Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

214: Chapter 214 The Path of Cultivation: The Hardest Thing to Overcome is the Barrier of Love!With the minor interlude concluded, Gu Yan returned to the Hall of Longevity and sat down upon the taixu guiyuan prayer mat.

He calculated in his heart that he had spent the last ten or so years solely focused on watching his ’shows,’ neglecting his Cultivation quite a bit.

Above the Immortal King, there was the Immortal Emperor; such indulgence was truly not a long-term plan.

He secretly admonished himself that from this day forward, he had to focus his mind.

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Ten days later.

Gu Yan sat cross-legged in the hall, his left hand holding a teacup, the lingering fragrance of the Absolute Beginning Sweet Dew curling up from the cup.

To his right, the haotian mirror suspended in mid-air, its images shifting and flowing.

The Spiritual Qi and Laws around him were like threads and strands, automatically breathing and circulating.

Drinking tea, watching shows, and Cultivating all at once.

Doing all three without neglecting any.

He took a sip of tea and thought to himself, ’I finally reached the Immortal King Realm with great difficulty, can’t I enjoy myself a little?’

’With my current cultivation, even if I were in the Immortal Realm, I might not be invincible under heaven, but I would definitely be among the very top handful of people.’

’In that case, why push myself so hard?’

The path of cultivation is long; one should relax when it’s time to relax, and tighten up when it’s time to be serious.

Thinking this way, he continued watching his show with a clear conscience.

The image currently in the haotian mirror showed Lin Fan traveling alone.

Gu Yan used the haotian mirror to trace back the past and investigate the cause.

A moment later, he learned that while Chu Feng and Lin Fan were adventuring in the Myriad Beast Heaven Domain, they had accidentally entered an ancient Secret Realm.

The structure of that Secret Realm was peculiar; as soon as they entered, they were thrown to different locations by a teleportation array.

Fortunately, the two had a means of communication. After reporting their safety to each other, they realized they were extremely far apart with several dangerous lands between them, making it impossible to reunite for the time being.

So, they agreed to gain experience separately, and if one side was in trouble, they would then seek help.

Gu Yan continued watching.

On this day, Lin Fan reached the banks of a great river.

The river was wide and the current was swift.

He was just about to take a detour when his peripheral vision caught something thrashing in the shallow water by the shore.

Walking closer to look, it was a fish.

The fish was about a foot long, its scales a pale gold that shimmered brilliantly under the sunlight.

At the moment, it was flipped on its side in the shallows, its tail weakly slapping the muddy bank, clearly washed onto the shallows by the river and unable to struggle free.

Lin Fan was not normally a meddler, but seeing the fish struggle so pitifully and seeing how beautiful it was, he bent down to scoop it up and placed it back into the river.

After the fish entered the water, it didn’t immediately swim away. Instead, it swirled in the water and poked half its head out to stare at Lin Fan for a moment before diving to the bottom.

Lin Fan didn’t think much of it and turned to continue his journey.

However, after walking less than half a mile, he noticed something strange behind him.

Looking back, that fish had somehow followed him and was splashing in a small puddle by the shore.

Lin Fan laughed, scooped it up again, and put it back into the great river.

This repeated three times.

The fish seemed to have set its sights on him and refused to leave no matter what.

Every time he let it go, it would reappear in the waters near him after a short while.

Lin Fan was amazed, feeling that this fish was quite spiritual.

He simply found a bamboo basket, placed the fish inside, hung it from his waist, and brought it along on his journey.

After traveling for a few days, he noticed the fish in the basket was listless and its scales had dimmed.

Checking carefully, he found a wound on one side of the fish’s body deep enough to see bone, seemingly caused by some Sharp Weapon.

Traces of black Qi remained at the wound, clearly some kind of evil poison.

Although Lin Fan was not a practitioner of the medical Dao, after many years of Cultivation, using spiritual power to heal wounds was a basic skill.