Chapter 1: The Last Look
"Wow~"
In the snow-covered campus, groups of figures laughed and walked through the stairwell, and in the staircase washroom on the first to second floors, a thriving figure propped his hands on the edge of the pool, his head stretched out under the faucet, and let the rushing warm water wash over and over again the long hair that covered the roots of his ears, and the droplets of water splashed on his neck and sweater.
After a full minute, the figure remained silent and motionless, until there was a sudden lap on the right shoulder, and a loud laugh, that the figure waved his hand back.
"Then I'll go first. ”
There were footsteps left in the laughter, but the figure lying on the edge of the pool remained motionless in its previous position, and after several minutes, when the water was pouring down his neck, he retracted his head from under the pool, and reached out to push up the long wet hair that hung down to the tip of his nose, revealing a pair of reddish eyes.
Tears mixed with tap water flowed quietly, Guo Zhengyang took a deep breath, and slowly lowered his head on the edge of the pool and closed his eyes and whispered, "Xiexie." ”
This thank you is a soft voice that only he can hear, because only he knows that the object of his thanks may not exist at all.
He never imagined that when his life came to an end, everything would be able to start again.
Even with his city, he was in a trance for a long time before he was convinced that he was not only not dead, but also strangely returned to fifty years ago.
Fifty years ago, youth rippled.
He is not a humble and apprehensive spiritual realm cultivator, but a dignified Guo family.
Fifty years ago, his majestic father was still alive, and his mother, who loved him and doted on him, was just as well.
In the middle of his thoughts, a mobile phone ringtone suddenly rang from Guo Zhengyang's body, and when he wiped his hands on the sweater casually and then took out the mobile phone from his pocket, a trace of wonderful emotions flashed in his eyes, this mobile phone is still a very old smart phone.
Of course, in Guo Zhengyang's eyes, it can be called ancient, in fact, this mobile phone is the most popular at the moment, and it is the most popular mobile phone in the world. It was only launched in China at the end of last year, and at this time this mobile phone can be used on campus, and it is definitely at the forefront of the trend, not to mention that this is just a small county high school in the interior of the motherland.
And this mobile phone is the eighteenth birthday gift given to him by Guo Zhengyang's mother before the Spring Festival.
In his previous life, even when he left the world to enter the spiritual realm to practice and embark on the vast road of pursuing the way of heaven, this mobile phone was still carefully treasured by his side.
Because it was a gift from his mother to his zuihou.
In my memory, my father, who is the secretary of the Yanhe County Party Committee, will be promoted to the deputy mayor of Mingchuan City in a few months, and that time is just the moment when Guo Zhengyang failed in the college entrance examination, and his father's promotion made the family have a lot of joy, but unfortunately when his father and his mother rushed to the city, he encountered a heavy rainstorm, and a truck crossing the bridge in the rainstorm was driven by the driver fatigue, and it still maintained a high speed in the rain, and when the tires suddenly skidped, the driver didn't even have time to brake, so he hit the car where his parents were and broke the guardrail and crashed into the river,......
From that day on, Guo Zhengyang began to be adopted by his grandfather, but he began to give up on himself and live a decadent life, and his angry grandfather kicked him out of the house.
But he has never lacked living expenses or anything, and every month someone will put thousands of dollars into his card, which is not enough for him to squander, but enough to eat and clothe himself, and he has been in a mess for a few years, until his grandfather died of illness, and then it was a few years, and the uncle who was the executive vice governor of a southern province was also staggered and imprisoned by political opponents, and the Guo family completely collapsed.
But after the collapse of the Guo family, Guo Zhengyang ushered in his own opportunity, he happened to meet a monk who escaped from the spiritual realm, was seriously injured and dying, and got an inheritance for nothing, with exercises, spiritual weapons, and learned from the monk's mouth about a magnificent immortal god shijie.
It's a pity that the monk died too quickly, although he left a lot of things, but Guo Zhengyang didn't know where to start, in order to understand the ancient words on those secret books, he looked through the information for a few months, and then a book of practice cheats for the introduction of cultivation took five years to finally understand thoroughly, know how to cultivate, in the past five years he gave up countless times, countless attempts, to Zuihou himself was about to completely lose confidence, before he entered the door in a daze.
The cultivation after the introduction is also not easy.
It took him four years to go from introductory cultivation to the peak of the early stage of Gathering Spirits.
The first step for monks to condense the aura of heaven and earth into the body, change their lives against the sky, and take the first step is to gather spirits, which is divided into four stages, the early stage, the middle stage, the late stage, and the Great Perfection.
Continue to gather spirits into the body, constantly wash the flesh and mortal fetuses that are contaminated with countless mortal dust, wash to the point of transparency and purity, and then make a breakthrough after reaching the realm of the great perfection of gathering spirits, then it is already beyond the ordinary, can fly away at will, and the land immortals who travel clouds and rain are called real people.
In the previous life, although Guo Zhengyang had a chance chance, the dead monk was just a rookie in the middle stage of the Gathering Spirits, and the things left behind were not precious, and because there was no one to teach them, he could only explore them by himself, and it took five years to get started, four years to cultivate to the peak of the early stage of the Gathering Spirit, a bottleneck trapped him for a year, and it took seven or eight years to cultivate to the peak of the middle stage of the Gathering Spirit.
Seven or eight years later, he finally relied on chance to find out where the spiritual realm was.
After entering the spiritual realm, although the aura is strong, it is more than ten times stronger than the cultivation efficiency of the outside world, but he is a lonely soul and a wild ghost, and he is only at the peak of the middle stage of gathering spirits, and he does not have much experience in fighting strong enemies.
The Great Perfection of Gathering Spirits can gain a foothold in the Spirit Realm, but it is only reluctantly, especially for casual cultivation, this reluctance is still extremely dangerous.
Guo Zhengyang was trapped in the Great Perfection realm for a few more years, and he still often encountered various crises and dangers, and it was not until a few years later that he finally ushered in his own opportunity to break through and become a real person.
At that moment, Guo Zhengyang's confidence was unprecedentedly strong, with his background opportunity, it was really enough to survive relatively easily in the spiritual realm if he could go that far.
After years of hard work, he finally fought a bloody way, and he can be regarded as a small master in the group of casual cultivators.
Guo Zhengyang is indeed high-spirited, even if he was nearly seventy years old at the time, but once he becomes a real person, his life will double, and a real person in his sixties and seventies is still rightfully young and strong.
But in the midst of his high spirits, Guo Zhengyang suddenly suffered a catastrophe, and before he had time to raise his eyebrows and feet in the spiritual realm, he encountered two strong men fighting near his cave, and died tragically in a daze.
Looking back on that life, even though he had already exercised his nerves to be extremely tenacious in all kinds of dangers and tribulations, he still wanted to cry sadly.
Before he died, his heart was really full of unwillingness and anger.
For this God's anger, he worked hard all his life, and finally walked out of a bloody path in the spiritual realm, just saw the day he came out, he suddenly suffered a catastrophe, that kind of anger and unwillingness is really like a monstrous anger, but what is even more helpless is that he doesn't even have a chance to be angry and unwilling, because at that moment, he has disappeared.
But who would have thought.
Not long ago, he was angry at the injustice of fate, and not long after, he went back to fifty years ago?
Is this the compensation given to him by fate?
Or is there someone in the dark who sees his life as too sad and desolate, so he gives him a turnaround?
But no matter what, he completely understood that he was not only not dead, but also returned to fifty years ago, his parents suffered that catastrophe, and a few months before the great change in the Guo family, Guo Zhengyang was really excited and wanted to cry.
The great change in that life was the summer vacation a few months later, a few days after the college entrance examination results were released.
If there was no car accident, my father would not have rushed away in his most brilliant years, he would not have given up on himself, and my grandfather would not have lost his son in his old age, and he would have grieved for a long time for his most beloved youngest son to take the first step, causing his body to collapse all the way...... I don't necessarily dare to do something out of the ordinary.
In the final analysis, the sudden and earth-shaking change in his fate in the previous life was caused by a car accident a few months later.
Silently looked at the mobile phone in his hand, and when the mobile phone ringtone exploded over and over again, and several figures passing by outside the washing room stopped to watch, Guo Zhengyang took a deep breath and put the mobile phone to his ear.
"Xiao Zheng. ”
A gentle and concerned voice sounded on the other side of the mobile phone, two simple words, Guo Zhengyang turned his back directly to the outside of the washroom, tears welling up.
"Xiaozheng?"
On the other side of the phone, maybe because I couldn't hear a response for a long time, there was a little more doubt in the voice, "Are you still angry with your father?" Hey, how can the father and son have an overnight feud, be good, don't be angry, come down, Mom brought you something delicious." ”
The tears in Guo Zhengyang's eyes were still surging down, but a trace of doubt flashed in his mind, angry with his father?
The memories that had been almost forgotten in the depths of his mind were checked by him several times, and Guo Zhengyang finally found the source.
It's still not long after the Spring Festival, and it's not long before the start of the third year of high school.
In the final exam before the Spring Festival, Guo Zhengyang's fifth class of the third grade of high school had a total of ninety-one people, and Guo Zhengyang was honored to take the tenth from the bottom of the class.
This Spring Festival he was scolded all the way over, but at that time he was in a rebellious period, the more fierce his father scolded, the more serious his rebellious feelings, a few days before the start of school and his father quarreled fiercely, most of the night ran out of the night and did not return, the mother of the victim braved the heavy snow to find him for a long time, the next day he was hospitalized with a severe cold.
When he received the news that he had gone to see his mother in the hospital, his father, who was standing outside the ward, slapped him several times in front of several doctors and nurses.
He didn't seem to answer the phone call at home for many days, and even once had the idea of running away from home and giving up his studies, if it weren't for the girls he was very reluctant to give up on this campus, and even haunted by his dreams, he might really run away from home alone.
Rummaging through the memories that were almost forgotten, Guo Zhengyang's tears were getting stronger and stronger, and after putting down the phone and taking a deep breath to calm himself down, he grabbed the phone again and said, "I'll wash my hair, wait for me." ”
"Okay, you wash slowly, remember to dry your hair after washing it,......"
The voice on the other side of the phone became more and more gentle, but Guo Zhengyang didn't finish listening, and put down the phone and put it in his pocket after listening to it halfway.
In the last life, with the departure of his parents, he gave up on himself for many years, no matter whether his grandfather or uncle persuaded or scolded, he was unable to cheer up, the main reason was that his parents left with disappointment.
Disappointment with him.
The results of the college entrance examination were released, Guo Zhengyang was one or two hundred points away from the junior college line, and knew that the grades were too poor, so he took the report card and didn't go home at all, until his parents wanted to move to the city, he had no choice but to go back, and his parents who had already gotten in the car outside the door beckoned him to get in the car together, but Guo Zhengyang simply refused, saying that he would play in the same school for a few days and go to the city a few days later.
He didn't go home with his report card, but spent his days outside until he heard that his father had been promoted to deputy mayor and that they were about to move, so he had to go back and get some things that he valued more back then.
When he went back, his parents had already saluted and were ready to get into the car, and his mother cordially beckoned Guo Zhengyang to get in the car and go together, but he simply refused, saying that he would play with his classmates for a few days and go to the city a few days later.
His father didn't agree and looked at him coldly, but his mother persuaded him on the side, saying that it was okay to let him relax or something, and then came over and stuffed him with a sum of money before beckoning his father to get into the car.
And when his father stood outside the car door and looked at him, his eyes were full of disappointment. When his mother got into the car, although her eyes were more doting, Guo Zhengyang also saw some loss.
That's when he saw his parents' zuihou.
At that time, he didn't pay much attention to it, but when his parents suddenly encountered a catastrophe on the way to the city, really left, and died so suddenly, he cried heartbreakingly, and couldn't break free from the boundless guilt for a long time.
When he was young, he was ignorant, rebellious and flamboyant, and there was often a great contrast with the thinking of the older generation, but how could he continue to be ignorant? When his parents were gone, Guo Zhengyang recalled the past, and Guo Zhengyang regretted it.
Until he died, he didn't forget that his parents looked at him, his father's eyes were full of disappointment, even anger, and his mother's eyes were doting, but there was also hidden loss.
His son let his parents die with disappointment and loss for him, and that glance was the root of his self-abandonment.
Even if many people tried to untie his knot later, he couldn't break free from it.
After putting away his mobile phone, Guo Zhengyang put his head under the faucet again, letting the rushing warm water wash his long hair.
He really wanted to cry a lot.
Because now he is no longer often on the verge of death, worrying all day long, and always preventing all kinds of murder crises in the spiritual realm.
Now he has the opportunity to change, the opportunity to erase the disappointment that made him unforgettable, and the opportunity to re-experience his mother's pampering, he is really moved.