His thoughts were stirred up by pain, like ten thousand arrows piercing his heart.

The pain was like a tide, wave after wave, and Azu only felt that his bone marrow had been removed. Both teeth were clenched, and even blood was spilling between the teeth.

Finally, the pain slowly dissipated, and Azu's distorted face gradually stretched, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.

There is still dirt on the body that is similar to last time, and it smells fishy. Azu only felt disgusted, but found that the old beggar was standing in front of him, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"I wish my seniors ......"

The old beggar was a little solemn, but he just stretched out a finger with one hand, and in the moment of his thoughts, Azu's body was already lit with a flash of fire, but he didn't feel burned. In an instant, the dirt on the surface of the body was burned clean by the flames, but it did not hurt the body or clothing.

"Boy, let me ask you, what kind of exercises did you learn?"

The old beggar's eyes were as wide as a bell, but he asked.

Azu was about to answer, but when he thought of what Xu Mu had warned him, he hurriedly closed his mouth and didn't dare to speak.

"Do you know how amazing your technique is?"

Azu's heart fell, looking at the old beggar's expression, although he had long known that there was something wrong with this exercise, he was still a little surprised. It seems that this exercise is even more powerful than I thought.

"I don't know. Azu just shook his head, but it was telling the truth.

"The pulse is opened at the beginning, but you are not walking the path of cultivation, but the path of cultivating immortals......"

What is Cultivating Immortals?

The old beggar stared at him, but said, "Although the old man has never witnessed the Ascension Realm, he has heard a saying in the world......"

"That ascension is not a realm, but a catastrophe ......"

"The slaughter from heaven and earth...... If it passes, it will become an immortal, and if it is, it will turn into ashes and return to nothingness. ”

The old beggar had in his eyes a confusion and awe that Azu had never seen in him. Azu asked tentatively, "What can you do if you become an immortal?"

"Eternal life!" the old beggar said, but he had been fascinated for a long time, "live with heaven and earth, and are not bound by life and death." ”

"Immortality?, that is, to live forever?" said Azu.

"Yes. The old beggar replied, "Then Qin Shi Huang is looking for the elixir of immortality and refining the elixir of immortality, doesn't he just want to be immortal and create a dynasty with hundreds of millions of accumulations?"

"Senior, I'm afraid you've lived for hundreds of years, do you also want to find immortality?"

"Naturally, I want to. The old beggar was stunned, and then replied.

"Why do you want to live forever, what is the use of living forever?" Azu was still a child, and although he was far more mature than his peers, he also had doubts.

The old beggar was dumbfounded, but he did not know what words to use to answer him.

"If you live forever, you have to see the people around you leave and go to the earth, but you have to live forever. Is it really good?" thought to Azu, but muttered, "My father left me and went to Suncheon, and I will grieve for a long time." If everyone around you dies one by one, can you really be happy in immortality?"

"Happy?" the old beggar repeated Azu's words, but there was some deep meaning in them. There is some truth in the words of a child.

"My dad only let me do what I liked. I don't want to live forever, I just want to cultivate, be a hero, and be carefree. If the people around me die one by one, I will die too. ”

The old beggar watched Azu speak innocently, but he laughed, as if he was crazy.

"You kid...... Creation really doesn't fall on people's heads in vain......"

Looking at the old beggar's maniacal smile, Azu was just a little ignorant again.

The old beggar laughed for a long time, with a bit of self-deprecation. He just lowered his head and looked at Azu again, and said, "Xiao'er, after hearing what you said, I really want to teach you the way of cultivation." ”

Azu had hope in his eyes, but the old beggar changed his voice.

"It's a pity that your cultivation is wonderful. The old man can't teach you ......"

Azu was a little disappointed, but he just nodded, but the old beggar said again.

"However, you haven't built a foundation yet, but you have already opened the second line of Rendu, and you are not taking an ordinary cultivation path. If you can keep going, it may not be immortality, maybe it will be something else......"

"Other results?" Azu just listened, muttering quietly.

"The old man doesn't know, there may be other differences between heaven and earth like you...... You people, I don't know if it's genius or scourge......"

"Those of us, no matter how far we go on the path of cultivation, we are just continuing to follow our predecessors. But maybe you should open another path?"

"One more road......"

The old beggar looked at the pensive Azu, and just tried to say, "I have heard that some people have cultivated to the level of the golden pill, but they do not turn into a golden pill, but only give birth to a green pill. The human body is like a tree, and the green pill is the branches and leaves. Waiting for thousands of green pills, what can you do if you turn into a god?"

Azu's heart sank, but he seemed to understand something.

The seniors reminded themselves that there was no need to follow the cultivation method of ordinary monks. Why do you want to practice qi, why do you have to concentrate? Why don't you create your own set of realms? Maybe you can go to another path, and the end of that path is the real result?

As if his mind was clear, Azu only felt that his mind seemed to be opened. The body naturally entered a mysterious state, and there seemed to be a trickle of water around it, which was swallowed by the whale.

The old beggar's heart moved, sure enough, this kid had some way, he just wanted to inspire him, but he didn't expect it to be a real epiphany.

It is rumored that the legendary founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu, after an epiphany, was a scholar, once entered the Tao, rode a green ox, and went to the sky!

I just don't know what will happen to this kid after that......

Epiphany is ethereal, Azu just feels that he is too empty to travel. When I opened my eyes, I felt like I was in a fugue, but I was just in a void space.

It was pitch black all around, but there was a handful of loess in front of him.

Earth?

Azu was puzzled, but there was something vaguely in the loess. On closer inspection, it turned out to be just a slender rhizome slowly emerging from it.

Azu patiently observed, but did not see the mystery. But time passed much faster than usual, and the stem grew vigorously, quickly going from a finger long to almost a foot high.

It's just that the stem is growing fast, but I can't tell what it is.

Azu's doubts were even worse, only to see that the stem was still growing higher and higher, and finally it had grown to the limit, almost as tall as Azu. From the top of that stem, a flower bone slowly emerged.

Azu is a rural child, and although he does not work in agriculture, he also knows most of the flowers and plants. It's just that this flower is not within the scope of Azu's cognition.

In the midst of doubt, the flower bone suddenly bloomed, and it was with infinite brilliance. Azu only felt that there was a brilliant bloom in his eyes, but the flower was like the sun.

This flower is also strange, but it is blooming, but there is no pollen and fragrance. Even the petals are the most ordinary pure white, and the buds in them are also pale white, unusually simple.

Azu just watched, but his heart beat suddenly. I just can't help but think of the growth of the flower, just like a person's life, from the first birth, to growth, to the final bloom, withering...... However, unlike people, the flower only withers, but not dies, and when the spring breeze blows, the vitality returns, and the flower will bloom again.

If it is compared to cultivation, the life of the flower is like various stages. The first flower stem that sticks out of the seed is just the cultivator's cultivation of qi and the quiet entry. Then there is life, vitality, growth, and maturity, which is to concentrate on building a foundation, and finally bloom into a flower, isn't it also the path of cultivation for monks?

Azu's heart moved, as if he had gained something. If you think about it carefully, isn't this exactly what the seniors told me, another way?

If you think of yourself as a flower and grow with it, why not try?

Boom! Like thunder in the sky, Azu opened his eyes again, and saw the scene in the cave again.

In front of him, however, was the old beggar, staring at him with a serious face.

"Boy, is there something to be gained?"

"Uh, like, right?" Azu replied in embarrassment.

"Like?" the old beggar looked at Azu, and then smiled, "That's it, if you don't want to say it, don't say it." ”

Azu just breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boy, it's time for you to go......"

Hearing the old beggar's leisurely words, Azu suddenly remembered that he was afraid that he hadn't been home for a while, and his mother was probably worried, so she asked, "Senior, I don't know how long it has been?"

"Three years ......"

"Three years?" Azu's heart moved, his realization was actually three years?

Thinking that his mother had been looking for him in the village for a long time, asking people to inquire everywhere, and even searching all over Jiangnan, but he could only worry about being afraid alone, Azu's heart couldn't help but hurt fiercely.

Looking at his body, the wound left by Jiao that day was still clearly visible, and Azu felt that something was wrong.

But he looked at the old beggar and smiled, and said obscenely: "Hehe, I lied to you, it's only been half a day." ”

"......" Azu was speechless for a long time, but he just held back a sentence. "You...... Geezer. ”

I turned around and was about to leave, but I found that there were walls all around, and I couldn't see where the road was.

The old beggar still had that unpleasant smile: "Do you know where to go?"

"......" had thought about the old beggar's appearance before, but now Azu only felt that this obscene smile was the true face of the old beggar, so he had to make a fist, "Please also ask the seniors to show the way." ”

"Hahahaha. The old beggar laughed, and suddenly the sky changed, and the wall still disappeared out of thin air, facing a snowy sky. The old beggar lifted Azu's collar with one hand, but he rose out of thin air and flew straight into the sky from the mountain.

The clouds are fluttering, and the fairy spirit is thick. Azu only felt that the air was carried extremely sharply by the rapidity, but the surrounding scenery was like a fairyland.

Is this the way the immortals step out of thin air?

Azu was secretly envious in his heart, and he didn't know when he would be able to have such magical powers.

After a while, Azu saw from afar that above the ground was a meandering stream, which was the one in the village.

The old beggar seems to be deliberately showing his skills, and he falls very fast, like an eagle preying on it. Azu naturally knew in his heart that the old beggar would not harm him, so he was just relieved.

It fell to the ground, without dust, and even the snow on the ground did not leave a mark.

"How is the old man?"

"The predecessors were amazing. Azu was a little amused in his heart, half of it was a pretended compliment, and the other half was also a sincere compliment.

Sycophants are inexhaustible. The old beggar was just happy and smiled, "Go, go, go." Then a flower in his hand turned into a bowl out of thin air, but it was the broken bowl he usually begged for.

After looking at this bowl, Azu thought that this old beggar obviously had such magical powers, and he actually gave him three cents, but he silently took a sip in his heart.

"By the way, senior, did you see a Taoist or a big bird in the village three months ago?"

Suddenly remembering his previous experience, Azu only thought that the old beggar might have some news.

"Daoist, I didn't pay attention. The old beggar thought for a moment, but said, "As for the big bird, are you talking about the golden crow?"

There was light in Azu's eyes, and sure enough, the old beggar knew the relationship.

"There's something wrong with that golden crow...... I thought it was looking for the hibiscus tree at the entrance of the village, but it didn't seem to be like that......"