Star Odyssey

Lu Yin looked at the stone. From the first time he saw it until now, the stone had only changed, that is, there was an extra point on it. That point was from a sword thrust.

Over the years, from a child to a young man, countless swords had been thrust out. With that point as the center, there were white marks around it, all of which were missed.

Lu Yin turned his head to look at Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan stared at the young man blankly, still without any change.

He knew that the sword-testing stone belonged to Ling Xiao. Could it be that the young man was Ling Xiao? If so, he really didn't expect that the sword-testing stone had existed since Ling Xiao was a child. The current sword-testing stone is really just a piece of stone without a human figure. It was gradually tempered by Ling Xiao's countless years of practice, or it could be said that it was an imitation of Ling Xiao.

Continue, the next year passed.

If the young man was really Ling Xiao, it must have been a great stimulation to Gu Yuan.

It was still the same square, and the same young man, but this time there were many other people, one by one, surrounding the young man in the middle and scolding him, and some people couldn't help but take action and stabbed the young man with a sword.

The young man did not dodge, and let the sword pierce his body, spilling blood on the ground.

Finally, under the complicated gazes of those people, he picked up the very ordinary standard long sword, walked step by step to the sword-testing stone, carried it, and left.

He seemed to have said nothing from beginning to end.

Continue.

The sword-testing stone is still the same sword-testing stone, but the square is gone, and it is a place like Peach Blossom Spring. Lu Yin brought Gu Yuan here and watched the young man practicing sword alone. He still only practiced stabbing. It seems that in his cognition, the sword can only be used in this way.

Compared with the past, he had one more action every time he finished practicing sword, which was to wipe the dust off the sword-testing stone.

Years kept flowing.

Lu Yin entered the years and saw scenes of the past. In Peach Blossom Spring, there was one more person beside the sword-testing stone. It was a bright and clear girl. She looked at the young man practicing sword with a faint smile. She was wearing a green long skirt and was extremely beautiful. When she smiled, she had small tiger teeth that were particularly cute.

Because of the arrival of the girl, Peach Blossom Spring became much more beautiful.

The dust on the sword-testing stone was no longer brushed away by the young man alone, but by a young girl.

This peaceful and beautiful day lasted for an unknown period of time until it was broken by an unexpected person. It was a baby who came from nowhere and was held by the girl and brought into the Peach Blossom Spring.

The young man discussed with the girl and then raised the baby. The two of them clumsily changed the baby's clothes and raised the baby. The baby grew up day by day. The child liked to watch the young man practice swordsmanship. Whenever the young man put down his sword, he would crawl over to touch it. For this reason, the young man had to seal the sword and let the child hold him in his arms.

The child also liked to accompany the young man and the girl to brush away the dust on the sword-testing stone.

Such days made Lu Yin envious, and he longed for such ordinary days.

Beautiful wife, lovely children, and a desirable life.

However, until one day, the Peach Blossom Spring was stained with blood. The girl stood beside the sword-testing stone with a one-year-old child in her arms, worriedly, and the young man held a long sword and faced the enemy alone.

Lu Yin didn't know where those enemies came from. He entered the time with the sword-testing stone, and he could only see the past of the sword-testing stone, and it was impossible to see the life of the young man.

He only knew that from that day on, the peaceful days were completely broken, and strong enemies continued to come to Taohuayuan, and the young man's injuries became heavier day by day.

They had no choice but to leave Taohuayuan, holding the child and carrying the sword-testing stone, and embarked on an unknown road.

In the past years, Lu Yin saw countless pursuits and also saw clearly that the target of those pursuers was not the young man or the girl, but the child, the child who smiled innocently in the girl's arms.

Every fight made the young man tired, but as long as he reunited with the girl and the child, he would smile and hide the scars on his back.

Lu Yin couldn't wait to look at the past. At this time, he even forgot that he was still carrying Gu Yuan and what he was going to do.

He just wanted to know what happened.

The past years were separated. In the previous scene, the young man, the girl, the child, and the sword-testing stone were all there. In the next scene, there were only the young man and the sword-testing stone.

Lu Yin entered the previous scene of the past years, watching the young man fighting against the strong enemy, and the sword-testing stones fell. Lu Yin saw the young man and his companions going farther and farther away, gradually blurring, but in the blur, he could vaguely see him placing the girl and the child on the boat, floating down the river, and waving goodbye.

The girl shed tears and cried while holding the child.

The child was also crying, crying very loudly.

The strong enemy came, and the young man tried his best to stop him, and everything was buried under the blood.

In the next scene, the young man had become much more vicissitudes, as if a long time had passed since he parted with the girl and his companions. He wandered the universe, constantly searching, and every time he saw the woman in the green dress in the crowd, he would be excited.

The people around him looked at him with strange eyes, because he was carrying a huge stone on his back.

Lu Yin followed him and searched in the crowd. He knew that the young man was looking for the girl and the child, but he could no longer find them.

The years continued to flow.

At this time, the young man had visibly aged, and the sword-testing stone had also changed a lot, gradually taking on a human form.

Lu Yin watched him practice swordplay, become a sword, observe swordplay, sharpen swordplay, and finally borrow swordplay. Time was constantly being played, and Lu Yin was also looking for that girl, looking for the beauty that he had as a young man.

However, after countless years, a young man and an old man appeared in front of the sword-testing stone.

The old man was Ling Xiao.

Lu Yin passed countless years, and what passed in his hands was the past, but for Ling Xiao, it was life.

He went from a young man to today.

A cultivator should not become so old, but he is old.

The young man who was brought to the Sword Test Stone had an argument with Ling Xiao. Lu Yin looked at the young man. That was Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan was Ling Xiao's child.

But he had seen countless years in the past. Ling Xiao had never been with any other woman except that girl. Where did Gu Yuan come from?

After the argument, they parted unhappily.

Ling Xiao stood in front of the Sword Test Stone and muttered something to himself. His expression was vicissitudes and his eyes were regretful.

The past of the Sword Test Stone did not have anyone's life, but it also saw a lot of the past.

The later it was, the less Ling Xiao appeared. Instead, it was the young man who, for some reason, always practiced sword in front of the Sword Test Stone, day after day, exactly the same as Ling Xiao at the beginning. But Lu Yin could see that his sword was different from Ling Xiao's.

Ling Xiao's sword was full of domineering, with a breath in his heart. The sword swept the nightless sky and could open a square inch with a sword.

Gu Yuan's sword was full of cunning, as if all the changes were the same, and finally stabbed at that point.

Both of them stabbed at the same point, Ling Xiao went straight, while Gu Yuan was full of changes.

Therefore, Gu Yuan's sword had never been taught by Ling Xiao. This was confirmed by Gu Yuan and countless people in the Eighth Barrier.

However, no one knew that the sword-testing stone itself could teach Gu Yuan. That point came from Ling Xiao's countless years of training. Every time Gu Yuan stabbed his sword, as long as it fell into that point, it would be guided naturally. He himself didn't know.

Only the sword-testing stone knew.

Time went on.

Lu Yin saw the huge candle, and also saw Gu Yuan standing under the candlelight and shouting something loudly. For a moment, he looked at the sword-testing stone. Dust fell from it, but it was like tears, slowly dripping on the ground.

Ling Xiao came and sat in front of the sword-testing stone. For the first time, he didn't practice sword. He just sat there, with his back against the sword-testing stone, full of loneliness.

He took the sword-testing stone to the ancient old place, which was the Peach Blossom Spring. He stayed here for a long, long time.

"It's my fault."

Lu Yin turned his head in astonishment. It was Gu Yuan who spoke.

Gu Yuan looked at Ling Xiao who was leaning against the sword-testing stone, knelt down slowly, and kowtowed hard, "I'm sorry, father."

"I'm sorry."

"It's all my fault, I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry. Father."

...

Gu Yuan kept knelt down, repeating sorry.

Lu Yin did not stop him. The moment Gu Yuan knelt down, he knew that this person had recovered.

From the moment he said sorry, he knew that Ling Xiao had not abandoned his wife. The child picked up outside the Peach Blossom Spring was Gu Yuan. Gu Yuan was not Ling Xiao's biological son, but a picked one.

For a picked child, he raised him for a year, sacrificed his beloved, and the life he most desired and happiest.

However, he had to bear Gu Yuan's blame in the end, breaking off family ties under the candle of inquiry, and shocking the Nine Bases.

How much courage is needed to bear this.

Even the sword master Ling Xiao had to hide in the Peach Blossom Spring.

With a cry of sorry filled with regret, Gu Yuan's black hair turned white visibly.

It only takes a moment for black silk to turn white.

Lu Yin closed his eyes and exhaled deeply. Ling Xiao raised a child in his youth. After so many years, the child became a young man. He must have been sealed. I don't know what happened when he went downstream.

Time, scattered.

Under the dark and deep starry sky, Gu Yuan knelt on the ground, bloodshot eyes, and tears kept dripping.

His whole body was trembling.

Lu Yin looked at him, squatted down, and wanted to help him up.

Gu Yuan didn't move, just knelt there, muttering sorry in his mouth, his regret was heartbreaking.

Lu Yin held his arm: "Senior, there is still a chance."

Gu Yuan's body shook, slowly raised his head, and looked at Lu Yin.

No matter how strong the cultivator is, he can cry. He can be so helpless.

"In the battle of the nine barriers, the eighth barrier should survive." Lu Yin said.

Gu Yuan stared at Lu Yin in a daze: "Really, survived?"

"Senior, do you know about the Nine Fortresses War?"

"The Lord of Karma said that if the Nine Fortresses collapsed, human civilization would perish."

Lu Yin understood. No wonder Gu Yuan was so sad. He really thought that the Nine Fortresses were completely destroyed. The damage to Ling Xiao could never be undone.

"Someone has seen the Heart-asking Candle in the starry sky, so the Eighth Fortress should have survived."

Gu Yuan's white hair fell down, and he lay down powerlessly, staring at the starry sky with his eyes blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lu Yin did not speak either. Gu Yuan needed to be calm at this moment.

He was distinguishing the truth from the false in the world.

To be honest, Lu Yin did not expect that the past of the Sword Test Stone would give him such a big stimulus. Many things are not what the outside world said.

Even Chang Chuan did not know the true situation of Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao certainly did not intend to explain.

With a breath in his heart, the sword swung the nightless sky, sounding like a very stubborn person.

The Sword Test Stone came.

Gu Yuan suddenly stood up and looked at it.

It walked step by step to Gu Yuan, then tilted, just like falling on Ling Xiao.

Gu Yuan clenched his fists, "I'm sorry."