What is Tao?
Gu Qingyang, who created the Seventeenth Realm, seems to be the most qualified person to answer this question among all the bone cultivators in the past and present.
For such questions, Gu Qingyang's answer is, Tao is the persistence of everyone to move forward resolutely according to their obsessions.
There are no two identical leaves in this world, nor are there any two identical people, nor are there exactly the same Tao.
If we say that Gu Qingyang's path is the so-called imperial path, it is a persistent path that makes up for all regrets even if he has to go through thousands of difficulties and dangers.
So, at this moment, Liu Ziyin, who was sleeping soundly next to Gu Qingyang, his current path was the drunken path.
In fact, this Liu Ziyin can be regarded as living in the mountains and not knowing the true face of the mountains. Because he has never seen the true face of this "mountain".
From the moment Liu Ziyin indulged in wine, he began to gain enlightenment.
In fact, in an extremely complex environment like the Liu family, living a dejected life like Liu Ziyin can preserve the strength to the maximum extent.
If Liu Ziyin did not have absolute talent to rely on, he would still resolutely compete for resources with other members of the family.
Then, his people must have no less than a hundred ways to make him spit out all his resources in endless suffering.
There is strength in numbers, and this is the advantage of a large family over a small family.
However, the superficial harmony and the disunity of people are also problems that all big families cannot avoid in the process of development.
The resources in the hands of the big family only seem to be a lot. In fact, if the resources are shared equally, the resources are not much.
Therefore, children of big families are usually forced to end their childhood early and start growing like crazy after their life bones are awakened.
In this process, these children will transform from children into "children of a wealthy family" in advance.
Although they will lose a lot of happiness, they will also gain strength accordingly.
When most bone cultivators are just entering the life bone realm, the children of these big families often have the ability to stand alone.
And Liu Ziyin doesn't have such abilities at all. He just lacks talent, not that he is incompetent.
However, being born into a big family like the Liu family and in such a situation, Liu Ziyin could only choose to endure it.
The first survival skill that other Liu family members have to learn is to fight for resources.
The first method Liu Ziyin had to learn was disguise, which was to make himself look harmless under his disguise.
Only in this way can he live and ensure that the people around him will not suffer with him because of his eyesore.
However, how could the long-term oppression and long-term frustration be so easily endured?
Perhaps it is for this reason that while Liu Ziyin needed to disguise himself, he also learned to drink to relieve his sorrows.
Wine is indeed worthy of the name of Mr. Wangyou. It is very special, and it will obviously bring people a different kind of pain, and it will also make people sink.
However, for a bone cultivator, many things in this world can be regarded as cultivation, and they can cultivate their own way from them.
Liu Ziyin didn't understand this logic.
Liu Ziyin just knew that while he was forbearing, he was also waiting for someone. The person he wants to wait for is someone who can fully understand him.
That person can understand his pain and understand his pain even more.
He is Liu Ziyin, and like other Liu family members, he also has ambitions.
Just because of these factors, when others can express their thoughts freely, he can only choose to hide his true self.
And unknowingly, during this seemingly fruitless waiting, Gu Qingyang appeared.
Just like Liu Ziyin could understand Gu Qingyang's suffering when he first saw him practicing. Gu Qingyang could also understand Liu Ziyin's suffering.
Because the two of them are essentially the same type of people.
He, Liu Ziyin, was unable to realize his ideas due to various pressures. Therefore, he chose to wait for the opportunity because his true ambition was hard to achieve.
Gu Qingyang, on the other hand, knew that whichever path he chose, he would face various pressures and continue to experience losses, but he still had to move forward.
Gu Qingyang is braver than Liu Ziyin.
But that's just because Gu Qingyang has already gone through this journey once. Compared with Liu Ziyin, Gu Qingyang is more experienced in facing certain things.
In contrast, Liu Ziyin is more like a real person, a person of flesh and blood.
What's more, if others were to stand in Liu Ziyin's position, they might not be able to do better than Liu Ziyin.
However, the day when Liu Ziyin and Gu Qingyang met seemed destined to be the day when Liu Ziyin became enlightened while drunk.
The first glass of wine was bitter.
This is because Liu Ziyin's first half of his life was like this. Amidst countless murderous intentions, lies and disguises, he felt that his days were like years.
Days like this may indeed seem relatively relaxed on the surface. But in fact, only those who have experienced it will understand the suffering involved.
The second glass of wine was tasteless.
This is because Liu Ziyin's life is like this now. He still needs to pretend, but after pretending for a long time, he is actually confused.
Many times, or in other words, every moment now, even Liu Ziyin himself couldn't tell whether he was deliberately pretending or whether he was numb.
Numb days are naturally tasteless.
The third glass of wine is tasteless but can make people drunk.
This was because when the third glass of wine turned out like this, it meant that Liu Ziyin could finally unburden himself and have a good sleep.
Even though life has made him numb, even if he will continue to be numb in the numb life in the future, he will continue to be numb as before.
But in his sleep, he was still himself.
Dreams are always beautiful, ideals are always perfect. It is like a glass of wine, you can feel its mellow aroma after drinking it.
But a dream is still a dream after all. When you wake up from the dream, everything in the dream will disappear. So Liu Ziyin would rather make this dream last longer.
That’s not bad.
As for things in reality, those are things that need to be considered after waking up from the dream. He, Liu Ziyin, doesn't care about those things.
In his opinion, if one day he really can't pretend anymore, the worst thing he can do is suddenly rise up and have a hearty battle.
From now on, even if I die, I will die boldly in the direction of my dream.
Such a death can actually be regarded as a well-deserved death, and it is a very good way to die.
However, Liu Ziyin did not realize that in the past, he would only care about his disguise and would only deliberately numb it.
Invisibly, he lost too many things.
And the most important thing among them is clearly the heart of seeking truth.
Liu Ziyin thought that his way was to be forbearing, but little did he know that his way was to break out in forbearance.
However, the appearance of Gu Qingyang was a real opportunity.
Gu Qingyang allowed Liu Ziyin to see another kind of life, and that kind of life only contained two words: unruly.
Perhaps it was from that moment, half drunk and half awake, that Liu Ziyin truly understood what he wanted.
After getting the opportunity that time, he also met Gu Qingyang again, and inexplicably pulled him to drink these three glasses of bitter wine.
Someone who can understand him appears.
His way comes naturally.
This was his outburst in forbearance, and it was the best gift he gave to himself and Gu Qingyang after the outburst.
That was this drunkenness.
He gave himself a lucid dream, and also gave Gu Qingyang a lucid and beautiful dream. In the dream, they didn't change anything.
But both of them experienced their past lives again in a real and clear-eyed way.
Just like Gu Qingyang, after he experienced the past in this infinitely real way, he saw the past more clearly.
And Liu Ziyin also saw the past him in this big dream. He suddenly realized that he couldn't live like that.
"Life is a road that cannot be turned back. Even if you look back, you can only look back and take a look at the road you have traveled."
"What happened has happened and is already a fact. Facts are destined to be unchangeable, and the same is true in life."
"If I don't have the ability and opportunity to change the past, then at least let me seize the opportunity to seize the future, otherwise I will really regret it."
"Even if I am weak, I should try to fight once. Even if the cost of losing is death, it doesn't matter."
"If you don't fight in life, what's the difference between it and a salted fish that has been dead for a long time?"
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Liu Ziyin thought this in the dream, but in the real world, Liu Ziyin's body was also undergoing earth-shaking changes.
One by one, runes began to emerge from Liu Ziyin's body, invisibly changing Liu Ziyin's cultivation level.
Phase bone realm.
Glazed Realm.
Glazed Realm, the initial small realm.
Glazed Realm, a small middle-level realm.
Glazed Realm, a high-level small realm.
"Fight!"
Finally, at the moment when Liu Ziyin roared out the word while drunk in his sleep, his breath suddenly rose up and became complete.
The Glazed Realm, the Perfect Small Realm!
At this moment, in that blink of an eye, Liu Ziyin's cultivation level even directly surpassed that of Gu Qingyang.
But at the same time, the benefits Gu Qingyang gained from this sleep were also not small, and they even surpassed the results of his hard training.
Prior to this, Gu Qingyang had undergone ten or twenty days of hard practice, and his injuries were almost completely healed.
But there are still some injuries that Gu Qingyang cannot easily heal through hard training. It turns out that those injuries can only be healed through accumulation.
But now, in the dream, most of these injuries were healed in an instant due to Gu Qingyang's enlightenment.
Until the end, whether it was Gu Qingyang's body or soul, both of them had only the last three scars left that had not healed.
Coupled with the infinitely stable state of mind, this also brought Gu Qingyang infinitely close to the kind of perfection he wanted.
However, if Gu Qingyang really wants to break the last shackles and achieve the so-called perfection, then he can only let the six wounds heal first.
And in his sleep, Gu Qingyang's last clone also disappeared.
At this point, only Gu Qingyang's body is still sleeping in this huge Shenlu Academy.
However, who among the two of them, Gu Qingyang or Liu Ziyin, will wake up first, depends on which one of them can be the first to awaken to the Tao in the dream.
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