciple's filial piety again?"

Liu Junshan saw through Chu Ning's thoughts and said, "Your master's wife and I have thought it through. We have lived for so many years and have traveled around Chengshan Territory. What's the point of lingering on with the last breath left?"

"No need to persuade him anymore. Ji'an doesn't understand. You should know what I am thinking."

Chu Ning's eyes dimmed, he knew what his teacher was thinking.

The teacher has lived a very comfortable life all his life, but now he is old and frail and doesn't want to live any more.

Even if there is a life-extending pill that can extend one's life by ten years, the aging of the body cannot be changed. The life-extending pill can only prevent the body from continuing to age, but cannot revitalize the body.

Teacher, I don’t want to live like this.

"I'll leave it to you to persuade Ji'an. He'll listen to you." Liu Junshan changed the subject and asked, "Tell me about you and Ruo Wei. When are you going to go find Ruo Wei?"

"Be prepared to wait for a while and then go find Ruo Wei."

"Well, you are now at a higher level than me. I don't have much to teach you. The only thing I can tell you is to cherish the people around you."

Liu Junshan closed his eyes slowly and said, "Don't be blinded by cultivation. Cultivation can lead to immortality, but there are only a few people who can achieve immortality. Even if you really stand at the top, if you don't have any close relatives around you, what is the meaning of immortality?"

"I don't know how high you will reach in the future. I just hope you can make it to the end and not become a lonely person."

"Well, I will remember the teacher's teachings."

Liu Junshan didn't say anything else, but grabbed Chen Jingyi's hand, and the two skinny hands were now tightly clasped together.

The two old men had peaceful smiles on their faces.

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The Liu Mansion hung white cloth and many guests came to pay their respects.

As the head of Shangyun Sect, Liu Jianan could not omit some rituals. When the guests saw Chu Ning standing in front of the mourning hall, they all had curiosity in their eyes.

"Dad, this is my father-in-law's disciple and Ji'an's senior brother."

Zhang Qian led an old man to the mourning hall. When the old man saw Chu Ning, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Excuse me, are you Fellow Daoist Chu?"

"Um."

Chu Ning nodded. He had never seen this old man before, so he thought that this old man must have seen him before.

"Your condolences."

After confirming the other party's identity, Zhang Zhen was shocked. He didn't even know that his relative had such a disciple.

My in-laws really keep the secret deep down.

However, Zhang Zhen also knew that now was not the time to communicate, so he took the initiative to leave the mourning hall after paying his respects.

"Dad, do you know Senior Brother Chu?"

Zhang Qian led her father out of the mourning hall and asked in a low voice with some curiosity.

Three days ago, my parents-in-law passed away, and a young man walked out of the yard. Ji'an said that this man was his senior brother.

Because his parents-in-law passed away, Ji'an was busy with the funeral arrangements and had no time to tell her about the origins of his senior brother.

"I know him, but he doesn't know your father."

Zhang Zhen smiled bitterly: "Let me put it this way, even though your father is also a Jindan strongman, compared to this person, there is a world of difference."

Zhang Zhen recalled the time when he first met Fellow Daoist Chu. This Fellow Daoist Chu made an instant success in Wenjin City and became a genius alchemist.

At that time, he was only in the late stage of Qi Condensation. Later, he joined a sect and learned that Chu Ning was the son-in-law of Xiyue Sect.

What kind of existence is Xiyue Sect? It is a behemoth in Chengshan Domain. Later, there was a domain war. He participated in the domain war at the Foundation Establishment stage and survived by chance. Relying on the rewards given by the Domain Alliance, he finally broke through to the Golden Core stage thirty years ago.

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However, Zhang Zhen knew that the early stage of Jindan was the limit of his life.

"You found a good husband."

Zhang Zhen felt a little emotional. When his daughter was with Liu Jianan, he was somewhat opposed to it.

Although Liu Jianan was the successor to the head of Shangyun Sect, there was no Jindan expert in the entire Shangyun Sect. He just couldn't resist his daughter's love for him, and Liu Jianan himself had good talent. He was in the middle stage of foundation building at that time, so he agreed to the marriage.

Now it seems that my daughter has better vision than me.

Chu Ning is Liu Jianan’s senior brother, so Liu Jianan has a good chance of achieving Dan.

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Half a month later, Chu Ning left Liang Dynasty.

Looking back at the territory of the Liang Dynasty, Chu Ning knew that it would probably take a hundred years for him to come back after this departure.

After taking care of the funeral of his teacher and his mistress, he left some medicinal pills for Ji'an. These pills could help Ji'an to make an impact on the golden elixir, but whether he could form the elixir depended on Ji'an's own luck.

In addition, he also returned to Daning County. He originally wanted to move his great aunt's grave to Nian Tangshan. As a result, he found that his great aunt's grave was well taken care of. After asking around, he learned that it was cleaned by Liu Da's descendants.

Liu Da had passed away a long time ago, but before he died, he set a family rule that all descendants of the Liu family, generation after generation, must clean and guard the grave of their great aunt.

The descendants of the Liu family implemented this family rule very thoroughly.

Because of this, Chu Ning did not move the grave of his great aunt. His great aunt had been buried here for so many years, so he did not want to disturb her rest.

He set up a formation on his great aunt's grave and left behind several treasures.

If the descendants of the Liu family continue to guard the old aunt's tomb, a hundred years later, when the formation disappears, the descendants of the Liu family will discover these treasures.

With these treasures, it is enough to protect the descendants of the Liu family.

In addition to visiting his great aunt, Chu Ning also went to the Ji family when he returned to Daning County.

The head of the Ji family, Ji Yuanshan, passed away a long time ago, and the current head of the family is the third one. As for his cheap apprentice, he has not returned to the Ji family for fifty years.

Originally, Chu Ning planned to take Banhan back to Xiyue Sect, but he failed to find Banhan, so he left a storage bag for the head of the Ji family, which contained some elixirs and some spells he had left for Banhan.

When Banan returns to the Ji family, the head of the Ji family will give the storage bag to Banan. If Banan does not come back, the storage bag will be given to the talented members of the Ji family.

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The stars have moved, and the years have passed.

Nian Tangshan has grown to a height of two thousand feet and has become the 36th highest peak in the Sun and Moon Mountains.

Time has come to the 300th year of the Chuning calendar.

This is the 300th year that Chu Ning came to this world.

Three hundred years old.

For a Jindan strongman, he has already entered the middle-aged stage.

Since the end of the domain war, the entire Chengshan Domain has been very peaceful for nearly two hundred years.

The domain war caused Chengshan Domain to lose many cultivators, which resulted in the major sects not being short of territory but lacking fresh blood.

Nearly two hundred years is enough time for a new generation of monks to grow up.

This generation of cultivators is also a happy generation, because various sects are eager to train new disciples and provide them with cultivation resources that are several times what the disciples of each sect could have before the domain war.

In Xiyue Sect, new talented disciples also appeared.

However, the emergence of new people also means the decline of the older generation.

There were also ten Jindan powerhouses of Xiyue Sect who failed to break through to the next realm and died due to exhaustion. Chu Ning attended the funeral of every Jindan elder.

These Jindan elders all made a request, wanting to be buried on Nian Tang Mountain.

The reason is simple. Tangshan is bustling. Compared with the cold cemetery in the back mountain, these Jindan elders prefer Tangshan.

Of course, there is another reason. Nian Tang Mountain is Chu Ning’s mountain, and Chu Ning can make the decision himself. The other mountains in the Sun and Moon Mountains belong to the sect’s mountains.

The Xiyue Sect has a rule that sect disciples are not allowed to be buried at will on other mountains.

Faced with the requests of these Jindan elders, Chu Ning could not say no, and finally had to set aside an area on Nian Tang Mountain to bury these Jindan elders.

In addition to attending the funeral of the Jindan Elder of the Xiyue Sect, Chu Ning also attended the funerals of some other predecessors.

His master's good friends also gradually died away, as did the elders of the Wenjin Sect.

The current leader of the Wenjin Sect is a cultivator in the early Jindan stage, a newcomer who has appeared in the past two hundred years. The previous leader of the Wenjin Sect, Xiang Zhaozheng, also passed away ten years ago and was buried on Niantang Mountain.

These seniors all seem to think that Tangshan is a good place to study.

In fact, Chu Ning knew in his heart that it was not that Nian Tangshan was a good place, but these predecessors knew that if they were buried in Nian Tangshan, they would have someone like him to accompany them.

The reason why Sect Master Xiang chose to be buried in Nian Tang Mountain was because of Senior Brother Gu. After two hundred years, there is still no trace of Senior Brother Gu. He is either dead or no longer in Chengshan Area.

Sect Leader Xiang hopes that one day he can meet Senior Brother Gu, and that one day Senior Brother Gu can burn a stick of incense at his grave.

It seemed as if I had become a mourner.

"The immortals are all mourners. This seems quite appropriate."

Chu Ning laughed at himself and continued to study the restriction in his hand.

For more than two hundred years, Chu Ning knew that his cultivation progress was slow, so he chose to practice while studying the art of formations.

Although he was dull, two hundred years of research had allowed him to advance his formation into the third level.

In addition to the improvement in his attainments in formations, his spiritual awareness has also reached a terrifying level under the infusion of the Longevity Fruit Waterfall over the past two hundred years.

As early as twenty years ago, when his spiritual sense swept through the Sun and Moon Mountains, he was able to discover the Nascent Soul Grandmaster of the Xiyue Sect.

In terms of spiritual awareness, he is already comparable to a Nascent Soul expert.

"Just live like this peacefully. When the mountain grows to a height of three thousand feet, I will be able to leave Chengshan Territory."

Chu Ning whispered and was about to walk back to the cave, but the next moment he stopped.

Fifteen breaths later, a figure landed on the mountain peak.

"Master, why are you here?"

Chu Ning looked at his master with curiosity on his face. His master was now in the late Golden Core stage and had begun to prepare for the Nascent Soul stage.

"I'm here to give you an invitation from the Feng family in Fire Phoenix City."

Xie Shouping spoke with a smile, and with a wave of his hand, an invitation fell into Chu Ning's hand.

"The Lord of Fire Phoenix City has successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. A celebration ceremony will be held soon. This is also the first Nascent Soul in our Hundred Cities region."

The Fire Phoenix City Lord's breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage gave Xie Shouping confidence, because it broke the long-standing gap in the Hundred Cities area where there was no Nascent Soul expert.

Since the Lord of Fire Phoenix City can break through to the Nascent Soul stage, he also has a chance to break through.

"The Lord of Fire Phoenix City?"

Chu Ning's expression became a little strange. Did Feng Ange break through to the Nascent Soul stage?

(End of this chapter)