Chapter 962: Heavenly Will is Hard to Ask Since Ancient Times

"Do you know what happened in the alley yesterday?"

The gossip-monger spoke with certainty.

"What happened?"

The listener also pricked up their ears and stopped the needlework in their hands.

Such conversations often happen at the ends of alleys, commonly known as gossip.

"The Hair-Keeping Granny in Yanzi Alley, someone went there last night, and there wasn't a living person left in the whole courtyard! One by one, dried corpses were dragged out. My niece from my mother's side is in the patrol team, saying that the people there died strangely, as if they had been sucked dry!"

"Really? That old woman was evil, with a head of black hair at sixty..."

"She died too! Yesterday, a Daoist priest on Second-Hand Clothing Street said that her hair had become a demon! It is said that just after he finished saying this, he was invited by the Hair-Keeping Granny to exorcise the demon!"

"As a result, as soon as they met, the hair came alive, trapped the Daoist priest alive, and then the hair strands drilled into his pores. The Hair-Keeping Granny died too! The corpse was sucked dry by the hair, leaving only a piece as big as a child, and the scalp fell off! The Daoist priest's corpse was even more... oh my! You would have nightmares just looking at it..."

"At such an old age! Still learning to dress up, protecting that hair, no wonder she would raise evil spirits!"

The gossiping women discussed intensely, and messages, true or false, stirred up intensely in Zhigu City.

In the courtyard, a young woman with a dark blue face sat anxiously in front of the dressing table, staring at the bronze mirror.

One of her hands was uneasily twisting the handkerchief in her hand, and the other hand kept grabbing her hair.

But no matter how she pulled, the hair was firmly rooted in the scalp as if it had grown roots. But the more this was the case, the more uneasy it made people—that pitch-black and dense hair was a wig.

Looking at herself with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes in the mirror, wearing a head of beautiful hair, the woman's expression became more and more uneasy.

She pulled her braid, even affecting her scalp. Soon, the pulling of one hand turned into the dragging of two hands. The scalp was pulled upward fiercely, affecting the wrinkles on her whole face to stretch upward. The face in the mirror was distorted and ferocious, and the eyebrows and corners of the eyes were all falling upward.

It was like an old woman whose face couldn't hold the flesh, hanging up, and the whole face fell toward the head!

That distorted face became more and more expressionless, and the strength to tear the hair became greater and greater...

Her face also became uglier and uglier, the skin and flesh on her face became looser and looser. Finally, the whole skin was like a piece of clothing, a skin bag wrapped outside the skeleton with countless wrinkles, collapsed. The scalp was pulled high, as if it wasn't a person, but a piece of human skin being pulled!

At this time, a man appeared in the mirror.

A man with a pale face, sickly, with a skin color like cold white jade, stared at the woman through the mirror. He paced a few steps behind the woman, pressed her shoulders like a lover, leaned his face to her ear, and stared at her in the mirror.

Outside the mirror, there was still only the woman, but on the loose skin on her shoulders, there appeared two handprints pressed down, and a faint mark appeared on her collapsed right cheek.

It was as if someone was really leaning against her.

The man in the mirror stretched out his fingernails and sliced open her scalp. Under the scalp was dense, wriggling hair. In that instant, the hair surged out like a waterfall, as if there were no bones or flesh under the human skin, only hair...

The man with delicate eyebrows, even somewhat demonic, dragged an old Daoist priest out of the hair.

He grabbed the old Daoist priest's withered hair bun, which was formed by a few strands of hair tied together, and smiled, revealing sharp teeth.

He whispered in the old Daoist priest's ear: "Caught you!"

"Lord Lord Chi Chi Fenruo!" The Tongshen old Daoist whispered: "It is actually the Lord who took action personally. For a cheap life of mine, why go to such lengths?"

"You are not a cheap life. In the past, you were the backbone of my Tai Sui Alliance. Your Yin Spirit cultivation is not bad. But I didn't expect that you would achieve the Yang Spirit in just two reincarnations, and you hid it from everyone. You suddenly took action and stole the prototype of the Dao seed prepared by the alliance. I don't even know where you got the Reincarnation Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu of this world and escaped here. If I hadn't taken action personally, you might have really stolen the Dao seed nurtured by this alliance here!"

"Tongshen! Doing such a big thing, how can you talk about a cheap life? Your life is worth a Dao seed! No one can say it's cheap..."

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo's face was still pressed against the Tongshen old Daoist, staring dead at the mirror.

Outside the mirror, the Tongshen old Daoist stood on the human skin and hair covering the ground, with no one around him, but he could feel Lord Chi Chi Fenruo grabbing him.

The Tongshen old Daoist gasped a few times, finally calmed down, half-closed his eyes and whispered: "I am... I am also for this life of mine!"

"Master Miaokong is dead! So I am really curious, what exactly did you do in the Earth Immortal Realm in the past?" Lord Chi Chi Fenruo whispered: "Master Miaokong was a rising star quite favored by the alliance, and you, Tongshen Daoist, have always been known for your caution."

"What exactly happened that made his simple reincarnation mission a one-way trip, and made you live in fear ever since? Even, you lost a Primordial Spirit True Immortal of the alliance! The Tai Sui Alliance is named after the twelve phases of the Year Star. The alliance oversees the twelve Primordial Spirit True Immortals of the past and future in the reincarnation land, each corresponding to a fate. Losing one for no reason because of you is a big deal you stirred up!" Lord Chi Chi Fenruo smiled calmly.

The Tongshen old Daoist gasped a few times and said: "We wiped out the Supreme Louguan Dao!"

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo's eyes widened, full of smiles: "This... really exceeded my expectations..."

"You... wiped out the Supreme Louguan Dao? Is it the Supreme Louguan Dao personally transmitted by Tai Shang? Is it the Supreme Louguan Dao transmitted by the Wenshi Dao Venerable? Is it the Supreme Louguan Dao where the Tai Shang Dao Xie Xie Zushi rode an ox westward, was stopped by Yi Xi, and built a hut at Supreme Louguan to transmit the five thousand words of morality?"

The Tongshen old Daoist's face was ashen, and he nodded.

"Hahahaha..." Lord Chi Chi Fenruo looked up and laughed wildly. He even let go of the Tongshen old Daoist, dancing with joy, his madness carrying some wantonness: "It really is that Supreme Louguan Dao! What else? What else did you do? Did you steal Tai Shang's Dao Dust Pearl, or kill the revival patriarch of the Supreme Louguan Dao?"

The Tongshen old Daoist murmured: "I only found out later that Master Miaokong wanted to plot Tai Shang's Dao Dust Pearl!"

"And I never expected that the Lord of Reincarnation was calculating us!"

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo stopped laughing! He looked at the Tongshen old Daoist and sneered: "You really dared to grab it! Good vision, the Three Treasures of Tai Shang! If you had grabbed any other two, you would be gone! Any spiritual treasure with a complete Dao Fruit is a Great Achievement Dao Monarch!"

"Two Yin Spirits, going to grab a Dao Monarch!" Lord Chi Chi Fenruo gently hit the Tongshen Daoist's old face: "Should I say you dare to think and do? Or are you reckless?"

The Tongshen old Daoist was angry!

He struggled to raise his head: "Before knowing that thing was the Dao Dust Pearl, who could have imagined Master Miaokong would have such a move? He was full of confidence, and had the Lord of Reincarnation reversing time and space, manipulating the universe, and cutting off karma. Who knew he was hitting that kind of deadly thing?"

"And that Supreme Louguan Dao—the Dao lineage personally transmitted by Tai Shang, holding a spiritual treasure equal to a Great Achievement Dao Monarch, was wiped out by the two of us, mere ants of Yin Spirits. The Wenshi Dao Venerable didn't even want his face!"

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo just laughed: "Speak, continue speaking, the Wenshi Dao Venerable might be listening!"

Seeing the Tongshen old Daoist's face change drastically, he whispered in Tongshen's ear: "You don't think the Lord of Reincarnation can really stop a Dao Venerable, do you!"

"Haha..."

Looking at the Tongshen old Daoist who had no human color, he patted his face: "Scaring you, the Lord of Reincarnation can certainly stop him!"

"Manipulating time and space, creating all things, reversing karma—the higher the cultivation, the more one can feel the unfathomable nature of the Lord of Reincarnation. Even a Dao Venerable would find it extremely difficult to lock onto the time and space we shuttle through."

"But besides our Tai Sui Alliance, there are organizations like the Taiqing Sect, the Wujian Demon Gate, the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, etc., in the reincarnation land."

"Above the reincarnators, there are also reincarnation walkers who hold the authority of reincarnation! Our alliance's boss, Kundun, is a reincarnation walker!"

"And the power of the Daoist sect in the reincarnation land will only be stronger than ours."

The Tongshen old Daoist whispered: "Taiqing Sect, Wujian Demon Gate, Lingxiao Treasure Hall..."

"The Earth Immortal Realm is a taboo." Lord Chi Chi Fenruo said lightly: "The Lingxiao Treasure Hall has been committed to suppressing the reincarnators in the Earth Immortal Realm, and the Taiqing Sect does not dare to easily get involved, especially the time and space node you and Master Miaokong went to. The revival patriarch of the Supreme Louguan Dao is about to be born, cutting off the time and space of the Earth Immortal Realm for ten thousand years. The Taiqing Sect people are even less willing to get involved, so as not to cause internal disputes within the Tai Shang Dao."

"Tai Shang's Dao Dust Pearl!"

He closed his eyes slightly and sighed: "No wonder Jun Nuo had a clue and chased it down, only to sink in the spiritual light of the Kunlun Realm. That world has a White-Eyebrow Patriarch in the past, a son of luck, killing one reincarnator after another. In the future, there is a bronze door, and no matter what kind of figure, they dare not move time to the past. It is rumored that the bronze door has stood until the end of time."

"The Dao Dust Pearl is the starting treasure of that revival patriarch of the Supreme Louguan Dao, able to confer gods, and is also the luck of Tai Shang Dao's divine path."

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo opened his eyes: "You dare to have designs on this kind of thing?"

The Tongshen old Daoist widened his eyes and lost his composure: "It was the Lord of Reincarnation who calculated us!"

"Master Miaokong did such a big thing, not without caution. He used all his accumulation for impacting the Yang Spirit here. Not only did he exchange for a Reincarnation Guide, but he also applied the 'Secret Demon Impeachment Soul Three-Life Prohibition' to the boy sent into reincarnation."

"But that reincarnation mission itself was tricky..."

"That time, Master Miaokong hired me to help him with three hundred moral points and a Reincarnation Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu leading to the Earth Immortal Realm. The mission issued by the Lord of Reincarnation was just to go to the Li family, a cultivation family, to seize an object. We used countless means to determine that this object was something taken away from the Wang Mu of the West's country by the Xiliang monarch in the past. Hmph! The Lord of Reincarnation is accustomed to issuing such missions. Reincarnators think it's just a small matter, but it often has far-reaching influence."

"We originally thought it was the Lord of Reincarnation laying out again, interfering with the Wang Mu of the West's country and the Earth Immortal Realm. So we managed to abduct a child with a special status in the Li family. Li Er is the direct descendant of the Xiliang country, a junior pretending to be the Li family, temporarily living in the Li family. He had the object we wanted."

"It was also heavy calculations that lured him to the foot of Mount Zhongnan and abducted him."

"Then it was Master Miaokong and I who took action and wiped out the Supreme Louguan Dao..."

"After finishing this big thing, it shocked the entire Tai Shang Dao. Who would have thought that Master Miaokong had calculations early on, sealing Tai Shang's Dao Dust Pearl in Li Er's body, and then sending him into the reincarnation land with a Reincarnation Guide, avoiding Tai Shang Dao's investigation."

"After returning, because of the Dao heart oath, I couldn't interfere with Master Miaokong too much."

"But thinking that with the Secret Demon Impeachment Soul Three-Life Prohibition, there shouldn't be any big problems..."

The Tongshen old Daoist said here, half-sad and half-happy: "But man proposes, God disposes. Do you know what name he gave himself after we erased the boy's memory? He called himself Qian Chen, the revival patriarch of the Supreme Louguan Dao, Qian Chen! Hahahaha... So this is the Lord of Reincarnation's calculation."

"He didn't want any relic of the Wang Mu of the West's country; he wanted Qian Chen, he wanted the revival patriarch of the Supreme Louguan Dao."

"He wanted us two ants who were calculated to personally send Li Er into the reincarnation land."

"And he wanted us to fill in the entire fate. Why did Li Er become Qian Chen? How did the Supreme Louguan Dao revive? This is the heavenly fate... what we did was part of that heavenly fate. The Lord of Reincarnation, this is the Lord of Reincarnation's calculation."

The Tongshen old Daoist carried a bit of madness: "At this step, what else can we do? We are just insignificant little pawns in history, in fate. The Lord of Reincarnation introduced Li Er into the reincarnation land, and Tai Shang Dao sat by and watched the Supreme Louguan Dao being wiped out. When we slaughtered Supreme Louguan, maybe the Wenshi Dao Venerable was watching from heaven!"

"These big figures flip their hands for clouds and cover them for rain. What can we little pawns do?"

"I am not afraid of any revival patriarch of the Supreme Louguan Dao. Where can he go? Even if he reaches the Dao Monarch realm, so what? Cutting off the Earth Immortal Realm for ten thousand years, the Earth Immortal Realm has passed for hundreds of millions of years? Just a protagonist for a while! Still not a pawn of those big figures?"

"What is the difference between him and us?"

"In front of the Lord of Reincarnation, he is also just an ant!"

"I am afraid of the heavenly fate, of those who are high above and operate the heavenly will..."

"Heavenly will is hard to ask since ancient times! When the heavenly will strikes like a knife, we are all ants." The Tongshen old Daoist whispered: "Perhaps only the path of the Primordial Spirit can have a glimmer of hope for breaking free. Supreme Louguan Dao patriarch Qian Chen, he reached the Dao Monarch realm, knew that heavenly will, and in the future, he has a few possibilities of becoming a chess player!"

"I also want to become a chess player!"

The Tongshen old Daoist collapsed on the ground, his sweat-soaked Daoist robe sticking to his body: "After the Primordial Spirit, is it really free?"

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo shook his head: "Jun Nuo went and never returned. Under the heavenly will, how is it different from you?"

"What about the Dao seed?" The Tongshen old Daoist raised his head and asked eagerly.

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo still shook his head: "Even if it is like me, condensing a Dao seed. But in the reincarnation land, there is also this universe. The Dao seed is just an opportunity bestowed by the Lord of Reincarnation."

"What about the Dao Monarch?" The Tongshen old Daoist's eyes were blood-red, grabbing his sleeve: "A Dao Monarch should have a few points of freedom!"

Lord Chi Chi Fenruo gazed at him and said slowly: "In front of the Lord of Reincarnation, a Dao Monarch only has a few points of face. There has never been a Dao Monarch who could walk out of here... On the Reincarnation Heavenly List, even a Dao Monarch cannot be removed."

The Tongshen old Daoist sighed: "Thinking of that Supreme Louguan patriarch Qian Chen, who also couldn't get rid of the reincarnation land, I feel a bit comforted."

He gazed into the void, as if looking at the boundless, immeasurably vast reincarnation land that shrouded all time and space, gazing at that unfathomable Lord of Reincarnation.

"We are all the same!"

He murmured: "Under the heavenly will, in front of the Lord of Reincarnation, we are all the same! So, why don't I have a chance? I can also be a Dao Monarch!" ===== CHAPTER 963 =====