From the end of the world

Chapter 297 Bifang 1
The figure that came out of the forest did not look like a human, but a big bird.

The appearance of this big bird is quite special, it seems that it was born with only one leg, covered with blue and red feathers, and its beak is white. It is better to say that it moved horizontally with the power of mind rather than walking out.

I have never seen or heard of a bird that looks like this in real life, but I feel like I have seen something similar in writing. Was it in some urban legend or rural ghost story? I should remember it, but it's hard to connect the dots at the moment. In any case, this should be the form of a strange thing.

That being said, I could hardly sense the smell of a strange creature from it. No matter how much the Ancient Moon God and Silver Moon looked like humans, I would have judged them to be strange creatures without hesitation; and the strange creature in front of me didn't even look like a normal animal, let alone a human, but I felt that it somehow gave off a smell similar to mine.

It, or he, is most likely a monster mimicking human form.

On this basis, I could feel a sense of gigantic size coming from him.

The monster stood about two meters tall, which was certainly big enough for a bird or beast, but the feeling of being a giant was completely different from the other dimension. I even felt that if its essence could be transformed into matter, its size would definitely be much larger than this Yueyin Mountain.

I had experienced the same feeling from Xuanming, Shenzhao, and Mingzhuo. Unconsciously, I had seen so many great impermanences, and the strange bird in front of me was undoubtedly the fourth great impermanence I had seen.

Dong Che calls him "Master", which means that he is the Gua Tianshi.

Gua Tianshi really appeared in Yueyin Mountain!

"Ma Zao!" I shouted immediately.

Ma Zao could only activate the power of return as agreed and withdraw from my side, while I stayed to confront Gua Tianshi.

With Gua Tianshi's ability, he could have stopped it, but he just watched Ma Zao retreat to a distance, and then said slowly: "That girl just now is the target of Mingzhu. From what I see, she seems to be forced to bear an unusual fate. For such a young girl, it's a bit cruel."

I sensed the heat energy mark on Ma Zao's body. Now she has moved herself to Yueyin Mountain City. To be honest, I still hope that she can retreat to a more distant place. It would not be too much to retreat back to Xianshui City. Now it is just barely enough. She may want to stay in a place where she can feel the fluctuations of our magic power and act according to circumstances. Maybe she has the intention of desperately returning to the battlefield to rescue me when I am powerless.

"Master Gua, what can I do for you?" I asked directly.

"I know what you are worried about, Zhuang Cheng."

Gua Tianshi really knew me. He did not comment on the boy form I was using. He just laughed and said, "First of all, I am not Yin Yue's partner, and I have no intention of standing on Ming Zhuo's side and kidnapping your girl."

"Aren't you and Mingzhu the same?" I asked.

"No."

Gua Tianshi did not put on an air of being a transcendent master, but patiently explained like a teacher: "In the eyes of many grassroots demon hunters, Mingzhuo and I are both transcendentalists, so we should be together. However, the so-called 'transcendentalism' and 'rule of the world'... are just rhetoric that started with Fazheng.

"My fundamental thoughts are different from Mingzhuo's. We were simply and roughly classified as the same by Fazheng. In fact, there is no deep binding interest relationship between us."

I listened carefully at first, and then asked, "So...what is your purpose?"

"I came to Yueyin Mountain this time for three reasons," he said calmly, "First, I want to take my silly and adorable apprentice away."

As he spoke, he spread one wing and flapped it gently as if beckoning. Dongche disappeared from beside me and appeared beside him.

I didn't comment on this. Dong Che is someone else's apprentice. In terms of relationship, he is definitely closer to Gua Tianshi than me. Now this is like a parent coming to pick up someone.

Although Dong Che himself might not be so happy about it. In order to gain a better foothold in the world governance camp, he didn't seem to want others to always associate him with his master. But on the other hand, he seemed to have a lot of respect for Gua Tianshi. Even though he had defected to the world governance camp, he never said bad things about Gua Tianshi in front of others.

No matter good or bad, he couldn't express any opinions now. He stood there blankly, his self-awareness seemed to become weaker, as if he had fallen asleep with his eyes open. The fuzzy glow around his body became deeper and deeper, and his face gradually turned a pale blue like a corpse.

"I want to thank you. It was you who saved Dongche." Gua Tianshi nodded to me first.

"I didn't save him. He is dead now," I said.

As if he had heard something humorous, Gua Tianshi said with a hint of laughter: "Death?"

"Master..." Dong Che seemed to have some reaction, and asked blankly: "Am I... dead now?"

"You are a living person, absolutely true." Gua Tianshi responded calmly.

Hearing this, the fuzzy glow on Dong Che's body suddenly disappeared, and his face, which had originally looked deathly, immediately became rosy and energetic, and life seemed to have returned to his body.

He seemed to have gone through a very strenuous activity, and his whole body became limp and he fell to the ground unconscious.

Although he was unconscious, he didn't seem to have fainted because he was in danger. Instead, he seemed to have relaxed too much after escaping from a life-or-death situation. Perhaps he just needed a good sleep and he would be back to normal.

It would have been fine if we hadn't compared them, but now that I had, I felt like this was the first time I had seen Dong Che alive. Even at the Fufeng base, he had never been as alive as he is now.

I couldn't help but think of the spirits that appeared in some rural ghost stories. It is said that if an animal with good cultivation wants to transform into a human form, it must first walk on two feet, pretend to be a human, and then ask a real human if it looks like a human. If the other party admits it in person, it can transform into a human form. This is the so-called "asking for a seal".

Human recognition can transform monsters into human form, and recognition by the Great Impermanence can even reverse time and space, modify reality, and bring the dead back to life.

Life and death are unpredictable, but in the face of great impermanence, it seems that even the illusory and impermanent life and death can be decided with just one word.

Gua Tianshi flapped his wings gently again, and Dong Che's figure disappeared completely, as if he had been teleported to a place outside the Yueyin Mountain area by the ability of space transfer.

"how did you do it?"

I asked the Gua Tianshi questions, naturally asking what method he used to revive the Dongche.

"You have guessed it, haven't you? Our language is powerful. As long as you formally enter the realm of Great Impermanence, you can do the same thing. You don't even need any training or preparation. You just need to say that sentence to him like I did just now." Gua Tianshi said, "In fact, you have already done something similar to him before."

"Similar things, you mean..." I had an association in my mind.

"You must have wondered why Dong Che, who is supposedly a death phantom that can only move within the fog, can appear outside the fog and meet you at the Fufeng base."

Gua Tianshi seemed to be able to see the trajectory of my activities all along, and he did not hide it, and continued: "The truth is very simple. This is because when we were at the Fufeng base, he asked you if you looked like a dead person, and you gave a negative answer.

“Just because of this simple sentence, he more or less returned to the realm of the living and gained the right to continue to operate in the world of the living.

"However, the same method cannot be applied to the other people in the fog. They are all dead and their souls have long been gone. If it was the era when the world of the living and the afterlife were still connected, we, the Great Impermanence, could revive them with just a word, but it is not possible now.

"Since Dongche's death has not yet arrived, his soul is still intact for the time being, so he can be resurrected by the Word Spirit."

I think this is about the case, but there are still some things I can't understand.

Since Gua Tianshi didn't seem to show any ill intentions, I continued to ask questions: "He appeared in the outside world first, and I denied his death later. If I deny that his death is a prerequisite for his appearance in the outside world, he couldn't move outside the fog from the beginning, and it would be even more impossible for him to meet me, right?"

"But, assuming he can move in the outside world, he may be able to obtain your words. Even in the hypothetical realm, the possible realm, and other unrealistic realms, the power of the Great Impermanence can penetrate."

Gua Tianshi was quite friendly. Maybe he had a personality that made him like to teach others, but he was willing to answer even the most detailed questions: "It's like you are not yet the Great Impermanence, but you may become one in the future. Some of the authority of the Great Impermanence has already manifested in you... You are not clueless about this, right?"

What he said was probably about the phenomenon of mutual repulsion between me and strange things, as well as the laws of heaven and earth.

The law of heaven and earth... I chanted this phrase in my mind. I didn't forget what he said when he just appeared. Now the strange fog phenomenon that is like air pollution all over Yueyin Mountain and the surrounding towns is Yin Yue's law of heaven and earth.

But how can the silver moon control the heavens and the earth?
"Is Yin Yue also qualified to be the Great Impermanence?" I asked.

"She is not. However, to become the Great Impermanence, one does not have to have the qualifications to become the Great Impermanence." Gua Tianshi said, "In the long river of history, there are occasionally extremely rare special cases where people do not have the qualifications to become the Great Impermanence. For example, the old fist god, Liu Shuying, the wheel king, and Zhu family's ancestor Zhu Yi... and I think Yin Yue may also become this special case.

"This is the second purpose of my trip. I plan to invite Yin Yue to join Luo Shan."

(End of this chapter)