098 Above the Mage! (Ask for subscription)
Thirty-two years of Shenglong.
February 15th.
Changping County, Dayue Street, Jinfu Building.
A square table on the third floor is covered with delicious food and wine.
There were four people seated at the table, male and female, old and young.
The difference is that the four of them are all cautious, revealing an extraordinary atmosphere.
"Come, have a drink, it's all a dream, but the taste of this reproduction is still quite good."
The white-faced middle-aged man picked up his delicate wine glass and drank it all.
Hearing Su Mo's persuasion, the other three also drank a glass each.
Lu Zongping, who is also a middle-aged man, put down the wine glass in his hand and said with emotion:
"I've also eaten a lot of food and wine in this fantasy world, and the taste and touch are all extremely realistic.
If an outsider accidentally strays into this place, it is not necessary to really regard this place as a paradise.
Can a would-be mage's illusion really be so realistic?"
"That's not good."
Nangong Lantern Xiao, who had two sky-piercing mustaches on his head, replied:
"We all know that there is a huge gap between practitioners and ordinary people.
Even if it is only the first step that has just stepped into the threshold, all aspects of physical fitness are comparable to the limits of ordinary people.
Compared to ordinary people, the cultivators of the Sorcerer Realm can be regarded as a completely different species.
And the gap between the mage realm and the sorcerer realm is even more exaggerated than the gap between the mage realm and ordinary people.
Legend has it that after the mage realm is cultivated to the limit, his physical body will be eternal, immortal and indestructible, and it will be difficult to invade the external calamity.
Therefore, the mage realm is also known as the land god immortal realm, which directly refers to the realm of immortality."
Zhang Xuanyang, who looked like a middle-aged aunt, couldn't help but be very confused when he heard this:
"Is there something wrong with this sorcerer's cultivation realm?
The first one has just started, and the second one will be immortalized directly?
No matter how big the span of strength is, it's not like this."
"A large span is one thing, otherwise it wouldn't be divided into three small realms.
But on the other hand, it's not as big as you think."
Nangong Lantern Xiao took a sip of wine, and continued to rely on his knowledge:
"In fact, the immortality of the mage realm can only be said to be a pseudo-immortal.
The immortality of the flesh is only the perfection of the flesh.
But the soul can't withstand the wear and tear of a long time, and it will eventually dissipate with the wind.
No matter how good the Renewal Spirit Treasure Pill is, it can only last for two hundred years at most.
Two hundred years later, when the soul dissipates, the body is just an empty shell of decay.
And the last mage in history, Zhang Qinghu, was already a thousand years ago.
Therefore, there are no remnants of ancient mages in this world, and you can understand it."
"In this way, will the strong above the mage be able to survive the thousand-year-long tribulation?"
Lu Zongping asked with interest.
Nangong Lantern Xiao's expression froze slightly, and she replied with a wry smile:
"I don't know if you ask me about these things."
"The thousand-year-long age of the Absolute Spirit has caused many records related to spiritual practice to be lost and the lineage to be severed.
Even the actions of the powerhouses of the mage realm are regarded as delusions and legends of the ancients.
As for the records above the mage, it is even less pitiful.
Even if there were, it would be no different from a myth, and it would be almost impossible to find evidence."
When Su Mo heard this, his heart couldn't help but move slightly.
He had actually thought about this question all along.
Although he now looks quite invincible.
But he knew very well that his strength should not exceed the mage realm.
In the current world, because of the revival of the aura, it is temporarily impossible to give birth to a strong person in this realm.
It can be used as the ancient cultivation world of the great world, at the end
During the French period, there were such amazing and brilliant characters as Zhang Qinghu.
In that incomparably long history, how many Tianjiao should emerge?
There must have been a strong man in this world who far surpassed the mage realm!
Even if they have completely disappeared now, they will eventually leave traces.
Su Mo suddenly had a desire to explore, and he wanted to get rid of the foggy history more and more.
"It's far away, it's far away."
Lu Zongping came back to his senses and said with a smile:
"We were talking about this illusion just now, Zhang Rulong is only a quasi-mage and not a mage after all, with the strength of the other party, can he really create such a realistic illusion?"
"That's not good."
Nangong Lantern Xiao glanced at Zhang Xuanyang, and continued:
"Saying that Zhang Rulong is a quasi-mage, after all, it is just the information that Zhang Daochang heard, not seeing it with his own eyes, maybe the other party is a mage.
And don't forget, this is a behemoth formation formed by borrowing the power of heaven and earth, if there is a corresponding spiritual object used as the base of the formation, then it is common sense to exert any strange effect."
Zhang Xuanyang's expression moved slightly:
"In other words, the place where the ancestor is buried is likely to be related to the foundation of this formation?"
"yes, otherwise do you think I'm going to dig a tunnel over there while I'm idle?"
Nangong Lantern Xiao shrugged his shoulders.
Zhang Xuanyang rolled up his sleeves and stepped on the stool:
"If you want to fight, just say it, I'm not afraid of you here."
Nangong Lantern Xiao compared the strength of the two, and said solemnly:
"The Nangong family never bullies the elderly, weak, women and children, this is our family motto."
Zhang Xuanyang has yet to talk about it.
Lu Zongping said solemnly:
"Zhang Rulong is here!"
The crowd turned their heads to look downstairs.
I saw a gray-robed Taoist with a solemn bearing and a short beard walking slowly forward in the crowd.
Now it is the thirty-second year of Shenglong, and the originally naïve Zhang Rulong has also become a great master of the 6th order.
Over the years, he has traveled north and south, subduing demons everywhere, and has made a lot of fame in several nearby counties.
This time, they are eating and drinking here, just to find an opportunity to get to know each other and accompany the road.
Originally, this might have been a little difficult, after all, Zhang Rulong was doing the work of subduing demons and subduing demons, and ordinary people couldn't approach it at all, and it was just a matter of sending him to death.
However, probably in order to reduce the difficulty for them, after everyone on this trip crossed over, they all became cultivators, and the weakest had a 3rd order, and the strongest even reached a 5th order.
If this kind of strength is only to walk with Zhang Rulong, it should be a good problem.
However, what worries Nangong Lantern Xiao and others even more is that.
Now that he is only 32 years old, Zhang Rulong has already become a 6th order.
Later on, he will only be stronger, the enemies he faces will be stronger, and the difficulties he will encounter will be more intractable.
So his regrets, is it really something they can solve?
As soon as they thought of this, a shadow cast on the hearts of several people.
Even if Su Mo was in charge, he never completely brushed it off.
Seeing that Zhang Rulong had approached, everyone no longer hesitated, followed the established routine, stepped forward to talk, and used some of the information investigated before to successfully team up with him.
In the next few days, they assisted Zhang Rulong to successfully kill several strange monsters, solve several incidents, and establish a good relationship.
During this period, they have been observing what Zhang Rulong's regrets are, and asking about them between verbal exchanges, but there are no clues, and it seems that he is very satisfied with his current life.
This also means that the so-called regret has not yet been discovered, and even Zhang Rulong himself does not know.
In this way, nearly a month passed, and they followed Zhang Rulong to wander around, slay demons, and save Li Min, during which they also saw what is called the real troubled times.
It's not quite right to say that the times are in trouble, because the current society is nominally under the rule of the Daqi Dynasty.
The Daqi Dynasty recorded in history was turbulent, war-torn and plagued, and it only lasted for 150 years before it completely fell apart, and the warlords rose up and chased the Central Plains.
Originally, in the analysis of historians, this had a lot to do with the corruption of the officials at that time, the corruption of the imperial court, natural and man-made disasters, and so on.
But after actually experiencing this dynasty, I found out that the culprit was the demons and monsters that appeared frequently in various places.
Including many bizarre counties in history, most of them were destroyed by big demons and evil tricks.
Su Mo had seen with his own eyes the bloody remnants of the Great Demon after slaughtering the city.
I have also seen tens of thousands of market towns turn into strange domains in the world.
I also saw that the demon exterminators of Daqi teamed up to quell the disaster and were slaughtered.
Even though he was here to put some effort into stopping these tragedies.
But the real history of the outside world does not change because of this.
Only by experiencing it for yourself can we know how close the mighty human race in the future is to destruction.
Therefore, those demon slayer masters and folk monks who are running around desperately to maintain the safety of the world are even more worthy of respect.
So at this time, where did all those strong men above the mages go?
Su Mo thought about this question more than once, and also asked Zhang Rulong, but there was no answer after all.
A low-level cultivator like him has never even been touched by a mage, so how can he talk about being above a mage?
However, in the company of Zhang Rulong, Su Mo also found out.
Compared with the ignorant orphans who crawled at the bottom many years ago, Zhang Rulong today is not only more mature, but also harder-hearted.
In the past month, they have been running around and solving many treacherous disasters.
However, there were several times when they failed to arrive in time.
But even these few times, it still failed to trigger Zhang Rulong's regret.
It's not that he doesn't have regrets, but that they haven't reached the point where they can form illusions for him to specialize in.
Compared with the one person who once formed an illusion in order to save Lu Qi.
Now he is no different.
Thirty-six-year-old Zhang Rulong is no longer six-year-old Zhang Rulong after all.
However, Su Mo can also understand this.
He had only seen the corpses crawling with flies dozens of times on the road, and he was already feeling a little numb.
Not to mention Zhang Rulong, who has been dealing with disasters all year round.
Maybe at first you will feel angry, remorseful, regretful.
But by now, I'm afraid I'm used to it.
Accustomed to not being able to save in time.
Accustomed to not being able to kill the big demon.
Accustomed to corpses littering the city.
So what exactly is his regret?
With this puzzle, in another small town, they met a familiar figure.
"Dao...... Dao Chief?!"
Looking at the green-robed figure not far away that he had seen once many years ago, Zhang Rulong's voice trembled uncontrollably.
Zhang Qinghu is still the same as when he first saw him, wearing a cyan robe, with a short bun on his head, and a calm appearance of a middle-aged man, but there is a little more wind and frost in his eyes.
Looking at Zhang Rulong, he smiled slightly:
"Fellow Daoist, we're meeting again."
The encounter between the two allowed Su Mo and the others to see the dawn of breaking the realm.
If nothing else, Zhang Rulong's regret must be related to this prodigal Taoist priest again.
Compared with more than ten years ago, the difference is that Zhang Qinghu now is a real mage realm powerhouse.
This is also the first mage Su Mo has seen since entering the illusion realm!
He couldn't tell if this was the only mage left in the world.
But there is no doubt that this is not a mediocre hand, even among mages.
Su Mo's heart immediately swelled with a sense of excitement
The will to try.
In the outside world, he simply couldn't find an opponent.
I can't even find a person of the same rank.
But here, he met a mage he had never seen before.
Seeing that Hunter was overjoyed, he inevitably wanted to make a few moves with the other party and see the weight of the mage realm.
However, seeing that the two of them had just met and had a lot to say, Su Mo had to hold back this mood for the time being.
After some pleasantries.
Zhang Qinghu said with a smile:
"Over the years, I've traveled around the world, and I've heard about your reputation a lot.
I thought that Zhang Rulong was a master of Taoism, but I never thought that it was the one I saw that day.
Over the years, you've grown a lot, and I didn't give that Qi Cultivation Method to the wrong person."
Looking at Zhang Qinghu with admiration on his face, Zhang Rulong's old face turned red, and he was a little embarrassed:
"Since I changed my name, I have always been worried that I will insult the teachings of the Dao Chief, for so many years, I have been vigilant, trying to practice the principle of slaying demons and destroying demons to save the Li people, and I dare not slack off in the slightest, and now I hear the approval of the Dao Chief, everything I have done in the past is worth it."
Zhang Qinghu smiled slightly:
"These are the praises you deserve, and they have nothing to do with me, even if there is another person who has heard of your merits, he will not be stingy with praise."
Zhang Rulong looked excited.
After a while, he put his hands together, shook them to the end, and prayed:
"All the things that Rulong has learned in this body have been gifted by the Taoist, although the Taoist is not my teacher, but he is better than my teacher!
Here, Rulong once again begs the Taoist to take me as a disciple!"
When Su Mo and the others heard this, they couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
It is well known that practitioners tend to worship freedom and hate bondage.
A strong person like Zhang Rulong already has the most critical Qi cultivation method, and as long as he relies on his own cultivation and continues to accumulate resources, he can always climb to a higher realm.
But he just worshipped.
This kind of apprenticeship is more out of a kind of gratitude, a kind of reputation.
Maybe outsiders don't pay much attention to this, but Zhang Rulong obviously doesn't think so.
Zhang Qinghu was obviously a little surprised when he heard Zhang Rulong's apprenticeship pleading.
He didn't agree at the first time, nor did he refuse at the first time, but replied leisurely:
"I once told you that a person is used to wandering, and he doesn't like to look for apprentices, who are just a burden.
This statement is completely sufficient for you, who were once ordinary people.
It's a pity that your cultivation speed is even faster than I imagined.
In this world of the end of the Dharma where the aura was gradually declining, it only took sixteen years to reach the sixth order.
If you are in the prosperous age of cultivation, with your qualifications and mind, it is very easy to become a Dharma Master.
Even if he is not a mage now, the sixth order can be regarded as a valuable combat power.
If you use the same excuse as before, I'm afraid you won't be convinced."
Speaking of this, Zhang Qinghu couldn't help but sigh, and continued:
"Okay, then let me tell you a more real reason, I'm on the run."
"Now is not a good time to take in apprentices."
When Su Mo heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.