The more you believe me, the more real it becomes.

Chapter 334 Zou Yan
After standing there for a long time, Zou Zi finally turned around slowly, looked at Du Yuan, and smiled faintly:
"Is there anything you want to ask?"

Du Yuan nodded hurriedly, looking quite puzzled:
"So, senior, what exactly is going on?"

Although I vaguely realized something when I noticed that identical face in the Kyoto sky.

But Du Yuan was truly baffled as to what was going on.

Now it seems that the two Zouzi, one black and one white, have clearly made a huge mistake.

Zou Zi spoke casually, as if he were talking about a trivial matter:
"To put it bluntly, it's nothing profound. Zou Yan, the founder of the Yin-Yang School, actually died long ago. The person in front of you now, or the person just now, is not the real Zou Yan."

He paused and added:

"At most, they are just two obsessions left over from when he separated Yin and Yang."

Du Yuan frowned deeply. Zou Yan had already passed away? This answer was far beyond his expectations.

He had considered countless possibilities, perhaps it was some mysterious cultivation method, or perhaps it was an accidental change, but he never expected this outcome.

"Senior, could you explain in more detail?" he pressed.

Zou Zi didn't care much about this to begin with, but since Du Yuan asked, he patiently replied, "You should still remember Li Shiyi, right? Didn't you go to the Sword Tomb once?"

Du Yuan nodded gently: "Of course I remember. I will never forget such a person in my life."

Born in the degenerate age, when everyone else was fleeing in panic, he went south alone to face the calamity. Once you hear about his deeds, it is hard to erase them from your heart.

Upon hearing this, Zou Zi smiled and said, "What we did was pretty much the same as what he did."

The backlash from Heaven, accumulated over countless generations of cultivators, is incredibly heavy. How can a group of children really be asked to bear it?
"After all, can they really carry that place away? We old men are still alive!"

"So that's why you've become like this, senior?" Du Yuan finally realized.

Zou Zi said sarcastically:
"As the saying goes, when the sky falls, the tall ones hold it up. Now that the sky has really fallen, it's naturally up to us 'tall ones' to step up."

Changing the subject, he stared intently at Du Yuan and asked seriously, "Have you already guessed that I was the one who left the message for the cowherd at the Sword Tomb Treasure Bottle Mouth?"

In the Sword Tomb, where the Ding Sword was hidden, he had met an old man with the Spring Breeze Sword Master. The old man not only told him about the origin of the Ding Sword, but also mentioned an old man in gray robes, implying that the old man in gray robes wanted him to take the Ding Sword away.

Du Yuan replied:

"Of course I remember. But why did you ask me to take the Dingjian with me, senior?" As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of Kyoto and tentatively asked, "Is this related to the other you?"

Zou Zi nodded: "Yes, it is indeed related to him. But how should I put it?"

At this point, even though Zou Zi considered himself to have long since taken everything lightly and was indifferent to life and death, his gaze toward Du Yuan became extremely complicated.

The person before him was far beyond his expectations—he had actually managed to directly shatter the scheme that Yin Shen had been planning for thousands of years.

You should know that even he himself was being suffocated by that Yin body. If Yin and Yang weren't indispensable, he probably would have been wiped out by the other party long ago.

"After Zou Yan died, he and I separated into Yin and Yang. We parted ways because our paths were incompatible. Then, we broke off completely because we found it increasingly difficult to tolerate each other's actions."

"The situation he described also arose under these circumstances. It's understandable that he wanted that thing, but his actions were too eccentric and ruthless, which I found intolerable, so we've been fighting and maneuvering ever since."

Then, Zou Zi said with shame:

"It's a pity that, even though we should be exactly the same, I lose to him in every way, to the point that he becomes the only one who can dominate, and I can no longer control him at all."

The two of them were almost identical, the only difference being their temperaments.

The Yin body is evil and will stop at nothing, while the Yang body is virtuous and restrains and limits everything. Initially, they can win or lose, but over time, the Yang body, which is naturally lacking in 'willingness to give,' will gradually be defeated.

Others may have moral flaws, but they can learn to change; they cannot.

After all, yin and yang, good and evil have been distinguished. How can we call good evil, and how can we call evil good?

They are inherently flawed, and destined to be beyond redemption!

“I knew long ago that I was no match for him, but I couldn’t let him become a demon and harm the world. So I painstakingly deduced a way to break the deadlock. Finally, I suddenly noticed an ‘anomaly’.”

Mentioning this, Zou Zidu exclaimed in amazement:
"After the separation of Yin and Yang, although our ability to deduce and calculate is far inferior to that of Zou Yan himself, we still claim that no one in the world can surpass him."

"But unexpectedly, anything that's associated with you becomes unfathomable to us, and the closer the relationship is to you, the less we can understand it."

Among so many cultivators, Zou Yan's cultivation level was definitely not the highest; the three founders of the three religions were still ahead of him.

When it comes to divination of celestial secrets, Zou Yan far surpasses the three founders of the religions and others.

Therefore, the two figures that Zou Yan created, even if they were not as good as the original, were not far off.

But even they, in their own way, kept getting thwarted by Du Yuan, as if it were a joke.

He remembered that when he first discovered this anomaly, he almost thought that another great calamity was coming.

After all, the only thing that could prevent him from seeing through things to this extent was the Great Calamity.

He also recalled that when he discovered that the Dingjian might be an anomaly that could be a turning point, he tried to start from there.

Unfortunately, he misunderstood cause and effect from the very beginning—it wasn't that the sword could break the deadlock, but rather that the person who broke the deadlock was entangled in cause and effect with the sword.

Therefore, in order to avoid the sword master he envisioned missing out on the sword that would break the deadlock, he stepped into the mortal realm early on.

They forcibly interfered.

Unexpectedly, it all came to nothing!

"At the time, I thought the Dingjian sword was the turning point to break the deadlock, so I didn't dare let you miss out on it and interfered. Little did I know that I had misunderstood the cause and effect from the very beginning."

At this point, Zou Zi suddenly glanced at the old sword bar at Du Yuan's waist.

He stared at it for a moment, his expression strange, then nodded and smiled:

"The Dingjian sword is indeed unworthy of you."

Du Yuan keenly grasped this point, and her eyes immediately lit up as she said:

"Senior, do you know the origin of this sword? Would you be so kind as to explain?"

Du Yuan still doesn't understand what kind of path his ash has taken. Although it doesn't affect him, it still makes him itchy with curiosity!

It's like a cat scratching; if you don't figure it out, you'll feel really frustrated!
Unexpectedly, Zou Zi laughed and waved his hand, then pointed to Wang Chengsi below and said:
"Of course I know the origin of your sword, or rather, I'm surprised that someone of your skill level wouldn't know. However, I'm not refusing to answer; I just want you to ask him!"

Du Yuan looked down at the young master Wang, who was lying comfortably on the street below.

"Why would you do this, senior?"

After a slightly wistful smile, Zou Zi replied:
"Consider this my final test as his master!"

(End of this chapter)