The dust particles on the ruins slid silently. Zhu Gangli sat on the broken wall with a rake in his arms, yawned, and looked at the figure holding the book bored. The Toad Taoist stood on tiptoe and looked at the pages, muttering about what was written on it.

The pages of the book are blank, but in Lu Liangsheng's eyes, there are still vertical writings appearing.

"I was born in Qixia Mountain. I was a farmer. By chance, I would get some money. My family and country were destroyed. I went north to study and met a good teacher, so that I could embark on my practice, comprehend the secrets of heaven, and hope to live forever..."

In just a few short sentences, it seemed that Lu Liangsheng saw his past. The pictures slowly outlined. Suddenly, he saw a small fenced courtyard in the wind and snow.

The cold wind blew down the dilapidated fence wall, and the heavy snow slowly accumulated thickly against the window lattice. The cold wind squeezed into the window gap, and the boy huddled in the thin mattress let out a breath, his whole body was cold.

The young man's name is Lu Yuan. He turned ten years old this winter. There is also a sister at home. She is dark and thin. She is not very stable when she is seven years old. Her father, Lu Laoshi, is gentle and honest, and often works in the fields. Her mother, Li Jinhua, is a stingy person and does not admit defeat at all, but her family is getting poorer and poorer.

After the cold winter, I was ten years old. I followed my father and the men in the village to sell the food collected from the fields and baskets to the city for sale. When I entered the city, I saw the paper brushes and ink placed on the street stalls. My feet seemed to have taken root and couldn't walk. I looked at them with greed, looked at their dirty hands, and didn't dare to reach out to touch them. If they were dirty or broken, they would not be able to afford it.

Soon, the stall owner came out and waved his sleeves to chase him.

"Let's go, see what you want. If you don't buy it, get out of here. Don't stick here!"

The boy looked at the calligraphy and paintings, and did not chew the pen and ink. He knew that there was no surplus money at home. He buried his face and pinched the corner of his clothes. He trotted and followed his father, and went back outside the city to meet with the men in the village. On the way, the dragon and lion dance team paraded over the streets lively. The crowd was crowded. After watching for a long time, he came to his senses and his father was missing.

He knew he was lost.

He didn't cry, but just wandered on the street in fear. Slowly, the night fell and shrank timidly in the corner of the alley outside the bustling courtyard to rest. The night fell deep, and in the dark sight, the back door of the yard opened and lit up two lanterns. Several servants hurried out with a roll of straw mat, looked around, and then ran to the outside of the alley.

The boy walked out of the shadow and looked at the few people holding the straw mat in a panic. In fact, he knew a lot of things. He followed carefully, watched the other party shoveling soil and digging holes in the suburbs, landing the roll of straw mats, remembering the location in his heart, returning to the alley, staring at the brightly lit mansion without blinking.

Later, he tricked twenty taels from the official surnamed Chen, exchanged copper coins, bought the pen and ink book on the stall that day, inquired about the direction, and walked back to Qixia Mountain.

My father and mother cried red, but she didn't hit him, but she took out the money she had cheated. She saw her gentle father for the first time. She looked angry and pressed him to the ground with a wooden stick and beat him to the head and bleeding, and she couldn't come to bed after half a month.

It was difficult to pay back the money because he had cheated. However, the family was not as poor as that, and his sister was not as sick as before. He also went to another place and went to a private school as he wished.

Later, the boy gradually realized why his father beat him that day and shouldn't have threatened such a thing, and he might have died.

Days passed day by day, and a few more years passed. When he was fifteen years old, the Sui Kingdom in the north fought down, and then he heard that the emperor had changed.

People in his corners also changed from Chen people to Sui people. Fortunately, the new government was not harsh, so he had some good feelings for him. Even though his parents did not agree to his journey, they still decided to go north to study and take the exam in Sui State. If they could pass the imperial examination and get a job, they would probably be able to live a good life for their parents and sisters.

Because he was not familiar with the road in the north, he came to a place called Weishan Town after several twists and turns. He met an old man named Qin Xu's family. The other party was knowledgeable and hesitated. What was even more surprising was that he found that the old man blamed the magic that only existed in Zhi's novels. After hesitating, he begged the other party to accept him as his disciple. At first, he only followed some miscellaneous items and accompanied him to do some knowledge, and later he gradually began to learn some magic in the true sense.

In those years, in addition to learning, they were practicing Taoism. Later, after becoming a master, they went to take the Sui State exam. It was the past five years. Because of their solid talent, understanding the Yuan Dynasty, being gentle and polite, they were really a county magistrate. Then they wrote a letter from home happily and sent it home to the post, and then rushed to the post, hoping that their parents and sisters would come to reunite with him.

However, after several months of office, the letter sent by the family was sank to the sea and no news was sent back. Another year passed. After the term of office expired, he took advantage of the time he returned to the place where he once lived.

What he saw was the collapse of the fenced courtyard that had been disrepair for many years. My sister had already married outside, and her parents were in two graves behind the house. Later, he learned that a few years ago, the two villages fought for water. In the chaos, Old Shi was hit by the head. After lying on the bed for a month, he passed away. The lonely mother was too sad and ran to the mountains for a while, losing her feet and falling down the cliff and dying.

After many years of returning, my parents are gone.

Lu Yuan knelt in front of the grave, slapped himself more than ten times. He knelt until dark, and then slowly got up and took a carriage to leave the village where he grew up. However, his sister was still alive and married to a village more than fifty miles away. However, she hadn't seen her for many years. Her sister pulled her husband and stood at the door uneasy and dared not speak.

Fortunately, my sister's husband was also a gentle and honest farmer, which reminded him of his father. He didn't stay here for too long, so he left after putting down some money. Because my sister was timid and cautious, she had already seen that there were people from two ‘worlds’ in her eyes.

When I left, it was not yet completely dawn. Looking back at Qixia Mountain in the lead-green color, the mountains were winding and perhaps there would be no chance to come back again.

After that, he returned to Chang'an, reported his duties, visited, made friends, and did things that ordinary officials did, but he never slacked off in his path of practicing Taoism. He often met and communicated with people he knew at night, and gradually became famous. After a few years, his career was slow and he practiced diligently. He also married the daughter of the Minister of Personnel. Perhaps he could become a senior official in the court in the future.

But soon, there was a problem in his body. He often felt his soul unstable, as if he was about to escape from his body. Even the secret messenger of the Chang'an City God came to arrest him. Relying on his advanced cultivation, he made a big fuss in the City God Temple, and only then did he learn that he was a dead person in the Soul Detention Book.

Later, he found a hidden magic array in his home yard, which had the effect of seducing souls and seeking life. After finding out the whole story, he realized that it was the master who wanted to occupy his body and continue to live forever...

In fact, some people can't understand why their parents' diligence and life is not satisfactory, and their own kindness will also lead to malice.

Soon, he pretended not to know and came to Weishan Town. While his master was not prepared, he killed him and pulled his soul to pieces. He went to various states and never allowed the other party's soul to reunite forever and reincarnate for the next life.

Since then, people gradually became stronger and more competitive. They competed with others in the court. When practicing Taoism, as long as anyone speaks rudely, they will directly kill them. A few years later, the emperor Yang Guang learned about magic and was recruited as a national teacher. He even took advantage of the power of the world to collect rare treasures from all over the world, refine magic weapons, and improve his cultivation. If he likes something, he will not give it to others. He will use the power of the army to cultivate his own cultivation in the divine realm, supplemented by various formations to slaughter people all over the family. As long as the demons are born with demon pills, they will definitely be hunted and killed and used to refine pills.

Unconsciously, he went from the realm of enlightenment to reach a height that people in the world cannot reach - Zhanxu.

But in the following time, there was a natural vision. A thing that no one could see fell from the sky. Lu Yuan, who was knowledgeable in the world and had supernatural powers and magical methods, could not tell what it was. He did not know it after reading all the ancient books and secrets he had learned.

Later, the world changed, and the world became manic. Everyone started to scold and fight because of a slight dissatisfaction, and gradually began to die. Some places were strict in government orders, forcing people to raise the banner to rebel, and the nine states in the world were trapped in the smoke of war.

He tried his best to stop him and killed one group after another. He would kill anyone who dared to raise the flag, but in the end he could not kill all the people, and the emperor died in a foreign land.

Then, Lu Yuan realized that these rebels had traces of the coming of the world...

The First Emperor, who said "Live with heaven and will be the king forever." Perhaps what the First Emperor did back then was right.

The wars chaotic the world and the emperor died. Lu Yuan knew that he had taken the wrong path and had come to an end. He was tied to the dynasty for the national teacher and the dynasty. If the country was destroyed, he would die.

Fortunately, during that period, among the magic weapons of Shuluo, there was a magic weapon called Kunlun Mirror. It was not necessarily impossible to use it to reverse time and start over again.

Lu Yuan stood on the high cliff, looked up at the moon wheel blocked by the clouds, and insisted on walking out of this long road, but he couldn't get through and went wrong.

"Start from the beginning, although there is only one chance..."

......

The surging screen stopped as the content fell the last word.

Lu Liangsheng closed the book, closed his eyes and let out a deep breath, held the book silently, walked out of the ruins, and sat quietly on the broken rock.

On his shoulder, Taoist Toad took back the frog web from his head. He also saw the scene he saw, sliding down from his apprentice's shoulder, hanging two short legs, sitting in line with Lu Liangsheng, bathing in the warm morning sun, looking up at a trace of floating clouds floating in the blue sky.

"That was his life, not yours. The path he would go in the future must be completely different from him, because..."

The toad patted his apprentice's thigh, watched the brilliant light falling on his face, and turned around with a smile: "...because, you have us."

The toad eyes moved, and the scholar looked in the direction indicated by the master. The old pig leaning on the rake, the crying breeze, the pouting Qi You, who was holding his chin, and Li Sui'an who was talking and laughing with Shelong in the distance, and Yuwen Tuo, Yan Chixia and others who were greeting each other.

The old donkey chewing the grass and shaking the reins, roaring in the sun, jumping and jumping happily.

Lu Liangsheng looked at them with a smile on his face.

"Well... I have you, this is the biggest difference from Lu Yuan."

In the sunshine, the smiling scholar's mind, the corner of memory, the study room with lights, and the silhouettes are slim on the wall in the swaying light.

Lu Yuan held the brush, stroked his long beard, and looked at the book, writing out the handwriting in one stroke at a time.

...... When we were young, we firmly said goodbye to the childishness and refused to look back. When we grew older, we thought we were mature and felt that we had wasted our time. We couldn't bear to look back on those mistakes that were constantly bumpy, cruel but beautiful. After we gradually got old, we gradually realized that we just didn't dare to face the kind and pure and even ideal selves in the past.

Liangsheng, you must take another path in the future.
Chapter completed!