Chapter 94 teaches her something unlike herself
I am clearly just a transmigrator. I have no past in this world. The experiences my grandmother told me about my mother have nothing to do with me. Those are the original owner's past, not mine.
Shen Cangyu thought to himself.
Before this, she had no causal connections, which was enough to prove that she had no connection with the people of this world. She shouldn't feel sad for a mother she had never met, but now, seeing the woman in front of her, she suddenly felt heartache.
The realm of hungry ghosts is not in the underworld; it exists in the mortal realm.
"I'm not here to hurt you," Shen Cangyu said, taking out water and steamed buns from his sleeve.
Shen Cangyu didn't like steamed buns, so she kept them hidden in her sleeve. But now that the steamed bun was out, she saw a longing light in the woman's eyes. The woman almost rushed out, but she managed to control herself with her remaining rationality, gripped the stick tightly, and watched Shen Cangyu's movements.
Then, a flash of light appeared on the woman's slashed wrist, and Shen Cangyu heard the familiar sound of a copper coin. A copper coin spun in the air and jingled as it fell.
A single coin can reveal a person's heart.
This was the magic released by the woman in front of her; she was seeing how much she would have to pay if she accepted Shen Cangyu's food.
The woman in front of him was also a believer in the "coin-eyed" belief. No wonder the red thread guided Shen Cangyu here. This mark was left by Wan Qianzhong, and Wan Qianzhong had probably only been gone a short while.
But Shen Cangyu didn't understand. What good would Wan Qianzhong's giving of the copper coin eye do for this woman? She needed food and water, not the ability to see through people's hearts.
Shen Cangyu put the steamed bun into the bowl and placed it on the ground along with the water bag.
The woman looked at the food on the ground, then at Shen Cangyu, and finally at the copper coins floating in the air. Suddenly, she knelt down and kowtowed three times to Shen Cangyu.
She only gave her food, nothing more. Shen Cangyu thought.
The woman picked up the food and ran into the house, the stick clattering to the ground. Shen Cangyu let out a long sigh, but the heavy feeling in his heart hadn't subsided. Famine was all too common in this era. They talked about how man could conquer nature, but when natural disasters struck, what could ordinary people use to fight them?
The woman before her was just one of the victims of the famine, but there were countless other famines on this continent and in this world: droughts, floods, cold waves, locust plagues... tens of thousands of people suffered. She could save one person, but she couldn't save everyone.
Shen Cangyu's gaze passed through the doorway and landed on the children wolfing down their food with water on the couch inside. She suddenly asked, "Do you want to cultivate immortality?"
The child lifted his head from the bowl, his dark eyes looking at Shen Cangyu.
Through the eye of the coin, the woman saw the growing greed in the child's heart. She stepped in front of the child and said, "Let me do it."
Shen Cangyu said, "I will teach all of you, but who can master it depends on your own abilities."
As she spoke, she glanced at the woman again: "You can protect him for a while, but you can't protect him forever. Rather than fearing that he will lose his mind by mastering power too early, it's better to discipline him properly from the beginning. What's truly terrifying is never power, but the human heart."
Shen Cangyu raised his hand, his fingers forming a hand seal. The flying fingers dazzled them. They saw Shen Cangyu put two fingers together and point them straight to the sky.
When the woman came to her senses, she found that nothing had happened in the room. She looked down at herself and found that nothing had changed, unlike the woman who had come before, who had left a mark on her hand.
She looked at Shen Cangyu in confusion, and the next moment, she heard a muffled sound coming from afar.
She hadn't heard that voice in a long time, and she thought she was hallucinating.
The child on the bed rolled off the bed before her and ran outside. He looked up at the sky and saw dark clouds gathering from all directions, growing thicker and thicker, with thunder rumbling from within them.
"Mom! It's raining!" he exclaimed excitedly.
The woman quickly ran to the window and looked up. The scorching sun was obscured by thick clouds, and the earth was unusually gloomy. A drop of rain fell and melted into the parched earth; another drop fell and landed on her face.
“This move is called Summoning Wind and Rain,” Shen Cangyu said. “I will only teach you this one mental technique, but I hope you can master it to its fullest extent.”
The woman turned around, knelt down with a thud, and kowtowed repeatedly to Shen Cangyu. The child who had run out of the house saw his mother's appearance, quickly came over, knelt down beside her, and imitated his mother's actions, kowtowing to Shen Cangyu.
Shen Cangyu saw her honor points rising. The more devoutly she prayed and gave thanks, the more her honor points would increase.
But God doesn't want to see these things; she only wants to see those who suffer truly master the art of manipulation and change their future through it.
"Are you going to take my soul too?" The woman looked up at Shen Cangyu. "But I have already promised another adult that I would give my soul to her after I die. I have nothing left to give you."
Shen Cangyu realized that Wan Qianzhong had made a deal with the woman before him by passing on the Taoist arts of the Copper Coin Eye. The woman became a follower of the Copper Coin Eye, and in return, she could transform people's greed into her own power and utilize it, just like the Locust Tree Spirit of the past.
But after her death, her soul will be taken away by countless beings, and she will be unable to be reincarnated.
The inability to be reincarnated is a terrifying thing for ordinary people in the mortal world. They believe that they have suffered too much in this life because of the mistakes they made in their previous life, and they need to repay those mistakes in this life. They believe that by enduring hardship and doing good deeds in this life, they can be reborn into a better life in the next life and live a good life.
This is one of the few things they can look forward to in their lives.
If you tell a poor and desperate person that if they make this deal, they will not be able to be reincarnated, then that person has already taken a great deal of courage to accept the deal.
The woman ate too much clay, knowing it would satisfy her hunger but also cause her death; this was undoubtedly like drinking poison to quench her thirst.
She was nearing the end of her life, yet she still agreed to a deal involving countless others, becoming a follower of the Copper Coin Eyes. The Copper Coin Eyes could help her see into people's hearts and help her resist those who wanted to harm them, but they could not provide them with food.
Just like having a superstructure but no economic foundation, they can't go very far.
“I don’t want your soul, but I have one request,” Shen Cangyu said. “After you have mastered the art of summoning wind and rain, do not stay here. Go to all the places where drought has occurred and pray for rain for all the villages.”
The woman stared blankly, only to hear Shen Cangyu say, "I want there to be no more droughts in this world."
The child kneeling on the ground beside her, whose head was bruised from hitting it, heard her words and excitedly replied, "Okay!"
"I will teach you the method of internal alchemy and breath regulation. Once you have mastered internal alchemy, you will be able to unleash the power of your mental techniques to a greater extent."
With that, Shen Cangyu demonstrated it to them once: "I will only teach you this once. Whether you can learn it or not depends on yourselves."
She said this, but seeing the woman stumbling and imitating, she still corrected her gestures.
Pei Wenjing stood at the doorway, watching for a long time without looking away.
Shen Cangyu is a contradictory person, a mixture of ruthlessness and compassion. She can't bear to see people suffer and always wants to make the world a better place, but at the same time she is ruthless. No one can get into her heart. She can leave whenever she wants, without caring what others think.
She came into this world only to complete a mission; she will never stay, and there will be no future for them.
These are the words that Shen Cangyu once said to Pei Wenjing.
Pei Wenjing was just one of her targets; not only him, but many people in Kunlun were her targets. She befriended them only to increase their favorability. After saying this, Shen Cangyu self-destructed and her soul disappeared.
She could have kept lying to him, but she chose to tell him the truth at the last moment.
At that time, Pei Wenjing had one foot in the realm of immortality, but because of Shen Cangyu's words, he dispersed all the Taoist magic he had cultivated for decades. From then on, he began to cultivate Taiji Taoist magic, traversing the three realms and crossing Yin and Yang, all in order to find her.
He didn't care about becoming a god or an immortal. If he really cared, he wouldn't have dispersed his Daoist magic in the first place. He only wanted to find Shen Cangyu. Even if he couldn't find her, he wanted to find a way to go to her world and see what it was that made her so attached to her.
In his previous life, when he saw Shen Cangyu in Kunlun, he thought he was seeing things.
After all, he had searched for over a thousand years without finding her. How could that person possibly be her? That person looked exactly like her, and even had the same name, yet he certainly didn't resemble her.
Shen Cangyu would definitely retaliate if he was wronged, but the girl just smiled and endured it.
Shen Cangyu was always detached from the world, sharp and ruthless, and merciless in killing. In fact, she didn't initially see them as living, breathing people. Later, Pei Wenjing took Shen Cangyu to visit the human world, and only then did he see in her eyes the genuine emotions that weren't feigned.
But the girl was already involved in the world from the moment she entered Kunlun. She was like a native mortal in this world, getting along well with everyone in Little Kunlun and living a carefree life in the mortal world outside the mountains.
She's not like herself.
But if Shen Cangyu had truly been born into this world, she might indeed have become like her. After all, she often said to Pei Wenjing later, "It's a pity I saw this world too late."
She had many things she wanted to do, but time was running out. She had to complete the main storyline, become a god, and leave this world.
Now Shen Cangyu has returned. Pei Wenjing doesn't know why she came back, but this is the only reason he can think of.
She probably still wants to finish the things she didn't complete in the past.
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