Long Zaixing's words made me stunned. After a long while, I muttered to myself, "After planning hundreds of years ago, how can we accurately calculate who will join the game hundreds of years later? Is this possible?"
Long Zaixing said with great certainty: "If the people who planned it were Ning Nitian and Zhan Wuxiang, then it would be possible. Their attainments in numerology can even catch up with the founder of Kaimai."
I couldn't help but say, "Ning Nitian didn't expect that he would fail in changing his fate?"
After I said this, I regretted it. Even if it was a fortune-tampering master, there was no guarantee that he would succeed in changing fate, let alone changing fate against the will of heaven? More importantly, the words I just said were clearly questioning, which was the greatest disrespect to the fortune-teller.
But what I didn't expect was that Long Zaixing actually nodded and said, "Ning Nitian should have already calculated that he would lose, and he also calculated that after his death, the Nine Veins inheritance would suffer devastating blows one after another. In the end, only one in ten of the Half-Life inheritance would survive. The only thing the Half-Life heir can do is to linger under the severe punishment of the Heavenly Dao, and there will be no chance to change their fate forever."
Long Zaixing said in a low voice: "So, Ning Nitian arranged for us to each take the essence of inheritance and leave, so as to lay out the art and leave a glimmer of hope for future generations."
What Long Zaixing said is right. I don’t know how much inheritance has been lost in other branchalities of the Half-Life Dao, but for my Wu family branch, what else has been passed down to me except the Ghost Eye Money
If I only relied on the money from the ghost eye, it would be enough for me to go from street to street to tell fortunes and occasionally catch ghosts, but since I really stepped into the art of magic, I felt that I was unable to do it, and even had to rely on others to save me several times. But how many times can I pin my hopes on others
I looked up at Long Zaixing: "You said you were planning something. In addition to the Xuanming inheritance, are there other inheritances?"
"Yes!" Long Zaixing nodded, "But I don't know where the inheritance is, and whether it has been discovered and inherited by anyone. That layout was completely a gamble on luck, on the luck of the half-life heir. And..."
Long Zaixing paused and said, "I'm afraid that even Ning Nitian himself doesn't know where some of the inheritances are hidden. Back then, he just told us to leave quickly and didn't arrange a destination for everyone. Of course, none of us know who went where or what arrangements were made."
Long Zaixing whispered, "I always have a feeling that Ning Nitian made this arrangement not only because of fate, but also because he seems to be hiding from someone?"
Although Long Zaixing's voice was low, it did not escape my ears. I couldn't help but ask, "Senior, can you explain it more clearly?"
"Okay!" Long Zaixing hesitated for a moment before saying, "Anyway, it won't do you any harm to know more about the secrets of the Half-Life Dao."
"Back then, when Ning Nitian arranged for me to leave, he said to me: Remember, even if Heaven has doomed you, it must be accomplished with the help of external forces. In other words, Heaven will not punish you directly before you do something substantive against Heaven."
I couldn't help but nod my head slightly when I heard this. Whether it's a cultivator seeking the way to immortality or a monster transforming and ascending to heaven, it takes a long process, but the number of heavenly tribulations they actually experience is very few, and the rest of the tribulations are mostly human tribulations. From another perspective, human tribulations are the way of heaven using other people's hands to wipe out the living beings who practice cultivation.
Long Zaixing didn't know what I was thinking, and continued, "Ning Nitian finally told me solemnly: Don't let anyone know where you are going, and don't mention where you are going to anyone. Hide from everyone like a ghost and take away the dragon vein inheritance. And I did it."
From Long Zaixing's words, we can get a message that Ning Nitian was indeed hiding from someone at that time, but he never revealed the identity of the other person until his death. I don't doubt that Long Zaixing's words are false. At least from the fact that Dou Po taught me the Nine Fate Swords, it can be seen that Ning Nitian deliberately did not keep the essence of the Ghost Vein inheritance, but gave the most powerful Nine Fate Swords to an outsider. This is enough to confirm Long Zaixing's speculation.
But when I thought about it again, I felt that it was not right.
If the Half-Life Dao still had an enemy powerful enough to wipe out everyone, why didn't he take action to wipe out the Nine Veins' descendants one by one when the Half-Life Dao's inheritance was declining
Take me for example! I am the last descendant of the Ghost Vein, and also a very weak descendant. If I die, the Ghost Vein will be completely cut off. If that enemy wants to kill me now, wouldn't it be a piece of cake
Was Ning Nitian wrong, and the other person didn't exist in the world at all? Or did the other person also disappear in the endless years
Long Zaixing knew that I was digesting the information he had thrown out, so he didn't continue. After we were silent for a moment, I said, "Senior Ning Nitian, are you so sure that someone will come to look for the inheritance at a specific time?"
Long Zaixing said: "I have also asked Ning Nitian this question. If he has made all the arrangements and is just waiting to pass on the secrets, I don't find it strange. However, I find it strange that he did not make any arrangements and did not leave any information to future generations. I even asked him at the time: Have you calculated that in the future, a person with extraordinary luck will appear among the Nine Veins and find the inheritance of all of us according to the destiny?"
Long Zaixing said solemnly: "I didn't expect Ning Nitian to say that he didn't arrange anything, and didn't calculate anything. What we need to do is wait, wait for the Half-Life Dao's successor to come to us by chance. As long as the person who comes is a Half-Life Dao disciple, no matter which lineage he belongs to, we must continue the inheritance."
"As long as our inheritance is discovered one after another, the Half-Life Path will slowly grow stronger. After constant collisions and fusions, the nine veins will eventually merge into one, and sooner or later a successor who is powerful enough to defy the heavens will appear."
"This..." I couldn't help but be stunned. Ning Nitian's speculation was indeed feasible in theory, but how many years would it take to achieve his goal? If there was a problem in the middle, wouldn't his arrangement be in vain
In fact, this principle is very simple. Take me as an example. I have obtained the Xuanming inheritance, but I don’t know where the next inheritance is. Maybe I will never find the secret place of the next inheritance in my lifetime, so I can only pass the secret to my successor.
But who can guarantee that my descendants will be able to find the next secret burial site? Perhaps, a hundred years later, another secret burial site will be found by descendants of the divine vein or the earth vein.
Then, the descendants of the nine veins devoured each other like poisonous insects, depriving each other of their inheritance. How many years and how many coincidences would it take to merge the nine veins? Would it take a hundred years or a thousand years to complete
Ning Nitian’s theory was simply impossible to realize, but he did it anyway.
What is the reason behind Ning Nitian’s arrangements
Seeing that I was silent, Long Zaixing couldn't help but laugh and said, "You think it's incredible, don't you? If I tell you that Zhan Wuxiang did the same thing, would you find it even weirder?"
"Oh?" I couldn't help but look up and asked, "Didn't you say that Zhan Wuxiang is missing?"
Long Zaixing said: "Zhan Wuxiang found me when I was about to enter Xiangxi. I didn't want to tell him anything at the time, but he told me bluntly that he was doing the same thing as Ning Nitian, but he left the inheritance to his descendants."
"Once the descendants of the Zhan family discover one of the secret realms, they will discover all the secret realms one after another. The descendants of the Zhan family may be the strongest among the nine veins, or they may be the first to perish among the nine veins."
"I thought it was very strange at the time, but Zhan Wuxiang said that what he did was actually defying fate, but it was more of a gamble. Before he left, he asked me for one thing, which was to tell the inheritor of the Xuanming legacy that if they meet the descendants of the Zhan family in the future, please take care of them, and the descendants of the Zhan family will definitely reward them generously."
I couldn't help but ask, "Which lineage is Zhan Wuxiang the descendant of?"
"It's both a human connection and a tiger connection." Long Zaixing asked back, "Does it feel strange? Actually, it's easy to explain."
"You must have heard of the two theories about the inheritance of half-life, right? One is five meridians, and the other is nine meridians. In fact, both theories are correct. Among the nine meridians, 'Heaven, Earth, Man, God and Ghost' are proficient in numerology, while 'Dragon, Tiger, Wind and Cloud' focuses on martial arts. Let's put it this way! Dragon, Tiger, Wind and Cloud can be said to be the guardian of Heaven, Earth, Man, God and Ghost."
Long Zaixing smiled and said, "But the Five Veins have been trying to find a way to get rid of the guard relationship with Dragon Tiger Wind and Cloud. However, if you think about it carefully, it's not surprising. Who would be willing to put their life in the hands of others?"
"Ghost Vein Ning created the Nine Fateful Blades and Netherworld Qi against the will of Heaven, so he doesn't need to take over Dragon and Tiger Wind and Cloud, so he has a very good relationship with us. As for Zhan Wuxiang... that person pursues the way of Taoism through evil, and he is good at planning and scheming. He can even be said to be the most terrifying person among the Nine Veins. We are all a little afraid of him and don't want to have too much contact with him."
“No one knows why the Tiger Vein suddenly turned to Zhan Wuxiang and even merged all its inheritance into the Zhan family, becoming a vassal of the Zhan family. So, I say that Zhan Wuxiang is both a human connection and a Tiger Vein.”
When I heard this, I couldn't help but take a deep breath. If Long Zaixing was right, then Zhan Wuxiang was too scary. The one who left the words "Heaven and earth unite, gods and ghosts meet, wind and clouds rise, dragons and tigers gather" was the human connection sorcerer. Was that person Zhan Wuxiang, or his descendant
This calculation combined the eight meridians, but only threw away the human meridians. Was the calculation true, or did that person do it on purpose
I vaguely feel that Zhan Wuxiang is even more terrifying than Ning Nitian!
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