The white mist didn't know where it came from. It quickly spread from the other side of the lake and enveloped the entire pavilion, making everything hazy and unreal.
At this time, Li Yuheng ended his silence, turned his head, and said slowly:
"Actually, I understand you. Are realm, cultivation, strength, and longevity really that important? Just like what you said, Han Keqing, live your life the way you want, choose a city to settle in, and choose a person to live your whole life.
"
"After so many years of practice, I have never heard of a monk who has truly achieved immortality. A monk as powerful as Yuanying will have his lifespan exhausted one day. Since no one can truly achieve immortality, the difference between monks and mortals is just that they live forever.
It’s just a little longer.”
"Life is limited. If you can accomplish what you really want to accomplish in your limited life, that would be much more interesting to me than practicing to live forever!"
Hearing this, Han Yuru's eyes flashed with surprise, because she knew that Li Yuheng was a member of the Li family in Taiqiu Mountain who had the most amazing cultivation talent for hundreds of years. How could he identify with cultivation in this way?
Li Yuheng's voice continued:
"I don't like practicing, but I have to force myself to do it because I want to see the outside world. Do you know the outside world?"
Li Yuheng looked at Han Yuru and asked seriously. The latter naturally didn't know, so he could only shake his head innocently.
Li Yuheng didn't care about this and continued to say:
"Just like you yearn for the life of ordinary people, I yearn for the bigger world. When I was a child, a gentleman in the academy told me that reading thousands of books means traveling thousands of miles. I have read quite a few books over the years. At first, I
Uncle Jiu was studying together, but then he left, and I was the only one studying. Besides, Uncle Jiu was too utilitarian in studying, and I was different. I was practicing my own ideals."
"After reading a lot, I was wondering whether to go out and take a look at the bizarre world described in the book."
"For me, Taiqiu Mountain is too small, the Tianhe area is too small, and even the entire Chaoyang Continent is too small. I want to go to the other side of the East China Sea to see. The book says that there is a curtain of thunder and lightning over there.
Clouds. I also want to look outside the sky and see what the scene is like further than the sun, moon and stars."
"I asked my uncle, and he said that apart from the biting wind and biting cold, there is only darkness at high places. But I know that is because my uncle did not fly high enough."
"So I asked him if a monk in the Nascent Soul realm could reach the outer world, my uncle said he didn't know, and asked me to go up and have a look myself if I could reach that realm one day."
Li Yuheng smiled:
"I want to go see it, so I have to practice. The realm is too low. I'm afraid I won't be able to get there!"
Han Yuru didn't understand, but she respected that in her opinion, everyone had the right to choose their own way of life, although her words were not a universal guideline for the entire cultivation world. In fact, this is a world of the weak and the strong, and there are too many
Living things do not have the right to choose.
In fact, if she hadn't been lucky enough to get the protection of a strong person like the Taiqiu Li family, she might not have even had the chance to say this.
Han Yuru didn't want to go outside and take a look. If possible, she wanted to stay on Linghu Peak forever.
People are different. She respects Li Yuheng's thoughts because when the latter said these words, she saw a different look in his eyes.
As for the Nascent Soul realm that Li Yuheng mentioned, it was a realm that she could not even imagine. Although she actually didn’t have much experience with this realm, she just knew that to reach that realm, a monk would have to practice for a long, long, long time.
It’s enough to forget the year and month of your birth.
She secretly thought in her heart: Li Xuangang should also yearn for that realm!
...
Li Yuheng didn't say much about his ambition. He soon stopped talking and turned the topic back to Han Yuru.
He took a few steps back, sat down on the wooden chair again, took out a piece of monster meat from his storage bag, and threw it to the black turtle who had been waiting for a while.
The black turtle happily ate it, feeling only joy in his heart.
It likes Li Yuheng even more!
"Actually, if you like Uncle Jiu, it will be very troublesome. It may not be very good to you or him!"
Han Yuru was actually very smart, but she didn't usually like to think about those profound things, so she turned around and sat down on the chair, sighed again, and said in a weak voice:
"I know."
As if wanting to explain the matter clearly, Li Yuheng ignored Han Yuru's emotions and continued:
"The clan leader wants to form a pill, and the family is developing rapidly. There are actually no good successors among the Qing generation clan members. The Xuan generation is the generation that my uncles and others are most optimistic about."
"Second uncle Li Xuantian is very talented and has the strongest sense of responsibility for the family. But he left and I don't know if he will come back."
"Although the thirteenth uncle Li Xuanyuan is also very talented, he has no interest in worldly things and only cares about cultivation. He does not want to bear the responsibilities of the family."
"Therefore, since the second uncle left, the whole family's hope has been placed on Uncle Ninth. I think he probably felt it himself, so he has been so diligent in cultivation in these years. This time I heard that Uncle Seventeen
It is said that Uncle Jiu has successfully entered the middle stage of foundation building."
At this point, Li Yuheng's tone became more serious, which made Han Yuru also become serious.
"The second uncle wants a family, the thirteenth uncle wants immortality, and the ninth uncle is very ambitious. He wants both a family and immortality."
"If...if the second uncle can't come back, the burden of the family will definitely be handed over to Uncle Jiu, and the family will force Uncle Jiu to improve his level. Uncle Jiu is very affectionate towards the people close to him.
As a person, at that time, once you can't keep up with Uncle Jiu, how should he choose, the family or you?"
Han Yuru also knows this. If Li Xuangang can become a Jindan monk in the future, his lifespan will be as long as six hundred years, but now he is only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and his lifespan is only one hundred and fifty years...
If he becomes a Taoist companion, he can only stay with him for a period of time. Moreover, if it is true as Li Yuheng said, he will definitely spend most of his time practicing and handling family affairs.
Han Yuru didn't know how many times she had been silent today. Her tone became deeper and deeper, and she said:
"Yu Heng means...do you want me to give up?"
Li Yuheng took his hand up from his lap, and while teasing the black turtle, he said with a hint of rhetorical question:
"Why give up? Since you don't want Uncle Jiu to make a choice, then just practice hard and catch up with him, right?"
Han Yuru's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again. Improving her realm could not be achieved simply by talking about it. She did not have much confidence in her talent in cultivation.
Seemingly sensing her worries, Li Yuheng continued to speak:
"Who can say clearly about cultivation? I hope to see your name next to Uncle Jiu in the family tree one day!"
Han Yuru thought about it very seriously, and then secretly made up her mind.
In fact, her talent for cultivation is not as bad as she thought. Although it is not as good as Li Xuangang, and even worse than Li Yuheng, in fact, compared with most monks, she is already considered to be above average.
, if you practice seriously, you might be able to try to hit the foundation-building realm.
Having said so much, the purpose of this trip was finally achieved, so Li Yuheng also stretched his body and took a long breath.
He stood up and threw all the monster meat in the storage bag into the lake. After looking at the black turtle happily spinning in the lake, he turned around and left.
After he left, Han Yuru sat quietly for a while, but she didn't stay too long. Soon she returned to her cave and began to practice in seclusion.
For the first time in so many years, she was so eager to improve her realm!
"The golden elixir is too far away, so at least we need to build a foundation!"
Han Yuru's temperament seemed calm and weak, but she was actually quite stubborn. Before officially sinking into practice, she squeezed her fists and made such a determination in her heart.
...
The conversation between Li Yuheng and Han Yuru actually didn't last long. When Li Yuheng left the lake, the sun was still as warm as the sun, and there was no feeling of heat at all.
Walking down from the top of Linghu Peak, the path paved with bluestone slabs was made by him and Han Yuru back then.
At that time, there were only some weeds growing on both sides, but now they have been removed and replaced by peach trees one by one.
As he walked down the mountain, he imagined in his mind that many years later, Linghu Peak should be full of peach blossoms, and the ground would be bright red.
When Li Yuheng found his eighth uncle Li Changji in Shanggong Hall, the latter was counting the spiritual stones in the warehouse.
There are only two years left before Li Changqing can raise Taiqiu Mountain's spiritual veins to the third level of high-grade within five years. So Li Changji wanted to count the specific figures to see how far behind he was.
"Yu Heng has met his eighth uncle."
Seeing Li Yuheng, Li Changji put down the account book in his hand and asked:
"How are things?"
Li Yuheng took off his hand and bent slightly:
"She likes Uncle Jiu!"
Li Changji was silent for a moment, and then said: "I know!"
Afterwards, Li Yuheng left here, but he did not return to his cave. Instead, he walked straight to the foot of Taiqiu Mountain, where a caravan was waiting for him.
...
Li Yuheng decided to go to the Hengduan Mountains, and he was accompanied by Li Yuqian, the fifth-ranked member of the Yu family. The two of them were sitting on the Linggu pile carried by a tall carriage.
Looking at the gradually shrinking Mount Taiqiu, Li Yuqian asked:
"Brother, where are you going?"
Li Yuheng glanced at her, then turned to look at Mount Taiqiu, and replied:
"I heard that the Corpse Ghost Sect has built a teleportation array in Xinfang City. I want to take a look!"
Li Yuqian didn't know what was so interesting about a teleportation array, so she just said "oh" and stopped answering.
Li Yuheng wanted to go outside and have a look. The closest place to him was the middle of Chaoyang Continent, so that was the first place he prepared for him to go outside.
And I heard that the teleportation array is connected to the central part of Chaoyang Continent.
“Taiqiu Mountain is so beautiful!”
When Taiqiu Mountain was about to completely disappear from sight, Li Yuqian couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Hearing this, Li Yuheng turned his head and looked at her, suddenly thinking of the conversation he had with Uncle Jiu many years ago.
A smile appeared subconsciously on his face, he turned his gaze back to normal, looked at Taiqiu Mountain illuminated by the rising sun, and said: