Chapter 291: A Wu, Let's Ascend Together

His voice seemed to carry a magic power, guiding me to reach out.

At the moment our fingers touched, countless ripples instantly rose in my mind.

The Copper Coin Person before me turned into Liu Junyan's appearance.

Memories surged like a spring.

The bits and pieces of my time with Liu Junyan played like a movie, continuously rewinding from the end to the beginning.

From our last meeting, when Liu Junyan gave me that golden scale, to Liu Junyan carrying me back from Hu Shan, and further back… the images rolled faster and faster, finally freezing on the moment when little me knelt before the black coffin, begging Seventh Lord to save me.

That was when I was nine, and Liu Junyan first acted to save me.

The image froze for just a few seconds, then the Liu Junyan before me suddenly changed.

Became younger.

Became exactly like the little portrait of Liu Junyan I drew in the Fenglinu room on Cangwu Mountain.

Memories continued to rewind.

But those rapidly rolling memories no longer belonged to me in this life.

From when Fenglinu and Liu Junyan parted on Cangwu Mountain, to their joint training… until they first met in a cave, where Fenglinu snatched the fish Liu Junyan had roasted.

The image froze again.

The young Liu Junyan before me changed again.

This time he was in a monk's form.

He had precept scars burned on his head, wore a kasaya, and had prayer beads around his neck and wrists… He was Dahui Chan Master Liu Xingyi.

He closed his eyes, bowed his head, making a devout Buddhist gesture, truly the image of an enlightened high monk.

But right behind him, pressed against his back, stood a figure covered head to toe in copper coins; though his true face was unclear, I could sense he was an unruly, rebellious fellow.

He is the Copper Coin Person!

At the moment these two figures appeared pressed together, my memory rewinding fell into chaos, and I could no longer distinguish any image.

Yet in every overlapping image, a constantly repeating and eerie scene always appeared.

This was in the Song Mountain Canyon.

Dahui Chan Master stood face to face with a girl.

Dahui Chan Master slightly bowed his waist to the girl and said, "A Wu, go back to Cangwu Mountain to have a look."

The next moment, Dahui Chan Master's body began to tremble slightly; a figure slowly peeled off from his back, yet ultimately could not truly separate from his body.

He seized the girl's hand, urgently saying, "A Wu, let's ascend together!"

"A Wu, let's ascend together!"

The words from the rewound scene completely overlapped with what just happened in reality, leaving me unable to tell what had occurred for a moment.

I seemed to be pulled into an endless vortex; as it kept spinning, I rapidly sank and fell within it…

Meow!

The Xuan Mao's cry suddenly rang in my mind, startling me into a brief awakening.

But the next instant, the Copper Coin Person's voice sounded again: "A Wu, let's ascend together!"

The Copper Coin Person's voice drowned out the Xuan Mao's cry, and my memory rewinding returned to the Song Mountain Canyon.

The Copper Coin Person still held the girl's hand, saying, "A Wu, let's ascend together!"

Then I saw the girl named A Wu forcefully shake off the Copper Coin Person's hand.

I saw A Wu rise on tiptoe, cup Dahui Chan Master's face with both hands, press her red lips to his, and give him a long breath…

"A Wu, let's ascend together!"

The Copper Coin Person's voice pulled me back from the rewinding scene.

Those amber vertical pupils, seen through layers of overlapping golden copper coins, gazed at me; that familiar, gentle look made me involuntarily sink into it.

He lowered his head, cupped my cheeks with both hands, stared deeply at me, and said, "A Wu, let's ascend together!"

I closed my eyes and rose on tiptoe.

The Copper Coin Person looked at me expectantly.

Just as our lips were about to meet, I suddenly opened my eyes, pressed my sword finger into the Soul-guiding Lamp's chamber, squeezed out blood, flipped the sword finger, and thrust it hard into the Copper Coin Person's heart.

Four ghost faces followed my sword finger into the Copper Coin Person's heart; I raised the Soul-guiding Lamp and shouted loudly, "Kids, hold on tight—we've completely broken the deadlock!"

The next moment, I lifted the Soul-guiding Lamp and slammed into the Copper Coin Person's body with all my strength.

A huge rebound force came back, yet I did not retreat at all.

Behind me, the hundred little rat immortals twisted again into a rope, pushing me forward desperately.

With a bang.

The Copper Coin Person before me suddenly burst apart from the impact, golden copper coins flying everywhere, then in the next moment they swiftly re‑condensed into a long, endless 'Golden Dragon'!

He was completely enraged.

The sacrificial game of 'Hundred Sons Causing Dragon Lantern' was broken by us!

The Three-Eyed Toad's tribulation was destroyed by us!

And this final move…

Those cries of "A Wu, let's ascend together" are both memory rewinding and memory confusion.

I have seen Dahui Chan Master.

In that high tower of the Song Mountain Canyon, Dahui Chan Master once told me that A Wu had given him a breath.

And this time's memory rewinding let me personally witness that scene.

Clearly, that breath of A Wu holds extraordinary significance for Dahui Chan Master and the Copper Coin Person.

Although in this short time I cannot determine what function A Wu's breath serves, I understand that the Copper Coin Person needs A Wu's breath.

No, to be precise, it is the Great Lama who needs this breath of mine.

The Copper Coin Person before me is not a true Copper Coin Person.

He is Liu Junyan entering the situation as a heretical monk, deliberately revealing a flaw, allowing the Great Lama to take advantage and even seize his body… Boldly guessing, if I had just given him a breath, what would have happened?

Would it let the Great Lama fully unite with the Copper Coin Person?

Could it even help the Great Lama ascend directly?

Some of this is utterly bizarre.

But this is not important.

What matters is that I wasn't fooled!

At the critical moment, the Mystic Cat's cry reminded me, giving me a brief ability to think and discern.

And after the Great Lama suffered repeated setbacks, he obviously became eager for quick success.

He kept repeating the same sentence over and over, his purpose too obvious, which instead revealed a flaw.

I had thought the Mystic Cat had followed Zhao Zixun back to Wufu Town, but I didn't expect it not to have left.

It should have sensed Liu Junyan's aura and run to him?

But Liu Junyan entered Small Camp Mouth in the guise of a heretical monk, permitted by the Great Lama, whose purpose was to seize a body.

Afterwards the heretical monk appeared atop the Buddha's head; at that point the Great Lama should have already possessed it.

How could he let the Mystic Cat get close?

No, no, I seem to have missed something.

The Mystic Cat itself comes from the Buddhist Gate; it and the Great Lama… in a sense share the same origin!

More importantly, the Mystic Cat was originally rescued by us from the hands of a Great Lama!

Meow!

Thoughts churned, only in an instant.

The Mystic Cat's cry came from the body of the Golden Dragon formed from condensed Golden Copper Coins, and the Golden Dragon also opened its mouth wide, lunging to bite us.

I stared fixedly at the Golden Dragon's mouth, and at the moment it lunged to bite, I leapt into its maw…