Why do you live
Gusa Manmai had never thought about such profound questions before.
The reason why he was willing to come to the northeast from the southwest was because of the fame and fortune promised by Chi Tian, and the series of things he did later - including practicing the Moon Devouring, slaughtering the righteous, and plundering gold and silver, were also because he wanted the Burning Fire Palace to unify the world as soon as possible. From this point of view, he really seemed to be living for fame and fortune.
But now he has fallen into Li Sui's hands. Not to mention fame and fortune, even his freedom has been completely lost. Should he die
The answer is of course no, Gusamanmai doesn't want to die.
Then the question returns to the original starting point: why do we live
He did not agree with Xu Yunzhong's way of life. He thought, "I don't care about anything in the world."
Zhu Yanyin brainwashed and pointed out: "Have you ever thought that you yourself are the world?"
Gusa Manmai's eyes once again revealed a look of confusion and slight shock.
Am I the heaven and earth
"You are the sky, and the sky is you." Zhu Yanyin suddenly pointed at Xu Yunzhong, "Do you know why he is poisoned but not dead?"
Gusa Manmai swallowed his saliva unconsciously: "Because there is an antidote."
Zhu Yanyin looked at the southwestern man with a look of disappointment: "Why are you still thinking about the antidote until now?"
Gusamanmai: “…”
Zhu Yanyin persuaded him earnestly: "Since humans are born between heaven and earth, they will return to heaven and earth after a hundred years. What is the difference between heaven and earth and you?"
Gusa Manmai, who had not even properly learned Dayu Mandarin, was even more confused: "No, there is no difference."
"So now you understand that you are the heaven and earth. Since the heaven and earth are immortal, you will not die." Zhu Yanyin said, "As for this body, it is nothing more than a walking bag of skin. Even if you don't grow into this appearance, you are still you."
Gusamanmai couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all: "Yes, it's me."
“Whether it’s sunny or rainy, or flowers bloom or fall, the world will never change. Although everything is bleak in winter and flowers bloom in spring, the world will always be the world. The essence has not changed at all. What changes is only the appearance in the eyes of others.”
"And you are also the heaven and earth. So by the same token, your essence will not change. Whether you are killing people for the Burning Fire Palace, weaving cloth in the southwest, or joining our Wulin Alliance, you are still you. If that's the case, then what does it matter where you stay or what you choose to do?"
Gusamanmai: “…”
Zhu Yanyin stood in the room, his posture dignified, pure white like the snow on the top of a mountain that never melts all year round: "Since you were born as heaven and earth, you should pursue coexistence with heaven and earth. The so-called fame and fortune are simply insignificant in the torrent of billions of years. The true unity of heaven and man is to transcend the confinement of the flesh, to pursue the ultimate truth, goodness and beauty, and to pursue the eternity of the universe."
Gusa Manmai looked up at him, too surprised to speak. He had never heard such a statement before, and he didn't know that while he was struggling to pursue fame and fortune, these scholars in white clothes had actually begun to pursue eternity in the universe. He originally thought that when he first entered the Burning Fire Palace, the gold and silver in the palace and the delicacies on the table were already a godly life.
When three beautiful and proud scholars stand together, even the room will glow.
Gusa Manmai looked at the dazzling ascension scene and felt a dull pain in his chest.
Zhu Yanyin then asked: "Now answer me another question, who are you?"
Gusa Manmai didn't want to go through the inner cleansing again, because he had begun to feel that he had lived in vain in the past thirty years, like a stupid ant in the world, not at all as glorious and magnificent as Chi Tian had described. So he said in panic, "I don't know!"
Zhu Yanyin said in a loud voice: "You are not Gusa Manmai!"
Gusamanmai's heart was trembling: "I don't want to listen!"
Zhu Yanyin was extremely shocked: "Why don't you want to listen? You don't want to know who you are?!"
Gusa Manmai found that he didn't really want to live that much.
Because if he died now, he would at least die as a guardian of the Demon Cult. But if he was forced to listen to why he was not Gusa Manmai, he might even feel that when he committed suicide, he was just a tiny speck of dust disappearing, unimportant and not worth mentioning.
He spat out blood on the spot.
Zhu Yanyin did not intend to stop and brought another large pot of tea, which looked like it would take at least an hour.
Gu Sa Manmai collapsed and asked Xu Yunzhong for help - he really had no one to turn to, because the other scholar in the wheelchair had been treating him coldly and looked hopeless.
Xu Yunzhong said coldly: "Although my spirit is immortal, your poison has hindered my continued pursuit of the greatest beauty in the world. Why should I help you?"
Gusa Manmai hurriedly said: "That's not poison!"
Zhu Yanyin closed the jade fan with a snap: "You are not Gusa Manmai, because without this name, you are still you!"
Gusa Manmai shouted at the top of his lungs: "It's really not poison!"
It's not poison, because Li Sui has Jiang Shenglin by his side, the world's number one doctor, who is also an expert in using poison. When Chi Tian made the request, Gu Sa Man Mai was not confident enough that he could develop a poison that could deceive Jiang Shenglin, so Chi Tian used a sugar pill to pretend it was poison - only when it cannot be detected at all, is there really no cure.
Zhu Yanyin comforted the dying southwestern man: "Okay, okay, you are Gusa Manmai."
"… "
Li Sui had been standing in the yard.
Xu Yunzhong slowly pushed Song Yu back in the wheelchair, intending to drink together to celebrate.
Zhu Yanyin hugged Li Sui with a smile and said, "Okay, send someone to interrogate him."
"Who did you learn that from?"
"Zhuangzi, and his own nonsense."
Li Sui picked him up with one hand and walked out on the snow.
Zhu Yanyin pretended: "You'd better put me down, or my uncle will see me."
"Just tell me you don't want to walk when I see you."
"How can I be so lazy?"
"Then go on your own."
“… Forget it. It’s snowing so heavily, my uncle probably won’t come out.”
A very fickle scholar.
Later, the Wulin Alliance and the Wanren Palace people finished interrogating Gusa Manmai together.
The disciples of the Wulin League asked curiously, "Is he possessed by evil spirits? Why is he trembling and dazed all the time?"
The Wanren Palace disciple replied: "I don't know. Maybe he is doubting his life."
Gusa Manmai's confession was very thick, perhaps because he was worried that if it was not thick enough, he would be brainwashed again and turned back into a speck of dust.
Wan Zhuyun flipped through the pages under the lamp and found that Chi Tian had issued the same order as himself, ordering all important guardians and disciples to stay together at all times unless necessary and not to act alone. This was mainly because it was too easy for Li Sui to protect the guardian alone, and he didn't want his hard-trained subordinates to be crushed to death.
The Moon Devouring Technique must be practiced in an extremely cold place, and the only place on the snowy plain that meets the requirements is the Ice Palace of the Burning Fire Palace. The Ice Palace is surrounded by dangerous traps, and Chi Tian spends most of his time there with the guardian.
As for the Yan'er Gang and Sushan Sect that were abducted by the Demon Cult, they were also imprisoned in the Burning Fire Hall. Gusa Manmai had heard Chi Tian say that at that time, everyone's internal energy had not been absorbed yet, and he didn't know whether it had been absorbed now.
Zhu Yanyin said: "It's a pity that among the many guardians, Gusa Manmai is just a small role in making poisons. He doesn't know too many secrets of the Burning Fire Palace. It would be great if we could capture Yuan Yeyue and Silver Pen Scholar."
The two are Chi Tian's right-hand men and women, and are also the guardians who have received the most internal energy besides Chi Tian.
Wan Zhuyun said: "Chi Tian is greedy for life, afraid of death and cunning by nature. I am afraid that in addition to the Ice Palace, he will find a new extremely cold palace for himself to practice and hide."
"Let's go to Snow City first." Li Sui said, "A quick battle and a quick decision."
He still remembered that Zhu Yanyin said he would return to the royal city to celebrate the New Year, so he didn't want to stay in the Northeast any longer.
Zhu Yanyin went to find his uncle again, mainly pretending to be pitiful and even using provocations, including but not limited to "Uncle leads so many troops, can't he protect an obedient and sensible person like me?"
Lan Xishan: "How can you be obedient and sensible?"
"I remember what my uncle said before." Zhu Yanyin answered quickly, "When my uncle scolded my cousin, he said that I was the most obedient and sensible descendant in the Zhu family."
Lan Xishan sighed. Yes, thinking back to those days, my eldest nephew was plump and white, with a baby voice and blinking eyes. He would listen to whatever the elders said. He was so adorable. It was nothing like now, when he would stand in the room in public, making so much noise that my heart would start to contract.
Zhu Yanyin: "Uncle—"
Lan Xishan was exhausted.
The day before departure, Zhu Yanyin prepared a table of wine and invited Xu Yunzhong and Song Yu to be his guests. These two people would naturally not go to Xuecheng with him, and in order to avoid Chi Tian coming to cause trouble again, the second son of Zhu planned to send someone to temporarily send them to the garrison city in the northeast, and pick them up after the trouble in the Burning Fire Palace was resolved.
Naturally, one had to drink more of the farewell wine. Although it was not strong liquor, Zhu Yanyin felt a little dizzy after the banquet. Zhu Xiaosui supported him and wanted to play a trick and take him directly back to the Zhu Mansion. However, although the Second Young Master Zhu was drunk, he did not make any mistakes in direction. He took a quick look and immediately started walking towards the small building in the south, one step deep and one step shallow.
The little book boy burst into tears: "Master, wait for me!"
Li Sui went out after hearing the noise, and just in time to catch the white fluff that had stepped on his right foot with his left foot.
This kind of deliberate throwing of oneself into another's arms has basically become a traditional skill of elegant and refined scholars.
It's all normal operation.
Zhu Xiaosui said respectfully: "Palace Master Li, let me help my young master bathe first."
Li Sui was reluctant to say "let me do it", although he really wanted to do it himself, but the extremely cruel Palace Master Li could not snatch it from the Zhu family by force.
So he had no choice but to return the person to Zhu Xiaosui and waited in the next room for more than an hour. The bathing process in the Zhu Mansion in Jiangnan was so grand and complicated. When all the noises died down, even the chickens in the yard had fallen asleep.
Li Sui climbed in through the window as if he was familiar with the place.
A hand stretched out from the bed curtains and accurately pulled the big devil into his arms.
What a beautiful lady.