Chapter 287 True Lord

Chapter 287 True Lord

Chapter 287 True Lord
Lou He bumped his arm and said, "Whoever they want is just dreaming. Now that you are alive, it will be easy for us to break out of the Great Tribulation Mountain. It was just that Senior Sister Mei was kind-hearted and didn't want to kill more people."

Li Wuxiang felt that Lou He had also changed. When he first met him, he thought he looked mature, white and plump, like a kind teacher. After getting to know him, he felt that this person was scheming and he often thought that he might not have a good ending in the future.

Although he was still fat and white due to his practice of Guang Chanzi, Li Wuxiang felt that his temperament was different - he seemed to speak more straightforwardly and frankly... He looked like a real swordsman again.

Perhaps it was because he didn’t remember the “foreign evil” Li Ye.

He raised his hand and touched Lou He's arm: "Thank you."

Lou He waved his hand: "It's nothing. Okay, I won't say anything. You wait for Senior Sister Mei to wake up. I haven't eaten for a few days. I'm better than them, but I can't be hungry... If I'm hungry, something bad will happen."

After he said this, he slowly lay down against the stone wall, closed his eyes and said one more sentence: "You have to save some energy for us to go down the mountain."

Li Wuxiang nodded, sat there and slowly adjusted his breathing, looking at Mei Qiulu.

The cave was silent for a while, as if the stone walls had become soundproof cotton. Li Wuxiang couldn't help but wish that his body hadn't been destroyed before - so many medicinal materials and medicinal materials inside could all be used by everyone.

He thought of Xue Baoping and Zeng Jianqiu again. When he sent them a letter, he told them to find a place to avoid disaster. He hoped that Xue Baoping would not bring too many people with her as she said. She had been starving since she was a child, and Zeng Jianqiu had been traveling all the time. It should not be a problem for the two of them to find food in the mountains and forests.

In fact, there must be some places outside the diocese where some seeds of life remain, such as some deep caves, cracks between mountains, or natural paradises - some paradises have natural barriers and restrictions, so they should be fine.

Also... at least the food in the forest is not easy to spoil now, right? Speaking of which, ordinary people in this world don't have much food stored. Many people in Jinshui Town eat what they earn. Now it's just a sudden famine, right?
He thought this slowly in his mind and noticed that the sky outside was gradually getting darker and dusk was falling. Mei Qiulu exhaled at the other end of the cave and opened her eyes.

Li Wuxiang immediately stood up and walked to her side, whispering, "Senior Sister."

Mei Qiulu smiled at him: "Are you all right?"

Li Wuxiang sat down and said, "Everything I hid is gone."

Mei Qiulu nodded, reached into her bosom, and took out half a peach. This peach should be a wild fruit, slightly larger than the belly of a thumb, because it was late summer and early autumn and not yet fully ripe, only a little red on the tip, and the exposed peach core was still white.

Mei Qiulu took a small bite and chewed the peach pit, then held it in her hand and asked Li Wuxiang, "Do you want to eat it?"

"Don't eat."

"Yeah." She then put the rest back into her arms.

She is a Yang God... will she be hungry? Li Wuxiang remembered that although Yang Gods still need to eat to nourish their bodies, it is just like needing some water to keep their skin from getting rough. Why is she eating this peach? It can't be because she is greedy, right?
At this time, Mei Qiulu said again: "Do you still remember what happened that day?"

"I remember, I remember it clearly. I still remember the things that you may have forgotten, Senior Sister." Li Wuxiang moved closer to her and lowered his voice. "Senior Sister, what do you remember?"

Mei Qiulu glanced at Lou He and leaned her head towards Li Wuxiang. "I remember almost everything. But there are some things I can't figure out. I remember that before we went to the Great Tribulation Mountain for the sacrifice, I seemed to be possessed by something... and then I was possessed as well. That thing possessed me and I was fighting Cao Mufang, but it suddenly disappeared, and then I woke up and continued to fight him."

She hesitated for a moment and said, "I... when I was fighting Cao Mufang, I seemed to see you."

It should be when I was in the stone chamber. At that time, I also saw Mei Qiulu in the fire cloud in the sky.

Li Wuxiang thought for a moment and said, "I have to tell you from the beginning. Senior sister, I am not always on the Great Tribulation Mountain. My Yin Spirit is somewhere else. How should I put it... do you still remember Jiang Jie?"

Mei Qiulu's face changed. She first glanced at Lou He in the distance, then glanced outside the cave, with a complicated expression on her face: "You actually remember Master Jiang too?"

"I remember Sect Leader Jiang, and I remember Du Tian Siming. Du Tian Siming is called Du Tian Siming Emperor. This story starts from when you took me to You Jiu Yuan... No, it should start from the first Sect Leader of Tai Yi Sect. Sigh..."

Li Wuxiang began to speak slowly, and Mei Qiulu listened quietly. It was probably because Jiang Jie had cultivated into a Yang God and realized the origin, but Du Tian Siming had completely forgotten it.

She sat and listened, and when Li Wuxiang talked about Li Ye taking him through the cause and effect, she reached out and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and held it in her palm. She squeezed it a little harder, almost turning the soil into stone. Then she broke it into small pieces and put them into her mouth, chewing them slowly like eating shortbread and swallowing them.

Li Wuxiang was stunned. He didn’t know how Mei Qiulu, who had become a Yang God, could still eat so much... Had she nothing else to eat, so she had to eat dirt to satisfy her craving?
"... and then you captured me back. I guess it was because the underworld was full of death and the Death Gate was still open, so the True Form Cult's Impure World Reincarnation Technique was able to catch me back by accident."

His tone was calm when he said this, and the expression on Mei Qiulu's face also looked calm.

But Li Wuxiang saw that she was silent, holding the last piece of soil in a daze for a long time, and then she seemed to suddenly come to her senses and threw down what was in her hand.

“…You said they were alive.”

"Ah."

"So the Kitchen God is Sima Ming Zhenjun, that is, Li Jiaotu——"

"Yes, that's what we said before. But now, no matter who becomes the Kitchen God, he is still Li Jiaotu. Li Jiaotu is not the name of a person, nor is it the name of the Kitchen God. It is the name of this ray of human destiny."

Mei Qiulu was silent for a moment before she said, "If you say so... Actually, I have slowly started to feel something these days."

"Ok?"

"When you breathe in and out and regulate your breath now, you will only feel that the spiritual energy between heaven and earth is like the air you breathe, omnipresent, invisible and intangible. But after I became a Yang God, I felt that they were too lively." Mei Qiulu sighed softly, "So lively that it makes people feel uneasy. After becoming a Yang God, you don't need to regulate your breath on weekdays. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth will circulate in your body on its own, and you are practicing all the time." "I knew this statement before, and thought that it might be an unspeakable magical power in the Yang God realm. But now that I am a Yang God, I still don't know why, I just feel that it has become instinct. But even if it is instinct, I will have some feeling... but no. If you say so... maybe it is really because these Daoyun are alive, then we are like living in their bodies... These spiritual energies are drilling into my body on their own, like... insects."

Li Wuxiang was silent for a moment: "Then the mountains, rivers and land in this world are also alive. I thought so when I first heard that the Netherworld Mother Earth is alive - maybe this world is alive."

Mei Qiu was absent-minded for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Do you remember what I told you before? Many sayings in the mortal world are spread from the cultivation world. I remembered this phrase - Heaven and Earth Have Spirits. It turns out that the meaning of this phrase is very straightforward. It's just... you mean that mortals can only cultivate to the realm of Yang God. Alas, I thought the road to immortality was long, and now that I have achieved Yang God, I have finally entered the realm."

She restrained her smile again and lowered her head slightly: "Hey, Senior Brother Jiang."

This was the first time Li Wuxiang had seen her so sad. He was not at the Yangshen realm, and even his Nascent Soul was only at the Beggar level, so he didn't know if such emotions would have any impact on her practice or cause any mental troubles.

But he knew that even after becoming a Yang God, Senior Sister Mei was still a person of sentimentality - Donghuang Taiyi was alive, the thirty-six True Lords were alive, the Emperor Dutian Siming existed and then died, and the Emperor Li Ye of the Ye Dynasty remained forever in the past three thousand years. But these were not what she wanted to lament, what she was mourning was "Senior Brother Jiang".

"So we can no longer worship the Emperor Donghuang Taiyi... the Great." Mei Qiulu shook her head, "What is the Taiyi Sect then, and where will it go?"

Li Wuxiang didn't expect her to say such a confused thing. He was stunned for a moment before he could figure it out.

Or maybe this world is different from the world he came from. To put it in an analogy, he felt that the people in this world - even those like Senior Sister Mei who had experienced many killings and attained Yang Shen - were like children compared to the people he came from.

The child has always been protected by his parents. Even if he wants to pursue freedom, he always knows that there will be someone to make decisions for him and provide him with support. If one day, the child's parents and relatives suddenly disappeared, he would probably feel panic, helpless, and not know what to do in the future.

The gods that people in this world used to believe in and worship played the role of real parents... Although they were hidden from the world and suppressed, people always felt that there was someone they could rely on and look forward to.

And now realizing that they are not only not their parents, but also like... demons, even Mei Qiulu would feel confused like the child in her previous life.

Li Wuxiang gently grasped Mei Qiulu's hand and said, "Sister, you don't have to live for Donghuang Taiyi. People can live for themselves or for others. When you were cultivating, did you ever think about what you would do after you became a True Immortal or a Golden Immortal?"

Mei Qiulu was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "I haven't thought about it. The road to becoming an immortal is too long. I used to think there was no end in sight. Now that there is no end in sight, there is no need to think about it for the time being."

"Then we can think carefully about it in the future. Think about what we should do instead of what to do for something else."

Mei Qiulu looked at him as if she was meeting him for the first time: "You don't feel that at all..."

"Feeling nervous?" Li Wuxiang smiled. "On the contrary, I used to feel nervous when I knew there were some mysterious things above my head. But now... their health bars are showing, and I am not nervous anymore."

"…Health bar?"

He didn't mention the "empty" thing just now. But he knew that Mei Qiulu might have to know about this. So he wanted to take it slowly: "The health bar is like a living thing. If it is hit, it will be injured and unhealthy. If it is unhealthy to a certain extent, it will die. The health bar is something that indicates whether the thing is healthy or not - a way of saying it in our Peach Blossom Land. Things without health bars are a headache, because you don't know if you can kill them. As long as the health bar is on, no matter how strong it is, there is hope, right?"

Mei Qiulu thought about it and smiled slightly: "I understand. It's quite interesting."

Then they both fell silent. After a while, Mei Qiulu spoke up, "A few days ago, at night, I saw the astronomical phenomenon of Mars guarding the heart."

In Li Wuxiang's hometown, "Yinghuo" is Mars. From the perspective of astrology, both Chinese and foreigners believe that Yinghuo is a disaster star. And "Yinghuo in the heart" is a very bad omen, meaning that the emperor will die and the world will be in chaos.

Li Wuxiang knew that she was going to talk about her own affairs.

He remained silent and listened to Mei Qiulu continue: "You said that Li Ye conferred the title of True Immortal on you. Perhaps that night was the time when you received your destiny. Have you thought about it? What are you going to do in the future?"

"I have thought about it. I may want to do the same thing as Master Jiang - destroy and then establish. But I don't want to destroy the people in the world, but the people in heaven. As for how to establish afterwards, I don't know, but I think we will figure out a way. And..." Li Wuxiang thought for a while, "Senior Sister Mei, do you think I am a good person?"

“He’s a very good person.”

Li Wuxiang nodded: "Donghuang Taiyi is Li Ye, a Golden Immortal, and the one who helped me is Li Ye, a True Immortal. I hope that one day when I get that position, I will at least be like him, and be a pretty good person."

"But I really don't know how he did it. He survived a sea of ​​blood and corpses, but he's still a good person."

Mei Qiulu thought about it and suddenly said, "Since the wish is so important, you should be right if you think so. The wish is yours and others' - if there is a group of good people who truly believe in you, or worship you, it can also help, right?"

"……Um?"

"I think not everyone can understand the purpose of life as clearly as you do. Instead of this, why don't we change it? Taiyi Sect does not necessarily have to worship Taiyi. The swordsman travels the world to eliminate the miasma in this world. Doesn't it match the destiny of you, the future True Lord?"

Mei Qiulu slowly sat up straight, her eyes sparkling: "Since the Ye Emperor said that the Great Tribulation Alliance must still exist, and you still have to be the leader... The Great Tribulation Alliance can also worship you, the Great Tribulation True Lord."

When she was about to say the words "Great Tribulation True Lord", Li Wuxiang wanted to speak, because he himself didn't know what the title of his True Immortal position would be.

But at this moment, he felt that something was "right" - it was a very comfortable feeling.

It was like he was groping for the buttons on his back, and because he couldn't find the right position, he gradually became annoyed and anxious. But when Mei Qiulu said these four words, Li Wuxiang felt as if he heard a gentle "click" sound - the buttons were pressed, and his heart calmed down.

(End of this chapter)