The Undying Immortal System

After Old Pei left, I didn’t stay alone in his house for long. I didn’t know what his story was. His demeanor, the way he acted, it made me want to help him. His kindness to me made me want to help him. I just didn’t know what I could do for him.

I could take him away from this place and let him live a life of luxury for what years he had remaining, but would he even want that? Would uprooting him from everything he knew be a blessing or a curse?

I needed to leave and not look back. My presence was causing him pain. The only thing I knew to do was to leave.

As I was walking out the door, I turned around and went back to leave most of my silver and a single gold coin under the blankets. It was the only thing I knew to do to repay his kindness. I was worried about leaving the gold since too much money was more curse than blessing, but Old Pei seemed smart enough to handle things.

As I wandered the streets in the morning sun, I centered my mind.

If I wanted to survive long enough to meet the Formation Emperor, I needed to become a cultivator. I could do that on my own. I had plenty of cultivation techniques that I could use to quickly raise my cultivation, but I didn’t want to do that.

I wanted to try to understand what life was like for a normal person. I didn’t know if it was possible, but I wanted to try.

Old Pei had mentioned that the palace would be recruiting servants and that those servants would be taught to cultivate. If I wanted to meet the Formation Emperor, embedding myself in the palace would help me do that, so I decided to try it out.

I drifted around the streets for the entire day, listening in on people’s conversations. Finding out about the recruitment wasn’t difficult, it was the only thing most people were talking about.