I Am Loaded with Passive Skills - Chapter 597

[Chapter 581 9-finger handshake]

“liquor?”

Xu Xiaoshou was stunned.

If he remembered correctly, the legendary Eighth Sword Immortal was the first person to propose the concept of “drunk sword, sword chaos”.

Before him, it was true that there were sword cultivators who drank, but the name of the person who held the sword was also known to the world.

But since the eighth sword fairy was born, all these people have been compared.

The eighth sword immortal never drinks alcohol.

Even after he proposed this concept, Jianxiu rarely had anything to do with wine.

Whether it is an ancient sword cultivator or a spiritual sword cultivator…

But in Xu Xiaoshou’s speculation, shouldn’t the first seat of the saint in front of him be the eighth sword fairy?

How could he pick up the wine gourd?

“Did I guess wrong?” Xu Xiaoshou lost his mind and couldn’t understand the situation at all.

“How are you thinking?”

The masked man who raised his head and poured wine didn’t seem to care about his image at all. When he drank the last drop of wine in the gourd, he threw the wine gourd back to Cenchov, wiped his mouth, and put down the mask again.

“I……”

Xu Xiaoshou’s thoughts were pulled back, but he still couldn’t give an answer for a while.

The words of the masked man are indeed very reasonable.

Xu Xiaoshou couldn’t even find a single point to refute.

After all, relative and absolute are views that he also recognizes.

But can compromise really only be understood as a “choice”?

“You have trouble deciding?” the masked man asked with a smile.

“Ok.”

Xu Xiaoshou nodded.

He could see the kindness of the people in front of him.

Perhaps this is a prerequisite for seeing his own potential.

But again, from consequentialism, this is still a person who respects others very much.

Even, as the first seat of a holy slave.

It can be said that the respect given by the masked man to Xu Xiaoshou’s younger generation has reached an unimaginable level.

Until now, he was still asking Xu Xiaoshou’s opinion, not forcing it.

Xu Xiaoshou did not say a word.

The masked man spoke again.

“I won’t force you, but this time, I won’t let you go easily.”

“You know, this is reality.”

“If you really want to continue going forward, with your growth rate, you will still encounter things like this, all kinds, countless.”

“I can let you go once, twice, three times, but someone else can force you to make a choice the first time they meet you.”

“This is your only way.”

“Goodwill and respect, I have already given you enough, but the fate is here…”

“For me personally, the time has come.”

The masked man looked up at the sky behind Xu Xiaoshou, where the other-dimensional space was located.

“Instead of letting you be forced to join another force that you don’t like, it is better to choose to be with me at this moment… bah, walk side by side.”

“At least I can promise you…”

“What?” Xu Xiaoshou raised his eyes.

The masked man is very serious: “I promise you that if the direction you see in the future does not match your current choice, you can choose to leave at any time.”

“Not only to leave me, not only to leave the saint slave.”

“Everything, you can put it down at any time.”

“Even if you have your own direction and feel that you can do better than me, I can join you, help you, and help you achieve your goals.”

“My goal…” Xu Xiaoshou looked a little more confused.

“You don’t know your goal yet, but I do.”

The masked man said, seeming to be amused by his own words, and his tone was a little witty: “In you, I can see the shadow of most people.”

“They may be the same age as you, and they still don’t understand what they want most.”

“But after reaching a certain level, the direction must be the same way!”

“Why?” Xu Xiaoshou was puzzled.

He didn’t even know what he wanted.

Before that,

It’s just a big concept.

And now, a guy who has only met him a few times, he said he knows his thoughts, is it credible?

The masked man did not answer directly.

He first glanced at the storyteller, then turned his eyes back to Cenchov, and asked, “Do you know there is someone better than you in this world?”

Xu Xiaoshou: “…”

“I believe you know.”

The masked man nodded and said again: “But you may not know that, looking at the whole world, there are countless people who are similar to you or even surpass your peers.”

“Maybe most of these people will die in the middle, because of arrogance, arrogance, high ambitions, etc…”

“But you also need to understand that not every aristocratic family and outstanding youth have such a problem.”

“The world is relative.”

“With these mentally unhealthy guys, there are also people who are as confident, composed, and persistent as you are.”

Xu Xiaoshou looked embarrassed.

This sudden compliment came as a surprise.

The masked man seemed to be stating an objective fact, unmoved, and continued: “There are also countless such people.”

“So, there are so many people on the mainland who have the potential to grow into peak powerhouses. How much do you know about the powerhouses at that time?”

“Or to put it another way…”

“How many people do you know who can stand at the highest position in this world?”

Xu Xiaoshou was asked.

According to what the masked man said, combined with his current experience.

If a small white cave can gather so many outstanding young people, even the swordsman Gu Qingyi, Lei Shuangxing, and ghosts and beasts have so many people.

In those places that you can’t see, and those places that are more dangerous than the White Cave, how many experienced people are there?

Among them, how many outstanding ancient sword cultivators are there?

Can these people grow to the level of Seven Sword Immortals?

Xu Xiaoshou was not clear.

But look at the character, strength, and aptitude of such people…

If you really want to give an answer.

Xu Xiaoshou’s tendency is “ability”.

If you want to add a precondition, it is a “time issue”.

But……

Seven Sword Immortals, since ancient times, it seems that there are only seven.

The number is only a small number, and there has never been one more case even for a period of time.

Even the eighth sword immortal of the ancient times can only be counted as half, and still failed to break this iron law.

Why?

Xu Xiaoshou opened his mouth slightly, and the strong thirst for knowledge in his eyes was beyond words.

“why?”

The masked man could generally understand Xu Xiaoshou’s inner thoughts, and helped him ask this question, but did not answer.

Then, he turned his eyes to the two of them again.

“Going back to the question just now, you seem to be surprised, suspicious, and even strongly opposed on an inner level about how I can know your goals along the way?”

“…”

Xu Xiaoshou thought to himself that you really got it right.

I just can’t say it.

“But I just know your future!”

The masked man said loudly, “Why?”

Xu Xiaoshou already felt something was wrong.

His eyes also fell on the storyteller and Cenchov on one side, trying to find the answer from the masked man’s glance.

But to no avail.

The two of them on that side still looked bored, and the only thing they were interested in was not the young man himself.

Instead, it was more like being amazed that the masked man could say so much.

“why?”

Xu Xiaoshou finally asked a question, and he couldn’t hold back.

The masked man smiled, but instead of tactfully responding: “Because of freedom!”

“?”

“I can see your insistence on freedom in your eyes and thinking, that’s why I don’t force you.”

The masked man paused and said, “In this world, people like you, without exception, all yearn for freedom.”

“But…”

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky.

Over the nine days, the rain curtain is still there, pattering.

With the silence of the two, it was particularly harsh.

The masked man pointed to the sky and asked, “Do you think outside the White Cave is the Holy Spirit Continent?”

“Do you think that you can really escape outside the Holy Spirit Continent?”

“wrong!”

“Have you seen the rain?”

Xu Xiaoshou nodded.

“That’s not rain, that’s a person!” The masked man said loudly.

Xu Xiaoshou went blank with a bang in his head.

A memory that didn’t seem to belong to him suddenly appeared in his mind.

That was an unknown thought about the information column after he got out of the siege of storytellers and vigils.

Xu Xiaoshou didn’t have time to think about it, and looked directly inward.

“Watched, passive value, +1.”

“Watch?”

He finally paid attention to this issue again.

Watching?

Who is watching?

rain?

people?

“Is that a person?” Xu Xiaoshou’s eyes widened, looking at the rain curtain above the nine heavens in disbelief.

“Strictly speaking, it doesn’t count, it’s just an ability.”

The masked man smiled: “But you only need to know that whether it is in the White Cave or in the Holy Spirit Continent, there are such a pair of eyes staring at you all the time.”

“Whether you’re eating, sleeping, or making people…”

“He’s always watching you.”

“Don’t stop for a moment!”

Xu Xiaoshou’s hair rose in an instant, only to feel the cold sweat directly wet his back, “Who is he?”

“Who is he?”

The masked man threw the question to the two behind him.

The storyteller’s face was startled, “How do people know, that’s how they were tricked by you.”

Xu Xiaoshou: “…”

Cen Qiaofu shrugged and spread his hands: “Who is he? How does the old man know? If it weren’t for you, the old man is still working in the mountains and forests in the southern regions. Wouldn’t it be fun?”

The masked man rolled his eyes slightly.

turn back.

“Look, one is at the peak of Dao Slashing, and the other is Taixu. So far, he has not been able to give an answer to this question. One can imagine how strong ‘he’ is!”

Xu Xiaoshou: “…”

He really wanted to give direct feedback on the masked man’s cheating at the moment.

But deep in my heart, I was really shocked by a “too virtual” that suddenly popped out.

Turning his head to look at the old man with a little difficulty, Xu Xiaoshou couldn’t believe it.

There is no image of this old guy at all, too much, too virtual?

Shouldn’t this be a person standing on the top of the world, immortal wind, and driving a crane?

Why was he standing behind the masked man, cleaning up the wine gourd for this guy?

“I……”

All kinds of words came to his mouth, Xu Xiaoshou didn’t know how to say it.

“I can tell you clearly that when the storyteller was in Zhongyu, he was really just a storyteller.”

The masked man pointed at the man in the red skirt and said, “He, like you, was the same type when he was young, and he yearned for freedom.”

“But when I broke through to Slashing Dao, I suddenly became willing to be mediocre and went straight to open a storytelling shop, becoming the so-called ‘boss’ among ordinary people.”

“Why?”

Pointing at Cenchov again, the masked man said: “This man has lived for hundreds of years. As he said before, he has been chopping wood for a living in the deep mountains and forests.”

“When I was about to die, I suddenly had the idea to spy on the world, and then achieve the Dao of Slash.”

“But after a year, it is time to return to the old forest in the southern region and pick up the old line again.”

“Why?”

Xu Xiaoshou was stunned.

What kind of gods are they all?

“because of him’.”

The masked man looked up at the rain curtain on the sky and said, “Because of these eyes!”

Xu Xiaoshou was still a little unclear, so he wanted to speak, but the masked man pressed down, indicating that he had not finished speaking, and said:

“Like them, those geniuses who have not been able to shock the world have a lot to do.”

“But each of them has sunk somewhere and can’t lift their heads at all.”

“There is a god when you raise your head three feet. When you grow to a certain point, maybe you can understand this saying.”

Xu Xiaoshou felt a chill in his heart.

Where is this god, this is the devil!

The masked man clicked his tongue, feeling a little dry, and he wanted to stretch his hand back.

Cenchov immediately said: “No more.”

“Forehead……”

Now the masked man also realized that he was talking too much.

He gave a “hmm” and finally spoke.

“Tired, let’s go back to the question just now!”

“them.”

The masked man gestured to the two beside him.

Then he pointed his hand to the void: “And them.”

Xu Xiaoshou understood that this was referring to those who were also willing to be mediocre.

“These people, on the question of ‘who is he’…

The masked man looked up at Jiutian Yulian and said, “I can give you an explanation that they can’t give.”

Xu Xiaoshou nodded.

He was ready to be bombarded with one last worldview.

“‘Freedom’, and ‘Cage’, this is the answer!” The masked man was impassioned.

“?”

Xu Xiaoshou lowered a black line on his forehead and tried to decipher: “‘they’ is ‘freedom’, and ‘he’ is a ‘cage’?”

“good.”

The masked man nodded.

“Just like the powerlessness you have encountered along the way, everyone who desires freedom must fight for it, so their experience is similar to yours.”

“Why?”

“Because we are born to spin in the chess game of the high-ranking people.”

“When I thought I could break the cage, I jumped to another bigger chess game, bumped into walls everywhere, and started over and over again. In this case, the only result is frustration.”

“Don’t tell me you can break the cage!”

The masked man immediately saw what Xu Xiaoshou was thinking and said with a smile, “If you really want to say it, please say it to him.”

Xu Xiaoshou followed the direction of his fingers and saw the dark-faced Cenchov, and immediately swallowed his voice.

This is too imaginary!

A peerless powerhouse who has reached the top of the world, he can’t even give an explanation to a problem, and he is still in a chess game.

I, can I… Xu Xiaoshou fell into deep doubts about himself.

“You can not.”

The masked man said: “I used to think I could do it, but I failed, and the trapped beast escaped from the cage. It’s not as simple as you think.”

Xu Xiaoshou was speechless.

He felt that the mask and the mind, to a certain extent, were completely in line with Sang Lao’s.

Sure enough, he is a person from the same organization?

Matryoshka worldview…

“I want to ask something.”

Xu Xiaoshou hesitated for a long time and said, “Lao Sang, the second-in-command of your saint slave, is the same?”

The masked man laughed. He saw the loosening in Wen Ming’s eyes and said, “Otherwise, what do you think he is running all day long? Exercise?”

“wrong.”

“Just like you, he is a person with his own ideas, and he thinks that my path will not work, and I will not break the cage, so I am looking for a way.”

“The way is different, temporarily separated, but the same destination, can you understand?”

Xu Xiaoshou: “…”

Can you understand?

He looked up at the sky, speechless for a moment.

…

The scene was quiet for a while.

“Screw rustle…”

The masked man suddenly put his hands up and down on himself, stroking everywhere.

For a long time, he frowned.

“Where’s the token?”

Cenchov looked disgusted behind him: “When the space is broken, you should lose it!”

“Forehead……”

The masked man was ashamed and stretched out his hand directly to the old man, “Token.”

“That’s the old man’s own!” Cenchov was angry.

“I don’t want your piece,” the masked man sighed and said, “My own piece.”

“What?” The storyteller was shocked on the spot, “Brother, you…”

“Stop.”

The masked man immediately reached out his hand with a headache to stop him from continuing to speak, “It’s just a token.”

“That’s…”

The storyteller was dumbfounded, and suddenly turned around: “I’ll help you get the piece of girl Luo!”

“Never mind.”

The masked man waved his hand, took Cenchov and took out the purple token from the ring, and handed it to Wen Ming in front of him, “Join in?”

Xu Xiaoshou’s liver was shaking.

He felt that the scene in front of him was so familiar.

Tiansangling Palace, Goose Lake, Old Man Cao Li, and that sentence…

“Do you eat seeds?”

What the hell!

Why are they all so terrifying!

God, who will save me?

Xu Xiaoshou collapsed and cried, “Can I refuse?”

“Can.”

The masked man slapped the token on his hand and said, “I never force others, but think about it for yourself.”

“Even if you refuse now, in the future, you will encounter things like this, many, many.”

“But they may not speak as well as I am.”

Xu Xiaoshou was holding the token, his hands were shaking.

“Still that sentence, when you feel that you are on the wrong path, you can leave at any time. Now, I’m just a ‘tool’, that’s all.”

The last sentence of the masked man seemed to give Xu Xiaoshou a strong reassurance.

Xu Xiaoshou looked down.

This is a whole-body purple token, glowing with a faint purple light.

On it, there is carved a graceful naked woman, bowing her head and hugging her knees, weeping and crying, I feel pity.

On its hands and feet, there are heavy shackles that stretch to the four directions of the token, as if connecting the heaven and the earth.

It’s just like……

Embarrassed saint!

Xu Xiaoshou felt that he understood something, but he didn’t seem to understand anything.

With trembling fingers, he flipped the token.

The back is clean and neat, with only one word engraved.

“Eight!”

bang-

Xu Xiaoshou shook his hand, and the token fell directly to the ground.

The faces of the first three people changed at the same time.

Xu Xiaoshou was so frightened that he immediately leaned over and picked it up.

“Sorry sorry, I didn’t mean it, I didn’t mean to refuse…”

“Then you agreed?” The masked man smiled happily.

Xu Xiaoshou froze on the spot.

He saw that the other party seemed to be a little gaffe because of excitement.

Only this point is completely different from Sang Lao.

respect……

Xu Xiaoshou pondered for a moment and asked, “Can I shake hands with you, I’m a little… flattered?”

The masked man’s eyes narrowed, “Handshake?”

“No, no, if it’s inconvenient, then don’t use it at all.” Xu Xiaoshou waved his hand quickly, taking a few steps back in fright.

“Convenient!”

The masked man suddenly burst into a smile, grabbing the black glove of his right hand with his left hand.

“If you just want to shake hands, I will respond to you with the greatest sincerity.”

“But if you just want to take a look…”

He paused.

Inside the mask, there seems to be a contour raised by the corners of the lips.

“It’s okay.”

After brushing it, the masked man took off his right glove and stretched out his hand towards Xu Xiaoshou.

Xu Xiaoshou’s whole body was tense.

one two three four……

He closed his eyes deeply.

No thumbs up!

“What’s wrong?”

The masked man smiled and said, “Have you ever seen four fingers?”

“No.”

Xu Xiaoshou felt his voice trembling: “I just think you are very similar to a friend I have met.”

“Oh, which one?”

“A sloppy uncle…”

Xu Xiaoshou couldn’t move his mind, and it took a long time for him to react. It was really impolite to talk like this.

The masked man frowned.

He suddenly raised his hand and sniffed closer with his nose, this time his brows narrowed even more.

“Sorry, I haven’t washed it for a few years, it’s really messy, don’t you mind?”

“I……”

When Xu Xiaoshou watched him stretch out his hand again, he was suddenly dumbfounded.

He raised his hand subconsciously, but pulled back slightly, but he didn’t dare to retreat too obviously.

“Snapped!”

The masked man took a step forward and grabbed it.

“Dirty is a little dirty, but there is still a sense of ritual. Just wash it later. You are welcome to join, Wen Ming.”

“I……”

Xu Xiaoshou didn’t know what to say anymore.

He felt that his mouth, under the pressure of the person in front of him, couldn’t play any tricks.

but!

so warm…

the guy’s hand.

Calluses, roughness, and dense, thin strip scars…

But!

so warm…

Holding him, it feels like holding a whole world.

Xu Xiaoshou was a little excited.

He knew that he was persuaded by the masked man.

Indeed, in this chess-like world, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com artillery chariots and horses are all “arbitrarily” moving forward according to the designated rules.

But in the end, the only way to get out is to be eliminated.

And if you want to break the chess game and become the chess player, relying on one person’s strength alone is too slim… not enough!

Xu Xiaoshou didn’t know whether his “choice” was right or wrong.

But it is different from red clothes, ghost beasts, and Sang Lao.

At least in the masked man, he has felt respect many times, and his commitment…

Can you quit?

Deception?

Still, really?

!

“If…”

Xu Xiaoshou was holding the whole world, and it was a bit awkward to speak, “If it is, I can’t bear it anymore, can I really choose to quit?”

“You can handle it.”

The masked man said happily: “Even if I can’t bear it, there is still me behind my back. Taking 10,000 steps back and saying that quitting is also a choice. It is not shameful. Many people do this, but they just live in a different way. ”

so warm…

Xu Xiaoshou had never felt such warmth from any senior.

Even the former vigil was only a material gift.

On a spiritual level, he also wanted to impose his thoughts on himself.

This is completely different!

“Thank you.” Xu Xiaoshou sounded like a mosquito.

“What?” The masked man couldn’t hear clearly for a while.

“I said……”

Xu Xiaoshou paused for a moment and looked up to see the rain curtain above the nine heavens.

Well, it’s actually a pair of eyes…

Look inside again.

“Watched, passive value, +1.”

He was relieved.

Give your hand a firm grip, then release.

“I mean……”

“Saint slave, I, Xu Xiaoshou, choose to join!”