Lin Feng left the house and walked under the Xuantian treasure tree. Kang Nanhua fell three steps behind him and walked aimlessly with him.
"Nanhua, why don't you invite me to sit in your cave?" Lin Feng turned around and said with a smile.
Kang Nanhua nodded lightly: "It's my honor, please come here, Master."
The two of them sat down together in Kang Nanhua Cave Mansion. Lin Feng looked at Kang Nanhua and said quietly: "I have no intention of exploring other people's privacy, but the feeling you give me is that you need a listener."
Kang Nanhua looked a little disappointed: "I made the sect leader laugh."
He said softly: "Looking at those children, I remembered some past events, and my mood was a little unstable."
When Lin Feng heard this, his expression became more solemn.
Kang Nanhua is now a great monk who has formed the Nascent Soul. He has overcome the difficulties of life and death and the fear of heaven and earth, and his character and will are extremely stable.
At this moment, he admits that his mood is fluctuating. From this, it can be seen that his inner knot is very serious and has reached the level of inner demons, which has shaken the original heart of Taoism.
Kang Nanhua said slowly: "That happened a long time ago, and it has been seventy-one years now."
"To be precise, it's seventy-one years, three months and fifteen days."
Kang Nanhua recalled: "At that time, I was in the late stage of foundation building and built the second-grade alchemy cauldron. It was the time when I was most energetic."
Lin Feng glanced at him after hearing this. The golden elixir formed by Kang Nanhua was the highest quality purple elixir. Only the first and second-grade elixir cauldrons could be formed, and it was not 100%. If there was a slight difference, it would be
You can only get the second-rate Zhu Dan.
Kang Nanhua did not come from a large sect, but he accidentally received the Taoist inheritance from the ancient Taoist Liusha Taoist. Without the guidance of a master or the resources of the sect, he had to practice all by himself.
In particular, the earliest Taoist quicksand secrets he obtained were only fragments of the eternal Ganges River sand mantra.
Under such circumstances, he was actually able to form a second-grade alchemy cauldron. This was definitely a heaven-defying thing and could make 99% of the monsters and geniuses in the world feel ashamed.
Relying solely on his own talent. Unless his strength and understanding both reach full ten points, it will never be possible.
Catching Lin Feng's gaze, Kang Nanhua seemed to understand his question and said calmly: "When I first built the spiritual platform, I got an opportunity. Otherwise, the fourth-grade spiritual platform might be my destination."
"Sure enough, it also requires the cooperation of luck." Lin Feng nodded without saying anything. Good luck took the lead and overcame a huge difficulty in building the road. I think Kang Nanhua was so high-spirited at that time.
Kang Nanhua's eyes showed pain again. Looking at the top of the cave, his eyes were unfocused: "Although I have formed a second-grade alchemy cauldron, my practice has encountered a bottleneck. I have been unable to form an elixir.
Dan Dao seems to be far away from me."
For the Yeluzi monks who have no master's guidance and no support from their sect, the breakthrough to the great realm is the most difficult. They all rely on their own exploration and understanding.
"I felt that sitting still and practicing hard was not effective, so I went out to travel and tried to break through the barrier of life and death." Kang Nanhua said slowly: "Later, I walked in the mountains and arrived at a small mountain village."
"Although the living conditions are very difficult, the people in the village are hospitable and welcome me. There, men, women and children, old and young, have to climb among the rocks every day to collect a kind of elixir and sell it to people outside the mountain.
In exchange for necessary necessities of life.”
From Kang Nanhua's description, Lin Feng learned that those mountains and rocks were extremely steep.
For cultivators like them, of course, it is nothing, not to mention the golden elixir stage and the foundation building stage. Even monks in the Qi training stage can still walk on the ground as long as they have the third or fourth level of Qi training.
But for ordinary people, those mountains and rocks are absolutely dangerous places. No matter how skilled you are and how well prepared the tools are, it is like dancing on the tip of a knife.
Villagers in the village often fall off the cliff while collecting herbs and leave their families forever. However, for the villagers in the mountain village, this is their most valuable source of income.
"It's not that they are not afraid of death, but the pressure of survival and the desire to survive outweigh the fear of death and danger." Kang Nanhua shook his head slightly: "Maybe there is some luck?"
Lin Feng said lightly: "That's how human beings can develop to this day. Isn't it the same for you and me to practice Taoism?"
Kang Nanhua nodded and said: "Yes, watching them walking between life and death touched me a lot. I am not afraid that you will laugh at me. Before that, although I devoted myself to Taoism, I had very little contact with this kind of thing.
This should also be the primary reason why I encountered a bottleneck in forming pills."
There was a look of nostalgia in his eyes, the pain gradually dissipated, and a rare emotion of warmth and joy emerged.
"I wanted to carefully feel the villagers' fear and courage in life and death, so I stayed there for a long time and tried to teach them some Qi Tao techniques. Although most of them were not qualified enough to practice, they could at least strengthen their bodies.
The effect of keeping fit gives them more capital to survive in the mountains and forests."
Kang Nanhua said: "As for me, I gave up all my magic power and used it to learn from the mountain people to climb those cliffs to collect herbs. There were a few times when I really thought I was going to die."
Lin Feng smiled slightly and saw a smile on Kang Nanhua's face: "Basically, the people in the village have no talent for learning Taoism. I teach them Qi training methods, which can only be used to nourish the body's Qi and blood."
"There is only a seven-year-old girl. No girl in the small mountain village has a famous name. People in the village call her Mao Ya. Not only does Mao Ya understand Taoism very quickly, but she also has very good basic skills."
Lin Feng's heart moved slightly, and he sighed secretly: "It seems that this little girl is where Kang Nanhua's heart is."
Sure enough, when talking about this, Kang Nanhua became depressed again: "I was in the village at the time, living in Mao Ya's house. Mao Ya's parents died early, but she was still living a strong life, going to the cliff to collect herbs.
, it was she who taught me step by step.”
"We were both teachers and friends at that time. I taught her Taoism, and she taught me how to climb steep cliffs without using magic power. We have been together for a year."
Lin Feng originally wanted to tease Kang Nanhua about being a lolita player, but seeing Kang Nanhua's mood at the moment, he gave up the plan.
What's more, he could also see that the relationship between Kang Nanhua and the little girl was simply a year-end friendship, or it wasn't even a year-end friendship, it was just an adult's love for a child.
"What happened after that?" Lin Feng asked quietly.
"After?" Kang Nanhua's face became darker and he said slowly: "One day after that, Mao Ya and I came back from collecting herbs, but we saw that the village was in a mess, and there were actually bandits plundering it."
"The leader of the bandits is a cultivator in the Qi training period. He left a message that from now on the medicine collected from the mountain village will be donated to them free of charge. If they don't comply, the village will be massacred."
Kang Nanhua said: "After I heard this, I went to find the lair of the bandits without saying a word."
The pain in his eyes became more and more serious: "Mao Ya asked me if anything would happen to the village. She said she was very scared."
"I told her, it's okay, nothing will happen to you, and I will definitely protect you."
Lin Feng's pupils shrank slightly and he stared at Kang Nanhua. Based on his understanding of Kang Nanhua, this was equivalent to the promise Kang Nanhua made to Mao Ya.
For Kang Nanhua, commitment and keeping one's word are his life principles, a bottom line that cannot be shaken or crossed.
And this is often the source of his pain.
Sure enough, Kang Nanhua continued: "I found the bandits and found that they had done more than one or two evil things. Murder and robbery were completely commonplace, so I sent them where they should go."
"I was worried that they would harm and retaliate against the villagers in the future, so I checked carefully to make sure nothing had slipped through the net. Then I returned to the mountain village with ease."
At this point, Kang Nanhua suddenly fell silent.
Lin Feng didn't speak either. He sat opposite Kang Nanhua and faced him in silence. After a long time, Kang Nanhua's faint voice sounded in the cave, without any emotion, with a kind of numbness that felt more sorrow than death.
"The village was destroyed, everyone died, and Mao Ya died too. I looked at her wide-open eyes, and I could even see hope in them. I knew that hope was me, but in the end, I let her down.
"
The cave fell into silence again, and not even the sound of breathing could be heard.
Lin Feng was silent for a while and then said slowly: "This must be an accident. The people who massacred the village and the bandits who went to seek trouble with you are not the same people at all. There is probably no connection between the two parties."
Kang Nanhua's body, which was like a clay sculpture, finally moved and nodded slowly: "Yes, I think so too."
Although the person moved, Lin Feng could not feel any anger from Kang Nanhua. There was only his hollow voice in the cave: "But whether it matters or not, the end result is the same. Mao Ya died, and everyone in the village has died."
died."
"And I don't even know who the other person is, and I can't avenge everyone." Kang Nanhua closed his eyes again: "This person, and Zhang Lie, are all my inner demons."
Lin Feng looked at Kang Nanhua and sighed. He believed that the murders of Mao Ya and others, and Zhang Lie's blood sacrifice of everyone in the Liefeng Society, might be the only two times in Kang Nanhua's life that he made a promise to others, and finally
But couldn't do it.
No wonder when you see Kang Nanhua again in the Baicao Sect, you will find that he is much depressed.
Thinking about it, after what happened to Mao Ya and others, he must have made up his mind. It was the first, last, and only time.
But the subsequent blood sacrifice incident of Lifenghui not only opened up the scars of his past, but also shook Kang Nanhua's entire belief.
Fortunately, this time, the identity of the target Zhang Lie was very clear. Kang Nanhua's anger and hatred gave Kang Nanhua a clear psychological sustenance. Otherwise, Lin Feng was very suspicious. Not only would he not be able to successfully conceive a baby, but his cultivation would even regress.
In the eyes of some people, Kang Nanhua may be making a fuss out of a molehill and inexplicably putting pressure on himself that does not belong to him.
But people are different. Everyone has their own path to take, their own beliefs, their own bottom line, and their own ideas that are not understood by others.
Lin Feng stood up, walked to Kang Nanhua, and patted him on the shoulder: "I won't tell you any nonsense about looking forward. There's nothing wrong with keeping your eyes on the past, but don't do it because of that.
Stay on your laurels and stop.”
"Even if you are walking backwards, looking at the past, your feet must always be forward. This is to prevent the regrets of the past from happening again. I believe you understand this simple truth."
Kang Nanhua was silent for a moment, nodded slowly, and stood up: "I understand, I disturbed the sect leader today."
Lin Feng smiled and shook his head. Suddenly his heart moved slightly and he couldn't help laughing at himself: "What happened today? Everyone has psychological problems. Did you form a group?"
After bidding farewell to Kang Nanhua, Lin Feng left the cave and entered the Xuantian Eternal Light Cave again, where Zhu Yizheng stared blankly at the void above his head.