[Huanmai Gold City's Ultimate Technique-Thousand Autumns Floating Life Illusory Light] (II)

It was a street that could hardly be called prosperous.

Though there were quite a few vehicles on the street.

They were all relatively old and cheap models.

The shops lining both sides of the road likewise looked rather worn-down, constantly exuding an air of decay.

Especially the doors and doorframes of certain storefronts.

They even had a distinctly greasy appearance.

Making it impossible to tell whether those marks had been blackened by automobile exhaust...

Mm~

Steeped in the flavor of history~

Paired with the cheap concrete road, which still retained its basic functionality and overall shape but whose surface had long been covered in cracks and potholes of every size.

This place completely carried the flavor of a rundown rural town from the nineties.

After standing there and looking around.

Faced with these incomparably familiar sights.

Ling Wuyuan's gaze soon fell upon a young figure carrying an old woven plastic sack, his back turned toward a large red iron gate covered in rust.

Looking at the expression on that figure's face.

An expression that was calm, yet faintly tinged with unease.

A trace of reminiscence immediately surfaced in Ling Wuyuan's heart...

Even he.

Had once been lost and doubted himself.

That feeling had not been pleasant, but it had indeed been one of the things he had experienced.

And it was precisely after successfully passing through those stages that he had become increasingly powerful.

"I remember, back then I was waiting for the coach at the orphanage gate... I only had a little over a hundred yuan on me in total."

"Though it wasn't much, after buying the ticket, I still had a few dozen yuan left, enough that I only had to sleep on the streets and didn't have to go hungry."

"The only problem was that,