Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 444 The Third Death

"I once read a sentence in a book," Gu Xu said to Xuenv beside him while walking on the Qingshi street in the city, "In a lifetime, a person has to die three times.

"The first time we die, when our heart stops and our breath stops, it's a physical death.

"The second death is when we are buried and people come to our funeral in white and they officially declare that we are no more on earth and all our social ties are gone.

"The third death is the last person in the world who remembers us and completely forgets us, so we really die and have nothing to do with this world.

"That's really interesting to say. I've had my third death before I've had my first one. Now it looks as if I never existed in this world at all."

Xue Nu listened to him expressionlessly, nodding slightly from time to time.

At this time, the two of them were in Liangzhou Mansion.

This is the gateway to the northwest of the Daqi Dynasty.After leaving Liangzhou, it is the territory of the wild people outside the Great Wall.

Gu Xu never thought that after being wanted by the court, he would be able to walk on the street without any disguise one day.

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However, when Gu Xu was thinking about how he should break through the situation, the side effect of the mask took effect.

His aura of true essence soared - he was about to break into the boundary of the fifth realm at a speed of sprinting [-] meters.

He no longer needs to think hard about how to escape from the world of mortals.

At the same time, in the shadow under the eaves on the other side of the street, the white-bearded old man in a dark blue robe looked at Gu Xu and Xuenv who were getting further and further away, and sighed.

If it appears on the street, it must be a walker with his shoulders down and a mustache, and a young man with his hat on his head.

"Tell me, if we were to cast this spell of cutting off cause and effect, would we be able to achieve the same effect?" The thin storyteller next to him pondered for a moment and asked.

"Could it be that Chief Luo wants to help me break through the fifth realm in this way?" Gu Xu frowned and guessed.

Relying on his shallow understanding of the way of cause and effect, he guessed that it might be because he spent the past few days with Xuenv day and night, which made it difficult for the side effects of the mask to take effect.

"The spell on the mask not only modifies people's memory, but also changes the objective things—I can't do it, and replace thousands of portraits on the arrest warrant overnight."

In addition, he knew that Luo Chuan was not good at the way of cause and effect—of course, it could also be that Luo Chuan had been concealing his attainments in the way of cause and effect.

A bandit named "Li Batian" replaced him and became the protagonist on the wanted list - in every portrait, this middle-aged man with beard and beard silently inspected the passers-by with sharp eyes.

She's like a balloon string.

She was originally born with a beautiful appearance and peerless independence, but now that her black hair has turned silver-white, she is even more radiant and unstoppable.

"It's amazing!"

He feels that this kind of magic that completely erases a person from history is really amazing-this is something that even a saint and a strong man cannot do.

He planned to find a safe place to break through the fifth realm after leaving Liangzhou and the Daqi border.

In fact, in a corner that Gu Xu couldn't see, there was another person—a ghost to be precise, whose memory and cognition had not been tampered with by the mask.

Such things as strength can never be too much.

"I didn't expect Luo Chuan to have such abilities!" The middle-aged man who performed the mouse show said sincerely, "If he really did all this, then his strength should be far beyond the seventh realm, and he is not as good as the outside world knows. That way, you don’t know anything about cause and effect—”

When Gu Xu was about to float away from this world, she, as the only bond, tied him tightly to the earth.

Although he is now in a state of being forgotten by the world, he can't guarantee that a strong man like Tian Xingdi will also be affected by the side effects of the mask.

"Gu Xu is different this time.

The function of the mask itself to hide whereabouts is just a child's random graffiti; but this "side effect" is a work handed down by famous masters.

"It's hard," the white-bearded old man thought for a while, "The way we hide is to use the way of cause and effect to erase our names, so that the world will forget us unconsciously.

He has severed his causal connection with the world.

It may also be because he and Xuenv have established a spiritual connection through the Jinghong Brush—this kind of causal connection based on the Great Wilderness Artifact is difficult to be easily erased.

As for the Snow Maiden, she was still wearing a veil, and her long snow-colored hair was coiled up high and hidden in a wide-brimmed hat.

When Luo Chuan handed the mask into his hands, he was in a hurry to escape, so he didn't think too much about it.

She treats the whole world with indifference and alienation.Only Gu Xu is the only special existence in her eyes.

But now, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

"But I still remember you." After Gu Xu finished speaking, Xue Nu looked at him and said seriously.

Of course, it may also be because Xue Nu recognized him neither by appearance nor by name, but by scent and intuition.

However, at the same time, Gu Xu was also full of confusion.

The fifth realm of cultivation, called "Mengpo Pavilion", requires monks to break off the shackles of the world and move towards the extraordinary realm.

In order to break through this critical realm, the ancestors came up with a variety of methods - such as the self-abuse-style retreat of Lingshan Temple, such as Jiange's sword tour around the world, and the most widely used "cutting seven emotions" in the Daqi Dynasty. ".

"But our spells cannot change the facts of objective existence. For example, when people turn to the materials that record us, they will still recall our existence.

If you take a painting as an example——

Gu Xu smiled lightly.

It shouldn't be just a side effect of a mask at all.

To be honest, he didn't know why Xuenv still didn't forget him after the whole world cut off the causal connection with him.

Even if he becomes a passerby forgotten by the world, Gu Xu doesn't want to attract too much unnecessary attention.

"——It's not necessarily that Luo Chuan did it," the white bearded old man interrupted him, "Maybe some strong man we don't know attached spells to the mask, and then passed it to Gu Xu through Luo Chuan. "

"Then what is the purpose of this strong man?" The middle-aged man frowned, "If he just wanted to help Gu Xu escape, then there's no need to go to such lengths."

"I don't understand either," the white bearded old man shook his head lightly and said, "But now, we don't need to think about the mind of that mysterious strong man, let's take care of our own affairs first!"

As he spoke, he took out the plain wooden hairpin from his sleeve again.

(End of this chapter)