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No, wait, quack?
Ling Wuji looked back and forth at the people around him, then shook his head: "No, the 'disease' on Huangye Zonglian is simply not something I can draw out now. However, what about external 'disease' or even 'death'? However, that girl's barrier is another problem. If there is not enough quantity, it cannot be shaken at all..."
Ultimately, it’s a matter of realm.
If he had the cultivation level of Nascent Soul, why would he bother about that kind of heretical monk?
But by chance, he thought of another use for the "Heavenly Escape Sword Technique". Suddenly, he was inspired and chanted with deep emotion:
"I have never done good deeds in my life, and I love killing and setting fires. Suddenly, the golden rope was loosened, and the jade lock was broken. Alas! The tide came from the Edogawa River, and today I know who I am!"
Asagami Fujino stared blankly at the young man who stood up and left. His voice, chanting in Chinese, revealed a kind of transcendental artistic conception, as if a high monk had realized the supreme Zen overnight, or as if a peerless swordsman had finally obtained the famous sword that belonged only to him. From then on, everything in the world was nothing but clouds to him. In his eyes, there were only the countless people who had not yet been enlightened, or perhaps their final opponent.
But for some reason, the corners of Asagami Fujino's eyes became moist.
If after regaining her sense of pain, her world was changing from blurry to clear, from monotonous to colorful, from behind the cold and dark glass to under the warm and bright sunshine, then the boy seemed to be withdrawing from this world. With every step, the colors around him would become a little darker. In the end, until the boy completely disappeared from her sight, she felt that the distance between herself and the boy was like two sides of the world. She stood in the center of the colorful world, while the boy had gone far away and disappeared in the dark corner of the wind and snow.
"Your Majesty..."
The coffee cup in front of her shattered.
She finally recalled that when she was a child, it was because of this ability to distort objects in her sight at will that she was hated by the people in her hometown and they called her the "cursed child".
But what gradually became clear was not only the childhood memories, but also the memories with that boy. In the end, all the scenes were frozen on the winter night when she and the boy first met. That clear voice that was always careless seemed to still echo in her ears: "Japan is really a country with terrible public security..."
Image: "Asagami Fujino", Location: "Images/1625826935-100256236-107349094.jpg"
Volume 1: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter 11: The Apartment, the Showdown, and the Beginning and End
That night.
Ling Wuji entered Xiaochuan's apartment without any hindrance.
Maybe Araya Soren had other plans, but more likely, he didn't take Ling Wuji, who was beaten badly by him the day before, seriously, so he let him walk up to him openly, and then shook his head slightly: "Although humans are basically hopelessly stupid creatures, I don't hate your stupidity that much."
But the boy opposite him was not as carefree and unrestrained as he had seen on the rooftop of Wu Tiao Building. He was just serious, like a machine executing a program, and said indifferently: "Let me ask you first, you want to destroy mankind, what is your plan? What role does Wu Tiao play in this?"
"Among the 'Four Great Exorcist Families' in Japan that have already declined, the Ryougi family is the most special one. They tried to create an omnipotent person by putting multiple personalities in the same body. In this generation, they almost succeeded, but the omnipotent personality fell into a deep sleep. My plan is to eliminate one of Ryougi Shiki's personalities, and then use Wujo Kirie and Asagami Fujino, who are similar to the awakened Ryougi Shiki, to awaken her origin so that she can respond to my wish."
Ling Wu Ji nodded.
But in Araya Souren's opinion, he was not actually interested in the answer, and he didn't think about it at all. He just simply wrote down the answer.
This kind of performance...
"You should actually be weird, right?"
But at this moment, the boy's spirit suddenly became lively.
"You once said that Cangqi and I both stopped moving forward due to some inexplicable reasons. Coincidentally, after that, I found a 'sword technique' that can be used to remove some of the messy thoughts in my mind." But the boy's eyes were not looking at him, but at somewhere in the void, as if this conversation was being performed to someone, and then he smiled silently, "and just as you wished, I have almost removed all the messy thoughts. Now there are only two goals left. The primary goal is to rescue Wu Tiao, and the secondary goal is to kill you. Therefore, this conversation is actually just a video recording. It is a performance made by 'me' before those thoughts were completely removed. It is the bargaining chip used by the current 'me' to negotiate.
"If you are willing to hand over the witchcraft certificate, then..."
Before Ling Wuji could finish his words, Huangye Zonglian leaped forward and pounced on him. However, the young man in front of him seemed to be completely transformed compared to the one last night. He dodged with ease, and no matter how hard Huangye Zonglian forced him, he could not grab the corner of the young man's clothes.
"Fusion and rejection. This is your evaluation of my use of the 'Liezi Wind Control Technique'. My body blending into the wind and then rejecting other winds is indeed an old advice." The young man seemed to have anticipated the current situation, and his words were still filled with a casual emotion. "So, continue like this..."
“So what?” Araya Soren just laughed out of anger. Although he knew very well that the current “Ling Wuji” was not the original “Ling Wuji”, and he was not sure whether he would recover, he still established a dialogue. “People like you, who have only known each other for less than a month, are willing to fight so hard. Do you think you will tolerate someone like me who wants to destroy the world! You are destined to be my enemy! Between enemies, it’s just a matter of life and death! Why bother to say more!”
"But your 'origin' is stillness, right?"
The young man continued to speak calmly, "I once read a story in Zhuangzi. It said that Shu and Hu met Hun Dun one day. Hun Dun was very kind to them, so they wanted to repay Hun Dun and wanted to drill seven orifices for him. But after the seven orifices were drilled, Hun Dun died. Don't you think that your situation is similar to Hun Dun's?"
Suddenly, a great sense of crisis surged into Araya Sōren's heart, but he didn't know where it came from.
"Because with intervention, there will be differentiation, and once there is differentiation, there will be opposition. Opposition makes the chaotic phenomena clearer, and it also gives the phenomena a concept of beginning and end. For you, this is something you can't avoid, right? For the human beings you want to destroy, this is also the innate, imperfect shortcoming, right?"
Then Araya Sōren finally identified the source of the crisis:
It was the wooden sword that he had held in his hand at some point!
There was an astonishing "death energy" entangled on the wooden sword!
With his current level, how could he control this amount of death energy and not let the wooden sword decay and still maintain its entity?
Araya Soren suddenly came back to his senses: his current state was obviously to focus all his thoughts on this method, just as he had deleted all unnecessary thoughts and focused all on the goal of killing himself!
To break the surface with a point?
Then... come on.
The two men had made up their minds, so there was no point in any more verbal confrontation.
So he stretched out his hand, grabbed the boy, and shouted: "Su..."
Then the space around Wu Ji suddenly collapsed, but soon the young man swung the wooden sword full of deathly energy and cut it apart, and then rushed towards him. The figures of the two people flew like phantoms, dazzled like dancing, and collided like mad dragons. The deathly energy was released, and the barrier was broken. As they moved back and forth, the murderous aura overflowing from the two people was about to destroy the apartment. No, this is not an expression at all, but a real fact. The whole apartment was indeed shaking, and it was tottering in the collision of the two people!
"It's time to end this."
The three layers of barriers surrounding Araya Soren were all broken by the death energy. The last death energy in the wooden sword penetrated his body before the entity, and then decayed that part of his body. Then the wooden sword pierced through without hesitation. Araya Soren felt a piercing pain, and the young man had added some other means besides the death energy, so that his body completely lost all strength the moment it was pierced. He could only fall down powerlessly, letting the blood flow, letting the death energy overwhelm the vitality, and letting the young man look down on him from above.
"Damn 'restraining force'..."
Araya Soren spat out these words unwillingly.
"I'm not sure if this world has a self-protection mechanism called 'restraint', but there are so many people who want to destroy this world," Ling Wuji's voice gradually changed from a cold machine to that of a casual and free-spirited young man, still looking absent-minded and indifferent. "You shouldn't be on the list. How can someone destroy the world without an organization and do research on their own?"
"You...are now..."
"Oh, I forgot to mention that all my deleted thoughts are stored here," Ling Wuji took out an old copper coin, tossed it up and played with it, and said, "Because if I can't kill you even if I use up all my death energy, it means that the almost paranoid 'me' will definitely have no other way. So I set a limit for myself. After the death energy is used up, I will take back the deleted thoughts. But the plan didn't deviate too much..."
If Araya Soren were playing the game, he would definitely yell that you are cheating!
However, Ling Wuji was originally a player with cheats.
So after he confirmed that Araya Soren was completely dead - at least his body was completely decayed and could not be regenerated, he checked the apartment. In the end, he found that he had no ability to deal with this apartment at all, because Araya Soren had actually separated the "life" and "death" of the residents of this place, making them repeat their own deaths constantly.
"Think about it carefully, I was able to defeat that guy thanks to my ability to integrate the three cheats given by the system!"
It was unbelievable that someone who was not even a real person—or a magician—could do such a thing.
As for Mujo Kirie, it was probably because he wanted to use her as a chess piece that Araya Soren did not do that to her. Otherwise, it would be too difficult for Ling Wuji to integrate the separated "life" and "death" into the same person again.
Note: Araya Soren's plan changed from awakening Ryougi Shiki's source and using her as a wish-granting machine to seizing Ryougi Shiki's body and replacing her head after the unexpected incident of Sakura Johto's escape from Ogawa's apartment.
Volume 1: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter 12: Aftertaste
Everything is settled.
After telling Aozaki Touko about the current situation of Ogawa Apartment and Araya Soren, and Aozaki Touko asking him to contact the Magician's Association through someone else to solve the problems of those people in Ogawa Apartment, Ling Wuji immediately moved Wujo Kirie away and cured her. After that, he used his suggestions, which had reached the Yin Shen realm, to cover up Wujo Kirie's suggestions on those girls all night long. After that, he slept in school from morning to noon.
Although he has been promoted to Yin God and theoretically no longer needs to sleep, the battle with Araya Soren last night has exhausted all his energy. Afterwards, he forced his Yin God to leave his body and go out at night to peek at a beautiful girl taking a bath. He was not there to solve the girl's psychological problems, so he was already giving face to the teacher by being able to go to school for class today.
During the lunch break, he turned away all the adolescent girls who came to him for fortune-telling. Yawning, he was about to go to the canteen to buy bread for lunch when Yuuki Asuna suddenly appeared at the corner outside the classroom: "Good afternoon."
"Oh, it's you."
"You're not in good spirits? Did you stay up all night last night?"
Yuuki Asuna carefully looked at the boy's yawning appearance and said.
In fact, she had received a message from Ling Wuji on her mobile phone last night, saying that the matter had been resolved, and that she no longer had to worry about suddenly wanting to jump off a building from time to time - or if she wanted to jump off a building in the future, it would not be for this reason. Although she was a little confused, she still came to thank Ling Wuji in person.
"By the way, Lingjun, you haven't had lunch yet, right? I made an extra lunch box. If you don't mind..."
"If you really want to thank me, why not just give me a few tens of thousands."
Anyway, he definitely doesn't like eating cold rice in a Japanese bento.
"RMB?"
"All is fine." Ling Wuji continued to yawn.
"But I don't want to have this kind of relationship with Lingjun..."
Talking about money hurts feelings, but talking about feelings hurts money, my friend.
Ling Wuji subconsciously wanted to complain back, but when he saw her lowering her head and looking a little disappointed, he snatched the lunch box from her hand and said, "Let's go."
"Ah good."
When Yuuki Asuna reacted, her eyes brightened up for a moment, and she immediately followed the boy, passing through the chaotic and noisy crowd, and went to the rooftop where they first met.
……
The human mentality is a very strange thing.
For example, when Ling Wuji and Lu Wenyuan were hiding in the mountains, he felt that he had seen through life and that he should spend the rest of his life in the mountains and not care about worldly affairs. But when an old friend of Lu Wenyuan came to visit with his apprentice, Ling Wuji saw that the apprentice was still quite yearning for Luo Hao and thought that Luo Hao was the "white jade pillar supporting the sky and purple gold beam spanning the sea" of the mysterious side of the south, so he began to mock him, which sowed the seeds of disaster.
He certainly wasn't regretting his outspokenness.
He was just thinking that people's psychological identity would unconsciously shift because of the people they interact with.
Therefore, when he was interacting with Yuuki Asuna, he felt that he was still a youthful middle school student, and he could chat with the beautiful girl about games, gossip among classmates and other trivial matters. But when he was in front of Aozaki Touko, his mentality unconsciously became that of an adult, and he discussed things related to Araya Souren with a more rational and cautious attitude:
"Can that Ryougi Shiki really fulfill his wish?"
Aozaki Touko shook her head, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said a little sadly: "I don't know, but that guy is not a madman who simply wants to destroy the world. He doesn't hate humans. He just loves the image of the ideal human in his mind. So after destroying the world, he wants to create the world and create the perfect human in his eyes. Therefore, his plan must have an omniscient and omnipotent existence."
"Oh."
In fact, Ling Wuji was not interested in that girl's psychological process at all.
"Speaking of which, what are you going to do regarding Wujo Kirie?" Aozaki Touko asked again.
"How to arrange what?"
Ling Wuji was stunned for a moment: her illness has been cured and she has hands and feet again, she can go wherever she wants and do whatever she wants, how can it be his turn to arrange anything?
"I thought your goal was to establish an organization that obeys you so that you can launch revenge against Master Luo."
Ling Wuji rolled his eyes immediately: "Let's not talk about that kind of thing for now, it's still too far away, but I will never let anyone else take revenge on Luo Hao, especially the Japanese."
Upon hearing this, Aozaki Touko nodded immediately: "That's right, the feud between you and Luo Hao will become distorted once the Japanese are involved."
"right?"
"But with them as a buffer, won't your situation on the mysterious side of Japan be a little better?"
"they?"
Aren’t you talking about Wu Tiao Wuhui’s problem?
"Oh, I mean Asagami Fujino, didn't you cure her illness as well?"
Isn't that young lady a high school student? She's a high school student in a completely closed-off school like Reien Girls' College. Why would a nice young lady who has solved a problem that has troubled her for a long time go to a dangerous place like the Mysterious Side where demons and monsters are flying everywhere?