One Life, Two Fortunes, Three Feng Shui

To others, even the most powerful cultivators in the Qi Refining Realm were beings to be looked up to, observable but unattainable.

For an ordinary family to produce a cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm wasn't just a matter of several generations' effort; more importantly, it required opportunity, or Immortal Destiny.

Without Immortal Destiny, no amount of talking would matter.

But was Immortal Destiny something easily obtained?

Even a family like the Zhou Family had only managed to support one cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm over the years.

The difficulty of obtaining Immortal Destiny was no mere platitude.

Yet, for the Yu Family, Immortal Destiny was within reach, or rather, they already held half of it.

They just needed Yu Dashan to reach Perfection of Fetal Movement before they could seize Immortal Destiny and attempt to break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

But the cruel scene they had just witnessed clearly showed them what it meant to have a life as insignificant as grass, and how unpredictable fate could be.

If they had been even a little slower just now, if they hadn't managed to reach the shore, they might have been among the dead. What use would Immortal Destiny be then?

Perhaps it was the protection of their father, who stayed behind at home, that saved them.

Even though they wore blank expressions now, their hearts were filled with uncontrollable fear.

They had been so close to disaster.

However, beyond his lingering fear, Yu Dashan felt an even greater longing for the power of cultivators in the Qi Refining Realm.

To be frank, this was the first time he had witnessed a cultivator in the Qi Refining Realm act up close. Even a casual strike made someone at Fetal Movement Major Accomplishment seem as fragile as paper.

And the Water Yuan Turtle, equivalent to a Qi Refining Realm cultivator, had suppressed him to the point of breathlessness just by releasing its aura.

No wonder only those who reached the Qi Refining Realm could be considered true cultivators.

Meanwhile, Old Man Yu had already closed the main gate and was moving the stones piled in the courtyard to build another circle around the elm tree, preparing to shield the young tree as well.

Though he wasn't sure if it would be effective, doing something was better than doing nothing.

Looking at the branches and leaves that had already begun to peek over the wall, Old Man Yu pondered whether to prune them or build the wall higher.

In the end, he chose the latter.

After toiling for most of the morning, Old Man Yu looked at the nearly completed work with slight breathlessness.

"Little tree, do you think Dashan and the others have reached the Blessed Land yet? I wonder if they encountered any danger on the way."

Alone, Old Man Yu could only confide his worries to the little tree before him.

Although his three sons weren't traveling thousands of miles away, he couldn't help but worry when they weren't by his side.

Especially after the sudden storm last night...

Thinking of this, Old Man Yu looked up.

The sky was still overcast, with no sun, and the temperature had dropped significantly.

At this rate, the water in the vat in the courtyard would likely freeze in a few days, and even the soil in the Spirit Fields would harden.

Therefore, he had to secretly dig up some soil from the Spirit Fields before the freezing weather to strengthen the foundation of his Rare Species sapling.

Otherwise, it would be too late when the harsh winter arrived and the Black Annihilation Wind Disaster began to blow.

By then, he would have no choice but to hide in the cellar.

The mere thought of the Black Annihilation Wind Disaster's life-draining power sent a shiver down his spine.

He had experienced that feeling in his youth.

Of course, it wasn't because he lacked Spirit Stones and stayed home; otherwise, he wouldn't be alive today.

During the Black Annihilation Wind Disaster, the Blessed Land wasn't completely sealed off. As long as there were no insectoid attacks, some Insect Hunter Teams would briefly leave the Blessed Land to hunt insectoids in the surrounding areas.

These Insect Hunter Teams would return to the Blessed Land for rest after at most half a day to a day outside. Even if some lives were lost, it was within acceptable limits.

After all, the minimum requirement to join an Insect Hunter Team was Fetal Movement Minor Accomplishment.

Essentially, half a day outside was equivalent to losing about a month of lifespan.

Over an entire wind disaster season, it would cost at most two to three years of lifespan, which was a price worth paying compared to the Spirit Stones gained.

This was truly earning money with one's life.

Of course, that was assuming you survived. If you died, that was the end of it.

After all, how could hunting insectoids not involve danger?

The main force of ordinary Insect Hunter Teams consisted of cultivators at Fetal Movement Major Accomplishment and Perfection of Fetal Movement.

Especially those at Perfection of Fetal Movement, their resistance to the Black Annihilation Wind Disaster was far stronger than those at Fetal Movement Minor Accomplishment.

Calculated by half a day, it was merely about ten days of lifespan consumption.

In the past, when Old Man Yu took refuge in the Blessed Land, he had taken on some small tasks, helping merchant caravans that specialized in buying insectoid corpses transport them outside the Blessed Land.

Compared to hunting teams, transporting insectoid corpses was undoubtedly much safer and was the choice for many.

However, he had strictly forbidden Yu Dashan from doing so because depleting lifespan was essentially depleting one's essence.

Anyone aspiring to reach the Qi Refining Realm would be extremely careful before that point. They needed to supplement their essence, not deplete it. Why would they possibly want to shorten their lifespan?

Only those who had reached a dead end in their cultivation, were older, lacked potential, and wanted to earn resources for their children would choose to take such a risk.

However, Old Man Yu had heard that cultivators of higher realms could refine a certain type of magical artifact. If worn, it could allow even ordinary people to resist the life-draining ability of the Black Annihilation Wind Disaster.

Some large families often used this method to train their younger generations.

But such magical artifacts were extremely precious, even rarer than Immortal Destiny. Not to mention ordinary people, even cultivators in the general Qi Refining Realm couldn't obtain them.

It was precisely because he had experienced the life-draining ability of the Black Annihilation Wind Disaster that Old Man Yu knew how terrifying it was.

When you can clearly perceive your life rapidly draining away, the pressure and fear it brings are far more unbearable than physical injury.

Hearing Old Man Yu's words, Yu An's heart stirred inexplicably, and the effect of his Town Protection Spiritual Power resurfaced.

[Town Protection]: A home with a camphor tree brings abundance year after year, slightly increasing the land's fortune and protecting descendants.

Compared to the beginning, after he grew to the second stage of the nascent period, the Town Protection Spiritual Power gained the ability to protect descendants.

Theoretically, his Town Protection was protecting Old Man Yu's home, as he had grown directly in their house.

And the head of this household was Old Man Yu.

Therefore, the three Yu brothers should belong to this category of descendants.

Protecting descendants.

Did this mean that, to some extent, it could enhance their luck and protect them?

Even if this enhancement was very slight, it might allow them to turn misfortune into good fortune at a critical moment.

"One's fate, two's luck, three's feng shui."

This "luck" referred to one's fortune.

Fortune was invisible and intangible, yet it truly existed.

Yu An believed that Spiritual Powers were called Spiritual Powers precisely because they possessed extraordinary abilities that broke common sense.

Since the effect of the Town Protection Spiritual Power was as such, it would definitely be effective.

Especially since this was a world of Cultivating Immortality, the more powerful a cultivator, the more they could achieve great feats through their own power. It was not impossible to transcend this world.

Therefore, even if the three Yu brothers encountered danger on their journey, as long as it wasn't a situation with no chance of survival, his Spiritual Power would undoubtedly play some role, more or less.

As for the truth, perhaps they would know when the three Yu brothers returned next year.

Slightly organizing his thoughts, Yu An watched Old Man Yu resume his busy work and once again fell into his own world.