The Qingfeng Pavilion ferry slowly adjusted its hull, tilted slightly downward, and began to land against the wind, preparing to land at Cangzhoupu, the Xianjia Ferry within the territory of Zhishui Kingdom.

After Zhao Rong recovered his breath, he responded to Liu Sanbian's concerns a few times, made an appointment with him to get off the boat together later, and then returned to his cabin.

He took a glance before leaving and found that the little fox demon was no longer there. He didn't know when it left, so Zhao Rong didn't care too much.

"Did you deliberately not tell me that Fuyao Hou's surname was Zhao?"

"Haha, why should I tell you that a Confucian student named Zhao spoke for the demon race? I have never encountered such a thing before, but today I have witnessed it."

"Hmph, what's the use of telling you? Aren't you still going to save that little fox? I don't know you, kid, you just covet other people's bodies!"

"I've seen this kind of thing a lot. You guys can't move when you see a vixen. But, it's rare to see someone like you risking his life to save a beautiful girl. Fortunately, that person's last name is also Zhao, otherwise I would have died again, hahahaha."

What a lunatic.

The corners of Zhao Rong's mouth twitched, but he didn't make any excuses.

He stood up at that time.

There may be the scholarly spirit of a scholar, the momentary impulse to be a hero, the sympathy and tenderness for a beautiful woman, or even the subtle idea of ​​seeking rewards from others after helping them.

But no matter what his mentality was, Zhao Rong did not feel ashamed.

In his previous life, he wanted to stand up to many things that he didn't like, but for more or less reasons, he just stayed in the crowd and never took that step.

I want to change the way I live in this life. Zhao Rong shouted "Stop" very happily.

"Can the affairs of scholars be called greed?"

Zhao Rong made a joke and started packing up the luggage in the house, ready to get off the boat.

He held the book box in one hand and patted the sword at his waist that saved half his life with the other hand. He walked to the window and looked down. The Zangzhou Port of Shisui Country was getting bigger and bigger in his sight.

Unlike many fairy ferry crossings in Wangquezhou, Cangzhoupu is not located in a sacred mountain that is convenient for ferry departures, but is located on a thousand-mile lake. It is an island with a bustling market.

At this moment, looking down from Zhao Rong's angle, there were already dozens of huge immortal ferries moored in the air around Cangzhoupu, and the lake surface was like a mirror, with everything reflected in it.

"Return."

"Um?"

"I want to practice."

"The pressure from the Yuanying realm sword cultivator is indeed very stressful to your body. You should get off the boat and find a place to rest later..."

"I want to practice."

"Say it again."

"I want to practice!"

"Just you?"

"Yes, about me. I want to give it a try. Maybe I am actually someone you can't see..."

"A hidden peerless physique, right?"

“…”

"Don't dream, it's impossible. Do you think I haven't checked it carefully? When I just woke up, I had a glimmer of hope and spent my soul energy to check your sea of ​​qi and meridians over and over again, but the result is what I told you, you have a useless physique."

"Well, you're not the worst. In fact, among all the mortals, you're kind of average. But is there a difference? You're just worse than the worst."

"Your Qi Sea has not reached the minimum standard for containing Haoran Realm spiritual energy. Among the millions of mortals, only a very small number of people can reach this standard and have the hope of breaking through the bottleneck of Fuyao Realm and officially entering the practice. Among this very small number of people, most of them will stop at Haoran Realm in this life and can only become ordinary people in the world of cultivation. And your current situation is that you can't even become an ordinary person in the world of cultivation."

"Also, I discovered that your mother seemed to have had a serious miscarriage when she was pregnant with you, which caused your physical condition to be congenitally deficient. Although it will not affect your life span, your meridians are extremely blocked and atrophied. You never had the hope of entering the Haoran Realm, and now you can't even take a single step forward in the Fuyao Realm. Even if you have resources, it is useless because the Fuyao Realm requires meridians to be connected. Other people's meridians are like big rivers, but yours are just a reed tube. No matter how many resources are given to you, you can't use them. It's just a waste!"

Zhao Rong was silent for a while, but was not discouraged.

"What about the Ascension Realm? Can I practice it?"

"It is possible to reach the Heavenly Realm, because talent is not important in this realm, or talent has very little impact. It is actually just training the body. As long as you have perseverance and can endure hardships, any mortal can reach the Heavenly Realm."

"Then I'm going to give it a try. Although you said that my Fuyao Realm is difficult at every step, at least it's not a dead end. So what if my meridians are like reed pipes? How can I know it won't work if I don't try?"

"Heh, what's the point of trying when you know you'll fail?"

“In this lord’s memory, it is absolutely impossible for someone in your situation in the Xuanhuang Realm to defy fate and change…change…” Gui’s voice suddenly stopped.

Zhao Rong's hand that was holding the sword suddenly clenched.

"Change what?"

Gui pondered for a while and decided to tell the truth.

"... Changing your fate, s ...

"I have heard of the legendary method and I still have some impression of it, but it is useless. The main material that can make it has long been extinct in the Xuanhuang Realm. In my time, only a few ancient cultivation families may still have some preserved, but I don't know how many years have passed. They are likely to have used it up. Ha, even if there is still some left, you don't even have the qualifications to see it, let alone get it. Why should they give it to you?"

"Stop dreaming, kid. Just accept your fate."

"What is the method to change your fate?"

"It's no use telling you. It will only cause more trouble. Don't ask."

"Gui, tell me!"

"The ship is about to stop. Go out and stop having these random thoughts..."

"Why do you keep telling me to accept my fate? Don't you always look down on weaklings who have no ambition? Look at yourself now, what's the difference between you and them?"

Zhao Rong interrupted it hastily, but regretted it as soon as he finished speaking.

Sure enough, there was a brief silence in my mind.

"Zhao Rong!"

"What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson? If you weren't such a loser, why would I be so pessimistic? Everything is due to you!"

"I'm asking you to accept your fate for your own good. Do you know the feeling of helplessness when you give everything you have but still can't change your fate?"

"Back then, for a vague destiny, I abandoned everything and left Xuanhuang Realm, but what happened in the end?"

Gui smiled sadly.

"In the end, you have fallen to this point. I... I don't want you to follow in my footsteps!"

Zhao Rong listened to Gui's words silently, frowning.

"Gui, why did you leave Xuanhuang Realm in the first place? What is the fate you mentioned? Is it... is it related to this?"

"Oh, you remember my words very clearly."

The "it" Zhao Rong was talking about was what Gui had mentioned on their wedding night. Gui had only mentioned it briefly at that time, but Zhao Rong was wary of it because it was his first time seeing Gui, so he paid attention to it. In fact, he had always wanted to ask about it before, but there was no suitable opportunity.

"You said it chose me, so what exactly is it? What is its relationship to you and me?"

After he finished speaking, Zhao Rong waited for Gui's response, but there was no sound after a long time.

When Zhao Rong thought Gui might have ignored him, a faint voice came.

"It's called Fushi, and it's in your Ajna chakra."

"I am... a sword spirit."

"He was also the previous master of the Fushigi sword."