Chapter 445

Wei Yuan's phone was on the table. Because of Qingqiu Country's special location, it would take some time for Nüjiao to answer, and she hadn't responded yet.

If anyone knew how to save Wu Yi, Nüjiao was definitely the most likely one. Three thousand years of perseverance, Wei Yuan couldn't help but sigh, respect welling up in his heart. He never hesitated to show his respect for true heroes.

And he was willing to help.

But Wu Yi's current situation had exceeded his understanding.

Life and death were already major matters. He, Wei Yuan, was still trapped within it himself, so what ability did he have to help others? After death, the soul was mixed with an alien beast. Unless this era truly had the Lord of Mount Tai or the King of the Underworld, who else could solve it? And even if there was reincarnation, it would only allow him to be reborn and eliminate his bestial nature.

Wei Yuan raised his palm, and the Mountain God Seal rose up.

The divine power in the seal, which had been depleted after several uses, had recovered more than half, and was now slowly recovering. As Wei Yuan had feared, a 'divine power delay' had appeared. This was probably because Chaoge City was too far away from the human world.

The signal was really bad this time…

Wei Yuan grasped the Mountain God Seal, feeling that the power he could mobilize was far less than in Chaoge City. The amplification was actually very small, partly due to the distance, and partly because the spiritual veins of the Shang Ancestral Vein outside Chaoge City were not connected to the current Divine Land.

Wei Yuan could barely sense that power.

Even if he could sense it, he couldn't bring the mountain over. Was he supposed to make the Shang Ancestral Vein grow two legs and run directly from the Mountain and Sea Realm to the human world? After the Huai River changed its course, a great mountain from the Age of Gods would descend from the sky, still with sacrifices and divinity attached.

That would probably scare Zhang Daoyou into a myocardial infarction.

Wei Yuan thought about it and decided not to scare the old man for now.

He'd deal with it if that day ever came.

At this moment, Nüjiao finally answered the phone, her tone lazy and casual, teasing:

"Oh, what brings you to call me today?"

Wei Yuan didn't know why he felt a chill down his spine, so he forced a dry laugh:

"Isn't it just that we haven't been in touch for a while?"

Nüjiao said with a smile, "Oh? So, you're just calling to say hello and there's nothing else, right?"

Wei Yuan's mouth twitched, realizing that he had shot himself in the foot.

Nüjiao chuckled triumphantly, laughing to her heart's content, before lazily saying, "Alright, alright."

"I'm done playing."

"Tell me, what's up?"

Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, deciding to start with a preamble:

"I've connected the Mountain God Mandate and the spiritual veins."

Nüjiao's voice paused, then she frowned and said, "...You used the underwater spiritual veins?"

Wei Yuan shook his head and said, "No."

He frankly said, "It's the Ancestral Vein outside Chaoge City."

Nüjiao: "…………"

"The modern Chaoge City ruins?"

"No, the one from the Age of Gods."

"The Age of Gods?"

"Yes, the one where Cheng Tang took his oath and made sacrifices for thousands of years."

Silence fell on the other end of the phone.

Su Yu'er had grown up with Nüjiao, so Nüjiao naturally knew about Su Yu'er's special nature. She didn't seem to have expected what Wei Yuan had done. She was silent on the other end of the phone for a long time. In the silence, there seemed to be the sound of a vase being accidentally knocked over, and the slight hiss of someone biting their tongue and sucking in cold air, while still trying to maintain the demeanor of an elder sister and not making a sound.

After a while, Wei Yuan heard Nüjiao cough lightly, her tone unchanged, calm and composed:

"...You really are, something else."

He received Nüjiao's sigh and recognition, hearing the surprise and absentmindedness in her voice.

Wei Yuan felt a slight sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Then he heard Nüjiao say slowly and methodically, "This reminds me of the past, just like back then."

"Everyone knew it was just a show."

"Only you really slammed it down on Yu's head."

"Every time, always, unexpected."

Wei Yuan: "…………"

Great Witch, can we not mention this?

"So, did you see anything in Chaoge City?"

Nüjiao smoothly glossed over Chaoge City, which was somewhat special to her, and instead asked about Wei Yuan's experience. Wei Yuan's voice paused, and he sighed, "I saw the descendant of an old acquaintance, the descendant of a friend..."

"The descendant of Qi."

"No... I should call him this, King Shang, Wu Yi."

………………………

Qi was the son of Emperor Yao, a subject of King Yu, and the ancestor of the Shang tribe.

In Yuan's memories, there was still a part of this person's memories. He vaguely remembered that he was a gentle and lazy person who was quite fond of daydreaming. Compared to conquest, he preferred to stare at the stars in the sky. He had made a great contribution to King Yu's flood control efforts and had also integrated and created the earliest astronomical phenomena.

His descendants resisted Xia Jie, who proclaimed himself the sun in the Age of Gods.

But Wu Yi was definitely not just the descendant of Qi.

Wei Yuan described the scenes he had seen to Nüjiao in detail, and then said:

"Guarding it alone for three thousand years."

"Witch Nüjiao, you've lived to this day, is there any way to keep him alive?"

The witch was silent for a moment, then sighed, "I can't do it."

"A person's soul and true spirit reside in the body, with the true spirit as the core."

"Even you, after taking the Kunlun Immortal Flower, it only protected your true spirit."

"And King Shang's true spirit in that era was called a ghost-god. Since even a ghost-god body cannot retain a human appearance, it means that his true spirit has been contaminated..."

"Dying as a human may be the best ending for him."

"His current state is almost an impossible miracle. He is above his true spirit. I might be able to keep him alive in his current state, but, Yuan, do you think a king who shot the heavens and killed gods in life and could defend for three thousand years after death would choose this path?"

Nüjiao's voice paused, and she replied:

"No, he wouldn't. He would choose to walk the last path honorably as a human."

"Because there are many people like this on this land. In the past few thousand years, this place has encountered crises more than once. There are always people who stand up to take the lead, always people who are the first to wake up in the darkness, and then carry the collapsing situation until those who come later walk to their side."

Nüjiao's tone softened: "I've watched this land for thousands of years..."

"Perhaps in distant countries, there is no crime in seeking survival; on those narrow islands, there are slaves who commit suicide for foolish loyalty. But on the land beneath your feet, there are those who sacrifice their lives for righteousness, and there is the arrogance that what I seek is far greater than the life of the living."

"Yuan, are you going to trample on the dignity of a king in Wu Yi's heart for your own desire to keep him alive?"

"Are you going to use the arrogance of an observer to decide the life and death of a king who has persisted for three thousand years?"

"Are you going to break that backbone of spirit, energy, and essence?"

"If that's the case, I will never allow it. As the king of a country, and a king who has traveled a difficult road and fulfilled all his duties, no matter how embarrassed he is now, he should not be pitied."

"Because not only for a king, but for anyone who has tried their best in life, pity is an insult."

Nüjiao's tone was gentle and calm, like a questioning, with an unspeakable sense of oppression.

After thinking, Wei Yuan replied, "No, I don't intend to decide his life or death."

He mocked himself, "Nüjiao, you're right, I'm just an observer. I see his experiences, but I can't deeply feel his pain. But if I were him, I would also choose to go to the end as a human, rather than live in that state now."

"But I think at least Wu Yi should be given a second choice."

Wei Yuan said, "I believe that no one doesn't want to live, but he has no choice."

"Between his country and himself, he chose the former, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to choose himself, it's just that the weight of his country is heavier."

"Those who hold firewood for the masses must not be allowed to freeze to death in the wind and snow."

"The hero completed three thousand years of defense, and then died lonely and arrogantly outside, which is indeed tragic, but wouldn't it be calm enough to live in seclusion, planting flowers and chopping firewood in the human world that he has watched over for three thousand years?"

Wei Yuan's voice paused, and he pressed his hand on the table, saying:

"The first story is too cold, I don't like it."

"I'm here, so I want to find a second choice, find a second path, and then let Wu Yi choose for himself, whether he is willing to die calmly, or whether he is willing to exist in Chaoge City in another way, watching this city, I will not interfere."

Nüjiao's face was surprised, there was admiration in her eyes, and then her mouth twitched, and she said in a relaxed tone:

"Yuan."

"Has anyone ever told you that sometimes what you say is quite chuuni?"

Wei Yuan's face froze.

Then he hung up the phone in embarrassment and anger.

Finally, he still heard Nüjiao's uncontrollable laughter on the phone.

………………

Wei Yuan hung up the phone, looked at the time, and thought about how to find a new path and possibility for Wu Yi. Taoism was impossible. The edicts and talismans left by Zhang Daoling, and the Heavenly Court he created, were just a mechanism to protect Divine Land.

The heavenly soldiers and generals, and many gods, who were sealed, only had Taoism and did not have true spirits.

The Mountain and Sea Realm where Chaoge City is located is different from the human world, and no talisman Heavenly Court has been born.

If Taoism doesn't work, then, Buddhism?

The Mountain God seemed to have obtained the method from Buddhism,剥夺了原本由古代佛门在中原神州所侵占的神性, self-transcended the chasm of the earth god, and transformed into a god without being affected by Buddhism; and Wu Yi himself was an Emperor God, with divinity and three thousand years of persistence.

If the Mountain God could do it, there was no reason why Wu Yi couldn't.

At least it was worth a try.

At worst, he would harvest the wool of Buddhism again.

Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, opened his phone, and dialed a number.

It was the Chan Buddhist monk he had seen before, Yuanjue, who was being tracked by a major Buddhist force.

"Hello? Hello..."

ps: Today's first update... a buffer chapter...

Trying to write something a little interesting, headache...