Volume 1, Taoist Temple in the Mountains Chapter 81 The answer is in the clouds
"It's you."
When Xu Shi saw the visitor, his white eyebrows raised slightly, and many emotions appeared in his deep eyes.
Li Hu and Qin Zhishou worshiped the Immortal Palace one after another, and he, a person who retreated to the Taoist Temple in the mountains and wilderness, still couldn't avoid contact with the old people of the year after all.
The bald man smiled, touched his head, and just looked at Xu Shi in front of him, saying nothing, just looking up and down.
He's actually quite curious.
In the same era as them, the one who once crisscrossed the Xuan Domain and suppressed countless geniuses of their same generation couldn't get up, and he was only close to entering the Xu Shi who practiced in that "One Palace", and now that nearly thirty years have passed, what will become of him.
"You're really old."
After observing for a while, Liu Changyun couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Thirty years ago, Xu Shi had that incident, the opportunity to pass through the sky was taken away, and he was framed by others, and the immortal bridge that had just been built, the immortal bridge leading to the fourth realm was shattered, and since then it has been in a slump, and after several twists and turns, thanks to the goddess, she was able to save her life and be able to retreat to the mountains and wilderness.
"Many people, including me, have never seen it with their own eyes, so there are too many people who still can't believe that Xu Shi really lost, and you will really get old and your eyebrows are white."
Unconsciously, Xu Shi and the bald man had already paced to the side of the cliff, looking at the hideous weather on Longtan Peak, the man's expression under his white eyebrows was calm, and he said lightly:
"The years are ruthless, there are a few people in this world who will not get old, and there are many talents in Daxia, and who can never be defeated."
When Liu Changyun heard this, he said with emotion:
"That being said, it's unbelievable that someone like you has lost, and you were the only one who could compete with that guy for the strongest."
"Before the war, in fact, we all thought in private that although he was so strong, your chance of winning was not small, but I really didn't expect to lose so badly, so there was no news of you."
Xu Shi listened to the other party talk about his youth, and was silent and did not speak.
Although no one in this world can remain truly invincible, never defeated, and fight back after defeat, he fell directly to the bottom, and from the moment the Changsheng Bridge was abolished, there was no possibility of catching up with that person.
"I was indeed inferior to him back then."
Xu Shi thought for a long time in silence, and then said calmly:
"I'm not looking for a reason, but I'm not going to lose so badly."
Liu Changyun looked at the slightly old middle-aged man beside him, thinking about the scenery of the latter's youth, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart again.
Back then, he was just the most inconspicuous stepping stone on the invincible road of Xu Shi's sweep.
Although the two have no substantive grievances, they are categorically not qualified to stand beside him, and now thirty years have passed, and this figure who was above the top and even let him look at his back was an extravagant hope, but he was so old, and his cultivation realm stopped at the Jiedan realm of the lower three realms.
And now, he has already entered the Five Realms, and he has passed the first three tribulations.
Looking at the Longtan Peak in front of him, Liu Changyun suddenly had a heavy heart, he used to think that he was the only one in ten thousand, but until now, even if it has become the catastrophe realm "Tongtian Overhaul" in the eyes of the Jianghu Fan Xiu, he doesn't think that he is very strong, at best, he can only be regarded as a shrimp soldier and crab with a slightly harder shell.
"The small three tribulations of the tribulation realm, I threw away half my life to almost get through, so that after so many years, I was stunned at the threshold of the big three tribulations behind."
"If I still do nothing like this in the next Jiazi, without any chance, the path of cultivation in this life should come to an end."
Liu Changyun said in a somewhat lonely voice.
He said this not to show off to Xu Shi, to belittle the people he couldn't catch up with to set off his current dignity, there was no point in doing that.
Perhaps this thought had been in his mind before he met Xu Shi.
But this time is really gone, Liu Changyun was depressed, he suddenly realized that there may not be any difference between himself and Xu Shi, whether it is a genius among geniuses, or a fool among geniuses, everyone has ups and downs, when you envy or look down on others, maybe you yourself will experience the same thing.
Just like now, he can survive the next three tribulations in this life, and the possibility of advancing to the sixth heaven human realm is very small, and it is impossible for Xu Shi to rebuild the Immortal Bridge for half his life, they all have no hope of immortality, and they will all return to dust in the end.
The fifth realm can live for thirty years longer than the third realm at most.
It doesn't make a difference.
As for the immortality of the saint, that is something that Xiangye dare not think of.
"You're still the same cowardly as ever."
As soon as these words came out, Liu Changyun was stunned for a moment.
"Once upon a time?"
"Hmm."
Xu Shi seemed to remember something happy, and the corner of his mouth smiled slightly:
"When I was in the Heishui River, Qingxue was injured, so I asked my fellow door to retreat with her first, so when you chased and killed the dragon to the pass where the dragon walked the water, you would only see me blocking the way."
When Liu Changyun heard this, he was stunned again, and his mind was blank.
What Xu Shi said could be regarded as a lingering shadow in his Dao heart.
At that time, he was extremely talented, and his cultivation speed was not behind any Tianjiao, but because of his ordinary and ugly appearance, and he was congenitally bald, he inevitably suffered from the ridicule of his peers, and the more those people laughed at him, the more angry he became, and his heart gradually became deformed, just thinking that one day he could trample on the soles of all those who looked down on him.
His division commanders saw the depression in his heart, but they couldn't persuade him, and some kind-hearted colleagues also drank and persuaded him, but it was useless.
Because he knows that in the hearts of these people, they all care a little bit about his appearance.
"Cultivators, especially the higher they go, the impurities in their bodies will be removed, so except for those ghost cultivators in southern Xinjiang, there are very few people who look ugly."
"Actually, I'm not ugly, I can be regarded as a mortal among mortals, but because I have no hair and a thin body, I can be regarded as the ugliest among the geniuses of that year."
"They persuaded me, comforted me, and persuaded me to let go of comparison, but I couldn't listen to it, and the fire of resentment in my heart grew stronger and stronger, and finally I was only half a point away from going mad."
Liu Changyun was silent for a long time, and when he said this, there was a rare trace of tenderness on his bitter and complicated face.
The depression in his heart became deeper and deeper, and when he almost couldn't untie it, a woman suddenly broke into his life.
They became friends, but unlike the previous friends who cared about him, the woman did not treat him as an outlier on the surface or in her heart, and even when he took the initiative to talk and talk about the humiliation and unbearable he had endured over the years, the girl only bent her eyebrows slightly, and told him with a serious face:
"You're no different from anyone else."
A hint of rosiness appeared on Liu Changyun's face, and to this day, whenever he thinks of the situation when the beautiful woman spoke to him in that year, his heart is full of courage and excitement for no reason.
"Qingxue said to me, there are all kinds of things in this world, and the standards for all living beings to measure good, evil, beauty and ugliness are different, she has understood this truth since she was born, so she has never thought that she is more beautiful or talented than anyone, people and plants, trees, birds and beasts are all the same, everyone is the same, the skin is just the skin."
"Since then, most of the depression in my heart has dissipated, and I also like Qingxue, but she is the goddess in the Donghua Palace, she can think so, but I have to be self-aware."
Liu Changyun turned his head and stared at Xu Shi coldly:
"I know I don't deserve her, so I just want to be by her side, but who would think she likes you, and you don't like her!"
"You know what it feels like in my heart whenever I see Qingxue's face haggard for you, and I don't think about tea and dinner! You, the prodigal son of the prodigal, attracted bees and butterflies everywhere, gave Qingxue a phoenix hairpin and turned his head and sent it to other girls, do you know that Qingxue's heart was broken after knowing the news at that time, and she cried all night? ”
"You don't know anything, you only know how to compete with others and seize opportunities, so I went to challenge you, I want to kill you to vent your anger for Qingxue!"
Liu Changyun roared in a low voice, his round eyes seemed to be about to erupt fire, but Xu Shi beside him was full of calm silence.
Seeing this scene, he gradually calmed down, and a trace of bitterness appeared on his face.
In that battle, he lost, and twice.
The first time, it was after Qingxue cried all night, he brought a knife to Xu Shi the next day, and he challenged the other party in front of all the young heroes in the Xuan Domain.
What's even more odious is that when Xu Shi learned that he was coming for Qingxue's business, his hateful and cold face snorted softly, and said that what does my matter with Qingxue have to do with you, a bald donkey, so angry that he burned his blood and wanted to stand up and fight hard, but he fainted to death because of the blood attack.
Later, Xu Shi offended more and more people, because everyone was competing in the same trial, and they were rivals with each other.
And he also joined in.
So there was the scene after that - the girl he liked inexplicably joined Xu Shi's camp and was injured, and Xu Shi stopped alone on the Heishui River in order to cover the latter's evacuation.
That year, the waves on the Heishui River were like anger, the turbid waves were empty, and there were dragons walking on the water to attract thunder, stirring the river surface non-stop, the scene was shocking and terrifying.
And Xu Shi, just such a person, holding a rusty iron knife in his arms, drooping his shoulders, stepping on a lotus leaf floating on the surface of the Heishui River, no matter how the dragon roared at the bottom of the lake and how the waters were turbulent, Xu Shi's eyelids were too lazy not to open them.
At that time, they were all just new to Yudan.
The sky is mighty, the dragon roared, Xu Shijing stood in the middle of the river, and he suppressed the dragon, and also suppressed everyone they chased here, because they didn't know how Xu Shi suppressed the dragon, so they didn't dare to rush into the river to chase and kill, otherwise the thousand-year-old Jiao at the bottom of the river would be angry and shake his tail, and everyone would have to die here.
They stood by the river and hesitated, Xu Shi stood in the middle of the river, the thunder above his head, and the dragon at the bottom of his feet.
In this way, the two sides confronted each other until dawn.
When the lake subsided and the thunder disappeared, Xu Shi finally opened his eyes, showed a contemptuous smile at all of them and the dragon at the bottom of the lake, and then left.
Since then, no matter how angry and jealous he is, he wants to kill Xu Shi, but he doesn't have the courage to challenge.
"I can't figure it out until now, our realm was the same at that time, you were more talented at best, and you could beat a few of me, but no matter how you couldn't suppress the thousand-year-old dragon, otherwise why would you run, how did you do it?"
When Xu Shi heard this, he smiled faintly, still glanced at Liu Changyun beside him, and still didn't say anything.
He wasn't sure.
Whether it was the dragon under his feet or the crowd chasing by the river, he was not sure, but he just stayed, because he had to stay.
When a person does something with the determination to die, even the heavens will be afraid of three points, let alone the black snake that has cultivated for thousands of years before turning into a Jiao?
Liu Changyun was stunned, he seemed to understand, so it was inevitable that a monstrous wave would rise again in his heart.
At this moment, the clouds on his Longtan Peak in front of him suddenly had some kind of turbulent change, rolling and hideous, flashing countless kinds of scenes, spreading quite shocking, causing an exclamation.
"What's the situation!"
"Could it be that the inheritance is finally about to be born!"
The crowd was surprised, and they all got up to look, even the elders of the Nine Heavens Immortal Palace who had regained their virtue and rebuilt into terror also had solemn eyes, only Xu Shi of the three realms on the cliff side glanced at Liu Changyun beside him with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
Guts.
It is inevitable that there will be disasters in life, whether you look at him or not, whether you have the courage to face it, the disasters are waiting there, people will meet with them sooner or later, no matter what the qualifications are, the victory or defeat is five or five points, and if Mr. is afraid, it will naturally not be able to pass.
Liu Changyun is the same at the moment.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and the clouds that were tumbling and stirring in the sky suddenly stopped.
He looked at Xu Shi, took a deep breath, and with unconcealed joy and complexity on his face, he bowed and said:
"Thank you Brother Dao for your advice, the dust on the Dao heart has been cleared again today, and I have some understanding, after today, I will definitely take the initiative to challenge that calamity, I don't believe they can stop me!"
Xu Shi dared to work hard in the three realms, and he saw through everything, why couldn't he?
This may be the gap between a genius and a mediocre person, but in any case, the hurdle in his heart has finally been overcome, and after going back this time, the probability of carrying the catastrophe will be greatly increased, and the heavens are hopeful!
"You have to be well prepared, and it's taboo to be aggressive."
Xu Shi smiled faintly, and Liu Changyun once again respectfully bowed to him, and Xu Shi accepted it calmly.
Liu Changyun exhaled and found an open space to sit and practice, he had just felt too much, and countless problems that had plagued him for many years were solved, and this moment was the time when he needed to sort out quietly, and he couldn't be disturbed.
Seeing this, Xu Shi didn't say anything, a trace of loneliness appeared in his deep eyes under his white eyebrows, and he looked calmly at the mountain cliff.
Philistines disturb themselves.
It is easy to persuade others to untie their hearts, but it is difficult to convince themselves.
Time has passed, and the people of the same generation are now not what they used to be, only he is still trapped in the past, although he is not to blame for that incident, and he also thinks that he has done his best, but even this knot is still untied, and since that war, his heart has gradually disappeared.
If he was given a chance to start all over again, would he still have the courage to start all over again?
The answer is between the clouds and mist on the Longtan Peak.
The clouds on the peak were misty, soft and peaceful.
So Xu Shi's eyebrows turned whiter again.