Primordial Era: The Way of the Three Lights and Stars

Chapter 42 042 Lu Ya's Test

Lu Ya in the formation had long forgotten his identity and was no longer the all-powerful Great Luo Golden Immortal. Although he was also called Lu Ya, he was just a mortal.

Lu Ya was born into an ordinary human tribe.

This tribe has no cultivation methods, nor is it troubled by demons. All it experiences is birth, aging, sickness, and death. It is an ordinary human tribe that is nothing more than an ordinary human tribe.

The humans in the tribe live by hunting and fishing, but they are mostly facing ordinary wild animals.

Lu Ya was born and raised in the tribe. He learned hunting and fishing from his father. If nothing unexpected happened, he would live an ordinary life like everyone else in the tribe.

That year, Lu Ya was eighteen years old.

According to the tribe's custom, he needs to go into the jungle alone to hunt, and he can only graduate after he has hunted a wild boar, a wolf, or other relatively fierce wild beast.

Consider it a coming-of-age ceremony.

With the care and concern of his parents and relatives, Lu Ya, carrying a bow and arrow and a hunting knife, stepped into the familiar jungle and began his own hunting journey.

On this day, Lu Ya finally found the wild boar's trail.

After following the trail for most of the day, Lu Ya finally spotted the wild boars, a male and a female, with seven piglets, which made Lu Ya hesitate.

It's not that I felt pity, but wild boars with piglets are the most dangerous.

Just as Lu Ya was still hesitating, a sword light suddenly appeared from the sky. As the sword light flashed, the boar was instantly split in two, and the sow, startled, hurriedly ran away with her piglets.

This scene left Lu Ya completely stunned, unable to recover for a long time.

He only snapped out of his daze when he saw an old man with an air of otherworldly grace flying from afar. But in an instant, he was filled with unparalleled excitement again.

He actually encountered a deity!

Although their tribe was just an ordinary tribe, legends about gods and immortals circulated among them. This one could fly and kill a wild boar from a thousand miles away. What else could it be but a god?

When the old Taoist priest approached, Lu Ya bowed deeply and said, "This humble one, Lu Ya, pays his respects to the old immortal."

The old man glanced at Lu Ya indifferently, then said, "Meeting is fate. I'm giving you this opportunity. How far you can go is up to you."

As he spoke, the old Taoist raised his hand and pointed, and a stream of light immediately flowed into Lu Ya's brow.

The old Taoist priest passed on a Qi cultivation method to Lu Ya. After Lu Ya finished receiving it and woke up from his dazed state, the old Taoist priest was nowhere to be seen.

Nevertheless, Lu Ya still bowed in the direction the old Taoist had come from and thanked him, saying, "Thank you, venerable immortal, for bestowing upon me your teachings."

After bowing in thanks, Lu Ya stood up and saw that the wild boar that had been cut in two was still in the same place. He couldn't help but feel a little confused. Why didn't the old immortal want his prey after hunting?

Without much thought, he immediately tied the wild boar up with vines and laboriously dragged it back.

Whether he personally hunted the wild boar or not was no longer important; Lu Ya now only wanted to quickly return to cultivate the immortal techniques passed down to him by the old immortal.

Upon returning to the tribe, Lu Ya briefly greeted the elders before heading home to cultivate immortal techniques.

This training lasted for three years.

For three years, Lu Ya never told anyone else in the tribe about obtaining the immortal technique. After all, when the old immortal passed on the immortal technique to him, he did not indicate that he could pass it on to others.

He himself devoted all his time and energy to spiritual practice.

Apart from daily hunting and fishing, and other mundane chores, Lu Ya abandoned all distractions, even repeatedly postponing the marriage his parents had arranged for him.

It took three years, a full three years.

With Lu Ya's perseverance, it took him a full three years to successfully enter the Qi Refining Realm and become a Qi Refining Level 1 cultivator.

Although his cultivation speed was slow, Lu Ya was not slow at all. After all, becoming an immortal was no easy task. He would not give up, not even if it took him thirty years, let alone three.

Upon achieving initial success in his cultivation, Lu Ya was extremely excited and immediately left home to enter the mountains.

After some experimentation, Lu Ya gained a certain understanding of his current strength. Although he could not fly through the air like the old immortal and take the enemy's head from a thousand miles away.

But he is still several times stronger than before.

With the support of his true energy, his strength, speed, and everything else increased exponentially. Now, hunting wild boars is no problem, and hunting tigers is even easier for him.

Since he was already there, Lu Ya decided to take some prey back with him.

While he was searching for prey, he stumbled upon a peculiar cave, which was concealed by an array.

The old Taoist priest passed on to him the immortal techniques, which included not only cultivation methods but also some basic spells, alchemy techniques, and formations.

In his spare time during his cultivation over the years, Lu Ya also tried to figure out those things, but due to his cultivation level, he didn't gain much. However, identifying formations was not a difficult task.

Moreover, the formation he discovered appeared and disappeared intermittently, which was clearly a sign of insufficient energy.

Judging from this, the cave must have been abandoned long ago, or the owner of the cave must have died, otherwise this situation would never have occurred.

Thinking of this, Lu Ya couldn't help but get excited and immediately began to break the formation.

Although Lu Ya was only at the first level of Qi Refining, the array's energy was already insufficient, and he broke through it in no time. Lu Ya couldn't wait to enter the cave.

The cave is very spacious and does not seem to be man-made; rather, it resembles a natural karst cave.

In the center of the cave, there is a circular stone platform, on which sits a three-legged jade cauldron. And right below the cauldron, a figure sits cross-legged.

Lu Ya was startled when he first saw the figure, but upon closer inspection, he discovered the problem.

The man was lifeless.

Upon closer inspection, Lu Ya discovered that the man was emaciated, as if only a layer of skin covered his bones; he was clearly a dried-up corpse.

Suddenly, Lu Ya's attention fell on the fingers of the dried corpse's right hand.

On his right thumb was a green thumb ring, its shimmering green light shining brightly in the darkness, clearly indicating that it was no ordinary object.

"Coo coo..."

It would be a lie for Lu Ya not to be tempted when he saw the treasure; his drooling was a clear indication of that.

Without much hesitation, Lu Ya bowed to the corpse and then carefully removed the ring from the dried corpse's thumb.

After some investigation, it was discovered that the ring was actually a storage ring.

Since the original owner was dead, Lu Ya naturally refined the storage ring very easily. When he probed into it with his consciousness, he found that there were only a few jade slips inside.

Nevertheless, Lu Ya was very excited.

He hurriedly took out a jade slip to examine it. The jade slip was not a high-level item; it was just an ordinary jade scroll used to record text.

As he watched, Lu Ya's brows gradually furrowed.

(End of this chapter)