At this moment, a thousand or ten thousand guesses flashed through Jianchou's mind, but in the end it all came down to -
How come he is here
What is he here for
What's the situation with my master
What major event has happened in the past twenty years that I'm not aware of
Does he know that he is here
What is your identity now
…
The huge number of questions almost overwhelmed her instantly, and even made her gaze as she looked at the two people become a little stiff. It was not until the two people walked up to her that her expression returned to normal.
It’s no wonder that Jianchou is not very cunning, it’s just that the “shock” came too unexpectedly!
"Xiao Jianchou, Xiao Jianchou, haha, you finally have a conscience! I came back as soon as I overcame the disaster, and I won't scold you this time."
When Fudao Shanren saw her, he was so happy that he almost threw the chicken leg away.
Why would you need a chicken drumstick if you already have an apprentice
No no no…
Stop, stop, we still need chicken legs.
He jumped in front of Jianchou and looked her up and down with his bright eyes. The more he looked, the happier he became. "You really have reached the Return to Void Stage. Hahahaha, old monster Hengxu must be so mad! He was showing off to me, the hermit, that he could build a foundation in ten days. Now he is dumbfounded, right? Good disciple, it is worth my time cultivating you."
Carefully, cultivate
etc…
Jianchou finally came back to her senses, and when she looked at her master's expression, it suddenly became hard to describe. But next to her was Fu Chaosheng, so she suppressed the strange feeling she couldn't explain, glanced at him, and endured it, so she didn't expose her master's shortcomings in front of Fu Chaosheng, an "outsider".
"Meeting my old friend, congratulations."
I don't know if Fu Chaosheng has already had some understanding of Fudaoshan's temper, but at this moment he didn't express any objection. Instead, he walked forward, smiled at Jianchou and congratulated him.
These words sounded very strange to Jianchou.
Firstly, these words coming from a great demon like Fu Chaosheng suddenly gave her a taste of the mundane world; secondly, at this moment, she was at the top of Lingzhao on Yashan Mountain, and yet she received congratulations from a great demon.
It's really weird...
Jianchou forced himself to suppress the feelings in his heart, and smiled back with some hesitation.
But when he was about to call him, he suddenly felt that he must not be Yashan, the great demon that he was. After all, the evil spirit of the demon was completely gone at this moment.
Therefore, she was a little more hesitant about how to address him.
On the contrary, Fu Daoshan was standing aside. He was so happy to see Chou coming back that he ignored Fu Chaosheng. But when he spoke, he noticed it.
So, the previous doubts came up.
His eyes rolled around and he walked forward without saying a word. He ignored Fu Chaosheng and directly pulled Jianchou aside.
"Master?"
Jianchou was involuntarily dragged towards the sword-drawing platform by him, but he already had a vague expectation in his heart, so he glanced at Fu Chaosheng.
Fu Chaosheng just shook his head slightly with a faint smile on his lips.
This is so that she doesn't have to worry.
Jianchou understood what he meant, but she was not completely relieved. After calmly withdrawing her gaze, she and Fudao Shanren walked to the bottom of the sword-drawing platform.
"Who is this guy?" As soon as he stood still, Fudaoshanren asked, "What is your relationship with him? How did you know him? Why did he come to see you?"
"I… "
She still had a lot of questions in her mind. She never expected that Fudaoshanren had almost as many questions as she did. After this series of questions came down on her, Jianchou could hardly react.
"He is my friend, whom I met by chance on the road..."
"An acquaintance by chance?"
Fudaoshanren rolled his eyes and looked at her with suspicion, which he did not hide at all.
"He was the one who came to Yashan during the time you were missing, and he said he was your friend, which means you knew him at least twenty years ago. What was your cultivation level at that time? Look at his cultivation level. It's not easy to make friends with a great person in the Return to Void Stage..."
"But Master..."
Although it's a little late, my disciple is now a great man who has reached the level of Return to the Void.
All right.
Twenty years ago, it was indeed a pipe dream for a Nascent Soul cultivator to want to be on equal terms with a Return to Void cultivator.
This is how the cultivation world works.
Even though great people may treat everyone equally in their hearts, if your cultivation is slightly lower, you will always feel inferior to them most of the time.
So most of the time, the friends you make good friends with are basically at the same level as you.
Jianchou wanted to explain something, but found that there was really no explanation, so he had to change the subject cleverly: "Come to think of it, didn't he say why he came here?"
"snort."
Speaking of this, Fudaoshanren wanted to sneer, and took a big bite of the chicken leg viciously, as if he was chewing someone's meat, with a quite scary posture.
"This man came to inquire about your whereabouts at first. When the mountain people saw someone coming to the door, they thought he was your enemy, but he turned out to be a friend. That would have been fine, but he also wanted to stay in Yashan. What's even more outrageous is that within two days, he actually got to know the ancestor, and the ancestor let him stay permanently!"
Old, old ancestor?!
Jianchou's mind suddenly emerged the empty dark space he saw when Fudao Shanren took him to the bottom of the cliff mountain, the tall round altar and the huge mirror on the altar, and the withered skeleton sitting cross-legged on the mirror.
Fu Chaosheng actually hooked up with the ancestor...
Why did she feel like she was dreaming
What exactly happened
Unable to hold back for a moment, Jianchou turned back to look at Fu Chaosheng who was still standing beside the Guihe Well, and felt deeply unbelievable. But then he changed his mind and thought of the huge mirror again.
The huge mirror can penetrate the yin and yang.
Is this why Fu Chaosheng came
She was not sure in her heart, and after a moment's hesitation, she asked Fudao Shanren: "Then did the ancestor say anything?"
"The old green leaf ancestor of the mountain people, he is just an old bone, he has been dead for many years, what can he say?"
Fudao Shanren recalled how the ancestor had been secretive when he went to ask, and he became so angry that he almost wanted to poke his skeleton apart.
"Anyway, he knows nothing. He was only allowed to stay for the time being, but the mountain people watched him go to see the ancestors for a few hours every day. Hey, do you think this could be the disciple of our Yashan who was lost many years ago?"
Return to the disciples
The feeling of sorrow immediately became indescribable.
She had witnessed with her own eyes how Fu Chaosheng transformed from a mayfly into a great demon. There was no way he could be a lost disciple of Yashan. Fudaoshanren was just imagining things and must not have taken it seriously.
Therefore, Jianchou simply ignored this obviously unreliable speculation and said, "Since the ancestor agreed, he must have his own reasons. Now that my disciple has returned, I have a little friendship with him. If the master is worried, I will ask him later."
"It's not that I'm worried..."
Fudao Shanren was actually quite relieved about his disciple who was both extremely worry-free and troublesome. It was just that the arrival of this cultivator who called himself "Fu Chaosheng" was too abrupt and too strange.
"You know how to judge people, and Master also knows that you rarely act recklessly in important matters. But, this person is not quite right."
My eyelids twitched slightly, and my heartbeat quickened a little.
Jianchou held his breath and quietly suppressed it, not letting his master see any flaws. He only asked cautiously, "Is there anything wrong?"
"Although my cultivation level was not very high a while ago, and I am about to be caught up by you disciples now, I was also a genius back then. I may not know the old monsters in the 19 continents, but when it comes to the great powers, there is no one I don't know."
Fudaoshanren frowned and glanced at Fu Chaosheng who still showed no intention of leaving.
"But your friend seemed to have popped out of nowhere. I have never heard of his name before, let alone seen him. If he hadn't appeared, I would have no idea there was such a person in the cultivation world."
Yes, that's the flaw.
But Jianchou didn't even think about trying to explain Fu Chaosheng's story. He just nodded and said, "Master is right."
"There's also his cultivation level. It looks like he's in the middle stage of Return to Void, but it doesn't seem right. It doesn't feel right to me."
To be honest, Fudaoshanren had a lot of doubts.
"Looking at him, you may think he is no different from an ordinary monk, but he is not like that inside. I think this person is a bit strange and doesn't seem to be a righteous person..."
As expected of an elder who is famous for his law enforcement in the Nineteen Continents even though he is just a shopkeeper, my master's sense is so sharp that it is amazing.
Jianchou's current cultivation level is almost the same as that of Fudaoshanren.
But if she didn't know Fu Chaosheng, and let him stand in front of her, she wouldn't be able to sense any flaws. But Fu Daoshanren could smell that something unusual.
After all, Fu Chaosheng is a big demon.
Jianchou didn't think there was anything wrong with making friends with him, but if others knew what kind of person he was, that might be a different story.
After all, most of the cultivators here agree on one thing: those who are not of our race must have different hearts.
She frowned slightly and did not respond to Fu Daoshanren's words for the time being.
Fudao Shanren laughed, pointed at Fu Chaosheng in the distance with the half-eaten chicken leg, and asked, "Just now we were all on the top of the sheath, paying attention to your tribulation. Do you know what he said to me, Shanren?"
"What?"
Jianchou asked subconsciously.
For the first time, a subtle and indescribable expression appeared on Fudaoshanren's not-so-serious face, making his eyes, which were almost blocked by his messy hair, have an unusually mysterious light.
"He said that the way of heaven is nothing but a dead thing."
"… "
The tone of Fudaoshanren's retelling was originally extremely calm, but perhaps because the sentence itself was somewhat thrilling, Jianchou actually heard the bloody smell of killing!
Heaven is but a dead thing...
She didn't say anything for a long time. After a long while, she followed the direction pointed by Fudaoshanren's chicken leg and cast her eyes back at Fu Chaosheng for the third time.
So the words he had said on the West Sea came to his mind clearly again.
Jianchou couldn't tell what he was feeling in his heart and was a little absent-minded for a moment.
Fudaoshanren knew from her expression that Jianchou probably knew something.
He was just about to ask another question, and wanted to talk about Jianchou's unprecedented "I Dao" problem, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a streak of lightning flashed across the sky.
Then there was a sudden thunderclap!
“Boom!”
When the two looked up, they saw a dragon-like lightning coming from the direction of Kunwu. A moment later, it landed directly in the patio of the Yashan Council Hall behind the Sword Drawing Platform.
Fudaoshanren frowned immediately and stopped talking for a moment.
After just a moment, the head of the sect, Zheng Yao, came out in a hurry, holding the lightning letter in his hand, and his face seemed to be somewhat happy: "Uncle Fudao, Master Qu—"
Having said this, he suddenly realized that the man was no longer a disciple of Yashan, and his voice was abruptly interrupted.
Immediately afterwards, he turned his eyes and saw Jianchou.
So he adjusted himself and shouted quickly, "Big Sister, you are finally back. Congratulations, Big Sister. Congratulations, Big Sister. From now on, you will be a powerful person! Hahahaha, others will be envious!"
How sensitive is the sight of sorrow
When he heard the word Zheng Yao, he realized that Lei Xin might have some connection with Tomorrow Star Sea, so he just exchanged a few simple greetings with Zheng Yao.
Fudaoshanren asked directly: "What happened?"
"It's the news from Master Hengxu, saying that Tomorrow Star Sea has already agreed to the Central Region. This is the reply from Sword Emperor Qu Zhengfeng, Cangji Sanren, and Medicine King Yiming."
As he spoke, Zheng Yao handed the ray of lightning from his fingertips to Fudao Shanren.