Longzang

Chapter 871 The Choice of a Lifetime (Part 1)

"I'm here to help you!" The little girl raised her hands, still staring into Wei Yuan's eyes.

"Senior please!"

"Once I use my last condition, you'll have to beg me if you want to come with me."

"I know."

The little girl in Moon Lake frowned. The wound on her face had stopped bleeding, and she looked strangely sweet and cute.

She frowned and remained silent, deep in thought, before carefully placing a hand on Wei Yuan's body. Nothing happened.

Wei Yuan looked at the pale little hand, pondering for a moment, and then said, "This junior has quite a few methods at his disposal. I still need to think about which one to use. Please wait a moment, senior..."

"It's alright, go ahead and think about it, I'm very patient," the little girl said with an air of maturity.

Wei Yuan suddenly smiled and said, "Most of the other methods were probably within your calculations, except for two. Well, let's use this one then, since I earned it through my own abilities."

With a loud bang, a pale blue flame suddenly ignited on the girl's small hand. The flame was not pure in color, nor was it very intense, but it was a genuine flame of destiny, and it never extinguished!

The little girl gasped in surprise, swiftly withdrawing her hand and shaking it several times to finally dislodge the ball of green flame. Even after landing, the flame refused to extinguish, and began to burn Moon Lake again, continuing to burn until the fortune was completely gone.

The little girl's body had become somewhat transparent and she had weakened considerably. The ball of green flame didn't look large, but it contained the combined energy of over 100,000 Daoists, instantly plunging her into a weakened state.

But that wasn't the most terrifying thing. What was truly terrifying was that in that instant she saw a vast blue ocean! This ocean was so large that even the Heavenly Witch could drown in it.

She was both shocked and furious, staring at Wei Yuan and saying, "You, how could you have so much luck?! How is this possible? Your Qingming only has thirty million people, yet you have more luck than even the Southern Qi!"

Wei Yuan smiled nonchalantly and said, "Guess?"

The little girl was furious and gritted her teeth, saying, "Then don't blame me for being impolite and using my last resort! Do you see that sword in the moon? That's one of your teacher Daoji's swords, which I obtained by exchanging my supernatural powers. I'm going to throw it away now. If you come with me, I'll give you a chance and send you to a place where it might exist to look for it."

Wei Yuan pondered for a moment and asked, "Senior, you're not going to kill me?"

The little girl said irritably, "I wouldn't be so shameless as to kill a junior like you!"

To everyone's surprise, Wei Yuan said, "Senior, don't be shy. If you want to kill, just do it."

"I've said it before, I can't afford to lose face like that."

Wei Yuan said, "It's alright, no one will see, so it won't be embarrassing. Just use Master's sword, it's no trouble, he can kill me in one stroke. Come on!"

The little girl retorted angrily, "I don't kill juniors! Can't you understand human language? Is it because my human language is not standard?"

Wei Yuan opened his big eyes and asked sincerely, "But all it takes is one sword strike! We already have a sword, all we have to do is raise our hand!"

The full moon in the sky quietly changed its face, concealing the sword.

Upon seeing this, Wei Yuan suddenly took out a dagger from his pocket, placed it on the ground in front of him, and then pointed at it.

The little girl shouted angrily, "Don't throw things at me! How can you kids be so disobedient?"

She grabbed the dagger and threw it far into the darkness.

Wei Yuan then put his hand inside his robes.

The little girl yelled, "Stop! Stop littering!"

Wei Yuan indeed stopped and smiled, "It seems that you really don't kill juniors, so you probably aren't lying to me, right?"

"Of course! I wouldn't lie to a junior," the little girl said through gritted teeth.

Wei Yuan nodded and said, "That's good. Can I really find that sword at the place you sent me, senior?"

The little girl wanted to say something, but looking into Wei Yuan's bright eyes, she suddenly shivered. She remembered that every word and action she took at this moment would have a significant karmic consequence, and Wei Yuan possessed a vast amount of luck, enough to make the karmic consequences materialize instantly, so she really couldn't lie casually.

Her face was grim, but she still said, "The place you're going to will be one of several places. I don't know which one exactly, and no one else will know either."

Having fought the Witch Clan for so long, Wei Yuan knew far more about the Great Curse than the average person, so he said, "So it's exile, that explains it. I have no more questions, we can go now."

Seeing Wei Yuanzhen get up on his own, the little girl's face turned cold. She gave a heavy snort and said, "I suddenly don't want to take you with me anymore!"

Wei Yuan was stunned, then remembered what she had just said. He quickly bowed to the ground and said, "Sister Kaguya, I was wrong. Please take me away! Sister is the best!" The little girl covered her mouth, too shocked to speak, then pointed at Wei Yuan and said, "How could you say such things?! Where's your face?!"

Wei Yuan said, "I'm shameless in front of beautiful people."

“Beautiful people…” The little girl paused for a moment, then smiled and said, “Do you really think so?”
Alright, I've changed my mind. I'll try my best to send you to a better place, but I can't guarantee you'll find the sword. Also, once you get there, you won't be able to use the Mind World; you'll have to rely on your own physical body and spiritual consciousness. So, landing will be the most dangerous part, but you might survive after you adapt.

Wei Yuan praised, "Sister Kaguya is indeed beautiful inside and out; she has no intention of killing me at all."

The little girl looked somewhat embarrassed. She pointed at Wei Yuan, and Wei Yuan's body gradually became transparent, slowly separating from this world. However, this process was unexpectedly slow and extremely energy-consuming, causing Moon Lake to rapidly shrink back.

Seeing this, the little girl breathed a sigh of relief and said in a voice only she could hear, "That scared me to death! If I had really attacked just now, I'm afraid I would have been demoted on the spot due to the backlash of my luck. But how could one person have so much luck?"

Lost in thought, she suddenly saw a surge of azure energy erupt from Wei Yuan's still-present body, which then coalesced into a small black bird. This bird was quite strange; it had three eyes. It flapped its wings and flew directly to the full moon, and then…

It laid an egg.

The little bird flew back into Wei Yuan's body. Hui Ye was both shocked and furious, and shouted, "I've already let you go, how dare you toy with me!?"

Wei Yuan's body had almost completely disappeared, and he only had time to say, "This junior didn't want this either! But it had its own thoughts, really..."

Kaguya gritted her teeth in anger, thinking to herself that the stories in the book were indeed true: there wasn't a single good male human in the world; they were all liars who didn't even bother to think before they lied. This Wei Yuan, even his lie was so clumsy, he didn't even bother to put any effort into making an excuse.

In the instant he vanished, Wei Yuan sensed a shift in the heavens and earth, and then large swaths of his azure energy and fortune began to disappear—a welcome surprise. The depletion of his fortune indicated a change in cause and effect; this was the meaning of turning misfortune into good fortune.

Wei Yuan calculated the extent of the loss of his fortune and felt much more at ease. With such a large loss of fortune, even the Heavenly Witch's methods could offset most of it. His predetermined fate had already been changed; now it was up to him.

At that moment, a blinding light flashed before his eyes, so intense that Wei Yuan involuntarily closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the world before him had changed.

Wei Yuan looked around warily.

As far as the eye can see, there is a vast Gobi desert, and there are three suns in the sky. In the distance, you can also see a huge star that occupies almost half of the sky.

The scorching sun beat down on the unshaded earth, so hot it could fry an egg. Wei Yuan was drenched in sweat in the blink of an eye. He wiped the sweat from his brow, then suddenly paused, startled. He could sweat?

He scanned himself again, and sure enough, it was his physical body that had come with him. Therefore, Wei Yuan dared not be negligent. With a thought, he immediately absorbed all the sweat and then insulated himself from the external heat.

The area was desolate, devoid of any greenery or water. Moreover, the eerie heat and silence were fraught with danger. Wei Yuan felt as if he had seen or at least heard of this place somewhere before.

He searched his memory and was surprised to find large blank spaces. Many things he thought he remembered were just book titles, with no content at all.

Wei Yuan was startled and quickly examined his memories before finally letting out a sigh of relief. Those blank books were all collected by "Human World," books that Wei Yuan himself hadn't yet had time to read. Originally, he wasn't in a hurry to read these books; he could simply access them when needed. Wei Yuan only needed to remember the names to know that the book existed. But now that "Human World" was banned, only the titles remained.

Wei Yuan still remembered most of the contents of the books he had read.

After searching his memory, Wei Yuan finally realized why this place seemed familiar: Tianyu had mentioned it more than once, and specifically talked about the shock he felt when he first saw that big star.

This is the Great Wilderness Realm.

Wei Yuan felt a little strange. He had just been to the Netherworld and now he was in the Great Wilderness. It seemed that he really had a connection with the Witch Clan. He had now stumbled into the lair of the Power Witch.

Wei Yuan looked at himself again, wondering if his small frame could stand up to those hairy, strong witches.

Since he was already there, Wei Yuan decided to make the best of it and didn't dwell on trivial matters, nor was he particularly worried about worldly affairs or the Azure Sky.

But the peace of mind at this moment is actually a bit heartbreaking when you think about it: it seems that both places are doing quite well now, with or without Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan examined the luck again and discovered that all of it had been brought over. It turned out that luck didn't reside in the mental world, but rather existed attached to the soul. However, there was something amiss when counting the amount of luck.

Based on the amount of luck consumed in the instant of exile, Wei Yuan estimated that this would require the depletion of ten million units of human fortune to offset the Heavenly Witch's methods. However, only four million units of human fortune have been consumed so far, less than half of the initial estimate.

Wei Yuan wondered to himself, "Could it be that someone is secretly helping me?"
This is not surprising, after all, when immortals make moves and lay out their strategies, the most common thing is to sabotage each other. This is true not only for humans, but also for other races.

Immortals not only hinder other immortals, but also their own, and they have to guard against others hindering them. So immortals are actually very busy.

Wei Yuan frowned as he looked around at the completely unfamiliar surroundings. The Mind Realm was now forbidden, and he didn't even have a suitable weapon at hand. He needed to find a way to make one first.

Just as he was thinking this, Wei Yuan suddenly felt a killing intent coming from above!
He dodged to the side, and a long spear fell from the sky, grazing Wei Yuan's scalp before landing on the ground, nearly skewering him like a candied hawthorn. Startled, Wei Yuan felt the spear looked familiar, and upon closer inspection, he realized it was the very same [Compassion] spear he had just forged.
With no one to worry about and weapons at hand, Wei Yuan picked up his spear and set off to search for the sword.

That was no ordinary sword, but Zhang Sheng's path to enlightenment.

(End of this chapter)