"Master, are you really missing your senior brother?"
A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes knelt at the door of the study, looking expectantly at the closed wooden door.
"not see."
After a while, a warm voice reached the young man's ears through the wooden door.
Hearing these two words, the young man's eyes showed a little disappointment, and he tried to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
After a while, the young man stood up silently, left the small courtyard dejectedly, walked through several corridors, and came to a simple yet grand hall.
"Junior brother, what did the master say?"
As soon as he entered the hall, a man in a blue gown hurriedly greeted him.
Looking at the eager middle-aged man, the young man didn't know how to respond for a moment. Twenty years ago, the senior brother left a letter and went out to seek immortality.
In the blink of an eye, twenty years have passed, and the senior brother was still a heroic young man when he left. Now, although the senior brother's appearance has not changed, his temperament has changed drastically.
Seeing that his junior brother was avoiding answering, the young man in blue shirt vaguely understood something and let out a long sigh.
"well."
"Junior brother, I understand."
Immediately afterwards, the young man in blue shirt patted the thick-browed young man on the shoulder.
"Take good care of Master from now on."
After saying that, the young man in blue shirt walked out of the house with a depressed expression, his steps were heavy and weak.
In the study room, Li Jie took back his spiritual consciousness. The eldest disciple has been away from home for twenty years, and his martial arts level has improved a lot. The average immortal cultivator in the Qi training period is probably no match for this disciple.
But the path to immortality is still gloomy.
Not only the first disciple is like this, but the second disciple, third disciple, and junior disciple are all in a similar situation to the first disciple. All of them are martial arts wizards.
If placed in the world of martial arts, with their qualifications, they would definitely become famous.
But the mortal world is a world of immortals.
If you don't become an immortal, you will end up as an ant.
If you think about it carefully, it has been nearly a hundred years since Li Jie left Yellow Maple Valley. In the first fifty years, he basically spent time on the road while improving his cultivation.
It wasn't until he successfully formed the elixir forty years ago that he ended his wandering and settled in Lianxi City.
Lianxi City is a medium-sized city in the eastern part of the Huayu Kingdom. It is under the rule of the Tiandao Alliance and is backed by the boundless sea. It is bordered by the Xi Kingdom to the west and the Moyun Kingdom to the east.
The Huayu Kingdom is small in area, only one-third of the Yue Kingdom. There is only one Yuanying Sect in the country, and it is the Huayu Sect, which is dominated by women.
Although the area is small, the Huayu Kingdom is backed by the boundless sea and has richer resources than the Yue Kingdom. In addition, there are no large-scale sect wars under the Tiandao Alliance, and the overall environment is relatively peaceful, making it a livable country.
After settling here, Li Jie gradually accepted four disciples, three men and one woman. They were all mortals without spiritual roots but with extraordinary martial arts talents.
Initially, Li Jie's idea was to enter Taoism through martial arts.
Combining the accumulation of the past few worlds and the martial arts of the mortal world, Li Jie created a secret code that is suitable for the mortal world.
This secret code can be practiced all the way to the Grand Master level. Although it is not comparable to the Grand Masters in the world of martial arts, once you reach the Grand Master level, your pure combat power is no less than that of ordinary foundation-building monks.
At the same time, the lifespan is not inferior to that of the foundation-building monks, but in terms of fighting methods, the grand master cannot use magic weapons, talismans, seals, and various spells as freely as the immortal cultivators.
Forty years have passed, and the first disciple and the second disciple have become great masters one after another, but this is the limit. They cannot go further, nor can they change to the path of immortality.
It seems that the rules at the bottom of the mortal world are like this. Mortals cannot embark on the path to immortality through martial arts.
The path of entering Taoism through martial arts has come to an end.
It has to be said that this fact is a big blow to Li Jie. He cannot enter the Tao through martial arts, which means that in the main world, he cannot enter the immortal path through this path.
"Master, the senior brother is gone."
Not long after, the young man with thick eyebrows came to the study again. As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the study opened with a creak.
When he saw the door open, the young man knew that it was the master calling him.
"Xiao Shan, do you want to become an immortal?"
"Disciple doesn't want to."
As soon as he heard this question, the young man fell to his knees with a plop. He thought that the master was thinking of his senior brother, second senior sister, and third senior brother.
"Do you really not want to?"
Li Jie glanced at his young disciple with a gentle look. Except for those who are ignorant and don't know what it means to be an immortal, there are no mortals in the world who don't want to cultivate immortality.
The young apprentice is naturally no exception.
The young apprentice didn't want to go, he just wanted to stay in the city and fulfill his filial piety.
"Disciple doesn't want to!"
The young man lowered his head and said in a firm tone: "Even with the master's ability, we cannot let our unscrupulous disciples cultivate immortality. Even if the disciples go out to find immortality, they are just trying to catch fish."
Li Jie has never concealed his identity as an immortal cultivator in front of his disciples. Although the thick-browed young man cannot cultivate immortality, he is no stranger to the world of immortality.
The thick-browed young man knew very well what it means to be a monk in the Dan-formation stage.
Which monk in the alchemy stage is not a powerful person?
Even in the Huayu Sect, the Danjie monks are giants in the sect and can be called the ancestors of the sect.
Not even a master as powerful as his master could solve the natural chasm faced by mortals in cultivating immortality. The young man with thick eyebrows did not dare to hope that anyone else could solve it.
"Okay, you go down."
Li Jie glanced at the open space outside the courtyard without leaving any trace, waved his hand and said.
"yes."
The young man with thick eyebrows slowly exited the study after hearing this.
It wasn't until his figure disappeared around the corner outside the hospital that Li Jie muttered in a low voice.
"Please also ask fellow Taoist to show up and see you."
As soon as he finished speaking, a white-haired old man suddenly appeared in the yard.
Seeing this old man, Li Jie smiled and asked softly: "Should I call you Fellow Taoist Xiang, or Senior Brother Xiang?"
"Fellow Daoist Li, I haven't seen you for many years, but I didn't expect you and I to meet again here."
Xiang Zhili chuckled. He didn't dare to ask Li Jie to call him 'senior brother'. The other party was obviously of extraordinary origin, so how could he dare to take advantage of him.
If you offend the other party because of this, it will not be beautiful.
Li Jie smiled slightly when he heard this, but didn't bother to expose Xiang's lies.
Long time no see?
They had only met forty years ago, but it was a one-sided meeting. Xiang Zhili had seen him, but he had not seen Xiang Zhili.
"Fellow Taoist, please take a seat."
Li Jie raised his hand and pointed to the chair opposite.
In fact, he was very curious about the purpose of Xiang Zhili's visit today. Over the years, he had always known that someone was following him.
Walking all the way from the Yellow Maple Valley to the Flower Rain Country, that vague sense of peeping is always there, and I have been following it for decades.
I've been to the entire Yellow Maple Valley several times, and I'm afraid there's no one else like this except Old Monster Xiang.
Therefore, even though Xiang Zhili had never shown his face, Li Jie guessed his identity.
Until forty years ago, that feeling of peeping disappeared inexplicably, and it lasted for forty years. Li Jie thought Xiang Zhili was gone, but he didn't expect that he would be back today.
Not only came back, but also appeared directly in front of him.