[After returning to Xiaoli Village and inquiring with the village chief, you learned that no mysterious martial artist had come looking for you.]
From the village chief's and others' perspective, it was simply that you took the old lady who had lived in the village for decades out, and then brought her back—that's all.
They only know you're a mysterious martial artist, and they only dare to imagine you as a grandmaster; they have no idea that the old lady has become a Xiantian (a high-level martial artist).
[(You didn't teach Xu Ling'er martial arts in this village and push her to the Innate Realm.)]
[Afterwards, you will stay outside the village for a year to reflect and recharge—use the materials obtained from the corpse of Prince Yangniao to create the Nine Souls Frost Body.]
[Also, use the other formation teaching materials and some useful martial arts resources.]
[You also drew a Yuan Qi-drawing array, responsible for drawing out the Yuan Qi from the core of the Tai Yuan Crystal at an extremely low rate.]
[The Primal Energy Attraction Array has a drawback: Since you draw it purely with your own primal energy without using rare materials, the array will be overloaded when drawing out the Primal Energy from the Primal Crystal Core, rendering it useless after each use.]
[The advantages are that it's cheap, easy to draw, and actually effective: the exported energy won't cause a massive explosion; at most, it will destroy a building, which is entirely within your control. One export is enough for three hours of full-power cultivation.]
With the Taiyuan Crystal Heart, there's no need to worry about the energy concentration being too low to support cultivation!
[Moreover, the quality of the vital energy within is high; you feel you can achieve perfect harmony between heaven and man within ten years.]
[In the latter half of the year, you were meditating in the mountains three hundred miles away from Xiaoli Village when suddenly a thought struck you, and you opened your eyes.]
[Beep beep beep!]
[An alarm sounded from the small magic circle nearby, indicating that someone has appeared near Xiaoli Village!]
"The magic array is really effective; after multiple transfers, it came from Xu Ling'er."
Yes, Xu Ling'er pressed the alarm herself.
[You actually know how to set up a formation to detect Yuan Qi and trigger an alarm... but Chen Kongyu is only a newly promoted Xiantian cultivator; he currently only possesses Gang Jin (罡劲), not Yuan Qi.]
The big fish has arrived; without hesitation, leap into the air.
The vital energy of heaven and earth within a radius of thirty-nine miles is responding to you!
In places like the Azure Domain, where the concentration of primordial energy is high, you can fly at dozens of times the speed of sound, and then use the primordial energy of heaven and earth to lock in the vibrations of the sonic boom, greatly reducing the noise.
[After a dozen or so breaths, you landed at the entrance of Xiaoli Village.]
Disguised as an ordinary person, you jog into the village to see what's going on, and you just see a distinguished-looking middle-aged man walking from house to house, asking questions one by one.
Unlike Celestial Realm martial artists who undergo a spiritual transformation, Innate Realm martial artists can sense and absorb the free-floating primordial energy in the world, but they find it difficult to perceive the primordial energy within matter: for example, the abundant blood and qi of a Grandmaster.
You concealed your aura and watched as the village chief ran out to greet the young man.
"I have met a master; may I ask who you are?"
"You're the village chief of Xiaoli Village? I was also born here, but I left ninety years ago and have now reached the Innate Realm of Martial Arts." Chen Kongyu's tone carried a hint of sorrow.
He probably already knew that his Ling'er was "dead."
"A martial arts master at a high level!" the village chief exclaimed in surprise. "How could Xiaoli Village possibly produce a martial arts master at such a high level?!"
He immediately decided to rename the village "Xiantian Village" in memory of a martial artist of the Xiantian level who emerged from there nearly a century ago.
After a brief exchange, Chen Kongyu got to the point: "Since you are the village chief, do you know of a girl in this village named Xu Ling'er?"
A look of reminiscence crossed his eyes: "She wore braids, and when she smiled, her eyes curved like crescent moons. Her favorite outfit was that plain blue dress..."
The village chief paused for a moment: "Our village... doesn't seem to have a girl like this."
"How is that possible! We both came from this small, isolated village, how could she not be here!?"
The village chief's forehead seemed to be covered in cold sweat: "Excuse me, sir, is this the girl you saw... decades ago when you left the village?"
Chen Kongyu frowned: "Of course, I haven't been back for nearly a hundred years, how could I possibly see the people in the village now?"
The village chief thought this person was mentally unstable: so many years have passed, people might not even be alive anymore, how could things be the same as before? Ninety years is a lifetime for an ordinary person.
[If this person is also looking for a martial artist who can live for hundreds of years and remain unchanged even after ninety, he's certain the village doesn't have one!]
[If he did, he would have left long ago: he's only in his fifties, how could he know what happened ninety years ago?]
But... there is indeed a centenarian in the village. Although he left for a while, he has returned now.
"If you want to know the truth, you'll have to ask the oldest man in the village," the village chief said, leading the way.
More than ninety years later, a man and a woman who were once destined to be together meet again.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment—an encounter spanning ninety years, more destiny-like than the original timeline.
One person stands by the roadside, while another sits inside a house.
[Because Xu Ling'er knew he would return, she dressed herself up as she had in the past, with braided hair and a plain blue dress—in the original timeline, she wouldn't have worn the same clothes for decades; it was too much of a coincidence.]
[But now, she maintains the same appearance as before, only her face is too old, her body is hunched, and the skin on her hands outside her long sleeves is withered and claw-like... She also sprays on a kind of "perfume" and has had moles removed.]
【"Elderly-Scented Perfume (Not for Elderly People)"—Formulated with clean, complex fragrances, this perfume allows you to recreate the charming scent of an older person.】
[“Older woman’s mole (excluding older people)” – Add a charming older woman’s mole to your face, driving your aging-obsessed lover crazy!]
"This Qingyu is really full of talented people, how come they have all sorts of damn products?"
Yun Shou felt his eyes were being strengthened when he saw those two lines of text.
[Chen Kongyu saw the familiar clothes, exactly as he remembered them, and the same hairstyle. At that moment, tears streamed down his face... but the face was different!]
[He erupted in fury, his inner strength exploding outwards from all directions. No one expected his outburst; the village chief and others, only a meter or two away, were instantly reduced to mangled flesh by the force!]
Xu Ling'er, who was still smiling, froze, and even you were taken aback: "Really a landmine type, exploding so suddenly?"
[Back to the moment he was about to go berserk, you used your elemental energy to create a buffer layer around the villagers. When the internal force erupted—the village chief and others were blasted dozens of meters away, some even turning into rolling gourds on the ground.]
To their surprise, they found themselves unharmed, as if they had only been pushed. They dusted themselves off and got up, but they immediately moved away: if a Xiantian martial artist got angry, watching the spectacle would be fatal!
Chen Kongyu, however, was no longer concerned with the details of what others might do; he was simply staring intently at the stunned Xu Ling'er, and growled softly.
"How dare you impersonate my Ling'er!"
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