Behind him was a ruin, surrounded by a pitch-black forest.

The moon and stars were scarce, there was a slight glimmer, and in the dark night, a Taoist priest wearing an ancient Taoist robe was already standing in front of him.

Kind eyebrows and kind eyes, full of white hair, with ravines on his face, perhaps it has been a long time, the dust in his hands is already gray, and his robe is also tattered.

He looked at the Taoist temple that turned into ashes, shook his head and sighed lightly, and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable." ”

Gu Que couldn't help but say, "Dao Chief, forgive me." ”

The Taoist priest looked at Gu Que and was not angry, but there was a sense of relief on his face, and he said slowly: "Why forgive me? This Taoist temple is on the green mountain, washed by wind and rain for more than a thousand years, and can overlook the changing wind and clouds of Yindu, the red dust for eternity, and the change of seasons, all in its witness. It carries a history, a faith, that has finally been reduced to ashes. ”

"And when the wind blows, it will sprinkle on the earth and nourish every inch of soil. And the fertile soil will overflow with new vitality, this is a reincarnation!"

Gu Que's body was shocked, and he couldn't help but look at the Taoist priest, only to see that his eyes were deep, like stars in the universe, constantly changing.

He smiled on his face, like spring returning to the earth, and said softly: "This life is destroyed, nourishing the fertile soil, and buried in the depths of the back soil." As autumn turns to spring, it will sprout and thrive in the years and sunshine, growing into a towering tree. The big tree can be carved, and it becomes the pillar of Taoism. ”

He said softly: "This is the origin of the change of everything in the world, and nothing is eternal. ”

He looked at Gu Que and was not afraid that he was just a skeleton, and said with a smile: "You say, is the greatest supreme immortal in the legend eternal?"

Gu Que said in a deep voice: "Supreme immortality, endless longevity, this is a fact. ”

The old Taoist priest said: "Then why did the Supreme Immortal fall so much? Then why did the Human Emperor, the Wind System Law Ancestor, the Heavenly Ji, the Taichu Old Ancestor, the Demon Ancestor, the Heavenly Daozi and others all want to completely recover?"

Gu Que was speechless.

And the old Taoist priest continued: "Because they also have reincarnation! They are ruined, they fall, so they will be reborn, and everything in heaven and earth is nothing more than this." You may think that some people exist forever, but you don't know how many reincarnations their hearts have gone through?"

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The old Taoist priest took a deep look at Gu Que and said, "Reincarnation is not terrible, what is terrible is that you will collapse in reincarnation." ”

Gu Que shook his head slowly, he understood what the old Taoist priest meant, but some things didn't make sense.

The old Taoist priest was not in a hurry, but sacrificed a tripod and said slowly: "Since the Taoist temple was destroyed because of you, how about you help me refine a furnace of pills?"

Gu Que said: "I don't. ”

The old Taoist priest said: "You will, although your body is gone, your heart is still there, and I need your assistance." ”

Gu Que nodded hesitantly.

The old Taoist priest smiled, and with a wave of his big hand, the treasures of heaven and earth that Gu Que couldn't understand at all had already arrived in the ding, and then a blue light appeared, and the elemental flames automatically ignited under the ding.

The old Taoist priest's movements were obviously very skillful and fast, and he sighed: "The pills, medicinal materials and utensils that are refined now are not important, not even the heat, the important thing is that it requires the qi of the five elements. ”

"The Qi of the Five Elements?"

Gu Que was puzzled: "What is the effect of the Qi of the Five Elements contained in the elixir?"

The old Taoist priest said: "The qi of the five elements can constitute most of the objects of heaven and earth, and it can also derive most of the objects of heaven and earth. ”

Gu Que said: "You want to refine the derivative pill?"

The old Taoist priest said: "Derivative Dan is not easy to refine, so for the entire continent, it is extremely precious. ”

Gu Que knew that he had met a master, but he shook his head and said, "But with the qi of the five elements, I can't help." ”

The old Taoist priest looked at him and smiled slowly, "Why can't you help?"

Gu Que said: "I can't summon the five elements. ”

"Yes, you can't summon the Five Elements. ”

The old Taoist priest sighed softly: "You only know the vitality and vitality, and you only know the rotation of yin and yang, but you can't distinguish between this vitality, and you don't know which ones belong to gold, which ones belong to wood, which ones belong to water, which ones belong to fire, and which ones belong to earth. Do you remember the Word that you once understood?"

Have you ever comprehended the Word?

Gu Que thought about it for a long time, but for some reason, there was chaos in his mind, as if he didn't know anything.

He muttered: "Yin and Yang are parallel, Yin and Yang rotate, Yin and Yang are fused with the Tao of Chaos, and there are ...... And also...... The Way of the Origin. ”

The old Taoist priest said: "If you don't know the five elements, it is also the origin?"

Gu Que was silent.

The old Taoist priest waved his big hand, only to see that the vitality between heaven and earth suddenly fluctuated, and a golden ray shot out from nowhere, and suddenly poured into the black ding.

Hei Ding trembled, and suddenly there was an invisible breath surging out, this breath was sharp, sharp, heavy, cold, and it was the breath of the five elements of gold.

And as soon as the old Taoist priest's magic trick came out, the big hand waved again, and a cloud of red light was derived from heaven and earth.

He said in a deep voice: "Use the gold of the five elements to lock the loss of medicinal properties, and use the fire of the five elements to melt the invisible gold." ”

Speaking of this, the surrounding white light flickered, illuminating the universe, like rippling water, pouring into the black ding.

"The fire is too heavy, and it also damages the medicinal properties, so it is poured with water, and water can grow wood, and it is full of vitality. ”

While he was smiling and talking, a stream of blue light had already been born in the black ding, and at the same time surging outward, a wave of vitality rushed to his face.

The old Taoist priest said in a deep voice: "Gold locks the medicinal properties, fire suppresses gold, water suppresses fire, and water gives birth to wood, and vitality is born from this." The Way of the Five Elements, the root of all things, do you understand?"

Gu Que shook his head and said, "I don't understand." ”

The old Taoist priest said angrily: "You are well versed in the way of yin and yang rotation, but you don't know that the five elements change, and they are mutually reinforcing. Why can the supreme immortal exist forever? Because the five elements in his body are constantly changing, constantly rejuvenating, just like this derivative pill, the gold of the five elements carries a period of responsibility, the fire of the five elements carries a period of responsibility, and water, wood, and earth all have a period of responsibility.

"Everything can only carry a responsibility for a period of time. Your Yin and Yang parallel path carried the first year or two, your chaotic way carried the next two years, your demon sword carried your sinful forest, the demon domain and Huangzhou, and your emperor's way, the sixteen-character proverb of the "Human Emperor Sutra" carried your last few years of change. You're defeated, your mood is broken, your martial arts are gone, and your body is old, but is this really a bad thing?"

"Your past, like this ancient Taoist temple, has witnessed too many vicissitudes of wind and rain, Tianji is like a fire, destroying you into ashes, but in fact? Even if the rotten pillars and beams do not have that fire, how many years can they last? And the fire burns out, the ashes nourish the earth, sprinkle every inch of land, and every inch of land will be reborn. ”

"This failure is a reincarnation for you, and you have disappeared from everyone's sight like this Taoist temple. Thy Origin Dao is sustaining you, the heavens and the earth are supporting you, and where is your new life?"

Gu Que's body trembled, and he couldn't help but lie on the ground.

He had to admit that the old Taoist priest had good intentions, but he didn't know where his new life was.

He's right, just like Taoism, it's a reincarnation. But the ashes of the Taoist temple can nourish the land, and what can the broken self nourish?

As if knowing what Gu Que thought, the old Taoist priest chuckled and said: "You have been down-and-out for seven years and have been storytelling for three years, which can be said to have tasted all the sufferings of the world and are well versed in the sorrows of all sentient beings, but you have at least discovered that there are too many people who have been influenced by you and have gone to the path of cultivation without hesitation, and too many people have learned your best qualities, bravery, strength, responsibility, everything." ”

"This world is the land you nourish, and those young heroes are full of vitality! So they inherit it, and you? What about your bravery, your strength, and your responsibility?"

Gu Que was lying on the ground, his heart was extremely sad, if there was skin, maybe he would have shed tears.

The old Taoist priest said: "True bravery is not to break for one thing, but to face everything bravely even if there is no hope." True strength is not who you want to resurrect, but that you can face life head-on. The so-called responsibility is to take responsibility for oneself, not for others. ”

"Is Bingluo dead? Is Tianji Bingluo? Will she one day remember the past, remember you, the husband who made her willing to give everything? You've been struggling with this, thinking about this. But you haven't thought about it, are you still the same person you used to be? If you're not the same person anymore, how do you get back to who you were?"

Hearing this, Gu Que suddenly raised his head, and his soul fluctuated violently.

The old Taoist priest put away the black ding, a white pill was already in his hand, he looked at Gu Que, and said, "You think your shackles are your wife, but now do you understand? No, your shackles lie with yourself." The moment you die of your wife, the shackles are formed, and at that time, you die. ”

"And all these years, like this piece of ashes, are actually when you nourish the earth, the broken state of mind means the end of nourishment, and at that time, it should be the time when new life sprouts. ”

His eyes were deep, with a kind smile on his face, and he said, "Words are always messy, you don't have to be anxious, you are here, feel it well!"

As he spoke, the Derivative Dan shook Gu Que's forehead a little, and it shattered, and the infinite vitality came from all over the heavens and the earth.

On top of the pitch-black bones, meridian blood vessels were derived, flesh and blood began to grow, muscles squirmed, and everything revived like the naked eye.

After a while, Gu Que had already stood up, and the old Taoist priest didn't know where he had gone.

He looked up at the sky and saw the stars twinkling and the full moon hazy, staining the surrounding clouds with a halo.

The surrounding mountains are steep, dead trees are gently swaying, and yellowed fallen leaves are fluttering down, shattering the whole land.

When it is another year of autumn killing, the broken leaves will rot under the soaking of the winter rain, will be decomposed and melted, and seep into the earth, and the next spring will bloom, and it will be full of life again.

What are the five elements, what is the root of all things, the five elements are the laws of the changing rotation of the world, this is the root of all things.

It is precisely because of the observation of all things that the five elements are summarized and the heaven and earth are summarized by the five elements.

The wisdom of life is the great way!

Gu Que sat down suddenly, his cloudy gaze became soft, he looked at the Taoist temple that turned into ashes, and the whole person seemed to become ethereal.