Ouyang Xiuyuan opened his eyes wide, his eyes full of surprise and excitement.
He looked at Fang Yu in front of him, and various images from many years ago flashed in his mind.
Back then, he and Huaixu, only two of them didn't understand anything, only a stunned green.
If they hadn't met Fang Yu, he and Huaixu would definitely be like most people in the world, living a normal life in a bland way.
"Some time ago, Huaixu informed me that you had returned to the northern capital and saw the dog enlightenment... I rushed back right away. I just arrived this morning. I didn't expect..." Ouyang Xiuyuan was so excited that he was a little bit incoherent, staring at Fang Yu in front of him. .
Fang Yu walked around the coffee table, sat opposite Ouyang Xiuyuan, and said with a smile: "I also happened to be here today, and I sat downstairs, sensed your breath, and came up."
Ouyang Xiuyuan immediately stood up and poured Fang Yu a cup of tea.
"Big Brother Fang, Xiu Yuan respects you for this cup of tea." Ouyang Xiuyuan bent down and placed the tea cup with both hands.
"Okay, don't do so much red tape." Fang Yu said, taking the teacup.
Ouyang Xiuyuan sat back in his position, and watched Fang Yu take a sip of tea, calming down a lot.
"Brother Fang, you are still the same as before, and you haven't changed at all." Ouyang Xiuyuan smiled.
"In my eyes, your changes are not too big," Fang Yu said.
Ouyang Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "I'm old, Brother Fang, I'm really old."
"People will get old. But your spirit and spirit is much better than Huaxu." Fang Yu smiled.
"Huixu... He has too many things to worry about." Ouyang Xiuyuan said with his eyes condensed slightly, "Compared with him, my life is much easier."
"What have you been doing these years?" Fang Yu asked.
Hearing this question, Ouyang Xiuyuan smiled awkwardly and said, "Speaking out, Brother Fang might laugh at me."
"How could I laugh at you?" Fang Yu raised his brows and said, "Let's talk about it."
"Hmm..." Ouyang Xiuyuan nodded and said, "After you left for a long time, I devoted myself to cultivation. Until fifty years ago, I practiced to the stage of transforming gods. After that, I began to feel the limits of my talent... I continued to work hard, but the efficiency was not high... Slowly, I accepted this reality. I began to transfer my energy to other areas."
"In what way?" Fang Yu asked.
Ouyang Xiuyuan showed hesitation on his face and didn't seem to want to say it, but facing Fang Yu's sight, he finally sighed and said, "Later, I will shift my energy to the one thing you don't like the most, Brother Fang. ."
"I started working to increase the influence of my name."
"In the past few decades, the Ouyang family has risen rapidly, becoming the strongest family in the capital, and there is no one."
Ouyang Xiuyuan hesitated to speak before, but the more he spoke later, the smoother he spoke, and there was a sense of pride in his eyes.
In just a few decades, he made his own family the first family in Zhongdu, which is not a trivial achievement.
"Not bad." Fang Yu took a sip of tea and said, "I personally don't like to be involved in various forces, but I don't think everyone should be like me. I don't think that you are doing it wrong. ."
Hearing what Fang Yu said, Ouyang Xiuyuan sighed again and said: "I am just ashamed. Back then, Huaixu and I were your students. But Huaixu went further and further in the process of cultivation, and became the Beidu Martial Arts Association. The person in charge of the essence. But I took a crooked path, not to mention the stagnant practice, in terms of martial arts status achievement, I lag far behind Huai Xu..."
Fang Yu squinted at Ouyang Xiuyuan, and said, "Your cultivation level is not too far behind, right? I can sense it from your breath."
Ouyang Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "The realm is one thing, and the real strength is another."
Speaking of this, Ouyang Xiuyuan smiled bitterly, and said: "Big Brother Fang, when I used to compete with Huaixu, I always had the upper hand. But now you ask me to compete with him again, I am afraid I can't even hold a round. live."
Seeing Ouyang Xiuyuan's appearance, Fang Yu recalled the situation back then.
When I first met Huaixu and Ouyang Xiuyuan, the two were already close playmates.
The two of them offended the young master of a big family in town because of some things.
Fang Yu saw them for the first time. They were being beaten on the ground by more than 20 men brought by the young master.
At that time, such things often happened, and ordinary passers-by would not care at all, let alone lend a helping hand.
When Fang Yu passed by, Ben just wanted to glance at it and watch the excitement.
Then, he saw Huaixu and Ouyang Xiuyuan, almost unconscious after being beaten.
The young master raised his foot and stepped on Ouyang Xiuyuan's face, asking them to admit their mistakes and beg for mercy.
But Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu couldn't make a sound.
The young master was furious, and summoned the more than 20 subordinates behind him to urinate and spit around Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu.
Unwilling to be humiliated, Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu gritted their teeth and rushed to the young master desperately, biting the young master like a hungry wolf.
As a result, it was naturally the subordinates who had been reacted to be beaten again.
Seeing that the two were about to be killed, Fang Yu stepped forward, beat the group of people away, and rescued the two teenagers.
This is the beginning of their acquaintance.
During that time, Fang Yu lived in that small town, so Ouyang Xiuyuan and Huaixu came to find Fang Yu every day.
They saw Fang Yu's skill and wanted to worship Fang Yu as a teacher and practice martial arts.
Fang Yu was reluctant to teach them at first, but later he was really bored. Moreover, he was really optimistic about the two of them, thinking they had the potential to become talents.
As a result, Fang Yu led the two people onto the path of cultivation.
During this process, Fang Yu found that Huaixu's cultivation talent was quite poor, and it was not outstanding at all among a large group of mortals.
And Ouyang Xiuyuan's talent is quite amazing, even when compared with those so-called geniuses, it is not inferior.
Therefore, Ouyang Xiuyuan separated from Huaixu at the beginning of his practice for a period of time.
When the gap was greatest, Huaixu was still on the eleventh floor of the Qi Refining Period, while Ouyang Xiuyuan had entered the Dan Consolidation Period.
The gap between the two great realms.
Fang Yu taught them different cultivation methods based on their characteristics.
Then, because Huaixu worked hard enough, he began to slowly catch up with Ouyang Xiuyuan.
When Huaixu entered the Nascent Soul stage when Huaixu was originally behind by two great realms, it was not much different from Ouyang Xiu.
Afterwards, Fang Yu left.
Fang Yu didn't know the follow-up development of Huaixu and Ouyang Xiuyuan.
But some time ago, Fang Yu had seen Huaixu's name on the holy list, ranking fifth.
But Ouyang Xiuyuan's name was not seen.
Combining what Ouyang Xiuyuan said just now, we can roughly see the subsequent development of these two people.
Although Huaixu's talent for cultivation is extremely ordinary, but with hard work, he climbed up step by step and eventually became a pivotal figure in the northern capital martial arts world.
Ouyang Xiuyuan chose to support his family business, making the Ouyang family the first family in the capital.
The life trajectory of the two people, from the same starting point, slowly ran to two different paths.
However, Fang Yu didn't think who took the right path and who was wrong, and there was no high or low.
It's just two different choices.
"Since your family has a foothold in Zhongdu, why does your son come to the northern capital?" Fang Yu asked.
Ouyang Xiuyuan got up to pour tea to Fang Yu, and said, "Because... I want to slowly transfer the family to Beidu."
"Oh." Fang Yu nodded and said, "In other words, this clubhouse is a foothold."
"Yes." Ouyang Xiuyuan said, "The difficulty of establishing a foothold in the northern capital is extremely high. Because the northern capital martial arts world is an isolated island compared with the martial arts world in other regions, completely independent."
"My family is firmly in the top spot in the middle, but when we come to Beidu, even the lowest-level martial arts family will not put us in the eyes."
"Therefore, since ten years ago, I planned to enter the northern capital martial arts world and slowly transfer the core of the family..."
"How was the result?" Fang Yu asked.
"Like what you see now, Brother Fang. Generally speaking, not bad." Ouyang Xiuyuan smiled.