bullyxtreme Chapter 143 If Life Could Only Be Like Our First Meeting (2)
Chapter 143 If Life Could Only Be Like Our First Meeting (2)
Li Tingyun brought Mei Shiyu back to the Taiji Hall.
Taiji Hall is a giant palace with a magnificent exterior and a very spacious interior. With its flying eaves and brackets, it has a solemn atmosphere. However, no matter how magnificent it looks on the surface, it is actually very cold and lonely inside.
Inside the main hall, hundreds of golden pillars support the double-eaved hip roof. Each pillar is as thick as two people can hug. There are no decorations between the pillars, and they stand alone facing each other. When you enter this hall, all you feel is cold, damn it, cold.
Li Tingyun didn't consider this place a place to live at all.
The Taiji Hall occupies the best feng shui position, and the entire hall is equivalent to a natural spirit-gathering array, making it an excellent place for cultivation. Standing in the center of the spacious hall, you can feel the abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth with every breath and every gesture.
Even a useless person, lying on the floor here every day doing nothing, can still make some progress over time.
Li Tingyun was a naturally gifted individual who was practically fed by God, and he was more reckless in his cultivation than anyone else!
In order to have complete control over the primordial chaos energy, he could venture into the eighteen levels of hell every single day of the year, and delve into the abyss of demons time and time again.
In order to fully absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he devoted himself to studying the Qimen Dunjia Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. He supervised the layout, site selection and construction of Taiji Hall and Sixiang City throughout the entire process.
The Taiji Hall was purely a place he built for cultivation.
Not the place where he "lives".
There are no beds to sleep on, no chairs to rest on, no tea or food, no candles or candlesticks... nothing, nothing at all.
Nothing.
Li Tingyun brought Mei Shiyu back, but didn't know where to put him, so he simply threw him on the ground.
His "throwing" was quite deliberate.
The spot where Mei Shiyu landed with a "thud" was the eye of the invisible "spirit gathering array" in the Taiji Hall, which was Li Tingyun's favorite place to stay.
Now, he gave it to him.
How generous.
Mei Shiyu lay on the cold ground and slept for three days and three nights. During this time, he had a long dream.
He dreamed of the incorruptible bone that he had once placed in the Bodhi Ring... To this day, the incorruptible bone has dissipated, and the sword spirit has also gone with it. Mei Shiyu doesn't know why he always dreams of them, of the scene when they disappeared decades ago.
It may be called a dream, but in reality, it's something that actually happened.
He was merely recalling it over and over again in his dreams.
Mei Shiyu's Bodhi ring wasn't just for storage. It was a gift from his master when he accepted him as a disciple, and he should pass it on as a "token" when he himself began accepting disciples.
Decades ago, at a disciple-acceptance ceremony of the Dao Xuan Sect, he gave this ring to his first disciple, Yuan Che.
On the eve of accepting disciples, he entered the Bodhi Precepts for the last time, making a final farewell to that incorruptible bone.
In fact, both he and Buhuagu knew very well that their "dependent" relationship could not last long. Buhuagu had been in the precept for two hundred years, during which time Mei Shiyu had been trying to figure out how to properly deal with him.
Finally, he came up with a perfect solution: combining the Snow Silk Robe with the Life and Death Pact. When Mei Shiyu told Buhuagu about this solution and bluntly expressed his wish for him to leave and fulfill his long-cherished wish, that stubborn guy almost tore him apart and put him back together!
Unyielding Bone is very stubborn; she stubbornly doesn't want to leave him.
Mei Shiyu is a very easy-going person. He can take things as they come, no matter what others do. However, even gentle people have tempers and can be stubborn. Once he gets angry and stubborn, he can be quite terrifying. Once he makes a decision, no one can change his mind.
No matter how crazy Bu Hua Gu went, even if he took the Bodhi Ring from Mei Shi Yu and tried to "lock" him inside the ring forever, Mei Shi Yu didn't change his mind, and his face became more and more ugly.
He said to the Undying Bone, "Yes, I don't want you anymore! The moment you snatched the ring from my hand, I really didn't want to keep you anymore."
"Since you are so capable, since you dare to do anything, then it seems that everything I have done in the past two hundred years has been meaningless. I taught you to be good, to become a decent person, but in the end, I raised a thankless wretch."
"If I had known this would be the outcome, I should have killed you the moment I discovered your body had mutated and turned into a zombie, instead of showing mercy and spending two hundred years nurturing an incorruptible skeleton with my own blood..."
"It's too late for me to regret it now. If you're released like this, you'll only bring harm to others! So let's just lock ourselves in this space together, live and die together, and perish together."
Mei Shiyu didn't patiently write these words down stroke by stroke so that the uncorrupted skeleton could understand. Instead, he simply used methods like "mind control" to convey his anger, disappointment, regret, and determination to the blank, lifeless skeleton without missing a single detail.
Mei Shiyu knew that using his mental power on a soulless zombie was undoubtedly bullying someone.
Mental power is a very mysterious thing.
If a person's soul is strong enough, even if the soul leaves the body, the physical body can never be easily controlled by others. Once the physical body is threatened by someone else's mental power, the original soul can sense it no matter where it is, and will definitely retaliate quickly, returning the mental damage it suffered tenfold or a hundredfold.
Mei Shiyu thought to herself, if the original owner's soul were still here, it would surely be able to sense that her body was being bullied by someone else using their spiritual power...
But Mei Shiyu received no response.
So he thought, sure enough, that boy from more than two hundred years ago had long since returned to the underworld and been reincarnated. His soul in this life, which is not yet decayed, will never return.
Okay, even without the original owner's soul guarding the scene, the Undying Bone has already developed its own intelligence. Although it has not yet nurtured a complete three souls and seven spirits to completely replace the original owner, it would be extremely difficult for others to control it with their mental power... no, it would be a pipe dream.
Mei Shiyu naturally couldn't do that either.
He was never the owner of this skeleton; using "spiritual power" to suppress him would at most cause him some stimulation.
It was impossible not to retaliate without turning one's bones, and Mei Shiyu was prepared to be counterattacked, but what he got in return was an embrace, arms trembling, tightly embracing, an embrace filled with anxiety and uncertainty.
Bu Hua Gu held Mei Shi Yu's stiff body, groping, writing, and babbling incoherently on his back. It seemed like he had a lot to say, but in reality, he only had two sentences.
One of the sentences is, "You can't leave me."
One line is, "You are my obsession."
But he was almost going crazy. He was so emotional that his fingers were trembling. In just two short sentences, thirteen characters, he wrote incoherently, with words and sentences that didn't form coherent sentences.
Mei Shiyu didn't know what he wanted to say until Buhua Gu pressed his teeth against his neck... Mei Shiyu was disheartened. Oh, he wanted to drink blood.
The Unmelting Bone hovered around his neck for a long time without biting down.
Because he didn't want to suck blood at all.
It was just a kiss.
He simply wanted to express his affection through his actions.
But he was just a bald skull, with no flesh on his lips, so he couldn't be soft and tender, nor could he be affectionate and lingering.
In the midst of his frantic and chaotic thoughts, he gradually came to understand that even if he could successfully tell Mei Shiyu his true feelings, even if he could place an incredibly gentle kiss on Mei Shiyu's neck...
He won't get any response.
Mei Shiyu would still drive him away.
Moreover, they chased him away in a state of extreme fear and dread.
Finally, after a stalemate, Bu Hua Gu returned the Bodhi Ring that he had stolen to Mei Shi Yu, put it on his ring finger, and embraced him, letting go of his obsession.
Mei Shiyu felt the pressure on him gradually lessen, and the Undying Bone disappeared before his eyes.
He was determined to let him go, so he had no more obsessions.
Mei Shiyu stayed alone in the Bodhi Precept for a long time, looking somewhat lost and disoriented, though he himself was unaware of it. He only felt extremely tired and had no strength left, so he lay in the coffin where the Undying Bone often lay in a coffin and slept for several days and nights before waking up.
After Mei Shiyu emerged from the Bodhi Ring, he discovered that he could no longer summon the spirit of the Azure Frost Sword; it was probably... gone too.
They all came from the same body, stemming from the same kind of mutual dependence and love; now, they're all finally gone.
No one bothered him anymore.
Later, Mei Shiyu used the Bodhi Precepts as a token and passed them on to his first disciple.
There was nothing to miss, he thought.
Years later, when Mei Shiyu was on the verge of death and saw Li Tingyun, he was momentarily dazed as he looked at his figure, inexplicably recalling the incorruptible body and his sword spirit.
He didn't know why he suddenly remembered those old memories.
Perhaps it's just because Li Tingyun's figure and outline are somewhat similar to the Undying Bone and the Sword Spirit... But those two have long since perished, haven't they?
In Mei Shiyu's view, all the wild speculations without any evidence are absurd!
He is someone who doesn't readily trust his intuition. He believes that judging a person or a thing solely based on feelings is extremely irrational, and judging others by one's own standards is also very arrogant.
Because Mei Shiyu doesn't trust his intuition, he often appears lukewarm, slow, and indecisive in many things, always realizing things too late.
He always needs to see evidence before he dares to believe it's true.
But there are many things in this world that cannot be proven.
For example, feelings; for example, top secrets.
If you believe, it exists; if you don't believe... you'll miss out.
Mei Shiyu lay on the floor tiles of Taiji Hall and slept for a very long time before slowly waking up. He had no feeling in his back, and his spine felt like it had been pierced by a fuse and exploded, causing him excruciating pain.
But the moment he saw Li Tingyun...
It doesn't hurt at all anymore.
Because his brain exploded too.
Blank.
I can no longer feel any pain.
Li Tingyun firmly held down Mei Shiyu, who almost "whooshed" to the ceiling, and pressed him behind his back into the center of the array, telling him not to move and to hurry up and heal his injuries.
Mei Shiyu turned his head and glared angrily at Li Tingyun, who was pressing down on him, calling him a "bad guy" and a "big bad guy," and telling him to quickly undo his Yin-Yang Curse!
Li Tingyun said, "It's solved. It's been solved for a long time."
Mei Shiyu tried it out, using his spiritual power, and found that, just as he had said, his cultivation had returned.
Li Tingyun added that the Yin-Yang Curse had been broken, but not completely eradicated. If he wished, the curse could "relapse" at any time.
It's solved, yet it's not.
As explained.
Mei Shiyu couldn't understand why he did this.
Li Tingyun chuckled and said that he only acts according to his mood and never needs a reason.
Mei Shiyu said, "You are heartless, you are cold-blooded, you are being unreasonable!"
Li Tingyun rested his chin on his hand and said casually, "Yes, that's just who I am. What are you going to do about it?"
Mei Shiyu's face flushed red as she said, "...What can I do? What else can I do? Get off me first!"
And so, Mei Shiyu "submitted" to the Taiji Palace.