Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

"I thought you were going to pick your sixteen-year-old self."

Yukinoshita Yukino just smiled lonely, then shook her head and said, "Let's not talk about whether you can really do it, but you have always been so powerful, even if you really do it, it's not surprising, but I don't really want to do that, and why do you want to do that? Do you think you like the sixteen-year-old or twenty-eight-year-old me more than the current me? But now I have grown up, right?"

She even lifted up the fat on her chest and said.

Ling Wu Ji had a subtle expression on his face: not to mention that her personality had become like this, and she even made dirty jokes. In her eyes, was he just a person who only cared about that?

"Is not it?"

Yukinoshita Yukino asked as a matter of course.

Ling Wuji thought about it and did not choose to continue to dwell on this topic. He just said: "I have seen a disobedient god before, and at that time, I had mastered a Taoist technique called Dragon Slaying Technique..."

He talked about the past between him and the Monkey King.

Although Yukinoshita Yukino had seen too many things related to the mysterious side in the past few decades, it was only after hearing what Ling Wuji said that she found the relevant information from her memories. Because the official history compilation committee at that time had been torn to pieces by the wave of the times, many people chose to join the reorganized Penglai government. They would also mention the stories when the gates between the inner and outer worlds had not been completely opened, so she could not help but come into contact with some of them. It was only after hearing what Ling Wuji said that she realized that the mysterious Taoist priest who appeared in what Luo Hao did was actually Ling Wuji!

Was he able to do that at that time?

"but……"

When she heard that the Monkey King actually asked Ling Wuji to use the Dragon Slaying Technique on him, and when she heard the monkey say that even if Ling Wuji cut off his past and returned him to his original state of stone, he would definitely evolve into the unrestrained and free monkey again, she couldn't help feeling a little envious, so she finally understood why Ling Wuji said and did that.

"But what's the point of that?"

She just said.

"significance?"

"I don't know what you want to verify, but to me, the past few years are definitely not just a burden. I don't want to abandon all of this and go back to when I was eighteen. Maybe I was really carefree at that time, and I lived a very fulfilling and happy life. After that, I did live a very unhappy life. If the me at that time traveled to the present, perhaps under the protection of you and your sister who has seen my current situation, I could continue to live a carefree life. But that is only an extension of the possibility of my past self, not an extension of the possibility of my present self," Yukinoshita Yukino looked straight at the high school classmate who still looked like a teenager, "In that case, the me now is equivalent to being dead, right? The one who survived is only the Yukinoshita Yukino who fits your memory, not 'me'!"

"Indeed."

Ling Wu Ji just nodded and said.

"So the only one who can continue to survive is the current 'me'."

Yukinoshita Yukino said so, and her stern attitude at this moment made Ling Wuji think back to his high school days. Then he shook his head again. He didn't actually have a very deep memory of this person back then in high school, so it was hard to say whether she really had some inner essence that had never changed.

"But do you really like me back then more than me now?"

"Yukinoshita-san, I like this word..."

When this mature woman heard Ling Wuji's carefully chosen tone, she immediately understood what he wanted to say. Her eyes dimmed slightly, and then she said calmly: "It's just a word used for comparison. If you don't like this word, you can change it to preference..."

"Actually, I only showed up because Haruno said you looked a little regretful."

"Should I feel honored? The legendary Star Lord would actually be so fond of a little girl like me..."

Yukinoshita Yukino has a rather weird look to her.

Ling Wuji ignored her sarcasm and just looked around her current residence. Then he said, "Actually, I'm also curious about what your choice is. After all, opportunities like this should be rare."

"If it's a time travel that can preserve my memories, maybe I'll be tempted..."

Ling Wuji's expression suddenly became a little strange.

"See Lingjun, what do you mean?"

Yukinoshita Yukino immediately realized something, and suddenly raised her head and looked at the young man.

"Let me ask you, you want your body to go back in time, just to make yourself younger and more energetic, right?"

"The main thing is, of course, that I was prettier when I was younger."

She touched the wrinkles that were already visible at the corners of her eyes and said.

"Do you care about this kind of thing even now?"

"Isn't it better to say that this kind of thing is what women pursue throughout their lives?"

"But in my impression, you're not the kind of woman who cares about other people's gazes?"

Ling Wu Ji just said.

"Even if I don't care about other people's gazes or comments, I will be happier when I see a younger and more beautiful self in the mirror, right?" Yukinoshita Yukino said frankly and confidently.

"Makes sense."

Ling Wu Ji nodded.

"So..." Yukinoshita Yukino glanced at Ling Wuji nervously and said, "Can you really do it?"

"But considering your current role, a more mature look is more suitable..."

Ling Wu Ji just said.

"The role..."

Suddenly, Yukinoshita Yukino lowered her head with some disinterest and stopped the conversation.

"I say, Yukinoshita-san, what are you thinking about?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking, maybe I don't really care about other people's gazes, or other people's opinions."

"so?"

"So sometimes, I also want to completely break away from my current life and live a brand new life." She raised her head and looked at the young man with a smile. After thinking for a while, she said, "Ling Jun, I heard that when you established Penglai, you would respond to the wishes of believers from time to time. If I become a believer of Xingjun, will you respond to my wish?"

"You also said it was only from time to time."

"Then I'll ask you to help me through my sister."

This Yukinoshita is indeed a little different from the Yukinoshita in his memory.

The previous Yukinoshita would not like this approach.

Not to mention seeking help through Yukinoshita Haruno.

But since she had said this, Ling Wu Ji had no choice but to listen to her what she wanted to do.

But the woman leaned close to the boy's ear and whispered her request, causing Wu Ji to nod his head: "I just want to retire early, it's not a big deal. Maybe by doing this you can be regarded as someone who doesn't cling to power. Do you have to be so cautious?"

Yukinoshita Yukino just stared into the boy's dark eyes and didn't say much.

So Ling Wuji had no choice but to nod his head helplessly: "It's not a big deal anyway. If you really want to get away completely and don't want to leave any traces, you can just change your body and ask the Einzbern family to make a spare part. When you train or elect an heir, I will help you transfer your soul to that body, but..."

"only?"

"But if this happens, your Yukinoshita family name will no longer be preserved, right? Or should I say, will it be cut off?"

Ling Wu Ji unexpectedly raised this question, which was a very important question for Yukinoshita Yukino a long time ago.

She was silent for a moment, and finally said, "It doesn't matter. I believe my mother will make the right choice. Not to mention that Yukinoshita's reputation will always be remembered in history after my sister and I were born. There is no possibility of it being cut off."

"What is the right choice you're talking about?"

"Of course, we can adopt one, or directly use the technology to create humans."

"Oh."

Ling Wuji just spoke without interest.

Yukinoshita Yukino heaved a sigh of relief after this matter was settled. Then she heard Ling Wuji ask, "So, after doing something like this, I'm afraid you're not suitable to stay in Japan anymore. Where do you want to go?"

"China."

“See the giant pandas?”

"of course."

These are of course just insignificant trivia.

For Ling Wuji, it is likely that there would be very few people who would be chosen like the Monkey King did. Even if there were, Ling Wuji was not familiar with those people, so he naturally had no way of knowing the various subtle changes in their inner selves. The premise for being able to reverse one's own time did not exist. Moreover, instead of doing that to those people, he might as well go find a few disobedient gods and experiment with the dragon-slaying technique.

As for Yukinoshita Yukino, she has decided to break free from her current life and pursue a broader and freer world. She doesn't know whether her destiny in the future will intersect with the young man in front of her again, but her dreams, her actions, and her life pinned on the name Yukinoshita Yukino have come to an end, so she decided to withdraw and no longer think about changing the world.

Maybe she didn't have the qualifications.

Perhaps humans are just hopeless.

So she didn't want to continue spending her life on such boring things.

In fact, she should have done this a long time ago, right?

It’s just that she has never found a more important goal than this, nor has she ever found hope.

But now, even if there is really no hope, she believes that she can find enough meaning in another life.

So when she realized that Ling Wuji could do that kind of thing, she asked him for help without hesitation.

Maybe it seems a little shameless.

but……

Who made me his "sister-in-law"?

So the name Yukinoshita Yukino finally lost all possibility one morning a few years later, and was only remembered by history as a symbol, while the same soul was waking up in another younger body.

"What is the essence of magic?"

If Awashima Seiri had asked this question to a true Inner Alchemy School rather than a self-proclaimed Inner Alchemy School member like Ling Wuji, the answer she would have gotten would definitely be "One gets a method from the Tao, and one art from the method." In other words, just like the story of the blind men and the elephant in the Indian fable, the art is essentially just a fragmented expression of the "Tao," and the pursuit of the ascetic is to piece together these fragments, trace back to the source, and find out the full picture of the "Tao" that can "one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."

But for Ling Wuji, his statement was quite vulgar:

“It’s just leverage.”

"lever?"

"You should have heard of Archimedes' famous saying, right?"

"Give me a fulcrum, and I can move the earth?"

Ling Wuji nodded and said, "So-called magic is essentially just a lever between human consciousness and the real world."

"So, what is the fulcrum?"

"Maybe it's aura or magic or something like that, for most people."

"Is it different for you?"

Ling Wuji thought for a moment and said, "For ordinary people, if they can't lift something, then it's understandable that they look for something to borrow strength from. But for me, the situation has been different for a long time. But, haven't you always been uninterested in the system of magic? Why do you ask this kind of question?"

In Ling Wuzhi's impression, Awashima Seri is not the kind of person who would pursue power excessively, or for her, the power she needs is enough to fulfill her duties as the deputy director of Scepter 4. She even feels that the so-called power of the Scepter 4 clan is purely like the guns equipped to the police, which is a necessary work tool. However, she has a clear boundary between public and private. For her, work is work and private life is private life. The two may be intertwined to a certain extent, but she is not the kind of person who is willing to bring her work attitude into her private life and make herself uncomfortable.

If you must say, Shizuka Hiratsuka is her counterexample in this regard.

Because Shizuka Hiratsuka is the kind of person who would sacrifice her private life to deal with official business.