Tao and Heaven

Chapter 74 Goodbye Yu Hua
On the way, a family named Guo kindly took Gu Wen in for the night. The family had a 20-year-old daughter who was going to be forcibly married to a butcher. The wedding would be held in a few days. Gu Wen knew that the other party wanted him from the beginning, but he also wanted to learn how Lu Zhishen beat Zhen Guanxi.

If one has great strength, he will naturally have great energy as well.

Gu Wen came to the butcher's house and learned that the butcher had paid the bride price more than once. The old father of the family was a gambler, and his daughter eloped with a scholar a few years ago, and was then abandoned. Gu Wen put aside the past grudges and sincerely asked for her hand in marriage.

Gu Wen found out the reason and returned as if he had accepted a task in an online game. The father-in-law hesitated and said nothing, and the woman covered her face and cried, as if she was the only one who suffered.

Gu Wen is not a saint, and he is not He Huan. He can't just marry her, right?
It is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. On the contrary, it is better not to help. The next day, Gu Wen left the family. Hearing that there was a tiger guarding the mountain, he turned back and went into the mountain. He killed the tiger and obtained a five-year-old heavenly marrow.

【Twenty-six years of Tiansui】

When Gu Wen came out of the mountain, the butcher had already married the woman. Hearing that the butcher was being abused day and night, he went to visit her and happened to see the woman poisoning the butcher to death, and was then taken to the government by her neighbors.

The next day, the county magistrate opened a trial, and Gu Wen, who had disguised himself as a tiger-fighting hero, was invited to the court. He only needed to change his hairstyle and wear a fake beard to make it difficult to recognize him in the court portraits. Moreover, in the chaotic times, the population was moving frequently, and refugees and bandits could enter the city to set up stalls, so the government would ignore it if it could.

Unless he stands on the street and openly promotes himself.

The woman confessed to the crime and said the butcher did not commit domestic violence. She just felt that the butcher was not worthy of her.

All Gu Wen heard was the excited shouts of the masses. The woman was beaten with a stick until her skin was torn. Her father, Old Man Guo, was beaten to death yesterday because he could not pay back the money he gambled away. The butcher's 60-year-old mother was crying and wailing.

A day later, the butcher's mother hanged herself.

Gu Wen watched all this. He wanted to be a knight but didn't know who to save. He had brute force but was unable to use it.

It's not that he had never seen the sufferings of the world, but it was the first time that he found himself powerless after being able to act on impulse, as if every one of them was beyond help.

The seemingly infatuated but actually vicious woman named Guo, the gambling-addicted old man Guo, the dead butcher, and the childless butcher's mother who hanged herself.

Is it worth saving? Can it be saved forever? Can it still be saved?

"The world is like purgatory, people's hearts are like boiling oil, all living things are suffering, and all kinds of things are evil."

"I am still weak in this world. I am not as strong as the Emperor Daojun, nor as powerful as other True Lords. As long as I don't turn the world upside down, I still need to submit to this chaotic world. It makes me uncomfortable, but I need to avoid it and protect myself."

"The truly powerful should compete with heaven and earth."

"The greatest hero should raise his sword to the sky."

Gu Wen seemed to have just woken up from a dream, his heart of Taoism gradually became clearer, and his spirit became even stronger.

Looking inward at the spiritual image of the Yellow Dragon, the thick earth is in the center, bearing the weight of heaven and earth. If you understand its meaning, you can naturally go further.

[It takes fifty years to complete, and the Yellow Dragon Spirit Appearance only takes twenty-five years]

[Twenty-five years later, the Heavenly Marrow entered the Yellow Dragon, the Yellow Dragon returned to its place, the Five Spirits returned to one, and four spirits are still missing]

He strode away from the crowd and away from the countless people in the county town. This place was too small to be worth his stay.

As I walked onto the muddy path at dusk, I saw a beautiful figure in white sitting in the pavilion by the roadside. She seemed to have been waiting for a long time, but in fact she was just tired from running.

The old donkey on the side looked at the ordinary man who was covered in dust and dressed in black with a backpack on his back. He walked towards them step by step without showing any signs of presence.

Yu Hua asked in a gentle voice, "How are you these days? I haven't seen you for a few days and you seem to have changed a lot."

"Soaring up to 90,000 miles, a common man can defeat a million soldiers."

Gu Wen smiled, his eyes were full of intelligence and charm, and he had perfected the three levels of Taoism.

The old donkey widened his eyes. The man who seemed ordinary in his eyes suddenly changed and became the peerless genius in his memory who dominated a generation.

The three levels of perfect Taoism are understandable, after all, the first three levels are not difficult to perfect, but the Five Elements Spiritual Appearance is only achieved by Sanqing Daozi so far. It vaguely understands Yu Hua's obsession with Gu Wen, which is comparable to Sanqing Daozi's peerless genius.

Who wouldn’t be confused here? Even if I were to do this, I would fight to the death!

Gu Wen took out a gray jade pendant, handed it to Yu Hua and said:
"Now that I am here, I can travel freely in the world and no one can stop me." This is the biggest difference between him and before. Although he is wanted by the whole country of Daqian, he is now free.

The breeze blew up Yu Hua's veil, and she asked with a smile: "When did you become the first among the heroes and the top of the earth list?"

"Starting today."

Gu Wen gave Yu Hua his first reply, accurately and without hesitation.

"I need to go to Luoshui. Would you like to go with me?"

"If you invite me, I'm willing."
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It was getting dark, and as cultivators, they were not afraid of darkness, but they still found a mountain temple to stay overnight.

There were thousands of temples in ancient times, among which mountain gods were the most numerous, and the species of mountain gods were extremely diverse. In the mountain temple they found, a hedgehog was enshrined, also called Baixian.

As soon as the two entered the mountain temple, they could sense the hedgehog hiding in the corner. It was quite spiritual and could be considered a spiritual animal.

Yu Hua gave the hedgehog a pill as a lodging fee, and the hedgehog kowtowed repeatedly, and then wanted to recognize Yu Hua as the master but was rejected. Then the hedgehog wanted to recognize Gu Wen as the master, but before he could consider whether to accept him, Yu Hua said, "You are not worthy of him," which immediately made the little hedgehog drop his pearls.

Unable to bear the blow, Bai Xian disappeared into the night.

Gu Wen thought that he would have to run around everywhere in the future, and it would be inconvenient to take this little thing with him.

Flames were lit in the mountain temple, and Gu Wen and Yu Hua sat on the ground and talked about almost everything.

Gu Wen had endured five years of hatred and finally got his revenge, but he needed someone to talk to, otherwise it would not be a good experience.

Yu Hua didn't say much, just a "hmm" from time to time, but she was obviously enjoying it.

She could feel that Gu Wen's mind, which had been as dead as a dry well, began to slowly fill up. Although his emotions were still not fluctuating much, at least he was not facing a high wall or barrier against her.

People have seven emotions and six desires. It is impossible for them to be born to like self-suppression. Even ascetics are not born with a miserable face.

If Gu Wen was born in the Sanqing Taoist sect, he would not be as depressed as he is now. He is only a hundred years old, but he is more stable than many monks who are hundreds of years old.

The old donkey on the side felt like an outsider, so he lay on the ground with his ears tucked and his eyes closed to rest.

After an unknown amount of time, the two finally talked about something that interested it.

"There is a Tianquan Mountain in Luoshui, and on top of it there is a spiritual spring belonging to Zhejian Mountain. It can help you refine the jade pendant."

Yu Hua brought it up on his own initiative, and Gu Wen's heart moved. This was indeed his purpose, but the other party did not know the existence of the Emperor's juice.

He asked, "Is it so effective?"

"Spiritual medicine builds the Dao, and the underground springs give birth to treasures. The so-called treasure is the Dao soldier in your hand." Yu Hua told him everything he knew as always, and said, "These are also the two paths to becoming an immortal. The former is to build the Dao, and the latter is to build treasures."

"Some sects think that instead of training a strong person, it is better to forge a unique treasure that can be passed down for ten thousand years."

Having said that, adhering to the Yuqing Sect's 'Qi Sect' tradition, Yu Hua sneered and said, "Relying on external things is a small way."

Suddenly, he felt something unusual happening in the jade pendant. Gu Wen felt that Yu Hua could be quite sharp-tongued at times, often causing real harm.

He said, "Please come with me, fellow Taoist."

"Don't bother, I was going to go there anyway."

Yu Hua shook his head and said, the elixir of immortality will automatically gather the five elements, and the sword washing pool is the ultimate of gold.

Maybe it has stopped there, and it would be even better if some roots could be found.

"There is one more thing about the protector. The jade pendant is a token of trust. If you refine it, you will be affected by karma. You must think carefully."

(End of this chapter)