Yin Yang Lantern Man

Ask your heart, what heart do you want to ask about?

The little man lightly touched Chen Ning'an's chest with his finger and then withdrew his hand.

Chen Ning'an closed his eyes, and the bright light of the lantern brought him to a time that had been deeply buried.

This is where?

Chen Ning'an stretched out his hand, and the world in front of him slowly unfolded. His vision gradually became clearer, but the dazzling light made it difficult for him to open his eyes.

Babbling sounds came out of his mouth, and he was a little surprised that he had become a baby.

"We finally have a boy in our family."

With the loving voice, men, women, old people, and maids appeared before him one by one.

"Why isn't the child crying?"

The man took a look and said with some trepidation, "Is there anything wrong?"

He heard that if a child doesn't cry after being born, it will suffocate to death.

"This child cried for a bit when he was born, and then he stopped crying."

The midwife explained that the baby was not holding his breath.

"That's fine, that's fine."

The man breathed a sigh of relief: "So, my name is correct, Ning An who doesn't cry or make a fuss. From now on, you will be called Chen Ning An."

Where did this man come from?

Chen Ningan frowned. This was him? His own heart?

Which life is this?
He found himself trapped here, trapped by himself, and his instinctive desire to know the answer made him very annoyed.

In a blink of an eye, seven years passed and several young girls were chasing after him.

"Ning An, don't run so fast!"

Although Chen Ning'an is young, he has already learned to refine Qi and is running on the prairie like a gust of wind.

The older sisters behind her couldn't catch up even though they tried their best.

"Ning An, where are you going again!"

Chen Yurou was older and the only one who could catch up with him. The two of them walked one after the other and came to a cliff.

Looking down from here, one can see floating continents, and they also live on a continent.

There is an endless supply of water falling from the sky, no one knows where it comes from and where it goes.

Chen Ning'an's figure just stopped on the continent. He stared into the distance and saw a golden crow crossing the continent, floating from one piece of air to another.

Here is the horizon, the end of the sky.

At the end of the sky is another sky.

"Chen Ning'an! How many times have I told you not to run so far!"

Chen Yurou was panting and couldn't help but pull Chen Ningan's ears:

"As your elder sister, I am going to teach you a lesson today!"

"Shh!"

Chen Ning'an turned sideways and no matter how hard Chen Yurou tried to grab him, she couldn't.

"Do not touch me."

His voice was cold. He actually still had such memories in his heart. His life experience at the beginning was not simple.

Being able to live in the sky, look down at the horizon and see the clouds rolling and unrolling, it is obvious that he has a noble status.

"Where is this?"

He looked across the layers of sky towards the bottom. The lower he went, the less sunlight there was, and the darker it was.

Finally, there is a vast expanse.

"This is Zixiaotian."

The girl couldn't help but mutter, "Why are you pretending to be an adult? You obviously don't know anything, but you still look so arrogant and old-fashioned."

"Zixiaotian?"

He repeated three words: "Is this the heaven?"

"What heaven? Zixiaotian is Zixiaotian."

The girl didn't care about Chen Ning'an's words at all: "Hurry home. You've come so far. Your parents and grandparents must be worried."

The Chen family finally had this one child, what if something unexpected happened?
"What's that underneath?"

Suddenly, Chen Ning'an stretched out his hand and pointed, and it turned out that there was a little light flickering in the darkness.

"I don't know. I often see lights flashing down there, but they only flash for a moment."

The girl urged again: "Let's go, what are you waiting for, go home quickly."

"I want to see what's flashing."

"You are crazy!"

Chen Yurou was shocked and said, "If Dad knew about your idea, he would peel off a layer of skin from you!"

After saying this, she no longer held back and directly threw a rope to wrap around Chen Ningan: "Let's go, go home!"

Chen Ning'an was forced to be dragged away. He looked down. Was the world of lanterns under the white clouds?
My heart guided me here. Is there some secret I want to discover?

In the evening, a family of eight, including Chen Ning'an's three sisters, were eating at the table.

Chen Jingyun, the head of the Chen family, suddenly said: "There are rumors outside recently that magical powers have appeared."

"Divine Ability..."

Everyone in the family, except the children, put down their chopsticks. Chen Ning'an paused his arm slightly and raised his head.

“It’s all lies.”

Grandpa coughed and said, "How can supernatural powers appear so easily? Eat and don't think about it."

This meal was eaten in silence.

At night, Chen Ning'an was dressed in a deep thought, listening quietly outside her "parents'" door.

"You're crazy. These four children are so young. What will happen if you die?"

That was Chen's mother's voice, objecting.

“That’s a magical power!”

Chen Jingyun hesitated again and again: "I'll take a look at the situation. If there is really an opportunity, it's not too late to fight for it."

"Chen Jingyun, remember, if you die, our family will not be able to escape!"

After saying this, Chen Ning'an stood up, thought for a moment, and walked to the other side.

"Grandpa, what is the magical power?"

Chen Ning'an asked his question, maybe grandpa could answer him.

Willing to answer him.

Supernatural powers...

The grandfather looked at the little grandson in front of him. The Chen family has had only one male heir for more than a dozen generations, and he was afraid that the lineage would be cut off in some generation.

Chen Ning'an was born unusual. He never cries or makes a fuss, and behaves like an adult.

"Do you want to know what magical powers are?"

Grandpa looked at the child seriously: "How is your cultivation now?"

"The Qi training is complete."

Chen Ning'an looked calm. He could only practice here.

Because his soul had already been refined to perfection, it was naturally impossible for another god to be born.

"Well, I can tell you now."

Grandpa narrowed his eyes and said, "This world is vast and boundless. Those with great magical powers who master a special ability can be invincible by nature."

"The only difference between that supernatural power and the great supernatural power is the word 'great'."

"If a person carries a horizontal line and has magical powers, he will be great."

"So, supernatural powers are those special abilities that are enough to make a person invincible?"

"Yes."

The old man narrowed his eyes and said, "Whoever masters the magical power will be the master. Ning An, don't be too curious. That is not something that people of our level can touch."

Among their family, the one with the highest level of cultivation is only at the stage of refining the spirit, and even returning to the void is out of their reach, let alone coveting supernatural powers.

Logically speaking, Chen Jingyun would give up in the end.

But Chen Ning'an knew intuitively that the magical power was probably not that simple. Otherwise, why would he appear here? He was asking about this memory.

Sure enough, one night three years later, there was a loud thunder!

The thunder roared continuously, from the sky all the way to the purple sky. The endless thunder seemed like the wrath of the gods, constantly bombarding the earth.

Chen Ning'an had never seen such thunder. He raised his head and seemed to see his master in a trance.

Amidst the thunder, a man stumbled and rushed over.

"Quick! Wen Ru, bring the children out!"

"Dad, where are you!"

Chen Jingyun's face was covered in blood, and his body had suffered at least ten fatal wounds!
"Oh my God, Chen Jingyun, what's wrong with you!"

The whole family ran out, all frightened, but Chen Jingyun said nothing and spoke very quickly!
"I'm about to die. To make a long story short, I have my magical powers, and they are coming after me."

"With this magical power, our Chen family will definitely be able to stand at the top. Remember, even if you die, you will have no regrets!"

He locked his eyes on Chen Ning'an: "Son, our Chen family depends on you!"

He threw something out of his arms, hitting Chen Ningan's soul. Just as he completed this responsibility, the thunderbolt fell...

"boom!"

Amidst the thunder, a Taoist priest with a bald head and fat waist walked out.

The Taoist looked as if he was made of gold, and he walked towards the family step by step.

"Ant, you actually dared to steal my magical power. You are so brave!"

The Taoist raised his hand and pointed at him: "Hand over that half-divine power, or you will die."

"I have already used my magical powers."

Chen Jingyun laughed loudly: "My Chen family will eventually stand at the top and unify the Zixiaotian!"

"Bastard!"

The Taoist was furious and pointed at Chen Jingyun, who immediately turned into a golden statue.

Golden statue!

Chen Ning'an frowned, and when he looked back, he found that his entire family had turned into golden statues!
"Humph, magical powers are divided into yin and yang. I got the Yang God, but not the Yin God. It must be hidden in these people."

The Taoist gave an order to those behind him: "Crush the soul, confuse the true spirit, and you will know where the supernatural power is once you check it."

Then, Chen Ning'an saw the other party crushing his soul.

But there was a bit of immortality in his soul that allowed him to recover.

"it's here!"

The Taoists surrounded him. The bald Taoist stared at Chen Ningan with a cold look:
"Little guy, hand over your magical powers and I can let you go."

"hehe."

Chen Ning'an sneered, he understood.

This magical power is the Tiangang magical power, which means turning stone into gold.

It is also called turning stone into gold. Although it means turning stone, this is just a general term.

Gold represents immortality, and this magical power has the effect of making the target indestructible and pure forever.

Who knew that this magical power was not one and the same, but was divided into two sides, yin and yang. The yang side was the body and matter, and the yin side was the soul and thought.

“No wonder my soul never wavers and I remember the matter of reincarnation.”

He suddenly realized, but this undoubtedly made the other party angry.

But why did he forget this memory?

Afterwards, Chen Ning'an saw his soul being crushed and insulted again and again, enduring the most terrible torture in the world.

He was too weak to practice Qi, and his cultivation was quickly wasted.

But he just refused to hand over his Yin Divine Power. Finally, the Taoist looked at him coldly and said, "If you don't hand it over, do you think I can't do anything to you?"

"Send him to hell and make him a ghost. Your soul is immortal and I will let you bear all the sufferings in the world."

"I want you to be unable to live or die. You...will eventually come back and beg me to take back your magical powers."

Afterwards, the handwriting in Chen Ning'an's memory was knocked down to the lantern world, struggling in hell, and finally, arrived here.

The memories he forgot were actually forgotten on purpose because he was unwilling to endure the endless pain.

"You're so fragile."

He talked to himself, I don’t know if this you is referring to myself or that Taoist.

Everything is clear now. Is this him from the beginning?
Chen Ning'an raised his head, and the scenes in front of him shattered.

He endured all the suffering and finally discovered the truth.

"How about it?"

The villain looked at Chen Ningan: "Did you find it?"

"found it."

Chen Ning'an replied, everything was clear, and it was also clear why he was a ghost cultivator.

At the same time, he also knew why there were four words on the golden statue: Don't break the void.

That was one of his past lives. He became a ghost cultivator and struggled in the mortal world. Finally, he stepped into the realm of refining the void, tore through the void, and prepared to merge with the Tao and ascend to immortality.

But just when he realized that the magical power in his body had merged, he had actually been discovered by the other party. So, he was turned into a golden statue by Yang's magical power, and he only had time to leave these four words.

And those other golden statues were his good friends from previous lives, and all of them were implicated.

What the other party wanted was what Chen Ningan could not get.

What the other person wants is what he loves and loses.

What he wants is the pain of purgatory.

Chen Ning'an's life was full of disasters. Everything forced him to give up, make decisions, sacrifice his magical powers, and even ask for his soul to be destroyed.

This villain is indeed evil, and has the evil thoughts of hell. His soul is linked to evil, so he cannot be killed.

But he was sealed, his soul was torn apart, and he became what he is now.

And that lightning-struck tree was once his best friend. It was forced to punish itself by only being able to survive half of its life: one life, three lives, ten lives, and it had to endure the pain of being torn apart by lightning for endless time.

"I see. I am rebelling again."

He put down the lantern and his expression became calmer.

Because of his half-magical power, he had to endure too much. In fact, this was the fate imposed on him by others.

But his soul is like real gold, immortal, indestructible and incorruptible. After experiencing endless suffering, it still shines brightly.

This... maybe this is the reason why Tianzun could take a fancy to him amidst the endless malice.

It turns out that the lantern world is purgatory, and this is not his illusion.

"what have you found?"

The villain was very curious, but Chen Ning'an shook his head at him, smiled and said nothing.

"If I succeed, I will take you to heaven."

He put down the lantern, took off his "clothes", and let Master Gan Lao leave.

The upper limit of everything he has is capped, and he is in the stage of refining emptiness.

Once you try to break through the realm, you will be discovered, and then repeat the endless cycle of suffering.

But... that was for him in the past.

"The way of heaven is fair, everything will eventually pay for itself. My greatest advantage is my master."

Only Master can help me break out of this impasse.

Chen Ning'an saw it clearly, so he left the virtual world, set up a desk, and lit incense.

One more statue is missing.

Chen Ning'an found the owner of a wood carving shop, not for anything else, just to learn a craft and carve the image of Tianzun by himself.

The green smoke curls up to the sky, and I pray sincerely for three hundred years.

Chen Ning'an raised his eyes. He only wanted to see his master, to express his injustice and to pray for a solution.

If the Heavenly Lord did not express anything, he would continue to worship just to get a chance.

"Master, please come to the world!"

Chen Ning'an spoke sincerely and wholeheartedly, without any disrespect.

Such sincerity finally broke through the barrier between God and man.

(End of this chapter)