Chapter 298

If the rule of Tai Yi is "change," then the "grid" granted to Xia Yubing by Tai Yi is "unchanging."

"You are a Grantee of Tai Yi. Any change that happens to you, unless seen by Tai Yi, is as if it didn't happen." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lay back on the bed with his hands behind his head and said: "If it didn't happen, it doesn't exist."

Xia Yubing looked at the intact nails on her hands and then at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's expression, which was as clear as water, and swallowed silently.

"That is to say, my state is locked at the time I left Zanjü Town. That was the last time the Four-Faced Buddha observed me." Xia Yubing: "No matter what changes happen to me, as long as I leave the observation of others, my physical state will be reset to the state when I just left Zanjü Town, and I will change back to what Tai Yi thinks I am..."

Although her body left, her soul was forever imprisoned in that small town.

Even if she was killed by someone, she would be forcibly brought back to life because Tai Yi thought she was alive.

"You can say that, but the 'unchanging' given by Tai Yi is not omnipotent. After all, it is just a granted grid, not something that truly belongs to you. It is not absolute enough."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe continued: "Conventional means like swords, guns, and cannons are fine, but if you are killed by an Ascender who holds the rule of instant death, I estimate even Tai Yi can't save you."

Let's understand the names of Tai Yi and Tai Yi literally.

Tai: refers to the initial, the earliest.

Yi: refers to change.

Yi: refers to all, everything.

Translating, the meaning of the word Tai Yi is: the initial change.

Tai Yi is "the initial appearance of everything."

"Tai Yi" in the context of mythological stories generally refers to Donghuang Taiyi, the supreme god in the Chu mythology system. This name is even more interesting.

Dong refers to the first direction of southeast, northwest; Huang refers to people who understand the essence of all things in the world; Tai refers to the initial and earliest; Yi is the literal meaning.

Donghuang Taiyi, translating it means: 1111.

After listening to Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's explanation, Xia Yubing lowered her hands and sat on the edge of the bed, lost in thought. She remembered the words Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said when he took her away from Zanjü Town, but at that time she didn't understand what those plain words Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said casually meant.

"Once you come into contact with strange events and are infected by the influence of the strange, your life will never be able to return to the original normal trajectory."

"For the rest of your life, you can only keep walking along this wrong path until it is pitch black ahead."

Xia Yubing recited the words Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe once said, and her eyes gradually lost focus.

"Be happy."

A warm weight came from her shoulder. Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe sat up from the bed and patted her shoulder: "Think about it from a good perspective. This can be considered a kind of eternal youth in a sense, right? Something that even the First Emperor couldn't ask for, you picked it up after going out for a trip."

"That's what you say..." Xia Yubing relaxed her body, used Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's thigh as a pillow, lay on the bed, and stared blankly at the ceiling embedded with crystal lamps. The face of the Four-Faced Buddha, which was neither happy nor sad and had hideous cracks, flashed faintly before her eyes.

He was still watching her. From the creation of all things to the heat death of the universe, his gaze penetrated the beginning and end called eternity like silk, silently watching that unique "one." "But everything has a price, right?" Xia Yubing's eyes were dim, and her tone was also dim.

"Compared to Ascenders, the price you have to pay is already very, very light." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his head and said: "The next Gengshen Day is September 25th, the 16th day of the eighth lunar month, about half a month away."

People who exchange death for Tai Yi's granting, every Gengshen Day, their three corpses will leave the body and report this person's sins to heaven—that is, tell the Four-Faced Buddha Tai Yi the truth that this person has already died. Once the Four-Faced Buddha knows "Xia Yubing is actually dead," then she is really dead.

So every Gengshen Day, the deceased needs to cater to their preferences and bribe the three corpses with three kinds of offerings: "treasures," "tastes," and "lust," as a gag fee for the three corpse gods, in exchange for them not reporting their death to Tai Yi.

"Gengshen Day..."

Xia Yubing lay on the bed with her head on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's thigh, took out her mobile phone, and checked the electronic almanac.

The nearest Gengshen Day is September 25, half a month later. The next one is November 24, with an interval of about two months. The next one... will be January 23 next year.

The interval between two adjacent Gengshen Days is about 2 months. That is to say, every two months, she has to regularly offer sacrifices to bribe the three corpse gods. Once she forgets or is negligent, the consequence is that the matter is exposed, the news of her death cannot be hidden, and she dies on the spot.

Turning off the electronic almanac, Xia Yubing's face was gloomy, and she felt uncomfortable all over, always feeling that there were many pairs of eyes staring at her in the dark, just waiting for the day of Gengshen to come to take her life.

This is just the price that a Grantee has to bear. What about an Ascender?

Looking up, she saw Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's collar slightly open, revealing his fair collarbone. Xia Yubing swallowed and asked: "... Hey, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, have you always been like this before?"

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"Before?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe thought for a while. His past didn't seem to be very long ago, so he said: "About the same. You don't have to be under too much pressure. The price a Grantee bears is much lighter than an Ascender. Your situation now is already much better than mine was. It's nothing more than checking the almanac regularly."

"And no matter what, don't you have me." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe lowered his head and met Xia Yubing's eyes: "We are engaged fiancés, aren't we? So I won't let you die, even if it's Tai Yi, understand?"

Xia Yubing looked directly into Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's eyes, without dodging or avoiding. The two people's gazes intersected, intertwining and entangling with each other like silk, and even the air became thick and sticky.

A crisp sound broke the ambiguous silence. Xia Yubing kicked off her shoes, threw her phone aside, wrapped her hands around Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's neck, pressed him onto the bed, and then her two long legs wrapped around him like pythons.

"Today is not Gengshen Day." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said, looking at her burning eyes.

"I know." Xia Yubing's lips parted slightly, and her warm breath blew on Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's face: "Just... wanted to."

"Okay." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had no opinion.

Looking at the young boy's ascetic, cold face in his arms and his calm expression as if it had nothing to do with him, Xia Yubing felt as if there was a group of evil fire burning in her chest.

Want to violate, want to possess, want to mess up the him who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world...

The fire in her heart was just about to move, when suddenly, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe broke free from her embrace, reached out to grab her shoulders, slammed her onto the bed, pressed Xia Yubing, who was used to riding on him and acting like a tyrant, under his body, and said: "But this time I have to be on top."

(End of chapter)