Wang Zhiwei guarded those portals, but many people in the world knew in their hearts that he could not keep them forever.

Huaiyu Pass can only be contained for a year at most, and after a year, there will definitely be a place in Huaiyu Pass and here.

At that time, the world will really face the birth of immortals.

This is also the only last year on earth.

Wang Zhiwei sat cross-legged in the sky, with his long sword lying across his knees.

Wang Buji turned around and left here.

Li Xiu looked back at him and didn't speak, watching the green shirt gradually disappear from sight, he knew that Wang Buer was not here to stop Wang Zhiwei from drawing his sword, but to remind him.

Things in this world are like this, one trouble after another, never stopping.

Everyone wants to wait until they are ready to challenge and meet difficulties, but the truth is that you simply don't have time to prepare, everything happens in a hurry.

The war in the Tang Kingdom is still ending, and a year is not even enough time to recuperate.

Li Xiu raised his head and took one last look at the sky, from this moment on, it was really difficult to predict what would happen in the future.

Got back into the carriage: "Keep walking!"

Listening to Li Xiu's flat voice and looking up at the spectacular scene in the sky, Zhong Liang, who was sitting on the ground, swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely.

got up and climbed into the carriage and drove towards Wudang Mountain to continue walking.

"Your Highness, do you say that Wang Zhiwei can hold it?"

He had also listened to the conversation between Li Xiu and Wang Buer just now, and probably knew what was going on, even though he had been mentally prepared for a long time, he still felt that his head was buzzing.

After all, this matter is too big, it has transcended the entire human world, it is completely a collision of the two worlds, just now Wang Zhiwei single-handedly killed twelve Five Realm Immortals with only a sword and tea, and he sat on the ground and could see it clearly.

This is still just the beginning of this battle, it is difficult to imagine what it will be in the future, and it is even more difficult to imagine what Huaiyuguan has been facing over the years.

Li Xiu said: "At least we can hold it now." ”

Zhong Liang hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Do you want to notify other forces about this matter?"

Such a big thing happened, the whole continent saw it, and it was absolutely impossible to hide it.

Li Xiu was silent for a while, and then said: "I will contact Tiance and spread this matter through their channels, and the secrets of the Void Realm do not need to be concealed again, whether it is Huaiyuguan or the Heavenly Immortals, it is time to unveil them." ”

Zhong Liang nodded, since Li Xiu already had a countermeasure in his heart, he didn't ask more.

It's just that at this moment, the heart has quietly changed, this is no longer a small fight in one world, from now on they will face the power of another world, which is a completely different feeling from now.

This kind of mental preparation is not something that can be changed overnight, and it takes enough time to adapt to these changes.

Now the sky can no longer see the sunrise and sunset, can only be judged from the time, probably in the evening, Zhong Liang drove the carriage to stop at the foot of Wudang Mountain.

At this moment, there are not many people at the foot of Wudang Mountain, and the only ones are still monks from Huangzhou, who understand the mystery under the nine-character mantra stele, but this is a futile thing after all.

Except for Pei Ziyun, there have been many people who have realized and practiced at the foot of Wudang Mountain for so many years, but no one has ever comprehended this nine-character mantra.

After getting out of the car, Li Xiu carried Xu Yingxiu's body and walked down the stairs towards the mountain.

Wudang Mountain should have gotten the news a long time ago, and there were many Taoist priests standing on the stairs who looked like they were waiting for him.

Seeing Li Xiu coming up, the Taoist priests bowed down one after another, but Li Xiu was indifferent to all this, just kept walking upward.

Until a little Taoist boy stood in front of him.

He looked up at Li Xiu, then looked at Xu Yingxiu, who was held in his arms, and asked with tears in his eyes, "Sister Xu, are you really dead?"

Li Xiu didn't want to pay attention to it, but he saw the jade hairpin in Xiao Daotong's hair, which was Xu Yingxiu's thing, so he nodded and didn't speak.

Xiao Daotong was originally holding back his tears, but at this moment, seeing Li Xiu nodding his head, he couldn't hold back anymore, his little mouth was deflated and he cried directly, and cautiously stepped forward to look at Xu Yingxiu who was held in his arms, and after being more sure of this fact, he became more and more sad.

He raised his head and scolded Wang Zhiwei in the sky for not being a man, then looked around, trotted to the side of the mountain road, looked down at the feet hundreds of meters high and jumped down.

"Sister Xu is waiting for me, and I will go down to accompany you. ”

It's just that his body just jumped up and was grabbed by the collar with one hand, Xiao Daotong's body hung in the sky, and his limbs kept kicking and beating: "Mr. Pei, let go of me, he didn't listen to him a long time ago, and now Sister Xu is dead, I must fall to death today, so that there is no successor to Wudang Mountain." ”

Pei Ziyun ignored him, and with a flick of his hand, the little dao boy turned into a streamer and disappeared here, disappearing without a trace.

Pei Ziyun was looking at Li Xiu.

Li Xiu was also looking at him.

"You're here. ”

Li Xiu nodded: "Those who should come will definitely come, and sooner or later there will be this day." ”

Pei Ziyun said: "I just didn't expect this day to come so quickly." ”

Li Xiu was silent for a while: "I didn't expect it either. ”

The Taoist priests of Wudang Mountain guarded the two sides and got out of the way, Pei Ziyun led the way, and Li Xiu and Zhong Liang followed behind.

The lake halfway up the mountain is beautiful, whether there is daylight in the sky or not, and the beauty of the scenery itself does not need other embellishments.

Pei Ziyun looked at the lake in front of him, as well as the cranes in the lake, and said, "This is a good place." ”

Li Xiu said: "It's indeed a good place, but it's not worthy of her." ”

He hugged Xu Yingxiu and didn't put it down, this lake is indeed very beautiful, and Wudang Mountain is also a great mountain, but as he said, it is not worthy of her.

Pei Ziyun did not speak.

Li Xiu smiled self-deprecatingly: "Where in this world is she worthy of her?"

He looked down at Xu Yingxiu, and his smile was full of bitterness.

Maybe it's not that he doesn't deserve it, it's just that he doesn't want to let go of these hands.

Because once these hands are released, the face will never be seen again.

"I'm waiting for you at the top of the mountain. ”

Pei Ziyun said a word, then turned around and left here, and the surrounding Wudang Mountain disciples made a big salute to Xu Yingxiu's corpse, and then retreated one after another.

Zhong Liang silently stepped aside, sat on a tree at will, and threw stones into the lake, and one after another fell into the water, startling one crane after another.

The doors above the sky seemed quiet, and they knew that the silence would not last long, and that the people behind the doors would come out.

Wang Zhiwei sat cross-legged in the sky, his eyes closed.

Li Xiu stood here like this until day after day passed.

The little Taoist boy came several times, and each time he was carried back by the senior brothers.

"Sister, your life is too boring, if you really have an afterlife, it is better to live a more interesting life. ”

Putting Xu Yingxiu's body on the ground, Li Xiu turned around and dug a grave on the ground.

Then I started to close my eyes and wait.

Until the next day, footsteps sounded on the mountain road, and Chen Zhimo and Qingluan rushed over.

Li Xiu opened his eyes and looked at Chen Zhimo.

Chen Zhimo stepped forward and hugged him.

Li Xiu's eyes were slightly red, and he asked, "Brought something?"

Chen Zhimo let go of him, nodded and took out a coffin, the best coffin.

Li Xiu did not inform him to bring the coffin, but Chen Zhimo brought the best coffin after getting the news, this is the tacit understanding between them, and some things do not need to be announced.

Li Xiu took the coffin, put Xu Yingxiu in, looked down again for a long time, then closed the lid and put the coffin into the tomb.

He stood beside the grave with his head bowed, silent and silent, without saying a word.

Chen Zhimo stood behind him.

Zhong Liang stood up and stood under the tree watching this scene from afar.

Qingluan was the same, she couldn't understand Li Xiu's heart at the moment, but she could see the pain in Li Xiu's heart at this moment, although the man was expressionless, he gave people a feeling of being completely wrapped in coldness and darkness.

So Qingluan didn't speak, and he didn't make any sound, until Li Xiu began to cover the coffin with his hands.

Xu Yingxiu was buried.

A grave appeared on the side of the lake.

Wang Zhiwei in the sky still had his eyes closed and his sword horizontal.

After Xu Yingxiu's death, he didn't even see him.

He could have sat in the sky and looked down with his head down, but he didn't, because he didn't dare.

Everyone has their own fears, Wang Zhiwei has already drawn the sword, he doesn't know if he can hold the sword once he looks down.

Li Xiu raised the last handful of dirt.

A line of tears flowed from Wang Zhiwei's eyes.

No matter what happens, the world will still run as usual, and the next day will still come, and unlike yesterday, there is a new tomb by the lake.

Li Xiu stood in front of the grave and looked at it for a long time, then turned around and walked down the stone steps towards the top of the mountain.

Zhong Liang wanted to follow, but was stopped by Chen Zhimo.

"Go down the mountain and wait for the news, the people who listened to the snow building should send some news here in the next few days. ”

Chen Zhimo said to Zhong Liang.

Zhong Liang nodded, looked up at Li Xiu, who was walking up step by step, and then went down the mountain, standing under the stone monument at the foot of the mountain, feeling the stone monument while waiting to listen to the people from the Snow Tower.

Chen Zhimo and Qingluan stood side by side in front of the lake, watching the cranes flying between the clouds and mist, and the heavy snow turned Wudang Mountain into a silvery white, no longer spring, no better than Jiangnan.

"Did you feel what just happened?"

Chen Zhimo looked up at the hundreds of portals in the sky and asked softly.

These words are naturally asking Qingluan.

Just walked out of the door more than ten immortals in the five realms, and they were immortals in the same vein as Qingluan.

Qingluan nodded, her eyes were flat, and there was no fluctuation, for her, although she was born in the fairy clan, she had no feelings for the fairy world, but she was still sealed by the fairy world for many years.

But if you want to say that you have any feelings for the world, you can't talk about it, at the moment she is more like a bystander, watching all this calmly and indifferently.

Chen Zhimo continued: "Before you don't have enough strength to protect yourself, it's best to stay away from these doors. ”

Qingluan didn't understand what he meant, and looked at him sideways.

Chen Zhimo didn't explain, looked back at the new tomb by the lake, and didn't speak.

Without getting a reply, Qingluan thought for a while and said, "Which side do you think will win this war?"

Chen Zhimo asked rhetorically, "Who do you want to win?"

Qingluan said: "It doesn't matter which world will win for me, but for you, I hope that the world will win, then I also hope that the world will win." ”

Chen Zhimo's gaze moved away from the tomb, stared at Qingluan for a long time, and then said, "There are many immortals in that world, but it's a pity that there are no immortals like you. ”

Qingluan looked up at the doors and said, "Everyone is unique in this world, and who is exactly the same?"

Nothing in the past can be changed, everything in the future has not yet happened, what we can do is to make the future more suitable for our own needs based on the present.

The snow between heaven and earth has long stopped, and the wind is constantly blowing on the lake, and the two people stand on the lakeside, full of silence.

Li Xiu has already walked on Wudang Mountain.

Pei Ziyun always stood here waiting for him, the two nodded when they met, and Pei Ziyun led the way.

"This should be the first time His Royal Highness has come to Wudang Mountain. ”

Li Xiu nodded: "This mountain road is much easier to walk than it seems." ”

This is a pun, Pei Ziyun naturally understood, this is a satire on Wudang Mountain's entry into the WTO.

But he didn't get angry, everyone has their own reasons for doing things, maybe your reasons can't convince everyone, but for you that's the best reason.

"From now on, Wudang Mountain will enter the WTO. ”

"Don't Mr. Pei think it's too late?"

Since Xiao Daotong called Pei Ziyun Mr. Pei, Li Xiu has also called him so, at least more smoothly than Pei Daochang or his predecessors.

Pei Ziyun put his hands behind his back and said lightly: "Is it really late?"

Li Xiu didn't speak, and quietly followed behind him.

Pei Ziyun continued: "There are some things that I don't need to teach Your Highness to know, never be carried away by anger, so as to make wrong judgments and decisions, the world is not ready today, according to Wudang Mountain and Wang Zhiwei's plan, it will take at least thirty years to pull out that sword, and it is not too late to enter the WTO, but too early." ”

It's too early.

There was no time to prepare enough in the world, and the rhythm of guarding Huaiyu Pass was disrupted when it arrived early, and there was no consensus in the world.

At the beginning, Li Xiu had planned to spend ten years to make the whole world reach a consensus, according to his plan, in the next three years, he would solve the threat of the Snow Country and the Southern Snow Plain, and then spend four years to condense the Wasteland and the Demon Domain.

Everything was planned.

But Zhibai and the queen's plan has advanced all this, which is a disaster and a good thing, because what he has prepared to do in three years can be achieved in less than a year.

But accidents always follow.

That is to say, the so-called blessing is incomparable, and the disaster is not a single line.

Hundreds of portals appeared in the sky.

He only had about a year left.

After a year, Huaiyuguan will be abandoned, and all the people will return to the human world to use the human world as a battlefield to face off against the immortals.

That's when the final step really comes.

Pei Ziyun was right, so Li Xiu didn't refute it, and his eyes were also on the whole world, but before that, he first put it on Datang's body.

But Wudang Mountain's eyes are always on the whole world, and in their eyes, there is no difference between you and me and him.

The two of them walked forward, gradually reaching the top of a higher mountain, where the clouds had already broken through and the earth was obscured by white clouds.

"Those gates in the sky will be managed by Wudang Mountain during this year's time, and His Highness only needs to do what he needs to do. ”

Li Xiu frowned and didn't speak, everyone asked him to do what he had to do, but no one could tell him what he should do.

Pei Ziyun continued: "I know what you're thinking, but there is no answer to this question, the reason why the future is the future is because everything hasn't happened yet, and no one can predict it." ”

Since there was no answer, there was no need for the topic to continue, Li Xiu followed behind him and asked, "Where are we going?"

Pei Ziyun replied, "I'm going to see someone." ”

"Who?"

"Wudang Mountain is in charge, Zhong Jiuling. ”

Wudang Mountain is not in the WTO, so it has always been a very mysterious place, Li Xiu has only heard the name of Wudang Sect, but he has never seen it.

The two walked forward, and on the side of the boulder on the top of the mountain sat an old man, dressed in a clean robe, with long gray hair and beard, and a smile on his face, giving people a sense of gentleness and trust.

There was no amazing aura coming out of his body, just like an ordinary old man sitting on a sea of clouds.

This is the head of Wudang Mountain, Zhong Jiuling, and it is rumored that the dean is a person of the same level.

There was another person sitting beside him, a man with a broken arm, whom Li Xiu knew and had seen more than once.

The head of Changlin, Xu is proud.

There is a chessboard between the two people, Zhong Jiuling holding the white zi, and Xu Jiaoren holding the black zi.

You go back and forth to play against each other, but it is obvious that the conversation between the two is far more interesting than the interest in the game, and basically they have to talk for a while before they end up with such a son.

There were already more than 100 chess pieces on the chessboard, and the two of them didn't know how long they had been sitting on this sea of clouds.

Pei Ziyun walked to the side and stood down.

Li Xiu took a few steps forward and looked down at the chessboard.

He didn't pay attention to Xu Jiaoren, because Xu Jiaoren couldn't make any waves now.

The game continues.

Zhong Jiuling had already looked at Li Xiu, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the Prince of the World's chess is the best at that time, in your opinion, who will win this game of chess?"

Li Xiu said lightly: "The chess is not finished yet, who knows if you win or lose?"

Zhong Jiuling said: "If it was the previous Highness, at the first glance of this chessboard, he should have known the winners and losers. ”

Li Xiu sat down cross-legged like him, and then said: "Things can be seen clearly in the past, because there is only one chessboard in the world, and things can't be seen clearly now, because there are not only two chessboards in the world, but I don't even know how many chess pieces are left in the chess jar." ”

Pei Ziyun was silent, standing aside and not interjecting.

Zhong Jiuling smiled and said: "The chessboard is the chessboard, whether it is one or two, the chess pieces are the chess pieces, no matter how many chess pieces are left in the chess jar." ”

Li Xiu looked up at him and asked, "But the clouds and mist cover the chessboard, a pair of hands hold the chess pieces tightly, the chess player can't see the chessboard clearly, and the chess player can't get the chess pieces, how should this game of chess be played?"

This is indeed a problem.

Whether it is the hundreds of portals above the head at this moment, or the Huaiyu Pass above the distant sky, it is an unexpected thing.

Their presence disrupts the original rhythm, which is not something that you can stay in the rhythm with a sleep and a cup of tea.

The so-called rhythm is everything under control, these are things that are beyond your control, and naturally you can't control your own rhythm.

Zhong Jiuling did not answer immediately, but asked: "No matter how complicated the situation is, chess players will always have their own plans and make their own arrangements, and you should have them too." ”

Li Xiu did not speak.

Pei Ziyun on the side frowned.

Even Xu Jiaoren, who seemed to be an outsider sitting on one side, looked up at him.

At this moment, Li Xiu is like a lost person, unable to find the direction to come and go, and has lost confidence.

Because the time left is too tight, because Xu Yingxiu's death is too heavy, because the future seems unreachable.

Everyone will fall into a hesitant moment, Zhong Jiuling did not get angry, and did not teach Li Xiu a lesson.

Because he knew that Li Xiu would be able to return to his original appearance sooner or later, he just had too many responsibilities on his back, and he just had too much pressure on his shoulders.

Such pressure can crush a lot of people.

"No one knows what will happen in a year's time, and even if that day does come, it may not be us who will lose in the end. Zhong Jiuling looked at Li Xiu, his voice paused, and continued: "We have our things to do, and you have to do your things too." ”

Li Xiu asked, "What should I do?"

He asked the question again.

Zhong Jiuling gave him the answer.

He put his hand on the corner of the board, then gently pinched it, and raised his hand to flip the board.

"The battle between heaven and earth is a game, and all you need to do is overturn the board. ”

"But I don't have the power to flip it right now. ”

"So you need to make yourself capable, you need to make more pieces on your side, you need to remove the hands that hold the pieces in the jar, you need to let the clouds that are blocking the board clear. ”

Li Xiu understood what he meant, and said softly: "Maybe it's too late." ”

Zhong Jiuling smiled and did not speak.

Li Xiu was silent for a while, and then said, "You have to try to know." ”

This is the words of the academy, and it is also the quality of the academy, and you must always try it in a desperate situation.

Zhong Jiuling nodded and said, "The people in the academy like to gamble, you might as well gamble with this world again." ”

Li Xiu's eyes were on the sea of clouds, and after being silent for a long time, he said, "Then take a gamble." ”