With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 99 - 98: Vow Not to Return Until Achieving Fame
[In the seven thousand nine hundred and fourth year of the Nine Rivers Calendar, you dedicated yourself to cultivation, took on tasks early to acquire resources, and your cultivation gradually deepened.]
[In the same year, you thoroughly mastered the ordinary magic techniques learned in your previous life, and became proficient in ordinary wood attribute magic skills such as Vine Skill and Wood Thorn Technique, and initially grasped the advanced magic Wood Dragon Technique.]
[In the seven thousand nine hundred and fifth year of the Nine Rivers Calendar, at the age of sixteen, you clashed with a disciple at the Third-Layer Qi Refining, defeating them and gradually attracting the attention of the main family.]
[In March of the same year, the Ouyang Family’s main branch had a Dual Spirit Roots genius emerge, astonishing all the cultivators in the family. Two Foundation Establishment Supreme elders came out of seclusion to examine this Dual Spirit Roots genius who had been left outside for ten years. You went unnoticed by anyone from the Ouyang Family except those of your own lineage.]
[In July of the same year, Ouyang Yan, a genius of the Ouyang Family, broke through to the Qi Refining Second Layer after four months of cultivation, and the family decided to channel all resources towards this genius, making it increasingly difficult for you to obtain resources in everyday life.]
[Your mother told you based on hearsay that the Ouyang Family seemed to be exhausting all resources and connections to try and send Ouyang Yan into the Cyan Yuan Sword Sect, the foremost of the Nine Sects, to apprentice under a powerful master.]
[In September of the same year, you mustered all your energy to successfully break through to the Third-Layer Qi Refining, making you, a twelve-year-old cultivator with Four Spirit Roots and at Third-Layer Qi Refining, a rarity in the entire Ouyang Family. Had it been before, you would surely have been summoned by the main family, but now all attention in the Ouyang Family is focused on Ouyang Yan.]
[You are like a star, only enhancing the brightness of the bright moon.]
[Only the Grand Elder of the third branch, Ouyang Ruyu, admired you and made an agreement with you to fulfill it come spring next year.]
[In the remaining time, you desperately earned resources, but not for yourself. You entrusted all of your resources to a close friend from the third branch, Ouyang Changqing, and asked them to take care of your mother. They refused your resources, promising to take care of your mother well.]
Ouyang Yun formally started cultivating at the age of eight, directly stepping into the First-Layer Qi Refining without transition.
In six years, Ouyang Yun reached the Third-Layer Qi Refining.
Generally, Five Spirit Roots take several months to a year just to feel Qi Sensitivity, five years for the First Layer accumulation, and six years for the Second Layer.
Four Spirit Roots reduce some time, but still require three to four years for the First Layer accumulation, and four to five years for the Second Layer.
This is only the time required to accumulate True Essence; every layer has bottlenecks, and some with dull talent may be stuck at minor bottlenecks for decades, resulting in those old Qi Refining Second or Third Layer cultivators.
This encompasses cultivation talent apart from Spirit Root.
At this moment, in Ouyang Ruyu’s eyes, Ouyang Yun was outstanding among those with Four Spirit Roots, with bottlenecks seeming non-existent to him.
Such a disciple is worth the expenditure of resources to nurture.
Ouyang Ruyu, holding a dragon head wood staff, walks calmly to Ouyang Yun’s room.
Along the way, family disciples respectfully salute; some ordinary servants lie on the ground, not daring to move.
Ouyang Ruyu arrives in front of a small courtyard.
"Ouyang Yun, are you ready?"
The gate of the small courtyard opens; Ouyang Yun has already changed into a grey outfit, with a storage pouch hanging at his waist.
"Grandmother, I am ready."
Ouyang Ruyu said, "You broke through to the Third-Layer Qi Refining so quickly, indicating you are someone with potential. If you stay in the Ouyang Family, I can promise that your resource acquisition within the family can rise a level."
"Of course, I keep to my word. If you are determined to study outside, I will also support you."
Ouyang Yun’s expression was resolute.
"Grandmother, Yun’s intentions are firm."
Ouyang Ruyu nodded silently, saying nothing further.
Ouyang Yun turned, knelt, and kowtowed three times.
"Mother, I’m leaving."
Ouyang Ruyu took Ouyang Yun and left.
In the small courtyard, Ouyang Yun’s mother Li Qian stared blankly at the writing on the table.
"I am determined to venture beyond, I vow not to return until I am successful. Where bones are buried need not be in hometown soil, life has no place without Cyan Mountains."
The lifespan of cultivators differs from ordinary people; Li Qian was already over thirty, and besides those top-tier individuals who maintain themselves well, most ordinary people who live to seventy are considered long-lived. Those working hard might see their life force diminish by forty or fifty due to various diseases and accidents.
Excluding cultivation factors, most places in Jiuzhou are merely feudal societies, and the power of cultivation rarely serves ordinary people.
Li Qian was no longer young, aging, with half her life gone. In another twenty or thirty years, she would leave this world, while Ouyang Yun was only twelve, and even a First-Layer Qi Refining cultivator could live to a hundred.
She might only have a few opportunities to meet Ouyang Yun in her lifetime.
Li Qian listened to the voice of the youth outside, yet she dared not go out because she didn’t want to attempt to bring back her child...
"Cultivation... Immortality..."
Jiang Ming sighed; this is the barrier between immortals and mortals.
In his first life, Li Jin was mortal, caring for his father until the end, strengthening the family.
In his second life, Zhu Chen was born to a farmer family, but his family was ordinary and muddled, oblivious to Zhu Chen’s trajectory, simply severing ties.
This life is somewhat different.
Ouyang Ruyu, face calm, said, "You will understand the separation between immortals and mortals one day."
"We are still Qi Refining cultivators. If you have the opportunity to break through to Foundation Establishment in the future, this feeling will become increasingly evident, but I hope you won’t waste your mind on it."
"Yun understands."
"Immortality, it’s all for immortality."
Ouyang Ruyu and Ouyang Yun were already sitting in a carriage.
Three majestic horses pulled the carriage, distinctive for their excellent demeanor, with white horns on their heads and winds underfoot, raised by the Ouyang Family to travel swiftly.
"During this trip, the family cannot care for you any longer; you are no different from an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator."
"But remember, you are a disciple of the Ouyang Family; the family has granted you everything."
"Yun understands."
"Additionally, cultivate well. The talent of the Ouyang Family’s Ouyang Yan is remarkable, and the family has worked hard to ensure he can enter the Qingyun Sword Sect. When the time comes, if your cultivation succeeds, you too can become an arm for Ouyang Yan, contributing to the family together."
"Yun understands."
"Some lesser sects are no better than our Ouyang Family; some sect elders can send you there, but I’m planning to send you to sects with a bit of heritage. These sects have peculiar admission rules; I cannot guarantee you can enter them."
"This is a list; everything relies on your own choice."
A piece of white jade was thrown to Ouyang Yun.
Ouyang Yun probed into it with his Divine Sense, revealing a list of sects that Ouyang Ruyu can send him into.
[Family Elder Ouyang Ruyu is willing to give you an opportunity, providing you a list. You need to select a target sect.]
