Chapter 169 - Blissful Wish
TL-Checked by Bamblueboo; Edited by Animeart
With that “meow”, another vigorous and pure, yet chaotic spiritual power appeared between heaven and the earth, and it hit the Great Wizard’s blade!
Lin Shu had originally taken the cat back to stay in the Qingming Cave, but he didn’t expect it to take the initiative to come out at this time and jump into Ling Fengxiao’s arms.
It was a spiritual beast with a thousand years of cultivation, and it was also in the realm of Land Immortal.
——Just, it was still no match!
The chaotic spiritual power collided with the blood evil Qi. Initially there was a stalemate between the two forces and then slowly the chaotic spiritual power’s momentum decreased and was pushed back by the strong pressure from the blood evil Qi.
The Great Wizard sneered, and fiercely added more force!
The cat was still trembling in Ling Fengxiao’s arms. This was the cat who had always been very timid and fearful. Even though it was shaking like a sieve, it was still trying to increase the release of its spiritual power to fight the Great Wizard.
Ling Fengxiao pursed his lips, picked it up and prepared to put it on the ground: “All right, go back now.”
Cats were innocent after all.
But unexpectedly, the next moment, as quick as lightning and flint, the cat broke away from Ling Fengxiao’s hands and rushed forward!
This lunge was sending itself to the blade of the Great Wizard.
The Great Wizard made a sudden effort!
The cat gave a low ‘meow’.
It was short and sharp. The kind of sound that small animals would make when they were slammed to the ground.
But at the same time, the white jade bell hanging in its neck suddenly shone brightly bathing the tower, and another vast and lonely spiritual power swept towards the Great Wizard like the rolling mountains and surging waves of the seas!
The two confronted each other. The two spiritual powers collided, then all dissipated in a flash, and the Great Wizard vomited a mouthful of blood.
But his figure was still standing.
The light of the white jade bell dissipated, and no one knew if another attack could be made.
Lin Shu knew what it was.
The cat was the owner of the Floating Immortal Palace on the Huandang Mountain. When they had left Huandang Mountain, the entire Floating Immortal Palace had turned into a white jade bell, which was always worn on the cats’ neck. The white light should have been the Mountain Protection array of the Floating Immortal Palace.
Regardless of whether the white jade bell could make the next blow or not, the Great Wizard still had room to face the attack!
They saw his green clothes flying in the blood mist, flying towards the cat. The next moment, the blade came again!
But he was too late.
Lin Shu was already behind him.
With the Folding Bamboo sword in his hand, he pierced the Great Wizard’s chest from behind.
Without any hindrance, the sword’s blade penetrated the flesh and bones, as if he was not stabbing a Great Wizard in the realm of Land Immortal, but a defenseless mortal
Lin Shu clearly remembered that every time Ling Fengxiao fought with the Great Wizard before, when the weapon struck his body, the collision of the two would make a sound similar to a metal clashing with a stone. The body of the Great Wizard was like a bronze wall, and would not be injured by any weapons.
Perhaps the Great Wizard underestimated his enemy and did not use his spiritual power to protect his body.
Or perhaps the Folding Bamboo sword, or the Heartless sword intent, had its specialties, which could break through the spiritual defenses of the Great Wizard.
He recalled that in the Elysium, he also used Everlasting Yearning’s eighth move “Concept of One’s Life” to cut off one of the Great Wizard’s arms easily, without any hindrance.
But, anyway…
The sword pierced into the Great Wizard’s chest.
This angle was impeccable, and the feel under his hand was nothing special. Lin Shu was sure that the Folding Bamboo sword had pierced the heart of the Great Wizard.
No one could live after the heart was pierced.
Neither could the Land Immortals.
Because when one had not yet ascended to the Immortal realm, then they were still half mortal and half immortal.
The Great Wizard coughed violently and coughed up frothy blood.
The next moment, Ling Fengxiao’s blade Qi, flew across the air and shattered his Dantian!
His body was like a falling leaf in the wind. Stirred by an invisible force, he was thrown around and then he started to fall, slowly and steadily, before he finally fell heavily to the ground.
The blood mist on the top of the tower was still thick as ever, but the Great Wizard seemed to have lost the ability to move. The chaotic spiritual power from the cat trapped him again, making him immobile.
His breathing became heavy.
Ling Fengxiao picked up the cat’s body: “Qingyuan.”
There was no response.
Lin Shu looked over and saw that the cat’s body seemed to have softened, and the two chubby claws were hanging weakly on the side.
The cat’s eyes were still open, but they seemed to be covered in haze.
Ling Fengxiao put it on the ground, took out some pills, opened its jaw, and fed it one by one.
Couldn’t feed it in.
They were all spat out.
He changed it to healing elixir and poured it into Qingyuan’s mouth, but there was still no effect at all. Instead, it got choked in its throat.
The cat coughed weakly a few times. Though the eyes were not yet closed, they were full of fatigue.
“Don’t sleep,” Ling Fengxiao pinched its ears, “Be obedient, don’t sleep, and take medicine first.”
The cat gave a faint “meow”, rubbing his head against his hands.
Lin Shu walked over and held one of its front paws.
All of its meridians were broken.
But no one knew how the spiritual power flowed within the meridians of the cat, and no one had the same source of chaotic spiritual power as the cat.
The Great Wizard who had fallen to the ground next to him, looked sideways, with a slight strange smile still hanging from the corner of his bleeding mouth.
His voice was even more hoa.r.s.e, like a broken bellows, and said, “Lin Shu, come here.”
The cat meridians were all ruined, and the Great Wizard was in the same condition. Not to mention he was pierced through his heart and his Dantian had been shattered. The man had lost all the power he could use at the moment, and there was no threat, so Lin Shu walked over.
In fact, he wanted to know what the Great Wizard meant when he had uttered the previously said words.
He was sure that he had no previous dealings with the man.
He walked in front of the Great Wizard.
The Great Wizard coughed a few times and looked at the night sky: “When people are dying, they tell the good words… There is one thing, you should listen to my words.”
Lin Shu: “What is it?”
“The eight peerless manuals.” The Great Wizard said, “Keep it safe… You will use it in less than three years.”
Lin Shu neither refused nor promised.
He looked at the Great Wizard and said, “Do I know you?”
The Great Wizard smiled.
A very desperate and poignant kind of smile.
He said, “This is the second time you’ve killed me.”
Lin Shu: “When was the first time?”
The Great Wizard said, “Twenty years ago.”
Lin Shu: “Twenty years ago, I was just born.”
The Great Wizard coughed a few times and said, “Things in the world are not as simple as you see them.”
Lin Shu: “Who are you?”
Great Wizard: “A man who has no path to tread.”
Lin Shu had nothing to say.
“Go and see your little Phoenix,” the crazy and strange look appeared again on the Great Wizard’s face: “After this night, he’s not…”
He coughed violently and couldn’t stop. His pale face looked gray and blue, indicating that he was almost about to die.
But the blood mist on the top of the tower was like a sea of blood, getting thicker and thicker, and the stars and moon in the sky were already painted red.
Thousands of cries didn’t stop, it was everywhere.
Ling Fengxiao was still holding the cat’s head.
Lin Shu gently stroked its ear.
Cold.
The cat laboriously struggled to open its eyes and rubbed Lin Shu’s fingers with its furry head.
After a little rubbing, it lost all its strength and became soft in Ling Fengxiao’s arms.
The green eyes were about to close, and once they did, they would never wake up again.
Like the Great Wizard lying on his back on the ground, he also closed his eyes slowly.
But the moment his eyes were completely closed, suddenly a hole opened slowly in the night sky.
The bright white light was very warm and shone just right on the cat’s body.
Lin Shu and Ling Fengxiao looked up and saw that there was an endless void behind the white crack.
The cat, who was originally dying, opened its round green eyes again.
The lost look gradually returned.
Indescribable soft white light enveloped their vision. In the white light, a figure gradually appeared.
A familiar person.
A young man in royal clothes, with a golden folding fan in his hand, handsome and graceful, with a warm and meaningful smile in his eyes.
Lin Shu had seen this young man on Huandang Mountain, he even played chess with him, and heard him talk about the Dao of heaven—he didn’t know the exact ident.i.ty of this young man, only he knew that he was from the Immortal World.
“Qingyuan, how did you land in such a state?” The Young Master said with a smile.
Qingyuan gave a vicious “meow”.
The Young Master took the cat from Ling Fengxiao, and then looked at Ling Fengxiao: “I was wondering why you hadn’t ascended for so long. It turns out that you were happily frolicking with beauties.”
Qingyuan did not bother to pay any attention to him.
The Young Master said to Ling Fengxiao: “Thank you, your Excellency, for helping Qingyuan cross the tribulations, now its’ causality is already over, I will guide it to the immortal world.”
Ling Fengxiao: “How about its injury?”
The Young Master said: “It’s not a problem, I will take care of it in the heavens, along with the other old masters, and he can heal in three days.”
Ling Fengxiao said: “Many Thanks.”
The Young master suddenly saw Lin Shu again: “So it’s you.”
Then he looked at the surrounding b.l.o.o.d.y and misty scene, frowning slightly: “What were you doing?”
Lin Shu was a little embarra.s.sed: “Fighting.”
“This is not right…” the Young Master’s voice sank and looked at the b.l.o.o.d.y stars and moon in the sky: “Blood smeared on the wild, the Big Dipper turned upside down… Who did it?”
Ling Fengxiao checked the Great Wizard’s breath and said to the Young Master, “Him. He’s not dead yet. ”
The Young Master frowned and walked over, wanting to probe. A clear voice came from a distance within the white crack: “Young Master Chen! Come back as soon as possible. Qingming and Yuehua are fighting again! ”
Young Master Chen was not in a good mood: “Keep them closed within the Chi Ling Mountain to mend the sky.”
His figure became somewhat illusory.
The Young Master Chen spoke very fast and said, “I can’t maintain my phantom body for too long. Listen.”
Lin Shu: “En.”
Young Master Chen said, “This person is not human and has been transformed into a spiritual body. Therefore, I don’t know what his original body is, but he feeds on the resentment and grievances of all living beings. Before he died, he aroused the phenomena of heaven and earth to acc.u.mulate power… The world will be in chaos.”
Ling Fengxiao: “Why in chaos?”
The Young Master instead asked, “Is this troubled times? Or is it the golden age? ”
Ling Fengxiao: “Troubled times.”
Young Master Chen: “How many years have you been in chaos?”
Ling Fengxiao: “Three hundred years.”
“People are born in prosperous times, ghosts are born in troubled times.” The Young Master looked at the red blood star in the sky: “In troubled times, people’s grievances that had been acc.u.mulated for 300 years, have been gathered by him, which can’t be dispelled… At the moment of his complete death, people’s grievances will disperse into the world, and demons in the world…would be unstoppable.”
After saying this, the Young Master Chen seemed very helpless: “I just haven’t looked down for a few years. How did it become so messy?”
Ling Fengxiao said, “How to solve it?”
Young Master Chen: “I’ve never seen this matter either–”
His figure became more and more ethereal.
There was an insurmountable barrier between the immortal world and the mortal world. A phantom body could not stay long in the mortal world
The Young Master said: “You can only wait to see what happens.”
Ling Fengxiao: “……”
Ling Fengxiao had nothing more to say, but Lin Shu had a question.
He said to the Young Master: “The eight peerless manuals…”
“The eight peerless manuals are related to the whole world’s lives,” the Young Master seemed to know what he wanted to ask: “If you can destroy them, destroy it. You must not gather the eight peerless manuals and let them fall in the hands of the evildoer…”
His voice became smaller and smaller, and gradually disappeared, and his figure also disappeared in the world.
The cat poked his head from behind the Young Master’s shoulder, and finally “meowed” at them.
Then, the white crack in the sky slowly closed, as if it had never existed.
The top of this tower was still filled with b.l.o.o.d.y mist.
Lin Shu listened to the crying in the wind.
The Young Master said, this was the resentment and grievances of all living beings.
A person’s resentment is nothing. At the most, after his violent death, he would turn into a ghost and would be subdued by the immortal Dao — just like the crawling corpses and grieving ghosts around the ghost town of Min Prefecture.
But in troubled times, people were hungry, unable to clothe themselves, separated from their wives and children, they resented the world, complained about heaven and earth, hated the Dynasty and themselves…
In this type of world, if everyone’s resentment and grievances were gathered together….
“I know why the Great Wizard established the Elysium.” Lin Shu heard Ling Fengxiao slowly said, “It’s not that he was obsessed and didn’t know that the Elysium was just a castle in the air… But the people of the world, in the midst of chaos, hope that there will be a blissful country.”
Ling Fengxiao’s voice was very low: “The Young Master said that he used the resentment and grievances of ordinary people as the source of his power, so in turn he had to do what ordinary people wanted to do. Create a worry-free and care-free illusionary world, so that people all over the world could live and work in peace and contentment and have no worries about food and clothing. ”
“That’s why he said, this matter, it was not up to him whether he wanted it or not.” Ling Fengxiao approached the body of the Great Wizard, as if to let Lin Shu hear him but also as if saying it to himself: “He also knows that if peace is negotiated, the war is stopped and the people’s livelihood is supported, the people will be better in a hundred years. But hundreds of millions of people in the world were born in troubled times, grew up in troubled times, were not educated, faced natural and man-made disasters, heavy taxes, who would believe that… The Dynasty will make things better? ”
Perhaps, at the beginning, the people believed in the Dynasty.
However, the Dynasty only trained troops, levied taxes, and imposed tyranny more fiercely than the tiger. For a hundred years, the people had long regarded the Dynasty as a tiger and resented the Dynasty.
From disappointment to despair, the Dynasty could no longer be trusted. Nowadays, the suffering had reached its extreme, and there was no tomorrow or a future. They could only turn their belief in the illusory afterlife, hoping that after death, they were reincarnated in a blissful country with wealth, peace, no famine, war and chaos, and no Dynasty jurisdiction.
This was the resentment of all living beings and the source of the Great Wizard’s strange power.
——This was also the wishing power of all living beings.
As for what the Great Wizard really was and why he could master such power, they didn’t know yet.
The most urgent thing is that after the death of the Great Wizard, the resentment and grievances would distribute. According to the Young Master, the grievances of the living people over the past few hundred years would directly turn into fierce ghosts. Demons would run rampant in heaven and earth and would be unstoppable.
He saw the Great Wizards’ body gradually dissipating.
Starting from the edge of the body, it turned into black ash and scattered between heaven and earth.
The blood mist was getting thicker and thicker in the sky and on the ground.
He also saw Ling Fengxiao staring at the body of the Great Wizard and remained silent.
A blood-red ray of light seeped out of the Great Wizard’s body.
When the Great Wizard’s body had completely dissipated, the thing revealed its full appearance.
A blood-red, crystalline thing, like the color of blood of the sky and ground, condensed and compressed into a core.
The reason why the Great Wizard could coalesce and manipulate the grievances of all living beings was probably related to it.
It was beating slightly, like a heart, with ominous color and resentment. The rhythm of blood mist changed as the core kept pulsing.
Lin Shu saw that its edge had begun to melt a little!
A single drop of watery blood dripped down, and a demonic and incomparable blood-colored meteor fell from the sky.
Anyone with a discerning eye could guess that when the heart completely melted, that was when the sky full of demon stars would fall. Reference to the Young Master’s statement, resentment would breed in the world and demons would run rampant.
One hand held that pulsing heart.
Long, slender fingers, snowy white color.
Ling Fengxiao’s hand.
“Baby.” Ling Fengxiao looked at him.
His eyes were gentle and seemed to be forlorn.
He said very slowly: “Baby, I’m going to get dirty.”
The next moment, he pressed this blood-red heart, directly into his chest.