Ji Shenchuan sighed deeply in his heart. Can he be blamed for this? Is he trying to be unfilial? It's just his talent. He is destined to be a mediocre person. He thinks the ancestor should be more open-minded and not have too high expectations of him.
Although Ji Daoxuan hated him for not fighting for it, he also knew that it was useless to hate him when it came to cultivation. Without the right skills, one could not do a good job. His talent was there, so what was the point of hating him? However, he did not have much time left, and there was no one in the Ji family who could take on the responsibility. This made him very worried!
The building is about to collapse and the world is changing drastically. If he dies, how can the Ji family survive?
"Brother Xu, if I'm not mistaken, your cultivation level is at the sixth level of the Tribulation Realm, which is higher than mine. I estimate that your current combat power is already able to crush me."
Ji Daoxuan stared at Xu Yang for a while and sighed.
"Brother Ji, let's not talk about our eldest brother, let alone the second brother. I have met so many people, but only in you can I detect a trace of dangerous aura. I think Brother Ji must have some extraordinary means that can make me afraid."
As his realm improved, Xu Yang's perception became more and more acute, and he could easily detect who could pose a threat to him, such as Ji Daoxuan.
Ji Daoxuan smiled but said nothing: "..."
He does have certain means, but that requires desperate efforts. To be honest, if he did not know that Xu Yang's identity was not as simple as it seemed, and that he was a reincarnated person, and that he was very likely a figure above the Immortal King in his previous life and had some foundation, he would have been able to improve his cultivation so quickly. Otherwise, he would definitely be jealous of Xu Yang's talent.
"By the way, Brother Ji, since you have reached the Tribulation Realm, your life span should have increased. You can still live for at least a few thousand years."
Xu Yang remembered something, looked at Ji Daoxuan and said seriously.
Before Ji Daoxuan could speak, Ji Shenchuan couldn't help but interrupt him after hearing this.
“Uncle Xu, you don’t know that my ancestor once broke through to the Tribulation Realm when he was competing with others. But for some reason, his realm suddenly dropped. Since then, he has been left with a hidden disease. The only reason he can still survive in the world today is that he relies on some spiritual objects from heaven and earth to stay alive!”
"But because the old ancestor has been involved in a series of battles recently, his hidden illness has been triggered, causing his originally locked qi and blood to deteriorate uncontrollably. Don't be fooled by his energetic appearance now, it's all just an act. Normally, the old ancestor is always dozing off..."
"What are you talking about, you bastard? You're talking as if I don't have many days left to live!"
Ji Daoxuan glared at Ji Shenchuan again, not letting him speak again, and then he turned to Xu Yang and said:
"Lifespan is limited, even immortals cannot resist the erosion of time. I am already very satisfied that I can live for such a long time, so even if I die now, I don't care, because there is nothing in this world worth my nostalgia!"
"Except for this bunch of bastards, each one is more useless than the other. Just thinking about it makes me so angry that my liver hurts. As the saying goes, a tiger father will not have a dog son. How could a hero like me give birth to a bunch of bastards?"
Ji Daoxuan's angry look made Xu Yang almost unable to hold back his laughter. However, if he put himself in his shoes, he would probably be like Ji Daoxuan, gritting his teeth in anger.
"Brother Xu, if you want to laugh, just laugh. I've been laughed at for a long time."
Ji Daoxuan said with a dejected look:
"After you finish laughing, I beg you for one thing."
"Don't be so hasty to beg, Brother Ji. I want to ask you, you had already broken through the Tribulation Realm and were qualified to ascend to the upper realms and live as long as the heavens. Why did your realm suddenly drop? Did you encounter anything during this period? Are there any other secrets that are unknown to the public?"
Xu Yang's cultivation has improved, so he doesn't need to be as secretive about it as before. He looked at Ji Daoxuan with a deep desire for knowledge in his eyes, wanting Ji Daoxuan to answer his questions.
"What do you mean by ascending to the upper realms and living as long as the heavens? That's clearly... Never mind. I can't explain it clearly. Just follow me to a place and you'll understand."
Ji Daoxuan spoke.
Xu Yang nodded: "Okay."
Then, Xu Yang followed Ji Daoxuan and left the Ji family's ancestral land, flying all the way towards the horizon. He didn't know how far he flew, but he stopped when he felt he had reached the edge of the sky.
Ji Daoxuan pushed away the thick fog in front of him with familiarity, and saw a road that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time appear before them.
This road looks particularly narrow, lifeless, and without any vitality. It looks particularly lonely and isolated, as if it has been abandoned.
"Brother Ji, could this be the path to becoming an immortal?"
Xu Yang remembered what Emperor Taiyin had said before at the Immortal Burial Ground. She said that she would be waiting for him on the road to becoming an immortal. If he could really find Emperor Taiyin, then the fog covering the sky would be lifted after all, and he could also take a peek at a hidden corner and make more preparations.
"What kind of path to becoming an immortal? You're better off being a miner!"
Ji Daoxuan said angrily.
"I was extremely gifted back then. I suppressed all the evil geniuses in the five regions of the world. That’s why I was particularly young and energetic at the time. Without knowing much, I broke through to the Tribulation Realm. As soon as I broke through, this scene appeared in front of me. There was also a strange-looking alien who didn’t look like any of the myriad races in the heavens. He came to capture me with chains in his hands. At that time, I realized that the idea of transcending the tribulation and becoming an immortal was all a scam…"
"Alien?"
Xu Yang accurately captured the key point.
"Yes, alien races, all kinds of races in the heavens and the worlds, all have names, and I basically know them all, but I can't recognize this other party!"
Ji Daoxuan's face darkened slightly, and he said:
"At that time, he held a chain and wanted to lock me up. I was not afraid of anything, so how could I be afraid of a foreigner? I fought with him, but I fell before I could even withstand a single blow. Just as he was about to lock me up with the chain, I suddenly had an idea and cut off my own cultivation!"
"With one slash of my cultivation, the road disappeared. Before it disappeared, I heard the alien's angry voice. I guess he was angry because he didn't catch me. When I heard it, I laughed out loud and thought to myself, 'You want to catch me and make me a miner? No way!'"
"Later, I deliberately didn't break through to the Tribulation Realm, letting other unlucky guys take over..."
"You should have heard of that unlucky fellow. He was once defeated by me. I don't know how he is doing now and whether he has escaped from his status as a mining slave."
Ji Daoxuan had a sentimental look on his face. If you didn’t know, you would have thought that he had a very deep relationship with that unlucky guy!
Xu Yang understood and had some guesses in his mind, but he was still not sure and needed more information, so he asked:
"Brother Ji, how do you know that the unlucky guy was captured and made a miner?"
"I don't know, because some poor scholars in the mortal world wrote strange stories that described it this way, so I borrowed it. As for what the alien race did to me after I was captured, I actually don't know."
Ji Daoxuan looked at the narrow road in front of him, took a deep breath, and then said:
"But no matter what, this road ahead is definitely not the road to immortality, because it is not the same as the records in ancient books. I suspect that everything is a conspiracy. It is also sick, and it is very sick..."
As he spoke, Ji Daoxuan looked up at the sky, his eyes were distant, as if they could penetrate through layers of clouds.
