The Tale of Breaking Free to Cultivate Immortality

After daybreak, Li Ruoyu did not continue to mine. His current condition was extremely bad.

Although he practiced dual cultivation of Qi and Qi, and they both entered the fifth stage of Qi Refining, there was no meridian in his body that was not painful.

He began to wander around the stone chambers. Only then did he realize that many people looked similar to him, and some were even worse.

Since he occupied a small stone chamber alone, he had basically not communicated with anyone. Only then did he realize that many of the newcomers of the same period had died!

In just one and a half months, some people could not hold on. Some people could not mine and could not get food and water.

Those who collected the mines would not have any mercy even if the people below died in front of them.

They only looked at whether you could dig ore. If you dug more, you would be the boss. If you dug less, you would have nothing to eat or drink, and you would not get any spiritual herbs.

And he finally understood why almost all the people here were sickly red and white, and everyone looked numb.

As long as they are not dead, they are still mining. Only a very small number of people will do what he does, mining for spiritual herbs to cultivate.

Most people just eat and wait for death.

But people are not so willing to die. They numbly mine every day to exchange for water and food, waiting for the complete erosion of the fire poison!

Fire poison, that is, the culprit that the bearded man said that they can hardly survive for three months.

Living in this underground world for a long time, either do not practice, so that you can survive longer, slowly breathe those fire poisons, and you can probably live for four or five years.

But in fact, if you don’t practice, let alone four or five years, you may not be able to survive for four or five days!

As long as your own food and water are consumed, you have to go to mine for them and exchange ore for water and food.

But the mining of ore is extremely difficult. The cultivators below the fourth level of Qi Refining can’t dig those ores, so you can’t see a low-level cultivator below the third level here.

"If these bastards had told me earlier that they couldn't practice, I would have held back for three to five years." Li Ruoyu almost lost control again, but now the pain in his meridians was stimulating his nerves all the time, keeping him awake.

This fire poison will not only erode and destroy people's meridians, but also make people irritable and lose their minds.

At the same time, over time, it will also erode people's minds, and eventually become zombies until the last bit of strength is exhausted.

Li Ruoyu could have easily completed the mining task of 10,000 minerals with his physical strength alone without absorbing spiritual energy.

His powerful physical strength can easily dig through those solid rocks, and even if he goes all out, he will complete the task within three years instead of four or five years.

But because of the information asymmetry, those bastards deliberately didn't tell him about this situation, which almost put him in a desperate situation.

He is not the only one who can break through the realm in this environment, but he is one in a million. He has absorbed many times more fire poison than ordinary people.

If it weren't for the strong physique of the body-refining cultivator, he might have died directly when he broke through.

"Little guy, you are very interesting." Li Ruoyu came to the people who collected the ore. Today, it was the bearded man who came in person.

Usually, it was the cultivators of the sixth or seventh level of Qi Refining who came to do this kind of work. The bearded man rarely appeared.

"Senior, I want to survive. Please teach me." In order to survive, Li Ruoyu deliberately forgot his hatred. When he saw this biggest enemy, he seemed to see a relative.

He could only use this method because he didn't want to die yet. He had already felt the irritability after the fire poison entered his body.

"I have been here for ten years and I have only seen you." The bearded man touched his beard and thought he was very curious.

Li Ruoyu smiled bitterly and nodded. He had broken through, but he was almost half useless.

"You also practiced the body-refining method?" The bearded man said again.

"Yes, I am a dull junior, and I can only practice physical training to enhance my combat power." Li Ruoyu was like the most obedient junior, and he didn't hide anything.

"What a pity, if you had told me earlier, I could have saved your life. Now the fire poison has penetrated into your meridians and internal organs. You can't survive for three months, and even gods can't save you." The bearded man shook his head.

It's a pity that he didn't find such a good mining machine earlier.

"Senior, since someone has walked out of here before, why can't I?" Li Ruoyu knelt down directly. He didn't want to die. What gods can't save him? Aren't there so many people still alive underground?

The bearded man obviously didn't expect that this guy could be so "rational" in this situation! If it were an ordinary person, he would have given up on himself and even started to go crazy.

How could he have thought that the guy in front of him actually hypnotized himself to forget the hatred, so he was full of respect and rationality.

"It's not that there is no way." After a while of silence, the bearded man finally spoke. Even if he completed the mission and walked out of the underground alive, he couldn't get out of the hands of those people.

"Please save me, senior." Li Ruoyu crawled at the bearded man's feet. He was obviously the person he hated the most, but now he became his only lifeline.

"Disperse your Qi Refining cultivation, maybe you can live three to five more years, and during this period you need a lot of Gumai Grass and Bingxin Vine to stabilize your meridians." The bearded man said.

"Disperse cultivation?" Li Ruoyu collapsed directly to the ground. Isn't his life to cultivate immortality and longevity? How can he cultivate immortality and longevity if he disperses his cultivation?

Without the hope of immortality, what's the point of living for another three to five years?

It is said that some geniuses and people with great perseverance will choose to retrain once, twice or three times in order to consolidate their foundation at a certain stage.

But Li Ruoyu can't do it. If he abandons his Qi training, even if he comes out of the underground, he will have almost no way to train again.

Three to five years, how much time is left for him after completing the mining task? One year or two years? It is impossible for him to train again. Maybe he has not cleared his fire poison yet, and he will be dead by then.

"Fool, there is hope only if you are alive! If you can complete the task alive, I promise to take you out personally and help you find a way to break the fire poison." The bearded man said in a low voice, as if he were a good teacher and friend.

"Senior?" Li Ruoyu's eyes also rekindled hope. With such a senior to help, he does have the hope of getting rid of the fire poison.

"From today on, all the ore you dig will be given to me. I will prepare Vein-Fixing Grass and Ice Heart Vine for you. I cannot break the rules here. But if you want to exchange for any materials, I can still help you." The bearded man whispered.

"Thank you, senior~" Li Ruoyu's eyes were filled with tears.