Looking at the soul crystal in front of him, Chen Xi couldn't help but put himself in his shoes.

If it were him......

I don't think I'll live in this way.

Obviously, the old man can no longer be reborn, so he can only put his Yuan Infant in the soul crystal, and then rely on the soul crystal to barely maintain the state of immortality.

It's like the remnant soul of the green dragon in the Sundial Temple.

But......

What's the point?

Without a body, the soul crystal is just a cage in disguise.

If you live for 10 or 20 years, you may still feel that you have earned it, but you really have to stay in it for hundreds or even thousands of years......

It's a little scary to think about.

You must know that although the soul perceives the outside world in the soul crystal, that feeling is completely different from that of ordinary people.

It's kind of similar to the sixth sense.

For the elderly, it is like being in a chaotic world, unable to see the outside world directly, but can clearly perceive any subtle movements in the outside world.

Lingering in the gap between the two worlds, the loneliness brought about by being free from reality is actually a kind of torture and punishment that ordinary people can't bear at all.

Therefore, Chen Xi had to sigh from the bottom of his heart-

This old man is also a ruthless man.

Chen Xi silently looked at the portrait on the wall.

It was a long time before he was the first to speak and broke the silence.

"Okay, I don't have as much time as you do, so don't waste it here......"

"Depending on your age, you should know a lot of things......"

"Let's talk, I'm very interested in the affairs of ancient cultivators, why don't we start here?"

Chen Xi opened the conversation.

But the old man did not answer immediately, but laughed.

Although he couldn't see his expression, the laughter gave Chen Xi a strange feeling.

That feels......

It's like a young man and a wise old man who often appears in jokes.

The young man begged the old man to answer the questions for himself, but the old man smiled and did not say a word, but put on a posture of reading all the red dust and understanding the true meaning of life.

In this regard, Chen Xi's reaction was completely different from that of the young man in the paragraph.

"Sell it, huh?"

"Okay, then you play slowly, I'll go and slaughter that guy. ”

As soon as the words fell, Chen Xi got up and made a gesture to leave.

He played his cards so unreasonably that the old man was in a big mess, and he had to shout urgently:

"Sir, wait!"

"It's not that the old man deliberately sells the guanzi, it's just that this matter is a long story......"

"Please also sit down, and listen to the old man from the beginning......"

Hearing this, Chen Xi couldn't help but snort coldly, straightened his clothes with his hands, and then sat back slowly.

Could it be that Jiang Zhengqing dared to argue with the patriarch in public, it is estimated that there is this old guy behind him to support him.

It seems that the Jiang family really has no successor, otherwise how could they be so valued above a mere celestial being?

Chen Xi sat on the chair with a cold face.

The old man originally wanted to take the opportunity of the conversation to find out about Chen Xi's origins, but he didn't expect Chen Xi's style to be so simple and rude, and he would threaten Jiang Zhengqing's life at every turn......

The hope for the revival of the Jiang clan was all pinned on Jiang Zhengqing, and since Chen Xi had put on such an attitude, the old man naturally didn't dare to care about Zuoyan anymore, so he had to talk about it.

"Things have to start from antiquity......

……

The so-called ancient period actually refers to the period before the Xia Dynasty, that is, before the birth of human civilization.

Western scholars do not recognize the existence of the Xia Dynasty, partly because of the biased understanding of Chinese culture by Westerners, and partly because archaeologists have not found any written records of the Xia Dynasty.

Had it not been for the discovery of the Yin ruins in Yuzhou, Western scholars would have been skeptical about the authenticity of the Shang Dynasty.

The Xia Dynasty and the ancient Tianzhu civilization both appeared more than 4,000 years ago, and the ancient Egyptian civilization and Sumerian civilization appeared more than 7,000 years ago.

However......

It has only been more than 2,000 years since the day of Jesus' birth, but human civilization has stepped from the age of instruments, steam and electricity to the current information age.

It is estimated that it will not be long before mankind can truly step into the space age and soar freely into the universe.

How many years have passed?

And what about the Earth?

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old.

4600000000。

Isn't a series of zeros enough to tell the story?

So there is no doubt that as early as ancient times, there were human beings on the earth, but they were forced to leave.

This is also the fundamental reason why, to this day, human beings can still find records of mythological civilizations from ancient books.

Earth is a great cultivation star, not a death star like Mars.

It is the source of life and the beginning of everything.

In front of it, the immortal cultivator was still too small.

The tide will ebb and flow.

When the earth's heaven and earth aura declined, for immortal cultivators, it was like the waters of the Pacific Ocean drying up.

The end has come.

Fortunately, there is no endless road.

coincided with the birth of the Taiqing Holy Ancestor and saved all living beings from fire and water with his own strength.

Although Chen Xi had already known this information from Bai Hong's mouth, he did not interrupt the old man, but silently listened to the old man tell it again.

But listening to it, Chen Xi suddenly found ......

There is a big difference between what the old man and Bai Hong said.

Chen Xi was still skeptical at first that someone between the two had told a lie, but after thinking about it, he immediately overturned this speculation.

After all, antiquity is 10,000 years old.

The three of them can still become tigers, not to mention these legends passed down by word of mouth?

Therefore, Chen Xi didn't feel that one of the two was deceiving him.

One lives on earth, the other lives in the big world.

The two of them are in different locations, and naturally they see and hear differently.

Bai Hong focused on the big world, but when he came to the old man, he naturally focused on the earth after the ancient immortal cultivators left.

Originally......

The Taiqing Holy Ancestor did not lead everyone to leave back then, but left some people behind.

They either had old grudges with the Taiqing Holy Ancestor, or they committed some kind of unforgivable sin, in short, they were abandoned by the Taiqing Holy Ancestor, so they were forced to stay on Earth.

However, the Taiqing Holy Ancestor was well aware of the righteousness, so how could he not understand the truth that the sins committed by his father had nothing to do with the younger generations?

Therefore, the Holy Ancestor made a promise-

But if a sinner can cultivate to the heavens and men in the future, he can return to the heavenly capital through the heavenly gate!

And this is the origin of the word ascension.

In fact, at the beginning, the cultivation environment of the earth was not as bad as it is today, so at that time, there were dozens of heavens and people, so there was a legend of the god list.

How nice is it that everyone is flying up in a group?

Pity......

No one thought that the cultivation environment of the earth would deteriorate so quickly.

Probably from the beginning of the Warring States Period, the aura of heaven and earth began to decrease sharply, so that the gate of heaven is rare for a hundred years.

The living environment of the immortal cultivators became worse and worse, and in the end, they had to retreat between the famous mountains and rivers, barely maintaining the inheritance with the faint aura in the blessed land of the cave, so the five inheritance places were born.

The number of immortal cultivators is declining, coupled with the fact that the First Emperor burned books and pit Confucianism......

Everything about the ancient immortal cultivators can only come to an end regrettably.

"Not bad......"

"Very good story......

After hearing the old man's detailed explanation, Chen Xi couldn't help but praise again and again, and really gave birth to a feeling of 'looking at history and magnificent'.

It can be described as a heart-wrenching heart!

However, although the story is good, Chen Xi has not forgotten the purpose of this trip because of this......

So, after letting the old man rest for a while, he continued to ask, "What about the Xuannu Si Ming, why haven't you talked about this all this time?"