“…… For me, everything was a few years ago. ”

After Zhou Buyi withdrew his hand, Su Yan raised his head, looked the other party up and down for a moment, and then said slowly: "On that day, before the withered and fallen leaves of the divine tree, the three saints and the hundred sect masters swore on the Nanjing Tianguan that they would never use its power, and would use the power of people to open a real peaceful and prosperous world. And I remember, you were among them. ”

"Indeed." Zhou Buyi nodded slowly, with a look of nostalgia in his eyes: "Everyone was still alive at that time...... And now, I haven't changed my mind. ”

He stretched out his hand, and an invisible internal qi swept around, accompanied by a continuous 'click' sound, and the windows and walls surrounding the office flipped with the mechanism, revealing the mirror behind it, and soon, bursts of spiritual light flashed, and the mirror began to reflect the image of the world.

It was a huge city, a towering building. You can see from it, a huge industrial city located in the northeast region, a floating city on the sea located in the South China Sea, swimming along the spiritual veins, Su Sun swept at a glance, and could see that huge air fortresses and flying fortresses were being built along the coast of the New World.

The place where the former Shenmu was located has now become a huge metropolitan area, and the third new southern Tianjing is the economic and political center of the eastern region of the Tianzheng Alliance, and the towering skyscrapers are certainly not as good as the Shenmu, but they are majestic enough.

"I've done it all." The man said so, and he proudly showed Su Sun his achievements: "I unite the alliance of the hundred schools that is on the verge of splitting because of the death of the leaders of the older generation; I recuperated and started the first wave of baby booms in the alliance; I led a new generation to lay the foundation of the Tensho Alliance, and I expanded the territory of Tensho to five times the size of the former An Dynasty - those remnants of the Ann Dynasty that were about to collapse in the past, and with our efforts, they became the most powerful nation and the most powerful civilization in the world. ”

"This is a great cause that everyone, even the original Three Sages, never imagined, and I have led them step by step to the present, until now. I'm worthy of everyone. ”

At this time, Shao Qiming on the side looked at the two people in front of him who were still talking normally despite the confrontation.

He vaguely saw a similar look from Zhou Buyi's body as before Su Day.

If Su Yan wanted to show off to his friend, the friend, that the world he had helped had become so peaceful.

Then, the current Zhou Buyi wants to show off to Su Day, a former comrade-in-arms, that he has built the world they have fought together into such a prosperous appearance.

For a hundred years, all the familiar people have left, even if they have established supreme merits, there is nowhere to tell, and finally waited for an old friend, then, even if they have practiced the power that should not be touched, they also know that the other party is jealous and hateful, and they are likely to turn their faces because of this, but they still can't help but pick it up as quickly as possible......

"Two guys who don't grow up and like to show off......"

muttering in his heart, Shao Qiming thought about it quite distressedly: "There will definitely be a fight later, should I go out and hide away now?" But the battle video of the commander level is so precious, and Zhou Buyi also happens to be a ...... of the Wood Cultivation Department"

"It's really impressive."

After looking at all the images in the mirror, Su Yan applauded seriously and exclaimed: "I will definitely not be able to do it, for example, if the Hundred Schools Alliance wants to split, with my thinking mode, it will definitely be killed, until everyone dares not split...... But in fact, I don't have the heart to kill innocent people, I'm afraid that after killing for a while, I will let things go. ”

“…… Don't be too humble, if you want to, you can, but if you don't want to, you won't do it. ”

Zhou Buyi lowered his eyes, and his tone returned to calm: "And I won't." I don't want to, but if I have to, I'll do it. ”

"So, the power of the Divine Tree is necessary?"

Although he questioned like this, Su Yan himself actually knew very well that the power of the Divine Tree was not an evil force, on the contrary, it was the right way, or the righteous and uncorrectable way of nourishing the heavens and the earth and creating all things.

The kind of Demon Emperor is to raise one person with all living beings, which is an idea that only a single husband can come up with, and it cannot be regarded as a normal way to use the power of the Divine Tree at all.

As long as the power is used well, it will never be a bad thing, and Su Yan has never intended to accuse Zhou Buyi of cultivating the power of the Divine Tree.

However, in a place where the power of the Divine Tree had already been used to eat people and almost caused a catastrophe close to the end of the world, a witness to the catastrophe used the power of the Divine Tree again...... This meaning is different from the meaning of those who have not had this kind of experience when they practice the power of the Divine Tree.

Especially just now, when Su Yan used the fire of sinful karma to try to induce the bad karma on Zhou Buyi's body, he sensed that the other party did have quite a lot of sinful karma.

Good and evil cannot be eliminated, and the fire of sinful karma will not stop burning just because the other person has done good.

But in the same way, the willingness will not stop protecting the other party because they are evil.

So Su Yan directly pointed out the most important question: "Zhou Buyi, besides you, who else in this world is the realm of the 'Tiangang Martial God'?" ”

“…… It's just me. ”

The man frowned slightly, and then said truthfully: "Except for me, none of them have discovered the truth about the changes in the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi. They still think that the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi has not recovered enough, and I am a special case...... But in fact, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi had long been enough for people to cultivate to the realm of Tiangang, but since the power of the Divine Tree had soaked the world, the entire planet had been imperceptibly transformed into an ecology subordinate to the Divine Tree...... Only the genus Wood and its derivatives can. ”

"Wood can turn thunder, can turn wind, can Yan Yang Qi, only these paths can smoothly advance to the innate nature, and if you want to advance to the Tiangang Martial God, either like me, seek the power of the divine wood and transform the physique, or try to launch a completely pure wood exercise, and I am doing it."

"Of course, before this, you were the only one in the Tiangang Realm in the world—and you had the power of the Divine Tree, so almost all the Innate Martial Saints in this world, or members of the Immortal Sect, were all local chickens and dogs in front of you."

Su Yan nodded slightly, and Zhou Buyi acquiesced: "Power, even if I want to, I can't let it out, if my strength can't coerce everyone, then as long as I step down from the position of chairman of the alliance, it will cause disputes...... Not everyone wants to be the chairman, some people want to be the emperor, or the king of the soil. ”

The Tianzheng Alliance seems to be singing and dancing, but in fact, in this world with extraordinary strength, such an equal world, ordinary people are neither humble nor arrogant to martial artists and innate martial saints, and for those martial artists who hold power, they are not 'happy' at all.

It is easy to understand that if it weren't for Zhou Buyi's suppression all the time, such an order, even if only a part of the warriors were dissatisfied, it could be said to be precarious.

"It only makes sense to stand in a high position and bow your head. Only when I have the strength to supreme everyone and step down from the chairmanship of the initiative can I lead by example, maintain this system, and make it orderly—and I can continue to be the director of the Demon Suppression Bureau, suppressing all turmoil in this world, so that there will be no disobedience in the world, and there will be eternal peace. ”

That's what he thinks, and that's what he's done for over a hundred years.

Zhou Buyi did not publicize his discovery, but blocked it after advancing to the Tiangang Realm, and even distorted the research direction of the relevant scope - Su Yan understood this approach, after all, if there were more than a few Tiangang Realms in this world, with the Tiangang Realm, that is, the terrifying strength of the Commander Level, it would be easy to become an independent kingdom and become the emperor himself, even if Zhou Buyi was the strongest martial artist, it was impossible to suppress other Tiangang Realms while maintaining order.

He must slow down the growth rate of personal force in this world, so as to stabilize the order, and in order to avoid that there will still be geniuses who can advance to Tiangang in the future, and start a second heart, Zhou Buyi is the first to practice the power of Shenmu to ensure that he has absolute suppressive power over all the martial artists in this world.

- What's wrong with that? It is not wrong to pursue immortality, nor is it wrong to practice the power of the Divine Tree for the sake of peace in the world. Even if it is a dictatorship and an emperor, this should not be a sinful karma.

But Su Sun knew very well what kind of price it would take to get the power of the Divine Tree after he had become the king of the Divine Tree of the Banyan Immortal Tree, and asked the other party to stop dividing his strength.

And before, Zhou Buyi's refusal to let Su Sun help eradicate the 'Immortal Sect' also proved Su Sun's conjecture.

"You are the power of the Divine Tree that you extracted from those remnants of the Demon Dynasty of the Immortal Order."

Su Yan was straightforward: "There are remnants of the Demon Dynasty and separatists, and there are enemies in Tianzheng, so you won't start to focus all your mind on internal struggles, and you will strike at both sides from time to time, reap strength and prestige from them, and assist yourself in your cultivation...... This is actually raising self-respect, this kind of laissez-faire is actually the same as being evil, and those who die because of the Immortal Order are actually equivalent to dying at your hands. ”

"So to speak."

Zhou Buyi happily admitted: "I connived at them in remote areas to fight against local government forces that did not obey discipline, and when it was almost time, I sent official troops to station, so that we could not only harvest strength, but also recover those areas where people were not in harmony." As for the separatists, they are a banner, and with their existence, the resistance forces within Tianzheng will move closer to them, and a crackdown can effectively reduce the crime rate in normal areas and reduce the factors of instability. ”

"Of course, a country can always find something more important to do than completely eliminate these two organizations, and I am not deliberately indulgent, but I always make other choices."

"The Immortal Order is actually the same, there is a legend of the Divine Tree, there will always be people who will pursue immortality, history is here, this is something that cannot be stopped...... And I have the power of the Divine Tree, and no matter how they explore this path, they will only end up in my hands...... Even if those monsters grow to the point where they can't be suppressed in the Demon Suppression Bureau in the future, as long as I make a move, I can destroy them all. ”

Su Ri was a serious observer of the man who was talking eloquently in front of him, his eyes were like torches, and he could clearly see which of the other party's words was sincere, which one was disguised and concealed.

Then he sighed.

"Zhou Buyi, you are like you want to hold the world and civilization in the palm of your hand, you don't trust anyone, and you let yourself carry all the pressure...... Wouldn't it be tiring for a person to wipe his ass and tidy up the mess for the whole civilization? ”

Speaking of this, Su Yan couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly: "But the funny thing is that I actually understand you very well-because if it were me, I would definitely want to do the same thing, and I can't even do it perfectly like you...... Call me naïve, I really can't be like you, I will raise the Undead Cult and the Insurgency as a gathering place for evil, and I will definitely kill them all as soon as possible. ”

"It's not naïve, it's just that you don't like compromise."

Zhou Buyi said in a low voice: "You are such a person, you are indeed such a person." So at the beginning, we all longed for you. ”

"But none of the above are your real reasons."

But at this time, Su Day's words changed, and he could listen to Zhou Buyi's heart. Those reasons were enough to convince anyone, but they couldn't convince him: "Compared with those reasonable and reasonable words, your initial sentence of 'I want not to die' is more convincing." ”

- Ah, are you going to start fighting? Hearing this, Shao Qiming, who had already taken out the impact capsule and was ready to hide from the high-intensity impact prevention airbag at any time, suddenly tightened his heart, and he could sense that between the two people, who were originally calm, suddenly the aura fluctuated and surged.

But soon, this wave calmed down again, Zhou Buyi frowned slightly, until now, he has not tested the depth of Su Day's strength, although the other party looks like he is only in the Tiangang Realm, but it is as unfathomable as before.

It's normal, though...... That's Su Day, in the past, in the realm of the peak of the heavens, even the person who killed the Demon Emperor of the National Master, even if he cultivated the power of the Divine Tree, he might not be able to defeat the other party.

"There is more than one reason, the peace of this world does need me to maintain, I don't get the power of the Divine Tree, there are always people who will practice, there is order, there are naturally people who rebel against the order, I set up a target, let them gather together to facilitate encirclement and suppression, this is all necessary."

It was not self-justification, Zhou Buyi simply explained the facts, and after speaking, he lowered his head and was silent for a while, and then slowly raised his head and said: "Of course, it is true that as you said, my most essential reason is still that I want not to die." Because I want not to die, I will do the follow-up things. ”

"Why?"

Su Yan asked briefly: "You are not greedy for power, and you are not like the kind of person who can do anything for immortality, the natural lifespan of the Tiangang Martial God is at least a few hundred or thousands of years, if you want not to die, you have time to find a better way." In other words, I don't think you have any reason to pursue immortality for at least five hundred years. ”

Zhou Buyi didn't answer this question for the first time, he just asked rhetorically first: "Su Day, do you remember what was the last thing that the dead companion said before leaving?" ”

Su Sun was slightly stunned, he wanted to directly reply that his companions were not dead, but this kind of words are essentially wrong, friends of the Shenmu World, when they died, Su Sun was not present.

So he was silent, and Zhou Buyi smiled, his expression was calm: "Many people will forget that this is the case on the battlefield." ”

"But I remember. I remember the last words of everyone else—whether it was my master, my comrade-in-arms, my friend, my wife, or my eldest son, eldest daughter, or second daughter...... I remember the messages that each of them said to me when they died. ”

"Now in this world, only I remember - whether it is why the hundred schools fought in the first place, why they wanted to reopen the peace, why they fought against the Demon Dynasty, the history of suffering, the cry and battle in the dark, the only person left over from that era, I am the only one."

"If it's just me, it's just me, then death is nothing, it's nothing more than reuniting with them. But I can't live for myself alone. There has to be someone who remembers those words, who remembers those beliefs...... Later people will forget, beliefs will be worn away, will be rewritten, will be revised, just like the allusion you told me at the beginning, yes, the dragon slayer will become a dragon, and faith will deteriorate, but the fact is that if I let go of everything, this world will still repeat the historical law of 'if you join for a long time, you will be divided, and if you divide for a long time, you will be together' - the speed of belief deterioration will be ten times faster than the speed of my deterioration. ”

The meaning of the words may not change when the first person speaks to the second person, but it may not be the case if it comes to the tenth person, the hundredth person. Even, the essence of the words may be completely rewritten to be completely different from the original.

Men can't accept such a thing. The first man could not tolerate the fruits of victory that had been paid for the lives of all those around him, and it would have been tampered with by the latecomers who did not cherish it even more, so he preferred not to pass on the words, but to stick to the place by himself.

Saying this, Zhou Buyi's tone was repeated: "I must not allow the peace that we have paid for almost all people's lives to create, and under the washing of hundreds of years of time, it will deteriorate, split, and fall apart!" ”

"It must exist, and I'll guard it—forever!"