My apprentice is a little weird?

After entering the city, Jiang Yan took out half of the mask from his sleeve and put it on his face. It was a very simple mask with half of a red fox's face printed on it, which was furry.

When Fuling asked, Jiang Yan said that one should not show off one's wealth when out, not to mention that this place is full of good and bad people, it would be troublesome if someone targeted him.

Then, he rolled his eyes and asked Jiang Yan for a mask, which was half a tiger mask.

Of course, the two of them's attire did not cause any waves or attract too much attention.

After all, if you count them carefully, there are many people who are stranger than them. It is not uncommon to see people wearing cloaks and hats to cover their faces.

Shan Pao and Er Leng were also covered with cloaks, with most of their bodies hidden in the darkness.

"You can wander around the city at will, and then meet at the city gate to go out and watch the show together."

Erleng opened his mouth slightly and wanted to say something after hearing this, but he was embarrassed and seemed hesitant and restrained.

Jiang Yan narrowed his eyes and smiled, reached into his arms, took out a storage bag, and handed it to Erleng.

"It's a loan. I can use it to buy more meat from spirit beasts and demon beasts for Shan Pao. He has been cultivating his body for such a long time without any supplements, so his strength has actually been declining."

"Plus, he has a special physique. If he is not well nourished, he may suffer a backlash."

Erleng's fingers trembled but his hands did not hesitate at all. He tightly grasped the storage bag and then looked at Jiang Yan deeply.

"Okay...thank you Mr. Jiang..."

Without saying anything else, she just imprinted his image in her heart, and would definitely repay him if she had the chance in the future! Although she didn't think there would be such a chance...

After the two left, Jiang Yan Fuling was the only one left here.

"Why don't you follow them?"

Fuling smiled:

"I won't get involved in children's affairs..."

"So where are you going next?"

"I have nowhere to go, and I am just a mortal now. It might be dangerous if I walk around randomly. I must stay with you."

Jiang Yan squinted and smiled.

"Then just take a walk, just to relax~"

The two walked side by side, Jiang Yan's steps were casual and casual, while Fuling's steps were steady and his posture was standard. The two of them walking side by side had some opposite meanings.

Some people looked sideways, but they quickly looked away.

…………

"Brother Jiang, I see you seem to be aimless. What are you doing here? Are you just strolling around?"

Jiang Yan raised his head and looked through the formation in the city, landing on a mountain in the distance.

That is the main peak of Chengfeng Sword Sect. At this moment, there are hidden restrictions around it and disciples are patrolling back and forth. From time to time, the rhythm of Taoism bursts out from it.

Apparently, someone was discussing the Dao, or perhaps fighting a battle...

"Something's wrong. My wife is busy. I just came to accompany her~"

Jiang Yan spoke leisurely, and Fuling smiled knowingly:

"You two are so loving, you are such an enviable couple~"

"but…"

Fuling changed the subject, his eyes narrowed slightly under the tiger mask, and his tone became a little serious:

"From my observation of his posture, words and actions, although there is a lot of intimacy, there is also a bit of domineering in his core~"

"Besides, you two should be...master and apprentice~"

"They are clearly master and disciple, but in reality they are husband and wife. However, they did not abandon the name of master and disciple afterwards. The relationship between them is really intriguing."

"Many ethical principles in this world seem to have a different interpretation in your opinion. I am very curious about how you break through that boundary and how you view this special interweaving of emotions and identities~"

"Will it not affect your own Dao heart?"

Jiang Yan tilted his head slightly with a faint smile on his face.

"So that's why you're following me?"

Fuling was stunned for a moment, then recovered instantly and nodded gently.

"Yes, that glass of wine is delicious, but to me it is like a deadly poison. It contains the seven emotions of the human world, which are so strong that I dare not drink it again."

"But... my Tao was vaguely touched by this..."

Jiang Yan continued to walk leisurely, with Fuling following him all the time.

"What is your way?"

He asked this question, but Fuling couldn't answer it.

"I do not know."

"How could you not know?"

Fuling looked up at the sky with a melancholy gaze.

"My road has come to an end, and there is nothing in sight ahead of me, even though countless predecessors have paved the way for me."

"But just as I said when I was educating Er Leng, if you follow the path of your predecessors, you will eventually fall behind them for the rest of your life. Although I am not a sincere person, I am a person who seeks the truth. I will not allow my path to end at a glance!"

“I want to walk my own path. Even if the path I walk has been walked by predecessors, I will still persevere and grow different flowers from the same seed!”

"That's it..."

Jiang Yan seemed to be thinking about something.

"So... you are now experiencing the world of mortals and overcoming the tribulations of the world of mortals?"

Fuling shook her head gently: "No, I have already seen through the calamity of the mortal world, and I have also begun to glimpse my own path, but I don't know why I am just one step away, that short step, which seems to be within reach and yet seems like an insurmountable chasm."

"Block me at the gate, so that I cannot enter..."

"I couldn't figure it out, so I went out alone for a hundred years, experiencing the sufferings of the world, birth, old age, sickness, death, joy, anger, sorrow and resentment. I used the "rules" to restrain myself and return to propriety, and slowly accumulated experience to try to break through the door."

"But after a hundred years, nothing was achieved... until... that glass of wine arrived~"

Having said that, there was a hint of heat in his eyes as he looked at Jiang Yan for an answer.

"Is it so difficult to find the way?"

Jiang Yan asked the question in his heart from the bottom of his heart: Is it so difficult to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal?

His master Chi Xiaowen wasted nearly a hundred years of time before he got a glimmer of opportunity in the past decade or so, and the same is true for Fuling.

Is it so difficult to become an immortal?

Fuling's eyelids twitched wildly when she heard this, and she couldn't help but clench her hands, with veins bulging on the back of her hands.

"Otherwise..."

Jiang Yan seemed not to notice the repression in Fuling's words, and turned to talk to himself:

"Three thousand great ways all have the same destination, all laws return to the origin. The cultivators take the physical body as the foundation, the primordial spirit as the basis, and the myriad "qi" as the law, and then apply it to all things."

"To seek the great way, one must first be immortal. To seek immortality, one must prove one's own way. To prove one's own way, one must first understand one's original mind. If one understands one's original mind, one must apply magic to all things and find out the technique that suits oneself."

"Then we went against the trend and went against heaven. What does it mean to go against heaven? What is heaven? An ancient once called it "universe". The four directions above and below are called "Yu", and the past and present are called "Zhou". The four directions above and below contain countless small worlds and countless big worlds!"

"The past and present contain infinite continuation, progress, different latitudes and laws."

"In Tao, the universe is also called "One". Tao gave birth to One, One gave birth to Two, Two gave birth to Three, and Three gave birth to all things. All things originate from it, are born from it, and all chase after it."

“But it has already transformed from ‘one’ into all things, and it is impossible for it to naturally evolve back to the state of ‘one’. In the process of natural evolution, it gradually tends to diffuse.”

“Once someone wants to reverse this process, and wants “all” to move towards “one”, or to pursue “one” and become “one”, then this is called going against the will of heaven.”