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Ling Wuji told her about Wu Tiao Wuhui, and also said that he had mentioned Aozaki Touko before.

"That guy is still pursuing such an illusory thing..."

"illusory?"

"It's to enter the so-called 'root', which is the common goal of all magicians. Although I don't know what his specific plan is, his magic studio, that is, the Ogawa Apartment, was designed with my help," Aozaki Touko's expression was a mixture of nostalgia, hatred and pity, and then she fixed her eyes on the boy's face and said, "But, with your current level, you shouldn't be able to break through there, right?"

"What do you recommend?"

Aozaki Touko shook her head and said, "I am not in a position to intervene in this matter."

Ling Wuji thought about it, and finally said, "Sorry, I'm sorry to bother you."

"No, actually, I'm quite curious about you and that Luo Jiaozhu. Can I ask a few questions?"

Ling Wu Ji nodded.

"You said that Luo Jiaozhu 'only cares about small matters but not big principles', then what about the real person in the north of China?"

"Are you talking about heroes over wine?" Ling Wuji raised his eyebrows and said, "But it's the other way around, right? Shouldn't I say that you have been around a lot and must know all the heroes in the world? Please try to explain it to me?"

"No, in the final analysis, I just yearn for immortals."

"Fairy?"

"The kind of person who, despite having extraordinary power and knowledge, does nothing but stay in the mountains."

Ling Wuji glanced at the white-collar woman again, pondered for a moment, and said, "Maybe there are such people in the world, but the problem is, since such people don't seek fame and fortune, how can they be recognized by the world? At least that real person is not what you call an 'immortal'. What's more, to reach that level, there must be some kind of goal or desire that can support them to get there. Pure desire for knowledge should not be enough. When Araya Soren said that you stopped moving forward, it should also mean that your impulse for the 'root' can no longer support you to continue, right?"

Aozaki Touko was stunned for a moment, then carefully examined the boy who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, and finally sighed and said, "It's not without reason that Master Luo would let you go."

"Although she did have her reasons for letting me go, I don't think it was the reason you think."

Aozaki Touko saw the young man call the waiter, pay the bill and then stand up to leave. She wanted to say something, but in the end she shook her head and just watched him silently walk out of the door of the cafe and into the summer sunset.

"Ogawa Apartment?"

In a sense, Ling Wu Ji should thank Aozaki Chengzi for providing the place name, otherwise he would not have been able to rely on divination to find the whereabouts of Wu Tiao Wuhui.

From then on, Wujo Kirie seemed to have entered a different world. He had no way to find her through any connection between the old auras. Although in this situation, Ling Wuji could roughly guess the scale of magic used by Araya Soren's magic workshop, but the same thing still applies. Japan now is too weird, with inexplicable auras surging everywhere. Therefore, under the interference of these chaotic auras, it is simply unrealistic to want to find that place by relying solely on "qi-gazing techniques".

But then again, in fact, as Aozaki Touko said, it is simply unrealistic for him to break into that place and bring back Mujo Kirie now.

Although sometimes Ling Wuji also wondered, is it really necessary for him to do this? Wu Tiao Wuhui is almost dead, right?

"But now that things have gotten to this point, if we want to get out of this, we have to at least bring her back."

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Volume 1: The Mysterious Side of the Bizarre: Chapter 9: The Magic in the Pot

Ling Wuji carefully examined his cards, then sighed:

The Taoist magic he learned from Lu Wenyuan was essentially just some small tricks. Although it could catch ghosts and exorcise demons, if even the "Liezi Wind Control Technique" could not break through the barrier of Araya Soren who was still outside the magic workshop, it would be even more difficult to deal with Araya Soren who was inside the magic workshop. As for the "Heavenly Escape Sword Technique"...

He had seen it when he met Aozaki Orange, but the so-called "Heavenly Escape Sword Technique" is more of a mental method than a sword technique. In theory, it is not used to fight against the enemy, but to prune one's own state of mind. The so-called "one is to cut off greed and anger, two is to cut off lust, and three is to cut off troubles" is to keep one's Tao heart in its original form, so as not to let too many desires be constantly involved in the long years to pollute one's original heart. After being taught the sword technique, Lu Dongbin also wrote a poem saying "The sky, the earth, the mountains and rivers are from foam, the stars, the sun and the moon are allowed to stop; you must know that your nature has been through many disasters, and it has been in vain for thousands of years in the human world", and the original meaning is like this -

But the problem is that Ling Wuji himself does not need to keep his Tao mind clear.

Besides, no matter how fast he progressed, it was impossible for him to form a golden elixir in just a few days.

"However, the so-called pruning of the state of mind may not just mean keeping the state of mind as it is, right?"

He had a vague idea, but that kind of extreme means would not allow him to break into Araya Soren's magic workshop in a short time, so he gave up on that idea and thought about other things. However, if he couldn't do it himself, he would have to ask others for help. However, his situation on the mysterious side in Japan was delicate. Even in China, Lu Wenyuan's old friends on the mysterious side were only at the Yin God level. Introducing the Magician's Association would make the situation even more complicated.

"Either find a weapon like the Yangping Zhidu Gongyin or the Spear of Longinus, or get more Taoist magic from this so-called 'system'..."

By the way, what exactly is the mechanism of tasks and rewards for issuing missing person notices in this so-called "Catalogue of Forbidden Taoist Techniques" system?

What do Wujo Kirie and Aozaki Touko have in common?

Are they all Araya Soren's pawns?

Aozaki Touko, whose title is "Grand Puppet Master", will not be controlled.

Knowing Araya Soren is unlikely to be a reason...

"So, the problem lies in the subjective sense of 'incompleteness'?"

If that's the explanation, Wujo Wuhui's problem is that she can only float and can't really fly, so the reward given by the system is the "Liezi Wind Control Technique" that allows people to really fly; Aozaki Touko yearns for the root, but says that too many impurities have accumulated in her body, so she can't go any further, so the reward given by the system is the "Heaven Escape Sword Technique" that can prune the state of mind...

No, it should be:

They are all objects of reference for me.

The system itself is probably the "mirror".

However, the purpose of looking in the mirror is to beautify oneself and to get one step closer to one's ideal self from one's current appearance. But Wu Ji couldn't quite explain what the ideal self looked like.

In a sense, he and Aozaki Touko can probably be considered the same kind of people, except that Aozaki Touko is the kind of prodigal who will not stay in one place for too long, while Ling Wu Ji is always content with the status quo.

"Forget it. There's no point in dwelling on this kind of question. I might as well find someone I know who I can use as a reference..."

Then he discovered that there really was one.

It's just that he had already had contact with that person.

However, unlike people like Wujo Kirie and Aozaki Touko who can turn magic into phenomena, although that person has a certain degree of magic in his body, the transmission channel is blocked for some reason, so he looks like an ordinary person. But, if you use this person as a reference, by comparison, what are Ling Wuji's own shortcomings - or what abilities do he want to make up for?

It seems that he also has no shortage of ways to apply his true energy to the real world.

However, at this moment, the system suddenly refreshed a new text:

"Mission: Meet with Asagami Fujino"

"Reward: The Art of the Pot"

Does this "art in the pot" refer to medical skills, or is it the legendary method of hiding the world from the sleeve?

According to the "Biographies of Fangshu" in the "Book of the Later Han", during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an old man who often hung a gourd when selling medicine in the downtown area. When the market was over, he would jump into the gourd. No one else could see it except Fei Changfang, so Fei Changfang wanted to follow him to cultivate immortality. However, in the end, he could not stand his test - the old man made Fei Changfang eat shit in a very malicious way, which was comparable to Liu Xing and Wuyingge - although the old man's original intention was probably to let Fei Changfang not be confused by external appearances, no normal person could stand that, so Fei Changfang went back. But after that, Fei Changfang could cure all kinds of diseases and command ghosts and gods.

This is the origin of the allusion "Xuanhu Jishi".

Although Ling Wuji has always called himself an alchemist, generally speaking, alchemists are basically associated with elixirs, but he actually knows no medical skills or elixirs at all.

Although Taoists also seek immortality like alchemists, in essence, Taoism has nothing to do with medicine. They just make their bodies stronger so that they will not get sick or age. What's worse, some people will even abandon their bodies directly and try various tricks such as corpse transformation, ascension, and ascension. Although no one can prove whether they have ascended to heaven or not afterwards.

And Asagami Fujino's problem was not that her body lacked some kind of vitality, but that a certain connection between her body and soul was blocked.

"Although medical skills are of no use in the current situation, it is not difficult to meet him..."

Ling Wu Ji thought about it and called Asagami Fujino's school.

The school that Asagami Fujino attends is Reien Girls' Academy. According to her, it is a school with strict management. No, it is more like an isolated prison, an independent mobile fortress, rather than a school.

But relatively speaking, Asagami Fujino is much freer, because the Asagami family's annual donation to the school accounts for 30% of the total donations, so the school management has always turned a blind eye to her.

Although this freedom sometimes brings her trouble.

For example, on the winter evening when they first met, she was targeted by several bad guys when she went out without permission. Ling Wuzhi, who had just arrived in Tokyo and was unfamiliar with the city and was still using the art of looking for a place with a slightly better living environment, rescued her. He also unexpectedly discovered that although she had considerable magic power in her body, she had no way to use it. He then realized that the reason for this was that she had no sense of touch - that is, some of the connecting pathways between the soul and the body were blocked.

Volume 1: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter 10: Today I Know I Am Who I Am

Two hours later, in another cafe.

Asagami Fujino, who was wearing a school uniform similar to a nun's uniform and looked as beautiful as an exquisite doll, was a little restless and said to the boy opposite her: "Lingjun, is there something wrong?"

Although Asagami Fujino has known Ling Wuji for half a year, in essence, the friendship between the two can be described as "the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water". Originally, Reien Girls' College is a closed-door school. Although Asagami Fujino often goes out, Ling Wuji is the kind of autistic person who just lives from day to day and will never take the initiative to contact others. In addition, he was too harsh on those bad guys that time, and directly broke an arm for each of them, so Asagami Fujino was a little afraid of him.

But Ling Wuji had saved her once after all.

So she came out to meet him.

But as soon as they met, the young man looked dazed for a long time, muttering to himself: "So that's how it is..."

"Your Majesty?"

"Let me make this short. Do you want to regain your sense of pain?"

"You mean..."

Asagami Tono is a pain-free patient.

For a long time, because she had lost her sense of touch, she had no sense of being alive. She felt that her body was like a puppet. Her consciousness was just controlling this body with some invisible threads, but this body did not seem to really belong to her. She was in the world, probably like playing games on a computer through the screen.

"But as you regain your sense of pain, some of your superpowers will also be restored."

"superpower?"

"Maybe you can use your sight to do something with the things you see. Anyway, your entire body structure, except for some parts that are affected by the disease, only your eyes are the most special..."

"Body...structure?"

"Oh, I now have a special ability to see the..."

Asagami Fujino immediately thought of something, and then she covered her well-developed chest with a red face. She didn't dare to look directly at the boy, so she lowered her head and whispered: "Lingjun, h..."

Ling Wuji could only sigh: "You misunderstood."

He was in no mood to joke with her right now.

The reason why he was able to master the "Pot Technique" given by the system so quickly was entirely because of his foundation in the Art of Looking at Qi.

"Hu Zhong Shu" is indeed a medical skill, but according to Ling Wu Ji's opinion, it is essentially a Taoist technique. The creator of this Taoist technique believes that various "disease qi" are hidden in the acupuncture points in the human body. The "disease qi" is usually suppressed by the human's "vitality". Once external evil invades the human body, it will cause the "disease qi" to run wild. In severe cases, the "disease qi" will even accumulate into "death qi", completely suppressing the "vitality", thus leading to the death of the person.

In order to cure the disorderly pathogenic energy, it is necessary to command the corresponding ghosts and gods to suppress the "sick energy".

The legendary Fei Changfang was able to rise to fame overnight. The old man gave him a talisman from the "Skill in the Pot" that could control all ghosts and gods on earth. So he could directly cure all diseases and command ghosts and gods, but he ended up being killed by ghosts because he lost the talisman.

It can be seen that there is a reason why the talisman sect declined.

If you deal with ghosts and gods too much, sooner or later they will backfire on you.

The self-proclaimed leader of the Inner Alchemy Sect made the comment as if it was none of his business.

And it was actually very simple for Ling Wuji to remain indifferent. He did not need to go through the intermediate process of "ghosts and gods" to deal with the "disease energy". Although he had no way to directly expel the "disease energy" with complex origins - according to that theory, "disease energy" was actually a part of the body and could only be suppressed - if it was expelled directly, it would be like directly cutting off a person's body. Of course, it was not impossible to do so when the situation was serious. Although the "disease energy" looked complicated, Ling Wuji had the "Liezi Wind Control Technique" and "Qi Viewing Technique" to rely on, so he could completely control the corresponding spiritual energy to suppress the "disease energy" by himself.

But after completing Asagami Fujino's treatment, Ling Wuji no longer thought so:

Because this process is too damn complicated!

No wonder so many people like to outsource their work!

This is simply not something a human would do!

This was a multi-tasking job. If he made a mistake in one step, Asagami Fujino might develop an incurable disease...

"No wonder some people call quacks and executioners the same thing..."