Chapter 101, Thousands of Miles of Floating Clouds

Xu Ke saw the cloud-like "self" in the tenth-floor pavilion that he could speak, and he was overjoyed, and immediately asked, how can he get out of here and go to the next level?

Unexpectedly, the cloud-like "Xu Ke" replied: "I don't know ...... either"

"How could you not know?" asked Xu Ke.

"Since you don't know, how can I know?" the cloud-like "Xu Ke" asked rhetorically.

"Okay......" Xu Ke was speechless for a moment.

"I don't know, but they probably do!" said the misty "Xu Ke" again.

"They...... Who are they?"

"Come with me!"

As soon as the cloud-like "Xu Ke" finished speaking, he beckoned to him and motioned for him to follow him closely. Immediately, "Xu Ke" jumped first, and the person had already slid a few feet far to the north......

Xu Ke hurriedly lifted his breath and hurried, closely following behind the cloud-like "self". This time, the "Xu Ke" turned into a cloud of mist has always been distinct, no matter whether Xu Ke wants it or not, it will never dissipate. The two of them walked like the wind in this cloudy space.

Xu Ke followed the cloud-like "self", I don't know how many hours he had been running, and as far as he could see, there were still white clouds surging everywhere. He saw that the "self" in front of him was running very fast, so he kept holding a breath of true qi and ran hard. After more than a dozen hours in a row, Xu Ke couldn't help but feel tired in his heart, he gradually felt out of breath, and sweat was left on his forehead.

"Hey...... Can you stop for a moment? I can't run anymore!" Xu Ke couldn't help but stop and gasped.

He couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he saw that after running for so long, the scenery around him had not changed at all.

He remembered that in the past, he and his second brother Zhu Wuneng had traveled all the way from the sea of Sang Kingdom to Kyoto City, six hundred miles away, and the two of them only traveled for less than three hours. At that time, he had not yet exerted all his strength, and he was just walking around the court, only to feel that he had arrived in a moment. Now, he is running like flying with his cloud-like "self", and he has been rushing for more than ten hours in a row, and according to the calculation of the distance, he has not known how far he has run thousands of miles. But what you see in front of you is still the same as the place you first visited. He really didn't know where the "self" turned by the clouds was taking him? Could it be that "he" was purely leading himself around in circles, just to play himself for fun?

"Do you really feel tired?" The cloud-like "Xu Ke" in front of him also stopped and asked.

"That's still fake! These thousands of miles of running down, as long as it's a person, who can afford it!" Xu Ke gasped and said.

"Do you really feel 'tired'?" The cloud-like "Xu Ke" asked again.

"Uh-huh?......"

Xu Ke heard that cloud shadow actually asked the same question again, and he didn't feel very surprised in his heart, could it be that this feeling of tiredness was really fake?

Sure enough, after he had this thought in his heart, the fatigue and soreness in his body slowly disappeared. He sorted out his mind, adjusted his breathing, and there was no longer any shortness of breath, and even, he touched his forehead again, he always felt that his forehead was sweating profusely, how could there be a drop of sweat at this time?

It turns out that the so-called "tiredness" is also unreal.

Xu Ke shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I forgot, I am in the God King Pavilion at this moment......"

Just like the boundless floating clouds in front of him, Xu Ke knew that it was mostly an unreal existence. Since I am in an illusory situation, how can my feelings of "hardship", "tiredness" and "soreness" be real?

After knowing this, Xu Ke lifted his spirits again, and followed the cloud-like "self" in great strides like flying, running towards the north.

Strangely, from this moment on, no matter how fast he ran, he did not feel tired at all.

In this way, Xu Ke's footsteps are like flying, and the speed of running is even faster, he and the "self" transformed by the clouds and mist run together in a rolling dense cloud, no matter how fast the "self" turned by the clouds and mist runs, he can follow closely and will not fall behind......

This person traveled north in a cloud shadow, all the way without stopping, and I don't know how much time has passed.

According to Xu Ke's estimation, it has been at least several days and nights, at this speed, looking for such a time, if they are really moving in the same direction, I am afraid that they will run at least tens of thousands of miles away from the place where they were originally standing......

Although he didn't feel tired, and he couldn't see the change of day and night, he couldn't help but feel bored when he saw that he had been running like this all the time. However, he saw that the cloud-like "self" in front of him was only running around and did not say a word, and he did not want to speak casually.

He didn't know how much time he had spent in this tenth-floor pavilion, and he was already bored. Later, there was a cloud-filled "self" here, "he" could speak, think independently, and carry him around like flying. This made him feel joy and hope in his heart, but unexpectedly, after running day and night, he returned to a boring state of mind......

Until, the "Xu Ke" turned into a cloud of mist finally stopped, only to hear "him" say lightly:

"It's here!"

Xu Ke looked ahead, only to see a large area of white clouds surging, and a high-rise building suddenly appeared, and a plaque on the upper floor had three big characters on it: "Fuyun Building".

"They're all inside, go in by yourself!" the cloud-like "Xu Ke" said, and after that, "his" slender and upright figure had quietly dissipated.

"Hey, wait, who are they? I'm going to tell them that when I go in?"

“......”

The cloudy "self" has long since disappeared, as if "he" had never appeared in the first place.

Xu Ke had to walk to the front alone, he came to the bottom of the tall building, only to see that the "tall building" was very majestic from afar, and when he came to look closely, it was just a two-story wooden building, at this time, the downstairs was still empty except for the surging white clouds everywhere.

He didn't have time to think about it, so he walked into the wooden ladder next to him, climbed the stairs, and went up to the top floor.

As he went upstairs, he thought:

"It turns out that in this tenth-story pavilion, there are not only floating clouds, but there is still a wooden building standing here!"

"I have been running fast for at least three days and three nights following the cloud just now, and according to this calculation, the direction of this wooden building is not less than tens of thousands of miles away from the place where I went upstairs!"

"Who would have thought that tens of thousands of miles away, there would be a 'floating cloud tower', if it weren't for that 'myself' to lead the way, even if I stayed here for the rest of my life, I might not be able to find it!"

With this in mind, he stepped into the second floor of the wooden building.

He pushed open a wooden door at the top of the staircase, and as soon as he stepped inside, he saw four people sitting around a square table. At this moment, the eight eyes of those four people were looking at themselves in unison......

I saw those four people, with different figures, ages, and appearances. Sitting at the door was a child, no more than six or seven years old. To the left of the child, sat a burly middle-aged man, the middle-aged man had a rough and ugly face, and his face was full of beard. To the right of the child sat an old man with gray hair, and although his face was still handsome, he was at least past his sixtieth birthday......

When Xu Ke saw the old man, his face immediately changed, he stepped forward quickly, leaned over and saluted:

"Weichen see Your Majesty!"

He saw the old man, wearing a crown of heaven, a dragon robe, a white jade hanging from his waist, and gold shoes on his feet, and his face was vaguely the current Kangyuan Emperor Li Chongsheng. He hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and blurted out a sentence that he had said before, in fact, he was now deposed by the Son of Heaven, and he was just a commoner.

"Why is Your Majesty here?" Xu Ke asked again.

He saw that Li Chongsheng would actually appear in the Divine King Pavilion, and he was not very surprised in his heart, although he felt that this was unlikely, but when he saw the person in front of him, dressed and with a radiant face, he had to step forward to give a salute.

"Li Chongsheng" twisted his beard and smiled: "Did you recognize the wrong person?"

Xu Ke also felt that it was a little unreasonable to see the emperor here. He stepped forward to carefully look at the old man in yellow robe in front of him, and after taking a closer look, he saw that the old man only had a slight resemblance to Li Chongsheng, after all, it was not the emperor himself. It's just that the old man in the yellow robe is not angry and arrogant, and he is extravagant, and at first glance, he mistakenly recognized it as today......

Xu Ke stared at the yellow-robed old man for a while, although he felt that he was not the current emperor, but his face was very familiar. Xu Ke thought about it and couldn't remember who it was, but he felt that he must be a person who was extremely close to him.

Xu Ke scratched his forehead, and couldn't help but think for a long time: "Strange, who is he? Why can't he always remember?"

"How...... You don't even recognize yourself?" the yellow-robed old man asked with a smile as he still held the three locks of long beard under his chin.

"Myself?" Xu Ke couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "Could it be that you are me?" He looked at the radiant old man in front of him again, and saw that his eyebrows were like a crescent moon and his eyes were like a star, although the corners of his forehead and eyes were full of wrinkles, and his head was full of white hair, but his face was still so handsome, wasn't this himself?!

Xu Ke was surprised and asked, "Are you...... You're who I am decades from now?"

The yellow-robed old man nodded.

"Decades later, how can I be dressed in the uniform of the Son of Heaven?" Xu Ke asked again.

The old man in the yellow robe pointed to the three people next to him and said:

"Look at them again......"

At this time, the child who was sitting at the door left his seat, walked to Xu Ke's side, took Xu Ke's hand, and asked:

"Big brother, do you recognize me?"

"You're me, too?"

Xu Ke saw that although the child was only a young man, his face was round and clear, and he immediately remembered, isn't this exactly himself more than ten years ago?

"Hmm!" the child nodded.

"Could it be...... You are all me?" Xu Ke looked at the other "two".

The middle-aged man also stood up at this time, left his seat, and walked towards Xu Ke. When he got up, he took a stick from his side, got up with difficulty, and limped along. Xu Ke saw that the middle-aged man's face was extremely ugly, his right leg was still disabled, and he needed to use crutches for every step, and he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart: "Could it be that you are also me?"

The middle-aged man walked up to Xu Ke, patted Xu Ke's shoulder, as if carefully admiring a beautiful antique, stared at Xu Ke for a long time, and then laughed loudly:

"Haha! Can't guess who I am, do you?"

Xu Ke saw that although the middle-aged man was ugly and still a lame, his eyes showed a bold and free look. When he saw that man suffering such an unbearable fate, he could still laugh at others like this, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration in his heart.

At that moment, Xu Ke hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Dare to ask this brother with a high surname?"

The middle-aged man waved his hand and said, "You don't have to ask my name, and you don't have to know who I am." I am not like them, I am neither the former you nor the future you......"

Xu Ke couldn't help but wonder: "

Don't...... Are you the 'me' in another line of fate?" he then thought, no, with a different line of fate, I am still me, how can I become like this?

"Another line of fate, what line of fate? Hahaha! Don't worry, I'm not you, you're not me, you and I just have some kind of relationship!" the middle-aged man replied with a smile.

"What does Brother Ren mean...... At some point in the future, I will know you?" Xu Ke asked again.

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "Little brother, you shouldn't ask this, you should ask, why are we here?"

"Why?"

At this time, I could hear someone snorting coldly behind the middle-aged man.

Xu Ke followed the prestige behind the middle-aged man again, and saw that on the wooden bench farthest away from him, there was a "monkey" sitting upright.

Said that he was a monkey but was not, I saw that the man was wearing chain gold armor, wearing a phoenix winged purple and gold crown, stepping on the lotus silk and walking in the clouds, sitting there immovable, with a majestic style, as if the gods were coming.

But if he is a human, he is clearly a monkey, only to see that his face is full of monkey hair, a thunderous mouth, two ears facing the sky, a sharp mouth and shrunken cheeks, and strange eyes like fire, how can this appearance be half humanoid?

Xu Ke suddenly saw that there was a "monkey" sitting on the floating cloud tower, and he was even more surprised in his heart. He thought to himself, could it be that this monster wearing gold armor, not like a human monkey or a monkey, is also "me"?

"Little brother, I'm here to ask you a question. The middle-aged man in front of Xu Ke suddenly spoke up, interrupting his train of thought.

"Excuse me!"

"To tell you the truth, I was originally a butcher who killed dogs, and I killed countless dogs and eaten countless dog meat in my life. I killed too many dogs, and then I accidentally got bitten on my right leg by a big dog, and since then I have become a lame cripple. My face was already ugly, and after I became crippled, no girl wanted to marry me. Therefore, I have never married a mother-in-law in my life......" The middle-aged man talked eloquently and talked about his life.

"Later, I was so discouraged that I ran to the mountains and wanted to kill myself, but I met my master. The master not only saved me, but also took me in the Taoist temple and taught me to learn the Tao, and since then I have entered the Taoist gate and devoted myself to cultivation, only then did I know that I had done too many things that should not have been done before, and the murder and abuse I had committed in my life were too heavy, and I really deserved to be punished!"

"Later, after my master passed away, I thought about going down the mountain to return to the world, marry a woman as my wife, and live a normal life for a few years. It's a pity that there are many trivial things in the mountains, and I have the heart to go down the mountain, but I have not been able to make the trip, and when I can go down the mountain, I am already dying!"

After the middle-aged man finished telling his life, he finally asked:

"The biggest regret in my life is that I have never met a woman. What I want to ask you is, woman...... What the hell is it?"

After listening to the life of the middle-aged man, Xu Ke couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. He thought to himself, what a woman is, how can I know? However, although I have only been in the world for more than 20 years, I can know four strange women in the world, which is also a blessing in my life. The women around me are all peerless. I am with them every day, they bring me endless joy, and my biggest dream is to stay with them forever, never to be separated. However, I had just parted with them tragically, and I still can't shake off the inseparable feelings at that time. Even if I am in the floating cloud building where time stands still forever, I am always thinking about them...... Isn't a woman a kind of pain and torture for me?

Thinking of this, Xu Ke blurted out:

"A woman may be the biggest pain of your life!"

"Woman, maybe it's the biggest pain of my life......? Although I am alone in my life, I have also been spared the 'greatest pain,' and this is ...... It's good, hahaha!"

The middle-aged man looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, and then bowed his hand to Xu Ke and said, "Thank you, little brother, but I have been a problem for many years, so I'll leave!"

Immediately, the burly figure of the middle-aged man suddenly disappeared in the floating cloud building.

With the disappearance of the middle-aged man, Xu Ke suddenly saw that there had been a change under the floating clouds. The floating white clouds that had previously permeated the entire tenth-story pavilion suddenly descended. Xu Ke roughly calculated, and the clouds, which were originally nearly four feet, had fallen by a foot at this time......

It turns out that these rippling clouds can still fall? So...... If all the clouds were to fall, wouldn't it be able to dissipate completely, and when all the clouds had cleared, we might be able to find a way up the stairs!

Thinking of this, Xu Ke couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, and he immediately looked at the other three people at the square table. At this time, the "monkey man" in gold armor sat upright, not looking at Xu Ke, and the old man in the yellow robe was still sitting there, but looking at Xu Ke with a smile.

Xu Ke was about to stride forward and ask the old man in the yellow robe, when suddenly the placket under his body was pulled. He looked down and felt that the person pulling the placket of his shirt was naturally the boy of the same age, and at this time, the child was standing in front of him, with a pair of big sparkling eyes, staring at him timidly.

Xu Ke lowered his head, hugged the six-year-old "self" in his arms, and asked with Yan, "Do you have any questions for me?"

The child said, "Big brother, I don't have any questions for you, I just want you to play a game with me, is it okay?"

"Of course you can!" said Xu Ke with a smile.

"What a game, you say!"