Chapter 18 Ascetic Mortal Refining the Dust Heart
The little boy looked at Lin Dutian's still face with a look of hope, and looked at Lin Dutian's still face.
"Can you take me as an apprentice?"
The crisp and slightly tenacious children's voice continues to reverberate in the Thousand Tribulations Mountain, like the sound of heavenly thunder, infinitely amplified, as if shouting to the heavens and the earth.
"You are in the wilderness and starving, even if you ask me to give you delicacies from the mountains and seas, it is not difficult to delicacies in the world."
For a child in the mountains who has been hungry for a few days and even treats moldy steamed buns as treasures, there is nothing more tempting than jade plate delicacies, but the little boy shook his head without hesitation.
"You are in rags, you don't cover your body, you are clothed, you have money, fame and fortune, and even if you want to be rich and rival the country and the prince of the territory, I can also do it for you."
The little boy shook his head without hesitation.
"Do you want to do anything but be my apprentice?"
"Yes!" the boy nodded vigorously.
Lin Dutian didn't say a word, and looked at the little boy quietly, but his thoughts had already drifted.
Looking at Lin Dutian's deep gaze, the little boy was a little timid, perhaps feeling that the request was a bit excessive, and said timidly: "If it doesn't work, please send me back to the town at the foot of the barren mountain before, my friend Xiao Zezi may still be there."
The child's voice was immature, and Lin Dutian was as if he hadn't heard it, his thoughts had already flown away, and he had already flown to the foot of the Tianluo Mountain where snowflakes were flying, that year, he had just used the Shocking Sword to seal the inexplicable murderous thing in the Yan Mountain that was trying to get out of trouble, and his cultivation was still in the early stage of the Feather Realm where there was no hope of breaking through again.
At the foot of Tianluo Mountain, he encountered a group of strong people who had participated in the encirclement and suppression of him to make things difficult for no reason, and everyone thought that his cultivation was stagnant, and he was no longer the king of the peerless style, so he fought hard, but many people were killed by him.
When chasing and killing an elder of the Holy Snow Pavilion, he happened to be stopped by the "Snow Flower Divine Sword" Bing Wuji, a senior master of the Holy Snow Pavilion who was passing by, at that time, Lin Dutian was blinded by hatred, and almost fell into the killing path, and fought with Bing Wuxian without a word.
Although after this battle, his reputation spread again, but Lin Dutian himself really knew that it was not like the rumors in the world, the two fought to a draw, but the real fact is that Lin Dutian has been attacking, and Bing Wuxian is on the defensive, but what he doesn't know is that Bing Wuxian tolerates him everywhere out of love.
After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, Bing Wuxian was just a counterattack move, an extremely simple move, simple and unpretentious, but the result was that Lin Dutian vomited blood and flew back, without the strength to fight again.
When Bing Wuxian left, he didn't say a word, just left him a few jars of spirits, and Lin Dutian himself woke up from hatred, knowing that his comprehension of the Tao was still far behind his predecessors.
After that battle, there was news of a tie between the two in the Holy Snow Pavilion, but Lin Dutian drank wine for a day and a night at the top of Tianluo Mountain, and it was not until the second day that he walked down the Tianluo Mountain drunk.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of horse thieves were smashing and looting, and the blood stained the snowy mountain red, like a little red in a blank piece of paper, which was particularly dazzling.
A little boy of seven or eight years old, covered in blood, sat in the snow, looking at the horse thief with a long knife and a hideous face walking towards him, there was no trace of fear in his eyes, only calm and indifferent in the face of death.
What kind of mentality should this be? Lin Dutian throbbed.
In this little boy, he saw the shadow of his childhood, and he also saw the indifferent heart that he did not possess when he had cultivated to the Feather Transformation Realm so far.
Looking at the little boy again, he seemed to see a piece of rare precious jade, so he rescued the little boy, and immediately disobeyed the teacher's order and accepted him as an apprentice, what made him cry and laugh was that after seeing his various magical powers, when he was accepted as an apprentice, the little boy's face did not appear as expected excited, but there was a trace of joy in his beautiful eyes.
When Lin Dutian took the little boy to the foot of Fuyu Pavilion Mountain, he met an old fortune teller, holding a bamboo cane, wearing a Taoist robe, shabby, sloppy, very much like a charlatan who fooled ordinary people, holding a broken bowl in his hand, the bowl wall was covered with dense cracks, spreading to the bottom of the bowl, and there were several large and small gaps on the edge, but the bowl was engraved with the ancient and mysterious word "Huatian".
The old man insisted on pestering Lin Dutian and gave him a hexagram.
"The twilight and sunset are infinitely good, and the long night will be difficult at the end", these two sentences are the words left by the old man.
At first, Lin Dutian didn't care, until his only apprentice stepped into his footsteps, he understood the meaning of this verse, this verse was telling him that the disciples he accepted were all perverted like demons, just like the sunset on the horizon, extremely beautiful, but it could not be eternal, because they would soon enter a long dark night, and the darkness made people desperate.
"The sunset is infinitely good, it's just near dusk!"
Lin Dutian muttered softly, and then fell into a deep silence, only the little boy standing next to him had a strange expression, "Sunset, the sun has just risen, it's right to call it the rising sun," the little boy muttered in his heart.
Suddenly, when the little boy saw Lin Dutian's eyes, his essence flashed.
"You stand on that rock!"
Lin Dutian said undoubtedly, looking in the direction of his fingertips, he saw that the stone was on the edge of the boulder bar, and what was even more frightening was that the edge of the boulder bar was full of cracks, and the mountain wind blew into the cracks, and even the sound of whirring could be heard.
The little boy did not dare to disobey, and slowly moved forward, when suddenly a small stone fell off the edge of the boulder bar, and fell into the bottomless abyss, without a single echo.
The scene stopped the little boy's pace of moving forward.
"Do you know that after becoming my apprentice, just like the road you have to walk under your feet, every step may be an abyss, do you still want to move forward?" Lin Dutian said at the right time.
The little boy bit his lip, did not retreat, closed his eyes slightly, and was about to step forward, when a force suddenly appeared from behind and pulled him aside.
"Whoa" sounded.
Seeing the place where the little boy just stepped on, together with the stone, fell into the abyss, there was still no echo, all this frightened the little boy exclaimed, even though the experience of life in the wild made his character extremely tough, but after all, it was just a child, facing the line of life and death, it was inevitable to be frightened.
"Could it be that this is the will of heaven?" Lin Dutian looked at the broken part of the boulder bar in a daze, and was silent for a long time.
"Let's go!"
Lin Dutian rolled up the frightened little boy, and his figure slowly disappeared on the boulder bar, as if it had never appeared, and all this returned to calm.
When the two reappeared, it was already a bustling street in the town, Lin Dutian walked slowly in front, the little boy followed briskly, and when he passed a bun shop, Lin Dutian walked in, and the little boy followed suit, and the two found a table by the window and sat down.
"What are you doing here?" said the shopkeeper warmly.
"A pot of tea and a plate of meat buns," Lin Dutian said indifferently.
"Okay! Wait, the hot meat bun will arrive soon, and the meat bun in our store will satisfy you."
The shopkeeper turned around and went to Zhang Luo, and in a moment, the hot tea and buns were delivered to the table of the two, and the little boy stared at the fragrant meat bun like a ghost, but Lin Dutian didn't speak, and the little boy didn't dare to reach out to take it.
"Eat," Lin Dutian said calmly.
As if a death row prisoner had been pardoned, the little boy quickly picked up a meat bun with both hands and stuffed it into his mouth, but when he was about to reach his mouth, he stopped again and looked at Lin Dutian, who turned his eyes out the window and stared at the flowing water.
"You can eat one too, it's very fragrant", the little boy said crisply.
"No!" was just as brief, but a hint of warmth flashed in Lin Dutian's eyes.
After the two had eaten, to be exact, the little boy had eaten enough and packed the remaining three pieces of meat on his body, and the two returned to the bustling street, at this time, the street was not less crowded because of the arrival of noon, but on the contrary, it was more lively, all kinds of shouting, all kinds of buying and selling, full of it.
The little boy looked around curiously, and suddenly, a little girl with a disheveled hair and a yellow face in the corner of the wall caught his eye, she must have not eaten for a few days, just like I used to, I was dying of hunger, the little boy bit his finger and thought.
"Can you wait for me?"
"Huh?"
The little boy didn't care about Lin Dutian's reaction, he ran to the little girl's side and handed her the only three meat buns on his body: "Little sister, are you hungry?"
The little girl looked up, looked at the little boy pitifully, and swallowed.
"Huh!", he quickly snatched the bun from the little boy's hand and stuffed it into his mouth.
One, two, three, three buns, there were no more in an instant, and the little boy looked at the little girl dumbfounded.
"You're too good at eating, aren't you?"
What he didn't expect was that in the shop before, he ate six in one go, the little girl sucked her fingers, looked at the stunned little boy, pursed her lips and smiled, and said slowly: "I just eat so much when I'm hungry, and when I'm not hungry, one is full", after saying that, the little girl also stretched out a finger and signaled.
"What, don't you eat hungry?" said the little boy.
Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he hurriedly turned his head to look for the majestic figure, and to his surprise, the majestic figure was still waiting for him in the same place, and the little boy was afraid that the man who did not eat the fireworks in the world would leave unexpectedly because he was dissatisfied with his performance.
"Looks like I misunderstood him, damn it, how could I mistake him like a god!" the little boy said in his heart.
"Would you like to come with me?" said the little boy to the little girl.
"Yes!" the little girl did not hesitate to think that it might be that the three meat buns had already bought her.
Seeing that the little girl agreed, the little boy got up and ran to Lin Dutian, "Can we take her with us?" and pointed to the girl in the corner.
"Why?" the same clouds are light and breeze, without the slightest emotion.
"She's also a little beggar, a little girl, and she'll starve to death if she doesn't go with us."
"Why do you want to take her?"
The little boy was stunned, and couldn't give a reason, but said in a low voice and aggrieved: "I just want to take her."
After hearing this, Lin Dutian asked himself, "Is it just thinking? Maybe? Why is it so similar? Is it telling me that he still can't escape the reincarnation of fate?"
Lin Dutian still remembers that more than a hundred years ago, a little boy of the same size stood in front of him and said the same thing to him, the same request to bring a strange beggar girl to the Fuyu Pavilion, the same question "Why do you want to take her", the same answer "I just want to take her".
How similar is the scene today and a hundred years ago, not at all, is this really the reincarnation of fate?