Volume 2: Chapter 2 of the Hundred Generations of Practice
"Demon?!"
Changsheng stepped back in horror, his back hitting a tree.
The old man stood in place, didn't make any movement, just looked at him with a smile.
"Demon ......"
The old man just stood and smiled, which made Changsheng suspicious: "You are scaring me, right?" ”
"It's not." The old man nodded solemnly, "I'm really a demon." ”
"But you ......"
"Not quite what they say, right?"
Changsheng nodded.
"Demons don't have to eat people." The old man suddenly turned around, and a pair of huge blue wings stretched out from his back.
Changsheng's eyes widened, his body stiffened in place, his mouth was wide open, and he stammered for a long time, "You, you, you...... Really...... Demon Demon ......"
"Human beings devote themselves to cultivation, become immortals, and are called gods. Other creatures devote themselves to cultivation and acquire supernatural powers, but they are called demons. The old man said lightly.
Changsheng slowly shrank into a ball and looked at the old man in front of him vigilantly...... No! It should be an old demon!
The old man turned around again, and Changsheng was shocked!
"I am a blue-feathered finch cultivating into a demon, and when I am a bird, I love to eat flower and fruit seeds, and I will not change my taste because I cultivate into a demon. I don't like to eat humans, don't worry. The old man said.
Changsheng Mu Ne nodded.
"As I said, you're a little different." The old man said with a smile.
"Where...... Different? Changsheng was a little curious.
"You are different from the inhabitants who live deep in this mountain." The old man said, "You have a restless heart that yearns for the outside world. ”
"But I have a lot of friends who want to go outside."
"That's different." The old man shook his head slightly, "They're just curious." And you, are the desire, the desire for the unknown, the desire to explore...... You want to know what the outside world is like, not limited to the back of the mountains, but the whole world, above the yellow sky, under the thick earth, on the banks of the sun and the moon, and the source of the stars......"
Changsheng was a little fascinated by what he heard, yes, these were all he wanted to know.
"You have a chance." The old man said suddenly.
"What chance?"
"Come with me."
"Where?"
"I'll take you out into the world and let you see everything you want to see with your own eyes......"
Changsheng was a little intoxicated: "The outside world ......"
In a trance, the colorful world beckoned to him, seducing the depths of his soul......
"Are you going to leave now?"
"Yes, I'll leave now."
"When will you be back?"
"Hmm." The old man frowned, "Come back?" What do you do when you come back? The world is big enough to spend your whole life exploring......"
"But my parents, my partner ......"
"There is always something to sacrifice for the sake of dreams." The old man said, "Leave a few ordinary people behind to achieve a great cause...... Is this still a trade-off? ”
Changsheng said: "Ambition has its own lofty place, is it true love in the world that is not valuable? ”
The old man was stunned for a long time, and patted Changsheng on the shoulder: "You are a smart child......"
"However, I can tell you unequivocally that if you miss this opportunity, you will not be able to leave this mountain for the rest of your life, and you are destined to live a mediocre life in the mountain village."
"...... for a lifetime"
"This is your destiny, your God, and your covenant with you......"
"I ......" Changsheng hesitated a little.
The old man looked at him with a smile: "When you hesitated, you already had the answer." ”
"What answer?"
"You can't let go of your feelings, and you're destined to be held back by it."
The things in front of him suddenly became blurry, but Changsheng's heart suddenly opened up.
"Since the chop is constantly implicated, then I will manage it well."
It turned out to be just an ordinary forest in front of me, with no butterflies, no squirrels, and no sunlight.
The loess path still stretches crookedly and deeper, and when it reaches a short distance, it is obscured by trees and is out of sight.
Leaning on a dead old tree.
Changsheng looked around, his head dizzy, as if everything just now was a dream.
Not far away, a blue bird flapped its wings and disappeared into the forest.
Changsheng ran home and told his mother about it.
The mother was so frightened that she cried, and slapped Changsheng's ass desperately: "How many times have I told you!" One can't go up the mountain! There are a lot of monsters on this mountain! It's good that you didn't go, if you go with him, you will be deceived to the demon world and eaten by the monsters of the demon world! You have to have three long and two short, how can I live with your father......"
Changsheng cried in pain, but only because of the pain.
The blue-feathered bird stood on the tree and looked at the home of immortality, the small wooden house, from afar: "In this life, you haven't had an epiphany." ”
But the blue-feathered bird stood for a long time.
"Perhaps, you realized something?"
It seems that life has become faster after that.
Changsheng listened to his father's words, and never went up the mountain alone.
He ate a lot of meat and grew into a sturdy lad.
His father and mother found him a daughter-in-law who didn't like to talk, this woman was not beautiful, but virtuous and obedient......
When his parents were old, he took care of them in their old age, and everyone praised them for taking care of them.
He gave birth to a son, and he told his son: "If you can go outside in the future, then go bravely, and your father and mother can take care of themselves." ”
Until the end of his life, he was sick in bed.
His name was Changsheng, and he lived one hundred and one years.
He was a capable man, and he had hoeed out two large wooden huts just by hoeing the ground! He married a beautiful daughter-in-law to his son and left a few acres of fertile land.
He is praised by everyone in the village, an example of honesty and reliability!
He died, and the people in the village were very sorry, but they didn't understand why Changsheng had to point to the mountain before he closed his eyes, and even after he died, his hand was not put down.
"He wants to thank this mountain for raising our family!" The daughter-in-law wiped her tears with her hands, "What a good father-in-law." ”
So they buried the immortal life in the mountains and forests.
"Look. You can't live without this mountain for the rest of your life. An old man in blue clothes and a white beard stood in front of the tomb of immortality and said with a smile.