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"In my opinion, it's actually incredibly high."
Lu Yinghua thought about it carefully, but still couldn't figure out how to defeat Ling Wuji.
However, it was not that difficult for him to believe what Ling Wuji said that he could defeat Luo Hao. After all, he saw with his own eyes how Athena was split into two individuals, Athena and Medusa. Moreover, Ling Wuji himself said that the "Dragon Slaying Technique" was high-level but useless. Couldn't he find a low-level but useful spell?
It’s just that Lu Yinghua really couldn’t imagine it.
After all, the God Slayer is already the top figure in the world.
The lower limit of dragon-slaying skills is the level of the God of Disobedience, but the godslayer himself can kill gods.
"Anyway, it won't be long before you understand it yourself."
Ling Wuji did not say much. After all, no matter how he looked at it, as long as he said it here, Lu Yinghua would tell his words to Luo Hao. Although Ling Wuji had already anticipated that person's character, and did not think that she could fight back and transform herself through predictive means, Ling Wuji did not want to expose his cards too early, and just waited for the day of the decisive battle.
……
A month can go by fast or slow.
During this month, Ling Wu Ji did not remain calm and cultivate his character, sharpening himself like a sword and waiting for the opportunity to unsheathe. Instead, he went to and from school as usual. At the same time, he continued to promote the project that allowed ordinary people to "see ghosts" with the people from IS Academy, developed magical arts, and naturally, he was also secretly weaving the curtain of the sky barrier.
He acted as usual, and there was no sign that he was going to fight one of the top figures of the time. The few people who were brought to Japan by Lu Yinghua were also confused, wondering if he made the bet with Luo Hao just to give himself an excuse to settle the old grudge? Taking advantage of the opportunity of being defeated by Luo Hao, he would settle down in Japan from then on?
Wu Ji didn't want to care about what other people were thinking.
However, Awashima Seri told Ling Wuji's thoughts through Arisa the Worshiper. Arisa the Worshiper wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask more. She "accidentally" leaked the news when communicating with other believers in private. Ling Wuji was also aware of her little thoughts and didn't want to say much. However, after the news came out, the believers' hearts were wavering, and their wishes became more complicated. Ling Wuji couldn't help but feel that he was too close to these believers, so that these people's belief in him was similar to investors' belief in stocks.
Maybe after I return to China, I can make this cult become more normal?
"But after you return to China, will we still be of use to you?"
Of course, Arisa Kouin didn't dare to say such words to Ling Wuji's face, but when she heard Ling Wuji explain the ins and outs of the incident and said that he needed to borrow one of her family's yachts to go to the high seas of the Pacific Ocean to duel with Luo Hao, her words clearly revealed her fear, the fear of being abandoned by Ling Wuji.
"What will happen if it is useless?"
Ling Wuji himself couldn't help but start to think about it.
Otherwise, we can follow the previous idea and turn their cognition into a virtual AI image, and then manage the power of will according to the algorithm of whoever gives more priority? It doesn't seem feasible. Otherwise, it's too unfair like Arisa of the Shrine Hall?
But at this point, Ling Wuji did not explain anything further.
Anyway, he couldn't use his willpower in his battle plan against Luo Hao.
Volume 2: The Long Sword is the Key to Relying on the Heavens: Chapter 31: Destiny is Nature
Although according to common sense, Ling Wuji's behavior is no different from seeking death, there is a term in economics called sunk cost, which means that the cost of the initial investment that is irrelevant to the current decision will to some extent restrict the current decision. In other words, it is a matter of course. In a sense, sunk cost is the main cause of path dependence. Therefore, when Ling Wuji asked the Gongfengyuan family for a yacht to take him to the open sea, Gongfengyuan Weng finally agreed.
Ling Wuji might die, or he might defeat Luo Hao and return to China and never return to Japan, but if he really defeats Luo Hao, this investment will yield a hundredfold return.
And Ling Wuji's death is not completely without benefits for them.
Of course, Wu Ji didn't care what kind of thoughts were behind these messy calculations. After he arrived nearby, he asked the person driving the yacht to return and said that he would ask them to come back to pick him up if necessary.
Then, he rode the wind up alone and faced Luo Hao in mid-air.
After a long silence, Luo Hao finally couldn't help but speak first:
"Although I don't know how a brat like you can dare to challenge me, but if you admit defeat first..."
"Master Luo," Ling Wuji was too lazy to waste time talking to her and said directly, "Do you know what the essence of a person is?"
"Nature?"
Many people have their own answers to this kind of question, but Luo Hao hasn't met anyone who can ask her this kind of question in hundreds of years. She couldn't say anything profound for a while, so she could only listen to Wu Ji's nonsense:
"According to Marx's theory, the essence of man is the sum of all social relations. Of course, since Master Luo lives in a poor hut in the mountains, he probably wouldn't have heard of such a statement. Moreover, the mysterious side is a world where consciousness comes first. According to Master Luo's thinking, he probably thinks that the essence of man is actually the soul, right?"
Ling Wu Ji said meaningfully.
"So what?"
Ling Wuji also nodded: "In a sense, I agree with this statement. So if you want to change a person's essence, you have to change his soul. And what is the soul composed of? Divine consciousness? Three souls? Seven spirits? Or is it temperament? Or is it the heart?"
"What exactly do you want to say?"
Luo Hao frowned.
Ling Wuji drew out the wooden sword from the pair of swords he had on his back, then tapped the sword with his fingers and said, "Master Luo, I said that you are just like me, just an alchemist, and it is not without purpose. Confucianism emphasizes 'rectifying the heart and being sincere', Buddhism emphasizes 'enlightening the mind and seeing the nature', and Taoism needs to cross the barrier of life and death from practicing Qi to Yin Shen, and from Yin Shen to Jindan, it is necessary to see the true nature, and from Jindan to Yuanying, it is necessary to see the true heart. Only after reaching the realm of Zhenren and achieving Yang Shen can it be said that the body and spirit are forever solid and cannot be moved by external things."
"so what?"
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Luo Hao sneered.
"There is only one True Man in the world, the one in the north. A standard that is useful to only one person may not be a standard. From the perspective of Patriarch Luo, since you and the one in the north are deadlocked, perhaps you don't need to divide the realms according to such a standard." Ling Wuji also shook his head. "However, I guess Patriarch Luo, before he became a God Slayer, although he claimed to be a Taoist and martial artist, actually only achieved the status of a grandmaster in martial arts, but did not realize his true nature in Taoism? Otherwise, he would not have abandoned the greater good for the smaller details, and his knowledge and actions would be inconsistent!"
"Even when I was just a grandmaster, I could beat you to a pulp!"
Ling Wuji shook his head: "It's not that question. What I mean is that the key to the warrior system lies in the 'form'. Even if the so-called 'true meaning of martial arts' is condensed, it is only an auxiliary means. The purpose of the warrior system is to strengthen one's own 'form', so as to provide better protection for one's own 'spirit', which is what Buddhism calls the 'treasure raft for saving the world'. But the so-called 'true meaning of martial arts' is only 'intention', which is just a thought."
"what do you mean……"
Luo Hao was immediately confused. The words of the young man opposite him kept lingering on the two words of heart and nature. The magic he used must also be based on these two words! And his dragon-slaying technique was also based on the origin of the God of Disobedience!
This can't go on any longer...
Luo Hao was about to take action, but found that he had no desire to attack at all.
"'Nature is the mandate of heaven, following nature is the Way, and cultivating the Way is teaching. The Way cannot be separated from us for even a moment; if it can be separated, it is not the Way'!"
"what is this?"
Luo Hao was still standing in the air, wanting to get angry, but still spoke inexplicably calmly.
"Master Luo likes to act on impulse, and everyone knows it. But what if one day, your temperament is suddenly no longer controlled by your heart?"
Ling Wuji just looked at Luo Hao calmly and said.
Luo Hao looked at the young man silently. He clearly wanted to take action, but in the end he couldn't cross that threshold.
It’s ridiculous.
For most people, desire or temperament is the primary driving force, and reason is the threshold to restrict desire. But in Luo Hao's case, it is the other way around, making desire the threshold to action!
"Since ancient times, the mystical side has generally divided the human form into three layers. The top layer is 'spirit', the middle layer is 'qi', and the bottom layer is 'form' or 'essence'. Everyone knows that Luo Jiaozhu usurped the magic power and authority of the disobedient gods by killing them. He has extraordinary attainments in both 'qi' and 'form', but what about 'spirit'?"
"How on earth did you do that?"
At this moment, Ling Wuji seemed to have suppressed all of Luo Hao's emotions and desires, so there was no ripple in her eyes, only a quiet and deep peace like an ancient well.
"Well, just consider this as my little secret."
Ling Wu Ji didn't want to say anything.
Although "Sounds of Nature" and "Sounds of Man" are not some earth-shattering magical powers, and Ling Wuji has already told him the solution to them, he still doesn't want to reveal his cards right now. Anyway, keeping it secret is not a bad thing for him.
So he raised the wooden sword in his hand, stretched it forward, put it against Luo Hao's throat, and said, "No matter what, now you lose and I win, right?"
Luo Hao thought for a moment. She felt that even if she stood there and let Ling Wuji attack her, she would not necessarily get hurt. But the young man seemed to have heard her thoughts and tried it out. In the end, he pulled out another long sword with an ancient shape. It was pitch black and the sword light was like water, as if everything in the world was just a piece of paper under this sword.
"Destroy"!
Seeing this, Luo Hao could only admit his defeat.
Volume 2: Sword of Heaven: Chapter 32: Hesitation
In a sense, Ling Wuzhi's victory can only be described as an insidious, despicable and shameless victory. Although you cannot say that he did a bad job, but perhaps it was precisely because he did too well, and used everything he could to grasp Luo Hao's fatal weakness, making a battle that should have been earth-shattering in the eyes of outsiders become boring, as if it was won by talking.
Of course, Luo Hao is not someone who can't afford to lose.
Although she couldn't figure out the most crucial trick, it didn't mean that she completely couldn't understand Ling Wuji's words. Moreover, Ling Wuji had already told her the method to break his spell. If Luo Hao was determined, he might be able to turn the situation around.
Although according to Ling Wuji's idea, it is indeed strange that the other party has been living in seclusion in Lushan for hundreds of years and still has not yet realized her true nature. No one knows what she is doing all day except fighting with the God of Disobedience.
The abrupt ending of this incident is also shrouded in doubts from the outside world.
How did Ling Wuji defeat Luo Hao?
This question suddenly became one of the most difficult puzzles in the current mysterious world.
In particular, the person involved relied heavily on the sky curtain barrier that he had built himself. As a result, the battlefield between him and Luo Hao was not chosen under the coverage of the sky curtain barrier. Someone used technological means to find the place where they fought, but the satellite photos only showed that the two did not use magic to cause large-scale impact on the outside world, and did not even cause any waves.
However, although the announcement made by Luo Hao after returning to China caused a huge stir, there was a tendency to describe Ling Wuji as the second person on the mysterious side of southern China.
At this moment, Ling Wuji was still thinking about the question he asked Luo Hao:
What is the essence of a person?
And what can change the nature of a person?
For a otaku like Ling Wuji who plays games all day long, this question is not too unfamiliar. After all, the state-of-the-art game "Planescape: Torment" from the last century once regarded this question as the core of the entire story. It's just that Ling Wuji was still young when he played this game in his previous life, and the whole storyline was already vague to him. In fact, the situation he faced was different from that of the protagonist in that work, so he didn't have the idea of revisiting the game. He was just wondering if he should make some changes.
He couldn't explain where this idea came from.
Perhaps it was because after defeating Luo Hao, he recalled his life in Yuzhang, and it didn't seem much better than it is now.
At least in Tokyo he could get new games faster.
Or perhaps it was after talking with Awashima Seri that he realized that he could no longer continue to be a normal person in that kind of place, study peacefully, take the college entrance examination honestly and properly, and then go to university, and be a mediocre alchemist in China's long-settled order. He suddenly realized that he didn't really want that kind of life.
He just wanted to replicate it more perfectly because he had experienced that kind of thing in his previous life and wanted to make up for the shortcomings of those years in this life.
But is a more perfect replica simply about getting into a better university?
I think that kind of thing can be done in Japan as well.
Ling Wu Ji examined the interface of the system that only he could see. It still listed in detail the Taoism he had obtained from it. Perhaps from the very beginning, this system had been giving him a tendency to change his nature, but he had always chosen to stick to his old ways, which is why he has achieved nothing until now.
"Although strictly speaking it's not a complete failure..."
Ling Wu Ji found that he was indeed hesitating.
When he really made a choice without any worries, the world was so vast that he was a little at a loss for a moment.
"I think you just can't bear to part with it?"
"Reluctant?"
The person who was talking to Ling Wu Ji was Aozaki Touko. Although she seemed to have disappeared for a long time in the story, in fact Ling Wu Ji often kept in touch with her. In fact, this should be said the other way around. Aozaki Touko used Ling Wu Ji's "Taixujian" many times to find the targets of the commission because of his help. So the two of them were quite familiar with each other. And even if we put aside this relationship, she was still Asagami Fujino's teacher, so she couldn't be strangers to him.
Moreover, Ling Wu Ji felt that this person had always been looking at him, or rather, looking at his relationship with Asagami Fujino, from the perspective of a bystander.
If Ling Wu Ji told Asagami Fujino about his hesitation, Asagami Fujino would definitely let him stay in Japan.
And Aozaki Touko doesn't show any inclination.
So Ling Wuji had no objection to discussing this issue with her.