Chapter 758: Woke Up
The old man's eyebrows twitched, and he smiled. "I don't know him. I'm just wondering why you are here, considering this is the Yu Mansion. Where did the young master and young lady of the Yu Mansion go?"
"You don't know me?" Gong Mengbi showed some surprise on his face. It's not uncommon for people to tell lies in front of him, but it's rare in this situation.
The old man said with a forced smile: "I really don't know him."
"All right."
Since the problem cannot be solved honestly and simply, Gong Mengbi doesn't mind using more complicated means.
He looked directly at the old man and asked slowly, "You don't even know me, so how dare you use the Fox Book to start a rebellion, steal my true Dharma, rob my inheritance, and spread it to the secular world, creating evil causes and creating bad karma? Aren't you afraid of the consequences and retribution?"
The old man said, "These young men and women have a certain connection, so I took this opportunity to enlighten them. I didn't intend to steal the Dharma. It was just a coincidence."
"What kind of fate, what kind of coincidence, why not tell me about it."
As Gong Mengbi was speaking, the courtyard of the Yu Mansion had already distorted like a mirage. Fine and dense sparks fell from the cracks in the sky like rain, and gorgeous flames bloomed from the cracks in the bricks and stones of the Yu Mansion courtyard.
The entire Yu Mansion seemed like an iron cage locked in a fire prison. Flames had clearly seeped in from the cracks, but the old man in the iron cage seemed unable to see the blatant flames at all.
"My fate with these young men and women dates back hundreds of years. Due to fateful encounters, we had many entanglements. Hundreds of years later, they were reborn here. It just so happened that the young man from the Zhang family obtained the Fox Book, so I took this opportunity to guide them into Taoism, thus ending that fate."
"Hmm?" Gong Mengbi was a little surprised, because this sentence made him unable to tell whether it was true or false. Due to his high sensitivity to cause and effect, it actually triggered some kind of feeling in him.
Gong Mengbi said suspiciously, "You use the Fox Book to lead people into Taoism, forcing their growth. You're not trying to help them achieve enlightenment, but to destroy their practice. So, you have a deep hatred that dates back hundreds of years, and you wouldn't let them go even after their reincarnation."
The old man chuckled, without a trace of smile in his eyes, which only moved the wrinkles on his face, making his tough and cold face look a bit sinister and weird.
"This has nothing to do with you, sir. But I would like to ask you, where are you hiding these young men and women?"
Gong Mengbi laughed and said, "Aren't they worshipping the moon and submitting to it?"
"What?" The old man's heart skipped a beat. He looked around. The whole courtyard looked like a mirage. The moon in the sky had turned into a fox with a sneer in its eyes.
"When was I hit?" The old man immediately summoned his magical power, causing a strong wind to sweep across the entire courtyard.
A strong wind swept through, and the rockery, flower gardens, pavilions and walls were all scattered like quicksand. The fox spirits in the sky turned into surging flames, covering the entire sky, and the area around them had already been enveloped by flames.
One fox after another emerged from the flames, some lay at Gong Mengbi's feet, some stood up and danced in front of him, some transformed into graceful fox beauties walking with umbrellas, some transformed into tall and mighty fox warriors drawing swords to defeat demons, some transformed into hunchbacked fox old men playing with their grandchildren, and some transformed into boys and girls running and jumping.
Those thousands of appearances were all foxes, appearing and transforming at will. Gong Mengbi's figure was completely unclear in the flames.
"What a fire!" The old man's body felt like it was on fire. The flames rose from within him, burning his internal organs and causing him severe pain. The flames gushed out from his pores and turned into countless fox hairs. It seemed that he himself was about to turn into a fox made of fire.
"What kind of magical power is this?" the old man shouted, "What on earth do you want to do?"
Gong Mengbi's voice rang out faintly, "Whatever grudge you have from past lives, it really has nothing to do with me, but since you used the Fox Book to set up a trap, how can I not teach you a lesson?"
Even without asking, the old man knew that there was no way to end it peacefully, so he shouted loudly and fire gushed out from his body. It was a red flame wrapped in charred smoke, just like black fire, gushing out from his body, squeezing out all the flaming fox hair on his body, which fell to the ground and turned into little foxes and ran away.
The old man was engulfed in black flames, with red light flashing in his eyes. He looked everywhere for Gong Mengbi's true form, but he couldn't find Gong Mengbi's true form at all. He could only see countless foxes in the flames with all kinds of mocking and cunning looks.
The old man said provocatively, "The so-called fox book is nothing more than the shallow Taoist teachings of animal cultivation. If you take such a thing seriously, it shows that you are nothing more than that."
Gong Mengbi's voice came from the sky, saying, "If you can escape from my grasp, then you can't argue with me again."
The old man raised his head to look towards the sky, and saw a fox god as tall as a mountain, with its back against the bright moon, its body covered with nebulae, and a tail made of fire hanging down, like a doomsday feeling like dark clouds pressing down on a city, crushing towards him.
The old man's eyes were bloodshot and he was filled with endless fear. He still couldn't understand when he had fallen into such a magical power.
Just as the fox tail was about to sweep the old man away, the entire world of fire suddenly froze.
An illusory voice rang out in the old man's ears. It came from far away, then nearer, then more real. It said, "Brother Xinjue, how come you were so undecided that someone took your soul away in a dream?"
Only after a few words of advice did the old man understand.
Yes, it was clear that he had noticed during the chess game that these idiots were still unwilling to accept his help, so he resorted to Taoism and wanted to lend a helping hand, but suddenly his real body appeared here - it turned out to be a dream.
"wake up!"
The sound was like thunder in the old man's ears.
The world of fire in front of the old man gradually became transparent. Through the firelight, he realized that those idiots were still trying to surrender in the courtyard, and his spirit was actually trapped on a candle on the altar.
He met Gong Mengbi's gaze. Gong Mengbi's eyes were calm, as if he was looking at a fly that had landed in a cup.
"What a magical power, but it's a pity that you missed it!" The old man was shocked and angry, ashamed and hateful. Following the voice calling his spirit, he suddenly broke free from the incense and candles.
In the moment before his eyes fell into darkness, the old man seemed to still see Gong Mengbi's eyes looking at him, but he had clearly broken free from the soul-binding magic power in the dream, so why could he still be seen by him?
Gong Mengbi watched the old man disappear into the Heart Fire Illusion, and said with a hint of regret: "What a coincidence, he actually woke up."
He sighed in the Moonlight Mirror, so Shao Huzheng heard it too. He said, "Although it's a pity that this beast escaped, there are two of them. Mingfu Huzheng fought alone and almost caught him. This has really opened my eyes."
Gong Mengbi emerged from the Moonlight Mirror. The mirror still reflected the scene of the Yu Mansion courtyard. The candlelight on the altar that trapped the old man's spirit had turned from a faint green to an ordinary red.
"Escape? He just woke up, but he didn't escape."
Gong Mengbi smiled and reached out his hand to stroke the Mingyue Mirror. The scene of the Yu Mansion courtyard then disappeared like white sand, revealing the real scene of the Yu Mansion - these anxious young people were still trying to find the answer in the Fox Book.
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