The Undying Immortal System

The following year was quite peaceful.

Every other month, I advanced my cultivation, and I spent the intervening time studying any small changes to my body. The enhanced technique provided by the Dao was far more powerful than I could have hoped, and as long as I cultivated correctly, there was zero impact on the qi flows in my body at each step of cultivation. Using that as my guide, I was able to correct the thousand tiny errors I made in the process and smoothly advance to Martial Disciple Peak.

At the same time, I helped Mei and SuYin cultivate their techniques. The ones they were using were far from the quality of my own, but I was still able to help them improve beyond the limits of what I had originally written down. Because of her age, Mei cultivated at a slightly faster pace to reach Martial Disciple Peak at the age of 20. SuYin was younger, only 19, so she allowed herself to go slower and had only reached Martial Disciple 7.

While Mei should advance to Martial Master this year, I wanted her to wait until I had completed my study of the Martial Master dual-element technique. If I could improve it, it would allow me to provide significantly better guidance for Mei during her breakthrough. She had nine months before qi stagnation would set in, so I was a little rushed, but as I told her, qi stagnation isn’t too terrible when you have unlimited access to Perfect pills.

On other fronts, I continued my pursuit of Rank 1 and 2 alchemy mastery. After I completed the order for the Su Clan, open discontent had been silenced. I wasn’t sure if it was gone, but my ability to more than fill the role left open by Zhong left others with little room to attack me. According to WuJing, the Pavilion had begun sending most of my pills outside the Wastes since the people here were too poor to afford them. This was the first step to our goal, but I needed to take on the role of a peak Grandmaster Alchemist before we could step outside this small corner of the world.

I continued my study of herbalism using the flowerbed in my apartment, but my results were mixed. I didn’t have a teacher, the techniques I was using were substandard, and the location of my plants was less than ideal. Still, I was slowly gaining an understanding of the process. I monitored the medicinal energy in plants from the moment a seed was created to the time they were ready for harvest. The small changes in its structure, and the accumulation of toxic energy, was a complex interplay between the plant and its environment. While I could learn some of this from books, the more I watched, the more I felt I needed someone to guide me.

After arranging everything through Mei, I was finally ready to break through to Martial Master once more.

After sitting down in my cultivation room, I made my final preparation.

“System, move my temporary reset point to this moment.”