After a long while, Sixth Brother finally finished telling his story.
If it hadn't been afraid Lu Yin would make up a story, it wouldn't have said so much.
"I can tell you care a lot about your hometown. So how did you end up here?" Lu Yin asked curiously. It wasn't exactly a subtle question, but after Sixth Brother's story, it didn't seem out of place.
Sixth Brother stared at Lu Yin. "Don't ask about useless things. Anyway, I don't want to hear the words Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad in your story."
Lu Yin nodded. "All right. I respect that."
Sixth Brother let out a breath of relief.
The story still had to go on. Perhaps because Lu Yin truly hadn't mentioned the words Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad, Sixth Brother was a lot nicer to him, though it still seemed quite displeased with the story's logic. Lu Yin could tell from its voice.
Lu Yin was getting better and better at finding the rhythm, and he was beginning to understand what it meant to act on a whim.
In cultivation, one's state of mind came first. The higher one's cultivation, the more people believed one's state of mind had improved. But improving one's state of mind also meant moving further away from the purity of one's beginnings.
What Lu Yin was doing now was raising his cultivation to greater heights while bringing his state of mind back toward where it had started.
When the two converged and became attuned to him, they could give rise to the power of transformation.
It was much like the breakthrough he had made into immortality.
Several more years passed. The bear suddenly beckoned to Eternal.
It interrupted Lu Yin's thoughts.
He watched the scene unfold.
Toad Sixth Brother went straight behind the bear,