Chapter 127: Good deeds have their own way, evil deeds have their own way (2)
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da.
A strange sound rang out regularly, like the sound of liquid dripping, but with a different sense of weight than liquid.
Human tendons can also be scattered like sawdust.
Hao Fei sat outside the cave, firmly rejecting Luo Xuanyi's invitation to visit. He pushed something off the ground with his foot in disgust, and a gust of wind blew, puffing up the thin skin into a human shape.
Then one, two, three, and there was no end in sight. The skins, blown all over the mountain by gusts of wind, rose and fell, tumbled, and then shrank and stopped, waiting for the next gust of wind, like children playing hide-and-seek across the mountains.
Don't mess with a monk who knows how to use medicine. Hao Fei remembered what his master had said a long time ago. You don't know whether she is healing you or torturing you.
The dripping sound stopped, and then a strange, teeth-grinding sound was heard, as if something was rubbing the surface of a hard object, and white powder was blown out by the wind in the cave.
Then, the sound of medicine being poured in came again. How many times has this happened?
But this time Luo Xuanyi did not continue with her exquisite knife skills. The sound of something being dragged could be heard in the cave, gradually moving closer to the outside.
Hao Fei immediately stood up from the stone, his eyes lowered. He waited for a moment before he saw the pair of boots, still without a drop of blood, and then the human figure dragged behind them.
That was Shang Qian, but compared to before he went in, Shang Qian had shrunk almost a whole circle. The strange thing was that his bones were still intact.
It must have been polished, after all, Luo Xuanyi is strangely particular about this aspect.
"What time is it?" He didn't expect Luo Xuanyi's first question to be this. Hao Fei was stunned for a moment before answering, "It looks like it's just afternoon, the hottest day has passed."
Luo Xuanyi frowned in dissatisfaction, then relaxed. "It took a whole hour. Should I say he's worthy of being a disciple of the righteous path? He's willing to suffer rather than speak. It took more than half an hour just to shake his mind. How did the Daowang Sect torture him?"
The topic suddenly turned to himself. Hao Fei thought for a moment, but found that he couldn't come up with anything. He could only reluctantly say, "After all, I was accepted as a disciple by my master after the fall of Daowang Sect, so I'm not very clear. But judging from my master's temperament, he doesn't seem like someone who can think with his brain."
"Really?" Luo Xuanyi didn't really care about Hao Fei's answer. She finally got back to the point. "Being cautious is still useful. The righteous side does have something that can track down the whereabouts of disciples, and it seems it can even check for life and death, etc. It's too detailed to find out. This is what's used to anchor the location, it's called the Fu Seal."
She played with the Fu Seal in her hand, a hint of wonder in her eyes. After Luo Xuanyi arrived in Xuancheng Prefecture, she had always felt that the development of Taoism here seemed slow, but she hadn't expected there to be such exquisite things.
This Fu Seal may look like an ordinary wooden tablet, but its uses vary depending on the spiritual energy it receives. It can be used to communicate with others, even without spiritual energy, as long as spatial positioning is correct. Of course, for this to work, you must first store spiritual energy symbols with a fellow Daoist who possesses a Fu Seal.
What astounded Luo Xuanyi even more than the individual interactions the Fu Seal provided was its coordinated approach to the entire righteous path. The holder of a Fu Seal would be recorded in the Fuwen Towers of the six major alliances. Similar to a soul lamp, it could observe the subject's life and death, but the Fu Seal could do much more. For example, upon death, the holder's body's location could be sent back to the Fuwen Tower. Another example was recording a cultivator's good and bad deeds since their inception. It could also roughly estimate a cultivator's potential and bottlenecks based on decades of practice, thus enabling the Immortal Alliance to coordinate and manage resources.
As the orthodox Heavenly Dao, the Six Great Alliances' cultivators differ significantly from the Zang Yao Sect, not least in terms of morality, but especially in their approach to tribulation. Even for cultivators of the Demonic Dao, the tribulation of the Golden Core stage is incredibly dangerous. Not only are they plagued by inner demons, but the higher they advance, the more terrifying the heavenly thunder becomes. The heavenly thunder tribulation of a Nascent Soul stage breakthrough is nearly equivalent to the thunder of a regular cultivator of the Orthodox Dao experiencing the Refining Void stage.
But even if the heavenly thunder tribulation of the righteous path is so easy, they can still receive even more preferential treatment.
Another function of the Fu Seal is to store "luck." This isn't actual luck, but rather something similar. Shang Qian didn't know why such a thing existed, only that it was a reward from Heaven for righteous cultivators. Whenever a task needed work, the six alliances would post it in the Fuwen Tower and indicate the amount of luck available, visible to everyone on the Fu Seal. Cultivators seeking to take on the task would proceed to the Fuwen Tower to process it. The Tower would then pause the task until the cultivator had completed it and submitted the Fu Seal for verification. Upon verification, the Luck would be transferred to the Fu Seal as payment.
Of course, if the task is not completed as required, the luck will be deducted, and even negative luck may occur.
Luck can only be consumed when surviving Heavenly Thunder Tribulations, and the amount consumed varies for each realm. For example, if you're surviving the Golden Core Tribulation, having 100 Luck within your Blessing Seal can reduce three Thunder Tribulations to just one. With 500 Luck, forming your Core is as easy as reaching a new realm—just enough Spiritual Energy is enough, and even the Thunder Tribulation Clouds won't appear. Therefore, all righteous cultivators are happy to go out and take on missions, and few remain in seclusion year-round.
Upon hearing this, Luo Xuanyi immediately wondered why the Zang Yao Sect wouldn't plunder this resource to help their promising young talents advance to new realms. However, upon closer questioning, she understood that Qi seemed to be bound to an individual, unable to be transferred or discarded, much less forcibly seized. Only the Fuwen Pagoda could manipulate Qi, but its operating principles remained a mystery.
Anyone would think this was a gift from heaven, a well-deserved reward for the righteous. However, Luo Xuanyi had seen the ancient times, the beastly disaster of humanity, and Long Tian. The Heavenly Dao was essentially a celestial beast that nurtured the heavens and the earth. How could it be so kind?
Coupled with the attitudes of the six major alliances towards the ascension issue, the matter becomes even more confusing.
The six major alliances claimed that the reason no one had been able to ascend to the Great Dao since their exploration was because demonic cultivators in ancient times severed the path to godhood. Therefore, the disciples of the six major alliances were tasked with discovering how to reconnect the divine bridge and attain the Dao and ascend. This was sheer nonsense. Luo Xuanyi refused to believe that no one in the righteous path, passed down from ancient times to the present, had ever touched upon the truth of the Heavenly Dao.
Changing the perspective in this way, it seems that there is something strange about the six alliances from beginning to end.
Luo Xuanyi exhaled. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy ensures victory in a hundred battles. While this may seem irrelevant to her now, knowing is better than being ignorant. Perhaps she could exploit the oddities here to her advantage.
However, there is only one thing to do now - how to lure the remaining two people out of Fu Ji Town, cut off ties with them outside, and deal with the remaining two people.
Luo Xuanyi tossed the Fu Seal lightly into her palm and then grabbed it again, with a plan in mind.
Second update~ I have to go out for something tonight, if I come back early there will be a third update~
I've tried my best to make the system on the righteous side different from the Zang Yaozong's system. I don't know if there are any loopholes. Fortunately, I don't join the righteous side, so it will be easy to fill them in the future. Hehe~
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