Chapter 39
Even though Su Yun was trying to smooth things over, he still couldn't stop An Jinghe and Yu Ming from fighting. Both of them had strong cultivation bases. An Jinghe was the current leader of the Jingling Sect, and his cultivation base was higher than Yu Ming's. After a while, he pinned Yu Ming down and beat him up.
Yu Ming also discovered this problem after being beaten. When he left Jinglingmen, An Jing had not started practicing martial arts just like him, and was even younger than Yu Ming. Now, he has been on the run for so many years and has tried hard, but he is still not as good as An Jing.
At this moment, he no longer felt ashamed of being beaten by An Jing. In his heart, Yu Ming just wanted to find Master Ziyuan and cut him into pieces. If Master Ziyuan had not been brainwashing him, would he have ended up like this today?
If he had practiced hard in Jingling Sect for decades, he might have become a highly respected elder of Jingling Sect now!
An Jinghe didn't kill anyone in the end. No matter how angry she was, she still had to make Yu Ming reveal the list of victims. Those whose organs had been replaced by Master Ziyuan might still be controlled by him, so they had to be dealt with as soon as possible.
"Tell me, whose organs did you replace? And how many did you replace? What else did Master Ziyuan ask you to do besides replace your organs?" An Jinghe said angrily, holding Yu Ming, whose face was covered in blood.
Yu Ming opened his mouth and revealed a mouthful of bloodshot teeth: "Brother, you want to know too much. There is nothing I can't tell you. However, I have lived to this day with only a miserable life and a truth-telling talisman. If I die, won't it be useless?"
The limitation of the Truth-Spitting Talisman is that the person has to be alive. If Yu Ming went crazy and blew himself up, no one would be able to get the answer from him.
An Jinghe's expression was very ugly: "What do you want?"
A trace of twisted malice flashed across Yu Ming's face: "I'll tell you the list, and you swear to kill Monk Ziyuan and send him to the underworld to accompany me, how about that?"
As a reputable and upright sect, they would certainly not kill people casually. Even though An Jing was so peaceful, he only beat Yu Ming up. He would have to wait for God to punish him. The crime he committed could not be punished by law. He could only wait and see how God wanted to punish him.
Su Yun suddenly popped up and said, "You don't have to force Master An to kill someone to save someone. What's more, if that Monk Ziyuan is not destined to die, you definitely can't kill him. Jingling Sect can only change the fate for the good. If you want someone to die, you have to change it for the bad. I'm afraid Jingling Sect can't defeat Monk Ziyuan."
Yu Ming wanted to go crazy when he saw Su Yun now: "You can say anything! Anyway, I won't live long. If you don't agree, I would rather go to the underworld to complain to the Queen Mother Hou Tu and see if the heaven will take that thing away."
"You--" An Jinghe was so angry that he threw Yu Ming to the ground. He really didn't know what to say. From childhood to adulthood, he had never been able to defeat Yu Ming with such twisted logic.
"Don't be anxious. Just because the Jingling Sect can't solve a problem doesn't mean that our Xicheng Funeral Home can't. Think about it carefully. We are a funeral home. Can't we send away anyone we want? What's more, recall the prophecy that Master Ziyuan told you. I am not one of the people he can influence." Su Yun said with a chuckle.
However, Yu Ming sneered: "How can you kill him? You can't even find where he is."
Su Yun waved his hand in disapproval: "You are narrow-minded, aren't you? I can't find him, but he can find me. You need to be more open-minded. Just like I can't find you, but I can find a way to make you fall into my trap, he will come to find me sooner or later."
This statement was made with such excessive confidence that it was impossible not to believe it.
Yu Ming thought about how he had fallen into a trap and said stubbornly, "It's different. I have a weak spot. Master Ziyuan doesn't have a wife or children. What can you use to lure him over here?"
"You." Su Yun answered without hesitation, and the people present almost didn't hear it clearly.
"Wait, are you kidding? Me?" Yu Ming began to doubt how he could have been deceived by such a person. Could it be that he was really too old and his brain was not working well?
Seeing that he still hadn't figured it out, Su Yun said directly, "Are you stupid? You are here, but your disciple is outside. How can he not receive the message you sent to him? As your disciple, he is also in contact with Master Ziyuan. Just send my message to him separately and ask him to save you. You don't need to say anything more. They will come to trouble me on their own."
It was very simple after all. After a while, Yu Ming also reacted. What Su Yun meant was that Master Ziyuan had too many reasons to meet Su Yun in person.
First of all, the person who was supposed to die did not die, and even changed his fate. This method was even more perfect than what Ziyuan Jushi did back then. After all, Su Yun was really dead back then, and her current fate has nothing to do with the original one. Judging from her current face, it is impossible to tell that she had died once.
The second is the existence of Su Yun. The person that Yu Ming would meet when he repented before his death was calculated by Ziyuan Jushi himself. It is impossible to say that he is not interested in the person who is invulnerable to all things. Who knows, he might have approached Yu Ming and planned for many years just to wait for this so-called person who is invulnerable to all things?
When Yu Ming revealed to his disciple Zhao Tuhu that Su Yun was not dead and had even changed his fate and possessed a physique that was invulnerable to all kinds of attacks, how could they not be excited?
The more Yu Ming thought about it, the more he felt that this was true. He even wanted to send the message out right away, and then stab the man to death with his own hands after Master Ziyuan arrived. No, stabbing him to death was not enough, he should be cut into pieces!
Seeing that Yu Ming was already tempted, Su Yun said, "Mr. Yu, don't worry. Your death is not that close. You might as well wait until the funeral of Mr. Wu before notifying Zhao Tuhu."
"Why?" Yu Ming was not happy. Who knew how many days were left before his death? What if he died at the funeral of the old man of the Wu family?
"Because if you say it directly now, it will seem very deliberate. You arranged these things because you wanted to take revenge on those who looked down on you. And because of your cultivation, you have already handed over the matter of contacting Mr. Ziyuan to Zhao Tuhu. You can't do anything about your revenge now, and you are in a hurry to contact Zhao Tuhu. It seems like you have ulterior motives no matter how you look at it." Su Yun patiently explained to the slow-witted old man.
Yu Ming was almost fooled by Su Yun. After thinking about it carefully, he actually felt that what Su Yun said made sense, so he said to An Jinghe: "Okay, I'll think of it as Director Su helping to pay the fee."
Seeing Yu Ming give in, An Jinghe hurriedly asked him for the list, but Yu Ming shook his head and said he didn't have it. The paper cranes used for communication had been destroyed long ago. In order not to leave any evidence at that time, he didn't keep the list either. He could only rely on his memory to tell An Jinghe what he had done to whom.
However, after passing on the blame, Yu Ming said, "However, there is one thing I must say in advance. I don't know what happened to those people after their organs were replaced. I know that if the teachers knew about this, they would be beaten to death, so we tried our best to avoid any possibility of being discovered."
An Jinghe endured it again and again, and finally, for the sake of the list, she didn't beat him again.
Mr. Ziyuan did not know at the beginning that organ replacement could change one's destiny. He initially made some yellow talismans and things that would affect the human body and asked Yu Ming to place them near those who were easily affected.
For example, some people suffer from neurasthenia and cannot see the light, smell strong smells, or hear sounds. Once these problems occur around them, they will suffer from insomnia, frequent dreams, and endocrine disorders. Then the person's spirit will deteriorate, affecting their normal life.
The ancient witchcraft and the art of creating ghosts are based on similar principles. As long as the victim's physical condition is affected, his fate will naturally begin to change.
Mr. Ziyuan told Yu Ming that he wanted to experiment to see to what extent the influence could be achieved, so he gave him some things occasionally and told him to deliver them at will. There was no need for any follow-up reports, just to deliver them.
Yu Ming naturally had no objection to not having to worry about the follow-up matters. Every time he received something, he would just give it to some fellow disciples without even caring whether the other party's fate was suitable.
"Brother, you have received one too, do you remember? It was a mosquito repellent sachet, and later you said it was very useful." After Yu Ming mentioned the characteristics and names of several fellow brothers, he suddenly talked about An Jing and him.
"Me?" An Jinghe frowned and thought for a long time, "You mean, the sachet that suddenly appeared on the shelf beside my bed a long time ago?"
Just as he finished speaking, Che Xuming's voice came from the tablet that had been turned on: "Master, is this the thing?"
The three people from the funeral home immediately turned their heads to look over. Che Xuming was holding a very old sachet in his hand. Besides him, another young Taoist priest also had one in his hand. It looked like they bought it wholesale.
Yu Ming frowned: "Did I put so many in the dormitory? No one has changed them in all these years?"
After Yu Ming's identification, he found that only half of them were placed by him. He did not recognize the others and was not sure what was inside. He was even less sure whether there were other people in Jingling Sect who were deceived by Ziyuan Jushi like him and placed other items in the dormitories and bedrooms of Jingling Sect.
Even if Yu Ming only put in half, he wouldn't dare to leave the rest. What if there was something bad in it?
Che Xuming went to ask other fellow brothers to check and found that there were hundreds of similar things, which appeared in the dormitory inexplicably. Everyone thought that they were brought back by others. Usually, they would make some sachets and yellow talismans to keep on their bodies, so the appearance of such things in the dormitory was not surprising.
It was not until now that we talked about it and asked each other that we discovered that many of the items were ownerless.
While Che Xuming was finding out all these messy things, Yu Ming took advantage of this gap to name a list of everything he saw. He almost named all the senior and junior brothers.
An Jinghe couldn't help but say after hearing what happened: "Yu Ming, why don't you just tell us who you haven't cheated? That way the number of people will be smaller."
"...If I remembered, shouldn't I have said it directly?" Yu Ming didn't expect that he actually helped Master Ziyuan put so many things away without asking for a penny!
The more you think about it, the more you lose.
Che Xuming and his friends acted quickly. After finding various gadgets, they asked An Jing what to do with them and whether they should track down Master Ziyuan based on these things.
An Jinghe looked at them for a while and said, "You have blocked the auras on these things, so you can't find them. Besides, these are very common things. They don't have a big impact on everyone in daily life. The feng shui of Jinglingmen can resolve them. This is probably why I didn't get hurt."
Su Yun was very curious and asked, "Why don't we open it and see what's inside? I really want to know."
They were just some sachets and yellow talismans, nothing that couldn't be opened. Che Xuming directly took the one that Yu Ming had given to An Jinghe, opened it, and poured out a pile of dry herbs and a small piece of jade chips.
The jade chips were so small, like the fertilizer scraped off when making jade pieces, not even the leftovers.
"Master, what does this jade chip mean? It is better to die with honor than to live in dishonor?" Che Xuming picked up the rice-sized jade chip and held his breath, fearing that if he made a louder noise, the chip would be blown away.
"Jade belongs to the yin element, and this jade dust might have come from the wrong place. If used for a long time, it will absorb the body's yang energy, thus causing people to feel weak and have bad daily fortunes. However, it is too small, and the feng shui of Jingling Sect covers the influence of these things, so it has never worked." An Jing and Wu Nai answered for their stupid apprentice.
After the first item was opened, the other things would naturally be opened as well. The things inside were mostly the same, either jade chips or some items that had a slight effect on the human body. Some were simply medicines. It was okay to touch them normally, but it would definitely make you feel uncomfortable for a long time.
As for those yellow talismans, their runes have good meanings, but if used on the wrong people, negative effects will appear, similar to the yellow talismans that Che Xuming drew for Mo Qingtao when he was not well-trained. Not only were they useless, they also triggered Mo Qingtao's peach blossom calamity.
After taking a quick look at all the things, he calmed down and felt relieved, because these things could be said to be harmless. Young Taoists would make similar mistakes when they first started, making inappropriate things and not wanting to throw them away. With the Jingling Sect's formation and feng shui, nothing serious happened in the end. When his cultivation level improved, he would not be affected by these low-level methods.
After Yu Ming finished listing these items, he said, "There are many things in here that I don't recognize, and I've been away for thirty years. Many things have been cleared away. There must be someone in Jingling Sect who has been deceived by Master Ziyuan and is secretly putting things in. Moreover, this is only the first stage. Look at the edges of those sachets. The newest ones look quite old."
Among all the little gadgets found, only the sachet that Yu Ming gave to An Jinghe was the oldest. It was obvious that the young Taoists mistakenly thought that it was An Jinghe's own thing, so they kept it very well.
Apart from this sachet which is almost 50 years old, the newest ones seem to have been put in a few years ago. They are very new and the scent of the sachet still remains.
An Jinghe looked grim: "Why do you keep trying when you know it's useless?"
"I don't know. Maybe you can meet Master Ziyuan in the future and ask him why he has been able to persist for so long." Yu Ming sneered. He felt that being quiet and asking why were simply unnecessary. If they knew why, they would not have been deceived.
Su Yun had been leaning over the tablet and whispering to Che Xuming about what those things were. Later, she saw the rune of one of the yellow talismans and suddenly called Che Xuming to stop: "Wait a minute, Master Che, here, here, take a picture of the pattern on the yellow talisman bag in the hand of the third little Taoist priest on your right. Take a clear picture."
Che Xuming looked for them one by one according to Su Yun's description: "This bag? What's so special about it?"
Hearing Su Yun's voice, Yu Ming and An Jinghe both stopped registering the name list and followed Su Yun's gaze to look at the yellow talisman bag on the tablet. Some Taoist temples will seal the yellow talisman bag according to the guests' requirements. The outer layer is usually made of red cloth, which is directly sewn into a triangle and then strung together with a red rope so that it can be hung around the neck. It is usually given to children.
Some runes are written directly on red cloth strips, which can be made into bags by simply folding or turning them for customers to take home.
The cloth bag that Che Xuming held up had been opened. Inside was a lucky charm that wished one a smooth and happy daily life. There were very light patterns on the red cloth bag, which could only be seen as a print of red plum blossoms and magpies when one looked closely. In the early years, tailor shops liked to use this cheap material to make simple cloth products for people.
"Can you see clearly? Is there any problem?" Che Xuming was tired from raising his hands, and when he saw that Su Yun hadn't spoken for a long time, he asked.
"I seem to have seen this pattern when I was a child, but where..." Su Yun murmured in response, unable to remember it no matter what.
Yu Ming said, "This pattern is very common. You must have seen it on someone's child before. If a family wants to ask for a talisman, the yellow talisman bag they bring back is almost the same."
There was some truth in what he said, so Su Yun nodded and memorized the pattern, planning to look for it when he had time, so there was no need to rush.
After cleaning up these small sample items, Yu Ming began to report the name list of the second phase of Master Ziyuan's experiment. Since there were no particularly obvious results in the first phase, Master Ziyuan was much more radical in the second phase. He wanted to try whether the fate would be affected if the interactions between people were misplaced.
For example, A should become friends with B after accepting B's help, but after the manipulation of Master Ziyuan, B became the person who hurt A, and asked C to help A.
The consequences are predictable. Two people who should have been friends become enemies, while unrelated people become friends. Their fate is messed up.
It just so happens that Yu Ming is best at doing this kind of sneaky things. He doesn't need anyone to teach him how to do this, as if he has learned it by himself. However, Master Ziyuan did not experiment on the second stage for too long.
"He believes that this kind of influence cannot be regarded as a complete change of fate, because in the future, people who are supposed to be friends will still be friends, and people who don't meet by chance will find it difficult to maintain this relationship. To put it simply, artificial fate is equal to no destiny." Yu Ming said with a shrug. Now when he talks about this, he feels that he was really stupid at that time.
The subject of numerology is profound and extensive. Su Yun still remembers that when he was a child, he watched an adapted drama of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", in which something similar to what Ziyuan Jushi did was done. Even if the red thread was tied to another person, the people who were supposed to be together would still be attracted to each other, and the wrong red thread would naturally break.
After the second phase of the experiment, Master Ziyuan was silent for a long time. At this time, it was almost time for Yu Ming to leave Jingling Sect. He was getting older and older, and he was tired of dragging himself along. His temper became more and more irritable. Although he knew that this was his own choice, he was still unhappy.
It was at this time that Mr. Ziyuan proposed the "life-exchanging theory" to Yu Ming.
Yu Ming thought the other party was fanciful: "How do you exchange lives? Is it like a cat replacing a prince? Don't you think about it, how many people in history have been able to successfully exchange lives?"
"It failed because you only changed your identity, but what if you exchanged your horoscope, fate, body or even your soul? Wouldn't it be equivalent to giving yourself a better life?" Master Ziyuan replied to Yu Ming after he refused.
When Yu Ming saw the item about exchanging fate, he was immediately excited. He was willing to accompany Master Ziyuan in the experiment for so long, wasn't it just to give himself a better fate and avoid the disaster?
So Yu Ming agreed immediately and asked directly what he needed to do.
Mr. Ziyuan seemed to have calculated that Yu Ming would agree, and the next time his paper crane brought a well-sealed liver.
The attached letter paper read, "Mr. Yu, you have a friend who has hepatitis, but he doesn't know that in the future he will slowly develop liver cancer and no medicine can cure him. But this liver is healthy and it was taken from a person who will not get liver cancer. You can exchange it with him."
The future fate of the owners of the two livers is that one will get liver cancer and the other will not. If the fate of the two people is exchanged after the liver transplant, it means that Master Ziyuan’s theory is correct and body swapping can indeed affect fate.
But if there is no change, then we can only continue the experiment and see whether we should replace the whole body or not even swapping the body will fail.
Taoism has advanced Taoist techniques that can exchange parts of the organs, just like the stories of head and heart replacement that always appear in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. There are traces to follow, but it requires a very high level of cultivation.
Considering that Yu Ming was unable to control these Taoist magics, Mr. Ziyuan asked him to take the liver to a formation center in the Jingling Sect, and then burned the yellow talisman in the paper crane into ashes and let the disciple eat it.
Yu Ming used a little trick. He burned the yellow talisman into pieces, mixed the ashes into the food, and tricked the other party into eating it. Three days later, he went to the center of the formation to take the liver and found that this liver was completely different from the one he had originally placed there.
The later liver looked a bit problematic; the color was not as bright and it looked like it was poorly preserved.
At that time, Yu Ming felt a little guilty, suspecting that his cultivation was not good enough, and that he failed to replace the liver, and instead caused the fresh liver to rot.
After secretly sending his liver away, Yu Ming had been thinking about what reason he could use to tell Master Ziyuan that there was nothing wrong with him and that his liver was damaged on its own.
However, after waiting for many days, the disciple who had his liver exchanged was fine, and there was no news from Master Ziyuan. Yu Ming gradually put this matter and his guilty conscience behind him.
About a month later, Mr. Ziyuan said that the exchange was successful. Another healthy person suddenly felt tired and uncomfortable a month later. He went to the hospital for a check-up and was found to have hepatitis and is undergoing treatment.
Mr. Ziyuan made another fortune-telling for the other party and found that he had added the fact of "suffering from liver cancer" to his fate.
Yu Ming felt that this was a complete substitution of concepts. If a healthy liver was replaced with a bad one, of course the body would also be damaged. There are organ replacement surgeries in the world. Does this mean that having an operation to cure a disease is like exchanging one's life?"
Mr. Ziyuan was not angry at Yu Ming's argumentative behavior. Instead, he thought that what he said made sense, so he persuaded Yu Ming to do more experiments so that he could have a large amount of data to prove whether exchanging bodies or organs can change one's destiny.
"During that time, I probably replaced the organs of hundreds of people, replacing the good with the bad, and the bad with the good. Sometimes I replaced just one, sometimes I replaced many. But the ones that were most affected were the heart, the eyes, and... the soul." Yu Ming hesitated before saying the last word.
"You dare to exchange souls? Do you want to live?" An Jinghe's eyes turned dark, and he felt that the King of Hell was waving at him.
Su Yun's eyebrows jumped when he heard this: "Exchange souls? Is it between the dead and the living, between the dead and the dead... or between the living and the living?"
[End of this chapter]
Su Yun: My head is itchy, it seems like I need to grow a brain O(∩_∩)O
My keyboard is wireless and it ran out of battery. I only wrote this much and I don’t have the money to buy a wired replacement. I will have to wait until I buy batteries tomorrow to write the remaining words. QAQ
I have all kinds of problems every day. I think I've been offended by writing too many metaphysical articles. QAQ
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