To Lu Changsheng's disappointment, Li Yuan shook his head and said, "If you come here in a year, I will definitely agree to your request, but I cannot agree to this request now."
"Why, don't you respond to requests?" Lu Changsheng looked disappointed.
"It's been a hundred years since you came here, and I've really been able to respond to your requests." Li Yuan said with a smile, "But just because you've been able to respond to your requests, I couldn't leave this courtyard for these hundred years. Later, I figured it out and made the promise
It becomes limitable. Before committing to others, I first determine whether I can do it."
"..." Lu Changsheng really couldn't tell that the monster in front of him was actually an old monster from a hundred years ago, and he was at the level of the Iron Demon King.
"Are you afraid of the Iron Demon King?" Lu Changsheng tried to provoke the general, but he soon discovered that it was nonsense.
Li Yuan didn't care at all. When he lived to his age, his face was no longer important. What was important was whether he could improve his cultivation.
"I promised the head of the Gu family a hundred years ago that I would protect their Gu family for a hundred years. Because of this promise, I lived in the backyard of the Gu family for a hundred years. Now I can leave in one year." Li Yuan said with emotion.
, "But I think maybe I will rarely leave here in the future."
Lu Changsheng finally understood that the reason why Li Yuan was unwilling to help Gao Xing exorcise the demon species was not because he was unwilling, but because he was protecting the Gu family.
Once he helped Gao Xing eliminate the demon seed, the Iron Demon King might not be able to do anything to Li Yuan, but he could do nothing to get the Gu family, so naturally his promise to protect the Gu family would not be fulfilled.
Although Li Yuan could not help Gao Xing exorcise the demon seed from his body, Lu Changsheng still respected him, because Li Yuan promised a thousand pieces of gold, who in this world is willing to wait for a hundred years for a promise? After all, a hundred years is not enough for an innate master.
Half a lifetime.
Moreover, the innate masters Lu Changsheng had seen were all unscrupulous. In order to improve themselves, they regarded human life as nothing, and completely ignored the life and death of ordinary people.
But Li Yuan made him feel the character of a monk. Although he was protecting the Gu family, his commitment-oriented style made Lu Changsheng admire him very much.
"Wait a minute, when I came in, you said that I was in danger. What did that mean?" Lu Changsheng asked again, "Does it mean that you knew that I was going to be harmful to the Gu family, so you..."
"No, although I promised to protect the Gu family, I will not interfere with their family's business. I will only take action unless the Gu family is about to perish. So whether you cause trouble for the Gu family or not, it has nothing to do with me. As long as you don't
Just destroy the Gu family." Li Yuan shook his head.
"But what if I really want to destroy the Gu family?" Lu Changsheng asked.
"You won't, because the Gu family and you don't have such a deep hatred. Otherwise, you wouldn't chat with me here, but come directly to the door. Your strength was nothing a hundred years ago, but now
It's pretty good now." Li Yuan said calmly.
"You are a little different from what I imagined." Lu Changsheng suddenly said.
"You are different from what I imagined. At least you are not as greedy as I thought. Judging from your attitude towards this girl, you are still a good guy." Li Yuan said, "I can't get rid of her now.
Devil, but if you come to me in a year, I can help her get rid of the devil. Although I can't agree to it now, I know that you are in trouble, a big trouble."
"What's the trouble?" Lu Changsheng asked.
"Have you already started trying to understand reincarnation?" Li Yuan suddenly asked.
"Yes." Lu Changsheng nodded.
"Have you ever blasphemed the gods?" Li Yuan asked again.
"This..." Lu Changsheng hesitated, but still nodded, "Yes."
"You're right." Li Yuan said with a smile, "You should know by now how the soul refiners became extinct a thousand years ago, right?"
"This..." Lu Changsheng nodded, "If you can't understand reincarnation, you will be directly smashed into the sea of consciousness by the ghosts of the underworld and die!"
"But you also tried to understand reincarnation, but you are still alive." Li Yuan said coldly, "So you are in danger."
"Why, aren't you still alive?" Lu Changsheng wondered, "And your realm must be higher than mine!"
"No, actually I am only in the Yang Soul realm, but I have been thinking about it for a hundred years." Li Yuan said with a smile, "Looking at your complexion, I have only been practicing for a year or two."
"Yes." Lu Changsheng nodded. His accumulation of thoughts now spans about sixty years, but it is still far behind Li Yuan.
After all, he is an old monster who has lived for more than a hundred years, and Lu Changsheng is only a few years old. If it were not for the existence of the lake, I am afraid that he would still be a little ghost who is frightened all day long, and may even have transformed into a ghost cultivator.
Instead of being a pure soul refiner now.
Although Li Yuan said that he has been thinking for a hundred years, this is just a concept of time. If you include that he has a plan of thinking and so on, then the accumulation of thinking will definitely not be just a hundred years, but two hundred or three hundred years.
It's possible. After all, if Lu Changsheng is given a hundred years, his accumulation of thoughts will probably be even more terrifying. Even a thousand years is possible.
"Will you really die if you don't understand reincarnation?" Lu Changsheng asked with palpitations, "Have you ever tried it?"
"Actually, I didn't do soul refining in the past, but because of this promise, I just tried to refining the soul when I had nothing to do, because only refining the soul can allow me to leave this courtyard, see the outside world, and explore my past.
I am a good friend, so I have been practicing like this for a hundred years, but I didn’t expect that I would transform into a Yang soul. Once upon a time, I also thought about understanding reincarnation, but I discovered a terrifying fact." Li Yuan explained.
"Come on, are you just a soy sauce guy?" Lu Changsheng was a little speechless, but he suddenly thought of something, "Could it be that you are still an innate master?"
"Almost." Li Yuan said with a smile, "But I am not a soy sauce person. There are many ways to enter the Tao in this world. Entering the Tao with martial arts is too simple, but entering the Tao with the soul can try various different methods.
, such as playing chess, such as painting, or sculpture, Zhuangzi said, Tao is in the shit, anything can become Tao, so my mind is much more thorough than before, and there is no need to stick to martial arts. A hundred years ago
Although I was born innate, and although I am still born innate now, I have advanced to Dzogchen."
"..." Lu Changsheng was completely speechless.
"You don't need to be surprised. If I give you time, maybe you will cultivate faster than me, especially the little girl next to you. Her Taoism will definitely be higher than mine in the future. I just checked it with my mind, and she
Her demon seed has not matured yet. If you come to me after a year, I will help her get rid of the demon seed." Li Yuan said calmly.
"Thank you very much." Lu Changsheng finally got some comfort, but the surprise in his heart could not be calmed down. This Li Yuan was too terrifying, even more powerful than the Iron Demon King.
"No matter how you enter Taoism, you should cultivate your mind. Young people, don't be too eager for quick success. There are still plenty of opportunities." Li Yuan seemed to have read through Lu Changsheng's thoughts.
"Wait, you haven't told me yet, what is the terrifying fact you discovered?" Lu Changsheng asked.
"More than ten years ago, I tried soul refining, but I woke up halfway through my enlightenment." Li Yuan said with a smile, "If the gate of hell is really opened up in the sea of consciousness, then I will be trapped in it for the rest of my life.
You will be marked by the underworld. At that time, unless you can really step on the road to hell from the gate of hell in your sea of consciousness and erase the past and present lives on the Three Lives Stone, you will never be able to escape the arrest of the underworld for the rest of your life."
"I know this. Apart from this method, do you have any better way to gain enlightenment?" Lu Changsheng asked.
"Of course, soul refining is a taboo in the underworld. Since the existence of reincarnation, this realm has always existed. Anyone who refines souls will be punished by the underworld." Li Yuan said.
"Why is there no taboo on refining Qi, but there is such a taboo on refining soul? This is unfair!" Lu Changsheng complained.
"Heaven and earth are fair to everyone." Li Yuan said with a smile, "Because the soul can exist forever, which is equivalent to immortality. Unless someone beats you to pieces, your soul will live forever. Isn't this very good?
Is it against heaven?"
"Yeah!" Lu Changsheng understood that if everyone refined their souls and everyone's soul could live forever, then the world would be completely in chaos.
"In fact, the soul is immortal, but there is reincarnation. Everyone is reincarnating, but they have experienced different lives. But without the existence of reincarnation, the world would be in complete chaos, so reincarnation is the embodiment of order.
, and the underworld is the guardian of order, and you and I are both beings who rebel against the order of heaven and earth, so the underworld must wipe out you and me." Li Yuan smiled and said, "However, you chose a more difficult path, and I
I chose to avoid the underworld because the underworld cannot be resisted with human power."
"What do you mean by avoiding the underworld?" Lu Changsheng asked.
"Even if you don't understand reincarnation, and if you don't understand the underworld, naturally they won't pursue you, and naturally there will be no disaster." Li Yuan said.
"..." Lu Changsheng was completely speechless, "Isn't this all nonsense?"
"But this is the only way to avoid the pursuit of the underworld." Li Yuan said with a smile.
"Then why did so many saints understand reincarnation in ancient times?" Lu Changsheng asked.
"But are you a saint?" Li Yuan asked.
"..." Lu Changsheng was speechless, and finally shook his head helplessly, "No!"
"Then it's over. The reason why saints can understand reincarnation is because they are saints. They have merged with order. They are also the ones who fill the gaps in order. So they are the embodiment of order. The underworld can't do anything to them. This is also
The reason for the emergence of human civilization is that saints created civilization, and they can also be said to be the creators of order." Li Yuan explained, "But if you are not the creator of order, not the order itself, how can you rebel against the underworld and rebel against the underworld?
Where is heaven and earth?”
"Actually, there is another reason!" Lu Changsheng said suddenly after being silent for half a minute.
"What's the reason?" Li Yuan asked.
"Because the saint's fist is big!" Lu Changsheng made a gesture.
"..." This time it was Li Yuan's turn to be speechless.
"I believe in one thing." Lu Changsheng suddenly glowed with confidence again, "There is no enemy that cannot be defeated, as long as you are strong enough!"