"Alright," the Beast Deity smiled faintly, turned around, the weariness on his face deepened, "Why are you here, is it to kill me?"
Ghost Li shook his head.
The Beast Deity was slightly taken aback, then laughed and said, "I didn't expect there to be someone who doesn't want to kill me, I didn't expect that. These few months, in your human words, I have tormented the world, brought calamity to the common people, I am a person who deserves to die, why don't you want to kill me? "
Ghost Li was silent, looked at the Beast Deity, the Beast Deity also looked at him, between the two men, that ball of fire was quietly burning, at the same time reflected in their eyes.
"Should I want to kill you?"
"Shouldn't you?"
There was a long, long silence … …
"Maybe," Ghost Li's face, suddenly revealed a complicated expression, some reminiscence, some pain and also some indistinct bewilderment, facing this world's most ferocious evildoer, he seemed to be able to completely let go of his heart, completely not that indifferent and autistic self in front of others.
"If it was ten years ago, I would definitely wholeheartedly eliminate the evil for the common people, even though I know my strength is not enough, but ultimately I cannot retreat even half a step. But now … … "
The Beast Deity stared at him, asked, "But?"
The confusion on Ghost Li's face deepened, he slowly said, "I just suddenly feel, the common people in the world, what does it have to do with me? My lifelong wish, was to live a normal life, I don't want to learn Taoism, I don't want to cultivate, I don't even want to be immortal. "
The expression on the Beast Deity's face, also suddenly changed, his eyes changed from a faint sneer to a solemn, even with some confusion similar to Ghost Li's, as if something, touched something deep in his heart.
He suddenly said, "Then what exactly do you want?"
Ghost Li smiled indifferently, slowly looked up at the sky, but there was only the deep darkness of this ancient cave, without a trace of light, he said, "I don't know, sometimes I also thought, maybe I can go back to ten years ago, my days on Big Bamboo Peak? Or perhaps, my dream is to simply return to my childhood, when I didn't know anything. But, "he laughed bitterly in a low voice and said," The right and wrong, the gratitude and resentment in between, how can I let go of it? "
The Beast Deity was silent for a moment. "Do you regret it?"
Ghost Li did not reply immediately. After a while, he looked at the Beast Deity again, looked at the pair of eyes behind the flames, and shook his head.
The Beast Deity laughed coldly and said, "Based on what you said, half of your life has been filled with frustrations and sorrow, but now that I am asking you, you do not regret it. What do you say?"
Ghost Li said, "Half my life is full of frustrations but most of it is not up to me. I wanted to live an ordinary life, but I got involved in the battle between Buddhism and Taoism. I wanted to cultivate in peace, but I became a demon. I wanted to treat people with sincerity, but I didn't expect to plant the wrong kind of love. When I understand who I am with sincerity … "
A desolate expression slowly appeared on his face. In the end, he did not continue speaking. After a long while, he said in a low voice,
"Regret? How can I regret it, even if I regret it, what's the use … "
The Beast Deity silently looked at the man standing there. Ten years, did not seem to have left many marks on his face. Just that his figure standing there, looked so tired. The Beast Deity could not help but start to imagine, that youth ten years ago, what kind of life did he lead.
Between the two men, there was silence, as if they had unknowingly fallen into reminiscence of the past.
Everyone's life, past events, how many of them are worth recalling?
Ten years? A hundred years? A thousand years …
Or will it eventually be slowly worn away by time, quietly passing away?
The Beast Deity thought silently, the weariness on his face deepened. His eyes, slowly shifted to the direction of that ancient cave entrance. Separated by the endless darkness, in a faraway place, there was still a figure standing there alone?
This kind of life, what kind of life was it?
He suddenly asked Ghost Li, "Tell me, what is the purpose of living?"
"What is the purpose of living?" Ghost Li repeated in a low voice. After a long while, he raised his head and said, "I don't know, it's just that in this life, it seems like I have been living for others."
The Beast Deity was taken aback, he muttered to himself, "Living for others, then what about me, who am I living for?"
Ghost Li was slightly surprised, he clearly did not expect the Beast Deity to say such words. Then, he frowned, clearly recalling his own words just now, he felt a little surprised, how could he say such things.
After composing himself, Ghost Li's face regained its calmness, as if that flash of weakness just now had disappeared, as if it had never existed in him. He looked deeply at the Beast Deity and said, "I came here today, not to kill you."
The Beast Deity still seemed a little absent-minded, as if thinking about something, he faintly replied, "Oh, then why did you come here?"
Ghost Li pointed to the TaoTie lying on the ground beside him, and said, "I came for it."
The Beast Deity frowned, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and the TaoTie on the ground immediately reacted, instantly widened its bell-like huge eyes, opened its bloody mouth, roared at Ghost Li, and slowly stood up, murderous. And the three-eyed monkey Xiao Hui seemed a little puzzled, slowly left the TaoTie's side, ran back to Ghost Li's feet, raised its head and looked at Ghost Li, as if it did not understand its master's words, but after a moment, it still climbed up Ghost Li's shoulder, just that its three eyes kept glancing at the TaoTie from time to time.
The Beast Deity snorted, and said, "That's strange, you came here not to kill me, but for this TaoTie? What do you want it for? "
Ghost Li faintly said, "It's not me who wants it, it's someone else who wants it, and for that person, as long as it's not too much, I will help him."
The Beast Deity looked at him for a moment, suddenly laughed, and said, "You owe someone a favour, isn't it?"
Ghost Li was silent for a moment, and said, "I indeed owe someone a favour, a lot, so much that I will not be able to repay it in my lifetime, but this has nothing to do with you." He looked up, his expression solemn, and slowly stepped forward. Watching his figure slowly approaching, the Beast Deity's pupils seemed to contract slightly.
The flames in the brazier reflected on Ghost Li's face, the dancing light and shadow trembled in the boundary between darkness and light, that man calmly said, "I have no intention to be your enemy, but it seems that this is unavoidable."
The Beast Deity let out a cold laugh, and said, "You think with your skills, you can defeat me?"
Ghost Li did not speak.
And did not stop.
The deep footsteps reverberated in the empty space, there was no wind but for some reason, the only flame in this huge stone chamber suddenly started to sway, the light gradually intensified.
The darkness was like the netherworld, silent and unfathomable, not knowing how many evil spirits and demons, were staring at the people in the light from the darkness.
Ghost Li walked towards the Beast Deity in the fire.
Suddenly, that ball of fire abruptly rose, blossomed with dazzling light, the entire fire volume was several times bigger than when it was burning peacefully. In the raging fire, there seemed to be a sound like a dragon's roar, reverberating far away.
Following the dragon's roar, the entire stone chamber seemed to tremble. The dragon's roar grew louder and louder, and the echoes that came from the depths of the darkness did not show any signs of weakening. Instead, it rose higher and higher, almost becoming a sharp whistling sound. In the end, it was as deafening as the roar of mountains and the roar of a tsunami.
Ghost Li stopped, because that ball of fire had already abruptly soared up from the brazier, blocking in front of him, and in that blazing fire, indistinctly, there seemed to be a pair of ferocious eyes faintly discernible, watching him.
The Beast Deity's figure had already disappeared behind the fire but his calm voice was still clearly heard from the fire, said, "This is a southern border ancient inheritance formation, called 'Inferno Eight Fierce Formation', if you can break it and not die, whatever you want to do, I will also follow you."
His voice had just landed, almost at the same time, a roar burst out from the most dazzling part of the fire, that fire trembled violently, the surrounding five chi of ground was scorched, one could imagine the degree of heat around the brazier.
A strong hot wind blew over from the front, Ghost Li's clothes fluttered backwards but his expression did not seem to be affected, even the monkey Xiao Hui on his shoulder, stared at the fire with its three eyes, without fear or pain. Just that, their expressions were solemn, anyone knew that this was only the beginning.
The first piece of blood-red ferocious deity pattern, slowly appeared in the sky above the fire, that savage face and strange posture, was exactly the same as the one in FenXiang Valley Inferno Altar. Ghost Li stared at that picture, a complicated expression slowly appeared on his face.
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