Chapter 535 The Road of Life
Su Ziyi ignored the condemnation in the child's eyes and only looked at Zhihuai.
Yesterday, he found nothing.
When Zhihuai looked at him like that, she knew that he didn't know anything, which made him feel a little prouder. You know, since the two people met, he has been overwhelmed by Su Ziyi, and now that he has made a discovery, Su Ziyi has not, which inevitably makes him feel a little complacent.
However, he also understood the seriousness of the matter clearly in his heart, so he didn't hide it and said: "Last night, I sneaked to the edge of Diyue Kingdom." "You guessed it-" he said at the corner of his
mouth Hanging up the arc of ridicule.
"I'm afraid no one can imagine that the so-called cultivators guarding the border of Diyue Kingdom are actually ordinary people.
"What? ! "At this time, Su Ziyi was really shocked and looked at Zhihuai in disbelief. But since Zhihuai dared to say this, he was naturally confident: "They are all from Sanmiao Town. " He wrote lightly. After drinking a cup of tea, he poured himself another cup and looked at Su Ziyi with a smile in his eyes: "I didn't expect it.
"But -" Su Ziyi hesitated: "Didn't you say before..."
"Well, I said before that there were cultivators guarding the surrounding areas of Diyue Kingdom, but that was just in the past." He put away his face. With a smile on his face, Zhihuai said seriously: "I don't know what happened in the Diyue Kingdom, but the current situation is that all the cultivators on the border of the Diyue Kingdom have indeed disappeared, not a single one." "That town
. Those things that were reported..."
"You heard it from the so-called village chief of Baijia Village." When mentioning Bai Suiyi, Zhihuai's eyes became more disdainful: "Although that man has some abilities, , but his mind is not right. He is a little clever, but not very knowledgeable. After all, his limitations are too great. When faced with real things, he is easily deceived." "So, when everyone in the town tells a story in a straight-forward manner, it doesn't matter.
How could he see through this trick
with all his experience?" "Especially since this trick was designed by an entire town."
What Zhihuai said made Su Ziyi's face suddenly look bad, because it reminded Su Ziyi of what happened in Adali City. things. At the beginning, he and Cui Yu were also deceived by an entire city of people, and they suffered heavy losses in the end.
Therefore, when he heard what Zhenghuai said, he felt a little nauseous.
"Then how did they do it?" Su Ziyi asked about the residents of Sanmiao Town pretending to be cultivators. Although he felt a little bad, this feeling was easily suppressed by him and was not noticed by Zhihuai. Long Huai replied nonchalantly: "It doesn't take much ability to sing, as long as you act well. That's true, but think about it, this group of
people are also audacious.
But -" Sanmiao The people in the town should know what happened in Diyue Kingdom, otherwise they would not be so bold. Su Ziyi's words were recognized by Long Huai: "Well, cultivators value their own property very much. These townspeople of Sanmiao Town are already trying to seize the wealth of cultivators in Diyue Kingdom. It is impossible to just let it go." "
Either they have been recognized by the cultivators of Diyue Kingdom, or there is some secret hidden behind it."
But no matter which one it is, it is good news for them now.
After all, what they were worried about at the beginning was that there were practitioners guarding the border for inspection and causing trouble to them.
But now that the only obstacle is gone, how could they not be relieved?
Su Ziyi and Zhihuai had no intention of alerting the enemy and causing any trouble in Sanmiao Town, so after some discussion, they decided to go to investigate secretly together tonight. And based on the information Su Ziyi heard from Mao Dalang before, Bai Suiyi and his team should be setting off in the next two days, and they can take the opportunity to check out the situation.
Anyway, they are not in a hurry yet.
After discussing these matters, Su Ziyi turned around and saw the two little carrot heads staring at his mouth. The older one complained directly: "You can indeed speak, you are not mute. I heard you right that day." He was talking about what happened that night when the refugees attacked the village. Seeing him like this, Su Ziyi also knew that the child had temporarily recovered from the grief of the village being destroyed and losing his relatives, and he was in a better mood. He smiled at him and asked: "Then what? How is it?"
The child looked at him, then at Zhihuai who was watching the show next to him, pursed his lips, and finally said with firm eyes: "
Are you a cultivator too?"
Oh? It seemed the kid was smarter than he thought.
Su Ziyi was never conceited, but he didn't think that two children could pull out flowers from under his hands, so he didn't
deny it: " Yes, that's right." He waited for the child to show a frightened or stunned expression, but he didn't. Thinking that this child's eyes were just red, he knelt down with a bang, took a heavy sip to Su Ziyi, and begged: "Then can you accept me as your disciple? Teach me how to practice?" Looking at the kneeling man
, With his small body on the ground, Su Ziyi couldn't say a word. He didn't expect that the other party would say such words.
Zhihuai was also surprised, but as a native of Dong Qi, he knew the status of cultivators in Dong Qi, and also knew that this was a ditch that ordinary people could not cross, so after being stunned, he He shook his head mockingly, seeming to be laughing at the child's ignorance and naivety.
Su Ziyi didn't speak, and the child just knelt like this, as if he thought that this could touch Su Ziyi's heart.
The smaller child next to him couldn't figure out why his brother suddenly knelt down, but after a while, he still followed his brother's example and knelt down. It's just that he was too small and his body balance was not good. Instead of kneeling down on his knees, his butt dropped down and he sat on the ground. He froze in place like a little idiot, which made Zhihuai very amused. Laughed loudly.
After a moment of silence, Su Ziyi reached out and pulled the two children up.
As soon as Su Ziyi stretched out his hand, the child's eyes lit up, thinking that Su Ziyi had agreed to him. But when he raised his head, he saw that Su Ziyi's face was still expressionless, and his heart immediately went cold. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he didn't expect that Su Ziyi pinched his wrist and entered him in the next second. A spiritual energy.
The two looked at each other, and Su Ziyi asked him: "How do you feel?"
The child was confused: "What do you feel?" He tried hard to feel it, but in the end he could only say with some uncertainty: "Something warm?" He was so confused. Zhihuai's appearance pleased Zhihuai, but the expression on Zhihuai's face made him uneasy. She pursed her lips and looked at Su Ziyi, her face tense, fearing that Su Ziyi would give him an answer that was unacceptable to him.
But not everything in this world can be obtained if you work hard and desperately desire it.
Su Ziyi did not answer him directly and said: "The foundation of a cultivator's cultivation lies in spiritual roots. Only those with spiritual roots can absorb and use spiritual energy and practice." His words were very straightforward and cruel: "People with spiritual roots, The moment I input spiritual power, there will be a clear feeling, and I can even feel the trajectory of the spiritual power running in the body. But if you are a person without spiritual roots, you will have no other feeling except that your body feels very comfortable."
"And you just fall into the latter category."
The child said nothing, and just stood there stubbornly looking at Su Ziyi. After a long while, when Su Ziyi was thinking about whether he was too cold, he burst into tears. It just fell from the child's eyes without any warning.
The child was crying, silently.
This pitiful look made Zhihuai, who had been watching the show, no longer in the mood to continue laughing. She lowered her head to drink tea uncomfortably, but her attention was always on Su Ziyi, wanting to see how Su Ziyi planned to solve the problem.
Su Ziyi was indeed in a bit of trouble, but as he said, this child could not cultivate if he wanted to. Neither he nor his brother had spiritual roots, so they could only be ordinary people in this life and could not become cultivators. However, in this world, although the lives of ordinary people are somewhat bad, they are not entirely like that.
"I know you want to practice because you don't want to be so weak anymore." Su Ziyi stared into his eyes and said seriously. "I know that that night, except for your brother, you lost everything, and you were in pain. In
pain Yu, will you think about why you are so useless? So weak? You long for power and place your hope on cultivation, hoping that you can have the ability to protect everything, and hope that you can have the ability to revenge." "Right?
"
" But the path of life is not only regret and revenge, and the way to become stronger is not just cultivation." Su Ziyi knew that his child was smart, and even if he could not understand all of the big principles he said, he could understand most of them: "Everything in this world is possible. The value of existence also has the qualification and potential to compete with the world." "
So, even if you can't practice, don't be discouraged, because you still have other choices."
After hearing this, the tears in the child's eyes stopped. When he came down, he asked with a tearful tone: "Then what should I do?" He only believed in Su Ziyi now, so he completely believed in Su Ziyi's words. When Zhihuai next to her heard Su Ziyi's words, her eyes also showed a thoughtful look.
Because he was once an ordinary person and lived in a technological society, Su Ziyi knew the power of people.
This is what he said to the child: "In the village where you live, but in the place where I live, people without spiritual roots can practice martial arts and build a strong body, with physical strength far beyond that of ordinary people. You can also study, do business, rely on wisdom to accumulate wealth and connections, and gain a higher social status."
"So there is more to life than cultivation."
"Maybe it doesn't sound as majestic as a cultivator, but don't forget , the place we are going to now is a place that cannot produce cultivators, so what I said is very promising."
Chapter 536 It all depends on acting skills
After Su Ziyi said that, the child's mood finally stabilized.
His small face was filled with deep thoughts that were inappropriate for his age, and he was obviously considering Su Ziyi's words.
Su Ziyi didn't rush him. He poured himself a cup of tea and waited for him to think clearly. Although the child was still very young, he gave him equal respect and allowed him to make his own choices for his future.
After a long time, the child raised his head, looked at Su Ziyi with hope, and said softly: "Then can you teach me how to do it?" Su Ziyi nodded, and the tension on the child's face dissipated a little
. When his brother's hand touched his face and tried to wipe away the tears on his face, he broke down and laughed.
Zhihuai next to him also looked at Su Ziyi with shock on his face: "I didn't expect that you actually have two brushes." He had never thought about these things.
Su Ziyi ignored him.
Since we planned to check out the situation at night, we would be free during the day. And after Zhihuai told him the news, he relaxed a lot and became less vigilant, so he spent the whole day teaching the two children how to read. Mainly the big one, the small one had no other reaction except sitting there blankly, looking at this and that.
But this way, he is also very well-behaved.
When teaching children how to read, Su Ziyi could not help but think of the memory of teaching Su Yulang how to read, which made his facial expression become softer.
Time flies by and it's night time.
After the emotional ups and downs during the day, and having learned so much knowledge from Su Ziyi, the child was already tired and fell asleep as soon as Su Ziyi put him on the bed. In order to avoid unexpected situations, Su Ziyi also put a little sleeping powder in the dinner of the two children to ensure that the two children slept until dawn.
Naturally, his actions were not hidden from Zhihuai. When the two of them went out, Zhihuai couldn't wait to ask: "Are you an alchemist?" Su Ziyi nodded uncertainly
.
At this time, the emotions in Zhihuai's eyes became more complicated, and she felt a little sour in her heart. She then asked: "What level of alchemist are you?" Although this person looked a little older, he was still relatively young. After a generation, the alchemy level should not be very high. Thinking like this, he couldn't help but feel a little comforted in his heart, but he didn't expect that Su Ziyi broke his delusion in the next second: "Eighth-level Huang rank, but low-level elixirs of the ninth rank can also be refined." The next moment
, Su Ziyi could read the deep despair on Long Huai's face.
How could there be such a person in this world?
Walking in the darkness, he asked Su Ziyi dryly: "How old are you?" When he asked these questions, Su Ziyi had already noticed his intention, and because of their interactions with him these days, he knew that this person actually Not bad, even fun. Therefore, when Long Huai asked this question, he said with some evil intentions: "Three + six years old." At this moment, the last
hope in Zhi Huai's heart collapsed, and he followed Su Ziyi languidly, a little distracted. .
Both of them are foundation-building practitioners. Even if they don't use spiritual power, they still have skills. Therefore, under the darkness of the night, they did not alert anyone. Two-quarters of an hour later, they approached the place Zhihuai mentioned.
It was a very small village.
I let my consciousness go over and counted them carefully, and found that there were no more than twenty houses inside, but each house was made of bricks. It was not only strong but also very beautiful. It was obviously not for ordinary villagers.
In this village, there are almost a hundred people living, 90% of whom are wearing heavy armor, and only a small number of people are wearing common clothes. They all gather around the fire and chat loudly. Drinking wine and eating meat. Su Ziyi immediately saw that the people wearing armor were the troops of the Diyue Kingdom, while the people wearing cloth were cultivators and made shirts.
But these people are all real ordinary people.
Therefore, everything Zhihuai said is true. There are really ordinary people who are bold enough to pretend to be cultivators here.
While these people were drinking and eating meat there, they did not relax their vigilance to the outside world. When Su Ziyi and the others walked all the way to the village, they saw about a dozen sentry posts. There were people watching them, and the surroundings were completely arranged into a dragnet, so that no ordinary person could easily break through their surveillance. Come to the back.
However, this is of little use to Su Ziyi and the others.
Su Ziyi and the others easily reached the edge of the village and entered the village in a flash. They did not act rashly, but used the cover of darkness to sneak into the house, and then found that each room was filled with a lot of supplies, either food, money, or even a lot of spiritual herbs.
This surprised Su Ziyi.
Without disturbing anyone, the two people walked around the village and left quietly.
As soon as he left the village, Zhihuai sent a message to Su Ziyi: "How was it? Did I say it right?" This time, he came out just to find out the situation in Diyue Kingdom, but now that he discovered this big situation, he became more and more worried. He was so excited to try it that he could not wait to rush to Diyue Kingdom immediately.
Su Ziyi was not as anxious as him and just nodded: "Yeah, but we can find a way to inquire about the situation from these people." "How to inquire
?"
Su Ziyi turned his attention to the sentries standing everywhere.
It is almost not difficult to kidnap an ordinary person without anyone noticing. Su Ziyi didn't feed the person any elixir, but only tapped a few acupuncture points on the person with his fingers. The person was immediately in pain, but he couldn't scream and could only roll around on the ground.
Long Huai watched this scene with interest, discovering for the first time that there were so many interesting things and methods besides cultivation.
Both of them can see at night, but the other cannot. Therefore, after letting Ren suffer enough, Su Ziyi unlocked the restraints on the other party. When Ren was covered in sweat and his heart was still frightened, he came over and lowered his voice: "Let me ask you, if you want to deceive us." , then think about the consequences for yourself first."
How could someone who had just experienced that experience not agree.
Using a little pressure from practitioners, Su Ziyi and Zhihuai pried out everything they knew in each other's minds.
These people are indeed residents of Sanmiao Town, and none of them have any connection with the Diyue Kingdom, nor have they been instructed by the Diyue Kingdom to do these things. What they have done is nothing more than taking advantage of the situation and trying to steal from the refugees passing by. Squeeze wealth from your body and make such a fortune.
But what surprised Su Ziyi and the others was that these people only did these things in the past six months and had never done it before.
Seeing how skilled they were, Su Ziyi and the others really didn't expect it.
From this man's explanation, Su Ziyi and the others found out that two years ago, there were cultivators from the Diyue Kingdom guarding this place. At that time, people from the Eastern Qi Kingdom wanted to go to the Diyue Kingdom one after another, and when they were crossing the border, they would also pay the passing fees to the practitioners of the Diyue Kingdom as they do now.
At that time, although the people in Sanmiao Town were envious, they were also afraid and did not dare to make any small moves.
However, for some reason, one day two years ago, the practitioners and troops of the Diyue Kingdom who were originally stationed here disappeared overnight. They disappeared without warning, and when the people of Sanmiao Town found out, it was already several months later. And at the beginning, they still maintained a deep fear of the cultivators and did not dare to get too close.
But their disappearance left them with a little more concern.
One month passed, two months passed... until one year passed, no one appeared in that village, let alone a practitioner. It is not that no people from the Eastern Qi Kingdom passed here during this period, but because this place is already remote, and generally not many people have the courage to leave their homeland and settle in other countries, so after such a long time, not many people have passed there. .
The only thing that worried the people of Sanmiao Town was that these people passed through the border safely without any obstruction.
At this time, the residents of Sanmiao Town, who had been in turmoil for a long time, could not sit still.
Half a year ago, driven by profit, these villagers began their replacement career. At first, they were worried, but because there were not many people passing by, and no cultivators came to trouble them during that period, they began to feel relieved and became more at ease.
Especially after the flood, a large number of refugees came in, bringing with them huge wealth, which fascinated them and made them deeply involved in the drama, unable to extricate themselves and unable to give up the wealth at all.
These people are not completely blinded by money.
Living in Sanmiao Town allowed them to develop a sharp eye for distinguishing passers-by, allowing them to see clearly who they can and cannot mess with. Those who are too numerous and appear to have high status, they will either let them go directly, or they will only let them go after collecting a few things. Anyway, generally those who go to Diyue Kingdom will not come back, and they don't have much. No worries.
Relying on this kind of fooling around and realistic acting skills, they gained wealth in a short period of time that they had never imagined before.
After listening to this person's words, Su Ziyi only had one thought in his mind, and that was - "How bold people are, and how rich the land is." If there is a problem in one link, then the whole town will be affected.
It's all over. At that time, the people in power in the Eastern Qi Kingdom will not say a word, and they will pay the price for their actions.
And the reason why these people dared to do this was definitely not just the reasons mentioned above that gave them reassurance, but because - Diyue was in chaos in the country.