Chapter 4 Suffering and Sanctification, Authenticity on the Altar of Illusion
After looking forward to it for a long time, the trial is finally over, after all kinds of pain, it is all kinds of happiness, the power of the colorful Dao penetrates, surrounds, and merges, and then turns into a white light, and continues to refine the body of the young Bai Butong, his body becomes crystal clear and transparent, without a little variegation, almost completely transparent, like a super big giant diamond, reflecting all kinds of light, is this the body of time that has never been seen in ancient times, can you cultivate the holy body of the White Dao? For a long, long time, the white light dissipated, and Bai Butong's body returned to its original state.
The body that has been removed from impurities has become thin and weak, but it is not weak, Bai Butong feels that his strength has never been stronger, the flexibility of his body has been greatly strengthened, and all kinds of difficult movements can be at his fingertips. The improvement of physical fitness made Bai Butong feel very good, and his face couldn't help but be proud, "I'm really a genius!"
However, despite a little pride, the young man was still worried, jumping non-stop, some afraid, some trembling, and the little abacus beat the thief and thief, "All the fairy grandparents bless, don't come again, don't come again this kind of painful and happy day." From now on, I will burn high incense for you every year!"
Fortunately, the boy's expectation finally came true, and the door of the space-time tunnel finally opened, revealing a new world. The sky is so blue, crystal clear, and there is no variegation at all, "The weather is sunny and the mood is good, I am ambitious and ambitious, Yanyang Academy, I am here!"
"Trialist Bai Butong, you have passed the first level, please hurry to the Illusion Demon Platform and participate in the second level of the trial. The cold, ruthless and ethereal voice suddenly sounded in the trial space, making Bai Butong quickly wake up from his arrogant self-obsession.
"Baixi, why is it so short?" The young man didn't dare to stay, and ran desperately towards the illusion platform with the strength of eating, but fortunately, the illusion platform was not far away, it was spinning in front, and there was no need to look for it, otherwise he would not have to die unjustly if he was eliminated.
The boy quickly came to the illusion platform, took three steps and made two steps, and climbed to the center of the illusion platform.
Without waiting, the illusion platform immediately spun rapidly, faster and faster, like a tornado wrapped in Bai Butong, flew into the air, and then turned into a colorful glow and disappeared into the trial space.
The quiet illusion platform rotated slowly in the void, rotating in a magical trajectory according to an indescribable truth, as if telling the privacy between heaven and earth. The avenue is silent, and the sound is loud. How can people afford it and explain it clearly? On the illusionary stage, one figure after another sits upright, with their eyes closed and sleeping, sometimes happy, sometimes weeping, and the expressions on their faces are like a stage play, with joy, anger, sorrow, and joy all condensed in it. When you open your eyes and close your eyes, you are a lifetime. The Illusion Demon Platform is like a reincarnation, in which the trialist goes through various reincarnations and rebirths, tosses and turns between death and life, perhaps sees through the true taste of the world, ascends to the sky in one step, or sinks in the middle, and can no longer get out of this vanity, and loses the Dao heart to move forward. As soon as I got on the magic platform, I dreamed of Da Huai'an, and I couldn't see the true Dao fruit, and it was empty in the blink of an eye. Isn't it sad that everything is empty!
The empty country, the only country in the empty continent, the royal family is respected by the Bai family, however, the lord of the country, Bai Yunfei, is old, but there is a lack of heirs, and there are no children under his knees. On this day, in the splendid palace of the empty country, the beautiful and luxurious queen Wu Yimeng gave birth to a dragon son after October pregnancy, named Bai Butong, the lord of the country Bai Yunfei smiled happily, and couldn't help but shout to the sky with excitement in his heart: "Haha, the sky does not live up to me, I Baiyunfei also has a son, haha...... I, Bai Yunfei, finally have a successor!"
Fighting the stars, time flies, in the blink of an eye, Bai Butong has become an adult, Bai Butong who is eighteen years old was set up by Bai Yunfei as the prince of the empty country, one person under 10,000 people, the power is monstrous, the slaves are crowded, brocade clothes and jade food, it can be said that Bai Butong will be able to hold the power after Bai Yunfei a hundred years later, he will be able to hold great power, with the supreme imperial power, between heaven and earth, to wind and wind, to rain and rain, only I will become a generation of heroic emperors, admired by thousands of people during his lifetime, and remembered after his death, creating an era of Bai Butong in the empty continent。
However, this is not the life that Bai Butong needs, power is not his heart, money and beauty do not enter his eyes, his heart is bigger, his eyes see farther, his Tao is not attracted by the glitz of the world, what he wants to pursue is the way of the martial artist, a sword in hand, I have it in the world, determined to martial arts, self-cultivation and physical training, and the pursuit of the ultimate in life is Bai Butong's eternal pursuit. He wants to see where the ultimate martial arts are, and where is the strength of martial arts?
In the Empty Continent, the martial arts are prosperous, and the martial arts masters are all admired, and Bai Yunfei, the master of the Empty Sky Country, is the great master of martial arts, the top talent in the Empty Continent, and the grandmaster of martial arts, but he is already old and has lost the Dao heart to enter the supreme peak. Getting his son and grandson is his hope and sustenance at this time.
Like his father, Bai Butong is also a young genius, in just ten years, he has achieved success, he is already a top martial arts master, and he is also a character who can walk sideways in the empty continent. However, he deeply feels that his strength is high, and if he stays in the palace, he will not be able to advance an inch, he needs to sharpen, he needs to sharpen the whetstone, study tours, challenges are his way, he is faced with a choice, he is resolute, and once he makes a choice, he will be brave to practice. Finally, on a dark and windy night, Bai Butong quietly left the palace. He left a letter telling his parents that he was going to pursue a higher martial arts and aspire to become an omnipotent martial god between heaven and earth. He wants to go his own way and no longer follow the gifts given to him by the ancestors of the Bai family, that is not his Bai Butong's way.
In order to create his own way of martial arts, eighteen-year-old Bai Butong ran away from home and began his own path of training.
During his travels, he challenged the world's well-known martial arts masters one by one during the day, and at night he was in the barren mountains and mountains with birds and beasts, and the hardships were not enough for outsiders. However, the difficult life has tempered him, and in terms of survival in the wild, Bai Butong has gradually grown from a rookie who doesn't know anything to an excellent survival expert.
In the past ten years, he has known all kinds of birds and beasts in the wild, and has become an excellent hunting master, and the monsters in the depths of the jungle will often become his prey, put them on his dining table and grill, and also exercise his cooking skills;
Thousands of challenges have tempered him, like hardened steel turning into a sharp sword.
At the beginning, he was defeated repeatedly, and the winning rate was extremely low, but Bai Butong was not discouraged, he was defeated again and again, and the timely summary after the war made him grow, and the perception between life and death tempered him, and his combat experience became more and more abundant, and later, his winning rate became higher and higher, his sword became sharper and sharper, and his heart became more and more tenacious.
There is a great terror between life and death, in the tempering of life and death, under the baptism of wind and rain for ten years, he successfully broke through and became a top martial arts master in the mainland.
As a result, the goal of the challenge changed, Martial Arts Grandmaster.
One by one, the martial arts masters who made a lot of statements received the challenge, and the thrilling battles again and again opened the curtain again.
Defeated again and again, defeated again and again, sacrificing life and forgetting death, it was another decade, the pinnacle battle of the martial arts master of the empty continent, Bai Butong defeated the first grandmaster of the continent - Lu Baxian, a martial arts master who has been famous in the mainland for 60 years. Bai Butong, who successfully reached the top, returned to the empty country with scars all over his body and an invincible heart, and he hoped that his relatives would share his success and the joy of success.
Stepping on the highest peak of the empty country again, Tianzhu Mountain, Bai Butong looked at the small peaks around him that were like projectiles, and deeply realized the realm of what the sages said, "will be at the top of the mountain, and turn the mountains at a glance". At the age of thirty-eight, Bai Butong successfully advanced to the rank of Martial Arts Grand Master and stood at the pinnacle of this world.
Twenty years, how many twenty years in his life, Bai Butong returned to his hometown with full of enthusiasm, but the past is gone.
A familiar country, a familiar castle, a familiar palace. But there are no familiar people, in the days when Bai Butong left, Queen Wu Yimeng washed her face with tears all day long, she didn't know how to cultivate, she didn't think about tea and dinner, she became ill, her body became worse and worse, her mood became worse and worse, and she finally fell ill in bed and died.
In the following days, the empty country lord Bai Yunfei spent in thoughts and sorrows, and the realm of the great grandmaster also regressed, in the challenge of meeting the demon sect leader Li Yiju, Bai Yunfei, who was determined to die, performed a killing move, both defeated, hurt the foundation of martial arts, and the realm of martial arts declined year by year, and finally passed away in a rainy night.
After Bai Yunfei's death, Bai Butong's uncle Bai Heming ascended the throne as the new lord of the empty country.
In the palace hall, Bai Butong saw his uncle Bai Heming.
"Hey, I'm back, your father and queen mother didn't wait for this day. ”
Relatively speechless only tears, I don't know whether to blame or please, only silently sobbing and tears.
Bai Butong also cried and sobbed, mourning more than dying, at this moment, Bai Butong's heart was full of endless remorse. The white-haired parents are gone, and he has become a great martial arts master, and no one applauds or cheers, what's the use?
At this time, Bai Butong was disheartened, there was endless darkness in front of him, his black hair turned white visibly, and in the blink of an eye, he turned white like snow. Sure enough, the ancients did not deceive me, Wu Zixu passed Shaoguan, and he was sad all night!
In front of the tomb of Bai Yunfei, the lord of the empty country, the white-haired Bai Butong built a thatched house.
Bai Butong prayed and repented in front of the spirits of his parents, his heart sank like water, calm and waveless. If the heart dies, so does the man. No more practicing, no more challenges, like a flowing cloud gone forever.
He is now an unworthy son, unable to pull out in remorse and resentment.
Maybe a generation of grandmasters will go into hiding and fall. Like a meteor in the sky, burning all the enthusiasm, returning to nothingness, like the epiphany, after a night of glory, the brilliance is gone.
Calm, ordinary, stagnant.