The man stood with his sword in his hand, his eyes straight ahead, and directly opposite him was an old man who was over sixty years old, but he still looked like a majestic and heroic man. Next to the old man was a middle-aged man over forty years old, and by looking at his respectful appearance towards the old man and looking at the old man's eyes, he could tell that this was the old man's son. Behind them, there were still a lot of people standing, all of them were extremely high martial artists, and there were also high-level soul masters among these martial artists. At this time, everyone's mood swings were very large, and at the same time, everyone looked at the man with an expectant gaze, and they seemed to be expecting the man to make a decision.

At this time, the man's eyes revealed endless hatred, not for those people opposite, let alone for his wife. He hated himself, he hated his powerlessness. He hated to have a good cultivation, but he couldn't protect his wife, what was the use of such a man? He hated, he really hated, he frantically denounced his powerlessness in the depths of his heart.

"Can you take this responsibility?" the old man spoke, although his tone was very rigid, but it was not difficult for his son beside him to hear that his father was also very helpless at this time. This question is exactly the same as what Nian Xing asked Lu Ce, but the situation he experienced is different.

Nian Xing shook his head, trying not to let himself think back to the scene he had experienced, yes, that man was the original Nian Xing. And the woman behind her is his wife, so the identity of the baby in the woman's hand can be imagined, yes, it is Lu Ce, who has just been born and is not yet a month old.

Lu Ce could never have imagined that his father would ask such a question, "Can I afford the responsibility?" It seems a little illusory, because I don't know what kind of responsibility I have to bear. In fact, it is very realistic, it is precisely because we don't know what kind of responsibility we will bear, so we should be prepared to bear everything, otherwise, even if we have the ability, what can we do?

Can I take the responsibility? Lu Ce kept asking himself this question in his heart. What will I do? What kind of responsibility can I bear? What if I can't take responsibility?

While thinking about his father's problems, and silently admiring his father in his heart, Lu Ce would never have thought that the conversation with his father would appear in such a form. The three questions sound simple, but they are not so simple, and each question is a test of one's own heart.

These questions were actually what Nian Xing had planned to ask Lu Ce a long time ago, because he knew that Lu Ce would choose such a path sooner or later, if nothing else, just because Lu Ce was his child and his blood flowed in his body.

Although he often said that with great power comes great responsibility, and he didn't want his son to follow such a path. What can he do if he has great strength? He has a good cultivation, but in the end, he can't even protect his wife, and until now he doesn't know whether his wife is dead or alive. But he had always believed that his wife was still alive and that she was waiting for him to be reunited with her, even after seven years of non-news.

When he returned to this village with Lu Ce, Nian Xing originally wanted to find his wife when Lu Ce grew up, so that Lu Ce could be an ordinary person in this small village. However, when Lu Ce grew up little by little, he gradually discovered that Lu Ce would definitely not be an ordinary person, and one day he would become an existence like himself, but now he has to continue to grow and grow. So he also began to reveal some things about martial artists to Lu Ce from time to time, and Lu Ce was also very interested in what he said, so he would often ask some things about this when he was drunk. In fact, this was all deliberate by Nian Xing, otherwise what if he was really drunk with his own amount of alcohol, if he didn't want to say it, I'm afraid Lu Ce wouldn't get anything from him.

What he revealed to Lu Ce was that he hoped that Lu Ce would have his own choice, even if he knew that Lu Ce would choose this path, he would not show Lu Ce anything, but just let Lu Ce slowly comprehend that one day when Lu Ce can make his own choice, he can really teach him something.

Lu Ce has been bringing it up until now, to be honest, Nian Xing is a little dissatisfied, because he told him about martial arts in a very early age, but it wasn't until today that Lu Ce told himself that he wanted to take this path, which was a bit unlike himself.

Good men are ambitious, and good men are going out.

But he also knows that this has a lot to do with himself, it is because he is so decadent and absurd that he has made his son what he is now, maybe if it weren't for the enlightenment of Wang Zhen's family at noon, I'm afraid this time will be a little later to come.

Nian Xing looked at Lu Ce, who was thinking hard in front of him, and couldn't help but have a thought: Is it too early to ask this question?

Yes, he has already experienced too much when he faced this problem, and now Lu Ce is far more mature than his peers, and there are too many things that he has not been exposed to and experienced, so it is indeed a bit inappropriate to ask him to answer this question now. However, after thinking about it, Lu Ce's answers to his first two questions were very perfect, so with the mood of trying it out, Nian Xing quietly waited for Lu Ce's answer, he knew that Lu Ce would never keep silent this time, so he still had some expectations for this answer.

Now Lu Ce is still repeating the question he just asked himself in the bottom of his heart. For a while, Lu Ce seemed to be stuck in a dead loop that made him unable to extricate himself.

How should he answer? How can he answer? Lu Ce didn't know, he really didn't know.

On this question, Lu Ce thought about it for a long, long time, and Nian Xing was also here for a long, long time, and before he knew it, the moon had risen overhead. Nian Xing was looking up at the starry sky at this time thinking about something, and a meteor crossed the sky, and Nian Xing's eyes lit up. Gently closing his eyes, it seemed that he was also thinking about this passing meteor and making a wish of his own.

At this moment, Lu Ce finally spoke, with three simple words, "I can't afford it." After saying that, he took a deep breath as if relieved, and then exhaled slowly.

Nian Xing looked at Lu Ce with some incredulity, he didn't expect that the long wait was actually these three words, and when he was about to say something, he heard Lu Ce say again, "What if you can't afford it?" It seemed to be asking himself, and it seemed like Lu Ce was questioning himself.

As soon as this sentence came out, Nian Xing, who was about to evaluate it, stopped again, because he already felt that Lu Ce's words were not finished, and he still had something to say.

Then I saw Lu Ce raise his head and look directly into his eyes, the father and son looked at each other, and Lu Ce spoke again, "If you can't bear it, you have to bear it, and you have to bear it." After hearing this answer, the scene that had been left behind by Nian Xing not long ago resurfaced: after listening to the words of the old man opposite, the man raised the long sword on his chest and pointed obliquely at the sky, raised his proud head, his eyes were like torches, and he roared madly, his voice had become hoarse, and he seemed to be complaining about the injustice of God at that time.

Then he slowly returned to his just appearance, and suddenly the long sword in his hand was slammed into the ground by him, only to see that the long sword cut directly into the ground as if it had submerged into tofu, and even the hilt of the sword was deeply submerged into the ground and disappeared, leaving only a hole the size of a sword hilt in place.

Looking at the man's hand again, a long sword shining with golden light appeared in his hand at this time, and the man seemed to be a little desperate and smiled, "Haha, what if you can't bear it? I will give you back all that you have given me today. As he spoke, he looked at the old man opposite with apologetic looks in his eyes, and after that apology, he was resolute without hesitation.

"Dad, what's wrong with you?" Lu Ce was looking at Nian Xing at this time, Nian Xing's eyes seemed to be shining with something, Lu Ce would not think that it was tears, because in his opinion, his father would not shed tears, not that he thought that his father, a person who would only use alcohol to kill his sorrows, had no feelings, but that he firmly believed that his father was a powerful man, and a real man would not cry.

In fact, what shone in Nian Xing's eyes was his tears that swirled in his eyes, and the man didn't flick his tears because he didn't get to the sad place. But Lu Ce's answer just evoked Nian Xing's unbearable memory, a memory that was enough to make him reach the point of sadness.