Chapter 200: The Real Reason

Looking at the white smoke drifting from the extinguished candle flame, Ren Yidao's expression was quite strange.

"... Ahem."

Taking a deep, forceful breath, Ren Yidao bit his lip hard, restraining himself from letting his expression distort.

Pfft!

No.

He couldn't laugh at a time like this.

In this short span of time, Ren Yidao thought through every sad thing from both his lifetimes.

But in the end, he still couldn't hold it in.

"Pfft... cough, cough, cough."

Amused.

I don't want to be either.

But this scene really makes it hard for a person to hold it in!

What does this mean?

A person dying is like a lamp going out?

The Master is done for?

"Could it be that I blew the Master to death?"

Looking around with some guilty conscience, Ren Yidao gave a hollow laugh, not knowing who he was explaining to.

"Ahahaha... how could that be~"

It's a good thing Senior Sister isn't here, otherwise... he definitely wouldn't have a good time.

Ren Yidao didn't have much affection for his cheap Master, so he could make dark jokes at will.

But Jing Yueqin is different; she is that extraordinary woman who would have Fallen into Demon to search for the Master.

If one had to say, a large part of Ren Yidao's malicious prejudice against Luoyue Shangren also stemmed from this.

If you're going to die, just die completely so we can help you get revenge or something.

Don't go missing in some neither-here-nor-there state, making everyone worry all day long...

"How old are you, and you still don't make people feel at ease."

Muttering, Ren Yidao reached his palm toward the Bronze Lamp, wanting to relight the wick.

But the moment he was about to touch the lamp, his expression changed.

!!!

An indescribable warning made his expression shift.

Not right!

This feeling is...

He wanted to pull his hand back, but his palm was firmly fixed in place, maintaining his previous posture without moving.

"... You've got to be kidding! Again?"

Feeling the sensation of his body not belonging to him again, Ren Yidao really couldn't hold it in.

Not amused.

His body had been occupied by someone else again...

The Sect Leader Senior Uncle at least knew to discuss it, but this one didn't even say hello.

No, what do you people mean!

Are you sick!

Why are you all coveting my body!!?

Am I some kind of budget hotel? Or some kind of public transportation?

How come everyone wants to come into my body for a walk?

Completely disregarding his own previous behavior of using Li Lingling's body as a convenient camera, Ren Yidao pointed fingers at the existence currently occupying his body.

Don't you people have your own bodies!!? (Super loud)

Then, Ren Yidao saw the other party's body.

Before him, at some unknown time, a skeleton draped in purple Daoist robes had appeared.

"Oh, oh oh..."

Fine.

They really don't have one.

Then, Ren Yidao noticed a detail.

The posture he was currently holding was exactly the same as the skeleton's; both were reaching out to touch the Bronze Lamp.

It was as if a strange Mirror had appeared before him, reflecting his own reflection.

It was just that the world inside the Mirror was completely different from the outside.

The self in the Mirror was a skeleton covered in Runes, and that Bronze Lamp had not been extinguished, shining with a faint candlelight.

What is this trying to...

Being able to think so calmly was, on one hand, because Ren Yidao was sitting on a meditation cushion, and on the other, because he didn't sense any malice from the other party.

It was very strange.

Even though his physical body had been seized by someone and there was a risk of being possessed, Ren Yidao wasn't worried.

Because resistance was useless.

Unlike the last time his body was occupied by the Sect Leader, the status of this intruder was so high that Ren Yidao couldn't even comprehend it.

Regarding the Sect Leader's power, Ren Yidao could still fathom a thing or two and hold a sliver of awe, so he kept all the words he had previously cursed the Sect Leader with buried in his stomach.

However, just how strong this mysterious existence was... he could not even describe it.

When facing a high mountain, people can still understand its majesty and height, having a feeling of looking up at a high mountain.

However, few people can truly comprehend the vastness of Heaven.

Because the difference in level is too great, one can no longer feel fear.

He felt as if he were a drop of morning dew, merging into the vast ocean.

The ignorant are fearless.

The more one knows, the more one realizes how little one knows.

Moreover, at the very moment the other party quietly occupied his body, Ren Yidao had a flash of realization.

"So, this was all inevitable."

"Where there is a cause, there is an effect."

Why had he been so insanely eager to go deep into the water?

It was to strengthen his physical body, and that was indeed part of the reason, but... was it really that urgent?

Before this, Ren Yidao had not noticed the problem.

But looking back now, no matter how he looked at it, he felt something was wrong.

It felt as if his previous behavior was like someone who had lost their mind.

Ren Yidao's cultivation had always been very "Buddhist" (laid-back), and he was never one to be eager for quick success.

A guy who was cautious and would rather suppress his cultivation in the Human Realm for decades, how could he be so urgent that he would rather expose his trump cards than enter this Cave Abode of unknown depth?

Is this really something I would do?

... No, it wouldn't be.

Everything had a reason.

In the depths of his heart, he did not know when a suggestion had been added.

A powerful will had quietly influenced his behavior, letting him unknowingly fall into a great net that had long been woven.

"Still too weak..."

Originally, after his true body stepped into Spirit Transformation, Ren Yidao thought he could walk sideways through the world.

But he did not expect that while such strength could not be considered weak, it was still not enough to look at in front of a truly powerful existence.

Previously, Ren Yidao obtained benefits; this is the cause.

And now, it is time for him to repay; this is the effect.

As for what this repayment actually was, Ren Yidao was not too worried.

Since the other party chose to focus on Causality, they would abide by the principle of equivalence.

Just having taken a few benefits for his physical body, it was impossible for them to make him pay with his life.

Anyway, resistance is useless, might as well give up...

Huhu exposing belly. JPG

Whatever you want to do, just do it.

Thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning, but not much time had passed in the outside world.

When Ren Yidao gave up, he and that skeleton also began to move.

No, that's not right.

It was his body that moved first, and then the skeleton followed his movements and slowly shifted.

Although the skeleton's movement was abnormally slow, it was exceptionally firm.

The crystalline finger bones moved bit by bit, bit by bit, toward the Bronze Lamp.

Time flowed slowly.

Finally, the fingers of Ren Yidao and the skeleton arrived before the lamp wick, and they exerted force together, pinching the wick simultaneously.

Together, they pinched out the candlelight!

Hiss—

Inside the body of Baihu Daoshen, the gray mist that had been roaring suddenly went quiet.

Then, it began to tremble violently, a hundred times more wildly than before!

"No!!!"

The center of the gray mist began to tear, appearing with tens of thousands of gaps, and it became uncontrollable, rapidly spreading toward the whole.

"You old Ghost Star, you actually haven't died yet! I am not reconciled! No—"

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