In the 327th year of the An Dynasty, there was a great drought in the southwest, accompanied by a plague of locusts.

The state government appropriations have been stripped of each other, and the relief food has been filled with bags of floating rice before it reaches its destination, and the bottom layer is full of wood chaff and gravel.

For a time, famine was everywhere, and the three southwestern states were like hell, and everyone was fed by their children, gnawing on tree bark and swallowing soil raw.

A well-guarded village and town, a group of desperate hungry people. The hungry red eyes made both sides look like evil ghosts crawling out of the hungry ghost road.

Both sides are not at fault, but now they have to fight each other for survival.

There were so many hungry people that the walls were broken in three days, and the villages and towns were slaughtered, and even the food and corpses were eaten.

Only Liu Xiu, the youngest son of the Liu family in the town, was able to survive the siege of the hungry people with the help of an elder of the Liu family, and an elder of the Tianji Sixiangmen.

"Uncle Wang, is there always such suffering in this world? Or is it just the way it is now? ”

Standing on a hill with no grass, he looked at the endless dry land and the swarms of locusts flying like dark clouds, Liu Xiu asked the wry-smiling cultivator blankly, he couldn't understand the reason why all this happened, why the three southwestern states with good wind and rain suddenly did not rain for hundreds of days, and why the locust plague followed by the great drought.

"Heaven and earth rotate. Cloudy, rainy and foggy. This great drought is beyond the control of mortals such as us - it is ridiculous to say, you Wang Bo and I practice the Xuanwu water control technique, I thought I could make a difference in this drought, but now I have found out, since heaven and earth do not allow it, how can you ask for it? There is not a trace of water vapor, and it is impossible to create any Taoism out of nothing. ”

"Manpower is poor, manpower is poor."

With a long sigh, the cultivator who was still a mortal looked up at the still cloudless sky, looking at the corpses and dry bones everywhere, he sighed and muttered: "According to the old legend, nearly a thousand years ago, there were still immortals and gods in heaven and earth, who could call the wind and rain and move mountains and seas...... If there are still immortals now, I think we can change the world and put an end to this suffering. ”

"Really...... Heaven and earth do not ......"

The young boy surnamed Liu repeated softly, his eyes revealing intelligence and determination that did not match his age.

"That being the case. Then I must become an immortal. ”

Tianji Four Elephant Gate, Xuanwu Altar Master Wang Shoudao, with the Liu family child Liu Xiu returned to the door, after the spirit of the soul to touch the bones, confirmed that he was born with a "natural Taoist body", is a thousand years of talent, so it was included in the door of the master's flag, given the Taoist number 'Zhong Ling', carefully cultivated.

Eight years later, Liu Xiuliu Zhongling, at the age of seventeen, cultivated to the peak of the day after tomorrow, the realm of the great master, and had to pass on the core secret method of the Tianji Four Elephant Gate, the 'Heavenly Thunder Qilin Method'.

Three years later, the year of the weak crown.

Liu Zhongling became the thirty-seventh generation head of the Tianji Four Elephant Sect, and all the Dharma Lords and elders were convinced, believing that he had surpassed the sages, and if it weren't for the Jedi Tiantong, he might really be able to soar to become an immortal.

Two years later, at the age of twenty-two.

Liu Zhongling's sword picked Liuhe, invincible in the world, and the Tianji Four Elephant Gate subdued the rest of the Seven Great Dao Gates of Shenzhou and became the leader of the Daomen.

Five years later, at the age of twenty-seven.

Liu Zhongling deeply felt that the five fundamental inheritance methods in the sect were lagging behind the times, and presided over the cultivation of the law, recreated the inheritance, and made a breakthrough in creating compound Taoism, as well as the new application of various Taoism methods.

From the day the practice ended, the Tianji Sixiangmen hung his portrait on the side of the patriarch, and all new disciples had to worship him in addition to the patriarch.

——This is the first ten years after Liu Zhongling, the master of the Tianji Four Elephant Gate and the leader of the Dao Gate, has cultivated to the peak of the day after tomorrow.

But Liu Zhongling didn't care about these false names, and he wasn't interested in them at all. Whether it is the invincible in the world, or the leader of the Dao Sect, or the kneeling of the disciples, the cultivation of the three immortal words...... These, for practitioners, are all bubbles.

He still can't become an immortal.

"No, if I want to break through the peak of the day after tomorrow and enter the 'innate realm' in the classics, I must use the aura of the whole body to penetrate and cultivate without a single flaw from the inside out...... I have reached the peak of internal cultivation, but external cultivation needs the assistance of the vitality between heaven and earth, so that my mind can penetrate through heaven and earth, and feel the spirit of heaven and earth and grow. ”

"However, the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is far from enough to support me to comprehend the spirit of Heaven and Earth and strengthen my own mind and soul...... The road to heaven is broken, and this road is broken. ”

The personable Taoist sat in the main hall, and Liu Zhongling, who was invincible in the world, no longer made a move, but no one dared to be an enemy of him. Now, his real enemy is not any tangible and qualitative existence, but the heavens, the earth, and time itself.

"I've reached the upper limit of this life, and although I can sense that my limit is much more than that, the circumstances don't allow it."

After countless attempts, Liu Zhongling finally determined that almost all the inheritances in this world had been cut off, and it was impossible to cultivate to innately.

Unless...... He created a new legacy of his own. Create another set of Dao methods that can strengthen the soul and dominate the power of heaven and earth.

But this is too difficult, it takes time, and it may need to be used for the rest of Yoo Jong-ling's own life. Can't put all the eggs in one basket, with this thought, Liu Zhongling went to all parts of Shenzhou again to collect the classics of various major sects, from the myths and legends of the ancient flood to the present.

He finally calculated that the rise and weakening of aura has a law of ups and downs, and in this era, the concentration of aura is actually rising, and the magnitude of this rise is about to reach its peak in the range of ninety-two to one hundred and fourteen years.

At that time, even if he didn't create a new method, he could use the spirit of heaven and earth to achieve transcendence.

"At least 90 years, or even more than 100 years later...... Liu Zhongling, who is already thirty years old, stands in the mountains full of stone monuments, and can see that the rocky earth centered on it has been smoothed by people with true qi, and there are countless dense characters engraved on it, which seem to be used to deduce and calculate some extremely complex things: "Alternate between withering and glory, life and death are transformed, and the exhaustion of thousands of years has reached the limit, so at that time, heaven and earth will usher in a great prosperity." ”

Stroking his long beard, the Taoist whispered to himself in confusion, "But can I live so long?" ”

Then, Liu Zhongling smiled: "Of course I can." ”

The life span of a practitioner is the rotation of a breath of true qi. Ordinary people often joke that as long as they keep breathing, they will not die, but this kind of joke is the reality for Taoists.

As long as the spiritual power of a great week does not stop, the cultivator will not die of old age.

After confirming this, Liu Zhongling once again had a goal and hope.

In the second ten years of his becoming the head of the Tianji Four Elephant Sect, he studied the Taoism of other sects, also learned alchemy, and also fought with other sects that wanted to compete for the position of the leader of the Dao Sect and the first gate of heaven and earth, and fought off the evil demons and demons of the outer Dao for the people of Shenzhou, and even fell into danger several times and was seriously injured.

Although Liu Zhongling's cultivation is the first in the world, the upper limit of the world is only the peak of the day after tomorrow, everyone is the great master of the peak of the day after tomorrow, several people beat one or sneak attack, even Liu Zhongling has to retreat.

When receiving treatment, he was as indifferent as him, and occasionally he was angry: "It's hateful, these people are just mediocre people who blindly follow the old path of their predecessors, and they have reached the same realm as me by accumulating cultivation over time...... If a few more people sneak up on me, even me, I might die. ”

"But if I can achieve innate ......"

——In the thirtieth year of cultivation, Liu Zhongling was forty-seven years old.

Feeling that time was insufficient, he cultivated the Sect Master Seed of the next generation of the Heavenly Pole Four Elephant Sect and updated the Heavenly Thunder Qilin Method. However, due to the appearance of the demon beast Thunder Eagle Wind Tiger at the peak of the day after tomorrow in the northwest, and raided the town with the beast army, Liu Zhongling still led the team to the northwest without hesitation, slashed the demon tiger with a sword, and killed the thunder eagle, and was still peaceful for the people.

The disciple who was also injured carefully applied ointment to heal his wounds, and Liu Zhongling comforted the other party with a smile: "It's okay, the more you use the Lei Fa, the more familiar you are, this battle has made your master and me deeply understand, and the new method has some inspiration." ”

"When I create a new method and achieve innateness, you and I, master and apprentice, will be able to help all people more conveniently...... Ouch, you rebel, light-handed! ”

"Okay, okay, come here, I'll heal you, by the way, show you what kind of strength you need to apply the medicine."

——In the fiftieth year of cultivation, Liu Zhongling was sixty-seven years old.

Feeling that his body was beginning to age, he passed on the throne to his disciple and became the Supreme Elder to recuperate his body.

By this time, Liu Zhongling still remembered his oath and determination as a child, he still tried to help others, and created a thunder method that specializes in killing locusts and locust eggs, and killed locust plagues in one place.

With this, he even received the real canonization of the contemporary emperor of the An Dynasty, and there were shrines all over Shenzhou.

Although he couldn't perfect the new method and achieve innateness, when he heard the news, Liu Zhongling, who was a little depressed, was still excited for a while.

Until one day, he noticed that the first gray hair had grown on his head.

"In your sixties, does the human body begin to enter a period of decline?" Staring at the white hair in his hand, the Taoist who was still middle-aged with a middle-aged face sighed lightly: "It seems that it is the injuries left by the previous battles that have cost me a lot of life...... I can't shoot so often, I need to maintain my peak condition, otherwise, I probably won't be able to wait for the Heaven and Earth Vitality to awaken. ”

"The Innate Path...... It's been a long road. ”

——In the seventieth year of cultivation, Liu Zhongling was eighty-seven years old.

The Taoist with wrinkles on his face and half-black and half-white hair no longer left the back mountain of the Tianji Four Elephant Gate, so he stayed in his bamboo hut to recuperate, reduce his movement and breathing rate, and delay consumption.

"I want to be still and have a steady mind, because the emotions that stir up will bring additional drain."

"If it weren't for such a big thing as destroying the door, you wouldn't have come to me."

Although he said this to the disciples and grandchildren who sent him into the mountain, when Liu Zhongling's eldest disciple died and his own disciple succeeded to the throne, he still appeared, and secretly shed tears over his disciple's spiritual position after the funeral and the succession ceremony.

"Guard the heart, even you are dead...... As long as a practitioner is injured, will the extreme lifespan really be affected? It's Master, I'm sorry for you, when I was young, I always took you to various dangerous places...... I'm sorry for you......"

Shedding his last tears, Liu Zhongling, who was empty in his heart, felt unprecedented peace in his heart. He doesn't have much to worry about in this life.

His parents and relatives had already died in the great drought nearly 100 years ago, and the former master of the Wang Shoudao who had saved him had also died decades ago, as did the old master.

And now, his own apprentice has also left, and there is not much left of the care in the Four Elephant Gates of the Heavenly Pole, and even the care for him in this world.

He was completely free of distractions, and his mind stepped into a higher realm.

——In the ninetieth year of his cultivation at the peak of the day after tomorrow, Liu Zhongling was one hundred and seven years old.

In the silent back mountain bamboo house, the old man with cobwebs, white beard and wrinkled face sat calmly on the ground, and he could not see any slight movement on his body, just like a stone carving.

Liu Zhongling, who cut off all distracting thoughts and was bent on maintaining the Great Zhou Tian Circulation of spiritual power in his body, just waited. Even the Four Elephant Gates of the Heavenly Pole seemed to have forgotten him, or rather, thought that he was already dead.

"It's been ninety years, the revival of the aura is fast, I can't die, I can't die...... Even if I can't achieve innate and become an immortal, I will at least have to wait until the aura recovers, and I must wait until that era......"

"Otherwise, wouldn't my life be meaningless?"

——The one hundred and one hundred and twelfth years of cultivation to the peak of the day after tomorrow.

Liu Zhongling is one hundred and twenty-seven years old.

"The mood of looking forward to becoming an immortal is also fluctuating."

"The mood of waiting for the revival of Reiki is also an emotion."

"The heart that can't die is also a distracting thought."

"All troubles are cut off."

The shackles in the heart, the persistence in the heart, and the fundamental foundation of the person have been cut off little by little, no one knows what Liu Zhongling thinks at this time, and even Liu Zhongling himself is not clear.

He has forgotten, cut off too many things, and every time he breaks the distractions in his heart, in addition to making his state of mind clearer, it also makes his temperament more and more inhuman and ethereal.

"But what is the difference between having nothing in your heart and dying?"

"I have to...... Choose a thing. ”

"Obsession as existence."

Even though his body had withered, just like a dried corpse, Liu Zhongling still opened his eyes, and those eyes were extremely energetic, as if light was blooming from his soul: "My obsession ......"

At this moment, he recalled many things: Liu Zhongling recalled the determination of a child, the crying of countless people on the dry land, the pity for himself and the people, and the unwillingness to this heaven and earth.

Why not rain? Why the locust plague? Why are there heavy snowfalls, torrential rains, floods and tsunamis? Why is there always suffering in this world?

Why...... Why is the vitality of heaven and earth always so dry that people are not even given the qualifications to seek 'beauty' with their life's efforts?

In this last moment, Yoo Jong-ling recalled the doubts of his life, and then forgot them all.

"I want to be an immortal."

Why?

It seems that someone is asking questions silently.

But the Taoist can't remember anything.

Why?

Become an Immortal...... Still need a reason? That's an immortal. Immortal and immortal, an immortal who calls for wind and rain.

With endless longevity and power, it can ...... OK......

What can you do when you become an immortal?

Whatever.

Time passed like this, and the fortieth generation master of the Tianji Four Elephant Gate already had gray hair.

On this day, the ambassador of the new emperor of the An Dynasty came to visit and asked the elder Liu Zhongling to come out of the mountain.

"Elder Taishang...... He's alive?! ”

Even the Tianji Four Elephant Gate himself didn't know about this matter, because Liu Zhongling said before the retreat that if it wasn't a major event to destroy the door, don't go to him - after so many years, they thought that Liu Zhongling had already passed away, so they were still quietly waiting for the back mountain, and used that mountain as the other party's mausoleum.

And when the Tianji Four Elephant Gate came to the back mountain with the emperor's ambassador who claimed to have a life-prolonging medicine, and found Liu Zhongling, what they saw was a human figure that was even more thin compared to the corpse.

This human figure is not dead yet. It even opened its eyes, shook the atmosphere with its spiritual power, and asked suspiciously, "Yan...... Longevity? ”

"Yes, this is the sincerity of the emperor - you are the most exquisite practitioner of Taoism in this world, and you are also the sage of the world, there are many problems waiting for you to solve, in exchange, you can get a longer life."

The emperor's ambassador was a military general with a strong wooden body, and his body had cyan wood grain, so he respectfully placed a bottle in front of Liu Zhongling.

And the Daoist, who was so old that his spiritual sound was intermittent, looked at the jade bottle containing strong vitality in front of him, and then squinted his eyes and looked at the messenger: "Need...... I'm ...... Old man...... Do? ”

"I need your alchemy."

"A divine pill that can make people transcend their lifespan and immortal immortals."

When the military general originally faced the other Taoists of the Tianji Four Elephant Sect, there was a kind of arrogance and disdain hidden in the deepest part of his heart, he knew that he who had been gifted was not at the same level as these ordinary Taoists, and he originally looked down on the Taishang Elder who the emperor ordered him to find, who might still be alive.

There are only dry bones in the mound. The first impression in his heart was like this, but now, the arrogant military general in his heart was unprecedentedly submissive, because when facing this Supreme Elder who was like a pile of bones, the military general could feel that the power and bloodline in his body, and even his soul, were instinctively trembling.

"Immortal ......"

Repeating this sentence, the old Taoist who had been sitting cross-legged for decades suddenly laughed, but the laughter revealed a faint and ruthless indifference: "Dengxian." ”

This word, as if activating some obsession, Liu Zhongling slowly got up - and at this moment, everyone present was shocked to see that he had not sat on the ground at all before, but was floating in the air with his internal qi!

Boom, the violent internal qi erupted, directly shaking the bamboo house away, the invisible aura hand bound the panicked military envoy in mid-air, Liu Zhongling's body floated like flying, it looked around the world, and sensed that on the far side, there was a huge divine machine and wood qi spreading: "Interesting, interesting, the aura has not yet recovered, and the divine wood has been born." ”

"What are you waiting for?"

The physical body has long been dead, whether it is acting or thinking, it is just a Taoist with a breath, using his spiritual power to tidy up his clothes, shaking the atmosphere with his spiritual power, and making a voice: "Messenger." ”

It looked into the distance and said calmly, with a hint of pure curiosity in his tone: "Show the way." ”

"Let me see what kind of elixir can make people immortal."

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