Chapter 128: A Follower from the Wu Wei Gate! Nine Great Inner Dans, Jia Birth Gui Death

Since ancient times, there have been many strange people in the Daoist sects, meeting monsters and opening mountains to start killing karma.

If it were in ancient times, monsters as genuine as Shi Shougong and Su Shiyu, if they were to show off like this, once discovered by a Daoist master, it would surely be a bloody storm.

Just like the White Snake in the Legend of the White Snake, once targeted by Fahai, it was an endless struggle.

That night, in the Wang Xuanmiao Marvel Gate, during the refining of the spirit, Shi Shougong and Su Shiyu acted as decoys, luring the tiger away from the mountain, attracting most of the masters in the gate away.

From then on, these two disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Fan never dreamed that they would actually find Yujing City and find Night Doesn't Brighten.

"Hell... how did they find this place?" Zhang Fan's eyes were wide, standing in place.

One must know that in name, Shi Shougong and Su Shiyu could be considered people of the Wu Wei Gate, and they were also under the command of the Snake Bai Yujing.

"Your friend? The girl is not bad..."

Just at this moment, Jiang Hu leaned into Zhang Fan's ear and muttered a sentence, pulling his thoughts back.

"No... why do I find them so familiar?"

Soon, Jiang Hu's gaze swept over Su Shiyu, his eyes filled with suspicion.

Immediately after, he slapped his forehead and suddenly remembered.

That day, on the high-speed train to Gusu City, Zhang Fan had walked out of the restroom with this girl in front of everyone, swaggering.

At that time, Sui Brother Chunsheng and Zhan Xinyue were both present, and the way they looked at Zhang Fan wasn't right.

"You're something, peach blossom debts have found their way to the company. That wouldn't be her boyfriend, would it?"

Jiang Hu lowered his voice, his gaze lingering on Shi Shougong for a moment, his brows slightly furrowed.

He always felt that this man also had a familiar taste.

At this moment, if Sui Brother Chunsheng and Zhan Xinyue were present, they would surely recognize this monster who almost killed them in Gusu.

That night, Jiang Hu stayed in the room, guarding Zhang Fan, so he didn't personally go down, otherwise he would surely have recognized Shi Shougong.

"We can come in, right?"

Su Shiyu showed a sweet smile and asked softly.

"Come in."

Wen He was about to step forward to greet them, but Zhang Fan took a step and rushed up.

"No... no trouble... I'll take them down to sit."

Zhang Fan gave a dry laugh and pulled the two out of the company.

Just as they stepped out the door, they ran into Yu Fu.

"Old Yu, morning..." Zhang Fan subconsciously greeted him.

"Hmm!?"

Yu Fu looked at the three people walking out, first stunned for a moment, then his narrowed gaze swept over Shi Shougong and Su Shiyu.

"Little Zhang, these two are..."

"Fri... friends..." Zhang Fan didn't look back, pushed the two, and entered the elevator.

Yu Fu stood in place, looking at the gradually closing elevator, his gaze narrowed into a line.

"Old Yu, what's wrong? What are you looking at?" Wen He leaned over, following Yu Fu's gaze, but saw nothing.

"The wind is really strong today." Yu Fu muttered softly and slowly withdrew his gaze.

"Wind? Where's the wind?" Wen He looked up, looked around, reached out to feel it, and looked blank.

"Monster wind!"

Old Yu muttered casually and turned to walk into the company.

Taoyuan Plaza, 1st floor.

Ruixin Coffee.

"Are you crazy? Are you afraid others won't see that you're monsters!?" Zhang Fan stared, glaring at these two monsters, one man and one woman, each with a straw, drinking coffee.

"You really can't tell." Su Shiyu said softly.

"You can tell at a glance that you've never been a monster." Shi Shougong squinted, saying faintly.

After a monster soul possesses a human body, it transforms into a monster, its soul hidden in the spirit platform of the body, no different from a human.

Unless using special methods, such as Daoist magic arts to open the Heavenly Eye, a Demon-Reflecting Mirror, etc., one cannot see the true form, or unless the monster goes wild and shows signs, otherwise ordinary people simply cannot tell.

"Ordinary people can't tell, what if you run into someone from the second class?" Zhang Fan said with extreme guilt.

He was now a bird startled by the mere twang of a bowstring. His own identity was already quite sensitive, and he just wanted to lie low and reach the 【High Merit】 rank as soon as possible. Naturally, he didn't want to be targeted because of these two monsters.

"Where would it be such a coincidence to run into such a person?" Shi Shougong glanced: "Do you really think such masters are Chinese cabbage?"

"Alright, enough nonsense, why are you looking for me?" Zhang Fan waved his hand, not wanting to linger on this topic.

"To rely on you." Su Shiyu smiled sweetly, revealing two dimples.

"Rely on me? What does it mean to rely on me?" Zhang Fan's eyes rolled, showing an expression of astonishment.

"That day... didn't Aunt Yun tell us to follow you from now on?" Su Shiyu helped Zhang Fan recall.

"Aunt Yun... that's the Snake..." Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes, muttering in his heart.

"So, we came to rely on you."

"No..." Zhang Fan shook his head: "She just said that, I really don't have any need here, you can..."

"Aunt Yun has always been in single-line contact with me. She is no longer in Gusu City. Even if I want to find her, I can only do so through you." Su Shiyu said softly.

"I can't find her either." Zhang Fan said directly.

He didn't want to find her for the rest of his life. That was the Snake Bai Yujing, one of the Thirteen Zodiacs of the Wu Wei Gate, simply a disaster, a trouble.

"Don't worry, since she handed us over to you, she will definitely come looking for you." Su Shiyu gave Zhang Fan a reassurance.

"I can still worry, ghost." Zhang Fan cursed in his heart.

"By the way, before Aunt Yun left, she left that courtyard in Gusu City to you."

As she spoke, Su Shiyu took a document bag from her backpack and handed it over.

Zhang Fan was stunned for a moment, took it, and opened it. Inside was a stack of documents and the access keys to that courtyard.

"This... actually, I also think she will come back to find me." Zhang Fan said with extreme sincerity.

That courtyard in Gusu City was worth eight figures. He had only seen so much money during the Qingming Festival.

Even if he worked until he turned to ash at Night Doesn't Brighten, he was afraid he wouldn't earn that much money.

"That house isn't a gift to you, just temporarily letting you live there..."

Shi Shougong's words were like a basin of cold water, instantly extinguishing Zhang Fan's fiery heart.

That stack of documents only indicated that Zhang Fan had the right to use it, not that it had been transferred to his name.

"By the way, for that courtyard, the monthly property management fee is 6,836... this is for this month..."

As he spoke, Shi Shougong took a bill from his bosom and pushed it in front of Zhang Fan.

"Property management fee? Over six thousand?" Zhang Fan was stunned. His monthly salary was only five thousand. After deducting the five insurances and one fund, he only got a little over four thousand.

"Don't tell me you don't have money?" Shi Shougong said faintly, a rare smile appearing on his face.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter... we can rent out this courtyard."

Su Shiyu smoothed things over.

If that courtyard were rented out, it would be at least 35,000 a month. After deducting the property management fee, there would still be quite a surplus.

"Tsk tsk, good idea, rent it out for me quickly." Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes.

He was cultivating at Night Doesn't Brighten, and his realm was advancing by leaps and bounds. He was about to step into 【Spirit Division】 and charge toward 【High Merit】. There would be many places where he would need money in the future.

After all, the four secrets of Daoist cultivation: Dharma, Companion, Wealth, and Land.

If he wanted to charge toward a higher realm, money was naturally indispensable. Practicing magic arts, nourishing the body, refining talismans... what didn't cost money?

Relying on a dead salary wouldn't work. "Just do it... as for you two... find a place to live first. Don't run around without my word. This is Yujing City... hidden dragons and crouching tigers." Zhang Fan thought for a moment.

Rather than letting these two troubles run around outside, it was better to keep them by his side and watch them.

"Great, we can be together from now on."

Su Shiyu sat beside Zhang Fan, holding his arm, instantly beaming with joy.

"I'll handle it."

Shi Shougong picked up the document bag on the table, revealing a meaningful smile, and one sentence completely stunned Zhang Fan.

"Congratulations on joining the Wu Wei Gate."

As he spoke, Shi Shougong walked away.

"No... no... no..."

Zhang Fan woke up as if from a dream, looked at Su Shiyu, then at the departing Shi Shougong, and suddenly tasted the flavor.

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They were people of the Wu Wei Gate, and now they were following him...

What kind of relationship was that!?

What kind of relationship was this!?

"Colleagues!?" Zhang Fan's expression became even stranger.

After sending Su Shiyu away, Zhang Fan returned to the company, and the way Jiang Hu looked at him wasn't right anymore.

Besides this, Wen He's smile also carried a bit of ambiguity.

Even Old Yu, who was usually silent, would glance at him from time to time.

"What did you say while I was gone?" Zhang Fan stared at Jiang Hu and asked.

"I didn't say anything? You're not meeting me for the first time, am I the kind of person who chews on people's tongues behind their backs?" Jiang Hu said righteously.

"Fanfan, don't do it in the car in the future, it's easy to make social news."

Just at this moment, Wen He passed by, leaned over, and whispered a thoughtful instruction.

"..."

Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes, turned mechanically, and stared fixedly at Jiang Hu.

"This is concern between colleagues."

Jiang Hu grinned and laughed awkwardly.

In the evening, after finally waiting until off-work time, Zhang Fan slipped out of the company.

Not being active after work means there's a problem with your thinking.

He scanned a shared bike, crossed two streets, and arrived at the Crown Hotel, heading straight for the 19th floor 【Tingchao Pavilion】. This was the private room Li Yishan had booked.

"Not too late, right..."

Zhang Fan pushed open the door and shouted. Looking inside, he didn't find Li Yishan's figure, but instead saw two beauties sitting there.

"Hmm!?"

"It's him!?"

Zhou Miaochun and Zhou Miao Yu saw Zhang Fan enter and looked at each other, both revealing strange expressions.

Wasn't this the Daoist youth they saw on the subway this morning!?

"Coincidence is not a book, there are still mysteries in the world." Zhou Miaochun thought to herself, but remained calm on the surface.

"We are Li Yishan's friends... you are Zhang Fan, right..."

Just at this moment, Zhou Miaochun stood up and introduced herself, appearing generous and decent.

"Hello..."

Zhang Fan nodded to acknowledge, glanced around, but didn't see Li Yishan's figure.

"He went to get wine." Zhou Miao Yu looked at Zhang Fan and said softly.

During the day, she hadn't seen clearly on the subway, but she didn't expect to meet him again at night.

Zhang Fan was alone, facing two beauties, and two strange beauties at that, appearing a bit cramped. He subconsciously looked left and right, then looked at his phone.

"Daoist Zhang seems a bit uncomfortable." Zhou Miao Yu teased.

"Not really... this hall had a fire last year, and someone burned to death..." Zhang Fan casually found a topic.

"Daoist Zhang is also a practitioner, yet you still mind this?" Zhou Miaochun said softly.

"How did you know?" 【130】 "Heard Li Yishan mention it." Zhou Miaochun remained calm and said casually. 【131】 "Although life and death are determined by fate, regardless of good or bad luck, death is the end, after all, it makes people avoid it." Zhang Fan said faintly. 【132】 Practitioners of the Dao, although they face death and hope for longevity, it's not that if they have cultivation, they have no taboos. 【133】 Death represents the end. 【134】 "I heard from the elders in my family, practitioners of the Dao, from birth to death, some are obsessed with nothingness, some are obsessed with emptiness... but they all want to avoid that death... actually, they have all fallen into the lower ranks and can never prove the Pure Yang Limitless Realm." 【135】 Zhou Miaochun seemed to have feelings and talked eloquently. 【136】 "I wonder what high opinion Miss Zhou has?" Zhang Fan asked casually. 【137】 "Zhuangzi said, all things are one mansion, life and death are the same state... life and death are all in that Great Dao of Nature... only experiencing life, not passing through death, how can one prove that Pure Yang Great Dao?" Zhou Miaochun said in a deep voice. 【138】 "People are already dead, what cultivation is there? What Dao is there to practice? And how can one comprehend that Pure Yang Limitless Realm?" Zhang Fan sighed. 【139】 The easiest thing in the world to say is reason, and the hardest thing to do is also reason. 【140】 "That's not necessarily true..." Zhou Miaochun shook her head and said softly. 【141】 "I heard that there is an Inner Dan method in this world that can make people go from life to death, and from death to life..." 【142】 "There is such an Inner Dan method?" Zhang Fan showed curiosity. 【143】 If there really were such an Inner Dan method that could bring people back from the dead, its mysterious degree would probably not be below the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus. 【144】 "Could it be that Daoist Zhang has never heard of: All things Jia birth, end in Gui death!?" Zhou Miaochun said in a deep voice. 【145】 The ancients observed celestial phenomena, using the Heavenly Stems to record years. Jia is the beginning, all things flourish; Gui is the end, all things return to hiding. 【146】 "Buddhism speaks of the cycle of life and death, there must be a next life. Our Daoist sect does not speak of the next life, only seeking this life..." Zhou Miaochun said in a deep voice. 【147】 "This method is like pressing countless cycles of life and death into the same life, the soul dies and is reborn, is born and dies, just like experiencing reincarnation..." 【148】 "There is actually such a method." Zhang Fan's gaze sank, showing a solemn expression. 【149】 "All things Jia birth, end in Gui death, death followed by birth, birth and destruction never stop..." Zhou Miaochun said in a deep voice, a hint of yearning in her eyes. 【150】 "This is one of the legendary nine great Inner Dan methods..." 【151】 "Jia Birth Gui Death!!!" 【152】 The great secret of life and death, in front of this method, is nothing more than that. Every time one experiences life and death, such a person is like shedding their skin and changing their bones, never the same again, powerful to an unimaginable degree. 【153】 He is still him, and he is not him... 【154】 "Jia Birth Gui Death..." Zhang Fan muttered softly, chewing on this name. 【155】 That was a legendary-level Inner Dan method that could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus. 【156】 "Life and death are not child's play. Is there really anyone in this world who can master this method?" Zhou Miao Yu listened intently and couldn't help but ask. 【157】 "Perhaps... it's just a legend." Zhou Miaochun shook her head. 【158】 Legendary-level Inner Dan methods, each one is terrifyingly incomparable. Similarly, each one is mysterious and extraordinary. This is not a method that humans can master; it has always existed only in legends. 【159】 Jia Birth Gui Death, death followed by rebirth, perhaps it is destined that no one can master it. 【160】 "Here, here..." 【161】 Just at this moment, a hearty voice came, and Li Yishan pushed the door and entered, arriving late. 【162】 (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 129 =====

"Heard Li Yishan mention it." Zhou Miao Chan said casually, keeping her composure.

"Although life and death are fated and have nothing to do with good or bad luck, death is, after all, a taboo," Zhang Fan said lightly.

Practitioners of the Dao, though they face death and hope for longevity, are not free from all taboos just because they have cultivation.

Death represents the end.

"I heard from elders in my family that practitioners of the Dao, from birth to death, some are obsessed with 'nothingness,' some are obsessed with 'emptiness'... but they all want to avoid that death... actually, they have all fallen into a lower path and will never be able to prove the Pure Yang Limitless Realm."

Zhou Miao Chan seemed to have a sudden realization and spoke eloquently.

"I wonder what high insights Miss Zhou has?" Zhang Fan asked casually.

"Zhuangzi said, all things are one residence, life and death are the same state... life and death are both within that Great Dao of Nature. If one only experiences life and does not undergo death, how can one attain that Pure Yang Great Dao?" Zhou Miao Chan whispered in a focused voice.

"If a person is dead, what cultivation is there to do? What Dao to refine? And how to comprehend that Pure Yang Limitless Realm?" Zhang Fan sighed.

In this world, the easiest thing to speak of is principles, and the hardest thing to do is also principles.

"That's not necessarily so..." Zhou Miao Chan shook her head and whispered.

"I heard that in this world, there is an Inner Elixir Method that can allow a person to go from life to death, and from death to life..."

"There's such an Inner Elixir Method?" Zhang Fan showed a look of curiosity.

If there really were such an Inner Elixir Method that could bring the dead back to life, its level of mystery would probably not be inferior to the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus.

"Could it be that Daoist Zhang has never heard of: All things are born in Jia, and end in Gui!?" Zhou Miao Chan whispered in a focused voice.

The ancients observed celestial phenomena and used the Heavenly Stems to record years; Jia is the beginning, where all things flourish, and Gui is the end, where all things return to storage.

"The Buddhist school speaks of the cycle of life and death, and that there must be a next life. We of the Daoist school do not speak of the next life, only seeking the present life..." Zhou Miao Chan said in a focused voice.

"This method is like compressing countless cycles of life and death into the same lifetime; the soul dies and is reborn, lives and dies again, just as if experiencing reincarnation..."

"There is actually such a method." Zhang Fan's gaze sank slightly, showing a solemn expression.

"All things are born in Jia, and end in Gui; death is followed by life, life and death never cease..." Zhou Miao Chan whispered in a focused voice, her eyes revealing a trace of yearning.

"This is one of the legendary nine great Inner Elixir Methods..."

"Jia Birth, Gui Death!!!"

The great secret of life and death is nothing in the face of this method. Every time one experiences life and death, such a person is like shedding their skin and changing their bones, never the same again, becoming unimaginably powerful.

He is still him, and yet he is not him...

"Jia Birth, Gui Death..." Zhang Fan muttered, chewing on the name.

That is a legendary-level Inner Elixir Method that can rival the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus.

"Life and death are no child's play; is there really anyone in this world who can master this kind of method?" Zhou Miao Yu listened, mesmerized, and couldn't help but ask.

"Perhaps... it is just a legend." Zhou Miao Chan shook her head.

Legendary-level Inner Elixir Methods are each terrifyingly powerful, and likewise, each is extraordinarily mysterious. These are not methods that humans can master; they have always existed only in legends.

Jia Birth, Gui Death, dying and being reborn—perhaps it is destined that no one can master it.

"Here, here..."

Just at this moment, a hearty voice came, and Li Yishan pushed the door open and entered, fashionably late.

(End of chapter)