Chapter 299 - 166: Paperman Funeral, Old Friends at Rest
Xu Qing had some impression of the Fox Girl from Qingqiu.
Thirty years ago, outside Luojing City, the Celestial Heart Sect’s Jinluo Protector encountered a plainly dressed Female Half-Immortal. She intended to give him guidance, but Jin Wanshan was addicted to gambling at the time, wasting the opportunity.
And the appearance of that Female Half-Immortal was exactly the same as the Fox Girl Hu Baosong met in Qingqiu two hundred years ago.
Even the faded, washed-out clothes were identical.
Hu Baosong had lived for over two hundred years; if she truly was the Fox Girl from Qingqiu, how many years had she existed?
Xu Qing thought she was likely someone who, like the White Immortal of Hundred Herbs Cave on Moonlight Mountain, had survived five hundred years of disaster tribulations, or perhaps even earlier.
Five hundred years of lightning disasters, a thousand years of fire disasters, fifteen hundred years of discernment by storms...
According to Xu Qing, once one’s cultivation exceeds fifteen hundred years and they have survived three cycles of tribulations, they become a walking Immortal of the secular world. They need only wait for the arrival of the celestial officers, and when the auspicious clouds and celestial music descend, they can be ranked among the Immortals.
However, with the path to immortality now severed, even if someone endures fifteen hundred years, another fifteen hundred years await them. Cultivators might pass the first round of tribulations, but not necessarily the second.
The Fox Girl from Qingqiu called herself a Half-Immortal thirty years ago, and Xu Qing estimated her cultivation was roughly seven or eight hundred years, at most around a thousand.