"I want to practice. ”

"It's none of my business. ”

"You can practice. ”

"That's none of your business. ”

"Teach me that you won't lose a piece of meat. ”

"What's the good of teaching you?"

Such a conversation took place in a small inn in the city of Kyoto during the Bactria Dynasty.

The inn is really small, with only a tall, thin and lewd owner and a teenager as helpers. At this time, it was noon, and if it was an ordinary hotel, inn, teahouse and other places, there would be three or five guests to warm up.

But there was no one here at the Fenglai Inn, and if you listened carefully, you couldn't even hear a dog barking.

At this moment, there was some dispute between the boss and the helper boy, but it was not because of the inn's business, but because of another much more advanced proposition.

The boss was hunched up, his face was full of stubble, and there were even some crumbs of cake on it. He stood at the kitchen cutting board and carefully slipped a potato as part of his lunch today.

Hearing the young man's unreasonable request, the boss was still unmoved, "You know, we are just temporary partners, we came together by chance for the same goal, and we have no relationship with each other at the moment, what obligation do I have to help a stranger?"

Xiao Xuan was silent, whether he wanted to admit it or not, what Hu Jiu said was the truth after all. Although he was still in the inn at this time, they knew very well that it would not last long.

Maybe it's Hu Jiu, maybe it's him, he may disappear from this dilapidated little inn at any time.

"Maybe we can swap?" said the boy, somewhat uncertain.

Xiao Xuan was a confident assassin who had an unusually high level of confidence in many ways. But that doesn't mean he's empty-sighted, he knows more about himself than anyone else, so he knows he's poor.

He probably didn't have any other possessions other than the means by which he used the knife.

However, after hearing this, the knife in Hu Jiu's hand stopped, and the half-peeled potato fell to the ground. The young man behind him sensed that the other party seemed to have some intentions, so he knew that he had put forward a condition that was not stupid.

Because Hu Jiu's back straightened.

How large Tianluo is, Xiao Xuan himself is not clear. Because of some unspeakable reasons, each of them will not have the opportunity to contact too many other members, Hu Jiu, is one of the few and most knowledgeable people in Xiao Xuan's Tianluo.

He is good at making knives, but his knives are not the same as his own. In normal times, he is just a lewd middle-aged man, always slumped up, shaking his neck from time to time when he walks.

His back will only straighten up one time, and that is when he is serious.

What Hu Jiu will do seriously is only to kill people.

In addition, Xiao Xuan really hasn't seen him serious because of anything else.

Hu Jiu reached out and wiped his trouser leg, put the knife aside, and said, "When necessary, I want you to help me protect someone." ”

The young man was a little surprised and said, "Man or woman?"

"Naturally, it's a woman. ”

The young man smiled, there was some unclear meaning in it, and said: "I can't imagine that you are used to taking people's lives, and you will also think of saving other people's lives, and even more unexpectedly, you know that I am the same kind of person as you, and you still ask me to help you do this." ”

"Why do you think I can keep someone who can't even be saved?"

Hu Jiu picked up a bowl of tea on the table, it was a bowl of old tea from last night, but he didn't care much, but drank it all, and then let out a long sigh.

"First, what I am not capable of doing, you can certainly do, because your knife is faster than mine. ”

"Second, we are not the same kind of people. ”

"Third, men live in this life, not for money, but for the two taels of meat under the crotch, assassins are also people, of course, there can also be beloved women. ”

With that, he got up again and touched the teapot on the table.

His body arched again, and in Xiao Xuan's eyes, it was like a dead branch of an old tree, full of wind and sun lines, and it looked a little sluggish.

This middle-aged man, covered with traces of age, wearing a set of greasy clothes, sat there and poured himself a drink, and from time to time he used his hand to pluck the shredded vegetable leaves and meat between his teeth.

Assassins are a group of people who live in the dark, and the most difficult thing for them is not to assassinate a member of the court or poison an elder of a major sect.

The hardest thing is to trust others.

If you don't trust others, you can't talk about the so-called love and love. So, in a sense, the Assassins didn't enjoy what ordinary people could easily have.

Hearing the other party say the woman he loves, the boy was a little surprised. For their kind of people, believing in someone other than themselves means giving the other person a knife that can kill them at any time.

It takes a great deal of courage to put one's life in the hands of others.

Xiao Xuan asked himself, there is no one in this world who is worthy of doing this.

It naturally doesn't take too much effort to talk to smart people, and Hu Jiu's words are incomplete, which doesn't mean that Xiao Xuan can't understand. He just has a headache, Hu Jiu's performance today is a little different from usual, I don't know if there are some inside things that he needs to know but don't know.

"You know, people like us can't see the light. Seeing the young man standing there silently, Hu Jiu continued to drink a bowl of Xinsheng old tea, "If you want to practice, I don't know why and there is no need to know, but I want to remind you that a person like a killer can only inhabit the darkness and die in the long night, if you dry yourself in broad daylight, there will be only one end." ”

"There is no place to die. ”

Hu Jiu's voice sounded a little astringent, and Xiao Xuan listened to his words, and suddenly wanted to laugh out loud.

"I naturally know what you said, I have lived all these years, and I plan to continue to live, and I may continue to kill some people, but I am not prepared to live in this long night for the rest of my life. ”

"No matter how long the night is, it needs an end, doesn't it?"

Hu Jiu was silent, looking at Xiao Xuan's expression, thinking about the rumors about this young man that he had heard in the past, and he felt a little emotional.

It's nice to be young.

I think that in the years when I was still young, I should have acted as recklessly as he did.

"Do you know what practice is?"

"I don't know. The young man said this, but there was not a trace of embarrassment on his face.

"The so-called cultivation is just a process of people's souls from awakening to strength, and after the awakening of the soul, ordinary people can be regarded as opening the door to cultivation. ”

"The first level of cultivation is body refining, mortals use their soul power to penetrate the inner mansion of the sea of knowledge, and even every vein, every bone, and every skin of the whole body, and use the power of the soul to strengthen their body, which is body refining. ”

"The second level is distraction, and the most different thing about cultivators who have reached this state is that they can disperse their souls and drive things away with their divine thoughts. ”

"The third layer is the transformation of the void, and those who can enter this realm are all the best among the cultivators, and they turn their gods into the void, and when they step into the void, they can fly in the sky, so that they can be called great cultivators. ”

Hu Jiu looked at his calloused palms, and thought silently in his heart, he might not be able to reach the realm of transformation in this life.

In this life, people are like morning dew and sunset. For some things, one step late is a lifetime late.

Xiao Xuan recalled that day, the woman in black he saw became more and more silent.

That was the first time he had seen a Great Cultivator fight.

The battle began in an unknown alley in Xuanyang City, and ended so quickly that it was hard to feel how strong the winning side was.

Her sword was not unsheathed, and it was as easy as picking up fallen leaves from the water of a pond to defeat a cultivator at the peak of the distraction realm, turning into a void realm, which was really terrifying.

No wonder the world always says that under the void, they are all ants.

That person is the deputy head of the Divine Imperial Eunuch, which means that if he is still in this Xuanyang City, there is still a chance that he will encounter this person as an enemy.

Although, in the eyes of the other party, he is not qualified to be an opponent.

On second thought, if you can also achieve the Void Realm yourself, it must be quite ...... Pull the wind.

Human beings are more or less afraid of the unknown. However, in the face of the vast desert world of cultivation, which he had never set foot in, the young man's heart became eager.

For many years, Xiao Xuan thought that his mind had calmed down, but at this time, looking at those unattainable peaks in the past, he suddenly found that he had the possibility of climbing those peaks, which made him no longer able to maintain his inner peace.

It was a very strange feeling, because he had always thought that he wanted to practice in order to accomplish that impossible thing in Xuanyang City. Yes, he thought he needed to practice, not wanted to practice.

Xiao Xuan thought for a while, only to notice that the other party did not continue, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Above the void, aren't there two great realms?"

Hu Jiu looked at him with eyes like looking at an idiot, and said: "Above the void is the transcendent master realm, and as for the sainthood, it is even the person who has not reached the pinnacle of the current state religion, what qualifications do you have to know? What is the point of knowing?"

"I'm just asking, as for it?" Xiao Xuan was a little annoyed, of course he didn't think that he could achieve the transcendent realm, but there were some things that everyone knew in their hearts, so why should they say it so clearly?

After all, life is already so difficult, why bother to debunk everything?

"Is that the person you are talking about......"

"People throughout Middle-earth know his name, but few people say it right out of their mouths. ”

It is very rare, Hu Jiu's obscene face appeared a little solemn, and a little afraid, and even the slightly curved waist board faintly had a tendency to straighten.

"Ordinary people only know that with him for one day, the Great Xia Dynasty will never fall. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan's palms oozed some sweat.

Not because of fear, but with an unprecedented eagerness and longing.

If one person is there, the whole dynasty will not fall.

What a majesty!

In fact, in the past nearly 10,000 years, the Great Xia Dynasty has stood on the brink of life and death several times.

For example, 5,000 years ago, in the hinterland of Tianling, there was a Mu Qin Dynasty.

The first great war between Xia and Qin lasted for decades. Although the nascent Mu Qin Dynasty faced the danger of being trampled by the Great Xia Iron Cavalry several times, that group of Qin people was actually tenacious to an incredible extent. All of them were soldiers, from white-haired old women to children of seven or eight years old, each of them had a weapon in their hands, and each of them wanted to kill at least one cavalryman of the Xia Dynasty.

So much so that later, the situation of the war between the two countries was suddenly reversed, and the Xia Kingdom fell into a dangerous situation.

That time, it was the state religion that saved Bactria from it.

And a hundred years ago, in the second national war of Qin and Xia, the state religion once again stood up.

On that occasion, there was a person who defeated the three transcendent realm worshippers of the Mu Qin royal family in a row, and with his own strength, he forced back 400,000 Qin masters.

One person stands under the Tianling, but it is more insurmountable than the Tianling.

He is the one who stands at the top of the current state religion, and he is also recognized as the person who is most likely to approach the legendary realm of sainthood in the land of Great Xia today.

There are even rumors that he has not appeared in the world for more than ten years, and it is very likely that he has transcended the realm of masters and become a saint.

He is the thirty-seventh Pope of the State Religion.