After it was determined that the Demon Sect had entered the city from the south gate of Jiankang City, someone soon arrived at the Huxin Meditation Courtyard.

When the Demon Sect left the Southern Heavenly Courtyard, there was already a fourth group of people who had arrived at the Huxin Meditation Courtyard.

All these people went to the Huxin Retreat for only one purpose, and that was to persuade Xiao Yan to leave the Huxin Retreat for temporary refuge.

These four groups of people are all extremely loyal to Xiao Yan's old subordinates and important ministers without exception, and they have a great relationship with Xiao Yan, but their requests were all rejected by Xiao Yan without exception.

After these people were fruitless, they didn't stay away from the Huxin Meditation Courtyard, they all thought that if the Demon Sect appeared here, if they really killed Xiao Yan in the Huxin Meditation Courtyard, then all of them would leave this world with Xiao Yan.

Soon after the news of the Demon Sect's appearance in the Southern Heavenly Courtyard was transmitted here, the figure of the old horse and the Demon Sect appeared in their sight without warning.

An old minister jumped out of the carriage without knowing where he got the strength, trying to rush in front of the Demon Sect, but he had only taken the first step, and he couldn't move.

There seemed to be wind pouring into his open mouth, and he couldn't scold if he wanted to.

In the next moment, the old horse walked towards the lake, and the Demon Sect had already arrived in front of the Lake Meditation Courtyard.

Looking at the image that fell into his eyes like a jump, looking at the old minister who looked like a petrified but had nothing unusual in his body, all the cultivators outside the Huxin Meditation Temple had a feeling that they couldn't breathe at all.

They knew that the Demon Sect that had reappeared in this city was much stronger than the last time it appeared.

If they want to die, I'm afraid they won't even feel heroic here.

The Demon Sect disappeared before the Silent Courtyard in the Heart of the Lake.

He appeared in front of Xiao Yan.

The mood of the Demon Sect at this time was very different from all the times in his life, but the moment he saw Xiao Yan clearly at the first glance, he still fell into shock uncontrollably.

He almost suspected that he was looking at the wrong person.

In the past, Xiao Yan, like the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was very powerful and majestic.

However, Xiao Yan, who was sitting quietly in front of him at this time, was really like an old monk.

He looked at Xiao Yan in amazement, looked at the extremely simple Bu Chen in this quiet room, and then looked at the basin in front of Xiao Yan where the food was placed, he even had the idea that Tie Cejun deliberately abused the emperor in his mind for the first time, but then he forced himself to put aside such thoughts.

"Why is it so masochistic?"

His brows furrowed, and he sensed the qi in Xiao Yan's body, and was sure that the true yuan in the sea of qi of this once powerful cultivator was about to dry up. An even more strange feeling arose in his mind.

He felt that Xing Xiao Yan was hit too hard, and he was really a little crazy.

However, looking at Xiao Yan's calm expression at this time, looking at the clear light in his eyes, for some reason, he even felt a little dazzling.

Listening to the voice of the Demon Sect, Xiao Yan raised his head, he looked at the Demon Sect, and did not answer his question, but asked, "Then why did you come here?"

The Demon Sect's brows furrowed a little deeper, and he said in a slightly cold voice: "You still don't leave when I come, aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"

Xiao Yan looked at him and said, "I'm afraid that in your opinion, I'm more sad than death now." ”

The Demon Sect looked at him and didn't speak for a while.

He was sure that Xiao Yan didn't have any pretense elements, and he was sure that Xiao Yan was not crazy, so he sat down opposite Xiao Yan.

"Have you eaten?"

Xiao Yan ordered the basin in front of him where the food was placed, and said, "If you haven't eaten it yet, there is still a dry cake here." ”

The Demon Sect looked at the dry noodle cake, was silent for another breath, and said, "It's a little interesting. ”

After saying these four words, he reached out and took the dry dough cake in his hand, and then ate it slowly.

He really hadn't eaten anything since last night.

"Why don't you seem angry when you see me?" he asked, slowly, as he ate the dry bread.

"Then why don't you have any killing intent when you see me, and even if you have been walking in this city for so long, you don't have any killing intent?" Xiao Yan looked at him and asked quietly.

"I've never been a big fan of killing. The Demon Sect said.

There was no one else at this time.

If someone heard him say this, they might think it was ridiculous.

But Xiao Yan felt that what he said was true.

Xiao Yan didn't think it was ridiculous.

"Don't you feel a little boring?"

He didn't even look at the face of the Demon Sect again, just looked at the empty food basin, and said slowly: "I think this world is really not interesting." ”

The Demon Sect quietly finished eating the bread in his hand, and then nodded, continuing this very strange conversation, "How can this be?"

"Because though the world is great, there is no place for the heart. ”

Xiao Yan said: "If your heart has no place to return, the world is not your world." ”

The expression of the Demon Sect did not change, but the tone of his speech did not look like a high-ranking demon king, but like a student who was seriously discussing knowledge, he looked at Xiao Yan, who was slightly hanging his head, and continued: "This is the Dharma that you are studying in retreat here?"

Xiao Yan shook his head, "It's just that I was just like you at that time." ”

"At that time?" said the Demon Sect, "Then it's different now?"

Xiao Yan raised his head and glanced at him, as if answering his question but not like answering, "You are walking faster than me, you seem to have felt that this is a question of your own choice, and I was awakened after a long time of pain and resentment, and I felt that the reason why this is so is because of my fault." ”

The Demon Sect frowned, "That's all?"

Xiao Yan said: "Actually, it's simple. When anger wants to destroy the world, the world is full of anger, and when there is no kindness to the world, the world has no kindness to you. Especially when the people in this world who care about you are not in the world, you naturally feel that the world is not the world you want, and you naturally feel that you want to stay away. ”

The Demon Sect thought quietly and said, "The news from the Northern Wei Dynasty has been passed back, do you know that my junior sister Wu Guzhi is dead?"

Xiao Yan shook his head, "Not so fast, I didn't know that your junior sister was dead, but now that I think about it, she can already be regarded as the person in this world who really cares about you? ”

The Demon Sect felt that there was some truth in his words.

"You may really be a little pitiful, in your life, when you left the Bright Holy Sect, you were constantly pushed to become a poor cultivator, and your only goal and pursuit in life is to continue to gain stronger cultivation and strength. ”

Xiao Yan's voice then sounded quietly, "But in fact, it is just a process to continuously gain stronger strength and cultivation. But over the years, this process seems to become your only pleasure and the meaning of life. ”

"So what you mean is that those descendants of the Emperor of Youdi really deserve to be killed, it is they who have turned me into a pursuit of life, so that I only know how to climb the mountain, but when I climb to the top of the mountain, I am disgusted with the mountain and all the scenery below it. The Demon Sect said: "Do you think that I should think about what I really want after I climb to the top of the mountain?"

Xiao Yan shook his head and said, "I think you will still be wrong about what I mean, I mean, thinking from others, you can never find and solve your own problems, no matter how powerful the power is, it can destroy the entire world, but it can't destroy the joy in your heart." ”

Demon Sect laughed.

There were countless emotions in his smile.

He looked at Xiao Yan with a smile and said, "Do you say this person is cheap? When you desperately spend countless efforts to get what you want, but it will become boring?"

"No matter how beautiful a flower is, someone must know how to appreciate it as well as you. Xiao Yan looked at him and said calmly, "Otherwise, you obviously see the most beautiful flower in the world, and you feel extremely amazing, but everyone who walks past you and sees that flower is indifferent, and no one even thinks that flower is beautiful, you will naturally feel bored." ”

The Demon Sect was silent.

He seemed to see Wu Guzhi, who was still a little girl when he first started.

He seemed to see Wu Guzhi and his master standing in front of the flower that Xiao Yan said, they looked at the beautiful flower in amazement, and hoped that he could stop and admire the beautiful flower when he walked past them, but he was indifferent, and even felt that the flower seemed very idiotic and naïve.

Later, his master disappeared, and his sister also disappeared.

The flower was gone.

He later saw a flower, but what he thought was the most beautiful flower in the world that he had found was not at all what he had imagined and expected.

And no one expects him anymore.

"People are really cheap. ”

He looked at Xiao Yan and said slowly: "What you said is right, no one's reasoning can solve their own problems." But at least these words with you made me realize that at least there is something to be done. Since it was those so-called descendants of the Youdi Emperor who made me become people who only knew the process but didn't want the meaning, no matter how boring it was, at least kill these people. As for the others, I can really figure out what I'm going to do at the top of that mountain. ”

"You really feel better like this than when you were the emperor of the Southern Dynasty?"

The Demon Sect stood up, and before leaving, he thought for a moment and said, "If you want to... I can put you back on that throne, and I can make sure that no one can touch you. ”

Such words came out of his mouth, and naturally carried unimaginable weight.

However, Xiao Yan's face did not change in the slightest.

He shook his head and said, "True joy is in one's heart, not in one's position." ”

"Interesting. ”

The Demon Sect said these three words slowly, and then his figure disappeared from this quiet courtyard in the middle of the lake.

Like some still picture, his figure appeared next to the old horse by the lake, and then he got on his horse and left.

The officials and generals who had gone mad in the midst of the anxious and nervous waiting rushed towards the Huxin Retreat.

"I'm fine. ”

In the quiet courtyard in the middle of the lake, Xiao Yan's voice clearly entered their ears.

It was only at this time that a look of surprise appeared in the depths of Xiao Yan's pupils in the quiet room.

He was also a little surprised by himself, and he was also surprised by the Demon Sect.

Of course, he felt that he would hate the Demon Sect, but when the Demon Sect appeared in front of him today, he was really in a very peaceful state of mind.

This peace comes largely from the changes of the Demon Sect itself.

Obviously, today's Demon Sect was different from the one he was familiar with in the past.

Prior to this, the Demon Sect and those so-called descendants of the Ghost Emperor were the biggest enemies in the world.

He knew that both the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Lin Yi of the Southern Dynasty were constantly preparing for the final decisive battle with the Demon Sect, but what everyone didn't expect was that it was the female teacher of the Southern Heavenly Academy who played the most crucial role.

The death of this female teacher of the Southern Heavenly Courtyard seemed to have twisted the Demon Sect to another path.

Today, the only thing he felt most from the Demon Sect was tiredness and detachment.

At this time, he vaguely felt that maybe it was really like what the Demon Sect said, he would kill the descendants of the Ghost Emperor who turned him into the Demon Sect, and after that, the feeling that the Demon Sect gave him was more likely to be suddenly hidden and disappear into the world.

Of course, there are too many changes in the world, and people like the Demon Sect may suddenly change their minds at any time because of some things, so even if he feels that the Demon Sect has changed dramatically today, he still feels that the Demon Sect is still an extremely dangerous thing.

But what made him feel a little emotional was that whether it was the female teacher of the Southern Heavenly Academy, or the conversation between him and the Demon Sect today, it seemed that it had won a lot of time for those who really loved the world.

For some reason, he sensed the breath of the Demon Sect and the old horse leaving, and he really hoped that the Demon Sect would really not become an enemy in the human world again.

He really hopes that the Demon Sect can also integrate into the human world and have a good home.

A person's life is originally a continuous mistake, some people are going farther and farther on the road of making mistakes, while some people are constantly making mistakes, constantly looking back, and constantly correcting some of the mistakes they have made.

At least today, he felt that the Demon Sect was no longer a demon, but had the breath of the world.

......

A city is full of all kinds of atmospheres.

Countless breaths appeared in the perception of the Demon Sect, and they were ignored by him.

He entered through the south gate of Jiankang City and went out through the north gate.

As he approached the North Gate, about to truly leave the city from which he might never return, he sensed a faint but strong enough aura for him to take seriously.

The qi was well hidden, but he still sensed it.

He was in a bit of a trance, so he took a moment to stop and think about it.

He came to his senses.

In the Meishan area of that year, he met some outstanding young cultivators, and he threw out enough tempting fruits.

He knew that most of them would quickly sink and then become many unknowable factors that would disrupt the Southern Dynasties, which could bring more opportunities for the subsequent conquests of the Northern Wei and Southern Dynasties. And a few of them may be able to become outliers, some may be able to become his subordinates, and some will be the fruits of his picking.

In his opinion, those excellent but too young cultivators, after obtaining his kind of exercises, no matter what kind of monster they become, are unlikely to be silent for a long time and forbearantly disappear into the world of cultivators.

With the situation of the battle getting out of control later, those people should have all died a long time ago, he really didn't expect that there would be such a young man in this city.

The young man turned out to be alive and well.

And it doesn't seem to have become the kind of monster that only knows how to kill and devour.

The young man's aura seemed calm, tough and powerful.

He was really surprised, even more surprised than when he saw Xiao Yan for the first time and saw Xiao Yan's changes.

He even wanted to find the young man and take a look at it, even in the moment he figured it out.

But for some reason, he thought about what he was going to do after finding out the young man.

What is the significance?

He thought about this question, and couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly, feeling that the strange young man seemed to have become a rare connection between him and the city.

It's also fateful.

So he stretched out his hand.

Some dark sword glint appeared on his fingertips.

These swords fell on the hard walls.

Dozens of shallow lines appeared on the wall.

He looked at the lines and smiled with satisfaction.

This is a gift for that young man who is destined.

Then he patted the old horse on the buttocks, and went out of the city, heading north.

......

"Gone, just left?"

Qi Zhuji, who was hiding in a carriage with a lead plate embedded inside, listened to such news, his eyes widened, and he couldn't figure out anything.

"Don't let anyone approach that wall. ”

But he understood that those sword marks left by the Demon Sect when he left behind naturally had a unique meaning.