Chapter 185: Fifty percent success rate

Liao Si soon learned of Qi Ye's loss of her spiritual body.

He rushed to Chi You with a twisted expression on his face and a fiery tone, "Master, Qi Ye was the body I had my eye on, why did you pluck his spirit body!"

After pulling out his spiritual body, he will become an invalid, what does he need Qi Ye's body for?

After Chi You gave Liao Si a faint look, Liao Si cooled down, abruptly calmed down, he took a deep breath, "I'm sorry, Master."

"He's not your choice," Chi You said, "you can keep picking others."

Liao Si clenches her fists in silence for a long moment before compromising, "Okay, I'll check out the others."

He left the room and turned around to see a dusty Ge Wuchen walking back from outside, breathless. Ge Wuchen is a guy who always values his image, and Liao Si asked in an eerie manner, "Yo, Master Ge is back. What have you been doing?"

"My master sent me to do something," Ge Wuchen sat down wearily, wiping the blood from his fingers, "Who has provoked you again?"

Liao Si grunted and spoke about Qi Ye with a sense of grievance. He knew that his master would know what he was thinking, so he didn't dare to go too far, and was miserable in his words, "It was so hard for me to find a shell, but what do I need it for when I don't have a spirit body? Now I have to look at other people, but where can I find someone to my liking so easily?"

Ge Wuchen, "I don't believe you don't have a backup."

Liao Si scowled at him, "Ge Wuchen, you still know me. I do have a backup candidate, that brother of yours would be great-"

Ge Wuchen looked at him coldly.

Liao Si laughed haha and coughed again, "Ahem, take it easy, I'm just kidding."

"But don't say it, the people around Jiang Luo really meet my requirements one by one. Great potential, notorious, simple background ...... is really heartwarming."

"I'd advise you not to hit them," Ge Wuchen said slyly, looking at the blood on his body, "Jiang Luo is a tough guy who bites without barking."

Liao Si grunted, "I know. Ge Wuchen, the master is very unusual to Jiang Luo, we'd better avoid it if we can."

Ge Wuchen took another look at his miserable state, "...... Who's your spare tire?"

Liao Si's eyes flashed, "Even family."

*

Jiang Luo stayed at the bottom of the mountain for half a month, and the Fated Man did not force Jiang Luo to go back, as he said.

It's almost time for school to start, and Ji Yaozi hasn't come down from the mountains.

Jiang Luo and his friends moved back to the school. The grass and plants in the school were sickly with waiting after a winter's absence. They were instructed by Dean Xu to water the grass piece by piece with a hose.

In front of the dormitory there was a separate vegetable field, and I don't know which teacher planted the big white carrots, but they secretly pulled a few, washed the mud, and nibbled on the white carrots while they worked.

The radish was sweet and spicy, and the food made them hungry. Lu Youyi went to the cafeteria to buy a bag of sweet potatoes, and a few people piled up the fire to roast the sweet potatoes, and the smell summoned President Xu to come as well.

President Xu loved them and Jiang Luo respected him. Before waiting for the sweet potatoes to be baked, he and President Xu chatted, and the topic gradually turned to "man becoming a god", attracting the interest of the others as well.

"'Lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha' is a metaphor, it's a word that urges people to be good, and the Buddha in it refers to conversion to Buddhism. But to say that someone actually became a Buddha? I've never seen that before," Ge Zhu said, "We do good deeds to accumulate virtue, and the virtue we accumulate is for a good life and a good reincarnation after death. When people die, they are either taken away by ghosts to reincarnate, or they are transformed into ghosts and demons. People are just people, they can't become gods."

As President Xu listened to Ge Zhu, he neither nodded nor shook his head, smiling without saying a word.

Jiang Luo and the others exchanged glances and winked at Lu Youyi. Lu Youyi received the message and he boldly asked, "President Xu, is it true that no one can live forever?"

Jiang Luo said that the predestined man had lived for more than two hundred years and had not yet grown old!

President Xu knew in his heart why he asked, he looked at the group of children with amusement, shook his head and sighed, "You ah ...... forget it, let the old man give you a good answer to this question."

"Have you ever heard the expression 'the soul is good but the spirit is evil'?"

Ge Zhu smiled, "I know. It is believed that the prana is the vermin in a person's body, if the soul leaves the body or weakens, the prana that remains in the body will take advantage of the opportunity to collude with evil spirits, resulting in nightmares, or serious demise. Taoist practice is to 'refine the three souls' and use the yang soul to suppress the evil yin prana, so that the prana won't be allowed to collude with the outer ghosts to infest itself, and people can seek long life." ①

Sai Liaoer said in confusion, "Why is it possible to live forever by suppressing the prana?"

"Because prana is in charge of the hands, feet, and five senses, our body," Ge Zhu patiently explains, "whereas the soul is thought and emotion, something that cannot be touched or seen. The body shell will slowly grow old and experience decay, which is thought to be because the prana is doing evil and therefore bringing down the body functions. But if the soul is used to suppress the prana, the aging of the body can theoretically be stopped."

Dean Xu stroked his beard and said with an old spirit, "That's the expression."

"Theoretically this possibility exists, but has anyone actually done it?" Jiang Luo looked at Dean Xu, "Can you?"

"If I could, would I still be an old man?" Dean Xu blew his beard and glared, "From the past until now, only one person, Predestined Man, has managed to not grow old for two hundred years."

Jiang Luo laughed, "You realize we're trying to talk about fatalists?"

Dean Xu snorted coldly, ''With your little tactics of testing me, I can tell what kind of shit you're pulling just by puckering your asses. Each and every one of you have hardened your wings, and you still want to investigate the matter of the predestined person. I tell you, each and every one of you better be honest, the predestined person is ...... he is so strong that it is scary! Don't mess with him even if you mess with anyone."

Ye Xun lowered his voice, "Dean, tell us more, we won't tell anyone."

"Don't even think about it, I don't have anything to tell you guys more, I don't know him either." Dean Xu plucked the roasted sweet potatoes from the fire and gave Jiang Luo a special nod, "Just the fact that you are someone Chi You likes, they will definitely not let you go. Although I half believe in the prediction of the Fated Man, he is ultimately for the good of the metaphysical world. But I also don't believe that Chi You would be a person who would do that kind of thing ......You must be careful, think more on your own, and don't believe whatever others say."

Jiang Luo nodded seriously, "I know."

President Xu stood up holding the hot sweet potato and patted Jiang Luo's head.

"He is a false god, not a god. Looking at his nature, he is still human. What a human says is tainted with selfishness, so since you and Chi You are lovers, give Chi You more credit."

After saying that, President Xu walked away slowly.

Jiang Luo looked strange, to smile but not smile, finally buried in his knees and smothered laughter.

At night when he went to bed, he lay awake, remembering Ge Wuchen's words.

How exactly does the Nemesis absorb the power of the offerings?

Jiang Luo thought a lot, and all sorts of things piled up in his head, and finally fell asleep without realizing it. The next morning, when he woke up to brush his teeth, Yu Guang glanced at the faucet and suddenly lost his mind.

He held out his hand and the clear water stirred on the back of his hand, splashing in all directions.

He took the toothbrush cup again and filled it with water, which was in the cup without a drop, and finally brought it to his mouth to gargle.

Jiang Luo's movements were getting slower and slower, and his eyes were getting brighter and brighter.

He found a third way, independent of Ge Wuchen's two ways!

He rushed back to his room after washing up and calculated the success rate of this method. The more he counted, the more excited he got, and in the end Jiang Luo couldn't sit still anymore.

The method has a fifty-fifty chance of either succeeding or failing. But fifty percent is a lot, enough for Jiang Luo to take a gamble.

Jiang Luo was so excited that he didn't go out for a day. After careful consideration, he decided to take the initiative to go back to the mountain to look for his destiny.

He had reasons why he had to go back.

The Fated Man has been waiting for him at the top of the mountain, although he is not making any moves now, Jiang Luo knows that the Fated Man will never really let him go, the Fated Man has played such a big circle of chess pieces, isn't it just to let Jiang Luo kill Chi You? Jiang Luo took the initiative to go back, at least he can have the initiative, it's better than passively waiting.

What's more, Chi You's last Primordial Heavenly Pearl is still in the hands of the Fates.

Jiang Luo wants to kill the Nemesis, and sooner or later he's going to have to meet up with the Nemesis again.

But Jiang Luo's idea had the same possibility of failure, and in order to avoid implicating his friends after the failure, Jiang Luo told no one. He packed up his things alone, called Bai Qiu, changed into hiking clothes and knives the next night, left a note and left the school.

Birch University was quiet at night, and Jiang Luo left the school without incident. He drove his new car all the way to a hidden neighborhood in the city center.

At the entrance of the neighborhood, a beautiful woman wrapped in a down jacket was waiting with shivering. Seeing Jiang Luo, she hurriedly ran over, "You came quite fast."

Jiang Luo smiled and said, "Sister Bai Qiu."

Bai Qiu smiled at the sight of him, "You're getting more and more handsome."

Bai Qiu handed Jiang Luo the flowers in his hand, "I locked this lover's flower in the cupboard at that time, and when you called me to ask for it, I remembered that I still had it. I thought they'd withered away a long time ago, but when I took them out, they were still in bloom."

She had a complicated look on her face, and this bunch of reddish lover's flowers shaped like a starry sky looked like a monster in her eyes. She didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Jiang Luo took it away.

Jiang Luo smiled, "Thanks, Sister Bai Qiu."

Bai Qiu said, "Don't be polite to me."

Bai Qiu and Jiang Luo said goodbye, just turned around and suddenly remembered something, "Right, Jiang Luo, do you still sell peace charms?"

Jiang Luo raised an eyebrow, "Someone wants to buy it?"

"Your name has been spread around the circle, they all say that the talismans you write are very useful, and people everywhere want to buy your talismans. Some people have found out that I am related to you and have found their way to me," Bai Qiu explained, "and the prices they offer look good. If you want to sell them, I'll shortlist candidates for you and definitely won't let you suffer."

What a showbiz guy.

Jiang Luo thought for a moment, "Let's not sell now, I'll contact you when I have an idea."

Bai Qiu nods and Jiang Luo watches her leave. Only when Bai Qiu is safely back in the neighborhood does Jiang Luo return to his car.

He put the Valentine's flower on the passenger side, the Valentine's flower is shaped like a star, but the flower is colorful red, much more colorful than a star. Jiang Luo looked at them with a smile for a while, sniffed the scent of the flowers in the air, and drove happily to the countryside.

Having this can take the success rate up another level.

It takes four to five hours to travel from the city to Lianjia, and by the time Jiang Luo reaches his destination, it is already light. He picked a few petals from a Valentine's flower and put them in his pocket as he hiked up the hill.

The snow on the mountain had melted. The first sun rose slowly from the east, filling the mountain with golden sunlight. As the sun rose, Jiang Luo climbed up to the "No Secular Thoughts" point.

No one at No Mundane Thoughts expected him to return on this day, and the boy hastened to open the door for him, and it was not long before Ji Yaozi also came on his feet.

Jiang Luo smiled and nodded towards Ji Yaozi and walked forward with him, "Is the Fated Man here?"

"He's here," Ji Yaozi said with concern as she looked him over carefully, "Did you come all night? Do you need another night's sleep?"

Jiang Luo was in high spirits, "Staying up all night is nothing for a young man like me. It's just as well that I've finished with the business down the mountain, and I have a little question I'd like to ask you in psychic arts, so I'll just hurry up and head up the mountain."

Surrounded by Daoist Wei He's little children, Ji Yaozi didn't talk to Jiang Luo about things he couldn't say. He nodded knowingly and naturally changed the subject to psychic arts, "How are you practicing now?"

"It's not bad," Jiang Luo smiled, "The wood spirit and I have a bond, and I can practice it with ease."

Ji Yaozi asked him about the trial, and as they chatted, they saw Wei He, the Taoist priest, coming slowly.

"Back," Taoist Master Wei He looked at Jiang Luo with relief, "You've been gone for half a month, Ji Yaozi has been looking forward to you every day."

Jiang Luo smiled faintly towards him, "Disciple thought that after leaving the Heavenly Master's Palace, you would not allow disciple to go back to the mountain."

He was polite, shut up about Lian Xue chasing him," he said. Wei He Taoist Master gave him a deep look, always with some subtle uneasiness, "You and we are friends is your business and mine, you are you, Feng Li is Feng Li. even if you and Feng Li break the relationship between master and disciple, I still welcome you here."

Jiang Luo smiled, "Thank you, Taoist Wei He."

Taoist priest Wei He took them to the Fated Man.

The Fates are staying in the middle of the shrine.

The wooden door of the ancestral hall was tightly closed, Wei He Taoist Master took the lead and knocked twice on the door, and without waiting for an answer from inside, he pushed the door open himself and went in first, instructing in a low voice, "You two wait outside first."

Jiang Luo responded respectfully.

Taoist Master Wei He gently closed the door and stepped into the inner room.

Inside the head of the house smoke misty, sandalwood incense flavor came to the face, the window is closed, quite a kind of fairy atmosphere feeling. On a long black wooden table, the statue of the god was quietly placed in the center. The incense burner is full of ash, there are three incense burning slowly.

In front of the idol is the predestined man dressed in white.

Taoist Master Wei He walked behind the Predestined Man and he whispered, "Predestined Man, Jiang Luo is back."

The Fated Man whispered, "I hear him."

He turned his head sideways, his white hair falling from in front of his shoulders, the predestined man's brows covered in snow, and he sighed in a clear, light voice, "I didn't expect him to come back of his own accord."

Taoist Master Wei He was stunned, did the Fated Man not even expect Jiang Luo to come back? Wei He Taoist Master twisted his eyebrows slightly and voiced out the worries in his heart, "Fatalist, will this kid have other ideas?"

The Fated One smiled slightly, "No harm done."

As he was so calm, Taoist Master Wei He also felt a little bit more at ease. He thought about it, Jiang Luo has already soaked in the water of Tian Bi Pond, and also used the speech spirit by the destiny person, plus the psychic art is only through the wood spirit, it will not make too much noise. But there are still a few worries, so Wei He Taoist has not been able to completely put down the heart, "he even did not ask me Lian Xue thing."

Does the boy not take these things to heart because of the Tenebrae Pool, or is he too tolerant?

"You won't be at ease if he asks. If he doesn't ask you, you're scratching your head instead," the predestined man lit three incense sticks again, "Lianol, you don't have to be so nervous."

Taoist Wei He laughed bitterly.

"If you're worried, then tell Lian Xue to take the juniors and not to go out of the ancestral mansion," the Fated Man said, "Jiang Luo didn't kill Lian Xue when he first came down, and he won't lay a hand on Lian Xue in the future, he's a man who values friendship. "

Taoist Master Wei He opened and closed his lips several times, "Yes."

The Predestined One said, "Let him in."

*

Jiang Luo stepped into the shrine.

As soon as he stepped into the inner room, he met the predestined man who was burning incense.

His gaze fell from the predestined man to the small idol, the smoke so thick that he couldn't see it.

"Nemesis," Jiang Luo volunteered, "I'm back."

The Fated One inserted the incense into the censer and looked back at him, "I didn't expect you to come back so soon."

Jiang Luo said, "If I come early or late, I'll just not waste my time."

The Fated Man pulled out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, his gaze gentle and forgiving, "You've come to your senses?"

Jiang Luo was silent.

The Fated Man shook his head helplessly, "Jiang Luo, you don't have to aim the tip of your blade at me."

He stepped aside and sat down, looking as if he was about to ascend to immortality between the smoke and fog. The light-colored eyes smiled faintly, as if he was looking at a child, "I told you, I won't kill anyone. Even if you want to kill me, I will not do it to you. Jiang Luo, I won't hurt you, you can trust me more."

It was only after a long time that Jiang Luo slowly said, "I have seen the catastrophe that you are talking about, and I have seen the future of the metaphysical world."

The Fates watched him silently, waiting for his words afterward.

"My friends ......" Jiang Luo inclined his face, his teeth clenched in a look of forced calm, "all of them will die in that holocaust."

The Predator said soothingly, "That hasn't happened yet."

Jiang Luo took a deep breath as his emotions slowly calmed down, "Predestined One, I still don't believe you. You said that you are a False God, so why didn't you personally do it to Chi You, and had to ask me to do it to Chi You?"

"Because I am also in the predestination," the predestined man brought up a sentence, and suddenly pointed to the statue of Buddha, "Do you want to burn incense?"

Jiang Luo obediently walked to the statue.

He drew out the incense, and took it up in a disciplined manner. Without a trace, he looked up toward the idol.

The idol's features were blurred, but his eyebrows were gentle, and he was compassionate and generous in his love for the world.

It gives Jiang Luo the feeling of vague familiarity, Jiang Luo heart, "This idol ...... is you?"

The Predator nodded, "Right."

Jiang Luo said, "Is this how you received your offerings?"

"Yes and no," the Predator said without haste, "it's not that simple."

Jiang Luo looked at the idol in awe and appreciation, "This is amazing."

The Fates smiled faintly.

He left the Yin Yang Ring to Jiang Luo, which was the first test. Jiang Luo risked his life to unlock the Yin Yang Ring to show his determination to become stronger, and because his relationship with Chi You had reached a point where they needed to use the Ring to fight each other. Jiang Luo cannot resist the temptation to become stronger.

The Nemesis appreciated such a person. Jiang Luo dares to question the False God, that means he possesses the determination to challenge the False God.

Jiang Luo memorized the image of the idol in his mind before he went to sit down beside the predestined one. He was in the mood for a long conversation, and when the teapot ran out of water halfway through, Jiang Luo took the initiative to pour another pot of water.

The kitchen was not far away, and it did not take Jiang Luo long to go back and forth. The Fated One saw that the top of the teapot was a bit wet, and asked casually, "Why is it wet?"

"There was some dust on the teapot, so I wiped it with a damp cloth," Jiang Luo said, "and there was a layer of dust in the kitchen. That's the problem with wood fires, dust flies everywhere."

"It is," said the Predator, "but those of us who are no longer young are still accustomed to wood-fired water."

Jiang Luo filled a glass of water for him and asked gently, "So how old are you really."

The Fates pondered for a moment, "I don't remember exactly how many years."

As soon as he touched the glass of water he reached out and took it from Jiang Luo, his thirst rose. When he looked down, the water in the cup was crystal clear, slightly shaking, the ripples were sweet, and his mouth was slightly dry. Fateful man sip, suddenly smiled, "This water seems to be a bit wrong."

Jiang Luo smiled steadily, "What's wrong?"

The Fatalist took another sip, closed his eyes, and carefully discerned what was wrong with it, "The paper ash of the Harmony Charm ...... Petals of the Lover's Flower ......"

"Yes," Jiang Luo conceded cleanly, "you're all right."

A slight blush rose in the Fated Man's cheeks as the drug took effect, but his hand was steady as he held the teacup. With his eyes closed, he placed the cup on the table and "looked" toward Jiang Luo, asking curiously, "Why did you give me this?"

"I don't want to use this for you either. But my purpose is too big, if I only rely on my own power, I'm afraid it's not enough," Jiang Luo's smile deepened, "For the sake of being sure, I have to do both. But don't worry, Predestined One, as you are from my ancestor's generation, I definitely don't have that in mind for you."

The Fates captured the most important word with precision, repeating, "Purpose?"

Jiang Luo didn't hold back a laugh, and the conversation turned, "At the bottom of the mountain, I heard that you were once drugged, and that Feng Heavenly Master was your son."

The predestined man's face remained unchanged, and except for the slight blush on his face, he still looked like an emotionless, lustless god.

"I didn't realize the False Gods knew Chinese medicine," Jiang Luo sighed, "but this gives me an idea. I don't know if any of the other medicines would work for you, but this one is different. I once used the Harmony Charm Water on a very powerful evil ghost by some coincidence. A ghost as powerful as he was was controlled by the medicine for fifteen minutes, so I'm sure that if I put it on you, it will work for at least fifteen minutes."

Chi You are all affected by the water mixed with the Harmony Charm and the Lover's Flower, and he's the future victor, the absolute protagonist of the book, so of course everyone else who isn't as good as him will be affected, even the Fated.

The Fated Man sat calmly on his haunches, his breath beginning to heat up.

He had already guessed who the "mighty evil spirit" was.

An unfamiliar dryness rose from his innards, strange and bizarre. Although the Fated Man did not look at Jiang Luo, his ears heard all the movement. There seemed to be the sound of paper and pencil rubbing... Jiang Luo was writing?

Soon the footsteps came to the predestined man.

Jiang Luo abruptly put away his smile, his voice was cold, as cold as if he was about to turn into a dagger and kill the Fated One, "Fated One, open your eyes."

His voice sounded so good to the predestined man's ears that it was like heavenly music. The Fated Man sensed that something was wrong with his emotions, but he couldn't help it. He opened his eyes helplessly and looked at Jiang Luo.

The black-haired youth stood in front of him, looking down at him. That beautiful face was as cold as ice, making the Fated Man clearly understand that Jiang Luo's tricks had nothing to do with jesting love, he was only trying to achieve his own ends.

But even so, a fondness rose in the heart of the predestined man that he found new.

He was born with a light nature, and as a False God, it was the first time he felt favoritism towards a human.

Jiang Luo said, "First, give me the last Primordial Heavenly Pearl."

The Fated Man paused, his helplessness heavier. He smiled gently and still took out a transparent bead from his body and handed it to Jiang Luo.

Jiang Luo put the Primordial Heavenly Pearl away and continued, "Second, look at these three words."

The Fates subconsciously looked at the note in his hand.

The air in Jiang Luo's body was frantically extracted, and the character spirit came into play.

Predestined Man's pupils clenched at first, he stared at those three words dead in the face, and in his ears, was Jiang Luo's soft laughter.

"I don't have direct access to the power of the offerings, so I've come up with a good way to do it," he said, "Nemesis, I'm going to make you come in person-"

"Offer me."