The Heartless Path. People were heartless, and things were heartless, but being heartless was a choice of people.
It was the direction of life, not the essence of life.
The ultimate meaning of cultivating the Ruthless Path was to change the essence of life. It was just like how Lu Yin had asked Patriarch Lu Yuan to plant the Instant Transmission technique. However, due to the essence of human life, the Instant Transmission technique had to be seen before it could be used. This was because humans were afraid of the unknown, which determined this characteristic.
The direction of the Heartless Path was to change the essence of life, making people
No longer human, or rather, no longer ordinary people.
However, it was very difficult to change the essence of life.
Not to mention those ordinary cultivators, even if it was an Eternal Life Realm expert, how many people could change it?
Even He Xiao and those who had done all kinds of evil things could not do it. This was not something that could be done by being heartless.
In Lu Yin's opinion, even drinking wine might not be able to do it.
Since it could not change the essence of life, most of the things that people were used to did not change, such as family and inheritance. What changed was the way people interacted with each other.
The Lian family.
The Red Coat under the Stars was a relatively powerful family. Although they had never produced an Eternal Realm expert, they had never stopped producing six-tenths of a Red Coat.
The historical records of the family began.
The Lian family had produced more than ten six-tenths of a Red Coat.
It was not that there were no more.
There were no records.
Some family forces had produced an Eternal Realm expert.
They were glorious, but they would also fall quickly.
Especially the Red Coat civilization under the Stars who cultivated the Heartless Path. The Eternal Realm expert might not even care about his family. They were walking in the direction of changing the essence of life. It was difficult to cut off all connections.
Some families had never produced an Eternal Realm expert, but they had experts for generations. Such families could also be passed down for a long time, and the Lian family was one of them.
On this day, the Lian family was as usual. Although there were many family members, they rarely gathered together. Until one person arrived, the Lian family had no choice but to gather the family members to welcome him.
The person who came was Elder Qiu.
"Lian Gui greets Elder Qiu."
"Greetings, Elder Qiu." The Lian family members bowed respectfully.
Elder Qiu nodded and looked at Lian Gui. "How are Lian Jian's injuries?"
Lian Gui was the head of the Lian family, and Lian Jian was the six-tenths of a Red Coat of the Lian family. He was also the first person to challenge the Valley of Storms. He was severely injured by Lu Yin and did not dare to attack again.
Lian Gui said respectfully, "The Patriarch is still in seclusion.
We don't know. "
As he spoke, he looked curiously at the person behind Elder Qiu. It was a young man. Could he be Elder Qiu's junior?
He had never heard of Elder Qiu having a descendant.
Qiu Lao had always been alone.
Elder Qiu looked at the young man. "He's still in seclusion. What do you think?"
Lian Gui's eyes twitched. You?
His thoughts raced. For Elder Qiu to be so respectful to this person, he was definitely not an ordinary person. Although Elder Qiu was not as powerful as Xie Man and Chu Songyun, no one dared to look down on him because of his seniority and his relationship with the substitute sovereign of the Heartless Sect, Ba Yue. He could even talk to an Eternal Life Realm expert. Who was this person?
He went through all the Eternal Life Realm he knew in his mind. Although he had not seen all of them, they did not seem to be right.
Wait, he suddenly thought of someone and looked over in shock.
The person who followed Elder Qiu to the Lian Family was Lu Yin. This time, he was here for the history of the Lian Family.
He wanted to understand the Red Coat civilization under the stars. History was the best language. However, the oldest historical records were in the Heartless Sect and could only be read by Elder Qiu Wen. He also wanted to investigate Elder Qiu Wen, but Elder Qiu Wen would not let him read it easily. Therefore, he stared at the ancient families in the Red Coat civilization. Although the history of these families was not that long, piecing it together could give him some understanding.
In particular, the history of these families would record some unimportant and unexplainable things. These things might give him some clues.
Lu Yin looked at Lian Gui. "I'm Lu Yin. Sorry to disturb you."
Lian Gui was shocked and bowed deeply. "Lian Gui greets Mister Lu."
Behind him, the Lian Family also bowed. "Greetings, Mister Lu."
Lu Yin was not an Eternal Life Realm expert, but in many people's hearts, he was not weaker than an Eternal Life Realm expert. This was especially so for the Lian Family. They knew how serious the Patriarch's injuries were. This person could injure the Patriarch without even showing his face. No matter what status Lu Yin had in the Red Coat world, at least in the Lian Family, no one dared to offend him.
They did not expect the Heartless Sect to protect them after offending Lu Yin.
Lu Yin said, "Lian Jian's injuries are that serious?
He's been in seclusion until now. I was the one who hit him too hard. "
Lian Gui and the others did not know what to say. They had never thought that they would encounter such a situation. What was the meaning of this?
Qiu Lao also found it strange. Not to mention the Red Coat world, even in normal civilizations, such things rarely happened.
He coughed. "Mister Lu is here to visit Lian Jian. Why? Are you not going to invite us in?"
Lian Gui reacted and hurriedly invited Lu Yin and Qiu Lao to take a seat.
When everyone was seated, Qiu Lao began to talk. He tried to get closer to Lian Gui. Of course, he was not good at these things. After all, he also practiced the Heartless Path. When had he ever done such things? But he had no choice. He was forced by Lu Yin.
A few days ago, Lu Yin went to the Heartless Sect to find Qiu Lao. The first thing he said was, "Don't think that I don't know that you were the one who instigated Xie Man and the others to find trouble with me. You were also the one who revealed the location of the Valley of Storms."
This sentence made Qiu Lao's heart sink to the bottom. He quickly apologized.
In the end, he was forced to bring Lu Yin to find a family with a long history.
The first family he thought of was the Lian family. He had no choice. Lian Jian was the first to challenge the Valley of Storms and was familiar with him. Naturally, he thought of them first.
Lu Yin did not say anything. He sat quietly and waited for Qiu Lao to ask the Lian family to show him the family history.
If Qiu Lao could not do it, then he could not blame him.
When he thought of this, he glanced at Qiu Lao and Lian Gui.
Qiu Lao felt a chill run down his spine. He thought that with Ba Yue, as long as he did not challenge Lu Yin, everything would be fine. But looking at his attitude, this person did not care about Ba Yue at all. It could even be said that he did not have much respect for Sect Master Jiu Wen, let alone him.
Qiu Lao had no choice but to work hard.
The great Six Red Coat had actually become so humble.
Lian Gui was not feeling well either. Qiu Lao was not good at getting close and did not talk about the main topic. He could only follow suit. He really wanted to know what these two were here for.
Although he was being perfunctory, he could not let anyone see through it.
For someone who practiced the Heartless Path, it was too difficult.
The other members of the Lian family were waiting outside. They all had strange expressions as they listened to one pretend to get close to the other. It was strange no matter how they listened.
Finally, they heard, "I heard that the Lian family has a long history. Mr. Lu is very interested in the history of the Red Coat civilization. Can you borrow it for a look?"
Qiu Lao could not take it anymore. This was torture for him.
Originally, it was impossible to let an outsider see the family history, but Lian Gui was inexplicably relieved when he heard Qiu Lao's words. Just the family history?
He had thought that something important had forced Qiu Lao to say this. He had been dealing with Qiu Lao while thinking of how to reject this unreasonable request.
Now, it seemed that this request was too reasonable.
Lian Gui hurriedly stood up. "So Mr. Lu wants to see the family history. Of course, you can."
Qiu Lao sighed.
Lu Yin nodded. "Thank you."
"Then I'll have to trouble Patriarch Lian Gui. Let's go take a look."
"Won't the two of you rest?" Lian Gui asked politely.
Qiu Lao looked at Lu Yin.
Lu Yin said, "No need. We'll leave after reading. Thank you."
Lian Gui sighed again. I should be the one thanking you. He thought about it and quickly brought Lu Yin to see the family history.
No one thought that Lu Yin really came to the Lian family just to see the family history.
The Lian family thought that he had come to settle the score.
After a while, Lu Yin and Qiu Lao left. The Lian family was completely relieved.
Lian Gui wiped the sweat off his forehead. He was too tired.
"They left?"
A voice came, startling Lian Gui. He looked back and exhaled heavily. "Ancestor?"
It was Lian Jian, the first Six-Part Red to challenge the Canglan Valley. He was severely injured by Lu Yin's finger.
"They left?"
"Yes, they left."
"Just to see the family history?"
Lian Gui nodded.
Lian Jian looked into the distance with a complicated expression. He knew when Lu Yin stepped into the Lian family, but he did not want to come out. It was not that he did not dare to, but that he did not want to be mocked by Qiu Lao. He was tricked by Qiu Lao to be the first Six-Part Red to challenge the Canglan Valley. It felt like he was paving the way for someone else.
After this, his temper was much better.
But why did Lu Yin want to see the family history?
On the other side, Qiu Lao brought Lu Yin to the next family while Lu Yin recalled the family history he had seen.
Most of the family history recorded the past of the Lian family, especially the Six-Part Red they had produced. They were all recorded as legends. There were not many records of the entire civilization, but through the records of the Six-Part Red, one could roughly understand the situation of the Red Shirt civilization below the Astral Plane.
This civilization cultivated the Heartless Dao and was heartless, but that did not mean that it was all about killing.
Killing was limited to Heartless Valley, and there was very little killing in other places. It was much less than Lu Yin had expected. Because of the Heartless Dao, one's desire to compete for benefits had decreased.
In the three universes, most of the conflicts between people were because of benefits. But here, the conflicts of benefits were much less because of heartlessness. Also, many people did not have emotional ties, so there were fewer conflicts. There was also face. Heartless people did not need face.
This meant that the fighting between people in the three universes had been magnified by the Heartless Valley, which made Lu Yin feel disgusted. In reality, the Red Shirt civilization below the Astral Plane did not represent killing.
Some people did not compete with others for their entire lives. They believed that this was heartless, and that it was enough to ignore everyone. There were many people who thought this way.
In general, the killing in the Red Shirt civilization below the Astral Plane was similar to that in the three universes. It was just that the methods and locations of the killings were concentrated, which made it seem more exaggerated.
This was one of the reasons. Another reason was that the Heartless Sect had not always existed.
This was the history that Lu Yin was concerned about. The Red Shirt civilization below the Astral Plane had always had the Heartless Dao, but not the Heartless Sect. In the Lian family's records, there were several Six-Part Red that addressed Jiu Wen as the sect master, but there were no other sect masters. Could it be that Jiu Wen had founded the Heartless Sect?
Or was it the Hero Ancestor?
There were not many records about the Hero Ancestor, and his words were filled with respect.
He was very mysterious.