Chapter 219: A fatalist with one foot in the hole.
When the Fated One entered the temple of the True God as usual, he found that the empty temple had been re-lighted with incense.
He froze, then his eyes lit up. Quickly walking to the door and bending down to worship, "Senior has returned?"
The True God's misty voice sounded faintly, "Hmm."
The predestined person settled down, he smiled and talked about the events that happened after the True God left in the past half month. After finishing some trivial matters, the predestined person's words changed, sighing: "You left this half month, late generation has figured out some things."
The True God said with some indifference, "Oh?"
"You were right to point out to my juniors earlier, and I have already decided to learn from my mistakes and admit my mistakes to those who have been deceived by me," the predestined person said, "After I have repaid my faults, I would like to ask you to continue to point out to me to fulfill my wishes."
Jiang Luo said slowly and methodically, "If you really want to change, I will naturally help you."
As far as the predestined man could see, there were all invisible "God" characters. These words and spirits corroded the predestined man's sanity day and night, deepening his obsession to become a god again and again. After receiving an affirmative answer, the predestined man simply said, "The Heavenly Master's Mansion will hold a lecture seven days later, and I will admit my mistake on that day to show my determination."
"Go on, then," said the True God, unconcerned, "and let me see how far you can go."
When the Nemesis left, Sai Liaoer heatedly smiled, "Jiang, you want him to admit his mistake so badly, are you sticking up for Chi You."
Jiang Luo was busy making phone calls and deploying staff, grinning, "For him? Guess I'm not for him."
Sai Liaoer skimmed his lips, Jiang Luo explained everything with a frown, then suddenly smiled eerily, "Predestined man, I've finally waited for this day."
His smile startled Sai Liaoer, who had always thought that Jiang Luo looked like a devil in his current form.
......
Seven days passed in a flash.
Every year, there are two to three open lectures in the House of Heavenly Masters, and each time there are many people lecturing.
Jiang Luo identity sensitive, did not come to the scene, can only be aggrieved to stay in the Da Zhao Temple.
While he couldn't go, his buddies could blend in and pass on the field information to him and the logisticians at the Research Directorate.
Dean Xu led Lu Youyi and several others into the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and within a few steps, he met the old Heavenly Master. He greeted the old Tianshi warmly, and the old Tianshi glanced behind him, "That child didn't come?"
Dean Xu knew it all too well, but played dumb and said, "Which child?"
The old celestial master lost his smile, "Don t play dumb with me ...... Forget it, it s good that he didn t come."
Lu Youyi and the others had cameras on their bodies, allowing Jiang Luo to see everything through the surveillance. Jiang Luo was bored of watching them being polite and shared the video with Chi You, "The Fated are going to do something big today, aren't you going to see for yourself?"
Chi You sent Jiang Luo a picture of the scene.
Jiang Luo wondered, "Yo, you really went? You haven't recovered yet, aren't you afraid of being discovered by Big Brother?"
Chi You said slowly, "I have many puppets."
He didn't need to go to be able to borrow the golem's eyes to see everything.
Even a bird or a worm can be the eye of an evil spirit.
Jiang Luo real name is jealous.
After a few minutes, Chi You sent him another video.
When Jiang Luo clicked on the video for no apparent reason, he saw Feng Li appearing in the video with Zhou Wudu's disciples in a hurry with a cold expression on his face. He rushed in front of President Xu, and after glancing behind him, he opened his mouth with an even colder aura and asked, "Why didn't Jiang Luo come."
The tone could well be described as a question.
Dean Xu's face was as normal, "Heavenly Master, Jiang Luo he happens to be unavailable today."
Feng Li gave a laugh, "He doesn't dare come to see me?"
The video ends here. Chi You also sent a voice over of a few seconds, which consisted only of a soft chuckle from him of unknown significance.
Jiang Luo: "......"
Laughed Jiang Luo goosebumps up.
He went back to the live surveillance video.
Director Xu did not know what he had said to Feng Li, and the atmosphere was silent and stagnant. The old Tianshi slowly spoke, ''Director Xu is right. Jiang Luo no longer has any relationship with you or the Heavenly Master's Mansion, whether he had the time to come or not, and what he went to do, should not be asked by you."
Feng Li has lost a lot of weight, the contours of his face are more profound, and his eyes are deeper than the bottom. His aura is much sharper, and there is an invisible oppression when he gazes at people. Nowadays, he is like a dagger with an edge, and the power of his attack is so strong that it makes people uncomfortable.
Hearing the old Heavenly Master's words, Feng Li's expression didn't even change, "Not coming over for such a big event as opening a forum for lectures will only spoil his talent. Is this how your White Birch University accommodates and indulges its students?"
Dean Xu laughed out loud, "It's better than pulling the plug."
Feng Li gave him a deep look and turned to leave with his disciples.
The old celestial master sighed again.
The last time the Heavenly Master's Mansion held a lecture, the lecturer was the old Heavenly Master. This time it was Feng Li himself.
It was obvious to the naked eye that there were many more people coming to the Heavenly Master's Mansion this time than last time. The old Tianshi had become a thing of the past, and Feng Li was the pillar of the metaphysical world today.
Dean Xu let the students disperse to play, looking at Feng Li's distant back, a rare big truth: "You can still control him when you're alive, when you die, he can do whatever he wants to do, then who can still suppress him?"
The old Celestial Master smiled, "You're worried about Jiang Luo?"
President Xu wondered: "You say it is not just a disciple, Feng Li wants to be a disciple how many people are willing to be ah. Why is he holding on to Jiang Luo not to let go? This master and disciple destiny, and husband and wife is similar, forced melon is not sweet."
"You don't have to imply it to me," said the old celestial master, "was it I who told him that he had to hold on to Jiang Luo?"
Dean Xu also knew that the old celestial master had tried his best, but he had to think about his students in the future, "See if you can think of a way to put an end to the problem."
The old Celestial Master was silent for a while, "You don't have to worry, he ah, can't move Jiang Luo."
*
Half an hour later, Jiang Luo received a message from Zhuo Zhongqiu, "The Fates are here."
Jiang Luo clicked on the video, and in the middle of the screen, the Fated Man found the Old Celestial Master. The old Celestial Master did not expect the Fated Man to come, and his expression could not hide his shock. With that, the two of them went into a room alone.
Zhuo Zhongqiu waited outside for a while, and soon, the Old Celestial Master and the Predestined Man re-emerged. The old Celestial Master's face was clouded with suspicion as he summoned one of his disciples and whispered a few words in his ear, leading the Fated Man to the place where the lecture was to be held.
Feng Li is lecturing.
As the youngest Tianshi Master of the Tianshi Mansion, Feng Li seldom lectures in person. His words are concise, simple and light. Things that could be clearly explained in nine words would never be explained in ten.
Therefore, his words were extremely obscure and difficult to understand, and the young people underneath listened to him in a daze, but did not dare to ask questions or call for a halt, and could only bury their heads in their books with question marks and use their notes to write down every word Feng Heavenly Master said.
But even though they tried so hard, Feng Heavenly Master was still disappointed, and he swept his eyes over the bottom of the people who were taking notes, and the corners of his mouth pressed down slightly. Although he didn't say anything, he seemed to have written the word "waste".
Jiang Luo watched and began to sympathize with the people at the scene.
Feng Li is a very unsuitable person to be a teacher.
His disciples were gifted enough, and Feng Li may have taught them some superior knowledge of Feng Shui for ghost healing, but there was never a master-disciple relationship with his disciples, not even a close one.
--Only Jiang Luo ...... Jiang Luo's face sank slightly as he suppressed the memories that revolted him.
The thing he hated and loathed the most was when someone approached him as a friend or family member only to have other thoughts about him.
It was so disgusting that he couldn't stop thinking about Xia Qin.
The lecture was originally scheduled for two hours, but Feng Li finished everything in half that time.
Zhou Wudu and Wang Santan followed closely beside the Master, and Wang Santan said cautiously, "Sir, have you seen anyone with outstanding talent?"
Feng Li coldly said, "What did the old Heavenly Master say to you again?"
Wang Santan shivered, and Zhou Wudu looked at each other and gulped, "The old celestial master said ...... that if you can t let go of your former little disciple, then you can take in another one. Let you, let you recover quickly."
Feng Li's movement of wiping his hands gave a start as he turned sideways and was just about to say something when he saw that the named disciples beside the old Heavenly Master were hurriedly inviting some of the metaphysical world's patriarchal figures to the inner courtyard.
What's going on here?
Feng Li asked Zhou Wudu to go up and ask. Zhou Wudu quickly came back and honestly said, "Sir, they said it was the old Heavenly Master inviting some friends to have a seat in the backyard."
Feng Li frowned.
The old celestial master didn't tell him there would be more of this.
However, Feng Li always obeyed the old celestial master's affairs. He didn't think much about it and led the people back to the study.
*
Dean Xu was also one of the people invited to the inner courtyard.
Before he went, Wenren Lian gently tapped the button on his sleeve, placed a monitor on Dean Xu's body, and said with a smile, "You go and return quickly."
Dean Xu gave him a meaningful look and lowered his voice, "Kid, let me ask you, is this thing safe?"
Wenren Lian replied in a similarly low voice, "You can rest assured that the state produced it, and with the formation written on it, no one will find out."
Not to mention the fact that the people attending the meeting were a bunch of old men and an ancestral predestined man who had lived for two hundred years. None of them could spot the device as small as a button.
Dean Xu nodded thoughtfully. Wen Renlian reminded again, "No matter what you see or hear, do not be afraid."
Director Xu had a point in his heart. He went to find Ji Yaozi and went with Ji Yaozi to find the old celestial master.
Ji Yaozi was a little soulful, just as Dean Xu was wondering about the old celestial master's purpose, and the two came quietly into the parlor.
The parlor was already filled with a dozen or so elderly people, each one of them one of the leading existences in the metaphysical world.
Inside were Master Cheng De, a few patriarchs from the Xuan Ling Office, and a few nearly retired presidents from the twelve colleges and universities.
Dean Xu and they were all acquaintances, and after greeting them one by one, he asked, "This formation is not simple, do any of you know what the old celestial master is going to say?"
Ji Yaozi looked over one by one and was shocked.
These are the people who knew about the predestined man's prophecy back then. It's just that there's no one from the Qi family or the Chi family in there, or from the Lian family.
He knew from Jiang Luo that something had happened to the Lian family, but he didn't know what it was. Ji Yaozi subconsciously asked, "Did Taoist Master Wei He not come?"
Dean Xu let out an "eep", "That's right, why haven't we seen the Lian family juniors?"
Someone said carelessly, "The Lian family has been avoiding the world for not even a day or two, so there's no need to care about them. I'm just curious as to what the old celestial master wants to do, why isn't the person here yet?"
As soon as the words left his mouth, the old celestial master said in a loud voice, "It's coming."
Two figures walked in.
The people who hadn't taken it seriously had revealed a look of surprise after seeing the predestined man beside the old celestial master. One by one, the old men stood up trembling, "Predestined Man?"
Ji Yaozi's eyes began to dodge uncontrollably after he saw the Nemesis, and there was even some cold fear in his heart.
He took a step back and stood at the back of the crowd.
The Predestined Man looked the crowd around, smiled gently, and said without haste, "It was I who asked the Old Celestial Master to invite you all over to catch up and talk about the past."
A bird of prey flew by the window and stood on a branch. Dark, beady eyes looked in through the window.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the basement.
Liao Si smiled as he sat next to Taoist Master Wei He, tapped the video on his cell phone, and wrapped his arms around Taoist Master Wei He in a brotherly manner.
"The master specially explained for me to show you this thing, Wei He Taoist Master, let's take a look together?"
When the video opens, it is a dozen big acquaintances, Wei He Daojun froze, and could not help but fight the spirit.
When he saw the Fated Man in the video, Taoist Master Wei He had mixed feelings. Although he had already defected to Chi You and Jiang Luo, Wei He was still a bit ashamed and weak when he saw the Fated Man again.
But soon enough, the words of the predestined man broke through these feelings of guilt.
"As all of you present know, I once made a prophecy thirty years ago," said the Predestined One, "and I spoke to you about the contents of that prophecy. I said that Chi You would destroy the metaphysical world."
This scene overlapped with thirty years ago. Thirty years ago, the Predestined Man had used the Spirit of Speech to make those present believe in his prophecy in order to make himself a god.
Thirty years later, the same thing was done to become a god, and the Predestined Man was trying to disprove what he had once said.
The words seemed like the beginning of a nightmare, and the old man who heard them couldn't help but ask in a frightened voice, "Isn't Chi You dead? Hasn't the prophecy gone away?"
"Yeah, he's dead! Wasn't he killed by Chi Zhongye and the others?"
A few old men from the Xuan Ling Office said in a deep voice, "Don't be in a hurry, everyone, let's listen to the Predestined Man first. Fatalist, why did you suddenly mention this prophecy?"
The Predestined Man still smiled as if the words coming out of his mouth were not important, just trivial matters, "There is no need to be nervous, gentlemen, what is in the prophecy isn't going to come true anymore."
The dozen or so old men who had tensed up their nerves were suddenly relieved, even President Xu couldn't help but put his heart back.
Thankfully, thankfully it won't happen.
But the Predestined One followed up with, "Because the contents of that prophecy are all false."
The others stiffened, looking at the Fatalist with disbelief.
"I have never prophesied the future for the metaphysical community, I have only prophesied the future for myself," the predestined man sighed, as if in genuine self-condemnation, "In my prophecy he would be a threat to me. So I changed the content of the prophecy and deceived you into eradicating the threat for me."
The birds outside the window watched him closely.
Before the video, Taoist Master Wei He's breathing increased steeply, as if he couldn't breathe, as if he had a huge fishbone stuck in his throat. It made him dizzy and his head was sweating.
At this moment, his thirty years of perseverance, his whole clan s dedication to the predestined people, and what he had done to Chi You souls ...... all all wrapped in a sinful veneer tumbled up in a raging torrent.
Unparalleled pain and anger surged into his limbs and bones in an instant, Wei He Taoist Master's eyes were red, he stood up violently and lifted the table, "Predestination, destiny, man-!"
Published at: 10/21/2024 05:00