Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

"What's the point of you, a misogynist, discussing this?"

Volume 2: Death and Life in the Present: Chapter : Speech ()

It is indeed quite meaningless to discuss questions like where life is going with people like Lu Yinghua.

After all, he is not a normal person at all.

Or rather, his life had been destroyed beyond recognition by Luo Hao. He himself had said that his life, so far, could perhaps only be defined as a tool of Luo Hao, and the only thing left of him was to escape from Luo Hao. He did not even dare to do this openly. He could only choose to do so in the name of Ling Wuji after Ling Wuji appeared and someone could suppress Luo Hao. In fact, according to what Ling Wuji had seen, even after he had briefly escaped from Luo Hao's control, he was always preparing to return to that person's side again -

It was as if his life was completely tied to a garbage company that worked 24/7, all year round. He had only applied for a short vacation. As soon as the vacation was over, he would involuntarily return to his job and continue to shine. He had never thought about changing companies.

"Maybe," Lu Yinghua was not so resistant to the criticism that Ling Wuji put on him, and just said casually, "Sometimes I have thought about what kind of life I would have if I had not been sent to Lushan by the elders in my family. I also hoped that I would become more normal, but in the end I couldn't imagine anything. After all, the normal Lu Yinghua is not the me now, right? Although I do have only these insignificant things left now, and they are insignificant in the eyes of people like you, for me, this is all I have left. Although I am not grateful to her for turning me into this, if I really lose these things and become normal now, I will be at a loss."

"But do you really think you never have a chance to become normal?"

Lu Yinghua thought about it, shook his head, and said, "To be honest, I'm desperate."

"If you don't change your mindset, no matter how free the external environment is for you, I'm afraid you will end up returning to that person and becoming her tool."

"The braids at the back of the head are easy to cut off, but the braids in the heart are not so easy to cut off?"

Lu Yinghua thought about it and quoted Gu Hongming's famous saying.

"You are quite optimistic and can find joy in adversity."

"There's nothing I can do. If I didn't know how to adjust my mentality, I would have gone crazy a long time ago."

Lu Yinghua just shook his head when he said this, and then he wanted to stand up, but after hesitating for a moment, he still said something he didn't want to say at first: "But if I am like this, for you, you can obviously do a lot of things, and from what I see, you may not really care so much about other people's opinions, but why are you still like now, just relying on the power of ordinary people like me, and not promoting the goals you want to achieve yourself? Why do you want to restrict yourself?"

"Then why do you think your master Luo Hao has been living in seclusion in a thatched hut in Mount Lu?"

Ling Wuji asked back.

"Because she's not interested."

Lu Yinghua said.

"So for me, I can also say that I am not really that eager to see the reality designed by my inner wishes. In fact, in a sense, I know that my wishes are actually based on an unrealistic logic, or completely dependent on my personal wishes. And I think that sooner or later I will lose interest in the human world, so I don't want to interfere with human society before that..."

Lu Yinghua pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "You and we are indeed from two different worlds."

Ling Wuji also shook his head: "Indeed, so there is no point in saying this, you'd better just do something dirty to your own kind."

"Damn it! Are you still going to exploit child labor after all this?"

"What kind of child laborer are you?"

“Minors are considered child laborers!”

Lu Yinghua argued confidently.

"Then you should protest to Luo Hao."

"If I really protested to her, I would just be seeking death, right?"

Lu Yinghua said this casually, and then really stood up and walked out of the coffee shop. At the same time, he was thinking in his heart that this person was indeed a little too weird. Although people like him were indeed rare in Shenzhou in hundreds of years, according to the records he had seen, those big figures who could stir up the entire world situation often had extremely distinct personalities. Although Ling Wuji could not be said to have no personality at all, compared with the achievements he had made, his personality seemed too thin.

"Is this good or bad for the mysterious side of China?"

Lu Yinghua couldn't think of an answer.

Of course, he didn't care that much about the answer to this question.

After all, Ling Wuzhi is now only causing harm to Japan.

If possible, he would rather let Wu Ji stay like this rather than return to China.

But he also knew that this was simply impossible. Just as his master Luo Hao's two battles with Ling Wuji had in a sense declared that she was powerless against Ling Wuji, in the foreseeable future, she would have absolutely no chance of defeating Ling Wuji. Although it was actually quite strange to say, after all, the existence of a godslayer was originally against common sense, but now it was bound by common sense.

From this perspective, Ling Wuji is an even more bizarre and unreasonable existence.

Is it really a good thing to allow such an existence to return to China?

"Forget it. I'm not the one who should be worried anyway."

He also heard Ling Wuji say that he needed Luo Hao as a pillar to maintain the mysterious side of southern China, so he did not deal with her. From this perspective, the young man might care about the safety of the mysterious side of southern China more than himself.

After all, if Lu Yinghua really has to make the decision, it is hard to say which one is more important, Luo Hao or the mysterious side of China. Although he himself feels that his mentality is too twisted, his life so far has been tainted with too much of Luo Hao's color. So today, no matter how much he wants to wash away the color and erase those traces, he is powerless and can only accept the reality.

Perhaps from the very beginning, what he was considering was not the safety of the mysterious side of China, but the future of his tyrannical master Luo Hao. Although it seemed that it was not unpredictable whether that person would choose to let Luo Hao go in the end, because that person had always been the kind of person who would not look back once he made a choice, he still wanted to confirm this fact.

Volume 6: Life and Death in the Present: Chapter 29: Fireworks

And this conversation with Lu Yinghua was purely a pastime for Ling Wuji. It could neither help Ling Wuji to understand his inner thoughts, goals and path more clearly, nor could it be said to be helpful for the current situation. After all, Lu Yinghua himself said that even if he was given a hundred women, he could not give birth to a child within a month. Even though this sentence seemed to be a wrong proposition for Ling Wuji who had the help of the Einzbern family, for normal people, this sentence was the unquestionable reality.

And this world is a world where the vast majority of people are normal.

Normal people must follow certain objective laws.

Therefore, Ling Wuji could only wait for the change to come——

Of course, a fireworks display cannot be considered an opportunity at all.

In fact, Ling Wuji has an inexplicable strange feeling about setting off fireworks in the summer, because in his inherent impression, fireworks are usually set off during the Chinese New Year. Although in recent years there have been regulations to restrict the use of fireworks, Ling Wuji would feel that the New Year atmosphere is missing without these things. Setting off fireworks in the summer makes Ling Wuji feel very strange.

Although he also knew that this custom existed in Japan.

But this would inevitably lead him to think of the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

However, Ling Wu Ji had nothing to do, so he went out anyway, and then met Hikigaya Hachiman and Yuigahama Yui.

Although according to Hikigaya Hachiman, they were not dating.

However, from an outsider's perspective, there are actually profound reasons why the current situation between them has become like this, because Hikigaya Komachi and Yuigahama Yui have a good relationship privately and have exchanged contact information. Yuigahama Yui is going on a family trip, so she contacted Hikigaya Komachi and asked the Hikigaya family to help take care of her dog.

She actually had many choices though.

But under the suggestion of Hikigaya Komachi and certain factors, she chose the Hikigaya family to foster her dog.

So, in order to repay this behavior, she asked Hikigaya Hachiman out during the fireworks festival. Although from Hikigaya Hachiman's perspective, whether this behavior is a repayment or revenge is still debatable, his participation in the fireworks festival was due to the deliberate promotion of his sister Komachi. He has always been very sensitive in this regard and felt that if he did not agree to Yuigahama Yui at this time, she would definitely feel resentful about this matter in the future, so he agreed.

Although if Ling Wuji knew the truth, he would definitely say that why didn't you agree to help take care of her dog?

But perhaps this is where Hikigaya Hachiman feels he is inferior to him and Yukinoshita Yukino.

There was no way he could do it that cleanly.

So naturally he couldn't refuse Yuigahama Yui's request, and a series of exchanges derived from this request were naturally unavoidable. Not to mention, he was a hopeless sister-con and would not turn a blind eye to his sister's request.

The two people who met Ling Wuji who was alone at the fireworks festival were also a little shy, but Ling Wuji certainly did not ask them if they were on a date. He has never had any interest in such gossip. On the contrary, Yuigahama Yui couldn't help but have a deep curiosity in her eyes after seeing Ling Wuji's situation of being alone: ​​After all, no matter how you look at it, Ling Wuji doesn't seem like the kind of person who would go out without anyone asking him out!

But he still went out alone. He must be waiting for someone, right?

"In a way, you are quite perceptive, Yuigahama-san."

"Hey."

Yuigahama Yui just smiled foolishly, and then asked curiously: "So, that's true, who are you waiting for, Lingjun?"

"Strictly speaking, it's not who I'm waiting for, but who's waiting for me."

Ling Wuji sighed softly, not wanting to delve into this topic. Coincidentally, a few people came over at this time, so Ling Wuji was able to get out of this mess. He watched the pink-haired girl in a yukata greet the people on the other side. Just as he was about to leave, he heard Yuigahama Yui introducing him to Hikigaya Hachiman. The two looked at each other strangely, and at this time they actually had a tacit understanding -

Because Ling Wu Ji couldn't remember most people's names at all.

I guess the same goes for Hikigaya Hachiman.

After hearing Yuigahama Yui's introduction, the man looked directly at Ling Wuji, examined him, and ignored Hikigaya Hachiman. He said in a joking tone: "Yui, are you dating classmate Ling?"

Then Ling Wu Ji immediately raised his sharp eyebrows, his eyes revealing a daunting coldness, forcing the frivolous and pretentious female classmate to take two steps back.

"Student Ling..."

Yuigahama Yui knew that Ling Wuji was not angry about others comparing her with himself, so she pulled Ling Wuji's sleeve to stop him, but was pulled away by Ling Wuji. Then she heard the boy say: "From my personal point of view, I know you would do that and think it is justifiable, because you only use your pathetic way of thinking to measure a person's value, and think that a person has been divided into different levels in the school class you have defined. So, among Yuigahama and the two men present, only I am qualified to be joked about. But if that's what you really think, I should be at the Brahmin level in the class you have defined, right?"

no answer.

I don't think anyone would really respond to Ling Wuji's blatant way of speaking.

But Ling Wuji still said sarcastically: "If I were a Brahmin, then it would be natural for me to humiliate Kshatriyas like you, right?"

"You're going too far! Ling classmate!"

At this time, the people on the other side didn't understand why Ling Wuji suddenly got angry and said that, but they still subconsciously defended the female classmate in their team. When Ling Wuji heard them say that, he just glanced at them coldly and said, "Excessive? I don't think it's excessive. You think your attitude is amazing, right? But if someone treats you differently, you will think that others are excessive. What is this called? Double standards?"

When those people heard Ling Wu Ji's words, they suddenly realized what Ling Wu Ji was talking about, and then turned their attention to Hikigaya Hachiman who had been ignored by them.

Hikigaya Hachiman, who was not used to being stared at by others, just scratched his head uncomfortably.

Volume 2: Life and Death in the Present: Chapter : Fireworks ()

But even after hearing Ling Wuji say this, Hikigaya Hachiman actually didn't think that the boy really regarded him as a precious and close friend, so he stood up for him. Perhaps from Ling Wuji's personal perspective, he was not unhappy about others comparing him with Yuigahama Yui and making the kind of jokes that adolescent boys and girls usually like. He just hated these people's frivolous and shallow words and deeds, and didn't want to flatter them or communicate with them, so he used this incident as an excuse to get angry.

As the trigger for the incident, Hikigaya Hachiman himself acted quite uncomfortable.

If he said that Ling Wuji didn't need to do that, he would seem too humble; but if you said that he just acknowledged the current situation, the current situation seemed to make his situation even more embarrassing.

But the Ling Wuji that Hikigaya Hachiman knew was not someone who would let his opponent go so easily: "Since you accuse me of going too far, then you must have a template in your mind and think that it is appropriate for me to do so. So how do you think I should respond? Like that Hayato Hayama, cater to your boring jokes, then briefly empty my mind and maintain a certain kind of distant but not close relationship with you?"

The implications in Ling Wuji's words were really too rich.

So those girls looked at each other, and finally couldn't say anything. Seeing that Ling Wuji was about to speak again, they hurriedly pulled the person who was talking to them away. Before leaving, they even wanted to pull Yuigahama Yui over, but when Ling Wuji glanced at them, they just ran away.

Ling Wu Ji looked at their backs and just snorted softly.

Hikigaya Hachiman couldn't figure out what he meant, so he could only stand there with Yuigahama Yui and look at him. He looked at the pink-haired girl, thinking that Ling Wuji's words had actually included her in his insults, but perhaps because she was not a bad person by nature, or perhaps because she was really stupid, she didn't understand his hint at all. Instead, she looked at him worriedly and said, "Ling classmate, is this really okay?"

"What's wrong?"

"They will probably spread bad things about you behind your back when they return to school, right?"

"He is just a talker, not worth mentioning."

Hikigaya Hachiman looked at him strangely: If you really want to say something like "a tongue twister", this evaluation is actually quite appropriate for him, right? Although it is very likely that this guy's background is really unfathomable, so he can speak recklessly without any consequences, from this perspective, he is unwilling to believe that this boy really came out of the mountains.

But the atmosphere suddenly fell silent.

According to their own practices, Ling Wu Ji should have separated from them long ago. However, Yuigahama Yui obviously felt that Ling Wu Ji was standing up for Hikigaya Hachiman, so at this moment she didn't care that she was actually dating her lover in a sense. She just wanted to keep Ling Wu Ji and watch the fireworks show together with the three of them. But Ling Wu Ji was obviously not the kind of person who would drag his feet. He just waved his hand casually and walked out of the crowd. There was quite a contrast of "the capital is full of dignitaries, but this man is alone and haggard".

Although Hikigaya Hachiman felt that Ling Wuji was a person who could enjoy himself no matter how miserable he was.

There will never be a posture of showing a haggard face.

In other words, even if he fell into a certain situation, he would learn the crazy behavior of Zhuangzi who "beat the basin and sing".

So deep down in his heart, he had always secretly admired that young man.

Although longing is the emotion farthest from understanding.