Chapter 106 Devouring the Years
Confucius said: "When I was fifteen, I was determined to learn; when I was thirty, I stood up; when I was forty, I was not confused; when I was fifty, I knew the destiny; when I was sixty, my ears were attuned; when I was seventy, I followed my heart's desires and did not go beyond the rules."
Chu Huaixu and Han Shuangjiang were in the [Secret Realm of the Annual Rings], and they suddenly aged more than ten years. At the age of thirty, they looked like they were in their thirties.
Furthermore, their bodies seemed to have turned into mortal beings.
In the Xuanhuang Realm, practitioners possess spiritual power, and they also have elixirs such as the Beauty Pill, which are generally good at preserving appearance and will age more slowly.
The ordinary people at the foot of the mountain are different.
Chu Huaixu seemed to have matured a lot, and even his eyes had changed a little.
As a person gets older, the light in his eyes becomes dimmer and dimmer.
After old age and physical weakness, the eyes will still look a bit cloudy.
There are already shallow lines around his eyes.
His youthful feeling has faded away, and he has become more stable.
In addition, there is a slight layer of fatigue between his eyebrows.
"Obviously the spiritual power in my body is still there, I am still a body-refining monk, and the strength of my physical body is still there."
"But why does the body feel like a social beast in his thirties?" Chu Huaixu was puzzled.
He felt a little uncomfortable in many parts of his body and suspected that he had various minor problems.
His energy was not as strong as before, and his mind was a little confused.
"It is said that once a man reaches the age of twenty-five, he will start to decline."
Chu Huaixu even feels that with his current physical condition in his thirties, those foods that can strengthen the yang, even if you don't like to eat them, you still have to eat them...:::
For sustainable development, you have to start keeping in good health!
"It seems that this is also part of the trial in the secret realm?" He guessed in his mind.
As for Han Shuangjiang beside him, a different kind of beauty emerged.
The girlishness in her body has completely dissipated, and her whole person looks mature and charming.
Even her figure seemed to have changed a little, and she seemed to be a little plumper.
The already plump buttocks give people the feeling that they can squeeze out water.
One by one is very smooth.
Han Shuangjiang was obviously still wearing the same white clothes, but the effect was different from before.
Childishness fades and temperament changes.
She was already cold, but now that her "age" has come up, she has become a little more serious.
Just looking at this beautiful face, it seems a bit ascetic.
The big ice cube is frowning now, and the serious coldness is getting worse.
She has a sense of elder sister at such a young age, and has a bit of a royal elder sister's flavor.
At this moment, the aura of the royal sister was mixed with the charm of a young woman, and Chu Huaixu felt briefly absent-minded looking at it.
He actually felt that his current situation was not that he was just thirty, but that he was already thirty-five and had started to reach his fourth year, approaching the age of forty.
But what if you are not confused when you reach forty?
For the vast majority of people, the so-called forty-year-old is not confused, even if they are already forty years old, they still cannot withstand temptation.
"Is this what she will look like in the future?" he thought to himself.
And Han Shuangjiang also had similar thoughts in his mind.
She looked at the other party and couldn't help but said: "What's wrong with us?"
“I don’t know, but it must have been affected by the secret realm.” Chu Huai said.
He felt like an illusion, but it seemed more than just an illusion.
He can activate the small black sword in the sea of consciousness and try to see if he can break it!
But after thinking about it, Chu Huaixu decided to observe again.
"Let's see what the [Secret Realm of the Year Rings] is doing first."
"Besides, the appearance of the big ice cube is quite interesting."
"Look at it for a while." He thought to himself.
It was a hot summer day, and the noisy chirping of cicadas around him had been shaken away by Chu Huaixu.
The two of them were walking on the path in the forest, feeling hot and dry.
The heat wave around him seemed unable to be resisted by his own cultivation.
The black gold robe on Chu Huaixu's body has the effect of keeping warm in winter and cool in summer, but it seems to have lost its effect at this moment.
Their bodies began to sweat and their temples became wet.
But I was afraid that there would be other experience content in this level, so I didn’t dare to rush forward rashly, so I could only walk slowly like this.
The two of them were sweating profusely, and their breathing became a little faster.
Chu Huaixu glanced at Han Shuangjiang beside him and felt that she had a different sense of beauty covered in sweat.
Hitchhiking along the way, I did not encounter any danger.
They walked to the stone door and stopped.
Chu Huaixu and Han Shuangjiang turned back together.
I saw the summer breeze blowing, and the lush leaves of the two rows of big trees on both sides of the path began to rustle.
All the leaves are swaying gently in the wind.
It was like waving goodbye to the two of them.
"In this secret realm of the annual rings, it seems that the end of each level has its own scene." Chu Huaixu said.
In the last level, they walked a flowery road together.
Han Shuangjiang nodded, feeling that this secret realm was very special.
She suddenly said: "Chu Huaixu, you were born in [Huaixu], right, so you got this name."
"Hmm." He nodded.
Chu Huaixu looked at the trees behind him with a smile and said, "I know, there are all locust trees here."
The summer wind continued to blow, and some locust flowers were shaken down, which was somewhat beautiful.
When a person takes this name and looks at the scene in front of him, his heart will inevitably be a little disturbed.
Chu Huaixu couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
But when he turned to look at Han Shuangjiang, he couldn't help but think of something.
"If this level is Huai Xu, then the next level may be frost." He joked.
Frost's Descent is the eighteenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, and it is the end of autumn.
It is the time of year when the temperature difference between day and night is the largest.
After listening to her words, Big Ice Cube felt a little throbbing in his heart again.
The names of the two people seem to have become a bit special in this secret realm of annual rings.
Summer and autumn are naturally next to each other.
Chu Huaixu pushed open the stone door with force.
A refreshing air rushes out, bringing bursts of coolness.
The two walked forward, and the scene in front of them immediately changed.
After early summer, it’s late autumn.
Chu Huaixu and Han Shuangjiang stood in front of the stone gate. As far as they could see, there was a whole sycamore forest.
The autumn leaves of Yijinjing Wutong are yellow, and the bead curtains are not rolled up by the night frost.
They saw from a distance that the entire field of late autumn golden color was particularly spectacular.
It was already so hot that my body was covered in sweat, but now the autumn breeze brought me a refreshing feeling, which made me feel a little more comfortable.
The sycamore forest in front of me is obviously full of old sycamore trees.
Because the plane tree grows very tall.
The two looked at each other and found that their appearance had changed again.
It seems that he has aged more than ten years all of a sudden.
Chu Huaixu's face already has some obvious wrinkles, all traces of time.
His long jet black hair was now mixed with some silver strands.
He has begun to show his age.
His energy level has become even worse, and he still feels like coughing from time to time.
He had a thought in his mind and raised his hands.
Once a person gets old, his hands will also become ugly.
But this is not what Chu Huaixu is focusing on at the moment.
He pushed his hand far away for a while, and then pulled it closer, as if he was judging something.
After a few seconds, he had the answer in his mind.
"Damn it! I'm really presbyopic!"
Chu Huaixu never thought that at such a young age, he would be able to experience presbyopia after entering the secret realm.
He could feel that his physical condition at the moment was particularly contradictory.
The power brought by one's own physical training does still exist.
But this body is very similar to an ordinary mortal approaching fifty. I always feel that nothing is right or good compared to when I was young.
His thinking also began to become slower and slower, not as active as before.
As for Han Shuangjiang standing next to him, he can only use four words to describe it - his charm is still there.
If she was beginning to show a mature charm before, then now she is completely mature.
Han Shuangjiang's posture and figure have also changed slightly.
She looked more graceful and relaxed. The sense of plumpness exuding from the body is also a bit richer.
Chu Huaixu looked at her and began to understand why many people said that a mature woman is like aged wine.
"You look much older." Han Shuangjiang said, "Am I the same?"
She was a little curious, but also a little afraid to look.
"You're okay, I can't tell. With your looks, you're actually quite resistant to aging." Chu Huaixu laughed.
The big ice cube gave him a rollicking look, but it had a different charm to it.
"Have you ever felt that it's not just your appearance that has changed, but your whole person really feels like you've grown older?" she said.
Speaking of this, she actually felt a bit of fear in her heart.
She was still a young girl in her prime, but suddenly she became like this.
If this cannot be changed, it will be difficult to accept.
My own years seem to have been swallowed up by this secret realm!
"It feels like this is more than just an illusion. I'm not sure if I can break it. Let me give it a try?" Chu Huaixu said.
The two of them have suddenly aged so many years, and even their voices have changed slightly.
He closed his eyes and began to activate the Heart Sword.
The small sword in the sea of consciousness shook violently, but nothing happened around it!
"Wait a minute and I'll try again." Chu Huaixu really didn't believe it.
He sat down cross-legged, still using all his power of consciousness to integrate into the small black sword.
The power that seemed to be able to cut through all illusions began to spread around.
In the end, there was still no change between the two of them, and the Heart Sword had no effect at all.
"Could it be an illusion?"
Chu Huaixu turned to look at Han Shuangjiang, and saw that her brows were furrowed and there was a hint of surprise in her eyes, as if she had discovered something was wrong.
“What’s wrong?” Chu Huaixu asked.
She stretched out her finger, pointed at a strand of long hair scattered in front of his forehead, and said: "Just now, these few hairs of yours were black, but now they are all white!"
"In other words, we will not only grow older every time we pass a level, but if we are stuck in the level, as time goes by,
Hong Kong will continue to grow older?" Chu Huaixu's eyes darkened.