Chapter 2: The Pursuit
Half a year later, Yan Luofeng. The Nine Abyss Venerable's tightly closed cultivation secret room.
Jiuyuan Shang opened his eyes suddenly, his eyes were red, and the blue tendons on his forehead were abrupt.
Failed! This time, the cultivation of the level has failed again!
He hissed in pain. Crazy to destroy the furnishings in the room. The young man in green shirts who was waiting outside the door was shocked when he heard the movement in the room, and wondered in his heart: Could it be that the Venerable has failed in his advancement again! If so, if he remembers correctly, this is the fifth time that the Venerable has failed to advance. At this thought, he couldn't believe it. After stabilizing his mind, he hurriedly slammed the door of the secret room, and called out one after another: "Honorable, Honorableγγγγγγ However, no matter how much he flapped and called, the door to the secret room never opened.
Inside, Jiuyuan Venerable looked at the bronze incense burner tumbling on the ground, the sandalwood ash in it was sprinkled all over the ground, and the silver futon used for meditation was already torn apart under the leakage of his true qi, and he looked around, and it was a mess. His heart was filled with despair and powerlessness.
In view of the fact that the previous advances had unstable breath and frequent distracting thoughts, therefore, in order to ensure the success of this rush, he made sufficient preparations, meditating with a futon woven from thousand-year-old ice silk, and burning with 10,000-year-old rosewood incense in the incense burner, both of which have the wonderful effect of calming the mind and calming the soul. I thought that this time I could make a steady progress, but I still failed, and besides, he was restless, his mind was roaring, and he seemed to have a faint tendency to go mad. This feeling was very bad, and he couldn't imagine if he would directly become a madman who couldn't control himself when he rushed to the level again
Why is this happening, why?
He, a proud son of heaven who is one in ten thousand, a genius in cultivating immortals, which time his cultivation is not as powerful as a bamboo, without any obstacles, otherwise, he would not have stood at the top of the pyramid of countless immortal cultivation sects in the Miluo Realm at the age of only three hundred years old, and became an existence that countless immortal cultivators looked up to and could not reach.
But why is this advancement so insurmountable, he tried again and again, and failed again and again, this time, he almost went mad and was confused. Could it be that the previous cultivation was too smooth, or maybe it was in response to the sentence: God is jealous of talents. Therefore, God decided to teach him to taste the hardships on the road of cultivating immortals.
"Hehehe!" he chuckled hoarsely. Ridiculous! Nothing else! The root of all failures comes from his heart.
That day, after returning from the peak, the sad appearance of the little girl seemed to take root in his brain and never linger again. It seems that from that time on, there was a sudden crack in his heart that was devoted to the Tao, as if something else fresh and something he had never experienced seeped in from this crack.
He regretted that he had convicted the little girl and banished her to the abyss of endless darkness without asking for clarification. From the words spoken by the little girl in the reincarnation stage, he actually sensed some truths about why the little girl stole the pearls at that time. But he didn't hear it, and chose to ignore it indifferently, bent on driving her into the dark abyss, so that he made an irreparable mistake.
Since then, the Venerable has often fallen into self-blame: in vain, he has been high in the sky, holding the fate of the common people, and a word can make people live, and a word can make people die. Although his power and magic power are boundless, he thinks that he is just, and his eyes are like torches, and he has never caused an innocent person to be wronged and criminally wronged. But now, he has put a little girl who has not committed much of a mistake to death, banished her to the abyss of darkness, where she will endure endless torture and pain.
How cruel he was, and how innocent she was.
Once the seeds of guilt and self-blame are planted, they take root in his heart, and it seems that they can no longer be removed.
He began to blame himself day by day, and his mind became more and more trance day by day.
When meditating, entering the time, and practicing, the little girl's frightened and helpless appearance on the reincarnation platform will suddenly shake in front of her eyes and appear in her mind, reminding him how cruel and stupid he is.
He hoped that time would make him forget, but day after day, his symptoms did not lessen, but worsened.
Those who cultivate immortals are the most taboo to have a knot. If the knot in the heart is not removed for a day, it will be difficult to cultivate an inch. He knows this, but he can't do anything about it.
Now, what he feared most had finally happened. The Chaos Nine Forms he cultivated had reached the eighth form, and he should have broken through the bottleneck and advanced to the ninth form, but who knows, at the moment when he was about to break through successfully, he saw the little girl standing on the reincarnation platform again, his eyes were sad, and he called pitifully: "Sister, save me, I hurt," Then, in a trance, he seemed to see the little girl stretching out a pair of weak hands to him again, shouting, "God, save me, I hurt-
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The Venerable was stamped and at a loss.
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A few days later, the Venerable came out of the secret room, and the whole person became shapely, and it was difficult to find a trace of the peerless demeanor of half a year ago.
Lian Mei and the young man in green shirt have been waiting outside the door of the secret room for several days, and they are already anxious. Finally, they saw that the door of the secret room was opened, and the Venerable came out of it, and before the two of them could be happy, they were frightened by the pale face and haggard appearance of the Venerable.
Lian Mei's pure and pretty face showed a look of surprise and sadness, as the disciple of the Venerable One, she knew his self-blame and remorse in the past six months. That day she punished Yueluo, and after the three of them came down from the top of Yanluo Peak, Shangzun asked her vaguely why Yueluo would steal the Demon Suppression Bead as a contouring bead. Fortunately, she was already mentally prepared, and immediately she looked at the Venerable with hurt and incredulous eyes: "Venerable, you, you don't believe me?"
The pear blossoms with rain she deliberately showed, both sad and aggrieved, made Shangzun can't bear to ask any more. Maybe he really believed her, or maybe he felt pity for her, the best disciple of the sect, but after only this once, the Venerable never mentioned this matter to her again.
She was very glad that the heart that had been hanging finally fell back to its original place, and while breathing a sigh of relief, she was also secretly proud: You see, Yueluo, in the heart of the Venerable, I am even charming, is what he values the most, even if he is fair and severe, even if he knows that you have amazing beauty, even if he knows that I designed you to steal the Demon Suppression Pearl, compared to me, you are a grain of grass mustard, grass mustard can grow freely, but if you are accidentally trampled to death, it is really not worth anything.
However, this smugness did not last long, and when she learned from the mouth of the Supreme Servant's boy in green shirt that the Supreme Master had been blaming himself for wrongly punishing Yue Luo, and that she had not been able to break through the cultivation many times, she was shocked and dazed.
Now, looking at the appearance of the Venerable in front of her as before, she bit her red lips, with tears in her apricot eyes, looked at the Venerable without blinking, and said: "It's just an insignificant miscellaneous disciple, she made a mistake and deserves to be punished, even if the punishment is a little heavy, but a mistake is a mistake." Why do you blame yourself for this, you are the one who is admired by all beings, is it worth torturing yourself so much for a little ant?"
"Needless to say!"
Jiuyuan Shangzun took a deep look at Lian Mei, and felt in his heart that this disciple in front of him, whom he had valued a lot, had become a little unfamiliar.
For the first time, disappointment and faint anger rose in his heart. In fact, he has always been very clear in his heart:
Why did Yue Luo mistake the Demon Suppression Bead for a Contouring Bead?, who let Yue Luo know that there was such a bead? You know, Yue Luo survived in the Lingyin Pavilion as an extremely ugly miscellaneous disciple, and the Demon Suppression Bead was a relatively secret existence in his room, and it was absolutely impossible to know with her identity. Lian Mei is the one who should be punished. But he is too precious this apprentice on weekdays, if you talk about appearance, this apprentice is pure and dusty, very moving, few women can match her, if you talk about talent, she is the most outstanding in the Lingyin Pavilion, in time, there will be great success, which makes him even if he has insight into some truth, he still can't bear to blame her. However, what he couldn't understand was why Yueluo wanted to hide her true appearance and keep showing her ugly face? Otherwise, with her appearance, she would have been shocked by the world, and she would never be so obscure and calm?
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He smiled bitterly. In fact, even if there were many questions, with his ability, if he had the heart to investigate, what could he not trace? He just didn't want to delve into it.
What you think is ugly, but it has rare beauty! What you think is beautiful jade and good material may be just a pile of dirt!
Sometimes he smiled wryly, sometimes laughed at himself, sometimes shook his head. If you are crazy, you will quickly move towards the peak of the reincarnation platform.
Lian Mei and the young man in green shirt didn't understand why Shangzun went to the peak, but they didn't dare to stop him, and they were even more afraid that Shangzun would have an accident, so they followed him closely.
Lian Mei chased after him, and looked at the tall and thin back of Jiuyuan Shangzun, his eyes were complicated and indescribable, and his heart fluctuated:
This man, since she was eight years old, went up to the mountain to apprentice to the Tao, and when she saw him for the first time, she was shocked, and since then she has a goal in her heart to pursue.
She cultivated desperately in the sect, regardless of the sun and the moon, hoping to stand out among the many disciples so that he could notice her.
And she, did it!
After years of diligent cultivation, she has become the premier inner disciple of the Lingyin Pavilion, often receiving guidance from the Venerable on the path of cultivation, and is qualified to stand by his side and accompany him on public or grand occasions.
So she's satisfied.
In her heart, the Venerable is a deity, and in this world, there is probably no woman who can compare with him and be his partner.
However, it didn't take long for Yueluo to come to her side, breaking her inner peace and indifference like a storm.
That's it, but she still has the beauty that is hard to find in the world and all women dream of, her unique soft temperament, and the beauty of flawless skin, so that she has the power to easily turn all beings upside down.
She is not an adult, only ten years old, still ignorant, ignorant of the world, but it is difficult to hide the light of the bright moon.Yueluo, this little girl who was picked up by her from the side of the road in her infancy, and she also wanted to regard her as her own sister, before she has fully grown up and bloomed her peerless beauty, she has made her sister feel extremely suffocated and painful. Jealousy is like a poisonous snake that tears at her heart every day and night, she is so afraid that the Supreme will discover the incomparable beauty of Yueluo, and discover the amazing talent of Yueluo, she is even more afraid. Shangzun has been attracted to Yueluo since then, and there is no longer her even charming existence in his eyes.
Therefore, she tried her best to persuade Yueluo to cover her appearance and show people with an extremely ugly mask.
So, she deliberately said that the Demon Suppression Bead was a contouring bead, and sighed in front of Yueluo more than once, telling her wishes, saying that she was very afraid of getting old, so she was very eager to get that bead, so that her youth would always be there and her glory would last forever. Under the offensive of her tears and sadness, Yueluo, who has always loved her and obeyed her words, felt that it was necessary for her to fulfill her sister's wishes. So, on a dark and windy night when she couldn't see her fingers, Yueluo wore the ugly mask that Sister Lian Mei made for her herself, and quietly sneaked into Shangzun's room.
Admittedly, as she expected, Yueluo was discovered by the Venerable before she could reach for the beads, and the Venerable would be furious because of this, which was naturally expected by her Lian Mei.
It must be known that the beads in the room of the Venerable are the Immortal Gate Treasure Demon Beads, which are used to suppress tens of thousands of monsters in the depths of the Tongtian Mountain Range.
When she watched the Venerable Venerable take Yueluo to the reincarnation platform without even interrogating her in detail, and banished her to the endless dark abyss with her own hands, she also felt a moment of guilt in her heart. She thought, Yueluo, everything is because of your willfulness. You could have listened to my arrangements and lived in peace in my earthly home! Wouldn't it be good to serve my parents in my place at home? Isn't it good to be a mortal and die in peace? Why did you have to come to this immortal gate to look for me? Why did you insist on following me into this path of cultivating immortals? You are indeed innocent, but you are innocent, and you have saved you, but you have made me so miserable! This is your original sin! If you don't go to hell, who will go to hell?!
It's just a pity!
Lian Mei looked at the Venerable who was stumbling and getting closer and closer to the peak, and secretly hated in her heart.
Lian Mei kept cursing Yueluo in her heart, and at the same time her feet sped up, chasing after her superiors.
Not good!
Lian Mei stared ahead, almost frightened.
Venerable, Venerable, he actually flew on the reincarnation platform! What does he want to do?!!!
She didn't have time to think about it, she lifted her true qi, jumped up, stepped on a few low trees in the air, and fell to the reincarnation platform in an instant.
Before she could stand firmly, she hurriedly looked up at the Venerable on the stone platform who was activating the ban on the reincarnation platform, and asked in a trembling voice, "Venerable, you, what do you want?"
Jiuyuan Venerable looked at her with complicated eyes, and at this time he was quite disappointed in her, and he didn't want to say more to her, but there were some words that he couldn't say without words: "Since this seat already knows that it is wrong, how can it be wrong, I just hope that I can go here and find Yueluo, in order to make up for the mistakes made by this seat, and eliminate the demons in my heart.
After that, he didn't want to listen to what Lian Mei said, so he pinched his fingers again and again to activate the formation of the reincarnation platform. Before long, the wind on the stage was everywhere, howling and abusing him. The void black hole behind him has appeared, and Lian Mei kept waving his hands and shouting: "No, don't~~!" The black hole engulfed the Nine Abyss Venerable.
Lian Mei's whole body trembled, looking at the empty stone platform, as if someone had pulled the bones off her body, and slowly collapsed to the ground, her throat kept making a crying and laughing sound, and gradually, her face was like ashes, and her eyes were empty. The sudden change made her feel like a puppet, without thinking.
The young man in the green shirt was thrown out of the country by Shangzun and Lian Mei because of his poor cultivation, and he chased and chased along the way. At this time, Fang rushed to the top of the mountain out of breath. He looked around, but there was no shadow of him. Only Mei sat on the ground like a clay sculpture and didn't move. couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly ran over and shook Lian Mei's arms, and asked in a loud voice: "What's the matter, senior sister, what are you doing sitting on the ground?"
The wind was blowing at the top of the mountain, Lian Mei's long hair was messy by the wind, her face was pale, like a ghost, and she was violently shaken by the young man in green shirts, as if her soul had just returned to its place, she looked at the reincarnation platform with a daze in her eyes, and said in a dumb voice: "Respect him, he is also gone,"
"Where's the go?" Tell me, where has he gone?" the young man in the green shirt asked eagerly.
"Reincarnation platform, dark abyss, looking for --- Yueluo. Lian Mei Muran said word by word.
"What, what?!" The young man in the green shirt was taken aback, this was really amazing news, the Venerable had gone to the Dark Abyss. Not to mention what kind of danger he will face when he goes, just if he leaves, what will happen to the Lingyin Pavilion? What should I do with the Miluo Cultivation Realm? Without the deterrence of the Supreme Venerable, can the major immortal cultivation sects still coexist peacefully? Thinking of this, the young man in the green shirt couldn't care about anything, and hurriedly said to Lian Mei: "Senior sister, the Supreme Zun is gone, I have to hurry up and tell the Great Elder of the Sect." It's windy at the top of the mountain, so you should go down early. After speaking, he didn't look back, and ran under Yanluo Peak.
Lian Mei didn't hear the words of the young man in the green shirt, and still looked at the quaint reincarnation platform with dementia.
Day and night change, the sun and the moon are bright. I don't know how long later, on her pale face, a pair of empty eyeballs turned, but at a glance, she touched the two simple and vigorous characters engraved under the stone platform: reincarnation.
Stunned for a moment. She burst out laughing miserably, and her voice was rough and unpleasant.
Transmigration!
Yueluo was punished by the Supreme to embark on reincarnation and banished to the abyss of darkness, and the Supreme Zun blamed himself for Yueluo, embarked on reincarnation, and exiled himself. Who's the cause of whom? Who is the effect of whom? It turns out that creation never makes people! There is reincarnation in the world, and it is fair.
She slowly got up, her numb legs nearly causing her to fall. Suddenly, a white pillar of light shot out from the reincarnation platform, and before she could react, the pillar of light covered her, and a long and ancient voice sounded in her ears: "Since this enlightenment, they go, you can go too!"
On the reincarnation stage, the ban is automatically turned on. The black hole opened its mouth and mercilessly devoured the hysterical Lian Mei who was desperately struggling and shouting "I won't go".
After a while, the reincarnation platform returned to calm, and the top of the mountain was silent.
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Decades later. At the top of the peak came an old man with a white beard. His face was wrinkled, his body was rickety, and he was on a black dragon-headed cane. He staggered, gasping for breath, and sat down along the base of a large tree. Looking at his face, it was vague, as if there was barely a trace of the shadow of the young man in green shirts back then. His cloudy old eyes looked fixedly at the even more dilapidated reincarnation platform not far away, not moving, like a sculpture.
Back then, he was not determined enough, and couldn't help but look back curiously, that amazing glance, no, maybe it should be said that it was a frightening glance, which changed the fate of many people! Shangzun is gone, even the charm is nowhere to be found, the entire immortal gate is in turmoil because of the departure of the immortal head, and the desolate land is wolf smoke again...... , and he was also an extraordinarily talented and high-spirited young man, but because of that glance, he had already lost his soul, and he could no longer concentrate on cultivation, and now, he is no longer in the crowd.
Some people, even if the trajectory of her life is forcibly changed, there are always some wonderful things that belong to her, and no one is destined to take them away at will.