Chapter 485 Father and son or master and apprentice?
Following these extremely sudden words, a middle-aged man with a clear and elegant appearance slowly appeared from the corner of the palace.
This middle-aged man has a jade-like face and bright brows, but he looks just like an ordinary person, with no trace of his Taoism.
Just like a mortal, it seems that he has completely reached the state of returning to nature.
But Mu Cangyue and Jiang Yao were both powerful martial saints, and they were completely unaware of his presence.
So, if this person attacks...
It’s scary to think about it!
Both Mu Cangyue and Jiang Yao couldn't help but look shocked when they saw the man in green.
Farewell ginger!
Jiang Yin!
Both mother and son's hearts tightened in unison.
In Mu Cangyue's eyes, Jiang Biejie was still the same as he was fifty years ago, without any change.
In Jiang Yao's eyes, although Jiang Yin's facial features and temperament have not changed, he has become younger, not as old as on earth, and does not wear glasses, and his clothes and hairstyle are also different.
Sisters Jiang Nan and Jiang Xiucheng were also stunned.
Jiang Xiucheng had no impression of Jiang Biejie, so that's fine.
But Jiang Nan had an impression of Jiang Bielie. She looked at Jiang Bielie in disbelief and said in a trembling voice: "Dad? Dad, haven't you already..."
The visitor said in a soothing tone: "Well, dad just faked his death to avoid someone temporarily. It's rare that Nan'er you still remember dad."
Jiang Yin, or Jiang Biejie, this uninvited guest smiled slightly, and Shi Shiran walked to the table and sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and glanced at everyone with a calm expression.
Mu Cangyue said nothing. She looked at the spirit tea in front of her with an indifferent expression.
Jiang Yao didn't say anything. He shook his feather fan lightly and touched the little snake in his sleeve.
Jiang Yin suddenly pointed at the little snake and said, "Your nine-striped snake is pretty good, it's rare."
"It's indeed good, I like it very much." Jiang Yao nodded and drank tea leisurely, as if Jiang Yin was an ordinary guest.
He could not have imagined that the master and apprentice, who had not seen each other for decades, would say this in the first words they met.
A sneer slowly appeared on the corner of Mu Cangyue's mouth, "Mr. Jiang, what do you want to know when you come here today? Are you here to capture our mother and son and give them to Concubine Silkworm Yao to please the beauty?"
Jiang Yao smiled slightly and said, "We are just guests when we come, and we don't want to see outsiders. Speaking of which, we haven't seen each other for decades."
Jiang Yin had a calm expression and his tone was calm and soothing, "Cang Yue, you really misunderstood. How could I have meant this?"
"If I really wanted you to die, would you still be alive today?"
"In order to save your life, Concubine Yao and I had a falling out, and we almost fell out of love."
"Oh, Confucius is right. You women are really troublesome and difficult to deal with. It is much more difficult than cultivating Taoism."
"Look, you plotted against me back then. Although I faked my death, your intention to kill me was real. How could I ever blame you? Unfortunately, Concubine Yao found out not long after you faked your death."
Sure enough, his "fall" back then was due to Mu Cangyue's hand.
The tone and tone of his words reminded Jiang Yao of his teacher Jiang Yin on Earth.
Back then, his teacher Jiang Yinyu was very thoughtful and had great insights into life. He taught him and his juniors:
"When you grow up, you will like women. This is the way of heaven. However, you can either be single-minded in your love and have your eyes above your head. Or you can be ruthless and unrighteous, with colorful flags fluttering. But you can't be passionate. If you are passionate, you will lose."
Sure enough, the old man looked at Jiang Yao inexplicably and said:
"At this point, you are better than me. You are too single-minded in your emotions and your eyes are higher than your head. Zhengyi is also better than me. He is ruthless and unrighteous, with colorful flags fluttering. So you are not worried. I am the only one who is worried.
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Jiang Yao nodded: "Yes, you are right. You can either be dedicated or ruthless, but you cannot be passionate."
Mu Cangyue looked at Jiang Biejie coldly, her tone full of sarcasm: "So, it's really hard for you? Huh, I plotted against you back then, and I still don't regret it."
"I, Mu Cangyue, am not so easily taken advantage of. In order to obtain the Yao Ling Body as Yao Yin, and for the Tai Shang Dao Dan, you and Silkworm Yao Fei lied to me for more than two thousand years. Even if I plotted against you ten times, I still wouldn't forgive you.
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Jiang Biere nodded: "I know I'm a scumbag. Well, I'm a scumbag, so I have no right to blame you. Alas, because of you, it's hard for Yao Fei and I to go back to the past, and I even harmed Xian Yingqing. I'm a scumbag."
Man."
Although Mu Cangyue didn't hear "scumbag", she could guess what he meant.
When Jiang Nan heard the name "Xian Yingqing", her body trembled slightly because she was Xian Yingqing's daughter.
When Jiang Bieli said this, he suddenly showed an indescribable look of loneliness, with an indescribable sense of nostalgia.
The whole person suddenly became extremely ancient, as if an ancient person had traveled through time and space and appeared in front of everyone.
"Cang Yue, you and Ying Qing both thought you knew the truth back then." Jiang Bieli said quietly, "You are both Bingxue smart women, but you only know one but not the other."
"When I, Jiang, act, no matter what the means, no matter whether the purpose is good or evil, it can be said that it is difficult to determine. The only person in the world who knows me is Wang Shu."
"What I, Jiang, did and why I did it was the result of asking myself thousands of times and questioning my soul thousands of times. Why do I need others to understand?"
Mu Cangyue smiled "ha", "Since you have a reason no matter what you do, and since you don't need others to understand, then why are you coming back?"
"The law of heaven is incomplete, and your cultivation is suppressed. It is difficult to take action in this palace with strict laws, right? You can kill our mother and son, but you may not be able to escape the ban of the Forbidden Army."
Jiang Biejie can indeed kill them, but King Ming has the aura of King Ming, which involves the Forbidden Army field inside and outside the palace. According to the security design, whenever King Ming is in danger, the Forbidden Army field will be activated automatically.
Of course Jiang Yao knew this, so he remained calm.
The poisoning in the immortal world has been deep. Above the Great Sage, the higher the cultivation level, the greater the suppression. Jiang Yin's cultivation level is much higher than that of the Western Sage, and the suppression by heaven is much greater.
The Western Sage only has the fighting strength of three great sages.
So how much strength does Jiang Biele have left?
Jiang Yao was certain that the power Jiang Biejie could use at this time was extremely limited and could not exceed ten great saints.
In other words, under the suppression of Heavenly Dao, Jiang Yin's strength may be that of the three Western Saints joining forces.
It will definitely not be much better than Mahayana like Xisheng. Unless it is in the Void Sea World where the poison is not deep and the rules are relatively perfect.
In the Void Sea, Jiang Yin should be able to easily crush Mahayana. But here, it's impossible!
If Jiang Yin really wanted to take action here, it would be difficult to compete with the 50,000 Wuzong forbidden troops and 3,000 Wuzhen guards outside the palace.
And with just one thought, he can activate the battlefield.
After the ancients appeared, the nobles of the Wu family were in panic, and they did not hesitate to use huge resources to build an army of ten thousand immortals to deal with the threats of the three ancients.
They didn't understand at that time, and they didn't know that the immortal world was poisoned, so they looked up to the three ancients too highly.
If they knew, they would understand that there is no need for an army of ten thousand immortals to deal with the three ancients. A thousand immortals army is more than enough to deal with the three ancients.
Sure enough, when Jiang Bieli heard Mu Cangyue's words, he smiled bitterly and sighed:
"If the immortal world is not deeply poisoned, the rules are incomplete, and it suppresses me too much and restricts me too much, what can you do to me even if your troops outside the palace are a hundred times stronger?"
"Okay Cang Yue. I don't have any ill intentions when I come back this time. You don't have to be so nervous. After all, we are also a family."
"The main reason I came here is to meet Long Cheng. I have something to say to him."
Mu Cangyue snorted coldly, "Tiger poison cannot eat its seeds. Jiang Biejie, he is your son, and he can no longer be a medicine guide. You can be partial, but you can't be unfavorable to him."
Jiang Bieli shook his head, "Am I that unbearable in your eyes? Forget it, it doesn't matter what you think of me anymore, so why should I care?"
He looked at Jiang Yao again, "I know you are full of questions. Today I will make it clear to you. Come out with me."
After saying that, he stood up.
"No!" Mu Cangyue suddenly shouted sternly, "If you father and son have anything to say, just say it here in the Forbidden City. You cannot leave the Forbidden Army and the bodyguards!"
"Without the protection of the military domain and the formation, I don't feel at ease! You can't leave the palace!"
Jiang Yao touched the little snake in his sleeve and said with a smile: "This Forbidden City was rebuilt on the site according to the Shennong Tiancheng."
"My father must be familiar with every palace here. My father has lived here for more than two thousand years, so he won't reject this place, right?"
Jiang Yin didn't care and was not angry at all. He nodded and said: "Then go to your Guangming Palace."
"Okay." Jiang Yao stood up, gave Mu Cangyue a reassuring look, and then asked Jiang Yin to go to the nearby Guangming Palace.
"Dad!" Jiang Nan and Jiang Xiucheng stood up together and looked at Jiang Biejie's back.
Jiang Bieli turned around, looked at his two beautiful daughters, and said in a calm tone: "Dad has nothing to give you, but only one sentence: live well."
This old guy really didn't give me anything.
Jiang Yao and Jiang Yao came to the Guangming Hall. Outside the Guangming Hall, hundreds of flowers were blooming, bees were flying and butterflies were dancing, and the spring scenery was brilliant.
It's a good time in April.
"Just right here." Jiang Yin walked to a crabapple tree and casually chanted:
"The fragrance of a tree condenses into a beautiful embroidery, and two flowers leave the branches of Ke Ci. One floats and one falls in two worlds. If they are not in the dust, they are at the end of the world."
Jiang Yin sat on the stone bench under the flower tree, bent down to pick up a fallen flower, his eyes as dull as water, "Do you still remember this poem?"
Jiang Yao also sat down under the flower tree, grabbed a bee, and looked at the bee's furry feet covered with pollen with interest, her tone filled with memories.
"I remember the poem you wrote in the Xuemo Garden in Gusu City in the spring of 2016. You asked my junior brother and me how the poem was."
"I said it's straightforward and easy to understand. Junior brother said that's not right. It should be easy to understand and straightforward. Well, it does not lose the Zen spirit of the Buddhist school."
"Straightforward and easy to understand, easy to understand and straightforward, the Zen meaning of Buddhism." Jiang Yin held the flowers and smiled, seemingly unfazed by the poems written by his former disciples that ridiculed him.
"So, can you understand the true meaning of this poem today?"
Jiang Yao loosened his grip and carefully let go of the bees laden with pollen, "Of course I understand. Is this all your arrangement, haha."
The spring light shines obliquely through the branches and leaves of the flowering trees, illuminating the two people who are father and son and master and apprentice. The light and shadow are mottled, and the scenery is distant and clear.
A butterfly perched on Jiang Yao's shoulder, and a few flowers and leaves fell on Jiang Yin's skirt.
It seems that the years are quiet and peaceful, and the world is leisurely.
"Looking back, forty years passed by without realizing it." Jiang Yin dusted off the flowers and leaves on his clothes and stroked his elegant beard, "Forty years ago, I asked you to go to the Kunlun Mountains and Li Luo to go to Korea."
"Is this really just an arrangement I made according to the hexagram?"
"The fact is that this is the arrangement of heaven's cause and effect. I am just the executor of the choice of heaven's cause and effect. I am an executor. Do you understand?"
Jiang Yao leaned against the flower tree and looked at a dazed skylark on the branch, "Really? What you mean is that you are just a pawn of heaven's cause and effect. Your rhetoric is quite indifferent."
Jiang Yin stroked his beard and smiled, "Yes, I did arrange some things, and you must be aware of it. But if someone really arranged your fate, it can only be..."
"It can only be you."
This elusive man actually had a look of approval in his eyes at this moment.
"Everything has its beginning and end, everything has its end; knowing the order of things is close to the Tao. You did a good job, much better than I expected."
"I just put you at the crossroads. As for how you choose the direction, it's all up to you."
"In forty years, you and I have not seen each other again, and I have not interfered with you. The path of these forty years was your own choice. Your life and death, honor and disgrace, victory or defeat, success or failure, are all thanks to you."
"It's not just you. Li Luo is the same. I just used the laws of time and space to get him back to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. But whether he wants to fight against the Yuan Dynasty or restore the Central Plains, whether he succeeds or fails, that's not my business."
"It's nothing I can interfere with."
"What about you? Whether you want to change the law, whether you want to unify the fairy world and rebuild the fairy court, whether you win or lose, that is also your business."
"Back then, your mother gave birth to the spirit body of Lianhunyao. I simply took out a soul and went to the central mortal world to experience the mortal world and plant your mortal heart."
"But your soul is extremely special. It took me a long time, but I couldn't find a suitable baby to take over as your body. It wasn't until I found the Jiang family that I found that the dead baby born to the Jiang family was the most suitable."
Jiang Yao knew what he was saying, "Is that baby's bones very similar to my previous life?"
"Yes." Jiang Yin said, "It is precisely because the baby's bones are very similar to Yang Xuanming, so your soul can fit well with his body and become Jiang Yao."
"However, the reason why the bone statues are similar is actually the result of my deliberate search, not because of any relationship between Jiang Yao and Yang Xuanming."
"If you don't have the fireworks heart that you have experienced in China, you are just a noble of the Wu family. Would you still care about the life and death of a humble family? Do you still have the heart to reform?"
"Your soul and body are both Mu Cangyue's son. Jiang Yao's body is just the skin that you have lived in for more than twenty years."
"As for the Pisces Jade Pendant, it was originally a magic weapon from your previous life, but it was used by me to send your soul back to the fairy world. I used the great magical power of time and space to open the cracks in time and space and made painstaking arrangements to achieve this with great difficulty."
"In this process, you may die, and Li Luo may die too. If you die, although the plan fails, the cause and effect will be over."
"Actually, I have taught you a long time ago that the most the master can do is help you get on the horse and send you on a ride. After all, you still have to rely on yourself to make your own way."
"Many things really depend on luck. I worked so hard to bring Jiuding back from China and stored it in the void. You can find it all."
Jiang Yao nodded and suddenly couldn't help laughing, so much that the butterflies flew from his shoulders.
"Should I call you teacher, or should I call you dad?"
Jiang Yin said: "It's up to you. Even if you call me Jiang Yin, it doesn't matter to me."
"I'd better call you teacher, just like before. I'm not used to calling you dad." Jiang Yao said, "Is the teacher Jiang Shu, Jiang Yin, or Jiang Biejie?"
Jiang Yin smiled, "The Great Immortal of the Nine Paths of the Sui Dynasty, Grand Master Jiang Shu, was just my previous life. At that time, your first life Yang Xuanming and Li Luo's first life Li Luoshu were both my disciples."
"Speaking of it, we are master and apprentice for two generations. It seems more appropriate for you to call me teacher."
"However, the so-called past life and present life are not the same person. Jiang Shu is just my past life, not me. I am Jiang Yin, and I am also Jiang Bielie."
"I, Jiang Yin, have lived for 250,000 years from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the present. However, I actually only woke up more than 2,000 years ago, and I have been feigning death during this period."
Jiang Yao understood. In fact, Jiang Yin, like Li Xixia, was an ancient person who had slept for tens of thousands of years through a special method of suspended animation.
However, he woke up more than two thousand years earlier than Li Xixia.
"But Concubine Canyao is not an ancient person, she is the reincarnation of Wangshu?" Jiang Yao asked.
"That's right." Jiang Yin nodded, "Wang Shu is my first wife. Concubine Silkworm Yao is just the reincarnation of Wang Shu, not Wang Shu herself. After I woke up, I searched for a long time before I found the reincarnated Wang Shu, Concubine Silkworm Yao."
Jiang Yao was a little speechless, "So, the teacher is not the real Jiang Biejie, you just took Jiang Biejie's body, so you don't care about the life and death of Jiang Zong."
"That's right." Jiang Yin didn't hide anything. "The real Jiang Biejie has died a long time ago. It was Yao Fei who killed him. Because his body is very suitable for me, and my body is too old and needs to be replaced."
"And Jiang Biejie's identity was what Yao Fei and I needed at that time."
"It is precisely because I am not the real Jiang Biere and you are not my real son that Concubine Yao plans to use you to refine medicine."
Jiang Yao asked: "Since you are not the real Jiang Biejie, but only took away his body, then I, Jiang Zhengyi, Jiang Xiucheng, and Jiang Nan are not your real children."
Jiang Yin smiled nonchalantly, "You can think so. After all, from the perspective of blood, the four of you are all Jiang Biere's children, not mine, Jiang Yin."
"Of course, only Concubine Yao knows about this. Mu Cangyue and Xian Yingqing probably don't know about it. There is no need for you to tell them about this, so as not to cause trouble."
"It doesn't matter whether I am your father or not. What is important is that you are King Ming and have the chance to change the immortal world."
Jiang Yao sighed: "Teacher married my mother just to give birth to a spirit body. I was originally going to use me to refine Taishang Daodao Dan. Why did the teacher suddenly become soft-hearted and change his mind?"
Jiang Yin smiled bitterly: "That's why I said, you can either be dedicated or ruthless, and you must not be sentimental."
"Your mother, Mu Cangyue, is a very outstanding woman. It's hard for a man not to like such a woman. I have been with her for more than two thousand years. Human beings are not grass and trees. How can we be ruthless?"
"When she was pregnant for three years and gave birth to you, I couldn't bear to do anything, but changed my mind. This also made Concubine Yao angry, so she simply joined forces with the Tianping Divine Sect to destroy the Jiang Sect."
"If I hadn't saved her, Mu Cangyue would have died a long time ago. Because of your mother, the relationship between me and Concubine Yao has been estranged, and it will never be repaired. But for my sake, she did not destroy your mother's soul after all."
"If I were cruel, you would have turned into Taishang Dao Dan. Yao Fei and I took Taishang Dao Dan and left this poisoned fairy world long ago."
Jiang Yao stood up, looked at the white clouds in the sky, and said leisurely:
"Teacher, I don't want to ask any more questions about family history and grudges between men and women. I know that the teacher's arrangement must be to save the fairy world."
"But since the teacher wants to save the fairy world, why should he cultivate Jiang Zhengyi? The teacher doesn't know who Jiang Zhengyi is and what he wants to do."
"So, the teacher's behavior is so contradictory, is he betting on both sides?"
"While arranging for my junior brother and I to save the world, at the same time he arranged for Jiang Zhengyi to destroy the world. On the one hand, he is compassionate and has good intentions. On the other hand, he is indifferent to the common people and has ulterior motives."
"You are the Bodhisattva, and you are the devil. Oh, the teacher is really scheming and lofty. This is because he is determined to make a profit without losing anything, and he will always eat one end."
"Hahaha!" Jiang Yin couldn't help laughing.
"That's right. How can I, Jiang Yin, put all my money into my work? My path is lofty. If I don't become a great saint, I will become a great evil person. If I don't become a great evil person, I will become a great saint. I can either save the world or sacrifice the common people!"
"Yin and yang are black and white, you have to have one!"
"You are white, and I am black. You are light, and I am dark. It is not up to me to decide who loses and who wins. In this case, it is better to bet on both sides."
"Only in this way will the probability of losing be minimized."
"When I was a teacher, I taught you to worry about defeat before winning. In your previous life, you were an emperor and had great foresight. How could you not know this?"