Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

"It's still early."

Ling Wuji just replied casually.

Shinomiya Ayase looked suspiciously at the absent-minded boy in the rearview mirror, and after a moment of silence, he said, "So, what are you going to do with me?"

"Ok?"

"According to what you said, you have decided to purge the faction that cannot use the virtual void, and I belong to that faction, so I am also one of the people who were purged." Shinomiya Ayase's face did not have any extra expression. She just silently accepted this reality and then wanted to find another way out. "So, there is no relationship between me and the funeral home anymore, and I can't continue to follow you as a liaison officer. You should arrange another job for me."

"To be honest, even if Sakuragi and the others really ignored you, shouldn't you be running away from me in ecstasy now?"

Let Wu Ji speak.

"Yeah, why?" She just glanced at the rearview mirror and then muttered to herself, "It's just that someone doesn't seem to remember what he said? For a small character like me, it's just a casual teasing, right?"

Of course, Ling Wuji was just joking when he said that.

But, didn't this person always dislike him? Why did he take that seriously?

"It should be like what Red in The Shawshank Redemption said about 'institutionalization'. I've gotten used to this kind of life now, and I can't go back to the funeral home. So even though I yearn for the free sky, I'm afraid to take a step forward, so I can only rely on the old system," Shinomiya Ayase actually analyzed her own psychology with ease, lowered her voice, and said, "So, I can only put my hope on someone here."

"But what exactly is this hope you're talking about?"

"what?"

In response to Ling Wuji's question, Shinomiya Ayase hesitated.

Ling Wuji said, "Take Lu Yinghua as an example. He wanted to use that excuse to do irrelevant things purely to escape the control of his master. His original intention was just that. But what was your original intention?"

Shinomiya Ayase was silent for a moment, then said, "If I knew what I wanted, I wouldn't have given birth to a void until now."

The logic of this sentence is so perfect that even Ling Wu Ji had to retreat.

Although Ling Wuji didn't know whether it was because he had forged and destroyed her original void that caused her psychological problems, but from the result, he had an unshirkable responsibility for her life, so he must be responsible for it.

Although it's hard for him to say how he will be responsible.

"I have no objection to you taking charge in your usual way."

Shinomiya Ayase suddenly said.

Ling Wuji immediately spat out a mouthful of Coke.

“It’s so troublesome to clean up!”

Shinomiya Ayase said immediately.

Ling Wu Ji waved his hand.

But Shinomiya Ayase discovered something from his abnormal reaction, and then said incredulously: "Could it be that the usual way you think of to take responsibility is something else?"

"So what is your method?"

"Of course, turn me into your believer!"

"Oh, so this is what you are talking about..."

"You really are thinking about something else!"

Ling Wuji chose to remain silent in response to the question from the girl with a ponytail who was originally sitting in a wheelchair.

Shinomiya Ayase couldn't help but steal a glance at Ling Wuji, and then when their eyes met, her face inexplicably turned red, and she immediately looked away, but she was silent for a moment, and finally said: "How many people have you...had sex with?"

"I don't need to tell you this, do I?"

Let Wu Ji speak.

"If you want to be responsible for me in that way, I can consider it..."

Ling Wuji reached out his hand to stop her from talking: "Although I think I have never had any bottom line, and I don't think that doing that kind of thing requires any emotional foundation, but, Miss Xiao Gong, don't you think that it is a very bad thing to casually hand your life over to someone else's hands?"

"But now, whose life can escape your control?"

This is an old question.

Ling Wuji discovered that the higher his position, the more the people around him would lean in this direction, especially those women with whom he had a slightly ambiguous relationship.

Although Yuuki Asuna can be removed.

Because she didn't know Ling Wuji's true status.

She had only vaguely glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of the mysterious side that Ling Wu Ji had revealed.

Moreover, Ling Wuji has not appeared in her stories for quite a long time.

He found that in a sense he was indeed like the eye of a storm, constantly diverting the fate of everyone from their original trajectory. Those who were deviated from their trajectory eventually lost the idea of ​​getting out of the storm, and would even follow the flow of the storm towards him, the center. From this perspective, he should really sit on the throne above the clouds like a god, looking down on all this with cold eyes, instead of intervening in all this and wantonly fiddling with the trajectory of other people's fate.

"But if you don't want to take responsibility, no one can stop you, right?"

After parking the car at his residence, Shinomiya Ayase still didn't hear Ling Wuzhi's answer, so she said.

"That's true."

Ling Wuji just nodded casually.

"So, is it... a rejection?"

The girl pursed her lips and said.

"So you are not so afraid of losing my...protection?" Ling Wuji said when he saw this.

"If you know there is always a shadow above your head, and you know the original shape of the shadow is unlikely to fall, but if you have the opportunity to climb up, what would you choose?"

Volume 6: Life and Death in the Present: Chapter 18: Encounter

Hearing her say that, Ling Wuji immediately understood that Shinomiya Ayase's decision was purely based on a life-and-death crisis, and it was a stress reaction before a huge pressure. It was hard to say that there was any emotional foundation between the two of them that was a bond of life and death, or a bond of companionship. In fact, it should be said that anyone who interacts with him now will have a similar mentality, because once they know his true nature, the basis of equality between the two will be lost.

And Ling Wuji certainly had no interest in playing any tricks to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.

Although he has a bit of a bad taste, no matter how well he acts, he still has to return to the essence in the end.

And what is the essence?

The essence is that Shinomiya Ayase is now just willing to be a person who depends on him for survival.

So Ling Wuji still gave her a chance.

Let her be your domestic maid or something.

……

There are people like Shinomiya Ayase in the world who have gained freedom but stand still and hesitate to move forward. Naturally, there are also people like Yukinoshita Yukino who work hard once they have gained the direction.

Although Yukinoshita Haruno didn't think that the direction given by Ling Wuzhi was the correct direction.

What he provided was simply a method for reference.

Of course, Yukinoshita Haruno knew what the reference template Ling Wuzhi gave to his sister was.

But she didn't think Yukinoshita Yukino could write articles of that level.

In fact, someone who can write an article of that level definitely does not need Ling Wuzhi's preaching, let alone his advice. It's almost the same the other way around. Although it is easy to copy that article, Yukinoshita Haruno knows very well that the real value of that article lies not in its description of the current situation, but in the vision that can clearly grasp the pulse of the times, the foresight that can penetrate the fog of history, and the method that can accurately combine personal and historical trends to jointly transform the world. Not only does her sister not have this quality, but even she herself and even Ling Wuzhi do not have it.

Although for Ling Wuji himself, he pays more attention to himself than the outside world, so if he wants to change the world, he doesn't need to do that, he just needs to change himself.

From Yukinoshita Haruno's perspective, it is difficult to say which of these two methods is better. After all, for her, she only cares about the result, and she may not care about the process of achieving this result.

But what Ling Wu Ji needs is a way to ensure that the world will continue to operate according to his wishes after he is gone.

"Although it seems that the great man didn't achieve it in the end."

Yukinoshita Haruno has finally finished her academic problems recently, and time has quietly come to May, the beginning of summer and the beginning of spring. She dragged Ling Wuji, who was playing games at home on the weekend, out of the house. After shopping in the mall and buying some new clothes, the two sat in a corner and talked, and then they inevitably talked about Yukinoshita Yukino.

Yukinoshita Haruno is an out-and-out sister-con.

Recently, Yukinoshita Yukino has asked her for advice many times on the matter of the investigation report.

Although she likes the happy atmosphere of sisterhood, she is pessimistic about whether she can write a good article in the end. Even if talent is put aside, the accumulation of knowledge and experience is indispensable. Her sister is only a teenager and her perspective on the world is too one-sided. If you have to say it, Ling Wuji's perspective on the world is also very one-sided.

But he has the ability and means to simplify complex problems.

And Yukinoshita Yukino is just an ordinary girl.

"You mean to ask me to just give her a perfunctory answer?"

Ling Wu Ji was not interested in discussing whether the world operated according to that person's ideas after he left. When he heard what Yukinoshita Haruno said, he just responded casually.

Yukinoshita Haruno pondered for a moment, then shook her head:

To this day, she is no longer able to make plans for her sister's life.

Only Yukinoshita Yukino knows what she really needs and what she wants to do. And if she is really determined, even if she cannot achieve her goal, she will grow in the process of doing things. And if Ling Wuzhi just perfunctorily treats her, then she will continue to hide in her little world, and always treat everything in the outside world with her own eyes and standards.

Although that look is also very cute.

However, she felt that her sister would eventually grow up.

Just as she was about to say something, a familiar voice entered her ears: "Sister Yang Nai, and classmate Ling?"

"Ah, Hayato-kun." Yukinoshita Haruno was Yukinoshita Haruno after all. When she saw an acquaintance, she quickly put on a sunny and outgoing look to greet him. She also noticed the group of friends behind him and said tactfully, "Are you hanging out with your classmates? It's the weekend after all. How about it, where are you going next?"

Hayato Hayama is a well-deserved current role.

The so-called "Handsome" refers to people whose real life is very fulfilling. It seems that they have friends accompanying them at all times and they will never be alone. Even if they encounter problems in their daily lives, a lot of friends will come to help, and he will also help his friends when they encounter troubles. There is an atmosphere of "everyone for me, and I for everyone". If we put aside the atmosphere of that small circle, Hayato Hayama is actually more like a socialist successor than Ling Wuzhi.

At least Ling Wuji can't get along well with everyone.

But while answering, Hayato Hayama carefully looked at Ling Wuji and Yukinoshita Haruno, wondering in his heart what the relationship between the two was. Did they just bump into each other and Ling Wuji was entangled by Yukinoshita Haruno? But Ling Wuji and Yukinoshita Yukino's relationship was so awkward, so the two of them should not have any outside contact, but if that was the case, why were the two of them sitting together?

Is it because of Hiratsuka Shizuka?

but……

Hayato Hayama looked at Ling Wuzhi and Yukinoshita Haruno and recalled the scene before he said hello. Although the female college student seemed to be much more cheerful in both expression and words at this moment, his father was the consulting lawyer for Yukinoshita's family business, so he could barely be said to be Yukinoshita Haruno's childhood sweetheart. So he knew very well that the female college student's expression at the moment was just a disguised mask. On the contrary, before he stepped forward to say hello, the scene of these two people sitting silently facing each other was filled with a kind of wonderful atmosphere, as if the female college student was revealing her true self to her classmate.

Is that really the case?

Hayato Hayama looked at them and was even willing to believe that it was just an illusion.

So he also used a mask similar to Yukinoshita Haruno, greeted them familiarly, and after a few words, he wanted to go back to his friends, but the boy's complaints inevitably flowed into his ears:

"Don't you think it's very strange for you to communicate like this?"

"What's weird?"

"Everything is weird, right?"

"I can't help it. As the eldest daughter of the Yukinoshita family, I usually have to bear the image that extends from this identity. After all, there are only a few people like you who are unscrupulous and don't care about anything. Although you think this way of life is too tiring, even if you have opinions about me, you won't let me lose anything. But sometimes if I do something wrong, it will cause the Yukinoshita family to lose a lot of interests, so..." Hayato Hayama could imagine the perfect smile on that delicately made-up face without looking back. Although her tone became mean and full of sarcasm when she said this, "Of course I also want to live as freely as you, but reality does not allow me to live like that. Or rather, I have been disciplined by reality to be like that, and I can't go back."