Before I became the legendary boss

In ignorance and unconsciousness, Xuanyun walked all the way, all the way, just like this from Beiyin back to the world, just walking aimlessly and at a loss.He walked in this white and empty world, every step seemed to be on the edge of a knife, but he dared not stop.He didn't know what would happen if he stopped.

After an unknown amount of time, he accidentally came to a somewhat familiar place.

The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, and the drizzle is falling.The raindrops hit the blue bricks and black tiles, setting off a misty Jiangnan sentiment.

In this quiet ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, there stands an old locust tree.It has lived in this world for thousands of years, and is used to all kinds of joys and sorrows, and bizarre dramas.The red string on that branch increases and fades every year.There are small children who go to other places to obtain fame in the examinations, and twenty-eight women who do not wait for the one they like, so they marry and become other wives.Some people blamed it for not working, some people covered their faces and wept, and some people still stand under the tree and stare at the endless heartbroken road.

But in such a long life, it still rarely meets such an unforgettable fairy.With noble spirit and brilliance, the bright moon would pale in front of him.The mortals around couldn't see him, but the old tree could. It was always a little happy to meet the old man again.

But the fairy did not speak to it.He just stood quietly under the tree, looking sadly at the rain-soaked world.It seemed that the rain that fell that day was all tears from his eyes, and his eyes were dry because there was no more tear to flow.

After a long time, when the old tree thought he would leave silently, the fairy opened his lips and said.

"At the beginning, I didn't understand why people kept asking for things and bound themselves in a cocoon. It was just that there were demonic obstacles in their hearts, and they were unwilling to be pure."

"Later I understood that it wasn't that the human heart was unwilling to be pure, but that the heart had already been taken away. Another person was tied to the other end of the red rope. When that person took a step, his heart took a step. If that person walked away, his heart Then it's empty."

The voice in the rain curtain is both light and sad, like a miserable pipa tear.

"He's not coming back...he's gone..."

The immortal closed his eyes, as if those few words had exhausted his last strength.

The old tree wanted to share his worries, so he asked.

"Is that a mortal?"

The fairy shook his head.

"No, he is just like you, a tree, a banyan tree."

"Banyan tree..."

Lao Huai thought for a while.

"The banyan tree is good. Just like me, it can survive for a long time once it survives."

The fairy was startled.

"The cutting... survived?"

"Yes."

The old locust tree shook its branches and leaves.

"We are not like human beings. We don't need to be pregnant in October, and the blood of our parents. Sometimes we can grow up year after year just by being/inserted in the ground. Not to mention the banyan tree."

it said.

"I don't know what happened to your banyan tree, but as long as it has a branch left in this world, there is still a way to survive."

As soon as Laohuai finished speaking, the fairy in front of it disappeared.It was slightly surprised, but soon understood.

That fairy is going to find his tree.

For so many years, Xuanyun cared about it, but he was chaotic, and he never thought about it.

If He Rong's soul has not been burned and is not in the underworld, then there is another possibility——

Xuanyun returned to Juqingguan in an instant.The disciples in the sect were all shocked when they saw him, shouting to go and inform the sect master, and whispering excitedly at the same time.However, Xuan Yun didn't stop for a moment, he went straight to the Zhaixing Tower where Elder Tianyan was.

Elder Tianyan was also very surprised to see him, but before he had time to exchange greetings, Xuan Yun went straight to the point.

"Do you have a disciple named Li Shixiu here?"

Elder Tianyan hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Can you call him out to see me?"

Elder Tianyan's face darkened even more.Xuan Yun's rare words were urgent.

"... Is there any inconvenience?"

Elder Tianyan sighed.

"That child Shixiu... has passed away."

Xuan Yun was stunned.

"When I mention his old man, my heart is... Hey, he is talented, diligent and inquisitive. I thought that this son would become a great weapon in the future, but who would have thought that he would commit the worst taboo."

Elder Tianyan's eyes were full of sadness.

"Ask divination, which is to see the principles of heaven and seize the secrets of heaven. Those who enter my way must not start divinations for no reason, let alone leak the secrets of heaven easily. If they are discovered by the way of heaven, they will bear the karma of others at least, and their own cultivation will be hindered, and their life expectancy will be more serious. Numbers are lost."

"As for that child Shixiu, for some reason, he used divination frequently when his cultivation level was still low, and he wasted his lifespan like this. He only lived 87 years in this life... hey..."

Xuanyuan closed his eyes.

"Can he leave any relics?"

"Yes, yes... it's all at his junior brother's place, the old man will send someone to call him over..."

Not long after, a man with a stern face appeared in front of Xuan Yun.

"The disciple pays homage to the master, and to the Immortal Xuanyun."

Xuan Yun's pupils shrank suddenly.The disciple was holding a potted plant in his hand, and in that pot was an aerial root of a banyan tree!

"I knew Xuanyun Shangxian would come today, so I followed my senior brother's instructions and brought this banyan tree along with me."

"Yi'er, this is..."

Elder Tianyan was also very surprised.

The disciple named Zhuo Yi replied quietly.

"Brother didn't tell Master the truth that day because he was afraid that you would be sad. Now that his last hexagram has come true, it must be time to clarify everything."

That day, the sky was full of flames, covering the sky of Juqing Temple like a fire that destroyed the world.Outside the chattering crowd, there was another person, like Xuan Yun, with a pale face, limp on the ground in panic and speechless.

That person is Li Shixiu.

Li Shixiu was born in a wealthy family since he was a child. He is naughty and active by nature, and cats hate dogs. Even if he was selected into Juqing Temple, his nature would not change.He is quite talkative, and he always loves to make up and act on his own.Therefore, everyone avoided him, lest they be caught and listen to his nonsense.But who would have thought that that year he met He Rong who was silent and patiently listening to him.Now the blind cat caught dead mice, one was willing to hit and the other was willing to suffer.

During the time spent together in the academy, Li Shixiu gradually discovered that although He Rong didn't talk much, his eyes were always giving feedback.Whenever he talked about the dream of being a hero with swords, lights, swords and shadows, He Rong's eyes would shine brightly; when he talked about the death of incense and jade on Mawei slope, He Rong would also feel sad.Bosom friend ah bosom friend.Li Shixiu felt that he was like Yu Boya meeting Zhong Ziqi, high mountains and flowing water, and it was not too late to meet each other.

From then on, he really regarded He Rong as one of his own.When He Rong was bullied, he drove them away; when He Rong was ignorant, he reminded him intentionally or unintentionally.Of course Li Shixiu knew that He Rong was not a human being and had almost no resemblance to him, but He Rong had a pure mind and treated him with sincerity.Even if he didn't have the chance to practice, he was really happy for Li Shixiu to have won the opportunity, and prepared a lot of things for him, and even drew out his own qi root for him to defend himself.It was this unreserved heart that moved Li Shixiu to secretly swear that even if the two of them are far apart in the future, they will still be good brothers for a lifetime.

But he never expected that he actually killed his good brother with his own hands.

Li Shixiu saw the flames soaring into the sky that day, and he jumped into the alchemy furnace when he heard everyone say that the thousand-year-old spirit tree went crazy!There was a buzzing in his head, and he rushed to Lingzhi Garden without thinking about anything.So he saw Elder Lijian staring at the fire in despair, while the sect leader advised him: Junior brother, although you are out of danger now, how can this evil spirit disappear overnight?Let someone take a look again...

Smart as Li Shixiu immediately understood everything.

Yes.If he hadn't told He Rong that the tree roots could absorb magic energy, how could He Rong have done such a stupid thing?He knew that He Rong treated people very well, and he showed no secrets to those close to him, so he recklessly told the whole story.Undoubtedly, he was handed a knife to cut up the meat and feed the eagle, and pushed him into the fire without knowing it.

Li Shixiu felt a sharp pain in his chest.He was angry, hated, annoyed, and sad, and he had mixed feelings for a moment, so that he didn't even know that he was crying.In a trance, he seemed to have returned to his childhood, and there was a puppy at home.He liked the dog so much that he hid his snacks and gave it to him every day, but he choked the puppy to death because he overfed it too quickly.

What happened in front of me was like repeating yesterday, but this time it was even more extreme.He Rong is his best brother!His branch also saved his life, and he killed the other party just like that! !Li Shixiu was furious, he urged himself, think quickly, is there any way to save He Rong, why is the fire so big, he won't really burn himself... No, no!I still have one of his aerial roots here!Li Shixiu immediately turned around and went back to the Star Picking Tower.

Li Shixiu moved very quickly, he immediately pulled out a pot of orchids that Elder Tianyan liked most in the yard.The spiritual soil in this pot was top-notch. He inserted the aerial roots in it, applied some water, and secretly moved the pot back to his house.But then he didn't know what to do.Li Shixiu circled around the basin anxiously.What else can I do... yes!I can still divination!

Although Li Shixiu has not been in Elder Tianyan's sect for long, he knows a thing or two about all kinds of hexagram formation methods.The hexagrams of the yarrow, the hexagrams of the copper coins, the hexagrams of the sounds, the hexagrams of the objects... In short, everything is inseparable from the yin and yang, five elements and eight trigrams.

And Li Shixiu asked He Rong's life and death based on this newly planted aura.Take the wood as the upper hexagram, and the direction of planting the tree as the lower hexagram. The number of combined hexagrams and the number of azimuth hexagrams are added to obtain the moving line.It can be considered that Zhenmu is the body, mutual hexagrams are gold, gold overcomes Zhenmu, and changing hexagrams becomes fierce.

If he wants to survive, he must not hand over He Rong to someone who belongs to gold.

So Li Shixiu secretly hid He Rong.Although it was rumored in the sect that Elder Lijian was saddened to retreat because of the death of his disciple, but Li Shixiu occupied it several times afterwards and came up with the same answer.In addition to life and death, he asked other questions in different ways.Ask about He Rong's prospects, turning point, survival method, etc.Such seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, fighting for fate with the sky, saved He Rong's lifeline.However, this kind of questioning and occupying every day has already violated the taboo of "occupying everything and occupying all time".

"Senior brother has always claimed to be smart, but he is actually a fool at all. He knew that he would not be able to do himself or his master, and he acted so recklessly. It was nothing more than being defeated by his own guilt, his own heart Knot."

Li Shixiu once told Zhuo Yi after being drunk that he had killed someone, his best brother.The man who usually smiles all day holds the wine jar, crying like a child.

Zhuo Yi handed the potted banyan tree to Xuan Yun with a blank expression.

"Brother's last hexagram before he died was that you would appear in the door today, which is a good omen. He asked me to apologize to you, and he also said that he hoped you would pass it on to He Rong—"

"You must come and find me after you recover. I have saved a lot of stories that no one can tell, and if I don't tell them, they will rot in my stomach."

Under the wooden window of the academy that year, who behind his back told the story of the tenderness of the golden and iron horse in detail.The speaker was eloquent and shook his head, and the listener was absorbed and fascinated.In a blink of an eye, both of them were gone.Only the sound of reading is still there.The green hills will not change to the green waters, listen to me and start from the beginning next time.