Chapter 45
"Related orders? Isn't it just the one that killed me?" Su Yun felt something was wrong.
Unexpectedly, Yu Ming denied this statement: "Not really, you have a very good fate. Anyone who knows fortune-telling and has seen you will pay attention to you. According to my observation and speculation, he should have received more than ten orders about you, mainly to borrow your luck. I don't know if it worked or not, anyway, many people want to borrow your luck."
Hearing him say this, An Jinghe frowned and said, "People who practice Taoism always try to borrow other people's luck. They have read so many books that they have nothing to lose!"
Yu Ming rolled his eyes and said, "Hey, Senior Brother, please stop talking. You guys in the Jingling Sect are not normal. Who else would spend the whole day cultivating with their Taoist partners like you? No wonder you guys can defy fate and change your destiny?"
After knowing the truth, Yu Ming felt that the Jingling Sect did not change his destiny at all. It simply locked him up and found a long-term cellmate to accompany him to prevent himself from going astray again. After being reformed in prison for such a long time, how could he not change?
An Jing and Wu Xi didn't like what he heard. Just as they were about to lecture Yu Ming at length, they heard Che Xuming suddenly speak up and interrupted his spellcasting: "Master, Master, speaking of this borrowing of luck, I think I know something!"
"What do you know now?" asked An Jing and unhappily.
"That's right, I've heard about this. Didn't I go to Bincheng not long after Zhao Tuhu defected? I heard that Director Su had very good luck, and many people hoped to make a good impression on her." Che Xuming recalled.
Su Yun's past situation was similar to what Che Xuming said. As she grew up, more and more people came to her, just to make a good impression. According to her fate, the more people she liked, the better her fortune would be. It was a bit like "one person's success brings prosperity to the whole family."
Yu Ming sounded very surprised: "If that's the case, isn't Director Su's stall like a free stall? Anyone can take advantage of it, right?"
The words are not very pleasant to hear, but this is what he meant. When Su Yun didn't know how good his fate was, many people did come to him for help. No matter whether it was legitimate or not, as long as Su Yun was in a good mood, he could get some.
Su Yun didn't think this was a big deal, because it didn't affect her normal life, so she asked Che Xuming: "Master Che, if that's the case, do I still have more orders in the circle? What about Su Yun? The eldest daughter of the Su family, she is using my fate now, so how is she?"
"Hey, you know what, this is really strange. Since you disappeared, there have been fewer orders like this. Even though many people have realized that Su Yun's fate is yours, no similar orders have appeared." Che Xuming said with some surprise. He didn't think about it carefully before, but now he thinks everything is weird.
"Is that so? We still have to take the wind direction in the circle into consideration. They didn't go looking for Su Yun, which means there is indeed something wrong with the other party's fate. But where the problem lies..." Su Yun stopped talking, unable to figure out the reason.
In fact, Su Yun himself also felt that Su Yun’s fate was strange and not solid, but from a positive perspective, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it. As a result, Su Yun always thought that it was because he, as the master of the fate, felt that Su Yun’s fate was not solid.
As a result, even Che Xuming said so. Obviously, anyone who has done some research in this area can feel that it was a mistake made by Master Ziyuan in the operation, or was it the sequelae of the other party's experiment?
Su Yun told Yu Ming and the others about his suspicions, and he always felt that something was strange.
While they were racking their brains, Yu Ming suddenly said, "Come to think of it, wasn't the person the Su family invited to exchange your fate the lay Buddhist Ziyuan? He first accepted the Su family's order to let you live to the age of 22, and exchanged fates with Su Yun, and Zhao Tuhu also accepted the order to take your life. There may be some connection between them."
Yu Ming was not interested in both matters, so he did not participate at that time, especially Su Yun's changing of horoscopes and Zhao Tuhu's taking of the order. Yu Ming had seen the former many times and thought it was useless, while Yu Ming felt that the latter was impossible to succeed, after all, Master Ziyuan had never succeeded.
Judging from the results, Mr. Ziyuan seemed to have achieved half of his success, at least Su Yun really got Su Yun's fate.
Su Yun touched his head and felt itchy, as if he was going to grow a brain: "Then Mr. Yu, how likely do you think it is that Zhao Tuhu will obey Master Ziyuan's orders to take the order?"
"It's quite big, because I was abroad at that time, hanging out with Sister Lan, and he was working with Master Ziyuan in China. Based on my understanding of them, I think it was even Master Ziyuan who made the connection. And later I heard that your order was not a simple one." Yu Ming said meaningfully.
"Oh? So, someone bought my life, and Master Ziyuan used me to exchange for a reward?" Su Yun thought of this possibility. Master Ziyuan had been guarding her for so many years, there was no reason for him to send her away at the last minute.
Yu Ming thought for a while and said, "It should be. Perhaps it is something more precious than your fate."
In fact, Yu Ming missed the period before and after Su Yun's death. He contacted Master Ziyuan and returned to China only after Sister Lan became pregnant and gave birth to a child. At that time, Chu Feidu's body had already rotted and could not be used. Yu Ming was pretending to be Chu Feidu and living in seclusion.
After returning to China, Yu Ming contacted Master Ziyuan about his son's matter and asked about the progress of his experiment. Only then did he hear that Su Yun had died and Zhao Tuhu had taken action.
Not to mention Master Ziyuan, before Yu Ming went abroad, he also visited Su Yun many times. He could be said to have watched Su Yun grow up. When he heard that Zhao Tuhu had tried to kill Su Yun, he didn't react at once.
"Dead? You did it? How come? Wasn't she the only one with the best fate that you had waited for decades? We have been waiting for so many years, why did you suddenly kill her? What about her fate if she dies?" Yu Ming asked a series of questions. He was actually still holding on to hope. Su Yun's fate could allow him to escape the disaster. How could she die suddenly?
Ziyuan Layman seemed reluctant to talk about this matter, but seeing that Yu Ming was pressing him, he said, "I am trying hard again. I have been preparing for several years to try to change her fate to that of the Su family's biological daughter. That stupid daughter's fate is not strong enough. If we change it to her, we will have a greater chance of using Su Yun's fate, but..."
Yu Ming was almost driven crazy by him: "But what? Just tell me directly."
What happened next was somewhat beyond Yu Ming's expectations.
After so many years of experiments, and with some rare treasures stolen by Zhao Tuhu from the forbidden area, Mr. Ziyuan finally came up with some special ideas, which was to improve the original method of exchanging horoscopes so that only horoscopes could be exchanged. However, there was a problem that one of them might have to die.
If Su Yun died, that would definitely not work, so Master Ziyuan wanted to study it further. In addition, the Su family became more and more covetous of Su Yun's fate - they saw the importance of Su Yun's fate. After the Su couple gradually lost their love, children were not as important as interests in their hearts.
The Su family gave Mr. Ziyuan a lot of money and asked him to find a way to switch the fate of the two. The most important reason was that Su Yun was not as easy to control as Su Yun. Su Yun was too cunning and tough, and the Su couple might not be able to outwit her, so they wanted to strike first before Su Yun knew the truth.
Mr. Ziyuan was very happy to take this order. It could be said that in order to be able to study this matter openly, he had waited for nearly twenty years, from before Su Yun was born to when she was about to go to college.
However, it is not so easy to study it. Su Yun's fate is too strong, and many formations have no effect on her. This has led to the fact that changing her fate has not been successful for a year or two. But Su Yun's fate is really good. She should have died at the age of 20, but she doesn't seem to have encountered anything that could endanger her life.
Of course, this was also due to the fact that Mr. Ziyuan had been trying to change Su Yun's fate, which caused fluctuations in his destiny. Under the influence of both parties, Su Yun lived to graduate from university.
Up to this point, Mr. Ziyuan's experiment had not actually been completely successful. He always felt that the most important medium was missing, but time did not allow him to continue his research.
Just before Su Yun's graduation, Mr. Ziyuan heard about another thing - someone was buying good destinies as sacrifices, and these good destinies ranged from those of an emperor to those of wealth and honor.
There has always been a legend about Su Yun's fate in the circle. They soon contacted Master Ziyuan, who was currently changing Su Yun's fate. The other party even knew who Master Ziyuan was, so they offered him a reward he could not refuse and asked him to give up Su Yun's fate.
This is actually giving face to Master Ziyuan. Otherwise, Su Yun's fate would be an ownerless thing, and they could just rob it directly. Why would they need to pay Master Ziyuan?
It's just that seeing that Mr. Ziyuan has been in the circle for so many years and has guarded Su Yun for twenty-two years, even if he has no merit, he has worked hard, so I'd like to give him some compensation as a token of my appreciation.
Yu Ming didn't know what exactly was given to Master Ziyuan. He asked, but Master Ziyuan didn't say. He just said that it was something more important to him than changing his fate.
Everyone has something like this in their heart, which is so important that one can give up everything for it. Mr. Ziyuan was unwilling to say it, and Yu Ming did not dare to press him any further, so he only asked him about the details of Su Yun's death and whether he succeeded in the end.
Mr. Ziyuan did not hide this and told Yu Ming that the other party was a big and old family, and that it was not allowed to mention anything. They had a very special fortune-telling method, and everything could be known just by mentioning it, which was more accurate than the eight trigrams.
This family doesn't go out often. It should be said that except for natural disasters or man-made calamities, they will never go out into the world. They hide even more tightly than those love-brained people of Jingling Sect. But because they have special fortune-telling skills, they can be said to know everything about the world while they are at home.
What they wanted to know about Su Yun's fate was very simple, they just needed sacrifices. According to the details Zhao Tu Huhui told, Ziyuan Jushi speculated that these sacrifices were an important part of maintaining this family's ability to calculate everything in the world.
After this family came to him and accurately proposed a reward, Ziyuan Jushi knew that he could not defeat them, so he very obediently gave Su Yun's archival data and the experimental data he had done at the time, including Su Yun's.
The other party didn't say anything, but just thanked Mr. Ziyuan for providing the data. Finally, he offered him a job, hoping that he would do the work. The reason was "Since we have been researching for so many years, how can we not take a look at the final results?"
Mr. Ziyuan really couldn't refuse this reason, but he didn't want to take action himself, so he sent Zhao Tuhu to do it, and then he would come back and tell what happened at that time.
Regarding the process of Su Yun's death, first Zhao Tuhu used the corpse qi to make Su Yun unconscious, and secretly took her to the place designated by the family. According to the requirements, she was beaten first. The reason for beating her was to make her feel pain, enough pain to mobilize her whole body's energy to stay awake.
When Su Yun was in so much pain that he couldn't faint, they would start to remove his important organs. And they wouldn't do it all at once. It depended on the time and a fixed order, starting with the liver, then the stomach... Because of the formation, Su Yun was even awake at that time and felt his organs being taken out one by one.
Every time an organ was taken out, various panaceas would be used to keep her alive, allowing her to hold on until the next auspicious time. That was why Su Yun had been missing for so many days. Calculating the time to remove the corresponding organ was itself a very torturous and lengthy process.
The last thing to be taken away were her eyes. Su Yun didn't make a sound during the process. If her vital signs were not still there, one would have suspected that she was dead and could not feel any pain.
Zhao Tuhu participated in the organ removal process. He learned a lot from Master Ziyuan. In fact, many people in history could do the live organ removal, except for alchemists and Taoist priests, and professional masters of criminal interrogation. This skill was even inherited from their ancestors and outsiders could not learn it.
Due to the uniqueness of this job, it can basically only be seen in royal prisons. With the development of the times, it is estimated that only some old Taoists can do it. If Master Ziyuan had not studied it so much, he would not be able to do it.
Now these skills are being used on Su Yun. If they are practiced to the extreme, the person can still be alive after all the organs are removed, and it will not be visible that an organ has been taken away.
Zhao Tuhu's skills are actually not very good, and Su Yun needs to use a lot of medicine to save his life every time. If it were Master Ziyuan who came, at least he wouldn't have to suffer so much.
They had endured for three days before removing the eyes. Everyone was a little dazed. Zhao Tuhu took advantage of no one paying attention to him and asked Su Yun in a low voice: "Why don't you scream?"
"You, guess." Su Yun endured the pain and replied with two words. There was no trace of fear in his eyes, and even a faint smile.
Zhao Tuhu got goosebumps all over his body and thought she was a lunatic. He secretly cursed her as a psychopath and felt that what Yu Ming said was right. She was simply the reincarnation of Yingning. She was not afraid and could even laugh when she was about to die. She was not a normal person at all.
Finally, Zhao Tuhu cut out Su Yun's eyes with a knife. Finally, he didn't have to look at Su Yun's peach blossom eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. It was so horrifying, as if it was not him who was doing the action, but Su Yun who was torturing him.
Su Yun didn't have much reaction after losing her eyes, but she was not dead yet. There was one last step - use Taoist magic to completely cut off her memory, making her lose this memory and time. Even if she goes to the underworld in the future, she will not be able to recall what happened during this period of time, and she will be able to hide the truth from the world.
Afterwards, Zhao Tuhu returned to Ziyuan Jushi to report. Not long after, Yu Ming came back and asked about the matter again. At that time, Ziyuan Jushi and Zhao Tuhu were very nervous, because for some reason, Su Yun's fate suddenly turned to Su Yun.
At that time, what the family wanted was Su Yun’s fate, and they even "bought" it from Master Ziyuan. Now, not only is the thing gone, but the fate has also been transferred to Su Yun. What is going on?
Yu Ming thought that the arrangement made by Master Ziyuan had taken effect. "Could it be that you had been trying to swap the fate of Su Yun with that of the Su family's biological daughter? Originally, those formations were useless because Su Yun was alive, but Su Yun died, and once the formations were activated, wouldn't the fate have gone to the Su family's biological daughter?"
"…It's not impossible…I forgot to cancel the formation…" Ziyuan Jushi said this with some fear. If he forgot to turn off the formation, wouldn't it be the same as taking the payment but not delivering the goods?
If someone comes to your door, you can sue him for fraud.
But strangely, that family never showed up again, and Su Yun also disappeared.
The first person to notice that Su Yun was missing rather than dead was actually Master Ziyuan, because the Su family came to ask what should be done with Su Yun since his fate had been changed.
Mr. Ziyuan was stunned for a long time and finally realized another thing that was wrong - Su Yun was already dead. After such a long time, someone should have discovered her body and called the police to report her death. How come there was no news at all?
Since the Su family did not receive an accurate answer, they went to the public security bureau to report that their adopted daughter was missing. However, when the police investigated, they found no clues at all. It was as if the person had suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth.
No one is seen alive, and no body is seen dead.
Su Yun disappeared for one year, two years, three years... After everyone had gradually forgotten about her, she suddenly popped up again, very abruptly, and even changed to a more bizarre fate.
Yu Ming himself had forgotten about Su Yun's existence. After all, as time passed, he was getting closer and closer to his own doom. Besides despair, he was unwilling to give in and wanted revenge. He thought that if he could not escape this doom in the end, he should at least kill all the people he disliked before he died.
Then he bumped into Su Yun.
In the past, Zhao Tuhu was the only one who could crush Su Yun. Now, Su Yun has the support of her biological parents, and no one can touch her. Things have changed.
"This is all I know. As for who that family is and where they live in seclusion, neither Master Ziyuan nor Zhao Tuhu dare to mention it. They are even very secretive about it. In short, I have accepted my fate now. I am going to die anyway, so I might as well use this information to get you to avenge me. I definitely won't have enough time to compete with Master Ziyuan in a battle of wits and courage." Yu Ming said helplessly and sadly.
He struggled for a lifetime, and only realized at his death that he had been deceived for decades. He was very strong not to collapse. If it were someone else, he would probably go to Master Ziyuan to fight to the death on the spot.
Su Yun was thoughtful after hearing this: "So, there are two things you are not sure about. First, how did my fate get to Su Yun? Second, that family said they wanted a sacrifice, but when the fate didn't arrive, they didn't come out again."
Yu Ming glanced at her and said, "I think my guess is correct, but if you insist that these two things are inconclusive, then that's up to you."
Regarding the exchange of fates, both Yu Ming and Ziyuan Jushi felt that it was because the formation was not closed and Su Yun died, so the fate was transferred to Su Yun. However, they did not dare to touch the fate again, for fear that they would be found again and have nothing to return.
Su Yun didn't think it was appropriate to draw such a hasty conclusion: "Do you really think it's a problem with the formation? Don't you think Su Yun's fate is weird? She's like wearing a piece of clothing that doesn't fit her."
"It's not strange. Most of the results of Mr. Ziyuan's experiments are like this. As long as the fate is exchanged, things will always become strange." Yu Ming didn't care.
"What I mean is, there is no change in Su Yun herself, but the fate seems to be just hanging on her and does not belong to her completely. It is very floating. At least in the previous experiment done by Master Ziyuan, this situation will not happen, right? Even the most unsuccessful experimental subject would not have this sense of incongruity after the fate was changed." Su Yun tried to make Yu Ming understand what he meant.
Yu Ming tried to understand, tried hard to understand, and finally gave up: "I don't understand. If you really think there is a problem, why not go find Master Ziyuan. With his current level, he should be able to figure it out. Of course, remember to kill him after you ask."
It can be seen that Yu Ming really hates Ziyuan, and he keeps saying that he wants to kill her every other sentence.
Su Yun didn't know how else to describe it. Since Yu Ming had said so, she simply didn't force him to understand: "Okay, then I'll go ask Master Ziyuan when I have time. By the way, what are your plans next? I have to finish the funeral of Mr. Wu's old man before I can go to Master Ziyuan. How should I find him?"
In response, Yu Ming directly wrote an address and contact information to Su Yun: "This is how I usually contact Ziyuan Jushi, but he should have figured out that I confessed everything to you, so it may not be useful. As for Zhao Tuhu, I don't know where he is. Usually I contact him, and then he comes to me. This is the phone number."
Everything is convenient in modern society, but it has made people more distant from each other. For example, Zhao Tuhu, as Yu Ming's apprentice, only knew his phone number.
Facing Su Yun's disdainful look, Yu Ming said unhappily: "Don't look at me like that. People with wives and children can't play together with those without wives and children. How old is he and how old am I? There's a big age gap, and he doesn't live with me all the time. It's good enough that I know his phone number and can call him to work."
"What you said...it seems to be true. Just like I have been away from Bincheng circle for so many years, no one has contacted me. If the Wu family hadn't asked me for help, we would still be just acquaintances now." Su Yun was very emotional, feeling that time was unforgiving.
An Jinghe spoke up at this time: "Director Su, now that you have finished asking questions, why don't I take him back? He needs an explanation for what he has done over the years."
Su Yun nodded immediately: "I have no objection, I am here to help you, just send me the reward later. By the way, Master An, do you need someone from my side to escort you?"
After all, Yu Ming said that he would probably die in the next few days. If he didn't tell others that he had escaped, he was afraid that he would be hunted down if he told the truth.
An Jinghe shook his head: "No, the teleportation array I came from is a round trip, so I can take him directly. His sins have not been paid for yet. When we return to Jinglingmen, no one should be able to kill him."
If he could really survive in Jingling Sect, it would mean that his fate was changed by Jingling Sect in a sense.
Su Yun had no reason to refuse. As for Yu Ming's crime, a sect as big as Jingling Sect would definitely have a way to contact the country to handle it, so she didn't have to worry about it.
"Okay, be careful on your journey, I won't see you off. It's almost dawn and there are still a lot of things to do. And Mr. Yu, you should reform yourself in there, and don't get cheated again in the future." Su Yun said with pity.
"Stop talking. My head hurts when I hear you talking." Yu Ming glared at her impatiently and raised his hand to let An Jinghe tie him up with the rope.
[End of this chapter]
Su Yun: Look at you, you are saying such disunity again O(∩_∩)O
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