In the early morning, the sky lit up with a touch of fish's belly, and the first rays of sunlight shone on the walls of Sawdeer City.

The three masters and apprentices from the Xianxia Sect stood on the city wall, and the girl Xu Ling'er looked at the streets of the city with her feet crossed, frowning slightly.

The young Yansheng said, "Senior sister, it is estimated that Shen Yu has encountered some things and has delayed the past, let's go back to the sect first."

The girl stretched out her hand and shook the silver ticket Lingbei in her hand, and said seriously: "But Shen Yu's silver is still here, if he doesn't return it to him, what should I do if the rivers and lakes tell me that I have stolen other people's silver tickets?"

Yan Sheng wanted to speak and stopped, he wanted to say that this is almost impossible, senior sister, you should only go further and further on the road of cultivating immortals in your life, how could you become a heroine of the rivers and lakes inexplicably? It's just that I saw that my senior sister was really annoyed and entangled, so I still couldn't help it.

Zhou Daoren glanced at the hour and said with a smile: "Meeting is fate, separation is also fate, since the will of heaven is like this, there is no need to force it, in the future, find a chance to return those silver tickets."

The old Taoist spoke openly, and he still had some regrets in his heart, although it was not too far from the Xianxia Sect, but after all, there was still a distance, if there was Shen Yu with him, safety would naturally be guaranteed.

It's not that this is a lot of worry, it's really that there are too many demon cultivators in the Northern Ice Palace, and such a major thing has happened in Xiaohe Town, God knows if they will suffer any unwarranted disasters if they are inexplicably involved in the future.

You must know that Zhou Daoren has been practicing for more than eighty years, and so far he is only at the level of the Divine Journey Realm, and it is estimated that it is a lifetime away from the upper three realms.

Shou Yuan is gradually extinguished, Zhou Daoren has already looked down on the world, this trip to accompany the two beloved apprentices to go to the rivers and lakes is actually his last explanation of his life, and when he returns to the mountain, it is estimated that the mountain will be closed from now on, and he will never be born again, so he naturally does not want to have anything else to do with it.

The young man was obviously smart, and he saw through the master's worries faster than the senior sister, and whispered, "Don't worry, master, this is Middle-earth, how can there be so many demons outside the world? And master, don't you still have a few magic talismans at the bottom of the box, and you really can't slip away when the time comes."

Zhou Daoren glared and scolded, "Stinky boy, the teacher is really gone!"

Yan Sheng pursed his lips and said, "Master, you say it's gone every time, but every critical moment is thrown out."

The two seemed to want to say something, when they heard Xu Ling'er's surprised voice, "Oh, he's here, he's here!"

On the street, Shen Yu walked over from a distance, looked at Lao Dao and asked, "Are you leaving?"

Zhou Daoren nodded and said with a smile, "It's time to return to the sect, I don't know when we will meet."

Shen Yu said, "I'll go with you, just along the way."

Zhou Daoren's eyes showed a hint of gratitude, he naturally knew what the other party meant, and said with a smile, "Then thank you."

The boy and the girl glanced at each other, and they also saw the joy in their eyes.

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On the official road, four people walked together.

During this period, it took a long detour.

Along the road, there is a straight mountain village path, surrounded by countless paddy field houses, zigzag and spread into the distance, and there is no end in sight.

The smoke of the cooking, the roosters and the dogs barking, are peaceful.

Shen Yu was silent from beginning to end, just looking quietly ahead.

The girl was impatient, looked around, and said, "Master, didn't you say that your hometown is near here? Not there yet?"

Zhou Daoren stopped with a smile, pointed ahead, and said, "It's already here."

Xu Ling'er and Yan Sheng turned their heads in an instant, and then their eyes widened at the same time.

I saw a thatched hut built on a low mound of earth, tattered, crooked, and abandoned for a long time, and not far away was a bluestone staircase, leading to the top of the mountain higher.

The young man and the girl looked strange at the same time, because this was really a little too shabby, not to mention whether they were worthy of the title of master and elder, it was a little difficult to live alone, right?

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The Taoist smiled and said, "Don't underestimate this house, it's been renovated a few times, but I guess I think I'll never come back, so it's abandoned here."

Xu Ling'er clasped her hands around her chest, and said with an old-fashioned face: "Master, you are really, you must have forgotten your hometown after you have achieved cultivation, and you must not have come back all these years, right?" In the end, no one can blame anyone for not even caring about your house."

Zhou Daoren smiled and patiently explained: "Cultivation and cultivation, stepping on the path of cultivation is already considered to be out of the mortal dust, naturally not too much to be involved with the mortal dust, think about it, a small village deep in the mountains, is nothing more than a water source problem, a woman problem, a livelihood problem, if I do something special, they have no fear, in a radius of a hundred miles, so what do the rest of the oppressed people think? If I die one day, and the rest of the village happens to come out with a successful immortal master, guess what he will do? Isn't it that what was originally a matter of blessing to the descendants has suddenly become a grudge again?"

Xu Ling'er rolled her eyes and said, "Master, you are a bad person, if you don't do this, others won't do it."

Lao Dao rubbed the girl's head, and said earnestly: "Ling'er, how others do it is someone else, if someone else really does it, then what your master and I do, then it will be reasonable and confident, and it will be more reasonable."

Shen Yu looked at the dilapidated thatched house, nodded and said, "The Daoist has a good opinion, the Dao Gate is quiet and inaction, and the Dao Law is natural, just with these ideas, the cultivation should be a little higher."

Zhou Daoren turned his head and said with some surprise: "Little brother also thinks that I should also go to the upper three realms to see the scenery in my life?"

"Hmm..."

Shen Yu nodded slowly, added a little more, and said, "You just have too poor qualifications."

Hearing this, the boys and girls all laughed.

Zhou Daoren's face was wonderful, and finally he sighed heavily, and said, "These words are really hurtful."

When the sun set, the sky became a silk painting, so everyone decided to stay here for the night.

Yansheng Xu Ling'er went to the stream to catch a few fish, picked some wild vegetables, and then lit a fire next to the thatched hut to cook vegetables.

Many villagers saw this scene and looked at everyone, their faces a little wary and unfamiliar.

Zhou Daoren didn't know what he had said in the past, and the vigilant look on the faces of those villagers disappeared in an instant, but there was still a little enthusiasm.

The young Yansheng personally cooked a pot of fish soup, and there were a few wild vegetables floating on the soup noodles, and within a while, a smell of fish came out.

"Master, master, I think my junior brother's cooking skills are amazing, if you can't practice in the future, you can also become a cook in the sect, and you can guarantee that you won't be hungry!" Xu Ling'er tasted the fish soup and said with a satisfied face.

Yan Sheng habitually smiled, scratching his head and smirking.

Lao Dao glanced at the two of them with a smile and said, "If you encounter anything in the future, you have to talk to your junior brother more, don't be stupid alone, you know."

Xu Ling'er pursed her lips and said, "Master, you are really verbose today."

Zhou Daoren smiled: "It is estimated that people are old, so they naturally talk a lot."

Shen Yu sat quietly on the side, looked at the thick white fish soup in the pot, picked a few chopsticks, thought it was good, and then picked a wild vegetable.

When the sun finally set behind the mountains, a twilight struck the small mountain village, and it darkened almost quickly.

After several days of traveling, the boy soon fell asleep in a thatched hut.

Zhou Daoren covered the two of them with a quilt, and then slowly walked out and stood beside Shen Yu.

Both looked up at the sky at the same time.

Shen Yu finally spoke, "How long is it?"

From the sudden change of course of Zhou Daoren to return to his hometown, it proves that Zhou Daoren has sensed his fate, otherwise cultivators will never return to their hometowns easily, which can be regarded as an unwritten rule in the cultivation world.

After practicing for a lifetime, in the end, the dust returns to the dust, and it is natural to review your life.

Lao Dao smiled indifferently and said, "Recently, I have felt something, and I don't have many days to live."

Shen Yu said, "Birth, old age, sickness and death, human beings are common, and it is a good thing that a cultivator can know the end of his life."

Zhou Daoren quietly looked at the field in the distance, his eyes were warm, his face was a little embarrassed, and he said softly: "I was born and raised here, and I remember that I was brought back to the Xianxia faction by my master in two or three years, but I didn't expect that this would be a lifetime in a blink of an eye, my father and mother died early, and the playmate I was a young man, the girl I once loved had already turned to dust..."

Lao Dao's face was a little confused, he asked himself, and muttered, "I thought about it carefully before, practice all my life, abandon everything, but in the end, I can't get anything, is this kind of life worth it?"

Shen Yu put his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and said lightly: "Under the Heavenly Dao, everything is an ant, and countless human beings are trying to break free from the Heavenly Dao with human strength, no matter what the result is, what do you think of the scenes that have happened over the past thousands of years?"

Lao Dao thought about it carefully, and then laughed, ending with four words, "Magnificent!"

Shen Yu also smiled, nodded and said, "That's enough."

Lao Dao also seemed to understand something, his tense body loosened slightly, and he muttered, "Yes, that's enough."

Zhou Daoren suddenly turned his head and asked with a smile, "Dare to ask where the little brother is taught?"

Shen Yu said calmly, "Dao Sect."

Lao Dao's face was indifferent, he nodded, revealing a natural expression, and said with emotion: "The Dao Sect in the mountains in the southwest of Central Continent is indeed a cultivator there."

Shen Yu smiled and asked, "What?"

The old Dao thought about it for the first time, and then said solemnly: "There are many branches of the Dao Sect now, except for the two families in Dongzu Prefecture, the Dao Sect is the most prosperous, and now the cultivation has passed countless years, and there are conflicts between the three sects, and only the Dao Sect will think about change."

When Zhou Daoren said this, he seemed to feel that the topic was a bit big, and then said with a smile: "I have been cultivating the Tao all my life, and I always think about the prosperity of the Daomen, but I don't know that these things are for you young people to do."

When Shen Yu heard this, his expression was calm and he didn't speak.