Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

As the saying goes, a faraway mountain can kill a horse that looks close.

What appeared to be nearby actually took him the time of several sticks of incense to finally step onto the beach.

And at that moment, sitting on the edge of the beach, was an old man with silver hair holding a fishing rod, leisurely fishing. Nearby, in the sand, was planted a broken and tattered black flag, which had two lines of slightly crooked white stitching.

"Dare not predict too much, fearing heaven and the ghosts."

"Words must not be fully explained, lest they throw the world into chaos."

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"Why are you here?!"

"Why are you here?!"

Chen Qiu looked at the familiar old man, feeling a bit dumbfounded, and blurted out subconsciously, while the other party also seemed equally flustered and incredulous as if they had seen a ghost!

The old and the young asked the same question out loud.

This old man wasn't a stranger; he was the fortune-telling old man who he had encountered a few times before.

He reminded him that there were too many resentful spirits on him.

"It's not..."

The old man's throat moved slightly, his face full of disbelief and confusion. After taking a few deep breaths, he abandoned his fishing rod and stepped briskly over to Chen Qiu, examining him up and down. Trembling, he said, "Never mind why I am here, you tell me first, why the hell are you here?!"

"Me?"

Chen Qiu pointed at himself: "I am here to go through the trials, preparing to obtain the Magic Practitioner's inheritance."

"Old man, why are you here? Is this your true identity?"

"Is there any way to get through a back door or something?"

"The hell with your back door!"

The old man, as if he had truly seen a ghost, glared at Chen Qiu and couldn't help but roar, "Are you fucking crazy?!"

"You're going through the Magic Practitioner's trial, and you run onto my Array Repairer's territory to do what exactly?!"

"The first round for the Magic Practitioner's island is deep under the sea, did you not do any research before coming?"

"You just barged in?"

"How did you manage to get through the Forbidden Sea and end up on my Array Repair Continent's turf? You're quite the runner, aren't you? Come on, tell me how you did it, I'm really curious!"

"I knew it was strange that I saw someone when no one was supposed to be going through the trials. I thought I'd seen a ghost!"

"..."

"..."

Chen Qiu wore a strange expression as he silently stood in place, turning to look at the blue sea behind him. He had guessed that the island might be underwater, but after trying and failing to dive down, he had given up.

"So..."

He glanced around tentatively, "This should also count as an island, right?"

"After all, the condition to pass the first round is just to reach any island. It didn't specify that it had to be the one deep under the sea, did it?"

"..."

The old man's mouth twitched uncontrollably before he waved dismissively, turned around, picked up his fishing rod, and sat back down in his original spot: "Don't ask me. I don't know. The Magic Practitioner's inheritance isn't my responsibility."

Chen Qiu trotted over, reinserted the flag that had been made crooked by the sea breeze a bit deeper into the sand, and straightened it before blinking and speaking: "Excuse me, senior."

"Is there any other source of information leakage?"

"None."

The old man glanced at Chen Qiu irritably and cut him off: "And don't take out any roasted chicken or roasted rabbits or anything like that. People I've met in recent years are getting weirder and weirder, always taking out roasted chicken and handing it over out of nowhere."

"As if a roasted chicken could make me open my heart to them."

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"At the very least hand over some Spirit Stones and I would've kept my mouth shut, delivery chicken to your mom, I've lived so long, what kind of chicken haven't I eaten?"

"Here you go."

Chen Qiu's expression turned serious, and he immediately pulled out a Storage Ring containing two thousand Spirit Stones and handed it over: "No offense intended, I mainly wanted to thank you for the warning you gave me back at the Wen Tian market; otherwise, I might now be infected with resentful energy."

"Heh."

The old man sneered and expertly grabbed the Storage Ring, stuffing it into his pocket: "You don't seem like someone who listens to advice either, aren't you still carrying a Golden Core resentful spirit on your back?"

"Senior, you jest. It's mainly cause young folks have fiery temperaments, gotta cool down the resentful spirit, especially when it's hot.

"Forget it."

The old man shook his head: "Your Cultivation is up there now. A Golden Core resentful spirit can't take you down; I'm too lazy to talk about it. But don't waste your efforts, I can't tell you anything."

"Besides, don't worry, you've definitely passed the first round."

"But you'll have to wait a bit."

"Wait for what?"

The old man rolled his eyes at Chen Qiu again: "Wait for that qualified old man who has to cross the Forbidden Sea to come here to announce your success and then take you back. But with his frail old bones, I seriously doubt whether he can make it across the Forbidden Sea."

"The last time he came over for a catch-up was thirty years ago."

"Thanks to your good fortune, before I die, I might get to see that old guy one more time."

...

Chen Qiu thus chatted aimlessly with the old man on the beach for an hour.

One could tell.

The old man was talkative and liked to converse; he just restrained himself a lot. He would subconsciously start to boast about his past, and then abruptly stop, leaving Chen Qiu to hear the emotions but without the full story.

In the middle, Chen Qiu also asked several times about this location.

Is the Forbidden Sea and the Array Repair Continent inside a small world, or somewhere in Da Xia Country, or outside it?

The old man shook his head but still didn't answer.

Just reminiscing.

"Alas, when I was young, I was also a hothead just like you."

The old man sat on the beach with a reflective look, gazing into the depths of the Forbidden Sea: "I was barely considered a prodigy when I was young, had a strong talent in Array Repair, but I didn't like Array Repair, I preferred Gua Cultivation."

"But my damn master insisted that I practice Array Repair, he provoked me, saying I would never pass the Array Repair inheritance."

"Back then, being hot-tempered and stubborn, I went through all the rounds and made it to my master's presence, only when I saw that sly smile of his did I realize I'd been tricked."

"Afterward..."

"Well, it's pretty much been like this ever since."

"And that damn old fossils, they all have their day to die eventually."

Sitting by the side, Chen Qiu rotated the roast chicken on the grill and ventured: "Isn't it true that no one has claimed the inheritance in the Inheritance Secret Realm?"

Luckily Fat Long liked to grill some meat to eat, so his Storage Ring was never short of that kind of stuff.

The old man said he didn't like people giving him roast chicken and stuff, but he didn't stop munching on the chicken and sipping small drinks, seemingly relishing the food quite a bit.

"Hey."

The old man, lifting his sleeve and not caring about his appearance, wiped the grease from his mouth and said reflectively: "You've hit the nail on the head, but I can't say. Yet I know what you're thinking, don't worry about being imprisoned here just because you passed the Magic Practitioner's inheritance."

"Moreover, this place can't really be called a prison."

"It's a place where you can barely cling to life when your time is nearing its end, ordinary people don't even have the opportunity to stay here."

"You certainly don't have that privilege."

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