ninety thousand miles

Chapter 564 Night Tour
Ning County, Ziyun Cave.

Li Chuan felt that these two words were very distant. He thought about it for a while and then remembered that it was actually something that happened not long ago. He said, "It wasn't me. I just went over to watch the fun. The one who contributed was Taoist Jiang from Tianyu Sect, and this one..." He then remembered that he hadn't introduced Liu Yang and General Liu to each other yet, so he said, "This is Taoist Liu from Xuanyue Sect. Taoist Liu, this is General Liu. He contributed a lot to the monster suppression at Lanshan Pavilion before. If you want to know about the monster suppression, you can ask him."

"No, no," Lieutenant General Liu said modestly, "I was just able to help because I am familiar with Chaobing County." He looked at Li Chuan and said, "I didn't expect that the adopted son of the general we captured at that time could really fight. When he was not crazy, he was quite reliable. We later called him General Chang."

"It's quite impressive." said Li Chuan.

"When he left, he asked me if I would like to go to his place." General Liu took a sip of wine.

"You refused?" Li Chuan asked.

"Yes, I can't leave, and the county magistrate has done me a favor," said General Liu.

"That's right." said Li Chuan.

Then Liu Canjun asked Li Chuan: "It's freezing cold, you came here, is it related to the monster again?"

"No, I was just walking around," Li Chuan denied. He asked, "By the way, we were by the lake just now and saw that there was no one on the pleasure boat."

Liu Canjun said, "Some time ago, someone went to the government office to report that there was a monster in the pleasure boat. At that time, Lanshan Pavilion had just been taken down, and I had just returned. There was also a monster catcher with me. After receiving the news, I went to the pleasure boat with him to investigate, and indeed found that there was something wrong with one of the singers in it. She was a spider spirit in disguise."

"After the monster was caught, no one dared to go to the pleasure boat to listen to music for a while. The owner of the pleasure boat simply closed the business for a while, waiting for the weather to warm up, and invited a few Taoist priests to perform a ritual before reopening."

"I see." Li Chuan nodded.

Liu Canjun asked: "Will you come then?"

"What am I here for?" Li Chuan was at a loss.

"If you go and stop the boat, maybe others will dare to board the pleasure boat." Liu Canjun said, "The pleasure boat is the property of the Wang family, so..."

"Let's discuss it later." Li Chuan declined. He was not familiar with the people and things here. He said, "I will be going somewhere else soon. I guess I won't be able to make it in time."

"That's fine." Liu didn't force it, and said, "If you want to take a boat, I'll find someone to sail a boat for you."

"No need," Li Chuan declined again, saying, "We are just here to stroll around."

"Okay, just come to me if you have any problems," said General Liu.

"Of course." Li Chuan said.

General Liu sat for a while, drank two glasses of wine and then went back.

At this time, all the dishes have been served.

Li Chuan ate while listening to the sounds around him. The noisy conversations, the clinking of glasses, the wind outside the window, the melodious sound of stringed instruments, all these sounds mixed together, Li Chuan immersed in them, feeling the loneliness and solitude of nearly a year of seclusion gradually fade away, and the worldly noise drew him back again.

He took a sip of wine and said, "The food here is really good."

"Yes." Liu Yang agreed, and asked, "Are we going to Xialin Village tomorrow?"

"Let's walk around a bit more." Li Chuan said, "I've been in Xuanshui Mountain for too long. I feel like I've lost my human touch."

"I feel that the officer Liu wanted to follow General Chang." Liu Yang said. "He must have his concerns." Li Chuan also felt it. He saw the crescent moon hanging on the treetops outside the window and said, "Wait a minute, take out the green leaf boat, let's go boating on the lake, and ask the store for a pot of wine. The moonlight is so beautiful, it would be a pity not to go swimming in the lake."

"Okay." Liu Yang said.

So after eating and drinking, the two of them went to the lake again. The green leaf boat pushed through the lake water and soon reached the center of the lake. In the boat, the wind could not blow in, and it was very warm.

Li Chuan was half lying down. The moonlight was bright and the lake was rippling. He felt a little drunk again.

"I once thought about taking my two brothers with me, sitting in my little carriage, and going wherever I wanted, visiting all the beautiful mountains and rivers, and writing a word wherever I went," said Li Chuan.

"Isn't this easy?" Liu Yang said.

"It's quite difficult." Li Chuan looked at the night sky and said, "After a cultivator goes down the mountain to train, will he still remember what he experienced when he returns to the sect?"

"Of course I will." Liu Yang replied, "But by the time I think of it, many years may have passed and things and people may have changed."

"Have you ever seen an immortal? Besides Immortal Yun Yi, there is also Immortal Weng." Li Chuan asked.

“No.” Liu Yang shook his head. “The seniors who have ascended to the highest level in the sect may look at us the same way we look at our former mortal friends. There may be a trace of affection, but they are no longer the people and things they know.”

"If a cultivator ascends to heaven, wouldn't the sect suffer more losses than gains?" Li Chuan asked.

"That's not it." Liu Yang shook his head. He picked up the wine glass and took a sip under the moonlight. He said, "Although there are endless fights between cultivators and various conflicts between sects, once you step into the Xuanmen, what you seek is to ascend to heaven."

"Ascension means there is a way forward, which is more important than any benefit."

"What if the road ends?" Li Chuan asked.

"I haven't thought about this question." Liu Yang said.

"I'm still thinking about Tiansu," Li Chuan said, sitting up as well. He said, "I'm wondering what his purpose is. Taoist Master Wen once told me about the principle of calamity. The surging of the realm gave rise to calamity energy. As long as the Three Realms still exist, calamity will continue until everything returns to the abyss of the heart."

"That's right." Liu Yang said.

"What if there is a method, for example, Tian Su thought of a method, to consume the calamity energy before it surges?" Li Chuan asked.

"I don't know. I haven't thought about this yet." Liu Yang said apologetically, "Wait for Senior Brother Wen to come back. Maybe he can answer your questions."

"He will definitely say something about me," Li Chuan was sure of what Wen Guying would say, "He will say that Brother Li always has many wonderful ideas."

He laughed to himself, took a sip of wine, and said, "I think it's possible."

In another life, the first appearance of calamity occurred hundreds of years later.

"But consuming the calamity energy in advance will lead to many unpredictable things happening," Liu Yang thought about what Li Chuan said, and said, "Perhaps it will trigger more calamity energy, and the intensity of the calamity energy explosion will reach another level."

"If Tian Su really did this..." Liu Yang showed a trace of horror on his face, "If what you said is true, everything he did was for the survival of the aliens, then his detonation of the calamity energy means that he has to sacrifice all living beings to seek this 'survival'."

"That's not what I said." Li Chuan quickly distanced himself from the matter. He took a sip of wine and looked at the ripples in the lake. "I think Tian Su is attached to this world."

(End of this chapter)