Sima You gave Du Tinghan a mysterious smile. Unfortunately, his face no longer had rich collagen. In addition to deep wrinkles, the skin on his entire face was droopy. He could still look at it without smiling. This One smile made Du Tinghan sick. Du Tinghan frowned in disgust, and Sima You started to tell Du Tinghan a story as if he didn't know.
In the past, a boy with extraordinary talent was born on the West Wind Continent. At that time, the West Wind Continent had no spiritual power and became a mortal world. Since the West Wind Continent has no spiritual power, many people with cultivation qualifications will try their best to go to the Lingdu Continent. For them, the Lingdu Continent is the holy land of cultivation in their minds. However, this so-called Holy Land of Cultivation is also a very scary place. It is a place where the weak and the strong prey on the weak. It is a luxury to survive there without the strength.
For this gifted boy, he found that if he lived in the West Wind Continent, he would become a mediocre mortal like the rest of his family. In that era, legendary cultivators were not only able to ascend to heaven and earth, but also lived a long life. These legends stimulated every young person with dreams. Of course, this boy was no exception, so when he was fourteen years old, he actively began to look for opportunities to go to Lingdu Continent. Back then, the simplest way was to spend money and board a freighter bound for Lingdu Continent. As long as nothing happened to the freighter, you would be able to reach Lingdu Continent smoothly. However, this channel is also the most deceptive, because going to Lingdu Continent is not the final goal. The boy's real idea is to go to Lingdu Continent to cultivate.
Although there are very few cultivators in the West Wind Continent, the basic knowledge about cultivation is still spread in the West Wind Continent. The most important thing is that if you want to become a cultivator, you must break through the qi training level and enter the foundation building stage before becoming an adult. Otherwise, once the adult meridians are solidified, even if you are extremely talented, you will have no chance. The boy saw that he was almost fifteen years old and knew that if he continued to stay in the West Wind Continent, his life would be over. However, if you simply take a freighter, even if you arrive at Lingdu Continent, you may die without even leaving Xinshou Village. Therefore, the boy aimed at another difficult method, which was to participate in the recruitment from major forces in Lingdu Continent.
At that time, in order to survive, cultivators in the Lingdu Continent would not be able to fight alone. Therefore, cultivators formed forces of varying sizes based on blood, ideas, or inheritance. Among these forces, the relationship is also complicated. Some have good relations and help each other, while some are enemies and fight with each other all the year round. Anyway, in one sentence, either you will kill me or I will kill you. The Lingdu Continent is full of blood.
In this way, the disadvantages of year-round battles are revealed, and all major forces lack good seedlings to cultivate. Fight, fight, and no one will give a shit. Everyone knows this truth. Therefore, one of their favorite things to do in battle is to kill and injure the opponent's younger generation as much as possible. Over and over again, one day suddenly, everyone discovered that despite fighting, they did not become stronger, nor did their opponents become weaker, but there were fewer young faces in the force.
Originally, there were many mortals in the Lingdu Continent, and cultivators could look for good seeds from the descendants of these mortals. Unfortunately, cultivators did not pay attention to the impact on the environment when fighting. Therefore, the mortals in the Lingdu Continent They are the most unlucky group. After a battle, the two sides may be evenly matched, but the mortals within the combat range will die cleanly. Therefore, when the major forces noticed this fact, they found that there were not many mortals left, and these mortals had all gone to the deep mountains and old forests, living like savages. One can imagine how many people could come out of this. Qualified kids.
Once a problem is discovered, people's ingenuity will be immediately reflected, so some forces set their sights on the West Wind Continent. At that time, the West Wind Continent was much more civilized than the Lingdu Continent, and all aspects were actively developing. Those who stay in the West Wind Continent are basically mortals. Even if there are some cultivators, they are very few in number and not that strong. In addition, these cultivators cannot embody superhuman qualities in the environment of the West Wind Continent. The strength comes. Therefore, without the superman who can turn the world upside down, the development of the West Wind Continent is booming, and the population is dozens of times greater than that of the Lingdu Continent.
So, some people discovered that instead of looking for needles in the haystack in the Lingdu Continent, it is better to go to the West Wind Continent to find good seedlings with cultivation qualifications. This is obviously much easier. The only inconvenient thing is how to find a solution. Bring back. It is not difficult to find good seedlings, but the difficulty lies in how to bring them back. Only by avoiding the destruction of the opponent and ensuring that these good seedlings are not killed can we have a chance to cultivate them.
No matter what the major forces thought at the time, some foresighted forces set up branches in the West Wind Continent to select talents from the West Wind Continent and then send them to Lingdu Continent. Therefore, the boy decided to take this path, which was safer. However, this path was not easy to take. The reason was that even if he could be selected, the chance of making it to Lingdu Continent alive was low.
In the end, the boy was lucky enough to be valued by a certain force and became an apprentice. After studying in the West Wind Continent, the boy successfully entered the late stage of Qi training. Although the West Wind Continent had no spiritual power back then, the forces that came to the West Wind Continent were still well prepared. They brought spiritual crystals, set up spirit gathering arrays, and built an environment suitable for cultivation. Of course, this environment is very simple and has no effect on high-level cultivators, but for these children, it is enough to cultivate to the later stages of Qi training. However, since the environment is still not enough to support them in building foundations, they can only truly become cultivators after arriving in Lingdu Continent.
During the transfer process, the boy was always in a state of fear. However, in the end he was very lucky. His group suffered little loss and successfully reached the force's base camp in Lingdu Continent. However, other groups that set off at the same time were not so lucky. Not only were all the apprentices wiped out, but even the cultivators they escorted did not survive.
The boy worked very hard and shone brightly in this force. He achieved foundation building and golden elixir in one fell swoop. Within two years of arriving in Lingdu Continent, he successfully became a Nascent Soul cultivator. Unfortunately, the force he joined was still too weak. After a great battle, the cultivators in the force were able to escape and die. Luck came to the boy again, and the boy was lucky enough to escape with his life.
After hiding in the middle east of Lingdu Continent for a period of time, the boy found that if he continued like this, he would die sooner or later. So he began to miss his hometown, so he decided to leave Lingdu Continent and return to West Wind Continent. After a long journey, the boy finally escaped death and returned to his hometown.
As a deserter, the boy returned with major psychological problems. In the Lingdu Continent, cultivators like to use a sentence to motivate themselves. The original saying is that cultivators are inherently defiant, so those who overcome difficulties are the real cultivators. In order to escape for his life, the boy ran back to the West Wind Continent from the Lingdu Continent. He was cutting off his own path. If this continued, his cultivation career would be completely terminated. Not only that, if he stayed in the West Wind Continent for a long time, his realm would continue to decline. , and also cause significant damage to his body. Therefore, although the boy survived, he lived in torment every day. A voice told him to return to Lingdu Continent quickly before it was too late; but another voice kept crying in his ear. The Capital Continent is really terrible, and it will definitely be a dead end when we go back.
Du Tinghan looked at Sima You in front of him and thought to himself, could the boy in this story be him? If this boy is really him, then it is indeed possible that he is the Scholar with a Thousand Faces. According to records, the era in which Thousand-faced Scholar lived was indeed an old era before the Spiritual Emperor established a new order. During that dark age, not only the mortals in the Lingdu Continent were in danger, but even most of the people who ruled the capital were in danger. Cultivators also live a very difficult life. If this continues, before the spiritual power is exhausted, the cultivators themselves will lose themselves. Du Tinghan himself had not experienced that era, so after hearing Sima You's narration, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, life is much happier now. It's a pity that Lord Ling Emperor left the spiritual world, making this world like this There have been new changes, and I don’t know what the future will be like.
As Du Tinghan listened, he felt distracted in his heart. However, Sima You's story did not stop telling, and the boy was still suffering. Until one day, fate played a huge joke on the boy.
The boy, no, it should be said to be a young man, suffered a huge psychological impact and became neurotic. Therefore, with the care of his family, he found a psychiatrist to nurse him back to health. This was originally a good thing, but unfortunately good things can also turn into bad things. In a moment of excitement, the young man accidentally killed the psychiatrist. Not only that, he also made a big fuss in the hospital. In the end, he was subdued by combatants sent by the Xifeng government and imprisoned in a prison specially built for cultivators.
Originally, this young man was going to be executed immediately, but the man should not die because his family could still speak in the West Wind government. Therefore, after getting a psychiatrist With the forgiveness of his family, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In fact, being sentenced to life imprisonment basically means that his life is over. In addition, he is a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. If he stays in a prison without spiritual power for a long time, he will definitely not survive long.
Life is a long road, and there are many miracles. The man in prison began to reflect on his extremely short life and found that his choices had always been blind. For example, he had to become a cultivator. After becoming a cultivator, he didn't know why he wanted to follow others. When the forces started a war, he would do whatever the superiors asked him to do, and then run back to the West Wind Continent just to save his life. He was confused during the whole process. Except for going to Lingdu Continent and running back to West Wind Continent, these two things were considered his own active choices, and the rest was all done in a hazy way.
The man thought, what is all this for? Why do cultivators fight and kill? Can't they coexist peacefully? We are all human beings, why do we have to kill each other? The man still couldn't figure it out. He felt that human thoughts were too complicated. Unless he could pry into other people's minds, it would be impossible to figure it out. So one day, a miracle happened to the man again. He was successfully transformed into a demon, and he was also a rare spiritual demon in the world.
