Chapter 227: Fate (Three in One)
Prajna Lianyue never imagined that the person she had been waiting for five hundred years to resurrect had actually been hanging around in front of her with a playful smile on his face for so long.
The biggest obstacle she encountered in her attempt to complete the three-piece resurrection set was Gu Fangchen.
Originally, the "Lotus in the Womb" was taken away by the reincarnation of the Peacock Saint. As long as her reincarnated body is found, it can naturally be retrieved again.
The Peacock Clan reincarnates every five hundred years. Prajna Lianyue managed the power of the Tara religion while waiting for five hundred years. Finally, she sensed the whereabouts of their reincarnation and then secretly went to Huangtian City.
That's why he stopped at the White Horse Temple on the way and met Gu Fangchen.
As a result, the "Lotus Hidden in the Womb" on Gu Lianxian's body inexplicably became a fake, and now it has run into Gu Fangchen...
Gu Fangchen was not polite at all and used this as a threat to threaten her repeatedly.
In Prajna Lianyue's opinion, this guy is naturally the biggest enemy on her way to resurrect that person.
Not to mention, now the "Wangyin Tiandial" and "Wulianquan" are all in Gu Fangchen's hands.
Although Gu Fangchen proposed cooperation, in fact, it was nothing more than using her to control the Western Regions. It was a completely coercive exchange of interests.
Prajna Lianyue was not so eager to kill Gu Fangchen until he revealed her identity.
This is her biggest secret and the foundation of her existence.
Being controlled by someone like Gu Fangchen means that in the future Prajna Lianyue will be completely controlled by him and obey his orders.
This is something Prajna Lianyue cannot accept.
Especially since Gu Fangchen "humiliated" her in that way.
However, at this moment, Prajna Lianyue thought back and found that everything Gu Fangchen did seemed to be hinting at her, confirming her identity bit by bit, and wanting to recognize her...
Especially when she thought about the first time she met Gu Fangchen, he was in the identity of Tan Yuan's "old monster who took over someone else's body."
If this is the case, it can explain why she couldn't find Gu Fangchen's soul, but after five hundred years, he was able to be reborn while still having complete memories.
He was most likely selected by Tan Yuan and became one of them.
Five hundred years later, the thin and pretty girl in his memory had become the almighty Holy Maiden of the Tara sect, so naturally he could not recognize her.
Especially when Gu Fangchen died, his adopted daughter was still a mortal who needed him to do his best to protect.
Who could possibly connect her with a second-rank cultivator?
Until now, perhaps Gu Fangchen discovered the clue, or perhaps he felt familiar.
He decided to recognize his Mingzhu'er, but they had conflicts before, and he could no longer simply face the current Prajna Lianyue as the centurion.
That's why Gu Fangchen said, "When everything is over, we can have a long talk all night long."
Just like the shock Prajna Lianyue felt after learning the truth, he also needed time to digest it all.
But before he could recognize her, he died in front of his beloved daughter again.
“Tick! Tick!”
Prajna Lianyue's tears burst out like a dam, her veil had been blown away by the strong wind, and her pair of blue eyes like glass were filled with tears and mist, which continued to overflow.
It was like little pearls that had broken off the string, falling onto the stone in my hand with a crackling sound.
The dignified Tara Saint, who was at the second level of the Qitian Realm, stood in the center of the country that she had destroyed, and at this moment she was crying like a helpless little girl.
"Gu Fangchen... Daddy... You liar... Why didn't you tell me earlier... You said you would find me..."
She was crying and wiping the tears from her face desperately, and the pale image of Tara appeared behind her.
The Dharma image stands tall and upright, silent and soundless.
He stretched out his hand, and a huge golden lotus blossomed.
The golden lotus held up the "Wang Yin Dial" that was about to break and floated in the air. The lotus petals that reached from heaven to earth covered the entire "Wulianquan".
The golden maxims on the "Wang Yin Tiandial" broke away from it, spread along the lotus petals, and turned into countless red cause and effect lines.
These countless causal lines are entangled and intertwined with each other, enough to span the sky and the earth.
The red thread follows the lotus petals and gathers at the bottom of the lotus, twisting into a bundle to form a rhizome that looks like a pillar of heaven.
This lotus root, composed of causal lines, plunges into the "Boundless Spring" river water and draws it out.
“Crash…”
The endlessly flowing river water flows upstream towards the sky and becomes the "nutrients" of this lotus.
In the river, the phantom of time appears and disappears, changing rapidly.
Even the life of a mortal five hundred years ago can be clearly seen in the river water and can be easily located.
What's more, Gu Fangchen just died.
Very fresh and hot.
When he died, his body just happened to die in the "Boundless Spring", and there was no need to take out the "Lotus Treasure in the Fetus" in his body.
At this point, the "Lotus Treasure in the Womb", "Past Cause Dial" and "Infinite Spring" are gathered together.
This is the way of resurrection.
Prajna Lianyue had been searching for these three things for five hundred years, and unexpectedly used them all on Gu Fangchen.
Prajna Lianyue's face was covered with tears. She took a deep breath, raised her head, opened her arms, and her expression became extremely firm.
The Dharma image behind her followed her and made the same movements.
When the "Infinite Spring" was completely drained, only the dry riverbed remained, and the countless red lines of cause and effect rolled back with the river water and returned to the center of the lotus.
"Daddy...wait for me!"
Prajna Lianyue gritted her teeth, flew into the air, circulated all her spiritual power, let out a low roar, and clasped her arms together.
"Buzz—"
An eye suddenly opened on her forehead and in the center of her palms.
"Boom—"
The huge image of Tara above also opened its eyes, held up the lotus petals with its arms, and pressed towards the center.
The Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha has seven eyes, which can see the Buddha lands in all directions and sentient beings in the six realms.
Karma and reincarnation are also seen in her eyes.
Therefore, only Prajna Lianyue can perform this method of resurrection.
Others, upon seeing these infinite causes and effects, would not be able to bear the amount of information and would go crazy on the spot.
Not to mention finding the person you need to resurrect among the countless causes and effects.
This lotus, carrying infinite causes and effects, represents the wheel of time and is slowly closed by the Prajna Lotus Moon.
There is no regret for the days when flowers bloom, and people can never be young again.
To reverse the blooming of flowers is to reverse the time.
As the lotus closed inward, the power of time leaked out, the riverbed at the bottom sank and broke, and the remaining power was like an invisible wind, blowing across the entire Garuda.
Wherever the wind blows, all flames are extinguished and all existence goes back.
Time flows upstream at this moment.
The ruins around were all twisted and transformed by the wind of time. From their original broken state, they turned back into their magnificent and golden appearance in the blink of an eye.
The bricks and rubble returned to their original places, as if going back five hundred years.
The huge city is a miracle in the desert, like an eternal giant standing in the center.
The trees are green and the prosperity remains.
Only the corpses and bloodstains scattered all over the ground, silently, still tell the stories of the past.
…
In the center of the desert outside, an invisible spherical force field was formed. A hemispherical depression appeared on the flat sand dunes, and a black dot appeared in the center.
The formation that originally concealed Garuda was completely torn apart.
The black spot expanded rapidly, revealing the current appearance of the ancient Huangsha Kingdom, which had disappeared for five hundred years.
King Mori's face changed in the palace, as if he sensed something. He looked up towards the desert and saw the magnificent city. He was shocked and took a deep breath.
"Garuda... is he really going to be born?"
When he walked out of the palace, he saw that the people below were first shocked, and then ecstatic. Some of them immediately cheered and knelt down to kowtow in worship.
Garuda is a holy place in their hearts. Now that it has been reborn, it is still as magnificent as before, which naturally perfectly conforms to the ancient legend.
If this isn't a miracle, then what is?
When the huge lotus appeared in his sight, King Mori let out a long sigh.
He knew that from now on, Prajna Lianyue would become the well-deserved saint of Vatuma.
…
"Boom..."
The lotus petals closed inwards and finally formed a bud, just a little bit away from being completely closed.
In mid-air, Prajna Lianyue gritted her teeth, her arms trembled, and all seven eyes, including the Dharmakaya's, shed tears of blood. Her face was covered in a mixture of blood and tears, and she looked extremely miserable.
And that endless power of time is still leaking out.
The objects being blown naturally included Prajna Lianyue herself.
In order to ensure that Gu Fangchen died completely, Luo Song committed suicide in an extremely cruel way, directly annihilating his soul and body together.
The person Prajna Lianyue originally wanted to resurrect was an ordinary person who had long been crushed into powder in the cycle of reincarnation.
Now we want to resurrect a cultivator whose soul and body have been destroyed.
The difficulty is actually only higher, not lower.
But Prajna Lianyue couldn't give up at this moment. She used her power again, and the eyes on her forehead and palms exploded instantly. A large amount of blood gushed out, staining her arms and cheeks red.
“Hmm!”
She groaned, and terrible pain beyond her endurance spread throughout her body, causing her to tremble violently.
But she still stared at the flower bud.
Until the last crack closed, the lotus was wrapped in the red thread of cause and effect and turned into a red cocoon.
The Dharmakāya clasped his palms together, gently held the lotus cocoon, and held it in his arms.
“Phew… Success!”
Prajna Lianyue was delighted and breathed a sigh of relief.
Her body swayed, her vision blurred, and she almost fell, but she managed to swallow a few more pills to maintain her clear mind.
Prajna Lianyue flew forward and carefully placed her palm on the lotus cocoon. With a dazed look in her eyes, she also placed her cheek against it, feeling the faint heartbeat inside the lotus cocoon, and revealed a sickly and gentle smile.
She murmured softly:
"Dad...I've finally waited for this day."
…
What does it feel like to die?
Gu Fangchen can be said to have a lot of say now.
He could even imitate Wu Jing and ask, "I've died before, have you died before?"
He originally thought that he would be resurrected by Prajna Lianyue as soon as he closed his eyes and opened them again, and would see an unfamiliar ceiling or something.
After all, this time he was not faking his death, but he really exchanged cause and effect with Luo Song, and both his soul and body were destroyed.
——That’s how it should have been.
But the situation was completely different from what he imagined.
Gu Fangchen raised his head, blinked, and saw... a semi-trailer parked in front of him.
Yes, a semi-truck.
Looks very familiar.
To this day, he can still clearly remember the appearance of the front of the car.
Because the impact of the truck suddenly rushing into the third floor was so huge that I can't forget it even if I want to.
At this moment, in front of him were broken walls, glaring headlights, and a computer that was smashed to pieces.
Gu Fangchen was sitting on his gaming chair with an overturned thermos cup at his side.
He slid back a step, tilted his head, and saw that the water spilled from the thermos had stagnated in mid-air, each droplet distinct and motionless.
"alright……"
"Now we can be sure that this is an illusion."
Gu Fangchen took a deep breath, stood up from the chair, and looked at the truck in front of him.
The truck smashed through the wall and glass and got stuck in mid-air, with the highway outside, which would explain where it came from.
But there was no driver in the driving seat of the truck.
Gu Fangchen opened the car door, checked and made sure that there was no one inside.
He narrowed his eyes.
"It's really a great gift."
"This so-called Honglu Company must have the involvement of the old man 'Master Hengchang'."
But his relationship with this illusion is still very confusing.
"If I die, I will return here. Does this place exist or not?"
Gu Fangchen muttered, walked around the room, and looked in the mirror in the bathroom.
But here, he looks the same inside and outside the mirror.
Gu Fangchen looked at himself in the mirror and touched his face.
In fact, it should be said... does he exist or not?
This does not mean that he began to think about the philosophy of life, but it is obvious that if a person dies, his consciousness should also be annihilated.
But now, he has returned to the "illusion".
Plus there is the "Honglu Company" that cannot be found and seems to not exist in the world.
Gu Fangchen had a guess in his mind.
"'I' may not exist in this current space and time, but may simply be a projection of consciousness onto a certain body."
Only in this way can the current phenomenon be explained.
This means that he was not dead at all, but his consciousness was jumping between two spaces, just like dreaming, jumping from one dream to another.
But obviously dying in a dream does not mean that the dreamer is dead.
Gu Fangchen thought about it and walked out the door.
The whole world has frozen at this moment, the moment he "traveled through time", but the expressions of every passerby are so vivid.
This place doesn't feel like a "fantasy" at all, it's a completely real world.
Gu Fangchen raised his head and squinted his eyes to look at the sky.
He tried to fly... and then he actually flew.
As Gu Fangchen's mind raced, his cultivation also returned, but when he tried to imagine himself breaking through his current realm, it didn't work.
"My cultivation level remains the same... This means that the formation of this 'illusion' is not entirely dependent on my own subjective consciousness."
This is an objectively existing space.
Gu Fangchen found a high building to sit down, overlooking everything below, touched his chin, and fell into deep thought.
He walked around but still couldn't find the whereabouts of "Honglu Company", which meant that this thing did not exist in this space.
That means we should be in another world.
The only thing that can be related to the word "Honglu" is the mysterious "Honglu World".
Before the ancient Zhou Dynasty, the era was completely lost in records.
At the same time, this is also the era from which "Master Hengchang" and "The Immortal of War" truly came.
Now, from what the "Military Immortal" said, we can know that in that era, the first grade was called "attaining the Tao", and above the first grade, there should be a higher realm.
Just like the scene that Gu Fangchen had seen before, the old Deng "Master Hengchang" was so powerful that he could create another world at will!
The Nine Netherworld is the reincarnation he created.
After the ancient Zhou Dynasty, the first level was the ceiling, and no higher level appeared.
At present, Xie Qian doesn’t even have the power to control time and space, let alone the lower parts.
If the "Six Star Gods" want to control cause and effect, they have to go to great lengths to split themselves into six parts, and then reincarnate for an unknown amount of time.
So, the gap between them may mean that someone has erased this realm.
"Since 'Tao' is a parasite, then 'obtaining Tao' is the wrong path. And now, those who are rebelling against the 'preacher' must have chosen the opposite path."
Gu Fangchen pondered in his heart:
"'De Dao' means a higher state of mind."
"The opposite path is naturally to suppress the realm, or even to the end of the Dharma."
"The end of the 'Great Era of the Great Furnace' may be equivalent to 'breaking the connection between heaven and earth', severing a path to a higher level."
"That's why the first level is the highest realm now, and if it continues to develop, the realm will probably get lower and lower."
"This also explains why 'Daoist Master Heng Chang' chose to hide his own cultivation and then sent the so-called 'Tan Yuan' behind the scenes to control the beginning and end of each dynasty."
Gu Fangchen recalled the rise and fall of the five dynasties.
Besides the fact that long periods of division will inevitably lead to unification, and long periods of unification will inevitably lead to division, basically, after each dynasty, due to the extremely tragic wars in the chaotic world, the overall strength of the cultivators will drop a lot...
When it came to the Wei Dynasty, on the surface, only the "Confucian sage" Xie Qian was left.
Gu Fangchen took a deep breath.
If Xie Qian is a preacher, then the "eternal unity" that he longs to achieve has another explanation.
If one follows the path of "Master Hengchang", the strength of the practitioner will become lower and lower as time goes by.
It is even possible that in the end, it will develop into a world of mortals.
But if you follow Xie Qian's path and move towards "Eternal Unity", then the end is the beginning, everyone is trapped in a cycle, and their strength will definitely become stronger and stronger.
These two paths are completely opposite.
This is the real game between the two.
"So, 'Master Hengchang' chose me?"
Gu Fangchen looked at the stagnant world below and narrowed his eyes:
"Break Xie Qian's 'Eternal Unity' plan and then proceed as normal... but how many years will that take?"
"It took five dynasties to reduce the upper limit to the first rank."
The strength of the first rank is still very terrifying. It is conceivable that if it continues to weaken, it will probably take another 100,000 years.
But there are "preachers" everywhere, and they won't wait foolishly.
People like Xie Qian will continue to appear sooner or later, and there will be other variables by then.
So... is there a completely ordinary world?
When Gu Fangchen thought of this, he suddenly stared at the city below.
——It’s right in front of him, isn’t it?
Gu Fangchen jumped up suddenly, his pupils constricted.
A world composed entirely of mortals where spiritual power does not exist, a world where "Mirror in Dust" is just a game.
Coupled with his own ability to turn "illusions" into reality...
Could it be that this is the purpose of "Heng Chang" Lao Deng?
Gu Fangchen was stunned, and suddenly he felt dizzy and his vision went dark.
…
Gu Fangchen opened his eyes and saw a ball made up of endless red lines in front of him, wrapping him up inside.
He was slightly stunned, and felt something in his heart——
Just now, I actually survived the calamity of wandering soul.
Under normal circumstances, the wandering soul calamity in the realm of refining calamity should be affected by the strong winds of the bardo and the underworld, so that the soul cannot be completely attached to the body, resulting in the soul often leaving the body and being absent-minded.
But now, he returned to his "hometown" and actually survived this disaster.
Gu Fangchen looked forward.
His body has roughly taken shape.
It's just that the soul is floating in the air, temporarily separated from the body.
But because it was a review of cause and effect, his physical body was completely restored one to one, and the "poison in his heart" was also restored.
The blood-red demonic flower, like a cancer attached to his bones, was blooming vigorously on his body.
Of course, this situation was naturally within Gu Fangchen's expectations.
On his body, golden threads and blood threads gradually condensed, and the 108 magic-suppressing nails returned to their original positions, transforming once again into a puppet body of "refining magic".
The lotus buds on the outside are continuously providing spiritual power and blood to help him reshape his body.
Gu Fangchen narrowed his eyes, then immediately sat cross-legged on the spot and closed his eyes.
Now is the best time to refine the "heart poison"!
Outside is Prajna Lianyue, and this flower bud is connected to her. In other words, Prajna Lianyue will transfer all the pain he suffers.
Gu Fangchen immediately began to break through the fourth level of "Magic Refining".
And at this moment, because it was his weakest moment, the Heavenly Dao also began to exert its strength.
All kinds of disasters were arranged for him at once.
The entire lotus was suddenly filled with lightning and thunder, and illusions appeared frequently. Gu Fangchen's physical body was in a state of complete chaos.
But since this lotus was considered the most powerful cause and effect technique, it was able to block all attacks for him, and his realm began to rise rapidly.
I don’t know how long it took.
The thunder gradually died down.
Gu Fangchen's soul and body merged into one again. He suddenly opened his eyes, and in the palm of his hand, a magical flower bloomed and swayed slightly.
The peak of the fourth level!
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ps: Post first and then modify, the adjustment failed orz, the more I want to adjust it, the more insomnia I get, the future is ruined
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