From the end of the world

Chapter 271: The World After Death 1
Being hostile to great impermanence is the turbidity of life.

I silently recalled the information related to Mingzhu. Mingzhu was the Great Impermanence who stood up for the Transcendentalism, and his power was at the middle level among the Great Impermanence. It was said that Xuanming killed one Great Impermanence and severely injured another Great Impermanence when he rebelled against Luoshan half a year ago, and Mingzhu was the one who was severely injured.

At the same time, according to the religious knowledge I had learned randomly while investigating supernatural phenomena everywhere, "life turbidity" is actually a Buddhist term.

There is a saying in Buddhism about the "Five Turbidities", which are the turbidity of kalpa, the turbidity of views, the turbidity of afflictions, the turbidity of living beings, and the turbidity of life. The so-called "Five Turbidities Evil World" refers to the world in the Dharma Ending Age where the Five Turbidities gather.

Let's not talk about other turbidities for now. This life turbidity is also called "life turbidity". In the mythical world described in Buddhist scriptures, the lifespan of living beings can be as long as tens of thousands of years, but in reality, the lifespan of people is less than a hundred years. Buddhism advocates that this contrast of greatly shortened lifespan is the result of troubles and bad karma, and the term life turbidity refers to this phenomenon.

It's not that I didn't expect the enemy's true identity to be Mingzhuo. He has always been on my list of suspects. It's just that he is the last one and the least noticeable. Before hearing this name, I was still choosing between the Wheel King and the Gua Tianshi. Even Fa Zheng was a little suspicious. Lu Chan suddenly reported this name, which made me feel mixed. My emotions were caught between the unexpected and expected.

Since the enemy is Mingzhu, then on what grounds did he attack Mazao? I tried to analyze it based on this premise. In fact, after thinking deeply, you will find that there is a connection between Mingzhu and Mazao.

It is said that after Mingzhu was severely injured by Xuanming, his body and mind have been in a state of being burned by Xuanming's fire. After that, he seemed to have used a lot of methods to treat his serious injuries, but he never fully recovered. Mazao is in a similar situation. Not only is his soul burned, but the demon who severely injured Mazao is suspected to be Xuanming who fell into the demon world in the doomsday era. Both of them can be said to be victims of Xuanming.

However, looking at it this way, things are actually a bit strange. Even the Great Impermanence Fate Turbidity was helpless against the Xuanming Fire, but Ma Zao was able to suppress it with his own return power. Not only did he not die suddenly, but he gradually got better over time.

Although the soul healing drugs provided by Mr. Zhu seemed to have helped a lot in this process, I don’t think that without those drugs, Ma Zao’s condition would gradually worsen. In fact, the Ma Zao I encountered at the beginning would lose consciousness at any time and couldn’t even walk normally. But after just a few days of rest, she could move her hands and feet normally and even fight monsters outdoors and win. The soul healing drugs only played a role in accelerating recovery afterwards.

Even though Ma Zao and Ming Zhuo were hit by Xuan Ming Fire to different degrees, it was only a difference in "quantity", and the difference in "quality" should be almost the same. I can now more or less grasp the difference between the Great Perfection rank and the Great Impermanence. I don't think that after I become the Great Impermanence, my power will be suppressed by the special abilities of the ordinary Great Perfection rank.

Therefore, Ma Zao is very likely special. Not only does she have a special physique, but the power of returning blessing she possesses is also by no means ordinary.

Perhaps Mingzhuo also saw this special thing, so he wanted to kidnap Ma Zao and use the power of return to do something... Did he intend to use Ma Zao's power of return to heal his injuries? If so, why did Lu Youxun say in the past that Mingzhuo intended to kill Ma Zao?
Could it be that Mingzhu had not fully revealed his true intentions to his subordinates, and Lu Youxun had simply misunderstood? Even if that was true, how did Mingzhu know that Ma Zao's returning power could suppress the power of the Great Impermanence and the Great Demon?

Unfortunately, I can't get away from it right now to cause trouble for Ming Zhuo, and he doesn't seem to be able to cause trouble for me. The evidence is that Lu Chan has already revealed his information to me, but he didn't send a long-range force to attack me or Lu Chan again. It seems that he is really in some kind of predicament.

"What problem is Mingzhuo facing now?" I asked.

"He needs to regularly use all his strength to suppress the Xuanming Fire erupting in his body. Today and tomorrow will be the time." Lu Chan replied generously.

"So, these two days are his weak period?" I asked, "Do you know where he is now? Is there a pattern in the dates when he suppresses the Xuanming Flame?"

"He usually stays at Luoshan headquarters, but when he needs to suppress the Xuanming Fire, he usually informs his confidants a few days in advance and then goes to a secret location known only to him." He replied again, "I can't tell if there is a pattern to the dates, and even if there is, he won't easily reveal it to others.

"I used to be a night patrolman directly under Mingzhuo. Although my position was not high, I was quite trusted. I also did some dirty work and secretly investigated information that could help him heal his injuries. That's why I knew that today and tomorrow were important days for him. But now I'm obviously no longer trusted, and I probably won't get similar notices in the future."

Hearing this, I remembered. In the past, Lu Youxun knew about Ma Zao's soul trauma. Because Ma Zao was still alone at that time, he didn't keep any information about himself secret. So he told Lu Youxun that it was a scar left by the Great Demon, and said that the Great Demon was at the same level as the Great Impermanence. Could it be that the information was leaked at that time?

I simply asked directly: "Did Mingzhu kidnap Ma Zao to treat his own injuries?"

"Why do you think so?" It was Lu Chan who was surprised.

"Isn't it this?" I was surprised.

"Her power is only to go back in time. How can she possibly heal the injuries caused by the Great Impermanence? What Mingzhuo really values ​​is her identity as a person who has recovered from amnesia. In other words, her identity as a 'person who has come back from the dead'," he said.

Mingzhuo also called the person who came back from the dead this way... I asked, "Amnesia is a disease of the death of the soul, and waking up from amnesia has the same meaning as 'coming back from the dead' - is that what it means?"

Lu Chan wrote "yes" on the white paper, and I continued to ask: "Why does Ming Zhuo want a 'person who has come back from the dead'?"

I thought the one who would be interested in this identity should be the Rotation King.

"This is related to the power of Mingzhu." Lu Chan replied, "In Luoshan, Mingzhu is neither as powerful as the old fist god nor as wise as Gua Tianshi, but he is definitely the most difficult to kill.

"Even Gua Tianshi admits that even if the world is destroyed tomorrow, Mingzhuo will not really die. This is because he possesses the most inexplicable immortal body of all the great impermanence in history.

"Xuan Ming once wanted to kill him like he killed Fu Hongchen, but even if he was killed, he would be resurrected infinitely. In the end, Xuan Ming could only barely delay his resurrection time and had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield."

"Can't kill him?" I suddenly felt that the problem might be a bit serious. In my best plan, I would first completely liberate all my power, and then defeat Mingzhu after I have the power of the Great Impermanence. If I can kill him directly, then no matter what evil intentions he has towards Ma Zao, they will disappear.

However, if the enemy is a monster that cannot be killed no matter how hard you try, isn’t that equivalent to an enemy that can never be eliminated?

"Does this immortal body have any weaknesses?"

Although I asked this question, I didn't expect Lu Chan to know Da Wuchang's weakness.

Lu Chan actually answered.

"According to the information I know, Mingzhu will only die under such circumstances, that is, waiting for him to use up the rest of his life and die naturally," he said.

"What kind of weakness is this... Wait, there is a thing called the Great Impermanence that exhausts one's lifespan?" I thought the Great Impermanence was immortal.

"Generally speaking, the Great Impermanence lives as long as the heaven and earth, but Mingzhu is a very rare exception." He said patiently, "A long time ago, before he grew up to be the Great Impermanence, in order to survive some dangers, he signed a contract with Naraku. At the cost of not being able to extend his lifespan and escape death by any means in the future, he gained the magical power that would never die before his lifespan ran out.

"Do you think that this condition is too good for him? This matter depends on the individual. Let's not talk about whether ordinary people are qualified to sign a contract with Naraku. Even if they can sign a contract, they can never achieve the same effect as him. Although I swear to fight for ordinary people, I must admit that objectively speaking, the lives of ordinary people are not as important as the life of the Great Impermanence, and the value that can be obtained from the exchange is also very different.

"Although Mingzhu was not yet Great Impermanence at that time, he was already qualified for Great Impermanence, and what he exchanged was his future almost endless life. The immortality obtained by paying such a price is also almost absolute, and there is no way to break it.

"I'd like to state in advance that even if you master the power to speed up time tens of millions of times, and then use this power to reduce his life span, it will be ineffective. Any tricks you can imagine have been used on him before, and he even tried to use them on himself, but all to no avail. That immortal body is not something that can be conquered by playing tricks or concepts."

"He also used it on himself? Why?"

I was puzzled at first, then suddenly realized: "I see... He wants to use the power of time to slow down the rate at which his lifespan decreases."

Since the power to accelerate time cannot shorten his life, then conversely, he cannot extend his life even if he uses the power to slow down time.

Similarly, Ma Zao's power of time reversal could not restore his lifespan to its original value.

Although I think that logically, it makes no sense that we can't shorten or extend our lifespan by accelerating or slowing down time...but Mingzhu's immortal body obviously has a more mysterious mechanism, or it may be that there is no mechanism at all, and it is something that doesn't listen to any reason.

"How many years does Mingzhu have left to live?"

I asked this first, and then tried to bring the topic back to the original track: "Also, what does this matter you are talking about have to do with Ma Zao, the 'man who came back from the dead'?"

"The remaining life span of Mingzhu is unknown, but Luo Shan generally believes that he can only live for another ten years at most. Perhaps because of this, he has begun to get anxious." Lu Chan had no respect for Mingzhu, "Now he is trying to find a way to contact Naraku again, and want to cancel the contract he signed in the past.

"In order to achieve this goal, he captured a large number of humans who were born with powerful spirituality and killed them in the past, hoping that their souls could go to Naraku and knock on the door to Naraku. ... I will not hide it here. When I was a night patroller in the past, I also secretly captured a large number of innocent people and sent them to Mingzhu.

"And the relevance of this matter to Maha is that, as a 'person who has come back from the dead', she is likely to have a connection with Naraku.

"This shouldn't be hard to understand, right? If 'death' is the soul's descent into the afterlife, then 'resurrection' is the soul's return from the afterlife to the world of the living... This back and forth connection between life and death is established.

"If it was just the resurrection of an ordinary person, then Mingzhu could do it himself. Although the conditions required to revive an ordinary person are quite strict, it is not difficult with the power of the Great Impermanence. However, there is an extremely necessary condition that cannot be met for this method, and even if it is met, its spirituality is not enough to support the purpose that Mingzhu wants to achieve. It is too fragile to serve as a bridge to establish a connection with Naraku.

"But for someone like Maha who has a strong spirituality, this is not the case. As long as she is used as the material for the ritual and killed with the correct steps, a sufficiently stable Naraku bridge can be formed.

"Moreover, according to the in-depth investigation of the traces of her magic power left by the Transcendentalists, she might have been a person of the Transcendent level in her heyday... You should have known a lot about Ying Lingyun and Yin Yue, and you should also understand how difficult it is to replicate the resurrection of a person of this level, right?"

"I think I understand." I said, "To put it simply, he regarded hemp as a natural treasure necessary to prolong his life. Is that right?"

"Although it doesn't seem right...but it's right." He showed a helpless expression.

"But there's still one thing I don't quite understand. When he wasn't the Great Impermanence before, he could establish contact with Naraku and sign a contract. Why can't he do it now?" I asked.

(End of this chapter)