"Sakura-chan, I haven't seen you for almost a year, how are you doing now?Have you decided what university you want to apply for?" Since Yanagi and the ten-month retreat, Sakura Kobayashi has taken a leave of absence from school to take care of her fiancé, and she has less contact with her friends.

At that time, after graduating from Kangtian Junior High School, the two girls filled in different senior high schools according to their respective aspirations.

Sakura Kobayashi's ambition is to be a great wife, so she enters Tokyo Metropolitan High School for Girls to learn the skills of traditional Japanese women to run a family;

Mingshan Jiahua hopes that in the future, she can be admitted to Huaqing University in Chiqi for further study, and when she sets foot in the society in the future, she can find a good job, and it is best to become a senior white-collar worker. So through her hard work (and extra points for student union members), she was finally admitted to Tokyo Blue Dragon Senior High School, which is jointly run by China and Japan.

(Among the seven countries of the Asian Community, most of the various educational colleges jointly established by the Red Banner and other countries are named after Qinglong; while most of the joint educational colleges in Western Europe are named after the White Tiger; in Africa, most of the joint educational colleges are named after the White Tiger; in Africa, most of the joint educational colleges are called Xuanwu; and in the northern countries, the colleges are called Xuanwu.)

"Jiahua, I'm not allowed to prepare for the university exam this year, if I have time in the future and I'm interested, let's talk about it. ”

The two little girls laughed for a while before they quieted down, and Sakura Kobayashi sat down and said to her best friend.

"Woo woo woo - I really envy you little rich woman, you can come to this kind of place if you want. Mingshan Jiahua also sat down, looked at the surrounding environment, and said enviously.

Xiao Lin Sakura, the best friend, is a famous little rich woman in their classmates' circle, when everyone is still counting their pocket money and thinking about what snacks to buy, this best friend has begun to manage tens of millions, hundreds of millions of family assets, and has made several investment decisions.

The place where the two of them met today was an open-air café called 'Snow Spirit', which was said to be open-air, but it was not the open-air method of enclosing an area on the side of the street with a fence, setting up a few parasols, and setting up a few small round tables.

As one of the most famous and high-end coffee houses in Tokyo, Snow Spirit Cafe naturally doesn't do such tasteless things.

Located on the 15th floor of the Ginza Karan Shopping Center, this café is located on an open-air balcony with a view of Tokyo's busiest Ginza business district.

There are sixteen groups of seats on a huge balcony, each with its own unique style and theme, such as the set of seats made by Sakura Kobayashi and Yoshika Akeyama, which is a group of seats that clearly have the style of Disney's cartoon Ice Throne.

"You're not going to take the university entrance exam? By the way, Liu Shengjun is also eighteen years old this year, are you going to get married?" Mingshan Jiahua was taken aback, but quickly reacted.

"Well, so I came to you as a bridesmaid according to the agreement!" Kobayashi Sakura propped her elbows on the table, picked up the coffee in front of her with both hands, and nodded vigorously, the promise made when she was a child finally came true - no matter which of the two got married first, the other girl would go to be a bridesmaid for each other.

Although the coffee cup blocked the lower half of her facial expression, the smile that bloomed in the corner of her eyes alone had betrayed Sakura Kobayashi's heart.

"Wow - Cultivation is a fruit! Yanagi and that ice cube were melted by you? You are so amazing! To be honest, I was a little worried about you back then, Yanagi Yuanhe is a weird person!" Mingshan Jiahua's exaggerated hands spread and drew a large circle to indicate the strangeness of Yanagi Yuanhe.

"However, Yanagi Yuanhe is so powerful, you won't be beaten by him, right?"

"What are you talking nonsense, how could Yuan and him beat me?"

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm just talking about it, with your little body, where can you withstand a finger from your husband?

Back then, my father and I watched the live video of your husband in the martial arts finals, flying around, so fast that I couldn't even see the figure clearly, it was simply inhuman! At that time, I thought it was a movie stunt.

Let me tell you, after getting married, you must follow your husband, otherwise if you are slapped by him, it is estimated that people like you will fly out directly 'biu'!"

Mingshan Jiahua didn't choose to speak, she hadn't seen her good friend Sakura Kobayashi for a long time, and suddenly heard that she was going to get married and she was going to be a bridesmaid, which suddenly made this little girl talk nonsense excitedly.

"Ahem—" Two contrived coughs rang abruptly in her ears.

"Who is it?" Obviously this is an open-air balcony, and the two of them chose a position close to the edge, so that they can enjoy the scenery while drinking coffee, but these two coughs came in from the outside, and immediately scared Mingshan Jiahua a lot - this is a ghost in the blue sky and day?

"What, what, who? Jiahua, what's wrong with you?"

Xiao Lin Sakura looked at her best friend inexplicably, today she specially invited her good friend Mingshan Jiahua to be a bridesmaid at her wedding.

Why did Jiahua suddenly look out of the balcony with a pale face for some reason, and asked, 'Who?' Who can stand outside the balcony?

"Sakura-chan, did you hear two coughs just now?" Kayaka Ayama turned her head with a little pale face and looked at Sakura Kobayashi.

"What's the cough?" asked Sakura Kobayashi, puzzled.

"Just now, as soon as I finished speaking, someone coughed twice, and it came from that side!"

"Ahem. Two more coughs.

"Xiao, Sakura, did you hear it just now, he coughed again!" Akiyama Kayaka's face became more and more pale, she only felt that she didn't know where the blood was all over her body all of a sudden, and her whole body seemed to be empty.

She wasn't so timid, but coincidentally, she had just played with her roommate last night, and someone told a horror story, so she didn't sleep well last night.

As a result, I met a ghost today? Could it be that the horror of the city is going to fall on me? Isn't it so unlucky? Will I die?——?" Mingshan Jiahua.

"What's the cough?—— Yuanhe!" Xiao Lin Sakura just said that she didn't hear any coughing sound, but she suddenly reacted and shouted angrily.

If there is anyone in this world who does not need to pretend to be a god at all, and has the ability to be like a ghost and a god, it is only his husband - maybe add the god Artoria?

Today, Kobayashi Sakura didn't come alone, her husband, who had been in retreat, didn't know why, she suddenly became attentive to herself these days, often running with herself, and even the last time she bought a wedding dress, she ran for more than eight hours before and after, and her husband was obviously so tired that he didn't want to move.

But the next day, he was willing to go out with him to see the different layouts of the new house, and ran back and forth for another day.

To be honest, even Sakura Kobayashi felt that her husband's painting style had changed too suddenly in the past few days, and she was a little uncomfortable.

"Hahaha, just kidding, squad leader Mingshan, it's been a long time, it's not a good habit to say bad things about people behind your back. ”

Yanagi Motoko smiled and walked out of the room inside.

The strange thing is that his person came out of the balcony room, but the sound came from the air outside the balcony, and the closer the person got, the sound got closer and closer, but the person and the voice came from two completely different directions, and the mouth shape and voice were completely right.

This sense of contradiction between sight and hearing makes Mingshan Jiahua a little creepy.

"Yuanhe, you're still scary, don't you see Jiahua's face is white?"

"Uh-really, Mingshan is sorry, just kidding, it's okay, it's just a little trick, I'm not a ghost, look at the ground, I have a shadow!"

Seeing Mingshan Jiahua's little face shrinking by the fence with a pale face, as if he was really frightened, Liu Shengyuan and hurriedly reached out and touched Mingshan Jiahua's little head - Mingshan Jiahua and Kobayashi Sakura are about the same height, plus the person has shrunk a little, this height is very convenient for Liu Shengyuan and Shi to touch his head to kill.

A warm power was released from Yanagi Yuanhe's big hand, like a warm tide from top to bottom, washing Mingshan Jiahua's body, making her whole body warm and relaxed, and suddenly the sense of terror that almost froze people just now disappeared without a trace.

"Woo woo woo - Sakura, your man bullied me, you hurry up and avenge me!" Mingshan Jiahua relaxed, rolled her eyes twice, and suddenly hugged Xiao Lin Sakura and cried loudly.

"Yuanhe!" Sakura Kobayashi hugged her best friend and glared at her fiancé fiercely. My fiancé's painting style has recently become almost like a different person, but he has never been like this before, huh?

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Yanagi Motokazu is caught in a crisis about life and death, but it is invisible and does not make people feel a sense of crisis.

In fact, this kind of crisis has been revealed a long time ago, but it was not until he survived the Thirty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation that this kind of crisis showed its hideous face, which made Liu Shengyuanhe vigilant.

This is the biggest problem that Yanagi and the others are currently encountering.

For ordinary cultivators, this problem is the floating clouds in the sky, which look beautiful, but the impact is basically equal to Mao, and even some cultivators are deliberately pursuing this realm in spiritual cultivation.

It's just that this kind of realm that others can't ask for is a life and death crisis for Yanagi Yuanhe at this moment!

What is materialization?

"Zhuangzi • Theory of Things" said: "In the past, Zhuang Zhoumeng was a butterfly, and a lifelike butterfly was also. I don't know what to do. Oh Ran Jue, then Yu Ran Zhou also. If you don't know that the dream of Zhou is a butterfly and the dream of a butterfly is a week and a butterfly, there must be a difference. This is called materialization. ”

Approaching the sky and moving away from people is called materialization.

Too forgetful, no joy and no worries, it is called materialization.

The six roots are pure, the four are empty, and the eight winds are immovable, which is called materialization.

Refining the void and the Tao and the truth are called materialization!

Although these terms are all achievements that cultivators dream of, but when they really came to this point, Yanagi Yuanhe still flinched.

Because it looks from afar, it is beautiful, and because it is close, it is so fearful!

The moon in the sky looks so bright and immaculate, in ancient times, in the east there are legends of the Guanghan Palace and Chang'e running to the moon, in the west there is Artemis, the goddess of the moon, and even in the Norse mythology of muscular sticks, the moon god is a pure and beautiful woman Suer.

It can be seen that since ancient times, human beings have placed their trust on the bright moon.

However, when human beings can really see the moon through telescopes, and when human beings can set foot on the land of the moon through spacecraft, all beautiful illusions will be shattered!

The beauty of the ancients looking at the bright moon from afar turned out to be just from imagination, and the reality is so cruel. From a distance, the bright moon, which is brighter than jade, turns out to be just an icy place that is worse than the most desolate desert.

At this point, Yanagi Yuanhe's cultivation has reached this point, and he can already compare with any pioneer since ancient times, and has almost reached the end of the path of the cultivators of all generations.

However, at this moment, he also saw the cliff ahead - as long as he took one more step, the world would be turned upside down, and there would be no return!

On the night when he invited his relatives and friends to watch the 39 Heavenly Tribulation, the sky was full of streamers and condensed into the moment when he was on top of Qingyun, Liu Shengyuanhe, out of curiosity, left himself in his body and threw himself into this Qingyun.

At first, Yanagi Motokazu just felt that the opportunity was rare, and he wanted to experience what it was like to fully combine his own will with this wonderful energy between heaven and earth.

However, when the will was separated from the body and combined with the heavenly clouds, a feeling of will being free from the shackles of the body, and a feeling of great joy and freedom filled Yanagi Yuanhe's entire mind, and this feeling of omnipotence was so tempting that at that moment, Yanagi Yuanhe really gave birth to the idea of abandoning his body and placing his will on this strange energy.

According to Liu Shengyuan and the perception at that time, he determined that if he really abandoned his body and used this strange energy as the sustenance of his will, then the so-called gathering will take shape, and scattering will become qi, and it will not be difficult at all, and even as long as his control ability is enough, it may not be impossible to pinch this energy into an energy aggregate that is exactly the same as his original body.

At that time, even if it was said that he had cultivated the Yang God of Taoism and achieved the Dao of Heavenly Immortals, it was not necessarily an exaggerated adjective.

However, the flesh is still a big problem. His own body is the source of Yanagi Shengyuan and his will, and he has a great natural attraction to the will that is thrown into Qingyun like a magnet.

At that time, Liu Shengyuanhe had two choices: one was to simply use the energy in Qingyun to completely burn his body, get rid of the body's troubles with his own will, and be carefree from now on, and be the only one with this piece of energy, and from then on he would be true with the Tao and coexist with heaven and man;

The other is to find a way to dissipate these wonderful energies that exist in the same frequency as the will, at least to make your body able to bear it, and then let the will return to the body, back to that narrow and fragile body.

It stands to reason that since Liu Shengyuan and aspire to live forever and see for a long time, at this juncture, he should not hesitate to take this step, as long as he takes this step, he will live with the sky, the sun and the moon, as long as this energy between heaven and earth still exists, Liu Shengyuan and can live forever, and it will not grind!

But at that time, there was a feeling that he was already standing on the edge of the abyss, so that Yanagi Yuanhe, who had come to the crossroads, retreated without hesitation.

At that time, Yanagi Yuanhe didn't have a clear understanding, he just trusted his instincts, but then why was he in a hurry to go into retreat?

It was precisely because of this sense of crisis that was entangled in Yanagi Yuanhe's mind that he unconsciously chose to look inside himself through retreat, and at the same time reflect on what went wrong in his path.

In the end, Liu Shengyuanhe still found out the problem he was facing from an email sent by his teacher Changming Daoren after returning to China - this is the Changming Daoist who deliberately found out the notes and records left by all the Daomen innate real people after returning to China, and sent them to Liu Shengyuan and an electronic version.

Among them, several materials mention the biggest crisis faced by the congenital real person who survived the four or nine tribulations - materialization!

Although the classical Chinese is a little difficult to understand, combined with his own personal experience, Yanagi Yuanhe still understands the problems mentioned above.

Whether it is a congenital real person or an ordinary person, in the final analysis, it has not yet left the human category. There has been a lot of controversy since ancient times, but there is no doubt that all kinds of fluctuations in human will, or all kinds of emotions, come from the body.

The so-called "I have great trouble, and I have a body, and I have no body, what trouble do I have" - from "Lao Tzu • Chapter 13", what countless practitioners pursue is to stop the heart like water, but only those who have come to this step will know how valuable this kind of emotional fluctuations are.

When the will is dispersed into the heavens and the earth, and is in harmony with the Tao, what can be used to maintain self-awareness? After all, the human will is still too small compared with the infinite heaven and earth.

A drop of ink into a teacup can dye a cup of water the color of ink, but what if it drops into the sea?

Losing self-positioning and cognition, Liu Shengyuan and the will to disperse into heaven and earth will eventually fade completely, just like a stubborn stone, a wisp of air, and a speck of dust in heaven and earth, it is indeed possible to be with heaven and earth, but this kind of longevity with heaven and earth is probably not the original intention of cultivators.

At least not Yanagi's original intention!

If you lose your body, you will lose the source of your will fluctuations, and there will be no emotions such as excitement, sadness, anger, etc., and in the end, your will that will no longer have the source of fluctuations will be completely assimilated by heaven and earth, even if it seems to be strong for a while, Yanagi Yuanhe, who has lost her body, will eventually die.

And now, although he has avoided a catastrophe, Yanagi Yuanhe, whose will is in tune with heaven and earth, still inevitably has the phenomenon of will fluctuations flattening out - while his will can affect a certain energy, this energy is also affecting him, which is a mutually influencing and irreversible process.

For Yanagi Yuanhe, the only way he can think of now is to enhance his emotional fluctuations, and through various external stimuli, to enrich his feelings as much as possible, maybe he can alleviate this crisis.

This is the reason why Yanagi Yuan and these days, unusually, and Sakura Kobayashi are busy preparing for weddings everywhere.