A world full of darkness and nothingness.
A mysterious woman full of light.
These two were the entire content of his dream. While he was immersed in this dream, he felt that he had been practicing all the time.
Just because he and this mysterious woman can relieve each other's worries, answer questions, and clear up doubts. He encountered many problems in his practice.
With this woman, he can always find answers that are most consistent with reality.
And this woman can get the same thing from him.
Only as time went by, Gu Qingyang gradually became able to vaguely feel what was happening in the outside world.
He probably knew that half of his physical body had been destroyed, and his body was once again reduced to only a few bones.
He even knew that in the real world outside, there was an extremely large earthworm pulling his body.
He was taken to a dark, extremely damp place. That place had the earthy smell that he was most familiar with, as well as the energy of life.
And to be honest.
Such a discovery also made Gu Qingyang in the dream world feel extremely puzzled. Because this earthworm didn't seem to regard him as food.
He knew very well that if it really regarded him as food. Then it can swallow him whole and then refine it.
In this way, no matter what, it can gain more or less power from him and refine something from him.
But, it didn't do that. It seemed to have taken him back to its lair and then guarded him.
Even if there is flesh and blood on his body that is reborn again, it will not care about it, let alone devour it.
"It's protecting me, how is that possible?"
For a moment, such a discovery made Gu Qingyang, who was in the dream world, stunned.
It was difficult for him to understand, let alone explain, the behavior of this big earthworm. However, just when Gu Qingyang was confused, a voice sounded.
"You don't have to wonder about these things."
"Everything in the world is born with spirit."
"I can sense another extremely unique aura in your body. That aura doesn't seem to be a part of you."
"If you want to use the knowledge of the soul to explain this kind of thing, then I think it is equivalent to the existence of another soul in you."
"If this little thing looks at you from the perspective of a soul, then you should be a person with two souls in its eyes."
"Desolate beasts are not as complicated as humans."
"In this world, most wild beasts have pure minds. So, do you think it will regard you as one of its kind?"
"What?"
…
The mysterious woman's voice was extremely soft, but hearing such words in Gu Qingyang's ears made Gu Qingyang's conscious body's pupils shrink.
At this moment, he was completely shocked by these words, making him unable to distinguish between what was reality and what was illusion.
It made him realize even more.
The person he cares about most may just survive in another way, and it is not a complete death.
But at the same time, when he looked at the woman again, his eyes could not help but contain a sense of vigilance and defensiveness.
This was not because Gu Qingyang did this deliberately, but because what he had just realized aroused his most instinctive desire to protect.
for that person.
For the man who died because of him and sacrificed everything to make him who he is.
There was regret and guilt in his heart, and he could not forgive himself.
Since that person left, he has put a layer of shackles on all his emotions.
The shackles were a kind of punishment he gave himself. As long as it existed, he would feel terrible pain every moment.
Every day in the past, he lived in this world painfully and freely in a way that others could not detect.
But now, someone noticed all this.
Therefore, even though he is still not sure whether that person is still alive, he still instinctively wants to protect everything about the two of them.
Even if the person who knew this was the most special and strange fellow Taoist he had ever encountered in his life.
What made Gu Qingyang even more nervous was that the mysterious woman seemed to have expected all this after seeing his reaction.
She was not disappointed, nor did she show any surprise or confusion.
She just stood silently in this world full of darkness, using her silence to bring light to Gu Qingyang.
And Gu Qingyang just stared at her, speechless for a moment. He also understood that he was the one who lost his composure just now, and he also lost his temper invisibly.
However, he didn't want to apologize, and he didn't have any desire to apologize. He stared at the woman in front of him.
For the first time in his life, he felt fear.
However, he didn't know whether the fear in his heart was directed at the woman in front of him or at something unknown.
"You're scared."
"But what you are afraid of is not me, but yourself. You are afraid that what you have done is not good enough, and you are afraid that you will lose again."
"When I entered Taoism, I practiced the way of music. Therefore, I know that some sounds in this world only exist in the hearts of others."
"What I want to tell you is that you don't need to be like this. At least when facing me, you don't need to be like this."
"I'm not your enemy."
"Our paths are connected because we are the same kind of people in a sense, not because our paths are in conflict."
"Perhaps, you still can't understand what I mean by these words. But I believe that in the future, you will definitely understand."
…
The mysterious woman spoke.
The first words she said revealed Gu Qingyang's thoughts clearly and cleanly.
What was Gu Qingyang thinking? Some things in Gu Qingyang's thoughts that even he himself couldn't explain clearly were explained clearly by her.
And this was the first time that Gu Qingyang was deeply shocked by her performance since he met her in a dream.
Just at the same time.
In the dream world, Gu Qingyang's conscious body failed to notice that at the source of endless light, the woman was also smiling.
Unfortunately, he couldn't see her face clearly, so it was even less possible for him to see her expression. But how could Gu Qingyang know her mood?
At this moment, her thoughts were simple.
She was thinking that before this, she got along with Gu Qingyang and discussed Taoism in her dreams. The person who can shock a person is always Gu Qingyang.
Only this time, it seemed that she took the initiative and shocked Gu Qingyang, which could be regarded as a win.
"You are such a strange woman."
"I'm quite looking forward to it. I suddenly want to know if there are people like you in this world."
"Promise me that if one day we meet in reality, please don't peek into my heart in this way."
"If we are just fellow Taoists, I hope you can retain a bit of dignity for me and let me have my own thoughts."
…
After a while, Gu Qingyang was no longer silent.
He suppressed his shock and spoke with a smile on his face, his eyes even more apologetic, as if he was apologizing, but not as if he was not.
However, in the process of telling, the smile on his face changed from a normal smile to a bitter smile.
Although the woman was silent, Gu Qingyang could intuitively feel that her silence seemed to be a kind of agreement.
In other words, she agreed.
However, just when Gu Qingyang still wanted to continue discussing Tao. An extremely intense pain caused his dream world to begin to collapse.
"goodbye."
The moment before the dream world disappeared completely, the woman spoke softly and said goodbye to him. Gu Qingyang was keenly aware of it.
This time, this mysterious woman seems to have undergone some changes. There seemed to be some kind of special emotion in her voice.
It's a pity that whether it was in his previous life or this life, he always knew very little about emotions.
Therefore, he could not fully understand the hidden meaning of this woman's words.
But at the same time, in a place filled with clouds and mist in this wild world.
A beautiful woman in white no longer played the guqin in front of her, but slowly took off the veil on her face and stared at the world.
"What a piece of wood."
This mysterious woman stared at the world in front of her for a long time before speaking leisurely. There seemed to be a hint of melancholy in her voice.
Moreover, her opening her mouth also caused the ethereal and immortal aura in her body to disappear without a trace in an instant.
At the same time, behind the mysterious woman in white, a woman who was similar to her but extremely different was also stunned.
The woman in white had a bloody red plum embroidered on her clothes. But now, she also no longer has that immortal and ethereal temperament.
"Teacher, Master, what did you just say?"
The latter spoke slowly, and although his voice was softer, his words were full of unbelievable meaning.
"Amei, you must have heard wrong."
"I have no words."
"That means Amei heard wrongly."
"Yes, Amei must have heard wrong."
…
Before he finished speaking, the woman named Amei disappeared without a trace.
And in this place, the only one left was the mysterious woman, with blushing cheeks and a sense of loss.
"Um--"
However, after a while, in another place far away from that place, the woman named Amei stopped.
She made a sound, as if she was sighing or wanting to express something. But in the end, she still chose to remain silent.
However, Amei's expression was not calm.
She looked a little dull and melancholy at first, but then a wry smile appeared on her face.
Until the end, the bitter smile completely disappeared from her face. Her face returned to calmness again, and there was even a little hope in her eyes.
She has been practicing for a long time.
You can also see through many things in this world. That's why she knew that everyone has his own destiny and his own path.
She thought about her master's affairs for a long time.
And the result of her meditation was that no matter how long she thought about it, it was still not as good as her master's thought.
This matter, to put it bluntly, is her master's business. Even though she cared more about her master, she could only watch silently.
If this thing is a good thing, then when it's time to give blessings, she will give her the most sincere blessings. If this matter is not a good thing, she will naturally take action.
So, this kind of thing is actually very simple.
However, at the same time, Gu Qingyang did not have such an easy and comfortable life as the two of them. At this moment, he was suffering from extremely terrible pain.
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