Chapter 30: A Promise Made in Vain for Twenty Years
Dream-Making Expert
Deep within the Azure Cloud Mountain Range.
In a valley thick with miasma, Misty Rain Lake spread out. On the cliff by the lakeshore was a stone chamber cave residence carved out by human hands.
Before the cave residence was a medicinal field, planted with ginseng, Reishi, Solomon's Seal, Poria, and the like.
Inside the cave residence were simply a stone table and a meditation cushion.
The cushion was worn and tattered, giving the impression that many years ago, a Daoist had sat cross-legged upon it, breathing in and refining qi day and night.
On the stone table were several jade talismans, a few bottles of pills, a book, and a round, misty bead.
"Sigh."
Amid a sigh, Lin Qi, robed in azure, stepped over from the lakeside. Before the mottled miasma could draw near him, it scattered into wisps of green smoke.
Lin Qi walked into the cave residence without a care, flicked his sleeve, and the jade talismans, pills, book, and bead on the stone table all fell into it.
"The twenty-year pact has passed."
"It seems no one will come."
Lin Qi's tone was low, tinged with disappointment.
Twenty years ago, when he had just obtained the Qi Refining technique from Zhao Zijing, he had casually chosen a person as a pawn at the Ascension Assembly.
The situation was simple.
Using the art of dream-making, he had let a person who passed the Ascension Assembly and was about to depart for the Immortal Continent to cultivate learn a piece of news.
A Qi Refining Ancestor related to them by blood was about to enter death seclusion and attempt to break through to Foundation Establishment.
Success or death.
To prevent his life's savings and learning from falling into the mortal world with no one to inherit them should he fail, a twenty-year pact had been set.
The person Lin Qi had dreamed could go to the agreed seclusion site twenty years later to inherit the many legacies.
I originally thought that for a newly initiated disciple.
A Qi Refining Perfection cultivator's legacy should be enough to move them, enough for them to travel ten thousand li.
But I never imagined it would fail.
Did this person forget the dream pact from back then, or did something else happen, leaving them unable to come?
Lin Qi pondered the reason for the other party's broken pact.
As for whether the other party simply looked down on a Qi Refining Perfection legacy.
Lin Qi felt that was impossible.
He had learned quite a few common facts about the Immortal Continent and the Immortal Academy from Zhao Zijing.
A newly initiated disciple like this could at most cultivate in the Immortal Academy for twenty years. The various benefits during that time could be considered barely enough to sustain cultivation.
After all, above ordinary disciples, there were Elite Disciples and Core Disciples.
Elite Disciples could cultivate in the Immortal Academy for forty years, while Core Disciples could cultivate for sixty years.
Once the cultivation period ended and one had not stepped into Foundation Establishment.
Then
They could only leave the Immortal Academy and flow into the vast Immortal Continent, where each year they had to complete various tasks in exchange for cultivation resources.