Chapter 294: Cutting off the worldly desires
The old house of the Li family.

As Li Xianer's complexion regained some health, the doctor came over to check and determined that the last bit of her life potential was being stimulated, a sign of a last-ditch effort.

Then, everyone got busy and many villagers came to help.

Since she was fifteen or sixteen years old, Li Xianer has insisted on returning to her hometown to live during the winter and summer vacations every year.

And every time she came back, she would bring gifts to her friends in the village, as well as to her uncles, aunts and cousins.

Whenever there was a wedding or funeral in the village, she would go to give gifts on behalf of Li Zhi, and if she had time, she would go in person to help.

After she graduated from university, she returned to the village to settle down.

Therefore, she was very popular in the village. Now that they heard that she was about to die, the villagers came to help and prepare for her funeral.

Li Xianer's body was suddenly replenished with pure vitality. Although her complexion was getting better and better, she fell into the deepest sleep.

I don't know what's happening outside.

Doctor Xu told everyone that once Li Xianer woke up, it would be time for her to say goodbye to everyone for the last time.

"Xian'er is such a good girl, how could she get such a strange disease? Good people really don't get rewarded." Some women in the village talked in a low voice as they looked at Li Xian'er lying quietly on the recliner.

"Xian'er is so sick, why isn't her mother around to take care of her? Is there such a cruel mother?" some women also said this.

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"What do you think? Xian'er suffered this misfortune because Li Zhi had done something bad outside. Is it retribution for the child? I heard that Jizu's child has changed his name and surname to his mother's. He no longer admits that he is Li Zhi's child. Now he is living a smooth life and has become the president of a group." Some men in their fifties and sixties in the village also gathered together to talk.

"Xian'er's grandfather passed away mysteriously at a young age. Xian'er's father disappeared when she was a child. It is said that Li Zhi went to practice Taoism, but God knows whether he has died outside and used practicing Taoism as a cover." Some old people in the village also discussed this secretly.

Half a day later, Zhou Mei and Zhou Yaoyang finally arrived and returned to the Li family's old house accompanied by Li Dapeng.

There was also a group of accompanying staff around the two of them, almost all of whom were employees of Yaoyang Group.

Looking at Li Xianer, who has sparse hair, is as thin as a stick, and has a weather-beaten face.

Zhou Mei couldn't hold it anymore and ran to Li Xian'er, crying, "Xian'er, my Xian'er, wake up, your mother is here to see you."

Zhou Yaoyang pulled Zhou Mei up and said, "Mom, get up. Don't feel sorry for her. She brought this upon herself. Don't feel sorry for her. Don't forget how she treated you before."

After saying that, Zhou Yaoyang kicked Li Xianer's lame leg and shouted, "Are you dead? If not, open your eyes. If you are dead, die quickly."

"Snapped!"

Li Dapeng, who was standing by, suddenly attacked and slapped Zhou Yaoyang in the face. His lips turned purple from anger, and he shouted, "Li Jizu, this is your sister, not your enemy."

Such a loud slap made Zhou Yaoyang's mouth bleed and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, the staff beside him were quick to support him.

"puff!"

Zhou Yaoyang looked at Li Dapeng calmly, spit out the blood foam in his mouth, and said, "I admit this slap. But Li Dapeng, remember this. My name is not Li Jizu, my name is Zhou Yaoyang. If it happens again, you will know the consequences."

Then Zhou Yaoyang supported Zhou Mei and said, "Now that we have met the people, let's go back. Whether the Li family lives or dies has nothing to do with us, the Zhou family."

"Yaoyang, how about we stay here for a while and leave after your sister wakes up?" Zhou Mei seemed to be begging Zhou Yaoyang.

"Mom, don't forget what she said when she ran away from home. Life and death are determined by fate, and we, mother and son, don't have to care about life and death. Now her oath has come true. We should fulfill her wish." Zhou Yaoyang said extremely coldly.

Zhou Mei seemed to have aged ten years in an instant, and all the strength in her body seemed to be drained away, and she collapsed to the ground.

Then she was carried away by Zhou Yaoyang's men.

In the living room, Li Xianer was lying on a recliner, seemingly falling into the sweetest dream.

Zhou Yaoyang stared at her for a while, his eyes filled with hatred, and then he took Zhou Mei away.

Seeing such a heartless brother, the villagers were instantly shocked.

The old lady came to Li Dapeng in a panic and said, "Dapeng, what should I do?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Dapeng said, "Since the mother and son are determined to sever their relationship with the Li family, then let me, as her uncle, be responsible for Xian'er's funeral. I believe Li Zhi will come back one day. When the time comes, I will definitely seek justice for Xian'er."

The scene performed by Zhou Yaoyang and his mother was hard for the villagers to accept.

That night, in the Li family's old house, only Li Dapeng and his wife and the old lady were left with Li Xianer.

Everyone else left the Li family, as if they didn't want to be contaminated by the bad luck of the Li family.

"Grandma, Aunt, Uncle Dapeng, why are you here?" Just as the three of them began to doze off, Li Xianer, who had been sleeping for almost the entire day, felt full of strength and could even sit up from the recliner. She said to them with great curiosity.

"Xian'er, you finally woke up?" The old lady was the first to react and said excitedly.

"Grandma, why don't you go home and sleep?" Li Xian'er asked in confusion, taking a look at the night outside.

"Xian'er, if you have any unfulfilled wishes, tell your aunt. Your uncle Dapeng and I will do our best to help you fulfill them." Tears flowed unconsciously from Dapeng's wife's eyes.

"Xian'er, Uncle Dapeng is here, don't be afraid. If you want to do anything, tell Uncle Dapeng." Li Dapeng also said to Li Xian'er.

"Uncle Dapeng, what happened to you?" Li Xianer asked in confusion.

Then she saw the things prepared for the dead piled up in the room, and she understood everything in an instant.

"Grandma, Auntie, Uncle Dapeng, my dad is back."

Li Xianer didn't think those things were unlucky, instead she felt warm in her heart. Then she said with a look of surprise.

"What, Xian'er, what did you say?" Li Dapeng was the first to react and asked in shock.

"My father is back. I am alive because my father fed me the water of life." Although Li Xian'er was very weak and on the verge of death, her spiritual perception had reached a level of spiritualism and she was able to sense all changes outside.

She could even recall clearly how Zhou Mei and Zhou Yaoyang behaved when they came to see her.

Zhou Yaoyang and Zhou Mei's performance completely eliminated the last trace of guilt she had in her heart towards her mother and brother, and at the same time, she also lost all family affection.

Li Xianer, who has experienced many hardships, has already forged an indestructible heart of Tao.

Every scar on her body is a manifestation of her determination to pursue the Tao.

She firmly believed that her father would come back.

Even if Li Zhi would not come back, she would ascend to heaven to find out the whereabouts of her father, and even complete the journey to immortality for her father.

Li Xianer could tell from the notes left by Li Daqiang and Li Zhi that they longed for immortality.

They are willing to lay the foundation for longevity for future generations, even at the cost of their own lives.

Grandpa Li Daqiang collected a set of tomb-robbing tools of unknown quality.

Dad Li Zhi left behind a powerful alchemy furnace and a set of exercises that can be used for cultivation.

As a descendant of the Li family, she must inherit the will of her father and grandfather and embark on the path of cultivation. Her brother sneered at these things and even hated them. He didn't even want his grandfather and father's experience of tomb robbing to taint his resume, so he changed his name and surname to sever his relationship with his father.

As the blood of the Li family, she would never let the hard work of two generations go to waste. Facts have proved that she succeeded.

At the age of twenty, Li Xianer, who had practiced the immortality skills left by Li Zhi, successfully opened up the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

Then she will be able to practice the "Innate Longevity Skill" left by Li Zhi.

In order to collect resources for cultivation, she kept traveling around the world to places where there were suspected elixirs, and even risked her life to enter and exit various tombs.

In order to fight for limited cultivation resources, she fought against heaven and earth, not only fighting with wild beasts, but also with monsters, and even had to fight with other cultivators.

Finally, she cultivated to the level of Divine Bridge. But before that, when she was digging a great saint's tomb, she was invaded by a deadly aura. She tried every possible way to dispel the deadly aura.

I thought the road to immortality was over.

However, she didn't expect that someone fed her a bowl of life-giving water at the critical moment, which temporarily saved her from death.

Just as the secret of practice is recorded in the practice notes left by Li Zhi.

"In the world of cultivation, as long as you survive, everything is possible. Only by living can you witness miracles happen."

Now, she has personally experienced the value of this sentence.

"Is this child really going to leave?"

The old lady and Dapeng's wife had sad tears in their eyes. They thought that Li Xian'er had begun to have hallucinations.

Dapeng still had a glimmer of hope and asked, "Xian'er, where is your father?"

A trace of doubt flashed in Li Xian'er's eyes. She looked left and right, but didn't see Li Zhi, so she said, "Dad must have gone to find a baby to treat me."

"Xian'er, have a good rest. Uncle Dapeng will come to see you tomorrow morning." Finally, Li Dapeng helped the old lady and left Li Zhi's house.

He didn't want to see Li Xian'er die in a trance.

The old lady and Dapeng's wife also felt that they should leave the last bit of their time to Li Xianer alone.

After they left, they closed the gate gently.

"Let Xian'er spend a night happily." The old lady sighed.

"Poor Xian'er, Li Zhi is really a bad guy. He has done so much harm to people." said Dapeng's wife.

The quiet yard became cold under the blowing of the night wind.

Li Xianer, who was sitting on the recliner in the living room, was about to get up and close the door to the living room, but found that the strength in her legs had not recovered.

He helplessly pulled the blanket around himself, lay on the chair and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

"Is this what Dad wrote in his notebook: 'Sever the worldly desires and sever the mortal heart'?"

Li Xian'er recalled Li Zhi's notes about the gains and losses of embarking on the path of cultivation. Even the Emperor of Heaven had to cut off his ties with the worldly world before he could truly embark on the road to heaven.

She was not angry about her brother and mother's behavior, and even felt a little relieved.

Because my mother has my brother to accompany her, my brother has my mother to accompany him, and my brother also has his sister-in-law and children, so they will not be lonely even if I leave them.

But after my father embarked on the road to success, who was with him?
Do I want my father to stand at the top of the avenue and accompany the gods alone for eternity?
Therefore, she took the initiative to sever her relationship with her mother and brother in order to cut off her ties with the worldly world, get rid of her worldly heart, and finally embark on the path of spiritual practice to follow in her father's footsteps.

Looking at the things in the room, Li Xianer suddenly felt that dying at this moment would be a good thing.

You can completely cut off all worldly ties, cut off all worldly desires, and leave only a pure heart of Tao.

Only in this way can one go against the current in a harsh environment, eventually become a king, and then set foot on the ancient road of the starry sky.

Li Xianer's knowledge about the cultivation environment on Earth came from the notes left by Li Zhi in the secret room of the old house.

She knew that there were secret realms of all sizes on Earth where one could practice cultivation.

Originally, she planned to cultivate in the Taoist Palace secret realm in the secular world and then enter those secret realms where the essence of heaven and earth was relatively rich to cultivate.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes.

Without the most precious treasure to protect me, I really don't feel safe enough.

"How can I pretend to be dead and fool everyone? It would be great if my legs could still move." Li Xian'er finally sighed.

Then he muttered to himself, "Who gave me a sip of the divine liquid of life? Could it be that Uncle Ye?"

Li Xianer knows her own condition much better than those doctors.

With the Fountain of Life replenishing her vital energy, even if the deathly energy was still eroding her body, she would not die in a short period of time.

As for Ye Fan's return from outside the domain, she had already learned the news from her friends in the cultivation world.

Originally she planned to visit Ye Fan, but when Ye Fan came back, he made too much noise.

In addition, the sudden explosion of the dead energy in her body interrupted her journey.

As for what she said to Li Dapeng, "Dad is back", it was just a way to comfort them.

Although she knew that someone had fed her a mouthful of the divine liquid of life, she didn't know who that person was.

Li Xianer, whose mind had been restless for a long time, sang the little songs she had made up in her spare time.

"The world is bitter, immortality is hard, cut off the seven emotions, cut off the six desires, and the immortal seed. I am worried, he is jealous, and we will be together for eternity..."

Li Xian'er hummed an unknown tune on the recliner. As she sang, she seemed to sing out a mood of eternal loneliness, a kind of loneliness after immortality, and a kind of melancholy of a Taoist heart as firm as iron.

"Clap clap clap!"

Just as she sang about the hardships of immortality, the difficulty of immortality, and the eternal loneliness, a burst of crisp applause suddenly rang out from the yard.

"Who's out there?"

Li Xianer sat up from the recliner quickly, and then she took out a rusty shovel from under the cushion.

It was the small flat shovel in the archaeological set. There was a faint fierce aura emanating from her, like a frightened beast, emitting an extremely pure bloodthirsty aura.

"Xian'er, you sang well. Your performance far exceeded your father's expectations."

Li Zhi's voice came from the yard, seeming to be filled with infinite emotion.

"Dad? Dad, you're really back?" Li Xian'er was stunned at first, then shouted happily.

"It's Dad who's back." Li Zhi's appearance was almost the same as when he left that year. Li Xian'er recognized him at a glance.

She had seen her father's appearance in photos countless times, and now the real person was standing in front of her. She didn't know what to do and just stood there in a daze.

In fact, Li Zhi watched and remembered everything that happened from day to night.

He could even sense clearly through his telepathy what Zhou Mei, Zhou Yaoyang, and Li Xianer were thinking.

He didn't know how to comment on his daughter's thoughts.

Zhou Mei and Zhou Yaoyang have never thought about trying the life of a monk. They really like to enjoy the wealth and glory of the world. Li Zhi does not want his return to disrupt their peaceful life.

It's not a bad idea to enjoy wealth and honor for a lifetime.

Even if they were forced to embark on the path of cultivation, they would not be able to go far given their character.

But Li Xian'er was completely different. Li Zhi saw a ruthlessness in her. She was ruthless to her relatives and even more ruthless to herself, which made him feel ashamed of himself.

Li Xian'er even gave her the illusion that a ruthless person had been reborn.

The ruthless emperor relied on his supreme talent and his undying obsession of "not to become an immortal, but just to wait for your return in this mortal world" and eventually became the supreme emperor.

Li Xian'er may be able to rely on her obsession of "not for immortality, but for her father who does not need to walk the great path alone" to embark on the path to immortality.

(End of this chapter)