Chapter 260: Small Master Milk (Two in One)
Gu Fangchen really felt like the sky was falling.
According to records, although it took several thousand years for the founder to establish Jiange, it should have been at least after the ancient Zhou Dynasty.
By that time, the "Honglu Great World" should have been sealed and turned into a sky curtain.
Why did he run into the small-scale ancestor, Grandma, and establish the "Jian Ge" at the same location at the one hundred and seventy-year point in the ancient dynasty?
Moreover, if they had already met at this time, why did the Grandmother act as if she didn't recognize him...
Although Gu Fangchen's appearance has changed, his eyebrows and eyes are basically the same, but his temperament is a little different. With the strength of the Grandmother, she can definitely recognize him.
The strangest thing is that the small-sized ancestor milk in front of him is already a "person who has attained enlightenment", but the ancestor milk that came after him is stuck at the first grade.
——Of course, her strength must have been intentional.
However, this actually gave Gu Fangchen some ideas.
After all, Gu Fangchen is not completely ignorant now. He already knows two ways to avoid being sealed in the sky.
Because "Master Hengchang" may have been interfering with the entire historical process of the world behind the scenes. After the "Honglu Great World" was interrupted, it has been restarted more than once. Otherwise, it would be impossible for it to have evolved to the point where only one first-grade master is left in the world in just a few thousand years.
In other words, during this process, all the first-grade people, or "enlightened ones", who appeared, should have been killed or sealed into the sky with the restart, becoming part of the "Honglu Great World".
Therefore, actively refusing to be promoted to the first rank is also a way of circumvention.
Although most of those who later voluntarily refused promotions did so because they realized the dangers of "Tao", it is not ruled out that they discovered clues from it.
Specifically, one of these two methods is "faking death". For example, Li Kan chose this method to avoid being sealed in the sky.
The second is to "sever cause and effect."
After Xuanming witnessed the "Heavenly Gate", he chose to sever his own cause and effect, erasing the related memories and part of his cultivation.
In this way, it can be avoided.
Then, the situation of Zushi Nai makes sense.
She most likely chose the second way, severing all causal relationships in the "Honglu World" and then re-establishing Jiange in the present world.
This also explains why she doesn't recognize herself...
While Gu Fangchen was lost in thought, the youthful version of the Grandmaster on the small account above became unhappy.
I am the best swordsman in the world. It is commendable that you are brave enough to challenge me. But before the fight even started, you got distracted when I asked you your name. Isn't that a bit rude?
Shi Qingguang's eyes darkened and her cheeks bulged slightly, indicating that she was in a bad mood.
She has always been more about actions than words. She has already said all the polite words she needed to say. If the guy opposite dares to be distracted, don't blame me for being merciless!
The next moment, she flashed and appeared behind Gu Fangchen. The sword in her hand turned into several silver lights and shot up, directly slashing towards the flaws on Gu Fangchen's back. Every move was extremely fast. As soon as she made a move, sword marks that could not bear the weight appeared on the ground.
If there were someone else here, they would think that the sword in her hand was still in place and had not been raised because she was moving so fast.
But in reality, it was just an afterimage.
Even the shadow of the sword could not catch up with the sword itself. In Shi Qingguang's hands, the sword almost transcended time.
Shi Qingguang attacked with all his strength.
Ever since Gu Fangchen showed up, she realized that this guy was definitely not an ordinary second-grade one. Although she did not sense any "Tao Seed" in him, she felt a vague sense of danger in her heart.
Ever since she obtained the "Tao Seed" of the Great Way of "Sword", she has basically only had similar feelings with people who have also "attained the Tao".
Although this guy looks like he is only of the second rank, his real strength is definitely no weaker than the "enlightened ones" she had seen before.
Shi Qingguang was very serious and did not show any contempt.
But she still underestimated Gu Fangchen.
"boom--"
As soon as the sword tip passed through the air, the sword energy turned into white waves and spread out in all directions.
Every time the sword fell, it left a trace that separated everything in an instant.
The surrounding mountains, water, trees, sea of clouds and sky were all split in half. The ground rumbled and shook, leaving behind several bottomless and terrifying chasms.
However, Shi Qingguang's eyes were stunned.
Everything else was cut in half by her sword, but only Gu Fangchen, who had his back to her, was unharmed.
With a crisp "clang" sound, a solemn and majestic shadow of a Dharma image appeared behind Gu Fangchen. The Dharma image looked at Shi Qingguang with cold eyes, raised his hand and formed a seal, which just blocked Shi Qingguang's sword.
Just as the faith from Vatuma gave Gu Fangchen the magical power of the Dharmakaya "Lotus Pure Realm".
The faith from the Qingman people created one of Fashang's magical powers.
Its name is "the target of public criticism".
As the name suggests, this magical power is a kind of cause and effect magic. In layman's terms, the effect is "draw the target first and then shoot the arrow", but the person shooting the arrow is someone else, and the person drawing the target is Gu Fangchen himself.
Within a reasonable range, Gu Fangchen can predict in advance what others will do to him.
And this prophecy will definitely come true.
In other words, where the arrows shot by others will eventually land is determined by Gu Fangchen according to his words.
However, depending on the results, corresponding causal power needs to be consumed.
If the karma on a person is not strong enough, this magical power will backfire on its owner...
But what kind of person is Gu Fangchen?
What he fears most in this life is that the karma on his body is not enough.
After all, in Sunaga's words, Gu Fangchen's karma was spread everywhere by someone unknown.
The whole world is filled with his cause and effect, so what else can offset the cause and effect of Gu Fangchen, who is the target of public criticism, with his magical power?
Unless the purpose is to destroy the world, who can resist the cause and effect of Gu Fangchen?
However, Gu Fangchen's cause and effect are endless, but the cause and effect that Dharmakāya's magical powers can bear has a limit.
The predictions he made had to be within the limits of his magical powers, otherwise they would not take effect.
Therefore, after he obtained this supernatural power, the first thing he did was naturally to make a prophecy so that all attacks against him would be "just" caught by the Dharmakaya.
And if the cause and effect do not exceed the ability of the Dharma to bear, then naturally there will be no harm.
Gu Fangchen's two skills as [The Untie of the Bell] are not afraid of head-on confrontation, but he is afraid of sneak attacks.
If someone with higher cultivation than him chooses to launch a sneak attack, then with his reaction, he will not have time to dodge or think.
Not to mention using skills.
So he banned the sneak attack and backstab first.
In this way, even if the opponent can destroy the Dharma image, it will give Gu Fangchen enough time to react.
As long as he can activate his skills, he will be invincible.
This time, Zushi Nai became the first target of public criticism.
She stared at the cracks on the image with wide eyes, then felt angry as if she had been played a trick on someone, and stamped her feet.
"You did it on purpose!"
He exposed a flaw and waited for her to take the bait. What a bad person!
However, what made her most angry was not this, but—
"You are not a sword cultivator!"
As soon as this Dharma image appeared, she felt the breath of incense and cause and effect.
This person should be practicing something related to these two paths, but in short, he has nothing to do with sword cultivation!
Gu Fangchen then slowly turned around, spread his hands, and said helplessly:
"I just walked over here and haven't said a word yet. When did I ever say I was a sword cultivator? Didn't you suddenly start fighting with me, Auntie?"
Shi Qingguang choked and thought about it, and it seemed to be true.
As soon as the other party came over, she attacked directly... She even mistook him for a sword cultivator from the southwest and said some stupid and harsh words.
The girl was unwilling to admit that she had made a mistake and was embarrassed. Her face flushed, and she felt very guilty. She looked away for a moment, but then turned her eyes back. She glared at Gu Fangchen fiercely and said fiercely:
"Then why did you come here?"
"Everyone in the entire southwest knows that I've set up a fighting arena here. Everyone will avoid Jiange. Since you're not here to challenge me, why are you coming here on your own initiative?"
Gu Fangchen naturally wouldn't say that he had mistakenly thought that the person in Jiange was his mother and came here to look for her. He blinked innocently and pointed at himself:
"But I'm not from the southwest. I just came in from outside. I heard that a 'Tao Seed' had descended, so I came here to watch the fun."
"I saw someone here, so I came over to ask for directions."
Shi Qingguang: “…”
Although Gu Fangchen's reason is a bit outrageous, it does make sense logically.
Except for the fact that he chose to ask me for directions.
Generally speaking, practitioners at the "enlightenment" level are rather arrogant and aloof, and are not willing to take the initiative to interact with others.
Even ordinary practitioners will choose to avoid other practitioners they don’t know.
But there's no rule that says we can't ask "enlightened people" for directions...
Maybe this guy just happens to be the type who is more outgoing and friendly?
When Shi Qingguang thought about this, he felt that it made sense. Judging from the way this person looked at him and the way he spoke to him, he seemed very relaxed.
It's like he already knew me...
But I don't know him at all, and I don't remember where I have seen such a handsome face.
Shi Qingguang was so unsure of himself even holding his sword that he stared at Gu Fangchen for a moment before grumbling and putting away his sword with a cold face. He turned around, held his stance upright, and raised his chin:
"Forget it, ignorance is not a crime. Go away. I won't bother with you."
She felt that her image as a domineering female swordsman was still intact, so she wanted to continue to pose on the top of the Sword Pavilion to welcome the next challenger.
But after taking two steps, she turned around and faced Gu Fangchen's chest.
The grandmother of the trumpet frowned, raised her head, and met Gu Fangchen's gaze.
"Why are you following me?"
"Forehead……"
Gu Fangchen looked at the mini version of Zushi Nai in front of him, who was two heads shorter than him. She looked so angry that it seemed like she was about to jump up and hit his knee at any time. Thinking of the big sister Zushi Nai who later chased him, he felt very strange.
How much nutrition does it take to grow so well...
He tried hard to suppress his laughter, saluted with a serious face, and said:
"I just saw a fire flickering inside my aunt's sword pavilion. The lake water nearby is also very suitable for quenching. Are you forging swords?"
Shi Qingguang was stunned for a moment, then looked at Gu Fangchen suspiciously and said:
"How do you know this?"
Gu Fangchen blinked and smiled:
"Although I'm not a sword cultivator, I'm a weapon cultivator, and I've dabbled in both alchemy and sword forging."
"I'm worried about the scarcity of swordsmiths in the world, and I'm looking for someone to spar with. I'm naturally excited to see someone I can compete with. If you're also proficient in swordsmithing, could you offer some pointers?"
Well... according to the records, the Grandmother actually loved swordmaking more than kendo, but her talent in this area was not as strong as that in kendo.
But those who can forge the [Seventy-two Peaks Towering Sword] are already among the top swordsmiths in the world.
Shi Qingguang had a stern face, his hands clasped around his sword, clearly showing his disbelief:
"The aura of your Dharma image is clearly the product of incense and karma. Aren't you the master of Taoism?"
Gu Fangchen shook his head:
"The Dharma is the Dharma, and I am me. How can we confuse the two?"
When Shi Qingguang heard this, she suspected that there was something wrong with her ears. If the person opposite her was not so powerful, she would have thought she had met a lunatic!
Isn’t your Dharma image cultivated through your own divine path? How can a cultivator be separated from his own Dharma image?
Could it be that you stole this image?!
But Gu Fangchen not only did not cultivate the Dharma image, he did not even have a proper "Tao".
But there is no need to tell these to the grandmother.
He looked towards the Sword Pavilion, smiled slightly, and said:
"Anyway, there's a ready-made furnace, and I've prepared the materials myself, so there's no need to trouble you. Why don't you let me cast one, and you'll naturally know if it's real or fake."
Although Shi Qingguang thought it was impossible, he became curious when he saw that he was so sure about it.
This guy... could it be possible that he really could do it?
She nodded hesitantly, then turned her head back and said in a clear voice:
"If you're talking nonsense, don't blame me for being blind."
Three hours later.
Gu Fangchen waved the fan in her hand and looked at the small-sized master's grandmother with a long sword that was shining with clear light in her hand. The girl looked at the long sword in her hand carefully, and her expression became more solemn the more she looked at it.
In fact, when Shi Qingguang saw Gu Fangchen's skillful technique and expression when he was forging the sword, he had already determined that the other party was indeed an instrument cultivator as he said, and his cultivation level was not low.
But she did not interrupt the other party, as she also wanted to see what level this guy was at.
Unexpectedly, it was totally unexpected!
Shi Qingguang looked at the long sword in his hand with amazement, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.
Although the grade of this sword is not high, the technique used in it is superb. More importantly, many of its ideas and thoughts coincide with hers, and even solved some of her recent doubts!
Gu Fangchen complained in his heart, isn't it...
He used the standard sword-making drawings from Jiange.
That's all Grandma's own craftsmanship...
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ps1: Please update the post if there are any mistakes or omissions.
ps2: The little monsters in Langlang Mountain are pretty good looking
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