Northern Desert.

In a small mortal village.

At this time, it is the season of the spring equinox, everything is recovering, the breeze is green, and the drizzle is as expensive as oil.

This is also the busiest time for farming.

"Brother Manniu, our task today is to water that piece of field, and we have to let the dealer grow as soon as possible, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with the season." A big farmer with a beard on his face was digging dung and talking to another young man who was carrying water in the river.

The young man who was called the bull grinned:

"Okay!"

The young man was dressed in a coarse linen coat. He easily picked up two huge buckets and hurried briskly into the dealer's field.

The big man of the farmer's family followed behind with a load of farm manure, which was far less heavy than the two buckets, but he found that his speed was a little unable to keep up with the young man in front, and he couldn't help but laugh and scold:

"Hey, what a bull."

"Alas, Brother Manniu, why do you have so much strength, tell the elder brother that the elder brother also wants to carry the tripod with one arm." The bearded man struggled to catch up.

The young man smiled:

"I don't know, I've eaten a lot since I was a child, and I have a lot of strength, so that's all I have talent."

The bearded farmer smiled:

"Brother, you are handsome and strong, not to mention anything else, according to my brother, those good-looking girls in our village have taken a fancy to you."

"Yesterday, Aunt Zhang came to our house again and asked if you were interested in the daughter of Wang Mazi, the head of the village. Her daughter followed her mother, there was no pockmark on her face, and she looked very smart, saying that she was happy with you. Why can't you look down on it? How many boys are thinking about that girl."

The young man carried two half-human-high buckets, his face was not red, he was not panting, he just smiled:

"I'm still young, I don't want to start a family."

"Hey, hey." The bearded man grinned:

"If you want me to say, it's not good. You have lived in my house all these years, and you don't have to go anywhere, anyway, you can't be hungry, and you will have enough food, and after two years, my sister will come back and introduce you to my sister."

"Don't laugh, my sister doesn't look like me, she is smart."

「……」

The two of them carried water and farm manure and went to the vegetable field.

In the vegetable field, an old man and an old woman are working, and the two are the parents of the bearded man.

"Coming? Why do you pick so many bulls? Slow down, slow down, don't hurt your back. In the future, you will know if you are less picky, don't look at it now, when you are young, you don't feel it, and when you are old, you will be in bad health. Like your uncle, he was powerful when he was young, hey, now his waist can't work." The old woman beckoned the bull to put the bucket down.

"Why do you say me again?" The old man's face turned red.

"Out of the way." The brute grinned, glanced at the fields that had been planted with crops, and some fields waiting to be turned over, and said:

"Aunt Wang, which piece of land do you want me to water first?"

"Sit down first, don't rush." The old woman pulled the young man to sit down on the ridge:

"This farmer has to pay attention to the combination of work and rest. I brought a load of water, and I didn't need to rush to water it when I got to this field, but I took a break to catch my breath and then watered it, and then I rested after watering and then went to pick up a second load of water."

"Some young people are so anxious that they don't like to listen to what the old people say. I always want to do everything in one go. The result? Not to mention, I feel more and more that these farm work are boring and boring."

"Over time, I don't want to do it."

"But how can this farm work be done? It's fun to stop and sit down once in a while. Look at it now, it's not a good thing for you to sit here with my wife and son."

"I still know the truth." The bearded man teased.

"Stinky boy, what do I know? I also know to make fun of your mother." The old woman reprimanded.

The old woman patted Manniu's shoulder and motioned for Manniu to continue to rest for a while, and she went

Weeds were removed from the crops.

The young man didn't know it.

It was as if entering a state of epiphany.

This person is Chen Ping.

Sixteen years ago, he walked out of the Lingxiao Sect and traveled all over the land of Xizhou, just seeking a trace of great understanding.

But I kept asking for it.

Over the years, he had cultivated almost all the spells on his body to the level of Great Perfection.

During this period, he also traveled all over the major immortal cultivation cities, except for the liquid of the five elements, most of the other resources he wanted had already been auctioned.

But now listening to the old woman's hard work, it goes straight to the heart.

Oh, yes.

Hasn't he been on the road all these years?

I was wandering in the clouds, but my mind was always seeking some kind of purpose, and I never stopped to rest.

Seek the great consummation of spells, the liquid of the five elements, the jade bed and other magic weapons, the great understanding, and the comprehension of the teachings that Jin Dan has preached...

Until two years ago, I came to this small mortal village, incarnated as a wild cow, and lived in this simple farmer.

It's really 'slow, down.'

No desires, no desires.

It can be regarded as the real beginning of the state of mind's wandering,.

In fact, not only in the sixteen years of wandering, but since he came to this world, why hasn't he been 'on the road,'?

Because I am afraid of this dangerous world, until there are too many unknowns outside, I dare not have the slightest pause.

Force yourself to run forward without stopping.

'Slow down, don't rush. ，

'Take your time, come steadily. ，

He didn't know what other people's ways were, but this might be the 'way' he had been looking for since his travels.

This moment.

Chen Ping felt as if there were earth-shattering waves in his body, and countless spiritual qi were tumbling in his body.

The rapid flow hit the dantian.

On the contrary, his state of mind was extremely peaceful.

In his eyes, these tumbling waves are the ebb and flow of nature.

It's a beautiful view to enjoy.

He felt as if he was lying on an empty grassland, with no one but a vast expanse of grass, rolling up layers of grass in the breeze.

And he just pillowed his hands behind his head, lying on the grass, admiring the clouds and enjoying the feeling of the spring breeze.

That feeling, it's very comfortable.

Straight to the comfort of the heart.

At this moment, Chen Ping, who was on the edge of Tiankan, entered the realm of selflessness.

A Dao image based on him gradually emerged and slowly rose into the air.

The path of meditation is getting bigger and bigger, enveloping the entire fields, villages, and skies.

The bearded man turned his head and was shocked when he saw this scene:

"Brother Bull!"

The two old men also saw this scene, and they were short of breath, and the old woman was the first to react:

"It's an immortal."

The wild cow who has lived in his own house for more than two years, and eats and lives with him, is actually an immortal.

Not only them, but all the farmers working in the fields from afar saw this scene.

The same goes for the villagers in the village.

Everyone admired the glorious immortal in the sky.

This is the first time that countless people have seen a true immortal in their lives.

"That's an immortal appearance, don't look at it directly, be careful of hurting your mind." I don't know who shouted, and all the villagers knelt down one after another, prostrate on the ground, not daring to look directly at this undesecrated immortal appearance.

In the sky, Chen Ping completely emptied himself.

Let this great feeling be free and complete.

All the experiences over the years kept coming to his eyes like a movie.

The experience of self-realization, the experience of listening, the experience gained in actual combat... All the spiritual perceptions seem to have become substantial substances, stripped from these images.

Drifting into Chen Ping's consciousness like wisps of floating sand

In the middle of the sea.

In Chen Ping's sea of knowledge, the sand gathers into a mound, and constantly gathers and grows.

Over the years, the truths that cannot be figured out have gradually become transparent, and the truths that have been figured out but not systematically have gradually formed a complete system.

The Dao in the sky is also growing.

......

Hundreds of miles away.

An old man carried a little girl on his back through a forest and headed to the Demon Sect to the north.

"Grandpa, what are we doing in the Northern Desert?" The little girl with two pigtails looked up and asked.

The old man smiled kindly:

"This continent is sick, Grandpa, come and find out the cause."

"Grandpa is a doctor?" The little girl pursed her lips.

"Doctor? Haha, in a sense, grandpa is indeed a doctor."

The grandfather and grandson chatted and hurried slowly, when they suddenly saw a vision floating in the air from the south out of nowhere, and couldn't help but stop and watch.

"Grandpa, is that what you call Taoism? Is someone feeling it?" The little girl was well-informed, and immediately recognized that this was the Taoist appearance of the immortals.

The old man nodded:

"Well, that's the Dao Xiang."

"The Tao of Great Perception."

"But there is form but not gathering, color but not purity, strength but not stability. This person's spirit is not strong, and it is difficult to become a climate."

"Oh!" The little girl scratched her head.

But in the next breath, the Dao Xiang floating in the air suddenly grew larger, the color was more warm, and the Dao rhyme was more abundant.

The old man paused for a moment, and after observing again, he said:

"'Color, come up, and the lines are gradually gathering. It's a pity, it's a pity, the rhyme of the next plate is unstable, at most it can only be regarded as a middle-class person, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to become a great talent in the future."

"Oh!" The little girl scratched her head again.

But at this moment, the Dao Xiang grew up again, and the Dao rhyme gathered but did not disperse, which was extremely majestic.

The old man froze, glanced back at the granddaughter he was carrying, cleared his throat and said:

"Ahem, I'm underestimating this person. However, from the perspective of Taoism, there is a tangible but lack of meaning, which shows that the strength and mood of the Yuan Shen are not solid enough, and some are in a hurry. Well, it's hard to become a real talent."

"Your grandfather has always looked at people very—"

Before the words fell, the Tao was abundant again, and the combination of form and meaning was overwhelming.

"Ahem, this..."

Seeing what grandpa wanted to say, the little girl covered her grandfather's mouth with one hand:

"Grandpa, don't say it again, if you keep talking about it, this person will become the number one in the world..."

"Ahem, ahem!" The old man's face turned red.

Coughing awkwardly, he looked again at the Dao that was gradually abundant and gradually becoming perfect, and looked at it for a long time before carrying his granddaughter and heading north.

......

In the fields.

Chen Ping sensed the incomparable accessibility of his state of mind, and knew that he had completed the 'great realization' that he had been chasing for sixteen years.

His mind moved, and the Dao Xiang in the sky suddenly disappeared.

'Whoosh, the ground, straight into the sky.

Now that the Great Perception has been successfully completed, there is no need to stay in this simple village anymore.

Gotta go back.

Go to Yudan.

After Chen Ping disappeared abruptly, the bearded man and the family of three raised their heads slightly and looked at the empty sky.

"Mother, father, I heard Brother Manniu send a message to me, and Brother Manniu said thank you to me." The bearded man turned his head to look at his father.

"I heard that, too." The old woman nodded.

The same is true of the old man.

That solemn voice was a thank you for their family-like care over the past two years.

It's also a thank you to them for letting me realize.

The bearded man threw down his shovel, and despite the fact that his legs were covered with yellow mud, he pulled out his legs and ran home.

The two old men hurriedly followed.

Back to the humble room

In the hut, the bearded man rummaged under the bed for a while, and the situation below suddenly startled him.

It was a pile of golden gold and silver.

There were at least a few thousand taels of gold.

There were also thousands of taels of silver.

It's a quantity they can't earn in their lifetime.

The two old men who came running behind were also stunned.

"The bull has become an immortal, this is a good thing..."

"I'm still a loving and righteous immortal. But how can our grain for the past two years be worth so much gold?"

......

Chen Ping flew all the way south until evening, when he stopped in a desert grotto.

I didn't rush back, but stopped to digest the mood gains brought by the great perception first.

It wasn't until three days later that the gains were completely digested.

'Alchemy, Alchemy, and Realm have all been cultivated, and now they have completed their great understanding. ，

I'm just waiting for the knot. ，

It's just that the liquid of the five elements only gets fire liquid and earth liquid at present, and there is still a shortage of three liquids: gold, wood, and water. ，

"Forget it, I won't look anywhere, just go back to Tianyan City and wait to see if I will be lucky enough to appear at the auction." It's best if it appears, forget it if not. ，

Wait for half a year, and if you can't get it within half a year, you will get it directly. ，

This liquid of the five elements is not easy to find, every time he passes by the Scattered Cultivation City over the years, he has inquired, and he has also participated in several auctions, but he has only seen this kind of spiritual liquid released in two auctions.

It's hard to force it.

If it really doesn't work, you can only wait for the Dan to be knotted and then use some other methods to make up for it.

Chen Ping thought of this, put away the formation and the third-order mid-grade futon, walked out of the grotto, and continued to drive the splitting wind shuttle to the south.

In recent years, although he has been traveling in the Northern Desert, he has not penetrated into the hinterland of the Northern Desert in the consideration of safety factors, but has been wandering on the edge of the Northern Desert near the south.

Just cross a few forests and deserts to enter the border of the Western Wilderness.

A month and a half later, Chen Ping appeared in Tianyan City.

I booked a room in an inn and meditated for a day and a night to repair my fatigue.

After that, I slept again, and when I woke up, I called the innkeeper to soak in a medicated bath.

Sixteen years of wind and dust are washed away.

"It's so cool!"

Chen Ping put on a brand new costume and felt that he was back in a familiar life.

It's still reassuring to stay in a familiar environment.

'It's been sixteen years, and I don't know if Yun Haitang is okay? ，

'Xiyue Fairy has also been out of food for more than a year, I don't know if that girl has interrupted Yu Lingchun's treatment. ，

I'll go see Yu Lingchun later. Then stay in Tianyan City for another half a year, at most half a year, and then return to Xiaozhufeng. ，

Since he had already decided, Chen Ping immediately set off and went to Tianyan Sect.

I saw the disciple who was guarding the mountain gate again.

Only this time, the disciple of the Mountain Gate became more enthusiastic, and introduced Chen Ping into the VIP room of the post station to rest, and poured tea.

He also instructed his disciples to go and report the news.

Other than that, the others are the same as what I saw on the trip more than ten years ago.

More than ten years, in the long immortal journey, it is just a flick of a finger.

Chen Ping waited at the mountain gate for a while, and soon Yu Lingchun came with the sword.

I haven't seen her for many years, and Yu Lingchun doesn't seem to have changed much in appearance.

Wearing her favorite white emerald flower robe, she outlined her youthful figure. The goose egg face is pink and translucent, her big eyes are clear and pure, and the two shallow silkworms under her eye sockets make her look pitiful.

Decades later, she is still a young girl.

A young girl full of youth.

"Husband."

Seeing Chen Ping waiting in the post station, she disregarded her image and threw herself into Chen Ping's arms as soon as she saw her.

hugged Chen Ping tightly.

I haven't seen it in decades.

"Husband, Lingchun thinks so much about you."

… This girl doesn't look at the occasion.

… And there are others.

Chen Ping smiled awkwardly until the passer-by left with a smile, and only the two of them were left in the post station.

Chen Pingcai rubbed her head:

"Alright, isn't this coming?"

(End of chapter)