Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 251 Zuo Ruotong's trouble

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A decayed, lifeless, dilapidated cave.

Wang Yi looked at the old man sitting on the stone bed, who looked to be nearly a hundred years old. Just like he did in the past, he treated Zuo Rutong with respect and addressed him with courtesy as a junior.

This sound also brought Zuo Rutong back to reality, as his Tao heart was on the verge of breaking, and he ended the state of reverse rebirth that he had been in for many years.

Zuo Rutong carefully looked at Wang Yi standing in front of him. His eyes, like his own, had returned to their original simplicity and were bright and restrained. At this age, he had reached a realm that only he, as a master of his generation, could achieve after many years.

Talent is one thing, opportunity is another.

Looking at the Qi through Wang Yi's eyes that were pure and natural, with a bright and restrained look, just like an ordinary person, sometimes he looked clear-minded and light-hearted, like an immortal, and sometimes he looked heavy-hearted and heavy-hearted, just like an ordinary person.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on Zuo Rutong's old face, which looked like that of a centenarian.

"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back. When I taught you the Third Level of Reincarnation, I had selfish motives. I wanted to use you to find a way to attain the Third Level. But this was what I was most worried about at the time. If I could achieve the Third Level through you, and the Third Level was not what people thought, then I would have sown the seeds of evil. Okay, okay, okay."

After saying "yes" three times in a row, Wang Yi, who was standing in front of Zuo Rutong, also understood that this great master was really worried that he would harm himself if he taught him the Threefold Reversal Method.

"Master Zuo, there is no high or low in the Tao. For me, there is no way after the third level, but it actually has little impact."

"When we talked at night in the town below the mountain gate, I knew your aspirations. What you seek is different from mine, but that doesn't mean I can accept your final result of being at the third level with peace of mind. Now I also know the answer after the third level through your hand. That's enough, Wang Yi, go back to where you came from, and leave me here alone. As for my fellow disciples waiting outside, I have my own plans."

The persistence in my heart got an answer, and the guilt in my heart disappeared when Wang Yi arrived.

At this time, Zuo Rutong seemed to have made a plan. As he spoke, a strong wind blew up in the closed cave, trying to send Wang Yi away.

A strong wind blew up out of nowhere and had the effect of kidnapping and abducting people. At this moment, Zuo Rutong's move could truly be called that of a god on earth.

However, this method can only be used to deal with the disciples of the Sanyi Sect, and it is barely enough to deal with Si Chong, a fellow disciple with high skills.

But for Wang Yi, who is now one of the most outstanding people in the world and is on the same level as Lao Zuo, it seems to be stretched.

Wang Yi stood there, unmoved, his body rising up, and the dissipated white energy turned into a steel knife, easily cutting the strong wind that was enveloping and entangled him into pieces.

"Master Zuo, why are you here?"

Looking at the little tricks Wang Yi displayed while standing in the same place, Zuo Rutong understood that the young man who only talked to him in the dilapidated house in the small town at the foot of the mountain gate in the past has now become a person with high cultivation level, on par with himself and Zhang Jingqing, the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain.

Thinking of his trip to Longhu Mountain two years ago, when he specifically went to Zhang Jingqing to ask him why he expelled his beloved disciple Zhang Zhiwei from Longhu Mountain, and then looking at Wang Yi's current cultivation level.

Zuo Rutong also had the answer in his mind. The young man in front of him seemed to be on the same path as Zhang Zhiwei, whom he had met at the Lu family’s birthday party.

Thinking of this, Zuo Rutong also pointed to the stone plate in front of him.

Wang Yi also stepped forward and sat cross-legged in front of Zuo Rutong.

"Do you know how old I am this year?"

"I don't know."

"In the 14th year of the Republic of China, I went to attend the 80th birthday celebration of Jin'er's great grandfather, Mr. Lu. I had just turned 60, but look at me now. I am older than Mr. Lu. Do you know why?"

"I probably know. Master Zuo, you said that although you succeeded in breaking through the second level, your foundation was damaged. In order to prolong your life and cultivate, you have been showing the same appearance since middle age. Over time, you are exhausted."

"Yes, the reason why I persisted day after day, year after year, was that I believed that I could find the way to attain the third level in my lifetime. Fortunately, you appeared, and the three-door protection method was in line with my life, which also gave me a chance. Over the years, I have been in seclusion from time to time, just to find the way to attain the third level from these three-door protection methods.

I have found the way, but the way has an end. How can a road with an end lead to heaven? I have been practicing rebirth for most of my life, but in the end, it is nothing but deceiving myself. I am tired, and I will not practice rebirth anymore. As for the disciples and fellow disciples waiting outside, I have my own arrangements. With your loyalty, I think the days of Trinity School in this chaotic world and the great peace that will follow will not be too bad. That is enough."

These words fully reveal the hardships and helplessness that Grandmaster Zuo Rutong had experienced for most of his life.

The reason why Sanyi Sect can now have a status comparable to that of Longhu Mountain in the Xuanmen is half because Zuo Rutong has been practicing the Reverse Rebirth for a long time and presents himself to the public with an image of an ageless face.

For most people in this world, a person who has been active from the end of the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty to the present day and whose face has never aged can be seen as a living immortal. The mountain gate where the living immortal is located must have some way to seek immortality and the way to enlightenment.

If you become a disciple of an immortal and learn the magical skills of the time, even if you only master a few tricks, it will be enough to bring endless blessings to your descendants.

These are invisible and intangible causes and effects that are entangled in the Trinity Sect and in Zuo Rutong, the Great Ying Immortal, by countless mundane worlds.

It not only made it impossible for him to let go of the burden in his heart and show his true face to the world, but also made him exhausted in the second half of his life, hoping that one day he could do as the master of the Trinity Sect said.

After attaining the third level, one becomes a truly all-knowing person, a true immortal of the time.

But in the end, the triple truth was already before him, and the answer he wanted was just a mirage.

At this moment, all the causes and consequences that weighed on Zuo Rutong and his own persistence in this life became meaningless and completely became the last straw that broke the camel's back and broke Zuo Rutong's faith.

As Zuo Rutong spoke, Wang Yi could feel the speed at which the true Qi dissipated from Zuo Rutong's body was getting faster. The old man really had no intention of deceiving himself and surviving like this.

Seeing this, Wang Yi did not say anything, but released the rich reverse-life true Qi from his body. In an instant, the area around Wang Yi and Zuo Rutong became filled with fairy air.

And these reverse-generating true qi were also under Wang Yi's control, flowing directly into Zuo Rutong's acupuncture points and skin pores.

When the reverse-generating true Qi from the same origin as Zuo Rutong entered his body, he immediately noticed something was wrong with his body.

The reverse-generation true qi that enters your body along your pores and acupoints follows the meridians that were built when the reverse-generation was opened, and starts to run autonomously in your body.

He wanted to bypass the master of his own body and stop the true Qi in his body from dissipating. He even wanted to use this method to repair his foundation that had been damaged for many years.

Zuo Ruotong did not stop Wang Yi from doing this, but let Wang Yi's Qi move around in his body. When Wang Yi applied the healing methods he had used on the old soldiers on the freighter to Zuo Ruotong, Wang Yi realized that the Qi he had developed to heal injuries and even repair broken limbs could not compare to the Double Hands, one of the Eight Wonders.

The way the Reverse Life Qi repairs broken limbs and wounds is actually that Wang Yi injects his own Reverse Life Qi into the target's body and, with his own will, forces the target to enter a Reverse Life state that can only be achieved by practicing the third level of Reverse Life.

In this reverse state, as long as the target is not damage to core areas such as the brain or Dantian.

He can reconstruct the damaged areas of severed limbs and regenerate new limbs and organs in a way similar to stimulating cell division, but the cost is his own lifespan.

Even Wang Yi himself couldn't accurately grasp how much of the lifespan was lost. A severed hand might cost ten years of life, and a pair of eyes might even cost twenty years.

The more delicate the part composed of nerve tissue, the more vitality it consumes.

In the eyes of practitioners, this life force is the acquired Qi transformed from the innate Qi in the human body when it is born into the world.

A practitioner, or an extraordinary person, is merely raising his lower limit and upper limit during the practice, so that his acquired Qi can be exerted, transformed, or absorbed from the outside world in various ways during the practice.

But no matter what they do, as long as practitioners are still within the scope of the human species, they cannot transcend the theoretical lifespan limit of the human species.

The theoretical maximum lifespan of the human species, without any interference from external factors, is around 120 years. Most practitioners are basically within this range, and those who are more advanced can extend their lifespan to 150.

From this point of view, the Three Levels of Reverse Life can indeed be said to be unique in the world.

But the situation inside Zuo Rutong's body at this moment was different from those veterans he had treated on the freighter.

If those traumatized veterans and Zuo Rutong were compared to trees, the trunks of these veterans were still there, but the branches had been cut off. For these veterans, the Reverse Growth Triple Stage was a way of injecting nutrients or grafting to allow new branches to grow again from the missing parts of the branches.

But Zuo Rutong was the backbone, and problems arose internally.

It looks like a lush tree, but one day a forest may be formed by a forest fire, a mountain wind, or even those overly heavy branches. This main tree, Zuo Rutong, may be crushed and knocked down.

Even if he used his reverse-life Qi to repair Zuo Rutong's body, it would be of no avail.

The foundation inside Zuo Rutong's body was like a small boat that was leaking everywhere.

It can barely sail in rivers by patching up, but if it goes into the sea, with such a hull facing the raging waves of the ocean, it is only a matter of time before the ship is destroyed and people die.

The best way is to dismantle this ship and rebuild a ship that can sail in the ocean and on the rivers.

Seeing Wang Yi's refusal to believe it and his repeated attempts, Zuo Rutong finally took action.

As a fellow practitioner of the third level of Ni Sheng, he began to expel the Ni Sheng Qi that Wang Yi had injected into his body, and looked at Wang Yi with his kind but old face.

"Don't do this meaningless thing. I know my body better than anyone else. You can use the reverse life after the third level to affect other people's bodies. This is your merit, but this reverse life can only treat the surface and not the inside. If the inside is damaged, no matter how you treat it, it will be useless."

"No, Captain Zuo, there must be a way!!!"

At this moment, Wang Yi was indeed panicked, because he understood that Zuo Rutong was right.

But he was unwilling to just sit here and watch the elder who treated him so well pass away. This was the first time that Wang Yi coveted the perfect pair of hands, one of the eight great skills that came out in the year of Jiashen.

Because the problem that I can't solve at this moment, maybe Shuangquanshou can solve it.

"Fool! Don't be stubborn!"

Noticing Wang Yi's state at the moment, Zuo Rutong shouted at Wang Yi for the first time, pulling Wang Yi out of his paranoid state.

The cave is still the same cave, the person is still the same person, and even Wang Yi feels a little scared at this moment.

It is said that there is a great terror between life and death. He thought he had seen through his own life and death, but he did not expect that when this life and death happened to someone around him, he could not be as calm and natural as he was with himself.

Even his current state of mind was almost ruined. It was no wonder that the Jiashen Incident, which was caused by the gathering of thirty-six thieves in the alien world on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, evolved into the Jiashen Disaster, which plagued the alien world for decades and has not been completely quelled until modern times.

After awakening Wang Yi from his paranoid state, Zuo Rutong returned to his appearance as a dying old man. He sat there, looking at Wang Yi without saying a word.

Faced with the current situation and Zuo Rutong who is determined to die, Wang Yi must find a way for this old man to survive and see the arrival of a new era.

Thinking of this, Wang Yi also bowed to Zuo Rutong.

"Master Zuo, since there is no way out after the third level, why don't we make a way out ourselves?"

"I'm tired. After so many years of rebirth, I'm powerless even if I want to. Maybe you can try to go, but don't force yourself. After all, this is the fate that Sanyi Sect has to go through. It's not yours. Just go your own way. Even if there is no way after the third level, it is this third level that makes Sanyi Sect no longer a Xuan Sect, but it is still a big sect that is not inferior to the Tang Sect in Shu.

As for whether I can get out or not, now that I have reached my point, what you can think of, what I can think of, I think countless predecessors of Sanyi Sect have also thought of. Now, I understand why so many predecessors of Sanyi Sect had to leave the mountain gate and travel far away after feeling that there was no hope of breaking through the second level, seeking the method to achieve the third level, and never returned.

It's not that they don't want to return, it's that they can't return, because they are just like you and me, they all know that there is no way out after the third level, but they can't find a way out, they don't want the dream of the third level to destroy the Trinity Gate, so they don't want to, and can't, return to the Trinity Gate. What the predecessors of the Trinity Gate have never done, can you and I really do it? "

"Why not? Why not, Master Zuo, I still have a question in my mind. That is, when I was in the capital and was haunted by my inner demons, how did you know that I was in trouble and why did you travel thousands of miles from the Trinity Gate to the capital to protect me?"

Seeing Wang Yi looking into his eyes, Zuo Rutong recalled the time when he asked his junior fellow apprentice to go to Mount Longhu and use the divination method of Mount Longhu by Heavenly Master Zhang Jingqing to divine for Wang Yi.

Zuo Rutong still remembers the comment on the hexagram, which was just four words: A thousand years of change!

　Here it comes, damn it, I regret eating the beef hotpot on Thursday.

　　The freshly cut beef made me have diarrhea all day on Thursday, my waist and legs were sore and I couldn't sit on Friday, I felt confused on Saturday morning, and my left hand was sore and my right hand was numb in the afternoon.

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