[Li Family, Year 79]
The sky was clear and bright. The Blood Spirit Fruit Tree had grown to thirty meters tall, and many spirit beasts from Silver Iron Forest were leaping among its sturdy branches.
As the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree's roots spread farther and farther, Silver Iron Forest and the Li Family had long since become inseparable. Even the Pig Demon King could transform into a smaller form and enter the Li Family grounds.
Many Li Family members were also sitting beneath the tree, cultivating and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Walls had been built around the area, with formations carved into them. By now, this place had become the Li Family's highest secret.
But none of them noticed.
Their ancestor's face had gone numb beneath the relentless wash of time.
"Fifteen years! Heaven knows how I've managed to get through them. If these descendants hadn't been by my side, I'd have gone crazy long ago!"
Li Xiang vigorously rubbed his head. He truly couldn't understand how people who went into seclusion for a hundred years at a time managed to endure it.
He deeply missed the days of gaming in front of a computer screen. He missed Yuexian's braised pork, too. Although he knew that only fifteen hours had passed for his original body on Earth, he still felt terribly lonely.
Li Xiang stretched.
There was still a glow of fire in his dantian. He had estimated that in a few more years, he would finish inscribing the cultivation method for the Golden Core stage.
Just then,
a voice sounded beside him. The Death-Stilling Heavenly Coffin opened in an instant, and Li Dalong, disheveled and unkempt, climbed out.
By now, Li Dalong was ninety-nine years old, yet he still looked like an honest,