Walking in the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui didn't talk much, silently feeling the buzz and bustle of this super city.

"Master, is the world going to be in chaos?" Zhao Zhishui suddenly raised her head and asked Chu Chou.

"yes. However, there should be another one or two decades, so there will be no major turmoil in these twenty years, and you can travel around the rivers and lakes with peace of mind and practice with peace of mind. Chu Chou nodded and replied.

"Can no one stop this chaos from starting?"

"It's not that you didn't provoke it, but you can't stop it. This can't be because you can't do it without that ability, but because you can't stop the chaos from starting. ”

"Why?" Zhao Zhishui was puzzled, if she had the ability, why couldn't she be?

"Because if you stop it now, it only suppresses the thoughts of those people, just like the demons in your heart, the more you suppress it, the stronger the backlash will become, and it can't be solved fundamentally. It may be that the suppression of the thoughts of those empires this time will only cause small casualties, but once those empires find an opportunity in the future, they will implement this plan that has not been implemented for many years with more speed, fierceness and unscrupulousness, and at that time, many, many people will die. Far more people than if they don't suppress it now, they will die when it is the most critical time. ”

"The enemy is not only to hit him, but also to completely defeat him, so that he is completely desperate. At the very least, it can ensure the stability of Kyushu in the world for a hundred or even hundreds of years. Although Chu Chou said this, his eyes were still with sword intent, constantly polishing the spirit in his body, sharpening his birth sword, and sharpening his sword for a hundred years, just to spit out his chest one by one.

When the East Pole Empire had not yet become an empire, its biggest competitor was a great dynasty with the name "Tang". And he Chu Chou Li Taibai Li Brother was the most poetic in the world, full of poetry, and once embroidered his mouth, he was half of the empire in the Tang Dynasty. That kind of momentum that overwhelms the world, he Chu Chou can still do it, and even surpass it. But the cost is much greater.

"Then, in the end, who is the real beneficiary?" Zhao Zhishui didn't understand, why those people and those empires had to fight to the death, and it was not good to let the people live and work in peace and contentment?

"If it's a small fight, Taoists and Buddhists are the ones who benefit. If the whole world and Kyushu are in turmoil, there will be no profiteering, no one. Chu Chou took down a brown gourd wine jug he bought on Hulu Street in Chang'an City, opened the mouth of the pot and took a sip of turbid wine, shaking his head and saying.

"Then why do you have to fight to the death?" Zhao Zhishui asked.

"Because they are not saints like the Taoist Ancestors, the Buddhas, and your Holy Ancestor Grandpa. There are only a few saints in the world, and it is difficult to stop the general trend of the world, so we can only rely on 'Tao', 'reason' and 'etiquette' to alleviate and eliminate the general trend of the world. Even me, and only the last sword that was born may be able to stop the general trend. However, the general trend is like the tide of the great river and sea, wave after wave, which can block the next time, but cannot stop countless times. Chu Chou took another sip of the turbid wine in the wine jug, touched the long sword on his waist that had accompanied him for more than a hundred years, and continued: "But for me, a sword is enough!"

"Hey. Zhao Zhishui sighed, although she understood Master's words, but there are many deeper things that she doesn't know, she doesn't want to think so much, for her, anyway, there is Master, the sky is falling, Master can withstand it, what else is she worried about? The only thing she is worried about is that one day, when she woke up, Master was gone.

"Master, will you leave me one day?" Zhao Zhishui became more and more panicked the more she thought about it, and finally couldn't help but ask.

Chu Chou looked at her face before, and knew that he had to ask some inappropriate questions, and at this time he sighed slightly in his heart, but still replied with a smile: "I won't leave until you grow up." ”

When Zhao Zhishui heard this, his eyes turned red in an instant, and he said, "In other words, Master will leave Zhishui one day, right?"

"In this world, no one is with whom to stay together until the earth is desolate, even if it is the childhood sweetheart of a hundred years of love, there are times when it is cloudy and sunny, and the kind of people who stay with each other for a long time are very few after all, just like the monks of the third grade. No one likes to be lonely, but no one can do it for a lifetime, life is joys and sorrows, ups and downs, ups and downs, and finally dull. ”

"Okay, Zhishui understands, perhaps, when I grow up in the future, I will understand. Zhao Zhishui felt that there was some truth when she heard this, and she was no longer so lost in her heart. After all, he is still a child, and he has never experienced joys and sorrows.

Chu Chou smiled comfortingly at Zhao Zhishui, and then turned his head to look at somewhere at the end of the street, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Let's go, let's go to lunch, you're already hungry, aren't you?"

"Mmmm, I'm very hungry!" Zhao Zhishui said a little shyly.

After the master and apprentice left, an old eunuch in a red robe and an old man in linen with long hair walked out of the end of the street.

"This person is the sword immortal who went all the way north and then west, why is he so young?" asked the long-haired old man in Mai with a frown.

"I don't know. He had just appeared in the crowd watching His Majesty go to the sacrifice, and I didn't pay much attention to it because I wanted to kill the assassin who was looking for death. But he still underestimated the acuity of our four gatekeepers in Chang'an City, and he was exposed the moment he stepped into Chang'an City, but then for some reason his body and aura disappeared for a while. The red-robed old eunuch kept pulling his wide red sleeves and said in a hoarse voice.

The long-haired old man in sackcloth remembered the sword immortal's glance back from before, and said, "He glanced at us just now, and he should have found us." ”

The red-robed old eunuch smiled indifferently and said, "Even if he is really a Nine-Rank Sword Immortal or a Nine-Rank Peak Great Sword Immortal, what about it? Our four gatekeepers of the Eight-Rank Peak Realm all have the combat power of the Nine-Rank Realm in this Chang'an City, and four to one, a small realm higher than us, still can't make any big waves." And we still have those eight-rank realm protectors, how can he win?"

"It's just, Jiupin Sword Immortal, how long has it been since I saw each other in the two major states of the Eastern Regions?" The long-haired old man in Mai sighed slightly, and then there was murderous intent in his eyes, "If you really want to cause trouble, don't blame us for being polite, if the words of the Jiupin Sword Immortal are directly killed, if it is the Great Sword Immortal at the peak of the Jiupin, then the big deal is that the fish dies and the net is broken, if you really kill a Jiupin Pinnacle Great Sword Immortal, it is worth it, at that time, which people in the rivers and lakes dare to come to Chang'an City to make trouble?"

Both of them sneered, and then the figure quietly disappeared.

On a well-known and affordable special food street in Chang'an City, Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui walked around to see what to eat.

"Chang'an used to eat more cakes, so there was a kind of pasta, the practice is probably to cut the bread into strips, squares and then put it in the pot, and because Chang'an is popular mutton, then put the mutton and some other auxiliary ingredients together to cook, in the end it can be said that 'the meat is rotten soup thick', so there is a big poet who loves food to say the praise of 'Qin cooking only lamb soup'. After Chu Chou saw an old store, he said to Zhao Zhishui with a smile, "I found it, I didn't expect it to be there." ”

The master and apprentice entered the restaurant that was not big but had a hot business, and after waiting for a while, someone left after eating, and Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui took the opportunity to sit down.

"Little brother, here are two bowls of lamb soup with a large portion. Chu Chou greeted the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper trotted over and poured two cups of tea for the master and apprentice with a smile, and said, "Guest officer, wait a minute!" and trotted to the back kitchen to report the meal.

"It smells so good. Zhao Zhishui moved her handsome little nose and said happily.

"This is a delicacy that only exists in Chang'an City, and if you eat it after leaving Chang'an City, it will not be authentic. Chu Chou took a sip of tea and said with a smile.

"Hey, sometimes, I feel very satisfied to have a full meal with Master. Zhao Zhishui put his arms on the carved wooden table and propped his head and said.

"If you want to live this kind of life, you have to cultivate to the top three grades first, and then you will be able to enjoy a lot of ease, whether it is a troubled era or a prosperous era, you have the power of self-preservation. I very much hope that if you enter the realm of the Nine Grades in the future, you can truly enjoy the world without any constraints. Then find a Taoist couple who is good to you, walk the rivers and lakes happily, draw a sword to cut down when you encounter injustice, and reach out to help someone who is suffering. When you get old, you will find a paradise with beautiful mountains and rivers to live in seclusion. It's really nice to have a lifetime like that. Chu Chou's face also had a hint of yearning, but he was more bitter and helpless, because he knew that it was impossible for him in this life.