Chapter 34 The Law of Cycle◇
◎ Kong Shuang: As long as those two are around, the West will never prosper◎
The handsome and noble young man in red opened his eyes, smiling from his trance, and chuckled softly, "What's the truth?"
Kong Shuang walked over, yanked him up, and dragged him to the side of Zhunti Jieyin, who was deeply cultivating. Pointing at the spiritual energy they were constantly absorbing, he said, "Look, after we absorb spiritual energy, we transform it into the mana we need through continuous cultivation. The process of cultivation also requires mana to circulate. So where does this used mana go?"
She kept it a secret.
Tongtian followed suit and asked, "Where did you go?"
Kong Shuang shook her head and formed a hand seal with her fingertips. A wisp of green magic power slowly appeared, swirled between the two of them, and slowly dissipated between heaven and earth. However, she had actually cast a spell and could see traces of the magic power dissipating.
The two people followed the faint trace of magic power with their eyes, watching its color change from dark green to light green, becoming lighter and lighter, and finally falling lightly to the ground, or rather, falling onto the spiritual vein.
The magic power was absorbed by the spiritual vein.
She turned to look at Tongtian; his expression remained calm, as if he was not surprised.
"While we absorb spiritual energy, we are actually nourishing our spiritual veins. The spiritual veins produce spiritual energy for the cultivators to absorb, which is actually a form of feedback. There is actually a balanced relationship between cultivators and spiritual veins. Only when they complement each other can there be endless life."
Tongtian nodded heavily: "How can such a good thing happen in this world? Why should the spiritual energy produced by the spiritual vein be unconditionally provided for our cultivation? It's just the cycle of cause and effect."
Kong Shuang gave a bitter laugh and glared at Zhunti Jieyin with disdain: "But some people are stupid themselves, and they want to stop everyone from practicing, saying that the West will prosper. I think the West will never prosper!"
According to what Zhunti Jieyin said, they were afraid of exhausting the spiritual veins, so they sealed them and were never willing to let them produce more spiritual energy. They even dispersed other creatures in the west to prevent them from absorbing spiritual energy.
Without anyone practicing, the spiritual veins naturally won't get any feedback in the form of mana. Mana is like food for the spiritual veins. Not letting them eat their fill but expecting them to work is shameless.
More importantly, Jie Yin Zhunti also placed a seal on the spiritual vein, so the spiritual energy in the spiritual vein could provide even less for the cultivators to practice. Moreover, because of the seal, the mana fed back by the cultivators could not be transmitted into the spiritual vein at all.
The more Kong Shuang thought about it, the angrier he became. If she was a spiritual vein, she would probably be so angry that she would die.
"It's really unfortunate that this spiritual vein is located in Lingshan."
Before he finished speaking, Jie Yin Zhunti's figure shook. It was obvious that Zhunti had encountered some problems in his cultivation. His condition was even more serious. He frowned and spat out a mouthful of blood with a "wow".
Jie Yin immediately opened his eyes and supported his shaky body.
Zhunti's face was as pale as gold paper, and he pointed his trembling fingers at Kong Shuang, angrily saying, "You...you are slandering me!"
Kong Shuang didn't expect that this person heard his conversation with Tongtian. His conversation with Tongtian affected him, causing him to become confused and spurt blood.
But it's not her fault, because they were the ones who eavesdropped on other people's conversations.
Seeing his mouth full of blood, she couldn't help but curl her lips and said coldly, "Who is slandering me in this situation? Could you please clarify the situation?"
Zhunti reacted, casually wiped the blood, and explained to her: "My brother and I set up this formation after you split the Spiritual Mountain. If, as you said, the spiritual veins were not nourished, it must have been before then. How do you explain this?"
"This?" Kong Shuang frowned. She did not deny that she was the one who split Lingshan Mountain, but she still did not understand the actual situation at that time. She could not help but look at Tongtian in confusion.
Tongtian pulled her behind him and stared at Zhunti with a calm gaze: "If I remember correctly, when the spiritual veins of Lingshan were revealed that day, it shouldn't have looked like this?"
Jie Yin couldn't help but recall that scene, and felt a chill down his spine. At that time, the spiritual vein was emitting spiritual energy like crazy. They had never seen such a scene in the spiritual vein before, and thought that there was something wrong with the spiritual vein, so they quickly worked together to seal it.
If Kong Shuang's guess was true, then there was actually no problem with the spiritual energy at that time. On the contrary, because there was no suppression from the sacred mountain, it received more mana from the cultivators, so it was emitting spiritual energy.
When he thought of this, Jie Yin wished he could travel back in time and give his former self a slap in the face.
They were wrong in this matter.
However, although they did something wrong, as the Western leaders, they absolutely cannot admit that they did something wrong.
As soon as this thought came to mind, Zhunti on the other side immediately said angrily: "Just like now, it has overdrawn its own spiritual energy to support Senior Brother Tongtian's cultivation. Senior Brother Tongtian, how are you going to compensate us?"
As soon as these words came out, Jie Yin was the first to cover his face, and then quickly covered his mouth, and said to Tong Tian with an embarrassed smile: "Brother Tong Tian, Zhunti is not in his right mind after coming here. Please forgive me, don't take it to heart."
Kong Shuang burst out laughing. She felt a little sympathy for Jie Yin. After working with Zhunti for so many years, he must have had a lot of headaches.
Tongtian smiled more and said, "No problem."
"But..." He changed the subject, held Kong Shuang's hand, and said to the two of them: "You two should make a formal apology to Fellow Daoist Kong Shuang."
"What?" Zhunti ripped away his brother's hand that was covering his mouth. "We brothers haven't sought revenge on her for your sake, and you still want us to apologize to her, Brother Tongtian, you're going too far!"
Jie Yin had already guessed what Tongtian was going to say next, and turned his head away reluctantly, feeling extremely distressed for his younger brother. Even at this time, he was still respectfully calling him senior brother.
He really couldn't bear to see his brother's grief-stricken expression.
Amidst the expressions of Jie Yin's resentment and Zhunti's annoyance, Tong Tian slowly spoke, "It was I who split the sacred mountain, fellow Daoists, not fellow Daoist Kong Shuang. Shouldn't you both apologize first?"
His tone was extremely natural, and his intonation was as casual as ever, as if he was talking about eating and drinking, rather than something big enough to cause Zhunti's mental collapse.
Zhunti's mentality was truly broken. He spat out a mouthful of blood with a "wow" sound, clutching his chest and saying in disbelief, "You...it's actually you!"
He suddenly remembered that he had begged Tongtian to calculate Kong Shuang's whereabouts, and used some provocations, which happened to coincide with what Daozu said about not cultivating moral conduct. It turned out that he was the culprit who caused Lingshan to end up like this.
Zhunti closed his eyes heavily, unwilling to even look at Tongtian again.
Kong Shuang would never miss such an opportunity to kick someone when he's down. She walked out from behind Tongtian and glanced at him with crooked eyes: "It's okay, it's okay. I'm a very generous person. I won't bother with you. It's just a small misunderstanding. It's okay as long as it's resolved."
This was no small misunderstanding, Zhunti breathed a sigh of relief, this was a pure young boy's heart that was broken to the point where it could never be mended.
Thinking of this, Zhunti opened his eyes and glared at Tongtian with resentment. He thought that Tongtian was the first person in the East who showed kindness to him. In such a big East, he only thought that Tongtian was a good person. Who knew that it was the man he trusted wholeheartedly who played him around.
This glance had no effect on Tongtian, but it made Kong Shuang furious. She stood in front of him and said sarcastically:
"What are you looking at? My Tongtian split Lingshan Mountain, and now it seems he did a good thing for you Westerners. It's you two who are incompetent and have made things worse. In my opinion, you should thank him."
This sentence sounds full of problems, but if you think about it carefully, it actually makes some sense. If Zhunti Jieyin had not cast a formation on the spiritual vein in the first place, perhaps the spiritual energy in the west would be a little richer now, which would be a good thing.
Tongtian chuckled, looking at the slender figure standing in front of him and arguing for him, he couldn't help laughing. He imitated Kong Shuang's tone just now and said: "I'm not stingy, and there's no need to thank me. It's good enough as long as the misunderstanding is resolved."
Zhunti almost vomited blood again, turned around and threw himself into Jie Yin's arms, looking extremely pitiful: "Brother, I want to leave here quickly, I don't want to stay any longer."
Jie Yin was extremely distressed and quickly helped Zhunti up: "Okay, I'll take you back right away."
He turned around with Zhunti, then turned back to look at Kong Shuang and the other two: "Why don't you two go to my Lingshan Mountain to rest for a while?"
He simply said a few polite words, but in his heart he was thinking that he wanted these two people to quickly repair their spiritual veins and return to the East, and not to cause trouble to them in the West again.
Kong Shuangdan opened her lips slightly, nodded slightly, and smiled faintly: "Sorry to bother you, please help us prepare a quiet room."
Jie Yin's smile froze on his face for a long time, then he nodded angrily.
At that time, Lingshan was not yet the Lingshan of later generations with the Great Leiyin Temple, where thousands of Buddhas came to pay homage. It did not have the magnificent palaces like those on Kunlun Mountain, and it did not even have the low-key Taoist temple on Wanshou Mountain.
The residences of Zhunti Jieyin and their disciples on Mount Lingshan are the same simple and plain, consisting of rows of low wooden houses or stone houses.
Kong Shuang looked all the way and saw that there were quite a lot of them, but the quality didn't seem very good, and they were extremely unsightly. They were not as good as her Undead Volcano. At least the house on the Undead Volcano was built on the paulownia tree, which at least looked wild.
She looked at it again and again, and seriously felt that if Lingshan was not like Buzhoushan, which had caves everywhere, Zhunti and Jie Yin would definitely choose to live in a cave directly.
Jie Yin was rarely generous for a moment. He stretched out his arms and made an attitude of "this is all the kingdom I conquered", and said generously: "My Lingshan has the most houses. Daoist friends, you can choose whatever you like."
Kong Shuang complained in his heart: That’s because there is nothing else in your Lingshan.
She frowned and chose for a long time, and finally chose a stone house. The reason was simple: it didn't look like a dangerous building.
Zhunti, who was being supported by Jie Yin, suddenly turned around. His expression was still stiff, but his tone softened. "You two fellow Daoists are guests from afar. How about I send a few disciples to serve you?"
Kong Shuang snorted lightly, and immediately thought of Zhunti's plan. Zhunti didn't want his disciples to serve them at all. It was obvious that he was thinking about the magic weapon Tongtian. Not to mention the grievances of the elders, if the nephew served his uncle, wouldn't the uncle have any expression at all.
Tongtian felt bad, but the Three Pure Ones also felt embarrassed.
Kong Shuang wanted to refuse, but when the words reached his lips, a face with red lips and white teeth suddenly flashed before his eyes. Against the backdrop of the bald head, there was an inexplicable abstinence. He changed his words and said:
"It's not impossible, but you have to let me review it first and then I can choose."
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