Chapter 217
Yu Tu looked at the door that was so close yet he couldn't leave, then turned his head to look at the platform on the second floor. It seemed that he made eye contact with the students standing on the platform. For a moment, Yu Tu thought that they would rush down from the platform and tear him to pieces, just like he had seen in the past, the large pools of blood spreading under the roof leading to the fourth floor.
But they didn't.
They just stood there quietly, perhaps they did not realize that the tea tree seedlings as small as a blade of grass were living people, or perhaps some force imprisoned them... In short, they did nothing.
Yu Tu stared at the students for a while, then transformed from a tea tree seedling back into human form.
How should we question our true nature?
Yu Tu went up the stairs again.
There was still a large honor roll hanging in the stairwell, with photos with a blue background arranged on it. The curve of the smile of every person in the photo was as standard as if measured with a ruler.
Yu Tu crossed the Honor Roll and came to the second floor. There were two classrooms on the left and three classrooms on the right. The moment he came up, the malice that he had never felt before in the form of a tea seedling washed over him like a surging tide.
The sound of reciting has stopped, and the entire second floor is dead silent, so dead silent that it makes people uneasy. Due to the limited vision, Yu Tu cannot see the scene in the classroom, but he can see the students standing on the platform, and everyone's eyes are fixed on him, as if they are staring at a piece of prime meat.
Because of his childhood experiences, Yu Tu was very afraid of being stared at like this in public. It would make him feel panicky and insecure. Even though the person staring at him now was not a living person but a monster, the shadow of his childhood was still like a thorn in his side, and it did not diminish in the slightest.
Yu Tu took a deep breath and comforted himself in his heart, it’s okay, this is just a simulation, he won’t die.
After preparing himself mentally, Yu Tu, contrary to his usual cautiousness, rushed forward and grabbed the arm of the student closest to him. Wood-type spiritual power burst out crazily from the point where they were in contact, and a faint light green light emerged from both of their bodies.
Before Yu Tu could do anything, Qu Yutao, who was monitoring with his Qiankun Eyes, was shocked first. He said softly:
"This child... is practicing the way of self-sacrifice?"
When Qu Yutao was shocked, Yu Tu was also shocked. His action of relying on the guarantee to take a gamble was actually regarded by Qu Yutao as evidence that he was practicing the way of self-sacrifice.
Among the four schools, namely, Millerkel, Kunlun, Changan Academy, and Guixu, only Changan Academy has very few students practicing the Way of Self-Sacrifice.
The practice that best matches the path of self-sacrifice is Buddhism.
"He doesn't practice self-sacrifice, nor is he a Buddhist practitioner." Yu Tu used a pseudonym to justify himself, "He practices spiritual cultivation."
Everyone who awakens their spiritual power will gradually find the direction that suits them best during their studies, just like some people become formation cultivators because of their talent, some become weapon cultivators because of their strong character, and some become sword cultivators because of their love... Everyone's direction is different.
After determining your own direction of study, you will then conduct in-depth research in that direction. Only when you have studied to a certain depth will you have your own "Tao".
Generally, direction comes first and then "Tao", but occasional special cases are not excluded, such as having "Tao" first and then choosing the appropriate direction based on "Tao".
Qu Yutao obviously mistook Yu Tu's true identity for the latter.
Qu Yutao was slightly stunned by Buyehou's firm rebuttal: "Yu Tu is a spiritual practitioner?"
Spiritual practice is rarer than Buddhist practice, and it is more difficult to find one’s own “path” because the requirements of spiritual practice are too demanding.
Buyehou didn't seem to realize how difficult this was. He just nodded casually, "Yes."
After studying at Miller College for a year, the students seemed to have found their own development direction. Some had determined their talents, some had clarified their dreams. Only Yu Tu was not as clear as the others.
He always seems to be a little slower than others. He can draw the talismans used in daily life, and is willing to patiently study some interesting new talismans, but he cannot match Hao Zhizhi's creative ideas. He has learned the flying sword well, and he also likes the feeling of using the sword as if it were his own arm, but he is not as pious as Gu Hongying. He can successfully complete the magic weapon transformation assigned by the teacher, but he can't do it as casually as Eric... His friends are all shining in the direction of their respective expertise, but he seems to be still in the mist and can't find the way for the time being.
Afterwards, the coordinates of the void were located and the door to the void was opened. In the town tower, Yu Tu saw the fallen Nine-Tailed Fox.
Humans cannot live in harmony with monsters, and weird beasts are also a kind of monster. Yu Tu did not regret activating the formation to completely collapse and seal the void coordinates, but he had a vague illusion that the Nine-Tailed Fox still had some residual consciousness at certain times, otherwise he could not explain the words he heard when he stepped out of the void gate.
The transformation of weirdness cannot be reversed, and the weirdness is destined to be eliminated. But among those weirdnesses that are destined to be eliminated, is there a one in ten thousand chance that they still retain some of their consciousness from their previous life, but that consciousness is too weak, so weak that it can be ignored?
This thought had been lingering in Yu Tu's mind. During the summer vacation, when he was studying on his own, he saw an ancient direction of spiritual practice in a book - spiritual practice.
Everything in the world has a soul.
The book does not clearly state the conditions for becoming a spiritual practitioner, nor does it clearly state what level of achievement is considered spiritual practice. It only says in a mysterious way that when you truly embark on this path, you will naturally feel the response.
The book records the names of a handful of successful spiritual practitioners, with their names hidden. It only picks out two or three stories to be written about. One of the stories is about a spiritual practitioner whose name was hidden and who accidentally entered a strange place. In that strange place lived a fallen monster beast, which did not harm him but avoided him instead.
The spiritual practitioner had a wild and rebellious personality, and he could have escaped, but he did the opposite and insisted on finding the monster that was avoiding him. After finding it, he started fighting with the monster. During the fight, the spiritual practitioner sensed the monster's true spirit and was wrapped in evil aura, like a candle that was about to go out.
Even hundreds of years ago, people knew that once a beast became corrupted and transformed into a monster, its true spirit would be polluted immediately. How is it possible that after the transformation into a monster is complete, some of its true spirit would still remain?
The spiritual practitioner refused to believe in evil and used his own power to awaken the true spirit of the monster. The book is vague about the specific process, but in the end the monster died and the spiritual practitioner died of his injuries. The reason why this incident was recorded was that the person who wrote this book found a sound stone on a battlefield and restored the truth of the battlefield by pondering.
When Yu Tu read this story, he had only six things to say: "..."
He really couldn't understand the train of thought of this spiritual practitioner and his excessive thirst for knowledge, but this did not prevent him from drawing a conclusion from many events: the fallen and evil monsters could retain some consciousness if they made preparations in advance. For example, Nine-Tailed Fox separated a part of its memory and stored it in the [Fox Mask]. Even though the distance was far, the [Fox Mask] was slowly eroded by the evil spirit, and the existence time of the monster's consciousness was still extended.
Yu Tu thought, even if such cases were rare, even if such situations were seldom seen, but if he could really master the method of awakening the true spirit of the monster, or in other words... just identify whether the monster could communicate, wouldn't there be so many sacrifices?
This road is full of difficulties and dangers, and there is almost no reference path. Even among the several spiritual practitioners recorded, only one found the "Tao". This road will be more difficult than anyone else's, but Yu Tu has an intuition that this is his direction.
No one can help with the direction of development; it is up to oneself to decide. After reading the book, Yu Tu made the decision without hesitation and started to do spiritual practice!
If it really doesn't work... Yu Tu thought, at worst he could just stick to this path while learning some other skills. He believed that as long as he worked hard enough, he wouldn't become a drag.
Before, Yu Tu was still worrying about where to find a large number of monsters to practice with, and he even thought about multitasking by letting the vest take his original body to kill monsters. But now—the ready-made venues are in front of him, and he doesn’t even have to worry about his life!
Compared to what was seen in the past after the talent was passively triggered, this place is almost a one-to-one restoration, which means that Kunlun must have studied this task in detail to achieve such a high degree of restoration. In other words, every "student" here is a reappearance of the past, and their reactions will be infinitely close to being truly weird.
He did not have the terrifying strength like the Lord of Kunlun Mountain to destroy the entire teaching building directly. His choice was to temporarily throw away caution and rush up to give it a try.
Although he was sure that his speculation was most likely correct, he still used a pseudonym to verify it with Qu Yutao:
"All students who enter the core of the Snow Mountain cannot leave until they have perfected their choices, right?"
Qu Yutao was surprised at Buyehou's sharpness, but he did not hide it: "Yes."
To be able to enter the core of the snow mountain and be "questioned" requires either strength or luck. If they are simply allowed to "die" out, it would be a waste of their hard work for an entire summer vacation.
After getting a definite answer, Yu Tu felt relieved. He increased the frequency of his spiritual power output, trying to get the conclusion he wanted before he "died" in one round.
A round of "death" came quickly. After the pain slowly passed, Yu Tu slowly exhaled. He was sure that the student he had just circulated with spiritual power did not have the consciousness of a "human".
Yu Tu had several other guesses in his mind, and he decided to verify them one by one, and then...
He "died" six times in a row.
After his seventh "rebirth", Yu Tu finally realized how cunning Kunlun's teachers were.
They are deliberately placed in a school that everyone has experienced. The reactions of the "students" are weird and distorted, but there are always some places that make them feel that they still have some "humanity".
Yu Tu could guess that among the other participants there would definitely be people like him who would not regard them as completely weird, but would try to awaken their "humanity".
For example, unite students to fight back, find a way to deal with the teacher, purify their resentment, change the school rules and regulations... These were the thoughts that Yu Tu had before he was "dead" for the first time.
But reality slapped him hard in the face. The situation described in the book was extremely rare. There were four major categories of goblins, ghosts and monsters, and weird ones belonged to the last category, which was different from the other three categories.
The weird thing is not An Jiajia, not those lovely baby spirits, not Zangsheng in Renxin Hospital, not Jiaoyue who is entangled in resentment. They look similar, but their natures are completely different. Special cases like the Fallen Nine-Tailed Fox are one in a million.
Yu Tu's previous assumptions now seemed a little pale and ridiculous, perhaps because other things he had encountered were equally unique, so his defenses gradually softened, and he naively thought that everything could be solved in a softer and more roundabout way.
But weirdos are weirdos, no matter what their pasts were or what their experiences were. Once they become weirdos, we should no longer have sympathy for them.
After Yu Tu "died" six times, he finally understood this truth.
During his seventh "rebirth", Yu Tu used his spiritual power to condense a weapon and killed a "student".
Ask your conscience, what are you asking?
Yu Tu touched the smelly blood that splashed on his face.
Perhaps it is to ask, after discovering the cruel truth, whether you still have the courage to raise your weapon and continue, to exchange your blood for peace and tranquility for others.