I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 459 The Purple Star Covenant

Feng Xue's speech was actually subpar; it was far inferior to that of a failed art student or even an accordion master.

But what he faced were ghosts far more indifferent than ordinary people, numb ghosts who had wandered in the underworld for countless years, oppressed for countless years, and exploited for countless years.

As he spoke, the ghosts simply gazed at him silently, feeling the sense of peace emanating from him, yet not a single ghost was moved.

No, that might be an oversimplification. There were indeed ghosts that were moved, and many of them were, but none of them responded.

Although the ghost money system has only completely collapsed in the last few decades, in reality, ever since Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell entered the underworld a thousand years ago, the underworld has entered a state of sustainable exploitation.

They have to pay protection money and be exterminated, and because their mortal descendants still maintain the custom of ancestor worship, these old ghosts are not even allowed to reincarnate.

The wheel of reincarnation is in the hands of Buddhism; they say you can't be reincarnated, even if you've been a good person for ten lifetimes.

Over the past thousand years, there have been instances of resistance, but the rebels were quickly wiped out, and each time they were exterminated, they were forced to pay an extermination tax.

Not paying?

Not paying means not supporting the extermination of ghosts!
Those who do not support the extermination of demons are accomplices of the Demon King!

Now that Feng Xue has emerged, in the eyes of these ghosts, she is nothing more than another ghost king with some ability, and she will eventually be wiped out. As for supporting the ghost king?

That's even more impossible.

The vast majority of the resources in the underworld have been plundered by Buddhism. After the system of ghost money was completely decoupled from the power of vows, if the Ghost King wanted to obtain the power of vows, he either had to go through the trouble of extracting it from the items that were burned, or he could simply eat ghosts. But no matter which method he used, he was essentially absorbing foreign power of vows. The only outcome was that he would slowly lose himself and his true nature, becoming a monster that only knew how to seize power of vows, and eventually becoming an ATM that Buddhism could cash out at any time.

In this situation, who can provide support? Who dares to provide support?

If the people of Goose City in Let the Bullets Fly help whoever wins, then the ghosts of the underworld don't help anyone, no matter who wins or loses.

Because in their understanding, to defeat Buddhism, even just once, one would have to become a powerful vengeful ghost, and vengeful ghosts are ultimately meant to devour people.

But this did not prevent them from enjoying this moment of peace and tranquility before Feng Xue was defeated or turned into a vengeful ghost.

Feng Xue had not been unaware of the fact that this environment, which was far more troublesome than the one with Huang Silang as a target, was not in charge. He did not waste any words, but silently poured his energy into the Heart Candle, spreading the "Great Wish of Peace of Mind" throughout this huge cyber ghost city.

……

"Will this work?" Fina came from a gangster family. When she was young, she was a spoiled young lady with delusions of grandeur. When she grew up, she became an insecure tool. She didn't think Feng Xue's behavior could have any effect.

But when Feng Xue responded to her telepathic message, he only smiled. If he hadn't already removed his Buddhist disguise, the scene would have truly resembled the smile of Kasyapa.

Fina was very unhappy with Feng Xue's riddle-like behavior, but she was just mentally ill, not lacking in emotional intelligence. She and Sarah would tease Feng Xue together as a way to relax, but when it came to serious matters, even if she couldn't help, she would make sure not to bother them.

However, Feng Xue wasn't really focused at this moment. He had to nourish his soul every day, and the large amounts of saturated vital energy that were originally meant for Mo Ying were now being used to power his Heart Candle, so it wasn't a waste. Once his soul was full, Feng Xue stopped his "egg-giving" activity. Only half an hour had passed since he lit the Heart Candle.

The feeling of peace slowly fades as the light of the candle dims. Compared to the numbness of daily life, it is the feeling of gaining something and then slowly losing it that is maddening.

This is similar to a person suffering from severe insomnia who has become accustomed to having difficulty falling asleep and having poor sleep quality. However, if they suddenly have a good night's sleep but are woken up in the middle of the night, that would be an unbearable pain.

In that brief moment of supply disruption, Feng Xue could clearly observe that many ghosts showed expressions of reluctance to part, but in the end, no one stepped forward.

They simply withdrew silently and went back to their work.

Feng Xue didn't intend to finish his work in one fell swoop. He randomly found a house and began to study the knowledge he had gained from the previous world. However, to his surprise, in terms of studying cultivation techniques, Xiao Lingdang, who had always been better than Kaguya in every way, was surprisingly at a disadvantage.

"It's not a matter of being at a disadvantage! It's a matter of divine duty. I am the guiding god, and she is the creating god. If it's about assisting you in learning existing techniques, I am definitely more skilled than her!"

Little Bell offered an explanation as if she were jealous, while Kaguya simply gave a serene and gentle smile.

However, Feng Xue knew very well that, unlike Yingbao's initiative to clean up, the independence and personality differences that these two showed were essentially just pre-programmed codes. Xiaolingdang's explanation was not because she was jealous, but rather, according to her personality code, she was expressing why her progress was not as good as Kaguya's, nothing more.

Without dwelling on the personalities of the two, Feng Xue immediately began practicing the revised version of the Xuanwu Cantong Qi—

No, it's no longer appropriate to call it that at this point, because now, this cultivation method has completely lost the distinction between mystical cultivation and martial cultivation. The two paths that were forcibly combined have now completely merged into one.

The essence of this cultivation method is still mystical cultivation and martial arts cultivation, but under the guidance of the Heart Candle system, content related to astronomy, numerology, and mathematics has been incorporated into it. What was originally just an idea to create a body-strengthening cultivation method has, with the joint efforts of talents from all walks of life and the help of Feng Xue's astronomical observation results from modern society, directly become a trinity method combining physical cultivation, mystical cultivation, and divine cultivation, with "the unity of heaven and man" as its central idea.

The initial stage of this technique involves the Seven Luminaries: the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) correspond to the five internal organs, the moon corresponds to the power of will, the sun corresponds to the vital energy, and the physical body corresponds to the earth.

The sun (vital energy) is the foundation of life. Whether it is the five planets (the power of the five elements), the moon (the power of will), or the vitality of the earth (the physical body) itself, they are all just reflections of the sun's radiance on different planets.

If this step merely represents the unification of Xuan cultivation, martial cultivation, and Xinzhu with a single system, then the subsequent celestial phenomena represent a further extension.

The Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions are the essence of this system.

Using numerology as a bridge, astronomy and mathematics are combined. With the idea of ​​the unity of heaven and man, the Tian Shi Yuan, which symbolizes the world (the common people), and the body, which symbolizes the earth, are unified as the origin of the coordinate system. The Zi Wei Yuan is above the head, the Tai Wei Yuan is under the feet, the Azure Dragon is in the east, the White Tiger is in the west, the Vermilion Bird is in the south, and the Black Tortoise is in the north, thus constructing a three-dimensional coordinate system.

In this way, algebraic geometry, astronomy, and geography can all be incorporated into the method of mental illumination, and the numerous techniques that Feng Xue has mastered will truly become dazzling stars in this celestial coordinate system.

Based on the core principles of this exercise, Feng Xue renamed it—

The Ziwei Cantongqi.

(End of this chapter)