Chapter 696 No Regrets
The middle-aged man and the half-young man are not outsiders. The middle-aged man is Li Qing's uncle, and the half-young man is the nine-year-old Li Qing himself.
In the first life, Li Qing was picked up by his uncle and raised for four years after his parents died. Due to a severe drought, life was difficult, so his uncle took him to the capital and sold him as an **** for five taels of silver. This was what his aunt said was a good future. .
The future is indeed not bad.
The scene before him was when Li Qing came to the capital for the first time.
“How did I come back here?” Li Qing frowned. When he left the old land of the Immortal Relics for the first time, he entered the virtual island in the mysterious realm. He and Qiao An became invisible and lived together for a period of time in the cold palace.
Li Qing has a profound memory. Now, he seems to be returning to this period of history from an outsider's perspective.
"This is not a virtual world, it seems to be real. Did I really go back to the past under the influence of the long river of time?" Li Qing was confused and deduced the past, which was very simple for him.
He has used the virtual world many times to interpret the past and examine the path of cultivation, but the current situation is completely different.
“If I really go back to the past, everything I do now will have an impact on the future, and everything will be completely different..."
Li Qing shook his head. He asked himself that it was impossible to do this. If the past was really changed and the historical trajectory changed drastically, he would not be who he is. This is simply unreasonable.
That not only will his future change, but the future of the entire Immortal Legacy will also change.
Without Li Qing, there would be no fighting in the Tianmai Realm, and the fall of the Eighth Heaven in the Immortal Legacy would have been earlier.
“What is the difference between the past deduced by the long river of time and the past deduced by me using the virtual world?” Li Qing thought, he could not change the progress of the years and could not affect this world.
Those who control this world are the Three Ancestor Pagoda and the River of Time.
“The passage of time interprets my past. This is the barrier set by the Third Ancestor…” Li Qing kept thinking, “What is the purpose of the barrier set by the Third Ancestor? How should I break it?”
“The way of the three ancestors Hong, Pan and Haoyan will be manifested in the pagoda. Where is that way...”
Li Qing has a lot of thoughts, and once they come, he will make peace with them. The way of the third ancestor can't be said to be integrated into his past years.
"Brother Qing, don't blame your aunt for being cruel. In this day and age, being sent to the capital to be on duty in the palace is an excellent job. At least you can survive. Your uncle, I was worried that you wouldn't be able to enter the palace." In front of me, the middle-aged Chinese man spoke earnestly and sincerely.
The young man seemed to understand, and said softly "Oh".
The cart moved forward slowly and finally approached the hill where Li Qing was.
“What a weirdo, what are you doing standing at such a high place?” The middle-aged man muttered, glanced at Li Qing, and kept walking.
As a young man, his eyes kept lingering on Li Qing, and the two looked at each other.
However, at this moment, Li Qing was struck by lightning, his mind was shaken, and the scene where he looked at the half-grown boy actually appeared in his childhood memory.
In Li Qing's memory when he was nine years old, when he passed by this place on his way to the capital, he did see a young man on the hill looking at him with extremely complicated eyes.
"How can this be!"
“The passage of time really brings me back to my childhood, everything is true!”
“Originally there was no one on the hill, but now there is, and my memory has changed accordingly...Have I gone back to the past and changed the years..."
“It shouldn’t be!” Li Qing was confused. One change would change everything. He alone could not affect the historical development trajectory of thousands of creatures.
“If I change my personal experience and make personal corrections, it is possible. After all, there is a long river of time here.”
Li Qing had a guess in his mind, but he was not completely sure and needed to be investigated.
…
Li Qing secretly followed the middle-aged man and the young man on the road. The true spirit of the young man was indistinguishable from him.
The middle-aged man entered the capital and soon contacted an old **** who wanted to sell him twenty taels of silver.
“Go, go, twenty taels of silver, you think your child is a young master, five taels of silver, if you want one more, get out of here!” the old **** scolded.
The middle-aged man compromised and sighed: "Then it's only five taels of silver. I hope you will treat my young brother well. He is timid and knows how to advance and retreat. He will not cause trouble."
After taking the silver, the middle-aged man was about to leave.
“Uncle!” The young man kept crying.
"You don't have this uncle anymore. From now on, if you want to make a name for yourself, don't look for him. Your uncle has no face to see you." The middle-aged man's eyes were wet, and he left without looking back.
Li Qing looked at this scene, and he didn't blame his uncle and aunt's family.
The old **** was about to castrate the half-grown boy.
“If I can really change the past, I can let my past self not be a **** now.” Li Qing pondered, once he did, his experience as a cold palace **** would be different.
“No, the experience of being a **** played a vital role in my spiritual practice. It was a cautious beginning. It taught me not to rush and wait for opportunities.”
Li Qing used a cover-up trick. In fact, the half-grown boy was not castrated, but he thought he was castrated, including what others saw, which was also an illusion.
You can have the experience of being a eunuch. If you have the opportunity to change the past, it is not necessary to be a real eunuch. You can just experience it as a fake eunuch.
Li Qing thought, what if he directly taught the Dharma to a young man? Once the Dharma is taught, the young man will rise up in an instant, and all his experiences will be changed beyond recognition.
As soon as this thought came up, the shadow of the long river of time appeared in Li Qing's mind.
It seems that the passage of time cannot support him to make such a big change. Once the change occurs, everything here will collapse, and the third ancestor's test will also fail.
Not only can’t he see through the path of the three ancestors and the ultimate path of his own, but he can’t obtain the three treasures either.
“So, I can change the past years now, but the changed years cannot have a huge impact on me in the future.”
“Changing small sections but not major sections will not affect the self-correction over time. The main experience is to follow the historical trajectory of early development.”
“Then what is the role of this gateway set up by the Third Ancestor Pagoda? It allows me to truly change my years of experience, make up for some small regrets in the past, and make my life experience more perfect?”
“Where is the Tao of the Third Patriarch embodied?”
After the castration, the old **** didn't feel much pain and his body recovered very quickly, which surprised the old eunuch. However, he still sent the old **** to the cold palace and told him to listen less, talk less and work more.
Li Qing enjoyed this experience very much. He seemed to be able to have a perfect life without any regrets.
He secretly went back to his uncle's and aunt's house, giving his uncle and aunt a chance to become rich. However, the passage of time made it so that no matter how rich his uncle and aunt were in this life, they would be as poor as the next generation.
Seven years later, the half-grown boy became a young eunuch, awakened to the monument of centuries, and secretly rejoiced. Li Qing saw everything, but at this moment, he still could not capture the monument.
This treasure, the Baishi Stele, is of extremely high rank.
…
With the Hundred-Life Monument and the memory of his previous life awakened, the young **** began to plan for the future. He asked an immortal to turn the false immortality into real immortality.
With a hundred generations of longevity ahead of him, the young **** decided to stay in bed for now.
Li Qing once again saw Concubine Min being made into a human pig, and he allowed Concubine Min to die in advance so that she would suffer less pain.
Concubine Ming began to teach the young **** the Seven-Duan Brocade of Roushui and decided to commit suicide.
The little **** expected the night when Concubine Ming committed suicide. He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep all night long.
Li Qing appeared, rescued Concubine Ming, sent her to live in another country, and used magic power to stage the scene of Concubine Ming's suicide.
At the same time, Li Qing's memory was changed. When he broke through the Void Immortal, he recovered this memory and knew that Concubine Ming was not dead; the history of Concubine Ming being reincarnated and being accepted as his disciple remained unchanged.
There were many eunuchs in the cold palace who had a good relationship with Li Qing in the past, such as Zhang Yong, Wei Yang, Wang Li, etc. Li Qing all arranged a good ending for each other.
Wei Yang's reincarnation, Wei Jiuren, was once accepted as a disciple by Li Qing. Wei Yang had a sister. Wei Yang wanted to take revenge, so he entered the palace as a **** and climbed up step by step.
Li Qing found the reincarnation of Sister Wei Yang and gave her a life of immortality in advance.
The life trajectories of many people have changed and they have enjoyed a stable life, but the general trend of history has not changed.
As the years passed and history moved forward step by step, Li Qing watched in the dark as the young **** turned into an old **** and then became an innate master. He got the opportunity of White Lotus Island and stepped into Qi refining.
Baili Feiying and Ling Jiao appeared. Li Qing accepted each other as his disciple in advance and appointed Baili Feiying as his eldest disciple.
He preserves the true spirit of every generation of heroes.
Li Qing watched 'Li Ruoshui' enter the Baiyochuan River, then go to the Southern Territory to build a foundation, and cultivate the golden elixir. Later, the White Lotus Immortal Sect returned, and Li Ruoshui became a disciple of the White Lotus Immortal Sect.
At the beginning, Li Qing took action secretly and modified some experiences. However, Li Ruoshui's immortal career after establishing the foundation was perfect with almost no regrets. He rarely took action again.
Until he entered the underworld to realize Taoism, Li Qing rescued Yang Ying and sent her back to the yang realm to cultivate immortality.
"That's enough. I don't need to change the past. My life is perfect enough without any regrets." Li Qing stopped.
Li Qing said leisurely: "If the test of the Third Ancestor Pagoda caused me to get lost in the past years and modify my life path, then the experience after Dongxu no longer needs to be modified."
“Can I pass the test now?”
The years stopped and began to look back, returning to the hilltop where Li Qing first appeared. He quietly watched middle-aged men and half-grown men passing by in front of him.
After the middle-aged man and half-grown boy left, the breeze came out of the hill, and a black vortex formed in front of Li Qing.
"The smell of hometown." Li Qing felt the breath of the whirlpool, and a complicated look appeared on his face. On the opposite side of the whirlpool was his original hometown, his previous life.
Step into the whirlpool and you can return to your original hometown.
"There is a feeling that after stepping into the whirlpool and returning to my hometown, I can make up for the regrets of my previous life, but I will not be able to return. I can only be the honor of that life in my hometown."
Li Qing shook his head and looked away from the whirlpool. His Taoist thoughts were extremely firm. He wanted to seek an immortal immortal. If he returned to his hometown, his path to immortality would be cut off, so he would not take it.
Hometown is not Li Qing's regret, he enjoys his immortal life more.
Li Qing said solemnly: "My path of cultivation has been perfected. I have a perfect memory. I have no regrets, no inner demons, and I am not obsessed with the past. All memories cannot stop me from pursuing the path, and obsessions from the past cannot stop me from moving forward." .”
“It’s time to break the barrier.”
(End of this chapter)