Female 209 is stable due to loyalty.
Male 209 is always in flux due to promiscuity!
Therefore.
When Zhuang Wujian used Li Qianfan's flesh and blood to feed the BiYiNiao Gu worm, it was possible for "the constant change of matter to lead to food poisoning," causing all the Gu worms that consumed Li Qianfan's flesh and blood to die.
After this astonishing discovery, Yang Tiantian did not tell Zhuang Wujian.
This was because she had repeatedly "suggested" that the impoverished Zhuang Wujian join the Dark Web with his resources (bringing the experts from the War Demon Hall), but was always refused.
What else—
Could make Yang Tiantian happier than Zhuang Wujian's overjoyed anticipation of transformation upon receiving Li Qianfan's flesh and blood, only to find it useless?
Li Nantian stared blankly at Yang Tiantian.
He hoped Yang Tiantian was lying to him!
But although Yang Tiantian was smug, she had no intention of deceiving him.
Gulp.
Li Nantian swallowed with difficulty.
Instantly.
His dry throat felt much better: "You mean. In this world, there is no longer any way to curb Qianfan's aging?"
"In short, it cannot be done with Gu worms. Based on the current medical knowledge possessed by humans, it is impossible to stabilize the constantly changing male 209 like the female 209."
Yang Tiantian thought seriously before continuing, "But there are still two ways to curb your grandson's aging."
Li Nantian quickly asked, "Tell me!"
Yang Tiantian did not.
If Li Nantian couldn't give her benefits, why should she reveal those two methods?
Li Nantian hesitated for a long time, then slowly reached out and put his arm around her waist.
Yang Tiantian turned in time, sat in his embrace with her back to him, closed her eyes with a look of happiness.
At this moment.
She had waited for so long!
Even more so, she wished time could stop forever at this moment!!
After a full seven or eight minutes.
Yang Tiantian softly said, "The first way is to find a way to make the lustful and constantly changing male 209 completely stable like the female 209."
Li Nantian asked, "How?"
Yang Tiantian's tone was solemn, and she replied even more seriously, "Make Li Qianfan a eunuch."
What?
Li Nantian was stunned.
He immediately became furious: "Are you fucking playing with me?"
"No."
Yang Tiantian looked back at him, her expression still solemn.
Li Nantian fell silent.
Yang Tiantian continued, "As long as Li Qianfan becomes a eunuch, male hormones will disappear. Without the stimulation of male hormones, male 209 will tend to stabilize. It might even evolve on its own to become a female 209 that is loyal to only one person."
Holy shit.
Li Nantian, who never swore, couldn't help but utter these two words again.
However, he could not refute Yang Tiantian's words as nonsense.
Because too many eunuchs in history had proven through their mutilation that men, once entering the palace, could become women who were not women.
This method was still quite feasible.
The problem was—
Making Li Qianfan a eunuch?
Li Nantian was certain that if he offered this "clever stratagem," Yang Xiao and Li Wujiang would team up to beat him half to death!
That was not what Li Renzha wanted.
"I was just thinking, you might choose this method. After all, becoming a eunuch is much better than aging to death quickly."
Yang Tiantian continued, "That's why I arranged for Dai Paipai to leave him an heir in time. This way, even after he becomes a eunuch, he can still continue the lineage for Li Wujiang. Actually, I favor this choice the most. After all, Paipai's son would have a chance to successfully inherit the Dragon Ruins."
"No!"
Li Nantian refused outright, "Quickly tell me the second method."
Yang Tiantian replied, "You already know the second method. And you are already actively promoting it, hoping Li Qianfan can disregard worldly matters and impregnate a certain empress."
Hmm?
Li Nantian was stunned again.
After a long while, he softly asked, "Do you know about the Four Phoenixes Circling the Beam?"
"Daoist Priest Du told me."
Yang Tiantian replied, "Originally, I thought the only way to curb Li Qianfan's aging was to make him a eunuch. That's why I arranged for Dai Paipai to conceive his child in advance, to prepare for inheriting the Dragon Ruins. But after a friendly (knife-wielding) conversation with Daoist Priest Du, I learned that besides scientific methods, Xuanmen arts can also be used to change Li Qianfan's fate."
Li Nantian remained silent.
Yang Tiantian continued her narrative, "The whole world, even Paipai, believed that a certain empress had already conceived for Li Qianfan. But Daoist Priest Du, who participated in the 'Four Phoenixes Circling the Beam' arrangement, could determine from Li Qianfan's rapid aging that the relationship between the two was still pure and chaste."
Heh heh.
Li Nantian smiled proudly and said, "My grandson, Li Nantian, of course, knows very well that some things must be done even if it means death, but some things must not be done even if beaten to death."
Heh heh.
Yang Tiantian sneered dismissively, "But for Li Qianfan to survive, besides becoming a eunuch, he must have a certain empress wear shackles and kneel. Other than that, there is no other way."
Li Nantian said in a deep voice, "I can guarantee there are other ways!"
Yang Tiantian asked, "Tell me."
Li Nantian truthfully said, "I don't know."
Yang Tiantian pouted, "Then there aren't any."
Hoo.
Li Nantian exhaled heavily and changed the subject, "Yang Tiantian, you've said what you needed to say. I won't kill you this time, you should leave. But I hope you can promise me that the Dark Web's personnel in the Eastern Land will withdraw within a month at most."
Yang Tiantian asked, "Or else?"
Li Nantian grinned sinisterly, "Then you won't be leaving tonight."
Yang Tiantian asked again, "Do you believe that if I really die, there will be unbearable losses of life at the airports, stations, and even major shopping malls in cities like Si Jiu?"
Li Nantian's eyebrows twitched.
"Before I went up the mountain tonight, I had already given orders to the five presidents. Or rather, my will."
Yang Tiantian said leisurely, "After I die, whoever kills the most people in Si Jiu among the five presidents will inherit my position and all my assets. Including that copy of the 'Divine Maiden's Flying Heaven Joyful Technique,' which all five presidents dream of. I have no talent for martial arts, and due to the defect of being too old, I cannot become a master like you. But I also feared being retaliated against by the five presidents, so I deliberately only taught them half of the 'Joyful Technique.' They dream of obtaining the complete version."
Ha, haha.
Li Nantian laughed, "Tiantiian, I was actually joking just now."
Yang Tiantian replied with seductive eyes, "I like your shamelessness, which changes immediately when the situation turns bad."
Li Nantian raised his hand and touched his nose, remaining silent.
"Where there is light, there must be darkness. This is why the Dark Web has endured."
Yang Tiantian said softly, "I even suspect that the Reincarnation Gate on the Xue Zang Plateau not only has a relationship with Misty Township that you and I don't know about, but also has a predetermined relationship with Kunlun Blazing Valley where Lu Long is located."
Li Nantian subconsciously nodded.
"If you are interested, I can accompany you to the Xue Zang Divine Mountain again to search for that Reincarnation Gate, which might open at any time. To understand what 209 is, why it makes women most beautiful but causes men to age, and why it chose Li Wujiang and his son, the answer can only be found there."
Yang Tiantian was right.
But Li Nantian did not want to search for that so-called Reincarnation Gate.
Let alone whether it could be found—
Even if it were found, would he abandon everything he currently possessed and enter that legendary Reincarnation Gate?
"But my five presidents of the Dark Web do have the miraculous effect of slowing down Li Qianfan's aging. This may be related to the fact that the improved versions of 209 used by the five presidents all come from the Reincarnation Gate."
Yang Tiantian asked, "Li Nantian, if I tell the five presidents this, do you think they will use this to gain many benefits from Li Qianfan?"
Li Nantian replied indifferently, "Yang Xiao has already researched this point."
"Then tell me—"
Yang Tiantian asked again, "If all six presidents, including Dai Paipai, the future chief president, become your grandson's women, wouldn't that mean the Dark Web is controlled by Li Qianfan?"
"Nonsense."
Li Nantian sneered, "Will the third-generation heir of the Dragon Ruins be selected from the descendants of the six presidents of the Dark Web in twenty years?"
Yang Tiantian replied, "But this is the only way for Li Qianfan to slow down his aging after rejecting the Four Phoenixes Circling the Beam."
"I need to think about it carefully."
Li Nantian pushed her away, "You should leave now."
"I came, and I told you so many secrets, but I haven't fulfilled my wish yet."
Yang Tiantian said directly, "I won't leave. As long as I don't leave, my will will take effect within twenty-four hours at the latest."
Li Nantian's expression turned hostile, "What do you want!?"
"Nantian ah—"
Yang Tiantian said with a trembling voice, "Actually, until now, I am still a genuine good woman."
The night.
Grew deeper and deeper.
The moon quietly moved westward, slowly setting.
Finally, the east dawned.
Dai Paipai, standing with Daoist Priest Du in front of the moon gate in the backyard of Baiyun Temple, kept looking towards Qingyun, reminiscing about the happy times of the past.
From time to time, she reached out and gently caressed her lower abdomen.
A sweet smile appeared on her lips.
With a creak.
The door of the single room opened.
Soft footsteps approached.
Yang Tiantian, with a face full of spring, exuding vigor, walked out with light steps.
She bowed deeply to Daoist Priest Du.
But she said nothing, just took Dai Paipai's hand and hurried towards the front temple.
Soon.
Their figures disappeared into the twilight of dawn.
In front of the mountain gate.
Dai Paipai said in a low voice, "Master, I want to see him one last time before I leave."
Yang Tiantian frowned, "Where is he now?"
Dai Paipai truthfully replied, "While waiting for you, I sent a message to our people. He is currently in a VIP lounge, drinking with a young girl. He's drunk because he's in a bad mood."
"Then you can't go. Because if you go, you'll feel sorry for him and stay to take care of him against my wishes."
Yang Tiantian immediately said, "But during this time, Li Nantian might go back on his word. If I am truly kept in the Eastern Land, all our previous efforts will be in vain!"
Dai Paipai's expression dimmed.
Yang Tiantian patiently persuaded, "Paipai, you have already achieved what you wished for. If Li Nantian truly goes back on his word, with Su Nanyin's ruthlessness and cunning, would she allow your child to be born?"
Dai Paipai was startled.
"Let's go. Leave the Eastern Land as quickly as possible!"
Yang Tiantian took Dai Paipai's hand and walked quickly, "Remember. The Li family has always gone back on their word in certain matters. Everything will be based on the overall interests of the Eastern Land."
The wind blew.
In the backyard of Baiyun Temple, in front of the moon gate.
"Alas, a karmic bond that cannot be severed even by death."
Daoist Priest Du sighed, turned, and walked into the moon gate, looking up.
A soul-summoning banner still hung on the tree.
But the eerie aura was gone with Yang Tiantian's departure.
Whoosh—
The wind suddenly grew stronger, blowing the soul-summoning banner.
In the pre-dawn light, the soul-summoning banner fluttered and was blown by the wind into the cliff below the back mountain of the backyard.
Below the cliff of the back mountain in the backyard was the final resting place of the past Daoist priests of Baiyun Temple.
The door of the single room opened.
Li Nantian, exuding an aura of decadence, walked out lazily.
He walked with his hands behind his back to Daoist Priest Du, looking up at the east, "Old bald donkey, from the perspective of Xuanmen, do Kunlun Blazing Valley, Lingnan Misty Township, and even Four Phoenixes Circling the Beam have a connection with the Reincarnation Gate that Yang Tiantian mentioned?"
Daoist Priest Du's tone was affirmative, "Yes."
Li Nantian, "Explain."
Daoist Priest Du, "Some things cannot be said."
Li Nantian asked, "If I insist you say it?"
Daoist Priest Du replied, "You will regret it."
Li Nantian walked slowly out of the moon gate, "Yang Tiantian came to see you last night, you predicted it, right?"
Daoist Priest Du followed behind him, "But I didn't predict that you, who clearly didn't want anything to happen with her, would spend so much time alone with her."
Sigh.
Li Nantian sighed, filled with self-blame, "Sometimes, my self-control is truly poor."
Daoist Priest Du replied, "Everything that happens has its reasons."
This is what is meant by karma in Buddhism.
The two continued to exchange cryptic remarks as they walked out of Baiyun Temple.
It was just breaking dawn!
Li Qianfan arrived at the car, leaned against it, and looked at Old Du, "I heard that Kong Kong Zh Tou, who participated in setting up the Four Phoenixes Circling the Beam formation with you, found my granddaughter-in-law Su Ziyu alone and told her many things. Can you tell me what Kong Kong Zh Tou said to Zi Yu?"
"No."
"Really?"
"It's just a legend related to the Naihe Bridge."
Old Du, without any backbone, raised his hand and gently pushed away the hand that was locking his neck, "In the legend, a young man marries a wife on the Naihe Bridge. But as they crossed the bridge, they saw many women waiting for the groom in the river below."
Li Qianfan nodded, "And then?"
Old Du replied evasively, "Have Su Nanyin transplant her liver, kidneys, and heart onto Helan Tingmei. Only then can the Four Phoenixes Circling the Beam formation last. Only then will neither side touch that red line."
Li Nantian was silent.
He could see that even if he truly strangled Old Du to death, Old Du would not reveal certain mysteries to him.
"No."
After seriously considering the transplant plan, Li Nantian finally shook his head, "That would be unfair to both Su Nanyin and Helan Tingmei."
"The sun has risen."
Old Du said with emotion, "But it will set. This means that the ultimate destination of light is darkness. But at this time tomorrow, the sky will rise again. This means that light is indeed born from darkness. All things in this world have their own arrangements. No matter how capable a person is, they cannot change those predetermined matters in the secret of heaven. Even the magical 209 can only follow the laws of this world."
Yes.
Every time dawn breaks, light is born from darkness.
The ultimate destination of light is darkness.
This is the law of all things in nature, just like many predetermined matters in the secret of heaven.
No one can, nor has the ability to, change it!
Sunrise and sunset.
Today is the twenty-third day of the first lunar month!
February 13, 2023, Monday.
Hancheng.
Inside a residential building.
Zhuang Wujian, looking dejected, with even staggering steps, finally walked out of her "laboratory."
The third-generation mistress of the Dragon Ruins, who had been eagerly awaiting good news, saw this—
Her face full of joy instantly froze.
Su Ziyu eagerly asked, "Madame Zhuang, did it not succeed?"
"They're all dead, all dead."
Zhuang Wujian looked at Su Ziyu, her dry lips murmuring.