Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Su Yun is silent
People with the same surname do not count as one family. The old Taoist thought it was pointless for Master Ziyuan to make the wrong choice again, so he changed his hexagram and asked him to go to the Su family to exchange their daughter. As long as it was Su Yun in the end, it would be fine.
Besides, if she gave Su Yun a rich and prosperous life, she would have to pay it back later, so naturally she wouldn't have to bear the price.
Everything was going smoothly, and the old Taoist had no intention of following Master Ziyuan to seize Su Yun's body. But as time went on, the old Taoist discovered that the benefits displayed by Su Yun were far more than just longevity and fortune.
And there is cultivation.
The old Taoist has lived for nearly three thousand years. He has seen many brilliant geniuses who seemed like they were not born to be in this world. Instead, they just came for a quick look, gained experience, and then returned to their original world.
Su Yun is very special. She was born in the human world but has the physique of a celestial being.
To put it bluntly, she is a treasure of nature with no owner. Such treasures have been fought over by people since ancient times. As long as one obtains it and makes it into elixir, it can be considered a huge opportunity.
The simple idea of giving guidance to Master Ziyuan so as to end the pursuit disappeared after he discovered that Su Yun had a special physique. The old Taoist began to think about how to maximize the use of Su Yun's physique.
"You are already immortal, what use am I to you?" Su Yun was really confused, she asked doubtfully.
The old Taoist was not angry when his story was interrupted. He smiled silently and said, "Have you ever seen a genius?"
Su Yun thought about it and nodded: "I have seen it. There are so many people in the world, and there are hundreds of thousands of geniuses picked out of ten thousand. It is hard not to have seen it."
After listening to this, the old Taoist sighed and said, "Then don't you want to have such a talent?"
"No." Su Yun answered very quickly and as a matter of course.
The old Taoist was choked by his words and almost lost his rhythm. He was speechless and almost laughed out loud: "...Why? Although you have a good physique, you are not actually a top genius. You still have such a fate. Don't you want to ask God why?"
Su Yun controlled the urge to roll his eyes: "Just understand, my miserable situation is caused by you, not by God. If it weren't for you and Master Ziyuan, I would actually be a happy little girl who grew up with my parents. As for genius, I don't want to be a genius, I want to be an ordinary person, okay?"
The arguments and ideas between the two made the old Taoist feel as if he was back in the underground palace when Ziyuan Jushi and Tianyuzhe were debating.
The gap between the Heavenly Speaker and Mr. Ziyuan is the gap between fairness and self-definition; the gap between the Taoist priest and Su Yun is the gap between pursuit and original heart. The views of the four of them are not wrong from each other's standpoints and environment, but the Heavenly Speaker and Su Yun are more willing to choose morality and rules.
The old Taoist sighed, "Of course you can, but it's a bit of a waste of talent. I value talent and won't let you waste yourself. You lie in the funeral home every day doing nothing, you don't like to practice, you don't like to socialize, and even when you have to work, you just stand out and communicate with the family members. Such a life is meaningless. It's better to become my formation and use it for me."
At the beginning, the old Taoist thought so too. Su Yun’s life in the Su family was not very good, and she did not have many pursuits. After discovering that the Su family would not let her inherit the family business, she changed direction. It can be said that she had no ambitions.
However, at this time, the old Taoist wanted to further improve his cultivation.
In fact, I have been thinking about it for a long time. It seems that since five hundred years ago, the old Taoist's cultivation progress has been very slow.
Taoism does not emphasize talent, anyone can practice it, but how much a person can achieve depends on the Qi. The old Taoist has been working hard to cultivate acquired Qi in his early years, but since he became immortal, the speed with which he has acquired both acquired and innate Qi has become slower and slower.
In the last hundred years, he neither grew old nor died, but he could no longer gain anything, let alone practice.
If it weren't for Su Yun, the old Taoist would probably have to wait a few hundred more years. With a long life, he can wait for any opportunity.
Su Yun was a very unexpected opportunity, an opportunity that came to him because of his pursuit of immortality. The old Taoist suddenly realized that as long as he absorbed Su Yun's spiritual energy, he could continue his practice again.
It took several years from the time this idea came to its implementation. Like Master Ziyuan, he watched Su Yun grow up, saw her fall out with the Su family, and saw the discussion about dividing Su Yun.
Even the Su family wanted to get a piece of the pie when the business was split.
In that case, why should we give them a bargain?
Su Yun was actually found by the old Taoist. He changed the hexagram of Master Ziyuan in order to thank him for giving him the secret of immortality. Why should he give it to the Su family?
So the old Taoist showed up and asked Master Ziyuan to take action and cut out Su Yun's organs that condensed the innate energy. The body could be given to Master Ziyuan, and he would take the organs away to set up a formation and convert the spiritual energy for his own use.
But Mr. Ziyuan was timid. He was afraid of provoking the old Taoist priest, so after taking out Su Yun's organs, he immediately ran away with his disciples without daring to stop for a moment.
"I originally left your body where it is. You wouldn't die anyway. As long as Monk Ziyuan was a little braver and looked back without believing in evil, he could possess your body. We each get what we want." The old Taoist showed a look of regret.
If Monk Ziyuan had been braver and gone back to take away Su Yun's body, Su Yun wouldn't be where she is today, and Ji Weitang and Su Yiling wouldn't have found their daughter's body and resurrected her.
Su Yun frowned, "You used my important organs to make a formation sacrifice, because those organs contain the most innate energy, so that you can improve your cultivation? But the formation you used reverses cause and effect. Anyone who is contaminated will absorb the cause and effect fortune, and Ziyuan Jushi's longevity will still fail."
The old Taoist waved his hands and said, "No, no, no, you really haven't learned enough. If he uses your body, your body will automatically repair and regenerate. With your luck and the remaining innate energy, it is enough to block the cause and effect absorbed by the formation. After all, you see, I have so many formations, but I can't completely suppress your organs, so they escape."
It is true that the formation can suppress Su Yun's organs, but it cannot kill them completely. In addition, the old Taoist needs to absorb spiritual energy for cultivation, so the formation is not effective. As long as Mr. Ziyuan goes back and takes the body as a shield, he will definitely be able to fulfill his wish.
It's useless to say anything now. Master Ziyuan has retreated again and again. He no longer has any chance. Moreover, his Taoism was shattered and he died after knowing that Su Yun had abandoned his body and stopped being a human being. The only thing that allowed him to live to this day is a breath of energy. Without that energy, he cannot survive.
The old Taoist is much stronger than Ziyuan Jushi. His cultivation, character, and IQ are all higher than Ziyuan Jushi. He knows how to lurk, and he can take advantage of the situation while the mantis stalks the cicada.
If the formation had not repeatedly gone wrong, he would definitely not have confronted Su Yun face to face. He only took away a few organs. The spleen was reincarnated, the liver was stolen, and the kidneys died and one went away. Now he only had a heart, lungs and two eyes in his hands, half of which were gone. It should be impossible for him to support his practice anymore.
"Assuming that what you said is true, can I ask why you killed my kidney? From your tone, you don't seem to be a person who doesn't cherish it. You should not want to find me before that kidney dies completely, right?" Su Yun asked gritting his teeth.
The Taoist nodded: "Yes, the kidney was still alive. I didn't care about the accidents of other organs. I just looked for the cause. As for why it died, it was because it was too naive. It... was the first organ to survive."
Earlier than Lai Shu.
The old Taoist separated the five internal organs and the eyes into a formation and buried them in places far apart, not close to each other. The two kidneys were located one in the north and one in the south. The kidneys that Su Yun named Mi Niang were placed in the ice and snow. Every time she struggled, she would be frozen.
The other one was placed in a place belonging to fire, where it would be burned to death again and again and would never be able to be resurrected.
But one year, the earth turned over and a small-scale earthquake occurred. The magnitude was very small, only four, so small that the buildings did not collapse. It was just a few words on the hot search and it passed without causing any casualties.
The old Taoist was concentrating on his cultivation and would not pay attention to such ordinary events. He did not expect that the earth dragon turned over and caused a corner of the formation to collapse, making the formation incomplete.
The incomplete formation was unable to completely suppress her kidneys, allowing her to gradually develop intelligence. Like her other organs, she would go find Su Yun after she came back to life.
The kidneys belong to the element of water and are naturally gentle and tolerant. However, in a place that belongs to the element of fire, they will certainly not be too calm. The kidneys that have not cultivated into physical entities can only be attached to some children or women and be taken away by them. In return, she will do a favor.
When they were about to leave the province, the kidney attached itself to a woman again and asked her if she had any wishes. She could help, but she needed to give her a ride.
The woman was very panicked and thought she was really crazy, but a few days later, she said very clearly: "If you are a god, help me escape."
It turned out that this woman was abducted and sold here. She also had a son who had been sold. No one knew whether he was sold to someone else as a son, or had his hands and feet broken to become a beggar, or he had died.
Kidney agreed to help, and took the woman away from the pursuit in the village, and took her to find her son. But on the way back, the woman was chased by wolfhounds, and fell off a cliff with her son in her arms. A normal person would have died in the valley.
The kidney couldn't bear it and used its own spiritual energy in exchange for their lives. They kept their promise and sent the kidney to a province near Bincheng. The kidney walked the rest of the way on its own, but soon, it ran out of spiritual energy and became an ordinary kidney.
When the old Taoist discovered that the formation was in chaos or various accidents happened to the Su family, he had to come out and discovered problems with the kidneys and liver. The liver had been stolen by Su Yun, and he couldn't get it back for the time being. The location of the kidney was very strange. How could it be in a place that Su Yun had never been to?
After finding the kidney, the Taoist calculated the animal's actions before death and learned the truth.
Su Yun was also stunned when he heard the truth: "So, it didn't die from a human disease, but died while trying to save people?"
The old Taoist sighed softly, "Yes, when your organs developed intelligence, they seemed to be much kinder than you. They were very much like the gods described in ancient books, kind, innocent, gentle, compassionate, and loving. Their ending was the same as that of the gods."
Many kind-hearted celestial beings in ancient times risked their lives to save people, but their organs were too weak and did not grow. They used up all their spiritual energy just to save one person.
"Didn't they say that celestial beings will never die? Why would there be a time when their spiritual energy is exhausted?" Su Yun was puzzled. This statement contradicted the previous one.
The old Taoist pondered for a while and said, "The immortals of heaven will never die, which means they will never die out. If you are willing to keep that kidney for a few thousand years and wait for the spiritual energy to descend again, maybe you can still live."
The thing that celestial beings lack the least is time. Just like mountains, rivers and veins of the earth, they sometimes look dead, but as long as you keep waiting, perhaps one day they will come back to life.
To heaven and nature, death is just a part of history, not the end.
Su Yun secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. Regardless of whether there were a few years in the future or not, at least she felt much more relaxed knowing that there was such a possibility. After all, there was hope, wasn't there?
Knowing everything about his death, Su Yun took a deep breath, stared at the old Taoist again, and opened his folding fan to defend himself: "Thank you for telling me the truth. Maybe you are doing this because I am about to die, but I really don't think I will die here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Yun suddenly swung out a wind blade, and the black and white dragon jade pendant hanging on the folding fan also turned into a dragon shape, breathing out dragon breath at the old Taoist.
Su Yun had just delayed for so long by talking. She estimated that Lin Lang and the others would be here soon, and she could hold out for a while if she just started fighting. Anyway, her body was indestructible, so she could recklessly move around. As long as she could hold out until Lin Lang arrived, she could break the formation and capture the old Taoist alive.
The black and white dragon breath covered the sky. Su Yun jumped onto the roof in two steps, looked at the center of the dragon breath vigilantly, and took a defensive posture.
There was a flash of purple light in the middle of the black and white, and then it suddenly exploded, blowing back the black and white dragons. The two dragons roared with surprise and pain, and retreated to both sides of Su Yun.
In the center of the greenish light of the formation in the courtyard, purple spiritual energy appeared and surrounded the old Taoist. He moved his whisk slightly, his eyes shining: "Your parents really gave you a lot of good things. No wonder you were trapped in the formation for so long and still had the mind to listen to the old man talk about the past. Do you think these things can protect you?"
Su Yun raised her folding fan and looked up at the sky. It was calm and there was no sign of a thunderstorm. She looked down and said, "Your cultivation has been stagnant for five hundred years. Maybe you can do it."
The old Taoist waved his whisk to draw runes, saying as he drew: "If those two of yours were really the ancient black and white dragons, I would have died here today. Unfortunately, the black and white dragons have long since turned into rivers to benefit the people. Yours are just two jade pendants carved by the people to commemorate the dragon god. They cannot protect you."
The moment she finished speaking, the talisman came towards Su Yun. She raised her fan to gather the wild wind to block it, including the two dragons. As her cultivation level increased, thunder and lightning roared in the sky. She hesitated for a moment and dared not increase her cultivation level any further. The wind shield lasted less than ten seconds, and the talisman directly repelled her and hit the two dragons.
The black and white dragon let out a wail, and its huge body disappeared bit by bit. It then turned back into a jade pendant and fell back into Su Yun's hand. The jade pendant was covered with cracks and was almost shattered.
The old Taoist waved his whisk again, this time drawing on the formation, and the formation moved faster and faster: "It's just a dead object, you don't have to be sad, the jade can repair the cracks by itself. When you die, I will bury the jade pendant with you. After another thousand or hundred years, they will be able to live again."
Su Yun's eyes turned cold and she put the jade pendant into her Qiankun bag. She walked to the edge of the eaves, lowered her head and glared at the old Taoist, then rushed down, holding the folding fan and going straight for the old Taoist's neck.
The old Taoist didn't move, but flashed back a distance to avoid Su Yun's attack, as if he had been standing at a farther position from the beginning, and his hands did not stop moving.
After missing the first attack, Su Yun immediately followed up, swinging his folding fan and sending out wind blades to frequently attack the Taoist's vital points, even the joints of his hands and feet were not spared. However, the Taoist was as slippery as a loach and did not touch the corner of his clothes at all.
After a few times, Su Yun had to stop so as not to waste his energy.
"From the perspective of your cultivation, you are suppressed by the Heavenly Dao. You cannot use your cultivation before your body is formed, and you cannot practice with all your strength. You are destined to fall far behind. Give up and don't waste your energy." The old Taoist's voice came from all directions, and it seemed that it was about to merge with the formation.
Su Yun took a deep breath and said, "Do you really think I can't do anything to you?"
The old Taoist raised his heavy eyelids and said, "You can try it. Let me see how much protection your parents have given you. Can you hold on until they come?"
Seeing this, Su Yun took a deep breath and put the folding fan back into the Qiankun bag. She pointed at the old Taoist and said, "You said it."
Then Su Yun closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he raised his fist and concentrated all his magic power on his fist regardless of anything. Unlike the magic power he had just controlled the wind, the magic power flashing on his fist was a slightly purple-silver light, like lightning.
Su Yun stared at the figure of the old Taoist priest intently. Spiritual energy floated around her body. Silver light gradually surrounded her whole body. Her cultivation level also increased little by little. When the silver light covered her whole body, thunder suddenly sounded in the sky, thunder and rain rolled, and lightning flashed in the clouds due to the friction.
The sound of thunder and lightning was not like that in a thunderstorm, where it would stop after one sound and then be followed by a burst of lightning. Instead, the thunder and lightning became louder and louder. The trees on the top of the mountain were blown to and fro by the strong wind. The thunder and lightning in the clouds became more and more obvious, almost striking, but also seemed to give Su Yun a chance to stop.
The lightning and thunder startled the old Taoist priest. He suddenly remembered that in the valley of Xiaowei Mountain, Su Yun was extremely angry and wanted to swing her fist, but the moment she clenched her fist, lightning caused an avalanche, so she had to stop.
Rebirth is against the will of heaven. The old Taoist understood at that time that although Su Yun's rebirth was allowed by heaven, she must not take any action while she was not a human. She could only move freely in the world after her human body was restored. This was the price she paid for her rebirth.
Today, Su Yun suddenly improved his cultivation, which was almost a breach of contract. If one breaches a contract, he must accept punishment, and the most common and convenient punishment in the world is thunder punishment.
When thunder strikes, everything can be destroyed.
The old Taoist was shocked: "Are you crazy? The thunder tribulation will destroy my formation and your body will be gone!"
Su Yun remained silent, but just kept improving his cultivation. Currently, he has gathered all the magic power in his body and has reached the level of an Earth Immortal, but he can still continue to improve.
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