Chapter 144 Being on the Outside
Chapter 144: Being Outside of the Circumstances
One hundred and ten years old is not a long or short journey for a long-lived person.
However, most Qi Refining Stage cultivators don't live to that age.
When you are over 100 years old, you are considered to have reached the end of your life.
As a matter of fact, Li Erqing used the term "joyful mourning" to describe Mu Xiuyun's death at the age of 110 in his letter.
He did not take it as bad news.
Lu Changan knew that under normal circumstances, Mu Xiu Yun would not live to be 110 years old.
It should be that the life-extension pills that Mu Bing Yun brought back some years ago have sustained her for a few more years.
Lu Changan opened Mu Bing Yun's letter again, the words between the lines reveal a faint sadness and unwillingness to give up.
Mu Bing Yun, whose parents died in the war when she was a child, was adopted by Mu Xiu Yun as the successor of her mantle.
Mu Xiu Yun, is considered to be the closest relative in her heart.
"Uncle Lu, if Master had left the family back then and went after you, would the ending have been different?"
In the letter, Mu Bing Yun asked this.
Lu Chang'an put away the epistle without words and did not tell her the cruel truth.
For one thing, he had a tacit agreement with Mu Xiu Yun beforehand to get together and part ways, otherwise there would be no such time.
At the qi refining stage, his means of protecting the Dao was weak, and when he went out to attempt to build the foundation, he only had enough to take care of himself. Secondly, when Mu Xiu Yun was at the ninth level of qi refining and impacted the foundation stage, Lu Changan was only at the seventh level of qi refining, lagging behind by more than twenty years of cultivation progress.
In the Immortal Cultivation world, only the higher realms can bring up the lower realms.
Lu Chang'an, after establishing the foundation, remembered his old friendship and brought up Mu Bingyun, helping her to establish the foundation more smoothly.
Lu Chang'an, after establishing the foundation, remembered his old friendship and helped Mu Bing Yun to establish the foundation more smoothly.
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When Lu Changan arrived at Fei Yue Lake, Mu Xiu Yun's funeral had already ended.
According to Mu Xiu Yun's explanation before her death, the funeral was kept simple.
In addition to the Mu family, some of the neighboring cultivators were either unaware of the news or did not focus on this matter.
The funeral was covered up by the news of Mu Congren's foundation building and did not have much presence.
"Big brother."
"Grandpa Lu."
Li Erqing and Mu Congren took the lead in welcoming them.
Li Erqing has not changed much from his 100th birthday, he is not as tired as he was ten years ago, he looks more comfortable, he has lived a good life.
Mu Congren looks like a young man, youthful appearance, than when we first met, the temperament is more calm and introverted.
He smiled and greeted his father with a smile.
"Congren, at such an age, you will certainly achieve more than your grandfather."
Lu Chang'an praised.
Lu Changan had not seen much of Mu Congren.
But Li Erqing's letters mentioned this grandson from time to time, and he was full of praise.
When he was young, Mu Congren was a bit cynical, and his character was very free-spirited.
After he became a young man, he became more stable and helped his grandfather to manage his family members and run the family business.
After he reached the seventh level of Qi refining, he took the initiative to go out for training.
His personal ability is undoubtedly beyond Li Erqing.
"Grandpa Lu is not complimentary, late generation foundation building, get father's grace. Not as good as you had no one to rely on, go out alone to build a foundation......"
Mu Congren said modestly.
The road to Yuexin Island.
Li Erqing recounts the details of Mu Congren's foundation building.
After the ninth level of Qi Refining, Mu Congren stayed in the Liaoyuan Immortal City for nearly ten years, making connections and saving up a family fortune.
Mu Congren himself has also contributed a lot to the plan to build the foundation, and he has become more successful.
In the end, with the help of his father, he was able to purchase a low-quality Foundation Establishment Pill through the black market channels he had tapped into.
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Moonheart Island, Mausoleum Area.
In front of the tomb, Mu Bing Yun is wearing mourning, her face is slightly haggard, and she is a bit more lonely than usual.
The white mourning clothes can't hide her beautiful face and slender physique. In addition to the temperament is colder, as if the gentle Miss reappeared.
"Uncle Lu." Mu Bing Yun rose a salute, voice low, eyes slightly red.
Lu Changan nodded, but did not say the condolences and other words of comfort.
As a Foundation Stage cultivator with a lifespan of more than two hundred years, the deaths of friends and relatives in the neighborhood are commonplace.
Lu Changan paid his respects at Mu Xiu Yun's grave and stayed there for a long time.
The first woman he had a bond with in this life has come to the end of her life.
He has never seen Mu Xiu Yun's aging face, and his memory has always been of the gentle and elegant young lady.
The impression is as good as the first sight.
Mu Bing Yun was kneeling on the side, burning yellow paper and paying attention to Lu Chang An's expression.
Lu Chang'an was just a little bit downcast and did not show any emotion of grief, remorse, or reluctance to give up.
It is more of a kind of calmness and frankness after years of experience.
At this moment, Mu Bing Yun's heart was vaguely uncomfortable.
In the heart of this youthful man, his own master, perhaps not as heavy weight as imagined.
Thinking rationally, she didn't feel strange again.
Uncle Lu is now one hundred and ten years old, and the young lady of the year, only a few years of private relations between men and women.
A few years of love between a man and a woman, compared to the experience of a hundred and ten years old, seems insignificant.
Many men and women who have been in love for more than ten years, perhaps only two years, to find a new love, the old feelings will be replaced and quickly fade.
Mu Bing Yun did not know that Lu Chang'an had been through two lives.
Especially in his second life, Lu Changan had many concubines. Not to mention his concubines, he has sent away his own sons and daughters, his own children, and his own children's children, one batch after another.
Fortunately, the memory of reincarnation in the Nine Seals Tablet is more like an immersive life movie.
When you get out of it, you just have more experience and knowledge, and the essence of your heart remains unchanged.
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"Xiu Yun, her whole life has been dedicated to the family. She in the talisman, attainments profound to the second stage, before dying, to the family left a complete and orderly talisman master heritage......"
Mu Congren accompanied the ceremony and spoke highly of her.
Nowadays, in the Fei Yuehu Mu family, talisman master talents appear from time to time. The talisman-related industries have become one of the important sources of income for the Mu Family.
After Mu Bing Yun built her foundation, she was successfully promoted to the second level of talisman master, becoming the master of the Mu family's talismanic achievements.
Due to her talismanic skill, she has better potential and talent. The status of Mu Bingyun in the clan is vaguely higher than that of Li Erqing, the foreign ancestor who built the foundation.
The grave of Mu Xiu Yun was honored.
Lu Chang'an also stopped by Mu Yunfei's grave.
Mu Yunfei, died a few years before Mu Xiuyun, during the Beast Tide.
Due to the fact that he was only a qi refining cultivator, and also due to the beast tide, the Mu family didn't alert Lu Changan, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, at that time.
"Mu Maode...... Mu Renlong...... Mu Xiuyun...... Mu Yunfei...... "
Lu Chang'an's mind swept through each and every past figure of the Mu Family.
Ninety years ago, when he first entered Fei Yue Lake, the two generations of Mu Family patriarchs that he had known had both passed away.
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That night, the Mu Family's senior management hosted a banquet for Lu Chang'an.
Li Erqing, Mu Congren, and a few of the Mu Family's senior members at the 9th level of Qi Refining accompanied them.
The previous head of the Mu Family, Mu Chengji, with a lifespan of nearly a hundred years, resigned as the head of the family before the beast tide.
The new head of the family, Mu Jing, is the nephew and grandson of Mu Xiu Yun. He is less than forty years old, and has been introduced by the old lineage of the Mu family as the family manager.
"Big brother might as well be a guest on Moonheart Island for a few days, in a few days, it will be Congren's Foundation Building Ceremony."
During the banquet, Li Erqing warmly retained.
Lu Chang'an didn't refuse, since he had already come here, he didn't need this much time.
In the evening, Lu Chang'an stayed at the guest house on Moon Island.
Li Erqing came over to talk to him, and we talked until late at night.
During this time, Lu Changan intentionally mentioned "Mu Jiu'an", Li Erqing's most talented ninth son.
Because of the war between the neighboring Immortals, Lu Chang'an remembered Mu Jiu'an.
Mu Jiu'an studied under a pandan master of the Beacon Country and joined the YuanYing level of the country.
The Fenghuang Kingdom is facing a joint invasion by the Yan Kingdom and the Chen Kingdom.
When talking about Mu Jiu'an, Li Erqing's expression was slightly tangled, and he didn't have much interest in talking about his son who had moved to another country.
Due to the long distance, the father and son have not exchanged information for decades.
When he was young, Li Erqing didn't like Mu Jiu'an very much.
Mu Jiu'an obtained the Foundation Establishment Pill for his father, and later visited him on the way, gifting him a lot of resources, which was considered as repaying the kindness of his upbringing.
After that, Mu Jiu'an almost cut off contact with his father, and settled down in the Beacon Country Sect.
"The 'Golden Sun Sect' where Jiu'an is from has a legacy of nearly ten thousand years, and is the strongest YuanYing stage force in the Beacon Kingdom, with two YuanYing True Monarchs in attendance. With defenses in place, there should be no major harm."
Li Erqing was more optimistic and wasn't very worried about Mu Jiu'an, who was in the Beacon Country.
Previously, the YuanYing stage sect that was destroyed in the Beacon Kingdom was called "Blood Sword Valley", which was relatively close to Yan Kingdom, and I heard that it was taken by surprise.
The YuanYing True Monarch of the Blood Sword Valley was seriously injured, and escaped his YuanYing.
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The next morning, Lu Chang'an finished his routine cultivation, a few pieces of spirit stones in front of him dimmed and turned into powder.
Moonheart Island is a second-order spirit vein dojo, so it's reasonable to say that he doesn't need spirit stones or pills to supplement his daily cultivation here.
"The spirit veins of Moonheart Island, supplying a few Foundation Establishment cultivators for cultivation, plus some late-stage Qi Refinement practitioners, has already exceeded the limit."
Lu Chang'an put away the spirit stone powder and sighed lightly.
To be precise, the Mu family has three existing Foundation Establishment cultivators, all practicing at the same time on Moonheart Island, are somewhat reluctant. Unlike Wu Qi Mountain, the population is thin.
The Mu Family also has numerous Qi Refining Stage clan cultivators, a few of which are on Moonheart Island; the rest are practicing in several branches of the Second Order Spiritual Vein, and the Fei Yue Mountain Villa on the First Order Spiritual Vein.
Lu Changan realized that this matter might become a hidden danger in the future of Lake Fei Yue.
As the three Foundation Establishment cultivators advanced, this situation would become more and more obvious.
Unless we can expand outward, or buy a new spiritual vein site.
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Seven days later.
Two sect foundation building cultivators flew over to Moonheart Island and came over to attend Mu Congren's foundation building ceremony.
The two honored guests were Lin Lu and Zhao Taner.
Zhao Tan'er came to congratulate her on behalf of her master Zhao Siyao.
She still looks like a young girl, her eyebrows are like green feathers, her skin is like white snow, and her temperament is light and playful.
Zhao Tan Er has a lively and active temperament and likes to be active.
Mu Congren personally greeted them and placed them in an elegant room with Lu Changan.
"Uncle Lu, you are also here."
Zhao Tan'er, with her beautiful eyes and sweet voice, came forward to salute.
Showing her respect for the old man's elders.
Although in Lu Chang'an's eyes, the words and actions are a bit pompous, but after all, the etiquette is in place.
"Tan'er, Xiao Lu, feel free to sit down, no need to be too formal."
Lu Chang'an didn't rely on his old age and treated them as if they were fellow cultivators.
Especially Zhao Tan'er, her qualifications were similar to his previous life, and in the clan, her starting point was even higher.
The three of them talked together without many barriers.
Lu Chang'an was old, but his mind was not old.
During the conversation, Lin Lu's gaze was occasionally attracted by Zhao Tan Er's knitted brows and smile.
Compared to many female cultivators who are dignified and reserved, gentle or charming, Zhao Tan'er's frank and lively, bright and pure, generous, has a unique flavor.
Zhao Tan'er only treated Lin Lu as a big brother.
The two sides were very familiar with each other, and Zhao Tan Er occasionally taunted and flirted with Lin Lu.
Lin Lu was very tolerant, he didn't get annoyed or angry, he occasionally smiled bitterly and showed weakness, making Zhao Tan Er feel uninterested.
Lu Chang'an said, "It's just another case of the flowers having feelings and the water having no intention.
Lin Lu is much older than Zhao Taner, and the gap between their starting points and even their talents is not small.
With all these factors, I am afraid that Lin Lu doesn't even have the courage to pursue or confess his love for Zhao Tang'er.
"Uncle Lu, you must seize the opportunity."
Zhao Tang'er's pretty eyes turned, after chatting with Lu Chang'an, she also couldn't help but joke:
"My master in these two years, began to start planning for the opportunity to end the Dan. If you can chase her down now, perhaps in another one or two decades, you will be able to have a real human Taoist couple."
At the end of her words, Zhao Tan'er "puffed", her face was flushed, fresh and attractive.
"Tang'er, don't be rude."
Lin Lu smiled bitterly and scolded.
Lu Chang'an was dumbfounded and simply didn't answer, so as not to let this woman hit the snake and follow the stick.
Zhao Siyao was promoted to the late stage of Foundation Establishment a few years ago, and it is normal for her to plan ahead for her chance to become a pandan.
It is normal for a normal Foundation Establishment practitioner to plan for at least a few decades, if not a hundred years, to succeed in achieving pandan.
Those who can succeed are few and far between.
In any case, Lu Changan did not believe that Zhao Siyao could succeed in forming pandas in one or two decades, even if it was a fake pandas.
Only a genius with an Earth Spirit Root, a deep background, and good fortune would be able to do so.
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Mu Congren's Foundation Building Ceremony lasted for a few days.
The guests came and went.
The night before Lu Chang'an's departure.
Mu Bing Yun, who was wearing mourning clothes, paid a private visit to his courtyard to ask for some advice.
In the face of this former maid of Little Turtle Peak, Lu Chang'an kept a proper distance from the lonely man and woman in the same room.
After advancing to Foundation Establishment, Mu Bing Yun dared to look straight at him.
In this woman's gaze, there was a mixture of respect, trust, and hidden emotions.
If the questions Mu Bing Yun asked for advice were related to family strategies and related to Li Erqing, Lu Chang'an would not express his personal opinion.
Regarding personal cultivation, or talismanic arts, Lu Changan gave a slight nod or two.
"Uncle Lu, a few years after returning to the clan to build the foundation. Bing Yun suddenly felt that it was still the days in Little Turtle Peak back then, peaceful and carefree." Mu Bing Yun's snow-like clear face, slightly revealing a smile, reminiscing.
"I do not know how Qiaozhi sister is now; Xuan Shui turtle grew up how much; ground rock rats have been working diligently, whether they feel tired......."
The two chatted for half an hour.
Their eyes touched from time to time, and they did not dodge each other, nor did they overstep the bounds of propriety.
In the end, Mu Bing Yun Ying Ying a salute, said goodbye and left.
I am very happy to see the familiar silhouette leave.
Lu Changan thought of a tendency expressed by Mu Bing Yun just now on the issue of family.
The family has three major foundation builders, many qi refining clansmen, and the first and second order spirit veins are beyond the limits of affordability, so the competition for resources is overly fierce.
Mu Bingyun hopes that Li Erqing's lineage will be able to "expand" out, which will be conducive to the long-term development of the Mu family.
It's not a good idea to speak directly.
After all, Li Erqing is worthy of the Mu Clan, as a Foundation Establishment Ancestor, he had sheltered Fei Yuehu for a period of time.
Mu Bingyun wanted Lu Changan to act as a middleman, to summarize the two veins and qi deliberations, to sort out a relatively fair and mutually acceptable solution.
This kind of family matter.
Lu Changan, an outsider who has been out of the Mu family for decades, would not be able to intervene.
The next day, he said goodbye to Li Erqing's grandparents and grandchildren.
He said goodbye to Li Erqing and his grandchildren.
He didn't want to get caught in the vortex of the Mu family's possible split.
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