Thousands of future...
Fragments
After hearing this, Jianchou frowned slightly, but what appeared in his eyes was not surprise, but a kind of calmness of "as expected".
The moon-white robe was embroidered with blue cloud-thunder patterns of varying shades. She held the ancient sword Ran Deng, which was cast with a precious lotus pattern, in her hand. Perhaps it sensed a dangerous aura coming from the Saint's Hall at the back, and it automatically emitted a circle of warm yellow light like a lamp, trembling and flickering softly.
Jiye looked at her, feeling somewhat surprised.
Because seeing sorrow is not surprising.
Generally speaking, all things related to the so-called "peek into the future" should seem incredible to ordinary people, but Chou's reaction is too ordinary, even too cold, as if this is not something surprising to her.
"Why don't you look surprised at all?" Jiye was a little confused, but then he thought of a great demon who had appeared in those fragments of the future, and then he understood, "I forgot that your other friend can also peek into the future with the help of the Bimu Universe Eyes... Has he ever seen it for you?"
Even Fu Chaosheng knew it.
Jianchou couldn't help but admire the wonderful ability of this saint, and she also remembered that when they first met at the lake twenty years ago, he also easily called her "Qiaguo Suba". She might still want to hide the matter of Fu Chaosheng from others, but for Jiye, there was probably no need.
So she laughed: "Fellow Daoist Chaosheng does have this ability, and perhaps he has indeed glimpsed the vast and uncertain future, but he has never told me. Now, the only one who has told me anything is probably the Holy Son. Eighty-one years ago in the Extreme Region, the Holy Son asked Zongtu to tell me that eighty-one years later I would become his close friend and help him achieve nirvana. Since the Holy Son dared to say that, he must have glimpsed the future. So now that the Holy Son tells me that he has seen me in countless fragments of the future, what's so surprising about that?"
"So you believe what I say is true?"
Jiye looked at her with a strange look.
The young man's stature was actually a little shorter than Jianchou's. At this moment, he was walking barefoot on the ground and taking a step closer to her as he spoke. The ripples of the holy lake behind him fell on his monk's robe woven like white snow, exuding a kind of rippling tenderness.
Jianchou shook his head, "Of course that's not true. There may be many fellow travelers in the world, and even fewer who meet by chance. Not many can become friends, let alone close friends. Even if the Holy Son knows me very well, I don't know much about him. Perhaps the Holy Son sees me as a close friend, but to me, the Holy Son is just a passer-by in this world."
"Why can't passers-by be close friends?" Hearing her words that were obviously meant to refute him, Jiye didn't show any displeasure at all. Instead, he curled his lips and smiled, "In this world, people who don't get along well may not become friends even if they have known each other for ten, a hundred, or even a thousand years. People with similar interests can be close friends even if they have only met once, as you said."
Like-minded
If it was just a vague guess before, now Jianchou can guess one or two clues.
But at this time, she also noticed someone approaching.
The vast holy lake spread out under the boundless night sky presents a magnificent and fantastic vision. The banshees or gods at the bottom of the lake are always just sinking to the bottom of the lake. Sometimes you look at them, and sometimes you look at the dispersed clouds in the sky.
In Jianchou's eyes, her presence was so obvious.
However, the person who came over from the back of the temple to check the situation seemed to be unable to see any clues at all.
Vajrapani came very quickly.
Jianchou had seen him before when a fierce fight took place in this temple twenty years ago, so when he sensed his approaching presence, he turned around and recognized him.
In the blink of an eye, the person was close.
On the ice field that was illuminated dark red by the magnificent formation above his head, the figure of Aquarius Dharma King, wearing a red robe, looked particularly gloomy.
When the wind blows, the robes flutter.
It felt like blowing up a torn sack. Instead of showing his extraordinary majesty, it only made people feel uncomfortable and weirdly thin. His dry and old skin made him look like a zombie that had been dried for many years. His gloomy and sharp eyes turned and stared at the lakeshore, and his gray eyebrows were almost wrinkled into a ball.
Jianchou could see him clearly and see his every move, but in his eyes, the Holy Lake was still the same holy lake as before. There were neither the clear eyes at the bottom of the lake nor the long strands of hair sinking in the water. There was no woman who could not be distinguished whether she was a lake monster or a god, and of course there were no two people standing on the lakeshore talking openly.
The methods of the Holy Son Jiye are indeed extraordinary.
Jianchou couldn't even feel what changes were happening around him, and he didn't know what method Jiye used to make a powerful cultivator turn a blind eye to everything in front of him and turn a deaf ear to everything around him.
However, she quietly tightened her grip on the Lantern Sword.
The Aquarius Dharma King was still unaware of the danger hidden in the void ahead. He frowned tightly and made a gesture of incantation. A bright white light emanated from the string of human bone Buddhist beads in his palm and penetrated the place where Jianchou and Jiye were standing without any hindrance.
There is nothing unusual.
Then Jianchou suddenly realized: For her, this was a perfect and excellent opportunity to take action!
There are only two Dharma Kings left in the Snowland Tantric Sect now. The Dharma King Aquarius who has come here is more powerful than the Dharma King Baojing back then, but she is not just the Jianchou of that year.
Since Dharma King Baoyin did not show up, he must be presiding over the formation.
If she could take this opportunity to kill one of them first, then regardless of whether the Holy Son Jiye helps or not, with the abilities of the four great powers on this trip, killing Baoyin would be a piece of cake!
His eyes suddenly became deep and cold, but they did not move away from the gradually approaching figure of the Aquarius Dharma King. Jianchou smiled and asked Jiye without turning his head, "It is rumored throughout the Snow Region that the Holy Son is a Buddha's son who came out of a hundred reincarnations, and has a strength and status that surpasses the entire Snow Region. Today, Jianchou did not come to "reminisce" with the Holy Son, but to destroy the New Secret. In the early years, the Holy Son stood on the side of the Old Secret, I wonder if you have changed your mind now?"
"I have a life. Now that I have shown up to meet Fellow Daoist Chou, I will not change my position. It's just..." Jiye saw her tense body gradually approaching the Aquarius Dharma King, and also saw her fingers slowly tightening on the Lantern Sword. He couldn't help but ask her, "Aren't you curious about what you look like and who you are in the countless futures I have seen?"
“Is there any need to be curious?”
Especially curious at a time like this.
In Jianchou's heart, things are always prioritized, so at this moment, she showed a surprising indifference to Jiye's question, and answered: "Before lending the Cosmic Eye to my great demon friend, I also had a chance to glimpse the scene that the Cosmic Eye showed me. What you can see is almost endless. If the future is like a fixed line on a loom, I have seen my future more than eighty years ago, so there is no need to ask; if the future is uncertain, the me you see may not be the me in the future, so what's the point of asking? I only become the person I want to be, not the person you want me to be."
"… "
Jiye suddenly fell silent.
The young man's eyes were filled with pure speculation, and at this moment he couldn't take his eyes off Jianchou.
"And..." Jianchou paused, then suddenly laughed, "If I'm not mistaken, this so-called 'eighty-one years later' prophecy is just a method used by the Holy Son to have an intersection with me, or in other words, to fulfill this prophecy."
"Hahaha… "
Jiye also laughed, and the amazement on his face could no longer be concealed.
Because everything she said was true!
Eighty-one years ago, he didn't know Jianchou at all. It was just that in the struggle between the new and old secrets, he used his ability to peek into the secrets of heaven, and thus saw countless people and countless futures on the land of the Nineteen Continents.
The future is uncertain and endless.
Just as Jianchou had guessed before, the past, present and future are not a straight line with a fixed direction, but a big tree with lush branches and leaves. Everything in the past cannot be changed, but the future that has not yet come is the endless branches extending from the tree.
You never know what will happen next, nor can you predict what will happen next. Even people in time are changing.
A person can never predict his future self.
Of course, Jiye could not estimate Sorrow from these countless futures, he just discovered her uniqueness.
—Born in Yashan, she was the eldest sister of Yashan with a special status. However, she had an irreconcilable hatred with Xie Buchen, a true disciple of the Central Region’s giant Kunwu. Not only was her soul incomplete, but at that time, she even fell into the extreme realm that ordinary cultivators could not go to as a living person.
Chance, strength, and character.
She has it all!
How could such a person not arouse Jiye's interest? He even vaguely saw some like-mindedness in her, and also saw the possibility of getting her to handle certain matters.
Therefore, he developed a desire to interact with such a person, a desire to be friends with such a person, and tried his best to push things over the years to develop towards the "future" and "results" he wanted.
Everything depends on human effort.
All so-called "futures" depend only on the choices and actions of the people in them, and on every "present".
Want to be friends with such a unique person.
I hope to have a friend like this who can help me in the future.
I want to accomplish what I want to accomplish before my strength or even consciousness disappears.
So, eighty-one years ago, he told Jianchou the prophecy through Zongtu;
So, twenty years ago, he handed a Chagosuba to Chagosuba;
So, today, he picked up this bunch of blue phlox and appeared in this world that was about to swallow him.
A hint of melancholy suddenly emerged from his deep and clear blue eyes. Jiye looked at Jianchou and sighed slowly: "In the past eighty years, I felt that time was too slow. Every minute and every second was a boring torture. Now that I see Daoist Jianchou again, I realize that time is too fast. How great it would be if it could be slower, or even completely stopped..."
This sounded strangely familiar.
The first thing Jianchou thought of was the shocking words Fu Chaosheng said when he first met him in the past.
However, at this moment, what arose from the bottom of her heart was just a sudden bad premonition.
This premonition caused her fingers, which were tightly gripping the Ran Deng sword, to stiffen for a moment, and then she turned around and looked at Ji Ye.
But Jiye did not explain.
Compared to when he first appeared here, his face was even more fatalistically calm, with a smile on the corner of his lips. He only asked Jianchou, "Are you ready?"
"What?"
The words came out suddenly, without any cause or foreshadowing. Jianchou didn't even react at that moment, and looked at Jiye with almost a blank look.
The next moment, my scalp exploded completely!
Because at the moment the words fell from his mouth, a ball of dazzling snow-blue light suddenly exploded from Jiye's palm!
Like a snow-blue sun!
The terrifying light contained terrifying power, sweeping in all directions like a storm! At the moment when it was raging, it seemed that even the holy sacrifice formation with thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people blessing it above was also prostrating itself before its powerful and overbearing majesty!
Yet at its core, it is so careful and gentle.
The clear blue light, like water, enveloped the fragile bunch of blue delphiniums in his palm, as if it was wrapping some precious treasure.
Across the endless brilliance, Jianchou saw the young man's smiling eyes.
He was originally standing on the edge of the holy lake, and at this moment, holding the snow-blue light that was splashing out and almost illuminating the entire temple, the entire holy mountain, and the entire snowy area; holding a bunch of extremely common blue delphiniums that could be seen everywhere at the foot of the holy mountain, it was as if he had finally let go of some shackles that were difficult to let go of, and as if he was finally rushing towards some destiny. With an extremely calm posture, he poured it towards the vast holy lake behind him!
“Boom!”
The waves are rough and deafening!
It was clearly a body so tiny that it was not worth mentioning, but when it fell, it actually splashed up huge waves!
Endless snow waves hit the lake shore, but condensed into countless floating ice the moment they splashed!
The blue finches flap their wings, ready to take flight, floating in the surging waves.
At the bottom of the holy lake, a pair of mournful and desolate eyes finally revealed an indescribable desolation at this moment. It was unknown whether it was a banshee or a god. She stretched out her arms like water to the boy who fell into the lake and took him into her gentle embrace...
The scene is undoubtedly extremely beautiful.
However, at this moment, what rose up in Jianchou's mind was only Jiye's sudden question "Are you ready?" and the sudden terrifying crisis!
Without much thought, the Burning Lamp Sword was unsheathed!
“Zheng!”
The sword was not aimed at the Holy Lake, nor at Jiye! Instead, it was aimed at the real opponent who had just walked to the lakeside behind her and had no idea what was happening, and had no time to react.
The middle stage of Return to Void, Aquarius Dharma King!