Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter

Chapter 581 - 183: Receiving the Inheritance, Multiple Approaches

Li Yuan smeared this "legacy of Qing Hancheng" on their faces.

They were practically at a loss for how to react.

Though they knew these cultivation skills had flaws, they were the original versions and the initial visualization images, after all.

Even though the three women felt some sympathy for the dead, the path of cultivation was paved, adding a slight joy amid their helplessness.

As a return, the three women also began to "rewardingly" help him solve some problems of vigorous blood and energy.

Especially Cui Huayin...

The typically cold and indifferent Lady Yin unlocked many new "skins" and "scenes," which Li Yuan thoroughly enjoyed.

He was still quite enamored with his own third lady’s beauty, but she would always disdain his roughness and refuse to let him touch her.

Even if the third lady was unlucky enough to draw a "bad lot," she would be very disdainful the whole time, then leave the range of his touch once he was done, and they would sleep facing opposite directions under separate quilts.

And Li Yuan wouldn’t force anything.

So, even with his own lady, he sometimes found himself fantasizing.

But Lady Yin obviously knew this man’s thoughts; this time, as a "reward," she rewarded him thoroughly.

But once the "reward" was over, it didn’t mean it became a "routine."

This left Li Yuan itching, and using a phrase from before his incarnation, he wondered: Was he being treated like a CPU or a UFO?

But Li Yuan wouldn’t actively break this relationship,

because it was inherently full of delightful intrigue.

The human world is nothing more than food and lust, and then money, power, and strength.

But money, power, and strength are too cold, unlike the red dust taste of food and lust.

The delight of immortality lies in this, not in surpassing humanity to pursue the cold Great Dao.

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As days passed by.

Li Yuan cautiously adapted to the identity of Qing Hancheng, and as for some of Qing Hancheng’s powers, he hadn’t taken them over yet and didn’t really plan to, only intending to use them at certain key moments.

These powers were not external forces but a group of death warriors raised by Qing Hancheng in the Divine Wood Hall.

These death warriors, for various reasons, were loyal to Qing Hancheng, even including Fifth Grade elders.

But no one knew about the "dual identities" of these death warriors.

Not even Jing Baikou or Gu Xuejian knew.

Which shows... Old Qing indeed had some skills.

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On another front, he began to try adjusting himself to see if he could bring himself into a state suitable for cultivating the Divine Wood Hall Technique.

In addition, Li Yuan also began instructing Tang Nian to select "suitable orphans with good talent" and send them to Chenxi Manor for him to begin the New Wendao Palace experiments.

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Two months flew by.

Li Yuan adapted to the identity of Qing Hancheng, mainly because Qing Hancheng rarely appeared and didn’t handle hall affairs, so even if he disappeared for years, no one would question it.

At the same time, he also found himself still unable to "cultivate the Divine Wood Hall technique."

The reason was simple: his Human World Transformation could adjust flesh and blood, but it still couldn’t perform deep adjustments.

If this Six Paths Transformation was a divine technique that gradually increased and strengthened, then Li Yuan thought the next level might be achievable.

But how to break through to the next level, he had no clue and only felt it might still be related to "fire."

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On another front, Tang Nian successfully selected "three hundred healthy orphans who passed the simple Ninth Grade Skill test of the Divine Wood Hall."

In poor places like Cloud Mountain Path, orphans were never scarce.

Some of these orphans were caused by natural disasters, some sold by their families, and others abandoned...

Knowing the Tang Sect accepted orphans, some poor families even deliberately sent their "extra" children to be sold to ease the family burden and make some money.

As long as they passed the test, the Tang Sect would accept them without hesitation.

This resulted in more than half of the three hundred orphans sent by Tang Nian being girls.

But the fact whether they were boys or girls didn’t matter, as these children all bore fear, like emaciated little beasts unaware of how long they’d been hungry, standing shivering in one place, not daring to move without the notification of the "masters."

And at mealtime, they would rush over in swarms, eating desperately like starving ghosts reborn, fearing there wouldn’t be a next meal.

Li Yuan happened to see these children eating upon his return.

The children were dressed in oversized, ill-fitting cotton jackets, eating eagerly. Even if their cheeks were puffed, they kept stuffing food in, fearing that after this meal, there would be no next one.

This scene touched the soft spot in his heart.

But the cultivation skills still needed to be taught.

Learning his cultivation skills was not misfortune but a way to change fate.

Not far away, next to the Fifth Grade Meat Field, new houses were being built; once they were completed, the left would be the New Divine Wood Hall, and the right would be the New Wendao Palace.