Asked by the Supreme who devoured the starry sky

Stretching out her tongue to lick the blood on the surface of her lips, Xia Zhi continued to move forward, stepping on the next step.

"Boom!" The pain hit again, and the sharp pain that was far stronger than the previous step resurfaced, making Xia Zhi stop and grit his teeth to endure it.

Next, the pain would appear every time he stepped on a step, soaring to a level far beyond the previous level, and did not fall again until he could bear it.

One step after another, the pain increased sharply again and again, making Xia Zhi suffer from purgatory pain every step of the way.

When the pain subsided again, Xia Zhi looked up at the seemingly endless bloodstone steps in front of him, which made him even uncontrollably feel a sense of fear.

The fear of the excruciating pain that comes with taking the next step.

"Young man, what are you doing in such pain? Isn't cultivation for the sake of freedom?" An old man with a white beard appeared out of thin air and said with a smile.

"Even if you don't practice now, your life is comparable to a cosmic cycle.

For such a long time, eat as much as you want, sleep as much as you want, and enjoy as much as you want, isn’t it good?

Why make yourself so painful?Go back and enjoy life. "

"How can you feel at ease if you are not strong?" Xia Zhi didn't look at the old man, but just stared at the steps and mountain road in front of him.

"If you don't practice...your life is under the control of others, how can you be at ease?"

"If you don't practice... If you encounter rebels or evil spirits, if your parents, wife and children are in a desperate situation, and you can't protect them, what kind of freedom is it if you just live on your own?"

"If you don't practice... it's hard to escape life and death. Even if I can coexist with the sun and the moon, and the universe will coexist, there will still be a day when the limit will come. Even my own lifespan is limited. How can I pretend to be free?"

Asking questions one by one, like asking the old man, but also like asking himself, Xia Zhi's deity's mind, which is bound by chains, is emitting more and more powerful light.

"I want to stand at the pinnacle of the universe. My will can affect the life and death of countless lives. I can determine the rise and fall of the universe with a single thought... The universe will be destroyed but I will not be destroyed. Then I will be really free!"

Xia Zhi spoke slowly, and his desire to seek the Tao became more firm in these words of self-talk.

The old man disappeared without knowing when.

Continuing to step forward, Xia Zhi endured inhuman pain with every step.

And all kinds of desires in this world, such as beauty, or power, or treasures, or friendship... All kinds of temptations will appear every time Xia Zhi feels the pain and reaches the limit.

"As long as you stop, there will be no more pain."

"Just let it go, and you won't be tortured anymore."

Xia Zhi looked at all this indifferently, even though he himself didn't know how long it would take to complete this path, but he never gave up.

The only thought in his heart supported him, even though he felt that his mental strength was going to be exhausted, and the deity's heart was about to collapse in this boundless pain, but he still held on.

Finally, when he stepped onto a new level again, and the extremely terrifying pain swept through his soul and gradually faded away, Xia Zhi's already somewhat mechanically numb eyes suddenly froze, and a platform appeared in front of him, and he could step on it one step further.

The tall and thin woman looked at Xia Zhi in surprise, and there was a middle-aged man with a simple face in front of her looking at her indifferently.

"Is it the end?" Xia Zhi's heart was full of joy, and he was finally able to escape from this terrifying endless purgatory.

"boom!"

Just when his mind relaxed a little, Xia Zhi felt that his eyes were in a trance, as if the world had changed in an instant.

Here, there is no endless pain, no tall and thin women and simple middle-aged people, just like ordinary people who are exhausted to the extreme and their consciousness enters a dream.

In the dream, Xia Zhi returned to the earth and suffered from illness since childhood, as if everything had returned to the starting point, and the subsequent time travel did not happen.

From the beginning to the end, Xia Zhi seemed to be an ordinary person who lived his normal life until he died of illness at home.

Everything develops naturally, what time travel and rebirth is more like a dream, it is everything he imagined.

After experiencing his first life, Xia Zhi's deity's heart was affected, and the light that burst out seemed not as bright as before, like a villain of glass, as if a layer of jade was formed again.

... In the second dream, the summer solstice is still on the earth, but this time it is on an earth that seems to be devouring the world.

This time, he didn't pass on too much inheritance. He took part in the martial artist assessment and became a warrior by relying on extremely hard training. Later, he became a warrior, a warlord, and practiced all the way to a god of war, and finally became a planetary-level councilor, and even became a warrior on earth. the strongest.

He cultivated and grew up smoothly, and he has great power on the earth, and countless beauties embrace him... Just when he thought he had reached the pinnacle of his life, a disaster occurred, the golden-horned beast was born, and everything on the earth was destroyed.

Twice in a row, Xia Zhi couldn't resist and couldn't make a choice. Even if he kept telling himself that everything was false and not true, the incomparably real experience in the dream and the familiar scenes still disturbed his deity's heart .

The third dream was in the great world of the Xia Clan. He was no longer a born supernatural monster, but an ordinary son of the Xia family led by Tianfeng.After 60 years of step-by-step cultivation of battle qi, extraordinary achievements...

The middle-aged man and the tall and thin woman stood a few steps away from Xia Zhi.

"Three worlds are not so easy."

The middle-aged man saw Xia Zhi sitting cross-legged on the steps, his eyes were closed tightly, and the light of the deity's mind that had appeared through his body before had long since disappeared.

"After all, you are too young, and there are only two true gods who can pass."

"If he fails in a while and doesn't die, you can give him a real artifact as a gift when he is removed." The middle-aged man ordered, "If the deity's heart collapses and dies, then forget it."

"Yes." The tall and thin woman replied respectfully.

In the Gate of Blood and Fire, if you can not die, even if you fail, you will be given corresponding gifts according to the level of your breakthrough.

But if he died, he could only blame himself for not having enough cultivation, and could not blame others.

Chapter 374 Sword Master Inheritance

Time kept passing, and in the blink of an eye, it had been 1000 years since Xia Zhi entered the space inside the Gate of Blood and Fire.

Xia Zhi, dressed in white, has been sitting there cross-legged, immersed in illusion.

The middle-aged man and the tall and thin woman stood not far away, waiting silently. Time had no meaning for immortal beings like them.

"Pong."

Xia Zhi's body trembled slightly, the divine power in his body was uncontrollable, and a burst of energy burst out, bringing out a cloud of blood mist.

"Have you reached the limit?" The middle-aged man's eyes narrowed slightly, "Time is the most magical thing. In the long years, people's hearts will change. Even if your heart is like glass, the simple passage of time can withstand it, but it's like rebirth yourself. How can I ignore it when I re-experience my past and present lives again and again?"

The last test of seeking the path is the three eons, said to be three times, but as long as the practitioner cannot escape from the illusion of reincarnation, he will experience rebirth again and again.

"Even in our era, there were very few people who could break through this road. After all, you are too young." The middle-aged man sighed.

The tall and thin woman looked at Xia Zhi with flickering eyes, and when she heard what the middle-aged man said, she also sighed endlessly.

Because their masters are no longer there, and the resources in the island in the center of the lake are limited, of course they can't be generously given to outsiders as they were before. The test in the Gate of Blood and Fire is much higher than before.

Passing the test of the entire road of seeking was the test set by the high-level officials in Huxin Island at that time when they were accepting successors. Simply seeking treasure only needs to reach the state of mind of "heart like glass" to pass.

But now, at least the second level of state of mind, 'Mind like a knife', is expected to pass.