Chapter 525: Gleaning
Lu An looked around, his expression was dull, it was really too shocking, because it looked a little too imaginary with the belly of the demon beast here, as if it was real.
The magma in front of him is like the gastric juice of a demon beast, which can dissolve everything here, thinking of this, Lu An took a deep breath directly, and suddenly felt dazed, there was only magma and nothing else around, and the fire spirit he was looking for didn't know where it was.
In desperation, he sighed again, and the scorching heat around him made him feel irritable again, the true yuan wrapped in his body was already extremely thick, but in this way, he still couldn't bear the heat.
The magma kept tumbling, and from time to time a few bubbles appeared, and some extremely strange heat waves burst out from it, which instantly steamed upwards and rushed directly to the top.
After that, it was inexplicably absorbed by what looked like internal organs.
This scene directly made Lu An frown, it was too weird.
This kind of internal organs that can absorb things directly made Lu An pay attention, his brows first frowned, and then several sword qi directly appeared around his body, and the next moment, the sword qi directly stabbed at those internal organs, and the internal organs twitched instantly, and the sword qi directly seemed to be melted, and then it was slowly absorbed.
At this moment, Lu An lost control of his sword qi.
"It's really absorbed!" Lu An muttered directly dissatisfied.
At this time, he realized that the place he was in before should be the outside of this internal organs, and he used the shadowless sword to absorb this thing as much as possible, but it should not be digestible at once, and then it exploded directly, and he entered here.
In other words, this thing should be a living thing, thinking of this, Lu An directly gasped, now he finally has a little understanding of this place, but he also has a more confused place, that is, what is this thing?
So huge, so hot, isn't this a volcano?
But now that the huge demon beast, he really can't imagine what this will be!
After many attempts, Lu An confirmed that this thing could indeed absorb the true element, and he found that this was not the so-called heat wave, but the true element of some fire attributes, which made Lu An go crazy directly, and he already had a general understanding of the location of the fire essence, and it was no surprise that it was already under these magma.
After thinking of this, Lu An had a hint of thought, but this thought made him a little confused, jumping down?
If you look for death, but if you don't go down, how can you get the fire spirit below?
Two thoughts came to Lu An's mind, one was to die, and the other was to leave, losing the pursuit of fire spirit, which seemed a little too helpless for him.
Lu An sat directly on the ground and began to think, this incredible thought made him waver.
This is the first time he has found the essence of the five elements, and it is also the first time he has really relied on himself to find the essence of the five elements, and now he hasn't even found the guardian demon beast, so he just left?
Lu An couldn't accept such a situation.
After careful consideration, Lu An finished making a decision, and the whole person immediately relaxed, but he was still a little nervous when he looked at it, took a deep breath, and the Five Elements Ring ran wildly, and the unprecedented True Yuan came out of the Five Elements Ring directly, and instantly formed a circle outside Lu An's body.
The temperature around Lu An dropped all of a sudden, which made him feel a little better, but in this way, the problem of the consumption of true yuan appeared, but Lu An couldn't control it anymore, and took a step forward directly, and the whole person walked into the magma.
His brows furrowed instantly, and the burning sensation under his feet suddenly made him extremely uncomfortable, although it seemed that he was resisting, but his shoes and pants were directly burned to ashes in an instant, and the physique of the six-rank martial artist and the protective layer composed of water spirits made him withstand the temperature of the magma.
But he was still extremely uncomfortable, and the skin on his feet had already been burned, itching and painful, almost like torture.
Lu An could only speed up the operation of the Five Elements Ring as much as possible to resist the heat, but the effect seemed to be a little less good.
These magma felt a little weird, they could actually penetrate, so they slowly passed through the protective shield and directly soaked into Lu An's skin, as if they were really yuan, and directly burned them.
Lu An took a deep breath, resisted the urge to tickle as much as possible, and then slowly walked in.
Both legs instantly fell into the magma, and the pain was directly doubled, which immediately made Lu An let out two muffled sounds.
Continuing to take two steps forward, the lower half of his body was completely submerged, and the clothes on his body burned directly and turned into ashes.
If this kind of behavior is seen by others, it is estimated that Lu An is crazy.
In fact, Lu An himself thinks so, to be honest, he has already regretted it a little now, if it is possible, he will definitely not choose this way.
But now that they have come to this point, it seems a little difficult to retreat, so Lu An can only continue to go down!
Two steps further, Lu An drowned directly to the neck, and all the top of his body had been burned, such a severe pain suddenly made Lu An feel extremely uncomfortable, but he could only endure it.
After taking a deep breath, Lu An forcibly suppressed his fear, and his head sank directly into the magma.
At this moment, he clenched his fists directly in pain, and the whole person was burned in an instant, and after struggling for a while, Lu An became familiar with the pain, and then opened his eyes suddenly.
This glance suddenly made his eyes directly burned, and the eyes that were originally extremely chaotic turned pale at this moment, and the scene in front of him was only red.
The pain from his eyes instantly caused tremors in the sea of spiritual consciousness, and the two yin and yang flames directly swelled violently, and the next moment Lu An felt that his person seemed to move, driven by these two things, he drilled directly into the depths of the magma.
This made him feel extremely panicked, and the further down he went, the greater the scorching temperature, which made him really a little unbearable.
The muffled snort kept ringing in his mouth, and the whole person began to drill down uncontrollably, the burning pain on his body made him unbearable, and the whole skin instantly turned up, and it was dragged like this, and it began to fall endlessly.
I don't know how much time has passed, and Lu An fainted directly in pain.
Then he had a dream, of course he didn't know if it was a dream or not, or maybe it felt like he was dead.
This is Lu An's self-deprecation, so inexplicably he came to a place full of light, there is no scenery around, and naturally there is no task, and it feels like the whole space is only white, and nothing else exists.
And he curled up naked, and there was no such thing as up and down, left and right, back and forth, and he got up from the ground, and stood just on top of this white space.
At this moment, his whole person was calm, and his pale eyes saw that everything in front of him seemed to be white.
Lu An stretched out his hand and touched it directly, nothing, including his own feet, nothing, but he stood in this place like this.
The existence of this space immediately surprised Lu An, and he looked at his body, smooth as before, as if he had not been hurt in any way, it was so different from everything before, which made Lu An feel an extremely unusual feeling.
"Domain?"
Lu An said his conjecture suspiciously, but he felt that something was wrong, the domain he had entered was not like this, and he had nothing on his body now, even if his clothes were burned, but the sword box behind him could not be damaged, this is a divine weapon-level thing, even if it is a sword box, it is absolutely impossible for those two divine weapons to be damaged, especially the water cold sword, it is absolutely impossible to be damaged so easily.
So Lu An couldn't figure out why, where is he now?
Looking at his hands, the skin is like a newborn, smooth and smooth, it is too tender, and the true yuan on his body seems to be all gone at this moment, as if he has become an ordinary person.
Lu An froze, and the only thought suddenly popped into his mind, "Am I dead?"
These four words hit Lu An's heart like a Hong Zhong, directly making his whole person sluggish, and he didn't react for a long time, which really made him a little difficult to accept.
"Is this what happens after you die?" Lu An looked around blankly, silent and godless!
This place has neither the feeling of undulating space nor the feeling of the passage of time, and the place without these two things is really a bit difficult for him.
Looking at this white space, Lu An felt as if he was about to collapse.
"Where the hell is this?" was the only question Lu Anxin had in his mind.
But no one seemed to be able to answer this question, and he stayed in this place for a long, long time, so long that it made him feel like a hundred thousand years had passed.
However, everything here is still the same, there is no change, but for Lu An, it seems that he has become compromised, and there are countless thoughts in his mind, and there are countless things to consider.
From the very moment of birth, to the enlistment in the army, then to apprenticeship, and then to leave the craftsman city to start his bizarre life.
After thinking about this, Lu An began to think about the people he had met, from the grandmother at the beginning to the black cat at the end, all of them seemed extremely vivid in Lu An's mind.
Lu An recalled the actions and words of these people, everything was clearly recalled, there were good people, there were bad people, what these people did and said, Lu An recalled it very clearly.
The corners of his mouth changed from displeasure to joy later, and Lu An's every move of these people was dissected in his mind and carefully analyzed.
He had never done this kind of thing before, but now he seems to have enough time to do this, and the human heart is slowly dissected by him at this moment, he has never thought that the human heart is complicated, but after this moment, he really understands it like this.
Although the human heart is not complicated, but people are complex, the mind changes with the changes of human nature, whether it is good or bad, but the human heart at a certain moment is always pure, although the idea is good or bad, this is not certain!
Lu An recalled everyone's words and styles, and he was able to be full at this moment
I understand it, there are several representative figures among them, Lin Hailang, Wei Wei, Ning Zheng, Jiang Tian, Gong Liang!
These five people are the most difficult for him to dissect, and until the end, he doesn't know if he is successful?
However, Lu An is no longer pursuing any perfection at this time, the moon is cloudy and sunny, so people and things should be the same, why force it?
Sometimes the things that are forcibly twisted are not necessarily good, and the twisted melon is not sweet, but if it is not twisted, then even the melon can't be eaten?
Such a completely different truth appeared in Lu An's mind at the same time, which seemed to be extremely disobedient, which made Lu An laugh speechlessly.
Then he suddenly thought of the reason why he died before he died, wasn't it just for that twisted melon?
Otherwise, how could he have fallen to such a state?
But thinking about it, he seems to have a little bit of a heart to win again, if this kind of thing is not twisted, then he will definitely not be able to get it, after all, if he wants a fire spirit to fall from the sky, it seems that this is impossible.
But thinking of this, Lu An had a little other idea in his mind, no fighting, no grabbing, no grabbing, is there really such a thing in the world? If there really is, then this person is absolutely in control of everything, only such a person can become such a person, as long as he is an ordinary person, then he will fall into this misunderstanding of grabbing.
Lu An's expression suddenly brightened, and he laughed directly, it turned out that it was not his fault, it was the fault of human nature.
Thinking of this, Lu An was directly inexplicably happy, originally he was still haunted by his death, but now that he thinks about it, this is not his problem, but the battle of human nature!
Now that this question has been figured out, then there is no need to think about anything else, Lu An feels that he has a trace of desire to fight again at this moment, after all, he is not the one who has everything, so he can fight, although he is already dead, it can even be said that he doesn't know how long he has been dead, a day, a year or a hundred years?
The only disadvantage of this place is that you can't feel the passage of time, and of course this is the only benefit, if you can't feel time, then you can live forever, right?
As soon as such a strange idea came into being, Lu An couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous, the word immortality made people extremely speechless when he said it, he hadn't seen the so-called immortality, and even the older monks he didn't seem to have seen yet?
Who has lived the longest now? Maybe I saw those old men in the Great Zhou Chengjun Academy, right?
The other strongest is undoubtedly Wu Jie, but how old is he? It is rumored that the Nine Realms can live for five hundred, a thousand years, but Lu An has never seen the Nine Realms that can live for such a long time?
Legend has it that there is a powerhouse in the Semi-Saint Realm in Taiyi Sect, this kind of person should be able to live for thousands of years, to say the least, right? But how did he hear that this old man seemed to be dying now?
This kind of longevity seems a bit unreliable at this moment, let alone the word eternal life, isn't birth, old age, sickness and death a normal cycle of cause and effect? If you want to live forever, isn't it breaking this cycle of cause and effect?
In this case, does the world still want to continue to operate? This kind of cycle should be the most important rule of the five regions, right?
If someone wants to break this rule, isn't that the enemy of the five lands? That is, the enemy of this rule?
If it really succeeds and the rules are broken, can the five lands still exist?
The more Lu An thought about it, the more frightened he became, but he also became more and more calm, because this should have nothing to do with him! He was already dead, how could a dead person still have the ability to care about this.
But there was no harm in thinking about it, so Lu An directly frowned and assumed.
But in the end, after thinking about it, Lu An couldn't figure out how to break this rule, and if you want to break this rule, you will inevitably have to pay a little price, and the rules of the five places naturally need to be borne by the five places themselves.
It's just that Lu An can't figure out the size of this price, and for the time being, it is not clear what is the most important thing above the five lands!
What kind of price is unbearable in the five regions? I wonder who can break this price?
And the most important thing is that he broke the rules of the five lands and became immortal, but the five lands are gone?
Who can bear such an outcome, and is such eternal life still considered eternal life?
Lu An shook his head in annoyance, and even laughed directly, refutation?
But after staying for a long time, Lu An thought of the most critical question, above the Nine Realms is a half-saint, and above the half-saint there are other realms, so what is beyond the five realms?
After realizing this, Lu An stood up all over the place, he hadn't thought about this question, what was outside the side?
The Northern Regions Snow Mountain is the northernmost place in the Five Lands, but does it have edges?
As soon as Lu An thought of this question, he remembered a thing, the old Chen Jin'e had told him, that is, the outermost part of the snow mountain seemed to be a cemetery, and it was a place where all snow beasts were forbidden to enter, and only dying snow beasts could enter.
The living snow beast has never entered, so naturally no one has ever entered.
This was the only place where Lu An thought of a possible connection, but he wasn't sure if it was what he thought!
"Is there really a border?" Lu An suddenly muttered speechlessly.
"Yes!"
A response suddenly came from the white space, and this voice instantly startled Lu An, and he turned around and began to look around.
Lu An didn't have any panic, and was even a little happy, after staying here for so long, now there is finally someone, this is really good news!
After taking a long breath, Lu An shouted directly, "Who are you? Are you dead too?"
Then a rickety old man with white hair suddenly slowly appeared from the space, his expression was very kind, but people couldn't remember his face, white hair, white beard and white beard, the whole face was exactly the same as an ordinary old man, without any characteristics.
When Lu An saw this old man who suddenly appeared, he immediately laughed, "You should be dead too, right?"
The old man smiled and shook his head, "Why do you keep thinking about dead and alive when you're young?
"It must be dead, otherwise how could it be in this place, there is no space, and there is no passage of time, I can't think of any other place like this except to die?" Lu An replied seriously.
The old man nodded approvingly, but he pursed his lips and said with disdain, "How do you know if there is none?"
"Then how do you know that there is?" Lu An asked very calmly.
"How do you know that there must not be?" have you walked every inch of the five lands?
Lu An shook his head directly, and then asked the old man, "So you see it?"
The old man nodded quite reminiscingly, "That's right, I've walked over, so naturally I've seen it!"
Lu An was a little surprised, and then said with a smile: "From this point of view, the old gentleman should have been an extremely powerful monk during his lifetime, anyway, with my strength during his lifetime, it seems to be a little difficult." ”
The old man laughed, "I didn't expect you to be so sincere, that's right, my strength is very strong, strong enough to stab you to death with one, but..."
"But you're still dead!" Lu An hurriedly picked up.
The old man was stunned for a moment, looked at Lu An speechlessly, and then shook his head, "No, I'm not dead, but if I live at the age I live, I may be about to die, right?"
Lu An was immediately relieved, and said with a rather calm expression: "Come to think of it, I know that there is a phenomenon called returning to the light, some people are dead, but after a blink of an eye, he will come back to life directly, but this time will not be too long, old man, you should be in this situation, right?"
The old man laughed again, didn't make any further rebuttals, and directly changed the topic, "Didn't you say a question earlier?
Lu An thought for a while and nodded, "That's right, I did say that, and this is what I can't figure out, the old gentleman replied to me before?
The old man nodded, "That's right, the five places do have edges, and each place has edges, but there can be said to be no edges, this is an extremely strange phenomenon, if you have been there yourself, you have another question." ”
"Oh, what's the question?" Lu An asked with a sudden smile.
"That's who made this side, and what's on the outside of it?" said the old man directly.
Lu An was silent for a moment, he didn't know what the old man was talking about, and he didn't know what kind of thing was behind the so-called side, so he couldn't answer this question, just like why he himself appeared here, why did the old man also appear here, and there were only two of them, this was a question he couldn't answer.
"Don't know?" the old man asked with a smile.
"Even if I don't know, I also can't figure it out, because I haven't been there, so I don't know how to answer!" Lu An replied directly.
The old man nodded in agreement, "That's right, you haven't been, so you won't have such doubts, but I have been, but I also don't know how to answer this question, and this is the dilemma I am encountering now." ”
Lu An smiled helplessly, and directly refused lightly: "Old man, I can't seem to help you with this predicament." ”
"No, you can help me!" said the old man with great certainty.
Lu An was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "Old man, are you mistaken? I'm already dead, and you're dying, do we still need to worry about this issue now?"
"Of course, it's like you've been here for so long and thought about so many questions, which you wouldn't have noticed before, but now you have enough time and energy to think about it, so you figured it out, didn't you?" the old man asked directly.
Lu An pondered for a while, and then nodded inexplicably, because this is indeed the case, this process of not knowing the passage of time has made Lu An think about a lot of things, and naturally he has seen through a lot of reasons, if you just talk about age, Lu An may already be a hundred years old, right? It may even be a thousand years old, right?
This is something that Lu An could not have imagined, he would spend so much time and energy thinking about these inconsequential people and things, and he even figured them all out? This is a little too wonderful for Lu An in the future.
If he spends all this time on cultivation, maybe he is already a powerhouse beyond the half-saint now, right?
Of course, these are all things that Lu An thinks about himself, as for whether it is true or not, of course Lu An doesn't know, but the old man's words seem to have some ulterior motives, "Old first."
Do I have enough time and energy to help you think about this question and give you the answer?"
The old man shook his head again, "No, if you haven't practiced the answer, do you think this answer is correct?" I think you still have some people you don't understand, right?"
Lu An was stunned again, and then nodded with great approval, "That's right, it's true, some people I can't see through, I originally thought that people's hearts are easy to understand, although they are fickle, but in doing everything, those people's hearts should be extremely sincere, although they have a purpose, or everything is purposeful, but in the position of some people, this purpose is good and bad!"
Hearing Lu An say this, the old man suddenly showed a very appreciative expression, "That's right, in this matter, you can see it very transparently, it is true, in my opinion, people should not be good or bad, but the purpose of these people should be good and bad, I think this is the most critical thing, as the saying goes, human nature is good, but in the future, it can also be human nature is evil, because this good and evil is what we define ourselves, what do you think?"
Lu An frowned, and suddenly showed an expression of sudden realization, and directly bowed like an old man, "Taught!"
The old man smiled slightly, shook his head and said with a smile: "It's one-sided, what is teachable? Why do you need to salute? What I said is just something that I define myself, and you think it makes sense, but what are the two words "reason"? Have you thought about it carefully?"
Lu An shook his head blankly, not quite understanding what the old man said.
"What I say and do, if you think I did the right thing, then this right should be defined in advance, so in your heart you think it is right, then even if I don't do it, you will do it, so whether I do it or not, in the end things will become the right in your eyes!
Lu An's brows suddenly furrowed, and he fell silent directly, this silence was a long time, but time seemed a bit one-sided at this time.
But after a long time, maybe it was just a moment, Lu An suddenly laughed, and then nodded, "I seem to understand a little bit of the truth." ”
"Really?" the old man asked with a smile.
Lu An snorted, "This truth is just the idea in my heart, if I think it makes sense, then it will naturally be right, if you don't do it, I will do it, and others will do it, but I agree, then naturally there will be people who don't agree, then there is a difference between right and wrong, so these so-called truths are nothing more than my own thoughts, just like the old gentleman said, I think so, so why do I need others to teach?"
"Interesting, interesting!" the old man suddenly stroked his beard and laughed.
"The old gentleman thinks it's interesting, then this thing is already interesting, if I don't say it, the old gentleman will also find it interesting!" Lu An replied directly.
The old man laughed and immediately looked at Lu Angao.
"By the way, I don't really understand the question that the old gentleman said before, so naturally someone will figure it out for the old gentleman in the future, or after I really think about it, I will tell the old gentleman. Lu An suddenly added.
The old man sighed directly, "No, I'm dying! I want to figure this issue out before I die, so this question is very important! ”
This made Lu An difficult, because he really couldn't solve this problem now.
"Old man, what should I do about this issue?, do you have any suggestions?" Lu An could only ask.
The old man smiled and replied lightly: "Actually, I have been thinking about this problem, and I am also trying, I have walked the roads of the five places, and I have been down to this place this day, but it still seems to be the same, there are margins everywhere, there are restrictions everywhere, except here, there seems to be no restrictions!"
Lu An nodded thoughtfully, "In this way, this place is the most special, but I think about it, the place after death is naturally the most peculiar, I have seen enough, it is indeed very peculiar!"
The old man shook his head, "Right and right, wrong and wrong, this is naturally the case, but what, I'm going to die! If this problem is not solved, I am really going to die! So I want you to help me solve it?"
"Why are you looking for me?" Lu An suddenly asked in confusion.
"It's not looking for you, it's you now, it wasn't you before, if you can't find it, then the future may not be you!" the old man smiled slightly.
Lu An understood the meaning of this, "So, you should have asked a lot of people this question, but those people can't seem to give you an answer, or can't help you find the answer, right?"
The old man nodded, "That's right, I asked a lot of people, and there were many people who helped me find answers, but they all seemed to have failed, and there was also a person who came here many years ago, but he was different from you, he disappeared quickly, I didn't say a few words to him, he left, he left in a hurry, as if he couldn't stand it here, right? ”
Lu An didn't understand the meaning of this, maybe he meant that there were other people here, "Old man, you should know a lot of people if you're so powerful, right? Why don't you ask them?"
The old man laughed, "Speaking of friends, it seems to have been a long time ago, but I don't know if it counts, some people can only say that they know each other, but it's a pity that the only person who thinks of me is dead, he died very freely, it seems to have seen through this problem, but it seems to be a compromise, but until the end he didn't tell me the answer, this kind of person, I don't think I am friends with him!"
Hearing this somewhat complaining words, Lu An suddenly didn't know how to answer, and could only show a shy smile.
After the old man said this, his face showed a rare expression other than kindness, and the expression of memory appeared on his face, but this memory didn't seem to arouse his interest, and it disappeared in an instant, "The old past, this kind of thing has to be done by yourself, I've been waiting for you for many, many years! I am very relieved to see that you can think of so many things, really very gratifying!"
Lu An could only smile, without thanking or gratifying, and felt a little strange, what this old man said he really couldn't understand more and more.
"Sir, since you said you've seen those sides, why don't you try to break them?" Lu An asked suddenly.
A sarcastic smile appeared at the corner of the old man's mouth, "Do you think I've done it?"
Lu An was stunned directly, and then laughed, and said self-deprecatingly: "It seems that everyone thinks like this!"
"When people encounter difficulties, there are only two ways, one is by talking, and the other is not by relying on our fists? This is a way that has never changed for thousands of years, and it is a bad habit..." The old man shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Lu An nodded, he strongly agreed with this statement.
The old man suddenly sighed inexplicably, "Okay, my question has been told to you, and then it's up to you to help me find the answer, anyway, I have no choice now, I can only rely on you!"
Lu An glanced at him helplessly, although his eyes were even white at this time, he still gave him a blank look, "Old man, you are a little irresponsible when you say this, right? Why do you want me to help you solve your problem?"
"Because only you can solve it, it's not that I don't want to, but I'm waiting for you to solve it, in fact, this is also a way to solve it, isn't it?" the old man asked directly.
Lu An was stunned again, it seemed to make some sense, but why did he take the initiative to solve this problem?
"Because you're looking for the essence of the five elements, then you're bound to have the same thing as me, and now you've found the third, and there are two more, and I hope you can find the last two, but I don't want you to find them. The old man suddenly swayed a little.
Lu An didn't quite understand, "Old man, I'm dead, I haven't even found the third one, how can I find the next two?"
The old man smiled, his expression suddenly became scrutinized, and then said lightly: "Actually, you are not dead, and of course I am definitely not dead." ”
"Impossible! How could I be in such a place if I didn't die? Without the constraints of space and time, should this kind of place really exist? Is there really such a place above the Five Earths?" Lu An asked directly.
The old man shook his head, "There are no five lands themselves, but it doesn't mean that people can't create one!"
Lu An was directly stunned, "Old man, do you mean that this is the place you created?"
"Lu An, in fact, it is not the first time that I have met you, after careful calculation, this should be our third meeting, I am extremely optimistic about you, you are the only unusual person I have waited for for thousands of years!
A cold sweat broke out directly on Lu An's face, he really couldn't understand what was going on here, and what was the specific reason for this?
"So you created this place?" Lu An asked after being silent for a long time.
The old man nodded, "Sort of, this is a mark I put on the fire spirit, you arrived at that place, so you entered this place, so you didn't die!"
Lu An wasn't too shocked, the passage of time made him seem to have a great ability to resist shock, so he was just wondering now, what was the reason for doing this?
"Actually, I'm sifting through it, and there are a lot of people who want to find fire spirits, but there aren't many people who can match them, so I'm thinking, and you're the only one who can make me feel okay so far. The old man replied.