On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Yu got up early and personally went to greet the distinguished guests who stayed in the Taiqing Palace.

said that it was a New Year's greeting, but in fact, it was Xiao Yu's greeting with a low profile, which was not an invitation to buy people's hearts, after all, these are old guys who are used to seeing the world, and they are all in high positions, at most they can be regarded as pulling in the relationship.

Walking down in a circle, there were two more people beside Xiao Yu, namely Qiu Ye, the first disciple of Taoism and Qiu Yue, the first disciple of Buddhism, speaking of which is a bit like Xiao Yu's New Year's meaning when he was a child.

The three of them can be regarded as old acquaintances, and Qiu Ye joined forces with Xiao Yu to complete the great war, defeating the strong with the weak, overturning Xu Lin's army of 400,000, giving Xiao Yu the opportunity to enter the central capital, and it is also the biggest obstacle to sweeping away his world.

If there was no battle back then, Xiao Yu would be a grassland king, and he could only stay in the grassland that was more bitter and cold than the northwest for the rest of his life, looking at Zhongdu and sighing.

In the gazebo at the highest point of Laoding, the three of them looked side by side at the sea that was still shrouded in a faint mist in the distance.

If nothing else, the world in the future will be the world of these three people, a secular emperor, a Taoist master, and a Buddhist presiding.

Xiao Yu took the lead in retracting his gaze, sat on the stone bench in the pavilion, and said with a smile: "In this situation, don't you two have anything to say? ”

Qiu Yue clasped her hands together, shook her head and smiled: "Your Highness is talking about yourself." ”

Qiu Ye was as indifferent as ever, and said: "Who would have thought that the young man on the shore of Biluo Lake back then really held the world in his hands, and the general trend was all in one thought, and Qiu Yue and I, the so-called pride of the sky at that time, are now looking up to you, and the world is impermanent, nothing more than this." ”

Xiao Yu smiled indifferently: "What a real person said seems to be a big grievance." ”

Qiu Yue folded her hands and shook her head slightly, but she didn't speak.

Akiba sighed lightly: "Actually, since the day I was deposed as the first apprentice, you and I have been replaced, you and I have been in the opposite position, you used to beg me more, but now I beg you more." ”

Xiao Lie said calmly: "The ups and downs of the world, there will be ups and downs, if you blindly go up, you will soon force yourself to a desperate road with no way out, if you can suffer some hardships earlier, it is not a blessing to know this truth." ”

Akiba said softly, "Your Highness is talking about yourself again." ”

Xiao Yu pointed at Qiu Yue's slippery head and laughed, and he could no longer see the slightest shadow of his previous restrained and humble manners.

Akiba suddenly asked, "Have you really abandoned all the Demon Gate cultivation?"

Xiao Yu restrained his smile and nodded: "To be precise, it should be the legacy of the Heavenly Demon, and now I only have eighty percent of my cultivation in my heyday, and the other two percent are forced out of my body along with the legacy of the Heavenly Demon." ”

Akiba frowned and asked, "What about the big war in the future?"

Xiao Yu said flatly: "How to fight or how to fight, I can't change the entire battle situation because I don't have two percent of my cultivation, after all, it is the most regrettable thing to be able to go to the realm of freedom, I estimate that there will not be too many people dead in the end, the fight is almost the same, after dividing the victory and defeat, one side will be soft, and this matter will be over." ”

Akiba was a little incredulous and asked, "It's that simple?"

Xiao Yu slowly stretched out his five fingers and laughed softly: "Of course, there are still some people who want to die, such as Fu Chen, such as Diao Yin or Wang Yun, such as Shangguan Xianchen, such as Qingchen, such as Tianchen Dazhenren, and then for example, me, we are the leaders of both sides, which side loses, and which side of the leader has to bear the blame, so that it can be regarded as a sue for a while." ”

Akiba shook her head, "You still see through it." ”

Xiao Yu let out a long breath of turbidity, "The position at the bottom determines the idea of the head, if you are not in your position and do not seek politics, naturally you will not think much about this aspect, I am different, I have to think all the time, think day and night, think about this, resist that, or learn the imperial power to control the balance of these different minds of these civil and military generals, very tired, very boring." ”

Qiu Yue said softly: "It's also fun, right?"

Xiao Yu said helplessly: "I can see it, one of you two is the target to lead me to speak, and the other is next to me to stab me and expose my old bottom, what you say is so straightforward, isn't it?"

Qiu Yue smiled but did not speak.

Xiao Yu hesitated, "Qiu Ye, I entrust you with one thing." ”

Akiba said without hesitation: "Please speak." ”

Xiao Yu said a little sentimentally: "If one day, I ...... is gone, only Yinping and Xiao Xuan, the two orphans and widows, you see our love for many years, take care of it more, after all, there is a mountain gate array, there is a legacy of Taoist ancestors, and there are the hard work of the ancestors of the past dynasties, no matter how defeated, they will not be beaten by others. ”

Akiba was silent for a long time, then nodded slowly and said, "If there really is that day, I will do my best." ”

Xiao Yu finally had a smile on his face, and joked: "Xuan'er has Xuan'er in his name, and your Daomen is also called Xuanmen, why don't I let him worship you as a teacher?"

Qiu Ye shook his head and said, "It's okay if you lose, if you win, will Xiao Xuan be the emperor or be the head of the sect?"

Xiao Yu laughed and stopped continuing the topic.

After chatting for a while, Xiao Yu took the lead to leave because he still had official business, leaving only Qiu Ye and Qiu Yue on the top of Lao.

After the two were silent for a moment, Akiba suddenly asked, "What do you think?"

Qiu Yue looked at the sea and sky in the distance, turned the beads on her wrist, and said softly: "Xiao Yu is really arranging the aftermath, but this kind of aftermath is not because Xiao Yu thinks he will lose, but more because he feels that he can't hold it for too long." ”

Akiba remembered some old things, and his tone couldn't help but be a little depressed, "Could it be that his body has deteriorated to such an extent?

Qiu Yue clasped her hands together and said: "I heard Shizun talk about it, Xiao Yu has two fatal places, one is that he forcibly integrated the five families into one, although it was not obvious at the time, but later the legacy was serious, even if the strong man broke his wrist now and gave up the demon gate to cultivate, it was too late." The second is that in the past ten years, Xiao Yu has gone through dozens of battles, almost every battle must be injured, and there are several serious injuries that endanger his life, which hurt the fundamentals. If these two attack together, they will be urged almost instantly, even if the earth immortal will fall, unless Xiao Yu can set foot in the immortal realm, there will be no luck. At the end of the day, it's just a matter of how long it lasts. ”

Akiba had an undisguised look of sadness on her face.

Because Akiba's talent is too high, his starting point is too high, and his later position is too high, so he doesn't have many friends, or very few, Xiao Yu is one of the few.

Life is a long road, walking together, when you hear that the companion is going to leave halfway, even if it is the autumn leaves that are like water, you still feel an unspeakable sadness.