During his flight, he faced countless brushes with death. He was captured, sold, and enslaved. Staying alive was terribly hard.
When he was hungry, he ate the carcasses of wild beasts by the roadside. Sometimes he grew so faint with hunger that he gnawed on tree bark.
After years of struggling to survive, he reached a great city.
There, he learned that cultivators existed and tried to become a disciple, but he was turned away. He had neither talent for cultivation nor a special constitution.
Eventually, he gave up on cultivation. He only wanted to live out his hundred years.
He moved to a county town, opened a shop, married, and lived peacefully for five years.
One day, an immortal cultivator came to town and declared that his wife possessed a divine constitution. The cultivator wanted to take her as a disciple.
Overjoyed, his wife departed. Looking down at Xu Changqing from the sky with love in her eyes, she called out, "Husband, don't worry! Once I've achieved something in my cultivation, I'll come back for you. Then we'll both be cultivators, and we'll never be apart again."
Because of those words, he waited nearly ten years. At thirty, with no hope in sight, he left.
To pursue cultivation, he joined the army and fought wherever it sent him.
In the end, while searching bodies on a battlefield, he found an incomplete method for opening the Sea of Bitterness.
He had no divine constitution, but his comprehension was extraordinary. After several years, he finally opened his Sea of Bitterness.
From the moment he realized he possessed supreme powers of comprehension, he began his rise.
On the day he left the army, he entered the world of cultivators at the Divine Bridge Realm. He spent some of his savings on cultivation