Chapter 319: The Concept of Immortality

Xiao Chen felt incredible and circled around the black basalt several times, but the stone stood there quietly without moving at all. (っ◔◡◔)っ

But just now, he had never felt that kind of wonderful feeling before, as if at that moment, he was this stone, standing here for tens of millions of years, witnessing the prosperity and loneliness of the world. What exactly was that feeling?

When he carefully placed his hand on the stone again, he could no longer feel the mysterious state just now. In just a short moment, the feeling disappeared.

"Is this stone... strange?"

Xiao Chen's expression became slightly solemn. He put his hand on the stone and immediately probed into it with his divine sense. However, no matter how he checked with his divine sense, it was just an ordinary stone. It was only because of its hard material that it could not fall down for many years.

He even used his divine sense to investigate the bottom of the mountain, but it was just an ordinary mountain on the edge of the East China Sea, with nothing.

"Strange... How could this be?"

He couldn't figure it out. He had never experienced such a magical feeling even when he was practicing in the past. Why did he feel such a magical feeling when he touched an ordinary stone?

"No... No!" ❊

At this moment, he seemed to think of something. This stone was just an ordinary stone, but at that moment, he saw the vastness of the world, and his mood changed.

This stone has been facing the world for thousands of years and has never moved. He just stood beside it and felt it deeply. For thousands of years, no matter how prosperous or lonely the world is, it has always been here and has never changed or moved.

Why did he have such a state of mind? Could it be that this is what Ku Lingzi said before... a state of mind like understanding the way of heaven?

No...

What is the way of heaven?

Shouldn't it be the flow of all things? Why do you insist on seeking immortality? If it is like this stone, no matter how time changes, it will never be born or destroyed, and it will see the prosperity and loneliness of this world, so how can it be limited to life and death?

At this moment, he seemed to have realized a higher level of artistic conception, not the understanding of the way of heaven, nor the pursuit of immortality, but a higher level of artistic conception... the state of immortality!

"Never born or destroyed..."

At this moment, Xiao Chen's heart seemed to have a sharp lightning flash. He no longer hesitated. Taking advantage of this fleeting perception, he immediately sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and put himself into a state of emptiness and clarity that was not disturbed by the outside world to feel this state of immortality!

One day passed, two days passed, and on the third day, he finally opened his eyes. At this moment, he saw that his eyes were clear. In just three days, he seemed to have been reborn. Even the slow movement of breathing at this moment brought a sense of transcendence.

"So that's it..."

With a slight smile, Xiao Chen stood up and looked at the calm sea in the distance. In the past three days, his perception of the outside world has become much clearer. In the past, his spiritual sense could only reach ten miles at most, but now, if there is no obstruction, he can at least reach a hundred miles.

In this life, he will never comprehend the artistic conception of the Heavenly Dao as Ku Lingzi said.

Whether it is the realm of enlightenment, the lower realm, or the middle realm and the upper realm, these four realms are also a kind of artistic conception in addition to the realm of Taoism.

But now, he has comprehended his own artistic conception, which is the artistic conception of immortality. However, now, he is only comprehending it in the initial stage. He still needs to be like other cultivators, such as the cultivators of the realm of enlightenment to comprehend the lower realm, and the cultivators of the lower realm to comprehend the middle realm...

And he needs to constantly comprehend the artistic conception of immortality that he just comprehended, and comprehend it layer by layer, and finally...maybe he will really reach such an immortal realm.

Countless people in the world have tried their best to comprehend the Way of Heaven and comprehend the artistic conception of the Way of Heaven. But today, he comprehended a higher level of artistic conception just because of a stone on the seashore. It must be fate.

At this moment, Xiao Chen looked at the basalt stone beside him and gently touched it. "I didn't expect that Xiao Mou could comprehend the artistic conception of immortality today because of you... If Xiao Mou really reaches that realm in the future, I will definitely come back to see you."

After that, he slowly retracted his palm and said, "You and I are destined to be together. Why don't I name you "Jieshi"? From now on, you have one more friend, and I have one more friend too."

After that, he put his two fingers together and was about to carve the word "Jieshi" on the stone, but he suddenly stopped, thinking that this stone has stood in the East China Sea for thousands of years without changing. Why should it change because of him today?

Thinking of this, he smiled with relief and retracted his hand.

A breeze blew slowly, and he looked at the sea and sky in the distance... Weiyang, wait for me to come back.

After going down the mountain, he came to a small seaside town, facing the East China Sea. Most of the residents made a living by fishing. The land on the East China Sea side was actually a small country, but compared with the prosperity of the five regions of Xianyuan, it was much more backward, but it was better because the people were simple and honest, and there was less intrigue in the world.

He walked along the way. There were not many people in the town, but it was not deserted. Most of them were busy with their own livelihoods.

It seemed that because he had realized a new artistic conception, he had a better understanding of the lives of these mortals at this moment. Thinking back to the past in Ning Village, wasn't it the same? But because he embarked on the immortal path, everything was gone...

Thinking of Ningcun and Wuniang, Xiao Chen felt a little more sad in his heart. Since the incident in Ningcun, he could also dream of his mother sewing and cooking for him, and every time he started weaving in winter after autumn. Clothes, I always think about it, why hasn't Chen'er come back yet? This clothes must be a little too small for him now...

"Aunt..."

His eyes gradually turned a little red from the wind. Perhaps he saw the simple folk customs in this small town, similar to Ningcun, or perhaps he saw the children surrounding his mother, but the sadness in his heart gradually disappeared little by little. spread.

After calming down, he stopped thinking about Ningcun and Aniang and continued to move forward. He wanted to go to sea, so he naturally needed a big ship. The shipyard was located in the southeast of the town.

After a while, he arrived at the shipyard pier. The shipowner was an honest man and was leading the men to work. When he saw someone coming, he immediately stepped forward to welcome him, "This little brother, are you going to take a boat to a nearby town?"

Xiao Chen glanced at the dock and pointed to the sturdiest ship, "I want that ship, how much money?"

When the boat owner heard that he wanted to buy a boat and saw that he was a stranger, he was immediately surprised: "Brother, you are not going to go to sea, are you? This is absolutely impossible. There is a fish monster on the sea these days, and everyone who goes to sea will , no one came back. Did you see the big waves the past few days? It was the fish monster making trouble..."

Xiao Chen glanced at him, "You, a boatman, are always talking nonsense. The East China Sea is guarded by Lord Meng Zhang, how can there be any fish monsters?"

"this……"

The boat owner was paused by what he said, and Xiao Chen looked at the sea again. Now his consciousness was much sharper, and he also noticed a strange force on the sea, but it was not a fish monster. It was faintly like a force coming from the sea. The mysterious power of the East...

Note: Meng Zhang Shenjun is Qinglong.