Chapter 113 The Common and Myself (2/2)

This song was made up of a few simple tones, which formed a natural rhythm, seemingly blending the people into the backdrop of heaven and earth. It led people into a state of hollow calmness.

Shen Lian closed his eyes and enjoy the music.

It was as if he was in the middle of an empty mountain, where there were pine trees. The streams flowed under the moonlight. Ultimately the music ended and was no longer heard.

The Guqin was kept, and some alcohols were served. They were extremely sweet and palatable. The alcohol was refreshing.

They discussed cultivation and the universe, from history to present. Unknowingly, the moon was in the middle of the sky.

When they were parting, Zhao Xiaoyu did not utter a word of her aim. When Shen Lian got back to land, the moon was particularly bright. The river was reflecting the light.

His heart, however, was not completely calm yet.

Zhao Xiaoyu was good with words, and she was extremely powerful. As the follower of the Nine Lotus, it was apparent that she needed the belief of the common.

To practice the Book of Nine Lotus, the belief of the common was not sufficient on its own.

If that was the case, most Daoist practitioners would have followed the path.

To reach the path of Shen quickly was extremely dangerous. Once failed, the spirit would be damaged, and oneself could risk being damaged too.

However, if one succeeded in this path, which would then convert the Yin spirit to the inextinguishable divine aura and further divide it into multiple bodies, one could become inextinguishable. This path was particularly good in protecting one’s life.

Zhao Xiaoyu’s path was something totally incompatible with the one of the Empress’. Perhaps she knew that the Empress wanted to meet him, and hence she decided to meet him prior to that in order to make him work for her.

Unfortunately, Shen Lian was not seduced by Zhao Xiaoyu. From the beginning, his bier remained clear, and hence she gave up on this attempt.

The Empress would surely be aware of Zhao Xiaoyu and the Nine Lotus. They could have initiated a fight. Shen Lian’s cultivation level could help break the state of balance for both sides. He accidentally stepped into this, but how he would react would depend on the meeting with the Empress.

By the time Shen Lian returned to the clinic, Ruoxi had already fallen asleep. He covered the girl who had kicked off her blanket, then he entered the state of concentration as usual.

After listening to Zhao Xiaoyu’s wonderful music, he was in a deeper concentration than usual tonight. In the Mud Castle, or the Zifu Bier, the innate deity who was carrying a jade Ruyi appeared again.

He started to pay attention to the jade Ruyi. The Ruyi was made to imitate the shape of a hand, which carried the meaning that it was an extension of the human’s mind.

In the common world, its purpose was to stop the itch, but it actually meant to say the noise in a human’s mind, which was often fluctuating. Hence it was used to represent a tool that could help in ridding of random thoughts.

Previously Shen Lian could only observe the shape of the Ruyi, and not the patterns. It seemed that he had made further progress tonight.

The handle of the Ruyi had a lot of stripes, which could mainly be divided into nine stripes. However, he still could not see what they represented. When he paid attention to it, there was a difficult spell that came to mind.