"What do you think? Walked away."

Xu Yan pushed Liu Chen, looked at the young man who was gradually coming back to his senses, his face showed a little impatience, and he stood up and walked away first. Liu Chen shook his head helplessly, stuffed the remaining half of the bun into his mouth, and kept up with Xu Yan.

After walking a few steps, Xu Yan caught a glimpse of the steamed bun shop, seemed to remember something, and walked quickly towards the steamed bun shop.

"The shop is doing a good business! You see it's not too early, these two meat buns are left to sell me cheaply, one or two, and you can rest early, how about it? ”

Xu Yan smiled at the shopkeeper and pointed to the two remaining buns on the steamer.

"Stinky boy, get out of here, there's no money to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf"

The middle-aged shopkeeper's face was full of meat, and when he heard this, he glared at him and made a mocking speech.

"Cut, it's so stingy, if you don't sell it, you won't sell it, what's the murder"

Xu Yan didn't care about this sarcasm, touched the only copper plate left in the rag pocket, gritted his teeth, took it out, and threw it in front of the table.

"I'll have one for my master!"

Taking the bun handed by the store, Xu Yan took a few puffs of the diffuse aroma, a trace of reluctance flashed in his eyes, and turned around and handed it to Liu Chen behind him.

"Dumb, your brother Xu won't lie to you if I said I want you to eat something good, take it and eat it while it's hot"

Liu Chen was not surprised when he heard this, in the past two years of getting along, although Xu Yan was stingy with others, he treated him very well. If Xu Yan has a bite to eat, he will not be missing, and sometimes Xu Yan himself has nothing to eat, and he will try his best to let Liu Chen eat something.

For Liu Chen, Xu Yan is like his own brother, who has no ill will towards him and tries his best to take care of him.

"Thank you... Brother Xu"

"Thank you, thank you, Cheng Tianwen Zou Zou, I don't know which family I think you are, you are very sour" Xu Yanman didn't care and waved his hand.

The shopkeeper listened to the conversation between the two, and a smile appeared on his face, but his tone was still unforgiving.

"Get out, don't get in the way of the uncle's business"

"I know, I know, what's the spirit" Xu Yan turned his head and looked at the middle-aged shopkeeper, indignant, and was about to leave with Liu Chen.

"Wait a minute, stinky boy, here you go, pick it up! Uncle, I closed the stall."

The middle-aged man with cross-eyed eyes saw that the two wanted to leave, and quickly wrapped the only remaining meat bun in yellow oiled paper in his hand, and threw it to Xu Yan and the two who turned their heads to look.

Xu Yan was agile, took two steps forward, jumped slightly, and the oiled paper bag happened to land on his raised hands. Looking at the hot meat bun in his hand, his eyes were full of surprise, and he looked up at the middle-aged man with meat on his face.

"Thank you, uncle, business is booming!"

"Stinky boy..."

The shopkeeper watched the two ragged teenagers drift away, kept packing up the guy's belongings in their hands, shook his head, and muttered in his mouth.

……

"Did you hear that? A notice was posted at the gate of the city, and the Lingxi Sect of the Immortal Gate on the Lingxi Mountain had three months to start the annual disciple recruitment test."

"Who doesn't know such a big thing in Guangping City? I heard that the three sons of the Yang family in the east of the city have participated for the fourth time, and they have been brushed off every year, and if they can't pass this test this year, he will no longer be qualified."

"Those rich children at least have a chance, like me waiting for the poor, even if the children may have the talent for cultivation, they haven't stepped into the most basic method of cultivation!"

"Who's to say it's not? Alas, these tips are getting more and more expensive the more they are sold, and my second dog yells at me every day to buy him a copy. The cheapest one costs a few taels of silver, which is worth a year's expenses of my family, doesn't it cost me my life?"

Liu Chen and Xu Yan squatted on a street corner, propping up a broken bowl, listening to the discussion between pedestrians coming and going.

In the past two days, the residents of the city have discussed the most nothing more than that the Lingxi Sect is approaching the time to recruit new disciples.

Most of the disciples and elders of the Lingxi Sect came from this city and township within a radius of three hundred miles. If he becomes a disciple of the Lingxi Sect, no matter what, he will have a certain right to speak in the area under his influence.

Wherever they go, the squires from all over the country will also sell face and entertain them with delicious food and drink. And for ordinary mortals, this is the immortal descending to earth, and even some foolish people immediately kneel and kowtow when they see it.

However, the Lingxi Sect only recruits 3,000 outer disciples every year, who are between the ages of ten and fifteen, which is undoubtedly extremely competitive for the millions of school-age teenagers within its jurisdiction.

The clans from all over the country came up with a way to jointly buy a large number of Enlightenment Recipes on the market, and only a small number of low-level ones flowed out to the outside world, and raised the price of Enlightenment Decisions on the market.

Although these big families didn't dare to go too far, after this operation, the children of ordinary families basically cut off the possibility of becoming cultivators.

For no other reason, the high price makes many mortals sigh, and the low-level enlightenment technique also makes most teenagers with poor qualifications lose the opportunity to successfully enlighten the spirit.

"Dumb, do you think we have a chance to become a monk revered by all?" Xu Yan's eyes showed a rare look of yearning.

Liu Chen glanced at Xu Yan, who was in a kind of fantasy daze, and a trace of gloom flashed in the depths of his eyes. Ever since he survived the escape five years ago and lost his cultivation, Liu Chen has never had the idea of cultivating again.

He was afraid of the cultivation realm that countless mortals dreamed of and longed to step into. He was afraid of the sword light and blood rain in the cultivation realm, and he would deceive himself and kill people at every turn.

He buried hatred deep in his heart, and he didn't even dare to face the sea of blood and hatred he carried.

"Why be a monk? Isn't it good to be bland? ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he glanced at Liu Chen strangely, as if he was surprised by his inexplicable words.

"Why be a weak mortal who can be slaughtered by others and cannot even control life and death? Live an ordinary life, only when you can decide your own destiny, you are qualified to say this"

Liu Chen shook his head after hearing this, and said with a wry smile: "Do you really think that the monk can control his own destiny? You are wrong, monks often experience a hundred times more suffering than mortals, have you experienced true despair? powerless despair..."

"No, it's you who are wrong" Xu Yan immediately retorted, "There is no real despair in this world at all, it is not this world that is desperate, it is your heart." Ants still have the ambition of birds, how can we, as normal people with sound hands and feet, be afraid of our heads and tails, and live for a long time. ”

Seeing that Liu Chen did not refute, he continued, "Since monks can't control their own destiny, mortals can't control it. The reason why I can't control my own destiny is very simple, that is, I am not strong enough. ”

"As long as I can become the most powerful monk in the world, I believe that any difficulty that comes to me can be broken with a single sword. I will not despair, I will only be the despair of others! ”

"I, Xu Yan, want to be a mortal and compare with a god!"

Hearing this, Liu Chen's heart vibrate, and he took a deep look at the young man who was also with mixed hair and shawl, dirty all over his body, but his eyes were as bright as a galaxy.

seems to have re-acquainted with it, this young man who has been crawling and rolling in the filth of the world for more than ten years, and it seems that he can only laugh and scold, and he is confused.

The two seemed to be still immersed in the argument just now, and they didn't say anything for a long time. Until the sun set, the two silently packed up the oily paper and broken bowls on the ground, stood up, and took steps towards the depths of the alley.

The sunset was slightly drunk, dyeing a cloud red. The two teenagers walked away with their backs to the sunset, and the mild early autumn sun stretched the thin but firm backs of the two of them very long, very long.

……

The silence of the night is broken by the sound of paper turning.

The early autumn night is slightly cool, the most beautiful, and the bright moonlight is sprinkled into the temple through several large holes in the roof of the broken temple.

Two teenagers, one holding a wad of rags and sewing a patched shirt with a slightly curved needle, the other flipping through a few thin books.

Each of the books was torn, as if it had been turned a thousand times, and some even dropped a few pages with obvious marks of rat bites.

"Don't look at it, these are not enlightenment tips at all" Liu Chen finished sewing the clothes at hand, folded them and gently put them aside, and said to Xu Yan, who was shaking his head there, as if he was memorizing something.

"Impossible, I bought this with money, and the person who sold the book said that this is a rare high-level enlightenment technique, and it is normal that it is difficult to learn" Xu Yan returned to his old hippie smile and said while looking at the book.

"Dumb, you obviously taught me to recognize these words, why can't I understand them when they are combined? Why don't you take two copies and read them, maybe you'll learn faster than I do. ”

Hearing this, Liu Chen read the so-called "Enlightenment Formula" that he bought at the stall for one by one, and shook his head helplessly. In addition to daily life, as soon as Xu Yan had spare money, he searched everywhere for these so-called high-level enlightenment tips.

Liu Chen had already persuaded Xu Yan, and with his experience, he could naturally tell that these were not cultivation books at all, and it was naturally useless to read them. Xu Yan regarded these books as treasures, and read each one over and over again hundreds of times.

Looking at Xu Yan, who was extremely serious about flipping through the waste paper, Liu Chen was angry and laughing. I no longer wanted to bother Xu Yan to do that useless work, but I remembered the argument between the two this afternoon.

recalled the young man's resounding words in the afternoon, his unwavering expression, and his eyes as bright as a galaxy. Liu Chen was a little silent, he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, his hands unconsciously clenched and loosened, over and over again...

In the middle of the night, listening to the snoring beside him, Liu Chen opened his eyes helplessly. Looking at Xu Yan who was curled up on the side, he seemed to recall the sentence "I want to be a mortal body and compare with a god".

For a moment, Liu Chen's eyes flashed with a hint of firmness, and he let go of his clenched fist at some point, he remembered his father-in-law, his grandfather, his sect, his Azi...

Picking up a wooden branch, Liu Chen sorted out a relatively flat land, evenly sprinkled with a thin layer of ash, wrote with a stick, and the sleeves flew over, what was more on the ground...

Since you have not died in adversity, you will shine in adversity.

At this time, the young man regained his former fighting spirit, and a trace of hatred and desire for revenge disappeared in his eyes, and his eyes became deep and firm.

I have a sword that can cut the demons of the world and break the vanity of the world!

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