Taoist

After dealing with Huangfusong's affairs, Lingyuan went to Chengtian Realm.

Because of the rumors about climbing the ladder, many monks wanted to come here to try their luck.But after such a long time, no one here has ever noticed anything unusual, so after the initial upsurge, the number of monks who came here gradually decreased.

This place was originally a wasteland, and many years ago, a Daoist meeting was held in this realm of Chengtian.

It's just that the bloody meeting has become a taboo now, and no one dares to mention it.

After all, the truth in it is too dark and cruel, and there are too many people involved in this matter.

But this is all old stuff, and after a few more decades, it might even become a secret or a rumor.

When Lingyuan came here, the sight was bare and undulating hills.

Sparse weeds and shrubs belied the barrenness of the land.

While walking, Lingyuan calculated the possible location of the ladder.

The entrance to the ladder is not fixed, but changes at any time.

If it is too far away from where it is, it is useless to find the key.

He was born good-looking, and walked around like this, in fact, it was easy to attract the attention of others.

It's just that it's too far away here, and the time Ling Yuan chose was at night, so even though he had gone around twice, no one bothered him.

"It should be here."

Ling Yuan's figure, which had been constantly moving, finally stopped.

He looked up at the stars in the sky, and then at a certain "point" in the void.

With a wave of his sleeve, the four objects he found before were all floating in the air.

This time, Lingyuan did not interrupt the integration between them.

I don't know if it's because the distance to the ladder is very close, but the fusion speed of the fragments this time is much faster than last time.

After a while, the original four items disappeared, replaced by a small and quaint golden token.

Lingyuan's fingers moved slightly, and a spiritual power rune hit the token.

The surrounding space seemed to move slightly.

A cyan stone step slowly appeared in the air.

There is no fancy movement, it is just like the ordinary stone steps that existed there, and there is nothing strange about it.

At this time, the eastern sky just showed a little fish belly white.

Without hesitation, Ling Yuan stepped up the stone steps——

This should have been a smooth affair.

As long as you open the ladder to the sky, no matter you are a human or a demon, no matter what your status is, you can go to the upper world through the ladder to the sky.

But when Lingyuan stepped on the stone steps, he clearly felt a sense of rejection.

Climbing the ladder is repelling him.

Lingyuan's always calm face inevitably revealed a bit of consternation.

For a moment, he hesitated a little, not knowing if he should go on.

And at this moment, Ling Yuan felt as if something more had appeared in his mind, and the whole Nine Cang Realm suddenly became illusory in a blink of an eye.

He could feel a subtle connection between himself and the land under his feet.

It was as if—he could hear the world talking to him.

It makes him go fast.

It wasn't the kind of repulsion brought to him by climbing the ladder, this voice gave Lingyuan a very friendly feeling.

He subconsciously obeyed.

It seemed natural that this voice would not harm him.

Lingyuan raised his foot and stepped up the second step.

The climbing ladder under his feet hummed, like dissatisfaction, and like a warning.

And Lingyuan clearly felt that there was a force behind him pushing him forward.

There seemed to be a voice in his ear constantly chanting to him, "Go! Go!"

Very eager look.

Ling Yuan couldn't help but pause again.

And after he stopped again, the power behind him from the Nine Heavens Realm pushed him gently again, and the voice next to his ear was still chanting repeatedly.

"Hurry up!"

The humming sound from the climbing ladder under his feet also seemed to become louder.

......

Old man Ji was a hunter when he was young, earning his living by hunting rabbits and roe deer in the mountains.

Because my family was really poor, I couldn't find a wife when I was 30 years old.

He thought that his whole life would be like this.

Until that time when he met a fairy in the mountains who was going through calamities.

Of course, after old man Ji learned more and more later, he also knew that he probably made a mistake back then.

That's not some immortal calamity, it should be some high-level monk who broke through.

But to Old Man Ji, it doesn't matter whether he is a high-level monk or an immortal, because they are too far away from him after all.

However, he may really have some predestined relationship with Taoism. The spirit grass he picked up back then directly rewrote his future life.

He became a low-level monk.

Old man Ji once felt that he was about to make a fortune from now on, but he must know that such an opportunity is not available to everyone.

So he went down the mountain and became a living god in the eyes of the villagers with a few small spells he figured out.

He had a really good time.

Until later he met other monks.

Until the subsequent drastic changes in the world.

After falling down several times, old man Ji finally realized a fact.

He is not a man of destiny, not the protagonist of a story.

Even if he got that little chance back then, he just changed from an ordinary mortal to an ordinary monk.

Even ordinary monks like old man Ji were even more miserable because of the reduction of aura between heaven and earth.

They had low spiritual power and mana, and they didn't have all kinds of resources to support them. Soon old man Ji found that his cultivation was not advancing but retreating.

Maybe in a few more years, he will become the ordinary person who had nothing before.

Old man Ji was naturally unwilling.

He has become a monk from a mortal, and he has experienced a life different from his own in the past thirty years. How can he be willing to go back to his previous life?

So old man Ji began to think of a way.

For a while, it was rumored throughout the entire continent that there was a ruins of the ascending ladder leading to the upper realm in the realm of Chengtian, as long as they found the ascending ladder, they could enter the legendary fairyland.

Old man Ji is convinced of this

So he stayed in this realm of inheriting the sky for decades.

Even if the number of people who came to Chengtian Realm became less and less, even if they all said that the news about ascending the ladder was totally false.

Even though there has never been any vision in these years.

But old man Ji still didn't leave.

When he first came, he was still in his prime, and when a monk came across him by chance, he would call him, "Friend Ji."

But these years have passed, and he has become a dying old man.

Just like those ordinary old men in the mortal world.

Old man Ji felt that he might die.

He has no children and no daughters all his life.

Except for the chance that he encountered back then, he couldn't find anything amazing in his life.

Old man Ji has not left in this realm of inheriting the sky. If you want to ask him why he has been staying here, old man Ji himself can't tell.

It may be evasion, it may be unwillingness.

But whatever the reason, it doesn't matter anymore.

Because old man Ji is really dying.

At his age, if he was a mortal, he would have been too old to walk.

But the old man Ji can still go around the Chengtian Realm every day.

Although this doesn't change anything.

Old man Ji could feel that every part of his body was telling of aging and tiredness.

When he was washing his face, he would sometimes stare at his cloudy eyeballs and white hair in the reflection for a while.

This road of life, he has come to an end.

It was still dark when old man Ji woke up. Looking at the stars outside, he felt that his energy seemed to be better today.

He suddenly wanted to go out for a walk.

You must know that after feeling that he was going to die, old man Ji hadn't left the small house he built for a while.

But today he came out again without even a cane.

Old man Ji didn't have any goals, he just walked slowly.

He felt that the air today seemed to be particularly fresh, and even the barren hills looked a little more pleasing to the eye.

Looking at the cold stars in the sky and the waning moon, old man Ji felt a little bit moved in his heart for this man who could not read big characters and had never been associated with elegance all his life.

He said, "It's so beautiful."

This was the first time he looked up at the moon in the sky so seriously.

Maybe the last time.

He found a rock and sat down.

The past and the past resurfaced in my mind one by one like a revolving lantern.

Old man Ji seems to have returned to the time when he was 30 years old.

At that time, I was hiding in a bush in the mountains, trembling against the thunder in the distance.

He saw that he came to the place where he crossed the tribulation, and saw the big round pit that was struck by lightning.

Old man Ji sighed in his heart, he was so courageous at that time, he just jumped down like that.

After a long time, he saw himself holding up the green grass.

What do people see when they are about to die?Old man Ji felt that he was hallucinating again.

He saw a long ladder rising in the distance.

The blue stone steps were half hidden in the clouds and mist, and there was a figure standing on it.

Is the other side of the ladder leading to the legendary fairy world?

Old man Ji's thoughts had already begun to become very dull, and a huge tiredness surged up in his body, and he really wanted to just sleep like this.

But looking at the scene in front of him that he didn't know if it was true or not, he stubbornly refused to close his eyes.

Is there really a ladder to the sky in this world?

Old man Ji watched the figure on the ladder walking up step by step.

The figure didn't walk fast, not even the speed of a normal person.

And that day the ladder didn't know what was going on, and it looked a little unstable.

Old man Ji tried his best to keep his eyes open, watching that the ladder became precarious in an instant, and the figure seemed to be halfway there.

He wanted to know if this figure walked up in the end, but he was really tired.

The world in front of me began to shake, and the first golden light appeared on the horizon.

Old man Ji finally couldn't bear it and closed his eyes.

At the last moment of his life, he saw the endless sky ladder collapse in mid-air——

The author has something to say:

Thank you, little angel Liang Yuan, for the nutrient solution, okay~