Knowing that the matter had been revealed, Gao Ran no longer concealed it, and directly confessed: "For the time being, only I know about this matter." Actually, I was surprised to talk about it......"

"It's okay, I'm patient, you can talk slowly......"

"Do you really want to hear it?" Gao Ran put on a somewhat helpless expression half-truthfully, but continued to speak:

"Speaking of which, I don't know if I'm too lucky, or if I really fulfill the principle of 'blessing and misfortune'? In short, this set of internal skills that I have cultivated is not only suitable for me, but also 'very' suitable for me......

"When I was in Jiaoguo, I met my junior uncle, who was a rare genius among the disciples of the Medical Valley. But even if he did, he could only retain at most half of the internal force generated by each practice of this set of internal strength, and the other half would dissipate by itself. But with me, this power has been almost completely preserved, and almost nothing has been wasted. In addition, in the past seven years or so, in addition to practicing this set of internal skills, I have never practiced other external skills in martial arts, and I have always only focused on practicing internal skills. As a result, even if a genius like Uncle Xiao needed more than ten years, or even more than twenty years to cultivate, it took me less than eight years to reach the ninth-level realm.

"But for every good thing there is a disadvantage. Although the internal force of my cultivation has been fully utilized, at the same time, it requires my body to be able to withstand the impact of such powerful energy, and the cushioning of such an impact is at the cost of reducing my lifespan, forcing my body to replace every loss at a speed several times faster than ordinary people, so as to resist and bear such an impact.

"As a result, even now, although I have survived the most dangerous period, the little uncle he once predicted that I would live to half a hundred years of life, but in fact, I have lost less than three years of life at most......"

briefly summarized the beginning and end of the matter, Gao Ran immediately sighed with feeling:

"Alas—I'm twelve now...... I think that the reason why I wanted to worship Master as a teacher was to let my naturally weak body live longer. But who would have thought, this tossing and turning, going around in circles, but in the end, I still didn't survive the fifteen years that Master predicted......

"Of course, Uncle Xiao didn't lie to me when he predicted that I would live past half a hundred. It's just that at that time, my internal strength had just broken through the eighth layer, and none of us knew that it was just a gap in the realm of one layer, but it required me to pay such a big price...... Perhaps, this is also something that Uncle Xiao never thought of at all. - After all, a disciple like me, who was born weak but would be admitted to the Medicine Valley, had never met him before.

"To tell you the truth, in fact, I once complained to my master, why didn't he inform me in advance of the consequences of the secret medicine that must be taken according to the rules of the door and the internal skills to be practiced before accepting me as an apprentice......?

"But I understand now, in fact, except for Master, who is naturally like this--accepting disciples only values their own minds, it is impossible to think about what choice will be more beneficial to me from the beginning? In addition to this reason, I think there should be another part of the reason because, in fact, since the establishment of the Medicine Valley Sect, there has never been a disciple of the Medicine Valley who has been able to cultivate to the Ninth Layer Realm alive and has never been born with a weak constitution like me. Therefore, if I were a master, if I had long been accustomed to looking at my own mind in advance, and besides, I had indeed never seen or heard of any of my fellow disciples who died early because of their weak health—in such a situation, if I accepted an apprentice like me who was born weak, then I would probably not have thought that the internal strength that I had asked her to cultivate according to the rules of the door could indeed help her repair her body before the eighth layer, but once the boundary of the eighth layer was passed, after that, whether she could successfully refine to the ninth layer or not, this internal force would be transformed into her life talisman. - I would never have imagined this.

"Besides, not to mention Master, even I didn't expect that my internal strength would increase so quickly. If my ascension speed was even the same as that of my master, then perhaps, it would take me longer to cultivate to the eighth layer. And then add the help I met later, the little uncle, he gave me...... Then I may really be able to safely live to the half-hundred-hundred-hundred-year-old life that Uncle Xiao once predicted without breaking through the eighth layer for a long time. ”

But when he said this, Gao Ran paused again, and then questioned himself with some vigilance:

"However, if that is the case, then I am afraid that the dangers I have encountered in the past few years will not be avoided safely......

"First of all, if I don't have the protection of a deep enough internal force, I'm afraid I won't be able to support myself to go to the banana country, and if I don't go to the banana country, I won't meet my little uncle; and even if I meet the little uncle, if I don't have the protection of that deep internal force, I won't be able to survive the poisonous attack of the sachet he gave me; if I can't survive, I won't get his approval; and without his approval, he won't treat me and help me live; and if I don't have his help to me, then not only will I not be able to live until now, but it will be impossible for me to develop a product that will be used to balance the banana emperor and the emperor in the futureAnd if I couldn't check and balance them, and without the support of Uncle Xiao and Master, then I wouldn't have the bargaining chips in my hands now, and I wouldn't be able to force your Fu family, Yun family, and Gao family to varying degrees like now, and if I couldn't balance the three of you at the same time and the Heavenly Pavilion, which may change hands at any time in the future, then the freedom I want will never be realized.

"Hmm...... After going around such a circle, I can understand that even if I am destined to live no more than fifteen, such a toss is the worst thing, at least I have lived according to my own will from beginning to end. - I should be content to live in such luxury. ”

Perhaps, talking to herself in such a detour is nothing more than just trying to comfort herself. But even though he knew this, Gao Ran was still willing to accept his own explanation for such a result. Rather, as long as it could convince her that it was not self-deception, and that it did keep her balanced, she would be willing to accept whatever the explanation.

Gao Ran knew that her purpose was not to prove whether her explanation was really reasonable, but just to persuade herself to accept the reality calmly when she thought she was not self-deceived. For her, what really matters is not to know what the true objective truth is, but when she has to accept the unchangeable outcome that she has foreseen, what kind of mood can she keep herself, and what kind of mentality can she let herself accept the final ending?

What she really cares about is how she actually feels in the process. As for the rest, it didn't mean anything to her. What's more, even if she can see it objectively, the "objectivity" in her eyes and the truth itself have never been the same thing. She always knew that what she could see was always only a part of the truth, and she could never see the whole truth.

That being the case, instead of pursuing true truth, choosing to maintain a balance between truth and what she can accept in a measured manner in order to maintain her emotional stability - even if it is not very happy, it can keep her calm for a long time, and maintain a mental state that is not painful or empty for a long time, which may be a more self-aware choice for her.

Coming back from her thoughts, Gao Ran saw that Fu Wenxuan was even more sad than herself, and her face was melancholy. But Gao Ran didn't want to share any of her personal feelings with him about it. In her opinion, if someone understands the feeling in her heart, it must be because the other party has had a similar experience, they are essentially the same kind of people, and the other party will understand her because they understand themselves, not because they understand her.

Even in other aspects, Fu Wenxuan and Gao Ran have always had a high tacit understanding, but this time it is an exception. He had never really experienced it—even if he would feel sorry for her, but the sadness itself showed that he didn't understand her at all.

If he understood, then he would not be sad at the moment, but would bless her, and would always regard her as a passerby: no matter how he came and went, he would not be nostalgic, he would just look at each other and smile, and then go on his own way. ——The scenery along the way is still wonderful, with her, it is the icing on the cake, without her, it will not overshadow the scenery. She can be either part of the landscape or unrelated to it. With her and without her, the scenery is still wonderful.

However, Fu Wenxuan obviously did not look at his own life and the Gao Ran he met in this way.

"Okay, you know what you should know now and what you shouldn't know. Then you should also know, rather than being an enemy of me, it is wiser to wait patiently for a few years first, and by the way, take the opportunity to clear the hidden dangers within your Fu family, and then wait for me to leave, and then you wait for the opportunity to break the balance, isn't it wiser?"

After speaking, Gao Ran took the initiative to end the conversation, stood up and prepared to leave. But before leaving, she touched the towering tree she had leaned on just now, and took a cursory look at the stump in front of her that was extremely thick and seemed to need a dozen or even twenty people to surround it.

"You are so tall that you should have lived for more than a thousand years, right? However, I don't think it's because your trees outlive us, but I prefer to believe that your 'time' is different from ours. If you are to count the 'time' of your tree, perhaps this 'thousand years' for you will only be half of your life, or even half of it. And our lives, in your eyes, should be just a blink of an eye, right?

"Heh, do you think it's funny, isn't it funny? It's just a blink of an eye, but we are desperately sentimental and making trouble, just to let everything in the world know our existence in this blink of an eye in 'time'......

"However, in this world, who in fact cares who really cares about who we are and what we have done?

"Do you care? Heh, if I were you, I'd probably not even be aware of it. - It's just a blink of an eye, I yawn, and the 'fuss' is over. I still live in my 'time', and I can only perceive everything around me that I can perceive in such 'time'. And as for the rest, none of it has anything to do with me. It doesn't matter if they're there or not......"

After speaking, Gao Ran didn't look back at Fu Wenxuan again, and went straight down the mountain.