When the Great Dao Dies, I Remain; When Spiritual Energy Withers, I Endure

In Si Nian's eyes, her master has always been the most determined seeker of the Tao.

His Tao heart cannot be shaken.

Even if the spiritual energy is exhausted, other cultivators are panic-stricken and at a loss, the Taoist partners fly away, and the friendship between master and apprentice is broken, the master still behaves so calmly.

Through various things, she analyzed that the possibility of the revival of spiritual energy is already very small.

She immediately looked for another way. Seeking reforms and prolonging life. Never stopped for a moment.

However, Si Nian never knew.

Under her master's firm appearance.

In fact, it is a gradually empty heart.

The Tao is hiding... A few simple words, when they are said, are so heavy, as if everything in the past has been denied.

How firm she was in the past, how confused she is now. The most determined seeker of the Tao has also become the most empty soul at the moment when the Tao disappears.

Because in the past, the Tao was more important to her than anything else.

The Tao is hiding, and she doesn't know what to do, and there is a piece of emptiness in her heart.

But today.

It seems a little different.

Someone took her to see some scenery that she had never noticed.

The road disappeared, but the scenery on the roadside was still there.

She also leaned on the grass, feeling the softness of the grass and the breeze.

It was like a traveler who had been walking with his head down, finally felt tired, lay down on the spot, and slowly raised his head. Many things that he had always known but never noticed came into his eyes little by little.

Tomorrow was no longer a stagnant pool of water, no longer a cold calculation of life span minus one, but a little more expectation.

"By the way, how did the fourth son of the Zhou family get together with his eldest sister-in-law?" Zhao Qing suddenly asked.

"You are quite gossipy." Li Changxiao was stunned, and then expressed his own opinion, "I guess the fourth son of the Zhou family and his eldest sister-in-law have known each other since childhood. Now they are rekindling their old feelings."

"No, no." Zhao Qing analyzed seriously, "The fourth son of the Zhou family only came back to the Zhou family last year."

......

Li Changxiao looked at the bright moon hanging high in the sky, and just muttered in his heart, longevity, long life, is it more important to "grow" or "live".

He can only get the answer to this question from others.

Because if he were to say it himself, he would definitely say that "live" is important. He doesn't need to worry about his life span at all. He already has "growth".

......

"At noon today, a white-clothed swordsman beat up everyone in the Lianmin Pawnshop?"

"Not only that, but he also robbed all the silver?"

"From this point of view, the fifth brother must be angry."

In a courtyard in Qingxiu City.

The princess Li Tianxia sat under a locust tree, listened to the maid's oral narration, and gently drank a sip of the good gentleman's tea.

She put down the teacup.

Steam rose.

Her eyebrows relaxed, and she was gloating.

Lianmin Pawnshop was the work of the fifth prince Li Tianyu, who collected money from the people to strengthen himself.

I don't know how much money he has collected over the years.

"Your Highness, the fifth prince has opened countless pawnshops in Lingtian Kingdom. This Qingxiu City was destroyed. Even if there is a loss, it is just a drop in the bucket. It is not worth mentioning at all. Why would you be angry?" The maid asked puzzledly.

Li Tianxia picked up the teacup, blew away the floating mist, and took a sip gently, feeling the tea entering her mouth and passing through her lips, teeth and tongue. She was not in a hurry to swallow it, but savored the unique fragrance of the tea and the lingering aftertaste.

"It is worthy of being called Gentleman's Tea." Li Tianxia put down the teacup and tapped the table twice. Seeing this, the maid immediately refilled the tea. She said, "I had to go through a lot of trouble to get this tea from those old guys in Laojun Mountain."

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Li Tianxia said, "Financial losses are naturally nothing."

"For the royal family, the loss of face is the most fatal."

"And coincidentally, my father's birthday banquet is coming, and he has something to do and needs to come to this Qingxiu City."

"As far as I know, he is not coming alone, but also brought a genius who was once a genius in the Fuyao Holy Land. This Lianmin Pawnshop is his proud work, and he brags about it to everyone he meets."

"You can imagine that when my fifth brother comes here and hears that his pawnshop has been smashed, he will be very angry because he lost face in front of that genius."

The maid nodded. That's it.

At this time, Li Tianxia sighed, "The Lingtian Dynasty has been established for tens of thousands of years, but in many places, it is like a newborn. In the past, we princes fought for opportunities, adventures, and who has higher talent. Now we fight for power and money..."

"I really can't rest for a moment."

Li Tianxia looked at her personal maid, who was her confidant since she was a child. Some of her inner thoughts can only be told to her.

She suddenly asked, "Do you think that we, the princes and princesses, are short-sighted and covet these worldly things after the spiritual energy has been exhausted for only more than 300 years? If we devote ourselves to the great way, we may be able to open up new paths?"

The maid knelt down in fear, "I dare not."

"I know you, that's what you think." Li Tianxia seemed to be particularly interested today. She said, "In fact, you don't understand. Don't imagine how noble the cultivators are. The six worlds are all becoming mortals. When those cultivators come to their senses and know that the spiritual energy is exhausted this time, it is irreversible and there is no end in sight..."

"They will also join the worldly struggle."

The maid hesitated to speak, but Li Tianxia nodded slightly, indicating that she could speak freely, and then she slowly spoke and asked: "But, Your Highness, even if the spiritual energy is exhausted and the monks will inevitably turn into mortals, those monks who once roamed the nine heavens, Do you really care about worldly things?"

Li Tianxia chuckled twice, "Of course I don't like it now. Some people say that human nature is inherently evil, and some say that human nature is inherently good, but I think that human nature is neither good nor evil, but the word 'profit' ”

"Cultivation of immortals has benefits, it can be high above the world, live long and carefree, and determine life and death, so I practice it.

Do whatever is beneficial. Maybe you want to say that monks have practiced for many years and honed a clear Taoist heart. But now that the Taoism has escaped, after eighteen hundred years, looking back, the heart that once attracted The proud Taoist heart seems so ridiculous. "

Li Tianxia continued: "Of course there are no absolutes. There will definitely be some determined seekers, but these people... will not live long. I assert that they will die one after another on the road to seeking the Tao."

"Those who survive are those who are able to recognize the reality and combine their own strengths to achieve certain 'benefits' for themselves, and these benefits are the worldly things that they now look down upon."

"This kind of person is always strong."

The maid's pupils shook.

Li Tianxia smiled and said: "Have you ever felt that time passes very slowly after the spiritual energy is exhausted?"

The maid nodded, "His Highness said that, and it seems true. It feels like time has slowed down a lot. In the past, it was several years in the blink of an eye. Some old things, even though they have been for hundreds of years, seem to have happened yesterday."

"But now, what happened last month feels like a long time ago."

"So." Li Tianxia smiled understandingly, "You are starting to feel the weight of time gradually."

There was silence in the courtyard.

Suddenly, Li Tianxia seemed to remember something and asked: "By the way, the swordsman in white... these four words remind me of the person I have been looking for."