Immortal Pilgrimage Chapter 9

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"Eh…Senior, why are you looking at me like this?" Su Yu asked with puzzlement.

Hearing that question, the old beggar's expression immediately turned even stranger. "I say, what are you thinking about? You sometimes randomly shake your head, nod your head; your eyes would sometimes shine,or your expression becomes gloomy. It can't be that you were beaten silly from the previous fight?"

Su Yu rolled his eyes and helplessly said, "Senior, please do not make fun of this junior. Oh right, previously, if it wasn't for senior's help of upholding justice, junior would have lost his little life." After saying this, Su Yu then struggled to stand up before bowing. "Many thanks to senior for saving junior's life. If senior needs junior's help, junior will definitely go through water and tread on fire with no hesitation." Su Yu thanked him.

"Qiè!"

The old beggar laughed with disdain and shot a glance at Su Yu before he said, "An ordinary person who has never cultivated before, what can you even help me with? Even if I needed you to help me with something, do you have the capability of doing so?"

The old beggar's words were without a doubt filled with contempt. Usually when those words were spoken, normally that contempt would cause a person to be angered, and they would secretly say something like, 'How can you look down on people?'

However, Su Yu did not do that.

The reason was that he was actually waiting for the old beggar to say that sentence. As the Old Beggar said as such, Su Yu instantly revealed an expression of him acknowledging the old man's words, then he spoke as he nodded, "What senior said is true. Hence I'm thinking that it would be great if I can cultivate and become a powerful cultivator like senior. Like this, I would then be able to repay senior's help for saving me. When that time comes, I would also be able to help senior a little…"

Hearing that, the old beggar went silent, but his expression was calm as he looked at Su Yu.

When Su Yu was being stared at by the old beggar, his heart suddenly felt a trace of chill. He forced a dry laugh then said, "What? Senior, why are you staring at me? I really want to repay your help for saving me, yet the current me has the heart but not the strength ah."

The old beggar shot Su Yu another glance then said, "So, is this the reason for why you had followed me for nearly a day? This old man advises you to keep that little inclination to yourself. This old man has already lived for around 100 years; if I couldn't even make out the hidden meaning behind your words, then wouldn't I have lived those 100 years in vain?"

"Eh…"

The old beggar's response instantly caused Su Yu to be at loss for words.

Immediately afterward, his expression turned resolute. He slowly walked towards the old beggar and respectfully bowed to him, "This junior's name is Su Yu. Junior humbly requests senior to guide me through the gate."

"What gate?"

"The gateway to cultivation."

"Scram!"

Well, the moment the old beggar gave his answer, Su Yu instantly felt his heart was inflicted with 10,000 points of damage. Although he had already guessed that the end result would be like this, there was still a strong feeling of disappointment in his heart.

"If you see cultivation as eating and think you can cultivate whenever you want, if so then the billions upon billions of people in Endless Continent would already be cultivators. Yet why does the number of cultivators not even reach 1/10,000,000th of the population? I say you were beaten silly. You still won't believe, really such a little fool." The old beggar didn't even look at Su Yu before continuing, "Even if you have the aptitude to cultivate, why would I guide you? On what basis are you worthy for me to guide you? Little fellow, you shouldn't forget that it was me who had saved your life. After the rain stops, you can leave. There won't be the slightest use or benefit in you following a beggar like me."

Though the old man's words caused Su Yu to feel extremely hurt inside, his expression was still unusually calm. After all, what the old man had said was reasonable. The old man had saved his life, yet he could not repay him. The old beggar also naturally had no obligation to guide him. What's more, the most crucial point was whether he had the aptitude to cultivate.

Thinking till here, Su Yu still felt somewhat unwilling as he didn't want to give up.

He suddenly raised his head and said to the old beggar, "Senior, your level of cultivation is deep and profound, and you are certainly a peerless cultivator. So, can you test whether I have the aptitude to cultivate?"

In this vast Endless Continent, cultivating aptitude would decide whether a person could step into the path of cultivation.

Through the experience Ye Jian Xing had passed down to him, he naturally knew that whether a person had the aptitude to cultivate depended on the grade of the internal sea of qi in a person's body.

The sea of qi is a kind of mysterious existence.

It is located 3 inches below the navel. The sea of qi is innate; when a person is born, spiritual qi is already contained within it. Above the sea of qi is a barrier and majority of the cultivators call it the gate of origin.

The starting spiritual qi in the sea of qi would be used to break open the barrier, opening the gate of origin. After opening the gate of origin, the spiritual qi from within the sea of qi would be able to pass through it and flow through every single vein in the body, tempering the body. This is the 1st Realm of cultivation — Boundary Realm!

People are split into various ranks, thus the sea of qi is likewise split in order to determine whether the rank is good or bad.

In general, the sea of qi in a person's body is split into 5 different ranks.

Namely: common, ordinary, spiritual, worldly, and heavenly.

The sea of qi that has a higher rank would contain spiritual qi that is purer and stronger. That being the case, the spiritual qi that's used to break through the gate of origin would be much stronger, allowing mortals to step into the Boundary Realm more easily.

Not only that, the sea of qi that has a higher rank would be able to absorb the heaven and earth spiritual qi at a faster pace. Hence during fights, the person with a higher ranked qii would often be able to quickly obtain decisive opportunities to defeat the opponent.

Among the 5 different ranks, those with common sea of qi won't be able to cultivate, and those with ordinary sea of qi would just barely be able to cultivate, so it would be difficult to make any accomplishments along the path as a cultivator.

For instance, that Liu Yan Qing from before had an ordinary sea of qi. Thus, even if he cultivated for many years, he would still be a mortal with just a foot in the Boundary Realm.

It's just that this thing called aptitude could not be determined by oneself, and there was a need for a kind of spiritual qi testing plate to test the rank of a person's sea of qi.

However, the spiritual qi testing plate was an extremely expensive thing, and only those cultivating sects would have it. Hence, Su Yu had no way to know whether he had the aptitude to cultivate.

"Test your aptitude?" The old beggar indifferently shot a look at Su Yu. "I don't have a spiritual qi testing plate, that kind of silly thing."

When Su Yu heard that, he bitterly smiled as he shook his head. In his eyes, his unconcealed disappointment surfaced.

According to logic, Su Yu would sooner or later be able to know whether he had the aptitude to cultivate.

This was because cultivating sects would often open their gates every 2 to 3 years to hold the disciple recruitment event. This was to allow those with qualified cultivation aptitude to join, thereby replenishing the new blood.

It's just that the current Su Yu didn't have the patience to wait. He wanted to cultivate, and he had to do it immediately so that he could rise in power sooner.

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