Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

"But if not..."

"I'm not forcing you to do things according to my instructions. If you don't agree, you can do it on your own. But I won't interfere in your affairs at that time."

Ling Wu Ji made this statement.

Hearing him say this, Tsurugi Ya could only smile bitterly, and then agreed with Ling Wu Ji's suggestion to maintain the status quo.

But before Ling Wuji finally left, he couldn't help but want to ask: "Ling Jun, you are not the kind of person who is afraid of changes in the world, right? Why do you want to maintain the status quo at this time?"

"Uh, because the current situation is conducive to achieving my final goal?"

"So what is your purpose, Lord?"

"Then I have no comment," Ling Wuji just said, "However, you will soon see that the world will change. Maybe, the order at that time will become more chaotic and secretive. So from this perspective, I hope you can continue to complete this task."

"We have nowhere to go anyway, right?"

Ying Manshu just said.

Ling Wuji shook his head without making any comment. He thought that the chaos that might occur at that time would be far more excessive than the gang fights among the underworld that you have seen. By then, perhaps your fighting power would not be enough to support your current position.

But all of this is just Ling Wuji's speculation.

So he just asked the funeral home to clean up the yakuza in Tokyo and prevent them from resurrecting. As for the rest, Ling Wuji didn't think they could do more. Moreover, Ling Wuji had always felt that Sakuman Shu just wanted the funeral home to return to a certain state in the past, and cleaning up the yakuza in Japanese society was actually just a means for him to achieve that goal and an intermediate goal to increase their cohesion. Now he actually wanted to destroy that state for that intermediate goal. It seemed a bit...

Putting the cart before the horse?

"Because they have been tied to your chariot, or the chariot of fate, and there is no way to stop them," Ling Wuji asked Shinomiya Ayase casually on the way back, and the girl also said, "Not to mention, if they want to maintain that kind of power, they can only continue to expand. The whack-a-mole approach can't keep them in power at all. And if you insist, we used to play the role of the mole. If they see others like that in the future security, they may not be able to do it."

Ling Wu Ji never thought that Shinomiya Ayase could think so deeply.

"So, what kind of person am I in your mind?"

"A person full of pride and prejudice?"

Let Wu Ji speak.

"But isn't that talking about yourself?"

Shinomiya Ayase sneered.

"Really? It sounds like a perfect match."

The girl almost wanted to step on the accelerator to teach the boy in the back seat a lesson, but she knew very well that this trick would not teach the boy a lesson. It would be better to say that at this point in time, there was no one who could defeat him in action. Only a verbal confrontation might be able to suppress the boy.

"So you've been preparing to practice your venomous tongue recently? But no matter what, you can't beat me, right?"

Ling Wu Ji just said.

"I didn't say that." Shinomiya Ayase just sighed and said.

"Speaking of which, how do you feel about your recent condition?"

"state?"

Shinomiya Ayase was a little confused.

"Has Sakuraman Shu ever extracted the void from you again?"

"Can't you see other people's voids? Can't you see your own?"

When Ling Wuji heard her say that, he immediately observed her from the perspective of the "Northern Dipper Soul-fixing and Life-extending Technique". He did not find anything unusual in her soul, but still said: "According to what you said, I also have the ability to see through things, so I can see whatever I want?"

At this point, Shinomiya Ayase would not be shaken by this kind of conversation. She had recently learned a little about the mysterious side and knew how outrageous Ling Wuji was in the mysterious side. So she said, "At this point, is there really anyone who can stop you?"

"Well, I will take my personal wishes into consideration."

"My wish is that you don't do that."

Shinomiya Ayase said with absolute certainty.

Ling Wuji didn't care, he was just joking.

"By the way, how do you feel about your current job?"

"Oh, those beauties can't satisfy you anymore? So you want to make a move on me?"

Shinomiya Ayase said immediately.

Ling Wuji looked at her and deliberately said, "So it seems that you are indeed the type that I would like."

"Hmph! Man!"

Shinomiya Ayase obviously knew what he was thinking.

After these words were spoken, Wu Ji didn't know how to respond, and the car fell into a strange silence.

But in the end, it was Shinomiya Ayase who couldn't help but speak first: "Speaking of which one of those people do you like the most?"

Although according to Ling Wuji's point of view, she really had nothing to say and could just turn on the car music.

Otherwise, asking him such a question would be a bit too gossipy.

“Isn’t it human nature to gossip?”

Ling Wuji agreed that this statement was correct in a sense, but he was not the kind of person who would actively reveal his own gossip for others to amuse themselves.

"I won't tell anyone else."

"People who say this kind of thing are often the ones who say it most frequently to others."

Ling Wuji rolled his eyes, but couldn't help but think about her question, and finally shook his head.

"so?"

The girl driving the car saw his expression and thought there might be something going on, so she asked.

So Ling Wuji teased her in return: "When I was alone with them, I was devoted to them, and now I am the same to you!"

Then Ling Wu Ji saw that the girl almost didn't have time to turn the steering wheel and was about to hit the car in front. Even without using the "Taixu Jian", Ling Wu Ji could see that her ears were red.

“Don’t…don’t joke around!”

Of course, Ling Wuji was just joking.

But looking at her expression, she actually seemed to be teased?

Ling Wuji thought for a moment, then pretended to be serious and said, "But, to be honest, I seem to have known you earlier than some people. Let me think, I knew you last summer, before the summer vacation. Before you, I only knew Awashima and Asakami..."

For someone who could be said to have barely established a relationship, this was the only example he could cite.

Instead, Shinomiya Ayase actually supplemented for him: "It seems that you knew Miss Kanzaki, the natural saint of the Holy Church, earlier, right?"

"That's true."

Ling Wu Ji nodded.

"And the eldest daughter of the Yuuki family in the IS Academy."

Ling Wuji raised his head in surprise, looked at her in the rearview mirror, and asked in doubt: "How well do you know about my past? At least I feel that I didn't interact with her that much, and the relationship between us was not that good. It was just a little ambiguous..."

"You scumbag! After playing with someone else's girl's heart, do you want to distance yourself from her?"

"If this counts as playing with girls' hearts, then I have played with the hearts of at least dozens of girls who fell in love with me at first sight on my way home from school every day!" Ling Wuji touched his face and said.

"I think you are probably using magic to increase your charm, so that people passing by will fall in love with you at first sight. What is there to be proud of in doing this? I think sooner or later you will be stabbed in the stomach."

Volume 5: Stormy and Dark: Chapter 36: Life and Death

Of course, the conversation between Ling Wuji and Shinomiya Ayase was just random chat.

Although the situation is actually quite similar.

It would be better to say that power is the most attractive magic in the world. Once Wu Ji is in a high position and has the power to decide the life and death and fate of others, it is enough to make others obsessed with him and he does not need any other external objects or means.

Because life is full of constraints and fears of one kind or another, and people's fear of life and death is often greater than anything else.

Therefore, Ling Wuji, who controls this power, can use it to restrain others, but he himself has transcended life and death, so there will always be people who unconsciously want to get close to him and want to understand his state.

That is why the skeleton in Zhuangzi's Greatest Happiness said, "How can I give up the joy of being a king and return to the toil of the world?"

But what is life, and what is death?

Isn’t it also an abnormal life form that one can still think after death like that skeleton?

"Are you going to ask about the Throne of Heroes?"

When Joan of Arc heard that Ling Wuji was actually discussing this issue with Justissa Rizleich von Einzbern, she couldn't help but interrupt.

Ling Wuji looked at her strangely.

He originally just wanted to know what the state of the Winter Saint was after being sacrificed, and whether she was really resurrected from the dead. But after Joan of Arc said this, he realized that her current state seemed to be more suitable for the description of "resurrection from the dead" than the Winter Saint.

As for why Ling Wuji wanted to discuss this kind of issue, it was purely because of his high expectations and low skills. Seeing that he had made no progress on the two levels of "wind and rain", he wanted to change his path. This last path was naturally the life and death that he was most familiar with and the most unfamiliar with. However, even if he had broken through the barrier of life and death, he had used a tricky method to see his true nature. In this case, he naturally had no idea about the path of life and death.

However, when Joan of Arc mentioned that the Throne of Heroes was outside the world and independent of time, Ling Wu Ji still felt that it was just a special state of existence.

"So, what exactly do you want to know?"

Justisa put on a pair of black-framed glasses in a somewhat pretentious manner, which actually made her look a bit intellectual. She sat there, processing documents while talking.

"Should I say, this is the reason why a Heroic Spirit can be elevated to a Heroic Spirit?"

Let Wu Ji speak.

"this problem……"

For someone like Joan of Arc, she would definitely say that it was a test from God.

As for Justisa, she is just a magician whose knowledge mostly remains in the past few hundred years. According to the general understanding of magicians, the reason why Heroic Spirits can be sublimated into Heroic Spirits is probably because their stories are sung by people, so the characters are sublimated through the legendary deeds and can then ascend to the Throne of Heroes.

But Ling Wuji has doubts about this statement: "If a story is passed down, one can become a heroic spirit. But if someone deliberately makes his existence into a legend, and turns this legend into a mark of the times, then after his death, can an ordinary person become a heroic spirit?"

the answer is negative.

However, Jeanne couldn't come up with any other answer, and Yustisa's condition was also quite strange, so Ling Wuji didn't say much. However, when he threw this question to Zhao Suyi, who was also a heroic spirit, the other party gave a very strange answer: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."

It's not that Ling Wuji has never read the "Tao Te Ching". After all, the Chinese Taoist sect basically regards this book as the source of all things. What this sentence means is that if the "Tao" can be described in words, it is not an ordinary "Tao". In other words, the real "Tao" cannot be described in words.

Similar to what is said in Zhuangzi: “When one catches the fish, one forgets the fishing rod; when one is pleased, one forgets the words.”

Of course, Zhuangzi's further elaboration of the statement "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" is actually in the chapter "Knowing the North".

But for Ling Wuji in his current situation, this sentence is complete nonsense.

"Of course, this is really useless nonsense for you now. After all, it can't help you in any way with your current situation. But I still want to say this because you yourself can't understand the process through other people's words. You should have had that kind of experience yourself. When you were a child, you read certain books, but you just swallowed them without understanding the real meaning. But when you grow up, you will really understand the deep meaning. This is the importance of experience to people. If you haven't had similar experiences, it's hard for me to really explain it clearly."