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Chapter 356 The Resilience of Cause and Effect

Early in the morning, Ji Ran sat outside the porridge shop, eating freshly fried dough sticks and beef porridge.

Lu Zaiye took the body to Yashan. The perpetrators of the bus case and the company case were the same person. Ji Ran always felt something was off about this, but if Lu Zaiye took it back, Xie Yan would surely find the answer through his domain power.

There's no need for me to worry about it.

Now, I plan to improve my understanding of cause and effect.

The Dao of Cause and Effect is a Dao that can only be mastered at the third level. Thanks to his trip to Yingzhou, he glimpsed a trace of its essence through repeated Heavenly Dao Techniques.

The Way of Cause and Effect

Status: Beginner (33%)

Effect: Allows for insight into cause and effect.

Taoist arts: Crossing the cycle of life and death
Causal points: 94
Based on the current ability to obtain double the Daoist essence, it only requires 34 points of karma to enter the Dao of Karma.

Ji Ran silently reflected on his experience of feeling the Dao of Cause and Effect when Zhi Ge guided him, combining it with his own insights from using the Heavenly Dao Technique in battle on Yingzhou Immortal Island. He understood that if he were to enter the Dao of Cause and Effect, he would enter another realm.

now.

After finishing her meal, Ji Ran sat quietly. Upon seeing a disheveled girl, she got up and followed her into the nearby residential area.

This residential complex has been around for years in this mountain city, located on the edge of the old town. Twenty-odd eight-story resettlement buildings stand haphazardly, their exteriors painted with the light yellow paint popular in the 1990s, now faded and worn. Large water stains spread downwards from the top floors, like an abstract map drawn by rain and time.

The most famous place here is Shancheng Beef Sand, which has a history of more than 30 years, located across from the residential area.

But recently, this old neighborhood has become famous on new media.

A female college student who helped a child is being asked to pay 47 yuan in compensation. The compensation also covers the child's medical expenses for hemophilia.

Even though it was proven that the female college student was genuinely trying to help, the child's parents refused to admit it. They not only insulted the girl in a sarcastic and sarcastic way, but also refused to repay the tens of thousands of yuan that the girl had paid in advance.

A college student, raised by his hardworking farmers, has just graduated and is not yet settled in a stable job. Because of his kindness, he has been burdened with huge debts and humiliation.

Ji Ran looked at the girl in front of him.

She looked to be twenty, but her hair was disheveled, her eyes were silent, and she carried an age beyond her years. Carrying a bowl of plain millet soup that cost two yuan without any meat, and a fried dough stick that cost one yuan, she walked back to her neighborhood on the cold, hard snow.

People on the street saw her and vaguely pointed at her.

This is an old residential area undergoing renovation. Many of the residents are acquaintances from a village that was formerly part of the urban village. When the girl was falsely accused and witnesses were being sought, those residents who clearly witnessed her saving the girl either pretended not to know or swore that it was the girl who hit the girl.

The girl is now experiencing some mental health issues. Even in the cold winter, she was seen going downstairs in slippers.

Ji Ran followed her, slowly walking up into the old residential area. The girl's numb steps led her up the stairs, but Ji Ran didn't stop; instead, she brushed past the girl.

He walked step by step to the top floor.

The tallest building in this complex has eight floors, and there's no opening leading to the rooftop. Ji Ran used Instant Step to appear on the top floor, where the thick snow shimmered with the crystalline glow of dawn in the faint morning light.

Vlad.

"Wake me up if anything seems amiss."

"Yes."

Hearing the voice coming from the ring, Ji Ran took out the [Jade Pillow].

This life-bound artifact is more peculiar than any I've ever encountered. I can't see any effects or costs, but Su Su has already told me how to use it.

At that moment, Ji Ran placed one of his incense coins on it. Instantly, the jade pillow emitted a faint blue light, dreamlike and enchanting.

Before his eyes appeared a series of time markers. Ji Ran chose the time as half a month ago—the day the girl saved the person.

A wave of drowsiness washed over Ji Ran, and she sensed a strange vitality. The entire neighborhood seemed to come alive. Before her eyes, the snow melted away, and the lights began to twinkle.

The jade pillow is a "dead" object that enters dreams.

On the Qingdao cruise ship, I dreamt of the Sea Pigeon No. 3 cruise ship. This time, however, I'm entering the dream of this neighborhood.

The sun had already set, casting a dim light and shadow over the green iron bars of the apartment complex. Dim yellow light shone through the windows, twinkling like stars.

A girl skipped and hopped in, carrying a takeout order. She was young and pretty, with long hair flowing down her shoulders, wearing a light yellow down jacket and snow boots.

At this moment, she is almost a completely different person from herself two weeks later.

The neighborhood roads are narrow and winding, lined with parked cars, some almost touching the walls. Several garages on the ground floor have been converted into small shops, where a few people are chatting. A little boy rides his bicycle in circles, the faint sound of tires rolling over the concrete can be heard.

"Ooh ooh ooh!"

The little boy let go of the handlebars, laughing and shouting. He was only a dozen steps away from the girl.

It's now!

Ji Ran's figure flashed and appeared directly in front of the little boy!
This time, it was different from the cruise ship. Back then, I had no incense offerings and had to rely on emotional resonance, then consume karmic points to touch the past.

At this moment, I am overflowing with incense offerings, and I can directly consume incense offerings to touch this place!
Bang— Ji Ran jerked the boy's handlebars.

[Causal Points Consumed: 5]

Five causal points were consumed in just a moment of contact.

Ji Ran's eyes flickered with the causal path, but he was surprised to find that the girl's body was covered with dense causal entanglements, as if she were locked in a cage!

The girl under the dappled lamplight was like a trapped beast in a web of cause and effect.

My momentary fluctuation only caused some causal lines on the girl to shift, but there was no substantial change.

this! ?

Ji Ran's eyes trembled slightly, but he immediately realized the problem.

Cause and effect, like karmic retribution, do not diminish because of a person's weakness. I previously thought that the consumption of karmic points in dreams was related to the length of time and the complexity of spacetime.

But not so.

Zhi Ge's previous insightful advice, so profound and comprehensive, allowed him to see the laws and principles of cause and effect. Now, immersed in the solidified cause and effect of the past, in this dreamlike old neighborhood, Ji Ran saw a trace of the essence of cause and effect in the most ordinary and subtle girl.

Some say that the day a person truly dies is the day when no one in the world remembers him anymore.

The established reality is like a "dead person." The more people remember it, the harder it is to change it.

The reason why one can easily change the reality of a night on a cruise ship is largely because the ghost cruise ship was sealed off in time, so not many people know about it, and because of the deaths of many people, the cause and effect have already been scattered.

Although the girl was just an ordinary person, what she experienced was far less terrifying and tragic than what happened on the ghost ship.

But far too many people remember her story. Her viral videos have been viewed by no fewer than ten million people.

Without a massive number of causal points, one cannot shake it at all.

This is similar to how Marshal Zhige could not pinpoint a cult through the dense web of cause and effect in the real world. These seemingly fragile causes and effects of ordinary people are, like laws, solidified in nothingness and cannot be easily erased.

He had been misled by Yingzhou Immortal Island and underestimated the resilience of cause and effect. On Yingzhou Immortal Island, the cause and effect he controlled with his Heavenly Dao Technique and Earthly Dao Technique were all dead cause and effect, lacking the resilience and tension of reality.

squeak--

The boy rode his bicycle straight towards the old man who was chatting.

Bang!
"Ouch!"

The little boy and the old man fell over, and cries of pain echoed from in front of the convenience store.

The girl paused, then ran over without hesitation.

"Auntie, are you okay?"

"Little brother, little brother, wake up!"

"Ouch... Help me up."

……

Ji Ran watched as the girl busied herself helping the person up.

The little boy fell to the ground unconscious. The old woman glanced at the boy in alarm, but then grabbed the girl's sleeve and wouldn't let go. Her eyes, in the halo of the tungsten lamp, held a fierce glint.

The girl herself was completely unaware, dialing 120. In the cold wind, her takeout food spilled all over the ground, just like that tragedy that was bound by countless onlookers, an irreversible fate.

Ji Ran exited the dream.

On the rooftop, he watched the girl, disheveled and numb, walk out of the room carrying her empty bowl of soup. Nothing had changed. Or perhaps, it was even worse.

Kindness, at this moment, has become the most absurd weapon.

"Feel sorry."

Ji Ran stood up and said quietly, "Next time, I definitely can."

He has already come up with a solution.

[Truncation].

If one can grasp the principles of cause and effect and use one's own karma to sever the remaining karma in the girl's body, then change will become simple.

The prerequisite is that you must first reverse an event with fewer causal links, that is, an event with fewer people in the know, in order to enter the path of cause and effect.

Ji Ran had already thought of it.

His gaze fell on his parents' neighborhood.

He imagined a perfect dream scenario—his first night back home.

(End of this chapter)