Not only that, he felt that all the energy in his body could not move, and his hands and feet left the ivy in an instant, and he could only let the powerful spiral drag him to the bottom of the cliff.

The storm was surging, and Li Xiuyuan was about to cry silently.

"Chirp!"

With the help of a few rays of sunlight shining through the layers of leaves, he could clearly see the scene around him. He saw the green eagle lying next to him, stretching out its head and nuzzling him gently.

"Don't be afraid! I'm here!" Ying'er's voice came through his mind.

Looking around, I was lying on a large bluestone slab. In front of me was a cliff. The stone wall was full of traces of the vicissitudes of time, and there were many strange runes carved on it.

Glancing around, Li Xiuyuan sighed softly, stretched out his hand to touch Qingying's head, and said with a wry smile: "How can I go up in this case?"

"Why are you so anxious? Aren't I here to accompany you?" Qingying raised his head and looked at him blankly.

"Children, welcome to the world at the bottom of the cliff!" Just as he was thinking, an old, ethereal voice suddenly sounded.

"Kid? Who, who is here?" Li Xiuyuan screamed.

"I'm right behind you." The old voice was ethereal, filled with the vicissitudes of time.

"Who are you?" Li Xiuyuan turned his head and stared blankly outside a cave behind him, and couldn't help but take a step back.

I saw an old man sitting on the ground at the entrance of the cave covered with vines, looking at him quietly. The two were less than five feet apart.

"Who are you? Why are you in this deep mountain?" Looking at the old man in front of him, Li Xiuyuan's eyes were full of alertness. The old man he faced was dressed in black and he didn't know how many years he had worn it.

And his gray beard proves that he has lived for countless years.

"Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?"

The old man blinked his eyes, looked at Li Xiuyuan, shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said something that Li Xiuyuan had never heard before.

"Why do you live under the cliff at the back of Fengyun Academy?" He looked at the old man, hoping to see some clues from his words and deeds.

"Fengyun Academy? What kind of thing is this?" The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked in a daze.

Despite Li Xiuyuan's determination, he couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard the old man's words, because he learned from the master that the academy has a history of more than three thousand years.

If the old man of the academy who has been here for three thousand years does not know, then the old man either comes from a distant place, or he has been sitting here for more than three thousand years.

Li Xiuyuan's expression suddenly became dull. This was the first time he had seen someone who could live for more than three thousand years, because the Master didn't tell him how many years he had lived.

If you sit for three thousand years, this is the most terrifying thing. You must know that the old man has not only experienced the vicissitudes of time, but also endured the endless years of loneliness.

"Senior, have you lived here for three thousand years?" Li Xiuyuan asked softly.

The old man didn't speak, just nodded slightly, and then shook his head.

"If the road to spiritual practice is cut off, so what if you transcend the ordinary and become a saint? In the end, you will still die of old age here."

The old man smiled faintly and was not angry because of Li Xiuyuan's presumption. There was no expression on his old face, but his words were extremely gentle.

Li Xiuyuan cupped his fists with him, smiled, and said softly: "In less than ten years, the Shura battlefield will begin, and seniors will naturally find an opportunity to ascend and leave.

Even so, he was still frightened, because he was only in the Nascent Soul realm, and becoming a saint was a legendary realm, and that was something he could touch.

"I didn't expect that the legendary battlefield is about to open, and then the road to heaven will also be opened to you." The old man nodded gently, looked at him and said gently.

"Right? I want to go to that place to look for an opportunity to leave the Shura Heaven in the future." Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said.

"I'm getting old, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait any longer." The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan and sighed softly.

"Time is like a knife, and time is like lightning. I am no longer able to compete for opportunities on the Shura battlefield. I will leave those to you. I will leave this world soon."

Knowing Li Xiuyuan's doubts, the old man gave a sigh of relief and said slowly, "I have lived for too long and have long lost the desire to ascend. Over the past tens of millions of years, there have been so many people like me who finally died in the mountains.

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"Senior is too pessimistic. As the saying goes, hope is in the world, isn't it?" Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said quietly.

"It is destiny that I cannot escape this disaster." The old man shook his head helplessly: "I can't wait any longer. I have already seen through life and death."

"This..." Li Xiuyuan felt speechless and couldn't help but look back at Qingying and thought to himself, is this the fun opportunity you mentioned?

The green eagle lying on the ground called out "Cuckoo!" twice.

"You're a good eagle, but it's a pity that I don't know the skills of the demon realm, so I can't provide it with more help."

After murmuring, the old man continued: "The most I can do is help it break through one more realm. As for practicing the technique of transformation, you still have to take it to the Demon Realm."

"Gu Gu!" Qingying looked at the old man and muttered twice, as if he was thanking the old man for his kindness.

On the side, Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man and said softly: "Or, I can help senior leave this world."

"Oh! What good opportunity do you have, little friend?" The old man glanced at Li Xiuyuan, took out an elixir, and with a wave of his hand, Buqingying immediately flew to the front of the cave.

"Eat it, and I will help you refine it! I hope it can help you break through to another level!" The old man touched Qingying's head and said with a smile.

Li Xiuyuan was silent, watching the green eagle swallow the elixir in the old man's hand. After a while, he saw a faint golden light spreading around it.

"I'm here to help you refine it!" The old man stretched out his hand to help Qingying, and saw a faint golden light emerging from the heads of each person and the eagle.

Looking at the old man's kind face, Li Xiuyuan pursed his lips, silently took out the wine jar and cup, slowly poured a glass of medicinal wine, and placed it in front of the old man.

Until half an hour passed, the golden light on the heads of Qingying and the old man disappeared. The old man waved his hand and sent Qingying back to his original place.

Immediately, the old man's expression became much gloomier. He shook his head helplessly and smiled sadly, "Time is like lightning. I was invincible in the world back then, so what can I do?"

Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled lightly, pointed to the wine glass on the ground and said, "Senior, please drink!"

The old man smiled slightly, but did not refuse Li Xiuyuan's kindness. He reached out to pick up the wine glass on the ground and drank all the wine in one gulp.

"Little friend, the iron sword you are wearing is a treasure. You must keep it away, otherwise it may lead to death."

"You really have a lot of treasures on you!" The old man's breath suddenly changed, and he glanced at Li Xiuyuan's space ring. A divine light flashed in his eyes, and his words were quite meaningful.

"Little friend, where did you get this wine..." As he was speaking, a golden light flashed across the old man's body, and he seemed to have become hundreds of years younger in an instant.

"This is the medicinal wine that I and I spent more than a year brewing. Many of the medicinal materials were collected from the back mountains. Did your seniors drink it and feel a sense of opportunity?"

"Ah...! It's not that I feel an opportunity, but I'm afraid that I will be able to break through the void in less than half a year... I can't believe that after thousands of years, it was this eagle that brought you to me

In front of you."

The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan and said excitedly.

For a moment, the color of the sky and the earth changed, and a faint golden light was seen at the bottom of the cliff rising straight into the sky.

"Thank you very much, little friend!" The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan and said gently: "While there are still a few months left, I will transform your body so that you can shine on the Shura battlefield!"

"I have a question." Li Xiuyuan smiled slightly. "Since senior has the elixir that can make Ying'er break through the realm, why don't you take it yourself?"

"Do you think I don't eat enough? I don't know how many of these elixirs I have eaten for thousands of years. What I want is not cultivation and realm, what I want is that elusive opportunity!"

The old man looked at him and replied with a smile.

"Senior, it turns out that's the case. No wonder my master also drank this medicinal wine not long ago..." Li Xiuyuan was shocked and told the old man about the old Taoist priest's ascension.

It's not that he's afraid that the old man will harm him, after all, it won't take long for the old man to leave this world.

"It's actually like this. If we say that your old Taoist priest is the only one who has ascended and left in thousands of years." The old man was also shocked. He didn't expect that someone else had left this world before him.

"Little guy, are you from the fairy clan?"

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said with a faint smile, "I have lived with my master in a Taoist temple since I was a child. I don't know where my parents are."

"I see. It seems that you are also a child in need. Let me help you." After putting away his sadness, Laoyou looked at Li Xiuyuan.

"Back then, I was favored by God and accidentally obtained some spiritual stones. I thought that with my hard work, I could break through the void, leave this world, and find my own path to immortality..."

"However, there are cultivators in the entire Shura Realm who are so greedy that they have angered God. As a result, no one here has ascended for thousands of years. Even if you practice to the extreme, you still cannot realize the opportunity to ascend..."

From the old man's words, he could hear some of the secrets of the immortal clan in the upper world and the reason why no one in the Shura Heaven could ascend, and he couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.

"Theoretically speaking, fairy stones will exert their greatest power in the hands of people from the fairy clan. I don't know if you can refine these fairy stones. Let's try it."

After the old man finished speaking, a pile of blue spiritual stones appeared on the ground with a wave of his hand. From the outside, it could not be seen that they were any different from ordinary spiritual stones.

Li Xiuyuan was very sensible and did not ask further questions, but just listened quietly.

"The true energy refined from the fairy spirit stone will re-refine the original true energy in your body. From now on, your practice can be regarded as cultivation, or it can be regarded as cultivation of immortality."

"It is a stone that defies heaven and will suffer divine punishment! Every time you cross a great realm, you will have to overcome a disaster!" The old man looked at Li Xiuyuan and said quietly.

"Haha, right now, I have suffered two thunder tribulations! I just suffered three in a few days."

Looking at the old man, Li Xiuyuan said quietly.

Looking at Li Xiuyuan who looked confused in front of him, the old man picked up a blue spirit stone and handed it to him: "Try it, this thing has disappeared in the Shura Realm."

Li Xiuyuan took the spirit stone from the old man's hand and held it in his heart, trying to circulate his true energy to refine it.

"Don't use the zhenqi in your body to transform it, it's useless!" The old man shook his head and put his hand on his back. Li Xiuyuan felt a strong air flow that was like zhenqi but not like zhenqi rushed in.

into one's own body.

"Use this power to refine the fairy stone in your hand. Wait until you have completely refined one piece."

Li Xiuyuan nodded, concentrating on guiding the aura that the old man sent into his Dantian to the spirit stone in his left hand.

"Hiss!" In just a moment, Chu Xiuyuan saw a trace of cyan energy in the fairy spirit stone in his hand, and it penetrated into his body along the palm of his hand.

It circulates quietly along the twelve major meridians throughout the body, and then notifies the Ren and Du meridians to converge on one's Dantian.

The old man stopped his hand and showed a kind smile: "Little guy, cultivating immortality is a journey that goes against the will of heaven, full of loneliness and hardship. You have to go on without looking back..."
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