Chapter 113

Master and Disciple Night Talk

"The number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the world is as vast as the stars in the sea, and every period of time, countless new disciples can be born. Take the Shangqing Sect for example, you have been in the sect for thirty years, and now there are many more junior brothers and sisters. If you open the mountain to accept disciples every ten years, then every ten years, just within the Shangqing Sect, there will be thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators."

The moonlight was melting, the bamboo tips were swaying, and on the giant bamboo forest that seemed to reach the sky, a magic boat was anchored. Where the spiritual pressure of this magic boat passed, no bird calls or beast roars were heard for a hundred miles. However, there were no lights in the boat, and the cabin was silent, as if all things had entered silence. Only a young cultivator was sitting casually on the bow of the boat, and a young girl in her prime was kneeling beside him, her jade hands vaguely clenched into fists, hammering the young cultivator's knees one after another. Her eyes were focused on the thousands of spiritual lights pointed out by the young cultivator, and her hands gradually stopped, leaning over, almost falling off the bow of the boat. When she spoke, she changed the subject, "Master, you have cultivated the mental method of the 'Taishang Response Chapter'. In your senses, is Langhuan Heaven like this?"

As soon as the words fell, she frowned again, as if she felt that the number was extremely huge, "Thousands? But I don't know many of them."

True Person Wang gave a hum, his long fingers pushed lightly, and the thousands of spiritual lights converged and released, turning into a sea of spiritual light stars like the Ganges sands in front of the boat in the blink of an eye, as if reflecting the stars in the sky. He blamed her thinly, "Listen carefully, don't inquire about other people's cultivation methods at will... Just in the Central Continent, so many Foundation Establishment cultivators will be added every ten years, and this is only an approximate number, calculated from the number of sect members supported by the spiritual land occupied by the Shangqing Sect. The real number is probably even more."

"There are so many Foundation Establishment cultivators, your interaction with Young Master Li is like two grains of spiritual light accidentally touching and intersecting. For you, it's just accidentally making a friend. In this number of stars, it's not conspicuous at all. Even if it has an impact on the general trend of the world in the future, it will only attract the attention of the powerful when you and Fellow Daoist Li both have hopes for Nascent Soul."

True Person Wang flicked his fingertips, and the two grains of spiritual light became brighter and brighter, unconsciously coming to the many light points, turning into a little spirit pig with double buns on its head and a plum, and then disappeared again. Ruan Ci was already angry and shouted, "Ah, Master! How can you bully people like this!"

But she was in the wrong after all, and didn't dare to lose her temper. Seeing the two light points disappear, she stopped talking and listened carefully. True Person Wang also seemed not to hear it and continued, "But in our eyes, cause and effect are not connected like this. These ten thousand spiritual points are not floating here alone."

He waved his sleeves, and the spiritual points twisted and spread, as if tree seeds were sprouting, deriving various colored silk threads in the air, some thick and some thin, each with a different shape. For a moment, it seemed that all these light points had become a heaven, slowly rotating in the air, deep as the universe. Ruan Ci wanted to distinguish the light points themselves, but she couldn't. She couldn't help rubbing her eyes, thinking, "Cave Heaven cultivators probably can't all sense all these light points clearly. So much cause and effect consumes too much spiritual sense. That's why only the most brilliant and talented among cultivators are qualified to practice the response mental method."

She glanced at True Person Wang and thought of Xie Yan, Tai Shi Yi, and suddenly felt a trace of unwillingness in her heart, as if if she didn't practice a response mental method, she would be compared by these most outstanding cultivators in the universe. However, the response mental method could only be practiced at the Jin Dan stage at the earliest. Now she just suppressed this thought for the time being and listened to True Person Wang continue, "These many causes and effects should logically cover up the interaction between the two of you, but most Cave Heaven True Persons will not sense the cause and effect of so many juniors. First, it is exhausting, and second, it is useless. Therefore, in the way of calculation, it is destined to be inferior to cultivators who have practiced the response mental method."

"They mostly pay attention to the cause and effect of several types of people." True Person Wang pointed his long fingers, and the light points with purple cause and effect gradually emerged, "Foundation Establishment ninth level, Cave Heaven is promising, and in the future, they may be qualified to become one of us, so it is naturally worth a second look."

"Fortune is prosperous, favored by the sect, the continent, and even the fortune of the universe. Such children of fortune are mostly born in response to the number of fortunes and have their own achievements when they come to this world. Cave Heaven True Persons must also think about their position in this great catastrophe of fortune. Whether to act according to the catastrophe or against the catastrophe, they naturally cannot wait until the matter is imminent to make a decision. Sometimes when this light point is born and the causes and effects of all parties are pulled, the game has already begun."

"Besides this, the top three levels of Foundation Establishment, with hopes for Nascent Soul, can also be considered the backbone of the sect, can walk with those core disciples for a period of time, and are even more entangled with some causes and effects. If the spiritual sense is not very limited, most will also pay attention to one or two. The disciples under the Cave Heaven, entangled with the master's cause and effect, naturally have to pay attention at all times."

Following True Person Wang's words, most of the light points had faded, and only the light points surrounded by purple, red, yellow, and blue silk threads were still shining in the field. Some of these light points also had various cause and effect lines connected. In this vast night sky, these hundreds of light points appeared so rare, and from time to time, a few went out. Seeing this, Ruan Ci couldn't help but be anxious, grabbed True Person Wang's sleeve, pointed to the front, and asked, "Master, why are there, why are there stars falling?"

True Person Wang said, "That is naturally perishing halfway. You killed that disciple of Yanshan, isn't that one of the stars that lost its light? And this trip to Hengze Heaven, there are also several small stars that should have been in the gaze that disappeared."

Ruan Ci finally understood. Thinking about the size of the Central Continent, such disputes would not only happen around her. Every day, new stars that can enter the senses of upper-level cultivators are born, and every day, such cultivators perish. The number of people added and the number of people who perish every year for these hundreds of light points is probably the same. The cultivators who finally break through to the upper level within the time limit are naturally a number that Cave Heaven cultivators can control at will.

Even knowing that not everyone can reach the upper level, and that perishing halfway to the Dao is the norm, she couldn't help but feel a little lost when she saw this scene, and pinched True Person Wang's robe until it was wrinkled. After a long while, she came back to her senses and hurriedly let go and patted it slightly. True Person Wang seemed not to notice, his sleeves brushed lightly, and a big star appeared in front of him, spreading out various thick silk threads, and there was a white line, full of sword energy. True Person Wang said, "Even Nascent Soul cultivators can peek at cause and effect through magic treasures and cultivation methods, but most of them focus on their own close disciples. Do you know how eye-catching a disciple like you is in the starry sky? And after you and Li Pingyan became friends, the moment cause and effect was born, how many close upper-level cultivators around him would have some sense in the dark?"

Beside Ruan Ci's light point, several light points were born at some unknown time, one of which was dim and hidden, and seemed to have no connection with Ruan Ci. Only by observing carefully could one find a black line connected. There were several other light points, all shining brightly, and one was shining with stars and sword energy. True Person Wang waved them all away, leaving only one prosperous light point, and slowly approached Ruan Ci's big star. Both sides trembled, and a green line linked them together. At this time, the other silk threads on the two light points were also affected and began to grow and entangle, as if the big stars connected by these cause and effect lines were also affected by this, and there were many more variables in the future.

"This is the change in cause and effect when you became friends at Huangshoushan. Such changes are naturally something we in the Purple Void Heaven are happy to see. With this green line connected, more causes and effects will spread in the future, just like our Purple Void Heaven's fortune spreading outward through you, and we may have some confidants in the Jin Bo Sect in the future. But this is only seen in the void. To land on the ground, we still need to follow the reflection of the virtual number and adopt certain means."

"And what should those cultivators who don't want to see such cause and effect connected do?"

Ruan Ci was already listening intently. Following True Person Wang's pointing, she looked at the unpredictable sea of stars and tried to answer, "Pinch, pinch off our cause and effect line?"

True Person Wang couldn't help but smile slightly, "Except for the Ancestor of Cause and Effect, who can do this? Cause and effect are hidden in the virtual number, mysterious and mysterious. If you are not a cultivator who practices the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, if you want to stir it, it will be like this."

He rolled up his sleeves and leaned over slightly, as if he wanted to pick up the two light points himself. But as his long fingers reached into the void seawater, the light points seemed to be under great pressure and trembled slightly. The next moment, the two light points went out one by one and turned dim. The cause and effect lines in the light points did not go dark because of this, but became brighter. A very thick blue line extended upward from Ruan Ci's star, connecting to a brilliant nebula. The nebula was affected by this and jumped slightly, and hundreds of cause and effect lines were born because of this. One of them was entangled with True Person Wang's long fingers. On Li Pingyan's side, there was a similar scene. Both were because the light points went out, but instead, countless causes and effects were born, stirring the sea of stars into a mess.

Ruan Ci couldn't help shouting, "Why did I die... Master, hurry up and bring me back to life."

True Person Wang waved his sleeves, and Ruan Ci's light point was born again. Ruan Ci breathed a sigh of relief. She knew it was an illusion derived by True Person Wang, but just now, unconsciously, she was very concerned. She leaned forward and climbed a few steps, looked down at the changes in the sea of stars, and wrinkled True Person Wang's knees and clothes again.

"Langhuan Universe does not like the strong bullying the weak. That's how it is. Upper-level cultivators want to interfere with the cause and effect of lower-level cultivators, often going against their wishes and causing unexpected effects. Especially for a Cave Heaven direct disciple like you, cause and effect is directly connected to me, so even if there are cultivators who want to cut off your cause and effect, they can only act like this."

True Person Wang gently pointed his finger from the nebula to the next layer, pushed out a big star, and his long fingers followed the cause and effect spread by the big star, depicting the trajectory, extending to the next layer. Finally, this cause and effect line gathered into a small star cluster and flew towards Ruan Ci and Li Pingyan. The stars intersected, the cause and effect shone brightly, and then slowly dimmed. At this time, the causes and effects of all parties had changed. The green line between Ruan Ci and Li Pingyan was still connected, but the light had dimmed, and the two had born many new lines, but I don't know where they were extending.

"Such actions are the few people who attacked you today in the real number. And the general trend of the world is a sea of chaos formed by such causes and effects."

The sleeves danced again. At this time, what Ruan Ci saw was completely the reflection of the countless seas of stars in the sky. True Person Wang said, "Even the most useless living creature, its casual action, may push the flow of starlight to the Cave Heaven level. It's just that we are not Ancestors, and we cannot see the subtle connection. In our eyes, the general trend of the world, disciples like you are also star numbers closely connected to the upper level. Perhaps Foundation Establishment disciples are endless, but at this time and place, there are only so many who are qualified to be paid attention to by us. Your every move can also push major events forward, just in ways you can't think of. That's why I said you see yourself too small and the general trend of the world too big."

"Now, tell me, I let the sky boat follow, and the other side sent people to tease grievances. Between our two sides, who is first and who is last, who is the cause, and who is the result?"

Ruan Ci wanted to see True Person Wang tonight, the original intention was not to let True Person Wang treat her as a chess piece again, to stir up the situation in the Jin Bo Sect. She had unknowingly become the opportunity for the rise of the Sect Master's lineage, but she had not gained any benefits, and even failed to achieve the most basic knowledge. Just like today's events, with True Person Wang's ability to calculate, how could he not know about such a dark force sent by the Jin Bo Sect? She originally just wanted to visit a friend, but became the vanguard for the Purple Void Heaven to intervene in the Jin Bo Sect. She was still unaware, and True Person Wang didn't even show his face, only instructed Tiger Servant and others. How could she not feel used?

After listening to such a lesson, she finally knew that the scale in the eyes of Cave Heaven True Persons was indeed completely different from Foundation Establishment. If True Person Wang hadn't explained it carefully, I'm afraid the two sides would have had misunderstandings again. She was silent for a moment before tentatively answering, "I'm afraid there is no first or last, it's all the change in cause and effect born when the disciple and Senior Brother Li intersected?"

A smile appeared on True Person Wang's lips. He reached out and pointed, and the reflected sea of stars turned into starlight in the blink of an eye and gathered into his sleeves. Only a little starlight turned into the little pig with double buns on its head, wagging its tail and running to the two of them. True Person Wang pointed at the little pig's nose and smiled, "Still have some understanding."

Ruan Ci was very unhappy, reached out to extinguish the little pig, and shouted, "I'm not a pig!"

She couldn't catch the starlight, so she pointed to her hair, let down the double buns, pouted, and said, "I will never comb this hairstyle again in the future. Master is really annoying."

True Person Wang ignored her and stretched out his fingers to tease the little pig to run around. I don't know when, the hair on the little pig's head was also let down. Ruan Ci was so angry that she almost stomped her feet, but thinking that True Person Wang rarely taught her, and she had many questions to ask, she had to suppress her anger and ask, "Master, there are many things you have foreseen, but I don't know. Is it because you tell the truth, sometimes it counts as personal interference, which will cause an impact on cause and effect, and even when you tell me, the cause and effect around me has already changed, and even things will go against your wishes?"

True Person Wang raised his right hand, revealing his cuffs, and the little pig ran in. He nodded, "Not bad, you and I are already master and disciple, cause and effect are integrated. If I tell you everything I know, it is equivalent to my cause and effect, all gathered in your star orbit. Then, are you still you? How much of the part that belongs to you is left?"

"You just need to move forward as much as possible in your trajectory. Sometimes you should think more, and sometimes you should think less. The Great Dao of Cause and Effect is unpredictable. Even the Ancestor, if he doesn't practice this Dao, sometimes can only say 'let it be'."

Ruan Ci nodded without speaking, her heart was empty, only feeling that True Person Wang's words seemed to make her more compatible with some kind of law and spiritual rhyme that could not be explained in the universe. At this time, her spiritual platform was like silence, her jade pool was like a mirror, her Dao foundation shook slightly, and the spiritual energy poured into her body by the Donghua Sword seemed to be more vigorous than just now.

She had been a master and disciple with True Person Wang for thirty years, and finally gradually felt that True Person Wang's teaching had infinite wonders. Although this master didn't give much guidance on cultivation methods, today's words made her feel very comfortable in her heart. From then on, she finally felt a bit of closeness to this master, and thought secretly, "Master is actually very good to me... quite indulgent to me. Sigh, I can't think about betraying the sect at every turn in the future."

Thinking that she couldn't betray her master and ancestors in the future, she felt a little regretful. She looked sideways and saw that True Person Wang seemed to have some sense, his long eyes looked sideways, and a smile seemed to linger on his lips. She couldn't help but feel a little shy, buried her head and didn't look at True Person Wang, bent her knees and hugged them to her chest, her long hair let down, drowning to her feet, as if she had an extra cloak, which made her feel a little more secure in her heart. But she was afraid that True Person Wang would leave immediately after teaching her, so she still reached out, pulled True Person Wang's sleeve, and asked, "Master, then I killed these people today, maybe it will affect the cause and effect between me and Senior Brother Li, do you... do you blame me?"

True Person Wang smiled, "What do you think?"

Ruan Ci made the most pitiful and cute appearance, flashing her eyes from under her eyelashes at him, and said softly, "Shouldn't be, doing this can also produce new cause and effect, I think... I think it will eventually satisfy Master's expectations."

"Even if it can't be satisfied, why do you really care in your heart?"

True Person Wang pricked Ruan Ci, Ruan Ci couldn't help but shrink, wanted to hammer True Person Wang's legs again, but felt that she was actually as silly as Tianlu, and even worse than Tianlu. At least the spirit tea Tianlu brought could be drunk, but if she hammered True Person Wang's legs, what would True Person Wang feel?

"I... I didn't care before, and in the future..."

She wanted to say a few nice words, but thinking that True Person Wang could probably sense her thoughts, she had to sigh and said, "Alright, I don't really care. I actually admire Master very much in my heart, but... next time, I think I still have to kill."

This was also because Ruan Ci asked herself that as a disciple, she had done a good job and had nothing to be sorry for True Person Wang, and even her return to True Person Wang far exceeded the guidance she received. However, she didn't elaborate on this, but sighed, "But after killing those people, I'm actually not very happy in my heart... Master, you can sense my thoughts at that time, do you... do you think I'm very strange?"

Because of a flying bear, she killed nine people and caused these causes and effects. In fact, she didn't like the flying bear that much and couldn't bear to see it suffer even the slightest harm. If those people really didn't know of her existence and just wanted to capture the flying bear, even if Ruan Ci couldn't bear to see it, she wouldn't be so angry. The point that angered her the most was that in order to lure her to go, these people actually treated a spirit beast that was ignorant, harmless to people, and liked by her like this. In Ruan Ci's heart, she didn't think of herself as a Shangqing sect member before. Now that she recognized True Person Wang as her master, it was just that she had some feelings for the Purple Void Heaven, but she still had no sense of belonging to the Shangqing Sect, and she didn't think of cultivators as her own kind at all. Since those cultivators hurt the black-and-white flying bear for their own planning, then she could naturally kill them all because of her own anger. Even if there was enough time, she wanted to pierce everyone's shoulders, hang them up, let them suffer for months or even years under their injuries, and die slowly while awake.

Such measures could be called cruel, but Ruan Ci didn't think she did anything wrong in her heart. She was unhappy just because she realized that her thoughts were definitely unorthodox. Even if it were as close as Qin Fengyu and Ruan Rong, or as evil as Su Jingxing and Jiang Youwen, they might not care about these, but they wouldn't agree with her from the bottom of their hearts. In the end, they would feel that such a Ruan Ci was different from them. She also knew that her actions would inevitably affect her relationship with Li Pingyan in the future, and she felt quite lonely and depressed. At this time, beside True Person Wang, who could sense her best, she finally couldn't help but ask the words in her heart.

Thinking that the cause and effect connection between the two was so deep, and True Person Wang practiced the "Taishang Response Chapter", he probably understood her thoughts better than anyone else in the Langhuan Universe. This thought made her very uncomfortable before, but now it made her feel quite at ease. Ruan Ci couldn't help but lean her head on True Person Wang's shoulder and said coquettishly, "Even if it's strange, there's no way. The disciple has already been accepted, and there's no going back."

True Person Wang first said unhappily, "More and more unruly."

But he didn't push Ruan Ci away, but smiled, "So you can only be 'still smart' forever, and can't go to the two words in front—you probably have forgotten what I said when I accepted you as a disciple, and you have long forgotten that if you weren't this kind of temper, you wouldn't be the disciple I accepted."

Ruan Ci then remembered that when she dropped a piece in the altar city, she accidentally killed the incarnation of the old man at the chess stall. Although she still received the Heavenly Fate Cloud Piece, she could no longer worship the old man as a teacher because of this. Now she knew that this was to avoid the cause and effect of killing the teacher. And True Person Wang knew the past, but still accepted her as a disciple. Now that she thought about it, the sentence "Disciple, you are so worried, you underestimate your master's courage" said at that time, wasn't it the best answer to her question today?

The haze in her heart couldn't help but be swept away, and she sat up energetically, only feeling that this master, True Person Wang, was truly the most suitable for her in the world, and there was nothing bad about him. The closeness in her heart rose greatly, and she really didn't know how to let the True Person know—but this gratitude disappeared in an instant, and her heart was already full of pride, thinking about how to act recklessly and deal with this matter according to her own preferences, just as True Person Wang said, moving forward in her own trajectory.

For Ruan Ci, she never had the idea of "taking the overall situation into account". If even she thought she was acting recklessly, then it could be seen how unorthodox her approach was. But True Person Wang had never spoken against it, so Ruan Ci knew that he mostly acquiesced. Although she knew the chance was not great, she tentatively asked, "Master, can you let Senior Brother—"

Turning her head, she saw the moonlight was silent, sprinkling on the deck, but where was the True Person's figure?

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Leaving without saying goodbye like this, the admiration for True Person Wang that had just arisen in Ruan Ci's heart turned into backbiting. She stood up, stomped hard on the deck where True Person Wang had sat, muttered back to the cabin, looked around, and said strangely, "Panpan? Where are you hiding?"

There was a sound under the bed, and Wang Panpan crawled out, tucking its tail and asking in fear, "Did the True Person leave?"

Ruan Ci had just sensed its aura, but didn't see the cat's shadow, and was still surprised. Only then did she understand, smiled secretly a few times, and then complained, "Yes, he left as soon as he said—even if he didn't want to send Senior Brother, what was so hard to say?"

Wang Panpan asked, "Why did he suddenly manifest here? The spiritual pressure on the bow of the boat was fluctuating just now, scaring me so much that I didn't dare to peek. You relied on the suppression of Donghua and were safe and sound. Heaven knows how scared we followers are."

It asked its own questions, and Ruan Ci also said her own, "Hmph, if Senior Brother doesn't come, does it mean I have no one to beg?"

She had already received the True Person's tacit approval, so she naturally planned to make a big scene, stirring the cause and effect connection with Qu Tanyue in her heart, until the other party sent a positive reply, and then she was happy, sat in front of the mirror, took out a jade comb, and asked Wang Panpan, "What hairstyle do you think I should comb in the future? Anyway, I will never comb double buns again."

She had never cared much about these hairpins and powders. Because she was young in the Song State, she always combed double buns. Later, naturally, no one would come to comb her hair. Now she was more than fifty years old, and her appearance hadn't changed much. She still often appeared with double buns. Only after being laughed at by True Person Wang did she secretly make up her mind never to comb this hairstyle again. In a hurry, she didn't know what kind of hairstyle to change to. She combed her hair in front of the mirror a few times, looked at herself in the water mirror, suddenly touched her cheeks, said 'Eh', and turned to ask Wang Panpan. "Panpan—do you feel that I seem to have grown up a little at some point."

Wang Panpan's endless questions gradually stopped. Its green cat eyes looked at Ruan Ci, its pupils changed from two marbles to two lines, and then slowly rounded back. It jumped to the dressing table, licked its paws, and said softly, "You... isn't it normal for you to grow up? You only reached Foundation Establishment at thirty-two, just because of the sword energy quenching your body, your body grew slowly, that's why you looked like thirteen or fourteen. Now that you've grown a year or a half, what, what's strange about that?"

Ruan Ci glanced at it and smiled, "Why are you stuttering?"

She had already turned out a jade slip, pressed it against her forehead to look for a hairstyle, and said casually, "Is it like this? Speaking of which, Sister Rong reached Foundation Establishment at a later age than me, but she also looks like eighteen or nineteen. She must have obtained some opportunity in that secret realm, growing slower than ordinary people, but faster than me—I remember when she was picked up in the South Zhuzhou, she didn't look as beautiful as she is now."

Wang Panpan started licking its paws again, "Maybe she took a beauty-preserving pill, but don't ask her about this, lest she be shy."

What's there to be shy about taking a beauty-preserving pill? Ruan Ci didn't understand, but she was distracted by reading, so she just responded casually. Wang Panpan licked its paws enough, stepped on the table twice, stretched again, and then returned to calm, lay down again, glanced at Ruan Ci with its cat eyes, slowly narrowed them, and muttered softly, "Sure enough, they are sisters... they are really strange..."

It didn't dare to say anything more, narrowed its eyes, and pretended to sleep again.

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, actually Ruan Ci often acts coquettishly just to obtain the rights (she feels she deserves in her heart)

Want to say something, but forget it. Everyone will have their own views after reading. If the author says too much, it will feel like it destroys the fun of reading, hehe

Because I'm going out for three days starting tomorrow, I'll give everyone a red envelope. During the time I'm out, it's estimated that it's all in the draft box, and there won't be much interaction like red envelopes. I have to wait until I get home

(I watched manga all night yesterday, so I don't have any recommendations)

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