Chen Xuan knew before that Venerable Shenmu must have been handsome when he was young. After all, when Chen Xuan first met Venerable Shenmu, he was exactly what he looked like in middle age. At that time, Chen Xuan looked at Venerable Shenmu.
, it was the kind of look that Chen Xuan had seen of a very majestic ruler.
Chen Xuan has met the rulers of many realms in this world, and most of these rulers actually have almost the same temperament.
In Venerable Shenmu, Chen Xuan saw this temperament in Venerable Shenmu when he first met him.
Moreover, when Chen Xuan saw Venerable Shenmu for the first time, he mistakenly thought that Venerable Shenmu was the ruler of this realm.
But when I thought about it, I realized that in this forest, when the system was introduced, I mentioned that there was also a Shenmu Venerable.
So Chen Xuan also knew about Venerable Shenmu.
The young appearance of Venerable Shenmu at this time is basically similar to what Chen Xuan had always imagined the appearance of Venerable Shenmu when he was young.
Although Venerable Shenmu is far less handsome than Chen Xuan, he is still a young man with outstanding talents in the world.
Looking at Venerable Shenmu's appearance at that time, Chen Xuan felt his eyes were hot for some reason.
"Old man... no, you are young now, Shenmu. You looked as handsome as I imagined when you were young."
Hearing Chen Xuan's words, Venerable Shenmu laughed heartily and said: "Of course, but you actually imagined that I was handsome when I was young. Isn't this easy for you?"
"What's not easy about this?
Didn't I tell you before that I thought you must have been very handsome when you were young?"
Venerable Shenmu shook his head, "I forgot about this, but look at your own conditions, no matter how handsome I am, I can't be as handsome as you, right?
It’s a bit hard for someone as handsome as you to think that I’m handsome, hahahaha.”
As Venerable Shenmu laughed, Chen Xuan looked at Venerable Shenmu and smiled. For some reason, he suddenly felt that time had slowed down.
How long has it been since the two of them showed such hearty smiles?
In fact, Venerable Shenmu always liked to laugh, because he didn't want Chen Xuan to be too sad.
But Chen Xuan couldn't control it.
His best friend was about to leave this world, how could he laugh?
As time went by, Venerable Shenmu gradually didn't know how to laugh.
This is something that makes Venerable Shenmu feel a little sad.
But this is beyond the control of the two of them.
Chen Xuan couldn't control it either.
Even in the last days of Venerable Shenmu, Chen Xuan's atmosphere was actually very depressing.
There were only a few days left, and Chen Xuan actually didn't want Venerable Shenmu to leave with worries about him.
But Chen Xuan still wanted to work harder at this last moment.
What if... what if Venerable Shenmu gets better at the end?
During this last period of time, Chen Xuan's heart was still longing for a miracle to happen.
But Chen Xuan actually had a feeling in his heart that no matter what method he used, Lord Shenmu would never come back.
Venerable Shenmu knew his situation better than Chen Xuan.
But he saw Chen Xuan working so hard, so Venerable Shenmu didn't want to make Chen Xuan sad.
At the last moment, although Lord Shenmu could not even sense spiritual power, if Chen Xuan thought of some way, Lord Shenmu would definitely cooperate.
Although there is no effect, Venerable Shenmu doesn't want to let Chen Xuan lose.
At least I tried hard.
Venerable Shenmu knew that by cooperating with Chen Xuan's efforts, Chen Xuan would feel less uncomfortable in the end.
Even if Chen Xuan's sorrow cannot be completely reduced, as long as there is some reduction, Venerable Shenmu feels that it is good.
When he woke up in the morning, Venerable Shenmu found that Chen Xuan himself felt much more relaxed.
My first reaction at the time was, did Chen Xuan’s method work?
Even though Venerable Shenmu knew it in his heart, he still longed for a miracle to happen.
In the face of death, no one is not afraid.
He felt that his body was relaxed, and Venerable Shenmu also felt that he could use his spiritual power. This had to make Venerable Shenmu wonder whether Chen Xuan's method was working.
But in fact, Venerable Shenmu knew very well that it was almost impossible.
He went to look in the mirror and saw his young appearance reflected in the mirror. After thinking for a long time, he realized what was going on.
Probably, it is the reflection before death.
Let the appearance of Venerable Shenmu return to his peak period, and let him live these last few days well.
When he realized this, Venerable Shenmu felt very sad in his heart.
How sad.
I am so sad that Venerable Shenmu is really heartbroken.
He knew that he was really going to die.
In fact, if he lived to his age, death would not be a very special thing to him.
Venerable Shenmu has also built up his mental preparations long ago.
But there is still a person beside Venerable Shenmu who cannot accept this.
Venerable Shenmu himself was not afraid, but he was afraid that Chen Xuan would be.
Venerable Shenmu smiled, and tears actually flowed from the corners of his eyes.
He wanted to wipe away his tears while Chen Xuan was not paying attention, but Chen Xuan kept staring at him.
"Shenmu, is it the end of time?"
Chen Xuan couldn't hide the sadness in his words, looked at Shenmu and asked.
Venerable Shenmu looked at Chen Xuan and did not wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, just allowing him to shed tears like this.
Looking at the person in front of him, Chen Xuan really felt something in his heart that he didn't know how to explain.
He is very powerful. The whole world knows that there is a powerful person named Emperor Xuan Tian.
But at this time, Chen Xuan, no matter how powerful he was, could not keep his best friend.
Chen Xuan was so sad that he couldn't shed tears at all. He just looked at Lord Shenmu sadly.
The memories of meeting and getting along with Venerable Shenmu appeared in his mind, which actually made Chen Xuan even more intolerable.
"Chen Xuan, in the last few days, don't think of anything else.
Can we have a drink and talk, okay?"
Chen Xuan also knew in his heart that there was absolutely nothing he could do. He lowered his head and said nothing for a while, then raised his head again, his eyes were red, looked at Venerable Shenmu and said, "Okay."
His voice has never been so hoarse before. This is really sad to the extreme.
Looking at the Venerable Shenmu in front of him, Chen Xuan actually wanted to say a lot, but in the end he didn't say anything.
But fortunately, Venerable Shenmu understood Chen Xuan. He knew Chen Xuan's mood at this time and knew that Chen Xuan at this time had no remaining strength at all.
Venerable Shenmu stepped forward and pulled Chen Xuan into the room. The two of them prepared a table of food and a lot of good wine. Just like this, you had a glass of wine and I had a glass of wine, and we talked with each other since the day.
dark night.
The two of them talked about everything, but they always talked about their past.
They talked about the things they met and recalled a lot.
At the end, the tears mixed with the wine made the wine even more bitter.
Chen Xuan couldn't express his pain.
He didn't know why, but he felt really uncomfortable in his heart. He couldn't control himself at all. In his heart, he wanted and wanted Venerable Shenmu to live.
But he had no choice.
All methods have been used by Chen Xuan, but for Venerable Shenmu, they have no effect.
The reason why Chen Xuan compromised was that in the last few days, he really couldn't think of anything else.
Moreover, Chen Xuan knew that he had always been in a bad state of mind, and he did not want Venerable Shenmu to leave with worries about him.
In the last two or three days, Chen Xuan thought that he had tried his best.
At that time, Chen Xuan and Master Shenmu, after they had finished drinking, they walked in the Shenmu Forest at night under the moonlight, chatting while walking.
Sometimes the two of them just walk together without saying anything.
Venerable Shenmu left at sunrise.
He woke up with difficulty at countless sunrises, and finally left here at sunrise.
At the end, Venerable Shenmu asked Chen Xuan to take his bones to the Valley of the Dead. This was regarded as giving Chen Xuan something to do and then Chen Xuan did it.
In fact, Venerable Shenmu does not believe this.
But Venerable Shenmu really has no other way to give Chen Xuan some faith in this world.
He had read books about the Valley of the Dead before, so that’s what he said at the time.
This incident indeed gave Chen Xuan some sustenance.
At the end, Chen Xuan also lamented that Venerable Shenmu finally died in a human form.
Rather than dying as a tree.
This means that Venerable Shenmu will have a soul to reincarnate after that.
As long as he is reincarnated, Chen Xuan may meet Venerable Shenmu again in this world.
Even though the reincarnated Lord Shenmu may no longer be the Lord Shenmu, Chen Xuan still has a hope in his heart.
Rather than becoming a big tree, Lord Shenmu might as well reincarnate.
He has been trapped in the sacred forest for his whole life. In his next life, he must visit every corner of the world.
In fact, Venerable Shenmu had some words with Chen Xuan at the end.
"Chen Xuan, there is no way I can see myself becoming the supreme being in this world.
This is the only regret I have in this life, the one I should have told you."
That regret is that Venerable Shenmu did not meet his biological parents.
This is something that makes Venerable Shenmu somewhat regretful, but there is absolutely no way around it.
Venerable Shenmu was already on his deathbed at that time. When he looked at Chen Xuan, his eyes slowly dissipated.
"Before, you said that after you become the world's supreme king, you will spread the sacred tree forest all over this realm for me.
I thought about it, you better not be like this anymore.
This world, this realm, should have its diversity, and it doesn’t have to be all forest. I’ve spent so much time in the forest, and to be honest, I’m tired of it.”
Venerable Shenmu knew that this was also an obsession in Chen Xuan's heart. He was using his last efforts to make Chen Xuan less affected as much as possible.
After all, Chen Xuan will still be the one to do big things in the future.
"If I reincarnate into the sacred tree realm in my next life, I don't want to see the sacred tree realm become a forest.
Later, after you become the Supreme Being of the World, go to the place where my corpse is and talk to me and have a few drinks with me, that will be enough."
After Venerable Shenmu finished speaking, he used his last strength to try to see Chen Xuan as clearly as possible.
Let Chen Xuan try to see his eyes clearly.
When Chen Xuan saw the situation of Venerable Shenmu, he had no reason to refuse at all.
He was speechless at that time and could only keep nodding towards Venerable Shenmu.
He knew what Venerable Shenmu was thinking in his heart.
At the last moment, Venerable Shenmu still wanted to think about himself.
This is true and makes Chen Xuan feel very uncomfortable.
But even though it is uncomfortable, there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it.
after……
After that, Venerable Shenmu died.
He became completely motionless, no matter how much Chen Xuan called him, he remained silent.
At this time, Chen Xuan lost his second best friend in this world.
After placing the bones of Lord Shenmu, Chen Xuan was depressed for about a month.
Chen Xuan at that time, how should I put it, was actually very small compared to his reaction when the goddess Fu Xiu left.
Later, when Chen Xuan has free time, he will want to go to the Shenmu Forest to find the Lord Shenmu.
But then I thought again, Lord Shenmu had already left.
In fact, several times, Chen Xuan was on the way to the Shenmu Realm, and he suddenly realized that the Lord Shenmu had left this world.
At that time, Chen Xuan was stunned for a while, then he smiled bitterly and turned back to the Valley of the Dead.
Soon after that, Chen Xuan went to the Linghai Realm and met Ling Bo, but Ling Bo did not accompany Chen Xuan for a long time.
But after Ling Bo died, Chen Xuan knew that perhaps this was a hardship on his way to becoming king.
No matter who you are, you need to let him grow.
When Chen Xuan knew this, he gradually became less interested in making friends.
This was also the reason why Chen Xuan was somewhat indifferent to the judge at that time.
Chen Xuan actually knew who the judge was at that time, but he didn't know that the judge could be so powerful.
It was also because he was worried that the judge would die that Chen Xuan acted like that.
At that time, Chen Xuan was really scared.
Just because he didn't make any more friends, Chen Xuan's growth rate did advance by leaps and bounds after that.
Because Chen Xuan didn't think about anything else, he just worked hard to improve his cultivation strength.
"Father, you must have suffered a lot during those years when Lord Shenmu was gone, right?"
Chen Ling looked at Chen Xuan's lonely expression and asked Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan smiled lightly, looked at Chen Ling and said, "Who says it's not the case?"
"But in fact, whether it is the goddess, the sacred tree, or Lingbo, I am very sad when they die."
Chen Xuan recalled these three people.
They accompanied Chen Xuan in three stages in this world.
He gave Chen Xuan a lot of advice to help Chen Xuan become a better version of himself.
This alone is enough to make Chen Xuan unforgettable forever.
What's more, they all treated Chen Xuan so sincerely.
Chen Ling pursed her lips, then hugged Chen Xuan gently and said, "Father, I will do my best to be by your side."
Hearing this, Chen Xuan felt warm in his heart, then smiled and said: "As long as you are alive, just be happy. The person I am now is not the person I was then.
I was strong back then, but I couldn't keep the people I wanted to keep.
But things are different now, no one or anything else can take away the people I want to keep."
Chen Ling possesses memories from a hundred thousand years ago.
She was also able to know how much Chen Xuan's cultivation strength had improved over the years.
Although she could not sense Chen Xuan's cultivation strength, Chen Ling could also predict how powerful Chen Xuan was.
Chen Ling had met Jia Ni, Judge, and An Mixiu before. Chen Xuan's cultivation strength was probably similar to theirs, Chen Ling thought.
Maybe they were gods, but Chen Ling thought that compared to them, his father was definitely not that different.
Chen Ling can almost be sure of this.
Looking at Chen Xuan, Chen Ling said: "I believe in father."
Chen Xuan smiled softly and said: "I am your father, if you don't believe me, who do you believe?"
After speaking, Chen Xuan glanced at the sky outside. It was still very early, and it was more than enough to talk about the Hydra demon.
"I saw that I told you some miscellaneous things, but I didn't mention anything about the Hydra demon."
"It's still early. If father wants to say something, he can still say it."
Hearing this, Chen Xuan smiled lightly, and then said: "Okay, then I will briefly tell you about the situation back then.
In fact, when I think about it now, I still feel confused that I actually defeated the Hydra demon."
"ah?"
Chen Ling looked at Chen Xuan in surprise and said, "How do you feel about your fight against the Hydra demon, father? You don't seem to understand very well."
"Actually, it was really like that. I was..."
Chen Xuan almost told him that the system asked him to practice.
But Chen Xuan quickly took it back.
"Although I wanted to challenge myself at the time, after all, that Hydra demon's cultivation strength was five levels higher than mine, so it was really a bit difficult for me."
Back then, Chen Xuan was alone with a long sword, standing in an environment that was not beneficial to him at all.
Chen Xuan only had one thought in his mind at that time, that it wouldn't be over this time, right?
After all, the powerful aura that the Hydra demon exuded towards Chen Xuan at that time also gave Chen Xuan a headache.
Although he is crazy, it is absolutely impossible for Chen Xuan not to be afraid when facing such a creature that is obviously stronger than his own.
A level of cultivation is like a world, Chen Xuan understands this very well in his heart.
In the world, Chen Xuan also tries his best not to offend people who are more powerful than himself.