Chapter 186 3 questions

Chapter 186 3 questions

Chapter 186 Three Questions
Li Wuxiang had only heard about what happened three thousand years ago from various channels, but now, a monster that seemed to have experienced that war was standing in front of him!
Seeing that the centipede was about to rush towards the top of the hill of Taiyi Temple, Li Wuxiang immediately had several thoughts in his head - he couldn't let it get away like that, he had a lot of questions to ask!

But now he knew that the world was similar to his own, and information and resources were the most important. Without any friendship, no one would be willing to tell him about these things in detail. The centipede just spoke in a depressed tone, as if it had a great revenge to avenge and didn't want to care about worldly affairs anymore. He had to find a way to get it to say a few more words.

He had been with the swordsman for a long time, and he didn't need to use his brain much. Now, a lot of thoughts came to his mind at once, so he immediately said, "Senior, do you need my help?"

The Gongfu just glanced at him, then leaped up with all four legs, turning into a dark golden shadow and leaping towards the top of the hill where the Taiyi Palace was.

As it leaped, clouds appeared under its feet, as if it was flying in the air on mist. Li Wuxiang immediately followed it, leaping between pavilions and towers while looking up and saying loudly: "Senior! How do you want to let Guiyin Zhenjun's true spirit rest in peace? Now the Sword Sect is fighting the Xuan Sect, and we originally planned to lure the masters of the Xuan Sect here - do you have any way to help? Three thousand years ago, you should have been on our Sword Sect's side, right?!"

Gongfu didn't say anything, and flew to the top of Taiyi Palace like a cloud. At this point, Li Wuxiang couldn't follow him anymore, because as soon as he got close to the blue light, his body started to soften, as if his skin was about to melt - his skin at the Pijinxia realm was already extremely tough, but in front of the residual power of the True Spirit of the Incarnate True Lord, it seemed to be vulnerable!

However, as soon as the centipede landed on the ground, the surrounding blue light was immediately separated by it like water, and the originally rippling ground suddenly became solid, as if a new road had appeared.

This monster can eat humans, but its speech and temperament are no different from humans. It even wants to avenge Jin Zijiu. Li Wuxiang made up his mind and jumped up as well.

"Senior, you were fine in the garden, why are you ignoring me now? If you don't want to help, can I ask you a few more questions?"

Gongfu walked forward a few more steps before stopping and turning around, narrowing his bell-like eyes: "I needed your help there, but not now. Li Wuxiang, since you are still a swordsman who travels all over the country, don't you understand that the one talking to you there was Jin Zijiu, and the one talking to you now is Gongfu? I said, since True Lord Guiyin is dead, he shouldn't have left any true spirit for you to use! Go away! Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"

According to Li Wuxiang's experience, people who really want to be rude usually won't say "don't blame me for being rude". As the saying goes, ruthless people don't talk much.

So he relaxed his expression: "Just now you were a little monkey, now you have become Li Wuxiang - Senior, I am not afraid that you will be rude to me -"

Gong Fu glared again after hearing this, but heard Li Wuxiang say: "Although you are an alien, I think you are kind-hearted and more like a human being than most people in this world - you want to take Cheng Shengfei away, but she is also someone I introduced to the swordsman's sect, and she is half of my apprentice. I have to ask her clearly, otherwise I will be worried!"

Gongfu's brows relaxed, his lips widened, and his expression seemed to have relaxed.

It took a few more steps forward, and when it reached the well mouth, it poked its head out and looked down. It then turned to Li Wuxiang and said, "She is the descendant of Cheng Lihua. I am taking her away to pass on all of Cheng Shenghua's knowledge and memory to her. You can rest assured."

"Cheng Shenghua is Guiyin Zhenjun, right? Senior, you have a good relationship with her?"

Gong Fu exhaled a long breath of mist, like a sigh: "Okay, I said in the garden that you can ask me three more questions after you finish the work, so don't be long-winded. Three questions, think carefully, then ask."

Let it bring this up again. Li Wuxiang certainly remembered that it had said this in the herb garden, and just now he just wanted to find out more. But now, he really had to think it over carefully.

There was no need to ask about the Netherworld Mother. He had seen some relevant information in the Tianxin Illusion, and he would take a closer look when he had time. Besides, the Netherworld Mother today was definitely different from the one three thousand years ago, so there was no need to waste the opportunity on this.

So Li Wuxiang thought about it and asked the first question he wanted to know -

"Senior, after practicing the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra, how should I practice the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra?"

"You can't practice the Great Tribulation—" The Gongfu seemed to want to say "You can't practice the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra", but Li Wuxiang didn't wait for it to finish his words and immediately said: "Senior, I didn't ask me how to practice."

Gongfu paused and narrowed his eyes slightly. "You little monkey are quite clever. Well, if I wasn't asking you - if you had read the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture, you would know that the first sentence of the technique is 'To practice this technique, you must first obtain the True Emptiness'. Once you obtain the True Emptiness and understand the essence of the Ranshan Talisman Technique, you can naturally start practicing."

After it said this, the pair of long whiskers on its lips raised slightly, as if it was very proud.

Well, it was a clever trick.

Li Wuxiang had never seen the first sentence before. When he was in the illusion, he just flipped through the first, middle, and last part of the book without starting from the beginning, because he thought that some of the exercises were nothing more than body building and foundation building at the beginning, and they must be similar. But there was actually this sentence?
To practice this skill, one must first achieve a vacuum... What vacuum? The Nine Palaces Vacuum in Guang Chanzi? Probably not, because it originally wanted to say that it could not practice.

And the essence of the Ranshan Talisman Method... Isn't the essence the bamboo papers that are worshipped in the Ranshan illusion? No... it should refer to "why those bamboo papers can have such power after being worshipped"?
But since it didn't mention the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra, does that mean it can really practice it? Then why don't the people of the Sword Sect practice it?
Gongfu frowned slightly when he saw him like this, and then raised his beard again: "Go on, ask, the vacuum, the essence, I will answer you all at once, you can leave quickly!" But Li Wuxiang didn't plan to ask anymore. The vacuum and the essence must be very difficult to deal with, otherwise why didn't the people of the Sword Sect even practice the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra, but practiced a crippled version? He had decided to find a place to hide first, so it wouldn't be too late to practice the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra first - Gongfu didn't say that if you practiced the Small Tribulation Sword Sutra, you couldn't practice the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra.

So, second question!

"Senior..." Li Wuxiang said in a deep voice, "How did Emperor Donghuang Taiyi achieve the status of a Golden Immortal?"

Gongfu's lips slightly lifted up, and his eyes narrowed again, as if he was smiling. Li Wuxiang had a bad feeling in his heart, and just as he was about to regret it, he heard Gongfu say, "Because he practiced the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra."

It seemed like a wasted opportunity.

But when Li Wuxiang thought about it carefully, he immediately felt that this answer seemed to be extremely valuable!
Practicing the Great Tribulation Sword Sutra requires "true vacuum" and "the essence of the Ranshan Talisman", which means that if he can get these things, he will have a path to becoming a Golden Immortal!

He learned about this from Gongfu, which was a rare adventure, but he felt that he would not be the only one who knew these things in the past three thousand years. It must be because some conditions were missing that it had not been accomplished for such a long time. What has changed now compared to when Li Ye achieved the Golden Immortal three thousand years ago?
The first thing he thought of was luck. Li Ye achieved the Golden Immortal with the help of the luck of humanity. Other than that, everything else had been divided up by the other seven emperors. Which one of the "vacuum" and the "essence" was related to luck? Which one was related to the luck of humanity?
The second thing that comes to mind is the Netherworld Scroll!
The Netherworld Scroll has now been divided into eight parts. Previously, Lou He returned to the Five Mountains True Form Sect in order to find another Netherworld Scroll. He said that after reading it, he might be able to find a way to become an immortal... Did he know something too?
The third question:

At this time, Gongfu suddenly spoke, exhaling a light mist: "Little monkey, don't be happy yet. Over the years, there have been at least a thousand people like you who want to become a Golden Immortal, but none of them can do it. This kind of thing is not difficult or not, but can you afford the price? The reason why I hide in a garden is not because I am afraid of something, but because there are some things that are better to do or not to do. You might as well practice a small robbery sword scripture, learn longevity, stay away from the crowd and travel around the world, and live a happy life."

Can monsters also suffer from depression? It spoke in a depressed tone again.

But Li Wuxiang vaguely felt that its dejection was more like "seeing through the world", and felt that many things were beyond imagination. The two things he asked it just now, in fact, it should be able to tell them in detail, but the reason why it answered vaguely seemed not to amuse him, but as he said just now, it did not want anyone to inherit Donghuang Taiyi's Taoism and cultivate to become a true immortal?
He had a feeling that even if he asked what exactly a vacuum was, it would be answered in another indisputable but ambiguous way. In that case, he might as well ask a vague question that he had always been puzzled about.

"Then, Senior, why did the other seven Golden Immortals join forces to suppress Emperor Taiyi?"

This question seems to have been answered long ago - Donghuang Taiyi is the ancestor of Taoism and the leader of all immortals. After the seven golden immortals attained Taoism, they did not want anyone else to share the fate of the world, so they took action.

But Li Wuxiang has been thinking that Li Ye's achievement of the Golden Immortal was due to the good fortune of humanity, and it had nothing to do with the other seven. After all, they were master and disciple in the past, so even if one or two of them were ungrateful, they wouldn't all defect, right?

This question made the Gongfu silent for a moment, and it shook its head slightly and shook the mane on its neck, as if it was hesitant. But after a while, it turned its body completely around, and the scales on its body opened and closed gently, making a pleasant, crisp sound similar to the impact of thin ice.

It stared at Li Wuxiang with its big eyes, and its pupils changed from vertical thin strips to large circles because of the night: "Are you asking me this because of what I just said?"

"You asked a good question, which shows that you are a smart person with a good character. Why? Because everyone has their own reasons. The Great Emperor thinks what he is going to do is good, while the other seven Golden Immortals think what he is going to do is bad. The Great Emperor wants to save the world, and the seven Golden Immortals also want to save the world, but their methods are different."

"The world has come to this point now. It's not a bad thing to be without Taiyi. Why bother thinking about the past? Li Wuxiang, this is why I don't want to help you swordsmen. I also think that it's not a bad thing for the world if you swordsmen slowly die."

"Because of wanting to save the world, you caused unrest in the world and caused countless deaths and injuries. Is this considered saving people or harming people? Okay, I have asked all three questions. You can leave now."

Li Wuxiang frowned, "Senior, you are an old senior who has lived for more than 3,000 years. You can't fool a junior like me like this, right? You didn't explain all three things clearly... Forget about the first two, but what about the third? You still didn't tell me why! It's okay if you don't tell me why, but at least in your opinion, who do you think is right and who is wrong? How do they save the world? What happened in the first place!?"

Gong Fu was not angry, but stared at him for a while and asked: "For example, when Ye Chao was still alive, you were a farmer living in a remote place. Suddenly one day, a war broke out and the court wanted to recruit you to the battlefield. If you didn't go, you would have a peaceful life for 50 or 60 years and die of old age. If you went, you might die on the battlefield the next day."

"Should you go or not? That's the court's business. If the Ye Dynasty is gone, there might be another court. You'll just become a citizen of another court and still be able to live in peace. So you want to go, but your brother advises you not to go. Who is right and who is wrong?"

Just as he was about to say "How can an egg remain intact when the nest is overturned?", Li Wuxiang realized that Gongfu's words were just an analogy. "You" and "your brothers" were most likely referring to Donghuang Taiyi and the other seven Golden Immortals. For them, there should be no "reason" or "righteousness" to speak of above them, because they themselves are!
"Senior, what do you mean by war? A disaster that is about to happen to the world?"

"The disaster is over now." Gongfu shook his head slightly. "If you want to ask who is right and who is wrong, then from now on, those who survived are right, and those who died are wrong. If you don't think so, think about it slowly. Li Wuxiang, I don't know as much as you think. If you want to figure out some things, you can only rely on yourself."

When it said this, its attitude seemed to become kinder, as if it remembered something in the past, and it raised its front paws and took a small step forward. But it stopped again, staring with eyes wide open: "You want to ask three, but now there are more than three, are you still not satisfied? Go and bring Cheng Shengfei up, do your own thing! Wait a little longer, I'm afraid I can't control it!"

(End of this chapter)