My enemies became my companions

Chapter 458 I Can Overlook Everything (Two in One)
When the brilliant golden eye in the sky was within reach, a nine-tailed phantom suddenly appeared across the bar, and a single-headed, six-eyed Taowu roared angrily, with a fierce aura surging.

It was an illusory figure, like a candle that has melted to the last wisp of solidified candle flame, which would go out at the touch of a finger. Even so, she was still standing there.

Taowu screamed and uttered unclear and fierce words: "Get out!"

The thick and dark evil was pressing in, and Chen Yi's breathing seemed to be cut off in half. The invisible tightness made it hard for him to breathe. From the corner of his eye, he saw Tushan was still standing in front of him. She did not retreat a single step, and the little light was shining, avoiding the darkness that wanted to swallow Chen Yi.

Taowu spat out again: "Get lost!"

The woman with the nine tails seemed to find it funny, and her voice, neither light nor heavy, resounded throughout the world: "When Emperor Shun was alive, your evil tribe was exiled to foreign lands for your crimes, and both humans and gods have witnessed it. Now, the Tian Gang has come instead."

Taowu's six eyes were all blood red, and a claw suddenly stretched out from the rolling darkness, wanting to tear the woman to pieces.

The woman did not dodge or evade. She waved her arm lightly, and her nine tails spread wide. Intricate golden characters appeared in the air. Chen Yi did not know why he understood the four awe-inspiring words - God's will to punish him.

Suddenly, thunder rose in the sky, a distant lightning broke through the air and hit Taowu on the head. Blood spread, and the ferocious beast howled sharply in an instant, and its six red eyes were bleeding.

Taowu wanted to roar loudly, his rage raging, his blood dyeing the black even darker. He opened his bloody mouth and tried desperately to swallow up the shadow in front of him and Chen Yi behind him.

Tushan said coldly:

"When my husband Yu was alive, there was no place for evil people like you to survive."

In an instant, thunder rose again, like the first lightning at the beginning of the universe, a purest white light penetrated Taowu.

Taowu still held open his bloody mouth, wanting to swallow it, but after the white light, it suddenly turned into ashes and smoke, and the wisps of evil spirit disappeared in the heart lake of Chen Yi's cave, and the world in front of him appeared in the previous azure color.
Chen Yi was dumbfounded, his body slowly falling back onto the lake, rippling the water.

He turned his head to look at Tushan again. All the strange visions just now, even if he didn't understand the meaning, flashed by. He was unaware of them. He just stared at the woman he regarded as his mother. His lips hummed, and suddenly he had a lot of things to say.

Tushan's figure was transparent, as if it would be blown away by the wind.

But she still turned around, not as if she hadn't seen me for a long time, but just called out casually:
"Still not coming over?"

Chen Yi came back to his senses, his eyes suddenly felt sore, he curled his lips and forced a smile. He didn't want to look too sad, but he wiped his eyes anyway.

After a long while, he took a deep breath and walked over slowly.

When Tushan's face appeared before him, Chen Yi stared at it absentmindedly for a moment, then said in a hoarse voice: "Mother..."

Tushan hummed softly, her figure was ethereal, as if she would fly away if one wasn't paying attention.

But her features remained the same, and she seemed like she would never leave.

Chen Yi didn't know what to say next. He was afraid that he would never see her again.

Tushan was a little impatient, and said angrily, "I haven't seen you for a few days. Are you taking a mute medicine?"

Chen Yi paused for a moment, smiled silently, and said after a long while, "That's not the case."

"Then why don't you speak?" Tushan stared at him.

Chen Yi was about to explain himself, but before he could open his mouth, Tu Shan said "oh" in a long tone, shook her finger and said, "Did you find a godmother outside?"

Chen Yi denied it repeatedly: "That's not the case."

Tushan looked at him suspiciously, then said, "You can find any woman you want, but you can't just find a mother."

Chen Yi smiled and said, "No."

Then he subconsciously wanted to look somewhere, but before he could see anything, Tushan said as if she had expected it:
"You don't have to think about what's happening outside. Here... everything slows down."

As soon as he heard the words, Chen Yi withdrew his gaze. He also felt something. For some reason, in the heart lake of this cave, the outside world became extremely slow, and time seemed to stop passing.

Chen Yi turned his head and finally asked, "You... are hiding in my soul?"

Tu Shan said bluntly: "A little remnant soul, when you left, I heard you talk about the conspiracy to repair the sky and so on, so I kept a watchful eye on you."

Chen Yi nodded slightly, which was exactly what he thought.

At that time, Queen An said that there was a little remnant of Tushan's soul left in the world, and misled Chen Yi that the remnant soul was in her body. However, Chen Yi saw through her mistake from the details, and since then she denied the idea that Tushan's remnant soul was still in the world. But now think about it again, how could Queen An make up a lie that is so easy to expose out of nothing? The point is that she may have already used the secret method of the Imperial Observatory to predict the remnant of Tushan's soul, and mistakenly thought it was in her body.

"I thought it was just a... ridiculous fantasy." Chen Yi murmured.

Then he suddenly remembered that he had specifically asked Zhou Yitong whether Tushan had any remaining soul, and his wife in the previous life denied it. It was this denial that made him completely stop thinking about it.

Chen Yi's thoughts were reflected in his heart. Tu Shan looked down and saw that slightly familiar cold face.

She seemed to have sensed something and sighed softly, "You remember her the most."

“…I can’t help it.” Chen Yi also saw the painting in the water and felt a little embarrassed. He shamelessly changed the subject and said, “Mom, why did this beast come here? And he seems to… know me.”

The feeling at that moment would not lie. From the first time Chen Yi saw it, he felt that the ferocious beast looked familiar, and as soon as it came, it wanted to plunder his third eye.

Then he thought about the fact that this beast came from outside the domain, and he was the demon from outside the domain in the eyes of others...

Behind this, there are so many schemes and calculations, and so many despicable intrigues in the surging undercurrents. Chen Yi feels like he is on edge.

"Mother has been imprisoned for so many years, how could she know?" Tu Shan tapped her feet towards the water, "You should ask this woman, she has concealed a lot from you."

Chen Yi lowered his head, took a deep look at the water, and whispered in agreement: "Bad woman."

Even if Tushan didn't say it, Chen Yi knew that his wife in the previous life had concealed so much. There were many things she always told half and hid the other half, or she simply didn't say a word. Even after getting along with her for a long time, Chen Yi always felt that he couldn't see through her. Although they were married, no matter how much they said, they still couldn't have a deep conversation. It seemed that she didn't care about this life or the next.

Even if he wanted to find out the truth, Zhou Yitang would either avoid answering or say that he shouldn't know at that time.

Tushan suddenly smiled and said, "How about divorcing her?"

"She...she is the woman who cares about me the most in the world, except you." Chen Yi was stunned. He didn't expect it to be like this. Fearing that Tushan would be unhappy, he shook his head and smiled: "If I divorce her, I'm afraid the next one I find will also be a bad woman."

“There are always good women.”

"There are too many bad women in the world." Chen Yi paused and changed the subject: "What is not considered a bad woman?"

"A woman who looks like my mother is not a bad woman." Tushan pointed at herself and said with a smile.

"Mom, aren't you bragging about yourself?"

"You little brat, if I don't brag about myself, how do you know that I treat you the best in the world?"

Tu Shan suddenly called the little fox a bad boy, and Chen Yi's heart suddenly felt warm, just like when he would laugh and call the little fox a fool, his heart softened at the slightest words.

"Mom, you are so nice." Chen Yi said for no reason.

Tu Shan was stunned, she put her sleeves over her mouth and chuckled: "You finally know?"

"I've always known."

"Who is better, your master or your mother?" Tushan asked cunningly.

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Yi said, "...Mother."

"You are so sensible." Tu Shan looked at the woman in the heart lake, "That being said, if she asks you the same question, you should say she is better, understand?"

"why?"

"You can't deceive a woman's heart without doing this." Tushan smiled and said, "Just say it, mother will never be embarrassed." Chen Yi's thoughts were up and down for a while, but they came back after a moment.

The lake in front of him was his heart. Chen Yi shook his hands and brushed away Zhou Yitong's face. The lake water danced lightly with his fingertips, and the water immediately condensed into a scene of an old man sitting on the top of the mountain. When he looked at the picture, as if realizing that this person was extraordinary, Tushan's eyes wrinkled, his fox tail spread out, and a dangerous aura spread out.

Chen Yi looked at the darkness outside and explained:

"He wants to duel with me. If I lose, I die, and if I win, he dies. Zhou Yitang fought him to a draw a few years ago, so she taught me and helped me solve my doubts. She said that only by reaching the state of 'forgetting both the self and the world' and becoming one with the world can there be a glimmer of hope. What she said is true, but..."

Tushan guessed it right and said, "But you don't like it."

Chen Yi smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I don't like it. I have to chop off the corpse, and I have to use the invisible, formless and selfless state. But I... I can't think of any other way, and I can't think of... a better realm."

For some reason, he could listen to many of Zhou Yitang's words except her most praiseworthy sword. Chen Yi always ignored it. It was not that he rejected it, but he felt that what she said was not entirely right. This time was even more so. The words of forgetting both the self and the world were in line with the third level of martial arts, which is to refine the spirit and return to emptiness. The so-called formless and without self expressed countless Zen ideas. However, the collapse of the Buddha statue on the eve of leaving Beijing was still vivid in his mind. Chen Yi destroyed that selfless martial arts spirit with his own hands. It can be said that people with different paths cannot work together.

Chen Yi laughed at himself and said, "I keep saying there is a better realm, and I say I am the Tao, but apart from this method of becoming one with the heaven and earth, I still can't find a way out. My heart... is always erratic, sometimes affected by this, sometimes by that, and I don't know where it will float to."

"Your mind is uncertain?"

"Min Ning once asked me where my heart had gone. It was then that I realized my heart was unsettled," Chen Yi said slowly, "I don't know either...where I want to go."

"Where do you want to go..." Tu Shanshi pondered for a moment, then asked: "People always walk between heaven and earth, where is your heaven and earth?"

"Where? Isn't it here?" Chen Yi thought the question was strange.

Where else can heaven and earth be? Apart from here, apart from this world, where else can heaven and earth be found...

Suddenly, Chen Yi suddenly realized something and said, "You mean here?!"

Ripples were rippling on the surface of the lake, and the gentle waves crushed Wu Buyu's figure. In the lake water, which was neither clear nor turbid, vague phantoms of smoke emerged. The water gently brushed over his knees, and those faces were so familiar.

Tu Shan pursed her lips and smiled softly, saying softly: "If it's not in your heart, then where is it?"

Chen Yi took a deep breath, his mind rose, water surged, one drop, two drops, thousands of drops of water leaped up and merged into a magnificent and clear sky. The sky was clear blue, and there was wet steam between his breaths. He raised his head and looked, dazed and absent-minded.

Everything was quiet, the sky spread out a soft picture, and the faces became clearer and clearer. Chen Yi recalled many things and saw many scenes, as if some bits and pieces were echoing, either bitter, happy, angry, or sad... He saw Yin Tingxue holding paper flowers and wanting to open them but not daring to, saw the wet sleeves of the nun before and after leaving Beijing, saw the one-armed woman guarding the grave, saw Min Ning carrying a sword and a knife, imitating him to be a hero, saw Qin Qingluo's complicated expression as he stroked his abdomen and Zhu'e's joy when reading the letter, and saw the young widow lying on the table in a daze... The water was shimmering and merged into the boundless sky.

There is the sky, but where is the earth?
Chen Yi wanted to look up at the sky, but his feet landed on empty space. For a long time, he always felt that he, an alien demon, was just an alien demon after all, floating in this world without any roots, like a passing guest in a dream.

Chen Yi turned his head with a questioning look, only to see Tushan pointing in a direction. He looked over there, and his heavenly eyes suddenly opened wide, looking through thousands of miles away, heading south and south again.

His eyes were like a ball of light that moved quickly, rolling back and forth. He saw a group of old women waiting anxiously outside the house, whispering to each other. He also saw the red steamed buns piled up like a hill gradually cooling down, the candlelight flickering, gradually melting and condensing into a motionless candle flower. He wanted to see what was happening inside the house, but before he could push the door open, he heard a loud cry that broke the silence...

Like crying in his heart.

His daughter was born.

Chen Yi burst into tears without realizing it. His feet were no longer falling in the air. He finally had a foothold in this world.

A gentle voice was heard beside my ear: "Yi Er, if people can create their own world, why do they need to seek the law from outside and search for it in a thousand ways?"

Chen Yi suddenly had an epiphany. He had been entangled in chivalry and trapped in the capital city, but it didn't matter. He was a family-oriented person. No matter how much time had passed, all he wanted was a home.

"That's it... That's it..."

Chen Yi muttered to himself. With himself as the center of the circle, his world suddenly opened up and extended to a place farther than the distance. He suddenly felt unsteady and his feet stepped on the ground again. The world became more and more vast. He stared into the distance, which was thousands of miles away. A long wind blew by and another gust of wind came.

"Where do I want to go?"

The wind came from the west and went to the east, and he listened attentively.

Chen Yi murmured softly: "I will go wherever my heart takes me."

Refining the spirit and returning to emptiness,

My heart is the heaven and earth.

.........

Mountain top.

The wind was howling, and despite the strange phenomena in the world, the reeds on the ground were still swaying proudly. Suddenly, they stopped, and the strong wind gradually died down. The myriad reeds suddenly fell into deathly silence.

then,

Each plant stands straight.

It is densely packed and a magnificent sight.

Circles of reeds broke and white mist flew around. Wu Buyu suddenly opened his eyes and a gleam of light flashed in his cloudy and old pupils.

He turned around and took a step forward. His majestic aura like a mountain pushed outwards. Thousands of reeds fell down and bowed their heads. But among the complex fractures, an ancient and cold sword emerged from the ground and flew from the back to the front into his hand.

Wu Buyu looked into the distance and took another step.

A bolt of thunder roared across the sky and into the distance.

.........

The sky was dark and the earth was gloomy. When the immortals saw Taowu killing two True Lords, they were all scared and their hearts were broken. The two True Lords were of great importance, one was the seventh-generation ancestor of Longmen Sect, and the other was the first-generation head of Chongyang Temple. Both of these highly respected immortals were given the title of "True Lord", but they died so easily. What could they do? The platform collapsed in an instant. The immortals were stunned and had forgotten to escape. However, Taowu stood stiffly in the crack and did not move.

Three breaths later, the immortals came to their senses and turned into streaks of light and fled in panic. When they were a hundred feet away, they saw that Taowu was still motionless, so they stopped.

After a long while, an immortal seemed to have figured something out, and cried out in a hoarse voice:
"The two great masters sacrificed their lives to slay the demon!"

Taowu, who wanted to return to the world to cause trouble, died suddenly, almost at the same time as the deaths of the two great True Lords. So the answer is obvious. As soon as these words came out, they spread among the immortals in an instant, and cries of grief arose everywhere, and there was a sound of crying and wailing between heaven and earth.

The light of the magic weapon that illuminated the world dimmed for a moment, but the sword energy was still rampant over there. Master Jinggu was like a madman. It was good that Taowu appeared to distract him, but it was only for a moment. At this moment, he was engaged in fighting again, and sword moves and sword energy were intertwined, making a bang, and the killing was crazy.

While Zhuo Yu was dealing with the fierce sword energy, she glanced at Chen Yi who was hanging in the distance. An inexplicable aura spread from him, which was indescribable and unusual. She turned away the fierce and invading sword energy, took a deep look at him, and frowned tightly.

…a world of its own?
Zhuo Yu's pupils shrank slightly.

But at this moment of surprise, Master Jinggu's sword strike became more ruthless, and the loud sound of the two swords clashing exploded. He broke through Yu's sword moves, and his sword was as sharp as a rainbow piercing the sun, trying to pierce the red-shirted woman's heart.

Wow!
A beam of blood shot up into the sky, but it was a hot golden color. Master Jinggu saw with his own eyes his body falling down. His sword was still moving forward, and he still wanted to kill him, but his head and body were no longer in the same place.

As the world spun, the silhouette of the white-haired old man was reflected in the wide-open eyes of Master Jinggu.

Wu Buyu stopped between heaven and earth, his white hair dancing in the air. He never looked back, and his features gave people a majestic aura as if he were looking up to a towering mountain.

He stared straight at the man in front of him.

The man turned around with the sword in hand.

The strong wind between heaven and earth suddenly stopped, and it seemed as if an invisible cliff as tall as a sword was opened between them.

The white-haired old man said in a hoarse voice: "Are you the withered grass in the grave, or the towering mountain?"

"Whether it's withered grass or a tall mountain," Chen Yi, who had broken through the third level and reached the peak of his martial spirit, smiled slowly, "You can all come and have a look!"

(End of this chapter)