Fire Monster

Chapter 299 Dragnet
"Light up the sixth-level demon-suppression!"

As the energy of the three spirit stones fell down, the stars representing the demon-suppressing runes slowly lit up in the visualization world. The Taoist knowledge contained therein was endless, just waiting for Zhao Guanshan to master and comprehend.

But there is no need to rush this matter anymore, as he has gained another year and a half of precious time.

So he turned around and went to the statue space. Now Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun have been in seclusion for nearly three months, and he needed to see how they are doing in their cultivation.

Especially Liu Yuwei, because of the existence of Qingmu Curse, he was always uneasy.

In the statue space, Zhao Guanshan looked carefully and frowned slightly, because not long ago, this Qingmu curse actually attacked Liu Yuwei, but it did not succeed.

His statue space blocked all attacks for her and destroyed all the invading Aoki curses.

At this time, we can see the advantages of the three-person collaboration.

However, Liu Yuwei could not continue to practice. Before the Qingmu Curse was resolved, the more she practiced, the more times she would be attacked by the Qingmu Curse. Now Zhao Guanshan was busy comprehending the two main magical powers, the sixth-level demon-suppression and the sixth-level explosion, and he really could not spare the time to protect her.

At that moment, he used the statue to silently remind Liu Yuwei that she could exit the cultivation state as long as she had the opportunity within the next month.

This was the case for Liu Yuwei, but things were going quite smoothly for Xiao Chengyun. In less than three months, she had consumed five spirit stones, making steady progress and showing encouraging signs of improvement.

At this rate, in another three to five months, she will be able to complete the most basic accumulation, and then she will be able to improve the level of her supernatural powers by comprehending the Qianjin Dao Talisman, and finally sense the Qianjin Dao Talisman, complete the final test, and advance to the sixth-level Qi Refiner.

And because Xiao Chengyun has a solid grasp of the main and branch magical powers of the Qianjin system, when she is promoted, her overall combat power will be no less than that of a seventh-level Qi Refiner. This is Zhao Guanshan's real trump card.

If one day, he was really forced to float on the sea on a raft.

After exiting the statue space, Zhao Guanshan took another look at the Destiny Tree in the background. Now the branch of the merit tree he represented had surpassed the second echelon and entered the first echelon. However, he inexplicably still felt a little creepy, as if something big would happen if he looked at it one more time.

When his consciousness returned to reality, Zhao Guanshan frowned. He had not expected that destiny was such an invisible terror. However, he estimated that not many people would have the opportunity to face destiny directly.

"Wu Yuan should be the key."

"He just decided to stay for a year and a half, but he didn't actually stay for a year and a half. As a result, destiny was able to calculate it and gave me merit."

"You may say that the calculation of destiny is inaccurate, but it is indeed terrifying when you think about it carefully."

"Could it be that Tianming can hear Wu Yuan's words? Or can it sense Wu Yuan's determination and thoughts?"

"Or maybe, because Wu Yuan is very outstanding, he is known and regretted by many people, and there are many Qi cultivators willing to follow him, so in a sense, he has become part of destiny?"

Zhao Guanshan had to ponder the deeper purpose of this escort mission. Now he felt that the power of destiny was truly unpredictable.

Imagine that Wu Yuan and his gang went through untold hardships and finally encountered an unfamiliar Taoist temple, but it turned out to be the Zhenhai or Qingcheng Taoist Temple. Zhao Guanshan completed the escort and earned a lot of merit, so he was naturally very happy.

But Wu Yuan and others’ spiritual faith would probably be shattered.

What a cruel thing this was for them, but destiny dealt with it easily.

What will their future be like? Will they accept their fate and work like slaves for the destiny to compete for the position of national master, or will they just lie down and let their lives slip away silently?
Or go out to sea again with greater courage?

Then their deeds were passed down, and thousands of years later, an online novelist used them as inspiration to write "Biographies of Immortals"?
It seems that this is the only thing that can become a topic of conversation after dinner.

These are Wu Yuan and others, but can Zhao Guanshan, who has gained benefits and merits from it, really stay out of it?
Now, destiny is like a huge spider web, with Wu Yuan and others as hunting targets. Who knows if this is not a bigger and deeper web of destiny built for him?

Maybe in the future, someone like him will appear and help him a lot, making him grateful. In fact, the other party will earn a lot of merit because of this and send him to where he wants to go and accomplish what he wants to accomplish. But only when the matter is over and the truth is revealed, can we see who is swimming naked?
Thinking of this, Zhao Guanshan couldn't help but smile bitterly. No wonder the cultivators regarded destiny as a formidable enemy and were extremely vigilant.

Destiny does not take a person’s life, nor does it take away one’s cultivation, but it does affect your fate and weave your destiny.

What is the purpose of cultivation for immortal cultivators and qigong practitioners? Isn’t it to defy fate and change their destiny?
"They are natural enemies indeed."

"It's not that easy to cultivate immortality. To cultivate immortality, it should be called cultivating destiny."

Zhao Guanshan sighed. In the past, he really thought that cultivation was just about fighting monsters, leveling up, mining for resources, saying a few dirty words to the breeze and the moon, feeling the worldly world, flirting with the ladies who were also practicing, saying dirty words, and occasionally encountering a few terrifying demons. He would continue to kill monsters, level up, and say dirty words, and then he would ascend to become an immortal.

Now it seems that I am still thinking too much.

The legendary heavenly calamity should really exist, but it will not materialize until one reaches a certain level of realm, transforming into thunder and fire, black ice hurricanes, or physical attacks, as spectacular as fireworks.

The real heavenly calamity is destiny!
It is everywhere and at all times, invisible and intangible. You think it will give you a chance to confront it head-on, but in fact, it is silent and you have already lost. "So this is the meaning of the Ring of Destiny. It is not really a concrete ring or circle."

Zhao Guanshan finally understood.

"So the awakening of destiny should be a false proposition. Destiny has always been there, so how can it be awakened? If even the appearance of evil demons, the rampage of demonic fire, and the collapse of the world of immortal cultivation are all caused by destiny, how can we explain it?"

"Or, could it be that Linjiang Prefecture's destiny and the awakened destiny of Zhenhai and Qingcheng Taoist Palaces are three different individuals? That's impossible. If the three Taoist palaces unite, perhaps the three groups of humans will have friction and conflict, and it will take decades or even hundreds of years for them to integrate with each other."

"But the destiny, I'm afraid, was integrated at the first moment. Or, there is no individual destiny, but only a destiny web that spreads from point to surface?"

"Even more, the three great Dao Palaces of Fuyun, Cangwu, and Tianlong facilitated this matter. How do we know that this is not a deeper weaving of the web of destiny?"

"This practice is so hopeless."

"This cultivator clearly got the role of the protagonist in a sadistic novel, but he was exaggerated like that in the human world. This kind of person who wanted to defy fate and cultivate immortality, but in the end had to watch himself grow old, unable to escape the pain of this invisible net from beginning to end, is it really worthy of envy?"

“Isn’t this the most horrible thing?”

"Mortals live a mediocre life and die quietly. It's hard to say which of the two ways of dying is more fortunate."

Zhao Guanshan sighed for a long time and thought a lot, but when he was thinking about these things, he was always holding his statue of the god and pressing it tightly against his brow.

At first, the statue exuded a warm and bright atmosphere, but when he thought of these things, the statue was like a raging fire and was almost melting.

Zhao Guanshan didn't care about the statue being melted. He could reshape it in reality by consuming a spirit stone.

What he cares about is the result of his test.

That's right, he deliberately thought so much and made deep associations.

As a result, he seemed to have really touched upon some serious taboo.

This destiny is definitely not the destiny described and understood by Senior Brother Cheng Muye!
It is definitely not the so-called humanitarian will condensed from the beliefs of the human race.

It is truly a boundless and invisible terror and weirdness that feeds on fate. No one, no life, can escape its hunting.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan really wanted to eliminate the big background in his visualized world. He was really scared. He originally thought that the big background was evolved after he communicated with the female fairy. Now it seems that it is more like a mark of invasion by destiny.

Everything has a price, everything has a trajectory, and everything will touch the web of destiny.

Also, is that a destiny tree?
It was clearly a web of destiny that had just taken shape.

It's ridiculous that he thought the two main branches were the two rotating masters in the Taoist Palace. Now it seems that they represent Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun respectively.

The reason why the two of them look bigger is because they have been active and doing more things in the past ten years.

As for the fifteen small branches of the second echelon, do they represent the three teams of Five Elements Qi Refiners? They clearly represent Wu Yuan, Tang Zhen, Xu Ayue and other fifteen people.

The reason why there are no other branches here is because Zhao Guanshan did not have any personal contact, so the other party's destiny web could not connect to him. It's not that it doesn't exist, but that there is no handover.

Moreover, this matter is very easy to confirm. As long as he takes the initiative to step forward and say hello, he can see whether a new branch will be formed.

But Zhao Guanshan naturally wouldn't do that.

What he was thinking about now was something else, that was the spiritual world. In the spiritual world, the people he had contacted, Qin Wuyuan, Cheng Muye, Wang Xuan, etc., seemed not to be contacted by the web of destiny.

Does this mean that the spirit world is a good place to escape destiny?

But after thinking about it, Zhao Guanshan shook his head. Dissolving his physical body and then going to the spirit world to become a ghost was definitely not a good ending.

"So it's useless even if I use a fake name. Wu Yuan, Tang Zhen, Xu Ayue, these fifteen Qi Refiners, their destiny webs have already connected to me. If I have to contact other people in the future, I'm afraid that this destiny web will only increase."

"This is inevitable and cannot be avoided. The only thing I can do is to jump out before the web of destiny closes. Although I may jump into a bigger web of destiny, as long as I keep jumping and jump fast enough, maybe I can truly become a free and easy immortal?"

(End of this chapter)