Ye Zan's two apprentices, Shi Lin and Wu Liao, can no longer be said to be little guys now. They have already transformed from teenagers into young adults. After all, it took Ye Zan ten years just to transform the war fortress. Naturally, it was impossible for the growth of the two apprentices to stagnate. Among the two disciples, the one who has changed the most is Wu Liao, who was brought from the Great Wilderness Realm.
When Ye Zan accepted Wu Liao as his disciple, Wu Liao still looked thinner and shorter even compared with other human children of the same age, let alone compared with normal children from the Wu family. It is precisely because of this that when Wu Liao was in the tribe, even though he was the grandson of the clan leader, he was often teased by his peers.
And today's Wu Liao, although compared with the Wu youth of the same age, his figure still looks a bit thin. Moreover, in fact, Wu Liao was not really thin, but more well-proportioned than ordinary Wu youths. Of course, compared with human youths, Wu Liao's figure can still be said to be tall and mighty.
As for why Wu Liao seemed so malnourished when he was in the tribe, Ye Zan later conducted a detailed examination on him. The reason is actually very simple. Wu Liao was really malnourished at the time, so his development seemed to be slower than that of children of the same age.
As for the cause of malnutrition, it was due to Wu Liao's witch bloodline, not any mistreatment in the tribe. When he was in the tribe, although he did not enjoy special treatment, he was no worse than other people of the same age in terms of food distribution. However, his Wu Clan bloodline is stronger, so that his need for "nutrition" is actually greater than that of his peers.
Bloodline is said to contain powerful power, but a more accurate statement should be that it contains the laws of the great road. In other words, blood itself has no energy, only methods and skills on how to use energy, and the methods and skills are turned into instincts. If you want your blood vessels to exert their power, you must provide them with a large amount of "energy", also known as "nutrition."
For blood, "nutrition" is of course spiritual energy, just like a monk needs to breathe in spiritual energy. Aura can be regarded as the most basic energy. It can become true energy, true essence, and mana for ascetics, it can become demon power for demon clan, and it can also become the power of blood for witch clan.
Before Ye Zan brought Qianli Legend and firearms, the lives of the creatures in the Great Wilderness Realm could be said to be quite difficult. Therefore, even the grandson of the leader of the Wu Clan cannot receive too special treatment. He can only receive the same food share as other people of the same age. Bloodlines have greater demand for "nutrition", but food is the same as other people's. It's no wonder Wu Liao is malnourished.
After worshiping Ye Zan as his master, Wu Liao was finally able to make a full meal even though he did not receive much guidance from his master regarding the inheritance of the Wu clan. You know, Ye Zan is not lacking in Wu Liao's ability to stutter, especially when he still has spiritual crops such as spiritual rice in his hands.
As a result, Wu Liao could eat freely, his blood was fully replenished with energy, and his body naturally became stronger and stronger.
Of course, although there are not many people Ye Zan can give Wu Liao advice on when it comes to the inheritance of the Wu clan, it does not mean that he can really only be a pure "breeder". A person's strength depends not only on the skills he practices, but also on his "comprehensive quality". This "comprehensive quality" basically means how to best utilize one's own strength.
If a person does not have the skills to use strength, even "one force can defeat ten will" can only be a joke.
And this "skill" is not just the so-called "moves", but also the ability to adapt to situations, the ability to assess the situation, etc. In these aspects, Ye Zan can still provide a lot of help to his disciples. The virtual world alone is enough for his disciples to get great training.
Let's talk about Shi Lin, Ye Zan's first disciple, who is a bit older than Wu Liao, but of course he can still be considered a young man. Compared to before, Stone Forest today is indeed much more mature, not only physically, but also mentally.
In terms of strength, Shi Lin's power comes from the blood of the Western Dragon in his body, which is actually somewhat similar to Wu Liao. Both of them gained their strength through their bloodline, but their bloodline origins are different. It is currently impossible to say which one is stronger.
On the Stone Forest side, apart from purifying his bloodline, Ye Zan had no other influence on his bloodline. Like that demon from outside the world, who integrates various bloodlines into himself to obtain powerful powers with different characteristics, Ye Zan is completely disdainful.
In Ye Zan's view, those bloodlines that are mixed too much can certainly gain powerful power in a short period of time. However, in the long run, the mixing and conflict of too many bloodlines will become a ceiling that is difficult to break through. Although, judging from the situation of the evil spirits outside that day, no matter how high the opponent was, his strength had reached the level of a true immortal. However, Ye Zan still didn't want his apprentice to take that path.
Therefore, what Ye Zan has been teaching Shi Lin is how to develop his own bloodline and how to bring out the potential of that bloodline. At this point, the Wu Clan inheritance that came with Wu Liao also gave Ye Zan a good reference direction. Although it was impossible for him to let Shi Lin completely follow the path of the Witch Clan, he did get a lot of inspiration from it.
For example, in terms of blood condensation, after all, the Wu clan once played the protagonists of the world, so the inherited condensation method is certainly not bad. Based on the actual situation of Stone Forest, Ye Zan modified and tested some things from the Wu clan's inheritance, and then taught them to Stone Forest.
Anyway, when the head of the Wu Clan asked Ye Zan to view the inheritance of the Wu Clan, he did not say that it could not be taught to people outside the Wu Clan, not to mention that it had gone through some modifications.
When Ye Zan had just finished transforming the fortress, Shi Lin's strength had already reached the peak of the soul level. It was only because of the suppression of Heavenly Dao in the monastic world that Shi Lin had no chance to go further. Now, Shi Lin has come to the Dawn World with his master Ye Zan. There is no longer the suppression of heaven in the monastic world, and his breakthrough in strength is already just a step away.
Compared to these two apprentices, Ye Zan's daughter Ye Linglong has not seen much change in these years. Judging from the pure appearance, the little loli is still a little loli. At most, she has changed from five or six years old to seven or eight years old.
The fact that his daughter is growing up so slowly makes Ye Zan, a father, feel quite complicated. Parents certainly hope that their children can grow up healthily and become adults as soon as possible. However, it may also be because it is no longer fun when the children grow up, and I feel a little regretful. Now, Ye Zan doesn't feel that kind of regret. His daughter is still his pistachio, but he is also a little worried about her not growing up.
Of course, strictly speaking, the slow growth of little lolita Ye Linglong cannot be said to be anything wrong. This is just because her life form is not ordinary, so her growth is different from ordinary people. In other words, from Ye Linglong's own perspective, this growth rate is actually normal.
You know, if age is really counted, Ye Linglong had lived as a golden python for at least a thousand years before going through the Dragon Transformation Tribulation. Therefore, if that age is included, Ye Linglong is now an "old monster" who is thousands of years old.
However, Ye Linglong survived the Dragon Transformation Tribulation and received the protection of Ye Zan's merits, and she was reborn from that time on. Therefore, if we really want to calculate age, we should start with her passing through the Dragon Transformation Tribulation. Calculating this, she should be in her teens by her current age.
However, after Ye Linglong transcended the tribulation, although she did not truly transform into a real dragon, she was still an "immortal species" compared to the human race. "Immortality species" have a long lifespan, and accordingly their growth is naturally slow. In fact, this "slowness" is still relative to the human race. The "immortal species" themselves do not feel how slow their growth is.
A human's life is only a short hundred years. In order for the race to reproduce normally, birth, growth, maturity, and aging are all compressed into this hundred years. And those "immortal species" have lifespans of thousands of years, and each stage will naturally be lengthened accordingly. Otherwise, being immortal and reproducing quickly, I am afraid that this area of the world will soon be crowded, and there will be no room for other living beings to survive.
Having said that, my daughter won't grow up like this, so Ye Zan, the father, doesn't have to worry about my daughter being abducted by his apprentice. You must know that it is easy for senior sisters and junior brothers to get into emotional entanglements after spending a long time together.
In the past, when he first accepted Shi Lin as his disciple, Ye Zan had thought about whether this brat would abduct his daughter. "Fortunately" Later, Shi Lin had an accident and was accidentally teleported to the Jiao Holy Palace in the East China Sea. A few years later, he appeared in front of him again as the adopted son of the Holy Jiao.
But now, Ye Zan doesn't have to worry anymore. The two apprentices have become young men, but the daughter still looks like a little lolita. If under this situation, any of the two apprentices had any thoughts about Ye Linglong, then he might really have to clean up the family.
Speaking of which, the daughter will not grow up, and the son is in the same situation as the daughter, and he will not grow up either. As for Ye Zan, the father, although he is already in his fourth year, his appearance has not changed much. Of course, when a person reaches the prime of life when he reaches forty, he will not show any signs of aging. However, the reason why Ye Zan can maintain this appearance is essentially because his realm has improved quickly enough.
Among the group of ascetics, there are many so-called "childish-looking" people. In addition to those who change deliberately due to certain purposes and hobbies, many of them are actually the result of natural aging. After all, not all cultivators can step into the realm of the soul at a young age like geniuses like Ye Zan.
As the cultivation of Taoism improves the realm, the life span will be correspondingly increased, turning the human race, which is a "short-lived species", into a "long-lived species" step by step. However, before you break through a realm, your aging rate is calculated based on your current realm, not the lifespan after you break through the realm. Therefore, if you break through the realm at the age of eighty, your lifespan will be extended, but the aging that has been caused will not be reversed.
In other words, "rejuvenating" is something you don't have to think about, at least most people don't have to think about it. Unless you can obtain a natural treasure that has the effect of "rejuvenating one's youth," it is possible to reverse aging with the effect of that medicine. However, the kind of natural treasure that "returns youth to youth" is somewhat "against the heavens" and is naturally not so easy to obtain.
In addition to relying on natural resources and treasures, if you want to maintain your "youth", there is only one way, which is to break through the realm as soon as possible. If you break through in your twenties, you will age slower than other people of the same age. If you break through again, you will age even slower, until you seem to be "youthful forever."
Of course, in the process of practicing Taoism, this "maintaining youth" effect is not what the ascetics really pursue. However, if you break through the realm earlier, your remaining lifespan can be extended earlier.
To put it bluntly, if you break through the Golden Core Realm at the same time, your lifespan will be different if you break through at the age of twenty and when you break through at the age of eighty. This increased lifespan is calculated based on your original remaining lifespan. You have eighty years left to live. If you extend it ten times, it will be eight hundred years. You have twenty years left to live, and if you extend it ten times, you will only have two hundred years.
Therefore, the "crane-haired and childlike" among monks are actually not worthy of envy, which just shows that their talent for cultivation is relatively mediocre.
Ye Zan entered the Yuanshen Realm more than ten years ago, and his lifespan has reached thousands of years. How could he have aged so much in just ten years? Similarly, the Lin family siblings around him, as well as Qi Qianjun, all entered the Yuanshen realm at a young age, so there were no signs of aging.
Ye Zan is like this now, and bringing a girl who "will not grow up" will not make people feel inconsistent. If the little lolita Ye Linglong had grown up "normally" and now turned into a girl of 18 or 19, she would not be a "good match" for Ye Zan as a father.
After leaving the "preaching" matter to others to continue, Ye Zan focused on his two apprentices and his daughter Ye Linglong. It's not that he is taking people to travel around. After all, those lessons that should be used for traveling have already been completed in the small world and the monastic world.
Although this world of dawn is an outer world, after all, it is just a place where intelligent beings survive. If we really want to compare it with the monastic world, apart from some systems and customs, there are not many differences between this Chenxi world. Therefore, Ye Zan did not need to be in this place specifically to take his apprentice and daughter to "experience the suffering."
Ye Zan, with his daughter and two apprentices, wandered around in the morning world, mainly looking for places or opportunities that would be conducive to their cultivation breakthroughs. After all, in today's Dawn World, as long as the original will of the world is not disturbed, Ye Zan is basically allowed to do whatever he wants. Therefore, of course Ye Zan must take advantage of this opportunity to find some benefits for his daughter and apprentices.