Tuo Lin excitedly walked out of the courtyard and walked towards the street. "Master, look, that's Uncle Shi. Uncle Shi's family quarries for a living and provides the city with stones. In his spare time, Uncle Shi will use his own stones to fill up the roads. The roads in the city are flat and wide, and a lot of that is due to Uncle Shi's efforts. I see the 'Shi' character on Uncle Shi's body."
"Greetings, Master."
Uncle Shi hastily bowed when he saw Tuo Lin. Although Tuo Lin called him Uncle Shi, he was much older than Tuo Lin.
"Uncle Shi, you've worked hard. How's your shoulder injury?
You were naughty when you were young and fell from a tree in my courtyard. You haven't fully recovered even after so many years. "
Uncle Shi smiled bitterly. "I can't recover. It hurts every time it rains or cloudy days, but it doesn't affect my work. Thank you for your concern."
Tuo Lin nodded and continued to walk forward. "Master, that's Little Anzi. He's famous for asking questions. He's like this. His teacher, teacher's teacher, and teacher's teacher are also like this. They will bring questions to every corner, but they will also answer people's questions. They are good people. I saw the word 'ask' on him."
"Master, that's Shopkeeper Ma. His family has sold horses for generations. Xiang City may not be big, but there are people who like horses. They gallop by the river outside the city, and there are horse races every year. I see the 'horse' character on him."
"That's Brother Tang. He likes to grow flowers. I see the 'Tang' character on him."
"That one, that one …"
Every time Tuo Lin mentioned a person, Lu Yin seemed to see a character on that person's body. He shouldn't have been able to see this character, but for some reason, he could see it now. It was like adding the finishing touch to a painting or lifting a curtain.
Could it be related to these statues?
Lu Yin looked at the statues he passed by. There was definitely a possibility.
Word after word appeared in his mind. Lu Yin looked back and saw that these people were still people, but they were also characters. These characters flew into the sky, constantly colliding and jumping. It was very strange.
There were many people in Xiang City, and Tuo Lin wanted to take Lu Yin to see everyone. However, Lu Yin didn't have the time, so he could only use his wish to envelop the area. He directly asked Tuo Lin, "Tuo Lin, what are these characters?"
"Master, he is' begging ', she is' buying ', he is' providing '…"
Words jumped out one after another, imprinting themselves into Lu Yin's eyes. He increased his speed and flew above Xiang City, circling around it continuously. It was as if he was in a sea of words, and he knew who each one corresponded to. He watched as people greeted Tuo Lin one after another and devoutly wiped his statue. At the same time, he could feel that these people were smiling at him and treating him with respect. He heard more and more people's voices, and those voices seemed to pour into his mind.
His Power of Will continued to spread out, and the area it covered had doubled, tripled, fivefold, tenfold, and it was still increasing.
He felt everyone's gaze on him.
All of a sudden, his body began to fall. A heavy feeling kept pushing him towards the ground. His vision changed. He lowered his head and saw his hands, legs, and body.
He had become a human.
"Master." Tuo Lin was pleasantly surprised. "Congratulations, Master."
Qing He swayed. "Congratulations, Master."
Hui Can was envious. "Congratulations, Master."
Lu Yin stood on the street and looked at his hands. He had finally become a human.
He was the second person to become a human out of everyone who had entered Xiang City.
He was also the second person to return to his original form after Xiang City had been snatched away by You Che.
However, his blood-stained clothes were truly …
Everyone around him was stunned, and their eyes were filled with fear.
"Master, what happened to you?" Tuo Lin was shocked, and his face turned pale.
Hui Can stared at Lu Yin. He was seriously injured.
Lu Yin coughed and tore open his blood-stained clothes. The inner layer was still fine, and there wasn't that much blood.
"Master, let's change. I have clothes," Tuo Lin said and quickly ran over to support Lu Yin.
Lu Yin wanted to refuse, but after some thought, he nodded. "Alright."
Soon, they returned to the courtyard, and Lu Yin changed into Tuo Lin's clothes. Tuo Lin looked at Lu Yin's injuries, and his eyes turned red.
Qing He was bent, and Xiaoyu was very worried.
Lu Yin rubbed Tuo Lin's head. "Master is fine. Don't worry."
Then, he looked out of the courtyard. At this moment, many people had gathered outside. They were all from Xiang City, and they were all kneeling on the ground to greet the Sagemaster.
Lu Yin walked out of the courtyard and saw a dense mass of people kneeling on the ground.
"Greetings, Sagemaster."
"Greetings, Sagemaster."
"Greetings, Sagemaster …"
Everyone was greeting him, and they were all extremely sincere.
They were all ordinary people. Tuo Lin had lived for hundreds of years and was regarded as a master, while Lu Yin had been deified.
Lu Yin looked at these people. "Rise."
Everyone slowly got up, and they looked at Lu Yin with eyes full of sincerity and reverence. This kind of gaze had never appeared in Xiang City before. It was the ultimate reverence and faith.
"Do you have a request?"
Lu Yin asked. Looking at these people, he didn't know how to take the final step of immortality. Perhaps he could obtain the recognition of the entire Xiang City and take control of it. This was the only way he could break through.
One person knelt. "I have a request."
"What is it?"
"I pray that my mother's body is healthy. She has been working hard for days and coughs incessantly. I beg the Sagemaster to be merciful and help my mother. I don't ask for immortality. I only ask that she be healthy and live a long life."
Lu Yin looked at that person. This request was very simple.
"I also have a request."
"What is it?"
"I pray that my farm will not collapse. My farm is located in the middle of a river, and the water flows rapidly, constantly washing away the soil. My farm is shrinking, and I don't even have enough food to eat at home."
"I have a request."
"I have a request …"
Lu Yin listened to these people's requests, and they were all very simple and ordinary. There was no mention of riches, immortality, or cultivation. All they had was the most ordinary life and the most simple happiness.
He looked at the desire in these people's eyes. Their lives were fleeting, and it would be a great fortune if they were healthy. Happiness in life was actually very simple. What they asked for was already very high, but to Lu Yin, it could not be any smaller.
Cultivation was a circle. If it was a cultivator, what requirements would they have?
Ask for cultivation?
Cultivation methods?
Battle techniques?
Breakthroughs?
What a normal person asked for was corresponding to their short and ordinary lives.
What a cultivator asked for was corresponding to their struggles, battles, and intense lives.
But whether it was a normal person or a cultivator, what they asked for was corresponding to themselves.
Lu Yin had built his mental walls and seen the experiences of many people and creatures. There were cultivators and ordinary people, but in the end, it was all about the cultivation world. Ordinary people in the outside world knew that there were omnipotent people, but there were no such people here.
In this world, everyone was an ordinary person.
His own life.
It was a circle. Cultivation was a circle, the outside world was a circle, and Xiang City was also a circle.
He did not know how to tear down this mental wall. It was erected in the outside world, and it corresponded to Xiang City. Using a circle to plan his life, it corresponded to his current self.
Lu Yin lifted his foot and walked towards the street. He did not know why, but he just wanted to listen to more requests. He instinctively wanted to listen.
At the same time, in the Tian Yuan Universe, where Lu Yin had been in seclusion, the three "luck" characters written by Qian Shu burned and turned to ash.
Xiang Siyu saw this and pondered for a moment before spitting out a mouthful of blood. Her face paled.
She stared at the ground in a daze.
But soon, her gaze changed, becoming unfamiliar and sharp. It did not seem out of place on her flawless face. Instead, there was a different kind of charm to it. "Destroying your own luck for someone else. Damn it."
The three universes shook. Xiang Siyu looked outside, and her gaze changed again. It alternated between sharpness and absent-mindedness until she finally fell into a daze. Her eyes closed, and she collapsed.
In the Nine Firmaments Universe, the Nibie Luo Trident vibrated continuously.
In the distance, the Life and Death Seal gradually condensed under the Calamity Bone Palm, and deathly stillness rumbled.
The South Spirit's eyes were ferocious, and her blood-stained feathers swayed.
Around the Godking, motes of light slowly moved, and then they sped up.
The palace's fixed position was about to be broken.
But how long had it been since the distance had been fixed?
Lu Yin could not have broken through in such a short time. Was the three universes really going to be destroyed? That was good.
At the very least, Lu Yin would be able to survive. Human civilization did not only have three universes.
But even if they were destroyed, these universes would not have an easy time.
Back in Xiang City, Lu Yin walked along the streets. Everyone had heard that the Sagemaster had arrived, and they automatically gathered on both sides of the street, waiting for him.
No one blocked his path. One street ran from east to west, while another divided the north and south.
As Lu Yin walked along the street, people constantly prayed to him.
"Sagemaster, please heal this lowly one's broken leg. My wife is already having a hard time, and I still have to raise two children. I don't want to be a cripple forever."
"Sagemaster, please protect the bridge from collapsing. My son died under a bridge that collapsed."
"Sagemaster …"
Lu Yin heard everyone's prayers. They were the most ordinary of pleas, but they constantly transformed into some kind of power that crashed into the walls of his mental state that had already been built, causing them to shatter piece by piece. He was pushing down the walls of his mental state.
Lu Yin himself had not expected to become a human in such a short time, and he had even found a way to push down the walls of his mental state.
Walking through Xiang City was the final step.
With each step, he felt his cultivation drop. With each step, he felt his mental state approaching that of a mortal's.
Cultivation was a circle. In the past, he had climbed up step by step, which had been extremely difficult. Now, it was the other way around. He was walking down an ordinary path.
Lu Yin looked up. Heaven and earth were the real world, not just this piece of land.
Every statue of him in Xiang City glowed with vitality, as if they had a mind of their own. Lu Yin himself, on the other hand, was walking down the path of a mortal, step by step …
He walked down one street, then another. Tuo Lin's courtyard divided the city into four streets. He walked down three before heading to the final street, which was the street that would leave Xiang City.
If he headed east, he would be able to leave Xiang City. Lu Yin did not go there, but instead headed west.