Chapter 74: Seventy-Two Hou

"Monster?"

Hearing Zhou Sheng's words, Lin Yu couldn't help but laugh: "Changing at will, transforming me into a king... Daoist Zhou, you have cultivated Sun Wukong's seventy-two transformations, and you still say I am a monster?"

... Sun Wukong's seventy-two transformations?

Wang Ye was startled when he heard this, and a feeling that he couldn't explain seemed to emerge in his heart.

Zhou Sheng snorted lightly and said with his hands on his back: "What I, the old Daoist, have mastered is nothing more than my own changes."

"Even if I want to fly, I have to change into a form that can fly first."

"But you, neither made by Qi like the Reverse Life Stage Three, nor used any methods like light-escaping, you simply ignored the objective laws of the world and flew up by your flesh alone!"

"With such outrageous means, if you are not a monster, who is?"

Wang Ye came back to his senses, suppressed that indescribable feeling, and muttered in a low voice: "Compared to the way of flying, I think the cage under our feet is more worthy of attention, right?"

"You still have the face to say!"

Zhou Sheng couldn't help waving his sleeves, gave Wang Ye's head a fierce hit, and then glared at him: "Mixed kid, you are the grand-disciple of the old Daoist, can't you even distinguish between the important and the unimportant?!"

"What's there to care about the cage? It's just some spatial changes!"

"It's just that this person's Dao practice is deep, and the space he imprisoned is something even the old Daoist can't move..."

Saying the last sentence, Zhou Sheng glanced at Lin Yu sideways, and a touch of fear and doubt appeared in his narrowed eyes.

What he feared was naturally the means Lin Yu showed, and what he doubted was that there was still such a person with Dao practice in the world, even if he was called an Earth Immortal, it would not be an exaggeration!

"Daoist is wrong!"

Lin Yu shook his head: "In my opinion, this little Daoist Wang Ye is much more transparent than you!"

Zhou Sheng's eyelids jumped, glanced at Wang Ye behind him and said noncommittally: "Is it? The old Daoist doesn't feel so..."

Lin Yu said lightly: "How is your cultivation compared to the Old Celestial Master?"

Zhou Sheng frowned, hesitated for a while, and sighed: "Naturally not as good."

Lin Yu smiled lightly: "Then does the Old Celestial Master have any covetous heart for the Eight Miraculous Skills?"

"Of course not!" Zhou Sheng said without hesitation, "Zhang Zhiwei cultivates the way of heaven, while we old thieves are just using clever methods to steal the machine of heaven!"

"From the realm, it is not the same level—"

Before the words fell, Zhou Sheng's voice stopped abruptly.

Immediately after, he fell silent, looking at Lin Yu with complex eyes.

Lin Yu smiled slightly and said leisurely: "Although the Eight Miraculous Skills can steal the machine of heaven, they ultimately cannot escape the word 'strange'. Only by cultivating both nature and life, and walking steadily like Zhang Zhiwei, step by step, is the right path of cultivation!"

"Although Wang Ye doesn't have the realm of Zhang Zhiwei yet, he still judged the key point by intuition."

"And you, Daoist, clearly know what the right path is, but you are still addicted to strange skills, entangled in means you can't understand, and ignore the most important depth of Dao practice."

"That's why I said, this little Daoist is much more transparent than you!"

... Is that what I think?

Wang Ye widened his eyes and looked at Lin Yu in confusion.

Zhou Sheng was silent for a moment, sighed and said: "Taught!"

As he spoke, he walked to the edge of the barrier, looked directly at Lin Yu and said: "Fine, man is the knife and I am the fish. Since I and this mixed kid fell into your urn, if you have any requirements, just say it!"

Lin Yu smiled: "Nothing, just long admired the name of the Fenghou Map, want to see it..."

Zhou Sheng grinned: "Since you said it so transparently, why do you want the old Daoist's Fenghou Qimen when you turn around?"

Lin Yu's face remained unchanged, and he asked back: "Your Fenghou Qimen?"

Zhou Sheng's smile faded, then sighed and said: "Fine, Fenghou Qimen can be given to you, but you must also promise the old Daoist that you will not harass this kid again in the future!"

"No problem."

"Good, then the old Daoist can trust you!"

Zhou Sheng opened his eyes, and a rapidly rotating After-Wind Map immediately appeared in his pupils.

Lin Yu looked at the map thoughtfully, and for a moment seemed to be immersed in a certain state.

Seeing this scene, Wang Ye said in surprise: "You really gave him After-Wind Strange Gate?"

Zhou Sheng lowered his eyes slightly, glanced at Wang Ye behind him and said: "He wants it, why shouldn't I give it?"

"Aren't you afraid he will fall into it?" Wang Ye sat paralyzed on the space barrier, with a bitter face, "This thing has nothing to do with cultivation. If he really falls into it, won't we be trapped here for a lifetime?"

Hearing Wang Ye's words, Zhou Sheng's forehead veins burst out.

He endured and endured, but finally couldn't help but give Wang Ye a knock on the head.

"Stupid donkey!"

"Such a simple truth, you think the old Daoist doesn't understand?"

Wang Ye covered his head and said aggrievedly: "Then you still..."

Zhou Sheng snorted coldly, then turned his head and looked at Lin Yu's black eyes that seemed to contain the starry sky, and said leisurely: "With such a pair of heavenly eyes, he will never fall into it, even if what I show him... is the wordless version."

Wang Ye said in surprise: "Wordless version?"

Zhou Sheng glanced at him: "Don't think that the wordless version is harming him. The old Daoist doesn't have the guts. In the final analysis, those general formulas are just ways to guide latecomers not to step on the wrong path. The real After-Wind Map is originally nothing—"

"So that's it!"

Before Zhou Sheng finished speaking, a thoughtful voice came from outside the barrier.

Wang Ye widened his eyes and looked at Lin Yu outside the barrier in shock:

"This is the wordless version... how so fast?!"

"Fast?"

Zhou Sheng didn't show any surprise, but said leisurely: "People didn't fall into it from the beginning, they were just experiencing the changes in this body!"

Otherwise, why do you think the old Daoist didn't dare to speak ill of him?

Zhou Sheng muttered in his heart, but on the surface, he looked at Lin Yu as usual.

Lin Yu thought for a while, suddenly shook his body, turned into a roc bird, and flew away with wings.

Seeing this scene, Wang Ye's pupils shrank, and the feeling in his heart became even stronger.

"Understand now?"

Zhou Sheng turned around and looked at Wang Ye calmly: "The key to this After-Wind..."

Wang Ye was silent for a moment, nodded solemnly: "Delusion to grasp all changes outside the body is just a daydream. A game of After-Wind should only be opened in this body!"

Zhou Sheng opened his mouth, hesitated for a while, but the words he blurted out were still changed.

"Then, in this game of yourself, have you found the center palace?"

"Hmm!" Wang Ye nodded, "Although setting it in the body is no longer restricted by the outside, everything in the body is operating. To satisfy the stability and tranquility required at the moment of setting the center palace, there is only one place—"

Wang Ye pointed to his Mud Pill Palace and said calmly: "Primordial Spirit!"

Zhou Sheng's face turned darker as he listened. His fists clenched and loosened, loosened and clenched, and finally couldn't help but kick him to the corner of the cage, glaring at the confused Wang Ye:

"Primordial your head!"

"If you really set it in the Primordial Spirit, then you will never be able to turn over in this life!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Sheng sighed, stared at Wang Ye and said: "Forget it, at least you have realized the true meaning of internal change. I will tell you the position of the center palace directly—except for the Primordial Spirit, anywhere in the body is fine!"

Wang Ye was startled: "Anywhere is fine?"

"Not right, right?"

Lin Yu's voice came from outside the barrier.

The two turned their heads and saw the roc bird descending from the sky, turning into the handsome young man just now, and said with a smile: "Daoist Zhou, this little guy's mindset is different from yours. Pointing him out might be more direct."

Zhou Sheng's mouth twitched, glanced at him and said: "Why don't you come?"

Lin Yu said without hesitation: "I'll come then!"

As he spoke, he looked at Wang Ye and asked with a smile: "You must have read the story of Journey to the West, right?"

Wang Ye became serious and nodded: "Of course."

Lin Yu smiled: "What about Sun Wukong's seventy-two transformations?"

Wang Ye just wanted to answer, but suddenly remembered that at the very beginning, Lin Yu bluntly said that Zhou Sheng had learned seventy-two transformations.

Since seventy-two transformations are related to After-Wind Strange Gate, then this question is not as simple as the number of Earthly Fiends.

Seventy-two, seventy-two... Got it!

Wang Ye's eyes lit up and he blurted out: "Seventy-two Hou?"

Lin Yu looked like he could be taught: "Exactly, five days make a Hou, three Hou make a Qi, six Qi make a time, four times make a year, twenty-four solar terms a year, totaling seventy-two Hou."

"Mastering the changes of these seventy-two Hou, you can call yourself a 'Mei Hou Wang' (Beautiful Monkey King)!"

"So now think about it, where is the most suitable place to set the center palace?"

Wang Ye had no more doubts and said seriously: "Just like Sun Wukong mastered seventy-two transformations, the heart ape masters changes, the most suitable place to set the center palace should undoubtedly be the heart!"

Lin Yu nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Zhou Sheng beside him: "Look, isn't his understanding quite good~"

"Education should be based on aptitude. Young people now like to listen to stories, so tell them stories. It just so happens that a master wrote such a cultivation textbook before. It's a pity not to make good use of it..."

Wang Ye smiled: "This makes sense, the kid loves to listen!"

Zhou Sheng's face turned dark, and he couldn't help but flick his sleeves: "Since you are so good at teaching apprentices, then this kid will be left to you. Anyway, he has also been expelled from Wudang, just right to be without a sect!"

Wang Ye's smile stiffened, and he hurriedly said: "Don't, Uncle Master, this expulsion from the sect is the elder's love for me. I committed a crime and poked a hole, so let me hide outside, run away, run away, do you understand?"

"Don't worry, I don't intend to take you as an apprentice either."

Lin Yu said with a smile: "Since I have seen the After-Wind Map, I am satisfied—take it!"

After speaking, he waved his hand, and two jade talismans broke through the air and fell into their palms.

At the same time, the space barrier around the two disappeared instantly.

Wang Ye exclaimed, just about to use means to deal with this free fall, but suddenly his vision blurred, and he was instantly transferred from the air to the ground below!

"Ouch~"

Wang Ye was caught off guard and fell.

After he rubbed his butt and stood up, he found that Lin Yu was still hovering in the air, looking at them with a smile.

"The jade talismans in your hands are the immortal posts of my Bai Yujing. In the future, if you encounter difficulties in cultivation or have doubts in your heart, you can use this post to find the True Monarch of the Universe in Bai Yujing!"

After speaking, his figure disappeared instantly, leaving no trace.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 75 =====