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Chapter 477 Nanshan
In the small courtyard, the autumn wind is bleak.

"Little friend, if Changsheng and Dao were in front of you at the same time, and you had to choose one, what would you choose?"

Sharp eyes bloomed in the deep eyes, looking directly at Zhuang Yuan, the old man asked his own question.

Hearing this, Zhuang Yuan was slightly taken aback.

"Longevity is what I want, Dao is what I want, both are in hand, so it is true! If I really have to choose between the two, I will choose Dao, because longevity is in Dao, there is no need to seek outside."

After pondering for a while, recalling Zhang Chunyi's teaching, and thinking of the particularity of this place, Zhuang Yuan gave such an answer.

When he was young, he determined to live forever, but this kind of longevity is not simply living, he wants to live upright and free, his teacher once taught him that the way is the foundation of longevity, and great power is the guarantee of longevity, if only The simple longevity is just an illusory longevity. It seems miraculous, but it can't stand the slightest wind and rain.

Hearing such an answer, the old man was thoughtful.

"Longevity is in the avenue, yes, longevity is in the avenue, it's a pity how many talents can't ask for it, but the illusory longevity is really not desirable, my little friend has a lot of ambition and is very confident. I only hope that in the future you can realize your original intention to not fix."

As he spoke, the old man dropped a son again, and the situation suddenly changed. Heizi was in a dead end, and Baizi quietly won.

"Little friend, you won this game of chess, I wonder if you would like to listen to me tell a story about my friend."

With a sense of relief and indifference all over his body, the old man surrendered.

Seeing such a scene, Zhuang Yuan nodded.

"It is said that there is a big world in the boundless void. It was at the end of the ninth era. At that time, the old sky was hidden and the new sky was not born. The world ushered in unprecedented changes. Those who have fallen into an unprecedented dark period, all living beings have no way to seek the way, and the friend I mentioned was born at the turn of the old and new eras."

His words were deep and his thoughts drifted away. The old man told his own story, and Zhuang Yuan listened silently.

At the beginning of the tenth era, the old heaven disappeared and the new heaven emerged, the avenue between heaven and earth was silent, and there were no immortals in the world, but a little monk who aspired to live forever was born in this special period.

He was born as a casual cultivator, endowed with many talents, and has encountered many adventures along the way. He was a god of Yin for ten years and a god of Yang for a hundred years.

However, because he had offended too many people, he was betrayed by his friends and besieged by many enemies when he was surviving the thunder calamity. However, this monk set up ten formations in succession to suppress the enemies and calmly survived the thunder calamity. Its dragon soars to nine heavens, no matter how hard it is to contain it, it is known as the King of Vientiane Stars.

And 500 years later, looking back, he was invincible in the world. At this time, the Vientiane Star Lord put aside all the past and devoted himself to pursuing the immortal way, but it was only then that he suddenly discovered that there is really no way in the world.

In this regard, the Wanxiang Xingjun did not feel desperate. Since there is no Dao left in the world, he opened one by himself, but in the end he still failed.

After thousands of years of searching for the Tao, Master Wanxiang Xing was really desperate, but the obsession with longevity in his heart was still there, and he was unwilling to die like this. So he searched the world, looking for an alternative way of longevity, and then he really found it. up.

There is a rumor in the world that there is a strange mountain named Nanshan, on which people live, their lifespan passes slowly, and they are almost immortal. After learning this secret, Wanxiang Xingjun was overjoyed, and after many searches, he finally found this Nanshan The traces of it exist in the long river of time.

At that time, Wanxiang Xingjun had already stepped into the realm of pure yang, and he was only one step away from the realm of immortals, but it was this step that made his idea of ​​entering the long river of time turn into an illusion.

However, Wanxiang Xingjun did not give up. He is a true genius, not only in cultivation, but also in the formation. Created a Yutian Star Fighting Immortal Formation.

With the help of the power of this fairy formation, he broke into the long river of time, and Wanxiang Xingjun finally found Nanshan smoothly.

After telling the story to this point, the old man stopped for a while, as if he was caught in some kind of memory. As a person who listened to the story, Zhuang Yuan also had waves in his heart. This story vaguely revealed a lot of secrets, and He also finally knew where he came to, and it was Nanshan, which was rumored to make people live forever.

If this is the case, then the long-lived villagers in Changshou Village can explain it very well.

"Senior, since Wanxiang Xingjun has found Nanshan, why did he die?"

Curious in his heart, Zhuang Yuan asked his doubts, and he naturally knew who Wanxiang Xingjun was.

Hearing this, he glanced at Zhuang Yuan, and the old man let out a sigh.

"Because he lived too long and was too empty."

After a moment of silence, the old man gave the answer, with an indescribable loneliness inside.

"Wanxiang Xingjun once thought that Nanshan was where he pursued, and here he could easily obtain the longevity he wanted. This is something that many immortals can't match. Once upon a time, he was complacent about it more than once, but later he discovered this. The seemingly beautiful Nanshan is actually a prison."

"Nanshan is pervaded by the miraculous power of stabilizing longevity. People live on it, and the passage of longevity is extremely slow. Even ordinary people can live for thousands of years without dying. However, although the passage of longevity is slow, the traces of time have quietly imprinted on it. , and compared to the outside world, the flow of time in Nanshan is actually much faster."

"If you don't go out of Nanshan, you will die. Once you go out of Nanshan, Shouyuan will pour out like a flood, and it will be empty in an instant. This is an invisible cage. The most important thing is that the Dao here is solidified, and it is more harsh than the big world. The monks also have nowhere to go. It’s just a waste of time.”

Telling all kinds of inside information, the old man's words are full of embarrassment.

Hearing such an answer, a thunderbolt exploded in Zhuang Yuan's heart, shaking his mind and making it difficult to calm down.

There is no way to seek the Tao, and you can't step out of Nanshan for the rest of your life. How is such a long life different from being imprisoned?This is simply an extremely cruel punishment for the seeker.

It was at this time that Zhuang Yuan understood why he hadn't found any kind of spiritual objects above grade [-] in Nanshan, which was full of treasures all these years. This was not because such spiritual objects were too precious and rare, but because they It simply cannot exist on this Nanshan.

If his guess is not wrong, no matter how hard the people on Nanshan practice, they will not be able to break through the Taoist realm, because at this point, the monks need to communicate with the world and understand the true meaning of the Tao. This is why the village chief of Changshou Village has lived for 10,000 years. Stay in the realm of pure yin, not enter the yang god.

This is not because his talent is too poor, nor is it because he has no resources. The fundamental reason is that this world does not allow it.

Thinking about all this clearly, a chill permeated his heart, and Zhuang Yuan's expression changed slightly.

(End of this chapter)