Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

"Please, Da'an, earn three thousand taels of silver in this shop by communicating with customers on your own, without relying on anyone else."

This sentence in the letter is exactly what is troubling Jiang Yunzhi.

Because Mu An didn't want anyone else to get involved in his game with Mu Ling'er, Jiang Yunzhi never saw the letter or the treasure chest Mu An found.

Because there is no way to understand, I feel uneasy.

In Jiang Yunzhi's world, diligent cultivation and rescuing his mother are the only goals in life.

But in Mu An's world, winning games with Mu Ling'er is the main theme of life.

Upon seeing Mu Ling'er's request, Mu An naturally forbade Jiang Yunzhi from continuing to participate in the business.

For Jiang Yunzhi, this behavior robbed him of his last remaining value in Mu'an.

The anxious teenager had no choice but to take to the streets to gather intelligence in an attempt to prove his worth.

It was during this process that the young man came into contact with the local forces of Feather City, and by chance, he crossed paths with the people of the Fire Feather Sect, beginning to write his own story.

……

The joys and sorrows of people are not connected.

Even though Jiang Yunzhi was right in front of him, Mu An didn't really care about him. At most, he was just a familiar stranger, which made Mu An lower his gaze slightly.

For Mu An now, forming connections with fellow fans is not difficult, but getting him to truly care about a person or a thing is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

He would offer a word or two of guidance when Jiang Yunzhi asked questions, but he wouldn't say anything more.

No matter how foolish Jiang Yunzhi's decision was, Mu An wouldn't say a word.

And when Jiang Yunzhi knelt down and begged him.

Because of a fleeting thought, Mu An told Jiang Yunzhi that the young man could borrow his name.

This statement itself is actually a solution to the problem.

The name of the Five Elements True Lord is known throughout the heavens and earth, and no one in the vast Nine Realms dares to defy Mu An's will.

Even the Celestial Master, who is also a supreme being of Heaven and Earth, would not refuse Mu An on matters outside the Daoist path.

Let alone a small Lin family, even Emperor Jun Mingle of Dongqi wouldn't dare to say no to Mu An.

Allowing the use of a name implies the ability to solve all problems.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yunzhi knew nothing about Mu An from beginning to end.

Jiang Yunzhi had seen Mu An casually kill the swordsmen of the Heavenly Blade Sect, but he had never heard Mu An's subsequent words to Liu Yun.

For an insignificant figure like Jiang Yunzhi, the world is full of important people.

He knew Mu An was a big shot and that Mu An was very powerful, but he didn't know just how powerful Mu An was, nor did he know what Mu An's name really meant.

Because of these things, Mu An never mentioned them to Jiang Yunzhi, and since Mu An didn't mention them, Jiang Yunzhi naturally didn't dare to ask.

In the boy's pure understanding, Mu An was indeed very powerful, but the Lin family was equally powerful, and Dong Qi was an unimaginable behemoth.

While Mu An, as a reclusive pawnshop owner, may indeed be very capable, he is still not enough in the face of these behemoths.

Given this misconception, Jiang Yunzhi naturally assumed...

To save his mother, he must become strong enough; only then can he find an opportunity.

After Jiang Yunzhi made his choice, Mu An did not correct him in any way, nor did he tell Jiang Yunzhi what his choice meant.

He simply let Jiang Yunzhi cultivate like a madman, exhausting his own potential.

Even though Mu An knew that Jiang Yunzhi wouldn't live past forty, and that Jiang Yunzhi's talent was mediocre, and that even if he devoted his whole life to cultivation, he would never be able to step onto the path of a Celestial Martial Saint... Mu An still said nothing.

Compared to when she first embarked on her journey, Mu An has changed a lot, but because her divinity is too strong, this is far from enough.

Mu An would lower her gaze slightly, but not too much.

At this moment, Mu An rediscovered a trace of a past feeling in each transaction and conversation.

But he is still very, very far from being the same person he was before he became an immortal.

Giving Jiang Yunzhi a chance to choose is the greatest act of kindness Mu'an can offer at this moment.

If you can't catch it, you can only say it's fate playing tricks on you.

……

Spring comes and autumn goes, and a year quietly passes in a life that is not entirely peaceful.

If the main theme of Southern Xinjiang is peace and development, then the main theme of Yucheng is struggle and chaos.

In this city shrouded in war, the law of the jungle prevails.

Sects, gangs, powerful clans...

Various forces intertwine in this ancient city. The Fire Feather Sect, as the ruler, only cares about overall stability and does not protect the ordinary people living in this ancient city.

Every street in Feather City belongs to its own faction. To survive in this land, one must be affiliated with a certain power and pay them protection fees.

The amount of this protection fee is determined by the success of the business, and it is often stuck at a ratio that is unacceptable but not so desperate as to lead to utter despair.

For example, street vendors often have 70% of their profits taken by gangs, 20% robbed by street thugs, leaving them with only 10% to barely make ends meet.

Seventy percent of the money robbed by bandits is handed over to the gang, and half of the protection fees collected by the gang are handed over to the Fire Feather Sect.

Street killings and gang fights are not uncommon occurrences.

The law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, is vividly demonstrated in this ancient city, where big fish eat little fish, and one cycle leads to another.

It's unclear whose good fortune it was, but because of Jiang Yunzhi, Mu An's shop was never charged protection money. On the contrary, from time to time, powerful gangs and disciples of the Fire Feather Sect would come to Mu An's shop to contribute some silver.

Even if a fourteen-year-old innate grandmaster has a rather unorthodox cultivation method and a head of strange white hair, he is enough to make any force take him seriously.

Let alone the Fire Feather Sect, which only has two Celestial Martial Saints, even major powers would take a second look at such a genius and try to figure out what's going on.

After several encounters, including when he happened to save a few young disciples of the Fire Feather Sect, Jiang Yunzhi became a guest of honor at the Fire Feather Sect and a young genius who desperately needed to be recruited.

With just a little investigation, the Fire Feather Sect members discovered that the peerless genius in their eyes had not come to Feather City alone.

He was accompanied by a young gentleman who now runs a shop in the city.

Jiang Yunzhi's attitude towards the shopkeeper was respectful, clearly that of a junior.

Even though Jiang Yunzhi didn't mention Mu An at all, the two Supreme Elders of the Fire Feather Sect still had their own ideas.

The shop owner is definitely a master!

As for the inability to discern cultivation level, the two Supreme Elders stated that...

Normal, normal...

These days, all the masters have their quirks; they like to practice techniques to conceal their presence.

By sheer chance, everyone in the Fire Feather Sect came to regard Mu An's shop as the hermitage of a master.

Mu An himself became their primary target for recruitment.

As a result, Mu An's shop was never charged protection money. On the contrary, two old men would often come to his shop and buy some simple trinkets while chatting with him.

With conscious effort, even though Mu An occasionally found herself in awkward silences, she still managed to have more conversations with others and reminisce about more past events.

Because Mu An treated everyone the same, while dealing with the people of the Fire Feather Sect, Mu An also had more interactions with ordinary guests.