Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

His wish was never to save all mankind.

Although he did have some thoughts about benefiting the human beings in this world, for him, this thought probably did not play a big role in his motivation. He might even do this just out of self-satisfaction.

"But given your current situation, it's actually very simple to do whatever you want to satisfy yourself, right? Even if you really want to break the wall between the inner and outer worlds right now, you don't have to go through that game at all, but just implement it in the areas you control. After you defeated the God Slayer with your prestige, no one in the mysterious side dared to act rashly, so why did you choose to slowly go through that process through that game?"

Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern didn't wait for Ling Wuji to reply, and said, "Because your idea is similar to mine. You want those people to find their own way out."

"so what?"

Ling Wuji still looked indifferent.

Maybe she was right.

But it doesn't make any sense.

Seeing him like this, the common ancestor of almost all artificial humans stopped talking. He just stared at the boy with his blood-red pupils, quietly stroked the hair of the girl on his legs, and sighed silently in his heart:

"There is still a long way to go..."

……

Although there are always people who expect someone to transform themselves according to their own ideas and live the way they want, and think that person will be happy after becoming like that, but for Ling Wuji, this is just wishful thinking of those people.

How could he, now, change his ideas, thinking logic, or even goals just because of a few words from others?

"But I think that changing a person is actually a very simple thing."

"Oh?"

It is a sunny afternoon.

Ling Wuji originally went to find the acting pope of the Amakusa-style Cross Cult, Kenmiya Saiyu, and got from him the technique that could allow spatial movement through the earth's spiritual energy. Although Ling Wuji originally wanted to exchange something with him, in fact, he had not yet repaid the other party for helping him practice swordsmanship last time. However, the other party did not make any demands, but just looked at him strangely. Ling Wuji was too lazy to care what the other party was thinking, and just temporarily remembered the favor.

However, even with this technique as a reference, Ling Wuji still had no idea what to do for the time being, so he planned to go back to China during the summer vacation.

However, when he thought about the fact that if he wanted to return to China and want to take over the control of the Sky Curtain Barrier, he would have to hand over to the Tianshi Mansion and the man in the north, Ling Wuji's thoughts were mostly dispelled. Although it was not impossible for him to bypass those two families and seize the initiative of the Sky Curtain Barrier himself, the Tianshi Mansion had been repairing the Sky Curtain Barrier for a thousand years as the maintainer. Even if Ling Wuji could enter the core area of ​​the Sky Curtain Barrier in China, he would inevitably be secretly constrained by many things, not to mention that the process of climbing through the outer area and entering the core area would probably take a lot of time, not to mention completely cleaning up their traces afterwards.

Ling Wuji's current goal is just to establish a technique in Japan that can use the earth veins and Yu Bu to move through space in the sky curtain barrier.

"It's just a small goal, why is it so complicated..."

But just when he was standing on the side of the road thinking about life, Yukinoshita Haruno suddenly appeared. Ling Wuji didn't know whether she was pretending or not, but the female college student looked very surprised, and then said that she would buy Ling Wuji a drink. Of course, Ling Wuji knew that the other party was a very troublesome person, but he had no idea what to do. Having a beautiful girl to accompany him to pass the time was a good choice, so Ling Wuji went with the flow and accompanied her for a stroll.

Then the conversation unknowingly turned to the Winter Saint, who was becoming increasingly powerful among the people under Ling Wu Ji's control.

Then, Yukinoshita Haruno successfully found out Ling Wuji's attitude towards the Winter Saint.

Although in her opinion, Ling Wuji's laissez-faire attitude was too negative.

But she still objected to Ling Wuji's point of view: "If you want to change a person, the easiest way is to make him feel emotional."

“That’s an interesting statement.”

Ling Wu Ji did not comment.

"According to my experience, if a person develops feelings for a person or thing, then his position will inevitably lean towards or away from those people or things. Over time, his way of thinking will inevitably change, and because of that feeling, the priority of his original goal will change, and he will most likely make obtaining or defeating those people or things his primary goal, and even distort his original ideas for that goal. In this way, isn't it considered changing a person, Lingjun?"

The female college student pretended to raise the corners of her lips just the right amount, which didn't make Ling Wuji feel that she was being mocked, but at the same time appropriately showed her initiative.

"But if that person is changed just like that, it proves that he is just that kind of person."

Ling Wuji just spoke absentmindedly.

"What you mean by this, Lingjun, is that you think you are the kind of person who is completely emotionless and would never easily develop feelings for anyone or anything even if you die? Or, Lingjun, you are actually the so-called 'supremely emotionless' person? Do you think that your own judgment will not be affected by emotional factors?"

Yukinoshita Haruno asked curiously.

Volume 4: Where is Penglai: Chapter 51: Nostalgia

Yukinoshita Haruno was indeed very curious about this question.

In her opinion, seeing through Ling Wuji's true nature would naturally allow her to do a lot of things. Although Ling Wuji was not a very difficult person to understand, he would occasionally do unexpected things, and she could not always predict Ling Wuji's reaction. Although some things, such as those deeply related to the mysterious side, were beyond her control based on the information she had access to, the perspective she saw, and the level she was at, when it came to dealing with interpersonal relationships that she was familiar with, she found Ling Wuji's response really elusive.

So she instinctively wanted to test it.

But Ling Wuji just shook his head decisively in response to the question she asked.

"What does shaking your head mean?"

"That is to say, I am neither the kind of person who has no emotions as you think, nor am I a person who has forgotten emotions." Ling Wuji sat with her in a corner of the mall, just casually watching the people coming in and out, and said, "Of course I have my own needs and emotions, and those needs and emotions will definitely affect my own judgment. In fact, for me personally, the priority of judging emotions may far exceed my personal philosophy."

"is it?"

Yukinoshita Haruno was quite skeptical about what he said.

After all, she really couldn't see that Ling Wuji would be the kind of person who would "risk his life for the beauty he loves".

Even after knowing him until now, she could not find any other expression on this young man's face. He always seemed to be so nonchalant. Even when he was thinking about something, his gaze was just fixed on somewhere in the void, which made people feel that he did not care about the world at all, as if it had nothing to do with him whether it was destroyed or not.

"Maybe I'm just too nostalgic." Ling Wuji said.

"Nostalgia?" Yukinoshita Haruno thought for a moment, but still shook her head, "I can't tell."

It's not like she had never really come into contact with Ling Wuji's private life. From what she saw, Ling Wuji had some extraordinary needs for the iteration and update of mobile phones and computers. Although he would not sell his used computers and mobile phones, for anyone from a political family, this was simply a basic operation, not to mention a big shot like Ling Wuji. He would rather smash his used mobile phones and computers than sell them, otherwise there would be a risk of leaking personal privacy.

Of course, Ling Wuji didn’t actually think that much.

And even if he is afraid of leaking his privacy, his role model is not a politician, but Teacher Chen.

Of course, he doesn't have the same habit as Teacher Chen.

Anyway, according to what Yukinoshita Haruno saw, a person who changes his mobile phone almost once a month can't really be called a nostalgic person, right?

"So what do you think is the appropriate speed for updating mobile phones?"

"Is it so unusable or is there a real need for this function? I think."

Ling Wuji looked at her strangely.

"how?"

Yukinoshita Haruno said in confusion.

"Are you such a frugal person?"

Ling Wuji was just speaking casually.

"This has nothing to do with the so-called thriftiness, right?"

"But from what I know, there are also many women who change their phones as soon as a new Apple phone comes out just to keep up with the trend, right?" Ling Wuji was a little surprised that a well-mannered and well-connected lady like her would have such a consumption concept. Of course, Ling Wuji himself was used to using Android, so he had never come into contact with iOS, but he vaguely realized that Apple was a very popular brand among young women, and it didn't seem strange for them to buy the same series of phones just to find some common topics. Although the mobile phone market in Japan was particularly strange, there were still people using flip phones in an era when smartphones were popular. "For you, changing your phone is not something you can't accept, right?"

"Could it be that your Lordship changed his phone for such a vulgar reason?"

"That's not it."

Ling Wuji is purely pursuing performance.

Moreover, with the level of access he has now, the mobile phones he replaced were not actually any mobile phones on the market, but trial machines made in some laboratories. Many of these phones even used VR technology to add some particularly cool features, so Ling Wuji would ask people to try them out for him from time to time. Anyway, with his current abilities, even if those phones had a safety accident like the X Star phone, there was no possibility of him getting hurt.

"But can you really be called nostalgic for doing that, Lingjun?"

Yukinoshita Haruno turned the topic back to the original direction.

"The 'old' I mentioned might be even older than the 'old' you think it is."

Ling Wu Ji just said.

It would be better to say that he just likes to do things according to the habits of his previous life.

Although he certainly did not have such a magnificent resume in his previous life, where he could use those extraordinary powers at will, change the fate of others at will, rewrite reality at will, and erase people and things he did not like at will, but he was indeed such an introverted person who did not like to communicate with others in his previous life - although this position might not be so stable when there were beautiful girls as the objects of communication - his preferences have not changed much. Changing mobile phones may seem like fickleness to Yukinoshita Haruno, but no matter how nostalgic he is, he cannot turn these items into the ones he used in his previous life. Of course, the ones with better performance have higher priority.

And why didn't she mention that the games she bought and played were just piled up in the room and never sold.

Although Ling Wuji prefers to buy electronic versions.

Of course, he thinks the second-hand market for game hard drives in Japan is actually quite interesting.

But he instinctively didn't want to give others something that had traces of himself on it.

Not to mention that he would change his previous life's ideas because of the people and things he is exposed to now -

Although this is a bit too absolute.

Sometimes Ling Wu Ji also felt that he was actually quite stupid in his previous life.

Therefore, some of his ideas in his previous life may not really be unchangeable or eternal.

But he would never go against some of the most basic positions, such as the concepts of country and nation, and class positions. Although he can basically be classified as a capitalist now, even if he does not actually control the capital, since the Komeitoin Foundation has essentially become his tool, he does not deny this fact at all, but he still feels that he is still a proletarian. Although he has not done anything to benefit the proletariat, and even made some proletarians work overtime for his ideas, he still thinks so. So even though he has achieved unparalleled achievements in Japan now, he still believes that his destined home is that country.

Volume 4: Where is Penglai: Chapter 52: Positions, Changes, and Sisters

Of course, Ling Wu Ji didn’t think that what Yukinoshita Haruno said was wrong.

If you want to change a person, the easiest way is indeed to change his emotions.

Positions often make reason extreme.

Or to use his usual words, choosing a position will lead to differences, differences will lead to opposition, and opposition means that the person who chooses a position has abandoned the original "completeness". The great writer Master Lu also said something similar: "When I am silent, I feel full, and when I speak, I feel empty at the same time."

In this life, no one can transcend all positions.

Unless that person is a machine that is wise and sees everything equally.

Or rather, God.

The problem with Ling Wu Ji is that his emotions change too little. He attaches too much importance to the emotions formed in his previous life, so people feel that he has not changed from beginning to end.

Although according to materialism, the world is constantly changing and moving.

Even the self of the last moment may not be exactly the same as the self of this moment.

At this moment, Ling Wuji suddenly thought of something: according to the half-baked theory of relativity that he had learned because he was always daydreaming in physics class in his previous life, time and space are originally one. If one wants to realize an idea like teleportation, then the person before and after at the moment of realization - or there is no distinction between before and after at all, because the moment is originally a term like limit - are the same person, that is, there should be no change.

Although it was actually his memory that was wrong, because his previous life's physics class did not teach relativity and quantum mechanics at all, and those two chapters were not tested at all, so the teacher did not teach those two chapters at all. His understanding of relativity was more than half-baked, and he could not even be considered a folk scientist.

But he can continue to develop this messy theory:

"In this way, Zhao Suyi's swordsmanship can be explained."

Because according to the consistent explanation of the mystical side, the essence of human beings is the soul, and Zhao Suyi pursues absolute stillness of mind before drawing the sword. In this way, her swordsmanship that can transcend the framework of the yin and yang law of movement and stillness becomes reasonable. Although there is still a problem that has not been solved, the absolute stillness of the mind is acceptable, and the "unchanging" of the body...

Ling Wu Ji thought about it and realized that it was not too difficult.

Especially for people in the Jindan stage.

In fact, after the inner elixir is formed, a person's body, true qi and mind can be converted to a certain extent. Even if it is only a medium or low-grade golden elixir, for example, the golden elixir related to the innate five elements formed by the elixir formation method of his original sect can convert part of the cultivator's body or even all of it into the five elements, thereby allowing the cultivator to use the five elements escape technique to fly in the air and go anywhere. And after the conversion, it is naturally not difficult to convert back.

"Well, give it a try?"