"Ding Qinghan, the acquaintance obediently handed over the Heavenly Shadow to hide, spare you from death!"

In the alley full of corpses, dozens of mountain spirit masters armed with silver scimitars forced a white-haired young man into a corner.

The leader was a rough, one-eyed man, poorly dressed, wearing a shabby hat, with his feet bare, stepping on the bloodstained stone pavement.

These people are from the Scimitar Gang, they are the head snakes in this area of Black Rock City, and most of their cultivation is between the two yangs, and the one-eyed cultivation of their gang leader has reached the peak of the lower three realms.

The white-haired young man in the corner was naturally Ding Qinghan, I saw him holding an iron sword in his right hand, leaning against the stone wall, standing up with some difficulty, taking out a book of exercises from his arms and putting it aside and saying: "Hmph~ If you have the ability, you can come and get it yourself!"

As the name suggests, all the houses in the city are made of black stone, and even the roof tiles are paved with thinned stone chips.

Bang!

Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded, black clouds pressed down, and heavy rain was coming, which made Black Rock City, which was already black, change as if it was night.

"Ding Qinghan, Lao Tzu just wants to get Tianying to hide, I don't want to break the net with you, don't push people too much!" Although the one-eyed rough man looks like a rough man, he is on the contrary cautious and cautious, not reckless at all.

Ding Qing looked at him coldly: "You can choose to get out of here, no one forces you!"

"You ......" The one-eyed rough man was angry, his eyes were cold, and the scimitar in his hand couldn't help but clench a little.

"Hmph~" Ding Qinghan's eyes narrowed slightly: "What, I can't hold my breath, I want to do it as soon as possible, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you!"

"Since you insist on looking for death, Lao Tzu will send you to see the king of Hades today, brothers!" Ding Qinghan's words completely angered the one-eyed rough man, he had already prepared for the worst, it was a big deal that the fish died and the net was broken, and no one would have a good time.

"A bunch of idiots!" Ding Qinghan looked at these mountain spirit masters who were killing him with a calm face, without the slightest intention of wanting to dodge.

"Ahh

"What's going on?" The one-eyed rough man didn't understand, Ding Qinghan clearly leaned against the stone wall and didn't move, when did he move his hand, could it be that this damn guy still has helpers hiding in the dark?

"It's your turn, die!" Just as the one-eyed rough man was distracted, a voice sounded on his right, and before he could react, his head had moved.

Looking at the other members of the Scimitar Gang, they had all fallen to the ground, and a fountain of blood could be seen spurting out of their chests, and they couldn't die anymore, and even when they were killed, they didn't even have time to scream, so they died inexplicably.

Putting away the Heavenly Shadow to hide, Ding Qinghan suddenly raised his head and shouted, "The one on the roof, is he going to watch it for a long time!"

Swish......

A young man in blue clothes fell, looked at Ding Qinghan with a little appreciation in his eyes, and said, "Your body is very interesting, it seems that you haven't moved, but it's actually because it's too fast." ”

Ding Qinghan was silent for a while and asked, "What advice does Your Excellency have?"

Wow......

The rain began suddenly, although only lightly.

"It's raining, let's talk in the house. The young man in blue glanced up at the sky and walked directly into the house.

Ding Qinghan didn't talk nonsense, and followed into the house.

Whoa......

It's raining more and more outside, it's a downpour!

The young man in blue stood by the window, and with a flash of lightning illuminated his figure, which could be seen on the back of his clothes, embroidered with a large number of [seven].

He turned around, looked at Ding Qinghan and introduced: "Frightened below: Lu Xingran is the leader of the world's vertical and horizontal forces, the Qixiufang organization. ”

After introducing himself, he continued: "I appreciate your style, I wonder if you are interested in joining our organization?"

Ding Qinghan, who was invited, looked a little surprised and surprised, but then shook his head and refused directly: "Leader Lu, I'm really sorry, Ding is used to being alone, you better find someone else!"

Lu Xingran was silent for a while: "Why don't we talk a little more, and if you refuse, how about it?"

Ding Qinghan nodded and said, "Leader Lu, please speak!"

Outside, the rain kept falling, and in the room, Lu Xingran stretched out his hand and motioned to sit down and talk.

The two found a stone table and sat down facing each other, Lu Xingran asked, "Ding Daoyou, I'm curious, what is cultivation for you?"

Ding Qinghan replied: "Now for the sake of immortality." ”

Lu Xingran asked again: "Then you know, how can it be considered immortal?"

Ding Qinghan did not hesitate, and said directly: "In my opinion, immortality never refers to immortality, but to achieve true freedom, which is immortality. ”

"Hmm. Lu Xingran nodded in agreement: "What you said is right, this is the reason." ”

But then he shook his head and said, "But your understanding is only for ordinary people, in the eyes of monks, immortality means immortality. ”

"The moment you become a monk, you should understand that the freedom of a monk is a game between the strong and the weak, unless you are invincible in the world and no one dares to attack you, otherwise, you will never be free!"

Tick ~ Tick ...... Outside, the rain stopped.

Ding Qinghan got up, walked to the window, looked at the corpses piled up outside, and fell into deep thought.

A cool breeze blew, and no one would ask the dead bodies lying on the ground if they also felt cold.

He suddenly remembered that sixteen years ago, on the night when he was cursed by the evil spirit, he was rolling in the mud in pain, and no one who passed by dared to approach him.

He turned around and asked solemnly, "Leader Lu, where will people lead after they die?"

Lu Xingran thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't know either, because of this issue, only the dead have the right to know!"

Outside, the rain began to fall again, but this time, it was not only raining, but also a strong wind, a very strong wind, blowing the rain as if it was fighting with the wind.

But what's really interesting is that no one cares who wins, as long as they don't tear off the roof.

Ding Qinghan returned to the stone table and sat down, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Leader Lu, I want to know below, what are the main forces in the current mountain and sea realm?"

Although Ding Qinghan was born in this era, his cognition of the various forces in the mountain and sea realm is actually still stuck in the way it was more than a hundred years ago, and he knows very little, so little that it is almost the same as not knowing.

The reason why Ding Qinghan became like this is due to Daoist Master Yue, when she ruthlessly calculated Daoist Xue in order to get rid of the evil cultivators, and afterwards, she was chased and killed by the remnants of the evil cultivators, and was seriously injured and almost died.

When she met Ding Qinghan, a hundred years had passed, and naturally, the forces in the world she knew were still more than a hundred years ago, when she was hunted down.

Although later, she lived with Ding Qinghan for many years, whenever Ding Qinghan asked about the forces of the world, she always answered vaguely, obviously reluctant to answer, and always felt that she was deliberately avoiding this question.

Especially half a year ago, when she was about to fall into a deep sleep, she repeatedly told Ding Qinghan not to inquire about the various forces in the mountain and sea realm.

As a foreign body in heaven and earth, she has lived for more than two hundred years, she knows too well the rules of survival in the mountain and sea realm, and a casual cultivator, if there is no backstage, and she happens to be carrying a foreign treasure, she will not live long.

Ding Qinghan would ask such a question, and Lu Xingran didn't feel strange at all.

He knew very well that in the realm of mountains and seas, for those who were at the bottom of the world, sometimes the less they knew, the longer they could live.

Regarding this cruel law of survival, Lu Xingran empathized too much, because he was the one who came from casual cultivation!

Thinking back to the past, the past is vivid, when Lu Xingran looked at Ding Qinghan again, his eyes couldn't help but become pity, sighed, and said in a serious tone: "You can think about it, as soon as I told you, what you will face in the future are two points of no return." ”

"If you join the Qixiufang organization, it's okay, I'll be your backer, and you will become my sowing target at most. ”

"But if you refuse to join, the situation will be much worse, you will be caught by the people of the Mountain Spirit Academy to be a living target, life is better than death!"

Ding Qinghan was confused when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Chief Lu, what do you mean?"

"I didn't understand, did I?" Lu Xingran had a look of expectation, and continued: "In the mountain and sea realm, unless you have a backer, otherwise, if you want to know more, you will have to pay a heavy price!"

"The price is that you will lose your freedom from now on!"

"Do you know why many casual cultivators don't know anything about this world, because the one who tells you the secret will spread immortal seeds on you. ”

"It's ridiculous, isn't it, the forces of this world are a secret that can't be said. ”

Hearing this, Ding Qinghan suddenly realized, no wonder when she asked about Dao Shiyue before, she always answered vaguely, and even deliberately avoided it, but he still couldn't help but be curious, and asked: "Leader Lu, can you explain, what are the immortal seeds you are talking about?"

Lu Xingran didn't have the idea of persuading Ding Qinghan to turn back, he originally planned to invite Ding Qinghan to join Qixiufang, how could he let go of this opportunity: "You can understand that the immortal seed is the key to open the door of the mountain spirit master organization, if you want to know more, you must accept the seeding, otherwise even if you go all over the mountain and sea realm and ask all the mountain spirit masters you have seen, you still can't get an answer." ”

"For he who tells you can open his mouth and say nothing without sowing seeds for you. ”

"You just have to understand that the One who sows seeds to other people, and the one who is sown can sow seeds to other people, but no one knows who the One of the Source is, and no one knows when it was sown. ”

After Ding Qinghan heard this, he gasped, this is the world of high-level monks that he has always longed for?

It's also a big disappointment.

However, disappointment is disappointment, Ding Qinghan still wants to know more, and wants to become a person who can control his own destiny and be truly free.

Thinking through this question, he said directly: "Understood, let's start sowing." ”

"As you wish!" Lu Xingran bit his index finger and pointed at the center of Ding Qinghan's eyebrows, only to see a purple seed flying out of his fingertips and burrowing into Ding Qinghan's eyebrows.

The whole process was very fast, and in less than ten breaths, Lu Xingran had already sown the immortal seed and stopped.

This is a very wonderful feeling, what it is, Ding Qinghan can't say, but after Lu Xingran stopped, he obviously felt that he seemed to have lost something.

To be continued......