Ouyang Xiuyuan's eyes widened, full of surprise and excitement.
He looked at Fang Yu in front of him, and various scenes from many years ago flashed through his mind.
Back then, he and Huaixu were just two stupid young men who didn't know anything and had a lot of energy.
If they had not met Fang Yu, he and Huaixu would have lived an ordinary life like most people in the world.
"Some time ago, Huaixu informed me that you returned to Beidu and saw Quanzi Chengdao... I rushed back immediately. I just arrived this morning, but I didn't expect..." Ouyang Xiuyuan was so excited that he was a little incoherent, staring at the person in front of him.
Fang Yu.
Fang Yu walked around the coffee table, sat across from Ouyang Xiuyuan, and said with a smile: "I happened to be here today. I sat downstairs for a while and sensed your breath, so I came up."
Ouyang Xiuyuan immediately stood up and poured Fang Yu a cup of tea.
"Brother Fang, this cup of tea is from Xiu Yuan to you." Ouyang Xiu Yuan bent down and held up the tea cup with both hands.
"Okay, don't make so many red tapes." Fang Yu took the teacup and said.
Ouyang Xiuyuan sat back down and watched Fang Yu take a sip of tea, feeling much calmer.
"Brother Fang, you are still the same as before, nothing has changed at all." Ouyang Xiuyuan said with a smile.
"In my eyes, your change is not too big." Fang Yu said.
Ouyang Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "I'm old, Brother Fang, I'm really old."
"Everyone will grow old. But your vitality is much better than that of Huaixu." Fang Yu said with a smile.
"Huaixu...he has too many things to worry about." Ouyang Xiuyuan's eyes narrowed slightly and he said, "Compared to him, my life is much easier."
"What have you been doing these years?" Fang Yu asked.
Hearing this question, Ouyang Xiuyuan smiled awkwardly and said, "Brother Fang will probably laugh at me if I tell you."
"How could I laugh at you?" Fang Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell me about it."
"Well..." Ouyang Xiuyuan nodded and said: "For a long time after you left, I devoted myself to cultivation. It wasn't until fifty years ago that I reached the stage of spiritual transformation. After that
, I began to feel the limits of my own talent... I continued to practice hard, but the efficiency was not high... Slowly, I accepted this reality and began to transfer my energy to other aspects."
"What aspect?" Fang Yu asked.
Ouyang Xiuyuan looked hesitant, as if he didn't want to say anything, but facing Fang Yu's gaze, he finally sighed and said: "Later, I will shift my energy to the one thing you dislike the least, Brother Fang."
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"I started working on raising the profile of my name."
"In the past few decades, the Ouyang family has risen rapidly and become the strongest family in Zhongdu."
Ouyang Xiuyuan was still hesitant before speaking, but later he spoke more smoothly, with a sense of pride in his eyes.
In just a few decades, his family became the first family in Zhongdu. This achievement is not a small one.
"Not bad." Fang Yu took a sip of tea and said, "I personally don't like to participate in the affairs of various forces, but I don't think everyone should be like me. I don't think it is wrong for you to do this.
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Hearing what Fang Yu said, Ouyang Xiuyuan sighed again and said, "I'm just ashamed. Huaixu and I were both your students back then. But Huaixu went further and further along the way of cultivation and became a member of the Beidu Martial Arts Association.
The de facto person in power. However, I have taken a wrong path, not to mention my cultivation has stagnated, and in terms of martial arts status and achievements, I am far behind Huaixu..."
Fang Yu squinted at Ouyang Xiuyuan and said, "Your cultivation level is not too far behind Huaixu, right? I can sense it from your aura."
Ouyang Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "Realm is one thing, but true strength is another."
At this point, Ouyang Xiuyuan gave a bitter smile and said: "Brother Fang, when we used to compete, I always had the upper hand. But now you ask me to compete with Huaixu, I'm afraid I won't be able to last even one round."
Seeing Ouyang Xiuyuan's appearance, Fang Yu recalled the situation back then.
When they first met Huaixu and Ouyang Xiuyuan, the two were already close playmates.
The two of them offended the young master of a big family in the town because of some things.
The first time Fang Yu saw them, they were being beaten on the ground by more than 20 men brought by the young master.
At that time, such things happened often, and ordinary passers-by would not care at all, let alone lend a helping hand.
When Fang Yu passed by, he just wanted to take a glance and watch the excitement.
Then, he saw Huaixu and Ouyang Xiuyuan, beaten to a bloody pulp and almost comatose.
The young master raised his foot and stepped on Ouyang Xiuyuan's face, asking them to admit their mistake and beg for mercy.
But Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu were stunned and silent.
The young master was so angry that he summoned more than 20 men behind him to urinate and spit around Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu.
Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu were not willing to be humiliated. They gritted their teeth and pounced on the young master, biting him like hungry wolves.
As a result, he was naturally beaten again by his subordinates who reacted.
Seeing that the two of them were about to be beaten to death, Fang Yu stepped forward, beat the group of people away, and rescued the two teenagers.
This is the beginning of their acquaintance.
During that time, Fang Yu lived in that small town, so Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu came to see Fang Yu every day.
They saw Fang Yu's skills and wanted to become their master and practice martial arts.
Fang Yu was not willing to teach them at first, but eventually he got fed up with it, and he was indeed optimistic about these two people and believed that they had the potential to become talents.
So, Fang Yu led these two people on the path of cultivation.
During this process, Fang Yu discovered that Huaixu's cultivation talent was quite poor, and among a large group of mortals, there was nothing outstanding about him.
But Ouyang Xiuyuan's talent is quite astonishing, even compared with those so-called geniuses, it is not inferior.
Therefore, Ouyang Xiuyuan distanced himself from Huaixu just after he started practicing.
When the gap was the largest, Huaixu was still at the eleventh level of Qi refining stage, while Ouyang Xiuyuan had already entered the pill forming stage.
The gap between the two big realms.
Fang Yu taught them different cultivation methods based on their characteristics.
Then, because Huaixu worked hard enough, he began to slowly catch up with Ouyang Xiuyuan.
Originally lagging behind by two major realms, Huaixu entered the Nascent Soul stage at about the same time as Ouyang Xiuyuan.
After a while, Fang Yu left.
Fang Yu also doesn't know the subsequent development of Huaixu and Ouyang Xiuyuan.
But some time ago, Fang Yu saw Huaixu's name on the holy list, ranking fifth.
But Ouyang Xiuyuan's name was not seen.
Combined with what Ouyang Xiuyuan said just now, we can roughly see the subsequent development of these two people.
Although Huaixu's talent in cultivation was extremely average, he worked his way up step by step through hard work and eventually became a very important figure in the martial arts world of Beidu.
Ouyang Xiuyuan, on the other hand, chose to support his family business and make the Ouyang family the number one family in Zhongdu.
The life trajectories of the two people started from the same starting point and slowly took two different paths.
However, Fang Yu does not think that there is no distinction between who is taking the right path and who is taking the wrong path.
It's just two different choices.
"Since your family is established in Zhongdu, why did your son come to Beidu?" Fang Yu asked.
Ouyang Xiuyuan stood up and poured tea for Fang Yu and said, "Because... I want to slowly transfer the family to Beidu."
"Oh." Fang Yu nodded and said, "In other words, this club is a foothold."
"Yes." Ouyang Xiuyuan said, "It is extremely difficult to gain a foothold in Beidu. This is because the martial arts world in Beidu is like an isolated island compared to the martial arts circles in other regions, completely independent."
"My family is firmly in the first place in the Central Capital, but when we come to the Northern Capital, even the lowest-level martial arts families don't take us seriously."
"Therefore, since ten years ago, I have planned to enter the martial arts world of Beidu and slowly transfer the core of the family..."
"What was the result?" Fang Yu asked.
"It's just like what you see now, Brother Fang. Overall, it's not bad." Ouyang Xiuyuan said with a smile.
