He Lingfeng headed north, absentmindedly thinking about a series of things that had happened recently as he fled.

The battle of the righteous demons, encountered the cloudy sky and failed to take revenge, Xuanhe Prefecture fell, the sect was destroyed, the master and the second senior brother fell together, the third senior brother was captured and still did not know life and death, and the senior brother was abolished and lost his soul...... All of this made him feel that the world was impermanent, and the power of one person was too small and weak. For the first time in so many years since the day his mother died, he felt so exhausted and physically and mentally weak. He didn't know if his choice back then was worth it, and whether it was worth sticking to that path that didn't end at a glance......

Countless lost thoughts are chaotic in my mind, and pessimistic emotions crawl into my heart inch by inch.

Confused, desperate, unprecedented confusion and despair, this is a true portrayal of his current state of mind.

"Now that I'm alone, what should I do?" He Lingfeng looked around blankly, feeling anxious in his heart.

After flying away for only twenty miles like this, He Lingfeng was already upset, like a big stone blocking his heart, but he felt a little out of breath. At this time, he had no intention of looking, and happened to see a small lake outside Xu Kai in front of him, which was sparkling and a little dazzling under the sun, so he couldn't help but have the idea of going down to see the lake scenery and condense his mind.

So, without thinking about it, He Lingfeng turned his light slightly, flew downward, and after a while, his figure fell lightly and stood on the shore of the lake.

He Lingfeng looked aimlessly and found that there was no one around, only a small boat in the middle of the lake gently rippling with the water waves, and on the boat was a thin old man wearing a hat, holding a bamboo fishing rod sitting at the stern of the boat. The old man faced him sideways, with white eyebrows and white beard, ruddy complexion, he was calm and relaxed, and he did not move, like a statue connected with the body of the boat.

Quiet, leisurely and silent, this is what He Lingfeng felt after standing for a long time, and his mixed mood gradually calmed down with the influence of the surrounding atmosphere.

He stood there, also staring motionlessly at the old man fishing alone in the boat in the middle of the lake, two or three miles away as if it were close to him with the immortal vision. He felt a natural open-mindedness and peace from this old man, which surprised him, thinking that this old man was some kind of hermit master, but when he used the spiritual eye secret technique, he didn't find even the slightest mana fluctuation from the old man. It turned out that the old man was actually a mortal, but he could have such a transcendent state of mind, and it was obvious that the old man was also a great wisdom in the world.

He Lingfeng was afraid of disturbing the old man, so he was unwilling to set up a retreat and leave at this time. He stood with his hands in his hands, quietly looking at the old man, letting the breeze blowing on the lake blow his cheeks, feeling the breath of nature, and the natural bearing exuded by the old man, he suddenly felt that he had an understanding, and he was even more reluctant to destroy this rare opportunity.

In that lake, Yizhou and the two people who were calm and motionless formed a picture of a rather intentional situation.

I don't know how long it took for this to finally break the calm picture at some point.

But seeing that the fishing line tied to the head of the fishing rod that the old man had been holding suddenly stretched straight, the front half of the fishing rod immediately bent and sank, with the point where the fishing line sank into the lake as the center, and a circle of rapidly expanding ripples appeared on the water surface.

The old man's eyes lit up, and he quickly grasped the fishing rod with both hands, lifted it up and lifted it again, and quickly threw it back, and a fat fish broke away from the hook and was put into the basket behind him.

The old man seemed to be very satisfied with the fish, so he directly put away the fishing rod, then stood up, picked up a long bamboo pole and began to swing slowly towards the shore of the lake with the boat, but its direction was exactly where He Lingfeng was standing.

He Lingfeng had already come back to his senses at this time, in the previous epiphany, he had gained a lot, in his self-feeling, now as long as the mana was enough, he could cultivate from the early stage of the Yuan Infant to the late Yuan Infant in one breath without encountering the slightest bottleneck, which couldn't help but surprise him in his heart. But then I thought about it, and I felt that such an epiphany was hard to come by, and it was extremely difficult to reproduce, so it was not uncommon to have such an amazing effect.

After about a cup of tea, the old man's boat finally landed, he grabbed the fish basket and went down to the shore, brushed the long white whisker on his chin with one hand, and then said with a smile to He Lingfeng, who was standing by the lake, "Young man, I see you standing here and watching me fish for a long time, but what is there to ask for advice? ”

He Lingfeng respectfully bowed to the old man, and then replied, "The old man misunderstood, the younger generation just happened to pass by here, and saw that the lake scenery was good, so he stopped to watch, and saw the old father You are fishing in the middle of the lake, with an extraordinary bearing, and the style of a master, I admire in my heart, and I don't want to disturb the old man's Yaxing who is fishing alone, so I haven't left for a long time, and I didn't come to ask for advice." ”

"Oh, I see, but the old man is a little smug, thinking that you, like those who often come here, have come to ask the old man for advice. The old man smiled in surprise and said with some self-deprecation.

"Don't dare, old man, if you say so, it must be a famous person in this state, and there are probably not a few people who come to visit you for advice. In fact, the younger generation is as calm as water, humble as a valley, you have a good life of admiration, and you are also quite interested in the way of self-cultivation, but you don't know how to do it, and you have the intention of asking your old man for advice or two, so it is not wrong for you to say that. By the way, the junior He Lingfeng hasn't asked his father for his name, but it's a bit rude. He Lingfeng bowed to the old man again and said respectfully.

"Hehe, Your Excellency is really a well-educated offspring. The old man's surname is Mu, and his single name is a 'son'. In fact, he is not a celebrity, but he has been in a daze for more than 70 years and has read some more books of sages. Lao Yu had taught in the county when he was in his prime, and he had a little name, and when he was old, he preferred mountains and rivers, and wanted to have a leisurely life, so he lived in seclusion near this place in Jinghu. However, there are always some younger generations who have been tireless in their studies to find here to ask for advice, and after answering questions and solving doubts, they don't realize that they have mixed up with the false name of a 'Sage of Mirror Lake', but they are a little ashamed. ”

When the old man said this, he paused, and did not rush to answer the question He Lingfeng had just asked, but asked He Lingfeng if he had had eaten dinner.

Although He Lingfeng has been in the valley for a long time, he only occasionally enjoys mortal food, but it is not good to answer like this to save the old man from asking, and he is now being hunted down by the people of the Demon Dao, in case it brings unnecessary disasters to him, it will affect the old man, so he has to truthfully say that he has never eaten. The old man smiled slightly and said that he wanted to eat fish, and asked He Lingfeng not to dislike the poor ingredients, invite He Lingfeng to eat together, and then talk slowly after the meal. He Lingfeng didn't like the old man's kindness, and after thanking him, he readily agreed.

The old man was very happy to see this, he went to the boat to get a cooking utensils and food materials, slaughtered and washed the fish, and then set up a small pot of firewood on the shore, poured oil and water after heating, fried the ingredients such as green onions, ginger, garlic and dried chili peppers until fragrant, then poured in the fish and fried for a while, added the mountain spring water prepared in advance in the urn, and began to stew, and after a while, there was a fragrance wafting out of the pot.

He Lingfeng smelled the fragrance of the fish in the lake that he had not seen for a long time, and couldn't help but recall the scenes when he fished in the lake in his hometown when he was not a cultivator, and the smell of the fish stewed by his mother at that time.

The old man saw it in his eyes but did not rashly ask the reason, but only added firewood to the side and concentrated on cooking the lake fish.

After about half a pillar of incense time, the small pot was already full of aroma, the old man smiled and said that the fish was ready, and then took the bowl and chopsticks for the two of them to hold the fish. He Lingfeng came back to his senses, and while thanking him, he took the chopsticks handed by the old man and a large bowl of good fish and meat.

The old man then took out a few more pieces of dry food, and the two of them began to eat the delicious fish soup and meat.