12dz Chapter 303 The Truth of the Tower
Chapter 303 The Truth of the Tower
Chapter 303 The Truth About the Tower
Lu Ming drank two cups of tea before he finished eating the pastry. He wiped his lips and said, "Nannan, do you want to choke me to death?"
"Can't even eating shut Master's mouth?"
"You're always like this, wouldn't it be better for you to be honest?"
Jiangnan played dumb and said, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
"Nannan, in your heart, you actually want to get along well with that kid, right? What are you making a fuss about?"
Jiangnan looked up at Luohua and whispered, "We will be separated... Just like those guys, we will leave eventually. I will be the only one left here." (Those guys refer to the girls who came here with Jiangnan)
"I see, you're afraid of separation."
"If you know the ending, there's no point in starting, right?"
"Is this what you really think?"
"Ah."
"But have you ever thought that your future self might regret it?"
"We're not familiar with each other, so there's nothing to regret."
Lu Ming took a sip of tea and muttered thoughtfully: "Is that so? Is that so..."
The scene switches within the illusion...
The master and disciple, who were originally chatting in the courtyard, appeared in the open space at the foot of the mountain.
Those young girls have matured a lot now, and they hold their own assessment scrolls in their hands.
【What is this? How many decades have passed?】
Lu Ming nudged Jiangnan with his elbow and whispered, "Aren't you going to say goodbye?"
Jiangnan looked at Le Xinyao who had been looking at him and said stubbornly, "No need. We are not familiar with each other."
After that, he turned around and left.
Le Xinyao's voice came from behind: "Sister! After I complete the task, I will come back to accompany you!"
Jiangnan paused, the corners of his lips unconsciously raised, but he didn't look back at her and left.
"I'm waiting for you."
Jiangnan returned to a life with only her master by her side, and she seemed to have gotten used to sitting in the courtyard drinking tea and looking at the flowers.
My eyes would occasionally glance outside the door, and I vaguely felt that there was a figure there.
When I really turned around and looked, I found that everything was an illusion.
"What are you looking at? Is there anything outside the door?"
Jiangnan looked at Lu Ming who suddenly appeared and greeted him, "Master, you are here."
"Yeah." Lu Ming looked out the door and asked knowingly, "How long have you been gone?"
"what?"
"Those children you personally sent away, how long have they been gone?"
"About ten years? I can't remember."
"After all this time, do you still feel like she's guarding there?"
Jiangnan looked up at the sky, deliberately changed the subject, and said, "The weather is nice today."
"Master is telling you..."
Jiangnan interrupted Luming and sighed at the mountain behind the house: "Ah! What a warm breeze and sunny weather, with green fields and lush mountains!"
"How come you..."
"Master, are you going to give me a lecture on such a beautiful day?"
"You are such a kid!"
"If you keep talking too much, you'll become an old man!"
"I'm truly defeated by you! Who on earth did you learn this skill of changing the subject when you don't want to answer a question?"
"It's all taught well by Master."
"I have never taught you this."
“That means I’m self-taught!”
"You!" Lu Ming flicked the strands of hair on Jiangnan's forehead and said lovingly, "You're full of clever little tricks."
"Hehe~"
"My little smartass, do you want to go play in the mountains?"
"Of course I'll go if someone's carrying me." Jiangnan said as he supported the table with one hand and jumped onto the deer's back.
"Sit down."
Jiangnan said, "No!" He stepped on the deer's back, bent over, and stretched out his arms to hug Luming's neck.
Lu Ming was afraid that she would fall, so he threatened her, "If you fall, your master won't be responsible."
"Then I'll just sit on the ground and not get up."
"Ah~ I really lost to you."
"Let's go! Let's go!"
[Hahaha, the Grandmaster has absolutely no way to deal with the teacher!]
In the blink of an eye, they reached the top of the mountain, and Jiangnan subconsciously looked at the tower again.
Lu Ming suggested, "Do you want to go in and take a look?"
"Hey?"
Jiangnan was a little surprised and asked, "Is it okay?"
"Of course, sit down and I will take you in."
After Jiangnan sat down obediently, Lu carried her on his back, entered the tower, and stepped onto the spiral staircase.
There are no Buddha statues or rare treasures enshrined in the tower, but there are altars neatly arranged along the walls, with photo frames of the same style on them.
The photos in the photo frames are divided into color photos and black and white photos.
The tower has nine floors, and the scenes on each floor are the same, but the number of photos decreases as you go higher.
Luo Shiyu felt very uncomfortable looking at this scene.
[I feel like this isn't a tower, but a huge mourning hall.]
"Master."
"You have a lot of questions, right? Like, what are these photos?"
"Ah."
"All the photos of the Heavenly Dao throughout the ages are here. The stronger the strength, the higher the floor."
As Lu Ming spoke, he had already reached the top floor.
There was only a photo frame on the altar standing in the middle.
Unlike the others, the frame contains a patchwork photo.
The left side of the woman's face in the black and white photo is superimposed with the right side of the man's face in the color photo. Half is gentle and the other is bold. Two people who have nothing in common are placed in the same frame.
Jiangnan walked towards the photo. She had too many questions that needed Lu Ming to answer one by one.
"Master, what is this photo?"
"The first way."
"Is this a person?"
"Two people."
"Two people? Why in one frame?"
"Let me explain this to you slowly, starting with this woman...
Her name is Hua Su. To be precise, she is actually the real First Heavenly Dao.
But she fell deeply in love with a man from a certain dimension."
Jiangnan pointed at the man in the photo and asked, "Is he the one Hua Su fell in love with?"
"Yes, his name is Lie Danqing, and he is the current number one Taoist."
"The First Heavenly Dao has become him? Where's Hua Su?"
"Dead. Rather than saying dead, it would be more appropriate to say he became a sacrifice."
"Could it be that Lie Danqing plundered Hua Su's Heavenly Dao power? How did he do that?"
"It was this silly girl who was deceived and willingly sacrificed herself. She was so foolish that she risked her life for it. Love can easily make people lose their minds, so you..."
"I wouldn't be so stupid as to risk my life for a man I have no connection with."
Lu Ming nodded repeatedly in satisfaction, "It's good that you've realized this. Oh! I almost forgot, Hua Su did something truly remarkable back then."
"what's up?"
"He sealed a vicious beast named Tianlun."
Jiangnan exclaimed, "Huh?" and immediately suppressed the shock on her face. (As far as Jiangnan knew, Luming didn't know she knew Tianlun at that moment.)
"Accident?"
"Kind of."
"When Hua Su sealed Tian Lun away, he promised him that as long as he guarded the Silent Sea well and reformed himself, he would be set free."
"and then?"
"Hua Su died, but Tian Lun didn't know about it. He stayed there for a hundred thousand years."
"Why didn't anyone let him out?"
“The person who tied the bell must untie it. No one except the First Dao can free him.”
"What about the list?"
"He has no time to meddle in such trivial matters."
"Um…"
"So, my dear disciple, you must remember that apart from your master, all men are unreliable!"
"I understand, Master. However, there's still one thing I don't understand."
"Just ask."
"Is Hua Su's photo black and white because he was stripped of his Heavenly Dao power?"
"Silly child, under what circumstances would a black and white photo be placed on the altar?"
Jiangnan's pupils contracted, his legs weakened, and he almost fell to the ground. His lips trembled as he spoke, "Dead...dead? Then the black and white photos in this tower are..."
The voice stopped abruptly, and Jiangnan ran to the lower level like crazy.
【Teacher, what's wrong? 】
The picture moved with Jiangnan, and Luo Shiyu saw a photo frame with a color photo of Jiangnan on the third floor.
"It's fine if my teacher isn't on the top floor, but what does it mean to be on the third floor? It's so disrespectful."