[In the eightieth year, you looked up at the sky with increasing despondency and let out a sigh.]


    [During this year, you did not feel any eleration in the recovery of your injuries.]


    [You wondered if the "Late Bloomer" talent couldn''t speed up healing.]


    [But this puzzled you greatly, as cultivation is supposed to elerate spiritual energy absorption and increase one''s power.]


    [Now, you''re also absorbing spiritual energy to heal, so why isn''t this talent working?]


    [You cursed inwardly, "Damn double standards!"]n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    [In the eighty-fifth year, your injuries were still severe, and you could only recover to the early Spirit Transformation stage.]


    [This made you frown deeply, even considering the idea of dispersing your cultivation and starting over.]


    [After all, this recovery speed was even slower than starting cultivation anew!][Of course, you dismissed this thought as soon as it arose.]


    [Having received an Immortal Dao inheritance, you were no longer a novice in cultivation and knew clearly that dispersing your cultivation would damage your foundation.]


    [You would never again reach your former heights.]


    [In the nieth year, you looked at the two strands of white hair at your temples and let out a bitterugh.]


    [You were only a hundred and ten years old, which, given your cultivation, should still be considered youthful, yet you already had white hair—this was not normal.]


    [But looking at your appearance, you weren''t too surprised.]


    [After all, Shen Wutian had extracted arge amount of your blood essence and soul.]


    [This would naturally have a severe impact on your lifespan.]


    [In truth, you had long suspected this but pretended not to know, clinging to a sliver of hope.]


    [You thought perhaps the "Death Substitute Doll" talent would help eliminate these hidden dangers!]


    [But now it seemed, clearly not.]


    [The "Death Substitute Doll" talent, true to its name, could only substitute for death.]


    [You nced at the wooden hut you had lived in for decades, took a deep breath, and sighed, "I can''t keep hiding!"]


    [Initially, you thought you could hide and recover, regaining your strength before investigating the situation here.]


    [If it was too dangerous, you would just keep hiding and cultivate until the end of your lifespan.]


    [You knew clearly that you were in a simtion; although the truth was important, you cared more about increasing your strength.]


    [But once white hair appeared at your temples, you felt your lifespan might not be enough to support your recovery, let alone further cultivation.]


    [You knew you couldn''t keep hiding; you needed to take risks and act more aggressively.]


    [Whether it was seeking heavenly materials and earthly treasures to increase your lifespan or exploring to find out where you were, you had to go out.]


    [Otherwise, hiding would just waste the remaining simtion time.]


    [After making your decision, you no longer hesitated and turned to walk into the distance.]


    [In the ny-first year, you arrived outside the Cangyun Sect.]


    [Originally, it wouldn''t have taken you this long to reach the Cangyun Sect.]


    [But during this year, you visited many pharmacies and auction houses along the way, hoping to find some heavenly materials and earthly treasures useful to you.]


    [Whether it was for restoring blood essence, repairing the soul, or increasing lifespan, these treasures would be greatly beneficial to you.]


    [Unfortunately, these types of heavenly materials and earthly treasures were rare, and you found none.]


    [You weren''t disappointed by this, as you had only been trying your luck from the start.]


    [Now, you came to the Cangyun Sect with a simr purpose.]


    [After all, the Cangyun Sect was thergest sect in the area, and the probability of finding these treasures here was the highest.]


    [But how could you obtain heavenly materials and earthly treasures from the Cangyun Sect?]


    [No, you couldn''t even get into the Cangyun Sect right now.]


    [Let alone scheme for their treasures.]


    [However, you were quite lucky; after only a few days of lingering outside the Cangyun Sect, you learned that in three months, they would be recruiting new disciples.]


    [You thought you could sneak in then.]


    [Three months passed in the blink of an eye, and you sessfully joined the Cangyun Sect.]


    [However, you did not join as a disciple.]


    [Your age had already exceeded the range for disciple recruitment at the Cangyun Sect.]


    [So, if not as a disciple, how did you get into the Cangyun Sect?]


    [You nced at the somewhat shy fairy sister beside you and silently recited, "Dao De Jing!"]


    [You really didn''t mean to; you just casually chatted a bit, and she came to you on her own.]


    [Yes, that''s what you thought.]


    [As for the "Love Saint" talent? What is that? You selectively forgot about it, firmly refusing to acknowledge you had used this talent.]


    [Afterward, you sessfully settled in the Cangyun Sect as Xia Zhishan''s Daopanion!]


    [This three-thousand-year-old fairy, Xia Zhishan, was an elder of the Cangyun Sect, with a high status and power at the ninth level of Tribtion Crossing.]


    [Upon learning of your severe injuries, she used her position to provide you with many treasures.]


    [In the ny-fifth year, the white hair at your temples hadpletely disappeared.]


    [You could now exert the peak power of the Spirit Transformation stage.]


    [However, you felt that further recovery was bing increasingly difficult.]


    [In truth, there was no other way; over the past few years, you had obtained many treasures from Xia Zhishan that increased lifespan and restored blood essence.]


    [But there were no treasures to heal soul injuries.]


    [Half of your injuries were from the soul; without the corresponding treasures, relying on time to slowly restore soul power naturally made it difficult to recover your cultivation.]


    [Over these years, you also asked Xia Zhishan which region of the Nine Mystic Realm this ce belonged to.]


    [But Xia Zhishan''s answer surprised you.]


    [She said this was the Divine Martial Continent, a whole entity, and they divided territories by sects, without any regional divisions.]


    [Her answer made you ponder for a long time.]


    [Later, you also inquired about the Immortal Realm, but Xia Zhishan said she didn''t know what the Immortal Realm was!]


    [In the end, you stopped exploring further, thinking you might have been wrong from the start.]


    [You weren''t transported out of the Southern Regions but directly out of the Nine Mystic Realm, perhaps even far from the Immortal Realm.]


    [However, you thought this might be for the best, as it kept you farther from the powerful beings of the Immortal Realm, making it safer.]


    [This way, as long as you didn''t deliberately cause trouble, once you healed your injuries, wouldn''t you be able to simte for eternity?]


    [You couldn''t help but start fantasizing that after this simtion, you might be invincible.]