The Martial Cultivator at the Center (Revised)

Liu Xianyang truly had only returned home for a visit. Afterward, he boarded Luopo Mountain's dragon boat ferry, named "Ink Overturner." It could not travel directly to Old Dragon City; he needed to transfer at an Immortal Ferry Crossing near Shuishui Kingdom in the central part of Treasure Bottle Continent, then head south along the Dragon Path.

All the Patriarch Hall Direct Disciples of Pearl Hairpin Island had long since moved from Book Scroll Lake to Ao Yu Bei. It was one of the earliest immortal family forces to forge an alliance with Luopo Mountain.

The Princess Royal who had once governed from behind a curtain, now island lord Liu Chongrun, personally served for the time being as the ferry's manager. Without an Earth Immortal cultivator stationed aboard, a ferry was ultimately hard to trust.

Ruan Xiu saw Liu Xianyang off at Niujiao Mountain Ferry.

The dragon boat was enormous, itself a mountain of gold and silver. Liu Xianyang could not help sighing over it. Of the three of them in their early years, the one who most wanted to make money had not actually been Gu Can, but Chen Ping'an. Yet unlike Gu Can, who had figured out early on how to spend whatever money he earned, Chen Ping'an had simply been frightened by poverty. Only by earning money every day, no matter how little, only by seeing his family holdings grow by even a single copper coin over yesterday, could unsteady days become steady, and steady days become steadier still.

On this trip home, Liu Xianyang mostly went from door to door, chatting about family matters with the elderly neighbors who remained in town. Each year, there were fewer old people; each year, children who had once run about in split-crotch pants grew into adults, married and settled