Catalogue of forbidden Taoist techniques

Although if you really want to talk about it, it is hard to say whether her interactions with people like Ling Wuzhi were out of so-called public interest.

However, during this period of time, Ling Wuji had already been admitted to university, and he and his middle school teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka were already worlds apart.

Although in fact the university he was admitted to was not that far from that middle school.

However, as Ling Wu Ji said before, once his college career began, it meant that his life trajectory had changed. Of course, there might be people like Yukinoshita Haruno who were idle all day and would go to middle school to tease the younger students, but Ling Wu Ji had no such interest.

"I think you're just lazy."

By the way, Ling Wuji changed his residence again during his college years.

Although he felt that the place where he lived before was quite comfortable.

But he is definitely not the kind of person who can bear long commutes.

"But you said it yourself. For you now, using the flying spell shouldn't be a difficult task, right?"

“Being able to do it and not wanting to do it are two different things.”

Ling Wuji was just sitting in his new residence, flipping through his textbooks casually, and said.

And Awashima Seri looked at the boy who had already grown up but still had a slightly childish look on his face, and thought that perhaps she had never really understood what this boy was thinking, so she didn't know why this boy retained these inexplicable habits in such trivial matters.

Isn't it that he is tearing down the walls between the inner and outer worlds?

Thanks to him, she has had to deal with a lot more difficult problems recently, and the root of these problems is usually related to Ling Wu Ji's game and the magic that came from it.

"Isn't it?"

Ling Wuji felt that the mysterious side of the Kanto region seemed to be quite peaceful.

At least nothing had gone wrong since he handed over power to Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern.

“But some are purely gray area issues.”

Ling Wuji did not ask what the vague issue was, although perhaps he simply did not want to cause trouble for himself:

"Is that why you asked me that question?"

Awashima Seri nodded.

Ling Wuji subconsciously wanted to ask her what her conclusion was, but he only provided a concept that was too general, so Awashima Seiri would definitely not be able to draw any useful conclusions. From Ling Wuji's current perspective, he was looking too high and too far, and he might not be able to see clearly the parts below that were in close communication with the secular side, so he said directly:

"Instead of asking me this question, you might as well go directly to someone who is in contact with it, is learning it, and has already learned it but has not yet fully formed the concept and ask this question."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because from my own perspective, you asked me about my definition of magic, which was purely about my view of the world. However, my view of the world is essentially different from that of most people. Of course, I can make my definition of magic a golden rule, but others must have their own views on the essence of magic. And your purpose is not to explore the truth of the world, so what you want to ask is purely about attitude, not the true essence."

"But what you said is not the true essence, right?"

When Awashima Seri heard Ling Wuzhi say that, she immediately raised her eyebrows and replied to him.

The young man just stretched out his hand and looked at it, so Awashima Seri couldn't help but move her gaze to the thin, even pale hand, watching him clench and relax it repeatedly. For a moment, Awashima Seri expected Ling Wuji to say something shocking, but in the end, Ling Wuji just said: "For me personally, the so-called magic is nothing more than a phenomenon that occurs in the process of using my personal will to pry reality. Although if I really want to say it, I can actually roughly explain the principles of magic, but in the final analysis it is nothing more than a description of the process of how this phenomenon is formed..."

In fact, for Seri Awashima, achieving this step is already very remarkable.

After all, she only knew how to use it, just like those students in the IS Academy knew how to drive the IS. She herself had no idea what the source of the power of the Dresden Slate was or why it could affect reality.

For her, who had become the deputy director of Scepter 4, using that power was purely instinctive.

"As for the Dresden Slate..." Ling Wuji thought for a moment and said, "It should be as mentioned before, that it was created by someone who has profound attainments in the Shinto system. Besides, don't you think the number seven is a coincidence?"

"Are you talking about the creation myth that God took seven days to create the world?"

Said Awashima Seri.

"You think too much. I'm talking about the Holy Grail War."

Awashima Seri did not experience the ceremony in person like Kamijou Kaori did, and the records of the Holy Grail War were a long time ago. She was not a native of the mysterious world, so naturally she had no way of associating it with the seven heroic spirits. Moreover, she lacked a relatively deep understanding of the Shinto system that Ling Wuzhi mentioned.

"Why, aren't you in one of them yourself? And you have disciplined the believers for a period of time before, right?"

Although this task was later handed over to Justissa Rizleich von Einzbern.

In fact, there was a time when Ling Wuji was quite interested in having her be his Pope.

But she herself probably prefers working at Scepter 4.

As for Ling Wuji's words, Awashima Seri did not deny them. She just nodded slightly and said, "Because it doesn't feel real, and I don't think it's work. If I really regarded doing those things as work, I would seriously sign a contract with you and ask for compensation."

"From my personal point of view, your attitude is the most incredible."

Ling Wu Ji raised his head, looked into her calm eyes which had a hint of light green in them, and said.

"Why? You can move closer to the school just because you don't want to use the flying spell. Is there anything incomprehensible about my behavior?"

"Because in my opinion, you are past that stage."

"What stage?"

“The stage where the value of one’s work is measured by the salary one receives from the work.”

Awashima Seri also raised her head and glanced at the ceiling, then lowered her head and looked at the boy sitting there, and said, "Maybe it's because I'm not as mature as you think?"

"Forehead……"

It was difficult for Ling Wuji to say that his definition of Awashima Seri was maturity or something like that.

"So what do you think I am like?"

"serious?"

Ling Wuji could probably only say something like this.

"Other than that?"

"You won't be angry if I tell you that?"

"I feel like I'm getting angry before you even say it."

Awashima Seri suddenly felt like she was gritting her teeth.

She wasn't angry because Ling Wuji wanted to make dirty jokes to her.

She just felt that she was just such a thin image in the boy's mind?

"But don't you think it's too preconceived to label others?"

Awashima Seri immediately glanced at the boy who was sitting there with a bit of confidence, and then said, "The term preconceived notions essentially means that you feel that you don't really understand the person you are evaluating."

"Do you think you really understand me?"

In response to Ling Wuzhi's question, Awashima Seri hesitated for a moment and did not immediately give a positive response.

"So you see..."

Ling Wuji actually spread out his hands, as if he was feeling proud of himself for having refuted her.

"Do you think this is something to be happy about?"

Ling Wuji thought about it and said, "From my personal perspective, I am not the kind of person who expects others to explore my essence, my inner self, and my soul like peeling an onion. I don't have these expectations about whether others understand me. In fact, I am the kind of person who deliberately wraps up my inner self and doesn't want others to see it."

When Awashima Seri heard him say that, she did not object.

Although she didn't actually agree with the latter sentence.

Did he really wrap up his inner self or something like that?

Maybe under normal circumstances, he does use silence as his outer coat, but there must be some sharp and sensitive nature inside him, just like those swords. Although it can be concealed temporarily, once the outside world wants to squeeze that coat, he will definitely wield that weapon to directly tear apart the silent coat and reveal his own edge.

Although Ling Wuji has indeed become more and more silent recently.

But Awashima Seri doesn't think he has lost his edge.

He was just tired of it.

Tired of this world.

"And the one you are tired of includes me?"

"I should have said that I have a crush on all the beautiful girls in the world."

The woman in the blue Scepter 4 uniform immediately reached out and pinched a strand of hair that fell from her temples, twisting it around her fingers, and said as if she was sighing, "But no matter how you look at it, I can't be called a girl anymore, right?"

"Well..."

Ling Wuji immediately modified his speech and said, "I have a fondness for all the beauties in the world."

Hearing him say that, Awashima Seri's expression suddenly became a little subtle.

"Although the first sentence sounds frivolous, it's not offensive. The second sentence is a bit greasy, I think."

"Don't you think about who I am editing this sentence for?"

Ling Wu Ji said immediately.

"But I think it's strange that we can have the relationship we have now."

"Let me be honest. You were the one who took the initiative to change from the beginning to the end, right? Although I don't think there's anything wrong with our current relationship."

"What do you mean you don't feel there's anything wrong with our current relationship?"

Ling Wuji glanced at her sideways and said, "So what do you think our relationship is now?"

Awashima Seri was immediately choked.

"Come to think of it, at first, you probably just wanted to be my older sister, right? Although I think that's actually a bit far-fetched, because you don't look like the type to be so overly sisterly."

"How do you describe my sister's sexual promiscuity?" Awashima Seri was shocked by Ling Wuji's weird rhetoric.

"I thought you would be more willing to accept this description than the overflowing maternal instinct..."

"Forget it, just be happy."

She immediately pressed the sword at her waist to calm herself.

The relationship between Awashima Seri and Ling Wuzhi is indeed hard to describe.

She is Ling Wu Ji's second believer.

Moreover, unlike Arisa Kouin, who is just a vase, she is a very capable person. She has her own pursuits, ideas, self and life. She does not need to be as highly bound to Ling Wuji as Arisa Kouin and become the embodiment of the boy's will in a certain sense. Ling Wuji is not the kind of person who completely controls the lives of his believers.

Although she herself took the initiative to ask to become the boy's follower.

The fact is indeed as the young man said, she was the one who took the initiative to change.