As darkness enveloped Stonyford, a sudden burst of lightning and thunder heralded the arrival of a heavy downpour. The lightning bolts, resembling majestic dragons, tore through the sky, intensifying the already eerie atmosphere.
Drip-drip!
Inside a dilapidated brick hut, raindrops trickled down the walls, one by one, landing on a young boy lying on a bed. The rain had soaked him completely.
The boy, of a slight build and fair complexion, lay motionless with a pained expression etched on his face. Stanley, his eyes filled with disbelief, suddenly opened them and examined his battered body.
Bruises of various shades of blue and purple covered his body, evidence of the immense power that the Immortal Stanley Stanley once possessed, now depleted. Where had that power gone, the power capable of shattering the heavens and the earth?
"Wasn't I refined into a Dao Pill by the master?" Stanley murmured to himself, his face bearing an expression of deep thought.
"How did I return to being eighteen years old?" Seeing his younger self in the mirror, Stanley was even more shocked.
In his previous life, Stanley was considered the best among thousands of star domains!
He was firm in character, unbeaten in countless battles, and even hailed as Immortal Stanley Stanley by countless entities!
He was also recognized as the most gifted cultivator in tens of thousands of years.
But Stanley knew well that his great achievements were all related to the Chaos Dao Body he possessed.
The Chaos Dao Body is the most extraordinary and top-ranked physique among three thousand known bodies in the universe. Possessing the Chaos Dao Body accelerates cultivation several times faster than others!
Splendid transformations and changes brought by it are beyond words.
With the help of the Chaotic Daoist body, Stanley was able to cultivate the Jiebie Period in less than 10,000 years.
Even with Stanley's sturdy character, as he thought of his master, Mr. X, he couldn't help but suffer a slight pain in his heart.
Mr. X Loose Man was a peak alchemist amidst the nine heavens ten earths, and thousands of galaxies.
In the mouths of others, Mr. X was a reputable and honest man.
Only Stanley knew that this Mr. X was a glory-seeker!
The so-called success also depends on the Chaotic Daoist Body, and failure also depends on the Chaotic Daoist Body.
Stuck in the Jiebie Period for tens of thousands of years, Mr. X saw through the Chaotic Daoist Body that Stanley had harbored from the moment they met, regarding Stanley as a catalyst for concocting Daoist pills.
At the last moment of Stanley's crossing the disaster, the insidious Mr. X took advantage of Stanley's exhaustion, and secretly plotted against him, turning Stanley into a Daoist pill.
"No matter, a new life, Mr. X, I have paid back all I owed you in my previous life, and I don't owe you anything in this life. Let me, Stanley, walk the path of cultivation alone." Stanley showed a calm face and his eyes were glowing with an unusual light.
Stanley lowered his head to look at the discolored scars on his body which was the shame of his whole life.
Stanley was born in a Christian family in Stonyford.
Although the Christian family was a famous big family in Stonyford, as a bastard, Stanley, was socially inferior.
When Stanley was very young, his mother had disappeared. Since then, Stanley has become a discarded child of the Christian family.
His father, Eden, had never paid attention to this son.
When Stanley's feelings first blossomed, just when he had started high school, he fell madly in love with his class goddess, Samantha.
However, Samantha coldly rejected him.
Worse still, to humiliate Stanley, she even started courting Stanley's older brother, Frances.
For Stanley, this was undeniably a bolt from the blue.
Outraged, Stanley confronted Frances, only to be beaten half-dead by WuShang's bodyguards.
Who would have thought that this was only the beginning of a nightmare?
Ever since then, Frances repeatedly sent people to humiliate him. Naturally timid, Stanley could only endure WuShang's bullying.
Until finally, he could no longer withstand the humiliation and chose to end his life by throwing himself into a lake.
However, not only did he survive, this moment marked the start of his life as the Immortal Stanley Stanley.
A century later, when a well-cultivated Stanley returned from the universe, the world had changed dramatically, overflowing with unfamiliar faces.
This lifetime, Stanley swore he would return all the mortification he had suffered to those who had slighted him!
Stanley shifted his body, sitting cross-legged on the bed, operating basic breathing exercises to absorb the spiritual energy from the cosmos, alleviating his pain.
The spiritual energy on Earth was extremely thin. Even after half an hour of absorbing and expelling energy, a method referred to as Tu Na, he still felt intensively injured.
"My body is really weak now, and I don't have any suitable elixir pills to consume. Even a petty thug could beat me," Stanley shook his head and muttered.
Consuming the right elixir pill could greatly enhance a cultivator's strength and physical well-being.
Yin Yang Scatterer was revered throughout the entire galaxy and was a famed pill-refining master. As the master of Stanley, he completely imparted all of his pill-refining abilities to Stanley.
One thing that could not be denied was that Stanley's pill-refining skills had reached the pinnacle of pill-refining masters.
Unfortunately, the earth's spiritual power was too weak to nurture suitable pill-refining materials, making it difficult for him to refine superior medicinal pills.
"It seems like I can only look for some common herbs," Stanley sighed.
Stanley remembered that not far from here, there was a place called Grand Pharmacy.
Thinking of this, Stanley immediately headed towards Grand Pharmacy.
The small rain drizzling in the Stonyford added a touch of desolation.
Occasionally, he could see a few people on the street, holding umbrellas and hurrying home.
After about five minutes of walking, Stanley arrived at the entrance of Grand Pharmacy.
The business in the pharmacy was quite dull. Besides a few doctors, there was an old man and a young girl dressed in black.
"Old Mr. Hardy, your lung disease is persisting. However, due to the cold and damp weather outside, that is why you're shivering all over," one of the doctors, a man in his forties, said. "Take these slices of ginger and red dates, brew them into a soup to drink, supplemented by longan, Chinese angelica... your shaking condition will improve a lot."
After hearing the doctor's words, Stanley shook his head and let out a cold snort, attracting the attention of a few people.
All eyes were on the then identified, Wayne.
The doctor in his forties, due to his status and position, only glanced at Wayne, a look of disgust flashing in his eyes.
The young woman in her twenties scolded, "What are you humming about? Do you doubt what Dr. Bernard has said?"
The man before her, Dr. Bernard, in his forties, was a widely renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in Stonyford.
Even the heads of some hospitals in Stonyford would pay Dr. Bernard some respect.
Dr. Bernard's medical skill was so refined that many people wanted to befriend him, but he rarely personally treated patients.
That the Hardy family could have Dr. Bernard visit shows its influence as the largest family in Stonyford.
Even Dr. Bernard had to give Mr. Hardy some face and attend to him personally.
Upon hearing the sharp tone of the young girl, Stanley smiled and replied with a slight smile, "I just think it's quite demeaning to the 'divine doctor' title, all for such mediocre skills."
Upon hearing Stanley's words, Dr. Bernard's face turned dark, feeling publicly humiliated. Before he could respond, the young girl furrowed her brows in anger and retorted, "What do you mean by that? Are you suggesting that your medical skills are superior to Dr. Bernard's?"
Stanley, dressed modestly in inexpensive clothing, appeared to be around the same age as the girl but didn't fit the description of a renowned "divine doctor." With confidence, he lifted his head and replied, "Indeed, I am. But why should I save him?"
Stanley's mastery of disease treatment, inherited from the Yin-Yang hermit, made diagnosis seem like child's play to him. Understanding the properties of each medicinal herb was essential to concocting effective pills. Stanley could identify herbs from countless galaxies as well as those found on Earth.
Despite losing his magical powers after being reincarnated, Stanley had not lost his skills in pill concoction. As the old man, Patricia, attempted to speak, he abruptly vomited a mouthful of thick blood, causing him to pass out before finishing his sentence.