Who cares about childhood sweethearts when they can become immortals?

Chapter 221 Mastery
After Xu Ji put away the inheritance of the Tongyou profound pattern left by You Jiuge, he buried You Jiuge's corpse. In any case, the Tongyou profound pattern left by You Jiuge was helpful to him. They all accepted You Jiuge's feelings, and it was just a matter of convenience to help him bury him in peace.
Turning around and leaving the cave, Xu Ji sealed the boulder at the entrance of the cave again, not intending to disturb You Jiuge's sleep here anymore. It would be better to just treat this cave as the tomb where You Jiuge rests, and then looked for After a while, Xu Ji found a slightly smaller hidden cave again. This time, there were no relics from previous generations in the cave, so Xu Ji felt at ease with this place as his habitat.

Breaking a huge boulder to seal the cave, Xu Ji took out the meditation futon that he had exchanged when leaving Xianling Taoist Temple from the storage space, and sat cross-legged on the futon, not in a hurry to dispel the space in his body. However, in his mind, he recalled the previous conversation with Yan Po.

"You are too cowardly, you are afraid, you are afraid, your pursuit of the Tao is too weak, you dare not practice your own Tao, you do not dare to pursue your own Tao, so you are not qualified to be king. ”

Yan Po's words echoed in Xu Ji's mind like sharp thorns, but another voice couldn't help but appear deep in his heart, rejecting everything Yan Po said.

"What Yan Po said is bullshit. It is human nature to assess the situation and weigh the pros and cons. What is he doing when he is laughing at his own cowardice? Even if he is lucky enough to break through the last obstacle before King Xuan, so what? Didn’t he die by his own hands in the end?”

"What is right and wrong? What is right for the winner is right for the loser! What is right for the living is wrong for the dead!"

"I have a proficiency panel that others don't have. I don't have to risk my life like others for a slim chance of success. So what if I shrink back? So what if I pretend? As long as I live, that's fine! Every day I will compare with myself. Even if he was stronger the day before, even if he really couldn't reach the three extremes, he might not be able to forcefully break through the Golden Core realm by relying on the proficiency panel."

"Time, what I lack is just time, so as long as I live, sooner or later I will be able to rely on the proficiency panel to reach the top of the immortal path and enjoy the fruits of immortality. But now, everything is just a passing cloud, just a few winds and frosts on the road to immortality. ”

"..."

The voice in my heart was like ocean waves. Before one sentence could completely fall, another sentence appeared out of thin air. The sentences were intertwined and deafening like thunder, as if they were going to drown Xu Ji directly.

Xu Ji smiled bitterly. The stray thoughts that arose in his heart just now were the inner demons blocking his heart. However, these distracting thoughts were incomparably consistent with what Xu Ji was thinking in his heart. Or maybe these stray thoughts This is what Xu Ji had in mind.

Xu Ji sat cross-legged on the futon, her closed eyes suddenly opened, like a drowning person escaping to the shore, breathing heavily, and it took a long time to recover from the state of being overwhelmed by distracting thoughts in his heart.

"These inner demon obstacles may be more like thoughts after weighing the pros and cons, including when the ghost-clawed leopard cat attacked the child. After weighing the pros and cons, the best thing for me to do is to ignore it and turn around and leave." I didn't think about it anymore. Those words that might trigger inner demons made Xu Ji start to think about the nature of his own inner demons again.

Even though Xu Ji knew in his heart that these distracting thoughts were just his own inner demons, he couldn't completely eliminate them. Just like everyone knew that spending time playing with mobile phones and focusing on studying can make his grades better, who would? Is it really possible to stop playing with mobile phones and focus on studying?
Understanding that these distracting thoughts are your own inner demons and eliminating your own inner demons are two completely different things. The former is easy, but the latter is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Xu Ji recalled in his mind the Qin Wu he saw when he first participated in the organized performance. At that time, Qin Wu was already the number one among the students of Xianling Taoist Academy, but he invited the fight as if he didn't care what others thought. I am only a junior who has just entered school for half a year and has just broken through to the foundation building realm.

"It seems that my condition is not optimistic."

The distracting thoughts arising from inner demons are not wrong at all, and may even be more in line with one's own interests. For example, whether it is pretending to be cultivated, or pretending to be seriously injured to escape and practice in the room, these things are indeed more in line with one's own interests. Benefits, I also benefited from it smoothly.

Based on his identity and strength, actively inviting him to fight is an act that would lower his price, but he doesn't care about it at all. All his actions only follow his heart and act as he pleases, rather than caring about gains and losses, the evaluation of outsiders, or himself. At that time, I was quite joking in my heart and called him a happy person.

In an instant, Qin Wu's figure disappeared in Xu Ji's mind, and was replaced by his cheap senior sister, Duan Qianqiu, whom he had only met once.

It was just a chance encounter with him, but it was because of him and his little junior sister Bai Muxin that he had never met before that he caused a big fuss in the Xiao family of the Jindan family. No matter who looked at it, this was not a wise move. After all, even Duan No matter how Qianqiu touches the door, it's just a foundation building, but he offends a Jindan family for nothing. Duan Qianqiu's figure disappeared like Qin Wu, and the last figure that appeared in Xu Ji's mind was the strongest opponent he encountered in a head-on fight, Yan Po.

"The opportunity to gain enlightenment is in front of us, so how can we avoid it in fear of death?"

Yan Po had already chosen to bet his life for the opportunity of a breakthrough that he was not sure he could comprehend. No matter from any angle, this approach did not look like he had thought carefully about it. It was hasty but decisive.

Qin Wu, Duan Qianqiu, and Yan Po, these three people are all the strongest foundation builders that they have ever come into contact with, and they must have reached the extreme of their hearts, but the behavior of the three of them is unexpected. Unexpectedly, they seem to not consider the pros and cons, but simply follow their hearts.

"Does the so-called heart point mean to follow one's own heart?" Xu Ji seemed to have grasped the commonality between the three of them, and a hint of enlightenment rose in his heart.

"The real person is indifferent and rests alone with the Tao. He expresses the remains of his wisdom and loses himself in detachment. He is suddenly desolate and soaring with the Tao."

This sentence that seemed to have appeared many times suddenly appeared in Xu Ji's mind. An Ke had mentioned it once before, and Niu Qianhu had also mentioned it once. The continuous appearance may not be a coincidence, and what it points to may be This is the heart of Jindan: the remains of wisdom are revealed, and the detachment is lost; the outline is suddenly desolate, and it soars with the Tao.

Xu Ji once again thought about the child he had seen the Ghost-clawed Leopard Cat attack before. Even though his inner demons analyzed the pros and cons and his best choice was to turn around and leave, he still resolutely took action and took advantage of the Ghost-clawed Leopard Cat. He saved the child under his claws. Maybe he didn't care about the pros and cons when he took action, but simply followed his own heart.

Saving you has nothing to do with you, it's just because I want to save you, nothing more.

"If I do things as I please in the future, will I be able to eliminate my inner demons?" Xu Ji also had a strange look on his face. If he does things as he pleases without considering the pros and cons, does that mean that he is going to be a happy person? Is this direction gone forever?
Xu Ji shook his head and suppressed the thoughts in his mind for the time being. Even if he wanted to follow his heart and be a happy person, he was not seeking death. It was like his senior sister Duan Qianqiu came to the Xiao family in person for her but He also used the excuse of coming to the door for friendly discussions to ensure that he would not really lead to the fate of the Xiao family's golden elixir; and even if Yan Po gambled his life to gain enlightenment, it was not a fatal situation, otherwise how could he really make a breakthrough? The last obstacle before King Xuan?
Therefore, how to be a person who has fun doing whatever he wants without killing himself is the real difficulty.

And in his current state, it is not too late to get rid of the power of space in his body first, restore his state to its peak, and then think about this. After all, he is only at the sixth level of foundation building, and he is still far away from breaking through the golden elixir. A long time.

The power of space in the body is tearing apart his own flesh and blood all the time. Even if he is sitting cross-legged on the futon without making any movement, the power of space is tearing apart flesh and blood and bones. It has never stopped, and at most it only affects the range. It's a little smaller, but fortunately, I have the power of the five elements in my body to recover from my injuries, so I won't be directly consumed to death by the power of space in my body.

"Use a portable formation to connect the five elements of the external formation, and then use the power of the five elements to forcibly consume the power of space." An idea came to Xu Ji's mind, but it quickly came to an end. give up.

The contact and collision of energy is extremely dangerous, let alone if it happens in your own body. If an energy wave breaks out, you may be blown into pieces. At that time, you will not be able to recover with the power of the five elements in your body. That would be really fun. .

What's more, using the formation to transform the power of the Five Elements requires a large amount of spiritual energy. Even if you have high spiritual energy affinity and can quickly absorb the spiritual energy from the outside world, there is no spiritual energy in the mysterious world, so you can only use your own spiritual energy to maintain the formation. For the operation of the magic, although there are still some spiritual stones and high-grade spiritual stones in my storage space due to the formation, I still use one piece and one piece less. I still need to prepare for leaving the mysterious world later, so naturally I can't bear to spend most of it on the formation. The law is transformed into the power of the five elements.

"Or do you completely ignore the power of space in the body? Wait for it to be exhausted by itself?" When the plan failed, a new thought came to Xu Ji's mind. The power of space in his body was like water without roots, tearing apart. While splitting his body, he is also constantly consuming his power. If he waits until his space power is completely exhausted, he will naturally be able to return to his peak.

However, Xu Ji shook his head again. He should be careful with the pain of the power of space tearing his body apart. The most important thing is that Xu Ji is not sure how much energy is left in the power of space in his body. If it takes ten days and a half, it will be enough. It's okay if it can be used up, but what if it can't be used up after ten or eight years?
"Since wasting away and exhausting yourself is not enough, then the only thing left is to master it."

(End of this chapter)