Chapter 384 The Second Life

She should still be lucky.

The moment she jumped out of the cloud boat, she used a precious hidden spirit talisman to avoid the pursuit of most ghosts and demons.

With the protection of the cloud boat, she successfully escaped the first stage.

The cloud boat was being chased by a large number of ghosts and demons, and after escaping for more than 300 miles, it was pulled down from the clouds and fell to the ground.

What a pity.

If she was controlling this cloud boat, it would have escaped to the hill long ago.

But then she was exposed because her soul-hiding talisman was exhausted.

At this time, she was less than fifty miles away from the hill. She could even clearly see the village on the hill, the small courtyard, and the young man in the courtyard. He seemed to have seen her too.

“help me!”

She waved her hands desperately, but hundreds of demons were still surrounding her from all directions.

There are many high-level ghosts and demons among them.

She tried every means she could. She threw out all the life-saving talismans and magic weapons that she had kept in the bottom of her box for the past few decades. She used all her magical powers, spells, and escape techniques, and moved left and right. She performed the escape techniques at all costs, not caring about the damage to the foundation of her practice, and she tried her best to activate them.

But she only managed to rush out another twenty miles, and she was closer to the hill.

She could even clearly see the smile on that person’s face, just like she had more than ten years ago.

What a devil!

She thought, it has come to this, he is such a powerful figure, he can save her with just one finger, but he is just watching.

The talismans are gone, the elixirs have been eaten up, the magic wine has been drunk up, the magic powers have been used up, and the magic tools are damaged.

She was injured, and she herself felt it was a miracle that she could hold on until this moment.

Still twenty miles away, really very close.

She could see the villagers in that village. They must have also seen the situation outside, seeing how panicked they looked.

“help me!”

She tried to shout, but the man, the guy called Zhao Chengfeng was still standing outside the courtyard. His expression remained unchanged, except for his smile as before.

Damn it!
A demon left deep wounds on her back that were visible to the bone, and her protective armor shattered.

What else can I do?
She was very angry and aggrieved, and in a rage, she detonated the golden elixir that she had cultivated with great effort, which temporarily greatly increased her strength and filled her meridians with magic power. She struggled to break out of the encirclement of the spirit demons, almost at the cost of burning her foundation and her life, and finally rushed to the deserted path.

She was still alive, but the demons that were chasing her were gone.

But at this moment she did not have the slightest joy of having survived, because she was finished. Her golden elixir exploded, her meridians were destroyed, her life was burning, and her face, which had originally maintained a pretty beautiful appearance of her twenties, suddenly became as old as if she was in her seventies or eighties.

She is at the end of her rope and won’t live for many more days.

But why, why didn’t you let me die? Why did you save me at the last moment?
She wanted to question, but she didn’t have the strength to do so.

Someone from the village ran out, lifted her onto a stretcher, and took her outside the small courtyard.

She heard the villagers shouting,
“Master Chengfeng, please take a quick look. This old man has fallen down at the foot of the mountain. He is covered in blood. I don’t know if he can be saved.”

A group of villagers surrounded her and watched, young and old, male and female, even the woman who had chattered and cried and begged her to help find Yang Ti’s whereabouts more than ten years ago. She was old now, but seemed much younger than her. At least she could still stand there and watch the fun, holding a seven or eight-year-old grandson in her hands. She must have forgotten her brother Yang Ti.

What a dream!
And that man, Zhao Chengfeng, was still standing outside the courtyard, smiling like a devil.

In fact, from beginning to end, he didn’t even take a step forward.

“Everyone, please go away. She is too seriously injured and may not live for more than three days. Is there anyone who is kind enough to take the trouble to let her pass away in a dignified manner?”

“hiss!”

The group of villagers who were watching gasped, and many children were immediately taken out and strictly forbidden to get close, for fear that the deathly aura might be contagious.

Of course, several old men and old women soon came over. There was no coffin, only a roll of straw mat spread on the ground. They moved her up and wiped the blood off her face. This was considered hospice care.

Then, they all slipped away, waiting for her to die, and then dug a hole and bury her.

However, this lonely old widow from another place must be buried far away, so as not to ruin the feng shui of our village. These whispers made her furious, because the last moment, she was a Jindan cultivator.

A cool evening breeze blew by, and the sunlight became gorgeous, shining on Zhao Guanshan’s face and on her body. There seemed to be infinite beauty hidden in that light. She wanted to grasp it. She didn’t want to die, but she couldn’t.

She was very weak and could only watch the light move away little by little, taking away the last warmth, the last brightness and beauty. She couldn’t understand and big tears flowed, feeling extremely aggrieved.

And that person still didn’t say a word, no, he didn’t say a single word, so hateful, he is a devil.

If I could live again, I would go to the Tiandao League to expose you.

She thought about it sadly and hatefully, but it was meaningless in the end.

She really wants to ask you why you didn’t save me.

The words were on the tip of my tongue several times, but in the end I gritted my teeth and said, “Go ahead, I’d rather die than lose the battle!”
And so, there was silence for a night, and then silence for a day.

On the second night, when she finally couldn’t hold on any longer, she felt a strength coming from somewhere that made her feel a little more refreshed. She seemed to vaguely sense something.

But she also knew that this was her last chance and it might be her only chance.

She looked at the man who had been standing with her for a long time, and suddenly she no longer hated him. She realized that people must save themselves. “Please bury me here.”

“it is good!”

Zhao Guanshan nodded, speaking sparingly, but to her, it was like a sweet rain, all her obsessions melted away. She couldn’t help but ask, in a weak voice that only she could hear,

“Why, why didn’t you save me?”

But she did not wait for the answer, just like a flame, suddenly extinguished, a ray of light, silent and dim.

She died, in the second life.

“Because I have been saving you. I insisted on staying here. It was certainly my chance, but it was also your arrangement. Maybe you were my guiding light in the past, and now it is my turn to be your guiding light.”

Zhao Guanshan said softly, leaned over and gently rolled up the straw mat and carried it away. There was already a grave dug behind the courtyard.

This was her second life. Although he still didn’t know and couldn’t remember who she was, through her reincarnation in the world, he could clearly see some context, some truths, especially the logic of the operation of karma.

It’s becoming clearer and more obvious.

After she died in the previous life, he only felt vaguely that he had gained something.

In this life, she died in front of him, just like coming to give him a gift with the operation chart of karma.

In addition to this, Zhao Guanshan discovered some truths through her experience this time.

For example, the question of where exactly this hill is.

Is this hill in the Western Wilderness or in the Northern Wilderness?

Or in the Southern Wilderness or the Eastern Wilderness?
I’m afraid neither is true. This hill is special, very special. It is definitely a big pit dug by the unknown her.

But this pit is not 100% successful.

As the saying goes, man proposes, God disposes. How can she be so sure that Zhao Guanshan will not go down the mountain happily like Wang Xuan, Jiang Yunbai and others?

After all, this is a mutual fulfillment between the two of them, an unspeakable, indescribable, unknown and mysterious tacit understanding.

Therefore, this hill does not belong to him, and he cannot control where, when and where the hill will appear.

He couldn’t decide who could come to the hill and who would leave the hill.

But he must stay here, and then, when she wanted to come, whenever she wanted, the hill would appear near her.

This should be part of the truth.

But if he went down the mountain, there would be no ifs. She might suddenly come to this bare, unremarkable hill in one of her future lives, and then not take it seriously and just turn around and leave. Then she would probably never be able to come here again in the future, let alone be buried here after death.

Burying her here seems to be the most important part of all this.

Soon, Zhao Guanshan returned to the courtyard as if nothing had happened. He now didn’t even dare to go to the top or the foot of the mountain.

Yes, I dare not.

Ever since he learned the true purpose of the Tower of Babel, he has become more vigilant. It cannot be said that he overestimates the methods of Wang Xuan and others, but he knows that there is more than one fallen immortal.

Where did those fallen immortals go, and where are they?
The karmic crisis obviously had not really been resolved, and it would be unfair if he was dragged out of the mountain by someone else due to carelessness.

“So, when it’s absolutely necessary, we must be prepared to fight.”

“In her previous life, she was just a down-and-out heir of the Mechanical Dao who was being hunted. At the last moment, she brought more than a hundred refugees from Zhenhai City to seek refuge here. In fact, she is still just a substitute who was praised.”

“In this life, she has become a cultivator at the Golden Core Realm, and a guest elder of a small sect. If she had used more forceful tactics and made more thorough plans on the cloud boat, would she have been able to bring the cloud boat to the hill?”

“I have no power to stop her from bringing anyone in, but if this continues, the population of the hill will only grow, and the chances of the fallen immortals discovering this place will increase.”

“This is definitely not a simple task that can be accomplished by waiting for her to reincarnate and find this place and be buried here.”

“What do I need to do about this?”

Zhao Guanshan’s thoughts were flying in his mind, but in the end, they turned into a sigh. No matter what, he couldn’t act rashly. No matter what, he had to stick to what he was supposed to do.

Spread out your hand, and a tiny mosquito falls down. Even if you use your soul to sense it, you can’t detect any abnormality with it. This is a real mosquito.

But in fact, this is the third generation of mechanical Taoist creation he evolved.

A powerful assassination weapon whose body is composed of only 35% mechanical parts, and the rest is in perfect resonance with the biological body.

So far, at least Qi-refining masters or immortal cultivators of Zhao Guanshan’s level cannot detect it.

It can easily penetrate high-level matter of the Destiny Level 2080. Theoretically, it can also easily penetrate the protective aura of any Nascent Soul Realm cultivator in this world of immortal cultivation.

However, no matter how powerful the characteristics or combat capabilities are, for Zhao Guanshan, they are just derived additional items.

This was not his purpose.

What he needed was to rewrite the mechanical talisman that directly pointed to the core of the rhythm of life.

There is still a long way to go to achieve this goal, and we can’t even see any hope.

Because he doesn’t know when the next karmic crisis will break out?
(I wish you all a happy National Day!)

(End of this chapter)