Since Wang Zhiwei pulled out the sword a few days ago, his own cultivation went straight to the peak of the Five Realms, and hundreds of portals appeared in the sky, the things about the heavens have spread throughout the entire continent, and everyone knows that there is another place outside the world, above the Huaiyu Pass, which is called the heavens, that is, the place where the immortals live.

Strictly speaking, heaven and earth are two completely different worlds, and the reason why they are called Tianshan instead of underground is because the places where those portals are opened are in the air.

Many people will think about how to deal with the things of the heavenly immortals, but few people will think about what the heavens on earth are like?

The vast human ground is not yet fully visible, so what about looking up at the starry sky higher?

What kind of world will exist in the midst of countless stars?

This was what Li Xiu was thinking about just now, until the light fell on him, and then his divine soul was stripped from his body and flew higher with the light.

The world under his feet became smaller and smaller, and the trace of Bashan City also disappeared completely, and finally the whole world seemed to have become a small point of light, and he suddenly woke up and found himself standing in a completely strange place, surrounded by countless small points of light like the world.

Although it was the first time he had come here, he knew in his heart that these floating points of light exuded a soft light like the vast stars that came into view when he was in the world just looking up at the sky.

There are countless points of light suspended around, could it be that there is also a world on it?

Li Xiu stood between the void, raised his hand to touch a point of light, his fingertips touched lightly, the space around him began to twist and twitch, and the next moment his body appeared in another world, where there was land like the world, but there were no flowers and plants growing, and the black-brown land as far as the eye could see, even looking up at the sky was full of pitch black, and there was a violent thunderstorm flashing above the heavy clouds, and there was no living creature in the whole world except for a piece of scorched earth.

He stood there silent for a moment, then returned to the void space he had previously had, casually pointing to another point of light.

Then he appeared in another world, where there is no land, there is no ocean, and the sea water that is more piercing than the polar ice is surging wildly, and there is no need to touch it, as long as you look at it, you will know that if any wave is taken, the monks below the three realms will die.

There is no possibility of escape.

Again, there is no life here.

There are many points of light in the universe, Li Xiu kept entering and leaving, and it lasted hundreds of times before stopping, without any accidents, these hundreds of explorations have not even found a world where life is alive.

He began to look around, feeling the countless lights around him, this should be the heaven above the earth, so what will be higher up?

He raised his head and looked higher up, and the space around him twisted again, becoming a line, and finally beginning to stand still.

I don't know how long it took, the countless points of light that were still on my side had reached my feet at this moment, and even the light was already very faint, if I didn't look carefully, I couldn't see it clearly, and it was even worse than a grain of dust.

He came to the highest place, or not the highest place, there was no light around him, and everywhere he could see was darkness, this was the most extreme nothingness, and when he looked up, he lowered his head, and was in a trance.

This is the heaven above the earth?

There is nothingness, nothing exists, there are no humans, no demons, no life, and no light.

Time seems to stand still here, and space has no meaning.

What exactly is this place?

Everywhere has its meaning, let alone such a mystery.

There was no sun in the dark, but there was a beam of light shining on his body at this moment, Xu hadn't seen the light for too long, and the first feeling was a little dazzling, Li Xiu subconsciously raised his hand to cover his eyes, and it took a while to get used to it.

In front of him stood a man.

A man in a Taoist robe.

He was looking at him at the moment, with scrutiny in his calm eyes.

Li Xiu's heart was a little shocked, especially when he could feel that it was different from his own fugue world, and the man in front of him seemed to really exist here.

After a short shock, he saluted the man in front of him and said, "Junior Li Xiu, I will come here by fate, if there is any offense, I hope that my predecessor Haihan." ”

The man in the robe didn't speak immediately, but looked at him, and the scrutiny in his eyes gradually faded a little.

He said, "This is what I brought you." ”

His voice sounded a little gentle and didn't fluctuate much.

Li Xiu was even more shocked when he heard this, and when he looked up, he found that this man looked a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"I don't know what my predecessor brought me here, what is the purpose?"

The man in the robe did not answer, but slowly stretched out his hand, his palm facing up, and placed it there so flatly.

Li Xiu suddenly felt a tremor in his fingertips, and then saw the small flower in his hand fly out of his hand, landing on the man's palm and spinning gently, with pleasure.

His gaze condensed slightly, and his heart turned into turbulent waves, and at the same time, he finally remembered when he had seen the man in the Taoist robe in front of him.

When he first entered the old alley, he had seen many scenes in front of his eyes, with a golden-robed man standing with his hands in his hands, and a real dragon on his shoulder.

There is a man in white standing on the top of the mountain, a flute is horizontal at the corner of his mouth, and the melodious sound of the flute has worn away countless immortals.

A Taiji diagram of tens of thousands of miles was born in the middle of the words floating between heaven and earth, spreading into gossip including Zhou Tian, a young man in a Taoist robe gave birth to a lotus step by step, with three thousand gossip, yin and yang fish in the palm, and the Taoist robe was flying.

Behind the hundreds of heavenly gates, countless immortals sprung up one after another, and just when the heavens and the earth fell into darkness, a sigh resounded throughout the world.

A flower grew out of the darkness, a sword light lit up, and a man appeared.

Then countless heavenly gates were shattered, and the immortal army was suppressed and retreated.

This is the picture in the old alley, Li Xiu remembers it very clearly, and he saw the appearance of the man at the moment when the picture disappeared.

It's the person in front of you.

In other words, the people who controlled the flower millions of years ago.

"I thought you were dead. ”

Li Xiu looked at the person in front of him and said what was in his heart.

"I am indeed dead. ”

The man in the robe was not offended, but said very bluntly.

As if seeing the doubts in Li Xiu's heart, he continued: "What you see of me is just a shadow left by me millions of years ago, I have been dead for many years, and this shadow will dissipate after talking to you. ”

As if he was afraid that Li Xiu would be incomprehensible, at the moment when the words fell, a long river appeared under the two of them, and what flowed in the long river was not water, but time, and when he looked at this river, he could see that the place where the man in the robe in front of him was standing was the upper reaches of the river, and the place where Li Xiu was standing was the downstream of the river, although the two were facing each other, but the time between them was millions of years.

Li Xiu looked at the incomparably magnificent scene in front of him, and was speechless for a long time before he asked, "What is the so-called matter that my predecessors brought me here?"

The man in the robe smiled and said, "Come here to answer your questions." ”

Li Xiu frowned and said, "My problem?"

The man in the robe didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

Li Xiu was silent for a while, and then asked, "What is above the world?"

The man in the robe thought for a moment and replied, "The human world is the human world, whether it is above or below, it exists within this vast human world. ”

"In other words, there is no other world above the earth?"

The man in the robe replied, "The other world is another world, it has nothing to do with the human world, there is still the human world above the human world, wherever your eyes go, wherever you can walk, it is the same." ”

"Where is the place where the immortals are?"

"It's another world, if you compare the two, you can understand it as two different continents, two different countries, immortals are not above humans, they are just a kind of living beings. ”

Li Xiu then asked, "Where did the six realms of the human world go after they ascended?"

There is always a saying in the world that after cultivating to reach the Six Realms and ascending, they will go to another world, which is a world of higher level, and the monks inside will also be more powerful.

He wanted to know the truth of that claim.

The man in the Taoist robe explained: "Cultivation is not endless, cultivation is also an endless thing, if according to what you said, after the Six Realms, they ascended to another higher-level world, where the powerhouses of the Six Realms were just the starting point, then what about them after they reached the peak of cultivation in that world? Will they go to another higher-level world?"

"When will there be an end to this process, and what is the point of continuing to practice?"

"There is an end to cultivation, because the Great Dao has a limit, and as you become more and more attached, you will get closer and closer to the Great Dao, until the distance between the two is very small, and then it is the end of the cultivation, the Tao gives birth to one, all things in one life, all our cultivation is included in the Tao, and we are all in the evolution of the Tao, so we can't transcend the Tao, just like you can't see your own eyes with your eyes without the help of a mirror. ”

"The Tao is a container, it provides us with the space to practice, this space can be expanded, but it will be saturated, all things in heaven and earth may be able to transcend many things, but they are always within the Tao, the so-called practice, in the end, what we spy on is where the limit of the Tao is. ”

The flower still swirled in his hand, happy and sad.

He informed Li Xiu of the end of his practice, and Li Xiu looked down and thought that there was an end to his practice, and this answer was not unexpected.

The man in the robe didn't bother, the river of time flowed under the feet of the two, Li Xiu moved slowly on the river, but the man in the robe kept standing there without moving a bit.

One is gone, the other remains.

"What level did the seniors reach in terms of strength back then?"

The man in the Dao robe was silent for a while, and then said, "The Tao is extreme. ”

Li Xiu asked, "Then why did you die?"

Cultivating to a supreme existence that has reached the extreme realm of the Dao, why did he die?

The Dao-robed man smiled, "This is not something to regret, when you reach the extreme realm of the Dao, you will want to go higher. ”

Li Xiu was puzzled: "Didn't the predecessors say that there is an end to cultivation, and the extreme realm of the Dao is the highest?"

The man in the Taoist robe nodded: "That year, I wanted to try to see if I could break the Dao, but later I found out that the Dao is not real, it is a kind of rule and constraint, I can't see or touch, everything in this world is within the Dao, I can't break the Dao, so I stepped on the long river of time and went to the beginning of the place, where it was the same as here, a void, extremely quiet, I wanted to do something, so I tried to break the realm again." ”

"At the moment of breaking through the realm, I sensed one thing, if I wanted to break through the extreme of the Dao, I would destroy the Dao, and all living beings under the Dao would be extinct, and then I would become a new Dao instead, and then start from the source of the Long River to give birth to life again. ”

He looked at Li Xiu with longing and nostalgia in his eyes, and finally smiled helplessly: "In the end, I gave up doing this, so the Great Dao still exists there, and I am dead." ”

Li Xiu didn't speak, or he didn't know what to say right now, if he hadn't come here, if he hadn't talked to the man in the robe, then I'm afraid no one would ever know this secret.

No one will ever know that they have walked on the brink of life and death.

He looked at the man in the Taoist robe, his gaze was a little complicated, and he didn't know if it was respect or something else.

The man in the Taoist robe said with a smile: "This is nothing, when you come to this step, you will find that whether you take that step or not has no meaning for you, the Tao is the Tao, it exists there and has its own meaning, the Tao has given birth to countless living beings, all the rules have matured, we should not and are not qualified to take that step." ”

He looked up at the sky, and it was still a void scene: "Now that I think back to the past, all kinds of right and wrong cause and effect are just ordinary dreams. ”

Li Xiu asked, "What if someone also reaches the extreme realm of the Dao in the future, but does not stop, but wants to create a new Dao?"

The man in the Taoist robe muttered: "Where is there a new Tao in this world? The Tao is the Tao, even if it is broken and rebuilt, he is still the same rule as before, so I chose to stop at the last moment, if someone really does that, what he is called is not the whole world, but must be for his own selfish desires, and people who are for their own selfish desires must not be able to cultivate to the extreme realm of the Dao, but just in case I still called you over." ”

"Me?"

"That's right, if you have the opportunity to become the Extreme Realm of Dao in the future, you may be able to better protect this heaven and earth. ”

The Extreme Realm of the Dao.

Li Xiu was silent, muttering these four words in his heart.

"Now the battle between the human world and the heavenly immortals is about to start again. ”

He hesitated, but asked about it anyway.

The man in the robe nodded, and said softly: "Although the human world is not ready today, you should not underestimate the power of the human world!"

Li Xiu looked up at him, wanting to get some guidance.

The man in the robe didn't say much, but said, "Facing a dangerous and unknown future, I also want to know what will become of it in the end. ”

That's not the answer.

So Li Xiu was still looking at him.

The man in the robe said: "I am me, and you are you, I can't give you any good advice, but I can tell you one thing, the world is not as fragile as you imagined, so if you want to do something, you might as well be bold, the sky is falling, and someone is on top of them." ”

This conversation is almost over, or it should be over.

Where will the powerhouses of the Six Realms in the human world go after they ascend, the man in the Dao robe still did not say clearly.

Li Xiu didn't plan to continue asking.

The two of them fell silent.

There was still nothing around, and the body of the man in the robe began to overflow with starlight, and the whole person gradually dissipated, like light sand rising with the wind.

He didn't mind his death, and his voice was still soft: "I thought you were going to ask me about this flower. ”

Li Xiu shook his head: "I will always know in the future." ”

The man in the robe nodded: "That's right." ”

He looked down at the one that belonged to the world, and his eyes fell on the one that belonged to the world through countless points of light, smiled, and said, "It's really beautiful." ”

The starlight sprinkled all over the body, and the body dispersed little by little.

Darkness returned to Li Xiu's eyes, all the light disappeared with the passing of the man in the Taoist robe, and the little flower returned to his fingers, trembling a little, as if crying.

The space around him was distorted again, and all the scenes in front of him were rapidly regressing, and when Li Xiu opened his eyes again, he had already returned to Bashan City, and in Mr. Liu's small courtyard, Hua Yuyao was still standing beside him.

Chen Zhimo was getting up and walking towards him.

Chu Yang on the courtyard wall had just jumped down, and Su Ziyu, who was practicing calligraphy, had just put down his pen.

Fang Liang was still holding the chess piece in his hand.

It turned out that everything had only passed for a few breaths, and it seemed as if I had experienced an unknown number of days and nights.

It would take a while to explore every new point of light, and he thought that his body in the courtyard would even be covered with a layer of dust, but he didn't expect it to be a short time.

Subconsciously looked around, there was no point of light, there was no nothingness, and there was no man in the Taoist robe, only the small flower on his fingers that was still trembling slightly reminded him that everything he had just experienced was real.

The extreme realm of the Dao, the man in the Dao robe.

Now that I think about it, if the Dao robe man first destroyed the Heavenly Immortals after breaking through the realm, and then went to pursue the Great Dao, there would not be so many things now.

"Where have you been?"

Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Hua Yuyao asked.

The rest of the people also looked over, and even Qingluan, who didn't care about human affairs, raised his head.

Li Xiu said: "I went to heaven, the heaven on earth. ”

After hearing this, Fang Liang put down the chess in his hand and looked sideways.

Hua Yuyao continued to ask, "Where is that?"

Li Xiu was silent for a while and said, "It's still the world." ”

He looked at a few people and said seriously: "Everything in this world is in the world. ”

Chen Zhimo touched his chin and felt that this sound like nonsense, but after thinking about it carefully, there was still some truth, so he laughed, which was very interesting.

Su Ziyu picked up the pen and continued to write his own words, whether it was in the world or in heaven, it didn't matter to him, he just wanted to keep his own rules, the rules of Xiaoyushan.

Chun Qiu Xue walked over from behind and asked, "It's a rare thing for an epiphany to lead to starlight, have you taken this opportunity to improve your realm?"

The aura on Li Xiu's body was still the same as always, although it was powerful, but it had not improved.

He looked up at the stars in the sky and said softly, "I didn't improve the realm, but I did improve something more important than the realm. ”

He didn't say it explicitly, because this kind of thing can't be said clearly enough.

Several people could feel his complicated emotions now, so they didn't ask too much, Hua Yuyao and Chun Qiuxue returned to the house.

Chu Yang was lying on the wall looking at the sky, and Fang Liang was playing chess by himself.

Chen Zhimo glanced back at the place where he was lying just now, Qingluan was still sitting next to him, and he didn't know if he should lie back or not.

Qingluan saw his gaze, and then smiled at him, which was very good-looking.

Chen Zhimo touched his nose a little embarrassed, then lay back in his original place and closed his eyes.

Qingluan still looked down at him, his arms wrapped around his knees, and his eyes bent into crescents.

The night was quiet, and the sun rose the next day.

Since yesterday's spring rains, today means that we have officially said goodbye to winter and set foot in spring, and the air after the rain rises with the morning dew, and it is inhaled into the nose to exude a familiar smell.

The potted plants in the yard are growing more luxuriantly, and the weeds in the corners of the walls are constantly burrowing.

The leftover hot pot from yesterday naturally can't be eaten today, but what was not done yesterday can be done again today.

Everyone sat at the dining table and chatted, Su Ziyu was even more eloquent, just last night's starlight and spring rain casually chanted two poems that could be passed down to the world, Chen Zhimo was naturally not far behind, and his mouth was also two works that were not inferior, Fang Liang stared at the chessboard not far away.

Chu Yang clasped his hands around and ignored them.

Ji Zhihua stared down at the dishes and chopsticks in front of him, he would never open his mouth at this time.

Su Ziyu and Chen Zhimo were talking about literary things, and their knowledge and talent were top-notch even if they were placed in the Sanqi Cliff, and they might even be invited to walk the path of Wensheng.

After a while, Ye Xiu and Qiu Xiaoli walked in from outside the door, carrying several large lunch boxes in their hands, which were full of steamed buns and steamed buns, as well as light porridge and pickles.

No one stipulates that breakfast must not be big fish and meat, but everyone still likes to eat some light porridge and pickles, which has become a habit over the years, and light porridge and pickles and steamed buns really have a unique taste.

At the dinner table, Fang Liang asked Li Xiu, "You should already have your own plan when you came to Huangzhou, can you tell me about it?"

The others were also looking at him, and they didn't talk about it last night, but today it's time to talk about it.

Li Xiu took a sip of porridge, snatched a steamed bun from Chen Zhimo, and said lightly: "I want to invite people from all over the world to get together." ”