Walking

One step at a time, one breathful of ashes at a time.

For some reason, this road was extraordinarily difficult to walk. With every step Luo Di took toward the kingdom, he felt the pressure multiply! It bore down on every corner of his body, especially his spine at the center.

His mind was clear. Having found his target, Luo Di knew exactly what he was doing and exactly what state he was in.

This was "regrowth" after Plant Maturity, a state in which the pituitary advanced to a higher level. Entering this state was extremely difficult.

His plant had only recently matured. He did not expect to reach the scale of a garden in this one attempt; he only hoped to bring his mature plant to a more perfect state.

At the very least, he needed to reach a level where he could touch Old Master Jiang and have even a 1% chance of slaughtering him.

Walking was what he was best at.

Unlike Wu Wen, whose parents had picked her up and dropped her off ever since she was little,

when Luo Di was a child, while everyone else was being picked up from school by their parents, he carried his heavy backpack home alone. After all, his parents were ordinary laborers and came home late every day.

He did not start taking the bus until high school.

Now,

the bones throughout Luo Di's body creaked under the pressure, yet he seemed to have returned to those days when he walked home alone. He raised his head toward the phantom kingdom in the distance, which looked more like the residential complex at the end of the road.

There was no money for snacks,

no hobbies of any kind,

so he simply kept his head down and walked. He