"Ah!"
"You are the first person I have seen to say that you are greedy for life and afraid of death so confidently."
With a little disdain and contempt, Wu Yanqing remained as upright as ever.
If it were anyone else, how would they dare to be so arrogant in front of this being who is obviously at the level of a great demon?
Of course, this does not rule out that Wu Yanqing felt that he had a backer and was not afraid of the threat of the strong man at all.
After all, the strong man chose to use sealing instead of killing to deal with Wu Yanqing, which is enough to show that the opponent is still afraid of something.
Considering that the other party emphasized the existence of Fahai in his previous words, the strong man is most likely to be afraid of Pei Wende of Miyin Temple.
It's okay not to have murderous intent now. Once the strong man really has murderous intent, he will definitely alert Pei Wende in Miyin Temple before he kills Wu Yanqing.
"For monsters, especially monsters with long lives, being greedy for life and afraid of death is not a shortcoming."
He didn't mind Wu Yanqing's disdain at all. The strong man even had an inexplicable sense of pride in his own ideas.
What could be more pleasurable than defeating opponents who are stronger than oneself?
"It's shameful, but I have to admit that it does make sense."
After a brief silence, Wu Yanqing had to admit that this idea of a strong man might be a bit shameful.
But to a certain extent, this is indeed the lifelong pursuit of countless practitioners.
After cultivators break through their innate nature and break through their own limits, they will have at least five hundred years of life.
If it were some longer-lived species, it would not be difficult to live for a thousand years.
But what is the reality?
The method of cultivation has been spread to this day, and the realm above the innate realm is just a threshold for most practitioners with inheritance, not even a difficulty.
But how many practitioners have truly lived for five hundred years? Looking at the entire practice world, how many are there?
The vast majority of practitioners die due to various reasons before they can live out their lifespan.
In addition to the most common obsession, vendetta is also a major cause of death for practitioners.
This is just like the theoretical limit of human lifespan is one hundred and twenty years, but the vast majority of people will not survive that age, and various physical problems will occur in advance.
If it is well maintained, the lifespan may be closer to this limit. If it is not well maintained, the lifespan may be reached by the age of sixty.
Especially in the farming civilization during the feudal dynasty, it was a matter worth celebrating that ordinary people who worked day and night could live to be sixty years old.
Practitioners always pay attention to health preservation, so their physical fitness is far better than that of ordinary people.
But the problem is that cultivators have much more karmic vendettas than ordinary people, and the possibility of accidental death is also much higher than the end of life.
"Who are you?"
After thinking about this, Wu Yanqing asked straight to the point.
She believed that a person like the strong man could never be an unknown person.
Combined with his previous statement that he had been sealed by Zen Master Lingyou, this strong man was most likely a certain great demon who had terrorized Tanzhou thirty years ago.
"Have you finally realized this?"
"It seems that you are not too stupid. No wonder you are qualified to guard Fahai."
Completely ignoring Wu Yanqing's angry eyes, the strong man didn't reveal his identity until this moment.
"I have many names, called by different names in different eras, so many that even I can't remember them clearly."
"But thirty years ago in Duotan Prefecture, the monsters living here called me 'Venerable Longevity'."
Wisps of blue lines climbed up the strong man's cheeks, and his eyes became sharp at this moment.
"It wasn't until the old monk Lingyou got into a fight with me for no apparent reason and then sealed me away that I gradually disappeared."
When he said this, a smile suddenly appeared on the strong man's face.
"It's a pity that Monk Lingyou sealed me back then, but he didn't expect that his disciples would release me many years later."
"At that time, Fa Hai was not called Fa Hai. He was just a supernatural power user who had just cultivated his soul."
"At that time, in order to hunt down a Miao witch, Fahai did not hesitate to fight with a pure Yang flying corpse. However, an unexpected combination of circumstances ended my 'fate' completely."
After the strong man said this, Wu Yanqing immediately understood the other party's identity.
"You are... the old locust tree demon!?"
As Pei Wende's quasi-"fan girl", Wu Yanqing naturally knew all of Pei Wende's achievements from various channels since he entered Taoism.
Among them is this thousand-year-old demon who claims to be the "Venerable Man of Longevity" but is actually derided as the "Old Demon of Sophora Tree".
Before Zen Master Lingyou came to Tanzhou, this thousand-year-old demon was known to be timid and afraid of getting into trouble.
When Zen Master Lingyou no longer came out of the mountain, the once-sealed great demon dared to break the seal left by Zen Master Lingyou with the help of the vision of the Tengu eating the sun.
It's a pity that the old demon of the locust tree hadn't lived for two days before he was chased thousands of miles by the "Tiangang Sword Master" with one man and one sword. He had to uproot himself and flee Changsha overnight.
Until Pei Wende was chasing the Miao witches, he accidentally broke into the forest where the old locust tree demon had transformed, which exposed his whereabouts.
In that battle against the flying corpses and ghosts, Pei Wende was actually a comrade in the same camp as the old demon of the Sophora japonica tree.
It was the two of them who joined forces to fight the flying corpse ghosts and gods who had swallowed the Essence and Blood Gu.
However, the old demon of the locust tree really failed to live up to his expectations. In the end, he was destroyed by the flying corpse ghosts and gods, leaving only the "miracle" locust tree for future generations to see.
"Wait, aren't you already dead?"
Wu Yanqing was obviously aware of this, so he looked at the "resurrected" demon in disbelief.
The old locust tree demon's true body, the locust tree, still remains in the area where he died. So how did the strong man in front of him, who called himself "The Lord Wanshou", come back to life?
"As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit still has three holes, let alone an old guy like me who has lived for more than a thousand years."
Faced with Wu Yanqing's question, the old demon of Sophora Tree was not interested in answering any more, and instead emphasized the purpose of his trip again.
"I know the situation has been tense recently, and there are many old antiques who should have died long ago who want to take the opportunity to come out for a walk..."
"But I'm not one of those ignorant old antiques. I'm just here to see Zen Master Lingyou off."
"You can think of this as my personal bad taste, or you can think of this as my last mockery of Zen Master Lingyou..."
"Anyway, I don't have any ill intentions in coming this time, and I don't intend to cause trouble."
After tapping the table again, the old demon of Sophora Tree finally concluded.
"If you're still worried, I can even help you stop some little monsters who don't know how to live or die."
"But in exchange, I want to see Zen Master Lingyou buried with my own eyes."
——Monthly Ticket/Recommended Ticket——
(End of chapter)
