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If we talk about going too far, he himself is not much better.
"But, in short," Ling Wuji finally closed his sense of "human sound" and barely restored his mind to its previous state. He waved his hand and used Mozi's Five Elements Technique to move the pile of stones on the buried person nearby. He also wrote a talisman of the Pot Technique in the air and shot the trace of spiritual energy onto the person's body with a flick of his finger, so that the ghosts and gods that were summoned later would follow the talisman to comb out the disease energy of the person. "Since you have seen it with your own eyes and heard it with your own ears, it would be too hypocritical to pretend to turn a blind eye."
So he wrote another talisman, and then the talisman directly penetrated the soil and rock layer and fell into the body of Luo Hao who was buried deep inside.
After that, he rose up again with the wind, his figure disappeared into the clouds, and went straight to the south.
……
At this time, the Official History Compilation Committee and Scepter 4 had finished questioning Lu Yinghua. Although Luo Hao had lost the battle with the Monkey King and her life or death was uncertain, no one dared to bet that she was really dead. Moreover, Lu Yinghua's strength was not too weak, so they did not dare to continue to pester him and hurriedly ended the questioning without commenting on Lu Yinghua's statement.
After instructing the lower-level staff to do the follow-up work, Awashima Seri thought more and more that something was wrong, and then she suddenly woke up:
What about Ling Wuji?
It's not that she is completely ignorant of Ling Wuji's abilities. She even knows them in detail. She has also heard Ling Wuji mention a spell called "Taixujian", saying that he can use that spell to monitor the movements of all people under the sky curtain barrier. When Awashima Seri heard him say that, she was a little embarrassed and annoyed for a while, because obviously this movement also included things like taking a bath, but soon, she realized that if Ling Wuji really used that kind of spell to peep, it meant that he was still a normal boy, and she wouldn't have to worry so much, fearing that he would enter that state of being able to see everything.
However, it was more likely that he was using that spell to observe the movements of the people on the mysterious side.
Now that such a big thing has happened and Lu Yinghua is also involved, there is no reason for him not to pay attention.
In fact, given his personality, it is not surprising that he would take advantage of Luo Hao's misfortune.
But why is he still silent?
Who is the Taoist priest that Lu Yinghua mentioned?
Is there any contact with him?
Volume 2: The Long Sword is Needed to Rely on the Heavens: Chapter 27: Talking about Life
"The problem is that I, or China, need Luo Hao as the pillar of the mysterious side of the south. If we don't defeat her head-on, then it will be meaningless to kick them when they are down. Unless I kill her directly, then there will be no worries. Otherwise, there will be no benefit for me to kick them when they are down now."
Ling Wu Ji just said.
As his designated candidate for Pope, Awashima Seri could naturally contact him directly. Ling Wu Ji had nothing to hide, so he went straight to her and explained the whole story to her.
"Did you really divide the disobedient gods?"
"It was just luck. The first time I attacked Athena, she was caught off guard, and the Monkey King let me do whatever I wanted the whole time. Moreover, the situations of Athena and the Monkey King were quite special. One part of the self was the enemy of the other part, and the other wanted to discard the redundant self that was forcibly woven by others and start over. In fact, even if I can meet the God of Disobedience again in the future, I don't think something like today will happen."
"So, your method can only be used against disobedient gods?"
Awashima Seri asked a very crucial question.
Ling Wuji nodded. "The Dragon Slaying Technique is useless to begin with. It was shelved because it was too profound. The spells that point directly to the innate chaos avenue need to be used on people of that level. I know what you want to say, but I've seen it. In essence, the godslayers are just following a certain fixed procedure to transfer the power that originally belonged to the gods to themselves. In other words, they haven't reached that level, so the Dragon Slaying Technique can't be used."
Awashima Seri sighed immediately.
"Do you think that the feud between her and I has dragged too many people into it?"
Awashima Seri shook her head, then nodded: "Although your goal is to take revenge on Luo Hao, but..."
But she didn't think Ling Wuji was the kind of person who really wanted revenge as everything.
He was just too indifferent to other things, so he seemed to care too much about revenge.
But in fact, is Ling Wuji’s desire for revenge really that strong?
Not necessarily.
Awashima Serin said.
He just needed a goal, otherwise he would have been like those people in the Magic Association, sinking into the pursuit of the path to the "root". Like those people, he had lost the moral values of normal people and didn't care about anything in order to reach the root.
In fact, Ling Wuji now has some tendency towards this.
"Do you think that I have that goal now, so I still have something to do for the time being, but if I complete that goal, I will be aimless and fall into a state of emptiness, and then I will have no taboos and do whatever I want casually?"
Ling Wuji stared at her plain face and said.
Awashima Seri hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"So that's why you said you wanted to become my believer at that time?"
Still nodded.
Ling Wu Ji burst into laughter and thought to himself, so that's how it is.
So...that's it.
He once doubted Awashima Seri's motives, and he was not really open with her. But as Awashima Seri said, maybe he really didn't care about many things in the past. Even if he really told her, what would happen?
"If you don't want me to become that, then, what do you think I should become?"
Ling Wuji suddenly looked into her eyes seriously and said.
Ling Wu Ji didn't think that he was a slow person in the past.
But at this moment, Ling Wuji suddenly wanted to hear what other people thought of him. In other people's eyes, was he a good or bad person?
But Awashima Seri just lowered her head, sighed, and said: "I just hope you can be happy from the bottom of your heart."
Happiness from the heart?
Ling Wuji said, "But what if that kind of happiness comes at the cost of someone else's suffering?"
"Would you be that kind of person?"
Ling Wuji shook his head: "I don't know. In fact, I haven't had that experience for a long time."
"So when was the last time you had that experience?"
Ling Wuji immediately recalled carefully. His life in this life was basically muddled. When he was a child, he was taken to the mountains by Lu Wenyuan to practice Taoism. Of course, he didn't actually hate that kind of life, but it was definitely not to say that he could get true happiness from it. After coming to Japan, it is not entirely true to say that he was completely pushed around, but generally speaking, he was mostly drifting with the flow.
So, what’s next?
What about the period of life before that which can be said to have shaped who you are today?
That's too much.
But if he was not stuck in memories and unable to move forward, which would make him sympathize with himself, just like what Nagasawa said in "Norwegian Wood", "Sympathy for oneself is the act of despicable cowards", why should he seal up the past of his previous life and refuse to touch it again?
When Ling Wuji thought of the carefree times in his previous life when he and his childhood friend played games all night long, he couldn't help but smile, and then shook his head.
Come to think of it, maybe he wasn't really that successful in this world.
Even with the help of the system.
Even if the system can make up for his various deficiencies in ability.
But the happiness that comes from the heart is still like a mirage to him.
"It does seem like a very distant thing," Awashima Seri's eyes softened, and she said, "So in your memories, was your happiness built on the suffering of others?"
"Not really."
"Then you wouldn't be that kind of person!"
She said so with an unspeakable courage in her voice, as if she was uttering some eternal truth, just like "1+1=2", even if time passes and the sea turns into mulberry fields, this truth cannot be rewritten.
"But if people just keep repeating the past, won't they never grow?"
Ling Wuji habitually sang the opposite tune.
"But how can a person who can't even repeat the happiness of the past say that he has grown up?"
Awashima Seri couldn't help but reach out to the boy walking beside her, to touch his face that was easy for little girls to like. He had such capital, but he hadn't deceived any little girl yet...
No, that's not right. He did deceive a lot of young girls, but he didn't use the name of love. He used some other name to tie them together with him. Maybe he was one of them, too?
But she still said to the boy: "Anyway, if revenge can't bring you any happiness, why do you insist on it?"
Volume 2: Sword of Heaven: Chapter 28: Friendship
"But don't you think that if I lose my goal, I will gradually move towards the state of looking down on all living beings and ignoring everything like a god?"
Ling Wu Ji rarely pushed away Awashima Seri's hand, but just stared into her amber eyes and said.
"But if you do those things, won't you become like that?"
Ling Wuji pulled her hand away, thought about it silently, and finally shook his head.
"Are you still going to do that?"
"I don't think revenge on Luo Hao is that important to me. Sometimes I can't even figure out what it means to be successful in revenge. I also told you that I won't really kill her, regardless of the possibility. After all, the mysterious side of southern China needs such a person to stand there," Ling Wuji said. "However, I don't want things to end so unclearly. I must put an end to this matter in my own way."
"You can't kick someone when he's down, you can't use someone else's hand, you can only be fair and square?"
Awashima Seri had more or less heard what Ling Wuzhi had said about this, so she just asked this.
Ling Wuji nodded.
"If that's the case, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it even if you spend your entire life doing it? Is it really worth it if your entire life is tied to something like this?"
"I don't think such a trivial matter will consume my whole life," Ling Wuji seemed to have found a way to defeat her. He just casually said that the matter was a trivial matter and asked her curiously, "But why do you want to oppose me to do that thing? Since in your eyes there is no difference between doing it or not, then in fact, it's okay even if I continue, right?"
"I just don't want all the things you did in the mysterious side of Japan to be classified as preparations for revenge for Luo Hao," Awashima Seri said lightly, "If that's the case, wouldn't it seem that those of us who helped you and were helped by you are a little too cheap?"
"'The world is bustling with people, all for profit; the world is bustling with people, all for profit', you may feel cheap, maybe it's just because you feel that you haven't exchanged enough value for what you think," Ling Wuji just said, "Some people, such as those in the official history compilation committee, if I open up the system of the sky curtain barrier and let me use it to deal with Luo Hao, they may be happy to do it."
"Then why don't you do that?"
"Because by then, maybe I won't be the one taking the lead anymore."
Awashima Seri stared at the boy's dark, black crystal-like pupils, and was silent for a long time, then said: "Are you so confident that you can control everything? You said it yourself, I feel cheap because I feel that my actions cannot bring back what I think is truly worthwhile, so why won't I betray you?"
Ling Wuji was also stunned for a moment and said, "Then what do you want?"
Isn't it to rectify the mysterious side of Japan? But after the Sky Curtain Barrier expands to the whole of Japan, won't this goal be achieved naturally?
Awashima Seri suddenly asked him, "Those happy memories that you thought of before, were they about you alone, or about your friends or family?"
"All of them."
Ling Wuji couldn't figure out what she wanted to ask for a moment, so he just answered frankly.
"So, which memories are more profound?"
Ling Wuji immediately understood and said, "I thought we were friends for a long time."
"But your so-called friendship doesn't seem to bring you any happy times, does it?"
"If you say there is, there is, but it's not that deep," Ling Wuji said, "Maybe what you said is not wrong. Since a friendship does not bring any valuable memories to both parties, there is only endless chat and getting together because of boring things like work or ideals, just like passers-by who take shelter under the same eaves when a heavy rain falls in June, sooner or later they will be destroyed by other more boring things."
He let out a long breath:
"If that's the case, I really don't have the confidence that I can dominate this forever."