Clan Cultivation: I Transmigrated With My Smartphone
Chapter 108 Urging Marriage (Part 2)

Chapter 108: Chapter 108 Urging Marriage (Part 2)

In the hall, the topic shifted.

After scolding Lu Jinwen, the Grand Elder continued, "Three years and three years again, how many cycles of three years have passed, and yet you still haven’t married a wife! The ancestor of the Ye Family, Ye Liuyun, came in person, and she is a Purple Mansion Ancestor, yet you keep delaying."

"Three years, three years, are you so proud as to overlook the women of the Ye Family? Your mother is also a female cultivator of the Ye Family!"

Lu Xuanji listened silently.

"Come over here and let’s have a word."

The Grand Elder seemed somewhat angry and left first.

Lu Xuanji followed closely behind.

In a cave mansion, only the two of them remained.

The Grand Elder said, "Xuanji, if you have anything to say, just speak up!"

"There’s nothing much, just that women can affect my sword-drawing speed!" Lu Xuanji said with a smile. "With no women in my heart, I can draw my sword with ease!"

"Ease of what!" The Grand Elder sighed, "Is it that you can’t let go of Xiaoxue?"

"Yes!"

Lu Xuanji said.

"Alas! You two are not suitable for each other; mainly, you are not worthy of her!" the Grand Elder said, "After becoming Purple Mansion, I entered the library of the Golden Ancestor and read some books, gaining some insights. The more I learned, the more I laughed at my own ignorance!"

"What is a Celestial Spirit Root? It’s like being Heaven’s favored child."

"Back then, you had some stroke of luck to stumble upon a Celestial Spirit Root."

"A Celestial Spirit Root, as long as it doesn’t perish prematurely, is almost certain to become a Golden Core; and the probability of becoming a Nascent Soul is higher than for other cultivators. Even after becoming a Nascent Soul, the cultivation speed surpasses that of other cultivators! Not to mention the long term, let’s talk about the immediate reality. At seventy-two, she is already a Purple Mansion Great Cultivator; and you, at seventy-two, are merely Foundation Establishment Second Layer."

"This gap will only widen with time. In the future, she will become a Golden Core Ancestor, a Nascent Soul True Monarch; whereas for you, Purple Mansion remains possible, but as for Golden Core, it’s purely a dream!"

The words of the Grand Elder were cold and harsh, stating a cruel fact.

Cinderella can match with a prince.

It’s because Cinderella is inherently of noble birth.

But how can a security guard be qualified to marry a director’s daughter?

"I..."

Lu Xuanji clenched his teeth, unsure of how to respond.

In a previous life, while playing games, what was a Golden Core compared to? Just a small soldier in a beginner’s village, only slightly better than cannon fodder, a chicken among weaklings.

But in this world, only here did he understand the nobility of a Golden Core Cultivator.

Among ten billion humans, only one might be born as a Golden Core Cultivator.

With a lifespan of a thousand years, they could watch the tides rise and fall, truly an existence of ancestral level.

Purple Mansion, he still had some hope.

But Golden Core, the hope was too slim.

"When you grow old and frail, like an old man; she will still be as beautiful as a young girl. Do you think she will still love you then? Still desire to share a bed with you?" The Grand Elder spoke words like knives: "In my youth, I was lustful, taking six concubines annually. But decades later, those six concubines became old, like old crones; yet I remained as youthful as a twenty-year-old. Do you think I still had any interest in them?"

"You are not worthy of her! You should just forget her!"

"But I still can’t forget!"

Lu Xuanji said.

"You can’t forget because you’ve experienced too little. As you experience more, you will naturally forget!" the Grand Elder said. "When you reach the Ye Family, and find a suitable Dao Companion, then you will forget!"

"Grand Elder, I find living alone to be nice!"

Lu Xuanji laughed.

"That’s because you’re still young. In a few years, you won’t think that way!" the Grand Elder laughed. "This year, you’re already ninety-one years old, not young anymore. It’s time to leave descendants behind. A life without offspring is an incomplete life."

"Without descendants, when your time comes, who will remember you?"

"I got it!"

Lu Xuanji nodded, but inwardly, he didn’t care at all.

Chanting scripture like a turtle, ignoring all.

...

The next day, when Lu Xuanji was about to cultivate, there was a sound at the door.

He went forward and opened the door; it was his father, Lu Jinwen.

"Father!"

"Son!"

"Do you have time?"

"Yes!"

"Then let’s have a drink!"

"Okay!"

Just like that, in the cave mansion, they set down some Spirit Wine.

Poured the wine, and the father drank a sip first.

Lu Xuanji also drank a sip.

"Xuanji, how long has it been since we drank together?" the father asked.

Lu Xuanji thought, "Probably decades, it’s my fault, I should take more time to drink with you!"

Often too busy, with no time to accompany parents.

"Xuanji, you’re grown up now!" the father said. "I still remember when you were little, quite naughty, but in a blink, you’ve grown up, many things I can’t manage for you now!"

When Xuanji was young, if the father was upset, he could spank his little bottom directly.

But when he grew up, he could only hit with a stick.

Later, when Xuanji reached Foundation Establishment, he couldn’t even hit with a stick.

When Xuanji became the Clan Leader, he even spoke more courteously, not daring to be too forceful.

Speaking too forcefully could undermine the Clan Leader’s dignity.

"Xuanji, how old are you?" the father asked.

"Ninety-one,"

Lu Xuanji said.

"Ninety-one, you’re not young anymore, you should marry!" the father said, starting to pressure him again.

Lu Xuanji felt a slight headache, once again feeling the chanting scripture like a turtle, ignoring all.

The father asked again, "Xuanji, how old am I?"

Lu Xuanji was slightly stunned, "Father, you’re almost one hundred and ninety years old!"

"No, I’m already two hundred and fifteen years old!" the father said.

Hearing the number, Lu Xuanji felt a sense of shame in his heart.

Many sons and daughters do not remember their father’s age.

He seemed to have forgotten, too.

"Foundation Establishment cultivators have an average lifespan of two hundred and forty years. If they fight and get injured or are injured in cultivation, the lifespan might be shorter, not reaching two hundred and forty years." The father said, his words carrying nostalgia and reminiscence: "I’ve calculated, at most I can live another twenty years, possibly less than ten, or even pass away tomorrow!"

"I feel my body’s functions declining, Qi and Blood decreasing. Although I’m still at Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer, I can’t even beat a Foundation Establishment Second Layer Cultivator anymore. I’ve reached senility, not far from passing away!"

"Father, I’ll buy you a Life-extending Pill!"

Lu Xuanji said, his eyes showing a hint of worry and melancholy.

Often busy with cultivation, he barely paid attention to his father, but now watching his father’s hair white and wrinkled, with Qi and Blood declining, like the setting sun, its brilliance fading.

"The Life-extending Pill costs a hundred thousand Spirit Stones, too expensive, unaffordable!"

The father smiled and said, "Even if I bought it, it would only extend life by twenty years. For me, living twenty years longer or less makes little difference."

"Father..."

Lu Xuanji said, only then realizing his father was old.

In twenty years, he would leave this world.

For cultivators to live, one is to take Longevity Elixirs, the other is to break through realms.

Longevity Elixirs are out of the question.

Breaking through realms is impossible too.

The father’s aptitude is poor, only reaching Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer, distant from Purple Mansion, with no hope at all.

"Birth, aging, illness, and death are part of life’s course!" the father calmly said, "A cultivator’s life is not tranquil, it is a life of combat. Foundation Establishment lifespan is two hundred and forty, but one must battle with loose cultivators, the demon beasts, demon cultivators, and real survival at home until natural death is a great joy in life."

"There’s no need to cry, cry for what, you’re the Lu Family clan leader now,"

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