C41 Coalescence

The door opened, and footsteps rang out. Not long after, the small living room was immediately filled with people. One of the three people came over to Ling Yan and bowed, "Senior Apprentice Brother has come out. Fool juniors and the other four did not come out to welcome you, causing you to fall into the mortal world. Fool Juniors and the others felt guilty. Please punish us, senior apprentice-brother."

At this moment, Ling Yan was also very excited. Although he had never met his juniors before, they were, after all, the direct disciples of his parents. Since his parents were not on Earth today, they were the ones with the closest connections to him. He smiled and said, "I can't even be sure of my own time when I came out of seclusion. How would you know? No wonder you two, Xiao Qian?" Ji Xiaoqian was her youngest junior sister. She had four people, and Ji Xiaoqian should still be around. However, she only had three junior brothers, so Ling Yan asked about them.

"In reply to Senior Brother's words, Junior Sister Zhuang is currently in closed door cultivation, so it is inconvenient for me to wake her up. Senior Brother, please forgive me." The man in the middle answered respectfully.

Ling Yan said, "What is there to not forgive about our fellow apprentices? I saw that she wasn't here, so I just asked. Hehe, you are Wu Qi? " The person in the middle had a stocky face and looked like he was in his fifties. He had a crew cut, and if it wasn't for the pair of eyes that flashed brightly from time to time, he would have been the type of person that couldn't be found if he was thrown into the crowd. The man said respectfully, "Senior Brother, I am Wu Qi."

Before Ling Yan could say anything, the person on the left continued, "Senior Brother, I'm Zhao Yu. Actually, we don't know about Senior Brother coming out of seclusion, so this matter should be blamed on me. If I hadn't been away for a few days, I wouldn't have let Senior Brother face this unfamiliar environment alone."

Zhao Yu's face was thin and he looked around 30 years old. He wore a tailored and proper suit, and his entire body emitted a refined and talkative disposition. He looked extremely like an extremely powerless teacher, and his eye sockets were only short of a pair of close-sighted glasses.

Ling Yan knew that he was the third son of the Northern Song Dynasty, and due to his lack of interest in fame and wealth, he chose to travel to that place. On this day, he was lucky enough to run into the ZhongHan couple, and they accepted him as their disciple. At this moment, Zhao Yu had a face full of guilt as he blamed himself in his heart. The kindness of his Master and his wife to his martial brother and sister was as heavy as a mountain, and he was actually unable to even accomplish such a simple task as protecting them.

Ling Yan was surprised. "You know where I go in seclusion?" and often go to guard it? "

"Ha ha!" The person on the right laughed and said, "Senior Brother, when Master and Mistress were on Earth, we used to often go outside your closed door cultivation abode to have fun, so of course we know about it. After they left for Sinking Cloud Star, the four of us found a place to stay not far away from your cave entrance, because it's a good place to cultivate. It's also Master's instruction, so it's completely the same as senior protector, so we cultivated here for three hundred years. Three hundred years later, Master's wife returned to Earth from Sinking Cloud Star, and made us brothers and sisters fortunately serve her for another hundred years. "Before we leave, tell our brother and sister: In the future, the situation will develop and this place will become a densely packed crowd. In order to not attract attention, us siblings can look elsewhere for cultivation and just come back often to take a look."

"Father and mother came back?" Ling Yan's face was filled with regret again. "What is my closed door doing?" He had actually made his parents wait for him for hundreds of years! Just that it has been hard on you all. You actually worried about these long years just for my inexplicable death. Right, you must be Junior Brother Duanmu Yin, right? "

Duanmu Yin looked to be around forty years old, with a square face and a wide nose, a wide mouth, and a handsome face. He had a short beard on his cheeks, and when matched with Ling Yan's tall figure of nearly 1.9 meters, he gave off a very dignified and steady vibe. He spoke in a deep voice, and even though his voice was low, it still made one's ears twitch. Besides, this is our responsibility. If Third Bro didn't have any business being dragged by me, we could have just taken you out.

Ling Yan looked at the three juniors in front of him. He knew that his parents had taken a fancy to them as disciples, but in fact, they were a bit selfish, and kept him in the heart of Earth. Feeling uneasy, Ling Yan said with a smile, "After coming out of seclusion and seeing mother's message, I was worried that one of you guys would fail the Silent Spirit Stage and let me not meet you. Now that you guys have met me, you guys are actually all in the late and middle stages of the Nascent Soul Stage, Xiao Qian shouldn't be that much weaker, right?"

On the left, Zhao Yu continued, "Among the five of us, besides you, Senior Brother, we are the ones with the highest cultivation level, but little junior sister, she is already at the late Nascent Soul stage and is only one step away from the exit. Next is second brother, at the late Nascent Soul stage, Fourth Brother and I have the weakest cultivation, we are both at the middle level of the Nascent Soul stage." Although his cultivation was at the bottom, the smile on his face brimmed with joy and gratification.

He was indeed born several decades before them, and was indeed the eldest senior brother. However, talking about the length of his life and the accumulation of his experience in handling matters, Ling Yan couldn't even compare to them. He had taken in a bunch of disciples, and the youngest disciple would probably be older than he was. Forget it. He couldn't just turn the tables and become his junior apprentice-brother. Even if he wanted to, most likely they wouldn't be willing.

Ling Yan smiled, feeling surprised at their cultivation aptitude. It was already an arduous task to be able to cultivate to such a low level on Earth where the spiritual qi was so sparse. Ji Xiaoqian's physical fitness and perception were even greater than the other three senior brothers', but she was already nearing her final stage. Glancing at the dozens of people in the living room, most of them old men, and some of them young and strong, he asked, "Are they all your disciples?"

Wu Qi simply smiled and said," Most of these 28 people are Fourth Junior Brother's disciples, and some of them are Third Junior Brother's disciples. As for me … I didn't accept any of them! " A trace of sadness flashed across his face. Although it was fleeting, Ling Yan noticed it when Wu Qi stopped talking. He frowned and asked, "Second Junior Brother, you should have taken in a disciple. Why is there such an expression?

Zhao Yu took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Eldest Brother, it's better if I say it!" Seeing that Ling Yan was looking at him, he turned to Wu Qi and said, "Second Brother only accepted a single disciple in his entire life, and he took it in earlier than us.

Ling Yan asked, "What about me?" Ling Yan estimated that the disciple might have met with a mishap during his training, and now he asked Wu Qi about it, even though it would make Wu Qi sad, he had no choice but to ask because some things were not necessarily absolute. Judging from Wu Qi's expression, it seemed that he was very fond of the disciple, and if he didn't resolve the knot in his heart, then Wu Qi might face a calamity in the future.

After he was rescued, he was taught by second brother to cultivate. This little fellow is extremely obedient and sensible, and is loved by us siblings, and under our tutelage, he is able to travel a thousand miles in a single day, but in just one hundred years, he has already reached the latter stage of his cultivation. One day, he brought up the idea of travelling to the outside world to search for materials to refine and make a flying sword for him, so that I can help him refine a flying sword. It's been more than four hundred years, but second brother is still not resigned to it. After saying that, he looked at Wu Qi with sadness and pity.

Ling Yan looked at Wu Qi and asked, "The spirit of a cultivator far surpasses that of a mortal, because the essence of cultivation is also the spirit of the strong. You two have accompanied each other for a hundred years, so when it comes to sensing your spirit, have you ever felt any outstanding talent in this world?"

Wu Qi nodded his head, and a bitter smile appeared on his face, "After three years, I could sense that there was a change in the mental energy of a talented person, although this feeling is very abstract and subtle, but I can confirm that he must have met with some trouble that could cause his Qi to go into chaos. At first, I went out of the mountain alone and searched for five years without any results, but after that, they also joined in the search. The four of us searched in four different directions, covering almost every corner of the entire Earth, but in the end, we still couldn't find anything."

Ling Yan couldn't help but be surprised. The consciousness of a cultivator was several times more sensitive than that of a modern thermal energy radar. The range they could detect was basically minuscule. The five experts searched the entire Earth but couldn't find a single living person? Where was Lu Renjie hiding?

"How do you feel now?" Ling Yan asked.

"It's still the same! However, the reaction seems to be getting weaker and weaker! " Wu Qi's face was filled with sadness, "If it were not for the fact that my cultivation had advanced into the late stage of Nascent Soul two hundred years ago and my cultivation had improved a little, I am not sure if I would be able to sense anything now!" It seemed that his late stage Nascent Soul cultivation was forced out to find disciples. If it wasn't for the fact that he often went out to look for disciples, Wu Qi's cultivation realm might have been even higher.

Ling Yan was silent for a moment, then said to Wu Qi, "Second Junior Brother, the disappearance of a talented person has already caused a knot in your heart, if that weak sensation in your mind disappeared, your cultivation realm would most likely stop, forever staying where it is. Therefore, you should let go of your emotions now, and focus on finding the right person to cultivate, otherwise, once you stop, it will be very difficult to advance any further, because the knot in your heart is a barrier that will never be passed, it has nothing to do with aptitude, do you understand?"