A group of earth gods were summoned, and then they directly performed the method of moving mountains. It would be more accurate to say that they directly moved Qi Wuhuo, Chu Hongtu, and the land they were on away rather than escaping underground. This time, the young Taoist looked at the scene of escaping underground from a more bystander's attitude.

The scenery I saw was extremely mysterious. The earth veins were like qi, deep and heavy, brilliant and pure.

Chu Hongtu was clearly at the end of his life, and was also troubled, but it seemed to be his nature. Seeing this, he just widened his eyes and couldn't help laughing and exclaimed: "This is really an incredible scenery, hahahaha."

The young Taoist held up the little medicine spirit with his palm and let it lie on his palm. The little medicine spirit stared at the scenery with wide eyes.

Qi Wuhuo seemed to be thinking about something.

Water veins flow through all things in heaven and earth, just like the flow of Qi.

And this sedimented earth vein is like the [Qi] itself that has abandoned its flow and become even purer and thicker.

The young Taoist didn't need to cast a spell at this moment. He stretched out his hand to touch the vein of the earth, and felt the vein flowing between his fingers. The Qi in his body also changed slightly. The internal organs that were originally deficient seemed to have a faint trend of recovery. The young Taoist suddenly realized something -

Since various methods such as "Yuanshi Zuqi" and Beidi's Qi Refining Technique can solve one's own problems.

Then, the earth veins that possess the ability to [carry all things with great virtue], viewing this as Qi, may be able to repair the weakness and foundation problems of the internal organs by themselves. While the young Taoist was thinking, a strand of earth veins fell into his body, and then circulated around like his own Qi, and the injuries in his body actually felt slightly relieved.

The young Taoist was delighted and subconsciously circulated his Earth Qi even more.

In the past, he needed to control his innate Qi in order to use the orders of the earth god to perform this method of escaping underground.

Today, we need the help of these land gods.

I do have the energy and effort to try it.

However, when the young Taoist was thinking about trying, he suddenly heard a faintly familiar voice: "Huh?" The young Taoist raised his eyes and looked slightly into the distance, but he only saw the ground veins flowing. Chu Hongtu, who was staring at this magnificent scene with wide eyes, noticed the abnormality of the young Taoist and curiously asked: "Daoyou, what's wrong?"

The young Taoist said: "Nothing..."

Then he asked again: "Did you hear any sound?"

The God of Land laughed heartily, "Voice? You must be joking. We are transformed into something visible or invisible, and we move with the help of the earth veins. To some extent, this method of escaping underground is similar to the power of the altar. We are relying on the power of Hou Tu Huang Di Ji Niangniang, one of the Four Heavenly Emperors."

"It is said to be an earth vein, but in fact it is like the Qi of the Queen Mother Hou Tu."

"We, the gods of the earth, have to rely on the power of the empress every year, but we have never felt anything, nor heard any sound."

"Besides, this place is so deep that it is beyond words. It is so far away from the human world that it is almost like the underworld."

"Under the earth, everything is silent. Even the sound of the birth of all things cannot be heard."

The young Taoist smiled and did not continue talking about the matter.

I just don't know why, but I always feel that the surprised voice, with a gentle tone but with some surprise and smile, seems to be saying, Huh? It turns out to be you, little guy again?

The young Taoist priest always felt that he had heard this voice somewhere before, but it was very short and there was only one sound, and there seemed to be some special reason. His spiritual nature was obscured, so it was really difficult to tell who said it. The young Taoist priest recalled all the way but could not remember where he had heard this voice.

I just kept it in mind silently.

Many of the land gods are only equivalent to the means of the cultivator's innate Qi, but each of them has maintained the life of a land god in the mountains and rivers for hundreds of years, and has seen many interesting things. Chatting along the way is quite interesting and not boring. In half a day, they have traveled more than ten thousand miles and arrived in Hezhou. The air rose up in an instant and placed Qi Wuhuo and Chu Hongtu in front of the city.

After chatting for a few times, they said goodbye and went to chat and reminisce with the locals they were familiar with.

The old landowner bowed and said with a smile: "Master, please don't thank me anymore. Your sword saved the people. Although we can avoid disaster, we are also grateful for your kindness."

"It's just a small matter of moving things."

"It's just that we can't stay in Hezhou for long. From now on, you may have to go on your own."

"Thank you for your help."

"It should be. It should be."

The old landowner smiled and bowed. The five-foot-tall old man was holding a cane that was much taller than himself. He spun around on the spot. Only smoke and clouds were seen rising. In the blink of an eye, the old man had disappeared. No one knew where he had gone. The young Taoist turned around at this time and saw the city behind him and Chu Hongtu, who was dressed in a green shirt.

Seeing his eyes wide open as he looked at the city, the old man was already white-haired and had left the city for at least hundreds of years. He left home when he was young and returned when he was old, so he was naturally sad and nostalgic. The young Taoist was carrying a zither on his back. Since he carried the zither out of the underworld, he had put the sword box and other items into the jade pendant on his waist.

The jade pendant was refined by Ksitigarbha. According to legend, it can hold Mount Sumeru in a mustard seed and can accommodate things as large as a mountain.

Many treasures in the underworld are placed inside.

The young Taoist stood beside the old man and said, "Fellow Daoist Chu, let's go."

"Ah, um... okay."

Chu Hongtu looked at the city and suddenly said, "Fellow Taoist, do you have the documents for clearance?" The young Taoist shook his head. Chu Hongtu was about to say that he would use his magical powers to enter, but he saw Qi Wuhuo walking towards the city gate. Knowing that Qi Wuhuo must have something to rely on, he withdrew his gaze from the city gate, laughed loudly a few times, and followed him.

"Are there any documents?"

Qi Wuhuo shook his head and took out something that the King of Qin had given him at that time.

The soldier was startled and hurriedly went to call the city guard. After checking, he handed the token to him and said, "It turns out you are the chief professor of the Qin Palace. Please enter the city." The Qin Prince was a county prince, and the position of chief professor of the Qin Palace was an eighth-grade sinecure, but at least he was a rank official and could enter the city without the need for documents from local checkpoints.

Chu Hongtu smiled and said, "I never thought that fellow Taoist has an identity in the secular world."

The young Taoist said, "Identity is only external."

"The Taoist is me, and this so-called chief professor is also me."

"Please ask me for help."

"Buddhism saved me."

"That's all."

Chu Hongtu was startled for a moment, as if thinking of his own situation. He sighed for a long time and said, "Daoyou, you are right. It is indeed so..." He quickly recovered his composure and pointed to the road ahead, saying, "Come on, Daoyou, this is your first time in Hezhou, hahahaha, and let me lead the way for you."

"This main road goes straight through the entire city, and then branches out to both sides."

"There used to be a vendor selling braised beef in soy sauce here, and it tasted great. There used to be an old apricot tree there, and the apricot blossoms were extremely pretty in the spring. The apricots it produced were not the soft and mushy ones from Zhongzhou, but were crisp, sweet and sour. Hahaha, just imagining it makes my mouth taste good. It's a pity that winter has only just passed, and it will take some time for the flowers to bloom."

"When I was young, I loved riding horses here."

The young Taoist raised his eyes.

When were you young?

At the beginning, Chu Hongtu said that he was young and from a poor family and lived in the countryside.

Of course, it is also possible that his youth refers to the time after he had mastered martial arts.

Chu Hongtu was very happy and took Qi Wuhuo to travel in the city of Hezhou. However, the braised beef shop he mentioned was no longer there and had become a pork shop. The place for drinking was also gone. Only the old tree was still there, but it was about to die. Its branches grew and twisted like a dragon, walking all the way down.

Chu Hongtu sat by the window in a restaurant, put the knife in his hand on the table, and said loudly: "Shopkeeper, I want two pounds of beef, a pot of wine, a serving of Xiaoyaozui, a bowl of Yunjiyue, and one or two plates of fashionable fruits and vegetables to fill our mouths." Although he has an elegant appearance, a refined temperament, and white hair in his old age, his behavior still shows the temperament of a chivalrous knight.

Immediately he turned the upside-down teacup over and poured tea into it, saying with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist, Xiaoyaozui and Yunjiyue are both rare delicacies here. You can't eat them outside of Hezhou anymore."

"Xiaoyaozui means good fish, which can only be cooked after being drunk with wine. Yunjiyue means good wild geese. It is said that wild geese can catch the moon by flying through the clouds, which is extremely rare. Only people in Hezhou like to eat these foods. They also like the original flavor of the ingredients. When cooking, they don't add too many heavy ingredients. They are just boiled in water and eaten with the ingredients. The taste is really unique. You will know when you try it later."

"This method is not difficult, but it takes a lot of effort to get it just right, and it is even more difficult if you want to add this ingredient."

“It’s only here.”

The shopkeeper came forward and said apologetically:

"This guest is an expert, but it's a pity that we can't make these two dishes here."

Chu Hongtu was startled and asked, "What? Even the No. 1 building in Hezhou City has fallen?"

The old man was a little embarrassed, and he said with a bow: "Sir, this cannot be said to be our decline. It is really because you, an old gourmet, are too good. The method of making Xiaoyaozui has been lost for nearly three hundred years. No matter how we restore it, we can't reproduce the taste of the past. As for Yun Zhuiyue..."

"The Cloud Chasing Goose has been missing for a long time. It is said that there is a giant black turtle that eats an entire mountain with one mouth."

"The mountain is gone, and the cloud-chasing geese that lived on the mountain have also gradually disappeared. This dish has also been lost for a long time."

The joy that had appeared on Chu Hongtu's face gradually disappeared, and in the end, only disappointment remained: "Is that so..." The shopkeeper apologized several times before leaving. Chu Hongtu held the teacup with an extremely disappointed look on his face, and said: "Time flies, and it's just a flash. For me, three hundred years is a lifetime, but for ordinary people, it seems to be enough for a family to rise and fall, and a famous dish to be lost..."

"The so-called changes in the world, singing and wielding swords all the way, only to look back and find that the road I have walked on is full of unfamiliar scenery. They say that the world remains unchanged, but how can it remain unchanged... The city I miss is no longer the city in my memory. This Hezhou belongs to the people of this era, but where is the Hezhou that belongs to me?"

Chu Hongtu felt disappointed.

Looking out from the top of the restaurant, he pointed to a lake not far away and said, "I still remember that originally this was a big family named Wu, also a big family in the martial arts world, with pavilions and towers for ten miles. When I first went out to the martial arts world, there happened to be a martial arts competition here to recruit a bride. I was young and arrogant at the time, so I set foot here to compete."

"My swordsmanship is decisive. I learned it from the old ape in the mountains."

"I feel I am invincible."

"But she is here too, also young, dressed as a man, and walking with an old man."

"It seemed that she was not convinced by my showing off here, so she drew her sword and insisted on fighting me. I was no match for her back then. Her swordsmanship was clumsy and it seemed that she had never seen blood, but it was pure and sharp. I was beaten so hard that my sword fell out of my hand. I used the sword I used on the battlefield, and the blade cut her hairpin, and her hair fell down, which was extremely beautiful."

"Hahaha, the eldest daughter of the Wu family was really pissed off back then. She had participated in a martial arts competition to find a husband, but the winner turned out to be a woman."

"Then we..."

Chu Hongtu was stunned for a moment, and finally realized that what he was saying was not his own experience at all.

But everything, every scene that happened was so familiar, so real as if it happened just yesterday. He was unwilling to be suppressed by the swordsmanship, and when the sword slipped out of his hand, and the girl's long black hair flowed like a waterfall, and her eyes widened, he felt his heart almost stopped. And the eldest daughter of the Wu family's travels in the martial arts world, were so real that he almost cried.

It was like a big dream, but suddenly I recalled fragments of the past.

“I, this, this is not my experience…”

"But why, why do I remember, why do I feel so painful."

The young Taoist suddenly appeared behind Chu Hongtu, raised his hand and pressed his shoulder, suppressing him with his innate Qi. Chu Hongtu took a long time to recover, his eyes slightly red, and said: "Daoyou, I, I want to go out of the city to see the place I want to go the most..."

"Um."

By the time the restaurant served the food, there was no one here and only a small amount of silver was left.

Qi Wuhuo was walking side by side with Chu Hongtu at this moment. The latter seemed to have great experience and attainments in the art of controlling the wind, and was almost as good as an immortal in this art. The young Taoist got some advice from him, so he was more relaxed when controlling the wind, and finally he was no longer as rough as he was in the Lianyang Temple in Zhongzhou, and he had the freedom of the wind.

We walked forward and stood on the mountain. We saw a prosperous town far below the mountain.

"This is it..."

"I don't know why, but among all the memories I have, which I don't know whether they are true or false, this is the only one that is extremely clear."

Chu Hongtu murmured. The young Taoist priest, carrying his zither on his back, followed Chu Hongtu as he walked forward. Even Yao Ling and Little Peacock seemed to sense something and became much quieter. The young Taoist priest, with gray hair on his temples, looked at Chu Hongtu walking in the town as if in a dream and said, "Strange... In my memory, this is just a village."

"Will it take one or two hundred years for a city to become this big?"

"Did anything happen here in Daoist friend's memory?"

Chu Hongtu was silent for a long time, and said: "I remember that I traveled here with her and the girl from the Wu family. We were chasing a demon who refined blood into magical powers. Later, we encountered a disaster. The volcano there erupted. At that time, I was..."

He covered his forehead, feeling a slight pain.

The scene that emerged in his mind was that he hugged the girl, then knocked her out, handed her over to the eldest daughter of the Wu family, and then asked her to return to the village immediately, preferably with the villagers to evacuate quickly. The gentle girl from the Wu family asked him with tears in her eyes what he was going to do?

"I?"

"A real man's actions are only to do good and righteous things."

In the memory, he laughed out loud, let his horse go, and then flew up, rushing to the volcanic lava with a sword in hand, holding the long sword across the bar, the blade as sharp as snow, chopped directly, the blazing flame, the battle of life and death, Chu Hongtu raised his hand to cover his forehead, his forehead was slightly bruised, in the memory, he fought to death that demon, but the volcano could not stop it.

So he chose to destroy his own foundation and strike for the common people.

That was the strongest and most brilliant sword strike made by myself when I had already attained the state of a true person.

The blade directly blocked the horrible lava.

The memory scenes rushed like a torrent, and Chu Hongtu murmured:

"I, I... I can't remember, I seem to have stopped the volcanic disaster here?"

An old man nearby was curious when he saw a stranger coming here, but he laughed when he heard what he said, "Huh? Brother, have you read too many books? Are you hysterical or dreaming? Although we say there was such a legend here, it was eight or nine hundred years ago."

"We erected a monument for the heroes of that year."

"monument?"

"Yes, it is there."

Following the direction pointed by the old man, Chu Hongtu saw a stone tablet. He staggered over and reached out to touch the inscription. The passage of time had made the words blurry, but they were still roughly recognizable - [Sometimes there are disasters, the world changes drastically, spitting fire like flowing light, and heroes holding swords, using their own strength to cross the mountain. Those who searched the mountain were already on the verge of death. Therefore, whenever there is a disaster, there will be heroes who stand out.]

[He was a native of Hezhou Prefecture. He said that he was unruly when he was young, riding his horse on the road. He once joined the army and was appointed as the Cavalry Commandant.]

[Later, he met a Taoist friend and traveled around the world, doing justice]

Chu Hongtu's eyes turned red and tears streamed down his face.

In my memory, I flicked a knife with my fingers, dressed in fine clothes and riding a horse, laughing loudly:

"The world's ups and downs are created by our generation. Once we enter the world, time will pass by quickly."

"Talking and laughing about grand plans and hegemony is no match for a drunken life."

He brushed his fingers across and saw the last words on the stone tablet: its name: Chu Hongtu.

Wife·Miao.

Seeing the same name, Chu Hongtu was struck by lightning. He remained silent for a long time and before he knew it, tears were streaming down his face.

The young Taoist said, "Do you remember?" Chu Hongtu shook his head and murmured, "That was me, that was what I experienced... But I only remember those things. Was it really me? If it was me, why can't I remember it? If it wasn't me, why does my heart hurt like a knife?"

His eyes were red, and the young Taoist was silent for a long time, then said: "I may have a way, but it will cost a price."

The young Taoist opened his five fingers slightly, and a black grass appeared in his palm, emitting a faint spiritual charm. He then took out a cup with transparent water in it. The young man with white hair said, "This is the Heartbreak Grass. After taking it, you can recall all your past events, but the price is that you will only have three days left to live."

"And this... is the Love Potion."

“Take it. This amount won’t make you forget everything, but it’s enough to make you forget the memories that make you doubt yourself. Forget these things and regain your calm. Or, you can do neither and remain as you are.” The young Taoist retracted his right hand and let the two treasures float in the void. The Three Lives Stone needs to work on the soul, and that is what the dead go to the Naihe Bridge to watch.

Chu Hongtu murmured: "I, I choose..."

The young Taoist suddenly felt a stagnation in the void. With his experience, he knew that this was a unique method of Senior Sister Yu Miao. With a clear mind, he tapped the sword with his right hand and blocked it without hesitation. His strength was far inferior to Yu Miao's, but he predicted what the unbalanced senior sister would do at this moment.

The brilliant and clear sword light approached.

The moves are mysterious and boundless.

The young Taoist predicted it in advance and used the same sword move in his hand to block it, but it seemed even more exquisite.

The magnificent sword light, even if it was only intended to capture the young Taoist, even if it took into account the ordinary people around and restrained most of its power, it would not be a power that Qi Wuhuo could stop. However, when the sword light came into contact with the faint light on the scabbard, most of its power suddenly dissipated -

The water of the Milky Way is so weak that even immortals and gods cannot tread on it, and even flying feathers cannot cross it.

Amid the sound of clattering, the young Taoist stepped on the Bagua Movement, tilted his body to relieve the force, and his sleeves fluttered like water and clouds. The scabbard collapsed in the next moment, but it did not disappear. Instead, it turned into a running Yellow Spring. The Yellow Spring was icy cold, moving in the eighteen levels of the underworld, accommodating the obsession of all living beings. As a result, the immortal sword intent carried by the sword light was swallowed up by the Yellow Spring.

The Yellow Springs is rushing, and the water is hanging in the void, icy cold.

The young Taoist's robe fluttered in the wind.

The Yellow Springs then swirled around the young man, and the water cloud patterns surrounding his sleeves were clear as if real. It turned with the momentum, and the Blood Sword was out. With the exquisiteness of pure sword moves, the young Taoist, who was instructed by the Great Dao Lord, forcibly broke the Earth Immortal's sword. The Blood Sword pressed down on an ordinary sword, making it rest against the ground, and the water of the Yellow Springs swirled around him, and in an instant fell back on the sword, turning into a scabbard.

A sword and a block, in just a flash, the rabbit jumps and the falcon strikes.

Yu Miao has appeared.

The young Taoist looked at the girl in front of him with red eyes and held down the sword.

He originally came here to repay his karma, but he didn't expect that he would stand in front of his senior sister.

"division……"

The young Taoist paused and said, "Daoyou, this time, please wait and see what he chooses."

Yu Miao held the sword and said, "Since you follow the Taoist's idea of ​​​​non-action, why are you stopping me?"

The young Taoist said: "Do nothing to follow the wishes of all living beings."

"But there is nothing I can't do."

"Do everything to protect the people."

"Doing nothing means doing everything. It is the cycle of one thought. One cannot use force to put one's will above all others. Everything should follow the thoughts of the living beings and move according to their original thoughts. This is doing nothing. But if one encounters something unfair, one should not draw the sword for one's own desires, then one can do everything."

"It is up to him to decide how to choose, fellow Taoist."

Two Taoists from the same sect looked at each other, and the young Taoist used the sword in his hand to block Yu Miao's sword.

Behind him, Chu Hongtu glanced at Yu Miao with the same determination as he had back then.

Swallowed the herb.