The moment Long Aotian saw the person in the mirror, he was stunned.
At that moment, Long Aotian’s mind was almost blank, unable to react at all.
He stood there, dumbfounded, for a full quarter of an hour before he felt his brain could think normally again.
The person in the mirror… was that him?
Was this person with a face full of scars really him?
Long Aotian lowered his head and looked at his hands.
It was better not to look, because once he did, he started trembling even more.
His hands were also covered with scars.
This version of him… this version of him…
Long Aotian had always been proud of his appearance.
Even though his face was only considered delicate, in his mind, he thought he was very good-looking.
Many women, even after just one meeting, would fall in love with him at first sight, refusing to marry anyone else.
This confidence didn’t waver even after being scratched by a fox.
He just thought his appearance had a slight flaw, but he could still comfort himself with the idea of imperfect beauty.
But now… now…
Even someone as thick-skinned as Long Aotian couldn’t bring himself to speak of imperfect beauty at this moment.
When he saw the person in the mirror, Long Aotian knew he was disfigured.
The face that had brought him countless conveniences was now gone.
Thinking about how everyone used to give him a second glance, even those walking ahead would turn back to look at him, Long Aotian’s hands couldn’t help but tremble.
At that time, he didn’t know he was disfigured; he just thought his appearance had recovered and become even more attention-grabbing after some trials.
He even deliberately slowed down to let others admire his face and winked at a few attractive women.
Back then, unaware of his face’s condition, Long Aotian felt incredibly handsome and dashing.
But now, Long Aotian felt nothing but embarrassment, unparalleled embarrassment.
Those people… they must have thought he was an ugly person trying to act out, right?
Imagining this cruel reality, Long Aotian couldn’t help but grip the mirror tighter.
Even though Long Aotian had become an ugly monster and had little spiritual energy left, he was still a Foundation Building stage cultivator, and his arm strength was considerable.
As he tightened his grip, the entire mirror shattered instantly.
Countless large and small mirror fragments fell to the ground, reflecting Long Aotian’s scarred face.
Cultivators have heightened senses, and their eyesight is particularly sharp.
As Long Aotian lowered his head, he clearly saw the scarred face reflected in the mirror fragments on the ground.
Numerous ugly scarred faces appeared in Long Aotian’s vision, causing him to tremble even more.
Long Aotian punched down with his fist, and the already shattered mirror broke into even smaller pieces.
As a result, the ugly scarred face multiplied even more.
Long Aotian simply kept punching until the mirrors were reduced to powder, and only when his hands started bleeding did he finally stop.
After confirming that no human face could be seen in the mirror anymore, Long Aotian sat down in a daze.
Once he calmed down, Long Aotian couldn’t help but think of his enemy, You Ming An.
It was You Ming An who gave him this pill, and after taking it, he ended up like this.
If he hadn’t taken You Ming An’s pill, he could have slowly found a way to get the right pill and eventually restore his original appearance.
But now…
Long Aotian was not someone who gave up easily, so he decided to visit the pill shop.
However, despite wanting to go out, he hesitated at the door.
Going out with a face like this was undoubtedly torture for Long Aotian.
Long Aotian hesitated for a long time until he remembered that he had a black veil hat in his cave that could cover his face, and finally made up his mind to go out.
Although he still didn’t have spiritual energy in his body, because his injuries had healed and no longer hurt, Long Aotian’s travel speed was much faster this time.
He quickly strode to the pill shop.
Upon arriving, he went straight to the counter, took off his hat with determination, and looked at the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper, with a big beard, seemed knowledgeable and should understand his injuries.
“Shopkeeper,” Long Aotian looked at the shopkeeper, “how can I restore my face?”
The shopkeeper: “…”
The shopkeeper looked up at Long Aotian’s face, and upon seeing it clearly, he was taken aback.
In the cultivation world, due to the abundance of spiritual energy and the numerous healing pills, it was rare for anyone to have such scars.
Long Aotian was indeed the first he had seen.
Precisely because Long Aotian was the first person he had seen with so many scars on his face, the shopkeeper felt a rare sense of sympathy and began to examine Long Aotian’s condition.
The more he looked, the more his brows furrowed.
“This… young man, it’s not easy to restore the scars on your face!”
The shopkeeper couldn’t help but sigh.
Hearing the shopkeeper’s words, Long Aotian felt a bit disappointed, but he quickly perked up, looking at the shopkeeper expectantly, waiting for his next words.
“Your injuries…”
The shopkeeper looked at the scars on Long Aotian’s face, “to restore them, you’ll need very good medicine, which would cost tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones.”
Hearing this, Long Aotian felt a bit disheartened.
Tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones?
If it were the old Long Aotian hearing this number, he might have said something like “my fate is in my hands, not the heavens,” and felt hopeful.
But now, everything was going wrong for Long Aotian, he had been hit hard, his foundation was destroyed, and his face was ruined.
Perhaps it was Long Aotian’s dejected appearance, combined with that scarred face, that really evoked sympathy.
Seeing Long Aotian like this, the shopkeeper offered another method: “Actually, if you don’t have tens of thousands of spirit stones, there is another way…”
Long Aotian’s eyes lit up immediately, looking at the shopkeeper expectantly, waiting for his solution.
“As long as you work hard on your cultivation and reach the Nascent Soul stage, you can transform and get rid of those scars on your face.”
Long Aotian: “…”
After hearing the shopkeeper’s words, the light in Long Aotian’s eyes dimmed instantly.
Cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage?
The past Long Aotian was a prodigy and didn’t take this seriously.
But now, his foundation is unstable.
If he doesn’t find a solution, reaching the Foundation Building stage would be his limit, not to mention the Golden Core stage, let alone the Nascent Soul stage.
Feeling too heartbroken, Long Aotian found himself sinking into despair.
While Long Aotian was feeling down, he heard voices coming from afar in the pill shop.
“Sister An, I really don’t need this pill. This pill is for the peak of the God Transformation stage and costs eighty thousand high-grade spirit stones. It’s really too precious.”
“Chacha, take it. Spending money on you is what makes me happiest.”
“Chacha, I’m the one who values you the most! Wrap up this pill for ninety thousand high-grade spirit stones for me.”
“Alright, I’ll wrap it up for you right away!”
Listening to the conversation between Song Cha and the other two women from afar, Long Aotian was dumbfounded.
Eighty thousand high-grade spirit stones?
Ninety thousand high-grade spirit stones?
What he dreams of, Song Cha can easily obtain!
