Chapter 143 The Agreement of Mount Tai

The Mount Tai Mystic Realm existed as an adjunct to Mount Tai. After some tea and pleasantries, the Mount Tai Mountain God solemnly inquired, "I am not yet aware of the great matter that brings you all here?"

A Zhao took a sip of tea.

In her heart, she thought, "Undoubtedly, now is the time to state the dangers and then find a way to make the Mount Tai God stand on the same side as us." The Heavenly Maiden and the Taiqi Mountain God had indeed started this way, but afterward, they failed to explain the benefits, which A Zhao felt was a very inferior approach.

It was like a max-level account seeing someone later choose the wrong solution strategy.

Jue simply and frankly stated the current situation: Gonggong's revival and the impending great calamity facing Shenzhou.

The Mount Tai Mountain God's expression gradually turned solemn.

He glanced at the Taiqi Mountain God and said, "Mountains can discern temperament through the earth's veins. I believe what you say is true. With the great calamity at hand, since I am revered as the leader of the Five Mountains, I should naturally contribute to Shenzhou and am willing to accompany you all."

The Mount Tai Mountain God did not hesitate.

On the jade book that Jue took out, a simple and ancient character for "Tai" was left behind.

This served as a contract, and the original parties to the contract were the Taiqi Mountain God. However, Jue chose to personally contract with this ancient leader of the Five Mountains to express solemnity. In this way, if the Mount Tai Mountain God, or even Jue herself, were to betray the contract, they would suffer backlash.

Jue looked at the golden light that appeared in the palm of her hand and clenched her fingers.

A faint glimmer appeared in her pupils.

Whether it was an illusion or not, from the black light in the girl's eyes, the Mount Tai Mountain God seemed to see a vast silhouette of everything – heroes, outstanding figures, time, vicissitudes – all weathering into sand over the years.

Everything weathered, the sea changed into mulberry fields.

But this seemed to be just an illusion.

It disappeared almost immediately, and before him was still the gentle and peaceful Heavenly Maiden.

And sensing the Kunlun earth vein connection method, the Mount Tai Mountain God became even more cohesive. When He completely controls the mountain god power from the Age of Gods, his own strength will rise to another level. A relaxed feeling appeared on that face, which bore a three-point resemblance to Master Kong.

This also showed the difference between Him and Master Kong.

Jue thought that the old man would not show such an expression because of his own strength.

No…

Could there really be any power that Master Kong could not grasp?

The girl silently retorted in her heart, just like the museum owner.

The only hero who left a strong psychological shadow in her heart.

The old man who could scare the Kunlun Heavenly Maiden to tears could be considered unparalleled throughout the ages.

Jue put away the jade book.

As they were walking out, A Zhao whispered, "You shouldn't have given it to him so quickly."

The girl looked at the Heavenly Maiden beside her.

For some reason, she felt that this Heavenly Maiden, who was so simple as to be somewhat foolish, was hopeless.

She actually believed in exchanging heart for heart.

People's hearts are unpredictable, and what is true at one moment may not be true at another. Even fathers and sons can turn against each other, brothers can fight each other, and there are countless couples who share the same bed but dream different dreams for the sake of profit.

But despite her foolishness, she didn't know why, but she had a feeling that she couldn't just leave her alone.

A Zhao softly said, "Once people get what they crave, they become lazy. Satisfying their desires now will lead them to pursue even greater desires. To put it simply, sated desires lead to wanton thoughts. For example, just now, you only needed to promise to bestow Kunlun's divine power upon Him after the matter was accomplished to be able to command Him."

"Now that you have given Him the power of the Age of Gods, how will you command Him next time?"

"Rely on His conscience?"

"Command? We are allies."

"Alliances are unreliable; only interests can last forever," A Zhao retorted.

"Only interests are not long-lasting; only exchanging heart for heart is true," Jue countered.

A Zhao didn't know why, but she felt angry.

She could find various examples in the recent history she had seen to refute the girl's point of view.

Finally, she said, "This time, we stand together because of mutual benefit, so the Mount Tai Mountain God can be won over."

"What about next time?"

"Remember, only the benefits that have not been obtained are the most wonderful."

"Only things that are within reach but can never be obtained can motivate subordinates to work hard."

"And even so, people's desires will continue to expand, so you can't easily satisfy their demands. When someone's desires and cravings have grown far beyond the value they can bring, then their talent is like a chicken rib, worthless."

"A person who is ordinary in talent but only desires a stable life is far more stable and easier to control than a person who is talented but has great desires. And a person who cannot be completely controlled represents a potential danger at any time. The greater the talent, the sharper the blade."

The girl A Zhao's tone returned to normal.

Her eyes were large and gentle, like a Buddha overlooking the world, accommodating mountains and rivers.

After the snow, the clear sky had its own charm.

Beside her was the Heavenly Maiden, Jue, who looked at her thoughtfully.

A Zhao brushed the black hair from her temples and said, "What are you looking at?"

The Heavenly Maiden leaned closer, and a clean, refreshing fragrance made A Zhao subconsciously retreat. She didn't like being too close to people, especially this beautiful and gentle Heavenly Maiden in front of her. The Heavenly Maiden looked at her and said thoughtfully, "So, A Zhao, you're telling me this because you want to prove your worth?"

"People of value will not be abandoned."

The girl A Zhao's body stiffened slightly.

Why is this person so sharp in such strange places?!

Jue reached out and touched her hair, "Don't worry."

"I won't abandon you."

No, you don't know who I am…

If you knew, we would walk different paths.

A Zhao retorted in her heart, then paused slightly.

Who am I? Why am I so sure that if she knew who I was, she would become my enemy…

She fell into a daze.

The Taiqi Mountain God walked out. Just as they were about to descend the mountain, the Mount Tai Mountain God looked at A Zhao and said:

"This… young lady, seems like an old acquaintance."

"If it is convenient, I wonder if we could chat for a few words?"

Jue stood aside, nodded, and said with a smile, "I'll wait for you here."

Still so trusting.

A Zhao frowned, then followed the Mount Tai Mountain God back to the mystic realm they had just been in. The Mount Tai Mountain God looked at this girl. As the master of Mount Tai, He possessed a greater perception ability than other cultivators. Most importantly, because of the Mount Tai Fengshan ceremony, He had a particularly keen sense of the souls that had formed a connection with Him through this grand, transcendent ritual of ancient Shenzhou.

He looked at the girl who had lost her memory and recalled the graceful woman who had accompanied Emperor Gaozong of Tang on his ascent. Looking closely, although her appearance had changed drastically, those gentle eyes and the grace and serenity within them were the same as ever.

And as the empress who had participated in the Mount Tai Fengshan ceremony.

The Mount Tai Mountain God had a vague sense of the current state of the girl before him.

He said, "You seem to be in trouble?"

Losing her memory, losing her proud identity and status.

And being caught up in the intertwined and chaotic aura of calamity. No matter how one looked at it, it was a big trouble.

Although He didn't like everything this female emperor had done, the Mount Tai Mountain God still felt that he couldn't just sit idly by, and it could be considered fulfilling karma.

The old man sighed, and with a wave of his hand, he took out an ancient ritual object. It was an ancient sword that had been used in the Mount Tai Fengshan ceremony during the Tang Dynasty, and it transformed into a misty aura, saying, "So-called cause and effect. You and I have known each other once. This object may help you escape from this calamity."

After all, it was the grandest ritual held during the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty.

In ancient Shenzhou, could there be a more magnificent ceremony than the Mount Tai Fengshan ceremony?

Of course, before that one in the Song Dynasty.

Thinking of that one, even the Mount Tai Mountain God was a little disgusted.

A Zhao took the ancient sword and played with it.

Suddenly she said, "So, I am Wu Zetian?"

"Hmm?!"

The Mount Tai Mountain God's thoughts froze.

………………

Wei Yuan carried the talismans of the Yin soldiers of the Taoist ancestors.

He left Longhu Mountain. For the first time, he felt that each talisman of the Yin soldiers was heavier and more unbearable than the fists and feet of the God who Holds Up the Sky. After bidding farewell to Longhu Mountain, because the time was much earlier than Wei Yuan had expected, he did not choose to return to the museum.

Thinking of Bai Ze's instructions, to find the true spirit.

Wei Yuan decided to go and look for Ah Liang's true spirit himself. Maybe it was stuffed somewhere?

Now that was all that was left.

Ah Liang died because he defied the heavens, using one province to rebel against the world. His true spirit was shattered, so it would be very difficult to find under normal circumstances. The places where his true spirit might exist were either the Wuhou Temple, the Martial Temple, or the place of obsession, Wuzhang Plains.

But if it was the last one…

Could Ah Liang have become a terrestrial spirit of eighteen hundred years?

If the obsession didn't die, what level of terrifying existence would that be…

Wei Yuan thought, Zhuge Wuhou, harboring the unwillingness of his death, transformed into a vengeful ghost.

This buff was too terrifying.

I'm afraid that the methods of both Buddhism and Taoism would be useless.

A Qimen magician?

Needless to say, would you want them to face the most brilliant ancestor in the history of their lineage? What would they use to fight? However, if the blessings of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were not very effective, it would be best to worship the God of Wealth.

Maybe they could get by on the merits of Guan Yunchang.

Wei Yuan quickly shook his head and threw all these thoughts out.

Then, after repeated deliberation and thought, he felt that his guess was correct. If Bai Ze's deduction was true, and Yuan Tiangang, transformed from Zhujiuyin, and Wu Zhao, as he thought of this, Wei Yuan's thoughts paused, and then he continued to think, if the initial plan of the Martial Temple did take into account the integrity of the true spirit.

Then Ah Liang's true spirit should have been preserved.

And the most likely place, and the place that would be easiest for subsequent plan executors to find, must be the kind that was 100% easy to detect. If you understand these people, you will definitely know it. Then, either it is the most commemorated place.

Or the most regrettable place.

Or simply the location of the Martial Temple itself.

Wei Yuan sorted out his state of mind, suppressed the excitement, determined the direction, and went to search again.

He had already been to the Wuhou Temple before and confirmed that it did not exist.

Wei Yuan then went to Wuzhang Plains, relying on his gradually blurred memory to find the location of the Jihan army formation, but the spells he cast did not find Ah Liang's aura.

Unwillingly, he ran to Nanyang again.

He ran to Langya County, where Ah Liang lived when he was young.

He even ran to the Wuhou Temple in Shu, but he still couldn't find it.

"Could it be in the Martial Temple?"

Wei Yuan thoughtfully opened the software and searched for Martial Temples, Wuhou Temples, and because of Ah Liang's special reasons, he even had priests in the Literary Temples of the same level as the Martial Temples. In addition, there was also him in the Ming Dynasty Imperial Temples.

Wei Yuan's mouth twitched, and when he saw countless red dots appearing on the map, he gritted his teeth faintly.

To check them one by one, wouldn't he have to check until the year of the monkey?

Strictly speaking, there was no problem with the idea, as for the difficulty of this search, it was not Ah Liang's problem, it was his.

Being commemorated in various ways by later generations, was it his fault?

Wei Yuan seemed to see the boy shrug and smile lazily.

He rubbed his eyebrows and sighed.

His expression returned to calmness, he controlled the flowing wind, and continued to search. He would just look for them one by one, what else could he do?

……………………

It wasn't until night that Bai Ze saw Wei Yuan's return.

This guy stuck straws into a box of AD calcium milk and then drank it all at the same time.

He was quite lazy.

Moreover, he was wearing pajamas that he didn't know where he bought them, and he was sitting lazily on the sofa playing games. When he saw Wei Yuan coming back, he rolled his dead fish eyes and greeted him, "Yo, you're back."

The principle of the hanger-on——must blend into the life of the sugar daddy without incident!

The so-called freeloading.

It was just that Bai Ze still keenly noticed Wei Yuan's low mood, "What's wrong with you?"

"Who bullied you?"

Bai Ze still had a lot of professional ethics, he ate yours and drank yours, and was at least willing to comfort you on the surface. Although his method of comforting came from his own side, he comforted, "Let's gather a wave of sugar daddies and kill them!"

"I still can't find… I can't find Ah Liang's true spirit."

Wei Yuan whispered.

Bai Ze was stunned, "Can't find it?"

He saw a rare expression of frustration on the museum owner's face.

The latter murmured, "Nanyang, Wolonggang, Wuhou Temples, Literary Temples, Martial Temples, I've been to them all, the stones are still just stones, the clay sculptures are just clay sculptures, they are not Ah Liang, Ah Liang is not there, no…"

Wei Yuan looked at Bai Ze and said slowly, "Is Ah Liang's true spirit really still there?"

This was a question that he had been unwilling to face and unwilling to think about——

Was what Bai Ze said really right?

He murmured like Qing Niu back then.

"I can't find him…"

His mood was low. After searching for so long without finding anything, even Wei Yuan's tenacity felt despair. Or rather, all along, as one of the true cultivators of Taoism, he knew the consequences of fighting against fate. How easy would it be for a shattered soul to return? It was just that he subconsciously avoided this question, subconsciously deceiving himself with Bai Ze's words, and now, with each place he checked, he could not find Ah Liang's true spirit.

It seemed that it was time to face the truth.

"Are you stupid?"

Bai Ze looked at him with the eyes of someone whose brain was broken and said, "The item of cause and effect of Zhuge Wuhou."

"Isn't it right here?"

Bai Ze stretched out his hand and pointed to the well-protected white feather fan.

"The cause and effect of the thoughts here are so strong that I saw it at a glance."

"I asked you to find other sugar daddies, not to find Wuhou, is your brain broken?"

Wei Yuan was stunned and looked at the feather fan.

Jiang Wei, the last general of the Han Dynasty, handed this feather fan to the Taoist priest back then.

'This is, the Prime Minister's relic…'

Then, the Taoist priest took this feather fan, lived in seclusion in Nanyang, and finally died stroking the feather fan.

He died in the army formation, his star fell in Wuzhang Plains, and his soul returned to Yanhuang.

Only this feather fan was the final answer to the promise of farming in Nanyang back then.

"The Martial Temple plan, the most likely place, and the place that would be easiest for subsequent plan executors to find, must be the easiest place to detect, the place that could never be missed, the place that would never be lost."

"Haha, hahaha, so that's how it is… so that's how it is."

Wei Yuan murmured, suddenly laughing, as if he had encountered something that he would remember for the rest of his life, laughing so hard that he almost leaned back and forth, laughing so hard that the bright laughter contained unspeakable sadness.

The laughter gradually subsided, he opened the cabinet door, took out the feather fan, stroked it gently, and whispered:

"Six expeditions to Qishan, the star fell in Wuzhang Plains."

"I will take you to walk the road you never finished."

"I'll take you on the high-speed rail, from Wuhou Temple to the Central Plains, it's very fast, it won't take half a day, this time you don't have to use a lifetime…"

The Taoist priest's tone was gentle, and he seemed to be choking slightly.

"I've been dreaming for eighteen hundred years…"

"Wake up."

"Ah Liang."

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