At this moment, I stared blankly at my empty palms, with a look of disbelief on my face.
In fact, my palms are not empty, at least when I passed through Hai Fuzi's phantom body just now, my palms were full.
But now I have a dull look on my face, as if I have discovered some hard-to-accept fact.
And the truth is indeed the case. Just when my palm really passed through Hai Fuzi's body and I realized again that he was just a phantom in front of me, I also noticed the fundamental changes that were taking place in his body.
The phantom of Master Hai at this moment is much lighter than when he first appeared.
And this process of constant fading seems to have happened exactly when he talked about his happiest moments and began to briefly explain the Six Classics and Six Arts!
And despite what he said, this trend of dilution is deepening and accelerating.
But the only strange thing is that I didn't notice anything before!
Looking at my slightly frightened eyes, Master Hai kindly stretched out his big hand and tried to pat my head.
Of course, this is just a symbolic action, which is especially rare for him who does not even have a physical body.
"It's too late..." He sighed deeply and said, "This ray of consciousness of mine has existed for too long, and it's about to dissipate."
"Even I didn't expect that just a simple interpretation of the Six Classics and Six Arts would consume so much!"
"If only you had been born earlier!" He smiled, unable to hide the look of loneliness on his face.
"It seems that I won't be able to accompany you to grow up for a long time in the future, answer your questions at any time, and watch you step by step towards the peak of Confucianism and Taoism."
"Fortunately, my deity has considered this situation before, and has already carved the Confucian method in detail into these six stars that symbolize the Six Classics and Six Arts. If you just rely on your self-study, it is not that you cannot be satisfied."
"Although the effect is not as good as me personally taking you to study, it can only be like this! Alas -" Master Hai sighed again: "This is God's will! Such is God's will!"
"Master, you won't just disappear, right?" Sensing that something was not right, I ignored those humble words and directly asked the question that was most terrifying in my heart.
"No, no, I still can't bear to part with it!" Haifuzi responded, his eyes showing a bright light of wisdom again, as if he was holding a pearl of wisdom.
"It's just that I will sleep for a period of time in order to slow down the dissipation of the energy that maintains my will as much as possible."
"Of course, some energy will be restored to a certain extent during this process, let's see what the opportunity brings!"
"During this period, if you encounter a really difficult problem in your practice, you can think about it by yourself first. If you still have doubts, ask your senior brother for advice. I believe he will be very happy to answer it for you."
"But after all, everyone has different creations and different ideas. If you encounter a problem that he can't answer, you just need to shout here and I will wake up!"
"Of course, every once in a while, I will take the initiative to wake up and examine your study and evolution of the Six Classics and Six Arts of Confucianism."
"At that time, if you make me dissatisfied, you will be punished!" Haifuzi said. At this time, he was like an ordinary kind old man, which made me feel more cordial, but also felt more heartbroken.
"Don't worry, Master, Dongfangtian will definitely not let you down!" I said solemnly.
"Hahaha... With your words, I am completely satisfied!"
As Haifuzi's hearty laughter spread throughout the space, his body began to turn into points of light again, spreading towards the six stars behind him.
At the same time, one of the light spots that looked obviously different flew towards me, quickly disappeared between my eyebrows, and disappeared.
I didn't stop this scene because I didn't find any malice in it, but I was full of expectations.
Sure enough, as the light disappeared, the familiar voice of Master Hai sounded in my mind again.
"Disciple, from now on, I will hand over the final control of this Xuehai Confucian Order to you! From now on, you are its true master!"
"The function of this order goes far beyond inheritance. You will know its other more important uses in the future!"
At this point, Master Hai's voice suddenly stopped. Although I wanted to respond to his words very much, I had no chance to do so.
Because, as he completely let go of control over Ruling, a brand new energy and strange feeling was spreading throughout my body, almost consuming all my energy.
I understand that until this moment, I have truly completed the recognition of this token, and this feeling now is actually the process of this token and me becoming one.
Once it is completed, no matter whether we are different from each other, it will become a part of my body like my limbs, hands and feet, just like the Qitian Sword.
"Learn the Confucian Token of Hai?" As the integration deepened, the real name of this token emerged in my mind, even though Confucius Hai had already said it once when he handed it to me a moment ago.
It was also at this moment that I once again noticed the aura of Master Hai who had disappeared.
These auras are not just on the six inheritance stars in this space, but are everywhere, just like part of the token material itself, making it difficult to distinguish one from another.
If I hadn't really recognized the Confucian Order now, I wouldn't have been able to notice it in such a comprehensive and detailed manner. It can be seen that Master Hai has completely become attached to me.
At the same time, a bold question began to spread in my mind - the previous Supreme Elder, who was Wu Yazi, did not seem to truly recognize this Confucian order as its owner.
At least, not as thoroughly as I am now!
Although I don't know why this is the case, I believe my feeling is correct. There seems to be other stories between him and Master Hai that I don't know about.
This makes the whole incident a bit confusing.
"Is it possible that Master Haifuzi is still on guard against Brother Wuyazi? But why would he be so caring to me when we met for the first time?" I thought.
But these questions are destined to have no answers! At least in the short term.
"That's okay! I'll know it when it's time for me to know it!" Thinking of this, I was completely relieved.
As the process of recognizing and integrating Ru Ling continued to deepen, my attention quickly shifted to other places, such as the white tiger boots, soul rings, and even the blood-devouring boots that were somewhat similar to those previously recognized by Ru Ling.
Crazy!
I am now very convinced that my recognition of the latter three is incomplete!
It is precisely because I am experiencing the process of recognizing Ru Ling as my master at this moment that I am more and more convinced of this fact, because the difference between the two is so obvious! (To be continued)