"Afraid of becoming the same person as Wu Yue Xie Yifan?" Hearing Li Shanye ask this, I couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

To be honest, it's not like I've not thought about it at all. The reason why I thought of it but didn't dig into it was mainly because I was too different from Wu Yue Xie Yifan, or that the gap between me and them was too big.

Over the past thousand years, one is counted as one, and those who finally fell into the evil path of painting spirits are all talented, intelligent, and kind-hearted. Although I don't want to grow up with other people's ambition to destroy my own prestige, I have to admit that I have nothing to do with either of them, that is, a very ordinary person, neither sacrificing himself to save others, but daring to sacrifice his noble sentiments for others, the key is that he does not have the kind of understanding that can be understood at one point, and his brain is often unclear, just like being filled with paste, so in my own opinion, I am really a little far from being that kind of person.

Unless the old man told me that the information was wrong and did not possess too high a level of understanding, he could also be that kind of person.

"How so...... It's not that I haven't thought about it at all, but I don't think it's very likely that I will fall into the evil path of painting spirits and become a person like them......" I smiled a little bitterly, and after laughing a little dryly, I said: "After all, according to my old man's meaning, even if I want to degenerate into such a person, it is not easy to degenerate, and I need to have enough understanding to appreciate that wrong path, and I admit that I don't have that ability." ”

Li Shanye smiled lightly, and did not rush to express anything first, but looked at me with a light smile for a few seconds before he spoke: "Little brother, although the foolish brother doesn't understand the mystery of your thaumaturgy, the foolish brother still understands a thing or two about the truth of the predecessors planting trees and the descendants enjoying the shade." As the so-called three thousand avenues, whether it is the right way or the evil way, the first person to embark on the corresponding path is often a person of great wisdom and bravery, if it is not a person with a rock-like heart and great perseverance, he will definitely not be able to walk out of his own way, but as long as there is the first brave person to walk out of the road, it will be much easier for future generations to go up again. In the eyes of the foolish brother, although the art of painting spirits you have learned is full of mysteries, and the way of evil is even more difficult for ordinary people to understand, it is not a wilderness, but many people have already walked this road before and after, so you don't have to be arrogant. ”

I couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and looked at him with some understanding.

Li Shanye smiled faintly and continued to answer for me: "If you didn't say it wrong just now, and Brother Fool didn't understand it wrong, in the thousand-year inheritance, whenever a disciple falls into the evil path, the first thing that the contemporary orthodox spirit painter has to do is to clean up the portal mercilessly. The significance of this is that in order to block the path to evil, which is the foundation of your thaumaturgy that has not been broken until now, each generation of inheritors has paid a lot and sacrificed a lot for it, and has sealed this path again and again. Therefore, in the eyes of the foolish brother, the reason why you need a person with outstanding talent to comprehend the path of evil and go astray in this thaumaturgy, little brother, is essentially because the ancestors of the past generations have made great efforts to seal this road again and again, but if it is not sealed, it may not be so difficult to go up. ”

My heart shook, and I looked up at him seriously.

Li Shanye smiled slightly, and then said: "That senior brother of yours has fallen into the evil path of painting spirits, and he is still alive in the world, which means that he has reopened the way to the evil path, and it has not been sealed yet, plus he is hiding in the dark, provoking your master and apprentice, and using the puppet to tease you, this is even more of a threat to Chiguoguo." Little brother, you just said that your sect has a rule that there can only exist two generations and two spirit painters at the same time in the world, so if the foolish brother is not mistaken, like the current situation where there are two generations of three spirit painters at the same time, and who has betrayed the sect and fallen into the evil path, dares to threaten the sect in turn, which is rare in the successive generations, and may not even have appeared, right? ”

I looked at him with my heart away, but I didn't speak, and my expression began to become solemn.

As far as I know so far, in the history of the Painting Spirit School, although there have been many cases of disciples falling into the evil path and betraying, or Wu Yue's line reappearing in the world to make trouble, but like the two generations of the old man and me, there are three cases of the existence of orthodox painting spirit people at the same time, but it has never happened, let alone the disciples who have defected, who are so rampant that they dare to openly threaten the master.

This is an unprecedented situation, and there is no record in the history of the Painting Spirit School, otherwise it would be impossible for the old man not to tell me about such an important matter.

What does this mean?

I don't know, but I know that the reason why this happened has a lot to do with me.

If it weren't for the fact that the Yan puppet chose me by mistake, and I was blessed with a great life, when I was about to be killed by the general's soul as the walking corpse, the old man rushed to save me, and accepted me as a second disciple, which then led to Xie Yifan, who was behind the Yan puppet, refined the three souls that the Yan puppet took from me into a "killing puppet" to counteract, and caused the old man to have to be restrained, then all this would not have happened.

So it's all because of me. If the old man had arrived a minute late, or had been ruthless and didn't save me, and had allowed me to be killed by the general's soul, or had hidden in the shadows, and waited for the Yan puppet to come and take my remaining seven spirits as scheduled, there wouldn't have been so many things that happened later......

"Yes, it never happened...... I was silent for a long time, and by the time I finally realized what the problems were, I put away my thoughts and spoke again, my voice had become very dry and hoarse.

And seeing that my face became very bad, Li Shanye also put away a faint smile at this time, looked at me a little seriously, and then said: "And the Yan puppet you said is actually created by the evil art in the spirit painting, and the one that took away your three souls happens to be the one controlled by your senior brother who betrayed the master, right?" ”

"Yes, exactly." I took a deep breath and nodded with some difficulty.

Li Shanye's eyebrows moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something more, but in the end he didn't say it, but after a moment of silence, he said softly: "So little brother, if I didn't make a mistake, and what you are afraid of is indeed not to become the same person as your senior brother, then what you are afraid of in your heart should be the Yan puppet who took away your three souls, and your senior brother who controls this monster behind the scenes." ”

"Is that really the case?" I shuddered, and then asked with a frown.

"This is a problem in your own heart after all, the foolish brother can only help you analyze a little from the news you told me, how dare you make a conclusion easily?" Hearing me ask such a question, Li Shanye couldn't help but shake his head and smile, looking a little bitter: "So what kind of situation is in your heart, after all, you still have to think about it yourself, little brother, and the foolish brother can only be bold and make some suggestions without knowing anything, and help you analyze it a little, but you don't dare to make up your mind." ”

I was slightly stunned, then lowered my head with a frown and began to think.

When I was about to take the last step, I felt a hint from the bottom of my heart, which may be regarded as a fear of the unknown ahead.

In the history of the Spirit Painting School, there has never been a situation where the old man and I are currently experiencing, and there are three Spirit Painting people at the same time, one of whom has betrayed the sect and fallen into the devil's path, not only does not hide himself, but even dares to threaten the sect in turn.

The Yan puppet who took away my three souls is the one who is controlled by the old man, a rebel.

Not only that, but he also refined the soul taken from me into a "killing puppet" to threaten to restrain our master and apprentice.

If the old man had been ruthless and turned a blind eye to my death, it is very likely that the events of the next ten years would not have happened again......

And seeing that my brows were getting tighter and tighter, and I fell into hard thought, Li Shanye, who looked at me with a concerned face, gradually showed a smile of relief in the depths of his eyes.

I don't know how long it took, I finally found a clue from this mess of thoughts, but I only found a clue, and I was still far from fully understanding, so I raised my head and glanced at Li Shanye with a slightly confused expression.

"How's it going, do you think of anything?" Seeing me raise my head, Li Shanye asked with a smile.

"I ...... I'm afraid I'm not ready to take on anything? Biting my lip lightly and thinking for a while, I asked with some uncertainty.

It's not so much that this moment is asking Li Shanye in front of me, but that I'm asking myself.

Maybe most of these questions have never been seriously thought about, and some have never even thought about them, but it is undeniable that all the problems have existed in my heart for a long time, but I have never been able to understand them, nor have I thought about them, in fact, they have always existed in my heart, like seeds planted, quietly waiting for the germination moment to come.

Now, as he revealed most of his heart in front of Li Shanye, he also patiently helped me to analyze, as if a spring rain had fallen, so the seeds in my heart began to take root and sprout, and began to have a vein, no longer as vague as when I was still a seed.

So what I'm afraid of is not one thing, but the sum of all the problems?

"Little brother, congratulations on finally thinking it through. In fact, many times, the question is not so complicated, but the mind is too complicated, and the answer is often already written in the heart, but it has not been dug deeply, and sometimes the thought in the heart is the answer, as you just said. Seeing that my frowning brows gradually loosened, and my face gradually became clearer, Li Shanye smiled slightly.

I nodded as if I had realized something, and after thinking about it, I also showed a smile and said, "Although I don't thank you for my great kindness, Brother Yamaba, I want to say thank you to you at this moment no matter what." ”

"You're polite, just like I said at the beginning, the foolish brother is just playing tricks, and the one who really thinks about the problem is still the little brother after all, so there is no need to thank you." Li Shanye shook his head lightly and smiled, and then said: "Foolish brother came here for a trip, to be able to meet a strange person like you, little brother, it is really worth the trip, maybe when the foolish brother encounters problems in the future, he also needs you to help, so in the future, you will support each other, and there is no need to say those polite words." ”

I smiled and nodded.

"Okay, although the general problem, little brother, you have already thought about it, but in the opinion of the foolish brother, you definitely need to precipitate it at this time, and there are some small aspects that need to be thought through. In this case, let's just borrow the place of Brother Wu, let yourself calm down and think about it, Brother Fool will go out for a walk with them, so I won't bother you for now, and I will come back to talk to you later. ”

There is no doubt that this is what I need most at the moment, although I have only known each other for a morning, but this kind of long-term drought and rain, he feels really good when he meets a confidant, so he smiled and said thank you again, and waited for Li Shanye to go downstairs, and actually returned to the downstairs to wait for a while Old Wu Lao Feng met to go out to eat, and closed the door for me, and no one would disturb him, so he sat down on the floor against the wall and began to settle down.

This must have been from the morning to the afternoon, until the sunset had fallen on the mountain to the west and began to sink, and then I forgot myself, but I clearly felt that my heart seemed to be stuffed with stones, so that people were always a little dull and bored in a state of detachment, and then sobered up.

And at the moment when he opened his eyes and began to recover, the stubborn stone blocked in his heart also loosened, and then was shattered by a force bursting out from the depths of his heart, and quickly dispersed to the entire chest cavity and even the entire body, and finally disappeared completely, as if it had never appeared, and the whole person became clear and light again after a long time.

The stubborn stone that was shattered from the mouth of the heart was naturally the fusion of the flame that had been lingering in the heart for all this time, and the fear that could never find its origin. Although the fire did not disappear with the dissipation of fear, it seemed to have been removed from impurities, becoming more pure and bright, and no longer irritating.

Fear often stems from the unknown, and the fear of the unknown is often the most fearful. Now that you've figured out what you're afraid of, there's nothing to be afraid of.

I got up and opened the door and closed the door and came downstairs, three men who were not at all the same age as me were sitting in the cement pavilion downstairs, but I don't know how long they had been waiting. Seeing that my whole person was full of a different look from the past, and I came downstairs with some radiant faces, I couldn't help but smile and get up and walk out of the pavilion.

"Sure enough, Brother Shan Ye has a way, I couldn't find a clue in the face of Xiao Nian several times, I could only watch him suffer and be anxious, I didn't expect that as soon as Brother Shan Ye came out, the problem was solved, I am grateful, grateful." After looking at me from head to toe, Old Wu Le laughed.

"I can't say that, I'm just talking nonsense, and the role I play is actually very limited, and getting out of this difficulty depends more on the little brother himself." Li Shanye smiled slightly, and nodded lightly to me as he spoke.