Chapter 710 Two Proverbs

On the mountain peak of Great Abyss Mountain, Chu Chouli boredom placed a leaf in front of him. After folding it for a while, he felt bored and threw it aside. Then, his gaze darkened as he looked at his feet. A group of ants formed a long line and carried a dead caterpillar in groups.

Probably because he didn't have any alcohol to drink, he couldn't find anyone to chat with him about his story of "dominating the world", so this group of inconspicuous ants suddenly aroused Chu Chouli's interest. He squatted down and looked at the group of ants. Driven by some thoughts that he couldn't explain, Hero Chu began to carefully count the number of ants.

He counted for a long time, but the ants shuttled back and forth, inevitably making mistakes.

As he counted the thirty-sixth and twenty-seventh ants, a painful groan suddenly came from not far away.

Chu Chouli stood up vigilantly and looked to the side. He saw the monk sitting on the edge of the cliff stooping down, one hand covering his chest. His pure white clothes were covered in shocking bloodstains.

"What's going on?" Hero Chu's expression instantly changed. Although he did not like the monk that the divine god kept talking about, it was still the main fighting strength against the Dark Asura Palace. If something unexpected happened to him, Hero Chu's chances of survival would be even slimmer. With such thoughts in mind, Chu Chouli hurriedly put down the matter of counting the ants and quickly walked to the monk.

Chu Chouli's loud voice was famous for his ability. Logically speaking, his exclamation should have reached the monk's ears. However, when Chu Chouli walked in front of the monk, the monk still lowered his head and maintained his previous posture, not giving Chu Chouli the slightest response.

Chu Chouli thought to himself, Could it be that he died right now?

As this thought surged out, Chu Chouli's expression immediately changed. He didn't care about the others and hurriedly squatted down as well, stretching out his hand to check on the monk's situation. However, before that hand could touch the monk's body, the monk's voice suddenly sounded.

"Sigh."

It was a long sigh, mixed with some emotions that Chu Chouli did not quite understand.

Then, the monk slowly turned his head, revealing his face that was still covered in fresh blood that hadn't been wiped dry.

That face looked somewhat strange and ferocious, causing Chu Chouli to be stunned. After a long while, he asked again, "You … This is …?"

"If you can't cross people, you'll be devoured by them instead." Tyrant smiled miserably and spat out another mouthful of blood. At that moment, he slowly closed his eyes, tilted his body, and was about to fall to the ground. Fortunately, Chu Qiu was quick-witted and supported his body, which prevented him from falling to the bottom of the ocean.

Even so, Chu Chouli was still at a loss.

He probed the monk's body for a while and said, He felt that his aura was disordered, The dislocation of his meridians was evidently already extremely serious. If he did not save her quickly, his life would be in danger. However, Chu Chouli's cultivation was not enough to treat such a complicated and serious injury. And today, Meng Liang and the others had gone to the foot of the mountain. They had yet to return. Chu Chouli could not find anyone to help him. For a time, he was really anxious and chaotic.

"What are we going to do?" Chu Chouli jumped up and down anxiously as he muttered. He extended his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of Guang Lingui's mouth, but more blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.

"You can't die! If you die, how can I explain to them when they come back!" Probably because he was too flustered, Chu Chouli began to mutter to himself.

However, at this moment, a figure slowly walked out of the straw shed not far away.

It was a woman with long hair and shoulders, her face pale. She slowly walked over, leaving water stains everywhere she passed. Although his appearance had changed slightly, he could still faintly see the outline of Liu Dingdang. She was indeed her, and she had lived in the straw shed all these days, and had been sleeping most of the time, and had hardly ever come out for a walk.

At this moment, her sudden appearance surprised Chu Chouli. However, he quickly regained his senses. He hurriedly picked up the unconscious Guang Lingui and came to the front of the woman. He anxiously said, "Come and see what happened to him."

"It's fine. Leave it to me." The woman said softly. Although she knew that she did not do it on purpose, her voice still gave Chu Chouli a strange feeling like a ghost whispering in the night. Chu Chouli hurriedly placed Guang Lingui's body in front of the woman. However, his body subconsciously took a step back at that time and looked at the woman strangely.

This woman's entire body seemed to be soaked in water. From her hair to her clothes, she was wet. Chu Chouli knew all of this. Although she was used to being strange, when the woman stood in front of Chu Chouli, Chu Chouli noticed that there was not the slightest bit of vitality in her entire body. She was no different from a dead person.

Chu Chouli's actions were naturally noticed by the woman. She raised her head and looked at Chu Chouli with a flash in her eyes, but did not say anything else. Then she squatted down and looked down at the unconscious Guang Lingui. His gaze was gentle, and there was a complicated smell in it. It was like a lover looking at her husband, or an elder looking at her late life.

She stretched out her hand and slowly stroked Guang Lingui's cheek. Her movements were similarly gentle. Following her caress, Chu Chouli could clearly feel that something was being pulled out of Guang Lingui's body. Chu Chouli couldn't help but feel a little worried, but considering the relationship between the two and his helplessness, he could only hold the mentality of a dead horse being a living horse doctor at that time and allow that woman to do so.

This situation lasted for more than ten breaths of time. The woman suddenly pulled back her hand. Chu Chouli was about to ask a question, but at this moment, Guang Lingui, who had just lost his breath and was almost on the verge of death, suddenly opened his eyes.

Chu Chouli was stunned. His face immediately revealed joy. He came to Guang Lingui and shouted loudly, "Ai! My little ancestor, you finally woke up. You scared me!"

He shouted like this, but Guang Lingui, who was sitting up, seemed to hear Chu Chouli's voice. At that time, he turned his head to look at Liu Dingdang, who was beside him. There was no expression on his face of rejoicing in the aftermath of the calamity, nor was there any gratitude that he deserved for his help. There was only indifference as calm as an ancient well.

"Who won this one?" He asked.

Liu Dingdang took a deep look at Guang Lingui and spat out a similarly inexplicable sentence from Chu Chouli's mouth, "They all lost."

Then, Liu Dingdang stood up and walked towards the straw shed, sleeping quietly in it again.

…

It was already late in the night, and Chu Chouli was sitting by the cliff with a frown.

He looked at the monk beside him with some distress, then turned his head to glance at the woman who had fallen asleep in the straw shed.

Then the big man sighed. If he had known that he should have followed Liu Sheng and the others down the mountain, although he was tired from climbing the mountain, it was better than staying with these two fellows. Their entire bodies were filled with strangeness, and after witnessing today's scene, such strangeness became even more deeply rooted in Chu Chouli's heart.

"Are you afraid of me?" The nearby monk seemed to have sensed Chu Chouli's cautious gaze. He turned to look at Chu Chouli and asked.

Chu Chouli hurriedly shook his head and forced out a dry smile on his face. He said, "No, no, not at all."

The monk continued, "The world is always like this. It does not distinguish between truth and falsehood. It does not know whether it is good or bad. It only knows how to fear the unknown."

Chu Chouli cursed in his heart, "What's so strange about this? Aren't all people in the world like this?"

However, he did not dare to do so. He could only reply repeatedly, "Yes, yes, senior monk is right. How can we grass-roots people have your vision?"

How could Guang Lingui not recognize the hypocrisy in Chu Chouli's words? However, he did not point it out. He was just about to say something when his expression suddenly changed slightly. It was as if he had sensed something and turned his head to look behind him. Chu Chouli was stunned. At that time, he heard a noise coming from behind him. He hurriedly stood up and said with a happy expression, "They are back."

He secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Although Liu Sheng, Meng Liang, and the others were all stuffy, and most of them became silent in the face of the pressure of the imminent war, it was better than being alone with this strange Guang Lingui. Just as he was thinking about this, a figure emerged from the flat-topped forest. It was a woman dressed in black. She was as beautiful as a flower. She was like a person who had walked out of a painting. Every smile and frown inadvertently affected the hearts of others.

Even Hero Chu, who boasted that he didn't touch a single leaf of the flower bushes, couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the woman's appearance.

"You are" He had never seen her before. In fact, even though Chu Chouli did not have any indiscriminate thoughts towards such a woman, if he had met her once, he would never forget her. At this moment, the sudden appearance of such a person on the Great Abyss Mountain was somewhat strange.

Chu Chouli quickly realized this and his eyebrows gushed with vigilance.

But such vigilance dissipated in the next moment.

Chu Chouli looked at that girl. That girl also looked at Chu Chouli at that time. However, unlike the vigilance and surprise in Chu Chouli's eyes, that girl's eyes were filled with joy and excitement.

She jumped up and down in front of Chu Chouli and looked him up and down, her gaze somewhat scrutinizing.

Chu Chouli felt his scalp go numb when he saw the girl who suddenly jumped out. He subconsciously shrank his neck, but the girl moved closer. After a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Little Chu, you've gained weight again!"

Chu Chouli was stunned by Little Chu's address. It was not that he felt offended to call him at the age of a girl. In fact, addressing him as a senior who had lived in Jianghu for so many years was nothing in Chu Chouli's heart. What really stunned him was that the name "girl" and her tone reminded him of the last person who called him "Canghai Liuliu".

Just as Chu Chouli was stunned, another voice came from the forest where the girl was running out, "Xuan'er, stop messing around."

…

"What! She's Xuan'er." Just like Ye Hongjian and the others, after hearing Xu Han's explanation, Chu Chouli revealed the same astonished expression as everyone else at that time. Even the tone of his exclamation was almost the same.

"Why not?" Xuan'er raised her head and said proudly, as if she was enjoying Chu Chouli's gaze at her.

How could Chu Chouli dare to quarrel with Xuan'er, who had already obtained the true body of the Demon Lord? He could only suppress the shock in his heart at that time and remain silent.

"What about Brother Song and the others?" Xu Han smiled faintly. He didn't care about Xuan'er's nonsense, but he asked. On the way up the mountain, Ye Hongjian had already told him that Song Yueming, Ning Zhumang, and even Meng Liang, along with the two current Sword Immortals, had arrived at the Great Abyss Mountain. Including Liu Sheng, who had been with Xu Han from the beginning, there were six people, but now they were nowhere to be seen. He couldn't help but feel a little strange.

Upon mentioning this, Chu Chouli was also somewhat dissatisfied. He snorted and replied, "They have to go to the foot of the mountain every day to investigate the situation at Great Zhou. Sometimes, they will go for a few days. They probably won't come back until later."

The great battle was imminent, so it wasn't a problem to know more about the enemy's movements. Xu Han nodded and his gaze sank as he landed on the monk beside Chu Chouli.

Seeing this, Chu Chouli grinned. In his opinion, this should be the first time Xu Han had seen Guang Lingui in such a state. At this moment, he should also be extremely shocked. He was waiting for Xu Han to ask a question, so he could explain it so as to satisfy his Hero Chu's insightful vanity.

Chu Chouli was secretly delighted with his intelligence, but the scene that followed surprised Chu Chouli greatly.

Xu Han's gaze stopped on Guang Lingui. Guang Lingui also stood up and bowed to Xu Han and the people behind him one by one. Other than Xu Han, everyone else had expressions of doubt on their faces as Chu Chouli had expected. However, Xu Han's expression remained the same, and he even returned the monk's bow.

"Benefactor Xu, long time no see. Benefactor's cultivation has improved a lot." Guang Lingui seemed to be somewhat surprised by Xu Han's reaction. He was slightly stunned before saying this.

Hearing this, Xu Han smiled faintly, but did not respond to his words. Instead, he said with a deep gaze, "Can the Saint Monk win this time?"

Guang Lingui was stunned again. He couldn't help but have a very strange feeling. He didn't know about some things for long, and he had never spoken to anyone before. However, hearing Xu Han's words, he seemed to know everything about him like the back of his hand. Therefore, he couldn't help but be distracted at that time. After a long time, he replied, "Before the end, who can say the winner?"

The two of them exchanged words, Hearing that, Chu Chouli, who was originally planning to show off his knowledge, was a bit confused. Of course, Chu Chouli could not understand the Dhyana in these words. However, as the only few men present, Su Mu'an, who was still young in Chu Chouli's heart, was naturally not a man. Furthermore, Zhou Yuan, who was over 70 years old, would never participate in these things.

At this moment, the two of them were chatting fiercely. Chu Chouli always felt that if he were to stand aside, he would be a little embarrassed. Therefore, he licked his face at that time and forcefully stepped into the conversation between the two of them. "What's wrong with winning? We definitely can't lose. If we lose, we'll lose. So, I feel that the more we work together at this time."

Chu Chouli said nonchalantly a bunch of empty words that he didn't believe, while Xu Han and Guang Lingui, who were looking at each other, ignored Hero Chu's words as they continued.

"The Saint Monk has the heart of all living beings in the world. He wants to cross the world with himself as his guide. I admire this action to the extreme, but I have something to say here. I hope that the Saint Monk will listen to him." Xu Hanyan said.

Guang Lingui's eyebrows were calm, but the strange expression in his eyes became even more intense. Just as he had thought, Xu Han seemed to understand everything he had done. He frowned slightly, but still said, "Benefactor, there's no harm in saying it."

"How can a person with an obsession persuade others to let go of their obsession?" Xu Han whispered. His tone was not loud, but it seemed to carry some strange rhythm that struck Guang Lingui's heart.

When Guang Lingui heard this, the calm between his eyebrows was broken for the first time. He seemed to have thought of something, but he was unable to catch it. The feeling of being unable to give up on it made Guang Lingui's heart irritated. He had no choice but to chant the Buddha Dharma silently in his heart. Only then did he forcefully suppress the irritation. Then, his gaze towards Xu Han instantly became sharp. He asked with a deep brow, "How did you know about this?"

Xu Han smiled again and said, "The Buddhist School has always had words that cannot be leaked. Some words can be said clearly, while others are not. There is no need for the Sage Monk to be annoyed. As long as he remembers these words, when the time comes, he may be able to obtain a sliver of hope."

When Guang Lingui heard this, his expression became even more solemn. He asked again, "Vitality? Whose vitality?"

At this moment, Xu Han's gaze finally moved away from Guang Lingui. He turned his head to look at the straw shed at the edge of the flat roof, where Liu Dingdang was still sleeping peacefully, as if the commotion from the crowd had not affected her at all. Xu Han glanced at that place, then withdrew his gaze and said again.

"Your life force."

Guang Lingui was stunned again when he heard this. He was about to ask something else, but at this moment, Xu Han seemed to have lost interest in talking to him again. He suddenly turned his head and looked at Chu Chouli, who was ignored because of the conversation between the two of them.

Chu Chouli sensed Xu Han's gaze. He subconsciously opened his mouth to say something to join the conversation between the two of them. However, before he could say anything, Xu Han's voice rushed over before he could speak.

"Big Brother Chu, I also have something to say to you."

"What?" Chu Chouli asked in confusion.

"It's about Ran Qingyi."

The words of this short number caused Chu Chouli, who had always been careless, to change his expression abruptly. He frowned and his face no longer had the playful expression he had before, "What did you say?"

Xu Han replied in a deep voice, "Although big deception can deceive the heavens and big thieves can steal lives, the reincarnation of the heavenly dao has its own limits. Forcibly…"

"It will only harm you and yourself."

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