Chapter 136: Ending and the Little People (2)
"...That's it, everything has been settled. Next, after the bell ringing, you will pass the position to Wang Zhanke."
Luo Xuanyi didn't bother to listen to Wang Taiyuan's words, but Wang Taiyuan knew his own limitations. He had lived long enough and enjoyed himself long enough. It was precisely because of this that he wanted to ask this final question.
"Why do you want to kill me?"
Luo Xuanyi glanced back at him, and seeing the pair of eyes shining brightly hidden in the shadows of the wrinkles, she suddenly realized: "Your eyes are the same as mine."
Wang Taiyuan loves killing people, and Luo Xuanyi could tell at first sight. However, that wasn't the reason she wanted to kill Wang Taiyuan. Luo Xuanyi thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's because you're delicious, but I have to wait until tomorrow to finish you off."
"Is that so?" Wang Taiyuan nodded in agreement. "If I wanted to kill someone, I really couldn't bear it. I understand you, but I've never eaten meat. I know there are a few vegetable markets nearby, but can you eat meat that's this old? I heard they only want the meat of young people."
"?" Luo Xuanyi realized that Wang Taiyuan had misunderstood, but was too lazy to correct him. She nodded randomly and warned Wang Taiyuan, "If you have any suicidal thoughts, I will let your granddaughter die with you."
Wang Taiyuan closed his eyes and lay back on the bed, signaling that he wouldn't be foolish to ask any more questions. Luo Xuanyi felt it was almost time, so she got up and left. Arriving at the courtyard where she had lived before, she found that a maid had already cleaned the room, and three sets of ordinary straw-gray Taoist robes had been neatly folded on the bed.
Luo Xuanyi finally changed out of the dress that made her feel uncomfortable. After burning it with a fireball, she put the other two sets of Taoist robes into the storage bag. Finally, she could be alone and sort things out.
Although it seemed like something had been forgotten, it was obvious that after experiencing an unexpected life-and-death ordeal, summing up experience was more important than anything else.
Luo Xuanyi first took out Rong Gui, who had been struck by lightning. She was racing against time to lock her soul, so she naturally didn't notice the phantom of Yu Lu appearing in Rong Gui's body. But on the way back, she found it strange. After being struck by lightning once, there seemed to be no sound of a second lightning strike for quite a long time.
She flipped Rong Gui from back to front and immediately noticed something was wrong. The characters on the Rong Gui had changed. Strangely, they weren't the ancient characters she'd learned. The handwriting had also changed from elegant and graceful to simple and smooth. But driven by her instinctive cunning, she immediately translated it in her head.
This paragraph is written in the language of the ghost world, "Those who cultivate me are true."
Those who cultivate themselves are true. Luo Xuanyi pondered the meaning of the words, slowly coming to terms with them. Ronggui was a ghostly object brought back by Yu Lu from the ghost realm. It must have been inscribed with ghostly language, so the inscription above must have been written by someone later. "Those who succeed have yet to achieve, those who observe regret. We are powerless, and we place our hopes in future generations." The phrase "place our hopes in future generations" especially seems to connect to the Yu family's prophecy.
Could this also be what the Yu family had foreseen? That being said, it couldn't have been Yu Linghe's doing. After all, that girl seemed more prone to violence, and her grasp of power wasn't entirely clear. Luo Xuanyi thought about it, smiled, and quickly regained her focus. This surmise meant that the prophecy must have been made by Daozu Yu Lu.
Why was Yu Lu so certain it was Luo Xuanyi? Luo Xuanyi had been pondering the reason since leaving the Ancient Illusionary Realm, but the more she thought, the more bewildered she became. When Yu Lu chose a candidate, she must have hoped for one, the Jade Spirit Crane's approval; two, someone who had seen historical records and knew of the ghost realm's presence in this world; and three, someone who could discern the Tower Spirit's requirements. But it was impossible for just one person to meet all three of these conditions.
The fact that Rong Gui blocked the lightning strike today gave Luo Xuanyi some clues.
Could it be that Yu Lu wants to find someone who will definitely choose to practice the strange way?
Thinking carefully, Luo Xuanyi's ability to cultivate the Way of Deception stemmed from the fact that, before entering the ruins, she had already begun desperately searching for techniques to lock onto the body, researching the body and lifespan. She had no particular material desires, so she had no hesitation in abandoning her body to cultivate the Way of Deception.
Without the protection of a living being's presence, the treacherous path would attract heavenly thunder. If one misstep led to failure, Luo Xuanyi's lifespan was nearing its end, and a series of conditions fell into place, she would never have succeeded so easily. Even a cultivator born into the righteous path and possessing a strong sense of morality would naturally fail.
Luo Xuanyi gazed at the four characters, "Cultivate Myself, Be True," and fell into deep thought. But no matter how much she pondered, the information she hadn't yet grasped was insufficient. She'd just memorize it and come back to it later. She exhaled, carefully tied the Rong Gui around her waist, and then used her spiritual power to obscure the words. After all, while ancient Chinese could be interpreted, the ghostly language was much more complex.
After confirming that Rong Gui had turned into a small ordinary stone slab dangling at her waist, Luo Xuanyi took out the blue ghost fire that Xi Xingji had transformed into, and her dead heart seemed to beat for a moment in the void.
Smells so good.
She couldn't find it in the open, but in the enclosed space, Luo Xuanyi used her instinct as a cultivator to smell a mouth-watering fragrance, as if her body was calling for her to eat. She almost followed her instinct as a hungry ghost and opened her mouth to swallow the flames into her stomach, but she endured it by relying on her willpower.
The clear blue flame danced, as if tempting Luo Xuanyi. Luo Xuanyi resolutely closed her mouth to express her will to resist, and restrainedly observed the strange fragments in the flames she had discovered earlier.
The color of the fragments was incompatible with the blue flames; they were a dark green and very turbid. They were called fragments because these dark green fragments were extremely small and fragmented. Although they could be vaguely seen floating on a plane surrounded by the blue flames, the fragments would become deep and transparent at times, almost disappearing.
Luo Xuanyi thought for a moment, then reached out and carefully touched a fragment with her fingertips. In that instant, an endless amount of information seemed to flood into her mind, but the information was fragmented and unstructured. She immediately let go, realizing what it was all about.
This was the Dao that Xi Xingji practiced, his understanding of the Dao of Poison. The reason it looked fragmented was because he was still only in the Foundation Establishment stage, and his understanding of the Dao was limited.
Pure Taoist philosophy carries a naturally pure spiritual energy that's very easy to digest, equivalent to a tonic for those cultivating strangeness. That's why Luo Xuanyi couldn't resist eating it. After realizing it wasn't something bad, she finally gave up her patience and swallowed the blue will-o'-the-wisp in one gulp.
The death energy and pure spiritual power could be absorbed quickly. Almost only half a breath had passed. Luo Xuanyi looked inward and was surprised to find that no impurities were spit out by her original ghost fire. She couldn't help but feel eager to move.
If Luo Xuanyi were to use one word to summarize the monk's ghost fire, it would be "melts in the mouth."
It was a pity that the Dao she practiced was different from the Dao of Poison Cultivation. Otherwise, the fragments of the Dao would surely deepen her understanding of the Dao. If only it were possible to mass-produce the will-o'-the-wisp transformed by cultivators, Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but daydream. But that was impossible.
It’s really delicious.
Luo Xuanyi was savoring the taste and suddenly remembered that she seemed to have agreed with someone to eat something together... marshmallows?
Oh, and she had an appointment with Zhang Qiu. But when she came back, the lanterns on the street were already lit. Zhang Qiu must have gone to the bell ringing meeting by himself, right?
Luo Xuanyi was a little hesitant.
Second update~
Supplement: I have some family matters on Monday, so I will update once on Tuesday and Thursday to make up for it.
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