Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 1039 The Value of Zuo Ruotong

"I was just being reckless. Why did I bother taking on apprentices?"

Like the servant tending the furnace for Laozi, He Songling watched Ding Shian endlessly reincarnate in his self-created scenario world with utter boredom, so bored he kept slapping himself in the face.

This job I took on means I can't even go out and spend some time with my wife to kill time.

I'm genuinely afraid that Ding Shian is dead.

Although his world cannot create living things, and it is even difficult to create inanimate things, at most it can create some natural landscapes and simulate the visual effects of various celestial bodies that can be observed by the naked eye on Earth, that is, day and night, and a sky full of stars.

However, the reincarnation provided is not entirely fictitious.

Ding Shian's true spirit is inside, and one will experience something almost completely real, similar to being thrown directly into the world of a novel or comic book.

This also has to be attributed to He Songling, who comes from the internet explosion era of the 21st century. He has seen enough literary and artistic works, including movies, TV series, comics, novels, storytelling, and so on, enough for him to put together hundreds of worlds.

Even the old gods of the past, such as the two founders of Buddhism and Taoism, the two fathers Odin and Zeus, or the two true gods of monotheistic religions, God and Allah, wouldn't have had this much creativity and idea to actually create a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.

With their limited knowledge, even with the strongest imagination, they could only come up with things like the Garden of Eden, the Western Paradise, or Heaven at best.

As the old saying goes, history is constantly being passed down and created and developed by countless people. Even a god, a creator god, cannot possibly take care of everything by himself.

After an unknown amount of time, when He Songling's knowledge reserves were almost exhausted and he was about to start writing some novels to create a story world, he finally felt a tremor in Ding Shian's true spirit, which resonated with his pre-set goal.

"It's finally done."

He Songling, looking relieved, waved his hand wearily. Ding Shian, the reincarnation, was still watching his world collapse in astonishment when a large hand reached down from the sky, grabbed his head, crushed it, and took away his true spirit.

He Songling, within his own world, used the flow of the rules of his world to naturally transfer Ding Shian's true spirit into the body that Ding Shian had already modified and prepared.

"Oh..."

Ding Shian cried out in pain, seemingly still immersed in the memory of his head being crushed by a giant hand falling from the sky, and opened his eyes.

"This is... me back?"

"You're back. If you hadn't come back, I was going to beat you to death and give up." He Songling looked utterly hopeless. He had set up a bed and was lying there, grumbling, "I'll tell you later, Xiao Ding, it's fine if you're just an ordinary person. Anyway, all immortals are pretty much the same. Even if you become an immortal, you won't be weaker than Zhang Zhiwei."

"You are...Master?"

Ding Shian's true spirit contained too many memories. Although they had all been transformed into fragments that did not affect his mind and were like video recordings, his true spirit had just returned to his body and was still a little blurry for a while. "Hey, right." He Songling nodded, "Now you have achieved my predetermined goal. Show me a set of punches."

"Oh." Ding Shian nodded and then performed a set of the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms that he had learned when he was reincarnated in the dream world.

"Not bad." Actually, it doesn't matter what kind of boxing style Ding Shian uses. In the world of "Under One Person," strength is determined by realm, cultivation, and life force. Just like Wu Gensheng, with his life force, even without using divine spirits, he can still contend with hundreds of people from the San Yi Sect using only some freehand fighting techniques.

He Songling had Ding Shian perform a set of boxing moves mainly to see how well his true spirit, "nature," and "life" were integrated in his new body—no, in his new life—and also to see the quality of Ding Shian's new life's innate talent.

Clearly, when He Songling puts his heart into doing something well, it's bound to turn out well.

Although Ding Shian, the new student, looks no different from before, with even the slightest detail in his eyebrows and eyes being exactly the same as before, his talent is actually worlds apart.

In the past, Ding Shian, despite his talent, could only be a figurehead "second only to one person" in this era. Compared to historical talent, or talent with the potential to become an immortal, he was just a mortal.

Ding Shian's current martial arts, with its expansive bone structure, flowing Qi channels, and agile spirit and true soul, has completely surpassed that of He Songling's old master, Zuo Ruotong.

Yes, that's right. If you're going to seek thrills, you should go all the way. That's He Songling's principle. Since, under his influence, the development of the times has made prisons, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a "standard unit of measurement" in many places, why not just use prisons as a unit of measurement?

The talent expectations set for Ding Shian at the time were based on those for Zuo Ruotong. Zuo Ruotong was no ordinary person; he was known as the "Great Ying Immortal," a terrifying figure who, with a false and erroneous cultivation method, once brought a small sect in the southeastern border region to the status of "the number one mystical sect in the world."

Wugensheng was certified as a fourth type of person by birth, and he couldn't even be categorized into four types of people. His charm was so great that Wugensheng immediately switched sides, from helping his disciple Li Muxuan achieve enlightenment to helping this senior he had just met verify the existence of the erroneous being.

If Zuo Ruotong hadn't cultivated the flawed and perilous Reverse Rebirth Triple Technique from the beginning, if he hadn't damaged his heart meridian while reconstructing his middle elixir in middle age, leaving him with no possibility of further cultivation except direct immortality, if he had cultivated the true Heavenly Immortal Technique from the start, immortality would have been a certainty.

Even so, a fake Taoist sect still produced a true immortal.

In terms of temperament, talent, and strength, he can be considered a true immortal of this era. Not to mention others, even He Songling himself was captivated by the immortal figure who ascended to the sky after the third level of cultivation and stood on the main hall in mid-air, which led him to cause a scene with the author and thus transmigrate to this place.
False teachings fill countless books, but true teachings can be condensed into a single sentence. If Zuo Ruotong had obtained the secret to mastering the elixir of immortality like the extraordinary person Zhang Boduan encountered at Tianhui Temple in Chengdu before his injury in middle age, would Wugensheng have had the chance to jump out and show off? He might have already become an immortal.

Just as Pigsy said, "Having received the Nine-Turn Great Elixir, one must practice diligently day and night without ceasing." Later, when the Heavenly Gate opened and he ascended to heaven, it was inevitable that the Jade Emperor would personally lead all the immortals and cultural relics in the Lingxiao Palace to welcome him and bestow upon him his official position.

Currently, Ding Shian's overall talent is slightly better than Zuo Ruotong's.

“Little Ding, with your talent that surpasses even my old master’s, even with the outdated education methods of the past, as long as you receive a true teaching of immortality, becoming an immortal is a certainty.”

He Songling patted Ding Shian on the shoulder and delivered his closing statement.

(End of this chapter)