After finally hearing the words of the master, the sadness in my heart suddenly reached the extreme, after all, with the protection of the teacher and without the protection of the teacher, are completely two concepts.

Even if the ancestor is in a spirit state and can't make a move or do anything from now on, as long as he is there, he can give us great psychological comfort.

Along with this sadness, there is a strong uneasiness, I don't know why I should be uneasy, even if the master leaves, there is no danger, why should I be uneasy?

My face was ugly, and I stood next to the boundary monument, where Cheng Zhen was already excitedly said, "Master, why do you want to be separated from us? Aren't you coming with us to our Master? They are also your apprentices, and they disappeared to find you, don't you? ”

Cheng Zhen was straightforward and fast-talking, and I was bored for a while when I heard it, and I opened my mouth to drink to Cheng Zhen: "Cheng Zhen, don't say it again, do you want to be disrespectful to the ancestor?" ”

Cheng Zhen retreated behind me with red eyes, but Shizu turned to look at us and said: "If she wants to say, she will say, our Lao Li is naturally laughing and scolding, what he is talking about is true, his attitude is true, and his heart will be true!" Seniority or something, don't take it too seriously. ”

"Master, since you don't like the rules and are so free and easy, why can't you be free and easy with us?" Cheng Yuan couldn't help but speak at this moment.

Master Ancestor said, "I have my own reasons, and I will explain to you later." But after a big battle in the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, don't you want to know all this? ”

Since Master Ancestor said this, I remembered the hint in Master's video, it is said that the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts is an organic fate, and we have fought until now, and we have not seen any chances.

Thinking of this, I forcibly held back my sadness and nodded at my ancestor.

Shizu didn't speak, but looked at the ferryman, as for the ferryman was already very weak at this time, he leaned on the boundary monument and half-squinted his eyes, Huigen'er lit a fire in front of him, as if he felt Shizu's gaze, he opened his eyes.

"When Master Hongren was here, he once said that what can be said is what has been put down! What can't be said is an eternal knot in the bottom of the heart. The ferryman's voice was a little weak, but suddenly he said something inexplicable.

We were silent, and Hui Gen'er sat obediently next to the ferryman, who didn't look at us, but took a sip of the wine he asked us for before, and continued: "It's time to tell you little ones about the past, and you are also the benefactors who helped me untie the knot." Now that I've explained the matter to you, my heart is over, and it's time to go. ”

"Master." Hui Gen'er shouted in a low voice, his mood in the face of the ferryman is not the mood of our ancestors.

"Is Huijue okay? From your words, I know that Li Chun'er, the little guy back then, went to find Li Daochang, according to the nature of my apprentice, he should be the one who will pursue it, after all, he doesn't have a transcendent monk who needs to be protected. Facing Hui Gen'er's call, the ferryman suddenly said that.

"I don't know if Master is okay? Because you guessed it right, Master followed Jiang Ye. Hui Gen'er's voice became smaller and quieter, and then her eyes turned red.

"It is expected that what kind of master there is, what kind of apprentice there will be. In fact, let's use the relationship between Huijue and Na Li Chun'er as an analogy, the friendship between me and Na Ning Zhifeng back then was like this. The difference is that I have the transcendent monk Master Hongren who guards it, but Huijue doesn't. What's even more different is that my apprentice sees people better than I do. At this, the ferryman took a sip of wine and looked very pained.

We are silent, their feelings may not be so strong, but I have a very strong experience of the pain of the ferryman, after all, my growth trajectory, accompanied not only by my master, but also by the figure of Uncle Hui, what their feelings are, no one knows better than me, it is closer than brothers, and the friendship between men whose lives can be delivered, if this feeling is betrayed, the two parties become hostile relations, one party even has to kill one party, that kind of pain is like letting me kill Crispy Meat and Qinhuai.

Therefore, I suddenly understood a little bit of the ferryman's mood when he faced the inquiry of the master and did not make up his mind to avoid the eyes of the master at that time.

The ferryman's voice continued: "Master Hongren is not a person who likes to go out, and spends most of his time studying Buddhism. At that time, as a warrior monk, my heart was idle, and I always hoped to go south and north, see more, act chivalrous and righteous, and be happy! Ning Zhifeng was my best friend at that time, we had the same ambitions, naturally walked together, before entering the lake to ferry, most of my years were mixed with Ning Zhifeng, we have been to many places, encountered a lot of dangers, and have had great gains, these experiences, let us become brothers linked to life Later, even if we accepted apprentices from each other, they have not changed, as long as each other needs each other, in a word, you can let go of everything and accompany each other on adventures. ”

The ferryman said very simply, but in a few words, it has clearly depicted the friendship at that time and the prosperous years of his youth.

"We are so good, but it doesn't mean that there are no contradictions, and this contradiction is in each other's goals. In my opinion, going out to walk is for a chivalrous purpose, for a red dust to refine the heart, and also to accumulate more merits, but Ning Zhifeng's favorite thing to study on weekdays is the secret things in the circle, and there are the legends of the gods everywhere, the stories of successful cultivation, he goes out to walk, it is for all kinds of opportunities, and the opportunities that can allow him to achieve the avenue. We debated it, but no one could convince anyone, and we didn't talk about it later. After all, in my opinion, it is impossible for a cultivator to live his life without seeking the Great Dao and seeking positive results, and his ideas are not wrong, as long as he does not do the things that hurt the heavens and reason. Now it seems that I was wrong. At this, a hint of bitterness appeared on the ferryman's face, and he poured a large sip of wine.

We all sighed, yes, it is right to seek the avenue and seek the right result, but if we delve into it wholeheartedly and forget the tempering of the most important mind, it is very easy to go astray, so what kind of avenue are we talking about? What is the positive result? Even if they become an existence against the heavens in the end, they will not be recognized by the righteous path and the right fruit, why can't many cultivators realize this level? Or is it too desperate on the way to practice, and you are willing to take a more extreme way to give yourself a chance?

I'm still young and can't understand this layer of state of mind, so I can't solve this doubt.

"The Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts is the last place we ventured, and after that, he became the lord of the new city here, and I became the ferryman here! I don't want to go into detail about the specific process, but in the end, I realized that Ning Zhifeng had already practiced in an extreme way, and many times I and his adventures were all looking for something to help him practice! He tricked me with high-sounding reasons, and the Lake of Demons was his last step. The ferryman's tone became quick, but we were so confused that we didn't understand what it meant.

The ancestor sighed at this time and added: "The meaning is very simple, the Taoist practice is to pay attention to both form and spirit, and the final goal is metaphysical!" This is the Taoist avenue, and to put it more simply, the body and soul are connected together, and the avenue can be attained! No matter how bad it is, it is the soul that has accumulated enough merit to be able to get enough protection and reincarnate and recultivate! But these two paths, no matter which one can be called an ethereal fairy road, the difficulty is self-evident. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Zu paused for a moment and said: "That Ning Zhifeng is also a talented person, what is terrible is that his pursuit of the Great Dao has reached a paranoid level!" He was afraid that his life was limited and his preaching was weak, so he simply used his talents to embark on a crooked path and became a person who specializes in cultivating souls, but this is not the kind of cultivation that accumulates merits, but the light refining exercises, the light cultivation methods, the powerful soul alone, completely giving up the physical body! also gave up the Dao heart that a Taoist should have, to put it bluntly, he began to completely cultivate evil, and the ferryman inadvertently became an accomplice in his search for various resources. ”

"If it's just like this, it's okay, the foundation is not stable, the edifice will always collapse, and he will also eat the bitter fruit of his own life, and watch his cultivation turn into flowing water. Even if I am an accomplice, I am only guilty of ignorance, after all, it has not affected the innocent. The ferryman said that, and then continued: "But how can he be willing to do this? So he tricked me into coming to the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, because he knew that there was a Kunlun soul suppressed here, to be exact, it should be said that it was Kunlun's soul power, this kind of power should not be human beings, so he was suppressed here, and his last step was to fuse the Kunlun soul. ”

"The ferryman was used in this way, and together with Ning Zhifeng, he destroyed part of the outer array, and even destroyed a small part of the Heaven and Earth array, and then caused this result," Shi Zu added.

"Yes, if it hadn't destroyed a small part of the Heaven and Earth Great Array, how could the Yin Qi here leak out? If it hadn't destroyed a part of the outer array, how could the leaked Yin Qi eventually spread so far? The Great Array is easy to destroy, but difficult to repair, even if the Great Array of Heaven and Earth can repair itself, it will take time, and this time is enough for him to do so many things. Pity him for lying to me back then, there is an evil existence here that will threaten the whole of Huaxia, and he tried his best to encourage me to come, but I didn't expect that this person next to me turned out to be that evil existence. The ferryman sighed.

This is probably the process of the whole thing, this is the real reason why the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts suddenly became turbulent, the great array was destroyed, and Ning Zhifeng succeeded in fusing the soul of Kunlun Although the ferryman said it very briefly, and even omitted many of the processes of the year, we also heard a rough idea.

"And what exactly is his purpose?" I couldn't help but ask, since Ning Zhifeng, the soul of Kunlun, had successfully fused, what was he doing so many things for?