"Master, master!?" Ji Chao looked at the skinny Taoist in front of him in surprise and stood up, "Why are you here?"
Taoist Si Ji stroked his beard and smiled: "Why are you here, that's why I am here."
"In other words..." Ji Chao's face twitched.
"Well, I calculated the time and place, so I came." Taoist Si Ji looked at his apprentice who had changed greatly. He did not admit his mistake, but looked at Ji Chao with a smile, "Disciple, you should be the same."
You must have thought of something to get here."
"...I have been digging here for seven years, master." Ji Chao felt aggrieved, "I have been digging for seven years, and then you came just after I dug out the things. I...
....”
He was about to cry without tears: "Master, why didn't you tell me earlier, I...I..."
"Oh, you can't think like that, my disciple." Taoist Si Ji waved his hand and patted Ji Chao's broad shoulder, "Everything has its own destiny. If you hadn't been here, almost the entire Yin Ruins would have been excavated.
How can we discover the real thing?"
"Everything has been arranged by fate. If you had not arrived seven years in advance, when I came here at this time, all I would have to face was a wasteland, and I would not be able to discover the vitality left for us and the Central Plains."
"...It seems like this." Ji Chao thought for a moment, nodded slowly, exhaled a breath of thick air, and said clearly, "Disciple has learned a lesson."
"It's okay, my disciple, you must know that nothing exists outside of destiny. I have been immersed in this way for many years and have already understood everything. For example, you have dug out an 'artificial human' from the bottom of the Yin Ruins.
Come on, come on, take it out and let me see it." Taoist Si Ji looked like he was in control of everything, very confident.
Ji Chao's broad and calloused hands reached to the back of his head.
"But master...I dug out two."
"......What?"
...
Taoist Si Ji sat cross-legged on the ground, looking at the two "artificial human corpses" lying in front of him with an incomprehensible expression.
His expression seemed to be lost or thinking, but in the end it turned into a sigh.
"I actually miscalculated. It seems like I'm really close to my limit..."
"However, since there are two of them, it means that maybe this is God's will."
"But there's something strange..."
Taoist Si Ji looked at the more seriously damaged remains with a solemn expression.
"Master, what's wrong?" Ji Chao sat cross-legged opposite Taoist Si Ji.
"This thing is not so much the 'remains of an artificial person', but rather... it is something that 'exactly has this shape', but it has some of the same properties as an artificial person."
"This... is indeed a bit strange. It's obviously very similar, but it gives people a completely different feeling." Ji Chao nodded with deep approval.
Because he is a disciple of Taoist Si Ji, although he has learned a lot of magic from the thought key pattern, he is indeed the best at deduction. It is precisely because of this that his perception of breath is particularly keen.
The two remains gave him completely different feelings.
"But there is no need to worry about so much. Although it is beyond my expectation, human calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. Since you brought it up from the bottom of Yin Ruins, it means that this thing is indeed the key to the back-up plan.
It's a 'destined thing'." Taoist Si Ji smiled and completely broke free from the gaffe. He was not lost at all and showed his freedom and ease.
"But master, what are you going to do here?" Ji Chao still had some doubts in his expression.
After a slight silence, Taoist Si Ji tilted his head and looked at his apprentice with a smile: "That's all for fulfilling the destiny."
"Ji Chao, I once said when I accepted you as my disciple, I am just your guide, your hands are what I pursue, and today, I came to the end of Shang Dynasty, Yin's body
, just to settle this cause and effect, and to settle...I myself."
"...Master, what do you mean by this?" Ji Chao suddenly felt something was wrong.
"It's very simple." Taoist Si Ji had a smile on his face, "I have inherited the ideological key pattern, so naturally I have to do my best for the Central Plains and this land. This is the unshirkable responsibility of every Central Plains person."
"Decades ago, I foresaw my own death, and what I want to do is not to use my magic to avoid death and prolong life to escape."
He held out one of his fingers and spoke of his own death, without any fear.
"Master...you..." Ji Chao looked a little moved, with disbelief on his face. He moved slightly and knelt on the ground.
"There is no need to be sad because of me, my good disciple." Taoist Si Ji smiled, "I have long been approaching the end of my life. It is probably a good thing that I can leave hope for the Central Plains at the end of this short life.
Lucky thing.”
"You have to believe that God has already arranged everything. All we have to do is know it and then accept it."
"I foresee my own death and accept my own death."
"That's all."
He placed his withered hands on the two remains.
Ji Chao opened his mouth wide, his face full of shock and sadness, but he did not refute the words Taoist Si Ji said.
"This relatively intact remains was once named 'Nezha', and it was left here by Master Taiyi. Although this one's name is unknown, it must have had its glorious moment."
"Although they are 'artificial', the last 'people' prove that they have truly lived in this world. When using them and transforming them, you must have awe and remembrance, my disciple.
."
Taoist Si Ji's eyes stayed on Ji Chao.
"This is the last gift I leave you as a master."
boom--
The huge magic power, centered on Taoist Si Ji, burst out brazenly.
Through the linking magic of the thought key pattern, Siji Taoist input his remaining vitality and a large amount of magic power into the two remains.
"Master-Master!" Ji Chao climbed up in a hurry, trying to catch his master.
Buzz!
Taoist Si Ji seemed to have a stance beside him. The moment Ji Chao came closer, Ji Chao was ejected and fell heavily against the wall.
"Well--"
Ji Chao lay on the ground, raised his head with difficulty, and looked in the direction of Taoist Si Ji.
Taoist Si Ji was sitting there cross-legged, with a calm and unhurried smile on his face.
He finally showed a kind smile to his apprentice.
"If we are destined, we will meet again."
call--
The magic power finally surged, and Taoist Si Ji's head lowered and disappeared.