Extra chapter: If I could do it all over again, I would still go the same way.

[Previous Life Extra-Danger Perspective]

This was the second time Wei Zhi met that strange person in a strange place.

It is not accurate to say that he was a person, because that person was full of death.

Even though it was covered with strange vine branches, others couldn't tell what was going on. But he was born with a Buddha's bone, so no matter how it was covered up, one could tell it was just a walking corpse.

The corpse had a strange fragrance, without any of the usual smell of decay and decay. At first it smelled like cold flowers blooming under the moon, but when I came to my senses it seemed to be soaked in medicinal juice, and it tasted indescribably bitter.

The zombie passed by him and was just a passerby, but the zombie suddenly turned its head and looked at him seriously.

It is not appropriate to say that he looked, because Wei Zhi found that there was no life in the man's eyes. Even if it was an ordinary zombie, there was no reason for the eyes to be so unfocused.

The grey clothes that looked like a shroud were attached with a hood, covering the mouth and nose, leaving only a pair of scarred eyes exposed. There was a bit of evil in the eyes, and the black and white were distinct, like a dark abyss, and there was deathly silence.

Wei Zhi suddenly woke up. She was listening to the movements in front of her and smelling something.

He is indeed a blind man.

He is really... a weird person.

Wei Zhi thought he had just passed by the person, but he met the strange corpse again in the deep mountains of western Yunnan.

The man was walking slowly down from the Gu village which was his target this time. His grey clothes had turned ochre. He walked down heavily, looking like a demon, cold, tired, and murderous. He was holding two bamboo baskets in his hands. One of them seemed to contain a baby, and the other seemed to contain strange crawling objects. The miasma was filled with the smell of blood and ice.

Wei Zhi stopped the man and asked, "Excuse me, is the pig you took the female pig from this pig village?"

The strange man looked straight ahead and said, "If the master asks me, I can only answer one thing: this is not a good snake and is of no benefit to my practice."

"I know it's a snake made from black snow green snake." Wei Zhi looked at the strange man, "Then why did you take it?"

She paused. "To destroy it, of course."

Wei Zhi looked at her for a while, "There are corpses in western Yunnan, and you are a walking corpse, but there are no living people within a ten-mile radius. I am very curious about how you kill people."

Fifty steps away, there was almost no one alive in the Black Cold Dragon Village, except for the baby in the bamboo basket.

It was amazing that a zombie could massacre an entire village so skillfully by himself.

It's simply... a miracle.

Unfortunately, the zombie did not give him any more answers. It was not until he walked a few steps that the zombie turned around and said, "Master, if you really want to cool yourself down, you might as well go to the Arctic and find a snow cave to bury yourself. If you are lucky, you may even meet a snow spirit and take its companion stone. That would be better than anything else."

Wei Zhixiang was about to pick up the leak, but his heart broke. "How did you know?"

"Your body temperature is too high. I will decay. I have to stay away from you."

…

Wei Zhi remained silent. It was a true statement, but it sounded indescribably weird.

The corpses went down the mountain step by step. Wei Zhi still went up the mountain and saw the crime scene. The whole village had been razed to the ground, with only a dark red soil mixed with countless things.

Obviously, the entire village was directly destroyed. If it was really done by this corpse, he could only say that this was a powerful evil skill that he had never heard of and was completely beyond his knowledge.

He should have chased down and put an end to the disaster, but when he turned around, he saw traces of the Taoist formation that sent ghosts into the earth.

That is a very standard rapid rebirth formation. Among the Taoists, only that family likes to kill people and then care about rebirth.

But there should be few people in that sect now.

And...how could someone massacre an entire village and still walk away carrying the only baby who hadn't yet been conceived?

Wei Zhi stopped and turned around carefully, using the part of his spiritual power that he had reserved in order to "ask for" the insect to explore it, and found that it was indeed the remaining formation that could attract the spirits of heaven and earth.

Crisp and decisive, extremely destructive.

A bit of a weird righteous way.

It's really weird.

Before Wei Zhi met that evil person again, the evil person came to him.

It’s not accurate either, this time it’s a soul.

I was forced to come here when he was chanting the mantra for rebirth.

"Master, can you please let me go?"

The man's voice was lazy and filled with an indescribable sadness. "I was just a little unwell for a day, and you started chanting sutras, right?"

Wei Zhi felt very sorry, "I didn't know you were not in the body."

He scanned it carefully and found that the soul had no evil spirit and no blood. He wondered how it had managed to stay in the human world.

Zombies have no souls.

He began to think seriously, "There is only one soul of this age in the Wushang Sect who can form formations. You are Yan Ye's disciple? Why do you still want to stay in the human world?"

"Because I don't want to go down." The soul said half dead, "If you don't let go, I'm going to die."

Wei Zhi took a look at the soul. It didn't look like it was unprepared. It was obvious that it was certain that he could not convert her.

"I remember that Yan Ye seemed to have a last disciple before he ascended to heaven, named Lin Du. I guess you also used formations to kill the Black Gu Village? I saw that you killed all the Gu cultivators, leaving only the baby in the cradle, and you have no karma at all."

"You blocked the secret?"

Wei Zhi found that there were too many mysteries surrounding this man, with endless anomalies, so strange that it was hard to understand. It was probably more like thick clouds than the fog in the mountains of western Yunnan, out of reach, yet clearly there.

He asked, "What on earth are you going to do?"

Lin Du asked another question instead, "Lin Tuan, who are you?"

Wei Zhi silently added another mystery to this disciple of Yan Ye.

"A member of my clan before I became a monk." Wei Zhi answered carefully.

The little soul nodded seriously, "Not important?"

Wei Zhi pondered for a moment, "The only remaining member of the tribe."

That's what's important.

The soul group did not speak for a while, curled up beside the wooden fish he placed, and the white light ball flickered, looking like it was breathing.

Wei Zhi finally noticed this and asked, "Are you...about to fall apart?"

"It's OK, but if I don't go back, my spirit will disperse. You put away the wooden fish, I can go back by myself."

Wei Zhi quickly put away the wooden fish, found a talisman paper, and fixed her soul.

Now Lin Du has no hands or feet and can't move.

She felt that Wei Zhi did it on purpose.

Wei Zhi had indeed done it on purpose. It was hard for him to imagine what outrageous things a person who had blocked out the secrets of heaven, renounced reincarnation, and massacred entire villages would do.

He has no karma now because those black dragon cultivators are indeed not good people. The Black Dragon Village is famous and if one person leaves the village, someone will die. He went there to seize the dragon.

Who knew that the soul trapped in the talisman began to bargain with him, "I say, how about we make a deal, Master."

"I can't give you the worm, but there is a better alternative. My ability to sense ice and snow is top-notch. It won't be a problem for me to catch a snow spirit for you."

Wei Zhi was curious, "How can you be sure that I want the cold power of that snake?"

"Give me an arm or a leg so I can move and I'll tell you."

Wei Zhi thought about it and really molded the talisman into a creature with arms, but no legs.

Lin Du: ...What a thief.

"I still say that. You are abnormally hot. As a Buddhist, you can't go to the Black Gu Village just to enforce justice."

Wei Zhi: ...What a thief.

"Are you so sure that I, a Buddhist, cannot kill evil cultivators?"

"You don't have to scare me." Ling Fu waved his arms, "Because without me, you won't have a better choice. The aura on you will definitely drive Xue Ling away."

Wei Zhi smiled faintly as he looked at the paper man lying on the ground, holding up his two paper arms, not knowing what he was doing. It looked a little funny. "Do you know that the way you talk is exactly the same as Yan Ye when he was young?"

Originally, Yan Ye was older than him, and he thought that man was so cold and arrogant towards the younger generation. Later, he found that Yan Ye was even more arrogant towards the group of old guys. He always felt that he was a level above everyone else and that he was the only one in control of the situation on the chessboard.

I didn't expect that the apprentice I raised would be exactly the same.

Who would have known that in the next instant, the talisman paper lying flat on the ground suddenly stood up with a golden glow, and turned into the shape of a little person without a face, but Wei Zhi could clearly see her expression at that moment.

Wei Zhi then remembered that the Supreme Sect had been purged by evil spirits a hundred years ago, and there had been no news of Lin Du since then. In fact, at that time, Lin Du was just a child under a hundred years old in the world of cultivation. It was normal for him to have such an air.

"Lin Tuan taught you the seals? No wonder you raised your hands just now." Wei Zhi recognized him, "No wonder you knew that Lin Tuan and I knew each other."

It turns out that Lintuan also taught this kid.

He relaxed a little, "That's fine, what are the terms of the deal?"

"I'll tell you about this later." The talisman paper figurine replied.

"I don't talk about unconfirmed deals. The most difficult condition in the world is to negotiate later."

Wei Zhisi didn't want to be fooled.

The paper man said, "What if I want to pull you onto a path that goes against the will of heaven?"

The little paper man looked arrogant, but Wei Zhi could tell from his words that he lacked confidence.

She was testing.

Testing his character and behavior.

Wei Zhi thought that if he refused, she would definitely immediately give him a specific and decent price that he could accept.

He asked tentatively, "What good will it do me to go against the will of heaven?"

"As a human being, you have to try it once. Maybe you can go back in time and return to the past to change everything that has happened, such as the sacrifice of your only relative in Linchuan."

Wei Zhi lowered his eyes and looked at the man, "There are many inexplicable things in this world. Do you really think that going back to the past can change everything?"

"We cannot know destiny, but we can do something about it." The little paper figurine answered.

"So you have no certainty?"

"Not really. I contribute 50% alone, and with the help of the master, maybe I can add another 20%."

"I'm only worth 20%?" Wei Zhi raised his eyebrows, "You, a soul ball, own 50%, and I own 20%?"

The villain said perfunctorily, "Then let's make it 30%, no more."

Wei Zhi: ...How did Yan Ye teach his disciples?

"You are so powerful, how can you be without a body?"

"..." The little paper man sat down with his knees hugged. The talisman paper was arched into an arc, looking strange and pitiful under the candlelight.

"Because I went to the deep sea, it's easy to be hunted down if the body goes down there, so I could only use my soul. As a result, I encountered some troubles in getting the deep sea true spirit. My soul power is a little weak, and my body has been damaged because it was left on the shore without the nourishment of Yin Qi. It took Granny Ma a year and a half to make a new body for me, otherwise I would not have been recruited by you?"

The little paper man's voice became quieter and quieter, and finally he twisted his neck stiffly, "Very funny?"

Wei Zhi shook his head, "No, no, it's not funny at all. You know, we Buddhists are like this. Do you believe me when I say it's the smiling Buddha?"

Lin Du didn't believe him.

In the end, Wei Zhi accepted his fate and took this person, who had lost most of his physical body and temporarily had no physical form, on the road.

It was impossible to nourish too many souls in the talisman alone. Fortunately, he had a piece of soul-nourishing wood with him. After chanting sutras for forty-nine days, he put the talisman paper on her and set off for the Far North.

The little paper man didn't talk much most of the time. He didn't want to stay in the sleeve pocket, and he didn't want to be put together with dead objects. Finally, it fell on his shoulder. The strap of the cloth bag he was carrying provided a strap for it. When the wind blew, it really became a talisman on his shoulder. It only sat up when he was free.

Wei Zhi thought it was quite funny. There was only one person like him in the world, who was even more outrageous than him.

When they reached the Far North, Lin Du thought he was too hot and would affect her performance, so she asked him to dig a snow nest and bury himself first.

Wei Zhi was speechless, "Can you really find the so-called Snow Spirit this way?"

"Of course, wait for my command, then you jump out and hold her down, and I'll get the Companion Stone for you."

"I thought you would just kill that thing directly." Wei Zhi was a little surprised.

The little paper man replied coldly, "I am a ghost, not King Yan."

Wei Zhi was convinced by this man, "That's not what you said when you killed Gu Xiu."

"The number of people killed in their village is not limited to thousands." Lin Du paused after he finished speaking, "They use female babies to refine Yin-Gu, which aggravates the coldness of snakes and worms. They cannot be left alive."

Wei Zhi understood, "What about the person you left alive that day?"

"The baby is innocent." Lin Du paused. "It was a healthy child who was not infected with insects. He was adopted by a couple in the town. Granny Ma came forward. After all, I am a demon in the eyes of the world and it is not easy for me to see people."

Wei Zhi suddenly couldn't describe the feeling, "Aren't you afraid that if someone else saw you committing a crime, they would beat you to death."

"I have a way to protect myself." Lindu paused, then continued in a low voice, "There are not many people in the world who can kill me."

Wei Zhi paused, stopped talking, squatted down and started digging a hole with his spiritual power.

Lin Du's soul power is very strong. It is estimated that it is because of his extraordinary talent and spiritual awareness. After becoming a zombie, he used some strange magic to continuously cultivate. Those below the Qianyuan realm cannot defeat this man at all.

The most important thing is that the Dongming Realm has been fighting a deadly battle with evil spirits for the past hundred years, and no one cares about the internal chaos anymore.

Wei Zhi quietly dug the pit, and when he was done he turned around and warned her, "Don't even think about running away. My talisman only listens to me and can be recalled at any time. It's not the same as you Taoists."

The little paper man waved his hand perfunctorily, "Don't worry, the deal isn't over yet."

Wei Zhi really buried himself, and another heavy snow fell, quickly covering up all traces of his presence.

He could sense with his spiritual consciousness that the little paper figure was sitting quietly on a tree in the endless snowfield, just sitting there. Because she had no face, but only runes, he didn't know whether she was looking at the falling snowflakes or daydreaming about something.

But he inexplicably felt that in the north wind, the talisman paper had become a lonely dead leaf.

Yes, when the tree falls, its leaves wither.

He didn't know how long Lin Du could hold on to the idea of ​​changing his fate. Perhaps the idea was too naive. Apart from young people, no one would offer such unrealistic conditions.

But many people in the world can laugh at Lin Du's ideas, except him.

Because he was once such a person.

Wei Zhi thought that these fallen leaves hanging stubbornly on the branches must not be completely crushed into mud.

"So what is your plan? If you really get my companion stone for me, do I have to pay something in return?"

Lin Du's voice came over, "It's simple. I need a living person to help me. I have developed some formations, but some things require the help of a living person, and a living person with great power."

"You are the best choice I have considered."

Wei Zhi was a little surprised to hear this, "Why? Because I seem to be more receptive to your unrealistic and fanciful fantasies?"

"Because you don't accept it." Lin Du said, "You are unwilling to submit to your fate, so why should I submit to the fate of the entire Dongming Realm?"

Wei Zhi discovered that although Yan Ye's little disciple inherited Yan Ye's bad temper, in a sense, he was quite good at judging people.

They haven't been together for long, how did this person know that?

However, he thought of something, "The best option after weighing the pros and cons? I remember that there seemed to be two or three people in the Supreme Sect who were not dead yet?"

Wei Zhi reacted quickly, "Given the character of the Supreme Sect, they would probably want you to rest in peace."

"So, you want to be my accomplice in defying the will of Heaven?"

The voice of the little paper man clearly came through the consciousness, and it was light and floating, but to Wei Zhi's ears it sounded like an icicle under the eaves, and it looked sharp.

Perhaps because he was overwhelmed by the extreme heat and cold brought by the True Dragon Inner Core, Wei Zhi agreed to the overly childish words, "Okay."

He has already failed anyway, so what loss would he have if he failed again?

They waited there for nine full days.

There was continuous heavy snow for nine days, with intermittent breaks in the snow. During those times they would occasionally talk to each other.

When Wei Zhi discovered something, Lin Du could always extract the most useful information from the shortest sentences, figuring out the pattern of his attacks, the power he could exert during an attack, as well as his background and personality.

Such sensitivity is rare in the world.

But in the past, I had almost never heard of Yan Ye's disciples.

It’s really strange. Yan Ye is so arrogant, but this disciple is so good at keeping a low profile?

Lin Du also gradually told his plan, "Have you heard? In fact, in the eyes of the powerful who master the rules of time, this world is a long static line."

“So what I have to do is go back to the beginning.”

Wei Zhi asked, "But with your current strength, even if you have prepared the materials for the so-called time-reversal formation, you still can't withstand that formation and will be directly crushed to death."

"No matter how hard you try to cultivate, the rules of the Dongming Realm will not be able to withstand the reversal of time, and you will still be destroyed."

They are cultivators from the big world, not immortals from the thirty-three heavens.

Who knew that Lin Du had already thought of it, and she replied very calmly, "Yes, so I thought of a compromise."

The paper man swung his two pitiful legs on the branch and said in a relaxed tone, "I chose to jump to a world of the end of the law first. The rules of heaven are weak and it is very easy to enter. Then I will separate my spirit to store my memories. At the moment of death there, the reversal formation I set up will be activated, and then I will find the anchor point I set in the Dongming Realm, and then use all my luck, I can come back, back to... the beginning."

“When nothing happened.”

Wei Zhi couldn't describe how shocking this answer was. Before this, no one had been able to utilize the cycle of life and death so skillfully, let alone separate their own spirit.

He felt as if his soul was hit, the blood in his body stagnated for a moment, then rapidly surged the next moment. At a certain moment, he seemed to see his younger self, standing under the Bodhi tree, saying calmly, "Since the true dragon's inner elixir has bound me to a human body, I will catch a dragon, abandon my own human body, and become a dragon. This way, it probably won't affect my ability to save people."

Even if it is unorthodox, even if it is shocking, they must find a way to survive.

"Do you know... that people with incomplete souls have extremely weak bodies, and it is impossible to make them whole again, unless the soul and the body are reunited."

"I know, but it doesn't matter."

"Found it." Lin Du's voice suddenly came again, "No wonder I couldn't find it before. She just killed someone and devoured him."

"Snow spirits eat people?" Wei Zhi was a little surprised, "How could it be?"

"There are two possibilities. One, her mind was affected by the three poisons of Misan, but the probability of the spirit of heaven and earth being affected is extremely low. Two, she is free."

…

Wei Zhi felt that neither was possible, so he flew out. Thick snow fell on his shoulders and melted into mist in an instant.

The next moment, he stretched out his hand to call back the flying talisman figure, and then pressed it forcefully on his shoulder.

"Can you let me go? You use the Companion Stone to suppress your backlash, and I'll take my Snow Yuan Dan. We'll kill the Snow Spirit together, and each of us will take one thing. It's fair."

“Wait a minute, why don’t you believe in my strength? The entity you nurtured with great difficulty in the Soul-Nourishing Tree was broken up the last time you went to the deep sea to collect things. Now you can’t even condense the body. Don’t be so arrogant.” Wei Zhi was helpless.

"Besides, if you continue to use your ghost power like this, the remaining people in your sect will definitely want to send you to reincarnation. Be more restrained, the puppet that Granny Ma made for you is almost ready."

Lin Du was silent for a moment.

I should have known that I wouldn't have said that he was the best candidate.

Who would have thought that when the fight really broke out, Wei Zhi really couldn't stand on his own.

By then, the bitter cold had passed, and the torture caused by the True Dragon Inner Core in his body turned from extreme heat to extreme cold.

That power would first freeze his meridians, making it difficult for his spiritual energy to move, and then slowly freeze his muscles and bones, making his fighting movements even more rigid.

He almost had his heart ripped out by the snow spirit's claws.

In the end, Lin Du realized that the ghost's will to die had not yet been digested in Xue Ling's body. He activated the ghost power and quickly set up the formation. He didn't even notice when the little man on his shoulder escaped from his control.

He only saw a pattern quickly appearing in front of his eyes. Before he could react whether it was Xue Ling's or the enemy lurking in the dark, he saw Xue Ling's face suddenly become grim, and he lowered his head. A strange arc appeared on his chest, like... a human face and hand.

The white-haired and silver-eyed Xue Ling stared with her eyes wide open, looking in disbelief as the ghost inside her broke through her body and then exploded directly.

In the chaos of ice and snow, the companion stone and the snow essence pill emitted a faint golden light, which crushed the little talisman man who wanted to steal them to the ground. The talisman paper was completely destroyed after being soaked by the snow water.

Wei Zhi hurriedly made a new talisman paper figurine and went over to pick up the companion stone.

"This companion stone is not as good as Han Yueling's companion stone. It can reverse hot and cold. If you feel cold, just warm yourself up. It's not easy to make a fire anyway." Lin Du floated back into the talisman paper man that Wei Zhi had just made. The Xueyuan Pill was also taken away by her. He didn't know where such a small soul could take the things.

"When everything is ready and the plan is finally launched... I won't bother you anymore." The spirit Lin Du added, "I can also complete the deal between us and save your only blood relative in the world."

"Lin Du, you still have time to reincarnate. If you keep going forward, there's no turning back. Really, are you not afraid of failure?"

The wind and snow were so strong that they drowned out most of Wei Zhi's voice, but he still felt like giving some more advice.

A gifted and intelligent person like Lin Du should not be without reincarnation.

"I hold the hopes of many people, so I cannot fail. Wei Zhi, don't forget that we are accomplices in going against the will of heaven." Lin Du's voice was cold and firm, like a layer of ice that had been accumulated for many years, hard and would not break easily.

Wei Zhi couldn't explain why, but he always felt that from the moment she said this, his shoulders seemed to be less stiff.

It was clearly snowing and windy, and he was clearly suffering from a cold, but he felt a little more warmth on his shoulders.

Even though it was just a little paper figure, a soul without temperature, weight, and floating lightly.

But Wei Zhi felt that he had the future of the world and his own future on his shoulders.

If he could do it all over again, would Lin save everyone in the world and also save him?

"Lin Du, where are you going next? What are you looking for? I'll help you. The price is..."

"If you succeed, please help me."

The Buddhist made a vow to the evil ghost, asking the evil ghost to save his life.

He led this man, whose soul had become the same snowstorm as his own many years ago, out of the Arctic, across the chaotic border, across the barren wasteland, climbed up many waterfalls, caught many "moons in the water", clear springs on rocks, and cold moons and green pines.

Sometimes he felt that Lin Du was always suffering, but who wouldn't trap himself in the world of red dust?

She is like a resolute blade, which can neither break nor stand.

When we first met her, she was just an evil ghost walking in the secluded mountains, leaving blood wherever she went.

Looking back now, it turns out that she is one of the few remaining breezes in this world.

She would carefully avoid the mountains, leaving as many hidden formations as possible to strangle the evil spirits wherever she went, and would carefully ask others to find good adoptive families for the orphans she picked up.

Even though he had never seen what she looked like when she was alive, most of the time she was a faceless talisman, a walking corpse that could stop children from crying at night, but it was not difficult to imagine that when she was alive, she must have been the reflection of the bright moon and the gentle breeze.

But such a person has never left his name in history. The only record is that there was a disciple under the seat of Yanye Immortal Venerable, but his name was not recorded.

It is also this kind of person who stays in the human world after death, trying her best and making repeated plans to correct the chaos in this world and to change the fate of herself and others.

He watched her collect all the things needed for the formation, and watched her constantly deduce in her spare time and on the road. He suddenly felt that his best efforts to save himself and search for the records that could truly suppress the source of the evil spirit were nothing.

He often worried about her failure and her way out, but Lin Du never thought about her way out.

A desperate gambler, a devil lingering in the world.

And he, a Buddhist, became the follower and accomplice of the evil ghost who reversed his fate.

Just this one time, this last time.

Lin Du prepared everything and when she was about to leave, Wei Zhi handed her the last thing.

In order to break through the rules of heaven and earth and reach another world, the core of Lin Du's formation also needs the spiritual water that condenses the rules of heaven and earth. The Glazed Heart is her core, and there is another thing, which is the most powerful fire of life in the world.

The clouds and water in the sky, the underworld, the glass-like human heart, and the origin of the true dragon, Yuan Yang.

The origin of Yuan Yang is nothing but the fire of life gate of human beings.

And he is a true dragon, the most powerful life-giving fire in the world.

If we have his fire, the success rate will be higher.

If he gave it away, he wouldn't live long, but if he didn't give it away, he wouldn't live long either.

The Buddhists have been looking for him. He has been on the run for so long, it is time for him to go back.

How can someone who is willing to plan for three hundred years, give up reincarnation, risk the destruction of his soul, and return to the place where it all began on his own and remain unscathed?

The road is made by people.

And he is willing to do it in parallel.

Wei Zhi began to send hints to his past self through the Buddhist divination.

Don't go it alone, there are always people willing to follow.

Lin Du walked towards the Ghost Gate with the bright flame sealed in the glass jar, and Wei Zhi walked towards the Buddhist gate with a pure body.

If I could do it all over again, I would still be willing to share the same path, to overcome the world's dangers together, and to resolve my own difficulties.