Chapter 397: No Secret
"Master Qin has ordered the opening of the mountain gate formation."
"Open the mountain gate formation?"
"Yes, activate the formation immediately. Do not stop any carriages from the west from entering the courtyard."
In the cool afternoon of the autumn wind, the disciple in charge of guarding the mountain gate received a message from the abbot, and he was somewhat surprised.
Because the gate formation of Tianshu Academy has never been fully opened, and carriages are not allowed to enter. Even when envoys from the three major immortal sects came a few days ago, they parked their carriages at the Nishan Divine Road.
This inevitably makes people wonder who is coming.
However, despite their doubts, the disciples on duty still took the command arrows, opened the mountain gate in advance and waited.
Not long after, five carriages came roaring from the West City, drove into the courtyard along the Nishan Sacred Road without stopping for a moment, and then rushed all the way to the inner courtyard, entered the vast forest, and headed to the Zizai Palace amid a gust of flying sand.
When the carriage stopped on the white lawn, Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu immediately jumped off the shaft and came to the third carriage.
Yan Shu had already gotten off the car, and Yuan Caiwei followed closely behind him. At this time, Ji You was lying in the car, no different from before, with his eyes still closed and no breath leaking out.
"Master..."
"Send him into the palace."
"yes."
Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu responded and helped Ji You out. Together with the people who came later, they took him to the deep hall.
At this time, Yan Shu, who was supposed to follow, also stopped for a while in front of the palace gate.
When the footsteps coming from the empty hall became farther and farther away, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she turned and walked down the mountain, leaving Nishan alone.
The disciple guarding the mountain gate was guessing the identity of the person in the carriage. Suddenly, he saw the young master of Lingjian Mountain coming down the mountain from the courtyard, and he couldn't help but be slightly startled.
When they came to their senses, they found that she had left Nishan and headed towards the city.
They were somewhat surprised that the Little Master Jian was in Tianshu Academy, but what surprised them even more was that the Little Master Jian of Lingjian Mountain seemed different today than before. She was no longer as cool and confident as before. On the contrary, her beautiful face was filled with timidity and fear.
At the same time, Ji You had been sent into the palace.
Zuo Qiuyang had been waiting in the front hall for a long time. When he saw Ji You, his heart couldn't help but tremble.
To be honest, even though Cao Jinsong's message made it very clear, he still didn't believe that Ji You's soul had "returned to heaven."
Because his master was extremely concerned about Ji You when he passed away, he felt that Ji You would not die, and even if he died, it would not be so quiet.
But when he actually saw Ji You, he discovered that there was really no soul in the other person's body.
To be more precise, he felt that what he saw was not Ji You, but just an empty shell, just like the porcelain vase in this hall, gorgeous on the surface but empty inside.
how so?
"Put him on the bed in the back hall."
You Yingqiu also looked at Ji You with a serious expression, and gave instructions after observing for a moment.
Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu nodded after hearing this, and immediately joined everyone else in carrying their son-in-law towards the back hall.
Ji You, who had lost his breath, would not resist at all. He was like a puppet that could be manipulated at will. He was sent to the back hall without much effort.
"He really has lost his soul..."
"There's no breath left, and the pulse is dead."
Zuo Qiuyang and You Yingqiu first examined Ji You in their own way, and the more they looked, the more solemn they became.
"What did Sect Leader Yuan say?"
They looked at Yuan Caiwei, and saw the daughter of Danzong speak in a hoarse voice, telling them everything about her father.
After hearing this, Zuo Qiuyang didn't say anything more. He stood up and walked away a few steps. You Yingqiu ordered the disciples in the hall to close the door and sat cross-legged in front of Ji You.
Since the soul is gone, Danzong naturally has no way to deal with it.
They wanted to use the art of divination to observe the mysteries of heaven, thinking that this was their last hope.
You Yingqiu held the Yuan Shouyi and muttered to himself, and the next moment, an endless mysterious aura burst out from his body, and his eyes instantly burst into a surging silver light.
It was a light different from the color of the soul, so pure that it caused a resonance between heaven and earth in just a moment, surrounding the entire Zizai Peak.
At this moment, in You Yingqiu's third eye, countless things began to dissipate. The hall, the bed, and the people surrounding him were all broken into long lines, which suddenly stretched away.
This is the supreme secret method inherited from the Heavenly Book, a technique of insight that points directly to the Great Dao. Practitioners of this technique can remove the superficial appearances of all things and glimpse the "Tao" and "Principle" intertwined behind them.
In his eyes, every blade of grass and every tree at that time were no longer ordinary things, but the embodiment of the laws of heaven and earth, and the extension of the veins of Tao.
And when his eyes see people, he can see the endless thread of cause and effect entangled with their bodies. Past karma, present fate, and future possibilities are all clearly visible like lines on the palm of his hand.
At this moment, Ji You was also a line in her eyes, straight and long.
Then she waved her hand gently, and saw that the lifeline representing Ji You began to shrink rapidly towards her, flowing through her palm inch by inch.
A person's life is extremely long, and the cause and effect are even more complex and huge. Trying to see all the connections clearly puts a huge pressure on the soul of the caster.
But You Yingqiu knew that she didn't need to see so much.
They were unwilling to accept Ji You's death and just wanted to find a glimmer of hope. She also didn't believe that Ji You would return so suddenly, so she just needed to look at his lifeline.
She wanted to see his future to confirm whether that glimmer of hope existed.
Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly——
The long line that Ji You transformed into kept wrapping around her palm. After an unknown amount of time, the line suddenly tightened, and in the blink of an eye, a void of darkness appeared.
Seeing this scene, You Yingqiu couldn't help but fall into silence, and only slowly opened his eyes after a long time.
"how's it going?"
"He has no future."
Cao Jinsong was already suffering from internal injuries, and after hearing this, a trickle of blood immediately flowed out from the corner of his mouth.
The light in Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu's eyes instantly disappeared, and Yuan Chen suddenly shouted "Sister" and rushed towards Yuan Caiwei, who was suddenly a little unsteady.
Only Zuo Qiuyang still had a frown on his face.
The revelation left by the master when he ascended was that if they didn't know what to do next, they should see what Ji You would do. But if he really died like this, how should they see it?
While thinking, Zuo Qiuyang's eyes suddenly froze and he noticed something was wrong.
"Didn't you say that the young Master Jian also came with you? Where is Master Jian?"
"Master..."
Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu, who were about to cry, hurriedly turned around and found that their own appraiser was really not in Zizai Palace. They couldn't help but look a little stunned.
That's not right. Our master clearly followed us all the way here and was unwilling to leave the young master even for a moment. How come he is not in the palace now?
The two were stunned for a moment, and then quickly walked out of the hall. They first looked at the carriage on the white lawn, and then flew all the way to the gate of Tianshuyuan, but they did not see any trace of the master of inspection.
The two of them were stunned on the Nishan Sacred Road, staring at the huge Shengjing for a while.
Although their own master had been to Shengjing many times, she actually stayed with her brother-in-law every time and had not been to many places. The place she most often stayed in was her brother-in-law's residence, so they felt that the master would not go too far.
While thinking, the two suddenly looked at each other, remembered a place at the same time, and then flew towards the city.
The sun was slightly tilted downward, and the sudden rise of the autumn wind added a touch of coolness to the city.
Soon, two figures landed in front of the door of Wuyou Trading Company.
When they pushed open the wooden door, they saw the young master of Lingjian Mountain standing quietly at the threshold of the main hall without saying a word.
"Have you finished reading it? Do you know when he will wake up?" Yan Shuyi couldn't help but ask when he saw the two people coming.
"Master..."
"Sleeping for a long time also takes time, one year, two years, or ten years, there must be a time. Anyway, he is just a stranger I have met a few times. I am not afraid of waiting too long, really."
After hearing this, Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu lowered their heads at the same time, and then shook their heads in response.
It doesn't mean that he will wake up, nor does it mean how long he will sleep. This shaking head means that he will not wake up.
After hearing this answer, Xiao Jianzhu was silent for a while.
The way she and Ji You get along has always been weird, being close yet distant, and full of disdain, but in fact she is really attached to him, so she never thought that he would leave her.
How could this happen? Everything was going smoothly.
Yan Shuyi's eyes trembled slightly, and he couldn't understand it.
Seeing her reaction, Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu couldn't help but burst into tears after holding back all the way.
They felt that they shouldn't have come. The judge had been guarding their son-in-law all the way and might have known the outcome already.
But the judge was really timid and didn't want to hear it from others, so she left suddenly. But even if she hid here, she still couldn't escape such bad news.
I was meditating in the mountains when I suddenly saw a flash of light. I followed it and flew to see what was happening. I ended up here.
[I mean, how many children does Master Jian want to have?]
【Hurry up, call me husband.】
[I love eating roasted sweet potatoes. The high and mighty Little Master of Lingjian Mountain is really easy to feed.]
[Why do you seem to have gained some weight? Uh, but being a little fatter is also cute.]
Yan Shuyi sat quietly on the doorstep, touching her belly with her hand, and the figure of a strange man kept appearing in her mind.
There were many opportunities, such as when I wrote to him and he told me I had gained some weight.
She felt a little regretful, regretting that she didn't tell the thief directly that she was not fat, but that she was pregnant with his baby.
"What did you say, Ji You is dead?"
"Impossible, wasn't the one who died in the Divine Wandering Realm from the Wandering Sect?"
In the meeting room of Shanhai Pavilion, the elder of the Huo family, who had not slept all night, was shocked when he heard the news from the Holy Land of Sages.
Upon hearing the news, the disciple who came to report it immediately bowed and said, "He is indeed dead. The brothers who reported it from the mountain said so. They said that Ji You suddenly fell from the sky after successfully breaking through the realm. The head of the Dan Sect examined him and said that his soul has returned to heaven."
As soon as the words fell, the entire conference room fell silent.
Soon they all stood up, their eyes trembling like earth dragons turning over: "The soul has returned to heaven, did they see this news with their own eyes?"
“I saw it with my own eyes.”
"He clearly said the night before that he was about to break through, why did he die so suddenly?"
"Some people say it might be a problem with the cultivation method, because Ji You happened to lose his breath at the moment of breaking through the realm."
After the words fell, the elders of the Shanhai Pavilion were stunned again. Not long after, they suddenly felt as if the clouds had cleared and the sun was shining.
Why do they stay up all night?
It was not because Shenyou of the Wendao Sect died, nor because Ji You was about to break through, but because they had been thinking about the master's words "what a waste of effort".
Ever since Ji You grew up, he has been against the Immortal Sect and even killed several elders. Now he is probably even more difficult to deal with. This is something that everyone in the world knows.
But why would the master think that getting rid of him was unnecessary?
Indeed, it is difficult for a rural private cultivator to catch the eye of a supreme being like the head of an immortal sect. But the problem is that Ji You is not an ordinary rural private cultivator. He has already threatened the existence of the direct disciple of the sect.
Until this moment, they suddenly had the answer.
No wonder, no wonder Ji You ignored the master’s attention despite his repeated clashes with the immortal power. It turned out that this was the end of his physical cultivation!
He is not a scourge that can threaten the group of immortal cultivators. From the moment he shocked the world with his body refining skills, he was destined to be just a short-lived episode!
Since Ji You is destined to die, sending someone to assassinate him would be a waste of time!
The Chen family and the people from the Wending Sect who had received the messages one after another were also shocked.
They also went through a stage of disbelief and discussion, and could not help but be dumbfounded.
"When one reaches the realm of spiritual wandering through enlightenment, the spirit gradually begins to abandon the physical body, allowing it to decay. When ascending to heaven, it even specifically shatters the shell that imprisons it. It's not an exaggeration to say that the spirit kills the physical body."
"Then, in the later stages of body refinement, is it the opposite, allowing the body to kill the soul?"
Especially Shang Xingkong, the deputy head of the Wending Sect, fixed his eyes, thinking that even if he did nothing, the rural private cultivator was doomed to die, because he was originally cultivating a dead end.
Yes, where in the world can there be such a terrifying talent, who can kill a person in the Shenyou realm with bare fists in his twenties.
It turns out that everything has a price, but because body cultivators are so rare, no one knows that the price can be so severe.
The autumn wind is blowing and the sun is setting in the west.
A large number of members of the aristocratic families who went to the holy land of the sages to watch Ji Youchongjing returned quietly, and then the related matters began to spread.
A mysterious expert from the Divine Wandering Realm came to assassinate him, but Ji You broke through the realm twice and killed the man, and then fell when the breakthrough was complete. After being examined by the head of the Dan Sect, it was claimed that his soul had returned to heaven.
Just like the old saying in Qingyun that good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels all over the world, the news spread like wildfire in an instant, and began to spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred.
"I don't understand. Is the Ji You you're talking about the same Ji You from Tianshuyuan?"
"That's him. I've heard several people say so."
"How is this possible? You all saw what happened at the Dao Discussion Conference. Even the Immortal Sect had a hard time dealing with him. How could he die so suddenly?"
"Isn't he in the Holy Land of the Ancient Sages trying to break through? It's said that something went wrong with his cultivation method. Dan Zong's headmaster, Yuan Li, said personally that his soul had returned to heaven. Many people saw it."
"This...is this too sudden?"
"Body refining is a thankless task. Qingyun has been trying for thousands of years, and so many people have failed. Yet, he seemed to be assisted by a god. I felt something was wrong at the time. If this body refining technique is so powerful, why don't the immortal bloodlines practice it?"
"That makes sense..."
The news spread and soon reached Shengjing.
First came the aristocratic families that had close ties with Zhongzhou, followed by the young men in the capital who often drank and had fun with the children of the aristocratic families.
People like Zhao Yunyue were all shocked and confirmed the news with the messenger several times before they finally got it right.
In fact, long before the news came, they noticed that Tianshu Academy suddenly opened the mountain gate formation and welcomed five carriages. They were wondering why, and now they suddenly realized that it was because of Ji You.
He actually cultivated himself to the point where his soul returned to heaven.
The setting sun was going down in the west and dusk was slowly approaching. In the bustling Chunhua Lane, a scholar was stumbling towards the Nishan Sacred Road.
The disciples guarding the mountain gate knew the identity of the visitor and had heard the rumors. Unexpectedly, they did not stop him, but let him into the mountain gate silently.
Brother Ji, everyone out there is talking nonsense...
Kuang Cheng entered the vast forest and kept moving through the dense jungle.
He was just an ordinary man. After reading the books of sages for more than ten years, he was still weak as a kitten. Moreover, when this place was originally arranged, no consideration was taken of any ordinary people coming in, so there were many dangerous peaks and blocked roads in the forest.
So even though the disciples of the Head Office tacitly let him go, he still stumbled and ran in the forest for more than an hour.
By the time he ran out of the forest and came to the inner courtyard, the fiery clouds of dusk had dissipated, replaced by a deep dark night and a sky full of stars.
The hem of his robe was completely worn out, and blood was oozing from his knees, dripping down his trousers.
"Did Ji You really return to heaven?"
"Yes, the disciples of Zizai Temple saw it with their own eyes."
"Is it really not another immortal sect that secretly assassinated me?"
"It is said that someone secretly attacked him when he was breaking through the realm, but that person was killed in the end. He really died the moment he broke through the realm."
In the cool evening breeze, Kuang Cheng, who was walking in Zizhu Zen Temple, heard countless discussions, but he turned a deaf ear to them all and went up the mountain with gritted teeth.
It’s fake, all fake.
You, the children of aristocratic families, are just jealous of Brother Ji's extraordinary talent because he has no background, and you spend the whole day doing nothing but making up stories.
He muttered to himself as he climbed to the Zizai Temple. After entering the depths under the gaze of the disciples guarding the temple, he stopped instantly because of the scene before him.
In the hall, Ji You was lying quietly on the bed, without making a sound, while Cao Jinsong was sitting beside him with a pale face and bloodshot eyes.
To his right, Wen Zhengxin and the Lu sisters stood with their heads bowed, their faces stained with tears and their eyes red and swollen.
There was also Ban Yangshu who kept sighing, and the Fengzhou disciples who stood there silently, forming a circle.
Like Kuang Cheng, they came here after hearing the rumors. It took them a long time to accept the fact, but they found that they could not accept it at all.
Kuang Cheng was stunned for a long time, then looked at the Danzong disciple who was curled up in the hall: "Yuan Chen..."
Hearing someone calling him, Yuan Chen raised his head blankly. After seeing who it was, he couldn't help but open his mouth: "Brother Kuang."
"Why is Brother Ji sleeping here?" Kuang Cheng's voice trembled a little.
"Brother Kuang, my brother-in-law is gone."
"What on earth is going on?"
"It suddenly became like this when I was breaking through. Dad said maybe there was something wrong with my cultivation..."
[You, scholar, are really a man of yellow heart! ]
[Have you received your monthly salary? I have no money to eat. Please lend me ten or twenty taels.]
[You spend all day doing these serious things, when will you be able to give birth to a big fat boy? ]
[The word "gentleman" is too strong. I don't deserve it.]
"Come, let me see if your dog's head has been chopped off by the demon tribe for your nonsense."
The past events were vivid in his mind, constantly surrounding Kuang Cheng's eyes, one sentence after another, as if to tear him to pieces.
In this endless panic, Kuang Cheng turned and walked out of the hall.
The Sixianjian has a large collection of books, including some ancient books handed down from ancient times. He wants to find a way...
(End of this chapter)
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