The boy lay on his back on the ridge of the green tiles, quietly looking at the Milky Way in the sky.

In the silent night sky, there are streamers from time to time, fleeting.

Zhou Jiujian's eyes, at this moment, were as dim as this night.

When he was a child, his grandfather took him to the mountains, and when it was night, he told him all kinds of stories. Zhou Jiujian can still remember that his grandfather once said that after a person dies, he will turn into a star and look at his relatives below in the sky.

Of course, this is not one of the many stories he told the teenager, it was just a story that he told the teenager who was still a child at the time, and to this day, for some reason, what impressed Zhou Jiujian the most was still this sentence.

Maybe it's also because at this moment, he is facing looking up at the night sky, which is very touching, and he can't help but think of such a memory.

If what Grandpa said is true, then ...... Now, which star is grandpa?

Zhou Jiujian looked at the night sky for a long time, and then whispered, "Grandpa, what should I do?"

has always been such a steadfast teenager, but at this moment, he is extremely confused.

Everything he had done along the way, what he wanted, what he wanted, everything seemed to be presented in front of him one by one, but it seemed to be a mess of paste, piled up in his head, accumulating more and more, carrying more and more weight, and yet he found that he seemed to be drifting away, far away from those many set goals, and then felt that he was so powerless.

In the memory of the young man, the most profound voice for his grandfather Zhou Jiujian is probably the last words of his grandfather before he died: "Lin'er, don't forget to take revenge, I am not happy!"

It was because of such a sentence that Zhou Jiujian embarked on the road he is on today.

Lin'er ......

Called it like this, Zhou Jiujian has been calling him for a long, long time, and he hasn't heard anyone call it up, how he hopes, that old man calls him that like this again at this moment, hoping that time will return again, and then stagnate, forever and ever, how good.

Grandfather...... I don't want to go any further, I'm so tired.

The boy suddenly closed his eyes tightly, but a tear still spilled from the corner of his eye, and then slowly slipped down.

Zhou Jiujian leaned halfway to the side, then curled up in a ball, burying his head deep in his knees.

For a long time, in the depths of this moat, among the several attic houses, on the highest roof, I heard a young man's intermittent and suppressed choked voice: "Grandpa, I...... It's really tiring...... Lin'er doesn't want to take revenge, Lin'er just wants to accompany you, grandpa......"

Zhou Jiujian's current age is fifteen years old, and in the early spring of the next year, he will be sixteen years old.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, in this world, there are all kinds of lives, and everyone's fate is different. Some people have already supported their families at the age of fifteen, engaged in farming, entered the business road, and stepped into this busy life early, and also admitted that they are the most ordinary and inconspicuous of all living beings. And some people, at the age of fifteen, carry swords and swords, or to fight for merit, or to serve the country, join the army, and then die on the battlefield, and in the end they are not known to the world, and they only become a nameless dry bone on the yellow sand of the desert. There are also people, fifteen or sixteen years old, brocade clothes and jade food, life carefree, enjoying the treatment of utensils that most people in the world can not touch, worrying about some trivial things, chanting poems all day long, drinking and playing, occasionally, taking advantage of the fact that the elders in the family do not know, sneaking to the green building, drinking some flower wine, and stealing the white greasy jade fat of the little lady. I don't know what the world's affairs, the world's principles, and the laws of heaven and earth are, but one day, suddenly the son inherited his father's business, inherited the prince and lord, suddenly gained power, and also enjoyed the dripping pleasure of "turning his hands into clouds, covering his hands for rain", acting arbitrarily, but quite saintly, and even when he died peacefully, no one dared to say anything, and there were countless lackeys under his door, and he still boasted of being loyal to himself before his death, but he did not know that decades later, the whole dynasty caused turmoil and drastic changes because of the lackeys it raised, and finally led to the destruction of the country.

And what about Zhou Jiujian?

When he was nine years old, he embarked on the road of revenge because of his grandfather's last words before he died. He also knew that his strength was insufficient, and he was unable to take revenge, so he also went to the mountain to practice. At a young age, he walked in the north and south of this Sword Continent, and when he was fifteen years old, his realm was also raised to the realm of a swordsman. And he, at this time, has also seen the strongest person in the world's swordsmanship, and has also stood on a higher place, and has also known a lot of things about his grandfather's revenge, so he has more on his back, and he understands that his enemy, the realm is so high, with his current ability to cultivate, he can't match it at all.

The book also says that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

Zhou Jiujian also understood what the word "forbearance" meant.

And that means that he will spend more time and go further on the road of revenge.

Perhaps, if this road continues, his whole person will be completely changed, and he will not even know himself.

At this moment, Zhou Jiujian couldn't help but think of what Liu Yue said before, "Blindly immersing yourself in hatred will only make you more miserable", even if it is after the revenge is avenged, what can you do? Grandpa, it is impossible to come back to life.

That...... Why take revenge?

And I, it was precisely because of my grandfather's words that I was determined to avenge him!

And that's exactly ...... Grandpa, the road that pushed him on.

The young man's heart was in chaos.

At this moment, if someone looks at it with an inward view, they will find that the flame in the young man's heart is constantly swaying, as if he wants to extinguish it.

In this case, according to the words of the sect on the mountain, it means that the Dao heart is unstable.

Zhou Jiujian is constantly questioning all his current goals at the moment.

The enemy is so difficult to deal with, how can I take revenge? Even if I have to take revenge, I can't bring my grandfather back to life, so what's the point of revenge? Since revenge is meaningless, then why do I still practice and participate in these treacherous chess games, all day long about these unfathomable people with magical powers?

Wouldn't it be better to be a mortal with peace of mind, to be born in old age, sick and die, and to be reincarnated?

Zhou Jiujian thought for a long time, and then slowly opened his eyes, the look in his eyes suddenly felt a little relieved, and he still heard him whisper to himself: "Grandpa, Lin'er is really tired, I don't want to avenge you, please ...... Forgive me. ”

The young man seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage to say this, and when he finished speaking, he was already greatly relaxed, and he could see the expression of relief in his eyes.

In my ears, there was a sudden sound of light footsteps stepping on the green tiles, and then, I heard a rather unexpected voice: "Tsk, I still want to say where you are hiding, little ghost, no matter how you look for it, I can't find it." It turns out that you have hid here and sulked?"

Zhou Jiujian turned his head to look at her and was silent.

Ji Hongjin then slowly paced to the young man's side, and then, squatting down, he suddenly lowered his head on a whim, approached the young man's ear, and whispered: "What, are you still angry with me?"

Her tone was extremely soft, like a warm wind gently blowing into the young man's ears, tickling and extremely sensitive.

Zhou Jiujian was taken aback by her actions, quickly sat up, and quickly moved his butt to the side, keeping a distance from her.

This woman is terrible.

Ji Hongjin looked at him with an aggrieved face, and said in a low voice: "Don't you hate me very much~ Do people look ugly?"

With this appearance, his eyes were crooked, his eyebrows trembled slightly, and his pink cheeks were affectionate, Zhou Jiujian looked at it, and he felt even more terrible.

He couldn't help but say loudly: "You still call yourself 'old lady'." ”

Ji Hongjin looked at him for a while, and then suddenly sneered, and then regained his sassy temperament before, looking at the young man and quipping: "Tut-tut, I don't think you're very unhappy, it's rare to bother to show such a face in front of you, I can't think of it, you little ghost doesn't understand the amorous feelings, alas~"

Zhou Jiujian heard this, and then said, "Excuse me, I can't afford it." ”

When Ji Hongjin heard this, he rolled his eyes, looked at him again, and said, "Come, tell the old lady, are you still angry about the wooden sword?"

Zhou Jiujian couldn't help but smile faintly and said with a wry smile: "Angry, what else can you be angry about? Since they have already been thrown down, the wood is already in the boat, and it can't be recovered, and I can't beat you, forget it." ”

Ji Hongjin smiled and said, "Yes, this is the right idea." Anyway, your wooden sword has lost its spiritual sense, and it is just an empty shell, just like that waste, but it is not as good as letting me use it as a material to recast, this move must be much better than you use it like this, and it can be regarded as making the best use of it. ”

When Zhou Jiujian heard this, he just smiled bitterly.

Ji Hongjin glanced at him, saw him smile bitterly, thought that he still had a mustard in his heart, thought about it, and then said comfortingly: "Don't worry, since you have already become my apprentice and a master, how can you treat your apprentice badly?

According to what she said, she actually wanted to give the boy back a sword, and she didn't have the slightest intention of treating the boy badly.

Before, Zhou Jiujian might have nodded happily when he heard such news, but at this moment, after his previous self-questioning and self-answering, he had already decided to give up revenge, but at this moment, he no longer had any thoughts on cultivation and gave Ji Hongjin's kindness. He also refused without hesitation.

Zhou Jiujian shook his head and said, "No need." ”

Ji Hongjin looked at him in surprise, a little surprised by his answer, thinking that he was doubting the sword he promised, which was not good, so he said: "That is a fairy sword, ranking fifth on the heavenly list." ”

After Zhou Jiujian heard this, his eyes blinked, but he still shook his head and said, "I really don't need to." ”

Ji Hongjin said: "You don't believe it?"

Zhou Jiujian replied: "No, it's not that I don't believe it, it's just that I'm obsessed with it in my heart at the moment, and I don't want anything anymore, so the matter of cultivation and the matter of wearing a sword are meaningless to me." In other words, I don't want to practice anymore. ”

"What?" Ji Hongjin was stunned, thinking that he didn't expect to hear such an answer from a young man.

Everyone in the world knows that cultivation is good, it can prolong life and immortality, and it can cultivate supreme mana to transcend the world, and it can also satisfy many desires that are difficult to achieve, and everyone is envious.

Ji Hongjin frowned and looked at the young man, and then said, "Are you having a bad brain?"

Zhou Jiujian smiled faintly and said, "No, I'm very sober." ”

"Sober?" Ji Hongjin sneered.

I saw that her eyes suddenly emitted two silver-white lights, staring at the young man fixedly.

Then I heard her say coldly: "Your heart is swaying, your Dao heart is shaking, and it is only one step away from completely crumbling, and your cultivation will disappear completely, what are you doing?!"

Zhou Jiujian met her gaze and said indifferently: "It's okay, this body cultivation is not there, it's all the same." ”

Ji Hongjin sneered, looked at him coldly, and said, "The same?"

Zhou Jiujian looked at her beautiful face and sighed lightly: "Isn't it?"

"Okay, that means that I let you heal in vain before?" Ji Hongjin looked at him, and the expression on his face gradually changed.

Zhou Jiujian laughed and said, "Wouldn't it be better if you didn't let that demon wolf catch me back." ”

Ji Hongjin looked at him silently, suddenly bent over, and then stretched out a finger and lightly touched Zhou Jiujian's forehead.

Zhou Jiujian was stunned, not knowing what she meant by her sudden move.

However, in the next moment, his whole body had already flown out.

Suddenly, I heard a loud "bang" again, and the dust was flying, and the rubble was falling.

When he saw the boy, his whole body was already embedded in the rock wall of the moat in the distance, and then slowly detached, and the whole person fell face down to the ground, motionless.

In the next moment, Ji Hongjin came to his side again, standing, and looked at him coldly.

After a long time, I saw Zhou Jiujian squirt out a mouthful of blood choked in his throat with a "poof", and then he took a big breath.

Then, he was able to slowly turn over, and his face was a mess, with several scars from the edges and corners of the stones on the ground.

The young man looked at the woman with struggling eyes.

Caught off guard, the young man became this almost half-dead appearance in an instant.

"Hmph," Ji Hongjin looked at him with a sneer on his face, and said, "Let me tell you, whether to be a monk or not...... It's different! Become a monk, you have the ability to speak, and the life and death of others are always in your hands, even if you are now very low, but you always have the threshold for promotion, and if you are not a monk? Hmph, what greets you is only your current result. In the eyes of others, you have always been and will always be a sheep, or a reptile, or an ant, if others want you to die, then you will never be able to live, and your fate will not be controlled by yourself after all. ”

Ji Hongjin looked at the young man at his feet, looked at the changes in his eyes as if he understood, smiled secretly in his heart, and then said: "I found that you can't die, it's a big deal to go to the Yangyuan Pond to soak for two more days, but I want you to understand a truth, that is, people without strength can never get real freedom, and they can only become other people's pawns and puppets, you have to remember it tightly!"

When he came to the last few words, Ji Hongjin deliberately accentuated his tone.

"But...... I...... Already...... There's no goal...... Then everything I do, it doesn't matter......" The seriously injured young man was finally able to speak out reluctantly at this moment, but this time he didn't hold a grudge against the woman in front of him, and he also understood her good intentions, although it was a little rough to say, but I have to say that it was extremely profound.

Ji Hongjin frowned and said, "There is no goal, hmph, what are you kidding? When you grow up so big, don't you have anything you want to get, or someone you want to protect?"

What do you want to get, and the people you want to protect? Zhou Jiujian thought about it in his heart, for so many years, except for the accompanying sycamore wooden sword, he could be regarded as alone, and he didn't ask for anything, and even the sycamore wooden sword was now given to Ji Hongjin to use as a material for casting a new sword. As for the person to protect, when the boy was young, he wanted to protect his grandfather, but the grandfather still died, and when he grew up, after so many things, the relationship was good, and the ones worthy of his protection were only Liu Yue, Hu Qingluan and Xi Xi, but the realm cultivation of the first two was higher than him, and when he encountered danger, he didn't even need the teenager to protect, and he might have to save the teenager at a critical moment, how to talk about protection? And Xixi, the eccentric little fox, is following Liu Yue all the time, but he can't leave an inch, and he doesn't need Zhou Jiujian to interfere. When you think about it this way, there is no necessary or necessary goal at all.

Zhou Jiujian looked at Ji Hongjin again and shook his head with difficulty.

Looking at him and shaking his head, Ji Hongjin looked disbelieving and said, "How is it possible? Then tell me, why did you start embarking on this path of cultivation in the first place?"

Zhou Jiujian replied slowly, "Yes...... For revenge. ”

"Revenge?" Ji Hongjin blinked, looked at him with a bit of strange eyes, and said, "Then why did you give up? Is the enemy family too strong, and you are not an opponent? Or do you find that the daughter born to the enemy family is the woman you like, and you can't do it?"

When Zhou Jiujian heard her words, he couldn't help but smile helplessly when he listened to the nonsensical speculation behind him.

"What, I guessed it right? Which one is it?" Ji Hongjin said again.

Zhou Jiujian shook his head lightly and said, "It's just that I feel that even if I take revenge, it's useless, and the dead can't be resurrected, what's the point?"

Ji Hongjin glared when he heard this, and regardless of whether he was injured now, he kicked at the young man lying on the ground, and said, "How can it be meaningless! If you have revenge and don't take revenge, what kind of husband are you, this is a coward's doing, do you want to be a coward?"

Zhou Jiujian was kicked by her coldly, snorted, and when he heard her say this, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed: "What do you know!"

When Ji Hongjin heard this, he immediately squinted his eyes, looked at him, and was a little angry, and said, "You say I don't understand......?"

She seemed to want to say something, but in the middle of the conversation, she suddenly glanced at the boy again, and for some reason, she suddenly stopped talking again, so that the boy did not know what she wanted to say.

After a pause, she squinted at Zhou Jiujian again, and a silvery white light appeared in her eyes, which seemed to be very mysterious, and after watching for a while, she heard her say again: "Although your Dao heart is shaky, it has never been broken. ”

Zhou Jiujian asked: "What does this mean? It means that I am still the 'old age of wind and candles', just supporting myself, and I will soon be completely broken?"

This time, it was Ji Hongjin's turn to shake her head, and she smiled lightly: "This shows that you have not completely let go of the attachment in your heart, and you are holding your Dao heart tightly and not letting it break, otherwise, you would have become a mortal by now." ”

When Zhou Jiujian heard this, he suddenly said urgently: "Why? impossible!"

Ji Hongjin's eyes lit up, looked at the young man, and said, "How is it impossible?" ”

The young man was a little stunned, and he only felt incredible in his heart, obviously he had decided to let go of this revenge!

That's just grandpa's trust, I don't need to bear it!

Ji Hongjin looked at him, suddenly his face calmed, and asked in a low voice: "You want to avenge someone, is that person the most important person in your heart?"

Zhou Jiujian nodded and replied, "It is to raise me as an adult, the only relative in this world." ”

"So, he was killed, and you want to avenge him?" Ji Hongjin's eyes moved, and he asked again.

"It was my grandfather's last words, entrusted to me. Zhou Jiujian replied.

"But, now, you want to give up?" Ji Hongjin said again.

Zhou Jiujian explained: "Because ...... Even if he takes revenge, it doesn't mean much, his old man is already dead! Even if he can't complete the entrustment, what if he can't complete it!"

Ji Hongjin looked at him, and said seriously: "Perhaps, you misunderstood. Ask yourself, is it just because of his entrustment that he avenged your grandfather? He raised you with bitter mushrooms, you ...... Is your revenge, shouldn't it be the only reward for your grandfather?!"

"Peace of mind, the only reward?" the young man couldn't help muttering to himself when he heard this, Ji Hongjin's words seemed to wake him up in a dream.

Suddenly, Zhou Jiujian found that everything he had been thinking about before seemed to be wrong!

What is the purpose of avenging grandpa? is it to fulfill the promise made with grandpa, or is it to seek peace of mind for oneself, in order to repay grandpa's nurturing kindness?

The meaning of these two is completely different.

The former represents just a promise, a promise made by a loved one before death, it may be important, but at some moments, in the heart of a teenager, sometimes, it will always become insignificant. And the teenager can use all kinds of excuses of youth and ignorance to carry out without denial, after all, he is not strong-willed.

However, if the latter is what it represents, it is quite different. The grace of nurturing is difficult to repay, if there was no grandfather who took him back to the thatched house to take care of him, he would not be there today. That is to say, everything the young man has now is all given by his grandfather Zhou Honghu, if he doesn't think about reciprocating and only taking it back, it will inevitably be too wolf-hearted, even if it is the law of heaven, it is possible to punish the young man for this, and the only thing that the young man can repay now is to avenge his grandfather, so that he can be regarded as repaying his nurturing grace and seeking a peace of mind.

The heavenly principles in the world follow the law, and there is a degree of retribution, so there is a saying of reincarnation.

At this point, Zhou Jiujian can be regarded as finally figured it out!