novelno Chapter 358
Chapter 358
"You want me to give up martial arts and turn to immortality?"
Qiao Mu looked a little strange.
He wasn't angry, just inexplicable.
Today, he is already a leading figure at the forefront of Kyushu martial arts.
Taoyuan Villa is just a sapling that has just been planted. It is now growing rapidly and will grow into a towering tree sooner or later.
When it comes to Qiao Mu's achievements in martial arts, calling him a martial arts master is not an overestimation.
Speaking of Qiao Mu's martial arts level, he was able to defeat the Immortal in reverse and kill the Nascent Soul Elder of the Immortal Sect.
Such a character can be said to have reached the pinnacle of martial arts in the world.
In the martial arts world, whether they are young or old, they must perform the courtesy of a junior when they see him.
However, even Qiao Mu, who stood at the top of the mortal martial arts, could not be taken seriously by the headmaster of Yunxiao Sect.
The headmaster of Yunxiao Sect is not blind.
He judged Qiao Mu's identity as a pure human warrior, and personally weighed the power of Qiao Mu's sword.
And his attitude is that his murderous intention is gradually disappearing, and he is trying to recruit Qiao Mu and guide him to turn to the path of immortality.
This is not an attitude towards an opponent of the same status, but a condescending look down upon a junior by a senior person.
"Not bad." The headmaster of Yunxiao Sect said calmly:
"Your martial arts are indeed extremely high, I already know that."
"Only the immortal way is the road to immortality."
"If you can't see it for a long time, it will not be much better than an earthworm that lives and dies."
"No matter how high your martial arts is, even if you practice it to the end, it will all be in vain."
"This is a wrong path. The farther you go, the deeper your mistake will be. Don't make the mistake yourself."
"However, if you turn to the path of immortality, even if you only have false spiritual roots and low qualifications, you will definitely not be mediocre."
Regardless of whether it is immortality or martial arts, if you want to go far, you need more than just qualifications.
Being able to practice martial arts to this level in this day and age must be something special.
But after hearing this, Qiao Mu finally understood.
From the perspective of the headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect, the immortal way is the right path, and martial arts training is only the right strategy for those without spiritual roots.
Just like the comparison between civil servants and programmers:
The former is popular among the older generation. A civil servant with a monthly salary of 5,000 is obviously much greater than a programmer with a monthly salary of 15,000.
You talk to him about income, and he tells you about the invisible income and benefits of civil servants, saying that programmers are optimized at the age of 35, while civil servants are stable until they are old...
The inequality that five thousand is greater than fifteen thousand is not an arithmetic problem.
Even if the numbers on both sides of the scale are a little more disparate, even if they are doubled, in the eyes of many people, programmers are not as decent as civil servants.
At this time, the headmaster of Yunxiao Sect was like an elder who strongly advocated for young programmers to go home and take the public examination.
Even though Qiao Mu is already a top martial arts master in the world, in the eyes of the headmaster of Yunxiao Sect, he is just a mortal junior with extraordinary potential.
In his eyes, the martial arts and combat prowess of mortal warriors are just like the salary of a programmer. They are all vain after all.
Everything is inferior, only cultivating immortals is high.
Qiao Mu narrowed his eyes, his face was obviously moved, and he seemed to have been stunned by the pie drawn by the headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect, and asked:
"I heard that cultivating immortals is about being ruthless and abandoning desires and getting rid of obsessions. Is this true?"
"Indeed." The headmaster of Yunxiao Sect nodded:
"Immortals are people on the mountain, and cultivating immortals is like climbing a mountain."
"It is difficult to maintain a mortal heart through the long years and live forever."
"So the further you get to the top of the mountain, the farther away you are from people and the closer you are to immortals."
"The so-called abandonment of passion and desire means abandoning mortal desires, leaving only a heart for the Tao."
Qiao Mu's eyes were slightly cold.
The leader of Yunxiao Sect regarded him as an ordinary mortal with a life span of less than a hundred years.
Qiao Mu is actually 1,635 years old.
Immortal cultivators spend a long time relying on being ruthless and abandoning desires and getting rid of mortal desires.
However, Qiao Mu did not have the teachings of an immortal cultivator, and his long dream of immortality, which he spent more than a thousand years, was actually the opposite of "being ruthless and abandoning desires and obsessions".
What he used to support himself in the dream happened to be the obsessions and mortal desires abandoned by immortal cultivators.
Every time he gets older, his obsessions and desires will gradually deepen.
"If you are ruthless and abandon your desires and humanity, then what's the point of cultivating an immortal?" Qiao Mu said quietly.
These words also made the headmaster of Yunxiao Sect turn cold.
"I talk to you about cultivating immortals, and you talk to me about human nature?"
"That's alright." The Yunxiao Sect's headmaster's talk seemed to have faded away.
"After all, it is a summer insect that cannot be said to be ice-like."
"Your vision is too short-sighted. You only see the current level of martial arts and combat power. You are really stubborn."
"Summer insects cannot speak of ice, I will return this sentence as it is." Qiao Mu said calmly:
"In the eyes of prostitutes, all women in this world are for sale."
"If you don't agree, it means the price has not been agreed upon, you are pretending to be high-minded and waiting for a higher price, or you are short-sighted and don't realize it."
The corner of Yunxiao Sect's head twitched slightly.
This martial artist from the Qiao family heard him talk so much about how to cultivate immortality, and then he used him as a metaphor for a prostitute?
Qiao Mu just said lightly: "In your eyes, the immortal way is the great road of the world, and the seven emotions and six desires are just obstacles that hinder cultivation."
"But in my opinion, if you abandon your humanity and give up your mortal desires, what is the use of immortality?"
Qiao Mu pressed the King Qin Sword in his hand and jumped up suddenly.
Eight steps of Tianlong!
The tree stepped on the void and rose into the sky step by step, its speed soaring step by step, pointing straight into the sky like a sharp sword.
He flew close to the headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect in the air, and slashed out with his sword again, and the sword energy rushed into the sky.
The face of the headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect became colder and colder.
"Cultivating immortals, is it losing humanity?"
He laughed instead of getting angry, and his laughter spread far in the sky.
At this time, Qiao Mu's sword energy slashed out and cut through the clouds, breaking a big hole in the clouds.
The headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect just raised his hand lightly.
In an instant, the clouds in the sky surged and undulated like the sea, and the sharp sword light penetrated into it like a mud cow into the sea, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect still stepped on the void, just looking down coldly at Qiao Mu and Linhe Prefecture City under his feet.
"Do you think you are very humane?"
The headmaster of the Yunxiao Sect looked at the clouds in front of him, and the more than a hundred soldiers who were still alive.
When Qiao Mu just appeared, he tried to kill all of these Yu Wang's old subordinates, but Qiao Mu cut them off with a sword in the air, and he was not completely successful.
And now...
The head of the Yunxiao Sect pointed casually.
An invisible wind blade instantly cut through the sky, like a giant invisible sickle.
The heads of the hundreds of rebel soldiers on the cloud were separated from their bodies, blood gushed out, and their bodies all fell limp.
"You are very humane." The head of the Yunxiao Sect said faintly:
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"If you turn back and convert to the immortal sect in time, these mortal lives will be spared."
"You could have saved them, but you didn't."
"In my opinion..."
"Humanity is a huge weakness of yours."
The head of the Yunxiao Sect pointed again.
The white clouds in the sky rolled up as he pointed, swarming towards Qiao Mu who was in mid-air.
In the whistling wind.
The white clouds in the sky turned into a huge lion head shape, biting Qiao Mu who was in mid-air in its mouth.
Roar!
The Wanli Fanyun Lion is a rare spiritual beast raised by the head of the Yunxiao Sect. This kind of spiritual beast can call the wind and rain by nature, and has infinite strength.
At this moment, the Wanli Fanyun Lion bit Qiao Mu in its mouth. Qiao Mu only felt that there were thick clouds in all directions, as if a pair of invisible big hands wanted to crush him from the middle, unable to break free.
The head of the Yunxiao Sect watched this scene coldly.
He slapped the beast bag on his waist.
In the flashing light, dozens of spiritual beasts jumped out, mostly cats and dogs.
The leader was the big yellow cat wearing a Taoist robe, the Cat Power Immortal.
He pointed at the Linhe City under his feet and uttered three words:
"Massacre the city."
This time, not to mention Qiao Mu, even Maoli Daxian looked surprised and doubtful, thinking that he had heard it wrong.
"Master, this Linhe City is the largest city in Southwest Province, and there are many believers in this city..."
"Do I need you to remind me? Just do as I say."
Believers are of course not a trivial matter for Yunxiao Sect, but it is not possible to expect the immortal sect to be cautious with mortal believers.
Just like Yuhua Zhenren manipulated the flood to engulf Linhe City.
For a greater purpose, the immortal sect masters can indeed sacrifice this mortal city.
The master of Yunxiao Sect has not given up persuading Qiao Mu to convert to the immortal sect.
But now he has chosen a more intense means of persuasion.
A top warrior like Qiao Mu has long been a person who cannot be persuaded by words.
If you want to convince them, you have to break their pride and persistence, knock the things or objects they value into the dust, and completely crush them into slag.
When the belief in martial arts completely collapses, you can break it and then stand up, and reshape your heart towards the Tao.
"Child, you are still young. If you take some things too seriously, you will actually go astray." The head of the Yunxiao Sect said lightly:
"I will help you and help you see the falseness and reality of the world."
As soon as these words came out.
Led by the Great Immortal Maoli, dozens of spirit beasts swooped down from the sky and fell to the ground in Linhe Prefecture City.
At this time, Qiao Mu was still trapped in the mouth of the lion head in the sea of clouds.
The clouds from all directions were like silk threads, constantly rushing into his mouth and nose.
The Wanli Fanyun Lion was extremely powerful and could turn its flesh into clouds.
At this moment, Qiao Mu only felt that his hands and feet were like stepping on a large ball of cotton. On the one hand, he had no way to exert force, and on the other hand, he felt that there was a huge force coming from all directions, as if he was in the deep sea.
For a moment, he was trapped in this sea of clouds.
"It seems that he deliberately wanted to trap me..."
Qiao Mu was quite calm. He was also a veteran and had survived countless life-and-death crises.
At this moment, he could not escape from the sea of clouds, and he also thought of a solution that was not a solution.
"As long as you bite your tongue to commit suicide, you can be freed and reborn."
"It's just that... I just fought with the head of the Yunxiao Sect and I lost my life. Can I still win?"
There are only two chances to revive, Qiao Mu needs to think carefully.
He lowered his head and looked at the Linhe City below.
...............................
The Great Immortal Maoli descended from the clouds.
Unlike the other spirit beasts under the headmaster, it hesitated a little and did not immediately execute the headmaster's slaughter order.
Because the Great Immortal Maoli is actually the "Great Immortal" of this Linhe City, protecting the city from good weather and sometimes helping to drive away foreign monsters.
Like a serious disciple of the immortal sect, the Great Immortal Maoli also has a statue in the city. Not only does he enjoy incense and offerings, but every time he goes out, he has to have mortal strong men carry the shrine.
At this moment, when the Great Immortal Maoli descended from the sky.
The mortals on the street saw the huge figure of the Great Immortal Maoli from afar, and they were not surprised but happy.
"The Immortal Maoli is here!"
"It just rained blood, and a lot of crazy monsters came to the city all of a sudden..."
"The Immortal Maoli, save me!"
On the street, there were huge dogs as big as hills that crushed houses, there were giant elephants running rampant on the streets, and there were dog monsters with bloody mouths. The fierce suction made the houses twist and collapse, and also made many mortals fall into the air.
Although these spirit beasts were very surprised by the slaughter of the head of the Yunxiao Sect, they did not resist much.
The nature of monsters is animality. It is better to say that such destruction and slaughter in the mortal city is in line with their nature and makes them feel good.
Only the Immortal Maoli hesitated for a while in front of the mortals' prayers for help.
After a long time, it sighed slightly, raised its chubby cat claws and was about to press down.
But more mortals knelt down in front of it, all kneeling on the ground begging for its help.
These mortals didn't think too much, just thought that it was the Great Immortal Mao Li who wanted to help, so they prayed even harder.
"Forget it." The Great Immortal Mao Li narrowed his eyes and slapped down with his cat claws:
"At least I can... let you die more easily."
After all, the Ten Thousand Mountains can be regarded as the back garden of the Yunxiao Sect. Here, the Yunxiao Sect has the final say, and the demon race is just a defeated general under the hands of the immortal sect.
Whether it is a fairy gate spirit beast that protects mortals, or a fierce beast that makes trouble, it is actually only a matter of time for the Yunxiao Sect.
The scene happening in this city now is just a microcosm of the Yunxiao Sect in the past forty years.
The Great Immortal Mao Li was about to slap down with his giant claws.
But for some reason, his movements suddenly froze.
The Great Immortal Mao Li seemed to have suddenly realized something, his pupils suddenly shrank like a needle tip, his back unconsciously arched slightly, his hair all over his body exploded, and the Taoist robe he was wearing was propped up high, giving him an increasingly frothy monkey crown feeling.
Turning his head to look.
At the corner of the street, a round-faced fat cat suddenly appeared.
The round-faced fat cat had messy fur, but it was smooth and shiny, and there was a faint glow in the sun.
The fat cat was just the size of an ordinary wild cat, and was far smaller than the cat-powered immortal in a Taoist robe, but it made the latter feel like he was facing a great enemy, and his instinctive ferocity was aroused.
In the corner of the street.
The half-faced old man Li Changshi, who was holding the stone city, walked out of it. He looked at the chaotic city around him, and the only half of his face that was left showed compassion.
"The master of refining spirits in the city used the telepathic sound transmission technique to pass on the affairs of the city."
"But in Taoyuan Villa, there is not only one Qiao Xin who can hear the message."
"In this Jiuzhou, there is not only one Qiao family who is fearless and fearless."
The righteous will have many supporters, and the unrighteous will have few supporters. Qiao Mu chose humanity, and the mortals also chose to stand on his side.
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