Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 129: Prelude to Cause and Effect
In the backyard of the house at Sichengjiaoxing, Wang Yi and Zuo Rutong, who had come from afar, were sitting at the stone table in the backyard. Next to them was a little girl who was walking towards them with a tray of brewed tea and light lotus steps.

With his head lowered, his eyes would occasionally steal glances at Zuo Rutong who was calm and composed.

"Young Master, Immortal, Tea..."

The tea tray was put down and her words were as soft as a mosquito's. Her little girl's attitude made Wang Yi want to shake his head and sneer. Zuo Rutong was already old and felt a little embarrassed at this moment. Her bare feet moved faintly on the cobblestone ground.

"Okay, find a place to hide and watch it slowly with the others. You can't stand in front of two grown men and watch it like this."

After Wang Yi exposed her thoughts, the little girl covered her face with the tray and ran away quickly. But as Wang Yi said, she gathered with other friends in the distance, looking at Zuo Ruotong, the Great Ying Immortal. The friends beside her asked from time to time what it felt like to see Zuo Ruotong up close.

"Master Zuo, please forgive me."

"It's okay. I'm used to it."

What he said was, is being looked at by a grown man the same as being looked at by a bunch of young girls who are just beginning to fall in love? But looking at Zuo Ruotong in the second level of normal rebirth, Wang Yi couldn't help but sigh, "Tsk, it should be said that all the disciples of the Sanyi Sect are above average in terms of appearance. When they go out, they will fight with others. Looking at their appearance, outsiders will subconsciously think that the Sanyi Sect is the righteous side without introducing themselves."

Although he looked like an average person, he was still a long way behind Chief Zuo Men.

"Know why I came to Beijing."

"I know, there is always a loophole. I really didn't expect it to cause such a big commotion."

Facing Zuo Ruotong's question, Wang Yi was helpless, because when he saw Liu Wei beside Zuo Ruotong through the magnetic field radar, he roughly guessed the reason. But he did not expect that just by using the excuse of his seclusion, Zuo Menzhang could think of so much. Even if he asked Uncle Li, who was in charge of Jianghu Inn at that time, to do it, he should not be able to associate it so clearly.

"Do you remember the conversation we had in that small town within the boundaries of Trinity Gate?"

"remember."

"I asked you at the time why you were sure that what you did was right, and you answered me that I knew."

"Yes, but knowing that what you do is right does not conflict with whether you will bear the consequences."

"What's the reason?"

"I still can't tell you."

Seeing Wang Yi shaking his head, Zuo Ruotong also took out the four-character commentary that Si Chong had obtained from Zhang Jingqing's divination at Longhu Mountain. When Wang Yi saw the four-character commentary on the change of a thousand years, he did have a moment of disordered breath when he saw it. In this moment, Zuo Ruotong also understood.

He raised his hand and clapped it, and the strip of cloth with the four-character comment printed on it turned into powder and flew away, the kind that could not be put back together.

"I asked Si Chong to rush to Longhu Mountain overnight to ask the Heavenly Master for divination. Although the divination of Longhu Mountain is not as good as Wuhou Qimen and Shuzimen, it is enough if it is only for predicting the national destiny. According to Si Chong's letter, the Heavenly Master did not calculate the national destiny at all, because in the inner scene, there are too many causes and effects about the national destiny. According to what the Heavenly Master said at the time, even if all the magicians who are proficient in divination in the world were counted, they would not be able to break through. He took a shortcut and did not calculate the national destiny, but calculated the situation. As a result, he got these four words. Just these four words almost seriously injured the Heavenly Master."

Wang Yi was about to speak when Zuo Rutong waved his hand at him.

"No damage to the root, but it will take ten days or half a month to slowly recover. Don't feel guilty. I said in my letter that you met Master Jin Guang and calculated the cause and effect of Longhu Mountain with him. If this incident hadn't happened, it would not only be you, but even the Sanyi Sect would owe Longhu Mountain a big cause and effect for Tianshi to spend so much energy on divination. But you met Master Jin Guang and asked him to re-understand his own way, which can be regarded as helping Longhu Mountain to calculate the cause and effect, and you helped yourself. But I really didn't expect that even Tianshi spent so much energy to get a vague comment, but you knew the twists and turns. You, I really don't understand you."

Wang Yi’s reaction just now could not deceive Zuo Rutong, or rather, because of Wang Yi’s reaction, Zuo Rutong understood more clearly that Wang Yi’s retreat this time was really to prepare for the backlash of cause and effect that might come at any time.

"Master Zuo, I didn't expect you to care so much about me that you even involved Longhu Mountain. But my answer is still the same as before: I can't tell you."

"I understand, and I won't ask. But since I'm here, I don't plan to leave now. At least I have to wait until you pass this level."

"Captain Zuo, why bother?"

"Just like you said, bear the consequences. When I taught you the third level of Reverse Rebirth, I had more selfish motives than public motives. I just wanted to try the way of learning from others. Your talent is so high that I think you may be able to help me find the opportunity to prove the third level. Between you and me, we are not master and disciple in name, but master and disciple in reality. If I count the point of teaching you the third level of Reverse Rebirth, you also taught Jin'er and Mu Xuan the Ghost Hand King's Reversal of Eight Directions, and they even have room for advancement and practice your technique. Although I have confidence in Reverse Rebirth, I can also see that your technique is only above Reverse Rebirth.

From this point of view, you have repaid my kindness of passing on the skills, and even surpassed me. After that, during this year or so, before you went into seclusion, you asked the shopkeeper Liu Weishao to send you the three methods of reverse life and three-fold protection of the way that you had realized. In my opinion, each method is no worse than the Five Thunders Law of Longhu Mountain as long as it is cultivated to a high level, but it is easy to learn but difficult to master. If you are now a disciple of the Sanyi Sect, from the moment you realized these three methods of protection, you will be the head of the Sanyi Sect after me, and there will be one more person in front of the tablet of the ancestor enshrined in the Sanyi Sect. The kindness of passing on the skills has been repaid, the kindness of giving advice has been given, and the kindness of sending three methods of protection of the way has been sent, which can allow the Sanyi Sect to continue. If I put aside my kindness, would I still be Zuo Ruotong?"

Zuo Rutong spoke word by word, but Wang Yi could not find a reason to refute. These things that might not seem so important to him were more important than anything else in Zuo Rutong's eyes.

"Master Zuo, what you said makes sense. I took it for granted. But I have to get through this level by myself. If you really want to argue with me like this, please don't do unnecessary things and let me get through this level by myself. If I get through it, everyone will be happy. If not, Master Zuo, please have mercy on yourself, protect the people in my house, and then deliver the things I entrusted to you to the people who need them."

"No hurry, let's wait until you pass this level. Let me ask you, do you know the exact time of this level?"

“April is the first hurdle.”

"The first one?"

"Yes, the first one."

Zuo Ruotong felt a little tingling after hearing this. Others who practice cultivation try their best to avoid the fatal life-and-death barrier of karma backlash, but you rush forward to get involved? Do young people nowadays really not care about their lives?

Wang Yi also has something to say. He has done nothing wrong in the past, whether he has taken the initiative to contact or indirectly resolved such a huge cause and effect. So he should continue to increase his efforts, adhering to the principle that he will not lose if he dies, and will make a profit if he lives. "In this case, I will protect you here until the end of April."

"Why do you have to do this, Zuo Menzhang?"

"Now that you're here, I know your reasons. I'll have to see you till the end before I can feel at ease."

"I understand. I'll ask Mr. Zuo to help me handle my affairs over the next few days."

"It's what I should do."

The small episode of the conversation between Wang Yi and Zuo Ruotong passed just like that, and Zuo Ruotong stayed at Sichengjiao for a while. And the fact that Zuo Ruotong, the Great Ying Immortal, made a special trip to the capital could not be hidden from some interested people in the capital, whether they were from the Yiren School in the capital or the embassy, ​​especially the Japanese Embassy.

After all, in their plan, the major and well-known sects in the Chinese alien circle all have relatively specific intelligence.

For a mysterious sect like the Sanyi Sect, the skills they practiced were so powerful that they seemed to be unparalleled to outsiders but to their own disciples. Zuo Rutong's anti-aging skills were well-known in the Chinese circle of extraordinary people. Even if they knew that there was no possibility of success in negotiating a deal with such a great master, they would not hesitate to make the trip. After all, everyone has a lucky mentality, what if?

As for these Japanese strangers who claimed to be younger generations, Zuo Ruotong only asked Liang Ting knowingly, "What did Wang Yi do at that time?"

Then he restrained himself on this basis and took out the most basic method of drawing a prison on the ground among the three methods of protection sent by Wang Yi, and directly built an invisible wall outside the house at the foot of the city. Moreover, with his own attainments in the third level of reverse life, his control was far stronger than Wang Yi.

At least for Wang Yi, it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the friend once he used the method of drawing a prison on the ground. In the melee, he might accidentally lock his teammates and opponents in the invisible prison. But for Zuo Rutong, there would be no such problem. The invisible wall only blocked the Japanese aliens who wanted to visit with gifts, but it had no effect on the entry and exit of others.

But just when they were disappointed and were about to leave with their gifts, the gifts brought by these Japanese strange people were left behind.

With Zuo Rutong's integrity, he would naturally not do such a thing. This is what Wang Yi, who was in seclusion in the room, said to Zuo Rutong when he saw these Japanese aliens giving gifts to Zuo Rutong.

"Would it be a bad idea to do this? Would it make them think that I really want something?"

"Hey, it's okay. You are not the only one who can do this. I can do it, too. When I pass this test, you will wave your sleeves and leave Beijing quietly without taking a cloud with you. I will show up again and say that this was all my trick and you were all deceived by me. These guys are pure bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong. You will think that a gentleman bullies with a trick and use this matter to disgust you, but if the target becomes me, they will only gnash their teeth in bed at night, and when they see me in the daytime, they will have to show me a smile as if their parents have died. Moreover, these filial piety are what they owe us. Now we take it from the people and use it for the people. Don't have too much psychological burden, old man."

Listening to Wang Yi's reckless words, Zuo Rutong just thought for a moment, and then followed the example of Marshal Zhang in the capital, leaving the sugar coating behind and taking the shells away by himself.

And during this time, March of the 16th year of the Republic of China passed.

As everyone expected, it took the Northern Expedition Army less than a month to capture the two major cities of Shanghai and Yingtian in late March with the support of armed marches and demonstrations by workers in the two cities, as well as its own external offensive. The government of the Northern Expedition Army also moved to Yingtian. As long as the Northern Expedition was completed, it was estimated that Yingtian, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, would be labeled with another dynasty.

Faced with the Northern Expedition Army's offensive, Marshal Sun Yat-sen of the Beiyang direct line, who was stationed in the two cities and a series of defense zones, and General Zhang Zongchang, a relative of Marshal Zhang of the Fengtian clique in Beijing, had no choice but to flee in panic and hand over the two metropolises to the Northern Expedition Army.

At this point, some people carefully calculated the time of the Northern Expedition. The Northern Expedition began in May of the 15th year of the Republic of China last year, and the oath-taking ceremony officially began in July. In less than a year, the Northern Expedition was crushed and its forces were pushed all the way from the Pearl River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin. After calculating this, they were secretly shocked. How could the Northern Expedition fight even more outrageous than the favorable battle? It turned out that the Beiyang faction was all good-looking but useless.

Now that the situation has become so clear, the powers that originally supported the Beiyang faction naturally began to have their own ideas.

It doesn't matter if you fight a civil war or who wins or loses, but our interests in China cannot be harmed. Since the Beiyang faction can talk about cooperation, there is no reason why you, the Northern Expedition Army, can't talk about cooperation. We don't believe that all of you are saints.

Throughout March, the situation of the Northern Expedition appeared to be very good on the surface, but secretly there were all kinds of intrigues and despicable actions.

Wang Yi, a traveler in four cities, was ultimately a man of the world. It was impossible for him to be exposed to these small actions hidden in history. He could only rely on the vision and historical knowledge of later generations to know that this March was not a peaceful month, neither for Marshal Zhang in the capital nor for the Northern Expedition Army in the south that had already captured the two cities of Shanghai and Yingtianfu.

Especially that bald guy, this old bad guy is now plotting evil and sharpening his knife, just waiting for the right reason and excuse to attack.

In the room, Wang Yi was counting the days. March was about to pass and the bloody April was about to come. In order to make this April less bloody, he had done a lot.

Li Qiang, whom he met in Shanghai, was definitely a backbone figure in the Shanghai organization at that time. He had already revealed the news to him. With that person's intelligence, he should be able to sense the full of malice hidden under the calm situation in Shanghai at this time.

And the other hand was Boss Du, the Shanghai tycoon whom I had demonstrated my skills to. I could indeed kill him at that time, but as I had advised him, you, Boss Du, the leader of the Green Gang, are essentially a gangster and a chamber pot. If you are gone, they can just replace you with someone else. After all, the bald guy just wants someone who can obey and do his job. It doesn't matter whether it's you or not.

He also knew that the other person might not necessarily listen to his advice. They were not on the same side as him, and he could not possibly hope that the other person would suddenly come to his senses. That was too naive. So he gave the advice openly and also had to use covert means.

At this time, Wang Yi, who was standing at the door, was carefully looking at a big red sticker in his hand.

This big red sticker is naturally not an important item to Wang Yi, but it has a different meaning to Mr. Du from Shanghai and to the bald man who is now on the rise.

For the former, it can be a talisman or a death warrant, but for the latter, it is a dark history of stepping on his face and publicly executing him.

"Boss Du, Boss Du, I want to see if you understand things. Otherwise, this letter of apprenticeship from Jiang Zhiqing will appear on the headlines of major newspapers across the country and even internationally after early April. With the bald head's mind smaller than a chicken's eye, I will believe you if any one of your family can survive!"

At this time, thousands of miles away in the Du Mansion in the French Concession in Shanghai, Mr. Du was sweating profusely as he looked at the stolen items in his safe.

(End of this chapter)