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Although he realized that his heavenly gate had loosened, Ling Wuji carefully examined his heart and shook his head:
He really wasn't that eager to be promoted to Yin God.
The desire to save lives was apparently not enough fuel for his breakthrough.
Although he has always been a person without self-awareness, he finally made a clear conclusion about himself at this time: he is Leng Wuque, a so-called "cold, ruthless, and lacking in faith" person. The reason why Leng Wuque wants to save people is probably just out of boredom, right?
Just like he was fortune-telling for those young girls.
However, he doesn't really want an interesting life.
"The reason why I became like this is probably because I read too many Taoist classics when I was young, right?"
It's quite ironic though.
Most Taoist texts advise people to keep their minds calm and eliminate unnecessary desires, but Taoists seek immortality, and the meaning of immortality is that one can practice one's wishes and ideals long enough. Ling Wu Ji's problem is that he has early on built a comfortable cage for his life. It is obvious that if he steps out now, he will definitely become more comfortable in the future. But at this point, he has no motivation to break the cage.
"That's fine..."
Anyway, the current situation is not too bad...
However, that night, he met the elusive Araya Soren in the Wu Tiao Building.
"I thought you were going to bring her to your magic workshop so you could lure me in."
Ling Wu Ji pointed at the woman floating in the sky and said to the tall man with a distressed look on his face who walked out of the dark corner.
"Although a magician can indeed perform at his best in the magic workshop," the man's face remained calm, as if he had been like a rock since birth, "but, just because I've become weaker doesn't mean you've become stronger, right?"
Ling Wuji took a deep breath and was about to take the initiative when the man's words reached his ears again: "So, in your opinion, are humans worth saving?"
ha?
Ling Wuji didn't react for a moment.
He only went to help those girls eliminate the influence of suggestion because he was bored. When did it have anything to do with the grand proposition of saving humanity? Moreover, even if he wanted to save humanity, the first step would definitely be to study hard, and then apply for a major in biological viruses, and devote himself to solving the "apocalypse virus" and "dead body virus" that are constantly spreading in the world today. However, the proposition of saving the world and humanity is too far away from him, a small alchemist. On the mysterious side, most of those who can achieve the proposition of saving the world are people of the same level as Luo Hao.
And Araya Souren is definitely not yet at the level of a real person - or a magician.
"Humans are hopeless creatures, filthy, dirty, and mean. The rescuer wants to save others, but others are not worth saving at all. The rescued will only blame the rescuer and ask for more from the rescuer, or even harm the rescuer. Isn't that the case with the girl who realized that she was abnormal? She doesn't care about your rescue at all, she just wants to use you to fulfill her own wishes," Araya Soren pointed at the consciousness of Wujo Wuhui in the air, "Even she wants to use you to gain more freedom."
"so what?"
Ling Wuji looked at the man with a distressed face and said indifferently.
"So the world in which humans live has no value at all!"
Ling Wuji suddenly felt it was ridiculous:
Do you have PTSD from saving people?
"Selfishness is the nature of human beings that is engraved in their genes."
Ling Wuji said something that couldn't be more correct.
"So I will destroy these humans first and will never allow anyone to shake my plan!"
After Araya Soren finished speaking, he pounced over like a black eagle with its wings spread, and stretched out his hand to grab the boy's slender neck. He moved as fast as a gust of wind and thunder, leaving the boy no time to breathe.
Note [1]: From "Asking the Mirror".
Volume 1: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter 7: Wishes
Although Ling Wuji looks like a thin and handsome young man, just like Ning Caichen in the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", a good-for-nothing scholar, in fact, he is more like Yan Chixia than Ning Caichen.
So when facing Araya Sōren's attack, he was not in a hurry. He raised his hand to block it. However, after fighting for a while, he found that his approach was completely useless: the opponent's body was incredibly hard, just like steel, and his experience in hand-to-hand combat was too rich. Even though Ling Wu Ji later drew out the wooden sword and the sword shadows were fiddling with the opponent's vital points, he still raised his hand fearlessly. Then Ling Wu Ji also reacted. With his physical condition, there was no reason for him to be afraid of a mere wooden sword.
Even if Ling Wuji used his true energy.
But the tip of the wooden sword would be shattered if it moved forward only slightly, and the true Qi would be isolated outside, unable to enter at all.
So, in the end, Ling Wuji, who was retreating step by step, was forced to the edge of the rooftop. He could only try his best to concentrate his true energy on the sword, and at the same time, he poured all his spirit into this sword. He mobilized all his strength and swung forward fiercely, but was blocked by the man without any surprise. Amid the shattering and flying wood chips, Araya Zonglian stretched out a hand that seemed to be made of steel, and grabbed the boy's neck tightly as if he was grabbing a chick, and said coldly:
"You angered Luo Hao and were exiled to Japan. Now you have repeatedly moved other people's chess pieces without knowing the consequences. The only thing you have done in your life is to destroy the stability of others. However, everything ends here!"
One after another?
Does that mean he has more than one chess piece?
In mid-air, the elf-like woman screamed, but Araya Zonglian did not stop his actions. He slowly tightened his hand, causing Wu Ji's breathing to become difficult. His face was red, and the bloodshot in his eyes grew like vines. A sentence kept ringing in his mind:
Is this going to die?
Is this going to die?
His life is really sad.
He clearly had not had time to study what the so-called "Taoism Forbidden Techniques Catalog" system was, had not had time to play the game he had just bought, had not had time to dispel the suggestions of those people, and had not had time to take revenge on Luo Hao.
Is this all that remains of his life?
Think quickly! Think quickly!
Then, suddenly, an inexplicable emotion enveloped his entire mind. His mind wandered in it, and countless images flashed through his mind, and then it froze at the time when he first accepted the reality of coming to this world. It was a summer like now, a sunny afternoon. He was standing blankly beside the rice field filled with frog sounds, and the old Taoist priest was sitting under a tree not far away playing chess with someone. Then time continued to flow backwards, bringing him to a more distant, dusty, and long-untouched memory of his previous life:
So from the very beginning, what I hoped for was just to go back to the more distant past?
Is this the most illusory thing I wish for?
At the same time, Wujo Wuhui, who was floating in the air, tried hard to make her voice heard, so that her intention could be conveyed to Araya Sōren's mind:
If you kill that boy, I will never act according to your intentions again! I will die with him!
Araya Zonglian raised his head and was about to let go of Ling Wuji——
In fact, this was what he meant, but he was not sure whether the young man had established a connection with her that was strong enough to control each other, so he took direct action against him. Since Wu Tiao Wuhui took the initiative to say it, it would be best to use him to control Wu Tiao Wuhui.
Of course, we still have to throw this kid into Ogawa Apartment first.
But the man felt that the shape in his hand suddenly became illusory, and then like a gust of wind, it suddenly went away, and then stopped not far away, and the sound of the young man coughing came.
"Integration and rejection? Is that your path? Or is that your origin?"
Araya Soren carefully recalled the flow of magic power just now and continued.
"I'm just an alchemist. I don't really understand things like 'Tao' or 'origin'."
"You're already standing not far from the door, but you refuse to move forward for some inexplicable reason. You're just like Aozaki, a pathetic fellow."
"You talk too much!"
When Ling Wuji broke through to the Yin God level, his self-confidence soared. After he achieved the Yin God level, the "Liezi Wind Control Technique" suddenly became no longer obscure, and all the words and sentences were easy to understand. So he waved his hand casually, and a strong wind blew up over the sky above the Wu Tiao Building, as if all the gas within a hundred feet radius was compressed into liquid and then released in an instant. Everything on the high platform was destroyed and scattered by the strong wind, except for the depressed man. After he recited a few words, the strong wind could no longer shake his body, and the black robe just kept flying up and down.
"Boundary?"
Ling Wuji carefully considered his own methods: he had heard that at a certain level, the responses between magicians were no longer a competition of destructiveness, but a competition of each other's "mystery". Although Ling Wuji did not understand how mystery was measured, since Taoist magic at this level, such as "Liezi's Wind Control Technique", was useless, the other tricks he learned from that small sect were even more useless.
So he glanced at Wu Tiao Wuhui in mid-air and used his consciousness to convey the message that he wanted to retreat.
Strangely, the emotion that Wu Tiao Wuhui conveyed back was actually somewhat happy.
When the strong wind died down, Huangye Zonglian could no longer see the young man, as if he had turned into a breeze and floated away.
He raised his head and glanced at Wu Tiao Wuhui, shook his head slightly, and had a distressed look on his face as always, silently looking towards a hospital.
……
Afterwards, Ling Wuji did not find Wu Tiao Wuhui in the original hospital.
"Has it been moved away a long time ago?"
Although Ling Wuji had anticipated this, he still felt a little disappointed when he thought about Araya Zonglian's strong character that was not affected by external things and would actually make such preparations for a rainy day.
However, at this moment, the "Taoism Forbidden Technique Catalog" system suddenly refreshed the task:
"Found Aozaki Orange"
"Mission Reward: Sky Escape Sword Technique"
Tiandun Sword Technique? Is this the Tiandun Sword Technique that Huolong Zhenren passed on to Lu Dongbin, which is said to "first eliminate greed and anger, second eliminate lust, and third eliminate troubles"?
After staring at the reward for a long time, Ling Wuji noticed that the task was to find someone again like last time, so he couldn't help but complain:
Is this bird system really not a missing person notice publisher?
Also, Aozaki, is that the Aozaki that Araya Soren mentioned? Like him, he was stopped for some inexplicable reason? Ⅰ
Volume 1: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter 8: The Doll Master of the Aozaki Family
Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty once wrote, "People are like autumn geese that bring news, and things are like spring dreams that leave no trace." This poem was later deconstructed by Xin Qiji, who rewrote it into "Things are like fragrant grass that always stay in spring, and people are like floating clouds that leave no shadow."
From these two lines of poetry, we can get a glimpse of their outlook on life: Su Shi had lost all hope in politics after the Wudai Poetry Case, so, as he wrote in the famous Mid-Autumn Festival poem "Water Melody", "People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions; the moon waxes and wanes; it has been impossible to have everything in life. I wish you long life, and we can enjoy the moon together even though we are thousands miles apart." All he cared about was reuniting with people close to him, and fame and fortune had no meaning to him anymore. Xin Qiji was a martial artist all his life, and had been pushing the Southern Song court to the north to fight. His lifelong wish was to "complete the king's affairs and win a reputation during his lifetime and after his death." Therefore, he cared more about leaving a name in history than Su Shi.
From Ling Wuji's perspective, these two lines of poetry are basically nonsense:
Because any person or thing, as long as it exists, will leave traces.
The system also gave Aozaki Touko's full name.
And just having a name can provide a lot of clues.
Not to mention that Aozaki Touko herself is well-known among the magicians and was once awarded the rank of "Crown" by the Clock Tower.
However, because most magicians keep their whereabouts secret, and Aozaki Touko herself is also a "sealed designee" wanted by the Magicians Association like Araya Soren, more information about her cannot be found in the other world. However, this person is not averse to using her real name on the secular side, so Ling Wuji did not spend much effort to find her office on the Internet, the place that undertakes architectural drawing-related work on the secular side.
Originally, it was easy for Ling Wuji to meet her, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he still made an appointment with her for a time and place according to the mysterious side's rules.
Then Aozaki Touko actually showed up for the appointment.
In fact, Ling Wuji's situation on the mysterious side of Japan was quite embarrassing.
After all, any Japanese mysterious insider who had heard of his evaluation of Luo Hao would definitely not have a positive evaluation of him.
In fact, this was exactly the sinister intention of Luo Hao's subordinates who exiled him to Japan.
However, Ling Wuji did not take the initiative to interact with the people on the mysterious side of Japan.
"I am also curious about the boy who angered Luo Hao and escaped unscathed."
It was dusk, and the two were sitting in a quiet coffee shop. Ling Wu Ji looked up at the woman opposite him. She was about twenty years old, wearing a pair of glasses, with long dark red hair tied into a ponytail, graceful eyebrows, and a white tight shirt outlining her beautiful figure. She looked like an elite secretary beside the president of a certain company. However, unlike those mysterious figures Ling Wu Ji had seen - like Araya Soren - who had a somewhat mysterious aura, this Aozaki Touko was full of the kind of straightforward, unrestrained temperament, like a cloud that would drift away at any time.
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, and then Aozaki Touko said, "So, what do you want?"
"Do you know this person, Araya Soren?"
Aozaki Touko nodded: "We were classmates for a while. Have you met him?"