Chapter 226 Bad things

Lou He was silent. When he was outside, he looked like Lu Pan. But when he came to Lingshan, he became his own appearance - just like when Li Wuxiang first saw him in the coffin city, with a fair complexion, curved eyebrows, narrow eyes, and five strands of beard.

After a while, he frowned slightly: "Taiyi... that thing... how does it make you feel?"

"It's big, but very empty. Like a mountain, like the sea, very scary." Li Wuxiang said seriously, "But it's also very... anxious. Very greedy. You can't tell what it's greedy for, but you just feel like it wants something."

Lou He exhaled slowly like a human, and raised his chin to Zhao Qi at the entrance of the cave: "You said he saw it in Lingshan?"

Zhao Qi seemed not to hear, so Li Wuxiang turned to look at him: "Hey."

"Ah?" Zhao Qi said, "Didn't you tell me to stop talking?"

Li Wuxiang frowned, and Zhao Qicai laughed: "Haha, I was just kidding you - yes, I have seen it. It looks just like the statues of Taiyi worshipped in temples. At that time, I really thought it was Taiyi."

Li Wuxiang immediately added: "Brother Lou, you should know that some people with deep Taoist skills can also pretend to be similar. If you look closely, there must be something different, but Zhao Qi didn't dare to look closely at that time."

Lou He nodded: "That's right. So, according to what you said, he was invited down by Zhao Kui, and what Zhao Kui wanted to refine was Taiyi, the fate of an emperor. So the things that come here are either the real spirit of Taiyi, or they are things that pretend to be Taiyi."

He looked at Li Wuxiang: "Then it can't be the Netherworld Earth Mother."

"why?"

"How should I put it..." Lou He frowned and thought for a while, "I can't think of an analogy for the moment, but the one we invited was Taiyi, the real spirit of Taiyi, and anyone who calls himself Taiyi, who has some connection with Taiyi, may come. But the Netherworld Earth Mother is also a golden immortal, and if you invited Taiyi, she will never come. It's like... well, how should I put it, it's like a man and a woman, they look the same, they are all human, but if you say that the person you invited can give birth to a child, then no matter if she is your wife or not, she will definitely not be a man."

This analogy is indeed not very appropriate. Li Wuxiang nodded: "You mean, it definitely won't be the Netherworld Mother - are you sure?"

"Yes. Taiyi does have some power over the netherworld, but just like men and women are similar in many ways, men cannot have children."

After Lou He said this, Li Wuxiang stopped talking and just stared at him.

So Lou He closed his eyes and sighed: "Yes. It's on me."

Li Wuxiang clenched his fist, then unclenched it: "When did it happen?"

"When I arrived at Yulun Mountain." [Note 1]

Li Wuxiang thought for a moment and said, "That is, after it killed Master Jiang, it should have known that I can no longer be used by it. Then, you..."

Lou He sat down slowly. He didn't sit cross-legged, but with his legs straight, like a tired man: "I thought I was destined to be here. Alas, when I was practicing the Dahong Sutra of the True Form Sect, it showed its power. Later, it helped me to possess Miao Yi, and it was better than the method I used on the Coffin Mountain before - as you said, I didn't occupy someone's skin, but became that person."

"Did it give you supernatural powers? It basically didn't help me when it was on me, unless I pushed it into a corner."

Lou He was stunned: "Are you desperate? You put it——"

"Yeah. When I was trapped in the Coffin City, it refused to help me, so I had a quarrel with it. I guess it was a fight."

Lou He took a deep breath and said, "You are really... Never mind. It didn't help you at first because it wanted to force you to go to Youjiuyuan. And now it is helping me because it needs me to do something."

He was silent for a moment when he said this: "Master Jiang has the Taiyi Spirit in his body. When I heard the news of Master Jiang's death, I felt a chill in my body. He was the living Yang God of the Sword Sect, and in fact, he was no longer considered a human being - you said that when he died, he looked like a celestial being with five signs of decay, so he might have almost become a true immortal."

"With such a cultivation level and the Taiyi True Spirit, there is no way that anything in this world can kill him. So when I first heard about this, my first thought was -" Lou He looked at Li Wuxiang, "It was Taiyi who killed him."

"Are you saying that it was Taiyi in my body who killed him, or that it was Taiyi in his body who killed him? Or is it that Taiyi in my body killed Taiyi in his body, and then killed him? Or is it that the true spirit in Jiang Jiaozhu was not Taiyi in the first place, and was killed by the one in me?"

"Hey, I'm confused. What do you mean?" Zhao Qi frowned at the entrance of the cave. "Can't you speak slower? I don't understand. How are we going to discuss this later?"

Neither of them paid any attention to him. Lou He said, "When you first thought that the one in your body was Taiyi's True Spirit, did you ever doubt that it was not the one in Jiang Jiaozhu?"

"Have."

"This is not surprising. Not just you, the whole world suspected it at the beginning. When Sect Leader Jiang just emerged as a Yang God, he became the Sect Leader, and then he claimed that Taiyi's true spirit possessed him. This kind of thing is definitely not allowed in Xuan Sect, so they sent people out of the sect, and all of them were Hedao, a total of six people, one from each sect."

"In the end, Sect Leader Jiang killed three of them, and he himself was unharmed. The remaining three returned to the diocese, confirmed that it was indeed Taiyi's true spirit in his body, and then died too. If it hadn't happened, our Sword Sect, with only a hundred people in the past three hundred years, would not have made the Xuan Sect so afraid of them."

"So, Master Jiang has the Taiyi Spirit in him, this cannot be false." Lou He said slowly, "He is the most powerful Yang God in the world, this cannot be false. There are many extremely powerful monsters in Lingshan, but even those, not to mention whether they can compare with the Taiyi Spirit, just in the Yang world, there is no way they can be Master Jiang's opponent - when he died, he was in the state of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, which means he was about to become a true immortal."

"He is about to become a true immortal, but because there is no Dao luck in the world, he cannot become a true immortal yet. This means that if he becomes stronger, he will not be able to stay in the world of the living. He will be like the true immortals before, relying on the sacred mountain to stay in the world of the living. This also means that if anything in the sacred mountain comes to the world of the living, the strongest one will not be stronger than him."

When Lou He said this, he paused for a moment, looked at Zhao Qi at the entrance of the cave, and then looked at Li Wuxiang.

Li Wuxiang understood what he meant - he was asking himself whether Zhao Qi's master was nearby.

Yes. When Li Wuxiang asked Zhao Qi to possess his body and bring Lou He into the ancient cave, he asked Zhao Qi in detail whether his master, the Ninth Young Master, could handle the situation if the external evil in Lou He came.

Then Zhao Qi seemed to go back and ask his master, and when he came back, the answer he gave was - "My master is angry, and said if you want to come, come, if not, get out!" So his master, the Ninth Young Master, might be listening to their conversation at this time.

So Li Wuxiang nodded to Lou He, and they both fell silent for a moment.

——Nothing unusual, no reaction. Not sure if the Ninth Young Master who might be listening agreed with Lou He's evaluation of Jiang Jie's cultivation.

This certainly did not make Li Wuxiang happy.

Because Lou He continued to speak.

"So Li Wuxiang, you see, this is what happened - it's impossible for someone to kill Jiang Jie, but he really died. My idea is that the Taiyi True Spirit in him killed him."

"You and I have both seen its ability to seize cause and effect. The only ones who hold this kind of authority are Taiyi and Youming, and Zhao Kui invited Taiyi in the first place, so it couldn't be Youming who came."

"Then, if you want me to say, it is not an external evil, but the real Taiyi Spirit. No one said that a real spirit can only possess one person... What's on Jiang Jie and what's on us may be the same thing."

"This thing may be afraid of Master Jiang." Lou He whispered, as if even here, he was afraid that something would hear his voice, "Master Jiang is about to become a True Immortal... Do you remember what I said to you in the Coffin City? Now in this world, the only thing that can be achieved is the True Immortal of Humanity. Because Taiyi has been suppressed!"

"If I think about it now... I think I can understand why Sect Leader Jiang didn't want the Sword Sect to prosper."

"He has a Yang God and is about to become a True Immortal. If the Sword Sect is still like before, with many disciples, and he has the True Spirit of Taiyi in his body... Li Wuxiang, what do you think he is? Is he the equivalent of the living Taiyi?"

"Taiyi is too far away, and he's been suppressed. But Patriarch Jiang is too close, and everyone can see and touch him. Everyone knows how strong he is. What do you think? Over time...will people no longer worship Taiyi, but him? Patriarch Jiang may be trying to avoid suspicion for this reason!"

"But now he has no way to avoid it... He is too strong! So strong that Taiyi is afraid that he will use his luck to become a true immortal! If Taiyi loses his authority, will he still be Taiyi?"

"So, it used you to enter You Jiu Yuan, used you to trigger the Dong Huang Seal, used you to expose the location of You Jiu Yuan, and then... I don't know how it killed Jiang Jie. But I guess it's not difficult, Jiang Jie won't be on guard against Tai Yi." Lou He was silent for a moment, "Do you think my statement makes sense?"

What Lou He said was one of the possibilities that had long existed in Li Wuxiang's mind. However, now he had ruled out several other possibilities in Li Wuxiang's mind based on his experience.

But the remaining one is the one that Li Wuxiang least wants to come true.

That means that the swordsman has lost his essence!
"Why me? Can't anyone from You Jiuyuan do the same? Why bother looking for me and go to so much trouble?"

Lou He shook his head: "I don't know. Jiang Jie's ability is beyond the imagination of you, me or anyone else in the world... Maybe picking someone from the Nether Nine Abyss will make him feel something is wrong? Li Wuxiang, think about what Taiyi True Spirit did when dealing with him - sneaking around, using very dishonest means. Taiyi True Spirit was also extremely afraid of him, and there must be a reason for looking for you. Have you ever thought about what's special about you?"

A thought popped up almost immediately -

Not of this world!

Since I am not from this world, is it possible that some of Jiang Jie's magical powers are not applicable to me?
Li Wuxiang was silent for a moment: "I don't know. Take what you just said seriously - it has possessed you now, and it seems to be helping you all the way to the core of the True Form Sect. You want to take the fragments of the Netherworld Scroll, do you think it wants to do the same thing?"

"It's possible. It's also possible that it's for other purposes, just like when it was on you. But no matter what it wants to do, it must want to break free from the suppression." When Lou He said this, he stopped and looked at Li Wuxiang.

Li Wuxiang also looked back at him, and after a while, he said, "I don't like this Taiyi."

Lou He nodded: "If what we said is true, then we both have similar views. So, when you said you wanted to do something big outside - are you referring to the Zhenxing Sect, the Xuan Sect, or this Taiyi in me?"

"All."

Lou He was originally sitting on the ground, but after thinking about it, he pulled his legs back and sat cross-legged.

"I have no objection to dealing with the Xuan Cult. But this thing on me..." Lou He raised his eyes to look at him, "Li Wuxiang, to be honest, I don't want to."

"Now I'm not getting along badly with it. In fact, when I heard about Jiang Jiaozhu's death, I began to be wary of it, but I was thinking, for example, if you want a sword to be sharp and easy to use, it must be easier to hurt people than a blunt knife."

"Whether it's an external evil or the Taiyi True Spirit, why would it favor someone like me and grant me such a magical power to seize cause and effect? It must be asking for something. It has something to ask for, and so do I. If I'm careful and alert enough, maybe I can still deal with it for a while and use it to do what I want."

"Besides, didn't you just say that you were afraid that Jiang Jie wanted to listen to something, so he died? I am also interested in this possibility and want to give it a try. The only people in the world whose cultivation level is close to Jiang Jie are the Xuanjiao Hedao monks in the diocese. I can give it a try when I enter the core of the Zhenxing Sect. If it doesn't work, we will know what tricks it can use. If it works, it's even better. We can kill the Zhenxing Sect's high-level officials without bloodshed!"

Li Wuxiang sighed, "I thought you would say that, so I tricked you here. Senior Brother Lou, I'm not asking you to confront it, nor do I want you to destroy it on the Great Tribulation Mountain. I just want to try out what it is, how strong it is, and how powerful it is. Knowing this, I can think about how to deal with it."

"So, if you say you don't want to, that won't work. If you don't think about this with me, we should all stay here and not leave. If it takes too long, I don't know if it will get suspicious. By then, you may not be able to use it even if you want to."

Lou He looked outside the cave, then at Li Wuxiang: "Brother, you are planning to set up an external evil - an external evil that can come and go freely in Lingshan Mountain and easily take away people's karma. Even if I have the courage, I don't have the ability."

Li Wuxiang turned to Zhao Qi and said, "Lord Longwei, what do you say?"

……

Note 1: See Chapter for details.

(End of this chapter)

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