Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

All this will remain to be proven by time.

If we extend the time and broaden the perspective to the whole of Japan, in fact, the fate of Yuuki Asuna is not enough to affect the future of Japan as a whole. Or we can say that the leader of that era in the future is not her, or Orimura Chifuyu, or even Shinono Tsubaki. The only thing we know is that many years later, someone will cosplay Arthas as Frostmourne, deliver a fatal blow to this ancient island country, and then recite the classic line from Blizzard's production:

“This kingdom shall fall, and from the ashes shall arise a new order. That will shake the very foundations of the world.”

Later generations' evaluation of Ling Wuji, who had already hidden his achievements and fame by then, always falls into two extremes: Some people think that he was the founder of a new era. After he completely tore down the walls between the inner and outer worlds, even though he used Japan as a test field and gave birth to a new class, which expanded rapidly and then came into serious conflict with the existing order, some people within that class brazenly launched a coup and seized power in Japan. Then they announced nationwide that the next civil service examination would include positions that would screen people like them. However, this move did not win the hearts of most of the people in the new class that was born. On the contrary, the success of their coup made many ambitious people see the road to power. As a result, in the tide of the times, many figures rose and fell, and even the secret struggle between the two major powers in the East and the West could be seen behind them. But in the end, this country was submerged by the tide of the times. After the tragic civil war, this country stopped the so-called "de-Asianization and Europeanization" process, and returned to the embrace of Asia in a nearly ruined state with their dwindling population.

In this process, technologies related to the mysterious side were highly valued by all countries, which promoted a series of major breakthroughs in human bioengineering. The Chinese people who went to the moon and Mars to build bases were basically all people in the innate realm. In fact, having reached the innate realm, they can indeed better adapt to such harsh environments and various emergencies.

Not to mention the new generation of IS technology.

And all this is obviously inseparable from Ling Wuji.

Therefore, some people think that Ling Wuji is a person with mixed merits and demerits.

Because some people think that he was fanning the flames behind the scenes for his own ambitions, and the evidence is that the new government of this country was not named after Japan, but "Penglai", a place that was believed to be an overseas fairy mountain in ancient Chinese books. So even though Ling Wuji had disappeared before that, the new government was obviously inextricably linked to the organization he had founded before, which was also called "Penglai", so the source of all this vaguely pointed to Ling Wuji.

There is even a saying that Ling Wuji has been controlling the entire Penglai government behind the scenes.

But no matter what the truth is, as long as Ling Wuzhi didn't want people to know, he would definitely find a way. The fact that he did not erase the traces he left in history may prove the correctness of that statement to some extent. Although people who studied historical materials in later generations were actually very surprised, there was a lot of evidence showing that if Ling Wuzhi wanted to rule Japan, he didn't have to use that method at all. He could easily do that with both the means and the status at that time.

But no matter what, Ling Wuji had indeed disappeared at that time, retired to the mountains and forests, and no longer cared about worldly affairs.

If we do not limit our perspective to this country, but expand it to the global scale, and then expand the time scale a little bit, we can find that after the walls between the inner and outer worlds were broken, there were people who resisted and wanted to re-establish the walls in the territory under the control of their own organizations. However, they found that they were simply trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm, because the original meaning of mystery is "closure", which means no communication. What if the progress and benefits that communication can bring far exceed "closure"?

Of course, what the magician pursues is the miracle of an individual being able to reach the root, rather than pursuing civilization and the progress of the entire society like in the real world. So after the magician finds that it doesn't work, he either continues to hide, or some descendants of the family give up that goal and turn to pursue other paths.

Magic, after all, is just a means to achieve a given goal.

With such development, the souls of human beings seem to be only one step away from the final mutual understanding. Almost everyone is looking forward to the last layer of technical barriers being broken through, so that human consciousness can be digitized, thus completely changing the form of human existence. No longer bound by the body, everyone can then live equally in the electronic ocean.

But will it eventually turn out as they wish?

What will the future structure of human society look like?

What kind of relationship will there be between the "new humans" with electronic consciousness and the "old humans"?

Will it also evolve into a story like the class that Ling Wuji gave birth to?

In fact, all these questions have little to do with Ling Wuji.

Maybe there is some connection, and that connection is probably just that human society eventually subtly accepted the technology of artificial humans and genetic adjustments. Although many social and ethical problems actually arose in the process, Justisia Rizleich von Einzbern finally realized her long-cherished wish.

Although judging from the results, Ling Wuji did not quite agree that this was a wish come true.

Rather than saying that the androids found a way out, it would be better to say that she integrated the androids into the new society, turning them into a social phenomenon that cannot be abandoned. Although from the perspective of historical progress, this is probably inevitable, because even without the technology of the Einzbern family, human biological progress will certainly develop in this direction, because no one does not want their offspring to become more perfect.

Although there are many strange phenomena in the process, some people have created related organizations, saying that parents who have genetically modified their offspring have violated their children's "freedom" and destroyed their imperfect rights. Then the topic of this aspect will be discussed in the direction of "NM didn't give you the freedom to be born, so why do you choose not to die now?"

There may be something behind the various strange phenomena in human society, or there may not be something behind them, but Ling Wuji finally realized a dream he had in his previous life since he was a child. Humans finally broke through the constraints of the earth, went to space, settled on other planets, and even went to other galaxies.

Although this goal is too ambitious.

After all, let alone the light speed engine, there seems to be no progress in basic physics.

In comparison, Ling Wu Ji felt that he should still focus on improving his Liuhe swordsmanship.

"So, why do you want to travel across the stars?"

Perhaps it was because he still looked the same even after he became an adult, so the name never left him and was always used like a nickname by people around him. But perhaps it was also because most of the people around him were Japanese.

"Because you want to see aliens?"

"Why do you want to see aliens?"

"Because that is beyond my imagination, although..."

Although it's not like he hasn't seen it before.

For example, the giant spider Ort in the Crystal Valley in South America.

However, he did not have much real feeling about it, and the other party did not have much desire to communicate when they met. At that time, he could not do anything to the other party, and the other party could not do anything to him. They just hid in the crystal valley. Therefore, seeing the big spider did not eliminate Ling Wu Ji's curiosity. Instead, it aroused a little curiosity in him who was almost indifferent. And because of this example, he became more certain of the existence of aliens.

Whether aliens come or not, or whether humans have the ability to travel through space, that is a story beyond the story.

In this story, time goes back to Ling Wuji's boyhood, to that once prosperous city that some people thought they could never visit or get tired of. In Tokyo, Ling Wuji, who wanted to end his boyhood and make a landmark conclusion to his life, had not yet anticipated the future world. He just looked at the girl who, in a sense, opened the chapter of his story, and tacitly agreed in his heart that her future life would be as she wished, but habitually ignored one fact:

One cannot step into the same river twice.

However, her current wishes do not represent her future wishes; the two are not consistent.

And his own existence is the culprit for the shattered wishes of many people.

The promise he made in his heart at this moment would make someone who might no longer be called a girl in the future come to him and beg him to end everything.

He was just savoring the refreshing sweetness of the Coke that was still in his mouth, and said goodbye to the girl. He wanted to find someone else again to see if he could find relevant inspiration and make a memory that would be unforgettable for the rest of his life, just like the end of the college entrance examination in his previous life. But what was there to think about when he finished the college entrance examination in his previous life?

Maybe a large group of people in the class squandered their class funds and put on a performance?

However, the only thing he remembered vividly was probably the early morning when he left high school. Of course, there wasn't much worth mentioning, but it was precisely because many things that were not worth mentioning were remembered clearly that it could be called a vivid memory. He even remembered very clearly that the sky at that time was clear blue and the road was full of noisy voices. After leaving that day, his life trajectory had no overlap with that school at all.

He certainly didn't miss that school.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the food provided in that school cafeteria is an exaggeration to say it is pig food.

Moreover, his high school life in his previous life was really boring, even more boring than it is now. Looking back on that period of time, he felt more and more that the school didn't need to be built so well. Strictly speaking, it only needed to have a cafeteria, dormitory and classrooms. He ran back and forth between these three places every day and seldom had time to go elsewhere.

“So, is it a question of saying goodbye to your current life and stepping into a new one?”

Ling Wuji thought about it and came to a conclusion:

"Drop out?"

Having said that, Ling Wu Ji doesn't really hate his current school life.

So he just continued to look for others, trying to find some inspiration to make a symbolic item, and those who noticed his intentions also offered suggestions, such as Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern, who suggested combining the genes of two people and using artificial human technology to create offspring, so that Ling Wuji could truly step onto the ladder of adulthood -

This suggestion is indeed very creative and actually meets Ling Wuji's needs.

However, Ling Wuji just wanted to end his teenage years and didn't really want to cause trouble for himself.

The advice given by Medusa is actually similar, but in a different way.

As for Joan of Arc, the advice given to him was to let him participate in social work.

Students like Leticia simply proposed traveling.

As for young ladies like Arisa of the Imperial Court and Cecilia Orcutt, who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, when they heard Ling Wuji say that, they immediately thought of activities like nude parties.

Although it would indeed be very iconic, Ling Wuji still refused.

This is not in line with his character.

Although if he really wanted to do it, he could find as many people as he wanted.

Even after excluding his followers, there were still people who wanted to squeeze people in.

But in the end, Ling Wu Ji only found that the life he was experiencing now was not so disgusting. It is true that he does not have the motivation to take the initiative to do anything, to create more precious memories, and to make a happier life. But when he returned home, he saw the back of Asagami Fujino wearing an apron and preparing ingredients in the kitchen, and he felt some strange emotions for the first time in a long time. He wondered what is the essence of happiness?

Is it a series of chemical reactions produced by some hormone released by the human body?

Or at this time, someone would be busy for you, care about your appetite, and just for this reason, spend a lot of time preparing such things in the kitchen without any worries while you are talking nonsense to others? But maybe she is not really without any worries, right? She just accepted this fact. Only the realization of this would make Ling Wuji a little embarrassed. So he walked forward and hugged the figure from behind, remembering all the smells of this moment, and even the girl's stiff body language at this time, which made his mind fall into permanent tranquility.

"If it is destroyed now, perhaps the day of realization will never come. Nevertheless, it still has to be destroyed because of admiration and love."

—— Dazai Osamu, "The Setting Sun"

For a high school girl who claims to change the world but always hides in a club classroom and isolates herself in a closed environment, deciding that her future goal is to become the Prime Minister of Japan, can this be considered absurd or illusory?

At least Yukinoshita Yukino herself has always felt that since that day, she was like walking on clouds, as if she was in an environment that had lost gravity, because all common sense seemed to have lost the ability to constrain things. In fact, she felt deep down in her heart that she could not do it, but with Ling Wuzhi and the help of the Koufuin Foundation, everything seemed to be within reach.

As if she could actually do it in the future.

Even just at this stage, just when Ling Wu Ji expressed such an idea, some consultants behind the scenes of the Shrine Foundation provided her with a very concise and clear career path plan, including detailed arrangements on which school and major to apply to, whether to become a bureaucratic experience officer first, and when to start preparing for the election. Seeing that plan, Yukinoshita Yukino instinctively felt disgusted.

After all, there is an adult in her family who wants to control her life in this way.

And that plan, in a way, was a repetition of her mother's control over her.

In this process, what does her personal will count for?

And if you follow this life plan, can you really become prime minister?

"Then people don't know, they can't predict it. A person's destiny, of course, depends on their own efforts, but also on the course of history..." Her sister Yukinoshita Haruno just said this famous saying that a certain boy has memorized after being influenced by her. She just calmly pointed at the plan and said, "And this is only the part that belongs to your personal struggle."

"So... the course of history..."

"I'm not him. Besides, even he himself said that he couldn't see the future 20 years from now. I can't say what the 'historical process' will be like at that time. However, as the saying goes, 'learning from history can help us understand the rise and fall of nations.' We can do some deductions," Yukinoshita Haruno's eyes suddenly became profound. "Well, let's use the traces of changes in the core of the so-called mecha war works as the main axis of deduction."

Yukinoshita Yukino watched her sister imitate Ikari Gendō's pose in EVA, that is, she cupped her hands under her nose, covered her lips, and looked at her gloomily. The first half of her words seemed serious, but the second half made this high school girl hold her forehead:

What is the relationship between the core of so-called mecha warfare works and the progress of history?

"Is there really no connection at all?" Yukinoshita Haruno said as if she was making a cold mockery, "In the last century, let's talk about other things, in comics like "Naruto", "Dragonball", "Ranma 1/2", and even novels like "Legend of the Galactic Heroes", creators always added positive elements from the Chinese side without hesitation. Of course, it may also be related to the fact that the Internet was not as developed as it is now, so creators always tried their best to absorb all the knowledge they could know and re-create. But in the current comic market, how many creators dare to do this?"

Yukinoshita Yukino knew that the issue they had always wanted to avoid had been revealed.

"This change also proves that Japan's current stance may be becoming more and more closed, and it is increasingly inclined to narrate from the perspective of its own nation..."

“Isn’t this basically true for all countries in the world?”

Yukinoshita Yukino also said.

"Yes, that's understandable, but in a sense, it proves that the 'anti-war' movement back then has now become 'anti-defeat'," Yukinoshita Haruno said, looking directly at her sister. "The idea that the winners don't have to be blamed may be correct in a sense, but didn't the Japanese win before they lost?"

"Sister, I don't need you to tell me this."

Yukinoshita Yukino just spoke softly.

"No, I just need you to know one fact," Yukinoshita Haruno said softly, "This is the trend of history. Those people may know it but pretend to support another statement, or they may really believe it. But if you really want to sit in the position that decides this country, you can't follow the trend of history, choose that flag, and oppose the position that person stands on. But in this way..."

"So sister, do you want me to give up?"

Yukinoshita Yukino raised her head and said.

The female college student nodded: "I have indeed thought so. After all, no matter how you look at it, this is a dead end. No matter how hard you struggle, there is no hope. And if you continue to deduce according to this reasoning..."

She recalled the tone of the boy at that dinner and couldn't help but tremble:

"That means Japan will eventually be unable to escape..."

Yes.

According to the Japanese logic, the winner does not need to be blamed, and the boy who has been standing in the position of the absolute winner from the beginning will not be blamed no matter what he does, right?

Even if he pushed the entire Japan to the brink of destruction, it would be okay, right?

When she thought of this fact, Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't help but feel a sense of separation towards the boy who always sat in the corner reading novels with an absent-minded look on his face. She knew that he was a boy with extraordinary powers, and she also knew that his abilities could almost touch every aspect of Japan, and he could even decide the life and death of countless people with a single thought. But those things seemed too far away.