The red fox found that Liufeng had become much lazier, and he was no longer as desperate as before.

What he does most often is to turn his back to the West in a daze.

Sometimes I will stay still for a long time, without even blinking my eyes.

The red fox circled around to him and found a hazy mist in his eyes. The red fox said, "Monk, how far is your western sky?" Why don't you go. ”

"It's still a long way off." "If you want to go, why don't you go?" ”

Liufeng replied nonchalantly.

Liufeng thought, "Is the world really round?" I've been heading west, can I really get back to Kuhai Temple? ”

But he thought again, "Why did Senior Brother Chang Ming do this? ”

Thinking back to many years ago, in the days before he left the temple, Senior Brother Chang Ming always said to him inexplicably: "You are kind by nature, if you go out in the future, you must remember that the heart of guarding against others is indispensable......

I always say, "Where can I go?" It's always inseparable from Kuhai Temple. ”

"But you can't stay away for the rest of your life, can you?"

"But I can't never come back for the rest of my life, can I?"

Unexpectedly, in a word, I really can't go back to Kuhai Temple for the rest of my life......

Senior Brother Chang Ming hesitated for a long time, and then smiled again: "Yes." You will always come back......"

Liufeng thought, "Can I really go back?" ”

All the way to the west, can you really get back to the beginning?

Liufeng still loves to laugh.

But he didn't laugh out loud anymore, he just pursed his lips, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

The red fox said, "Why don't you laugh anymore? Always laughing like this. ”

The corners of Liufeng's mouth rose slightly: "An old man who is over half a hundred years old should laugh like this, this is a manifestation of wisdom." ”

Fine wrinkles appear at the corners of the eyes.

The red fox looked at this great monk with vicissitudes of life, and stroked his face with some distress: "Why do people get old? ”

"God is always fair, and He has given mankind many gifts, and mankind deserves more suffering."

"yes." Red Fox nodded.

"It's also a practice, and humans can easily surpass the efforts of youkai with just a little talent."

"Like you, but after practicing for more than fifty years, your strength is already equivalent to an old monster who has practiced for five or six thousand years."

"But the lifespan of human beings is much shorter than that of youkai......"

The red fox is no longer the little fox demon who squats on the shoulders of Liufeng all day long, only knows how to be coquettish and sprinkling, she has grown a lot with Liufeng's cultivation all the way.

She turned into a powerful youkai.

Liufeng thought: "If I hand over you to the old demon king like this, I should be considered to have overfulfilled the task." ”

He originally planned to go to the West Heaven, find the Buddha's heart, and return to the Kuhai Temple the same way, and then send the red fox back to the demon world. But for now, it seems that he will not look back.

All the way to the west, can you really go back?

Now it's not just him who is taking the risk, the red fox is also being pulled in.

"Still." Liufeng thought, "Even if I can't go back, I'll die on the road." With such a high level of cultivation as the red fox, it shouldn't be difficult to return to the demon realm, right? ”

Liufeng was in his fifties at this time.

The wrinkled face can still see a bit of heroism back then!

But his body is not as strong and tall as before, and he has some minor problems, such as leg and foot pain on rainy days, making it difficult to walk.

Although his cultivation became more and more terrifying, his body was aging day by day.

"What is God like?"

On a rainy day, Liufeng fell ill again, and he walked slowly on the road with the support of the red fox, and his legs and feet were still very painful.

"I think it's someone who has such an understanding and a lifespan like a demon."

Leave yourself in the wind and ask yourself questions.

"Let's put it this way. Are humans and demons incomplete gods? The red fox quickly understood Liufeng's words.

This is the tacit understanding cultivated after 40 years of getting along day and night.

"But people always think of themselves as superior." "For decades, they have not stopped at all......"

Decades have passed, and the human situation has not changed much.

People hate youkai as always.

However, the civil war in the demon world is almost over.

This is the news that the red fox heard not long after: "The old demon king has nothing to do. Several generals also reached the end of the crossbow. There are too many young yokai, too powerful. They are completely out of the demon world. The Demon Realm has been established! ”

The new demon world calls itself the "Demon Domain".

The demon inside calls itself a "demon".

The red fox shook his head: "Why do you want to do this? ”

Humanity is overwhelmed. The creatures of the Demon Domain have come to the human world twice in three days to make trouble, and they have officially started a war with the human world.

But the human world and the demon domain are afraid that the demon world will sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and sit back to reap the profits, so they stubbornly pull the demon world into the war.

The three-point pattern has lasted for a long time.

Liufeng said: "Do you want to go back to the demon world?" ”

"I don't like to fight." Red Fox shook his head, "But I'm worried about my dad and Grandpa Tree, I don't know what happened to them." ”

"Do you want to go back first?"

"Nope. Let's accompany you to the west first. Red Fox said.

But how far is the monk's western sky?

Every time the red fox asked, Liufeng said, "There is still a far, far away." ”

As soon as he thought of arriving in the West Heaven, Liufeng was about to separate from himself, and the red fox said again: "It's still far away." ”

But this time, it took decades!

Liufeng became an old monk in his last years, with his back bent and his steps staggering.

He had to walk a long, long distance every day to get out of a short, short distance.

"Can you really go back to square one?" This is a question that Liufeng has been asking itself almost all the time in recent years.

When I saw the mountain that had been separated for 72 years.

Liufeng let out a long sigh of relief.

Familiar mountains, familiar trees, familiar houses.

It looks like I just left here yesterday.

It seems that he is still the eighteen-year-old, always toothy and smiling, brisk-footed little monk.

Liufeng stood with his eyes closed for a long, long time!

The red fox was used to the monk being so inexplicably sluggish.

But when two lines of tears flowed from the corners of Liufeng's eyes, the red fox was surprised: "Monk, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Didn't ...... much" Liufeng opened his eyes and looked at the magnificent ancient temple on the mountainside.

"I'm back."

If you are still the little monk who believes in the heart of the Buddha in the West. He would cheer and proclaim to his brothers at the temple at the foot of the mountain, "I'm back!" I am back! ”

But he is already a ninety-year-old monk.

Liufeng just told himself lightly: "I'm back to Kuhai Temple." ”

He has gone from east to west, through the whole world!

Although he has not yet reached the western heaven......

The wind stopped the residents carrying hoes at the bottom of the mountain.

The inhabitants had received the blessings of Kuhai Temple, so he had special respect for the monks.

He smiled kindly at Liufeng: "Is there anything wrong with the master?" ”

"May I ask the donor, who is the abbot of the Kuhai Temple on the mountain?"

"Oh!" The man laughed, "It's a monk who is already more than a hundred years old!" The law name is always clear. ”

Liufeng smiled: "Thank you." ”

There were a few little monks who came down the mountain to carry water, all of them alive and vigorous, and their eyes were like torches.

They brought back a bunch of unforgettable memories.

Liufeng stopped them and asked them questions.

The little monk is polite and very likable.

Liufeng remembered the story that Senior Brother Chang Ming had told him, so he asked the little monk: "Why can dogs enter and exit through people's gates, but people can't enter and exit through dog holes?" ”

This is the story that Senior Brother Chang Ming often tells from his own boasting: "The reason why I met you is because among the many senior brothers, I am the only one who answered this question correctly." The old abbot let me go to the world. ”

The little monk was puzzled, and he almost scratched his smooth scalp.

Liufeng smiled: "Go back and ask your abbot." ”

When the red fox saw Liufeng staring at the temple in a daze, he asked him, "Do you want to go up and have a look?" ”

"Nope. People are old. I can't climb the mountain. ”

Maybe he and Senior Brother Chang Ming are destined not to see each other again, right? Otherwise, how could Senior Brother Chang Ming let himself go?

Liufeng didn't understand the reason for this, but he thought that Senior Brother Chang Ming must have his own reasons.

"So I still don't go. So as not to cause any trouble," Liufeng shook his head and laughed, laughing at himself again, "I'm really old, and I'm afraid to do anything." ”

What's more, what difference is there between seeing and not seeing? As long as you know that each other is okay, wouldn't it be fine?

The little monk jumped back to the temple and found the old abbot of the dragon bell.

The abbot was dressed in a white robe, and his face was carved with deep wrinkles. This old monk lived for more than a hundred years and knew everything.

So the little monk said, "Abbot! Just now I met an old monk at the bottom of the mountain and asked me a question, I couldn't answer, and I wanted to ask you for advice. ”

The abbot knocked on the wooden fish and smiled slightly: "What's the problem?" ”

"Why is it that dogs can go in and out through people's gates, but not through dogs' holes?"

The sound of the wooden fish stopped.

The red fox saw Liufeng standing on another hill and looked back.

The little monk saw the old abbot standing at the door and looked at another hill.

"What are you looking at?" The red fox and the little monk asked together.

"Look at people." Liufeng and Chang Ming replied together.

"Can you see it from such a distance?"

"I've seen ......"

The breeze gently blew their white clothes, and the two old monks smiled together.