Chapter 908: Elderly Care and Funeral
The spiritual explosion took Li Yuan several days, but he still failed to get it in the end.
The younger generation of the Li family was filled with guilt, thinking that they had betrayed the trust of the head of the family. They bluntly said they wanted to apologize and reduce their allocation of resources in the clan.
Li Yuan did not blame him: "There are many countries and practitioners behind this matter. Although I don't know why they resist Lingke, it is indeed not something we can control."
Part of this batch of spiritual explosions was destroyed by the original owner, and the whereabouts of the rest are unknown.
I heard that this boss's ancestor was an official of the legendary Anyue Kingdom. He guarded a spiritual explosion warehouse during the catastrophe more than two hundred years ago. After the world was divided, he took it out for trade and made his descendants rich.
The boss who possessed the spiritual explosion was obviously threatened by an irresistible force. Before Li Yuan arrived, he destroyed a large number of spiritual explosions and many spiritual weapons in tears.
Although he still retained some spiritual explosions, he decided not to sell them outside. Not only to the Li and Shen families, but also many forces that wanted to trade were rejected.
Not wanting to be involved in the unclear vortex, Li Yuan chose to lead the Li clan members to escape in time and no longer be involved in the matter.
The people from the Shen family were a little unwilling after hearing this, but they knew that Li Yuan had always been prudent in running the business of both families, and that he gave up so decisively, which obviously showed that they sensed something was wrong.
The matter seemed to have ended in a whimper. It was not until a long time later that Li accidentally learned that some forces that insisted on purchasing spiritual explosions and even tried to use them to study spiritual explosion technology had disappeared one after another and never appeared again.
Among the many disappeared forces, there was even a powerful force formed by ascetics. It was rumored that the leader of that force was a wandering immortal.
But even the powerful immortals disappeared. From one day on, all traces of them were wiped out, as if they had never existed at all.
Until this point, many families and forces that had given up on purchasing the spiritual explosion finally breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fears.
There is an invisible vortex in this world that involves the situation of the entire era. Although I don’t know what the situation is in the other three continents, in Eastern Shenzhou, spiritual science has already tended to spread into a taboo topic and should not be mentioned lightly.
People naturally do not want to return from the era of developed spiritual electric lights to the ancient era of candle lighting.
But this world has too many extraordinary powers. Since the human world was torn apart and Anyue's influence gradually decreased, it has been testing people's bottom line through gentle means, becoming more radical step by step, slowly eroding the glory of the spiritual science era, and mortal creatures are simply unable to resist.
By the time people reacted, the spiritual weapons were nowhere to be seen, but the imperial courts of various countries still had powerful military deterrence, and they were helpless.
After all, the rapid development of spiritual science has affected the interests of some supernatural beings. They do not want the creatures on earth to live too happily or have too much power, as that would shake their superiority.
You know, the psychic nuclear weapon developed by An Yue was a terrifying weapon that could kill powerful people!
Especially the three types of nuclear weapons, 'Responding to Gods, Chasing Demons and Terrifying Ghosts'. As long as they can hit the target, they are enough to kill even the top powerful beings. How can they not make some beings fearful?
Nowadays, the four continents that were divided by the human world are rarely connected. Those who can fly across the vast ocean and reach the other side in one breath are all powerful people above the immortal realm. An Shan and An Yue tried to restore the connection between the four continents, but those spiritual warships could not overcome the obstruction of certain intentional beings!
Ever since Li Yuan fell, all the evildoers who were suppressed by him have jumped out, trying to bring the efforts of several generations of people in Anshan back to square one.
Many immortals and gods were quick-witted, saying one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes, and it was impossible to tell who was the enemy or the friend, making it impossible for Anshan to start. Besides, without Li Yuan, how could they dare to kill the immortals so easily!
If Tian Yao had not finally returned to Anshan with his disciples decades ago, Anshan would probably have been depleted of strength and would have fallen into the hands of the murderer.
After the celestial demon returned to Anshan, he quickly secretly went to the heaven.
As soon as he came back, he ordered all creatures in Anshan not to go out. He did not have strong feelings for An Yue like Li Yuan did. He was seriously injured for a hundred years and hurried back. He was disappointed to see that An Yue was no longer the same as before, so he simply closed the mountain and left it alone.
This gives those with ulterior motives even more opportunities to cause trouble secretly.
The four continents of the human world and the four parts of China in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest are now experiencing turbulent times.
However, this chaos was still controlled within an acceptable range and did not cause too many casualties. Those behind the scenes did not dare to cause too much waves in the hundreds of years after the catastrophe.
Eastern Shenzhou is vast and magnificent. Tianding Kingdom occupies the most central area. It is much more stable than other places and is still rich and powerful.
Li did not get involved in those things again. He remained awed and distant from those otherworldly mysterious beings. He did not care much about the ups and downs of those gods and ghosts, and honestly developed his mundane industries.
Time flies, and another twenty years have passed.
The days during these twenty years were extremely peaceful. Li Yuan gradually unloaded his affairs and handed over the family business to his relatives and younger generations.
He and Shen Nianxi still had no children. Although the Li and Shen families were quite regretful, they had no choice but to accept it.
The joys and sorrows of the world will eventually come to an end. This is the natural law of heaven and earth, an endless cycle that lasts forever.
The stories of living beings will continue to begin and end, until they overlap and become thicker and thicker chapters that never end.
Li Dagui served in the army in his early years. Now in his old age, his body could no longer bear it and he passed away in the coffin before his wife.
With white silk hanging on the door and linen clothes wrapped around her body, Li was weeping and grieving.
Li Yuan had pale temples, a short beard, and wrinkles all over his face. He and his equally old wife Shen Nianxi knelt in front of the hall, their eyebrows drooping and their expressions sad. Li Yue'er, who had lived in the mountains for a long time to practice Taoism, also rushed back home, her eyes red and tears could not be stopped.
She was intelligent and gentle since childhood, but when she grew up, she became spoiled and stubborn because she didn't want to get married. She ran to the mountains and practiced Taoism all her life without getting married. Now she is over 60 years old, but she has made great achievements in her cultivation and her face is still youthful.
However, looking at her father's coffin, Li Yue'er felt deeply regretful. She regretted her behavior and thought she should come back more often to visit her parents, stay with them more often, and fulfill her filial duty.
This life was perfect, but Li Yuan and Li Yue'er finally had to say goodbye to their parents.
They cherish their elderly mothers even more and accompany them often, fearing that they would neglect them in the slightest.
Live side by side in this world, and die together in the underworld.
Perhaps she was worried that her husband was having a hard time in the underworld and was waiting for her anxiously.
Less than a year after Li Dagui's death, Mrs. Li was about to pass away because she missed him too much and her body had reached its limit.
She had white hair, cloudy eyes, and a weak breath.
Before she died, she was still holding Li Yuan and Li Yue'er's hands, with a loving look in her eyes, and she kept thinking about them.
"Yuan'er, Yuan'er..."
Li Yuan knelt in front of the bed, his face old, and held his mother's hand tightly.
"The child is here." His voice was steady, but trembling slightly.
"When you were a child, your mother shouldn't have beaten you. I feel bad and regret it..."
Mrs. Li also knew about the extraordinary qualities of Li Yuan. She had misunderstood her son as playful and a habitual liar since he was young. She was afraid that Li Yuan would go astray, so she severely disciplined him countless times. Later, she found out that every time her son played, he was outside saving innocent lives...
Her voice was weak, full of heartache and regret, tears trembled in the corners of her eyes, and also filled with reluctance and longing.
She couldn't take care of both the world and the underworld, her children and her husband, but she couldn't give up either one.