A small courtyard enclosed by a bamboo fence, there are four thatched huts that look extremely simple in the courtyard, and in front of the thatched hut in the middle at this time, there are six people, three old and three young.

Four men and two women, the old man was disgusted with each other, especially the old woman, looking at the other two old men with a very disgusted look, the three young people looked at each other in surprise, but one of the young men and one woman did not have disgust, but looked at the other teenager with some hatred.

"Senior brother, it seems that you failed again this time?" The old woman looked at the silver-haired, energetic old man and said sneeringly.

"What if I fail, I'm still me, not like you, male or female, look at the way you are now, is there still a little bit of what you were at the beginning?" The old man retorted coldly.

"You!" The old woman was obviously angry by the other party's words.

"Okay, second senior brother, why bother, the three of us senior brothers have been practicing for a hundred years, and in this space, senior brother has always spoken like this, why should you be angry with him, you can't do it, you can't do it." Another child-haired old man comforted the old woman and said.

"It's he who always squeezes me with this matter, am I the kind of person who is slaughtered by others, and the clay man still has three points of anger." The old woman stared at his senior brother viciously and said coldly.

“……”

The three old men were arguing with each other, and none of the three teenagers dared to interject, but when the three of them looked at the old woman again, there was obviously a strange look in their eyes, especially the girl, after hearing the conversation between the two, she could move from the old woman's side and deliberately kept a distance.

At this time, the door of the thatched hut in the middle slowly opened from the inside, and I saw a long-bearded old man shrouded in a cloud of golden light staggering out.

"You're always arguing like this, even if you're not annoying, I'm annoying." The long-bearded old man looked at the three old men standing below and said slowly.

"Master!" The three old men saluted the long-bearded old man respectfully in unison.

"Tianjie, you have made a lot of progress this time!" The long-bearded old man looked at the senior brother and said approvingly.

"Master, thanks to your guidance, Tianjie has realized some things that he couldn't understand before, and his cultivation has improved slightly." Senior Brother Tianjie replied respectfully.

The long-bearded old man smiled and nodded, his eyes locked on the old woman again, and said lukewarmly: "Dijie, your yin and yang skills have also improved a lot, but your appearance is indeed becoming more and more like a woman, do you think this is good?" ”

"Master, you once said that as long as it is an exercise that can make you strong, it is a good exercise, although Dijie's appearance has changed because of the cultivation of Yin and Yang Gong, but I have to say that my current strength has also improved a lot, not much worse than Senior Brother, Dijie thinks this is enough, good or not, I don't care anymore." The old woman said.

The long-bearded old man listened to the words of the old woman Dijie, shook his head gently, and looked at the last old man, that is, the old man with a childish face, looked at it, there was a trace of obvious displeasure in his tone, and said coldly: "Renjie, what the master told you, you will always take it as a deaf ear, do you really think that self-cutting good thoughts and leaving anger in vain can let you get out of this space?" ”

"Master, the senior brother cultivates pure yang gong, and the second senior brother cultivates yin and yang gong, their exercises can be regarded as orthodox, but what the result is, you have also seen it, aren't they all unable to get out of this space. Renjie believes that good thoughts are a person's biggest bond, with benevolence and righteousness, everything can deceive you, with unkindness, everything must be afraid of you, the same is true of this space, since I practiced Hades Gong and cut myself good thoughts, the laws of this space have begun to bind me, I can go wherever I want, isn't this the result we have always wanted? The crane-haired old man said lightly: "Look at me, now my face is beginning to change, maybe I will be the only one who will walk out of this space in the future?" ”

"Stubborn!" The long-bearded old man angrily rebuked Renjie, and then stopped looking at him.

Renjie has long been accustomed to the master's attitude, and he doesn't feel any discomfort, but feels a little more comfortable than before.

"I have summoned you here today to announce an important matter." The long-bearded old man said solemnly: "The thousand-year period has arrived, and I have calculated that my life is approaching, and I plan to pass on my cultivation to one of you, so that he can maintain the life and death of this space." ”

"Master, aren't you already in the mood for life and death, how can you return to the day of your birthday?" Senior Brother Tianjie was extremely shocked and hurriedly asked.

Although the other two did not speak, a trace of sadness could be seen in their expressions.

"Can you break life and death?" The long-bearded old man looked up at the sky and said lightly: "From ancient times to the present, who can really break through life and death." If there were, our ancestors would not fall one by one, disaster came, the aura was exhausted, and our ancestors entered this space in order to continue a trace of blood, but who would have expected that this would be the tomb of the immortals? ”

"A thousand years ago, the patriarch led everyone into this place, in these thousand years, from the first patriarch to me, we have too many people fallen, our blood has stained every inch of this space, but our recklessness has not been forgiven by the immortals, wrong, after all, it is wrong, and it is time for us to be punished for the last time." The long-bearded old man said with a lonely expression.

"Master, there will always be a way for us to get out of here, I'll ...... this time" Senior Brother Tianjie just wanted to talk about his experience this time, but was interrupted by the old man with a long beard.

"Tianjie, you have been worshipping under my door for five hundred years, some things you should know better than Dijie and Renjie, at the beginning I named the three of you with the words heaven, earth and man, that is, I hope you can afford this space, now five hundred years have passed, you still haven't fulfilled your initial promise to me after all, you three brothers should be brothers of the same heart, and strive to cultivate to become the first batch of people to get out of here, but now, only four of us are still alive among the clansmen, and the four of us still can't leave here, The first of your dreams may be the last, but perhaps the last of the creatures to survive in this space. The long-bearded old man looked at Senior Brother Tianjie and said lightly.

"Master, do you really intend to pass on your life's cultivation to one of the three of us?" At this time, the crane-haired and child-faced man Jie no longer cared about the thousand-year-old period and those empty broken things that the master said, and looked at the long-bearded old man with some excitement on his face and asked.

The long-bearded old man glanced coldly at the crane-haired and child-faced man, and nodded.

The old man with the long beard had always had the worst attitude towards the crane hair and childish face, he knew too well what his apprentice was thinking, but when he thought that the people here had fallen one after another, and now only the four of them were left to hold on, so he didn't bother with him.

"Master, have you figured out which of the three of us you want to pass it on?" The old woman Dijie also asked tentatively.

"This is not decided by the teacher, but by yourself." The long-bearded old man said lightly.

"We'll decide for ourselves?" This time, the three of them rarely said the same thing, but the only difference was that Senior Brother Tianjie had a trace of sadness in it, while the Second Senior Brother Dijie and the Third Senior Brother Renjie had a trace of excitement hidden in it.

"Yes, this time it's up to you, I won't appoint anyone." The long-bearded old man still said lightly: "However, before deciding, there is one thing I want to tell you, you must remember. ”

"Whoever I have passed on my cultivation to, who will swear to the ancestors with their souls that they will give up the idea of leaving this space in this life, and will use their lives to maintain the operation of this space until death comes, you can do it?" The gaze of the long-bearded old man swept over the faces of Senior Brother Tianjie, Second Senior Brother Di Jie, and Third Senior Brother Renjie in turn, observing the expressions of the three of them.

As soon as the old man said this, the faces of the three of them changed suddenly, especially the second senior brother Di Jie and the third senior brother Ren Jie, the previous excitement disappeared, and was replaced by a trace of gain and loss, sometimes happy, sometimes worried.

The three of you, look at me, I look at you, no one wants to stand up and say another word.

"Don't any of you want to?" A look of disappointment appeared on the long-bearded old man's face, and he asked loudly.

As soon as the words fell, Senior Brother Tianjie's toes were slightly raised, and his body leaned forward, and the second senior brother Dijie and the third senior brother Renjie both set their eyes on Tianjie, but at this moment, the long-bearded old man said again: "Since no one is willing, then I will designate a method, the three of you will have a competition, and the winner will inherit my cultivation, how about it?" ”

"Master, this method is good, we agree!" Tianjie didn't speak, and Dijie and Renjie rushed to answer.

"Don't be in a hurry to agree, I haven't spoken yet." The long-bearded old man took in all the expressions of the three of them from beginning to end, and said lukewarmly: "The three of you have known each other for hundreds of years, and you already know which is higher or lower than each other, so I decided that this time the competition will be compared by the three teenagers you brought back, I will give you half a month, you train them, no one is allowed to hide or deliberately lose, otherwise I will abolish his cultivation, you may agree?" ”

Compared with the three teenagers, the cheater abandons all the cultivation, this condition can be described as a must, so that no one wants to cheat, if you don't want to fight, you have to fight, and if you win, you have to stay here for the rest of your life.