Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

18: Chapter 18 Lin Wei!Another year passed. Gu Yan sat cross-legged in the small courtyard on Danxia Peak. With a thought, his personal panel appeared:

【 Gu Yan 】

【 Lifespan: 25 / 310 】

【 Realm: Foundation Establishment · Fifth Level 】

【 Trait: Five Elements Spiritual Body · Orange 】

【 Cultivation Technique: Taiyi Dao De True Scripture · Full Chapter ... 】

【 Martial Arts: The Flowing Light Splitting Shadow Sword, One Line of Sky ... 】

Before he knew it, his Foundation Establishment Realm had reached the fifth level; his progress could certainly be called rapid.

His Lifespan had also increased from 235 years at the first level of Foundation Establishment to 310. Fantastic!

Gu Yan shifted his gaze downward, landing on One Line of Sky in the martial arts section.

He had thoroughly comprehended this sword technique, which he had obtained from the top floor of the Sword Perching Peak Scripture Pavilion.

When he first obtained it, he only felt that its sword Moves were subtle and profound; it was only after cultivating it to a deep level that he understood its true meaning.

It was an ultimate sword theory that reduced complexity to simplicity, condensing ten thousand variations into a single instant.

No matter how complex and treacherous the opponent’s Moves were, or how magnificent and terrifying their aura was,

what One Line of Sky sought was to find that one solitary line in the dark amidst the flash of lightning and flint, and shatter it with a single sword strike.

While the so-called ”shattering ten thousand techniques with one sword” might still be far off, he had already begun to grasp the Concept of ”shattering ten thousand Moves with one sword.”

This sword manual was truly worthy of being placed on the top floor of the Sword Perching Peak Scripture Pavilion.

Besides this, over the past year, Gu Yan had also practiced many other martial arts within the Sect.

The panel did not list them all, and he actually felt that this was for the best.

If it truly listed all the hundreds of Moves he had read and learned, the panel would likely stretch several yards long.

A few days later, Gu Yan stopped his Cultivation and rose to his feet.

He decided to head to Changqing Workshop.

Although he had long since reached the Foundation Establishment Realm and practiced inedia, abstaining from worldly food, he would still descend the mountain every half month or month to walk around and conveniently purchase some ordinary food and medicinal herbs.

Firstly, to slightly relieve the boredom of long-term meditation, and secondly, to maintain the facade that a normal Inner Sect Disciple should have.

Just after descending Danxia Peak and stepping onto the main road leading to the market, quite a few gazes fell quietly upon him.

Several female Disciples walking together slowed their pace, their eyes darting about, and their whispers could be vaguely heard:

”Look quickly, it’s Senior Brother Gu Yan...”

”I heard he has only been in the Inner Sect for a few years, but his bearing is becoming more and more extraordinary.”

”It’s more than just his bearing; his features are really... The last time I saw him from afar, I thought he looked like a person from a painting, and seeing him up close today, it’s even more...”

”Shh, keep your voice down! But... he really is excessively good-looking.”

They either covered their lips to giggle or cast glances while pretending to be calm, but their earlobes were quietly turning red.

Not only the female Disciples, but some passing male Disciples also couldn’t help but take a few extra looks, muttering to themselves:

”Strange, I haven’t seen him for a while, how does this kid seem to have become even more handsome?”

”Hmph, it’s just a good appearance; cultivation ultimately depends on strength... However, his aura is calm and steady, so he doesn’t seem like a superficial person.”

Some Inner Sect Disciples who knew him, aware of his quiet nature and solid cultivation, nodded to him from afar.

Gu Yan responded with a glance each time and did not stop because of the surrounding attention.

To him, this physical shell was merely an incidental object on the path of cultivation, and he did not care about it in his heart.

After strolling around Changqing Workshop for a while and purchasing some dry rations and medicinal herbs, Gu Yan planned to return.

Just as he reached the exit of the market, a crisp female voice rang out with surprise: ”Junior Brother Gu?”

Gu Yan turned his head to look and saw a woman with a pretty face, dressed in the attire of a True Disciple of Danxia Peak, walking over quickly. It was none other than Lin Wei.

Lin Wei was quite excited in her heart.

Back then, after she returned from her mission at the Outer Sect medicinal herb garden, because her Master wanted to visit friends in the Western Region, she had accompanied her and left the Sect for a period of time.

When she returned months later, the first thing she did was go to the Bing-Zi medicinal herb garden to look for Gu Yan, but she discovered that it had long since been taken over by other Outer Sect Disciples, and Gu Yan had disappeared without a trace, she knew not when.

She felt empty inside, even secretly wondering if Gu Yan knew she had come to find him and had intentionally avoided her?

Because of this, Lin Wei did not intentionally inquire about Gu Yan’s whereabouts.

Years passed, and although she devoted herself to Cultivation, that figure would still occasionally surface in her mind.

She had not expected to reunite in the market today, and moreover, Gu Yan was already wearing the attire of an Inner Sect Disciple; clearly, he had entered the Inner Sect long ago.

”Junior Brother Gu, when did you enter the Inner Sect? Why have I never met you before?”

Lin Wei walked up to him in a few steps, her eyes bright, and once she started talking, she couldn’t stop.

A barrage of questions came at him like a machine gun. Gu Yan sighed inwardly: Oh no, he had been distracted for a moment just now and hadn’t spread his Divine Sense to scout the surroundings in advance, running into this acquaintance.

Helpless, he could only cup his hands and say: ”Senior Sister Lin. This Junior Brother has been in the Inner Sect for several years, always cultivating quietly on Danxia Peak, living in seclusion and rarely going out; it is only natural that Senior Sister has not met me.”

Lin Wei’s emotions, suppressed for years, seemed to find an outlet. In her joy, she reached out to take Gu Yan’s arm.

”That’s great! Since we are both on Danxia Peak from now on, Senior Sister will have to take good care of you!”

Gu Yan shifted his body slightly without leaving a trace, just enough to avoid her.

”Senior Sister Lin, there are many eyes in the market; such intimate behavior might invite gossip.”

Lin Wei’s hand missed, and she was stunned for a moment. Then, she raised her willow-leaf eyebrows slightly and said coquettishly: ”I, a woman, am not afraid of gossip; you, a dignified man of nine feet, are actually the one worrying about it?”