I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life - Chapter 135 - 43: Memories Like Smoke

Chapter 135: Chapter 43: Memories Like Smoke

Twenty-three years ago, someone released a help request through the Celestial Secret Tower, allowing Li Jizhou to know that the opportunity left behind in his previous life still existed.

However, now that twenty-three years have passed, it is still unclear whether that person has broken through my arrangements.

Additionally, I must also visit the desolate tomb of the Golden Core great cultivator of Tier Four Grand Talisman Master accidentally found in my previous life.

Li Jizhou left the teahouse and walked towards the outskirts of the city.

As he passed by a residence, Li Jizhou slightly turned his head and glanced at it.

In his memory, the words “Li Mansion” have now been replaced with another surname.

“Just three generations… after all, it has fallen!”

This was the ancestral home to which he transmigrated in his previous life, where his father was kind, his mother loving, and his brothers and sisters respectful, providing much support for his early journey in seeking immortality.

And after achieving success in his cultivation, he also offered significant assistance, making the Li family in Feng City more prosperous, especially after he reached Foundation Establishment, the Li family had already earned the name Li Half City.

Until he helped the Du Immortal Sect after achieving the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment to be granted a medicine in the imperial palace, was revered as an Immortal Master by the old emperor, and the Li family became as powerful as dukes in the entire Great Liang Kingdom, turning Feng City into the Li family’s city.

Only… it has been just fifty-eight years since Li Jizhou’s fall.

At most, three generations have passed,

yet it has come to this.

During this period, there must have been many who abandoned the ship and kicked them while they were down, but the root lies in the Li family’s failure to plan for a rainy day and staying vigilant in prosperity.

Without thinking too much, Li Jizhou arrived outside the city and stood at the starting point of his quest for immortality in his past life.

A moment later, the Flying Ship soared into the sky and quickly headed towards the spirit vein area a thousand miles to the east.

A month later, after passing through a mountain range filled with low-tier demon beasts, the first city of the Liang Kingdom’s cultivation world came into view.

This is also one of the top five major sects in the Liang Kingdom, the home of the immortal gate of the Luoyun Sect.

It was also the starting point of his first step into the world of cultivation in his past life.

The Luoyun Sect is located on a Tier Two Lower Grade spirit vein at the westernmost part of the Liang Kingdom’s cultivation world, with the highest sect realm being the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment.

The biggest attachment from a previous life also originated here.

At that time, he went through countless hardships, crossing the perilous demon beast mountains, barely making it into immortal territory, considering himself to be chosen by fate, destined to start an invincible path here.

Immediately afterward, he was turned away by Luoyun Sect for having too low aptitude and a reckless disposition.

However, he did not lose heart, comforting himself that how could a genius not encounter setbacks and difficulties?

Then began his journey through various hardships and challenges.

It was also at that time, by chance in a secret realm, he met the granddaughter of the Luoyun Sect’s Sect Leader.

After a series of entanglements, the two developed feelings for each other, sparking the flame of love.

At that time, he was oblivious, always thinking he would be the protagonist of destiny, sure to reach the pinnacle one day, and never considered whether those around him could keep up.

After all, how could the woman of the protagonist of destiny be inferior?

No matter how poor her aptitude, no matter how tumultuous her fate, as long as she was the protagonist’s woman, she wouldn’t lack opportunities.

At worst, he would keep supporting her to keep up with his pace in the future.

However… he himself went through half a lifetime’s hard work, finally accepting his fate, calming down, and accumulating bit by bit to finally achieve Foundation Establishment.

And she, after disobeying the Luoyun Sect Leader, was expelled from the sect, having no foundation-building resources at all.

Li Jizhou could only watch as the once vibrant woman aged, withered, and finally disappeared in his arms, now long turned to dust…

“Wei Tinglin of Luoyun Sect leads the sect elders to welcome the visiting friend. Do you have any requests where Luoyun Sect can be of service?” As Li Jizhou’s Flying Ship just entered Luoyun Sect, a dozen people had already flown out from the direction of Luoyun Sect.

“Wei Tinglin?” Li Jizhou calmly examined them for a few moments, without any impression.

“No need, I’m just passing through, leaving shortly.” Li Jizhou casually waved his hand, not caring about the other’s attitude, and the Flying Ship suddenly rose to a height they could not fathom, flew away.

The Luoyun Sect looked at the luxurious Flying Ship, secretly clicking their tongues, at least Tier Two and beyond, definitely not from the Liang Kingdom.

“Probably a Precious item only owned by a cultivation country with at least Tier Three spirit vein land.”

A scare for nothing, they watched Li Jizhou’s Flying Ship depart with a mix of envy and relief.

Leaving Luoyun Sect and going a thousand miles further east.

Li Jizhou put away the Flying Ship and landed in a family market town below.

In his past life, most of the resources were accumulated little by little from this Liang Kingdom’s top family’s Zhou family’s market square.

Once slightly achieved in the Alchemy Dao, he became an offering of the Zhou family, and his cultivation life became stable. Until he attained minor success in the Alchemy Dao, becoming the third-ranked honored guest elder in Liang Kingdom’s business of the market, he finally had a bit of status.

In this regard, Li Jizhou was grateful and often returned the favor after Foundation Establishment in his previous life.

Looking at it now, it still appears prosperous.

Moreover, a few brothers with whom I had life-and-death friendships in my past life also mostly started from here.

However, in the end, things did not develop in the direction Li Jizhou envisioned. Some fell early, others lagged too far behind in cultivation to keep up with Li Jizhou’s pace and vanished into the sands of time.

There were even two who turned against each other over what now seems like a trivial opportunity.

But regardless, everything from the past has already dissipated into the long river of time, ultimately turning to nothing.

Li Jizhou passed through the market and came to a cliff on the southernmost side of the Zhou family’s territory.

This was the place he found for himself when he was about to fall.

A thousand-foot cliff stood treacherously, with roaring gales below and thin Spiritual Qi, a place even ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators wouldn’t risk their lives for.

Li Jizhou chose to hide his final resting place here for another reason, perhaps due to the Earth transmigrator’s subconscious, hoping to find opportunities at the bottom of a cliff.

“Who goes there? Stop!” Just as Li Jizhou approached, two small cultivators dressed in the Zhou family’s attire jumped out.

“Scram!” Li Jizhou’s fierce face darkened, swearing lowly.

Having just gone through the Zhou family’s market, he didn’t want to attract attention, so he had restrained his presence.

But now, letting out just a little, the two small cultivators immediately showed terror, forgetting to plead and turning to flee.

Li Jizhou traveled another ten miles. As the cliff loomed not far ahead, he saw it was already fenced off.

Moreover, there was a big inscription: the Tomb of the Zhou Family Ancestors, with several large mounds inside.

“When did Old Zhou’s family move their tombs here? So it turns out the Zhou family discovered my final resting place!” Li Jizhou couldn’t help but sneer.

He understood the Zhou family’s situation well and knew they would never move their tombs here. This was merely to cover his resting place under the cliff.

“Stop, fellow Daoist!”

Before long, a group from the Zhou family flew in swiftly.

“May I ask, fellow Daoist, why you intruded on our ancestral tomb?”

Li Jizhou glanced around. There were more than twenty people, one at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, two at the early stage, seven or eight at the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation, and the rest in the Middle Stage of Qi Cultivation.

In the entire cultivation world of the Liang Kingdom, only the Duxian Sect could contend with such an array.

Moreover, the leader left Li Jizhou slightly surprised.

Black hair had turned silver, alabaster skin had become mulberry bark, beauty had faded!

Though her appearance had changed significantly, her aura was still familiar.

This was the once stunningly talented girl of the Zhou family, Zhou Zimei,

Her genius lay not in her aptitude but in her scheming.

At a hundred and twenty-plus years old, she was only eighteen back then, when Li Jizhou had just experienced the heartbreaking event of his beloved failing to establish a foundation.

Moreover, being promoted to a Tier Two Pill Master, he was praised as the non-relative leading ancestor of the Zhou family, raising his reputation within the family.

This Zhou Zimei repeatedly seduced him with various favors.

Being a lonely old man over a hundred and twenty, and at a time of great sorrow, how could he resist the allure of an eighteen-year-old girl?

In the end, she succeeded.

In a mad affair that lasted more than a year, Li Jizhou finally regained his senses.

Decisively ending this illicit affair.

Subsequently, Zhou Zimei’s position in the Zhou family steadily climbed.

By the time Li Jizhou departed for the Duxian Sect to seek opportunities in Core Formation, it seemed she had already secured the rights to distribute Foundation Establishment Pills.

Now it seems, indeed she succeeded in establishing a foundation.

However, now she was over a hundred and seventy, her life force fading, her looks withered, and Li Jizhou sensed she might have been injured, fearing she didn’t have many years left.

Facing the Zhou family’s intimidating aura, Li Jizhou said nothing and unleashed a forceful Tier Two puppet.

“Thud, thud, thud~”

The puppet, which once slaughtered pseudo-Core Formation cultivators from the Chu Kingdom’s Celestial Spirit Sect, made the entire Zhou family retreat several steps.

The killing intent on the puppet sent chills down their spines.

“Senior, you… what is your intention?” Zhou Zimei trembled slightly, struggling against the pressure to ask.

“Hahaha, what’s to fear? I don’t kill lightly!” Li Jizhou laughed arrogantly.

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