After working hard for several months, the master asked Li Xiuyuan to rest and said that he would not start practicing until he returned to the academy in the fall. It is said that it is moving and still, and cannot be kept tense all the time.
So he has time to do what he likes.
There are enough herbs for brewing wine, and now he no longer needs to run around in the mountains to find medicine.
After he was leisurely, he began to sit in front of the house and copy scriptures. At present, he had copied two volumes of scriptures. He thought that if he passed by Tianfeng Kingdom one day, he would return Xiaoyun's favor.
When the master had nothing to do, he would take Qing Ying to the mountains for a few days. He said he wanted to collect more herbs and return to the academy. He also had a young apprentice who would soon come to chop wood and practice with him.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "How many medicinal herbs can that guy consume? Wait until next spring and then take him with him to the mountains to practice."
The Master looked at him and was silent for a long time, and said softly: "If you go by what you said in the Taoist temple, I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in the academy for a few more years. The more I can do about some things, the better."
"Teacher, there is no need to be so sad. I heard from the master that even if you go to another starry sky, you still have to continue practicing to have a chance to seek the road to immortality."
Li Xiuyuan looked up at the sky and said quietly.
The master was startled and said with a smile: "That makes sense. We are in the sea of Shura Heaven. We must find a way to leap into a larger ocean. Only when we reach a larger ocean will we find that the environment there is even worse. You have to continue practicing.”
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he raised his arms and waved his green sleeves to point to the opposite side of the mountain stream, and said with a smile: "I don't want to be a fish, no matter it is a small fish or a big fish! No matter it is a fish under the starry sky this time or another."
When the Master heard this, he frowned slightly and said, "We are all fish and cannot live without the ocean."
"But I want to be a fisherman and don't need to live in the ocean." Li Xiuyuan looked at his master and smiled.
"You want to be a fisherman. This idea is very interesting. Why didn't I think about it before?" The master looked at Li Xiuyuan and was inexplicably shocked.
"There are grievances in the world, and there are risks in the court! I don't like either of these. Since I don't like it, I can only work hard to cultivate myself to the state where I can fish."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the master and laughed.
The Master frowned and looked at his student, suddenly realizing that he didn't see him clearly.
After thinking for a while, he sighed: "You also know that the world is dangerous."
Li Xiuyuan smiled slightly and replied: "As long as the rivers and lakes are far enough away, you can still enjoy freedom. But as long as you step into the court, you will never have freedom. This is my experience in the Tianfeng Kingdom."
The Master shook his head and said, "What can I do to have true freedom?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Freedom of not choosing."
"The freedom not to choose." The Master murmured softly, "Why not choose?"
Li Xiuyuan continued: "Because I don't choose, I can choose either side, and I can leave at any time. The heights of the temple and the distance of the world are not the life I like."
The master was stunned for a long time before he said in confusion: "Doesn't that mean that my life is a result of choice?"
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After chatting for a while, the master seemed to remember the previous topic, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Who did you tell the old Taoist priest about his ascension?"
Li Xiuyuan frowned slightly and replied: "No one has said it except the teacher?"
"That's good. Don't mention this matter again in the future. If others ask, just say that he went on a long trip." The Master replied.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied with a smile: "I told Old Man Zhang down the mountain the same thing. He is looking after the Taoist temple for me now. I have to go back next spring. The runes I wrote before may be almost used up. ..."
"Is there no one in the Taoist temple?" Master asked softly.
From the Master's point of view, the old Taoist priest had already ascended. Since Li Xiuyuan chose to leave, there was no need to remember the place where he had lived. After all, his future path would not be anywhere else.
"Because the Taoist temple is there, the villagers go up the mountain to ask for talismans from time to time." Li Xiuyuan replied with a smile: "It is always a good thing to have someone looking at the Taoist temple. I just put a little effort into putting more runes. ."
The master was slightly startled, frowning and thinking for a long time, thinking that you have already left, but you still miss the villagers at the foot of the mountain.
This kind of sentiment is probably unique in the Shura Realm.
He was thinking that if he could ascend, would he still care about the affairs of the academy as much as Li Xiuyuan?
After thinking about it for a long time, he slowly said: "Your persistence makes sense. There are always some things in this world that are worthy of our persistence."
Speaking of this, Li Xiuyuan suddenly asked: "Does this have anything to do with my master leaving?"
"Because no one in the Shura Heaven has been able to ascend for thousands of years, and your master is the only one. What if others know about this and catch you, but you can't defeat them?"
"If at that time, I have already left and no one in this world can help you, or the people who can help you don't know where you are, what will happen to you?"
The master poured him a cup of tea, looked at him and said softly.
There were no more questions, no unnecessary words, just a few simple sentences, which deeply shocked Li Xiuyuan.
So what if he is a genius? Before the genius has grown into a giant tree, any master may cut him off with a single blow.
Only those who grow up are Tianchang.
In his mind, a voice told him.
Looking at Li Xiuyuan who was shocked and speechless, the Master continued: "Then when you were still in Tianfeng Kingdom, a huge thing happened in Shura Heaven."
"What happened?" Li Xiuyuan asked blankly.
"Because the path to ascension in the Shura Heaven Realm is cut off, every few hundred years, the Shura Battlefield will be opened here, allowing the practitioners under the starry sky to go there and fight for the chance to leave the Shura Heaven Realm."
Li Xiuyuan was stunned and asked: "After leaving here, can we still obtain it through a life-and-death fight?"
"That's just an opportunity, not a real ascension." The Master said helplessly: "Those who win in the Shura battlefield can be qualified to go to the road to heaven, and then find their own opportunity to reach heaven."
When he heard about the Road to Heaven, Li Xiuyuan's expression changed slightly, not for other reasons, but because he thought about whether he could ascend like the old Taoist priest in the future.
The master looked at him with a gentle smile and said: "No one knows when the Shura battlefield will be opened. Each opening will last for two to three years."
"You haven't said what I need to do yet." Li Xiuyuan asked.
"The last time the vision of heaven and earth appeared, the Shura battlefield would open within ten years." The master frowned slightly and said: "If you can break your cultivation level to the point of distraction at that time, you will go there no matter what. Shura battlefield."
"Are you going to fight to the death?" Li Xiuyuan looked at the master and was stunned.
"Aren't the skills I'm teaching you now a life-and-death fight?" The master looked at him and replied neatly: "That might be your chance to ascend in the future."
"Why me?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
The master shook his head, sighed and said: "If your medicinal wine has an effect, I might have to leave before the Shura battlefield opens. If I am unlucky and our master and disciple leave, you can count on me You can win on the Shura battlefield."
"Teacher..." Li Xiuyuan covered his forehead and said, "It seems that I have to practice hard in the past ten years, all for the sake of winning that battle?"
Of course, the master heard the dissatisfaction in his words, frowned slightly and explained: "In the next ten, or even fifty years, the Shura Heaven Territory will cause a bloody storm because of this Shura battlefield."
Li Xiuyuan put down the cup, shook his head and said, "So what? What does it have to do with me?"
"This brings us back to the topic we talked about before." Fuzishan said expressionlessly: "You said you don't want to choose any side, because no matter which side you choose, you will be dominated by the other side in the end."
"So if you don't choose, the teacher will think of letting me go?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the master and replied thoughtfully.
"Because you don't choose, you won't be controlled by any party. You only fight on your own behalf. You don't need to share the qualifications for Tongtian Road with any party. You become the only one fishing."
At this point, Li Xiuyuan quietly realized what he was doing. He looked at the Master and said with a smile, "It seems that my choice not to be an official disciple of the academy is a wise thing."
At this point, the Master smiled with satisfaction. He picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.
If Li Xiuyuan had made a small mistake before, in the next few decades, he would either be controlled by the Tianfeng Kingdom, be controlled by Fengyun Academy, or be controlled by a certain force.
It is precisely because of his lack of choice that he owes no favors to anyone and does not belong to any force. Even the academy, to Li Xiuyuan, was just a place where he could earn a living by his own strength.
In a sense, Li Xiuyuan does not belong to the Academy or the Master. He is a truly free man. Because the academy did not provide him with any resources for cultivation, not even the Master gave him a single pill.
The only favor he had was with the dean, but Li Xiudi worked as a coolie chopping firewood in the academy, and this favor gradually diluted. If he gave him two jars of medicinal wine before he left, that would completely break the relationship between the academy and Li Xiuyuan. .
Don't be tied to any party, this is what Master will tell Li Xiuyuan next.
Li Xiuyuan was silent for a moment and then continued: "According to what you said before, wouldn't I become a free man who walks alone in the Shura Realm and owes nothing to any force? Is this okay?"
"Why not?" Master said proudly: "Entering the Shura battlefield depends entirely on personal strength. Practitioners who are distracted cannot enter, nor can those who are above the realm of Poxu."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and reluctantly accepted the fact, then raised his head and said expectantly: "It seems that I will have to be careful not to get too close to anyone in the future."
The master looked at him blankly, then he laughed out loud and said with a smile: "You boy, didn't you just say you wanted to be a fisherman? If you get involved with anyone, how can you be a free fisherman? "
"Is that so? It seems that my master has told me since I was a child not to make connections outside, so that one day I can be free to leave the world."
Thinking of the old Taoist priest who had left, Li Xiuyuan said quietly.
"That's natural, otherwise your old Taoist master wouldn't have painstakingly taught you this since you were a child. Also, when you grow up, you must be especially careful about women in this Shura realm..."
The Master looked at him and said seriously.
"Why?"
"Because you are a rootless person. If they make friends with you, they must have a very deep purpose. They either want you to do things for them, or they want your life."
"Is it so scary?"
Li Xiuyuan thought of the women who broke into the bamboo house, and thought that the women he met were indeed unreasonable. It seemed that only Xiaoyun from Tianfeng Kingdom was slightly better.
However, when he gave her the scriptures, the fate of the two ended.
The Master looked at him and said seriously: "You are not a disciple of an aristocratic family, nor are you a distant relative of the royal family, so your face is bigger than others?"
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he shook his head heavily and expressed his objection.
The Master sighed, looked at him and shook his head and said, "In that case, why would those beauties of heaven who usually look up at the sky fall in love with you?"
Li Xiuyuan was silent for a moment and then said seriously: "My handwriting is good, what if a woman likes it in the future?"
The Master suppressed his smile, looked at him and mocked, "Then try selling her a thousand gold coins!"
