Deep in the mountains, Yan Lan and the others sat around and chatted for a while, and when the sky was getting dark, they took a rest.

Because within a radius of 10,000 zhang, there are six-fingered green eagles and golden-scaled king pythons guarding them, and everyone is scattered in the center of the area of hundreds of zhang, with their backs against the thousand-zhang tall trees, sitting cross-legged and cultivating.

Yan Lan looked at Zhao Qing, the only one left in front of him, and said calmly: "Zhao Qing, in the battle with Bai Zong, you have made a great contribution, and I will return your freedom according to the original promise." ”

Yan Lan finished speaking, and as soon as his heart moved, Zhao Qing's soul seal floated in his palm.

Yan Lan originally thought that Zhao Qing would breathe a sigh of relief and be happy, but he didn't expect Zhao Qing to stand up immediately and say respectfully to Yan Lan: "Lord Yan, I, Zhao Qing, am willing to follow you and be willing to recognize you as the master." ”

Yan Lan frowned and wondered, "Why is this?"

Yan Lan could have directly inquired about Zhao Qing's soul, but he had the intention to let Zhao Qing leave, so he did not do such a domineering act.

Zhao Qing frowned, and his face was even more respectful: "First, I offended Lord Yan at the beginning, and almost caused you to become Ruan Yan's puppet, this is a mortal crime, I am willing to use a hundred years to protect Lord Yan and eliminate this crime." ”

"Second, don't hide it from Lord Yan, I, Zhao Qing, have been displaced in this life, and I have done my best to sit in the position of the deputy leader of the Beast Taming Rongcheng Alliance. I have great ambitions, but the times are not good, after the battle of Baizong, I feel that I follow the Yan Lord, there is a possibility of breakthrough, so I implore the Yan Lord to take in, even if the god is destroyed in the future, there is no regret. ”

Zhao Qing's face was frank and his words were sincere, but they were from the bottom of his heart.

Yan Lan stared at Zhao Qing, immediately stood up, sighed, and above his young face, there were thousands of years of vicissitudes of life, and he looked up at the sky. The stars twinkle in the sky, even if there are countless stars. Even though the stars are as bright as the red sun, they are still shrouded in endless darkness.

"Every star. They should all have unimaginable volume and energy, and a monk is simply unreachable compared to a star, like dust. ”

"One star is so huge, not to mention that there are billions of stars that are innumerable, and even more stars, hidden in places that we can't see. There are so many stars, compared to this vast firmament. It still looks so small. ”

"In the face of this world, we are so small, so why are we cultivating?"

Yan Lan kept muttering to himself, only in the last sentence, lowered his head, looked at Zhao Qing levelly, and asked faintly.

Zhao Qing couldn't understand why Yan Lan was so emotional, and heard Yan Lan ask. He hesitated for a moment and said, "When we cultivate the Tao, we are fighting for our lives with the heavens, and we are reaching the pinnacle of cultivating the truth. It is not to be bullied by the strong, but to be in control of one's own destiny. ”

Yan Lan nodded and said, "Yes." We are all fighting against the heavens. Heaven has given each of us a short lifespan of only a hundred years. If you don't cultivate the Tao. A hundred years later, it will be dust. Zhao Qing. Do you know that if you follow me, you will not only fight for your life with the heavens, but also with people!"

Zhao Qing said solemnly: "What Lord Yan said, but the broken ruler shocked the rainbow?"

Yan Lan smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "The broken ruler is very strong, but compared to some of my old people, he is like this small stone and the star high above. ”

"Little pebble, star!" Zhao Qing gasped, looked at the pebble in Yan Lan's palm in disbelief, and then looked up at the sky.

Zhao Qing couldn't imagine that even if he was as strong as a broken ruler, in front of the people Yan Lan said, he could only be like a pebble in front of the stars, so how strong should those people's cultivation be.

If this is said from someone else's mouth, Zhao Qing will definitely think that the other party is talking nonsense. However, this was what Yan Lan said, but he couldn't have the slightest doubt.

Yan Lan looked at Zhao Qing who was in a shocked state, and with a wave of his palm, he returned Zhao Qing's soul seal, and then threw out a few pills, and said, "If you follow me, it will only make you doomed, you better return to the Beast Taming Alliance." With your cultivation, as long as you don't provoke others like me along the way, there will be no danger. Now that Chen Mo is dead, you only need to put a little effort into it, and you can sit on the position of the leader of the main alliance. These are three human realm six-rank pills, which are of great benefit to your cultivation and the warmth of your primordial spirit. ”

Zhao Qing's body shook, and he was completely out of his control, and his soul seal returned to his soul.

At this moment, Zhao Qing has truly regained his freedom, but his heart is filled with inexplicable loss.

The path of cultivation is vast and long, and everyone is groping forward. Chance is hard to find. He instinctively felt that Yan Lan must be a rare opportunity he encountered in his cultivation, and he missed this time, and he didn't know if he could still encounter such an opportunity in his life.

It's just that Yan Lan's intention has been decided, and Zhao Qing can't force him to stay, so he muttered for a long time before he breathed a sigh of relief and solemnly put away the three pills in front of him.

Zhao Qing also has the six elixirs of the human realm, but with his status and status, there are only two. Yan Lan casually shot three pieces, which shocked him and made him even more grateful.

Zhao Qing said respectfully: "Lord Yan repays his grievances with virtue, and I, Zhao Qing, am ashamed." If he has a place where Zhao Qing can find me, just come to me. I will do my best to help Lord Yan. It's too quiet for me to feel safe, so I'll stay here tonight, and I'll leave tomorrow when you're settled. ”

Yan Lan nodded and said, "You don't have to feel guilty, your guilt has been made up in the battle of the White Sect." From then on, you and I owe each other nothing, and if there is something to work with, it will be very good. It's getting late, so rest and go. ”

Yan Lan is a person who will repay his kindness, he fought hard with Bai Zong before, if it wasn't for Zhao Qing's action, the consequences may be really unimaginable. Although Zhao Qing's previous actions did make him have murderous thoughts, he thought that everything was the temptation of Ruan Yan's fallacies, and later Zhao Qing did a great favor, and it was better to settle the grievances, so he made such a decision.

But no matter what, Yan Lan would not let Zhao Qing stay by his side, after all, they had a battle of life and death, and this kind of heart knot was always accompanied by him, affecting the Dao heart.

Zhao Qing arched his hand, and immediately left, and found a giant tree thousands of zhang high outside Yanlan, jumped up, sat cross-legged on the waist of the tree, and spread his spiritual sense to a hundred miles away, so as to detect the abnormality in time.

Yan Lan sat on the spot, his spiritual sense spread out for thousands of miles, except for finding a few monks and some mortal beasts, there was nothing else abnormal, so he slowly closed his eyes and meditated.

Five thousand miles away, in a mountain range and dense forest, dozens of figures shuttled in and out.

If you peel back the dense forest and look down from the sky, you can see a complex of buildings that look like cottages.

Around the building, most of them are built with huge animal bones, which are hideous.

High in the cottage, on a throne made of animal bones, two monks sat on one left and one on the right.

One person's face was dark, and the green tendons on his head were like swimming snakes, bulging high, as if he had been angry too much.

The other person, whose face was full of beards, looked very fierce, not angry but mighty.

Behind them, there were more than ten monks around, among them, half of the monks had reached the infant transformation stage, and the rest of the monks who were responsible for laying down the hands also had the seventh to ninth generation of the infant stage.

"Black egg, you invited me from thousands of miles away, is it just to deal with those little guys who don't have any hair? Tsk, aren't you quite arrogant on weekdays, you don't even pay attention to Lao Tzu and me, and even forcibly occupy Lao Tzu's territory. In order to deal with these yellow-haired children today, why did you Yaxing call me over? ”

The middle-aged monk with a full beard drank the liquid from the cup, and said in a cold tone, his eyes full of fierceness. (To be continued......)