On the way back, Wang Xianmao had a calm face, but Yu An guessed that the head of the family was definitely gathering strength for the ten in succession after he went back.
Wang Yulou also said nothing, his expression even more solemn than Wang Xianmao's.
Yuan An followed the two people in front, his heart was in chaos.
"Head of the clan, we were just going to have a cup of spiritual tea, finish it and leave. Didn't expect you to come just in time."
"Shut up!"
Yuan An dare not speak anymore.
"Head of the clan, how many years does a purple palace cultivator live for?" Yu Lou asked.
"Discuss it when we get back!"
The head of the family sternly looked at Yu Lou, the expression was even more serious than when he just made Yuan An shut up.
Child, be careful with your words!
From this moment on, every word and action of all the cultivators in Qingxi Lane is within her sight and hearing!
In fact, Yu Lou had already understood the head of the family's answer.
He had a pale face, followed the head of the family out of the gate of Bao Fang.
Clearly, the cultivators around him who had come to attend the grand gathering of Qingxi were all beaming with joy, looking extremely cheerful.
The bright moon in the sky emits a soft radiance, the broken stones on the ground are also lit up brightly.
But Yu Lou felt the penetrating coldness that permeated his bones and even pierced his soul in this prosperous and beautiful night.
This is a cultivation world where even high-level cultivators can easily achieve longevity and eternal vision!
Great cultivators can unite to modify the rules of heaven and earth, limiting the speed of cultivation of later cultivators.
Yu Lou does not need to investigate and can imagine the power, families, and organizations surrounding those purple palace great cultivators and golden pill real immortals, controlling all ascension channels in the cultivation world.
In such a heaven and earth.
The Wang family, with its so-called foundation patriarch, is not a divine race, but a bigger pest, coarser than the grass!
The dialogue between the head of the family and Da Rì was replaying over and over in Yu Lou's mind, one, two, three...... Yu Lou read more and more into the head of the family's fear.
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Back at Fuyuan Residence, Wang Xianmao did not intentionally cast any protective detection arrays.
Because he was aware that under the surveillance of purple palace cultivators, foundation cultivation cultivators have very few secrets.
He sat in the chair, seeing the two boys who dared to visit the Twin Phoenix Pavilion one after another, their faces growing paler and paler, and he couldn't help but feel amused.
"Alright, don't be nervous. I'm not going to beat you, Yuan An."
Yuan An was no longer nervous, but Yu Lou still seemed to be in a daze.
Wang Xianmao had some regrets in his heart.
Extreme wisdom brings injury, extreme wisdom brings injury, Yu Lou is too wise, too early to see the most brutal side of this cultivation world.
It was just a fleeting glimpse, like a swift horse galloping through the space of an instant, yet he still saw the hidden elephant in that room.
The elephant was huge, yet extraordinary in power, none dared to gaze directly at it.
This was the first time Yu Lou had seen the elephant, and his despair, Wang Xianmao believed he understood.
After pondering for a long time, he spoke solemnly.
"Falling short in the cultivation realm is not because of cowering in the face of power, nor because of being confined in the choice currently, nor because of feeling ashamed with a beauty beside you. (The beauty does not refer to women only, but can be understood as a beautiful person)"
"What is said about being cowardly leading to failure and being anxious making things difficult are all empty talk."
"Our Wang family has been passed down for over a millennium, and our actions are based on the flexibility and adaptability of a dragon or snake."
"What does it mean to be flexible and adaptable like a dragon or snake?"
"It's just about staying true to oneself and waiting for the right moment. Now is not the time of heaven, but the time of our own."
"The rules of the heavens and earth have their own rules, but the rules of the heavens and earth can be changed by others."
"In the midst of change, the only thing we can rely on and be certain won't change is ourselves."
"Yu Lou, don't overthink it."
"Yuan An, work hard with your eldest brother."
"We must soon refine our qi, because, the Wang family is not lacking in the courage to forge ahead!"
"Over a thousand two hundred years of accumulation, the Wang family has prepared everything needed for every descendant who wants to forge ahead!"
"Before reaching the foundation level, the resources you have received are not inferior to those of the purple palace family, the disciples of ten families, or even those of the disciples of the celestial union!"
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In the end, Yu Lou did not ask the head of the family what he had exchanged for in the military affairs hall branch, because he knew that his experience was definitely not as good as the family leader's.
But lying in bed, Yu Lou couldn't sleep.
Having crossed into a world where cultivation is possible, he was initially excited. He imagined himself becoming the most powerful immortal in the world, dreaming of the free and easy life that is said to transcend the three realms and not be bound by the five elements.
Later, as he grew up, he found that his early dreams were as laughable as choosing between Tsinghua and Peking universities.
Now, he saw the vastness of the world at the grand gathering of Qingxi and also witnessed the terrifying power of the purple palace real immortal.
The plain-looking girl in the golden robe is a cultivator of at least a thousand years old.
Why at least a thousand years old?
The Wang family's ancestor Wang Yinghua, the fourth son of Yan Ying, the founder of the Wang family, is the first generation of Wang family descendants!
And Wang Yinghua is Da Rì's senior!
Da Rì, a thousand years old, how old is the Mighty Elephant?
How many years old are the Golden Pill Real Immortals in the heavens and earth?
The fact that Da Rì looks like a young girl might suggest that she reached the foundation level at the age of thirteen or fourteen thousand years ago.
Yu Lou dares not to think about these things.
Master Mighty Elephant, with over a thousand years of purple palace cultivation, attempted to achieve the Golden Pill Realization. He drew all resources from Hongling Zhao and forced the leader to resign. He replaced him with the offspring of the giant merchant Huang family, who was devoted to extracting resources for him.
From the itinerant cultivators on Qingxi Lane to the red-browed cultivator at Huafeng Residence, to the Wang family who have been vassals to Hongling Zhao for dozens of generations, everyone, every family, every vassal, were seen by Master Mighty Elephant as part of the cost.
In legend, great cultivators changed the rules of heaven and earth, so that cultivators in the Qi Gathering stage could no longer improve their cultivation through cultivation of pills.
This event is too far in the past, and Yu Lou has become accustomed to it. He lacks a sense of reality about this event.
However, the Mighty Elephant and his apprentice Da Rì have given Yu Lou an infinite sense of reality.
Wang Xianmao was even like a toy in front of Da Rì!
It's so cold, Yu Lou wrapped the quilt tightly.
He felt the warmth of the quilt, but his heart was still cold.
The path ahead is difficult, the path ahead is difficult.
He thought that with the assistance of the Wang family, he had already taken a stand in front of many people.
Now, he has realized——there is no starting line at all.
If not a purple palace, one will be just an insect!
Itinerant cultivators are exploited to the bone by high-minded individuals, and the vassals of major families are exploited so much that their future possibilities are sold off.
Itinerant cultivators cannot escape the oppression of high-minded individuals, and the descendants of major families cannot escape the oppression by the descendants of purple palace families within their own sects.
But the disciples of the great sects and the disciples of the purple palace, also cannot escape the conscription of the celestial alliance.
In this meticulously designed, tightly fitted cultivation world where the ascending channels are almost blocked, where can I go?
Will I become an immortal?
Never mind, will I become a member of the purple palace?
Will I?
Yu Lou is uncertain. His cultivation heart shook in this moment, after understanding the terrifying might of Da Rì.
Alone, one must face oneself, face the reality of oneself that is confronted with those meager and fearful things.
Fortunately, Yu Lou lives in a twin room, and there is still another idiot brother, Yuan An, lying beside him.
"Brother, the purple palace real immortal can live for a thousand years, we definitely can also become purple palace great cultivators!"
Yuan An tosses and turns for a long time and still can't sleep, so he talks with his brother.
"How do you know that Da Rì Immortal has lived for a thousand years?"
"She said it herself, you didn't hear it? She said that even if it is a thousand years, the Wang family will still be the same."
"Yes, but Master Mighty Elephant, as Da Rì Immortal's master, is now attempting to achieve the Golden Pill Realization, which means that the longevity of the purple palace is not just a thousand years."
"Oh? That's true, but why doesn't the family head tell us the specific duration of the purple palace's longevity?"
"This question is too offensive."
"What's offensive?"
"Don't ask any more, go to sleep."
"Brother, if I become an immortal and you don't, I will revive you."
"Alright, alright, are you drawing a map?"
"What is drawing a pie?"
"Never mind, don't forget to revive the family head, Rongyuan uncle, your parents and your parents... Remember all of these, right?"
"My parents are definitely able to become immortals, maybe even before me!"
"Go to sleep, in dreams, anything is possible. Who knows, as soon as you close your eyes, you might become an immortal or a ancestor in your dreams."
