“A goal?” Qian Duoduo asked himself, “Did I ever have a goal before?”
He thought carefully.
It seemed he hadn’t.
All he ever did was think about the next meal after finishing the current one, like an ant revolving around food.
In the Immortal Cultivation World, he needed to set a grand goal, at least like the landlord’s house in the village, built with bricks and tiles, impervious to wind and rain.
The goal of having chicken legs for every meal definitely wouldn’t do either.
Qian Duoduo shook his head.
Being well-fed and warmly clothed also seemed a bit too small.
Qian Duoduo then had another thought: that Jin Buque was at the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation, and he was a demon in the Immortal Cultivation World. If he was below the Ninth Level, he would be suppressed by him.
“My goal is the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation,” Qian Duoduo said firmly.
“Hmm, a good goal. Practical, feasible, and it can solve problems.”
Liu Boli chuckled inwardly, this young man in front of him actually set the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation as his goal.
But he nodded expressionlessly. “However, to become a Ninth Level of Qi Condensation, staying in Jail won’t work.”
“Let’s get out first. After we get out, Master, you still have to help me.”
Qian Duoduo knew that whether it was Cultivating the Golden Light Technique or winning two prison fights, it would be impossible without Liu Bo’s guidance and encouragement.
“We help each other,” Liu Boli looked at Qian Duoduo calmly, his heart actually beating gently.
Qian Duoduo, this thirteen-year-old boy, could make the Golden Toad recognize him as its Master; Liu Boli dared not guess his future prospects.
“Good,” Qian Duoduo patted his chest.
“Aren’t you a soul body? When I have the ability, I’ll help you find a Physical Body, a good body like mine, one that eats well and sleeps soundly.”
Liu Boli seemed to have turned to stone.
After a long while, he lightly coughed: “Young man, a good body is not as easy to come by as a good chicken leg. However, I appreciate your kind intention.”
The words “Physical Body” struck his heart.
Hiding in the Golden Toad, thousands of years had already passed.
To repossess a Physical Body was his dream.
Qian Duoduo had no idea that his casual words would have such power.
He thought about getting out of Jail, and that he would have to Cultivate under Jin Buhuan’s name, which made him calm down instead.
Reading Jin Buhuan’s memories, Qian Duoduo saw Jin Buhuan go from zero to the Ninth Level in just three short years, and also saw his joys and sorrows—
Jin Buhuan’s father was a collateral branch Disciple of the Jin Family, honest by nature, and suffered much bullying in the Jin Family.
His submissiveness did not bring him peace.
The Family lost a high-grade artisan artifact, and the Jin Family’s Grand Elder, who was Jin Buque’s father, determined that Jin Buhuan’s father had stolen it.
The Family, without distinguishing right from wrong, inflicted Family punishment on him.
Jin Buhuan’s father consistently refused to admit to the theft, and the Jin Family’s Grand Elder secretly struck a heavy blow, severely injuring him.
Before he died, Jin Buhuan’s father held Jin Buhuan’s hand and instructed Jin Buhuan’s mother: Send the child to Cultivate Immortals, and become a strong person.
At that time, Jin Buhuan was eight years old.
He knew that his father’s death was due to the Jin Family’s Grand Elder.
The Jin Family’s Grand Elder was the murderer of his father.
To put her intelligent son on the path of Immortal Cultivation, Jin Buhuan’s mother began to fight for her life.
The Jin Family was an affiliated Family of the Refining Spirit Sect, and originally sent suitable-aged youths to the Sect every year to participate in the selection.
Those with good talent would be kept, either as students or as servants.
However, in the first year, Jin Buhuan’s mother had not yet known about the Jin Family’s selection news, and the selection had already ended.
Jin Buhuan’s mother had nowhere to complain, but at her doorstep, she won the sympathy of the Jin Family’s collateral branches with a heart-wrenching cry.
The collateral branches united and made Clan Chief Jin Yongqiang utter a sentence to Jin Buhuan’s mother, “Next year, no one will stop your son.”
The second year, Jin Buhuan and other Jin Family youths came to the Refining Spirit Sect, but during the selection, they were inexplicably eliminated.
The reason given was not observing the selection rules and making noise on site.
In fact, Jin Buhuan had barely spoken a few words after arriving at the Refining Spirit Sect.
The third year, Jin Buhuan’s mother returned to her maiden home, asked all her relatives, and finally found out that the Tang Family had a powerful figure in the Refining Spirit Sect named Tang Honggong, who, despite his young age, was already the Palace Lord of a mountain.
By seniority, Jin Buhuan’s mother was considered Tang Honggong’s elder cousin.
However, this branch of the Tang Family and Jin Buhuan’s mother’s branch had long since lost contact.
After inquiring, Jin Buhuan’s mother learned that Tang Honggong was at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and was about to break through to the Golden Core Realm.
Jin Buhuan’s mother sold her house and sold herself as a servant to a wealthy Family, then used all the money she had to buy a Breakthrough Medicinal Pill.
This Breakthrough Medicinal Pill could increase the success rate by twenty percent.
She brought the Medicinal Pill and Jin Buhuan to Tang Honggong’s Immortal Cave.
The suffering elder cousin whom he had never met, the exceptionally intelligent young man in his prime.
Coupled with a Breakthrough Medicinal Pill, which he could afford himself but which also represented her painstaking effort, Tang Honggong couldn’t help but soften and agree, writing a letter of recommendation for the sect’s selection.
With this letter, no one in the Refining Spirit Sect found fault, and Jin Buhuan smoothly entered the Sect and began to Cultivate.
When his mother parted ways, she gave him three words: endure, endure, endure!
Jin Buhuan wrote down his goal: Become a Golden Core cultivator, free his mother who sold herself into servitude, and let his mother live a prosperous, peaceful, and happy life under his care.
Jin Buhuan’s mother asked Jin Buhuan to call Tang Honggong “Grand Uncle,” but Tang Honggong never responded.
Jin Buhuan, who Cultivated Spiritual Qi and displayed astonishing talent, devoted all his time to Cultivation, and in less than two years, he surpassed a host of Disciples and entered the Inner Sect.
At this point, Tang Honggong personally arranged for this top student to live in the Qinglong District’s C-Shen Immortal Cave.
That place was very close to the Palace Lord’s Immortal Cave.
This was a form of recognition, a high degree of recognition for one of the Inner Sect Disciple’s Ten Great Xiong Jun.
This was also an attitude, a protective attitude emanating from the recommender.
This attitude, however, was a huge threat to the Jin Family’s direct lineage.
The Refining Spirit Sect has five Spiritual Mountains, and each Spiritual Mountain has a Palace Lord.
The Mengyuan Mountain Palace Lord, Tang Honggong, was the youngest.
According to sect rumors, he was the most promising Cultivator to advance to the Golden Core Realm within a hundred years.
And becoming a Golden Core within a hundred years meant receiving the Sect’s supreme Legacy and becoming the Refining Spirit Sect’s quasi-Sect Leader!
The Jin Family dared not scheme against Tang Honggong.
But against Jin Buhuan, the Jin Family still had a way.
The Jin Family’s method rested on Jin Buque.
Jin Buque was six years older than Jin Buhuan and was the eldest grandson of the Jin Family Head.
When Jin Buhuan entered the Sect, Jin Buque didn’t take this little kid seriously at all.
His father was dead, his mother was a slave, and he was dirt poor. What was there to fear?
In the Refining Spirit Sect, Jin Buque cursed Jin Buhuan every time he saw him.
Until the Mengyuan Mountain Outer Sect minor competition, when Jin Buhuan, who had quietly risen to Qi Condensation Level Four, coincidentally drew Jin Buque, who was at Qi Condensation Level Five.
Jin Buque originally thought he would win easily, but instead, he was taught a lesson by Jin Buhuan, who was six years younger, two heads shorter, and one level lower.
A great loss!
He lost the match, but even more, he lost face and dignity.
The news spread back to the Jin Family, causing an uproar among both the direct and collateral branches.
This was no different from an ant defeating an elephant.
Jin Buque, who enjoyed the Jin Family’s best resources, had not beaten Jin Buhuan, who had received no resources at all.
The direct lineage believed that Jin Buque had a talent problem and requested to train a better direct lineage youth as a 重點.
The collateral branches believed that the direct lineage was wasting the Jin Family’s resources and requested a redistribution of proportions.
After Jin Family Head Jin Yongqiang confirmed the news was accurate, he was equally enraged.
In Jin Buhuan’s memory, the Clan Chief roared: “Pig, stupid pig! Even a pig isn’t this stupid!”
Ultimately, this earthquake triggered by Jin Buhuan ended with a redistribution of Jin Family interests.
The direct lineage ceded twenty percent of its profits to the collateral branches. Among the direct lineage, Jin Buque’s Family ceded thirty percent of its profits to other families.
The Clan Chief ordered that if Jin Buque did not reach the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation within two years, his status as a direct grandson would be revoked.
Jin Buque’s Family spent heavily to buy various Medicinal Pills, forcing Jin Buque to eat them like food. They dispatched two servants to specifically monitor Jin Buque, not allowing him to drink, gamble, or be lazy.
Every morning, when Jin Buque woke up and opened his eyes, a servant would loudly tell him: “Today, Jin Buhuan has already reached Qi Condensation Level 【X】.”