Chapter 172
"Those who can inherit the inheritance of their ancestors, carry it forward, and bring forth the new are the strong ones, regardless of whether they are monsters or humans." The clairvoyant said.
Qiao Mu nodded, but his eyes unconsciously fell on Qian Liyan's head.
"You seem to know a lot about monsters..."
Speaking of which, when the clairvoyant first met him, he briefly explained that he had the eyes of a "three-eyed ape" on his forehead.
"...I just heard that Chao Lou is knowledgeable and knowledgeable." The clairvoyant said:
"There are many strange people gathered in Tingchao Tower. I just have the eyes of a monster. It's nothing." The clairvoyant simply excused himself and stood up to leave.
Seeing that the other party didn't want to talk, Qiao Mu couldn't force him.
After all, everyone has secrets, and getting to the bottom of it might be bad.
Just like himself, he is also like the sword-banished immortal who is trapped in this city and behaves strangely.
.....
In a dilapidated Taoist temple.
The sword-banished immortal was still sitting on the head of the immortal statue as before, holding a flat sword in his hand to carve the stone statue.
He was carving very seriously, but Lu Yanbei next to him didn't look very good-looking, and kept chattering beside him.
"Yan Nan, you were not like this before..."
"You used to be the sharpest sword in the world."
"What you did last night was inappropriate. It's not like you..." Lu Yanbei muttered beside him.
"Have you said enough?" Jian Banxian stopped holding the carving knife, but his expression remained cold and hard:
"I don't owe them anything, so what's wrong?"
"What does the Great Yan Imperial Court look like? You don't know? Why should we fight for the Great Yan Imperial Court?"
"Don't you owe me?" Lu Yanbei frowned:
"It's one thing to give up on yourself, but even if you give up on yourself, you still have to know what is right and wrong!"
"If you are not in this city and are hiding in any mountainous place in Kyushu, that would make sense."
"But when you were carving stone statues in this Taoist temple, the remnant old soldiers were out fighting. Every surviving woman and child in the city owes them."
"Without those old soldiers fighting to the death, this lonely city would have been dead long ago, but is there still a corner of the land where you can carve stone statues?"
Some people spend their time in peace and let things go, while others carry heavy burdens and fight to the death.
What Lu Yanbei meant was that if the Sword Banished Immortal was destroyed elsewhere, naturally no one would tie him out and ask him to resist the aliens, and he would have to fight to the death on the battlefield.
But since he is in this city and has never drawn a sword in thirty years to banish an immortal, he naturally has to bear the affection of the old soldiers.
"Forty years have been turbulent. In this city, there are not even ten young and middle-aged people left, and only half of the city's women, children, and old people are left. As a result, you carve stone statues here. Is it justified?"
"All the women, children, disabled people and old people in the city are more responsible than you!" Lu Yanbei frowned deeply and couldn't help but yell angrily.
He is also a Jianghu guest, not a soldier of Dayan, and has no duty to go to the battlefield.
Why did he fight side by side with the old soldiers in the city for a year after entering this city?
Although there is a reason why he was touched by the will of resistance of the old soldiers in the isolated city.
But the biggest reason is actually a sense of guilt caused by his own brother's failure.
Only then did the sword-banished immortal finally turn his head and glanced at his brother with gray hair and an angry look on his face.
"Since you are talking about this, let me explain the truth to you." Jian Banxian's eyes also fluctuated slightly.
He didn't care when Captain Hai and other veterans scolded him, but he was obviously touched by his brother's accusation.
He was once the strongest martial artist in the world. He stood tallest and could see far. He had many dealings with strangers and knew some secrets that ordinary people didn't know.
"Do you know why the strangers only besieged this city and didn't kill all the soldiers and civilians in the city?" Jian Banxian asked.
"How can we guess the thoughts of strangers? It's nothing more than a cat playing with a mouse." Lu Yanbei replied.
"Then do you know what strangers call this hundred-mile desert?" Jian Banxian said slowly:
"They call this place..."
"The secret realm of the sect."
"A place where disciples come to experience, practice spells, and obtain resources."
"The souls of soldiers who died in battle cannot be reincarnated. Instead, they will fall into the hands of strangers and be regarded as treasure by them. This immortal gate formation not only has the ability to confuse people, but also has the ability to restrain souls."
"The more heroic and tenacious the soldiers are, the higher the quality of their heroic souls, and the happier the foreigners will be..."
The Sword Banished Immortal stood tall and looked down at the dumbfounded Lu Yanbei with cold eyes:
"This is the truth about this 'hundred-mile desert'. This is originally a soul-nurturing place for the Immortal Sect."
The sword-banished immortal narrowed his eyes slightly, raised the wine bottle and took a sip:
"So that night I asked Captain Hai..."
"Is sacrifice meaningful? Or is it self-impression?"
Lu Yanbei stood there blankly, seemingly shocked by this cruel fact.
Forty years of blood and tears and forty years of tragedy in the isolated city have actually become money and resources in the hands of strangers?
The remnant army of the past has resisted tenaciously to this day, but it has actually brought some benefits to strangers?
"This..." Lu Yanbei hesitated and said:
"Why do you know so much? Where did you learn it?"
"No, since you know the truth, why don't you tell Captain Hai and the others?"
"Tell them what to do?" Jian Banxian said calmly:
"Those old veterans have extremely tenacious will to fight. I'm afraid even the nine states in the outside world can't assemble such an iron army with only more than 300 people."
"But they are still human beings after all, not made of iron. Forty years of bloody battles are already at the end of the line."
"Telling them the truth will not help at first, and will probably break their will."
"Once the will of those white-headed soldiers collapses, this city will cease to exist."
Lu Yanbei was silent for a long time.
After not seeing each other for thirty years, he suddenly felt that he couldn't understand his biological brother at all.
"Since you know so much...have you been prepared in the past thirty years? I know you are still the sword-banished immortal back then..." Lu Yanbei couldn't help blurting out.
Unexpectedly, Jian Banxian just spread his hands helplessly.
"Second brother. Why do you still have luck with me after so long?" Jian Banxian said indifferently:
"Whether it was forty years ago or now forty years later, I don't care about the life and death of the people or the justice of the world. It's just that you treat me as your younger brother and treat me differently."
"I don't care at all whether the women, children, old and young in the city are well fed and clothed, whether they can survive, and how long they can survive."
"They are theirs and I am mine. Why should I risk my life for others?"
"Speaking of which, Li Changge came to this Taoist temple to beg me twenty years ago." Jian Banxian shook his head and said:
"He said that he was seriously injured and was about to die, and his wife was still waiting outside the desert, so "Lingxi Jue" became an obstacle. In order to stop her thoughts, Li Changge decided to take the lead in the next battle to defend the city and risk his own strength. Life."
"So Li Changge hopes that I will take on the big responsibility..."
Jian Banxian paused for a moment, then laughed and said:
"The most ridiculous thing in the world is to threaten others with your own life... Do you think it's funny or not?"
Lu Yanbei stared at his brother in shock, speechless for a moment.
Outside the Taoist temple.
Qiao Mu stopped and listened to the conversation between the two brothers in the Taoist temple.
He originally wanted to visit the Sword Exiled Immortal as Qiao Jisen, but unexpectedly he heard such a secret.
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Qiao Mu stopped outside the Taoist temple. It wasn't until the sound of carving stone statues was heard in the yard again that Qiao Mu was ready to go inside.
He came here as Qiao Jisen to visit the Sword Banished Immortal.
After all, Sword Exorcist was also the strongest martial artist forty years ago. If Qiao Mu wanted to go further, it would be better if he could take advantage of him.
After all, Wudang no longer exists, and even if there are still a few Wudang descendants, there won't be anyone who can compete with the Sword Banished Immortal.
Qiao Mu's main skills are Changshengquan and Wudang Chunyang Wuji Kung Fu, so no matter what his personal ethics are, it will not affect his continued harvesting.
But before he had taken two steps, a person walked towards him.
It's Lu Yanbei.
Lu Yanbei looked quite sad at the moment, and was obviously in a bad mood. It took him a while to notice the approaching Qiao Mu.
"Mr. Qiao, why are you here?" Lu Yanbei was surprised.
Qiao Mu pondered for a moment and said:
"Nephew Lu Xian..."
With his status at this time, it is not appropriate to call him brother or brother, so it is more reasonable to call him "nephew". This is different from the time when Qiao Mu relied on his old age to show off his old age.
Qiao Mu said: "My dear nephew, you don't have to listen to the words of those who give up on themselves. If you have a little heat and a little light, you can be like a firefly. You can also shine a little in the dark. You don't have to wait for the torch."
"If everyone is waiting for the torch in the dark night, there will never be a torch."
"It's enough to do your best in human matters and know your destiny."
Lu Yanbei was startled:
"So Mr. Qiao has heard it?"
He smiled bitterly, chewed on Qiao Mu's words, and looked a little relieved.
At the end of the dynasty, the building is about to collapse. Who dares to say that he can turn the tide and save the building from collapse by himself?
But every time a dynasty ends, there are brave warriors who rise up and rise up. How can they be sure that they can win? Will your efforts definitely yield good results?
It’s just doing your best and knowing your destiny.
Therefore, the essence of this isolated city is a cage carefully crafted by the Immortal Sect, and an amusement park for strangers to enter and visit. So what?
If you don't have the will to fight, you will still spend a long night in this cage from life to death.
This is true in life, so in death, and so in future generations.
Lu Yanbei nodded and left.
Qiao Mu sorted out his thoughts and walked into the Taoist temple.
.....
When he walked into the courtyard of the Taoist temple, he saw Jian Banxian standing motionless in the courtyard, deep in thought, and did not notice Qiao Mu's arrival.
Jian Banxian did not look back, but continued to carve with the carving knife in his hand.
This stone statue is still just a rough embryo, barely showing a human shape, but the general outline of the figure is different from the previous stone statues, and it does not look like a female body.
Qiao Mu looked at it quietly for a while, and suddenly recognized the outline of the statue... The appearance of this statue seemed to be...
"If heaven had not given birth to him, Qiao Shuangsen, his crotch road would be like a long night."
The sword-banished immortal's eyes were full of sentimentality, and he poured out the wine bag and poured it into the soil in front of the blurry statue.
"The high mountains and flowing water cannot continue. Now my path is alone." Jian Banxian said slowly.
Hearing this, Qiao Mu was a little stunned.
He specifically didn't go to the veterans' memorial ceremony last night, but he did catch up this time?
But at this moment, when he looked at the back of the Sword Banished Immortal, he felt an intuitive feeling in his heart.
Nowadays, Qiao Mu has entered the spirit of refining, and his intuition is different from the past.
He feels that Jian Banxian is... unfathomable? A little stronger than he originally expected?