Chapter 163: Missing the rest of my life
Chapter 163: Missing the rest of my life
Yu Sheng put aside his thoughts and naturally changed the topic, asking softly, "What's your name?"
Gu Zhuo was stunned for a moment and asked, "Hmm?"
Yu Sheng seemed to be in an unusually good mood. Hearing the "hmm", the corners of her lips curled up slightly in a smile, and she gave an explanation that she found interesting.
"It's not the name of the child you and Lin Wanyi will have in the future."
Gu Zhuo looked at her in confusion and didn't want to talk at all.
Yu Sheng was a little surprised and said, "Is this sentence meaningless?"
Gu Zhuo didn't want to pay attention to this leisurely mood. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Are you referring to the technique?"
"Ah."
Yu Sheng looked at him and said, "Your current skills can no longer be considered Star Frost Tribulation."
After hearing this, Gu Zhuo thought about it seriously and finally shook his head.
"I haven't thought about this question. Just like what you said to Dao Xiu yesterday, I don't think anyone can master my technique in the foreseeable future, so why bother giving it a name?"
He said with emotion: "Things like naming...it's really not easy to come up with a nice and appropriate name."
Yu Sheng deeply agrees with this.
The night outside the window deepens, the stars in the sky have disappeared, and the snow and wind are cold.
The water in the iron kettle finally boiled. The boiling water met the tea leaves, and a light mist and fragrance floated in the cup.
Under the dim light, this scene gives people a warm feeling.
Just like the gentleness of Yu Sheng’s next words, which was like a spring breeze.
"What should you do with your practice?"
Ordinary practitioners cannot see it, and Dao Xiu cannot see it clearly for the time being, but she is different after all.
She was certain that Gu Zhuo would encounter an extremely troublesome problem in his practice, and this problem was just like the technique he was practicing - unprecedented and unparalleled.
Today, from noon to dusk, Gu Zhuo never left the stone forest. He fought with Xie Yinglian and the young geniuses from all the sects in the world. He was invincible.
All this glory came from his strength which had never been weak for a moment.
It was as if Gu Zhuo's time had stopped at the very beginning, the peak moment.
Looking at it from another angle, would his state of mind also remain at that moment?
There are two stages on the way from profound truth to unity, namely, nourishing the spirit and accepting the intention.
Nourishing the spirit refers to using one's own practice to allow the soul to undergo a transformation that is like a new life.
As the name suggests, the stage of Cheng Yi allows practitioners to wander around with their spirit and soul, seeking the meaning of heaven and earth.
For the vast majority of practitioners, the focus of the Chengyi realm is on the word "seeking". For example, a sword practitioner like Chen Chi seeks a certain ray of sharpness lingering between heaven and earth, so as to constantly temper himself and strive to make further progress on the great path.
Reaching the state of mind is a relatively long process that requires the polishing of time.
The issue that Yu Sheng considered for Gu Zhuo was certainly not time, but "negotiation". She believed that his current situation would make it extremely difficult for him to take this step, because it is difficult to change one's nature.
When she thought of this, she suddenly remembered that the Qin Dynasty had a thousand years of history, and she couldn't help feeling a little weird.
Gu Zhuo understood what Yu Sheng meant and said calmly, "I won't be polite when it's time to ask you for help."
Yu Sheng asked, "How much confidence do you have?"
Gu Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "Nowadays, people often say something about me, and I agree with it."
Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow and asked, "What?"
"My talent in cultivation is unrivaled in the world."
“Why don’t you fully agree?”
"I've said this to Chen Chi before. I think that in terms of cultivation, no one has been as capable as me in the past thousand years."
Gu Zhuo's voice was very calm, as if he was stating an indisputable fact.
Yu Sheng smiled slightly and said nothing more. He just thought that this might not be a bad thing.
She would not pick up the thought she had a moment ago and start a new round of doubts because of this sentence, because doubts are never-ending.
Gu Zhuo added: "But this time the problem is indeed more troublesome, I need more time."
Yu Sheng suppressed his smile and did not laugh at the repetition.
Drink tea from the cup and your mind will be calm.
"While waiting for you, Daoxiu said something else to me."
Her tone became more casual because she cared less about it than before.
Gu Zhuo said: "Please speak."
Yu Sheng looked at him and said, "Xiu Hu is dead. He died yesterday when Dao Xiu was preaching. Xiu Hu's death is directly related to the new leader of Tianming Sect. You can think of it as a murder to silence him."
Gu Zhuo didn't say anything.
A moment ago, he looked at the cup of tea with hot mist and felt much better, no longer tired and embarrassed.
However, just this one sentence made him tired again.
Although from a certain perspective, all this is good news for him.
Yu Sheng continued, "After Yingxu's death, the Tianming Sect has lost the qualifications to influence the world, but that doesn't mean they are completely useless."
After a moment of silence, Gu Zhuo said, "What do you want to remind me of?"
Yu Sheng said calmly, "Xiu Hu was murdered to silence her. This shows the temperament of the new leader of the Tianming Sect. He is cruel, brutal and ruthless. Words like this can be used to describe him. Maybe soon there will be another word for him: crazy."
Gu Zhuo was silent for a long time, and then said, "Do you think the new leader will try to kill me?"
Yu Sheng said calmly: "Then use your blood to sacrifice to Taoist Yingxu."
Gu Zhuo was speechless. He felt the urge to refute for the first time in a long time, but he didn't know how to make the appropriate excuse.
After all, insisting on refuting at this time is extremely unreasonable no matter how you look at it.
There was laughter in his heart.
That means everything here can no longer bear it.
Yu Sheng spoke for a long time.
"Besides the Dao Sect, you have offended almost every sect in the world today. The reason why I want to tell you this is to remind you that the Tianming Sect is not completely dead and there is a high possibility that they will attack you, so that you can avoid being surrounded and killed as much as possible."
She looked into Gu Zhuo's eyes and said seriously, "Because at that time, those people you have offended will appear in another form and accompany you wholeheartedly, just to let you die peacefully."
There is a sentence that Yu Sheng has never said out loud - no matter how high your realm is, when you make the whole world unhappy, you are destined to die.
Gu Zhuo wondered why this sounded weird.
The next moment, he realized that it was not what was said that was to blame, but Yu Sheng’s tone at the moment.
It was no longer the kind of indifferent gentleness and aloofness that looked down on everything in the world, but a real concern that even she herself did not realize.
This concern is still lofty, but it is no longer offensive.
Because it is filled with... the care of a senior sister for her junior brother, and the love of a master for his disciple?
That's probably it.
Gu Zhuo was a little uncomfortable. After thinking for a while, he said, "These people have no time to pay attention to me at the moment. Compared to me, that lady is more worthy of their concern."
"Maybe."
Yu Sheng did not deny it.
Gu Zhuo looked at Yu Sheng, and after thinking seriously for a moment, he decided to remain silent.
What Daoxiu said not long ago is very likely true. That empress has completely her own ideas, which are different from those of His Majesty the Emperor.
The problem is that there is no need for him to reveal the truth, which perhaps both parties already know, and force the matter to be brought to the table.
The reason is very pure.
Now that he has a rift with all the sects in the world, only Da Qin still stands firmly on his side. This firmness comes from Yu Sheng and Pei Jinge, and also from that empress. So why would he want to cause chaos in Da Qin?
This really makes no sense. Thinking of this, Gu Zhuo suddenly discovered a problem... Why are all his backers women?
What's even more strange is that his current position is completely different from that in his previous life.
The most ridiculous thing is that he is actually in irreconcilable contradiction with his current position.
This is really not a fun thing to do.
How on earth did he get to this point?
Could it be that this is all his own problem?
Gu Zhuo sighed in his heart, wondering if he should just smile bitterly and feel sorry for himself at this moment?
Yu Sheng didn't care what he was thinking. He glanced at the night outside the window and said, "Let's stop here for today."
After saying this, she stood up and walked out with brisk steps.
Halfway through the walk, she remembered something and asked casually, "Do you still want to participate in the following debate and interpretation of the Scripture?"
Gu Zhuo shook his head and said, "No."
Yu Sheng asked, "When will you go back?"
Gu Zhuo nodded subconsciously.
Then he felt Yu Sheng's gaze and realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he added: "Not tomorrow, I want to see someone before I leave."
Yu Sheng thought that person was Lin Wanyi. He thought that it was a rare opportunity to see each other, and they would be separated again in the blink of an eye, so he should stay for a few more days.
There's nothing unreasonable about that.
pretty good.
At this moment, Gu Zhuo's voice rang out and fell into Yu Sheng's ears.
"I suddenly feel the need to give this technique a name."
"Ok?"
"I mean, the day I come up with a name, you'll be the first person to know it."
"it is good."
……
……
How can you just turn around and leave when the matter isn't really settled yet?
The Tianming Sect has welcomed a new leader, and this matter has been known by the powerful people in all the major sects. I believe that after the death of Master Xiu Hu is revealed, related rumors will intensify until they become familiar to the world.
There will be an extremely mysterious cult leader in the world.
This is the situation that Gu Zhuo hopes to see.
Pei Jinge thought so, with a smile on his lips that he couldn't tell whether it was self-mockery or mockery. He thought to himself that he was really not a person that others could like.
Not far away, the three elders of the Tianming Sect looked at her smile and it was hard not to feel a chill in their hearts.
This conversation took place not on the edge of a cliff or beside a plum tree, but in a pine forest as vast as the sea.
In the dead of winter nights, the starlight cannot penetrate through the dense branches and leaves.
There is only darkness and silence.
A place like this is not only suitable for talking, but also for killing.
In fact, the three elders of the Tianming Sect had such concerns before they came to this pine forest, but their emotions were eventually overcome by rationality.
If even they died, wouldn't the Destiny Cult also be destroyed?
There is no reason for the leader to let this happen.
"There's no point in overthinking."
Pei Jinge said softly, suppressing the chaotic thoughts in his mind, with an indifferent expression: "Xiu Hu's death was his own choice,"
Taoist Chang Yu shouted in a deep voice: "But this is the choice you gave him!"
Pei Jinge said: "So I am grateful that Xiu Hu was willing to die before the temptation of life."
At the end of her words, she smiled and sighed, as if expressing emotion or reminiscing.
The three people who were already demons in the eyes of the world, now looked at Pei Jinge with only one thought in their minds.
——Where on earth did the leader find such a big devil?
“Don’t let your eyes dwell on the past.”
Pei Jinge continued to smile, stood with his hands behind his back, and said, "You have other things to do now."
Taoist Chang Yu asked solemnly, "What's the matter?"
Pei Jinge said: "Go kill someone."
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of Sui Qian Gu and Taoist nun An Ning changed suddenly and their faces turned pale. It was obvious that they thought of the same name - Gu Zhuo.
Pei Jinge guessed what they were thinking and couldn't help but find it a little funny, but she didn't laugh.
"Li Ruoyun."
"... Is it worth our effort to just get a cave realm like this?"
"Is it worth my effort?"
"That was never the intention."
In response to this rhetorical question, the three elders apologized directly without hesitation, in unison, of course because of their inner fear.
Pei Jinge looked at the three of them, smiled slightly, and said gently: "Don't worry, I have a very troublesome matter to deal with next, and you won't be able to see me for a while."
None of the three felt relieved by this statement, because none of them were idiots.
Pei Jinge was too lazy to talk nonsense with these three people, so he turned around and walked out.
"Li Ruoyun must die."
She casually ordered: "Also, those people from the Li family who went to Cihang Temple this time should not live."
Sui Qian Gu's expression changed slightly, and he said tactfully: "It's okay to kill Li Ruoyun alone, but if you kill everyone, I'm afraid it will bring... not so good effects."
The Li family's influence in Southern Qi penetrated almost every aspect, and was not much inferior to that of the Qi royal family. They were considered the only remaining backbone of Southern Qi.
In recent years, because of the former leader of the Tianming Sect, the Li family had to accept the fact that the Tianming Sect had taken root in Southern Qi.
But now that the old man is dead, many things have changed. The most obvious change is that Xiu Hu Zhenren is under house arrest by the Li family.
Pei Jinge asked without even turning his head: "What bad influence?"
Sui Qian Gu said seriously: "This is likely to be considered by the Li family as the beginning of a war."
Pei Jinge said: "So what?"
Nun An Ning shook her head and said, "Now that the sect is in the process of transition from the old to the new, it should rest and recuperate instead of making enemies everywhere."
Pei Jinge suddenly stopped.
Watching this scene, the three people now had unexpectedly firm expressions, which was a clear difference from their previous cautiousness. They no longer looked like the kind of submissive lackeys like house dogs, but had some of the demeanor of powerful demons.
She turned around and smiled gently at the three people, saying, "Then I'll give you another choice. How about killing Gu Zhuo?"
As soon as these words were spoken, all previous insistence became like a joke and disappeared in an instant.
The three elders, led by Taoist Chang Yu, gave up their previous insistence without hesitation and sincerely promised not to let anyone from the Li family go.
Pei Jinge thought this was really boring.
Then, she thought about what she was doing and the clue she got from Xiu Hu, and she wondered if she was crazy for being so determined to find the truth.
It would have been easier to just report the matter of the ghost to His Majesty instead of taking such a heavy risk.
It is obvious that the idea of Yingxu is just an unrealistic fantasy, so why do you have to confirm its falsity yourself?
How did it come to this?
It’s all Gu Zhuo’s problem.
Pei Jinge thought.
If I die because of this, would it be considered a waste of my life?
(End of this chapter)