Chapter 1846: Heart Follows the Path

"Second Junior Brother..." Xuan Zhen raised his eyes with a complicated expression, and after a moment of silence, he sighed sadly: "He is no longer the Ye Jianxin of the past."

"Hmm?"

Bai Chen didn't understand.

"Well, anyway, follow me."

Xuan Zhen waved his sleeves and flew towards the cliff.

Seeing this, Bai Chen raised his eyebrows in surprise and flew up with Mei Santong.

The three of them flew over the cliff and hundreds of mountains of different sizes, and finally landed in a low-lying area.

With Xuan Zhen's guidance, the barrier that sealed this place did not activate. When Bai Chen landed here, he found that the trees in front of him were all made of the star stones of the Star Pavilion!

The trees made of countless star stones gathered into a gray forest, which looked dead at a glance.

In the gray forest, it seemed that one could hear bursts of crisp chiseling sounds, which came from the air, shaking Mei Santong and always felt a chill on his back.

Chopping wood, could it be that they were chopping this star stone?

Bai Chen was really shocked. Unless a strong man in the Zhoutian realm used powerful spiritual skills, he might not be able to cut down a star stone tree with brute force even if he chopped for ten thousand years!

Was he out of his mind or was he stuck in the door?

Full of curiosity, Bai Chen followed Xuan Zhen and walked forward.

Finally, they came to the front of the gray forest. What they saw was a middle-aged man in tattered clothes, holding a huge axe and chiseling the star stone tree.

"Second Junior Brother, Master Kuang is here to see you."

Xuan Zhen looked at Ye Jianxin with a touch of sadness.

After hearing this, Ye Jianxin almost ignored it and continued to raise the axe and hit the star stone tree fiercely.

Every time the axe fell, a colorful ripple would be shaken on the star stone tree. Bai Chen looked carefully and found that there was only a shallow mark where the axe fell.

"He has been chiseling here for 20,000 years. As you can see, there is no sign that the tree will be cut down." Xuan Zhen said helplessly.

Hearing this, Bai Chen frowned curiously. Seeing Ye Jianxin with disheveled hair, beard falling to the ground, and ragged clothes, the jealous beggars would cry for three days to show respect. How could the strongest person under Ke Xin of Beihuang Sect fall into such a state?

A powerful person in the Zhoutian realm, a person that the world envied, actually hid here and made trouble with a star stone tree?

"Junior brother, this is Master Kuang, shouldn't you stand up and say hello?" Xuan Zhen frowned, obviously a little unhappy.

Hearing this, Ye Jianxin gradually stopped the action in his hands, raised his eyes as calm as a lake, and looked directly at Bai Chen, without any waves in his eyes: "Master Kuang."

The flat tone, without any emotion, came out of his mouth, it felt like he was talking to a stone, making Xuan Zhen and Mei Santong look a little ugly.

Bai Chen sensed the anger of the two and raised his hand to signal them not to get angry. Instead, he smiled and looked at Ye Jianxin: "Why are you cutting books here?"

"Stick to the heart of Tao."

Ye Jianxin said lightly.

"Stick to the heart of Tao? So, you are still brooding over the fact that you didn't go to the Central Region with Ke Xin that year?"

! !

As soon as these words came out, Ye Jianxin's palm suddenly trembled violently.

This was the first time in 30,000 years that he had experienced emotional fluctuations.

…

Back then, Ke Xin insisted on going to Xinglan Continent with Bai Chen, and by the way, handed over all the affairs of Beihuang Sect to Xuan Zhen.

At that time, Ye Jianxin wanted to follow Ke Xin to go there, but Ke Xin refused because he was not strong enough to be independent on the continent.

For the master's decision, among the six disciples, only Ye Jianxin still insisted, but after several insistences, he was suppressed by Ke Xin in the back mountain of Beihuang Sect with a barrier.

In this way, Ke Xin followed Kuang Hemao Di and Luo Xi to leave Beichen Empire.

Many years later, bad news came from the mainland that Ke Xin had passed away.

…

Looking directly at Ye Jianxin, Bai Chen said in a deep voice: "Rather than saying that you are entangled in the fact that you did not follow Ke Xin back then, it is better to say that you hate me in your heart for not protecting your master, right?"

! !

Ye Jianxin's eyes trembled violently, and slowly raised his cold face: "I do hate the old Master Kuang. If it were not for him, my master would not have died. But now the times have changed, everything has changed. You are now Bai Chen, no longer the old Master Kuang, and Xiaoya is no longer my master..."

"Ridiculous! Don't you understand that Master Kuang and my master have been reborn, and they are still alive now!" Xuan Zhen looked at Ye Jianxin with tears in his eyes, and couldn't help shouting angrily.

However, Ye Jianxin chuckled: "You are the ones who are ridiculous. The God of Destruction and Ke Xin have long been dead. The Bai Chen you see is just a reborn person. Rebirth does not mean resurrection, but reincarnation with a new identity. Such a person is not the Kuang Ye you and I know."

"You, what kind of reason is that? Although their bodies and appearances are no longer the same as before, at least their souls have not changed! Kuang Ye still retains a lot of memories of his previous life, and sooner or later, my master will remember you and me, and everything about our Beihuang Sect!"

"Really, even if we recall, she is no longer our mentor. Our mentor is dead. Although we don't know how she died, she was indeed killed by someone. Kuang Ye also fell into the Falling Dragon Pond. Today’s Dragon Falling Altar is the best proof. Since you are dedicated to the Tao, don’t you understand that death represents the end of a person’s life?”

"Do you understand what Taoist heart is? The soul is the value of existence!"

"You are the one who doesn't understand. Life is the value. The fire of life has been extinguished. Even if you are reincarnated for thousands of lives, there are still a thousand different people. If you can't understand this, your Taoist heart will never be able to reach it. The realm of great enlightenment!”

"you……!"

Seeing how Xuanzhen was defeated so quickly while the two junior brothers were arguing, Bai Chen couldn't help but smile calmly and said lightly: "Xuanzhen, in fact, your junior brother is right, I have told you before. , don’t call me Kuangye anymore. The death of the God of Destruction and Kexin is an undeniable fact. Now my name is Bai Chen, the Evil Emperor Bai Chen!”

"Master Kuang..." Xuanzhen looked at Bai Chen in astonishment, not expecting him to say the same thing.

"I agree with Ye Jianxin's statement. To pursue the ultimate enlightenment of the Dao, you must clearly discern the meaning of the Dao itself. If you can't even figure out the simple question of whether I am Bai Chen or Kuang, then you are indeed not suitable for practicing Taoism."

Bai Chen knew that what he said was cruel, but he had to say it so that Xuanzhen and Mei Santong could recognize the fact and accept it.

It was just Ye Jianxin's condition that made Bai Chen unable to calm down for a long time.

Ye Jianxin has reached a deep state of enlightenment, which also proves that his heart will gradually move away from the world along with the Great Way. Back in the East Region, the great master of Datong who devoted himself to seeking the Way finally realized the Supreme Way and completely passed away from the world. …

The Tao and the secular world are not the same path. This truth is the real reason why Bai Chen has always been resistant to the principles of the Tao!