When he heard Lu Yin's answer, Qian Shu felt powerless. He coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of blood. He knelt down on one knee, unable to accept this.
The Spring and Autumn Scroll that roamed the nine heavens and dominated the world was gone?
How was this possible?
Ying Mei Grand Sight, those powerhouses who crossed Bitter Adversity, and their Turbid Treasures were all gone?
He did not believe it. This answer was not something he could accept.
Boom!
There was a soft sound, and a stone box appeared in front of Qian Shu.
When he saw the stone box, his face drained of blood.
His hopes were completely dashed at this moment.
Lu Yin looked at Qian Shu condescendingly. "What else do you want to say?"
Qian Shu closed his eyes, his body trembling as despair engulfed him. His vision darkened, and he almost fainted.
"I regret letting Granny Ya take action in the Heavenly Gate. If I could turn back time, I would rather not leave the Shaoyu Pavilion."
Lu Yin nodded. "A very simple wish. It looks like you don't want to die."
Qian Shu's body trembled, but he did not reply.
Most people would curse at this moment. It was not because of fear, but because they could not accept reality. They were not necessarily cursing Lu Yin, but rather cursing this result.
Qian Shu only regretted it, which meant that he wanted to live. He did not dare to curse or even show any dissatisfaction.
Lu Yin was very satisfied with this attitude.
"You guys won the Myriad Elephant Valley by luck. Where did your luck come from?" Lu Yin asked.
Qian Shu did not hesitate and directly replied, "I used the Spring and Autumn Scroll's method to write the 'luck' word."
Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "Then, I need this' luck 'word. Can you help me?"
Qian Shu raised his head and looked at Lu Yin. "Yes. Every disciple can inscribe a character on the Spring and Autumn Scroll, but only absolute powerhouses can truly make use of it. I have the battle prowess of someone who has completed Ku Adversity. If I inscribe the character 'Luck' on the Spring and Autumn Scroll, it will definitely help you."
"However, the 'luck' word is difficult to carve, and it cannot be done in one stroke. There are only eight 'luck' words on the Spring and Autumn Scroll, and half of them have been used. The remaining ones lost their use after Ying Mei Grand Sight died. If you want to obtain more, I have to write it."
Lu Yin's lips curled up. "Are you showing off your value, or are you threatening me?"
Qian Shu hurriedly said, "I'm not threatening you. I'm just afraid that you won't believe me and think that I'm being perfunctory. that's why I'm explaining.
Yingmei Ōguan was dead, and Lu Yin hadn't refuted his earlier words. He really was dead, and the Spring and Autumn Booklet was gone as well.
Lu Yin nodded, "You still have some value, and because you've accepted spiritual cultivation, you'll never be able to improve. You're not much of a threat to me, so I can give you a sliver of hope to leave me."
Qian Shu was excited. "Write the word 'luck'?"
Lu Yin stretched out his hand. "Five. Write the word 'luck' five times, and I'll set you free. I promise that I won't cause you any more trouble as long as you don't cause me any trouble."
Qianshu agreed decisively.
He had no room to refuse. No matter how long it would take to write the "luck" character, as long as he could escape from Lu Yin, he was willing to try.
He hadn't lived long enough. The Great Perfection of Crossing Bitter Disaster was already the strongest level under the Eternal Life Realm. Even if he couldn't break through, at this level, he could still improve his strength by means of combat skills, cultivation methods, and other means. As long as he was alive, it was possible.
As for Lu Yin, he didn't know what would happen in the future, but at this moment, he definitely didn't dare to harbor any thoughts of revenge.
Lu Yin hoped that Qianshu would quickly write the "luck" character and see if it would be useful. He needed luck, and in fact, everyone needed luck.
As for the stone chest, Lu Yin had already used karma to investigate it when he'd first created Qianshu's physique, but Qianshu didn't know anything about it.
No matter how important Qianshu was to the Spring and Autumn Slip, he was still young when he fell asleep in the Junior Imperial Pavilion. The stone chest was definitely the Spring and Autumn Slip's deepest secret, so how could Qianshu know about it? The Junior Imperial Pavilion itself wasn't simple either.
Furthermore, sleeping in the Junior Imperial Pavilion meant that the Spring and Autumn Slip would find a way to make Qianshu the Divine Guard. This meant that sooner or later, Qianshu would use a reasonable method to leave the Spring and Autumn Slip and belong to it. Under this premise, Ying Mei wouldn't tell Qianshu about the stone chest. Perhaps she was afraid that Qianshu would betray the Spring and Autumn Slip for the sake of his future.
If he could use the Spring and Autumn Slip to become Shangyu's disciple, Qianshu definitely wouldn't refuse. Someone like Ying Mei wouldn't let others have a handle on her.
"There's one more thing." Lu Yin looked at Qianshu and asked, "Do you have a way to use Ying Mei's Ten Thousand Word Book Realm?"
Qianshu shook his head. "Ying Mei's Sequence Law is that each word forms a realm, and each word is a realm. The Ten Thousand Word Book Realm is an application of the Sequence Law after it reaches its limit. It's equivalent to a deified sequence that spiritualizes the universe. This isn't the power of the Spring and Autumn Slip."
Lu Yin was disappointed.
In the Ten Thousand Word Book Realm, he had been schemed against by Ying Mei and had been exiled. That experience had given him a different feeling.
Every word had its own meaning from the moment it was born.
Eat, which represented eating.
Sleep, which represented sleeping.
In that case, before the word 'eat' appeared, what was the meaning of 'eat'?
Who had created the word 'eat' under what circumstances, and why was it called 'eat'?
This was also karma.
How many words were there in the world?
What kind of karma did those words represent?
Lu Yin had always been searching for karma. The various forms of the world were karma, and so were words.
When he had seen those words in the Ten Thousand Word Book Realm, they had seemed to come alive and were constantly telling him something. Others might have gone crazy, but Lu Yin had seen another world.
Qinglian Yu had said that karma was a world, and no one else in the Nine Firmaments Universe could see it besides him and himself.
Myriad Elephant Valley believed that the world's momentum was a world.
In that case, weren't words a world as well?
However, the Spring and Autumn Slip had not been able to discover this world, and it had only been able to use the power of the Spring and Autumn Slip to cultivate.
The only thing that had come close was Ying Mei's Ten Thousand Word Book Realm, but even she had not been able to see what Lu Yin had comprehended.
Another thing that was close was the ancient words of the Tian Yuan Universe. Those words had appeared in the Daosource Sect, and each word had its own mysteries. Who in the Daosource Sect had left those words behind?
Was it the progenitor?
He had never asked before, but now, he remembered it. If he could meet the progenitor in the future, he would ask.
And now, Lu Yin really wanted to understand something from those words.
Humans could have karma, and words were born from humans, so they were a part of karma.
Perhaps he could see something from those words.
As for the Qianshu, he would leave it at Mount Supreme to be engraved.
It was a pity that the Spring and Autumn Jade Slip was left lying on top of a turbid treasure.
A clear river flowed around an antique stone house in a quiet city. There were embankments on both sides of the river, and flowers, trees, and the chirping of birds and insects could be heard.
This was a very ordinary city that had been built on the ground, and most of the inhabitants were ordinary people.
The more ordinary a city was, the safer it would be. There was a tacit rule in the cultivation world that cultivators were not allowed to fight in places with many mortals. No matter how prosperous the cultivation world was, everything originated from mortals, and this was one of the taboos.
The older the universe, the more taboos there would be. However, in the Tian Yuan Universe, there were no such taboos.
Slap! Slap!
On the riverbank, an old woman continuously used a wooden stick to hit her clothes. The heavy, coarse cloth splashed with water and splashed onto the river.
Behind her was a group of children playing around, and the old woman would occasionally chase them away from the riverbank.
A child was knocked down by a goose, and he started crying. The old woman used a wooden stick to chase the goose away, which caused a lot of laughter.
On the river, a wooden raft slowly flowed with a simple umbrella hanging on it. Under the umbrella was a young man sitting on a deck chair, swaying slowly. There was a wooden table next to him with a fruit platter on it.
This scene quickly attracted the attention of two people, and they all pointed at the raft in curiosity.
The person on the raft was naturally Lu Yin. He was leisurely swaying on the chair, not caring about the gazes of the two people around him. He was even wearing sunglasses and humming a tune.
More and more people looked over, and someone said, "He's an outsider, right? What's that on his face?"
"It's black and shiny. It stabbed me just now."
"That cup is green. It can't be poison, right?"
"Hurry up and chase him away. Don't let him die here. No one has ever died here."
"Hurry up and chase him away."
"Chase him away …"
At this time, an old man who was supported by someone walked over shakily. He looked at the floating raft and waved at the crowd, asking them to stop talking. "When I was young, I saw a Celestial Being descend outside the city. That should be a Celestial Being."
"A Celestial Being?
No wonder he's fine after drinking poison. "
"Teacher, are you telling the truth?"
"Nonsense, why would Teacher lie? Eh, who was talking just now?
Damn brat, you didn't go to class and ran away again. "
"Help, Teacher …"
The two sides of the river were noisy. Lu Yin stretched lazily and sat up. He adjusted his sunglasses and looked around.
The two people around him subconsciously fell silent and looked at him.
The raft swayed, and the fish jumped across the water, causing the water vapor to appear in seven colors. It was very beautiful.
Lu Yin smiled brightly and propped up a bamboo pole with a strip of cloth tied to it. Words were written on both sides of the cloth. The front side read, "Believe it or not," while the back read, "Believe it even if you don't." Under the doubtful gazes of the two people around him, he lay down again and slowly said, "Fortune telling."
The two people at the side blinked, then burst into laughter and dispersed.
Who still believed in fortune telling these days?
Ever since the Celestials started appearing in the city, they knew that there were differences between mortals and Celestials. Those Celestials not only brought with them many new things that they had never seen before, but they also taught them that fortune telling was a joke.
Someone had once asked if the Celestials could tell one's fate, but the Celestials had clearly said that it was impossible unless it was the Azure Lotus Protector.
They did not know who the Azure Lotus Protector was, but they knew that even Celestials could not tell one's fate.
Hmph, liar.
"Hey, are you a Celestial Being?" a child asked with a laugh.
A burly man angrily chased after him. "Damn brat, you're too bold. I think you're asking for a beating. Don't talk to strangers."
Lu Yin smiled. "Yes."
Another child shouted, "You must be the worst Celestial Being."
Lu Yin was curious. "Why is that?"
"Don't you know fortune telling? Tell us why we say that, haha." Another child sneered, causing a group of people to laugh.