Chapter 38 Chapter 38 Nothing
The ghost dodged an ice spike and said impatiently, "Is this Xiao Hei reliable? Why did he run away in the middle of a fight?"
The ice spikes continued to chase Su Yun. Bai Long's agility was amazing, and she made the ice spikes become tangled. However, Su Yun felt like he was going to vomit as he sat on her.
Su Yun patted Bai Long: "Don't, don't turn like that, I feel dizzy, my brain is going to fly out."
Bai Long wanted to slow down, but he couldn't. The ice spikes had intelligence and would chase Su Yun as long as they stopped.
There was really no other way, the white dragon could only exhale dragon breath to shatter any approaching ice spikes.
At least he stopped flying around. Su Yun calmed his mind and looked towards the mountain stream: "There may be a formation below the mountain stream that separates the upper and lower spaces. Let's break it first."
Bai Long broke a few more ice ridges and said, "Can I attack the mountain stream directly?"
There are still people living on the mountain. They can't just destroy this place. It would be bad if it affects the mountain.
Su Yun considered this and subconsciously stopped him: "No, there are police on the mountain, and there are people living behind the nearby mountains. If an earthquake or landslide occurs, it will be a disaster."
"But if we don't attack directly, we will be blocked by these ice spikes." The beautiful ghost took the time to rush to Su Yun's side to protect him and said quickly.
Previously, when Lai Shu talked about the place where she was imprisoned, she mentioned that the entire mountain was a formation that imprisoned her. If she wanted to get out, she had to start from the wooden house and destroy the mechanisms, devices, and formations bit by bit. She also had to be on guard against the possibility that the formation might develop intelligence. If it did, she would even have to break the formation within the time limit, otherwise it would recover.
For some reason, Su Yun always felt that the formation setting of Xiaowei Mountain was more detailed and complicated than the one used to imprison Lai Shu, as if it had taken into account that a very powerful person would come to save the kidney.
The huge and complex formation supported each other. Even if Lin Lang and the others dismantled it from below, it would not prevent those above from capturing Su Yun.
Without knowing the operating rules of the upper and lower formations, attacking one of them would be a thankless task. It would be better to consider how to force out the main body of the ice spike.
Su Yun hesitated whether to enter the mountain stream or take the road that his two masters had opened. Before he could make a decision, suddenly, everyone felt a huge sword energy rising from the bottom of the mountain stream. Before the sword energy arrived, the golden light was already clearly visible.
Ah Xiu reacted quickly and tried to grab the ghost bride and flew into the sky. Bai Long even picked up the sexy ghost with his tail and ran in another direction. They were so fast that Su Yun was almost thrown out.
The next moment after they flew far away, sword energy rushed up into the sky, and the purple-gold light illuminated the sky, like lightning.
Afterwards, the auras of Lin Lang and the others appeared in the mountain stream.
Su Yun leaned over to take a look, and saw a white shadow running around. Lin Lang was chasing it closely. The formation under the mountain stream was destroyed, and Bing Leng could not rely on the formation to hide his breath. After a while, he was besieged by the Black Dragon and his two masters.
However, he still hadn't seen Monk Ziyuan, so Su Yun frowned and told Bai Long, "Xiaobai, put Ayan up there, and you come with me to take a look alone."
The ghost was released by the white dragon's tail and flew to Su Yun: "Director, this is too dangerous. Can I go down with you?"
Su Yun shook his head: "No need. If you catch that ice spike, there will be no danger below. You guys think of a way. If it doesn't work, help Lin Lang. He has a high level of cultivation and can break the upper and lower layers of the formation with one sword. This means that the ice spike is no match for him. But there must be other reasons why he can't catch it. I can only feel at ease if you have more people watching over the ice spike."
No matter what time, Su Yun’s decision cannot be changed, so Yan Gui had to stay and watched Bai Long take her down with worried eyes.
As Lin Lang and his men were chasing them closely, Bing Leng had no time to chase Su Yun. They also noticed that Su Yun was riding the white dragon down the mountain stream, so they covered for Su Yun intentionally or unintentionally.
The mountain stream is really deep. There is an underground river not far away after you reach the bottom. This is normal. In this kind of terrain, it is easy for natural water to accumulate after rain or snow to form a small underground stream.
The white dragon was a bit too big for the mountain stream, so Su Yun took it back after it fell to a certain height, turning it back into a jade pendant.
Su Yun jumped to the edge of the stream and looked around. She saw light in one direction, so she walked over.
If you get closer, you can see the destroyed patterns of the formation. There are still traces of the breath of different people on them. Some were split by Lin Lang's sword, and some were burned by two masters. They did not stop after they came down and kept breaking the formation.
Su Yun became even more curious about what was in the formation.
Could it be her kidney as she guessed?
Su Yun walked into a half-collapsed mountain gate, and found that it was a frozen cave. Everything was frozen. Master Ziyuan looked blankly at the altar placed in the center of the formation. On it was a still-fresh kidney, and the ice around it couldn't even freeze it.
After getting close to the kidney, Su Yun finally had the feeling of seeing a part of her own body, similar to when she met Lai Shu. It seemed that all her previous guesses were correct.
At this moment, Lay Buddhist Ziyuan suddenly said, "That's your kidney."
"I know." Su Yun replied casually, walked to the altar and grabbed his kidney. It was still warm in his hand, as if it had just been taken out of a human body.
"The kidneys form a pair." Mr. Ziyuan said calmly.
Su Yun was stunned. She stared at the kidney in her hand. There was only one side and she was not sure whether it was the left or right kidney.
At this time, Su Yun also noticed that something was wrong with Ziyuan. She turned around and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Ziyuan Layman sat down cross-legged and looked up at Su Yun, who was standing on the altar with his back as straight as before. "I have been looking for immortality for thousands of years and have never given up hope. But when I saw this kidney, I suddenly realized that I have no chance."
For the first time, he did not introduce himself and said "I" in a dejected manner.
Although Su Yun expected that he would suddenly change his mind, he didn't understand what caused him to change: "Why? The blessing of the Sky Speaker is still there, and this is just a kidney. I haven't been able to seek revenge on you yet, why are you so pessimistic all of a sudden?"
"You are the last elixir of life that I have truly made." When Master Ziyuan said this, his expression seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant. Although his appearance did not change and his hair did not turn white, his energy and spirit were gone.
"Ah?" Su Yun was stunned. "Are you sure you know what you are saying now?"
Mr. Ziyuan said nothing, lowered his head, took out a book from his sleeve and threw it at Su Yun's feet.
Su Yun put down the kidney, wiped his hands and picked up the book. The name on it was very straightforward, it was called "The Art of Immortality". Judging from the font and the old marks, it should be something from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. If there was no Qiankun in the Qiankun bag, it would be difficult for it to exist on the ground for so many years.
It describes various methods of achieving immortality, including cultivation, accumulating merit, succession to the throne, taking elixirs, receiving spiritual enlightenment from immortals, etc. Many of them are methods found in legends, and it is more like a collection of strange stories.
The only last way is to replenish the internal organs.
The purpose of completing the internal organs is actually very similar to cultivation. Cultivation is also to complete the incomplete internal organs and to restore the innate energy with the acquired energy. However, when it comes to cultivation, talent, opportunity, and the heart of the Tao have a huge influence, and there is also a lot of uncertainty.
But the method described in the books is to create a child with all the internal organs intact. This child must grow up safely, without any ideological dislocation or collapse, and must survive a special death catastrophe in a stable and unchanging attitude.
There are many such children in the world, and you can find them if you look carefully. Master Ziyuan has found many of them, but those children cannot remain unchanged throughout their lives.
It is said that real people have few relatives and only experience the consequences of their lives without burdening themselves. After they have suffered the calamity, they will be able to attain enlightenment and ascend to heaven.
But when a child really comes into the world, it is impossible for him to remain completely unchanged. The people, things, social environment, growth experiences, etc. that he meets cannot remain unchanged forever.
If you are unlucky, you may end up like the wolf girl, suddenly encountering a marriage that should not appear in your life. How do you account for this?
Love is relatively hard to come by. As for emotions like hatred, greed, anger, etc., it is impossible to say that you don't have them at all. Once they appear even a little bit, it's useless.
Most of these children will encounter disasters when they grow up, and generally they will not live long, or they will become ordinary mortals after the disaster, so timing is very important.
For a well-raised person, Ziyuan Jushi would wait patiently for him to encounter a calamity, and then take advantage of the other person's half-dead moment to exchange bodies and destinies with each other. In this way, he could take possession of everything of the other person and be qualified for longevity.
Of course, Mr. Ziyuan did not take this method very seriously at first, until... he discovered that the blessing of the Sky Speaker was full of malice.
I have encountered the method of immortality countless times, but failed at the last moment. It may be acceptable once or twice, but what about hundreds or thousands of times?
Even a fool would know that he would be beaten if he stretched out his hand, so he would not do so. However, Mr. Ziyuan still believed and tried again and again.
So Dilong felt that he was crazy for a while, killing so many children just to create a qualified person.
He stopped doing it later because Mr. Ziyuan suddenly realized that it is hard to find a perfect human being.
Su Yun is the most successful one after Mr. Ziyuan's long calculations. She was born with a soul so stable that she seemed not like a human. No one could shake her mind. She had no feelings for family, friendship, or love. She was simply a perfect seedling for cultivating immortals.
Meeting Su Yun that year was indeed just a coincidence. Master Ziyuan was looking for children everywhere, and when he calculated Su Yun's fortune, and added that the Su family wanted him, they hit it off.
After years of experiments, Mr. Ziyuan has also realized that if you want a child who will not collapse when young, the child cannot be born into a very poor family, otherwise the child's mentality will collapse when facing poverty.
However, the Su family's attitude towards Su Yun was not good either. Master Ziyuan was about to warn the Su family, but he found that Su Yun was very stable and there was no problem at all.
Many things were not thought of at the time. Although Mr. Ziyuan said that he had taken care of Su Yun for many years, watched her grow up, and was also keeping an eye on her fate, he did not have much hope at the beginning. He just felt that her fate would be quite useful in the end.
Until Su Yun's fate was about to come, she was told by the Su family that she was not their biological child.
Most people would be more or less unstable when encountering such a thing, but Su Yun did not change. It was at this moment that Master Ziyuan decided to use Su Yun as a substitute.
Although it's a girl, as long as I can live forever, who cares?
After Su Yun finished reading the immortality method in the book, she became even more confused: "Since you wanted to use my body to achieve immortality, why didn't you succeed in the end? Instead, my organs are everywhere? What is this altar? I also encountered my spleen before."
Monk Ziyuan looked tired. "It's normal. Nowadays, people are considered adults if they have one or two of their internal organs intact. So it's not surprising that your organs can develop intelligence. There are some things I swear I can't tell you. I can only tell you that I have taken such good care of you, so I'm not the only one who wants to take advantage of your fate."
I didn't expect that body was so popular and people wanted it everywhere.
When people are speechless, they will laugh for no apparent reason. Su Yun said with a smile, "You mean, in addition to you, there were other forces that wanted to kill me, and in the end they left my organs and eyes, just to put them on the altar like this?"
"This is the altar of cause and effect." Mr. Ziyuan said in despair.
Hearing this name, Su Yun was confused for a moment, and then he remembered that there was such a thing.
There are many kinds of altars. What kind of formation is matched with what kind of altar will produce what kind of effect. The formation at Lai Shu's place had been destroyed before, and so had the one under his feet. Su Yun could only see that it was a change of luck.
It means transferring the fortune brought by the organ itself to another place, and the place or person receiving the fortune will be full of luck. When the fortune accumulates to a certain level, it is not impossible to have the fate of an emperor or seek immortality and fly to the sky like Master Ziyuan.
The karma altar is a more underworld form of sacrifice, meaning that all people and things that have a karma relationship with the sacrifices on the altar will have their own fortunes borrowed as well.
For example, the people who were karmic related to Su Yun’s previous body included the Su family, friends, Master Ziyuan and his disciples, and some enemies who had a bad relationship with her.
The fortunes of those people will become worse and worse as these formations operate, because all of their organs will be borrowed along with Su Yun's organs.
"So that's how it is. I was wondering why even though I'm dead, Su Yun and the Su family's fortunes didn't match mine. It turns out there's someone behind the scenes." Su Yun suddenly realized.
Before this, Su Yun always thought that Su Yun could not support the fate, or that they could influence each other. After all, the two of them were too close. He didn't expect that it was because all the fortune was borrowed.
Master Ziyuan stared at his own hands. "I dug out your organs with my own hands. You know, I just lived a long life, and my cultivation is not high. This is the first time I was so scared. Although I couldn't bear to part with your body, I still reluctantly gave away your most important organs and eyes. I thought I still had a chance..."
But in fact, as long as these formations are there, Ziyuan Jushi will never have a chance, he will become more and more unlucky. The blessing given by the Sky Speaker is only for him to find the way to immortality, the rest depends on his own luck and strength. After they are all borrowed away, he will no longer have the possibility of immortality.
Su Yun walked up to him and squatted down: "It's been so long, you haven't noticed it yet?"
"The blessing of the Sky Speaker is powerful enough to affect my judgment. Even though I knew what I was going to do with your organs, I didn't expect it to be so ruthless." Monk Ziyuan could still rage at the altar.
Only the person who stole the body knew the sacrificial location of each organ. Master Ziyuan was only responsible for digging at that time because he was most familiar with Su Yun's body. It was that body he had chosen for thousands of years and had carefully maintained for more than twenty years. It could even be said that he knew the location of her organs better than Su Yun.
Su Yun returned the book to him: "Don't give up, maybe I can get all the organs back? When all the altars are destroyed, won't you be better?"
Mr. Ziyuan did not feel comforted, but felt that he was being ridiculed. He stared into Su Yun's beautiful eyes, which were exactly the same as they were back then.
Su Yun was not completely dead at that time. In order to serve as a sacrifice, Su Yun was cut open while still alive and his internal organs and eyes were removed. Every cut he made was perfect. When it was taken out, the kidney was even hotter than the one on the altar now.
After the organs and eyes were removed, the remaining body was left there. Master Ziyuan thought it was useless and ignored it.
But Su Yun came back and told others that her biological parents had found her. Her parents were the owners of the only two funeral homes in Bincheng. The couple was well-known in the industry and were very kind and gentle people. Master Ziyuan was very familiar with them.
Su Yiling and Ji Weitang became monks late in life but they are stronger than many people who have practiced for a long time. Isn't this an unfair fate?
They could even conceal the truth and make everyone think that Su Yun was missing or dead, and then secretly replace her with a more peculiar body that was invulnerable to all kinds of attacks and ignored cause and effect, and brought Su Yun back.
Mr. Ziyuan couldn't believe it. How did that couple do it?
The most important thing is, how to hide it from heaven and earth? Su Yun should be dead, how can they explain to the heaven and the Queen Mother that he is not dead and has come back?
Isn't it going against the will of heaven that I survived the calamity?
Thinking of this, Master Ziyuan gritted his teeth and said, "You know very well that the karma that has been sucked away will never come back. I have no chance to redeem it. I can't even change my karma like you to take revenge!"
Mr. Ziyuan was desperate because he didn't know whether Su Yun could really destroy all the altars of these organs, because Su Yun already had a new body, and if she hadn't met him by chance, she would never have gone to look for him.
Since he won't look for them, Su Yun will most likely ignore these altars until he becomes an immortal or a god. Doesn't Master Ziyuan have to wait until he dies?
In fact, the influence of sucking away fortune has become more and more obvious. Mr. Ziyuan has always thought that it was because he met the unlucky child Su Yun. Today he confirmed that it was not because Su Yun's fate was in conflict with his. Although there was also the reason that Su Yun deliberately influenced him, the biggest reason was these cause and effect altars.
The altar had already drained away all his luck, and with Su Yun's influence, he seemed particularly unlucky recently.
The pace of the search for the elixir of immortality has gradually slowed down, and the effect of each elixir found is getting smaller and smaller.
Why did both Su Yun and Lin Lang calculate that Monk Ziyuan would not live long?
Because Mr. Ziyuan himself relies on repeated attempts to find ways to achieve immortality to stay young. Even though he cannot achieve complete immortality, with the blessing of the Sky Speaker, it still has a certain effect. The amount of life added each time is not much, as if he is always eating rotten peaches that are not very effective. It is true that he can prolong his life, but it has been reduced from the original 500 years to 500 days.
Monk Ziyuan has survived in this way until now. The blessing of the Sky Speaker seems to be gradually weakening as the village on the earth dragon's side disappears, but the power of the altar to absorb fortune remains unchanged, which almost makes it clear that he cannot wait for Su Yun to destroy all the altars.
The date of death came unexpectedly quietly; Master Ziyuan had never thought that such a day would come.
All methods of immortality are useless now. Even if he is given an elixir that can make him immortal, it will be useless. What he needs is to end the cause and effect with Su Yun.
The cause and effect of Su Yun is so powerful because she herself is powerful. The fate and body carefully cultivated by Master Ziyuan are the seeds of becoming an immortal. Naturally, they can restrain the existence below the earthly immortals, although it requires the cost of her life.
Cause and effect are everywhere. The causes you planted in the past have become the fruits that are killing you now.
Practicing Taoism requires not believing in fate. No matter whether it is good or bad, what doesn’t kill me will make me stronger.
The only problem was that Master Ziyuan was unable to win, and was instead restrained by the substitute he had trained.
Su Yun felt a little sympathy after hearing this: "Are you regretting agreeing to hand me over?"
If Su Yun had not been handed over, the body would have belonged to Master Ziyuan, and he might have successfully broken the prophecy of the Sky Speaker and obtained the qualification of immortality.
Ziyuan wanted to nod, but paused, and shook his head instead: "You can't say that... If I didn't hand you over at that time, I would have died there. In essence, this world is still destined to be the law of the jungle. You are lucky, so you have always been lucky. I have struggled for so many years, but it's all in vain."
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