Cao An's state was very strange. At this moment, he only had a part of his consciousness left to control his body. His eyes seemed a little dull, and his movements and reactions seemed a bit sluggish than ordinary people. He took Li Dou'er back to the bamboo house, pulled Open the bamboo door and walk inside, then take out some dry food and water from the yellow-skinned gourd.
Mechanically and orderly, he placed them on the table in the room and categorized them neatly. Li Dou'er followed step by step without saying a word. Cao An's appearance was a bit intrusive, and he didn't dare to talk.
"Big brother is going to retreat to enlightenment again. This time it may take a little longer. Food and water are left here for you. Big brother will activate a puppet to accompany you in a while. When big brother doesn't wake up, you... I have to listen to her on everything, and if there’s anything she can’t solve, she’ll wake me up.”
"During this period, you must also practice seriously and try not to embarrass the old village chief and others when you return to Gulanzhou in the future."
Li Dou'er nodded solemnly, "Dou'er remember, big brother."
At this moment, the bamboo door at the door rang softly. Cao An looked up and saw the face of a middle-aged man appearing at the door, with a look of respect on his face.
"Chang Qing didn't eavesdrop intentionally, he just happened to hear it. If the Immortal wants to retreat, you might as well let me take care of this child. After all, Chang Qing has lived here for thousands of years and is very familiar with everything around him."
He also saw the state of Cao An's consciousness, and then said: "That morning, when I was still hesitant and unable to make a decision, it was this child who gave me great courage. If I hadn't seen it from him, With hope and determination, Changqing will not be what it is today, these are what Changqing should do."
After several short conversations, combined with the information he had learned from the consciousness of those people before, he had a rough judgment on Cao An's temperament. Therefore, Chang Qing didn't talk nonsense and just pointed out the benefits he had gained from Li Dou'er. , so Cao An was embarrassed to refuse again.
After pondering for a moment, his consciousness controlled his body and nodded.
He patted Li Douer on the back and said, "My name is Uncle Chang."
"Hello, Uncle Chang!"
"Fellow Taoist Changqing, I will leave my job to you in the next few days. Between you and me, there is no need to call me Immortal Chief. The next martial artist is not qualified to be called Immortal, so why not call me Taoist Fellow." After surviving the catastrophe of heaven and earth, Chang Qing has completed his transformation. Now he can hardly detect even the evil spirit.
Cao An thought it was time to correct this title.
Chang Qing bowed in a formal manner, "Okay, sir."
Cao An, who was not thinking about it, did not notice the change of the title for a while. He just felt that handing Li Douer to Chang Qing was the best solution at the moment. He held the Nian Sword in one hand and walked slowly into the courtyard. As he stood still, the last bit of consciousness was taken into his mind.
In the depths of his consciousness, three scenes appeared, more like the three images that Cao An had perfected in his own mind. One of them was the proof that the Gulan people finally achieved the inner scene in a mortal body after years of experience. The epic achievement of being pulled into the sea of blood and reviving the blood river. In this image, there are no big scenes, only the joys and sorrows of ordinary people, and the belief in absolute success and victory that comes from it.
Pulling the interior scene into the real world sounds like a fantasy to anyone, and it is absolutely impossible. But under the witness of the long river of time, ordinary people's efforts from generation to generation, that kind of victory is like Of course, that belief seemed to tell Cao An, what is there to be doubtful about? What's there to hesitate about?
Isn't this a natural victory?
The second image is of Cao An himself, but it is not himself. In the void, half of Cao An's body is condensed from the clouds and mist, like a giant, with a weird smile on his face, giving people a weird elegance. The ten fingers of both hands are spread out in front of the body, and hundreds of silk threads of clouds hang down from the fingers, and the other end of the threads is connected to a flesh-and-blood Cao An.
The ten fingers control every move of Cao An on the ground with every subtle sway of his muscles and fluctuations of his fingers. He glances and smiles. Sometimes his figure is as erratic and agile as a spiritual swallow, sometimes as heavy and powerful as a giant elephant...
As for the third image, it is still evolving. What appears in it is the catastrophe of heaven and earth that was just witnessed before. However, there is no shadow of evergreen in it, nor is there the huge evergreen tree that covers the sky and the sun. There is only Cao An himself. , a person stands in the midst of this change of heaven and earth, raising his head and closing his eyes, feeling the power that makes all creatures in the world palpitate from body to soul.
Leading clouds are falling, and the universe is changing. In the face of these changes in heaven and earth, it seems that all human efforts are in vain, like an ant climbing on a high mountain, unable to lift the entire mountain. It is so despairing. , as the despair in this video came, it directly affected the belief in the first video.
In the first image, people are no longer a single person, but a race, a group. But in this third image, it is not a race that faces the world, but a single individual. Cao An himself is like the path of martial arts. The belief can be learned from, but it is of little significance.
Everything he has to face on this path of cultivation is his own and cannot be faked by others.
Martial arts practice is not urgent, but it is also urgent. What is not urgent is that it gives Cao An enough time to lay a solid foundation for each step, step by step, and use great perseverance and tenacity to accomplish the task of building a tall building. The urgent thing is that in this process, the help of outsiders can only play a complementary role. Seize the day and night, seize this moment, this life.
Cao An's mind was trapped in the third image, struggling to hold on, but unable to find a way to break through himself. As time passed, the first image was gradually eliminated and dissipated in the face of despair. In Cao An's sea of consciousness, only the belief in decisive victory could not be eliminated. It turned into a stream of light and escaped from the image that was about to dissipate.
After a series of collisions in Cao An's consciousness, it finally seemed to have determined the target, and the third image shot into Cao An's eyebrows.
Cao An was caught in a deep-seated struggle in his consciousness, but in the outside world, half a month had passed quietly. During these half months, Chang Qing regarded himself as Cao An's servant, taking care of Li Dou'er's life, and Li Dou'er's youthful innocence. , his thoughts were not that complicated. In Chang Qing, he felt the care that Chang Qing gave to him like the elders in the village.
After a few short days of getting along, the relationship between the two became very close.
This day was the sixteenth day that Cao An had been thinking hard. His face was completely withered compared to before. He looked like a refugee who had escaped from the famine years. His face was pale, his face was red, and he was even naked. His appearance has become visibly slimmer. Now under his clothes, he probably only has a big frame and not much muscle left.
You can tell something from his white hands like eagle claws. Chang Qing saw this change in his eyes, but he was helpless. They couldn't help and couldn't do anything. Now everything can only be looked at by Cao An. Can you wake up from that hard thinking and realize it yourself?
There is no other way.
"Uncle Chang, can't we wake up my eldest brother? At least let him have a meal, have a good rest, and replenish his strength, so that he can think better. If this continues..." Li Douer The worry on his face was more of a fear. He was afraid that Cao An would completely leave him like the uncles in the village.
Chang Qing sighed and shook his head, "These are useless, you will know in the future. When the realm of cultivation reaches the stage of the young master, even if he does not drink or eat for more than a month, it will not have any impact on him. His physical body has already It can draw the energy it needs from heaven and earth on its own to maintain what the body needs."
"The reason why he is like this now is not because he didn't eat or rest, but because he was too mentally exhausted. Unless he thinks about it himself, everything will be fine after he comes back to his senses. But we rashly interrupted these things. , which is harmful to him and may even cause irreversible harm to him."
Chang Qing was silent for a long time, "You have to believe in the young master and your big brother! He is not an ordinary person and will eventually come out."
