I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 551: Transformation, Steel Scale (5k)

The man on the sofa picked up the weight he threw to him, with some envy in his eyes.

He originally wanted to go to Nanwu County to find Wen Yan. He wanted to meet Wen Yan in person, and it would be best if he could observe him for a while.

But halfway through, he saw the Taoist in gray robe. He knew the Taoist in gray robe, and even knew that someone wanted to use the Taoist in gray robe's name to reorganize Taiyi Temple and raise the banner of Taiyi Temple to do things.

Some people died, some were injured, and the gate to Taiyi Temple was burned down by fire.

Among the people who were left at the end, some of the experienced ones were completely disheartened and found a place to retreat from the world and practice in seclusion, while many of the younger ones had already gone their separate ways and went down the mountain to seek a way to survive.

There are only two or three people who are capable of restoring the reputation of Taiyi Temple, and among these two or three, only the Taoist in gray robe is not too old and still has the energy to make efforts.

Unfortunately, the Taoist in gray robe was even more determined. He even broke down the altar and abandoned his own path. No one paid any attention to him anymore.

When the man on the sofa passed by, he immediately recognized the Taoist priest in gray robe who looked dusty and at least ten years older.

However, the temperament and eyes are completely different from before.

The man on the sofa followed him for nearly a day and was very sure that the rumor was true. The other party had given up his spiritual path and now his spirit was covered in dust. He was just an ordinary person with mortal eyes.

I followed silently behind him for a whole day, watching his experiences, his actions, and all kinds of small details. I even saw a woman who seemed to be from a poor family judging by her clothes. She caught up with the Taoist by bus and handed him a pack of homemade lasagna and two cans of chili sauce.

The woman also specifically said that the chili sauce was made from beans that she dried herself and that peanuts were added to it, so it was very fragrant and delicious.

At this point, the Taoist accepted the kindness, and finally when leaving, he secretly put some money in the other person's pocket.

The man on the sofa didn't know what happened in the past few days, but he could see that the slightly stubborn and reserved woman was very grateful to the Taoist.

This Taoist was completely different from the Taoist from Taiyi Temple in his impression. This Taoist was neither arrogant nor complacent, and he never said that he was from Taiyi Temple. He only said that he was a wild Taoist without a Taoist certificate.

Although he had abandoned his path, he felt as if he had gotten rid of a heavy burden. He was full of energy and vitality. He ate a pancake with some hot sauce, slurping his lips because of the spiciness while feeling as happy as a child who had just learned how to eat spicy food. The hotter it was, the more he wanted to eat.

The sofa man followed the man for a whole day, and only when they entered the tunnel could he help but rescue the man.

He took the initiative to tell the other party the information just to see what the result would be.

He didn't expect the other party to change on the spot, and he was ready to block the evil creature.

But the result was even more explosive than he expected. The yang energy that suddenly burst out from a drop of the Taoist's blood was enough to directly knock the evil creature away, with a force even stronger than the weight he had thrown at it.

This means that the Taoist only needs to hear the news and know the three words "cultivator" to enter the realm seamlessly.

The most important thing is that this Taoist's path to Taoism has been abandoned at this moment. He can no longer perform rituals and can only be considered an ordinary person. He does not even need to change his profession.

Before the man on the sofa witnessed all this with his own eyes, he was actually still a little uncertain.

He felt that the scorching sun shining on him might not be a big deal. The scorching sun shining on him was just a premise. This new profession with a very low entry threshold was the real point.

Is it possible that people who don’t agree with Wen Yan, have targeted Wen Yan, or are Wen Yan’s enemies, won’t be able to get in?
But now, everyone in Taiyi Temple can step over the threshold in one step, so what else is there to say.

Wen Yan is completely different from the former Lieyang and all the Lieyangs in the legend.

Wen Yan definitely did not target any of them.

The more he was certain of this, the more confused he felt. He didn't understand why Wen Yan did this.

He picked up the weight and looked at the Taoist who had a dazed look in his eyes. Blood was oozing from his chest and hot yang energy was bursting out of the blood. He did not disturb the other party as he was going to deal with the evil creature first.

As he stretched out his hand and the weight was about to fly out, the Taoist reached out and grabbed his arm.

"Be merciful."

The man on the sofa turned around, looking stunned.

"Are you not being soft-hearted and repaying evil with kindness? Even if you are willing to let him go, such an evil creature will be a great disaster if it is left alone."

The Taoist in gray robe glanced at the evil demon that fell in the distance with a look of horror on its face, and said.

“He has no blood in his body, no evil in his eyes, and he must have never harmed anyone before, otherwise I wouldn’t have been fooled.

Moreover, judging from his figure, it is obvious that this is not the first day he has appeared."

Having said this, the Taoist in gray robe looked at the vehicles passing through the tunnel, and his meaning was very clear.

It's not that he let the evil spirit go, but if the evil spirit only wanted to harm and eat people, there wouldn't be so many people passing by here every day, and it wouldn't have to wait until now.

The man on the sofa looked at it carefully, nodded, and agreed with this statement.

He could see this, and he could also see that this evil spirit was not unable to get off the road.

He held the weight in his hand, thought about it, and decided not to offend the Taoist priest. He did not intervene and let the Taoist priest do it himself first.

The Taoist walked out step by step and came in front of the evil spirit. The face of the evil spirit was like a mask that was falling off and kept breaking into pieces, revealing its true appearance, the face of an ordinary middle-aged man.

The evil spirit didn't dare to run or stand up. It just stretched out its arms to cover its face and huddled into a ball.

"You haven't harmed anyone before, why are you harming me today?" The Taoist asked his doubts.

The evil spirit shrank back, but when it glanced behind the Taoist, it saw the man on the sofa holding a glowing red weight in one hand, with a look on his face that said he would beat him to death if he dared to move.

"I...I feel that by borrowing your flesh and blood, I can leave here."

"My flesh and blood are the only thing that can be useful to you? Other passing vehicles are not useful to you?"

The evil spirit was startled, hesitated for a moment, and said.

“I died here in a car accident and was trapped here after my death. That day I saw several people stop their cars and some even went to the tunnel entrance to warn the cars behind them.

Several people stopped to try to get me out, and one person was burned.

I have a daughter and he also has a daughter. That day I saw his daughter crying very sadly.

Every time I think that I can leave this tunnel by getting flesh and blood, I think of this and can't bear it."

The man on the sofa following behind couldn't help but sneer when he heard this.

"Then why didn't you show any mercy when you attacked the Taoist priest just now? And you even transformed into someone else's appearance. It was obviously premeditated."

Yaoxie did not deny that he had planned it because he could not bear it any longer.

The Taoist priest in gray robe smiled and said.

"You can't suppress your instincts?"

"Yes, a little bit. Besides, my daughter is getting married. She told me when she came here to pay tribute to me the other day. But I don't think the man is a good person. He looks like a dog with a gentle and beastly appearance. I want to leave here. I want to go and see."

The Taoist priest in gray robe burst out laughing, and the man on the sofa laughed out loud.

"How can a father-in-law in this world like the son-in-law his daughter brings home when he first sees him?"

The Taoist priest in gray robe thought about it, touched his chest, and felt the strength in his chest.

Even though he was attacked, he wasn't actually very angry. He was able to calmly observe his surroundings and capture some details.

If it was a serious evil spirit that was harming people, he would not stop the man on the sofa from taking action.

But after walking thousands of miles these days and encountering many things, he has developed the habit of digging out the root of things and trying to solve the problems fundamentally, rather than simply and crudely slaying demons and eliminating evil.

He stretched out a hand, pulled the demon to stand up, and then pulled him out of the tunnel.

The evil spirit didn't dare to resist and was dragged to the tunnel entrance, where it didn't dare to move forward.

The Taoist turned around and gave sincere consolation.

"Trust me, you can just walk out. You don't need my flesh and blood, or anyone else's."

Yaoxie hesitated for a moment, then slowly took a step forward. He stretched his arm out of the tunnel, but the moment it was exposed to the sun, he couldn't help but pull it back. Large marks as if they were burned appeared on his arm.

The Taoist walked out of the tunnel, basked in the sun and looked at the sky. This time he could feel that when he was basking in the sun, the feeling of being blessed by the scorching sun became stronger and stronger.

"It may be that the Yang energy is too strong at this time. Try again later."

After the Taoist said this, he really did not leave and sat in the tunnel waiting.

Yaoxie looked at the burn marks on his arm with a hint of joy on his face. He had been sunburned once before and his skin had become charred. After the severe pain, he immediately lost consciousness. It was because all the perception in his arm was burned.

But today I was just burned, it was indeed different.

These two evil men, just sitting in the tunnel, looked very strange.

The man on the sofa also sat there, waiting quietly. If it were two days ago, he really would not understand this behavior.

But now, he has some understanding, and the hostility in his heart is much less than before.

"Master, how do you feel? Have you become a cultivator?" The man on the sofa wanted to confirm it, and he also wanted to know what it felt like after becoming a cultivator.

The Taoist looked at the man on the sofa with anticipation and did not hide anything.

"I don't know, I just felt the yang energy growing in my chest. In an instant, it was like I was reliving the first half of my life. I became more aware of myself and understood some things.

I think we should be clear-minded, not back down, face it calmly, and know what we want.

At that moment, I felt yang energy emerging in my chest, and that power slowly spread from my chest to my limbs and bones.

I don’t quite understand, but I think it’s not a bad thing to let it spread naturally.”

"Thank you." The man on the sofa straightened his face and bowed to express his gratitude.

He could feel the scorching sun, but he had never become a cultivator. It was not that he did not want to, but that he could not.

Seeing that the Taoist was already sitting on the ground in meditation, with a gentle aura, it was obvious that he had begun practicing, so he stopped disturbing him.

After a few hours, the Taoist woke up from his meditation. He took out a plastic bag from his backpack, took out three cakes and a bottle of chili sauce.

"Would you like to eat something to fill your stomach?"

The guy on the sofa didn't hesitate. In fact, when he secretly saw it before, he wanted to try it to see what the difference was.

The pancake was well-made and the chili sauce was indeed fragrant, but he really didn't taste anything special.

The evil demon nearby was also given a piece of cake by the Taoist priest, who then took out a stick of incense from his bag, lit it, and stuck it on the cake.

"Try it, it tastes great, the pancake tastes like pancake, and the chili sauce tastes like chili sauce."

The demons understood it immediately. In Nanwu County, this statement is considered a high evaluation.

The demon hesitated for a moment and stood up.

"I'll go get you two bottles of water. I have some mineral water in stock."

When the evil spirit saw the Taoist nod, he immediately went to take it.

The man on the sofa watched the evil spirit go away, thought for a while, but still didn't ask the question "Aren't you afraid that it will run away?"

Demons are the best at deceiving people. The man on the sofa believed the Taoist priest in gray robe, but he didn't really believe what the demon said, even though the demon might have been a human in his previous life.

After waiting for a few minutes, the evil spirit did not come back and the Taoist priest still looked calm, but the man on the sofa could not help but look up and look into the depths of the tunnel.

"If what he said was false, wouldn't it be better? That means no one would be hurt. Wouldn't it be fine as long as he gave up hurting others?" The Taoist advised.

"If it were in the past, I would have thought that destroying this evil would be fair to everyone else, but now I'm not so sure."

"If killing them could solve the problem, things would be much simpler. Unfortunately, not all problems can be solved this way. This is just a helpless choice." After the Taoist finished speaking, he asked again, "Why are you not sure?"

“I wanted to get rid of the contemporary Lieyang before. I thought it was the greatest fairness to others, and I believed in it firmly.

After yesterday, I realized that I only knew how to do subtraction and divide the cake, and I was deeply trapped in it and unable to extricate myself.

Suddenly I realized that I could also do addition and multiplication.

And it was far fairer than my previous narrow-minded thinking.

Just like the sun in the sky, he himself is the greatest fairness.

I can't blame the sun just because the big tree blocks the sunlight from the bushes below.

I don’t quite understand. There are still many things I don’t understand. I want to go to Nanwu County to take a look.”

The Taoist smiled and said nothing more. He felt that this required individual understanding.

As the two were talking, they saw Yaoxie coming over with a few bottles of water. After putting the water down, Yaoxie felt quite embarrassed.

"It's a little dusty, and I can't find anything clean to wipe it off..."

"Thank you." The Taoist thanked him and turned on the purified water.

After they ate, when the sun was about to set, the Taoist reached out his hand, pulled the evil spirit, and walked out of the tunnel again.

He stood outside the tunnel, pulling Yaoxie and giving him an encouraging look. The yang energy in his chest also spread out, and when Yaoxie mustered up the courage to take a step, the yang energy slowly flowed along his arm and into Yaoxie's body.

After the evil spirit came out, he immediately seemed to be in pain. His skin was not burned, but just a little red. He endured the severe pain and walked out slowly.

After the intense pain, there seemed to be a hint of warmth growing out of the pain, and the pain slowly dissipated.

"Master, can I really get out?!" After the evil spirit came out, the aura on his body began to change slowly. The evil aura above his head turned into steam and slowly dissipated.

His figure gradually began to transform into that of a ghost.

The Taoist smiled and was very satisfied.

"I told you that you don't need to harm anyone to get out. You can get out today at sunset, under the blazing sun. Then one day, you can even appear at noon. I told you that you are not a demon."

The man immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed twice to express his gratitude, his voice choked with sobs.

"Thank you for your guidance, Taoist."

"Don't thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank Wen Yan. He gave you a new choice. The most I did was just tell you that you have this choice."

"Who is Wen Yan?" the man asked quickly.

"He, I'll tell you slowly later."

The Taoist priest looked at the man on the sofa in the tunnel.

"Daoyou, it's getting dark. Do you want to go together?"

“That’s what I wanted.” The man on the sofa followed him out.

The ghost, who had shed his evil spirit, followed the Taoist priest in gray robe and walked along the road.

After walking for less than an hour, they saw a town ahead. The man on the sofa took the initiative to say that since they had been tired from the journey, they should go get a room so that the Taoist could wash up.

When you enter the town, you will see street vendors selling snacks of various kinds.

The man on the sofa looked towards a fruit shop on the roadside, squinted his eyes and took a look, then asked the director.

"Master, what do you think of those vendors who shortchange you on weight?"

"Call the Municipal Supervision Bureau."

"..."

With just one sentence, the man on the sofa was silenced.

The Taoist priest saw the man on the sofa was silent, smiled and said.

"In the past, I would have thought that no one would cheat me of the weight. Even if some small vendors did so, it might be because of life pressure or too much pressure. Now, I will call the Municipal Supervision Bureau."

"Do you believe in retribution, Taoist priest?"

"If they are fined and given a yellow card, isn't that retribution?"

The man on the sofa was silent for a moment and said.

"I still feel it's not enough. The people who were cheated and deceived have not had their losses compensated. This is not fair."

As the two were talking, they saw a customer come to the fruit shop. The boss gave the customer a frame and let him choose by himself. After the customer made his choice, when he weighed the fruit to pay, the man on the sofa had already walked up to him. He glanced at the boss's scale and said.

"Doing business is a matter of mutual consent. The price doesn't matter, but at least the weight is the bottom line. Aren't you afraid of losing your fortune by doing this?"

"Idiot, what do you mean?" The boss got furious.

"One ounce less will reduce your fortune, two ounces less will reduce your salary, and three ounces less will shorten your life."

The boss was furious and instead of proving himself, he rushed out and prepared to push the man on the sofa.

The man on the sofa was pushed, but he didn't fight back. He turned around and looked at the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest didn't say anything. The man on the sofa then took out a weight, then reached into his sleeve and pulled out an old-fashioned beam scale with patina on it.

He hung up the weight, and with a wave of his hand, he saw the bag of fruit hanging on the hook.

The man on the sofa moved the weight, and when the scale bar became steady and motionless, he spoke in a deep voice.

"Two ounces less."

As he finished his words, something seemed to fly out of the fruit shop owner's body and fall onto the old-fashioned beam scale, and two dots lit up on the scale beam.

The man on the sofa put down the fruit, turned around and left without saying a word.

He touched the scale bar, and the two lit spots dissipated, turning into an aura invisible to ordinary people, and fell on the customer just now.

The man on the sofa and the Taoist priest ignored the cursing boss and left together. After walking a few steps, the man on the sofa looked at the Taoist priest and asked.

"Master, do you think I did the right thing?"

(End of this chapter)