It's dark.

Ling Zhi walked on a small road, beside him were golden rice fields, and small mosquitoes were swarming in them, and he kept walking forward, as if the road had no end.

A little starlight shone on his body, the occasional frog chirped, and the breeze blew on his face, diluting the heat of the weather.

The fragrance of rice flowers says that there is a good year, and the sound of frogs is heard.

Walking to the end of the path, a small courtyard came into view.

Push the door into the house.

"Xiaozhi, I'm back. Quick, wash your hands and serve to eat. Mother Ling greeted.

Ling Zhi nodded a little blankly, everything in front of him was too real, and he knew that it was the reason for the Heavenly Tower from the moment he appeared here, but this consciousness gradually became blurred.

"Mother, are you okay on the other side of the earth? He sighed in his heart.

In response, Ling Zhi washed his hands and entered the room, where a tall middle-aged man was sitting on the table, holding a wine glass and drinking to himself.

It was his father Ling Tian that he was thinking of in his heart.

"Why are you standing there stupidly, come and have a few drinks with me. Ling Tian didn't raise his head, took a wine glass, filled it, and patted it on the side.

The wooden tables and chairs were a little pitted, but they were wiped clean, the house was not large, there were many small farm tools, a few cabbages were piled up in the corner, and a piece of meat was hung on top of it by an iron hook.

The oil lamp shines on the table, giving out a soft light.

After a few glasses of wine, Ling Zhi and Ling Tian exchanged ideas with each other.

"Tomorrow is the day you get married, and my father has nothing to say, treat others well and live a good life in the future. Give dad a big fat grandson. Ling Tian raised his head and drank a glass of wine, slightly drunk, with a smile on his face.

Lying down, the mosquitoes in the house that had been smoked with pampas reeds in advance were gone, and Ling Zhi lay down, with some relaxed smiles on the corners of his mouth, and fell asleep.

The next day, greeting relatives, drinking, frolicking, and tossing for a day.

At the urging of Ling's mother and Ling's father, Ling Zhi got out of the pile of friends in the courtyard and walked into the house.

The red candle is charming, and the beauty sits on the bed.

Standing in front of the girl covered with red veil, Ling Zhi was silent for a moment, then shook his head and laughed, laughing at what he wanted to do so much, and then said goodbye.

The delicate face was little exposed under the red veil, and the candlelight flickered.

There can be such a beautiful face in the world, except for Ye Chengcheng, who else can there be?

With a sigh, the beauty fell into her arms.

The nervous little hand is in the palm of the hand, like water.

Luo Shang lightly relieved, the red candle was blown out, and the moonlight shone through the window on Ye Tingcheng's face, and his eyes were blurred.

After several clouds and rains, the bed shook gently, the most primitive was stimulated, the two people were entangled, the breath of the house burst out, and the hooking sound made anyone who listened to it not be able to move.

Labor, play, return.

Eating a hot meal, watching Ling Mu snatch Ling Tian's wine glass, not letting him drink more, the two elders pushed each other in front of him in order to have another drink.

The gentle beauty beside her smiled and took her bowl and served her own food, her eyes were like water, and she looked at herself with love.

The sun is passing day by day, getting faster and faster, but I don't know if this is the time, or because the people are happy, the sun is happy.

gave birth to a son and added a daughter, the two old men have gray hair on their sideburns, but they are vying to hug their grandchildren and pet them in the palm of their hands, it is Ling Zhi, who is a father, who will be scolded by the two elders if he says something loudly.

It's evening again, walking on this path again.

The muddy road that had just rained was a little muddy, and the frogs were even more noisy.

It's just that the one who walks on this road is no longer the young Ling Zhi, but Ling Zhi, who has entered middle age and has calluses all over his hands.

The scenery has not changed, but the people have changed.

Looking up, a young man and a young girl in front of the courtyard were playing and chasing each other, and his father Ling Tian was sitting outside the courtyard, leaning against the loess wall, watching the two of them fight peacefully, and from time to time the girl was forced to retreat by the young man, so she hid against Ling Tian.

Ye Chengcheng is still so beautiful, his eyes are gentle and moving.

The girl has become a girl, but the charm is more sufficient, with a smile in the corner of her eyes, picking home-grown vegetables in the vegetable garden in front of the yard, the smoke rising in the yard, and Ling's mother is cooking dinner.

What a peaceful scene, every place is so perfect, there is no strife, the people I love are there, healthy, happy and satisfied, the people who love me are all there, and they all pave this perfect picture.

Ling Zhi stopped and watched this scene quietly, his face was already wrinkled, and his skin was no longer so shiny, and he was middle-aged.

There is only one thing, that is, his eyes still hide a brightness, but this brightness is hidden in the deepest depths.

Heavenly Tower, on the steps leading to the fifth floor, Zuo Jun Bufan stood on the seventh step, looking back, his eyes were still disdainful, still the kind of high.

"If you don't want to listen to me, you can only stop here, it's a pity, I thought you could accompany me up a few more floors, what is on the top of this heavenly tower, for so many years, no one knows except Luo Tianya, you don't go to witness the scene of me ascending to the top floor, I'm alone, it's really a little boring." ”

An ethereal voice, surrounding the steps, Zuo Jun Bufan said to Ling Zhi.

At this moment, Ling Zhi was still standing on the first step, and most of his body became faint.

As he was trapped in the illusion for longer and longer, the original original time that he stopped in the same place, his body would become more and more weak, until it was completely empty, and then the Heavenly Tower would automatically teleport him out of the tower.

The Heavenly Tower tests the true body, the second enters the sea of divine souls, the third looks at the heart of heaven, and the heart of the four righteous warriors themselves.

Can you be clear-willed, enlightened, and cut off the fetters.

"What, enjoy it so much?" Zuo Jun Bufan's eyes flashed with even stronger disdain, looking at Ling Zhi with a smile on his face.

"It's nothing more than those relatives, emotional bonds. In the illusion, I met my master, who was abandoned when I was a baby, and it was he who took me into the Fallen Leaf Sect, gave me food, drink, clothes to wear, taught me to cultivate, and treated me like a father. Zuo Jun Bufan stayed there and said to himself.

Speaking of this, he turned his head and walked towards the ground of the fifth layer, "But what can I do, he just takes a fancy to my talent and wants me to enter the Heavenly Tower, but his wish is just true." So I didn't hesitate to kill him, and then I went back to when I was a child, I had my parents, and everything seemed good, but I still killed them, because I knew in my heart that it had nothing to do with me becoming stronger. ”

"Except for what can help you become stronger, except for your own strength, everything else is useless. He disappeared on the steps.

Ling Zhi at this moment, except for his head, his body all faded.

He still quietly looked at everything in front of him, watching the smoke gradually thicken, the smell of rice coming, watching his daughter and son running towards him, watching Ling Tian look up at him, and looking at Ye Tingcheng looking over with a gentle smile.

Then he took one last look at it all before him, and then he turned around.

Slowly, but surely he turned around.

The moment he turned around, everything behind him was shattered and wiped out.

"This place of peace is my hometown. Ling Zhi stood on the first step and said softly.

(End of chapter)