Chapter 104: Apprenticeship
It was a top monk of the Wing Clan, although he had cultivated to an extremely high level, but he could not escape the fate of death, but he himself did not want to face death.
In the shadow of death, he thinks day and night, just to find a way to live, just to feel more about the world, he has not lived enough!
He felt that time had passed, and that he had grown old with the passage of time, and he thought to himself:
'Is it possible to stop time and escape the fate of death?' He didn't find a way to stop time, but he thought of another way!'
As long as the sun never sets, time will always stand still on this day, and you will never face death!
Although the man of the Wing Clan did not find a way to stop the sun, he relied on his powerful realm and kept flying westward, chasing the footsteps of the sun, as long as he kept following the sun, it would never set!
In his later decades, he had not even seen the night.
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In just a few sentences, the empty shadow vividly describes the twilight years of a top great monk, who stands at the peak of the cultivation world, but he can't escape the passage of time, and his body is getting old day by day.
In order to seek a longer life and see the wider world, Twilight has been chasing the sun.
The empty shadow said with a lonely expression: "Even if the sun never moves, does that mean that time has stopped?"
The empty shadow shook his head helplessly, and continued to answer himself: "In the end, he still couldn't escape the fate of death, even if he was a top monk. ”
Her tone revealed a sense of desolation, as if it was an allusion to the great monk, cruelly exposing the monk's insignificance and symbolizing his future fate.
Even if it stands at the pinnacle, even if it is invincible in the world, and unparalleled in the world, what will it do? The final outcome is just a handful of loess and a pile of white bones.
The empty shadow only shook his mind slightly, and immediately came back to his senses, put down these feelings, and continued: "Even if the sun never sets, even in the cave where the sun never sees the light of day, time will still pass!"
"The sun is like a sundial, a missing moment, just a reference for calculating time, even if there is no sun, time flows, nothing can represent time, maybe anything can represent time!"
Cheng Miao opened her mouth and asked, "Why do you say that nothing can represent time, and that everything can represent time?"
The shadow broke off a small yellow wildflower from the ground, and said in an ethereal tone: "If the sun is not running, then the growth process of this wildflower is time." ”
With a wave of her sleeves, her magical power unleashed from her slender jade fingers, and a spiritual energy that was almost condensed to the physical body flew out, knocking down a waist-thick tree beside her.
The Shadow reached out and gently stroked the horizontal incision in the tree, which was smooth like a mirror.
The Shadow continued, "The rings on this tree are time!"
"There is no specific thing that represents time, maybe everything is time, time is the process of change of things!"
"The grass and trees wither, the sun and the moon rise and fall, birth, old age, sickness and death, everything is time!"
Cheng Miao also fell into contemplation, accustomed to using sunrise and sunset, the sun, the moon and the year represent time, but never thought that if there is no sun, no timekeeping tools, does that mean there is no time?
In a cave without the sun, time still flows, and without a man-made timekeeping tool, time does not stop.
Time is just a concept, not a specific thing, everything is time, and the process of change of objects is the flow of time.
A new understanding of the world is always accompanied by the shattering of old ideas, and the shattering of old ideas will bring confusion and doubts.
Cheng Miao naturally didn't question the empty shadow, the only thing left was confusion, he asked blankly: "Everything is time, so after decades in this cave, why has it only been less than half a year in the outside world?"
The empty shadow gently smoothed the long skirt under the buttocks, and sat on the smooth stump, every move was not hurried, as if flowing clouds, indescribably elegant and soft.
She gently patted the vacant seat next to her, motioned for Cheng Miao to sit on the stake, opened her lips lightly, and continued to speak:
"Everything is time, then your own process of change can also be called time, although the outside world has only passed half a year, but you yourself, it is indeed through decades..."
"There are special areas, like those in the Sumeru Ring, where the flow is extremely slow, or it simply stops. And in this cave, it may be this special area!"
Although the empty shadow motioned for Cheng Miao to sit up, Cheng Miao still did not step forward, this waist-thick tree is not thick, nor is it young, and the stump it left behind is not very big, the slender body of the empty shadow has taken up half of it, and it can no longer accommodate Cheng Miao's position.
He sat down on the ground, nodded in realization, and then replied, "I see!"
Seeing this scene, the empty shadow was extremely unhappy in his heart, his willow eyebrows were upside down, and he reprimanded angrily: "You used to dare to do something with me, but now you don't even dare to get closer?
I have never had any other thoughts in my heart before, but now I have already made waves, and if I can't do it, how can I do it as always.
He muttered in a low voice, "It's the same everywhere..."
Before Cheng Miao could finish speaking, the empty shadow stretched out his hand, directly pulled Cheng Miao up, and then pressed him against the stump.
This was not the first time Cheng Miao had close contact with the empty shadow, but it was the first time he felt nervous, and he only dared to sit on the edge, not daring to have physical contact with the empty shadow at all.
The empty shadow used force again, and Cheng Miao stumbled, and the two of them squeezed on the small stump.
The empty shadow turned his head to look at Cheng Miao, and said with a disgusted face: "The flow of time in this cave is slow, you actually walked in the labyrinth for so many years before you came out, it's so stupid!"
Cheng Miao had been answering her questions all the time, and had never heard her say how long it took her to get out of the maze, so he asked suspiciously, "Then how long did it take you to get out?"
The empty shadow played with the ends of the hair on his waist and said loudly, "It only took ten days!"
Only she knows, in fact, she is secretly following all the way, trapped in the maze.
Cheng Miao didn't know the truth of the matter, thinking that she really only took ten days, and she was even more surprised beyond words, and she didn't know what to say.
Ten days, doesn't that mean that she walked out of the maze in one go?
Cheng Miao's mood at the moment was complicated, and he just said: "People are more angry than people!"
"Giggle..."
Seeing Cheng Miao's deflated expression like this, the empty shadow was indescribably happy, covering his mouth and chuckling, his shoulders couldn't stop shaking.
After laughing for a long time, she stopped, and teased softly with a clever smile: "After decades in the cave, you will be older than me now!
Cheng Miao also replied flatteringly: "Yes, yes, yes, I'm old-fashioned, and you are still as beautiful as a flower!"
The empty shadow said confidently: "That's nature!"
She asked curiously, "What have you been thinking about after walking through the maze for so long?"
Looking at the beautiful eyes under her mask in the empty shadow, the corners of her mouth rose, Cheng Miao's heart trembled again, and she replied in a low voice: "I just want to get out of the maze ......"
The corners of the empty shadow's mouth collapsed instantly, and he pursed his lips slightly, and said dissatisfiedly:
"It's been so long, you don't even want me? You've only been gone for half a year, and I'm so worried!"
She didn't know what Cheng Miao thought when she was trapped in the maze, the only thing she could know was that at the last moment when Cheng Miao was about to give up, she just relied on the formation and forcibly released her divine sense to communicate with Cheng Miao, and he regained consciousness again.
A huge hurricane of spiritual energy poured into his body, and the dreams he screamed when he was unconscious were also empty shadows.
She can naturally know that Cheng Miao is not honest, and what she said is not the truth!
Cheng Miao on the side was also stunned when he heard this: "Worried, are you worried about me?"
When he thought that the empty shadow was worried about himself, he couldn't help but be happy and excited in his heart.
He couldn't help but ask, "Worried about me?" is it because he looks like your brother, or because he has a dual cultivation method?"
The empty shadow stood up angrily and said angrily: "I'm worried that you don't pay back the money you owe, you owe me so much money!!"
With that, the empty shadow turned around angrily and walked towards the cave world.
The stupid Cheng Miao didn't hear what she meant, or he heard it, but he couldn't believe it.
Cheng Miao hurriedly caught up with the empty shadow, took out the white herb from the Sumeru ring, handed it to the empty shadow as a treasure, and asked:
"I found it before the labyrinth, and I don't know what it is, but it's definitely good!"
The empty shadow said angrily: "Heavy Jade Lotus, real herbs!"
Cheng Miao thought that the empty shadow was a fan of money, and when he saw this kind of good thing, he would definitely smile, but who knew that he still looked angry.
How did he know that the empty shadow had already entered the cave one step ahead of them, if she wanted to obtain this heavy jade lotus, where would it be Cheng Miao's turn?
Cheng Miao said again: "The real herb, that's a foreign product, isn't that very valuable? I'll give you this herb..."
Empty Shadow's face improved slightly, and he muttered in a low voice: "This is mine, this is the return of things to their original owners!"
Cheng Miao was stunned when she heard this, and then echoed and said, "Yes... Yes... It's yours. ”
The two walked all the way to the cave world, and the five people who had been following Cheng Miao before had disappeared, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.
After saying nothing all the way, Cheng Miao suddenly said: "The empty shadow should just be a title, right? I don't know your name yet." ”
The empty shadow was stunned for a moment, and then his footsteps also stopped, and he raised his eyes through the not dense canopy and looked at the clear blue sky, as if he remembered something.
After a long time, she said leisurely: "My name is Xi Nianjun now..."
Cheng Miao pondered when he heard this: "The current name?" means that it was not this name before. ’
I remembered that the empty shadow had said that she had a younger brother, and she had looked at the shepherd flute, saw things and thought about people, and she changed her name to Xi Nianjun.
Cheng Miao opened his mouth and said, "Xi Nianjun, are you missing your brother?"
Xi Nianjun suddenly turned his head and stared at Cheng Miao tightly, as if he wanted to see something from his face.
After looking at it for a while, she saw that Cheng Miao didn't react, so she nodded slightly and replied, "Hmm..."
Xi Nianjun played with the ends of his hair and said, "Actually, in that city, I secretly watched you for a long time, just because you resembled him, and then brought you back to Night Shadow Villa. ”
"I have also tried to think about the double cultivation of magic countless times, and basically there will be no mistakes, and then I chose you, not only because of the heart of experiment, but also because you are similar to him. ”
When Xi Nianjun said this, Cheng Miao made a decision in her heart: "Sure enough, there is no love in this world for no reason, just because she looks like the person she misses, and she is a shadow..."
Cheng Miao laughed at herself in her heart: "Maybe I shouldn't have any unrealistic thoughts about this kind of unparalleled person in the world, it's just wishful thinking!"
This is not Cheng Miao's self-indulgence, but the truth. Xi Nianjun is indeed unparalleled in the world, Cheng Miao himself, what is worthy of others' attention?
Xi Nianjun continued: "Now that it has become a fact, you must call me a teacher in the future!"
No matter what the reason, everything has become a fait accompli, and Xi Nianjun is indeed worthy of Cheng Miao's master, not only pulling him out of the abyss of despair, but also giving him hope for revenge.
Cheng Miao put away the hundred tastes in her heart, knelt on the ground, coughed three times, and read aloud: "Master!"
Xi Nianjun pulled Cheng Miao up, brushed away the dust stuck to his forehead with his own hands, and teased with a smile: "Really good!"
Looking at her playful smile, Cheng Miao couldn't get serious in her heart, it felt like a child arguing and saying: 'I'm your father'.
'How do you feel, you've been taken advantage of...'