"Time is a very mysterious thing for us ascetics." Although Xiao Buyi was sitting within reach of Wu Jie, his eyes were far away, as if the human body was here and the soul had gone.
He was far away. The words coming out of his mouth had a strange rhythm, as if they were coming from outside.
He was obviously talking, but a sense of tranquility continued to emanate from him, making the entire hall seem quiet. Looking at his appearance, Wu Jie couldn't help but sigh secretly. Although the skills of Bu Yi Shen Xiang's lineage were exquisite,
It is absolutely wonderful, but it is not the path to immortality after all. It is usually invisible when the body is in good condition, but once you suffer some serious injuries, this shortcoming will be fully exposed.
The ceremony to help the Chu Kingdom continue its national destiny was more than three years ago. But in the past three years, although Xiao Buyi has been working hard to recuperate from his injuries, his injuries are still slowly and irreversibly getting worse.
His injury is very strange, it is neither physical nor soul, but "fate".
Physically speaking, his body has fully recovered, and he has even fully digested and absorbed the wound medicine that Wu Jie refined for him using the water of the sacred spring, which further improved his cultivation and completely consolidated the realm of Refining the Gang and Flying Immortals.
From a soul perspective, his spiritual consciousness continues to increase, proving that his soul is also in a state of vigorous growth.
But his condition was dire, and everyone could see it.
In the beginning, he would only give people this remote feeling when he was injured; but as his physical injuries gradually healed, this remote feeling not only did not disappear, but gradually intensified.
This sense of remoteness appeared when he was about to recover from his injuries to 70% to 80% while he was practicing. After more than half a year, the sense of remoteness would appear as long as he raised his mana to a certain level. After almost three months, the sense of remoteness appeared.
As long as he uses his true energy, this sense of remoteness will appear; by a year ago, it has even reached the point where even if he doesn't move his true energy at all and lives like a mortal, he will have a sense of remoteness from time to time.
What exactly is this distant feeling? Xiao Buyi doesn't know, Wu Jie doesn't know, and even Jasmine and Du Xin in the Book of Heaven don't know.
In Jasmine's era, the monks did not study "fate" in depth. In other words, the monks of the Supreme God Sovereign did not study destiny because they firmly believed that everything in the world depends on human power. As long as they grasp it well,
There is no predetermined destiny in the world.
The Great Light Sect, where Du Xin was born, believes that fate is the authority held by the "Holy Father". As a creature created by the Holy Father, one should not pry into this authority, so it does not study it either.
Wu Jie also asked the elders of his sect, but even Master Shaoguang and Master Ruiling, who had achieved Huandan, were at a loss about Xiao Buyi's situation - they had never seen Xiao Buyi in their hundreds of years of life.
Such a strange and strange injury.
The only person who helped Xiao Buyi's injury was Su Lin. Although this thousand-year-old demon was not very advanced, he had great vision. When Li Buyi, the founder of Buyi's lineage, was still alive, Su Lin had the honor to meet him.
He had met this senior and received advice from him - it was precisely because of Li Buyi's advice that Su Lin was able to find the inheritance of his skills after his death and become the heir to Buyi's lineage.
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"This kind of injury... also happened to Li Buyi back then." Su Lin said, "For a while, he was in this dazed and confused state, and the condition was more serious than that of Junior Brother Xiao, even to the point where he was in a daze.
People feel as if he is about to disappear."
"What happened next?" Wu Jie asked hurriedly.
Su Lin shook his head - at that time, Li Buyi felt that his situation was not good, and his whereabouts were very secretive. Even his old friends did not know what he was doing. Su Lin was just an innate realm kid who accidentally got a few words of advice from him.
Dryad, how is it possible to know his details!
Fortunately, there are many people who live long lives in this world. Just because Su Lin doesn't know about it doesn't mean that others don't know about it either.
Old Ronggong, the head of the Tongtian Sect, and Song Baisheng, the Supreme Elder, are both super old demons who are over 10,000 years old. Especially Old Ronggong, who has a high level of cultivation and good popularity. He was one of Li Buyi's friends at the beginning, and he was very fond of him.
The situation is quite understandable.
When Su Lin asked him for advice, the old man touched his long beard as white as frost and thought for a long time, and then finally found those things from the depths of his memory.
When he told the answer, Su Lin was shocked; and when Su Lin told Xiao Buyi and Wu Jie the answer, they had the same reaction.
What Li Buyi got back then was a broken page of a heavenly book. The mutilation was so serious that almost every ten of it was left. He was so talented that he actually integrated the low-level exercises popular among casual cultivators with the descriptions of the broken pages of the heavenly book.
He has created a wonderful skill that specializes in the power of destiny, which is considered unique.
But Li Buyi's foundation was too shallow after all. His skills had reached their limit at the stage of Gang refining, and there was no way to go higher.
On the road of destiny, if you don't advance, you will retreat. If you can't continue to make progress, the karma accumulated from long-term spying and changing destiny will slowly start, causing the monks to be gradually rejected by destiny, and their own luck will continue to wear away, and finally the luck will be exhausted. Naturally,
Decline and die.
Xiao Buyi's situation at this moment is actually that his injuries have triggered karma. Although he does not rely on his supernatural powers to play in the world and accumulate a lot of karma like Li Buyi, he has accumulated a lot after all, and now - it is activated.
"So that's it..." Xiao Buyi sighed softly after hearing this, "As far as I know, Patriarch Li broke through the limit of the realm of refining. When he died, he was already a Ningyuan monk - I don't know what he used
How did you break through?"
"Double cultivation."
The expressions of Wu Jie and Xiao Buyi at that time were exactly the same as when Su Lin heard Old Ronggong say these words.
Li Buyi was well aware of his situation, but he really couldn't think of any further exercises. Without any further exercises, even if he relied on swallowing pills or other means to raise his cultivation level to the ultimate level of Gang Refining, it would still be impossible.
If there is no way to break through the bottleneck and step into the realm of condensation, the problem will not be solved at all.
While he was frantically collecting elixirs to improve his cultivation, he was thinking hard about the solution every day, and finally came up with a solution that was not a solution.
Find a woman with strong fortune to practice dual cultivation, and use his wife's fortune to control his own destiny. Then when his wife's fortune reaches the extreme, he may use the opportunity to break through his own inherent destiny, and then break through the bottleneck in his cultivation.
This method was simply ridiculous, but it was his only choice. So he searched for several years and finally chose a princess from the Daliang Kingdom as the object of dual cultivation.
That princess was very lucky, and she was a big shot who was going to ascend the throne of God as a woman in accordance with destiny. Li Buyi hid behind his wife, constantly making suggestions and helping his wife to advance step by step in the palace struggle, and finally successfully became a generation of empress.
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When his wife ascended the throne, the surging fortune really broke the shackles of fate on Li Buyi, and also allowed him to use this opportunity to break through the bottleneck and enter the realm of condensation.
It's a pity that after he entered the realm of condensation, he could no longer find a way to go further. In the end, he was only at the initial level of condensation until his death, without being able to make any progress.
"Even if I follow Patriarch Li's method, there is no sign of a woman becoming emperor in any country today." Xiao Buyi frowned and said, "This method is not feasible."
"But I'm afraid this is the only way." Su Lin advised, "I don't care anyway. As a plant, I have a way to turn into seeds to reopen the road. Although it takes a lot of risks, I can avoid my fate.
It's a disaster. But you are a human being, and you will never be able to escape it unless you are reincarnated."
"Fellow Daoist Xiao has not yet succeeded in returning elixirs. After reincarnation, even if he steps on the path again and achieves success, he is no longer himself." Wu Jie sighed, "Senior Li's method cannot be used, and Daoyou Su's method cannot be used. This
What to do!”
Xiao Buyi thought for a long time and finally smiled lightly.
"It doesn't matter, just let everything happen."
Without waiting for Wu Jie and Su Lin to persuade him, he stood up and walked away.
From then on, he really "just let it go".
He no longer practices cultivation, but instead carries a long banner and wanders around the world like an ordinary fortune teller, living the same life as he did many years ago.
When he divines h for others, he doesn't use any magical power, he just makes calculations based on the principles of physiognomy. Naturally, the results of the calculations are either right or wrong. Sometimes he is regarded as a semi-immortal by others, and sometimes he is chased and beaten by others.
After one meal, I was miserable.
As the power of fate's karma gradually intensified, the accuracy of Xiao Buyi's calculations also continued to decline, and life gradually became more and more difficult. When Qiao Feng saw him on the street, he had been hungry for more than ten days, even though
The Lian Gang monk has a perfect body and almost does not need to eat or drink, but his face is full of food and his mind is dazed, just like a hungry man who is about to starve to death!
Qiao Feng was shocked and didn't understand why this senior was so depressed, so he hurriedly invited him to his home and treated him well. Xiao Buyi was not pretentious and had a good meal before explaining the situation to Qiao Feng.
"The younger generation is of low moral character and cannot understand the realm of the elders. But in my opinion, the senior's behavior of letting fate happen is a bit inappropriate!" Qiao Feng is an outspoken person and immediately advised, "I don't know if the senior can survive.
Even if we can’t survive this catastrophe, we should at least leave a successor.”
Xiao Buyi smiled: "My nephew Ning Feng has extraordinary qualifications. He should be able to inherit the tradition of Buyi Shenxiang."
"Master Qintian Jianning is indeed very capable, but he is the national advisor of the Great Chu State. To put it bluntly, if the Great Chu State is destroyed in the future, he will definitely die for the country." Qiao Feng
Regardless of Xiao Buyi's face getting ugly, he said directly,
"Senior must also know the fate of the country of Chu. According to what my master said, in a hundred years at most, the country of Chu will come to an end. Senior, do you plan to make Buyi Shenxiang a descendant?
Will our orthodoxy be cut off in a hundred years?"
Xiao Buyi was silent for a long time, and finally sighed, stopped following the crowd for more than a year, and settled in Anfeng County.
He found a dozen smart young people and began to teach them the art of divination, hoping to pass on what he had learned throughout his life.
For a Taoist, his own cultivation is important, and the inheritance of Taoism is also a big deal. Even if he cannot ascend, if his disciples and disciples can achieve something, when he is reincarnated in the future, they will be more or less successful because of their corresponding luck.
It can be of help. And if any of the disciples and disciples can achieve the supreme path, become a figure on the level of the legendary Taoist ancestor, and lead the ancestor to escape the cycle of life and death, it will be easy to think about it...
This is what the sect means by passing down the fire from generation to generation. For many monks, their own death is not terrible. What is terrible is the severance of their orthodoxy. If they die, they will still have the opportunity to be reincarnated in the future; but if their orthodoxy is cut off, even if they can be reincarnated
, if you lose your guidance, how far can you go?
Qiao Feng didn't think as far-reaching as Xiao Buyi. He considered the problem based on the monks' common sense, but it was this most basic common sense that convinced Xiao Buyi.
So Buyi Shenxiang, who had been silent for several years, stayed in the mansion specially prepared for him by Qiao Feng. In addition to teaching students, he came to Wu Jie every day to talk about world affairs.
Although Xiao Buyi is falling into the karma of fate, his magical powers are extraordinary. Even if he does not deliberately calculate, a little inspiration in his spiritual intelligence is enough to spy on the secrets of heaven. Wu Jie is currently assisting in the star-catching operation, and his plot is huge. He can get it
His help was really helpful!
"You don't have to thank me." When Wu Jie thanked him, Xiao Buyi said lightly, "I'm just bored and looking for something to do."
Of course Wu Jie didn't believe this. Xiao Buyi's condition was obviously getting worse and worse, and for him, the act of calculating would obviously aggravate the strange injuries that came from karma. In this case, he still
Keep helping yourself, the favor is too great!
Xiao Buyi's behavior, from a small perspective, was out of friendship and the hope that the great things his friends would do would succeed; but from a large perspective, it was for the sake of the world, and he was making suggestions for the hundreds of millions of creatures in the Kyushu realm.
They are working to find a glimmer of hope in a dire drought death crisis.
Although Wu Jie himself is not good at fortune-telling, he feels that what Xiao Buyi is doing now is far more reliable than finding a woman with the destiny of an emperor to assist and then relying on his wife's luck.
When it comes to fortune, isn't the fortune of the billions of creatures on the land of Kyushu worse than that of a queen?
But these thoughts, he just hid them in his heart and did not say them out.
It's okay not to talk about things that you're not sure about. Anyway, whether you say it or not, there won't be any difference in what Xiao Buyi does. In this case, he doesn't want to use his speculation to add trouble to a friend who may have only a few days to live.
Necessary trouble.
The scariest thing in the world is not despair, but seeing hope in despair, but when you get there, you realize it's just an illusion!
Just like their star-catching operation this time, as preparations become more and more complete, the hope of success has become greater and greater. But as long as the monks with higher xinxing cultivation level really think that there is any hope now
Word.
Before actually intercepting the comet, no matter how much preparation you make, there is no hope. To start to be hopeful now is to be too demanding and already suspected of being a demon.
What's more... their actions will definitely not be smooth sailing. Of course there are people in this world who want to work hard to save the people of Kyushu Realm from disaster, and there are also people who hope that Kyushu Realm will be as miserable as possible.
For example, the Demon Gate of Tianwaitian.
"You'd better be careful." Under the dim sky of the Nether World, Yin Shuang's face looked a little troubled, "The eight sects of Shenmen have discovered your actions - if my estimate is good, by the time you actually start to intercept the comet,
Sometimes, I'm afraid I'll be attacked from both sides."
"This is a major event that affects hundreds of millions of people in the Kyushu Realm! Are the people in the Demon Sect crazy?" Wu Jie was startled, and his voice was even louder. What he got was Yin Shuang's somewhat sarcastic smile.
"When did you have this strange illusion that people in the Demon Sect would care about the billions of people in the Kyushu Realm?"
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"Wu Jie, we have known each other for so many years, and we are relatively familiar with each other. I, through you, understand the situation of those in the righteous path; and you, through me, understand the situation of the people in the Demon Sect...
...But I want to remind you that you may be a relatively standard righteous person, but I am an alternative to the Demon Sect! If you regard me as the general standard of the Demon Sect, you will probably suffer a big loss in the future!"
Wu Jie was suddenly startled. Looking at Yin Shuang's sarcastic smile, he suddenly realized.
He has always been familiar with two people in the Demon Sect. One is Jasmine from the Heavenly Book World, and the other is Yin Shuang, who often meets him in the Nether World. Although these two people often have shocking words, they both treat him very well.
Good. Moreover, they have good credit and reliable work. This made him unknowingly regard Jasmine and Yin Shuang as the representatives of the people in the Demon Sect, and regarded them as the average level of the Demon Sect.
But in fact, he was wrong, so wrong!
The reason why Jasmine was nice to him was because of her loyalty. Facing people other than him, Jasmine's attitude was not very friendly; especially when it came to those who were his enemies, were killed by him, and their souls were taken into the world of the Book of Heaven.
The enemy, Jasmine's behavior was actually very cruel and vicious - maybe Jasmine at that time truly reflected the attitude that a person in the Demon Sect should have.
Although Yin Shuang is a member of the Demon Sect, she has already formed her own world view, outlook on life and values before joining the Demon Sect. She has not been completely contaminated by the Demon Sect and still retains the light in her heart. Especially her and Wu Jie
They are the only two time-travelers in the world today. They look out for each other and help each other. What they usually show in front of him is naturally positive.
But in fact, the vast majority of people in the Demon Sect have no friendship with him and have no goodwill toward him. When dealing with those people, you must not tolerate any luck, even from the most malicious perspective.
Guessing, maybe it’s not enough!
As Yin Shuang said, the people in the Demon Sect don't care at all about the hundreds of millions of people in the Kyushu Realm. They will only be happy for the opportunity to attack the righteous path!
After thinking about this, Wu Jie felt cold and sweaty even though he was in a state of soul.
"It seems that you already understand, just understand." Yin Shuang smiled sweetly, and her figure gradually faded away, "Remember, if you also go to intercept the comet, be careful!"
In the dark and quiet room, she opened her eyes as red as blood. She took a deep breath, stood up from the altar made of bones and human skin, turned a blind eye to the creepy things around her, and calmly
Went out.
At the door of the quiet room, the old man with celestial eyes was looking up at the sky.
"Have you already told him what needs to be said?"
"Yes."
"That's good." An elusive smile appeared on Old Man Tianyan's face, "This will make things interesting..."
Looking at this old man who did not hesitate to betray the Demon Sect just for fun, even though Yin Shuang had been trained to be as hard as iron, he couldn't help but feel a chill.