Wuji and Yingyi also returned to the old man.

The old man opened his eyes, glanced at them, and said nothing, just a smile of insight and understanding.

"I'm going to go on a boat. Ying Yiran said in a low voice, turned around and hurried away.

Wuji touched his head and was about to follow, when the old man beckoned him and motioned for him to sit down. Mowgli was puzzled, but he sat down anyway.

The old man raised his hand and pointed to the depths of the Heavenly Pool, where it was pitch black and nothing could be seen. Wuji didn't know what he wanted to say, and he didn't ask much, just listened quietly.

He had a feeling that the old man had something to say to him.

"There are four days left, on the fifteenth day of August, when the purple moon rises and the lake swells, and it will become an ocean. The old man looked around, his voice carrying an indescribable emptiness, and even some smell of death. He took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Wuji.

"With your realm, it's still too late to go now. ”

Wuji took the paper, glanced at it, and put it down gently.

It was a map, and on the way here, he had seen it many times. The old man was right, with his realm, if he left alone and went all out, he could return to Tiangen Mountain before August 15. If it drags on any longer, it's hard to say.

"Why do you want me to go?"

"Because I want you to take her away. The old man looked at Ying, who was spitting fire stones in the distance. "This is my mission, not yours. ”

Mowgli is puzzled. Saying that this matter has nothing to do with him, he can understand why it has nothing to do with Ying Yiran, hasn't she always wanted to become a great power teacher and protect the empire? He didn't want Ying Yiran to die here, but felt that the old man's words were a little incomprehensible.

"She can't be a great teacher. The old man seemed to hear Wuji's heart, and said unhurriedly: "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs, and saints are unkind, and people are used as dogs." If you want to become a great teacher, you must be ruthless, and she can't do it. ”

"Why do great teachers have to be ruthless?"

"Because heaven and earth are merciless. The old man glanced at him and said unhurriedly: "Seven emotions and six desires are all man-made miscellaneous thoughts. With distracting thoughts, precious energy is wasted, it affects correct judgment, and it is detrimental to the acquisition of true wisdom. ”

Wuji was about to retort when the old man raised his hand and interrupted him.

"The meridian system of the Red Flame Beast is not much different from that of the Flying Heaven to ward off evil spirits, and it is much simpler than that of a human. It only took me a day to unlock it, and it should be faster for you who opened the gate of heaven. However, you have used it for thirty-five days, and if it wasn't for yesterday, you don't know when you will have to wait. ”

Wuji was shocked: "You only used it for one day, so why didn't you give her an injection?"

"Because I don't want her to be an enlightened beast at all. The old man sighed: "Otherwise, I could have allowed her to advance two years ago." ”

Wuji was dumbfounded, and he didn't know what to say for a while. It turned out that the old man had this ability for a long time, but he had always refused to do it. And the reason why he refuses to do it is because he doesn't want Ying Yiran to become an enlightened beast and dedicate himself to protecting the empire.

This is too weird, isn't it? He is a great teacher, but he doesn't want Ying to become a great teacher.

"As a descendant of the Ying family, it is the responsibility of the blood to protect the empire. However, there are many ways to protect the empire, and becoming a great power teacher is the most cruel one. I don't want her to go down this path. If I had to choose, I would rather choose you to take on the responsibility. ”

Wuji pursed his lips, and a foul word came to his lips and swallowed it back. Although he didn't like the old man's selfishness, he could understand the old man's feelings. He smiled and said sarcastically: "It turns out that Mr. has been inviting me to enter the Heavenly Academy because he wants me to be a substitute for the dead." ”

"That's right. The old man didn't seem to be able to hear the sarcasm in Wuji's tone, staring at Wuji's eyes, his eyes were clear. "Because, I think you are more likely than her to become a real great master. ”

"Sir, you think too highly of me, don't you?" Wuji squinted at the old man and teased: "Maybe I'm just a liar, I learned some knowledge about the Book of Heaven from others, and I was swaggering." ”

"You can lie to people, but you can't fool yourself, and you certainly can't fool me. The old man laughed, curled his fingers, and pointed to his head. "You went to the land of past lives and experienced the real cycle of life and death, right?"

Wuji was shocked, and a cold sweat welled up behind his back. Only then did he realize that the old man in front of him, who looked weak, was good at psychics, and in front of him, his brain was equal to an unguarded warehouse.

The old man waved his hand, signaling Wuji not to get excited. "Don't be nervous. If it weren't for the fight with the sand gull, I wouldn't have known the secret. The first rule of learning spiritism is not to trespass into the sea of knowledge of others without permission, otherwise you will be damned. ”

Wuji breathed a sigh of relief, and his back was still cold.

"Cultivators who go against the heavens and cultivate the so-called Dao body and holy body are just to enter the place of rebirth and return to the moment between life and death. I came to Zifu Mountain to enter that moment with the power of heaven and earth, so as to understand the way of heaven. You've already been there, and you don't have to take any more chances. As for her......"

The old man looked at Ying Yiyi in the distance again, and was silent for a moment: "Even if she experiences that moment, it won't help, so why should she die." ”

Mowgli is puzzled. He did experience rebirth, but he still didn't know anything about the moment between life and death that the old man said, that consciousness was just darkness, and he even felt that there was no consciousness at all, not even anything.

"What is there in the place of death, between life and death?"

The old man shook his head. "What is there, you don't know, and I don't know. However, to you, it is like the cave we passed through when we came, you can't see it, but you know it's there, and you can find it if you walk through it. To me, it's like the mountain in the heavenly pool, maybe there is, maybe it doesn't. ”

"In that case, why should you take any chance?" sighed the old man, "go, take her with you." ”

The old man suddenly stopped and sighed faintly.

Wuji also stopped, turned sideways slightly, and looked at Ying Yi, who was walking from a distance step by step.

Ying Yiran stared at the old man with a resolute face. "He can go, but I will not go. ”

"Why bother?"

"You can have your persistence, why can't I have my persistence? Is it only you who are surnamed Ying's bloodline, and I am not?"

The old man sighed, said no more, turned around, took heavy steps, and slowly left.

"It's too late for you to leave now. Ying Yiran turned to look at Wuji: "Mr. is right, you don't need to take this risk." ”

Wuji glanced at her and chased after the old man. "Sir, wouldn't it be of any help to me to stay here?"

The old man was silent and looked at Wuji quietly. Wuji understood, and smiled slightly: "I won't leave either." Chaowen said, I can die at night, I am willing to gamble on the glory of the moment with decades of ordinary. ”

He raised his hand and interrupted the old man and the Ying who had caught up.

"You have your insistence, and I also have mine, let's not persuade anyone, let's think about how to rush to Zifu Mountain as much as possible. ”

......

They didn't discuss the issue again for the next two days. Wuji and Ying Yiran cooperated to build that divine bone into a bone boat and pushed it into the water. The three of them boarded the boat together and headed towards the center of Tianchi.

Wuji and Ying also rowed, the old man was in charge of the direction, and the bright lights above their heads were like stars in the night sky, becoming their compass.

After paddling in the cold heavenly pond for a day, the shore was no longer visible, and it was pitch black all around, with no light or sound, only a little glimmer of light overhead, hanging in the empty and lonely dome.

The cold on the lake was so cold that even Mowgli felt a little unbearable, and the old man wrapped all his clothes around him, still shivering from the cold. Wuji was very skeptical that they would be able to reach Zifu Mountain. As the old man said, the existence of Zifu Mountain may be a legend.

Ying also released the fire, and the three of them huddled together, warming each other and resisting the bone-chilling cold.

Fortunately, although Tianchi is cold, the vitality is more intense, and Ying will not exhaust the vitality, but benefit a lot. At her strong request, Wuji administered another needle to her, successfully raising her realm to the third order.

It's just that in this way, Ying Yiyi doesn't dare to transform again. When she was promoted to the second order, she was already more than a zhang long, and the third order was likely to reach one zhang and five feet or even two zhang long, and her huge body would directly squeeze Wuji and the old man off the boat.

The benefits are also obvious. After being promoted to the third order, she gained vitality faster and was able to provide more heat, and she was finally able to barely resist the severe cold of Tianchi.

"It seems to be providential. Under the flickering firelight, the old man's pale face recovered a little. Looking at Wuji and Yingyi, he smiled a little happily: "If it were missing any of you, I'm afraid I'd freeze to death now." ”

"Maybe that's providence. Mowgli smiled. "God let me meet you just to give us a chance to become one of those thousand. ”

Ying Yiran glanced at Wuji, smiled, and said nothing.

"I hope so. The old man sighed with emotion: "However, don't be careless, this cold air is only the first step, and the real test has not yet begun." Those cultivators who have succeeded each other are all extraordinary, and this kind of cold aura is not an insurmountable problem for them. ”

"Mr. Nayi, what difficulties may we encounter?"

The old man's deep gaze cast into the boundless darkness, and he pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "The sacred place must be guarded by divine beasts. Zifu Mountain is no exception. Mowgli, have you ever heard of the Three Corpse Gods?"

Mowgli shook his head. What are the three corpse gods?

"The Three Corpse Gods, also known as the Three Corpse Worms, are in the Three Dantians. The name of the upper dantian is Peng Ju, no one has ever seen its appearance, only knows that it can make people see unseen beautiful scenery and hear unheard fairy sounds. ”

The old man wrapped his clothes tightly, and seemed to be overwhelmed by the cold. "Of course, this comes at a price, and once you are moved and attracted by the illusions it displays, your soul will be sucked out by it and you will become the walking dead. ”

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