After Ye Xuan released the signal according to Xia Ji's words, it took half an hour to see Old Man Qian come over alone.

Xia Ji said in a hoarse voice: "Shadow One is also gone?"

"Yes!" Old Man Qian bowed and said, "After Ying Yi touched the gray-clothed monk, he unfortunately became a hero. ”

"Let's start!" Xia Ji waved his hand, and his expression was a little depressed.

Old man Qian dragged the two corpses aside to change the stand-in evil, and Xia Ji, who had recovered, stood up and said, "Ye Xuan, do you have any smoke?"

Ye Xuan took out a cigarette case and handed it over, Xia Ji lit three cigarettes, inserted them on the side of the road like incense, and lit another cigarette and smoked it slowly.

Ye Xuan took the cigarette case: "You don't seem to know how to smoke?"

"It's not that it won't, it's that it rarely smokes. Xia Ji spat out his cigarette and said, "Someone told me that it is a pleasure to sit and smoke with my brother. I want to experience it. ”

Ye Xuan squatted on the ground: "You have died so many subordinates, you don't care." Why are you so sad without the four shadows?"

"It's different!" Xia Ji pointed to his shadow: "You have friends and brothers around you, but there are only shadows around me." I really know you, and what accompanies you is just a shadow. ”

Ye Xuan glanced at the ground: "The shadow can accompany you until death." But can the shadow talk to you, can he listen to you, can he accompany you to play skewers, can he brag?

Ye Xuan meant something, and the shadows he said included human figures, as well as the four "shadows" who died in battle.

"Can't!" Xia Ji shook his head: "Shadow One They are like real shadows, except for being by my side, they can't even say a word." If they hadn't let me know, they would have understood my commands and wouldn't even say a word. This is the shadow. ”

"But they were all with me like real shadows, and they never left. Now that they're gone, I'm going to be alone again. ”

Ye Xuan asked rhetorically, "Are you afraid of loneliness?"

"I'm afraid of the loneliness of the hero. But I had to endure this loneliness. Xia Ji said: "The real loneliness is not that you are the only one. Rather, you were never you. ”

Xia Ji said: "In order to make people unable to see through, you can never express your emotions freely. Everything is done in moderation. ”

Just like the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors ordered the emperor to eat, and he ate at most three chopsticks for a dish. I'm afraid that others will know what the emperor likes to eat, so he will poison the dishes. Therefore, no matter how much the emperor likes to eat, he will taste it lightly. It's the same with us people, we can't expose our weaknesses to anyone, emotions, preferences, feelings are weaknesses. You can't love someone, you can't show that you hate someone, you can't be happy. ”

"Shadows are the people who know me best, and I speak to them as if I were speaking to an empty room. Don't expect a response, just vent your emotions. Maybe it's a kind of spiritual sustenance, because you know someone is listening to you. ”

Ye Xuan said softly, "Has the shadow never responded to you?"

"Responded!" Xia Ji said, "Shadow Five responded. But he was killed. Died at the hands of Shadow One, for breaking the iron law of Shadow. The shadow cannot respond to the master, so the shadow is no longer a shadow, and when a relationship is established between the master and the shadow, the shadow becomes a threat to the master. So, Shadow Five is dead. ”

Ye Xuan looked at Xia Ji: "Haven't you seen the true face of the shadow?"

Xia Ji said: "I can't see it, and I don't need to see it." Each shadow does not follow its master for life, and the shadow has a short lifespan. Because they must be by their master's side at all times, they cannot eat, relieve their hands, or even take a breath for three days and three nights. Each person can only have two shadows. After exhausting them to death, a new shadow will come. They are still called Shadow One, Shadow Two. ”

Ye Xuan frowned: "You want the shadows to accompany you for a while longer, so you want five shadows?"

"Yes!" Xia Ji said, "I want five shadows, which seem to be the protection of shadows." Actually, it's a selfish approach. After ten years of service, the shadow will be disposed of, regardless of whether it can continue to accompany its owner. Because they know too much. Others may die of two or three shadows in ten years, but I have to send five shadows on the road with my own hands. ”

"The first time I ate with my five shadows was when they retired. At that time, my hands were shaking because I knew that I was pouring poisoned wine on them. But they were happy. Because they can finally speak. They talked a lot, and I just listened quietly. ”

"I want to see their faces at the end, and I want to remember the shadows that have been with me for ten years. They did not agree and wore a veil until their death. Kageichi begged me not to look at her face, seeing Shadow's face would be tantamount to sending their family to hell with their own hands. ”

Ye Xuan said in a deep voice: "You can't hold back?"

"Hold back!" Xia Ji nodded, "I personally sent the shadow with the mask into the crematorium." I didn't end up seeing their faces. ”

Ye Xuan got up and said, "Xia Ji, in fact, you don't regard the shadow as a friend. When you say it, you're talking about the five shadows all the time. In your heart, they are still shadows. ”

"No!" Xia Ji stood up suddenly, it was the first time he lost control.

Ye Xuan shook his head and said, "Xia Ji, I know you have your difficulties. However, if you put me in your place, or even anyone from the Anomaly, we will all desperately flee with the shadows, do you believe it?"

"That's not right!" Ye Xuan himself denied his statement: "We don't need shadows, we have brothers." There is peace of mind to give his life to his brother. So, we don't need shadows. Even if we don't have brothers, we will take our lives to fight the rivers and lakes, and we don't want to affect others. ”

Ye Xuan looked at Xia Ji: "Old Xia, are you living like this, are you happy, aren't you tired?"

Xia Ji looked at Ye Xuan for more than ten seconds before saying, "What is happiness? I know excitement, I know satisfaction, and I know that I am full of ambition. I really don't know what happiness is!"

"You are hopeless!" Ye Xuan said: "You are suitable to become an immortal and a Buddha." ”

Ye Xuan said: "The mortal world is the world in your eyes. There are wounds, there are pains, there are sufferings, there are difficulties. However, no matter how hard and difficult the person is, he has also had his happiness, and there is also a moment of happiness, and he will still smile when he thinks of that happy past many years later. You are about to become an immortal, and there are too few mortal feelings in you. ”

Ye Xuan said solemnly: "What do you say every day, get the Tao, and cultivate the Tao." In fact, have you ever thought that the way of mortals is the real avenue, nine out of ten people in the world are mortals, and cultivating the mortal way is the real avenue. Immortal paths, Buddha paths, righteous paths, and evil paths are all left to otherworldly people! I don't understand, and I can't do it, I just know that it's better to be a smirking mortal than an immortal!"

"A smirking mortal is better than an immortal?" Xia Ji thought thoughtfully.

Ye Xuan turned his head and said, "Don't think about it, you don't understand." I'm not talking about the Tao, it's not Zen, you can't have an epiphany. When you are not Xia Ji one day, or you don't plan to ascend the throne and become an ordinary person, you will know. ”

"Well, that's not right. Ye Xuan shook his head and said, "You have become an ordinary person, and you can't do ordinary things, you think too much." You are not a man who has wine today and is drunk today. You smart people are very thoughtful, thoughtful, and in short, how complex and how to think. You can't change it. Let's make do with it!"

Xia Ji didn't speak this time, and he didn't know what he was thinking?

He didn't speak, Ye Xuan didn't have the heart to talk nonsense with him, he turned his head to look at the peach demon, He was talking nonsense with Xia Ji just now, half of the reason was that he was afraid that Xia Ji would settle accounts with the peach demon. After all, Xia Ji missed this time, and the peach demon had a lot of relationships.

Ye Xuan didn't speak, but it didn't mean that Xia Ji couldn't remember, Xia Ji was just silent for a moment, and then said: "Ye Xuan, if you were replaced by me, would you kill the peach demon?"

Ye Xuan was slightly stunned before he said, "I will, but you won't." ”

Ye Xuan said: "I said, you think too much, we are still cooperating now, you still have a goal that you haven't achieved." Even if you want to kill the peach demon in your heart, you will endure it until you achieve your goal. Am I right?"

Ye Xuan continued: "Lao Xia, ask yourself, will you be sad because of the shadow, do you regard them as friends? No, they are still subordinates and soldiers in your heart. They are still dispensable people in your heart. How long has your sadness lasted? I bet you'll be in the dark tomorrow morning at most. ”

Xia Ji looked at Ye Xuan for a long time: "You're right! I'm really not a suitable person to be friends." ”

Ye Xuan said: "Okay, Lao Xia." Lao Ban once said to me: God is destined for a person's personality and will not change throughout his life. You can't change your personality, so let's open it! It's not necessarily your fault. ”

As soon as Ye Xuan saw that the peach demon had recovered, he didn't have a door on his mouth again. Xia Ji couldn't help crying and laughing, so he could only turn his head to look at Old Man Qian: "Old Qian, you ......"

Xia Ji's gaze just fell on Old Man Qian's face, and the person also took a wrong step and retreated to Ye Xuan's side.

Ye Xuan thought that Xia Ji was going to find trouble with the peach demon at first, but when he saw the old man Qian in the distance out of the corner of his eye, his face also changed.

They saw Old Man Qian sitting cross-legged on the ground, his hands folded on his chest.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground is not a unique posture for monks, but it is impossible to explain it with his hands folded, Old Man Qian is a number of masters, and he will not pose as a Buddhist disciple unless he has become a gray-clothed monk.

Ye Xuan held the bamboo whip in his hand, stared at the old man Qian who was sitting in the distance, lowered his voice and asked Xia Ji: "Old Xia, is your stand-in evil reliable?