Chapter 1 Two Great Strategists

If you were to speak of the most famous *fangshi* (Taoist practitioners) of the Great Tang Dynasty, one would be Yuan Tiangang, and the other would be Li Chunfeng.

Both of these men were knowledgeable of astronomy and celestial phenomena above, and skilled in divination and the calculation of fate below.

They were already renowned in their own time.

And the deaths of these two were also extremely mysterious and intriguing. According to legend, in order to find an auspicious burial ground for their passing, the two simultaneously agreed to go out and search, to see whose chosen location had better *feng shui* (geomancy), in order to complete the final contest of their lives. They chose opposite directions. What made it even more fascinating for later generations was that the two ultimately chose the same place.

One used a copper coin as a marker, and the other used a silver needle.

And in the end, the silver needle pierced the copper coin.

The two great *fangshi* laughed at each other, and then passed away in the same year, buried in this place.

Truly a beautiful tale, a beautiful tale.

Then—

*Clang!*

A large iron shovel struck the ground, and a young version of Li Chunfeng with curly black hair began to dig the grave with a *clang, clang, clang*. Finally, with a *krack*, he directly dug out the other 'himself's coffin, then slapped him twice across the face, saying, "Are you awake? How's this going?!"

The older version of Li Chunfeng climbed up.

“It’s done…”, my old back can't take it.

“Tsk.”

"In short, the main body over there has stupidly split the Nine Heads foundation, and is probably weak as hell now. Xi Huang doesn't even know where he is, and that kid Lu Wu was plotted against and is sleeping like a log. If things continue like this, the kid might just sleep through the Great Tribulation. When the anchor point is pulled, it'll be a set-up for someone to plot against him."

"I'm numb."

"Indeed, I'm numb."

Young version of Kai Ming Zi · Li Chunfeng.

Old version of Kai Ming Zi · Li Chunfeng.

The two of them lay in front of their own graves, looked at each other, and sighed in unison. Finally, the younger version messed up his hair and said, "Forget it, I'll find 'me' with the code number 20366 and get him to extract a bit of true spirit from that Lu Wu guy. We have to get him a reincarnation body and hide one or two anchor points."

"To prevent him from really being plotted against."

The older version of Li Chunfeng said, "Then what anchor point are you planning to find?"

The younger version smiled slightly and said, "I have my own wonderful plan."

"However, that Lu Wu guy is so serious and upright. If he finds out we're getting him a reincarnation body, he should be very angry."

"Indeed, then let's not let him notice!"

"Right, so I've added a little something to his true spirit aura. Why don't we do it together?"

The younger Kai Ming Zi snapped his fingers, and a rift appeared in space. Another Kai Ming Zi, wearing a yellow vest, came over with a pot of wine and a wisp of true spirit. The three Kai Ming Zi sat separately, looking at the extracted true spirit, their eyes filled with excitement, and then conjured up all sorts of strange and bizarre fates.

The Lu Wu true spirit, surrounded, turned into a palm-sized fierce tiger and roared there.

The three Kai Ming Zi smiled together.

Lu Wu's true spirit's fur stood on end.

"Well, come on, first of all, this guy is strict, old-fashioned, and upright. That can't be changed."

"Right, let's seal off his memories. The purpose is to find an anchor point, not to reincarnate him."

"Good!"

"Then add some valor!"

"Add some boldness!"

"Add a little bit of mediocre talent, and a little bit of martial arts talent!"

"Add a little bit of medical talent too."

The three Kai Ming Zi surrounded Lu Wu's true spirit and stuffed things into it.

Finally, the younger one, with a clear purple light flashing in his eyes, coughed and then took out a small *guan guan* (a type of bird) from his arms, and solemnly said, "But even so, this still can't be distinguished from Lu Wu himself. He'll unconsciously notice it, so we have to find a huge distinction. This is the luck I found!"

"Not only can it make Lu Wu's true spirit anchor point undergo a huge change from his main body."

"It can also perfectly coordinate everything you just added in."

"Oh ho!"

"Good stuff, then what is this…"

"Ta-da! The luck of Emperor Wei Wu Cao Mengde!"

The younger Kai Ming Zi's eyes lit up, his mouth full of pleasant expressions, his face radiant: "In that case, adding a little bit, Lu Wu's true spirit reincarnation anchor point's love and pursuit of the opposite sex will become completely different, ahem…"

"That is to say, he will like married women, a thing later known as NTR, but, but here's the key point!"

"Lu Wu's own will is extremely firm."

"His moral standards are almost on par with this one here."

The other two Kai Ming Zi incarnations looked disdainful.

The younger Kai Ming Zi didn't care, his eyes glowing, excitedly saying, "In this way, her moral standards will produce huge changes and huge conflicts with her interfered-with views on love. He'll want to do bad things, but will restrain himself to death."

"It's like there's a box in front of him, but he just can't get in!"

"Just thinking about how tangled he'll be later makes me happy!"

"So we'll just add a little bit," just as the younger Kai Ming Zi was full of anticipation and carefully pouring, the older Li Chunfeng next to him, and the Kai Ming who delivered the package, shot out together.

They expressionlessly patted Kai Ming on the shoulder.

That little bit of luck poured in all at once with a *whoosh*.

"Just add a little bit... damn, too much!"

Kai Ming Zi stiffly raised his head, saw Li Chunfeng next to him whistling and averting his gaze, and saw the Kai Ming incarnation who delivered the package observing ants climbing trees. After they climbed up, he swiped them back down to their original position, then waited for them to climb up again, and swiped them down again. Finally, Li Chunfeng shouted loudly, "Don't worry!"

"If there are no special circumstances, Lu Wu won't discover this true spirit reincarnation anchor point." "If the Great Tribulation really comes, he'll rely on this anchor point to establish his self-awareness. That means we saved him!"

"Then should he be angry? Or should he thank us?!"

"Hahahaha, just imagining his tangled and aggrieved appearance isn't that more enjoyable?!"

Finally, the Kai Ming delivery boy pondered, "And if he discovers it in advance…"

"Then…"

Li Chunfeng added, "It's the main body that's screwed!"

The three Kai Ming Zi looked at each other and raised their glasses together: "Yay!"

Finally, after drinking a pot of wine, Kai Ming Zi swayed as he stood up and said, "Then you, use this iron shovel to bury it back. After a while, the current [main body] will come. We can't let him find out anything is wrong. We also have to hide it from that cold and indifferent Zhujiu Yin guy. Having to look for Big Sister while taking care of that iron-headed Lu Wu is really hard, sigh."

The deliveryman Kai Ming was dissatisfied and said, "Then what are you going to do?"

"Me? Of course, I still have to do big things."

Kai Ming Zi patted his clothes and said, "Important things."

So, after digging his own grave, and then finding the three of himself to play cards and drink at the gravesite, he successfully shirked the blame onto himself, allowing another version of himself to successfully escape after burying him.

Following the strongest auxiliary authority of [Sitting and Seeing the Ten Directions], at a critical moment, he intercepted the Turbid World Demon God who had found the Turbid World Nüwa, and on the way, he took a shower, slept, and bought a candied haws. Kai Ming Zi smiled and winked at the white-haired girl over there, and slowly stirred the thing in his hand.

The thing that backstabbed this Turbid World Demon God was actually a candied haws.

Slowly pulling out this candied haws little by little was simply invigorating.

The scene was so beautiful that it was unbearable to look at directly.

The Turbid World Demon God screamed a few times.

Turning around to attack, Kai Ming Zi took half a step back, snapped his fingers, and rifts in space appeared in the void, and then countless Kai Ming from countless timelines appeared, [Sitting and Seeing the Ten Directions], briefly erupting with the concepts of heaven, earth, four directions, life, death, past, and future. The youth casually scooped out the candied haws, took out another one in his backhand, bit it in his mouth, stretched out his five fingers, and purple light flowed in his eyes.

Heaven, earth, east, south, west, north.

"Life."

"Death."

"Past."

"Future."

His five fingers closed, his wrist slowly turned, and he said indifferently, biting the candied haws, "Annihilation of the Ten Directions."

Thus, the demon god, within the scope of the Ten Directions, was annihilated and ceased to exist.

Kai Ming Zi exhaled, swayed as he walked down, looked at the white-haired girl over there, and smiled casually, "Yo, girl, do you know where a guy named Yuan is buried? I have a connection with him. I met him a long time ago."

The white-haired girl looked at him, and finally nodded. For some reason, she instinctively felt that this scoundrelly youth had no hostility. Kai Ming looked at the tomb of the Sword Immortal who had been invincible for a lifetime, and seemed to be earnestly paying his respects with a candied haws in his mouth, saying, "...I never thought that you would be unparalleled in battle in this life, but you would still end up like this."

The white-haired girl's tone was calm: "Will someone come to find him?"

"Yes."

Kai Ming glanced at her lazily, opened a pot of wine, and sprinkled the wine in front of the grave. A wisp of true spirit from Lu Wu also flew into it. He bit a stick of candied haws in his mouth, pierced his tongue to stain it with the blood of the true spirit, and then inserted it in front of the tombstone with a backhand, saying, "I and him, before, can be considered as acquaintances from a fight, but, after that, I still have to rely on him."

"After all, the things I do later will probably be gone, and will probably be reverse-infected, unable to maintain myself."

"At that time, I will really die."

"So, just like Geng Chen, I leave a mark with someone destined to enter the tribulation, leave a [mark that is not a reincarnation incarnation, not perceived by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth but truly exists], thereby anchoring the real self, so as not to be inexplicably plotted to death. Heh, you probably don't understand what this means, but, in order to prevent this guy's body from being used…"

"I still have to do one more thing."

He smiled, swept his sleeves, and his aura suddenly ignited.

He burned all the true spirit and aura in this area to ashes, and then looked at the white-haired girl over there. He could stop it this time, but he himself was acting secretly, living from moment to moment, and could protect her for a while, but not for a lifetime, especially since he could barely protect her for a lifetime in the human world.

But this was not something that could be said in one or two lifetimes.

Kai Ming looked at the white-haired girl and said, "Then, I have a way to let you see him soon, how about it?"

"Hmm?"

The girl shook her head, her tone without fluctuation: "Are you going to teach me to be bad?"

"Shh! Shh!"

Kai Ming Zi's scalp went numb, he put his finger to his lips and shushed for a long time, and said with a cold sweat, "No, please don't."

"I've already provoked Lu Wu, the main body, and Zhujiu Yin."

"I don't want to continue provoking Fuxi and Yuanshi, and your main body? Hmm? Or elder sister…"

"In short, my authorities are all auxiliary, and I don't have their power."

"Provoking six of the top ten peaks in one breath is no longer dancing on the grave."

"Then you can bury me now."

Kai Ming saw that the girl was not amused by him, so he sighed and said, "It's a method that can let you see him, and it's also the only safe place in this turbulent world, even safer than the Heavenly Emperor's place." Kai Ming took the white-haired girl to walk in the world.

Finally, he saw Zhang Xun making great progress in cursive script because of Pei Yu's sword energy and Gongsun's sword dance. He saw Pei Yu and Gongsun get married.

Finally, Kai Ming took the girl who had put down the mundane thoughts of the world and returned to the Kunlun Ruins, and then, relying on the authority of [Sitting and Seeing the Ten Directions], he reassembled the Turbid World Fuxi's Reversing Innate Grand Array, but also dissipated its original effect, leaving only nurturing. Then he watched the girl return to the jade coffin that had trapped her for thousands of years without hesitation.

"Is this, okay?"

Kai Ming closed the jade coffin with a smile:

"Take a nap, and you'll see him."

The jade coffin closed, and the white-haired girl slowly closed her eyes, surrounded by a cold, lonely silence, as if isolated from the world.

But at least there were memories shining.

She closed her eyes, recalling the "Rules of Survival" written to her by the old swordsman, recalling the bits and pieces of the past ten years, and finally, when she thought of the swordsman riding out of Chang'an City, her expression softened, and then she stretched out her hand towards the swordsman.

Her consciousness fell into a daze, and she fell into a deep sleep.

Suddenly, she woke up in shock.

The white-haired girl raised her head and subconsciously tugged at her fingers, touching the sleeve of the Taoist robe next to her.

Shi Yi next to her was meditating, while Qing Shan was sitting on a blue stone on one side looking at the distant scenery. Qing Shan Dragon Girl noticed the white-haired girl's gaze, lowered her eyes and returned a smile, generous and natural. Over there, Qin Yuan bird and Feng Siyu were sharing snacks, while the little Taoist Ah Xuan, after painful reflection, felt that his master was in trouble, and the disciple should serve him, and was planning to cook today's meal himself.

The Qin soldiers were forming formations to defend.

The white-haired girl's eyes regained stability, and she leaned back, looking at Wei Yuan next to her, seeing his eyes slightly drooping, white hair already mixed in his hair, but his eyebrows were still young, and her heart was at ease. She gently pulled the Taoist's sleeve with her fingers, and then the girl suddenly noticed a trace of sharpness, her eyes moved up, and she saw strands of golden aura slowly gathering at the center of his brows.

Dao Fruit—[Sword]. After abandoning the sword and forgetting the sword for five hundred years.

Taking the initiative to surrender!

Wei Yuan's eyes were slightly closed, and he seemed to still be asleep, his breathing was long and even, and he was without sharpness, yet he had already triggered many concepts to gather on their own.

I do not seek the Dao.

And the Dao comes on its own.

ps: Today's second update...4000 words