Chapter 19: A Ruined World

About life, about memories, it can always give people different feelings. When people think about these issues at different times, they bring different emotions. There is sorrow, joy, depravity, anticipation, or short-lived, or it may seem very long.

No matter what emotions you are thinking about these things, you are born to look forward, have expectations, and not panic. If you live for a lifetime, you should have peace of mind.

Whenever Chen Xiaoyi thinks of these words, he can always get a sense of stability in his heart. In the past three years, it has not been fast, but it has not been slow. Under the joint teaching of the four seniors, many changes have taken place in his body, which is enough to affect the trajectory of his life.

Dong Daoming's predecessors always regarded themselves as scholars, and his favorite thing was to tell Chen Xiaoyi different truths. Gradually, Chen Xiaoyi understood. Senior Dong is telling himself in a cryptic way. It just so happens that Chen Xiaoyi is a very sensible listener, and every time he can show the feeling of being better than reading a book for ten years, which makes Dong Daoming feel very gratified.

The difference is that Lin Hu's predecessors, he showed the four words simple and rough to the fullest. Before joining the Lonely Immortal Sect, Lin Hu's predecessor was a butcher. Although his life was very long, he lived a long time. But his experience in the previous decades has left an indelible mark on him.

Lin Hu's predecessor is responsible for teaching martial arts, which is very consistent with Chen Xiaoyi's previous experience. Because, at the beginning, the fairy soul made him practice knives, and Lin Hu's predecessors also had a knife in his hand, a pig-killing knife.

Lin Hu's predecessor had a habit that when the two were fighting, he always had to shout out his moves, killing pigs, shaving, disemboweling,* and so on. People who don't know will really think that he is killing pigs.

Yang Wanli's predecessor is another look, he is calm, careful, quiet but very aggressive. He came from the Chen State, one of the four ancient kingdoms of Dongzhou, and once served as a general, and was a real general. In addition to teaching Chen Xiaoyi the art of war, he talked more about attitude.

His life is legendary, from repeated defeats to invincibility, I don't know how many life and death tribulations he has experienced. He always told Chen Xiaoyi that if a person wants to become famous, he must have the courage to face his vulnerability. Everyone has times when they want to escape, but the more times they get to it, the more they can't escape. No matter how big or small a thing is, there is room for choice, retreat, to be stable, to advance, then there are many tribulations, when you know how to give up stability and comfort, you will embark on the road to success.

Chen Xiaoyi doesn't know what success is, let alone what kind of fame he wants to achieve. But he is honest, and he takes the teachings of his predecessors to heart, and Yang Wanli appreciates this attitude very much.

The last one, Zuo Zhiyi's senior. This is the first senior he came into contact with when he came here, and in Chen Xiaoyi's heart, this senior occupies a very important position. He didn't seem to teach Chen Xiaoyi anything, but he often took him around, and sometimes he would go to other branches to visit the door.

However, the careful Chen Xiaoyi still found the clue. Because, every time he goes out and returns, Senior Zuo always asks him a lot of questions. For example, where did you go today and who you met? If another person also wants to go there and meet that person, how do you show him the way, let him find the right place, and at the same time make him feel that the road is not unfamiliar, what kind of person is the person he wants to meet, and how can you make him recognize that person at first sight and not find the wrong one.

Something like this, repeated for a long time. Finally one day, Chen Xiaoyi discovered his own changes. Every road he walked, everything he saw with his eyes, he could quickly and accurately make an analysis. His powers of observation have been meticulously discerned.

These three years of study have laid a solid foundation for his life, which is enough for him to use for a lifetime.

Finally, he climbed the Little Lonely Peak.

The small solitary peak is divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. Senior Zuo said that each layer has endless crises and tribulations, and if you break through, you will benefit immensely, and if you can't break through, you will become a part of it.

Stepping through the formation gate, the surrounding scene changes like flowing water. A dark and strange aura rolled in from all around. Looking up, the void was covered with dark clouds, rolling and tumbling like huge waves, and in the depths of the thick clouds, thunder was bursting, even if he covered his ears, his soul still trembled. Under the feet, the earth cracked, the grass and trees withered, and the dead branches and leaves everywhere were stepped on, and they would sink an inch.

Not far away, a dark mist drifted at will, constantly changing shapes, like ghosts. In the depths of the unknown distance, from time to time there was a miserable wail, one sound, sometimes short, sometimes long, and the scalp of the screaming man was numb.

What kind of world is this? It's a post-apocalyptic scene.

Chen Xiaoyi tried hard to calm his breath, took a step, and turned around in a small circle. The surrounding scene has been seen clearly, but it still feels mysterious. An old path looms beneath your feet, and you don't know where it leads.

One step, two steps, three steps, once the step is taken, it will not be easy to stop. He didn't go fast, and in this unknown world, he was extremely cautious. After walking six miles, some collapsed temples began to appear in front of them, and the dilapidated scene was shocking. There are many ruins left here, the marble-paved road is wide and flat, and the temple sits in the middle of a crumbling stone statue nearly ten feet high. Most of these stone statues are non-humanoid, like some kind of fierce beast in ancient times, with teeth and claws, and their fierce faces are exposed.

Chen Xiaoyi silently looked at the scene in front of him, thinking about something in his mind. These ruins are like a long-lost civilization. How brilliant it was, how dilapidated it is now. The so-called eternity is just people's longing.

These fierce beasts, if they really existed, how powerful they should be. By now, they have all been wiped out. is like the first generation of heirs, who is also a figure with great means, and in the end, he only ended up being sealed down.

Good and evil, beauty and ugliness, truth and falsehood, in the long river of time, seem worthless.

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He walked three more miles, and it seemed that he had reached the end. It was pitch black ahead, and in the depths of the darkness, a nine-foot-high hole loomed like a phantom. The miserable wail came from the mouth of the cave. Outside the entrance of the cave, there seemed to be two people standing. Chen Xiaoyi froze and took a closer look, it turned out to be two humanoid stone statues, but the head was a ghostly appearance.

The closer you get to the entrance of the cave, the more you can feel a cold aura coming to your face. Coupled with the painful wails, I don't know what kind of horror is hidden in this cave.

An ominous feeling came over him, but Chen Xiaoyi knew that he had to go in. At the same time, he thought of what Yang Wanli's predecessors had said, the more he wanted to retreat, the more he had to move forward, otherwise, he would have to spend his life mediocre.

At this moment, Chen Xiaoyi no longer had too many thoughts, and stepped into the dark cave with one foot.