Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

All laws, all changes, all origins, and all ends!

He couldn't quite explain his state, as if he was drunk, but he clearly remembered his past and his identity, and he uncontrollably wanted to take in all the information here. But just as he was about to do so, a voice came to his ears, which sounded quite familiar, as if he had heard it just a moment ago: "It's a little too early for you here."

"Too early?"

Ling Wuji originally did not expect to find the physical image of this voice, but when his mind swept through the void, he really found a figure. The person was dressed in a simple and elegant kimono. Ling Wuji had even seen the person in person:

"Wait! Ryougi?"

"I don't know how you got here in this situation, but this is not the place to talk." She smiled and waved her hand towards the boy's thoughts, making Wu Ji feel that he was falling down, as if the world was closed to him again. "Finally, I actually prefer you to call me 'Shiki'."

"What does it mean?"

Ling Wu Ji finally focused his mind on the environment where his body was, looked at Jeanne d'Arc's face, and finally discovered why he felt that Ryougi Shiki's voice sounded so familiar.

Volume 2: Dark and Stormy: Chapter : Epilogue ()

For everyone present, except Justissa Rizleich von Einzbern, this Christmas Eve was a ridiculous night.

Ling Wu Ji felt it was absurd because what happened to him that night was really unbelievable. He had clearly understood the "Su Nu Yin and Yang Art" and mastered the "Wind and Rain Ru Dark" swordsmanship. He should have been able to rule the world, but he encountered situations that he could not control. He had clearly entered the root, but could not control himself, and was finally expelled by Ryougi Shiki.

"But, is that Ryougi Shiki's other personality?"

It's not that he doesn't know that there is an omniscient and omnipotent personality inside Ryougi Shiki's body.

After all, Araya Souren wanted to use Asagami Fujino as a sacrifice in order to wake her up from her slumber.

Even though it sounds like it happened a long time ago.

However, he could not say that he was familiar with Ryougi Shiki. At most, they could just talk to each other. He did not care whether there was any omniscient and omnipotent personality in her body. He just saw that she was always troubled by her murderous impulse, so he thought that she probably had some mental illness due to the loss of the male personality that had always coexisted with her. Therefore, he always looked at her with a very subtle and scrutinizing look. As for Araya Soren's plan, he just did not comment, and did not really believe that Ryougi Shiki was omniscient and omnipotent.

"but……"

Why should she stop herself?

Ling Wu Ji was a little puzzled at first, but soon, when he returned to reality, he had no time to think about it.

And for Joan of Arc, this night was naturally absurd.

It never occurred to her that she would stray from the ways of the Lord.

But she chose to fall.

Not to mention with other women.

As for Leticia...

In fact, she did not have any more specific feelings. After all, her senses had been magnified by the Command Spell. Her memory of that night was only continuous joy. Although she had interacted with Jeanne d'Arc during the process, she only instinctively wanted to get close to Jeanne d'Arc and share her joy with her, so she instinctively wanted to eliminate her pain. In a sense, although she felt that she was unworthy, she still felt that Jeanne d'Arc was like her other half.

For Justisia Rizleich von Einzbern, this night was clearly a night of harvest. She witnessed the fall of the saint with her own eyes. Although she was not sure what choice the saint would make after the fall, and what her attitude would be towards her after knowing the inside story, just by seeing that scene, she felt that her plan was not completely worthless.

"But that would only hurt others and not benefit yourself, right?"

The first one to collapse was Leticia. After all, the Command Seal amplified her senses and was still draining her life force. Although Ling Wuji continued to supply her with true Qi during the process and then used the art of sex to replenish her life force and gradually closed the channel through which the Command Seal absorbed magic power, she was ultimately just an ordinary person.

The second is Joan of Arc.

Although it is likely that most of the factors are psychological.

As for Ling Wuji and the artificial human who could still be called the Holy Maiden of Winter, they remained awake until dawn.

"Isn't it also beneficial to me in a sense if I seek benefits for you? As for the Winter Saint, I said from the beginning that I have no reason to be praised like that."

After all, this was still her residence, so Ling Wuji saw her calmly get out of bed and take out a new set of white and elegant clothes from the closet, which was different from the bright dark colors she wore last night. She put them on in front of the dressing mirror, turned around, and asked Ling Wuji, "What do you think?"

"Is it... okay?"

Ling Wu Ji said this somewhat unnaturally.

Because at this moment, after Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern put on her new clothes, she actually regained her former holy and cold temperament, without any trace of the decadent and enchanting aura of last night. Under this contrast, Wu Ji recalled this person's performance last night, and then shamefully he was moved again.

"It seems that you like this dress of mine very much," she said after noticing Ling Wuji's intentions. "But, do you prefer me to wear the clothes I wore yesterday, or the clothes I wear now, or in other words, me without clothes? If it's the latter, wouldn't it be better for you to take them off yourself?"

Although they were naked, Ling Wuji was still not used to it and wanted to cover it up. But when she saw Ling Wuji like that, she went back to bed and started doing morning exercises for Ling Wuji in that clothes. Afterwards, Joan of Arc who was next to them was woken up by them. She looked at the android in surprise, with his clothes torn apart in a mess but half-covered state and his face flushed. After thinking about it, she didn't say much and just joined them.

Ling Wuji felt that something must have been broken about this true saint.

"But aren't you the ones who broke me? Since I'm already broken, why should I miss the way it was before it broke?"

She just said that.

So the three of them spent another ridiculous morning.

"Speaking of which, Lingjun, I want a child."

Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern suddenly spoke again after she calmed down.

Ling Wuji felt a little guilty, so he said, "Why don't you use the artificial human technology to create one for yourself?"

"I'm not talking about that kind of child, of course. I'm talking about your child and mine, a child made up of parts of each of us."

"You also have to consider the fact that I'm only sixteen years old..."

"So you really have a solution?"

"talk later."

Ling Wuji really didn't want to dwell on this topic, but he was still curious and asked, "Why are you..."

"Want a child?"

Ling Wuji nodded.

"Perhaps, just to create a bond between you and me?"

This reason was a bit too strong, so Wu Ji was speechless.

"Besides, if I set an example, other androids won't be reluctant to form a family with normal people."

"Although I don't want to say this..." Ling Wuji heard her words and said, "But if we take our union as an example, I'm afraid ordinary people can't learn it at all. Although you people in the Einzbern family can't be considered ordinary people..."

He thought about it, and for the moment he had no idea about the problem she had always wanted to find a way out for artificial humans. But if those people continued to be closed in the circle of artificial humans, they would have to wait until the era when humans could carry out and accept genetic adjustments.

Volume 3: Dark and Stormy: Chapter : Epilogue ()

But no matter what, this absurd drama finally came to an end.

Although Ling Wuji didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Leticia and Jeanne for the time being, there was still a lot of time during the winter vacation, so he could sort out his thoughts, although in the end he would probably just have to let things take their course.

But before that, he had one more thing to do.

That means seeing Ryougi Shiki again.

"But," Ling Wuji thought for a while, "there are things that Araya Zonglian has not been able to do..."

Of course, for him now, Araya Soren doesn't seem to be a very difficult person to deal with, right?

But he still had no idea how to awaken that personality.

Moreover, although he could now project his consciousness into the netherworld like before, he had no way to continue ascending and enter the root again. Those magicians said that after entering the root, one would become a magician or something, but Ling Wuji did not think that he had reached the level of a real person now, although his soul had indeed begun to transform from Yin to Yang...

"Anyway, let's go meet her first."

However, even when he met Ryougi Shiki in reality, she was still that somewhat cold and ruthless girl, and not the somewhat gentle and divine voice that Ling Wuji heard in the ultimate place of that world.

Perhaps Ling Wuji had been observing her for too long, so the girl, who was wearing a thin navy blue kimono even in winter, stared back at him directly. Staring at by the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" that were said to be able to kill even gods, Ling Wuji just continued to sit there calmly. On the contrary, Ryougi Shiki was a little stunned: "The death line on you..."

"how?"

"Although the deadline for you was very vague before, now, you have no deadline at all."

"is it?"

It makes Wu Ji lose interest.

He thought that it was probably due to the system before, but now...

It’s actually hard to say.

However, he really couldn't find any good way to awaken that personality. After thinking about it, he decided not to continue to dwell on it. But that night, he happened to walk out of Aozaki Touko's office at the same time as Ryougi Shiki. When walking on the road in the snowy night, he felt the atmosphere around him suddenly changed. The girl walking next to him seemed to have matured a few years in the blink of an eye, but there was a different kind of innocence between her eyebrows, and it was hard to tell whether it was maturity or childishness.

But Ling Wuji had already seen through it: "Ryougi Shiki?"

"Isn't this title applicable to both her and me? Although we are one person."

She just smiled and said.

“So you really are the one.”

Let's stop wasting time on such obvious questions, okay?

"So, what do you mean when you say it's too early for me there?"

"Literally," Ryougi Shiki simply said, "Although I think it's not a bad thing for someone to reach there, for you, if you really accept everything there but don't find your own roots, then you will be lost there, like a machine. I don't need someone like that to talk to me."

Ling Wuji secretly complained in her heart that if she wanted to find someone to talk to her, wouldn't it be very simple? It is said that there are five major magics in this world, and it seems that magicians are people who can enter and exit the root?

“Maybe.” She stretched out her hand and let a snowflake suddenly fall from the air and land on her fingertips. “But maybe it’s because your situation makes me feel a little special.”

"So what's so special about me in your opinion?"

"Someone should have told you that there is a certain quality around you, mixed with the aura of a higher being. However, you haven't really understood what life and death are yet, so it's a little too early for you to enter there."

"So, what are life and death?"

Ling Wuji really didn't quite understand.

Is it what is meant by “death is not the opposite of life, but exists forever as a part of life”?

"So, what do you think death is?"

"Is the probability that a person who is judged dead will take the initiative to do something zero?"

"This answer may not be wrong. Life has its own possibilities. So no matter how low the probability is, as long as you are still alive, you always have the possibility to do something. But once you die, you will no longer actively affect the world. All that is left can only passively accept the judgment of the world. Of course, you only know that there is such a truth. I am afraid you don’t understand the details at all, so..."

"so?"

“So you have to figure it out for yourself.”

Damn, I talked for so long but it’s like I didn’t say anything.

Ling Wu Ji watched the woman gradually lose her almost divine glow and return to her original cold-looking girl, and he shook his head. Ryougi Shiki just looked at him a little confused, as if she had no idea what was going on and was very dazed. However, Ling Wu Ji did not mean to say more to her. He just waved his hand as a farewell and then walked home alone.

He just thought silently, will he finally understand the last level?

Although it's not surprising.

And when he truly understood the two aspects of life and death, he would probably have essentially mastered the root cause and wouldn't need to look at Ryougi Shiki's expression at all.