Bring some shock to the world of cultivating immortals

An Nuan gave Lu Anping emergency treatment. Her diagnosis was that she had been hungry for too long. The emergency treatment was to search Tang Wan's body and find six baked naan, ten skewers and a large bowl of black pepper mutton soup, and stuffed them all into Lu Anping's mouth.

Tang Wan died more completely, and Lu Anping began to live again.

Lay a memorial for eternity
Dian Tang Wan Dian
The voice of the funeral is still there
Scissorhands - Zhou Li - Scissorhands

Looking at the old Taoist priest who was sitting in Tang Wan's seat with a dusty face, picked up a new pair of bowls and chopsticks without any courtesy, poured a saucepan and started eating hot pot, Zhuge Qing asked tentatively.

"Master, you haven't eaten yet?"

The old Taoist priest froze for a moment while picking up the meat. After a brief silence, he looked at Zhuge Qing and asked, "If I don't eat humans, then I probably didn't eat them."

"Oh, that means I didn't eat."

Zhuge Qing nodded, and then kindly handed over a glass of fruit drink. The old Taoist priest was not polite, took the fruit drink and drank it all, then said in surprise: "Hey, this tastes good."

"Mirinda, Zhou Li's invention."

Liu Kuang approached the old Taoist priest and asked curiously, "Brother, where have you been? Why are you so dusty and have you been missing for so long?"

The old Taoist priest did not answer for a moment, and drank the drink in the cup. After organizing his words, the old Taoist priest sighed and said:

"I'm dying."

The whole audience was shocked.

Zhou Li was no exception, and he dropped his chopsticks on the table without even noticing. Zhuge Qing was even more excited, and stood up, his tone even higher, "Master! What are you talking about?!"

"Hey, don't worry, I should have died a long time ago."

The old Taoist priest waved his hands nonchalantly. Facing this news, he even said while eating, "The road to heaven collapsed, and I wasted some of my lifespan by mending it. Originally I could have lived for about six years, but now... one month, that's about it."

"Master..."

Zhuge Qing was about to speak but stopped herself. Her eyes were filled with sadness. It was very rare for her to show such open emotions. She seemed to have thought of something and quickly turned her head to look at An Nuan who was not far away.

"No need to worry."

Looking at An Nuan, the old Taoist priest said gently, "Sect Master An should have figured it out."

After a brief pause, An Nuan nodded and sighed, "My life span has dried up, my spiritual energy has dried up, and there is no medicine that can cure it."

Zhuge Qing was a little confused, as if he couldn't accept the news, and his expression was a little dazed.

"One month. It's a long time."

At this moment, Liu Kuang spoke. His words were a little stiff, "It can do a lot of things."

"Why are you looking so sad?"

The old Taoist priest said with a smile, "I have lived for hundreds of years, but I am still not good enough? I am lucky to be able to make up for the road to heaven. If it is one year later, I am afraid that this road to immortality will have problems again, and I will not be able to make up for it even if I want to."

Tang Wan also resurrected. She stood beside the old Taoist priest, wanting to say something but unable to.

"Okay, Xiaoqing, don't worry."

The old Taoist priest was holding the oil dish. It was clearly a matter of life and death, but he comforted her: "I have been preparing for hundreds of years. You must be sad to hear this news suddenly. But Xiaoqing, you have also learned the art of heavenly secrets, and you also understand that some things cannot be changed."

"Master, you give the order."

Zhuge Qing took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and said softly: "What should I do."

"Simple."

While eating hot pot, the old Taoist priest said calmly: "From today on, I am no longer a Taoist priest."

After these words were spoken, even Lin Tong's expression collapsed.

"Brother, you?"

Lin Tong looked at the old Taoist priest and said in disbelief: "Don't you want it?"

The old Heavenly Master said nothing, but took out a Yin-Yang jade pendant. This jade pendant was warm and moist, and it contained energy and nourished the spirit. It was an extraordinary product. He looked at Zhuge Qing and said, "Xiaoqing, since you are my disciple, it is your responsibility to take on the position of Heavenly Master."

Zhuge Qing was stunned. She opened her mouth and said in a daze, "Master, I am only at the seventh level. How can I take on such a great responsibility? Elder Lin..."

"I can not."

Lin Tong spoke up and rejected Zhuge Qing faster than the old Heavenly Master. He looked at Zhuge Qing and said calmly, "I can only be the Great Elder, I cannot be the Heavenly Master. Xiaoqing, your seventh realm is because you have only practiced for thirty years. My eighth realm is the only realm I can reach in my lifetime."

"Yes."

Wang Siyu nodded and said calmly: "I am just a doctor. Even if I have cultivated to the extreme, I am still a doctor, not a saint."

"I...I can't either."

Su Shu whispered, "I can't do it."

Zhuge Qing pondered for a long time, and it was obvious that she was struggling.

"Xiao Qing, I am an outsider and should not be involved in your affairs. However, sometimes the position of Heavenly Master is not a right, but a responsibility."

At this moment, An Nuan spoke. Although she said so, everyone understood that the old Taoist priest said this in front of her, which meant that he tacitly agreed that she was here to witness this scene.

Zhuge Qing frowned, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"No."

Liu Kuang was confused. He pointed at himself and asked, "Did anyone give me a chance to speak?"

"If you say you want to be a heavenly master, I will take you with me when I die."

The old Taoist priest rarely showed grace when facing Liu Kuang. For example, he almost beat Liu Kuang now. He was not worried that Liu Kuang would use some means to get to the top. He was afraid that Liu Kuang, this idiot, would light firecrackers in front of his grave as the first thing he did after becoming the old Taoist priest.

If Liu Kuang had died early, the old Taoist priest would have done it too.

"Hey, you're in a hurry again."

Facing the news of the old Heavenly Master's death, Liu Kuang was the most heartless one. He sat beside the old Heavenly Master happily and said to Zhuge Qing: "Xiaoqing, you have seen it too. If you don't agree, I will fight for the position of Heavenly Master. On the first day of taking office, I will let all the disciples of Longhu Mountain..."

Zhuge Qing gritted her teeth, a resolute look appeared in her eyes, she reached out her hand and took the jade pendant.

The jade pendant broke into two, and the one that fell into Zhuge Qing's hand was pure white yang jade.

Zhuge Qing blinked, then looked at the old Taoist priest in surprise.

Everyone was shocked by this sudden scene. They didn't expect that the jade pendant could really be separated.

"scared?"

The old Taoist priest looked at Zhuge Qing with a smile, then took the Yin Jade in his hand and said, "The reason I can hold the Yin-Yang Jade is because I was alone on my path of cultivation, so I can hold the Yin-Yang Jade alone."

"Xiaoqing, you are different. If it were the past, I would not be willing to die. Even if my soul would be scattered after death, I would persist for a while. You are too lonely and cannot bear the path of Heavenly Master alone. I can only wait until you grow up a little bit before I am willing to entrust the position of Heavenly Master to you, but..."

His eyes fell on Zhou Li, who had been trying hard to reduce his presence, and the old Taoist smiled more gently, "Now I don't have to worry."

“This path is not alone.”

Another Yin Jade fell into Zhou Li's hands.

"Starting today, Zhou Li will take over the position of Heavenly Master."

Lu Anping, who had just woken up, opened her eyes, but her pupils contracted and she fainted the moment she heard these words.

"ah?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Tang Wan is stupid.

The pancake in Liu Kuang's hand fell onto the table.

Sun Defeng and Huang Yiri, who had always been outsiders, almost dropped their jaws to the ground, and looked completely stunned.

Wang Siyu obviously didn't react, his brain was still processing what the old Taoist priest had just said.

Lin Tong's face was still as cold and stern as before, but there were some signs of collapse.

An Nuan didn't feel anything, she just blinked innocently and looked here and there.

Zhou Li was also confused, and he didn't react. After a long while, he lowered his head, looked at the Yin Jade in his hand, and scratched his head in confusion.

"You two must hold the position of Heavenly Master together, support each other, and forge ahead. Only then can I leave with peace of mind."

The old Taoist priest looked at Zhou Li and asked, "Zhou Li, will you accept this Yin Jade?"

“You didn’t let me choose.”

Zhou Li smiled complainingly, but he had no intention of returning the Yin Jade. He understood what the old Taoist priest was talking about, or rather, he understood Zhang Qingwu's good intentions.

Zhuge Qing is very strong and has an incredibly high talent. It can be said that he is no different from the old Heavenly Master back then. In some aspects, Zhuge Qing is even stronger than the Heavenly Master.

But the time left for Zhuge Qing was too short. If the old Heavenly Master had met Zhuge Qing twenty years earlier, or if he had another twenty years to teach Zhuge Qing, he would definitely be able to make Zhuge Qing the second Heavenly Master, even surpassing her master Zhang Qingwu.

In fact, Zhuge Qing's weakness was not her strength. Her mastery of the Eight Trigrams alone was enough to allow her to gain a foothold in the world of immortal cultivation, not to mention that she also had the inheritance of a Heavenly Master.

What she lacked was the heart to walk alone on that path that went against the world.

Can't do it.

The old Taoist priest knew that Zhuge Qing was different from him.

When Zhang Qingwu was 20 years old, he had no humanity, or rather, he had not experienced much humanity. A child struggling at the bottom of society, a child who would do anything to get enough food and clothing, could not have a sufficient understanding of human nature. In his world, there was only darkness and death, and human nature was always a piece of ice.

Therefore, after embarking on the road to immortality that was separated from the world, Zhang Qingwu did not feel lonely, but he enjoyed this feeling. Until he met many people on the road of immortality, his senior brothers, junior sisters, junior brothers, his disciples who died young, the old man who gave him food, the taciturn Lin Tong, the lazy Wang Siyu, the weird-minded Liu Kuang...
And his last disciple, Zhuge Qing.

After accepting Zhuge Qing as his disciple, Zhang Qingwu became a complete person. He was no longer the lonely and silent Heavenly Master, but had his own sect, fellow apprentices, and a clever and well-behaved (or not) disciple. Since then, Zhang Qingwu began to feel powerless, and he found that he could no longer rely on the road to immortality to prolong his life. The closer he got to human nature, the shorter his life span would be.

He understood that, unlike himself, Zhuge Qing had been accompanied by her parents since she was a child. Even though she encountered unexpected changes, she came to Longhu Mountain. Here, she met people who truly loved her, and her humanity was warm and strong. But on the road to becoming an immortal, the warmer the humanity, the easier it is to be unable to bear the loneliness and fear on that road.

Fortunately, Zhou Li showed up.

The predecessor of the old Heavenly Master was not one person, but two. The Heavenly Master who held the Yang Jade was named Zhang Xun, and the one who held the Yin Jade was Yun Qiuyun. The two had been brothers and sisters since childhood, grew up together, and finally became Taoist couples. They held the two jades and supported each other, so that they could face the road of beheading immortals with humanity and wait for the next Heavenly Master to take over.

At first, the old Heavenly Master wanted Zhuge Qing to follow the same path as him, but he also knew that was almost impossible. It was much faster to gain human nature than to lose it. Unless Longhu Mountain was destroyed and the Heavenly Master's Mansion disappeared, Zhuge Qing would not be able to abandon his human nature and face the road to immortality in a short period of time.

But when Zhou Li appeared, all the problems were solved. In fact, when Zhuge Qing met Zhou Li, the hexagrams calculated by the old Taoist priest revealed everything. He knew that the opportunity he had been waiting for was right in front of him.

Zhou Li and Zhuge Qing are like the yin and yang of a pair of jades, complementing each other perfectly and at the same time communicating with each other. One is cold while the other is hot. Zhuge Qing is pure and yang, while Zhou Li is a sinister villain. Zhuge Qing is strong and cold, but he is always hesitant in his heart. Zhou Li seems to act erratically, but his heart is as tough as iron.

Zhuge Qing has practiced for a longer time, and his practice is smooth and unimpeded, but he has also neglected too much. Zhou Li was once a child of destiny, but fell into a quagmire, and now he has become Zhuge Qing's disciple and practices with her. The two can complement each other and make each other's mind more complete.

The old Taoist priest believed that if Zhuge Qing knew that the road to immortality was a lie, a scam, she would not be able to bear the truth alone. She could not accept that the road to immortality she firmly believed in never existed. But Zhou Li was different. He disdained to become an immortal, so he would not be hit hard by this.

Similarly, Zhou Li's personality is too lively, and Zhuge Qing is not strict, but he has the ability to restrain him, which can also make it easier for Zhou Li to move forward on the road of cultivation. The two of them would not feel uncomfortable even if they did not speak for a day when sitting together, just feeling that they should be here. Not seeing each other for a long time would not make them lose half of their friendship.

The principle of Yin and Yang is nothing more than this.

Although the old master felt a little regretful that Zhou Li already had a Taoist partner, it didn't matter. After all, a match made in heaven doesn't necessarily mean just a Taoist partner. He watched the entire sect competition and clearly recognized Zhou Li's character.

"I will feel at ease if I entrust the position of Heavenly Master to you two."

Zhang Qingwu smiled, and he smiled happily. Looking at Zhuge Qing and Zhou Li standing side by side, he seemed to see the scene a hundred years ago at Qingyun Peak, where the gentle Taoist took the female monk's hand and passed the Heavenly Master Jade Pendant to him.

But this time, he passed it on to his disciples.

"Please bear witness to this."

The old Taoist priest paused for a moment, looked around at everyone, and then said loudly:

"Starting today, Zhang Qingwu will resign from the position of Heavenly Master, and Zhuge Qing and Zhou Li will jointly inherit the position of Heavenly Master."

"One yin and one yang, this path is not alone!"

Thinking it was a dream, Lu Anping opened her eyes wide.

And then he went over again. (End of this chapter)