The boss is very domineering

By the small river in the phoenix forest, a scholar was reading a book and fishing while holding a scroll of bamboo slips.

A raccoon cat was lying in the grass behind him, looking at the scholar's fishing rod with great interest.Its tail swayed from side to side from time to time, knocking down several stalks of dogtail grass.

The fishing rod was finally pressed down, and Lihua, who had been waiting for a long time, stood up and ran to the scholar with a kick of her hind legs.The scholar holding the bamboo slips finally noticed the movement of the fishing rod, and with a skillful pull, a crucian carp weighing about [-] jin was caught.

Li Hua, who had been waiting for a long time, leaped into the air, bit the crucian carp unceremoniously, and dragged it to the stone once again, and began to feast on it in front of the scholar.

The scholar was not surprised by this result at all, he changed the bait for the fishhook and threw it into the water again.

Lihua ate the whole fish with only the head and tail left, washed her face in the sun leisurely, stretched lazily, then jumped onto the scholar's lap and coiled herself up. A futon, unceremoniously fell asleep.

The scholar sighed, put the bamboo slips on the ground, and rubbed the civet cat's head with anger and anger: "You bastard." In exchange, the civet cat moved its ears impatiently, without even opening its eyes.

This scene has been staged by the stream for a year, and even the two phoenixes on the sycamore tree are getting tired of watching.

"Yong Nian, isn't Ling Yuan relying on others?"

"Who knows him." Yong Nian helped Li Lingyu for Xiangsi, "This person is too unlucky."

Before sunset, the scholar returned to the small village at the foot of the mountain, escorting his Ling Yuan all the way back for a stroll, when he passed the plane tree, he got excited, climbed up the tree a few times, and nestled with the two phoenixes.

This is the tallest sycamore tree nearby, and the village at the foot of the mountain can be vaguely seen from the dense branches.After watching it for a while, Ling Yuan straightened up and pointed in a direction only he could understand, "That's Chang Shan's house."

The two phoenixes looked at the big and small roofs. They didn't know which one Ling Yuan was referring to, and they didn't want to disturb others' interest, so they just nodded pretendingly.

Ling Yuan didn't pay attention to whether they arrived or not, he watched happily for a while, until the moon was in the middle of the sky, and the whole small village was caged in the moonlight, and then he returned home.

This is almost a daily routine. Fenghuang has lived here for hundreds of years, watching Ling Yuan grow from a fur ball to a half-sized cat, watching him having fun in the woods, seeing him not knowing the seriousness Go to the bottom of the mountain and stick a human.Finally, one day Yongnian couldn't hold back, and stopped Ling Yuan who was going to the village to wait for the scholar on the road.

Ling Yuan looked at Yong Nian who fell from the sky in puzzlement: "Is there something wrong?"

Yong Nian hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Come with me."

He didn't wait for Ling Yuan to answer, grabbed him and flew to the deep mountain.There is a place in the mountain forest, which is filled with white mist all day long, and is called miasma forest by the people down the mountain. Those who have the courage to go into this miasma forest, but no one can come back.Over time, no one would want to come here.

But the other end of the miasma is a treasure land of geomantic omen for cultivators. There is a spiritual vein in it, which communicates with many spiritual acupoints. It is the place where demon cultivators live.

Humans and demon cultivators use this miasma forest as a boundary, and live in peace with each other.

Ling Yuan has to go in and out of this forest every day, and for a moment he doesn't understand why Yong Nian brought him here.

"Do you know why there is this barrier?"

Ling Yuan didn't understand the reason why this big bird wanted to talk to him about this, he was only thinking about going to Gu Changshan, keeping his foot raised, and replied very casually: "I don't know."

"Because of the way of heaven." Yong Nian lightly pecked him on the head, "If they are not the same, they cannot be together."

Ling Yuan shrank his neck, and slowly lowered his feet.For the first time, he carefully looked at this habitual miasma: "Why?" He looked up at Yong Nian, "I can pass."

Yong Nian knew that he understood what he meant: "Do you think I can go through this forest and live with him in the village?"

Ling Yuan thought for a while, and turned into a teenager, who looked like a teenager, just like the teenagers in the village at the bottom of the mountain: "Isn't that all right?"

I never want to explain to him all the things needed to live in the world, but just ask him: "Do you remember how old you are?"

Ling Yuan thought for a while: "It's more than 300..."

"Did you know that human beings are already big in their thirties, and they can be a birthday star if they live over fifty? The scholar, he will grow old in the near future, and then die. It is more likely that he has some disease and cannot survive. I left at thirty."

"30 years, 50 years, it's not enough for you to improve one level of cultivation."

"Ling Yuan, in another 300 years, you will be just a half-grown child in the Yaozu, but that scholar must be a skeleton."

"I know." Ling Yuan played with his fingers subconsciously, "I went to see it in the barren grave."

Yong Nian was stunned: "Desolate grave?"

A vague smile crossed Ling Yuan's face, before Yong Nian could see it clearly, it disappeared without a trace.

"Thank you, Dafenghuang." Ling Yuan rolled over and turned into a raccoon cat again, "Then I'll eat fish." He ran away without a trace.

Yong Nian only felt that it was rare for him to have good intentions, and he was not stingy when he met such a bastard, but he couldn't do more.Everything has a definite number, maybe this is Ling Yuan's fate, or that scholar's calamity, who knows.

He looked at the place where Ling Yuan disappeared and smiled self-deprecatingly, he didn't even think about his own fate, why bother to meddle in other people's.

Yongnian and Acacia were on the sycamore tree, looking at the civet cats running around in the cold and summer, and I don’t know how many years they watched, until one day, the scholar who came to fish every day did not show up, and stayed in the forest and the village The civet cat running around disappeared.In the village at the foot of the mountain, the smoke gradually disappeared, and when Yong Nian occasionally looked over, there was no sign of plowing and weaving.The foot of the mountain slowly became silent, and occasionally wild beasts could be seen wandering inside.

The vicissitudes of life, Yongnian has seen too many times, it is no longer a new thing.Occasionally, when he thought of that innocent cat demon, he always felt a little unsure of why.

Finally, one night, the raccoon cat that I hadn't seen for a long time climbed up the plane tree.

"What about Acacia?"

Yong Nian turned his body sideways, showing him an egg under his body.

Showing Ling Yuan so innocently is only because Yong Nian doesn't take Ling Yuan, a little cat demon, seriously in his heart.Ling Yuan said "Oh": "I heard from Xiangsi a long time ago that she was going to nirvana."

Yong Nian stayed alone in the tree for a long time, and he didn't mind if someone came to chat with him, especially about lovesickness: "She would actually ask you to talk about this?" I really didn't expect it.

"En." Ling Yuan pursed his lips and laughed, "Probably because in your eyes, I'm just an ignorant hairball."

It's one thing to think in your heart, but it's another thing to be exposed face to face by the person involved.Even an old fritter like Yong Nian who has lived for tens of thousands of years immediately felt that his old face was a bit unbearable.

"I heard that you Phoenix can communicate with each other?"

Fortunately, the person involved didn't care about the other party's response, and Yong Nian was happy to change the subject.He turned the egg over: "Well, memories need to be passed on to each other, and they don't distinguish between each other's memories when they are passed on."

"That is to say, you will definitely know what Xiangsi is worried about in the future."

Yong Nian was really surprised this time: "Xiangsi is worried...she actually told you the deadline?"

The civet cat with the light on his back looked a little gloomy. He got up and shook his fur, and flicked his tail: "Well, she said, the deadline may really be approaching, but I don't know whether it should be you or her."

"She talked a lot, and it was obvious that she was really worried."

Yong Nian was silent for a moment, feeling a sense of powerlessness in his heart: "Do you still remember the way of heaven I told you? This is the way of heaven. There is no immortality in the annihilation of reincarnation, even the so-called spirit beast Phoenix."

"It should be on her, or it should be on me, it's actually the same. A phoenix that has lost its other half cannot live alone."

The wind was very strong at the top of the tree, and the rustling among the mottled shadows of the trees was just boring.

"I'll show you something." Ling Yuan turned into a human form, took out something and handed it to Yong Nian.Yong Nian took it over and took a look, it was just an ordinary wine bottle.

"drink wine?"

Ling Yuan shook his head: "I made it, and I specially named it Yin Lingzun."

This name sounded a bit strange, Yong Nian frowned: "Why is it called this?"

Ling Yuan pointed at the foot of the mountain: "There, the place where the clump of arrow bamboos turned out to be Chang Shan's home." He turned his head and smiled slyly, "I know you and Xiangsi have never figured it out."

He said something here and there, and Yong Nian couldn't make sense of it at all, and couldn't understand what Ling Yuan wanted to say.

"I once wanted Chang Shan to cultivate immortality, but he didn't have much talent. Then I wanted to use this thing to give him my life..."

Yong Nian looked at Ling Yuan, then at the clump of arrow bamboo he was talking about, he never thought that after living for so long, he would be shocked sometimes.

"Do you know what you're talking about?" Yong Nian asked in a stern tone for the first time, "Shemale has different ways, do you want to kill him or yourself!"

Ling Yuan's face was a little lonely, and his eyes dimmed: "Who knows, after all, before I have time to try, his fate will come."

"A group of rogues, or bandits, passed by the mountain village, trying to collect some travel expenses... When I arrived, he had just swallowed his last breath."

"I wanted to go to him earlier that day, but the spirit bottle was almost finished, so I thought it would be a while..."

"Ling Yuan, this is the way of heaven. No matter whether it is a human or a monster, it is the way of heaven." Gu Changshan interrupted him severely. Knowing that Gu Changshan was dead, he was relieved. What a big mistake.

Ling Yuan touched the spirit bottle in his hand, looked at Yong Nian with a strange look, there was an inexplicable emotion on his face, with a bit of mischievousness of a successful prank, Yong Nian suddenly couldn't be sure.

"When I was thinking of a way, I found a book."

"Book?"

"The book talks about a lot of strange things, the most important of which is how to become a ghost cultivator."

"Ling Yuan!"

"You must have resentment, you must die unwillingly, and you must have obsession..." Ling Yuan laughed. Half of his face faced the moonlight, and the other half hid in the shadows. Nian suddenly had a chill on his body.

"Look, Chang Shan is in compliance, so I gave him a helping hand, and Chang Shan became a ghost cultivator. Tell me, is this the way of heaven, or his fate?"

Yong Nian sighed for a long time, Ling Yuan may feel that he can get his wish now, but something like Ghost Cultivator...

"I can't be tolerated by the heavens and the earth, and I'm cast aside by all things. I know." Ling Yuan turned the spirit bottle in his hand, "I've been training with him underground all these years...he never blamed me, but I still can't bear it."

Yong Nian did not expect that he would sigh again: "If you become a ghost cultivator, there is no turning back. Whether you wanted to or not, since you have already walked this path, there is no turning back."

"I said it, I can't bear it. Yong Nian, I can't bear him to stay in that dark underground and be a mouse crossing the street forever. I want to trade my life for his."

The way Ling Yuan spoke was too serious, and his long-standing cognition was a little loosened for a while: "How to change?"

"Use my inner alchemy. A cat has nine lives. I will give him all my inner alchemy, plus Chang Shan himself, and I will have three souls and seven souls. As long as I take his body out of the heart of the glacier, he will Then you can be reborn as a human being."

At once, many thoughts flooded up, Yong Nian seemed to be blocked in his throat, unable to utter a single word.Fenghuang, who thought he was well-informed, stared dumbfounded at the little demon in front of him, and asked after a long time: "Does he know what you're thinking?"

"I don't know, I never told him."

"Go against the sky and change your fate, do you know how much you have to pay?" Yong Nian felt powerless at the moment, and even the admonition lost a bit of his superior tone, "Ling Yuan, I heard that you are cultivating In order to be number one or number two, why do you do this?"

"Falling into reincarnation and suffering from hell, I know. But I thought about it, if he can be reincarnated as a human, even if I fall into reincarnation, there will always be a chance to return to him."

Really childish innocence.

Yong Nian persuaded him softly: "Not to mention whether you can return to him, Ling Yuan, even if Gu Changshan has a soft spot for you now, how can you be sure that he will be the same in your reincarnation many years later? If you It’s okay to be reincarnated immediately, but what if it’s thousands of years later?”

Yong Nian pointed to the former village at the foot of the mountain: "This is the foot of the mountain. It's only been a hundred years, and there are almost no traces of the village. Lingyuan, the sea or the mulberry fields, I have never seen the same! Let alone You still have to gamble with Tianming!"

"That's why I came to you. I want to make my bet a little more sure. Yong Nian, have you never thought about betting against your limit?"

Yong Nian's eyes were wide open, and he looked back and forth at Ling Yuan with puzzled and probing eyes.The firmness in the other party's expression moved him, and Yong Nian blurted out: "Ling Yuan, do you really think you can gamble with Heaven? Do you really believe that you can go against the sky?"

"I don't know if it's against the sky or not, but Yong Nian, I want to take a gamble. If I win, it will be my greatest blessing."

"Was lost?"

"Losed? Lost..." Ling Yuan laughed, "How could I lose? What I originally wanted was Gu Changshan's health and happiness, and happiness in Chang'an."