Chapter 96: Awakening of Tao

Long Yu played the piano with both hands, and fearlessly suppressed the anxiety around him. The water droplets on the cross beside him became blurry, and spider web-like cracks appeared on Long Yu's body.

His body was burned by the red flames, and there was no hope in sight. Long Yu didn't know how long he could hold on. With a slight retreat in his heart, the thought of dying kept coming to his mind.

Long Yu didn't know why his body couldn't follow his will, and it began to lose control. His hands played irregular rhythms, and the giant sword in front of him began to slow down. Long Yu bit his lip, feeling very annoyed.

Long Yu began to feel disgusted with his body, and kept begging for it in his heart. Long Yu felt that he was a humble person now, and he was very annoyed by being so humble to his body.

Long Yu looked at his body, which ignored him, and controlled his power to leave his body. Long Yu looked back at his body, which turned into ashes in the red flames. Long Yu clenched his fists, and a guqin appeared in his hands again.

Long Yu looked at the red flames around him with a fearless look in his eyes. Long Yu smiled, "If the body is gone, it can be repaired. If the soul is extinguished, I can still find a way to repair it. If the consciousness disappears, it can be repaired. Even if I, Long Yu, die here, I will never bow my head again."

He played the soothing song with both hands, and an eight-diagram sword formation appeared around him to protect Long Yu's body. Long Yu watched the giant sword disappear in front of him, as if he had lost his compass. Long Yu sat cross-legged in the air, stroking the guqin with both hands.

The red flames around him continued to erode his body, and black air began to appear in Long Yu's body. Long Yu had only one thought in his mind, that is, if he didn't fall down, he would continue to fight. This was a will that was not afraid of death, and it was also Long Yu's persistence to the end when he was burned by the red flames.

The sword beside him had cracks, and Long Yu was shocked. But he quickly ignored it with his fearless eyes. His hands played the soothing song, and Long Yu's mind went blank. He heard nothing, and there was only red flames in front of him.

The sword beside him turned into pieces like broken glass, and Long Yu ignored them. There was only a look of death in his eyes, and the red flames burned on Long Yu's body, and a breath of anxiety hit Long Yu's body.

Long Yu began to feel a little inferior, but was soon suppressed by Long Yu. The red flame seemed unwilling, and a large amount of anxious aura appeared on the edge of the Tao body. Long Yu began to feel a panic impulse, and the Tao body was blurred.

Long Yu looked at the protective layer of his Dao body, tightly protecting the Dao he believed in. For some reason, Long Yu had a doubt, whether his Dao was not suitable for him, and what was right and what was wrong with the so-called Dao he was walking on.

His mind was filled with red flames, and Long Yu was completely blank. He couldn't think of anything, and didn't know what he was doing. Long Yu looked at the red flames beside him quietly, with a tear in his eyes. "Old man, if there is an afterlife, I want to be a salted fish."

Long Yu's mind flashed back to the suppression he had suffered, and he felt that he was not suitable for cultivating immortals, nor for taking this fearless path. Long Yu's dao power was burned into white mist, and there was a dead silence in his mind, and he could not see any hope at all.

The more Long Yu recalled his past, the more he suspected that his path was a wrong choice. Feeling inferior, Long Yu closed his eyes and was unwilling to do anything.

A noisy voice appeared in Long Yu's head, and Long Yu felt very impetuous. It felt like it was mocking him, and Long Yu was very disgusted by the voice. He guessed that the voice in his heart was a sad prelude to death, and the voice became louder and louder.

Long Yu felt something was not right. It sounded like a familiar sound. Long Yu did not know what the sound was, so he tried to listen more clearly. It sounded like someone was fighting, and it also sounded like something was colliding.

The voice in his head successfully aroused Long Yu's curiosity. Long Yu opened his eyes and saw a red flame burning in front of him, with a hint of anxiety. There was nothing else. He looked at his own body and saw only a vague cross that could go out at any time.

Long Yu closed his eyes, and the voice came again. Long Yu didn't want to care where the voice came from, it kept on making noises, and Long Yu opened his eyes again with a sense of annoyance. A drop of water fell clearly on the red flame, and it turned into white mist in just a moment.

Long Yu looked at the water drop with disdain, but the water drop kept dripping, never giving up and never turning back. After the water drop turned into white mist, it disappeared in the red flame. Long Yu was conquered by the courage of the water drop, and suddenly he had a feeling that if he were a water drop, would he also be able to forget himself and not know the way home when he saw no hope?

Looking at his own body, many things were blurry, leaving only a small group of white mist that turned into water droplets. Every time a drop of water fell, the white mist disappeared a lot. Long Yu roughly estimated that the white mist in front of him was at most ten drops of water.

The red flame in front of him was still unclear, and the water drops fell on the red flame, feeling like knocking on the red flame. Long Yu vaguely heard the sound of water drops, and a question popped up in his mind.

Why does a drop of water make a sound when it falls on the red flame? Shouldn't it turn into white mist and disappear? Long Yu watched the water drop fall again, and the same thing happened. A new question appeared in Long Yu's mind. Why can the water drop do this? Is there something guiding the water drop?

The red flames around him became more violent, but the water drops were still unaffected by the flames. They continued to fall drop by drop. The sound of water drops appeared in Long Yu's mind. The "tick-tick" sound was like a bell, which shook Long Yu's mind.

Long Yu was awakened by this voice, and had an illusion. Between life and death, he was not afraid of life, nor was he afraid of death. Instead, he was afraid of his own ignorance. Long Yu's ignorance of life was his current situation.

Long Yu looked at the scene in front of him. There were only three drops of water left. With his weak consciousness, Long Yu watched the water droplets fall. A sentence emerged in his mind, "I can't control life, and I can't control death. What I can control is my own life and death. I am not afraid of the threat of a strong enemy, nor am I afraid of the hope of pursuing life. Instead, I am afraid of my own ignorance of my own life."

The last drop of water in front of him fell like Long Yu's will, "Water flows without knowing where it will return, and when it goes to death, it does not know where it will return." Long Yu looked at the water drop, and one drop became two drops. They formed a Tai Chi Pisces shape. Feeling the taste of life and death from the water drop Pisces, Long Yu's consciousness and soul fell on the water drop Tai Chi Pisces.

A crack appeared in front of him, and Long Yu hesitated for a moment, "Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are determined by heaven, and success is determined by man." Long Yu jumped into the crack with a fearless attitude of going to death, and the scene in front of him scared Long Yu. In front of him was a messy cave with broken stone walls everywhere.

In front of him stood a palm-sized gecko, with a red flame on its belly. Long Yu subconsciously stepped back a meter, and the gecko in front of him looked at Long Yu and ran into the cave. Long Yu looked at the disappearing back of the gecko with a confused face, not knowing what had happened.

Long Yu leaned against the stone wall and searched for his blood in the ring. Long Yu had an urge to curse, "When can you stop playing with me like this?" Long Yu looked at his three rings and found nothing but a piece of broken jade.

Long Yu began to get a little crazy, looking at the cave in front of him, it seemed that there was a vague voice guiding Long Yu forward. Long Yu looked at his current situation, the Tao body formed by two drops of water, and a small drop of something left in the spiritual space.

Long Yu looked helpless, his body was gone, and his soul was nothing but the blue flames. Long Yu thought for a moment and decided to repair his power first. Long Yu entered into meditation and felt like he had just had a good sleep.

When he woke up, his spiritual consciousness formed a human figure, holding the guqin with both hands, and the water droplets above his head formed a Tai Chi double fish on top. Long Yu was confused at the first glance. When did this happen? He had no idea what was going on.

Long Yu tried to move forward. His body, surrounded by his spiritual consciousness, had no resistance in the air. Long Yu floated into the cave with a smile. The black spot in front of him grew bigger and bigger, as if it was a door. Long Yu looked at the door in front of him in disbelief. He had walked so far and encountered a fire lizard. If it was so easy, it would not be his luck.

Long Yu slowed down. The door in front of him was blurry and gave people the feeling that it was full of mystery. Long Yu swallowed and made a movement of his mouth and hands. There was no water flowing on his throat. Long Yu's hands were shaking, but his brain continued to support Long Yu's will.

Long Yu put his hand three inches from the door, and the black air coming from the door did not touch Long Yu's hand at all. Long Yu hesitated for a moment, and thought it was better to forget it. As soon as he put his hand down, Long Yu began to regret it. After going through so much, it would be a pity not to go in and take a look.

The four-character mantra "I'm already here" appeared in Long Yu's mind, and it seemed that he couldn't erase it. Long Yu still hesitated with his right hand, closed his eyes and placed his hand on the door. Feeling a strong force attracting Long Yu inside, Long Yu opened his eyes and looked around him.

It felt like I was falling into an abyss. The walls around me kept rising to form a line. I couldn't see what was above me. It seemed to be black and a little bit blue. There was no bottom under my feet.

Long Yu tried to control his body, which was condensed by his spiritual consciousness. Suddenly, a beam of light appeared under his feet. Long Yu seemed to see some hope. As the distance under his feet got closer and closer, the speed of his body falling also slowed down. Long Yu had the urge to curse. His body stayed in the air, unable to go up or down. In the air, he quietly looked at the dark stone slabs below that blocked the blue light, as if the voice guiding him was right in front of him.