"Jun! Have you already begun your trials?" The voice on the other end of the line was Su Qian, Li Jin's mother.
He had a hunch that things were going to escalate very quickly.
"It doesn't matter, your dad has just met up with his old friend, and guess what?" Listening to this development he already had an idea of where these words were going.
"Mom, is there any chance that this friend has a daughter who is also the same age as me?" When he responded like this, the woman on the other side of the phone was not very happy.
"Son! How did you know? What are you already planning to escape this plan I am making for you?" When Li Jun heard this, he already had an idea of what was going to happen next.
The crafty woman was going to use emotional manipulation on him, but he did not buy that.
"Mom! Are you already planning to arrange a marriage for Hongxuan?" He asked in a teasing tone.
"How is that possible? My daughter is just a little girl!" She replied so fast.
Someone who had memories from another timeline like Li Jun already had ways to deal with his mother.
"Ai! That friend dad has will not be happy that you refused to give him face and marry off your daughter to his friend he introduced to you when he was willing to let his little girl go out with your son!" He replied without even letting her relax.
"Mom seeing that you are okay to be concerned about these things, it seems that everything is okay at home. Talk later!" He hung up fast so that she could not respond.
Putting away the phone, he had just turned around only to see someone listening to his conversation from a distance.
"Little Jun how is everything going? Are you going to get married?" When the word came out of Yu Tu's mouth, they made Li Jun shiver slightly.
"Get out! I am still a little boy, how am I supposed to be married." He shouted angrily. But Yu Tu seemed to have gained some scope and might end up spreading it to the whole team.
He did not care about it, after all this was not true. But he had to think of a way to handle his mother's constant date arrangements.
He threw the matter aside and sighed in relief, but the memories already showed him that in the future, another great turmoil was coming, at that time it was not easy for normal people to survive.
"It's still far off, I can have the ability to help my family by then." He threw the thoughts out of his head and looked towards Yu Tu's direction. This guy had probably already spread the news of "Marriage" he was not even aware of himself.
But he knew that in such cases, trying to defend oneself would only lead to more misunderstandings. He would let this news spread if it did. Besides, it could just help him avoid some things in the future.
With this thought in mind, he felt even more relieved.
But things did not go as he expected when he arrived at the place of gathering.
People were looking at him with weird looks, this was especially the case with the three women, Fei, Cai'er, and Juxue. Since he was not close with any of them, he just overlooked them calmly.
He then sat to the side, they still had some minutes before they could proceed with their journey. He was hungry, but they had to arrive at the destination to be able to get food. It was a good thing this way, or the motivation for most people would not exist.
But in just two hours it was impossible for them to feel it, perhaps after they had reached five hours things would get serious.
Li Jun was already feeling signs of hunger, and this was not intense because of whatever Emily fed him. It was able to make up as an energy source, but that only stabilized his situation.
As he wanted to close his eyes and enter the internal Introspection, Emily who was some distance came near and whispered something in his ear.
"Congratulations on the marriage! Oh! Id best if you don't do what you are thinking, currently, your body lacks enough energy to support internal introspection." She said and was about to leave when Li Jun looked at her weirdly.
It was like he was saying 'What the hell!' And that made her stay in place.
"Why you don't even know about your marriage?" She asked him seeing the look on his face.
Instead of answering, he asked with a wicked smile on his face, "That Yu Tu was spreading this propaganda right!"
"Yes!" Replied Emily in a absent-minded manner, before seeing the wicked smile on his face.
'Is there something that he does not want to mention? Wait! Yu Tu is spreading propaganda, that means.." she just looked at Yu Tu in the distance with some doubt. She could not confirm anything, and even so, thought a lot.
It was not shocking for her to see the scenario where Li Jun had an arranged marriage, such was the case for some of the friends she had.
She was not bothered about the issue of his marriage, rather if they were close it could bring about some rumors. That would not be good for anyone, but she could see that Li Jun did not even react when the marriage was mentioned.
What Li Jun did not know was that the moment this information was given by Yu Tu, someone had already gone ahead and posted it on the roof of his colleagues Had he not turned off the phone to escape his mother's games, he would have been shocked.
It seemed that a lot of people had yet to meet disaster in this trial and thus were free to concern themselves with such an issue.
Thinking about what Emily had just said, he asked, " You seem to know so much about internal introspection how about telling me more."
"Okay!" She did not see any problem with this.
With that, she started from the basics. She could see that he had no idea about these things.
"Evolution and Martial arts are paths that focus on the development of the physical body. When it comes to the immortal path, is the introduction of foreign energy into the body." When she spoke of this, she was sure to look around, and since they were the two of them, she was relieved and continued.
No one was going to just get close to others when in a small team like this, especially when they had no clear friendships.
"When one takes the Immortal path, it. requires them to gain access to a certain element in nature and when they approach it, energy from an element suitable to them is introduced in their body. All they had to do was slowly guide this energy based on the feeling they had when it entered their bodies. It is not very difficult to forget about it." She asked him to observe as she pointed around them.
"in the world, numerous energies exist and the immortal path is the use of external help, to infuse energy in the body of the element suitable for oneself and it will continue to travel in the body for about a month and if one were to obtain a practice technique, it would become easier to step on the beginner stage of the immortal path." She explained this in detail and he gained some memories about this from the other timeline.
What she said was indeed true.
"So the immortal path simply goes based on gathering energy of the suitable element from the outside and storing it in the body like rocket fuel. The body has a limit to the amount of energy it could store, for instance, once that limit is reached, it is necessary to reduce the quantity of the energy. Instead of getting rid of it, the immortal path goes in the path of improving the quality. This is where the technique comes from."
She was talking and without even realizing everyone was gathered. But she was in her world not realizing this.
"When one practices the Immortal technique, it is faster to gather energy and even convert quality thus improving cultivation. That is not the case for evolution and Martial arts."
"The human body is very complicated, and even techniques might not have any use for anyone who lacks understanding of the human body. In this way, the path of evolution and marital arts focuses on understanding the internal structure of the body." When she reached this stage, Yu Tu, Cai'er, and Juxue retreated, leaving only Li Jun and the man with a strong will.
He did not know his name and had not asked at all. Perhaps he might when a need arose. But in the moment only the two of them were left behind.
"Internal Introspect is considered a stage in the paths of Evolution and Martial arts and the first because it covers the main issue. Giving one access to their internal body structure." She had finally started to provide him with the information he needed.