Chapter 181: Amazing changes

To become a fairy, to become a Buddha… these are the ultimate pursuits of cultivators. Now, no matter how far a cultivator has progressed, even if they have reached the level of Jenny and the old headmaster, they dare not say that they are truly confident that they can achieve this pursuit.

Not even a shred of certainty can be guaranteed… The way of heaven is unpredictable, and no one knows how far it will go.

But a person who is not a cultivator, a person who was once just an academic, even if he is a genius, what can he do? He even said that he wanted to open up Kunlun.

You have to understand that no one knows what the place is like after one has attained the fruit of the Dao. No one knows where the souls of the dead go either. After all, no one who has gone there has ever returned to tell us.

Even if there are extremely rare phenomena, such as vague experiences of remembering reincarnation, or people from the upper world occasionally coming down to the mortal world, they have not given those who exist now a concrete concept…

Therefore, the mysterious existence that has always existed in the ancient legends of Kunlun is undoubtedly a real “fairyland” for cultivators…

The words of the Qing Elder were shocking, and even more so, some were even a little crazy… I saw a few high-level forces who were not very firm in their positions, and some even wavered.

They may be doubting whether they have made the wrong choice… If Yang Sheng really can do it, it will be a step up to heaven. Practitioners may have very little desire for other things, but when it comes to cultivation, how many of them can truly see the outcome of their efforts?

Therefore, I just looked on coldly, without showing any emotion… This kind of thing is understandable, and has nothing to do with good or evil… The Dao is also my pursuit, but what I seek is not some kind of fairyland… There is a difference between seeking the Dao with one’s whole heart and seeking immortality with one’s whole heart… The Master said that the latter is prone to deviation… And a firm heart for the Dao is the foundation of cultivation.

I asked myself if my heart was firm enough, why did Chen Chengyi say I was wrong? And why did the Master and the old head say I had no foundation?

I was a little dazed, and I couldn’t figure out these questions about myself… But I could see a hint of calmness on the elder’s face.

He stopped speaking, his eyes somewhat coldly falling on the wavering senior figures, and asked, “Are you all here feeling a little tempted? Should you support Yang Sheng? Can’t you find any reason not to support Yang Sheng?”

Most of the senior members of the faction seemed to understand something very clearly, but they just shook their heads… Only the few senior members of the faction who had just wavered changed their faces… They simply stood up and bowed to Qing Laoren, me, and the old master, and frankly admitted that they had wavered in their hearts. After all, they had heard about Kunlun.

The old head and I both looked noncommittal. I don’t know what the old head was thinking, but my thoughts were the same as they had been just a moment ago: how could a few people be able to maintain their composure?

But I was also surprised that the senior members of some other forces were completely unmoved.

“Elder Qing, you don’t have to get too excited. After all, Kunlun is right in front of us, and anyone’s heart will ripple… Isn’t that why the evil path is so crazy? I’m just glad that most of you here still understand… that there is no shortcut to the Dao, and that only by purifying one’s mind and body and cultivating one’s heart can one’s foundation be stable… and move forward step by step… and if one wants to reach the heavens in one step, if one doesn’t have great fortune and wisdom, and if one doesn’t suddenly realize… how is that possible? There must be a huge price to pay. I think you were all confused by what happened just now, but you were able to quickly calm your hearts and realize your own confusion. You can also make further progress in your spiritual practice. Sit down.” This time, it was the old headmaster who spoke. Compared to Qing Laoren, he spoke more clearly in a few words.

Then he gestured for Qing Laoren to continue.

Elder Qing nodded, then looked at everyone and said, holding the purple liquid in his hand: “The elders whose minds were shaken must have thought that Yang Sheng’s actions, though seemingly crazy, were justified… and it’s also my fault for not making myself clear at the time. But what I’m going to do and say next will probably make you think differently.

“This bottle of liquid, as I said earlier, is something we got by sacrificing the biggest dark line. To be precise, this is Yang Sheng’s greatest achievement, stolen from Yang Sheng’s laboratory in Company A. Of course, this is just an ordinary product… and it is the original sample… I won’t say what it is like, but let’s see its effect first and then comment on it.” Elder Qing said with a serious look.

While he was speaking, two disciples from the Snow Mountain Sect carried a cage up, which contained a prairie wolf.

The elder Qing sighed softly and walked over to the cage containing the prairie wolf… In my opinion, it’s completely unnecessary to be so exaggerated. Using such a thick cage to focus on a prairie wolf, I think this kind of thickness of the fence is enough to keep an elephant, of course, if the elephant is small enough.

“You were also free on the grasslands, and we had no intention of taking your life… In fact, no one has the right to harm any life unnecessarily, unless it is for survival. But today’s situation is helpless. I, Qing Chang, have taken the initiative to bear some of the blame. In the future, I will definitely do enough for you, make a great vow to send my power to you, and wish you a good reincarnation.” As he spoke, Qing Chang sighed and handed the purple liquid in his hand to a disciple of the Snow Mountain lineage.

The disciple took the purple liquid, dripped a little of it, and stirred it into the minced meat… and then threw it into the cage of the prairie wolf.

The prairie wolf was probably hungry… It suddenly darted from the corner of the cage and began to devour the minced meat… Qing Laoren’s eyes showed a hint of reluctance, and he stepped back… No one thought that he was being pretentious. He was a man of the Dao, and he also had the compassion of the Buddha, deeply respecting the cause and effect.

The entire venue was quiet, and everyone was staring at the prairie wolf in the cage… Judging from its fur color, it must be an old wolf… only such an old wolf would be alone… After it finished eating the minced meat, it lay down lazily with a sense of satisfaction.

Food is not easy to come by, and an old wolf like this knows this very well. Whether it is in a whole or in pieces, food always brings a sense of satisfaction.

It lay there lazily, not at all concerned that all the attention was focused on it at the moment… But the satisfaction of being full didn’t last for more than five minutes… The old wolf suddenly stood up… and then became very agitated.

First, it barked a few times, then it began attacking the metal cage that held it like a madman.

This change made everyone hold their breath… But the old wolf’s attack was destined to be ineffective, after all, the iron cage was so strong… After about three minutes of such a crazy attack, the old wolf suddenly stopped moving.

Everyone saw that its skin began to burst, and the flesh underneath the skin began to rot at a very fast rate, with flesh and blood falling off… Such a cruel and bloody scene made a few people cry out, but soon, people discovered that on the old wolf’s body, new flesh and blood were constantly growing from the burst wounds.

Perhaps the old wolf was in great pain from this change, and began to roll around in the cage, howling… Qing Laoren turned his head away with a sigh, unable to bear to watch. After all, he probably had a burden in his heart, and he always felt that he was responsible for the old wolf’s suffering.

His state of mind has probably reached a certain level, and he doesn’t think of it as a wolf, not a person, so he doesn’t feel any burden at all…

The old wolf continued to howl, and there was hardly a complete part of its body that was not bursting with wounds… Then these wounds continued to grow…

Slowly, in some places, especially the limbs, the wounds there had stopped festering and gradually began to grow stronger… becoming a black muscle similar to a mummy, although it didn’t look very thick, and was even thinner than the previous muscle… but the tangled look was very powerful.

Is this a zombie? I feel my throat dry… Just like before, although I am not a person who seeks shortcuts, I have to admit that Yang Sheng is a true genius.

The old wolf continued to change… After about twenty minutes, the limbs of the entire wolf had completely turned into zombies, as had a small part of its body… And for reasons I don’t know, like they say a vigorous metabolism… the old wolf’s teeth and claws also began to grow rapidly, until they stopped at a limit I could never have imagined.

At this point, the old wolf seemed to have recovered… It no longer struggled, and once again stood up abruptly… Even though it still had those wounds on its body… some of the flesh was rotting, while at the same time new flesh was being generated… but it seemed to have lost the feeling of pain, and the speed of this rotting and growth had also become very slow, but it still looked shocking.

This time, the wolf that seemed to have regained its strength also realized that it had inexplicable strength… and began to attack the solid iron cage furiously… even biting the thick iron bars frantically…

The entire venue began to echo with the sound of the incredible friction… and the sound of impact… making people involuntarily get goosebumps, because the feeling was like a giant hitting something.

The originally sturdy iron cage gradually deformed under the attack of the old wolf… This is amazing.

“Because the power of animals is far greater than that of humans (in terms of the ratio of strength to size), the power of this wolf is particularly outstanding… but…” Qing Laoren began to slowly explain to the stunned crowd, taking an hourglass from a disciple of the Snow Mountain Sect and placing it on the table.

Then he sighed and said, “Everyone, watch…”