Someone once said that a man’s maturity does not lie in his age but in his experience.

In the past, Zhang San only thought that this sentence made sense. However, after meeting this bearded man, the other party confirmed the correctness of this sentence for him.

In terms of clothing, the other party was only wearing a coarse red robe and a tattered cloak, but after being dressed up by Gu Xuanyan, Zhang San was wearing a silk gown worth hundreds of gold, and even the collar was trimmed with gold.

As for appearance, there is no comparison between the two.

It was just such an unprepossessing man who made the experienced Zhang San respect him. After all, this was a man whose stories were engraved even on his wrinkles.

Combined with the previous analysis, it is true that humans will not fall twice in the same place, but someone needs to bear the pain of the first fall.

If Zhang San guessed correctly, the ugly bearded man in front of him might be the so-called number one.

First, his hometown was massacred by the creatures of the evil spirit system, and then he helped Zhang San deal with Baiyaki. According to common sense, he should have thanked the other party.

However, due to his status, Zhang San had to express his unkindness.

"I am grateful for your teaching. May I ask who you are, senior?"

[It can be confirmed that this guy does have the aura of a king, but his attitude... he is not a good person! ]

He paid no attention to the voice echoing in his mind. Despite his congenital defects and ferocious face, Zhong Kui still showed what he considered to be a kind face when facing the human race.

"I am Zhong Kui. May I ask for your name, fellow Taoist?"

Red robe, official boots, broken umbrella, and sword.

Being in a fantasy world, and ruling out the COSPLAY hypothesis, although this inference is incredible, it seems to be the only explanation at the moment? "Blessing Saint of the House? You haven't lived from the Tang Dynasty to the present."

With the help of the transparent world, Zhang San knew very well that the bearded man in front of him was by no means a god created by the power of incense and vows, but a real, flesh-and-blood human being, or more accurately, a monk.

However, if this is the case, according to the strange stories circulated among the people, Zhong Kui was a person during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (685 AD), while the current dynasty is the third year of Qiling in the Jin Dynasty (1548 AD).

There is a full 863 years difference between the two. Even if it is true that the accomplished cultivator has a long life, even the former Peng Zu would be frightened when faced with this number.

However, all of the above are not the key points, especially after experiencing the previous incident of the incarnation of the Buddha - the King of Inspiration, Zhang San also kept a watchful eye on these gods of fortune and virtue.

As if he had noticed something strange in Zhang San's eyes, Zhong Kui hurriedly explained in order to stop the other party from continuing to guess blindly.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not a descended Buddha through sexual cults. To put it simply, you can understand me as a reincarnated Buddha."

"Reincarnation and cultivation? How come gods can also fall?"

Because of the previous Tengyun Bridge incident, although Zhong Kui could hear the unkindness in Zhang San's words, he still patiently explained.

"Even the sky will age, so how can we talk about gods? Besides, didn't you complete the process of killing gods before? According to your status as a natural disaster, if I'm not mistaken, the other party should be inspiration."

According to the custom of the Jingye Division, without the emperor's approval, the files on ghost plagues cannot be circulated. Even if internal personnel want to review them, they need the corresponding authority.

Faced with such a rigorous process, it is obviously impossible for Zhong Kui to obtain information through this route. So the remaining answer is that the person in front of him, no, the identity of this god is probably real.

[Hey, this is not a weakling. If you really push me, I won't help you.]

【Don't worry, no need. 】

Zhang San naturally had no idea about the conversation in the other party's mind, but the only thing he could understand was that after hesitating several times, he finally dispersed the talisman in his hand.

One should be in the right position and do his job. As a canonized person in Taiping County, the incident of the coming of the Buddha is a thorn in Zhang San's eyes. If he does not remove it completely, he will be unable to sleep or eat.

"Phew, Bearded Man, you win."

Not calling the other party Zhong Kui represented Zhang San's compromise. People who have cultivated to their level would never meet for no reason.

It was obvious that the other party had something to discuss with him, and Zhang San also needed information about the incarnation of the Buddha. However, in order to leave room for later explanations, Zhang San could only trade with the bearded man, and not with Zhong Kui.

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“When discussing this topic, you must first have a basic concept in your mind: outside of this world, there are other worlds, where I exist, and where you exist as well.

Don't show such a surprised expression, because the world line changes, in that world, we may still be friends. "

Zhang San was not sure whether other people in the same world could understand Zhong Kui's words, but with the support of the parallel world theory, he could understand them effortlessly.

"Suppose that you in a certain world accidentally embarked on a path of cultivation. Let's call it my true self. My true self has good aptitude and luck. After practicing diligently, my true self finally achieved transcendence within the prescribed period of time and ascended to the heavenly court in the upper realm.

Based on the principle that if one person succeeds, the whole family will benefit, when the self has completed transcendence, the other selves in other worlds will also be marked out, and we can call them the doppelgangers of the self.

Thanks to the transcendence of the original self, the doppelgangers in other worlds will all be enhanced in all aspects, both in terms of talent and fortune."

As if he had thought of something, Zhang San couldn't help but mutter to himself when he heard this: "Then these doppelgangers are quite advantageous."

Without responding to Zhang San's loneliness, Zhong Kui continued to explain.

"Because of the increased weight of fate, some doppelgangers are even more qualified than the original self, and their future cultivation path will be broader. But unfortunately, because the transcendental position is occupied by the original self, no matter how high the cultivation of the doppelganger is, he will never be able to transcend in this lifetime.

And because they are controlled by the self, when the self in the upper world dies unexpectedly, the doppelgangers in other worlds will even be possessed by the self.

They are similar, but they are also definitely different.”

"According to what you mean, the incarnation of Buddha is..."

As if frightened by his own thoughts, Zhang San found it hard to believe this answer for a moment, but unfortunately, Zhong Kui didn't care whether he could accept it or not.

"In the heavenly palace in the upper realm and the three thousand lower realms, except for a few hundred Dharma-ending worlds where cultivation is not allowed, their double bodies have already died out. Faced with the embarrassing situation of having their status taken away, do you think they will lack the courage to fight with the lewd sacrifice?"

"In other words, you are also... a doppelganger now?"

After hesitating for a long time, Zhang San couldn't help but ask this very sharp question.