Chapter 204 Something weird
Chapter 204 Something weird
"Actually, swordsmen may be a little different from what you think. Integrity is something that needs to be emphasized, but... it depends on the situation." Li Wuxiang placed his hands on his knees and lowered his head to think for a moment. "When I first met the senior brother who introduced me to Taoism, he had a stack of bounties in his arms. If you saw it, you would find it hard to imagine that a swordsman would take care of such a thing - the most serious one would be a demon who wanted to summon a god, the less serious one would be arresting a bandit, and the lightest one would be helping people deliver goods or catching thieves."
"Before I came into contact with Taoism, I did even more miscellaneous things. There were many trades, some you've heard of, some you haven't. In short, I took money to do things and helped people get rid of disasters. There were even a few times when I had to weigh my conscience carefully. Thinking back on some of the things I did, I still regret it."
Kong Jingci stayed silent with him for a while, then whispered, "I understand. I...just thought about it. I was born in the Suhua Sect, and I have no worries about food and clothing until now. I haven't experienced as much as you, brother. But if I use youth and lifespan as an analogy, gold, silver, jewelry, and magical materials from heaven and earth are to you, brother, just like youth and lifespan are to me."
Li Wuxiang smiled and said, "So you must understand that people like me and swordsmen don't like to fight for power and intrigue. I have never thought about becoming the leader of the Palm Seal Sect, and the Sword Sect doesn't have the thoughts you mentioned before. I actually just want to go to the Great Tribulation Alliance to find something. As long as it doesn't help the Xuan Sect, I don't want to care about other things."
"So what do you want, brother?"
"The Great Tribulation Sword Scripture."
Kong Jingci was stunned: "Ah? Doesn't the Sword Sect have the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture?"
When he first came to this world a few months ago, Li Wuxiang knew very little, so he didn't dare to talk about cultivation. But now, after he got the classics in the Tianxin Illusion, he gradually realized one thing - there were too many things lost in the war three thousand years ago, so many that no one could explain some of them.
Therefore, some words coming out of the mouth of Li Wuxiang, who is practicing Qi, would make people frown and think that he is talking nonsense.
But if some words came out of the mouth of Li Wuxiang, who is in the Nascent Soul stage, and made people frown, then that person might be thinking "Why what I know is different from what this Nascent Soul master of the Sword Sect said".
"Yes. But the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture in the world today may not be the one that Donghuang Taiyi practiced. Three thousand years ago, this Scripture may have been tampered with. I only learned about this recently." Li Wuxiang said seriously, "So I want to take a look at the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture hidden in the thirty-six sects, compare the two, and distinguish the true from the false."
Kong Jingci frowned, as if because of what he heard, he could no longer care about those slightly charming and seductive expressions. However, Li Wuxiang felt that compared with the pretentious attitude just now, the serious and dignified look was more suitable for her delicate and elegant appearance.
"Brother, did you see their Great Tribulation Sword Scripture at the Tianxin Sect?"
"A fragment. But I'm not sure if the fragments of your thirty-six sects are the same one." Li Wuxiang reached into his arms, took out the fragment and handed it to Kong Jingci, "Take a look."
Kong Jingci took it immediately, touched and looked at the paper carefully, then quickly flipped through it. He raised his head and wanted to hand it back to Li Wuxiang, but he seemed to suddenly remember something and looked through it carefully again before reaching out his hand again: "The Suhua Sect should have this fragment. The paper and handwriting are the same... I think it should be the same. I saw it when I went to the secret realm with the teachers in the sect."
Li Wuxiang took it and put it in his arms: "But this one is different from the Sword Sect's."
Kong Jingci looked at the four people not far away and stood up: "Brother, can you please have a word with me?"
Li Wuxiang also stood up and shook his head: "I can't borrow one. If your Suhua Sect can find all the fragments of the thirty-six sects, I can exchange one for you."
Kong Jingci was stunned: "I didn't mean...oh!"
She couldn't help but smile, and her expression was much more relaxed than before. She smiled slightly and walked a few steps to the side and stopped, and Li Wuxiang followed her.
"We should be able to help you get some fragments, at least ten copies, and we can give them to you. If you can stay at our Suhua sect's base when you arrive at the Great Tribulation Mountain, and you really don't want to be the sect master, we can try to help you find all of them. As long as you can tell us whether the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture of the Thirty-Six Sects is true or false after you have identified the authenticity."
"It sounds good. But I think this is a deal - you help me find the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture, and I'll tell you if it's true. You just made a request - if I don't want to be the Sect Master, then this matter should be separated."
"I guess that right now, the only five sects that can compete for the position of the Sect Master in Dajie Mountain are your five sects - Juque, Tiangong, Qianji, Qingxiao, and Suhua. Your people must be busy traveling around the thirty-six sects to persuade and win support. So if I don't become the Sect Master and really go to your Suhua sect's headquarters, will that mean I support you? What's the benefit of that?"
Kong Jingci laughed, "I don't know if all swordsmen are as meticulous as you, brother. I just don't understand. As for this matter, as you said, you can choose any treasure from the Suhua Sect. Well, the teachers in the sect should agree. I can go and ask them when we get to the Great Tribulation Mountain."
Li Wuxiang's eyes slid from her lips and neck: "Any treasure is fine?"
Kong Jingci took a deep breath, pursed his lips, and hesitated for a moment: "Hmm."
Li Wuxiang was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed and clapped his hands gently: "Okay. Let's make it a deal for now - they should be done with their breathing soon, let's go over and wait."
Kong Jingci let out a low breath: "Yeah."
Li Wuxiang walked back to the fallen tree and sat down. Kong Jingci did not sit next to him, but sat next to Kong Jingyu with his legs spread out.
So Li Wuxiang glanced at the remaining three people and couldn't help wondering, is there really one? But who could it be?
Lu Huaiyuan? Tang Qilang? Or Liu Hanzhang?
Anyway, it shouldn't be Mou Tieshan. When they were on the road and there were only two of them, Kong Jingci told him that some of the six people might not want to pass on the news of the location of the East Emperor Seal back to Dajie Mountain.
When he arrived in the lower world, Li Wuxiang thought that person was Mou Tieshan. But now that he has calmed down, he feels that something was wrong.
——Even though he was planning to attack himself, Mou Tieshan never admitted that he had that intention. Li Wuxiang remembered that Kong Jingci took out a great calamity order and said it was given by the master at the alliance meeting. He asked Mou Tieshan "Do you have an order?" Mou Tieshan seemed to want to say something, but in the end he said nothing, just shook his head and sneered. [Note 1]
His reaction was quite strange. It seemed as if he knew he had no way to refute it, so he simply said nothing.
So, is it possible that what he did at that time was really because he was blinded by the matter of "bringing back the soul of the Sword Sect leader"?
The reason why he thought so was because he felt that among the remaining few people, there was one person who was not quite right.
It is Kong Jingci.
Just now after leaving the lower world, when Li Wuxiang was considering whether to bring them into Lingshan and through the Xuanjiao defense line, he looked at the "connection" on them.
As he had seen before, everything in the world was connected to the sacred mountain, like wisps of mist, weaving together into a large net. Sitting on this dead tree, when he looked over at them with a bit of luck, he could see that white mist seemed to be rising from the bodies of several people, leading to the unknown far away.
Only Kong Jingyu, who was beside Kong Jingci, was very strange.
Like everyone and everything around her, she also had that kind of connection, like a faint mist. But at this moment, this mist did not extend to other places and gradually disappear like other people, but sank into Kong Jingci's body.
He had only learned about this method when Mei Qiulu told him how to break the spell and cut off the spells that the True Form Sect monks had borrowed from Lingshan. After that, he tried it himself and gradually realized that it was not just spells, but that there was a strong or weak connection between all things in the world and Lingshan, and that they corresponded to something over there.
This should be because Lingshan was created between the netherworld and the living world by Donghuang Taiyi who seized some of the power of the netherworld. The netherworld is filled with dead air corresponding to spiritual energy, and both - according to the saying of this world - were differentiated from the original chaos.
Since all things in the world are transformed by spiritual energy, they must also correspond to the dead energy in the netherworld. Since Lingshan is a distorted netherworld, it also corresponds to all things in the world.
Kong Jingyu's situation seems to imply that she has no connections with Lingshan or the underworld, but only in this world.
Li Wuxiang had only seen this situation once before. That was today at the bottom of the Nether Nine Abyss, when he saw Cui Daocheng's Yin spirit coming out. After his Yin spirit separated from his physical body, it was exactly the same situation.
Kong Jingyu had almost no expression, didn't speak, and moved and sat in unison with Kong Jingci. If they were really twin sisters, mentally normal, but had gone wrong in their practice and ended up like this, then the relationship between Kong Jingci and her should be closer, not what Li Wuxiang had always observed: there was almost no interaction between the two, as if Kong Jingci didn't care much about her.
So he has been thinking about a question today: Is it possible that Kong Jingyu is not a real living person?
Is it possible that she is Kong Jingci's Yin Spirit or Yang Spirit...but because of the special skills and special circumstances, she cannot be taken back into the body!
If this is true, then when she was in the lower world before, she suddenly took out a great calamity order and said it was given by the master at the alliance meeting, and it also had a secret order... Then she herself might be the "master", and what she said might not be true.
So when the two of them were talking just now, Li Wuxiang took out the fragment of the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture and handed it to her. Kong Jingci took it and looked at it, touched it, and then just flipped through it to confirm that it was the same book as the fragment of the Suhua Sect - it was easy for the elite disciples of the Thirty-Six Sects to know that the fragment of the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture was hidden in the sect, but she could tell from the paper that it was the same book just by touching it, which meant that she must have often come into contact with the fragment of the Suhua Sect in the past.
If it was another treasure, it would be fine - since she was an elite disciple, she might be able to freely enter and exit the sect's secret treasure place. But how could she be so familiar with the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture, which was something that could not be cultivated, and was a completely useless fragment?
When discussing the possible benefits that the Suhua Sect might bring to her, she agreed quite readily, as if she could make the decisions on many things herself.
Previously, because of all these strange things, Li Wuxiang suspected that Kong Jingci was the one who didn't want the news of the East Emperor Seal to be spread back to Dajie Mountain. He thought that she might have killed the witness after seeing the East Emperor Seal with her own eyes, but his appearance made her wary and even changed her mind.
But after getting so many words out of her, he changed his mind.
Because Kong Jingci didn't seem to be very careful in doing things. Let's not talk about when she took over the Great Tribulation Sword Scripture, but when she spoke afterwards, she always responded and made decisions quickly to her requests, as if she could make the decision herself. In the end, she probably felt that she spoke too hastily, so she added, "The teachers in the sect should agree."
It seemed difficult for such an imprudent person to plot. Besides, she didn't seem thick-skinned enough - no matter what her intention was, she didn't behave professionally. After that, I talked to her seriously about "interests" and "transactions", and she became relaxed again, as if she had returned to her original state.
When he teased her a little after the conversation, her reaction made Li Wuxiang roughly outline her character in his mind: if she is really a Yuanying or Yangshen, she should be a cultivator who stays in the sect all year round and rarely contacts ordinary people as she said. But for the sake of the sect, they are eager to win over a Yuanying of the Sword Sect, so they even use methods that they are not good at.
But this made her look even less smart. There was really no need to mix personal feelings into something that could be settled with benefits, as that would only add some instability to the matter... Perhaps she had not expected that a swordsman would ask for benefits.
But if it wasn’t Kong Jingci, who could it be?
Li Wuxiang first stared at Tang Qilang, then his eyes slid across Lu Huaiyuan and finally fell on Liu Hanzhang.
He has a handsome face and looks quite youthful, and his figure is relatively thin among practitioners, which matches the bamboo pattern embroidered on his robe very well.
In fact, this person is also very strange. It is not uncommon to find people who are taciturn, submissive, and weak in temperament, but should there be such a person among the group of people who came to Youjiuyuan to explore the whereabouts of the East Emperor Seal?
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Note 1: See Chapter for details.
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