Chapter 101 Worship

  On the second day, Qi Bo bought some incense sticks and paper money, and then went to pay respects to Ning Chong's parents together with Ning Chong.

  Ning Chong's parents were buried in the Ning family mansion's rear mountain depths, within the Ning family ancestral cemetery.

  For nearly a thousand years, the ancestors of the Ning family have been buried in this cemetery. As you look around, the graves are scattered all over the mountain, with some located at the foot of the mountain. The tomb of Ning Chong's parents is situated near the foot of the mountain, surrounded by a pleasant environment with birds singing and flowers blooming. The grass is lush and green, and here and there, you can see many beautiful wildflowers quietly blossoming.

  Ning Chong's parents made many contributions to the family, and the family did not treat them unfairly. Ning Chong's parents' graves were built high and exquisite, no less than any other grave. This somewhat reduced Ning Chong's hidden resentment towards the family.

  Qī bó followed the rules and prepared, then started worshiping. He burned incense and paper money while chatting about past and present things, just like talking to a family member. As he spoke, Qī bó's eyes were filled with tears, his voice choked with sobs.

  Ning Chong, who was worshiping together with him, didn't find it strange. Every time Zhai Bo came to worship, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

  The old man really regarded this house as his own home, and the people in it as his relatives. To him, Ning Chong's parents were like his children whom he had brought up; Ning Chong was also like a grandson to him. Every year, every time they paid their respects, the old man carried with him his thoughts of Ning Chong's parents.

  Affected by Zhibo's painful crying, Ningchong also sighed slightly in his heart, feeling a pang of sadness, and involuntarily recalled the memory fragments of his past life.

  No mistake, although the memories of his past life have only been left with some fragments, vague and unclear, Ning Chong was very sure that he had a past life, and his soul came from another world in a different time and space.

  In the hazy fragments of memory, Ning Chong knew that his previous life was a lonely and miserable one, without parents or relatives, who lost his life in an accident. After that, his soul miraculously crossed space-time, came to this world, had a second life, and became the current Ning Chong.

  Because of the loneliness in his previous life, Ning Chong cherished this life's relationships with his family even more. He treasured every day he spent happily with his parents, Xiang Er and Qi Bo. However, reality was cruel, and an accident took away his parents' lives, leaving Ning Chong once again as a child without parents.

  When his parents passed away, Ning Chong remembered that he didn't shed a tear at the time. He tightly hugged Xiang Er, who was crying bitterly, and comforted her in a soft voice. However, who could have known the weight of sorrow in his heart? The so-called strength, the so-called lack of tears, were just a disguise, and it was also a must for him to stand up at an early age during difficult times.

  Since then, Ning Chong's life has fallen into an even darker abyss, forever feeling a heavy heart, feeling lost, and the world seems to have lost much of its color.

  But all that is in the past now, Ning Chong has changed, he's standing up and no longer lost. Although there was sadness on his face, he smiled, feeling that his former self had been a bit foolish.

  Even if parents are gone, there is still Xiang Er and Qi Bo, isn't that enough? Moreover, now I have finally embarked on the path of martial arts, found my own goal, started climbing to the peak of martial arts, and clearly began to strive for control over my own life.

  That's enough!

  Facing his parents' graves, Ning Chong bowed several times. With a determined look on his face and a soft voice, he said: "Dad, Mom, you don't have to worry about me anymore. I've grown up, I'm standing now! I know the direction I need to take, what I need to pursue, and the path I need to keep walking! Please rest assured, I won't let you down. One day, I'll prove that I'm not a waste of martial arts talent! I will definitely stand at the peak of martial arts!"

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  The greatest benefit of entering the Ning family's inner gate is the focus on taking care of family resources, which can be enjoyed to a limited extent, including a large number of secret recipes for martial arts and alchemy, as well as dedicated elders and masters who can be consulted at any time for guidance.

  However, the personal and autonomous nature of martial arts training is very strong. The method of having fixed classes at fixed times like private schools that teach written knowledge cannot provide better training effects for martial artists, but may instead bring about adverse reactions. Therefore, any family or school of martial arts will not rigidly follow a fixed schedule to teach, unlike private schools that teach book knowledge.

  Because martial arts cultivation emphasizes personal enlightenment and innate talent, as well as self-motivation, rigidly imposing certain things is fundamentally unable to cultivate talent. Therefore, the Ning family, apart from ensuring sufficient resource allocation, has always been very lenient in managing the cultivation of its younger generation, with a strong sense of autonomy in their martial arts practice.

  Although Ning Chong became an inner disciple, he didn't go to the inner sect to report and enter the lecture hall for martial arts studies. Given his reputation as a waste after the assessment, there was no need for him to go there to suffer from cold shoulders and ridicule. Moreover, most importantly, he currently had no doubts about his martial path.

  Apart from this, Ning Chong had something even more important to attend to - taking the "Dragon and Tiger Pill" that he had obtained as a reward for coming first in the Outer Sect's Grand Competition!

  However, when it came to cultivating resources, Ning Chong was not polite. After paying respects to his parents and returning, Ning Chong took advantage of being an inner disciple's token to go to the family's alchemy hall and collect a month's worth of cultivation pills.

  Afterwards, Ning Chong returned home and started his closed-door meditation, taking the Dragon-Tiger Pill.

  In the dimly lit room, Ning Chong sat on the bed with his legs crossed, opened the small porcelain bottle containing Longhu Dan, and as he smelled a pungent smell from his nose, he saw a yellow dan medicine with a circle of brown dan marks placed at the bottom of the bottle.

  This yellow pill is none other than the famous "Longhu Dan".

  "Longhu Dan" is only a second-grade medicinal pill, and its refining process is not particularly difficult. However, the materials used to refine Longhu Dan are extremely expensive, and its efficacy is even more enviable. As a result, Longhu Dan has become an unaffordable, sky-high priced medicinal pill that ordinary people cannot afford.

  The effect of Longhu Dan is to enhance the "Martial Artist Realm" by one rank. Of course, this enhancement is not a 100% guarantee, and generally, only about 40% of martial artists who take Longhu Dan will gain an enhancement, and the higher the martial artist's cultivation rank, the lower the probability of enhancement.

  For the "40% chance", Ning Chong didn't pay much attention to it. When he previously refined the "Earth Dragon Fruit" and "Bone Jade Blood Coral", that strange feeling had a strong auxiliary effect, greatly helping Ning Chong complete the refining process.

  It can be said that if it weren't for this strange feeling, Ning Chong would have been just a young man who had read some miscellaneous books and recklessly tried to refine himself for the first time. Not to mention the extremely low probability of successful refinement, the danger of going crazy from the fire was enough to take Ning Chong's life.

  That strange feeling, if it can assist in refining "Earth Dragon Fruit" and "Bone Jade Blood Coral" such precious spiritual medicines, then for the basic dan medicine that has almost no danger, its refinement and absorption should also have a great deal of help. Therefore, Ning Chong's common sense that taking Longhu Dan only had an effect with a probability of "40%" can be completely ignored.