eurekapd Chapter 1145 No Longer Believes in "Man Conquers Nature"
Chapter 1145 No Longer Believes in "Man Conquers Nature"
Master Jiexian's words left everyone stunned.
"Gangzi," after a while, His Royal Highness the King of Chu came back to his senses and looked at Yuan Tiangang beside him: "The old friend that Master Jiexian mentioned, is that your master's grandfather, my other lifesaver?"
"That should be it..." Yuan Tiangang said with some sadness at this moment: "It turns out that the old master was not bragging - the Indian monk is really his good friend..."
"Amitabha..." Master Jiexian looked at Yuan Tiangang and asked, "May I ask who you are?"
"Master Jiexian, I am Yuan Tiangang." At this moment, Gangzi had put away his usual cynical demeanor. He first bowed to the other party in a proper manner, and then said, "The old friend you mentioned is my master's master - the abbot of the Yuxuan Temple in Longhu Mountain, Zhang Shidao, also known as the True Lord of Lingyuan Miaofa."
"Master..." In this slightly sad atmosphere, only the not-so-smart little Aya could get close to Li Kuan and ask her little doubts: "Do you think... Master Yuan's name is more impressive than Little Heavenly Master's? And... why do they both have the last name Zhang?"
"Don't ask these nonsense questions... Senior's name... How can we, as juniors, have the right to comment?" Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu patted the other person's head in annoyance: "As for why the old Taoist has the surname Zhang... What you asked is... The Heavenly Masters of Longhu Mountain all have the surname Zhang, and it has been like this for thousands of years."
"Oh oh..." Aya nodded after hearing this, indicating that she had learned something new.
"Your Highness, may I have a word with you?" Just as His Highness had finished teaching Aya a lesson and was about to ask the old Taoist priest about his purpose, the latter took the initiative to say, "If... you really want to take over Central India, Nalanda Temple can help you."
"..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu was silent for a moment, then said: "It's getting late... Yuwen Qing, pass the order down, set up camp here!"
"only!"
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That night, inside the tent of His Royal Highness the King of Chu.
His Royal Highness the King of Chu sat opposite Master Jiexian: "Master Jiexian, why did you decide to help me? This doesn't make sense..."
"The will of heaven cannot be violated." Master Jiexian sighed upon hearing this, and then said, "What's more, you are the second variable to descend to the human world in the past six hundred years."
"second?"
"Yes." Master Jiexian nodded and said, "That one...is called Wang Mang."
"..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu felt that the old guy's curse was quite dirty!
"Your Highness, I did not scold you. I was just discussing the matter at hand."
"Ah?!" His Royal Highness the King of Chu felt a chill down his spine at this moment: "No... Master, why are you..."
“Alas…” Master Jiexian felt that he might be misunderstood: “I am not the old Heavenly Master Zhang Yun, and I do not have telepathy - but I can detect your inner thoughts from the changes in your facial expression.”
"Oh." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu obviously did not believe this: "So that's how it is... Then..."
"If you think about cursing back, that would be very rude."
"Okay..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu now believed that the other party really could not compare with his old Taoist priest: "I actually want to ask, how do you know Wang Mang?"
"This involves some unspeakable secrets." Master Jiexian pointed at himself and then at the King of Chu. "Your Highness's 'Throwing Beans to Make Soldiers', Yuan Tiangang's Nine-Character Secret, Li Chunfeng's Qi-Reading Technique, Zhang Zhenxuan's Thunder Technique, and what I mentioned before, Master Zhang's telepathy, and... my good friend's 'Qi-Gathering Technique', these... are all difficult to explain with common sense."
"Qi Gathering Technique?" His Royal Highness the King of Chu was already interested in the other party at this moment: "Master, can you elaborate on it?"
"Your Highness, please look." Master Jiexian said as he picked up a teacup and filled it with tea. After the tea had settled, he said, "If luck is water, people are like teacups. And there are very few people in this world who can carry great luck. For example, Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, who fought for the world with your father, are like teacups. Even if God tried his best to pour luck into them, they couldn't catch it."
"I understand..." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu nodded and said, "My father is a big jar."
"You are truly a genius..." Upon hearing this, Master Jiexian's breathing suddenly stopped and he felt a tightness in his chest.
"He is also very handsome." His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu is always in the habit of adding to his own strengths.
“Let’s get back to the point…” Master Jiexian only realized now that accepting the twelve copper coins from his friend was really… a huge cause and effect: “The so-called Qi Gathering Technique has extremely harsh conditions for activation, but once the technique is successful, then… theoretically, this teacup will become infinitely large. As long as the teacup does not break—”
“Master, wait a minute…” King Chu had only one question at this moment: “If the teacup becomes infinitely large… is it still a teacup?!”
"Your Highness, what do you say?"
"..." Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was about to roll up his sleeves, but then he felt that doing so... was somewhat disrespectful to Master Xuanzang, so the old man changed his mind and used his still somewhat "new" brain. After a moment of contemplation, His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu finally understood the other party's hint: "Master, do you mean... that I... must always be the Prince of Chu?"
“Your Highness, the King of Chu is really smart.” Master Jiexian nodded and said solemnly, “But Your Highness, the King of Chu, you must remember that you must die of old age. If you die an unnatural death… then once your great fortune is gone, the world will become a mess.
By then... oh... everyone is saying that all the heroes will compete for supremacy, but who knows whether the people will experience a catastrophe..."
"..." Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu was silent for a moment, and then he became more and more frightened: "This Qi Gathering Technique...was it also used by Wang Mang back then?"
"He is not as lucky as you, Your Highness, but... he is indeed a man of great luck." Master Jiexian shook his head upon hearing this, then he thought for a moment and said, "In fact... Your Highness, not long after my old friend saved you, he died. Before he died, he performed this technique on you with your grandmother's consent.
Your grandmother, in fact, never believed in the theory of destiny. She was a proud and smart woman who always believed that "man can conquer nature."
But... people always change, maybe it was the first time she held you in her arms, maybe it was the first time you called her grandma, anyway...
When you were seriously ill and on the verge of death in your childhood, the head of the Dou family, in order to save you, not only spent a huge amount of his family wealth, but also changed his previous insistence and wished that all the gods and Buddhas in the sky would extend your life...
Your Highness, the King of Chu, I am a monk, but even a monk would not dare to say that such an obsession is wrong... Amitabha... Good, good..." Master Jiexian said at the end, and saw that His Highness, the King of Chu, looked at the teacup in front of him without saying a word, but his eyes gradually turned red. He suddenly felt that such a King of Chu...
There should be a better ending.