Chapter 26: The True Way of Oneself

Long Yu looked at the path in front of him, which was dark and gloomy, and from time to time, a mournful sound was heard. Long You sat on the ground and drew out a drop of blood to repair his body, silently reciting in his heart , " I am not afraid of life, and I will return to the top of the mountains with my bones when I die."

Long Yu looked at his body. He had seen too many bones in the past day and night, and there were broken weapons everywhere. Long Yu decided to walk into the path. Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God. This belief kept appearing in Long Yu's mind.

Long Yu took two steps at a slow pace, and a scream came from the path. Long Yu heard it sounded like someone was in pain. Looking at the weeds on the ground with a lot of weirdness, Long Yu got closer and the weeds seemed like a sharp weapon cutting Long Yu's body.

Long Yu felt the various auras of death spreading from the wound, including sad death, angry death, fearful death, etc. Long Yu roughly calculated in his mind that there were more than 10,000 kinds of death auras, and these auras of death were constantly communicating.

Long Yu used his spiritual power to repair his body, but found that he could not repair it at all. The blood was still flowing, but it had no effect at all. The pain of the wound was accompanied by countless breaths. Long Yu was more irritated, and every drop of blood was collected in the ring.

Long Yu discovered a problem. As long as there was only one drop of blood, it would not be covered by the breath of death. The body would be covered by the breath. Long Yu looked at the road ahead and it was still very far away, and there was no end in sight.

Long Yu groped for the way forward. He couldn't see his fingers when he opened his hand. He could only hold the sword in the ring and keep swinging forward. The clang clang sound of the weapons colliding was the sound of Long Yu leading the way. Long Yu tried to use his spiritual sense to explore the way, but it was pitch black in front of him and he couldn't see anything.

Long Yu moved closer step by step, and his body finally stopped working. Long Yu fell to the ground, crawling forward, groping forward with both hands, and seemed to hit something sharp, which directly broke Long Yu's left hand, "Ah" a scream spread throughout the sky.

Long Yu heard something flying in the sky, and he had a bad feeling. He shook his head and continued to grope for the way in. He could feel his body was filled with the breath of death.

Long Yu knew that this was an unwilling breath of death. Long Yu didn't know why, it seemed to be mixed with the surrounding breath. Long Yu could clearly know that his body had been drained of blood, and there was also a faint trace of life left.

Long Yu looked at the blue flames in the sky, as if a pair of eyes were looking at him, as if waiting for something. Long Yu understood, he had read a book before, this was a mutant crow, eating the flesh of the dead body.

Long Yu clearly knew that it was the breath of death on him that attracted them. Now that he still had a faint trace of life, they would not approach him. They were waiting for him to be completely covered. Long Yu understood why there were so many scattered bones on the road and broken weapons everywhere on the ground.

They were all like Long Yu, who relied on their own perseverance to reach a certain position, and then lost their life. Long Yu was unwilling to die here like them. He could not regain his dignity, and he could not go to the hometown that Leng Tu mentioned, and he could not be taken care of by the old man until his death.

Despite his unwillingness, Long Yu crawled forward again, but when he felt around, he found nothing but stones. After looking around, he only found the path where his body had been lying and there was no other path to go.

Long Yu looked at the crows with blue eyes in the sky with hatred, feeling a strong sense of unfairness in his heart. Why could they fly in the sky, but he had to die here? Long Yu lay on the ground, even with countless reluctance in his heart, the vitality of his body disappeared in an instant.

Long Yu could clearly sense that countless crows were rushing towards his body, and in just a moment his body turned into a pile of bones. Nothing was left. Long Yu was frustrated with himself, and a strong sense of sleepiness came over him.

Long Yu continued to use the power of his spiritual consciousness to fight against sleepiness. The power of his spiritual consciousness seemed to diminish little by little, and slowly turned into a pitch-black patch. It seemed that everything had become static, except for Long Yu, who was wandering in motion.

After an unknown amount of time, a hazy sound reached Long Yu's vicinity. It sounded like laughter, crying, and anxious shouting. Long Yu tried to stop and listen carefully, but he couldn't hear what the sound was, nor did he know what it was saying.

Long Yu was sitting on the ground when a faint voice came. Long Yu ran towards the voice, step by step, and heard the voice getting louder and louder. Finally, he saw a beam of light running very fast. Long Yu chased the beam of light closer and closer, and ran out directly touching it.

Long Yu opened his eyes and saw Xiao An. He looked around in confusion. This was the place where he had come to cry before. He had also asked Xiao An to leave. Why did he return to this place? Did Xiao An save him?

Xiao An gently patted Long Yu, "Young Master, don't sleep, let's go back." Long Yu looked at Xiao An with a serious face, "Thank you for saving me, Senior Xiao, but I still have to finish my own journey again."

Xiao An shook Long Yu's body, and a rough voice reached Long Yu's ears, "Young Pavilion Master, what nonsense are you talking about? Don't sleep anymore. Let's go back to Shenjian Mountain now. I believe that when I come back, I will definitely teach you to be a powerful blacksmith. We should not be unable to stand up because of a small blow."

Long Yu looked at Xiao An in bewilderment and told him about his experience. Xiao An was also bewildered, "Young Pavilion Master, what kind of Taoism are you practicing? Since you can sense the future in your dreams, the mountain is indeed the territory of the white ape, and there is a chimpanzee under the white ape's command nearby."

Long Yu became even more confused after listening to Xiao An's words. He looked at Xiao An in confusion, "The way I practice is the water drop cause and effect way. It's like a cloud in the sky turns into a drop of water, drops on the lake, and then turns into gas and turns into a cloud, and repeats again."

Xiao An glanced at the sky and then at Long Yu, and stroked Long Yu's head with a smile, "Young Pavilion Master, this is not the law of cause and effect of a water drop, but the law of time and reincarnation." Long Yu looked at Xiao An and didn't seem to be joking, "Senior Xiao, what is the law of time and reincarnation? Please give me some advice."

Xiao An looked at Long Yu in shock, "Young Pavilion Master, I don't quite understand the truth you have realized. Let me explain it this way. The water drop you realized is reincarnation when it falls and returns to the starting point. Similarly, the time it takes to fall and the time it takes to return to the starting point are considered time. The combination of the two is the time of reincarnation."

Long Yu jumped up, looking like he couldn't find his chin, "So I got it wrong." Xiao An waved his hand, "There is no such thing as getting it wrong. As long as you get a little bit of enlightenment, the Emperor of Samsara in the Underworld can go back and forth to different time points, and the Emperor of Time and Space in the Heavens can travel through different time and space."

Xiao An looked at the sky. "Some people say that the Time and Space Emperor is also the Samsara Emperor, and some people call him the Time and Space Samsara Emperor. He is the only emperor in the history. For so many years, no one has been able to comprehend even a little bit of his truth, even though the sky has been empty for a long time. People keep trying to comprehend, but unfortunately no one can understand."

Long Yu looked at Xiao An in shock. Xiao An looked in awe. It was not as simple as talking. Long Yu guessed that Xiao An must know the Emperor of Samsara or have seen such a legendary figure. Long Yu had seen the shadow of the Emperor of Samsara in a book. The book said:

There is a reincarnation mirror in the underworld, which allows many people to reincarnate. The Emperor of Reincarnation travels through time and space and kills an enemy at will. The Emperor of Reincarnation is rarely discovered and has always existed at different points in time. No one knows what the Emperor of Reincarnation will look like or how powerful he is. There is only one record that a genius in the fairy world once traveled through time and space with the Emperor of Reincarnation. The Emperor of Reincarnation was both a teacher and a friend to this person. The two of them fought in a war between the worlds, and this person died. The Emperor of Reincarnation has been reincarnating to find this person's trace.

Long Yu didn't seem to care much about the books he had read before, but now after hearing what Xiao An said, he suddenly understood some truths. His own path is a bit like the path of the Emperor of Samsara. How far he can go depends on his own practice.

Long Yu bowed to Xiao An, "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Xiao. Now that I know my path, I should keep going." Xiao An shook his head, "It seems that the Young Pavilion Master does not know how to use his own Tao to fight."

Long Yu nodded and looked at Xiao An, "I don't quite understand what you mean by application, Senior Xiao. Please enlighten me." Xiao An looked at Long Yu and sighed, "There are four different kinds of Tao. The first kind is the physical Tao, which is the Tao carried by the blood in the body. The second kind is the Tao body, which is what many people who practice Taoism now use the Dantian in the body to practice Taoism and transform into a Nascent Soul as the basis."

Xiao An stroked his beard, "The third is the soul path, which transforms the soul into a Taoist body. The fourth is the divine path, which transforms the divine consciousness into a Taoist body. Regardless of which path it is, one can ascend to the heavens and pursue one's own throne."

A huge shadow appeared behind Xiao An. Looking closely, it was exactly the same as Xiao An, with a lightning hammer on its shoulder. "Young Pavilion Master, you see, I am a cultivator. Behind me is my Dao body. In the process of fighting, you rely on the Dao body to fight, not the physical body, unless you only cultivate the physical body."

The Dao body behind Xiao An hammered down to the left, and Long Yu could feel the spreading aura of determination. "Young Pavilion Master, use the mental method you have learned to charge your Dao body as the source of power, and then project the Dao body as a phantom behind you, and then you can fight."

After hearing this, Long Yu used the Tianyan Heart Technique to connect the water droplets, and then guided the water droplets to appear behind him. Long Yu turned around and saw that it really worked. A drop of water was constantly changing like the one in the divine consciousness. Long Yu let the phantom control a sword to fly directly forward, and then fly back to his side. Looking at Xiao An with a smug smile on his face, Xiao An's face turned into a pig liver.