In my twilight years of cultivating, I became a Supreme Daoist of the Longevity Path

Chapter 40: 037: Down the Mountain, My Taoist Friend Dies but Not the Poor Taoist_1 Chapter 40: 037: Down the Mountain, My Taoist Friend Dies but Not the Poor Taoist_1 The hundred day deadline arrived.

Early in the morning, Chen Dengming left Luo Mountain City, with only a teary-eyed and reluctant Xu Wei to see him off.

What Chen Dengming did not know is that within the depth of Luo Family’s residence, Luo Bing and Xi’er were also watching from afar as he left.

“In this period, his cultivation seems to have grown somewhat, he is not far from breaking through to the third level of Qi Cultivation.

Perhaps he practiced the Life-Shortening Cultivation Enhancement Skill again…”

Luo Bing stood on the roof, her hands behind her back, speaking indifferently.

“Miss, given his aptitude, why he doesn’t live a good life for a few decades?

What’s he doing this all for?”

Xi’er puzzled, “If I didn’t know he came from Nanxun Kingdom, I would have thought he had some deep hatred to avenge.”

Luo Bing shook her head, “Everyone has his own ambition.

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Perhaps in three years, we won’t see him again.”

“Then…

shall we kick Xu Wei out?” Xi’er probed.

Luo Bing, “Let her stay for three years.

After all, she is now a cultivator, I wouldn’t break my promise.

Maybe after three years, we Luo Family will have to move, given the situation with the Luo family….”

Xi’er pouted, “Miss, she comes from that kind of place.

You’re simply too kind.

Now with your engagement…

I fear after we leave, there will be gossip within the family.

They may even oppress her, her days wouldn’t be peaceful.”

Luo Bing casually responded, “They chose this path, I only gave them the opportunity.

How they walk, whether smoothly or not, depends on them.”

With that, she turned and flew off the roof.

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“Go back, it’s enough to send me here.

Make sure to cultivate well in Luo Family.”

At the lush exit of the mountain city, Chen Dengming waved a goodbye to Xu Wei, carrying his luggage on his back.

Xu Wei stood quietly, slightly nodded and then lowered her head and softly said, “Elder Brother Chen, rest assured, I will work hard and cultivate well in Luo Family, hoping to be of help to you in the future.”

Chen Dengming was taken aback, warmth flooding his heart instantly.

When he first thought of leaving Xu Wei in Luo Family, although he mainly wanted her to solve problems, he also wanted to leave someone he trusted within such a cultivator family, which could serve as an exit strategy in the future.

As it turns out, Xu Wei understood his intentions.

“You really don’t want any Spirit Stones?

The lower grade spirit stones rewarded by Miss Luo are too many.

I can’t use them all.”

Chen Dengming brandished the package in his hand.

Xu Wei shook her head, “Luo Family’s spiritual energy is rich and also safe.

My cultivation is sufficient without wanting to purchase magic artifacts.

There’s no need for Spirit Stones.

You may need to buy magic artifacts for your cultivation outside, even hundreds of Spirit Stones might not be enough.

Women are like water, we can flow through difficulties.”

She made up her mind at this juncture, hoping to save up some money in the future so she could lend help when Elder Brother Chen needed it.

“Alright then, I’ll go.

See you in the future!”

Chen Dengming roared with laughter, leapt and sped away using Qinggong.

When Xu Wei turned to look, Chen Dengming’s figure was already miles away, disappearing into the woods.

It’s better to stand by your loved one, but more wonderful to run together towards the same goal.

She understood Chen Dengming’s pursuit of longevity through cultivation, though she didn’t fancy becoming a soulless cultivation tool, she knew that companionship required being on the same pace.

Otherwise after many years, she would only be his sad memory.

This contrarily motivated her to cultivate harder, to endure and keep up with him.

Despite not understanding why Miss Luo always underestimated Chen Dengming, stating he hadn’t much time left.

Every night, she could feel the determination and confidence radiating from him which decreased her worries considerably.

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“A hundred inferior spirit stones, if not to purchase magic artifacts, is quite a lot…

with my current spiritual root cultivation speed, I can absorb an inferior spirit stone every two days, so I’ll use up these stones in 200 days.”

On the mountain road, Chen Dengming held onto the somewhat heavy package tightly, making calculations in his heart while remaining vigilant of his surroundings.

Carrying so much wealth made him feel naturally nervous, fearing that suddenly a bandit who claims to be from Black Wind Gang would appear for a robbery.

Before this, although he had been ‘forced’ to kill four cultivators in a row, he only managed to accumulate Seven inferior spirit stones.

Low level cultivators were poor and hardly had any savings, otherwise they wouldn’t have chased after a cultivator of the same level for five inferior Spirit Stones.

This time, after successfully refining the Gu, he made a fortune with Luo Bing’s reward of a hundred inferior Spirit Stones.

This wealth to Luo Bing meant nothing, but it did allow him to do many things.

Even if he were to extravagantly use the Spirit Stones for cultivation, he would have enough for a long period of time.

The advantage of cultivating with spirit stones in hand is that he didn’t need to absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings himself, and he could also use the Spirit Stones to set up a Spirit Gathering Array to speed up cultivation.

In this way, even in the gathering area, he could achieve the same cultivation speed as in Luo Family.

“I currently have two low-rank magic artifacts.

One is the fish-eating old man’s shuttle, and the other is the bounty hunter’s flying sword.”

“I need to get rid of the shuttle, keep the flying sword, then I could take out twenty or thirty Spirit Stones and customize a magic artifact, a big knife from Boss Hu.

Also buy a defensive artifact, that should be about right.”

“The rest of the Spirit Stones will be used for cultivation, just by holding them in my hand while cultivating, I could possibly double my cultivation speed.

If I set up a Spirit Gathering Array, it would increase by four times, but the consumption of spiritual energy would also increase by four or five times.

I would use up all 100 Spirit Stones in less than two months…”

Thinking about it, Chen Dengming decided it’s better to be prudent.

In the bustling area, it’s best not to set up a Spirit Gathering Array publicly and just holding a Spirit Stone for cultivation is enough to make people envious.

With no feet touching the ground, he employed his movement technique, leaping elegantly from tree to tree, and quickly left Luo Mountain City.

In the end, there were no more trees to jump to.

Because the path in front had become flat and desolate with fewer lush trees.

He could clearly sense the scarcity of spiritual energy, the land ahead was clearly barren of any spiritual energy.

Chen Dengming glanced at the desolate mountain path and the further gathering place and stopped to develop a plan.

Hummm——

With a flash of spiritual light, a cold sword light swiftly flew out, summoned to the front of him under the direction of the control device tactic.

It was a palm-sized flying sword that twisted like a small snake.

“Grow!”

Chen Dengming commanded in a low voice, increasing the output energy of his spiritual energy.

In an instant, the spiritual light of the snake-like flying sword rose rapidly, enlarging until it stretched about two feet in length before it stopped, unable to grow any larger.

“A low-level magical artifact is still a low-level artifact.

When will I be able to buy a spirit boat, riding in a luxurious carriage?”

Chen Dengming shook his head, stepped onto the sword, and it slightly sunk.

His feet rested on top, he continued to pour spiritual energy into it.

Under the guidance of the control device tactic, the flying sword began to rise, halting at a height of about ten feet off the ground.

This feeling was like hoisting oneself up by pulling one’s own hair.

The control device tactic established a spiritual energy connection between him and the flying sword, making it seem like an extension of his body, fully responsive to his commands.

When he transferred his spiritual energy and the idea to make the sword fly up, it felt as simple as lifting his arm.

After getting used to it in mid-air for a while, Chen Dengming started flying at low altitudes.

In an instant, the strong wind hit him in the face, his speed gradually increased, lifting up his sleeves.

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A short time later.

Having flown only seven or eight miles, Chen Dengming already planned to land.

For him, at present, the consumption of spiritual energy for sword flight was still too high.

Just covering this short distance had already consumed thirty percent of his spiritual energy.

If he had chosen to use Qinggong, although it would have been a little slower for long distances, it could save a lot of spiritual energy and wouldn’t be much slower.

He had tried it; his current top speed of sword flight was around 120 yards.

At this speed, he could achieve or even surpass this speed over short distances using his Qinggong, but could not compete over long distances.

However, his current amount of spiritual energy was still insufficient, and his magic artifact was not good enough, it even lacked a shield function, making it easy for accidents to happen.

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As he crossed over a mountain peak, selecting an open area to land.

Before his flying sword could fly by, he heard intense fighting sounds.

He immediately bent down, stopping on the mountainside, and peeked down.

To his surprise, two groups of cultivators were fighting, and those wearing black robes seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

“Are they from the Iron Forest Hall supported by the Zhu Family?”

Chen Dengming thought in surprise, promptly lowering his head even further, squatting in the bushes and spying, looking like ‘those fights in the martial world have nothing to do with me’.

The two major cultivation families surrounding the city, the Zhu family and the Luo family, were old enemies and had many conflicts.

But in recent years, after the Luo family married into the Luo family, the Zhu family started behaving themselves, even the Iron Forest Hall and Huayu Sect they supported in the city were low key.

What happened to make them so aggressive this time?

“What happened?

Things are not peaceful!

Is it related to Luo Bing’s engagement?

Did Zhu family get the news and start showing their fangs so soon?”

Chen Dengming was spying for only about ten seconds when the fight ended.

A cultivator from Iron Forest Hall, who seemed to be at the third level of Qi cultivation, immediately packed up the spoils of war and left with his troops, leaving three cultivator bodies on the ground.

Chen Dengming hesitated for a moment, confirming that they had already moved away, he suddenly realized that there were fluctuations in spiritual energy from the mountain forest on the other side.

It seemed that someone had also been hiding there to avoid people from Iron Forest Hall, and was now preparing to come out just like him.

He immediately conjured a sword light, ready to leave quickly.

At this moment.

A swift figure suddenly appeared from the forest on the other side, and immediately following, a fireball ‘boom’ hit a spot not far from where the figure landed.

“Boom”

The powerful roar and airwave directly knocked the figure half a foot away, causing them to fall heavily to the ground, vomiting blood.

“Fellow cultivator, save me!”

The figure spewed blood and raised a hand to Chen Dengming, shouting.

Chen Dengming, “…”

Save your sister!

You ran over for help as soon as you saw my sword light?

If one sees injustice on his way, he should draw his sword to help.

But who knows if you’re innocent.

At this moment, another cultivator in yellow clothes came out of the mountain forest on the opposite side.

He looked up and saw Chen Dengming in the air, his face suddenly darkened, not expecting to encounter another passerby right after dodging the Iron Forest Hall cultivator.

Chen Dengming found the yellow-clothed figure somewhat familiar, but his spiritual might appeared to be similar to his own.

But at the moment, he couldn’t care less, he saluted the yellow-clothed cultivator, “I’ll continue on my way, and you continue your fight!

You don’t have to save me face.”

Having said that, he dared not turn his sword light around and expose his back, so he just propelled his flying sword for a back of withdrawal.

If my fellow Daoist is going to die, I’m not going to die with him.

I’m outta here!

Seeing this, the vomiting-blood cultivator felt completely hopeless and cried out in a high-pitched scream, “Fellow cultivator!

Save me, we know each other, I have a Soul Snatching Array Disk in my hand!”

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