Excalibur City and the city defense formation have been closed, and everyone has returned to their respective places.
In the city lord's palace, Jian Lao's face was pale, his whole body seemed to be getting more and more stooped, his aura became weaker, and the aura of death on his body was much stronger than before.
However, there was a faint smile on his face, as if he didn't know that his life was about to end.
But, doesn’t Elder Jian know that his life is about to end?
Know!
But, face it calmly.
Immediately, Jian Lao's expression changed slightly, the smile on his face became more obvious, and his figure disappeared in an instant.
"Old man, where are you going?" The ancestor of the City Lord's Mansion suddenly became anxious. He was about to die, so he couldn't just wait and see.
It's so unsettling.
But in just a few breaths, Jian Lao appeared again, and with him there was another person.
Wearing a well-fitting white robe, his face is young and handsome, his eyes are as deep and vast as the starry sky, and his whole body is filled with an invisible power of swordsmanship.
The ancestor of the City Lord's Mansion couldn't help but be startled.
Then... wasn't it the pseudo-god realm that defeated the Huo family's Heaven-Destroying Sword Formation with one sword and chased the Huo family's Huoshan away?
Why does it feel like the aura on his body seems to be more domineering?
"Old guy, Fellow Daoist Lin, let me introduce you." Mr. Jian immediately laughed at Lin Xiao and the ancestors of the City Lord's Mansion: "His name is Li Kuangren, he is the previous city lord of Shenjian City, and I have been my husband for many years.
My best friend, as for his strength, Fellow Daoist Lin can also feel it. In the pseudo-god realm, his name is Lin Xiao, the chief building owner of the Seven Swords Tower, and he is also my chosen successor to the city defender."
Lin Xiao did not refute, but instead clasped his fists at Kuangren Li, the ancestor of the City Lord's Mansion.
Kuangren Li quickly stood up and clasped his fists in response. Facing Lin Xiao, he did not dare to sit still and respond. It would be too rude.
Although they are both in the pseudo-god realm, Lin Xiao's strength is much stronger than him anyway.
"Jian Lao, your longevity..." Lin Xiao also felt Jian Lao's aura, which was full of deathly silence, a kind of twilight.
"Haha, but there are still a few decades left." Jian Lao laughed, very relieved and free and easy: "No matter what, I am thankful that I at least still have a few decades to live."
Decades of time!
This period of time is actually not short in terms of Lin Xiao's current life span. After all, Lin Xiao has only been practicing for about two hundred years, and a few decades is a considerable part of it.
But for the entire long life, decades are really short.
For example, for someone like Jian Lao, who has lived for 30 million years, a few decades is really a very short time.
It's just like a few insignificant hours in the life of an ordinary person who lives for a hundred years.
Elder Jian's free and easy attitude actually made the ancestors of the City Lord's Mansion, Kuang Li and Lin Xiao, feel uncomfortable.
Birth, old age, sickness and death!
For cultivators, especially those with advanced cultivation, this is already distant and far away.
After all, many practitioners die of physical and mental illness, not because of illness or exhaustion of lifespan. Almost all practitioners die of physical and mental illness because they die from various dangers.
End of life!
That may not be a big deal to ordinary people, but for cultivators, it is definitely a very luxurious thing.
"Is there a way to extend life?" Lin Xiao asked rhetorically.
"It's no longer possible." Jian Lao said with a smile: "I can live for so long because I have paid a price. Unless I can break through to the pseudo-god realm, I can continue to extend my life. However, for certain things back then, I used to break through.
The potential of the pseudo-god realm is paid for by extending one’s lifespan.”
Lin Xiao suddenly realized.
In other words, no matter how hard Jian Lao practices in this life, he will eventually stop at the ninth level of the Fusion Dao Realm.
False god realm?
No longer destined.
Let alone the realm of gods.
In other words, Jian Lao's longevity can only end here, and there is no way to extend his life.
Divine realm?
It is impossible to break through.
For a moment, Lin Xiao's heart was blocked and depressed.
"Hahahaha, no one can live forever below the divine realm. Even those who are high up in the divine realm may die and die due to various reasons. I have lived for more than 30 million years, which can be considered a long life.
The years are enough." Jian Lao felt the silence of Lin Xiao and Kuangren Li, and felt the traces of depression and sadness permeating the air. He suddenly laughed and swept away the depression and sadness in the air.
.
Immediately, Jian Lao looked at Lin Xiao: "Friend Daoist, I don't have much time left. Now, the position of defender of Divine Sword City can only be left to you."
"Jian Lao, logically speaking, I shouldn't refuse, but I can't hide it from you." Lin Xiao smiled bitterly and said: "I was entrusted by a senior, and I had to go to Taisui to fulfill that senior's last wish.
The senior did not give me a time limit, but I have been delaying it for many years. If I stay here to guard Shenjian Town, I don’t know how long the senior’s last wish will be delayed. Furthermore, guarding a city is like a sword.
You generally haven't left for tens of millions or even thirty million years. To be fair, I can't do it now."
Asking himself to stay in one place for a long time, Lin Xiao asked himself, he really couldn't do it.
Will go crazy.
If you don’t believe it, try locking Yu Jinglue and Yu Dasha into a small dark room for a while. The truth is similar.
Although he sympathized with the old swordsman and felt a little sorry for him, Lin Xiao would not deceive others nor himself. It would blind his own mind and affect his swordsmanship.
"I also know that you can't force yourself on fellow Taoists." Jian Lao sighed: "It's just a sudden change. I originally had tens of thousands of years of life, and I could still observe Lin Xiuqi well, but now I don't have much left..."
"Old man, since Fellow Daoist Lin still has things to do, I can help you guard the Divine Sword City for a while." Li Kuangren immediately said: "Now that I am out of seclusion this time, I do not plan to continue in seclusion in the short term.
, after all, it has been improved to the extreme. No matter how long it is in seclusion, it will still be difficult to improve and find the opportunity to break through."
"Old guy, if that's the case, it's better for you to become the defender of the city directly." Jian Lao's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and there was a glint of light.
Although Kuangren Li is not as strong as Lin Xiao, he is still in the pseudo-god realm and is stronger than himself.
If it borrows the power of the city's defense formation from Divine Sword City, its strength can be further improved a lot.
A very good choice.
"You have a beautiful idea." Li Kuangren retorted directly: "I will help you for a while at most. After that, I plan to go to Jiuzhong Tianque to seek that insignificant ray of opportunity."
Divine realm!
Anyone in the pseudo-god realm wants to discover the secrets of the god realm and achieve a breakthrough.
No one can resist the temptation of the divine realm.
Eternal longevity is a great temptation. With eternal and endless longevity, you can ignore the passage of time and pursue more.
In addition, it is an essential improvement.
All in all, there are many benefits.
Lin Xiao did not interrupt.
To be honest, it is really impossible to let yourself stay in Excalibur City.
A period of time is okay, such as decades or hundreds of years, it is not unacceptable, and it should be in retreat, but if it is hundreds of years, Lin Xiao will feel it is very long, if it is thousands of years, it is very long, let alone a few years
Thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years or even tens of millions of years.
Indescribably long.
Perhaps, after Lin Xiao has gone through a long period of time in the future, he will be willing to stay in a certain place for thousands of years or even a hundred thousand years.
As for millions and tens of millions of years, it is still too far away for me.
The true heart cannot be deceived!
To deceive one's original mind is to cover one's sword with dust, and to cover one's sword with dust is to damage one's own foundation.
Even if you want to repay a favor, you will often adopt other methods.
However, since Kuangren Li, the patriarch of the City Lord's Mansion, is willing to take over for a period of time, it is equivalent to giving Lin Xiuqi an assessment period and giving him time to improve his cultivation and strength.
In this way, you don't need to worry yourself.
After that, the three of them stopped talking about this topic, because everyone understood that there was no need to continue talking.
"I didn't expect that fellow Taoist is so strong. There are few opponents in the pseudo-god realm. Judging from the strength of fellow Taoist, he should have reached the peak of the second realm or even the third realm." Li Kuangren sighed.
"I wonder if there are any levels in the pseudo-god realm?" Lin Xiao asked rhetorically.
The Xuan realm is divided into entry level, small achievement, Dacheng, and perfection. The Rongdao level is divided into nine levels. So what about the pseudo-god level?
Are there also some high and low levels?
"Originally there was no such thing, but later on, there were some distinctions." Li Kuangren responded. He was a little surprised that Lin Xiao would ask such a question, but he continued: "Only those who have mastered the peak path can have hope.
Breaking through to the pseudo-god realm, but there are also differences in strength among the pseudo-god realms. For example, some pseudo-god realms master one peak avenue, but some pseudo-god realms master two peak avenues.
, there are even some pseudo-gods who have comprehended and mastered the three peak avenues.”
"The more pinnacle avenues you master, the stronger you will be in the pseudo-god realm."
"Furthermore, some pseudo-god realms have comprehended the most powerful path, which is even more powerful than the peak path."
"However, a pseudo-god who masters one most powerful way may not be as powerful as a pseudo-god who masters three peak ways."
Lin Xiao nodded, understandable.
In this way, it is really a bit confusing, and it is difficult to divide it into nine levels like the Fusion of Dao Realm.
There is an obvious gap between the pinnacle avenue and the most powerful avenue, and there is also an obvious gap between one avenue and two avenues.
How to divide?
"Later, some powerful people joined forces and made a division based on strength." Li Kuangren continued: "Those powerful people in the Nine Heavens Palace divided the False God Realm into the first realm, the second realm, and the third realm based on strength.
The stronger the strength, the higher the realm."
"However, it is difficult to have an accurate standard for the strength of these realms. In short, a pseudo-god realm that masters one peak avenue is the lowest level of the first realm. Then a pseudo-god realm that masters two peak avenues is the second realm.
The three peak avenues are the third realm, and the pseudo-god realm that masters one of the most powerful avenues is directly the second realm..."
Lin Xiao suddenly realized.
So my current strength is equal to the three realms among the pseudo-god realms?