Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

Ling Wuji certainly had such an experience.

It means that one day, a book you read as a child and did not understand its meaning suddenly becomes clear to you.

For example, when he was in primary school, he didn’t understand why the original name of "Dawn Flowers Plucked at Dusk" was "Recalling the Past", but at some point in high school or college, he suddenly realized that "morning" and "evening" clearly refer to a person's youth and old age, while flowers refer to past memories, so Master Lu gave his collection of essays such a name.

A similar story is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which he read in junior high school. At that time, he couldn't understand why the "Babel Fish" was called "Babel Fish". But later, after he learned about the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible, he understood the author's word game.

So Zhao Suyi's words made Wu Ji feel a little helpless:

If one must experience something in order to gain enlightenment, then the last two levels of "life and death" will probably only be loosened after many years, right?

"Weren't you practicing 'Stormy Weather' before? Why did you switch to such a profound question?"

In Zhao Suyi's opinion, even though Ling Wuji is extremely talented, his lack of experience is a natural shortcoming. Although this person acts in an unrestrained and casual manner and has experienced a lot, the process of him solving his own problems is too smooth to have any effect on his growth. Therefore, if he wants to grow in his character, he can only rely on the accumulation of time and the inevitable changes in life stages.

"Oh, I haven't made much progress in that area in a short period of time, so I want to try a different approach."

Although Zhao Suyi also knew that people like him, once they were too smart, would most likely lack perseverance in doing things, but the fact that he could say such things so lightly made her sigh in her heart that this person was, after all, just a teenager.

Although Ling Wu Ji felt that his mentality was also quite strange.

Volume 5: Dark and Stormy: Chapter 37: Talking about Swords

Ling Wu Ji felt that his mind was stuck in a very strange state. Just like he had always told Hiratsuka Shizuka, he did not want to think about life after the age of eighteen. However, he had clearly reached adulthood in his previous life. But in a sense, he also had a strange sense of identity with his physical age, as if after eighteen, he would lose something that might not be that important, and he would not necessarily become any different from now. However, he just did not want to think about life after eighteen.

In other words, he wanted to leave the most important events in his life before that stage.

So he had some strange sense of mission in his heart urging him on.

But his nature is lazy and casual, which naturally makes him waver between the two.

"Come to think of it, I have some ideas about your previous desire to enter that 'stormy and dark' state."

Zhao Suyi suddenly said.

"Oh?"

This made Wu Ji's eyes light up.

Although the two chose completely different paths in swordsmanship, Zhao Suyi was, after all, a master of swordsmanship with a unique vision. She was a little different from Ji Moyu, who simply regarded the sword as a weapon. So Ling Wuji was looking forward to getting some advice from her. Even if it was of no use to him, it would at least help him gain some knowledge.

should.

"Your swordsmanship is based on 'I' and is completely based on your own will, while my swordsmanship comes from 'Tao', and the basis is naturally 'Tao'. I pursue 'tranquility', while your swordsmanship seeks..."

"chaos?"

"No," Zhao Suyi shook her head, denying Ling Wuji's statement, and simply said, "If your swordsmanship seeks chaos, then that sword should have been completed when the order was destroyed. Why bother to restore the order afterwards? Not to mention that your swordsmanship is called Liuhe Swordsmanship, not some kind of Destruction Swordsmanship..."

Ling Wu Ji also nodded.

"So your idea should not be to stir up the storm, but to control it," Zhao Suyi said. "Your goal should not be to stir up uncontrollable chaos, but to create chaos that you can fully control and predict."

Ling Wuji nodded again, then shook his head: "That being said..."

But if he really had control over everything, why did he create chaos?

No, to be honest, the purpose of creating chaos is to put the enemy in a more embarrassing situation than oneself, so as to gain a more advantageous advantage, but who is the enemy?

"You shouldn't ask me this question, because I don't know either. But you chose the path yourself. I'm just giving you some ideas, and even these ideas may not be correct." Zhao Suyi looked at the young man standing there thinking with a sword in his hand, then looked at Kamijou Kaori who was watching them communicate not far away. After thinking for a while, he said, "Actually, I have another idea."

"Appreciate further details."

"You should have heard that when swordsmanship reaches a certain level, the sword in your hand is no longer restricted to certain specific objects. Everything in the world, every blade of grass and every tree can become a sharp weapon in your hand..."

Ling Wuji said, "Isn't this a cliché?"

"But have you ever thought about using a human sword?"

"I thought about it."

Zhao Suyi was a little surprised to hear Ling Wuji's decisive answer, but in her heart, Ling Wuji was a rare genius in the world, so it was not too unusual for him to think about this question, so she asked him: "So what did you come up with in the end?"

"Even if I can treat all swords as my believers, it's still too complicated."

"complex?"

"Because even if I give an order, others will have unnecessary disagreements due to their interpretation of the order. Even if they can resolve the disagreement and execute it, they will think too much about why I gave that order, and thus have unnecessary thoughts, and then do unnecessary things to please me..."

Ling Wuji was just speaking casually.

"It sounds like the superiors of every era have similar concerns about how to control their subordinates."

Zhao Suyi just said it as if it had nothing to do with her.

"Then how did you, or that Fan Shaobo, or Gou Jian, solve this problem?"

She frowned, thought for a moment, and said, "It's nothing more than a combination of kindness and severity. After coming up with a set of standards, you'll be rewarded if you do the right thing and punished if you do the wrong thing. However, this approach is really not suitable for someone like you who does things as he pleases."

Ling Wu Ji also nodded.

Originally, he was too lazy to put any thought into this aspect.

"But what if you could find someone who could relate to you and understand you completely?"

When Ling Wuji heard this, he looked at her strangely and said nothing.

"how?"

"Although this statement is indeed not wrong, and it's not like I haven't thought about finding someone like this, but why would she choose to be my 'sword' when we already have a mutual understanding? The same can be said the other way around, why would I use someone who is so close to me as a sword?"

"Who knows?" Zhao Suyi just shook her head and said, "Some people can abandon their wives and children in pursuit of swordsmanship, and some people can throw themselves into the furnace as a material for making swords in pursuit of making the world's unrivaled sword. In comparison, I don't think this behavior is too outrageous, not to mention that with your personality, it doesn't seem surprising for you to do such a thing."

"Is this how I look in your eyes?"

Wu Ji felt that he was looked down upon.

"I'm not looking down on you," Zhao Suyi shook her head. "If you can really do that, I might think highly of you. After all, some people love swords so much that they want to treat their swords like their wives. So, it's not so hard to understand that they treat their wives like swords, right?"

"I think there must be something wrong with your and my three views."

"That can't be helped. After all, I am a person who lived thousands of years ago."

Zhao Suyi just smiled at Ling Wuji's words, then she gently pulled the boy's shoulder and pushed him towards Kanzaki Huozhi with her bare hand, saying, "So you should talk to those people who share your values, instead of wasting your time on an old antique like me."

"I don't think it's a waste of time. Rather, it's more valuable to communicate when there are differences..."

Ling Wu Ji still spoke.

"But for a piece of rotten wood, colliding with other things will only accelerate its damage process, right? Of course, if you insist, you are more like a stone in the toilet."

Volume 5: Dark and Stormy: Chapter 38: Relationship

However, Ling Wuji finally walked in front of Kamiya Kaori.

But he scratched his head and couldn't find any common topic for a while.

The last time they had an in-depth exchange was probably before the Holy Grail War, when they talked about Amakusa Shiro Tokisada? However, they didn't see anything when they met the priest. After the Assyrian Queen Semiramis revealed the identity of the priest, Kamisaki Kaori realized the truth that she couldn't summon Amakusa Shiro Tokisada. However, for Kamisaki Kaori, who has always been upright, she obviously didn't expect that the style of her sect's founder would be so despicable, and she was even depressed for a long time.

Of course, someone like Ling Wuzhi couldn't understand her feelings.

So he stood there for a long time, but still couldn't find any interesting topics. He felt that it was really meaningless and wanted to leave first.

However, before he said that, Kanzaki Kaori asked about his progress in swordsmanship.

Ling Wu Ji could only tell the truth and said that he had not made any progress.

Then silence fell between the two again.

Ling Wu Ji sighed: Why has the relationship between the two of them become like this?

Although at the beginning, they didn't even seem to be friends.

If you really want to say, the change in this person's attitude towards him seemed to be when he faced Athena in Kyoto? And his impression of her was not bad. He also knew that she was a simple person in a sense. It's just that although the relationship between them has improved, there is actually not much intersection between the two of them. It's like people living in two different worlds. To be honest, even Awashima Seri still has some intersection in work. After Ling Wuji expanded the Sky Curtain Barrier to the entire Kanto region of Japan, most of the people of a certain level were purged——

Therefore, Ling Wuji did not have to use her hands to clean up creatures like vampires in the Kanto region.

In this case, it seems that the only thing they have in common is Zhao Suyi, right?

He couldn't help but turn his head and look at the woman in white.

Kamiya Kaori looked at the young man's figure and couldn't find any words for a moment.

Zhao Suyi just looked at them. This strange silence fell on the quiet courtyard, which was quite embarrassing for Ling Wuji. So he scratched his head again, but couldn't think of any words. He lowered his head dejectedly. When he was about to go back, Shen Lie Huo Zhi suddenly said, "Ling Jun, you seem to have been planning something, right?"

"It's just tearing down the walls between the inner and outer worlds."

Just...?

When Kamiya Kaori heard the young man say this lightly, she subconsciously thought that it was really no big deal.

But although she joined the Holy Church halfway, she could still be considered a core member. She instinctively wanted to stop Ling Wuji from saying and doing this, but in the end she asked, "What's the point of doing that?"

"Maybe, maybe not," Ling Wuji just said, "Anyway, it's just a possibility."

"What's the possibility?"

“The possibility of progress in human society.”

Let Wu Ji speak.

In fact, Kamiya Kaori didn’t quite understand what Ling Wuji said.

But she couldn't help wanting to believe this boy.

Even wanted to help him.

only……

She looked at the overly long sword in her hand and hesitated for a moment, thinking that she was nothing to this young man, right? Her servant, who had almost reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, was just a sword practice object for Ling Wuji. Although she didn't quite understand, was it his ultimate goal to tear down the barriers between the inner and outer worlds? Or was it a means to improve his swordsmanship?

The only time she felt sad was when she realized that she had never understood this young boy at all.

Even if she wanted to, she couldn't become the sword in Ling Wu Ji's hand.

Because she had no way of communicating with the young man.

Ling Wuji really had nothing to say, so he walked out the door, so Kamiya Kaori, who was always very polite, stood up and wanted to see him off, but Ling Wuji hesitated for a moment, and finally turned around and said to Kamiya Kaori seriously: "Kaniya."

"what?"

This was the first time she saw such a serious, solemn and meticulous look on Ling Wuji's usually casual face.

"Although it's possible that you already knew the truth, it's also possible that I completely misunderstood your meaning..."

As a natural saint, Kamisaki Kaori's control over her body is already superb, but when she saw the look on the boy's face and heard those words, her heartbeat couldn't help but speed up.

"But I still want to say that I already have multiple girlfriends."