Chapter 119

Night Talk Between Master and Disciple

"The number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the world is as vast as the stars in the sea, and every period of time, countless disciples can be born again. Take the Shangqing Sect as an 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 once every ten years, then every ten years, just within the Shangqing Sect, there will be thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators."

The moonlight was dissolving, the bamboo tips were swaying, as if on a giant bamboo forest that reached the sky and the earth, a Dharma Boat was anchored. Where the spiritual pressure of the Dharma Boat passed, there was not a single bird or beast roar within a hundred miles. However, there were no lights in the boat, and the cabin was silent. All sounds seemed to have entered silence. Only a young cultivator sat casually on the bow of the boat, and a girl in her prime was kneeling beside him, her jade hands pinched into fists, pounding the young cultivator's knees one after another. Her eyes were looking at the thousands of spiritual lights pointed out by the young cultivator, and her hands gradually stopped, half leaning her head over, almost falling off the bow of the boat. When she spoke, she branched off, "Master, you practiced the mental method of the 'Taishang Induction Chapter'. In your perception, is the 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."

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 sands of the Ganges in front of the boat, as if reflecting the stars in the sky, and he scolded softly, "Listen carefully, don't inquire about other people's cultivation methods at will... Just in the Central Continent, so many Foundation Establishment cultivators are added every ten years, and this is just 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 Little 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 world's general trend in the future, it will have to wait until you and Fellow Daoist Li both have hope for Nascent Soul before it will attract the attention of the great powers."

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. Ruan Ci was already angry and shouted, "Ah, Master! How can you bully people like this!"

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

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

She glanced at True Person Wang sideways, and remembered Xie Xie Yan Huan and Tai Shi Yi. A trace of dissatisfaction suddenly arose in her heart, as if if she didn't practice an induction mental method, she would be compared by these most outstanding cultivators in the world. However, the induction mental method could only be practiced at the Golden Core 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, logically, should cover up the interaction between the two of you. However, most Grotto-Heaven True Persons will not perceive the cause and effect of so many juniors. First, it is exhausting, and second, it is useless. Therefore, in the calculation, it is destined to be inferior to cultivators who have practiced the induction mental method."

"Most of them will pay attention to the cause and effect of several types of people." True Person Wang pointed his long finger, and the light points with purple cause and effect gradually emerged, "The ninth layer of Foundation Establishment, with hope for Grotto-Heaven, may be qualified to become one of us in the future, so it is naturally worth a few more glances."

"Fortune is prosperous, and it is favored by the sect, the continent, and even the fortune of the world. Such sons of fortune are mostly born in response to the number of fortune, and they have something to do when they come to this world. Grotto-Heaven True Persons also have to think about their position in this catastrophe of fortune, whether to follow the catastrophe or go against the catastrophe. Naturally, it is impossible to wait until the matter is imminent before making a decision. Sometimes when this light point is born, when the cause and effect of all parties are moved, the game has already begun."

"Besides this, the upper three layers of Foundation Establishment, with hope for Nascent Soul, are also considered the backbone of the sect, and can walk with those core disciples for a period of time, and even entangle some causes and effects with them. If the spiritual sense is not very limited, most will also pay attention to one or two. The disciples under the Grotto-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 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 looked so rare, and a few were extinguished from time to time. Ruan Ci saw this and couldn't help but worry. She grabbed True Person Wang's robe sleeve, pointed to the front and asked, "Master, why are there still, still stars falling."

True Person Wang said, "That is naturally falling halfway. Didn't you kill that disciple of Yanshan, and one such star lost its light? And this trip to Hengze Heaven, there are also several small stars that should have been in the eyes disappeared."

Ruan Ci finally understood. It seems that the Central Continent is so large, and such disputes will not only happen beside her. Every day, new stars are born that can enter the perception of upper-realm cultivators, and every day such cultivators fall. These hundreds of light points, the number of people added and fallen each year, is probably equivalent. For Grotto-Heaven cultivators, the number of cultivators who finally break through to the upper realm within the time limit is naturally a number that can be controlled at will.

Even if she knew that not everyone could ascend to the upper realm, and falling halfway through the Dao was the norm, seeing this scene, she still couldn't help but feel a little lost. She pinched True Person Wang's robe until it was wrinkled. After a long time, she came back to her senses and hurriedly let go and patted it slightly. True Person Wang seemed not to notice, his sleeves flicked lightly, and a big star appeared in front of him, spreading various thick silk threads, and there was a white line, full of sword Qi. True Person Wang said, "Even Nascent Soul cultivators can peep at cause and effect through magic treasures and cultivation methods, but most of them are still based 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-realm cultivators beside him would have some perception in the dark?"

On one side of Ruan Ci's light point, several light points were born at some point, one of which was dim and hidden, and seemed to have no connection with Ruan Ci. After careful observation, a black line was connected. There were several other light points, all shining brightly, and there was a star shining, sword Qi crisscrossing. 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 each other. 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 the future had many variables.

"This is the change in cause and effect when you became friends at Huang Shoushan. Such changes are naturally happy to be seen by our Purple Void Heaven lineage. With this green line connected, more causes and effects will spread in the future, just like the fortune of our Purple Void Heaven, spreading outward through you, and in the future, we may possess some confidants in the Jin Bo Sect. But this is only seen in the void, and to fall into reality, we must 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 fascinated. Following True Person Wang's pointing, she looked at the unpredictable reflection star sea and tried to answer, "Will, will you pinch off our cause and effect line?"

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

He rolled up his sleeves and leaned forward 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 were extinguished one by one and turned dim. The cause and effect lines in the light points did not darken because of this, but became brighter. An extremely thick blue line extended upward from Ruan Ci's star, connecting to a brilliant star cloud. The star cloud was affected by this and jumped slightly. Thousands of cause and effect lines were born because of this, and one of them was entangled on True Person Wang's long finger. On Li Pingyan's side, there were similar scenes, all because the light points were extinguished, but countless causes and effects were born, stirring the star sea into a mess.

Ruan Ci couldn't help shouting, "How did I die... Master, hurry up and let me live again."

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

"Langhuan Zhou Tian doesn't like bullying the small, so it is. Upper-realm cultivators want to interfere with the cause and effect of lower-realm cultivators, which often goes against their wishes and causes unexpected effects. Especially for a direct disciple like you, cause and effect are 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 pointed his finger lightly from the star cloud 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, flying towards Ruan Ci and Li Pingyan. The stars intersected, cause and effect shone brightly, and then slowly dimmed. At this time, the cause and effect of all parties 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 world's general trend 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 star seas in the sky. True Person Wang said, "Even if it is a useless living creature, any random action may push the star light rotation to the Grotto-Heaven layer. It's just that we are not Dao Ancestors and cannot see the subtle connection. In our eyes, the world's general trend, disciples like you are also star numbers closely connected to the upper layer. Perhaps Foundation Establishment disciples are endless, but at this time and place, there are only so many who are qualified to be concerned by us. Your every move can also push major events forward, just in a way you can't think of. That's why I said, you see yourself too small, and you see the world's general trend too big."

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

Ruan Ci wanted to see True Person Wang tonight, originally not wanting True Person Wang to treat her as a chess piece again to stir up the situation in the Jin Bo Sect. She had become the opportunity for the rise of the Sect Master's lineage without knowing it, but she hadn't gained any benefits, and even the most basic knowledge had not been achieved. Just like today's matter, with True Person Wang's ability to calculate, how could he not know about this dark army sent by the Jin Bo Sect? She originally just wanted to visit a friend, but became the vanguard of the Purple Void Heaven's intervention in the Jin Bo Sect. She didn't know it herself, and True Person Wang didn't even see her, only ordered Uncle Hu and others. How could she not feel used?

After listening to such a lesson, I realized that the scale in the eyes of Grotto-Heaven True Persons is indeed completely different from Foundation Establishment. If True Person Wang hadn't explained it carefully, I'm afraid both sides would have misunderstandings again. She was silent for a moment, then tentatively answered, "I'm afraid there is no first or last, it is all the change in cause and effect born when the disciple and Martial Brother Li intersected?"

True Person Wang's lips showed a smile, and he pointed his finger. The reflected star sea turned into star light in the blink of an eye and merged into his sleeves. Only a little star light turned into the little pig with double buns on its head, running to the two of them wagging its tail. True Person Wang pointed to 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 star light, so she pointed to her hair, let down the double buns, pouted and said, "I won't comb this hairstyle again in the future, Master is really annoying."

True Person Wang ignored her, stretched out his fingers to tease the little pig running around. I don't know when, the hair on the little pig's head was also scattered. Ruan Ci was so angry that she almost stomped her feet, but thinking that True Person Wang rarely taught her, she also had many questions to ask, so 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 is also considered personal interference, which will have an impact on cause and effect, and even when you tell me, my cause and effect have already changed, and even things will go against my 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, and cause and effect are integrated. If I tell you everything I know, it is equivalent to my cause and effect, all gathered into your star track. Then, are you still you? How much of it belongs to you?"

"You just walk 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 if it is a Dao Ancestor, if you don't practice this Dao, sometimes you can only say 'follow fate'."

Ruan Ci nodded without speaking, her heart was empty, only feeling that True Person Wang's words made her more compatible with some kind of law and spiritual rhyme that could not be said in the world. At this time, the spiritual platform was like silence, the jade pool was like illumination, the Dao foundation shook slightly, and the spiritual energy poured into the 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, this conversation today made her feel very comfortable in her heart. Up to this point, she finally felt a bit of closeness to this master, and secretly said, "Master is actually very good to me... quite indulgent to me, sigh, I can't think of rebelling against the sect like this in the future."

Thinking that she couldn't deceive her master and destroy her ancestors in the future, she felt a little regretful. She looked sideways and saw that True Person Wang seemed to have some perception, his long eyes looked sideways, and there seemed to be a smile lingering 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 in her chest, her long hair scattered, drowning to her feet, as if she had added a cloak, which made her feel a little stable 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 Martial Brother Li, 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, "Should not, doing this can also produce new cause and effect, I think... I think it can ultimately satisfy Master's expectations."

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

True Person Wang stabbed Ruan Ci, Ruan Ci couldn't help shrinking, wanted to pound legs for True Person Wang again, but felt that she was actually as stupid as Seeing Tianlu, and even not as good as Seeing Tianlu. At least the spiritual tea brought by Seeing Tianlu could be drunk, and what would True Person Wang feel when she pounded legs for him?

"I... I didn't care before, and later..."

She wanted to say a few beautiful words, but thinking that True Person Wang could roughly perceive her thoughts, she had to sigh and said, "Okay, I don't care much. I actually admire Master very much in my heart, but... next time, I think I must kill."

This is also because Ruan Ci asked herself that as a disciple, she had done a good job, and there was nothing to be sorry for True Person Wang, and even her reward 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 perceive my thoughts at that time, 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 Flying Bears very much, and couldn't bear to see them suffer a little 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 most was that in order to lure her, these people treated a spirit beast that was ignorant, harmless to people, and liked by her in such a way. In Ruan Ci's heart, she didn't think she was a Shangqing Sect member before, and now that she recognized True Person Wang as her master, she only had some feelings for the Purple Void Heaven, but she had no sense of belonging to the Shangqing Sect at all. And she didn't think that cultivators were her kind at all. Since those cultivators hurt the black and white Flying Bear for their own planning, she could naturally kill them all because of her own anger. Even if there was enough time, she wanted to pierce everyone's shoulders and hang them up, letting them suffer for months or even years under their injuries, and die slowly in consciousness.

Such measures can 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 must be rebellious. Even if it was as close as Qin Fengyu and Ruan Rong, and 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 Ruan Ci was different from them. Knowing that her actions would affect her relationship with Li Pingyan in the future, she felt lonely and annoyed. At this time, beside True Person Wang who could perceive her best, she finally couldn't help but ask the words in her heart.

Thinking that the cause and effect between the two were so deep, and True Person Wang practiced the "Taishang Induction Chapter", she felt that he knew her thoughts better than anyone else in the Langhuan Zhou Tian. 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 I can't go back on it."

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 'quite 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 were not this kind of temperament, you wouldn't be my disciple."

Ruan Ci then remembered that when she was in the Altar City, a piece fell, and she accidentally killed the incarnation of the chess stall old man. Although she still received the Heavenly Destiny 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 the two of them killing the master. And True Person Wang knew the past, but still accepted her as a disciple. Thinking about it now, the sentence "Disciple, you are so worried, you underestimate the courage of the teacher" said at that time, isn'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 really the most suitable for her in the world, and there was nothing bad about it. The closeness in her heart rose greatly, and she really didn't know how to tell the True Person—but this gratitude disappeared in an instant, and her heart was already arrogant, thinking about how to act recklessly, and dealing with this matter entirely according to her own preferences, just as True Person Wang said, walking 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 can be seen how rebellious her approach was. But True Person Wang had never spoken against it, so Ruan Ci knew that he mostly acquiesced. Although she knew the success rate was not high, she tentatively asked, "Master, can you let Senior Brother—"

Turning her head, she saw the moonlight was silent, spilling 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 in Ruan Ci's heart immediately turned into slander. She stood up, stomped twice on the deck where True Person Wang had sat, muttered and walked back to the cabin, looked around, and wondered, "Panpan? Where are you hiding?"

There was a noise under the bed, and Wang Panpan crawled out, tail tucked, and asked in fear, "Did the True Person leave?"

Ruan Ci perceived her aura just now, but didn't see the cat shadow. She was still surprised, but now she understood, laughed a few times, and complained, "Yes, he left as soon as he said—even if he doesn't want to send Senior Brother, what's wrong with that?"

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

She asked her own questions, and Ruan Ci also said her own, "Hmph, if Senior Brother doesn't come, is there no one for me to beg?"

She had already obtained the True Person's acquiescence, so she naturally planned to make a big fuss, manipulating the cause and effect connection with Qu Qu Tan Yue in her heart, until the other party sent a positive reply, and then she was beaming with joy, sat in front of the mirror, took out a jade comb, and asked Wang Panpan, "You say what hairstyle I should comb in the future, anyway, I don't want to comb double buns again."

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

Wang Panpan's endless questions gradually stopped. Green cat eyes looked at Ruan Ci. The pupils changed from two marbles to two lines, and then slowly rounded back. She jumped to the dressing table, licked her paws, and said softly, "You... isn't it normal for you to grow up? You only established your foundation at thirty-two, just because of sword Qi tempering, your body grew slowly, this is what you looked like at thirteen or fourteen. Now you have grown a year or a year and a half, what, what is strange?"

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

She had already taken out a jade slip, pressed it on her forehead to find a hairstyle, and said casually, "Is it like this? Speaking of which, Sister Rong's foundation establishment age is longer than mine, but she looks like she is 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 South Zhuzhou, she didn't look as beautiful as she is now."

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

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

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

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, everyone. Actually, Ruan Ci often acts coquettishly just to obtain the rights (she feels she deserves)

Want to say something, but still don't say it. Everyone will have their own views after reading it. The author feels that saying too much will destroy the fun of reading, hehe

Because I will be out for three days starting tomorrow, I will send you a red envelope. During the trip, it is estimated that it will be a draft box, and there will not be much interaction like red envelopes. I have to wait until I get home.

(I watched manga all night yesterday, so I have no recommendations)

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