Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 780 The cautious person reconstructs the lower dantian first, the madman reconstructs the upper dantian first.
“Senior brother, you said you haven’t been born for seventy years. Why didn’t you go to find your sister-in-law first, or return to our Sanyi Sect first? Why did you ask me to accompany you first? What’s going on?”

Lu Jin hadn't seen He Songling for seventy years, so he was naturally excited. But what had just happened in their courtyard had also caused Lu Jin's memories, which had been sealed away for seventy years, to begin to resurface.

Even though Lu Jin is known as the pinnacle of extraordinary individuals in the country and is among the top three strongest in the entire Zhong family, he would still feel apprehensive if he had to accompany such a person on business trips across the country.

"Nonsense. The San Yi Sect and the Tang Sect are such powerful figures in the industry now, with such connections. If I go directly to them, it's like I'm showing my face. The world isn't like the war-torn era when we were young anymore. It's too troublesome."

He Songling said matter-of-factly, "Besides, the reason I set so many rules back then was so that these sects could still develop healthily after they left me. Now it seems that everyone is doing well, so I don't need to worry about them anymore. To be honest, as long as they are not wiped out or tortured to death, I don't really care about the sects."

"Senior brother, you are as cold-hearted as ever, just as our old teacher described you."

Lu Jin had gotten used to calling himself an ancestor over the years, and now he even dared to criticize He Songling. Although his expression changed drastically the moment he opened his mouth, and he subconsciously slapped himself, the force so great that he even broke all his teeth, the words had already been spoken and could not be taken back.

Lu Jin looked at his senior brother, who was just as young and handsome as he remembered, with panic, expecting some inhuman punishment. However, he was surprised to find that He Songling, who had been gone for seventy years, seemed to have become much better in character. Instead of beating him up directly, he shook his head and chuckled, "What good things can the jailer say about me? Just ignore what he says."

"Yes, yes, senior brother is right." Lu Jin thought to himself, you dare not disrespect Master, but I dare not. But there was nothing he could do. Master was long dead, but senior brother was still standing alive in front of him. Lu Jin knew very well which side to take.

“But senior brother, you just said you were afraid of getting into trouble by showing your face, but there’s really no need to worry too much. To be precise, worrying won’t do any good. Our community of supernatural beings is now uniformly managed by a state-owned enterprise called ‘Nadutong,’ which represents the country.”

Lu Jin suddenly seemed to remember something and began to educate He Songling about the technology of this era: "You may not know how developed society has become. The internet, high-definition cameras—if you're just walking down the street, they can hear even the slightest bit of news..."

"I don't need you to tell me." He Songling finally couldn't hold back and, for the first time in seventy years, slapped his junior brother on the back of the head, knocking Lu Jin's head down, and then kicked him back in the neck.

"You never went into my space back then, did you? You've forgotten what's inside? What do you know about modern technology? You bunch of old fogies, nobody knows more about modern technology than me!"

In the end, Lu Jin was just a country bumpkin born in the Qing Dynasty. At 110 years old, how could he possibly understand modern life as well as a college student born in the 2000s?

To put it simply, Zhou Meng, the Wudang sect leader in the original novel, only recently learned how to send and receive WeChat messages under Wang Ye's "tutelage." He probably got so angry at the Celestial Master that he even instructed Wang Ye to severely punish Zhang Lingyu, the Celestial Master's last disciple.

"Okay, okay, you know that's good." Lu Jin touched his head with lingering fear. He had reconstructed the middle dantian back then, and thankfully he was now at the third level, otherwise, if his head had been lost, he might not have been able to put it back in.

This is normal. Ever since Zuo Ruotong became the sect leader of the Sanyi Sect and improved the cultivation method of the Reverse Life Triple Stage, everyone basically started by reconstructing the lower dantian. The lower dantian is also known as the Qi Sea. Regardless of the school, whether it's gathering internal energy, Qi body, or golden elixir, it's all here. Once this area is reconstructed, theoretically, one can possess a nearly inexhaustible amount of Qi—of course, it's only relative. If one were to output at full power without sleep for several days, one would eventually be exhausted. Lu Jin, who almost caused the two Zhang Kuangs and Yuan Tao to fail in the original work, was in this situation.

However, ordinary battles are not this dangerous, and it can be said that the Sanyi Sect has a huge advantage in this direction.

In addition, reconstructing the lower dantian carries the least risk. Even if it fails, the worst that can happen is paralysis of the lower body, but at least one's life can be saved.

After the lower elixir comes the middle elixir, which is where Zuo Ruotong's problem arose.

Throughout the centuries-long history of the Sanyi School, very few lunatics would reconstruct the Shangdan (a type of alchemy) as early as He Songling.

It's not just because the Niwan Palace (the area between the eyebrows) is where the soul resides; failure there means the soul is scattered, resulting in instant death without even leaving a last word. It's also because even if it's not the worst outcome, the slightest mistake can still damage the brain.

But He Songling clearly didn't care about that. He knew he possessed an innate divine soul, incomparably stable, and the then-false immortal technique of the Reverse Rebirth Triple Realm posed no danger to him. However, in the eyes of others, it seemed that his mind was inherently abnormal, and the fever might actually be a sign that his condition was steadily improving.

That's why He Songling was able to risk his life to fight Zhang Zhiwei back in the Lu family compound. Such a dangerous thing could probably only be done by Li Muxuan, who joined the Sanyi Sect in a parallel universe, besides He Songling.

Later, the Reverse Life Technique, improved by He Songling and Zuo Ruotong, allowed one to break through to the third level simply by reconstructing one dantian. No one would ever again do the foolish thing of reconstructing the upper dantian first. But just as quickly, the extraordinary scene of cutting off one's head and then putting it back on at the second level also disappeared.

Lu Jin was so frightened by He Songling's attack that he immediately activated his Triple Power, thus avoiding the same fate as his martial uncle in the original story.

"The camera and network issues are resolved, but what about those younger folks outside..." Lu Jin's mind unexpectedly cleared up after He Songling had taken his head off once: He Songling was just live-streaming on his phone, and his delivery was more polished than that of a professional streamer. How could he not understand the current state of society?

But nothing happened in the virtual world; some people even saw themselves calling He Songling "Senior Brother" with their own eyes.

"You probably don't know, but too many things have happened over the years. Your name is now a taboo subject. It's not that anyone who mentions it will die, but anyone associated with you is at risk of death."

Lu Jin still felt sorry for his juniors, so he frowned and pleaded, "Junior brother, I beg you, could you please lock those juniors in your space for now and spare their lives? You don't have to kill them to silence them."

(End of this chapter)