Chapter 174: Three Questions (Part II)
"No! No, I don't want to die! I don't want to be a mortal, I want to cultivate immortals! I want to live a wonderful life!" Shi Dong lay on the sickbed, shouting.
Suddenly, his vision flickered, and his whole body flew up like a cloud.
When he landed again and his vision was settled, he realized that he had returned to the Demon Venerable Inheritance.
On the opposite side, stood the majestic figure of the ancestor master, a pair of eyes shining brightly, looking over with deep meaning, "Shi Dong, I have fulfilled your wish, why do you regret it?"
Shi Dong blinked, looked at his whole body, touched his hands and feet, and found that he was still fourteen years old, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, aging was really terrible, and he felt that everything he had just experienced was like a nightmare.
I once thought that going home to live with my mother and sister was the biggest desire in his heart, but who knew that it was really realized, and he regretted it to death!
Shi Dong gasped a few times to calm his excited mood, and then said without hesitation: "Master Zu, I have thought clearly, what I really want in my heart is not to go home, not to live a mortal life, but to cultivate immortals!"
Master Zu still had a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked rhetorically, "Oh, are you sure?"
Shi Dong nodded vigorously, and said with a resolute face: "I'm sure!"
"Okay, your answer to the first question is passable. ”
Shi Dong was overjoyed, but the next second question made him stunned.
"Here is the second question, have you listened well......" Master Zu smiled at the corner of his mouth, and asked word by word: "What do you want?"
Shi Dong plucked his ears, almost suspecting that he had misheard, why was this second question exactly the same as the first one?
He jerked, his brow furrowed, and his eyes became solemn.
"Not good. These two questions may seem exactly the same, but they actually have a lot of meaning. Master Zu knew that I didn't want to live a mortal life anymore, but he still asked me what I wanted. He wanted me to think about it and think about it carefully. Test whether my immortal cultivation heart is tenacious!"
Shi Dong secretly pondered in his heart, thought about it, felt that his analysis should not be wrong, and thought that Zhou Denuo must have revealed bad intentions in the second question, so he was kicked out by Master Zu.
"Shi Dong, time is running out!It's been a little while!" Master Zu suddenly reminded him.
Shi Dong's heart sank, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore. He simply replied, "Back to my grandfather, I want to ...... What I want is to become an immortal, to pursue excitement and excitement, and to live a life that no mortal can experience! I also want to glorify the Demon Demon Gate, and fight for the ancestor in front of the righteous path!"
Speaking of this, he held his head high, his eyes shining, and he seemed to be full of faith in the path of cultivating immortals. You have to keep going. The last sentence was naturally a patting of the grandfather's ass by the way, and the old man Bo he was happy.
Unexpectedly, Master Zu still had mockery on the corner of his mouth, and waved his sleeves, "Okay." Satisfy you!"
This time, Shi Dong felt that the world was spinning and he returned to the sect......
In the third year, he faced the challenge of Lei Hao, fought to the death, and finally became the first place and won the position of Situ Jin's personal disciple.
In the fifth year, he represented Yunwu Peak in the battle, defeated the high-quality disciples of each peak, ranked in the top three, Master Situ Jin was very happy, and rewarded him with a lot of magic weapons and evil spirit stones, so that he could make rapid progress in the next practice.
Later, the trial of the Yin Luo Sect, the journey of the wilderness, and the northern steppes fought with the Lili people...... As the years passed, Shi Dong's cultivation became higher and higher, jumping from the Qi refining period to the foundation building period, and from the foundation building period to the Dan Formation period......
He has traveled all over the Tianyuan Continent, and he has also experienced many things that mortals can't experience in a few lifetimes, seen countless temptations of money, beauties, and status, and has been hunted down and plotted by many enemies.
He lived longer and longer, 100, 200, 500, 1,000, 3,000......
The brother Mao Feifei who worked with him had long since died, his wife, who was his double cultivation partner, also died, and even his enemies died.
It was killed by Shou Yuan's exhaustion, not by him!
Shi Dong suddenly felt that he was very lonely, his cultivation was already invincible in the world, and everyone admired him when they saw him, and they regarded him as the ancestor of the Demon Demon Sect.
However, no one treats him as a friend or a relative, and after so many years of bloody fighting, others have become accustomed to being afraid of him and afraid of him.
Out of boredom, he even went to Lingxiao Sect to wander around, just to see how the stinky Daoists there meditated and cultivated, but as a result, those monks treated him as a demonic giant, for fear that he would destroy the entire sect.
Shi Dong became more and more distressed, and he went to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, but found that he was not drunk at all.
He went to the mortal world again to be friends with mortals to relieve his boredom, but those friends could not survive him, and they left him before him, leaving him very lonely.
He suddenly felt that life was boring, and he sat cross-legged in the main hall of the Demon Demon Gate all day and night, staring blankly at the rolling mist of the Demon Demon Mountain, as if he was confused in his heart, and he didn't know where he should go......
"No! no, this is not what I want!" Shi Dong suddenly roared, anger and unwillingness written on his face.
Suddenly, the scene around him became blurry and shaky, and his face was joyful, finally freed from this damn immortality.
......
"Shi Dong, have you found the answer?" Master Zu looked down at him and asked softly.
Shi Dong shook his head, and finally woke up from the illusion, and saw that he was still in the cave of the Demon Venerable Inheritance, and the ancestor was still in front of him.
Suddenly, he understood why Master Zu went crazy back then, cultivated immortals and attained Taoism, immortality, and became an invincible existence in the world, which was really too lonely.
He shook his head, a trace of confusion in his eyes, and said to himself: "Master Zu, I don't understand, since neither the life of a mortal nor the life of an immortal can make me happy, then what do I want?"
Master Zu looked at him and smiled slightly: "Listen, this third question is - what do you want?"
Shi Dong was shocked, and the same question was actually asked for the third time!
He really didn't expect that the three problems of the Demon Venerable Inheritance were all exactly the same.
But after being asked three times in a row, he felt completely different.
This time. He pondered, yes, what did he really want?
"Stone moves. You're running out of time! There's still a cup of tea before the circle is destroyed. If you want to give up the test, it's too late to turn around and go out. Otherwise, it won't be too late for you to leave after a while!" Master Zu suddenly reminded.
Shi Dong's heart froze, and he remembered everything he had experienced in the Double Illusion Realm just now, the fifty years of life of a mortal, and the thousand years of life as an immortal cultivator.
Suddenly, there was a glimmer of realization in my heart.
He looked up. Looking into Master Zu's blazing eyes, he asked, "Master Zu, can I ask you a question before I answer your third question?"
Master Zu raised his eyebrows. It seemed a little surprised, but he still nodded and said, "You ask!"
"Okay, what I want to ask Master Zu is, what do you want in your heart?" Shi Dong took a deep breath and asked boldly.
Master Zu was slightly stunned. He immediately laughed: "You little devil is really clever, you actually asked me the same question." ”
"Master Zu doesn't know, does he?" Shi Dong asked.
"Presumptuous!" Master Zu shouted angrily, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and suddenly a strong wind pushed Shi Dong to the ground, and his back slammed into the stone door.
Shi Dong gasped in pain. But he had a happy smile on his face, and he grinned: "Master Zu, I understand!"
"Hmph, what do you understand?"
"These two questions are actually asking your own confusion, Master Zu. When you cultivated immortals, you longed for a mortal life, but you gave up a mortal life in order to cultivate immortals and become enlightened. When you really stand at the peak, you suddenly feel confused, and you feel that immortality doesn't seem to be what you really want. I'm right?"
Master Zu's body trembled, he was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Shi Dong, I have to admit that you are indeed courageous, you are the first person who dares to say this to me in so many years.
I can't tell you my answer, but ...... I wonder what your answer is?"
Shi Dong shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I don't know." ”
"Oh, why?" Master Zu's expression was a little surprised.
Shi Dong touched his nose and said with a smile: "It's very simple, the first question asks what a person wanted in the past? For example, I have always wanted to go home and meet my mother and sister, but this only means that I wanted the most in the past, it does not mean that I will be happy after I really get it!"
"The second question is what does a person want now? For example, if I am cultivating in the Demon Demon Sect, I naturally want to get ahead, become a human being, and become an immortal cultivator. But when I do get it, I may not be happy, because no one knows if what I want in the future is the same thing as what I want now. ”
"As for the third question, it asks what does a person want in the future? I just said, no one can be sure what their future is, so 'I don't know' is the best answer. ”
Speaking of this, Shi Dong smiled, "It's interesting to keep uncertainty for the future! I remember that the storyteller in the teahouse used to say something very reasonable-'If I knew that I was still here to tell you today, I wouldn't have gotten out of bed to death!' But when I saw a beautiful woman passing by, and then she actually looked at me, my whole mood improved!
When Master Zu heard this, the corners of his mouth moved, a smile appeared on his face, and he nodded: "Very good, very good! It turns out that the truth of life is often hidden in the market, and people often say it inadvertently."
Well...... I understand, the wonder of life lies in the uncertainty of the future! Whether you are a mortal or an immortal, as long as you have a clear conscience and have a wonderful life, why should you care about what you want, what is it?"
Shi Dong blinked his eyes and grinned: "Master Zu, I've passed the test, right? Time is running out, I can get the Demon Venerable Inheritance, right?"
Master Zu looked at him approvingly, smiling his head, "Shi Dong, you are very good, you have finally solved the doubts in my heart for many years, you answered these three questions very well! Next, I will open the Demon Venerable Inheritance and let you go in and choose three things in return." However, you only have thirty breaths of time, and after thirty breaths, whether you choose it or not, you will be teleported. If there's a delay, you really won't be able to go back!"
After that, with a wave of his big sleeves, Shi Dong felt that the sky was spinning, and his body moved quickly.
When his figure settled, he looked around, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and shouted: "So many treasures!"