By the time he returned to the residence, evening had already fallen.
"Tell Eldest Brother and Sister-in-law not to prepare dinner for me tonight!" Jiang Ning said.
"Yes, Young Master! I'll pass the message along at once!" Lü Yi replied, then went her separate way from Jiang Ning in the front courtyard.
He returned to his own courtyard.
He sat cross-legged by the lake.
The setting sun cast its gentle light across the rippling lake and over Jiang Ning's body.
"Dragonblood Bodhi!"
Looking at the three ice jade boxes before him, Jiang Ning could not help but feel anticipation welling up within him.
Among the twenty-three immortal treasures at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, the Dragonblood Bodhi was the Primordial Era treasure he favored and anticipated most.
According to its description, it was an immortal treasure used by body cultivators in ancient times.
The Elder Immortal Dao was divided into qi cultivators and body cultivators.
Qi cultivators refined qi, while body cultivators refined the body.
Body cultivation and modern Martial Dao shared the same underlying principle through different paths.
Or rather, Martial Dao had been born from the Immortal Dao path of body cultivation.
Yet while body cultivation similarly relied on the external environment, Martial Dao placed greater emphasis on oneself.
This was because the foundation of body cultivation still lay in the world itself—in spiritual qi, or rather, spiritual substances.
Within the Elder Immortal Dao, qi cultivators practiced Daoist arts and divine abilities, forging magical treasures.
Body cultivators tempered their flesh, at most choosing to cultivate their lives alongside a divine weapon.
Thus, the world's environment was likewise the foundation of body cultivators.
And the Dragonblood Bodhi was a Primordial Era immortal treasure that offered enormous help to body cultivators.
It was also somewhat beneficial to martial artists.
Thus, it