Simultaneous travel: I am rampant in the domestic area

Chapter 254 Past, Present, and Future

"Really? That's wonderful! Then Aro must protect Master well from now on."

Zhao Yan laughed and rubbed his apprentice's head.

He had witnessed the true number one in the world; if his son A Luo could grow to that level, he would be laughing in his dreams.

“Don’t you believe me?” Russell raised his fist. “How about we go outside and practice? I guarantee you’ll be beating Master so badly you’ll be screaming for mercy.”

"You child, you have no manners." Zhao Yan placed the lunchbox on the table and took out the dishes one by one from the drawers.

These are the most expensive dishes in the best taverns in the city.

"Wow! Are we not celebrating today? Is it some kind of holiday or something, Master? Did you strike it rich?" Russell's eyes widened. It was rare to see his habitually stingy master so generous. If the sun hadn't risen in the west, there was only one reason.

The Three True Methods have arrived.

Zhao Yan's expression remained unchanged. He calmly took out a bowl and chopsticks from the cabinet, lit a candle, and then solemnly looked at Luo Su: "Now that you have achieved some success in your cultivation, according to the classification of the cultivation world, you can be considered a minor supernatural being. It is time for you to go out and fight a real Dharma Corpse."

"So?" Russell asked.

"So, this is your farewell banquet, A'luo. There's news that Qingshan Town, twenty miles away from Sanchuan Town, is recruiting seekers to exorcise the corpse of the Dharma." Zhao Yan said with a smile, "This is your first battle since your debut, and it's also the battle to make our Wangchuan Academy famous again. Your master has high hopes for you."

"Are you sure it wasn't because your enemies came knocking on your door and you just made up an excuse to send me away?" Russell said casually, making Zhao Yan's eyelids twitch. He wiped away imaginary cold sweat and chuckled, "How could that be? You underestimate your master's popularity in the cultivation world."

After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, Zhao Yan gave Russell a few more instructions on what to pay attention to during the trip, and then left the cabin under the pretext of digesting his food.

As for Russell, he continued trimming his paper figures.

If you look closely, you'll find that one of the two paper figures in his hand is very similar to Zhao Yan, who just left. Their appearance, expression, temperament, and even aura are exactly the same.

This world is very interesting, with all sorts of innate supernatural abilities running rampant. These innate supernatural abilities are similar to those in "Under One Person," where the mechanism is higher than the numerical value.

The mechanics of the Three True Protagonists are so insidious that the villainous group cries out in defiance.

In this world, the righteous path and the demonic path are clearly opposed, unlike worlds such as Jade Dynasty and One Person where good and evil are mixed.

Because friction between people can be resolved for various reasons, the struggle between the living and the dead has no room for easing and can only end with the complete destruction of one side.

"Living people" refers to both seekers of the Dharma and ordinary people.

The dead are called Nirvana Corpses, which are also divided into two types: one is the walking corpse that is nourished by Yin energy and comes back to life, and the other is the Dharma Corpse that comes back to life when the seeker of the Dharma is possessed by the true blood of all karma at the time of death.

Nirvana corpses feed on the life force of living beings and are the mortal enemy of all living people.

This battle, spanning over three thousand years, revolves around the seeker of the Dharma and the Dharma corpse.

Of course, the ultimate goal of those seeking the Dharma is to eliminate the source of the Nirvana Corpse—the producer of the True Blood of Myriad Karmas, the Corpse Immortal of Myriad Karmas.

The Corpse Immortal of Myriad Industries, as the final boss of this world and the king of Nirvana, is incredibly powerful. He transcends cause and effect and exists simultaneously in the past, present, and future. To destroy him, one must kill him in three different timelines at the same time.

However, the Three Truths School, one of the schools of seekers of the Dharma, has achieved this seemingly impossible prerequisite.

They created a magical artifact called the "Three Truths Under the Same Moon Decree," which allows qualified successors of the Three Truths to communicate across three timelines: the past, present, and future.

The three people who possess the Three True Ones' Order in this world are Jiang Mingzi, the Immortal Lord of the Myriad Laws of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (525 AD), Gao Haoguang, the Demon Lord of the Ultimate Law of the Wayless (1906 AD), and Duan Xinglian in 2020 AD.

For Russell, Jiang Mingzi belongs to the past, while Duan Xinglian belongs to the future.

Oh, it's worth mentioning that Russell's master in this life, Zhao Yan, and his wife, Shangguan Xiao, were both Dharma corpses who were resurrected from the dead by those who sought the Dharma.

Around 1,400 years ago, Jiang Mingzi, Zhao Yan, and Shangguan Xiao were close friends. However, those who sought the magic had limited lifespans. Even those with great supernatural powers could only live for a little over 200 years. Even those with great supernatural powers, like those at the Wangchuan Academy who possessed the method to live another life, could not live for more than 500 years.

However, the true blood of all things will be born because of the seeker's "obsession".

In the instant Shangguan Xiao died, her thirst for life and her lingering affection for Zhao Yan caused the True Blood of Myriad Industries to descend upon the Wangchuan Academy, and Shangguan Xiao came back to life in the form of a Dharma Corpse.

Zhao Yan concealed this matter and hunted down criminals to extract their blood essence so that Shangguan Xiao could continue to live.

When Jiang Mingzi, who was already invincible at the time, learned of this, he went to the Wangchuan Academy and single-handedly wiped it out of the cultivation world.

He then used his supernatural powers to summon a giant rock to suppress Zhao Yan and Shangguan Xiao.

Zhao Yan and Shangguan Xiao both died.

However, the supernatural power practiced at the Wangchuan Academy is called "Returning to Heaven Blood Body".

This method allows practitioners to live a second life in an incarnation.

The two had anticipated Jiang Mingzi's arrival, so they sent out an avatar early on, promising to meet again in a future without Jiang Mingzi.

After his original body died, Zhao Yan was reborn in his avatar. Unfortunately, Shangguan Xiao's injuries were too severe, and he did not see Shangguan Xiao return until his lifespan in his second life was exhausted.

But, there's always a way out.

At the very moment Zhao Yan died, the True Blood of Myriad Causes descended once more.

Jiang Mingzi, who was familiar with the power of the River of Oblivion, was naturally on guard.

Therefore, Gao Haoguang and his apprentice, the inheritors of the Three True Ones of the Same Month Order, came to Sanchuan Town with the aim of completely annihilating Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan's goal was simple: if he wanted to survive, he had to completely sever the continuation of the Three Truths Dharma.

Judging from the fact that the Star Refining Technique still exists in the future timeline, Zhao Yan has clearly failed, and he ultimately did not get to reunite with his senior sister.

Fortunately, in this current timeline, Zhao Yan has taken in an invincible disciple.

Russell put down the paper figure he had cut out.

With a gentle breath, two illusory bodies appeared in the room.

This is the physical body he prepared for his master and mistress to be reborn and return.

Because of the existence of a great force called "cause and effect" in this world, Russell needs to resurrect his master and mistress simultaneously in both the present and future timelines, otherwise the chaotic timelines will bring about the punishment of the law of cause and effect.

The only problem now is that, since he is a person without destiny who only exists in the present in this world, it is not impossible for him to research a method to go downstream along the river of time to the future, but it is extremely difficult to succeed before his master and the three true disciples meet.

After carefully transforming his body back into a paper doll and putting it away, Russell closed his eyes and began to ponder.

Perhaps we could try using the Three True Ones in the Same Month command.

Well, the only troublesome one is Gao Haoguang.

This grandson's innate supernatural power is called "Predicting the Body in the False World and True Reality".

The effect is simple: as long as you interact with him, time will stand still, and his supernatural powers will create countless parallel worlds.

He can choose a world that satisfies him, copy and paste the future of that world into the real world.

The false will replace reality, and everything that happens in that parallel universe will become the established reality.

In short, what others see as a 0.00000001% success rate is 100% in Gao Haoguang's eyes.

Then, this bastard chose a timeline in the future where he became a Dharma Corpse, gaining the innate supernatural power he reawakened after becoming a Dharma Corpse: [A Past Body That Is Both Living and Dying]. This supernatural power allows the future Gao Haoguang to travel back to the past along the causal line in a Schrödinger-like state.

If Russell were to act rashly, he would inevitably come into contact with this past self, which might then bring about the punishment of causality.

He was not afraid of the punishment of causality alone. Although he could not break through the limitations of the world, the power that the world could exert on him could not harm him. The only problem was that he could withstand it, but Sanchuan Town could not.

What a hassle.

With a slight smirk, Russell released his primordial spirit, entrusting his spiritual consciousness to the starry sky. As the starlight twinkled, wisps of patterns began to spread from the wooden house to the surrounding thousands of miles.

There's still one day left, so there's no need to rush.

Oh, and I also need to send out an avatar to keep an eye on Gao Haoguang. His interaction with Duan Xinglian will only last a few seconds, so I don't want to miss it.

We also need to keep one with our master, just in case something unexpected happens.

……

After leaving the wooden house, Zhao Yan went to the Wu residence in Sanchuan Town.

Not long ago, driven by his bloodlust, he accidentally killed the eldest son of the Wu family. As a result, the Wu family patriarch sought out many seekers of magic to kill him and take revenge.

Coincidentally, the successors of the Three Truths Dharma were also attracted by this proclamation.

At this very moment, there are eight seekers of the Dharma in the Wu residence.

They are the four disciples of the Sanzhen Famen: Master Ma Chao, Senior Sister Miao Qingqing, Second Senior Brother Huang Erguo, and Junior Brother Gao Haoguang.

The Gu brothers, Gu Qian and Gu Hou, at the Laoshan Buddhist Assembly.

Ah Pao of the Five Elements Sect.

The sea and mountains of Penglai Immortal Island.

Zhao Yan used his own blood to form an avatar and instructed him to keep an eye on everything happening in the Wu residence.

Although he had already become a corpse of the Dharma, he still did not want to commit any more killings, and only killed those who deserved to die in order to obtain the life force necessary for survival.

Therefore, he will leave once he destroys the Three Truths in the Same Month Order and the Three Truths Method, without causing much harm to people.

Now, who exactly are the inheritors of the Three Truths Dharma, and who possesses the Three Truths Moon Order?

It was obvious that he couldn't handle this himself, and Russell was still by the sea. It wouldn't be good if the other party found out that his master was the Dharma Corpse that everyone wanted to kill. Let the successor of the Three Truths Dharma live for one more night.

We'll make our move after Russell leaves tomorrow.

The premise is that the other party will not find him first.

Perhaps we could find some bait to attract their attention first; hmm, I do have a suitable candidate.

"So, Grey, do you need my help or not? Without my help, you might all die here."

Inside the Wu residence, Gao Haoguang stared expressionlessly at Jiang Mingzi within the halo formed by the Three Truths and the Same Moon Decree.

He had just learned from Jiang Mingzi about the dangers of the Sanchuan Town Corpse.

I once had doubts about Jiang Mingzi's intelligence.

Why keep these people around to harm future generations when they could have been eliminated outright?

"What do you want me to do?" Ignoring the crowd, Gao Haoguang raised his head and muttered to himself.

"Where you are, there is a huge boulder. On the boulder's emblem are three talismans personally crafted by this immortal lord. Go and retrieve them to help you defend against your enemies."

In 525 AD, in Sanchuan Town, Jiang Mingzi smiled and placed three talismans into a giant rock that the locals called Bi'an Mountain.

He placed the talismans now, and these three talismans would travel with time until they reached the 1906 timeline where Gao Haoguang was located, and be used by him.

This is the past helping the present.

Moreover, he had a premonition that the talismans he left behind would have an impact on the future.

……

Future timeline, 2020 AD.

Having missed out on Zhao Yan for a full century, Shangguan Xiao stood atop a giant rock on the other side of the mountain, facing the myriad lights of the city. His red robes fluttered in the wind, rustling softly, lost in thought.

In her timeline, Zhao Yan was killed by Gao Haoguang with the Three Truths Talisman a hundred years ago.

But she was unaware of this news. All she knew was that she and her junior brother had made a promise to reunite here someday in the future.

click!
Sounds came from the distant forest.

Shangguan Xiao's brows furrowed slightly, which was unavoidable.

She knew that she was being targeted by the World God Group again.

The United Dharma Association was established on October 24, 1945. Composed of thousands of Dharma-seeking sects, it is the most powerful organization in the living world. Its main responsibilities are to discover, cultivate and control new Dharma seekers, control and protect the mortal world, and plan combat operations against Nirvana Corpses.

The World God Group is the combat organization of the United Law Association against Nirvana Corpses, officially known as the "World Anti-Nirvana Corpse Related Supernatural Power Combat Organization".

They used today's advanced technology to locate and tactically deploy the Nirvana Corpse.

Since she woke up six months ago, she has dealt with them more than once.

Shangguan Xiao's mindset was always conflicted towards these seekers of the Dharma who at most only possessed the degree of Middle Divine Power.

On one hand, she wanted to leave behind some potential candidates to fight against the Corpse Immortals of Ten Thousand Industries, and did not want them to relentlessly pursue her; on the other hand, out of her thirst for her own blood, she desperately wanted them to come and die relentlessly.

As for why they retain their consciousness, yet no law-seeking forces throughout history have chosen to recruit or incorporate them, we must discuss the different rules they follow.

There are two main reasons why the practice of dismembering a person is not tolerated in the world.

One reason is that they need to plunder the life force of the living to survive; here, life force refers to life, not blood.

Willpower has no chance against endless hunger; instinct has always been the first rule governing the survival of living beings.

Secondly, there is the existence of the Corpse Immortal of Myriad Businesses. No matter how strong the Dharma Corpse is, their life and death are controlled by the Corpse Immortal. A single thought can cause them to perish forever.

This resulted in a situation where, in order to survive, neither the living nor the living trusted the Nirvana Beings.

Alright, let them go for now.

Shangguan Xiao turned around, about to leave, when he saw a burst of azure light suddenly erupt from the boulder with the three large characters "Other Shore Mountain" engraved on it, causing Shangguan Xiao's eyes to widen abruptly.

This feeling is... a life-saving resurrection! (End of Chapter)

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