Lou Yi almost at the moment when the old man's voice fell, his eyes suddenly darkened, and the person was already drunk to death......

But this drunkenness was not simply drunk, but entered a place like a dream, and he had forgotten his identity, and now he was only a shepherd boy, holding a green bamboo flute, sitting on top of a swarthy buffalo, and laughing in a crisp voice.

The buffalo lazily swam in the river, the river soaked his trousers, the cool river water made him laugh quite happily, holding the bamboo flute and putting it to his mouth, the flute sound came out slowly, the sound was crisp and bright, and people couldn't help laughing.

There is no one else here, a man and a cow frolicking and the river willow trees, time seems to stand still, everything is so happy.

In this way, year after year passed, Lou Yi grew up slowly, but the things around him remained the same, the green bamboo flute, the black buffalo, the green willows, the clear river, the days were the same, but the smile on his face was gone.

Now he often looks up at the sky, and falls into deep thought, why the same scene, after many years, makes him no longer feel happy, he looks into the distance, there are no other creatures here except him and his buffalo.

Lou Yi was standing in the water at the moment, the river could no longer reach the top of his head, the river was flowing on his chest, he touched the buffalo and asked, "Why have I stayed here all the time, and what is the meaning of my life here?"

For the first time, he began to think about life, and wanted to find the meaning of life, why such a joyful thing gradually lost as he grew older......

He didn't find an answer, and forty years passed in a blink of an eye, and now he was an old man with a white beard, his face was full of wrinkles, his eyes were gradually losing sight of his surroundings, and his ears were turned back.

The green bamboo flute in his hand also turned into a crutch made of black bamboo, and he staggered alone, because the big buffalo had died many years ago, and he looked at the river in front of him in a daze, which he had been doing for decades.

It has been the same for decades, it has never changed, and now he feels that his limit is approaching, so he has come here with all his strength, wanting to see the place where he has lived all his life.

The life of a mortal is very short, and he who lives to the age of antiquity is already considered a long-lived person, because the average life expectancy of ordinary mortals is only thirty or fifty years.

He looked at the river in front of him, slowly closed his eyes, the crutch in his hand slowly slipped from the old palm, and there was a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, because until the moment he closed his eyes, he still did not understand what the meaning of human life was when he was young.

When he opened his eyes again, he had become a swordsman, and a killer who killed without blinking, accustomed to the sadness of life and death, accustomed to the deception of deceit, his feelings were numb, and the only proof that he was still alive was the moment when the knife in his hand slashed at the target.

Because at that moment, he could feel that life was beating, and he could feel that he was still alive, because this kind of life-and-death struggle, either you die or I die.

This night, he turned into a god of death and slaughtered thousands of people in the whole house with his own strength, including many of the strong martial arts guardians, but no one could stop him from stabbing him, even if it was an innocent child, he did not have half mercy.

When he walked out of this luxurious mansion, he had already become a bloody man, with countless wounds large and small on his body, but he didn't realize it, because his nerves had been numb from excessive excitement in the fight just now.

He came to the river at the west end of the city, and plunged headlong into the river, and he was covered with blood, and slowly became clean under the washing of the river.

This seems to have become a habit after he kills people, and he is also the most feared killer, people give him the nickname 'One Knife Fairy', his knife is not the horse chopping knife used by horse bandits, nor the golden-backed knife used by Jianghu swordsmen, but two short blades of similar length.

He took great care of these two knives, and gave them names, the golden one was called the copper heart, and the iron blue one was called the iron gall, as for why it was called that, he had no memory, but vaguely remembered that when these two short blades followed him, it was this name.

Cleaning up the blood stains on his body, but his ears are discerning the sounds around him, this is his vigilance as a killer, and he must not relax his vigilance at any time, otherwise his life will be difficult to protect at any time.

Suddenly, an extremely slight sound came into his ears, which was incompatible with the tranquility around him, and Lou Yi snorted coldly, "I guessed that you would come back and show up!!

A group of black-clothed people, the moment his voice fell, appeared strangely around him, completely surrounding him.

These people, like him, are all killers of the Afterlife Hall, and he is the most advanced gold medal killer, they don't have their own names, only one code name, that is, the Afterlife Guard.

As a killer hidden in the darkness, the Hall of the Dead is also the most terrifying existence, and this time he has become the target of the Hall of the Dead to kill, for no other reason than because he did something he shouldn't have done.

The mansion he had just gone to was the secret residence of the master of the Hall of the Dead, and he had turned it into a purgatory on earth, and as for why he did it, it was only because when he was on the street, a child had said before he died, "I don't want to die, I want to live!"

However, the purpose of the Afterlife Hall is to never leave a living mouth, but for the first time he has been numb to life and death, he has the idea of wavering, because the child who died in front of him once saved his life......

This made him reflect on the meaning of what he had done over the years, what he lived for, why did he kill?

As a result, he fell into confusion, and in order to untie his knot, he went to the mansion of the hall master of the dead hall by night, but he was greeted by the anger of the hall master, and even wanted to kill him.

So in the instinct of self-preservation, he killed all the living things that his eyes could see, and wrapped chickens, ducks, cats and dogs......

However, after the extreme excitement, he ushered in an endless emptiness, he thought he had found the meaning of life, but the truth was cruel, after feeling the brief impassionedness, he fell into an even more ambivalent psychological pressure.

Now that he was surrounded, and the people who wanted to kill him were all masters like him, the blood was excited again, he smiled very fiercely, and said, "Come on, let me see, whether I die or you die!!"

A cruel night passed quietly, and when the sun rose again, Lou Yi slowly fell down with a sad smile.

He single-handedly killed all the killers who came to stop him, but he also died in the river because of his injuries, and the last picture reflected in his eyes was the slowly rising sun, his heart was cooling, and finally everything returned to dust.

When he opened his eyes for the third time, it was still the river, but this time he had become an immortal cultivator, full of spirit, with cold eyes, and at this time he was walking with his sword, chasing a buffalo that had become a spirit, and happened to come to this river.

The buffalo was exhausted, and begged him on his knees to let him go, and swore with his demons that he would do more good deeds in this life, and would never do anything that hurt heaven and reason.

However, the young man was unmoved, and swung his sword to cut off the head of the buffalo demon, and the buffalo demon cursed as he was dying, "You are so ruthless, I curse you that you will never be able to become an immortal for the rest of your life!!

The buffalo demon opened his eyes and died, staring at him with dead eyes, Lou Yi threw out a talisman and burned its body clean, but then found that the location where the buffalo demon died, leaving a dark shadow, no matter how he cast a spell, he couldn't eliminate it.

He finally left here, and slowly forgot about the things here, in line with the Taoist concept of eliminating demons and defending the way, there are countless demons who live and die in his hands, whether they are wronged or deserved, as long as they are encountered by him, they will all be killed.

Therefore, in the mouth of the demons and monsters, he has a resounding name, called ghost sorrow.

Thousands of years have passed in a hurry, I don't know if the curse of the buffalo demon he killed when he was young has come true, he has never been able to peek at that glimmer of opportunity, seeing that his longevity is about to end, he once again returned to the original place.

However, what he didn't expect was that the black shadow left by the buffalo demon was still there, and Lou Yi seemed to see the high-spirited self, as well as the buffalo demon who begged him to let him live.

Thousands of years of time, as if it has not brought the slightest change here, but it has made a high-spirited young man become a young man with a young face, Lou Yi did not leave, but built a grass house here to live.

He came to the black shadow regularly every day, sat cross-legged, as if he wanted to break the shackles brought to him by the curse in this way, he didn't believe that it was really because of the curse of the buffalo demon that he was never able to break through.

He thinks that his state of mind is not peaceful enough, and the murderous heart is too heavy, so this residence is a hundred years, away from the killing, away from the hustle and bustle, every day of eating and drinking, pure heart and few desires, all day long with rivers and trees as a companion, I don't know when, the black shadow left by the buffalo demon slowly dispersed.

However, Lou Yi seems to have long forgotten its existence, and he seems to have integrated himself into his surroundings, enjoying this rare tranquility.

However, in the end, he did not break through to the ascension, but in the moment before his death, he saw his first two lives, the shepherd boy and the killer.

What is the meaning of life? Why do you live? These are the questions left by him in his first two lives, but as the third life, he realized two different meanings of life at the moment before he died......

When he woke up again, he found him lying on the hillside outside the city, and it happened that there was a grass hut on the hillside, and there was a mountain river in front of the slope, and a few crooked willows were planted next to it.

Looking up, he could see the moon and stars, and the crickets and nightingales were crying in his ears, and he slowly stood up and muttered to himself, "Drunk and forgetful of three lives, good wine! Good wine, ......good wine."