Chapter 175.
Although the tone was flat and even carried a sense of nostalgia, Ye Frost could not help but shiver.
This was because she sensed that the murderous aura in Zhou An’s eyes, while being nostalgic, was gradually blazing.
At this moment, the fat monk was still screaming miserably, especially that fat face, his five senses had melted together, as if he had lost his normal consciousness and turned into a madman.
Zhou An carried the Cold Marrow Blade and held the woman in black, slowly walking to the front of the fat monk, the murderous aura in his eyes became even more intense.
“What did he see?” Ye Frost was puzzled.
Soon, her doubts were answered by the fat monk.
The fat monk was tumbling and screaming miserably, speaking incoherently with crazy words.
“And the mist, the mist that can’t be seen through, it’s a monster, it’s fear, it’s the root of the most horrible thing under the sky, hahaha, it’s going to eat me, eat me, I’m going to die ……”
Crazy, the fat monk went completely crazy, because he saw things that made him crazy enough, he saw things that didn’t belong to this world.
In fact, these were not the root of what made him completely crazy.
The real madness was that after seeing these, he saw another layer of mist.
This mist made him impervious to it, and carried with it a majesty that scorned all living beings.
When he looked at the mist, for just a moment, he went mad.
There was no room for negotiation at all.
“What is the mist?” Ye Frost said strangely.
“I don’t know.” Zhou An said, “Ask around.”
He really didn’t know because he was only experiencing the days in Settlement County, and before he could draw his sword, everything disappeared.
So by asking the fat monk, he might be able to probe something.
But before he could actually do so, the fat monk suddenly struggled a few times before completely losing his breath of life.
Dead, dead through and through, because of rejoicing in reincarnation, he saw what he could not see at all at this level and suffered a huge backlash.
While Ye Frost was still pondering over what the fat monk had seen, Zhou An looked at the fat monk’s corpse, but fell into deep thought.
“The clues seem to be broken again.”
He had made this special trip in order to track down the identity of the woman in black.
The ultimate goal was at the Fat Monk, who was already lifeless.
As for what exactly the Fat Monk had viewed through the psychic space, Zhou An now knew nothing.
This was the point that gave Zhou An a headache.
Feeling the black-clothed woman holding his left hand slightly exerting her strength, Zhou An freed his hand and touched the black-clothed woman’s head.
“You guy, you’re giving me too much of a headache.”
Broken is broken.
Zhou An planned to go back and practice the life skill of arithmetic, to see if he could figure out the woman in black’s heel.
The woman in black was stroked on the head by Zhou An, squinting her eyes and enjoying herself comfortably, just like a cat that had been enjoying the petting.
Seemingly sensing Zhou An’s emotions, the woman in black scratched her head and suddenly spat out three words.
“See.”
These sudden three words made Zhou An freeze.
He had originally touched the woman in black’s head and had already planned to depart back to the house.
This trip was to see the secret on the woman in black’s body, but now it seemed that there was no more chance, so Zhou An was preparing to go back and continue his liver proficiency.
He even stroked the head of the woman in black, while already arranging the subsequent tasks.
When the time came, he would first develop an arithmetic skill, liver it to level three, and after causing a qualitative change, he would then calculate the situation of the woman in black.
However, he never expected that at this moment, these three words suddenly uttered by the woman in black caused the scene to fall silent.
Not only did Zhou An freeze, even Ye Frost froze.
After a while, Ye Frost reacted as if he had thought of something and said in surprise, “Could it be that you were also dragged into reincarnation by the monk?”
Just now, the woman in black said that she saw it, so combined with the encounter not long ago, Ye Frost could only think of this answer.
Zhou An stroked his chin, carefully recalling the scene where he had just experienced the Joyous Reincarnation.
There did seem to be no woman in black in that section.
Then there was only one outcome, the woman in black had also entered the Wheel of Joy while seeing many of her previous experiences.
In that case, it meant that the clues were still there.
Thinking about this, Zhou An asked, “What did you see?”
The woman in black and Zhou An naturally had a heart-to-heart, and after hearing Zhou An’s question, she gestured with her hand and uttered two words, “Man.”
Seemingly worried that Zhou An could not understand, the woman in black also busied her hands for a while, comparing a rough outline.
Zhou An looked at the woman in black busy with her hands, stroked his chin, and asked, “Can you describe him specifically, that is, physical features and such, yes, it’s the look, the look, do you understand?”
In order to make the black-clothed woman understand her meaning better, Zhou An had only just said half a sentence before coalescing all the language into two words – look.
The woman in black in front of her couldn’t understand, but after hearing the two words, look, she immediately understood Zhou An’s meaning, and stood in place frowning her small eyebrows in agony, as if pondering, how to present it to Zhou An.
After a while, the woman in black’s eyes lit up slightly, as if she had already thought of it, so she gently stomped her foot in front of Zhou An.
In the next moment, at the bottom of the woman in black’s feet, a glowing eight trigrams appeared, and in an instant, enveloped the entirety of this wilderness.
When the wilderness was enveloped, a radiant butterfly emerged on the gossip.
This butterfly Zhou An recognized, it was the butterfly that had shown them the way not long ago.
Zhou An was puzzled, not knowing what the woman in black was doing with a butterfly at this time.
But he knew that the woman in black definitely had a purpose for doing so, so he said nothing and waited patiently.
As expected, when Zhou An waited for a while, these butterflies that were as bright as stars, fluttered their wings that were made up of rays of light, and gradually coalesced in mid-air, before turning into a tall silhouette.
There was also a portion of light that coalesced into a chair with an exaggerated outline.
The scenery in front of him that coalesced from the butterflies turned into the appearance of a man sitting on a chair.
Zhou An could not clearly see the man’s face, but just this scene simulated by the woman in black already carried a deep sense of oppression.
The man sat on the chair with a sense of contempt for the living, as if the living under this world were nothing more than ants.
This was still only what the woman in black had simulated with the Tong Tian arithmetic, without fully simulating it, it was already oppressive.
“What next?” Zhou An asked.
The woman in black scratched her head, then waved her white right hand at the coalesced mass of light.
Accompanied by the woman in black waving her right hand, the next moment, the man made up of light, stood up from his chair.
And the surrounding eight trigrams were changing, coalescing to form a cliff face made up of light.
At this moment, the man came on top of the cliff face, his hands behind his back, as if he was looking at the bewildered beings below the cliff.
After a while, underneath the cliff face made up of light, a tiny ball of light suddenly emerged.
The ball of light continued to coalesce in mid-air, and eventually transformed into a baby made of light, slowly falling into the man’s hands.
Man.
Baby.
Zhou An fell into thought.
This scene that emerged in front of him should be connected to the woman in black, so what would happen later?
Zhou An patiently watched on.
He was looking forward to the next changes.
But in the next moment, the scenery in front of him suddenly disappeared.
Everything returned to its original state, still in that wilderness.
The woman in black stared at Zhou An with big, innocent eyes and uttered two words, “It’s gone.”
The corner of Zhou An’s mouth twitched slightly, “That’s it?”
The woman in black nodded, indicating that it was indeed gone, and with her head lowered, she came next to Zhou An, pulled Zhou An’s hand, and raised that white face, “Go home.”
By this point, Zhou An also understood that what the woman in black had seen in the middle of the reincarnation was only so much of a sight.
However, he felt that there was definitely something wrong with the man sitting on the chair.
These things should have been experienced by the woman in black at one time or another, and that man, who was made up of light, and the woman in black were bound to have a connection.
Especially the baby that the man was holding in his hands, it was very likely to have a huge relationship with the woman in black.
Thinking of this, instead of going home first, Zhou An made a gesture of holding the baby in his arms, and then said to the woman in black, “Baby, you?”
The meaning of his words was to ask if the baby in his arms was the woman in black.
After all, according to the current connection, coupled with some of Zhou An’s thoughts, he felt that it could very well be.
Having read so many web novels in his previous life as well, his thoughts had always been clear in this regard.
Who knew that when Zhou An said this, the woman in black scratched her head with a confused look.
“Baby …… like.”
Although her expression was very confused, the woman in black still answered Zhou An, which meant that the woman in black was also unclear and only received a plausible answer.
Zhou An touched his chin and asked again, “The man is you?”
The woman in black still shook her head, “The man …… is like!”
“Like, what does it mean?” Zhou An fell into thought.
This answer was too ambiguous for him to figure out.
The woman in black looked left and right, and with her comprehension today, she could only understand it as one meaning.
–If you can’t figure it out, you won’t be able to return home for a while.
She had come out to stroll for a long time, the freshness at the very beginning had already disappeared, and at this moment, she missed the chair at home.
So at this moment, the woman in black fell into a daze when she saw Zhou An’s contemplative state.
At this moment, a stream of messy memories came into the black-clothed woman’s mind, and the black-clothed woman seemed to remember something again.
She carefully glanced at Zhou An and stomped her foot again, and the glowing gossip reappeared.
After it appeared, the scene from earlier, once again surfaced before Zhou An’s eyes.
At this time, the woman in black pulled Zhou An and slowly came to the edge of the cliff, pointing to the bottom of the cliff.
Only then did Zhou An see the situation below the cliff clearly.
At the bottom of the cliff, at this moment, there was a black eye, gazing at the man on the cliff.
Within the eye, it carried a powerful killing force, as if it was capable of silencing all living beings.
It carried a terrifying sense of oppression.
The woman in black pointed at the eye and said with a face full of excitement and happiness, “Eye, like!”
Seeing this scene, the corner of Zhou An’s mouth twitched slightly.
Another word like, this like, made him unable to recognize the word now.
From his angle, the eye underneath carried an extremely strong sense of oppression, that sense of oppression was even stronger than the man who was condensed from the light.
According to what the woman in black had just said, not only men and babies, but even the eye at the bottom of the cliff looked like her.
Zhou An felt that the identity of this woman in black was getting stranger and stranger.
Just then, the woman in black looked like she was meditating, and it took a while before her eyes lit up, and then she pointed at the eight trigrams at her feet again.
Along with this action, that eye suddenly radiated a light.
When the light appeared, it shot directly towards the man above the cliff.
At the same time, the man’s reaction was also quick.
When the light was about to approach, he violently stretched out his right hand to block the light.
However, this light carried an endless destruction, as if it was able to smash this heaven and earth, silencing everything.
The cliff began to tremble, and the man’s right hand began to crumble.
At this moment, the man made a movement that surprised Zhou An.
Only to see the man lift the baby in his hand and slam it down hard on the ground.
The baby landed on the ground and was dropped by the man into a sky full of stars.
Zhou An was able to feel that the terrifying eyes at the bottom of the cliff were gradually rising in anger.
At the same time, the light carried the power of destruction and began to gradually change.
The man’s right hand gradually collapsed, the speed of the collapse was intensifying, and a large portion of the man’s right hand had already disappeared.
Just as the light was about to exterminate the man, suddenly, a lightning bolt that stretched for a thousand meters struck above the cliff.
The eyes under the cliff began to vibrate and gradually disappeared in the lightning.
Everything returned to calm.
The danger below the cliff disappeared.
The lightning was too fast, and Zhou An was startled by it, but he quickly calmed down, intending to continue looking.
But the scenery in front of him shattered once again, and the surroundings returned to their original state.
The woman in black scratched her head, with a meditative look, as if thinking, how to show the next scenario, but after thinking for half a day, she didn’t come up with any clues, which in turn made the woman in black anxious to go back and forth.
Next to her, Ye Frost also saw this scene, after thinking for a moment, coldly said: ”I think …… she seems to remember some, but can not think of the end, in the joyful reincarnation, perhaps only experienced to the scene on the cliff, and later, we just saw the second scene, it should be that she recalled some things , but that’s as far as it goes.”
Zhou An nodded, these things Ye Frost could see, he could likewise see.
Just like what Ye Frost had said, the appearance of the second act should be some of the memories that the woman in black had thought of.
However, seeing that the woman in black now had a look of grasping her ears and whining, Zhou An also knew in his heart that the subsequent ones she would not be able to recall.
Through the clues obtained so far, the origin of the woman in black in front of her was definitely not simple.
That man, that baby, and that eye at the bottom of the cliff, there was bound to be a connection between the three.
Especially when the woman in black said that the man, the baby and the eye looked like her, Zhou An had already brainstormed quite a few possibilities.
He had long since stopped being the white guy he used to be, and after reading the books given by the Emperor, he had already come out of his budding state, so when Zhou An combined those books given to him by the Emperor and extrapolated them carefully, he suddenly came up with an idea.
“The thunderbolt that struck at the end made the eye disappear, otherwise it couldn’t have allowed the man to live, and the reason why the eye was angry was because the man snatched the baby.”
“At that time, the man was facing a situation of certain death, and very decisively dropped the baby on the ground, then I have a small guess.” Zhou An slowly said, “This baby, definitely has a significant role, was intercepted by the man midway, that’s why it triggered the battle between the two parties, as for what exactly is that thunder light that appeared later on, that’s something I can’t figure out a little bit.”
Since everything was now said, he was not in a hurry, taking advantage of Ye Frost being here, the two of them would discuss it, and maybe they would be able to make new discoveries.
After all, three ignorant cobblers topped one Zhuge Liang.
Actually, Ye Frost couldn’t figure this out either.
Especially that inexplicable thunder light, she always felt as if it was repelling that eye.
But what Zhou An thought of, was also what she thought of, and she couldn’t say anything else.
The two fell into a state of meditation.
At this time, the woman in black, who had been anxiously circling by the side, suddenly stopped and her eyes lit up again.
Seeing this scene, Zhou An also knew that the woman in black must have thought of something again, and said, “Tell me whatever comes to mind.”
The woman in black was urged by Zhou An like this, and stomped her foot again, and the gossip surfaced once again.
Immediately after, it was the same scene as before, but at the moment, it was continuing the section that had just begun to disappear.
The man made up of light, his right hand had disappeared without a trace, but he was oblivious to the fact that he just snapped his fingers, and his right hand was surprisingly restored in a matter of moments.
The man came to the edge of the cliff, gazed into its depths, opened his mouth, and spat out silent words.
There was no sound, but it wasn’t a big problem.
The woman in black’s face suddenly became serious, and in the gaze of Zhou An and Ye Frost, she pretended to speak in a very coarse voice, “I’m sorry that I killed her, but she doesn’t have to die, she’ll live, and it’s safer than following you, and it’s safer than following me.”
As the words fell, the woman in black returned to that blank look, followed by the complete disappearance of the light and shadow made up of this bagua.
The woman in black pointed at her head and said to Zhou An, “Empty.”
Meaning, at this time, she had an empty head and could not remember anything.
Zhou An nodded his head, his face expressionless, but his heart turned up in a torrential wave.
That scene just now might have been just a few short words, but it brought with it a large amount of information.
At this moment, due to those few words, Zhou An had already connected all the causes and consequences.
In the depths of that cliff, what exactly was the identity of that eye, Zhou An was not sure.
The only thing he knew was one thing.
That man snatched the baby, seemingly to kill the baby, but according to the meaning of the man’s words, it was to let the baby be reborn in another way.
The woman in black said that the man, the baby and the eyes all looked like her, so did that mean that the woman in black was that baby?
After all, the current woman in black and rebirth seemed to be somewhat connected.
Zhou An felt that it was very possible.
If that was the case, then the mystery was even greater.
Who was this man?
At the bottom of the cliff, who was the owner of that eye?
And who was the baby that was most likely the woman in black?
These mysteries were difficult to solve with the current clues.
Ye Frost was also shocked by this news and looked at the woman in black with a hint of shock in her eyes.
However, the woman in black went as if she didn’t realize it, but turned her head, grabbed Zhou An’s hand, and said in a bewildered tone, “Go home.”
On this trip today, especially this last moment, the woman in black always felt that her brain was being emptied out.
The head itched, as if it was about to grow a brain.
After Zhou An thought for a moment, he nodded and said, “Let’s go back first.”
Looking at the rhythm, after reenacting some scenarios three times in a row, the black-clothed woman couldn’t seem to remember anything.
The information obtained so far was very messy and mixed, Zhou An felt that it needed some time to digest it.
Ye Frost thought for a moment, then nodded and agreed.
The few people didn’t stay here for much longer, and rushed in the direction of the Maple Forest State.
On the way back, it was naturally quiet, with no one speaking.
Luckily, nothing unusual happened in the middle of the journey, and they returned to the Maple Forest State smoothly.
“Snap!”
Zhou An closed the door behind him before pouring a cup of tea for Ye Frost.
When she returned home, the woman in black gleefully sat on the chair and resumed that heartless state, as if this chair was all she had.
“It seems that her identity is mysterious enough.” Zhou An looked at the woman in black and slowly said, “What do you think?”
These words were asked to Ye Frost.
Zhou An actually had a deeper meaning when he asked this sentence.
This time, the reason why he had traveled to the Vulcan Villa was actually related to the State Master.
The National Master’s meaning was that this trip would be conducive to unraveling the identity of the woman in black.
Now, it seemed that the National Master had calculated correctly.
It did unravel a part of it, but one could only know that the woman in black was related to the eyes deep in that cliff.
Other than that, the rest was unclear.
And the reason why he said this to Ye Frost was also to probe Ye Frost’s mouth.
After all, Ye Frost had also seen what the woman in black had displayed.
Although Ye Frost was a cold person on the surface and a foodie on the ground, it didn’t mean that she was a fool.
If she was truly a stupid person, she wouldn’t have become the ninth disciple of the State Master.
Purity of mind and stupidity were not connected in any way.
She could hear that Zhou An was testing, and in fact, this kind of testing was normal.
After all, Zhou An was clear about her, but not the State Master behind her.
Thinking of this, Ye Frost organized her language before saying, “Teacher said that no matter what she sees, it doesn’t matter, as long as she is still tied to you.”
Zhou An stroked his chin and asked, “What is the explanation for this?”
The woman in black is fine as long as she is tied up with him, is it hard to believe that the State Master is so assured of him?
To tell the truth, even if the State Master was assured of him, he was not assured of the State Master, after all, he was the notorious old yinbi of the Great Chu Kingdom.
Ye Frost thought for a while, then still gritting her teeth, she decided to say what her teacher did not let her say, “Zhou An this sentence you must not say out.”
At this moment, Ye Frost was like a person who shared a secret, and before doing so, uttered a classic.
Many people would say to another person when they tell a secret, don’t ever tell the truth, this is the state now, Zhou An made a motion of keeping his mouth shut and said, “I’ve always been very strict with my mouth.”
Ye Frost nodded, “In fact, the teacher before this, with the method of divination of the Taoist sect, counted your …… result seems to be very panicked and retreated.”
Speaking of this, Ye Frost couldn’t help but recall the scene at that time.
At that time, she was beside her teacher, and then watched as her teacher, with a very immortal and Taoist appearance, was divining Zhou An.
However, this immortal-like appearance didn’t even last for a second, and soon retreated in a panic, as if he had seen something terrifying.
She swore that she had never seen her teacher so flustered in her life.
But when she asked the teacher herself what she had seen, she didn’t say a word about it, and didn’t let her tell Zhou An.
As for why she told Zhou An now ……
Ye Frost didn’t know, but she just wanted to tell Zhou An.
Zhou An pondered for a moment and asked, “What did the State Master see?”
Ye Frost shook her head, indicating that she did not know.
This was a true ignorance on her part.
Zhou An also understood that Ye Frost had spoken to this point, and there was no need to lie to himself about the rest, and after thinking about it, he put his hands behind his head and said, “Alright, it doesn’t matter, we’ll see it later.”
It has come to this point, what should be understood has also been understood, in that case, then take a step and see what happens.
Zhou An now had a goal, and liver proficiency was his only goal.
And under this goal, figuring out the background of the woman in black’s life, that was the second goal.
In Zhou An’s opinion, these two goals could be done at the same time, and there was no rush now.
As long as the Holy Spirit Demonic Body was brushed more and more, the clearer the woman in black would become, plus after that, he would also develop his own arithmetic related skills, he felt that after this skill became stronger and stronger, he would also be able to gauge the root of the woman in black with his own hands.
And he felt that he should be very bullish.
To be precise, it wasn’t that he was bullish, but that Goldfinger was bullish.
With the fat monk inexplicably going crazy, coupled with the fact that the State Master couldn’t count himself either, Zhou An was a very pushy person, and he knew that it must have something to do with his Golden Finger.
Anyone else who encountered these things one after another would feel very grave.
Zhou An was different, he was a spontaneous person himself, plus at all times, Zhou An had a principle, which was to live the present first while focusing on the future.
As long as one could grow stronger and stronger, the future would also grow better and better.
That was why Zhou An had temporarily buried all the clues in his heart after sorting them out until now.
He knew that at some point in the future, it would definitely be unraveled.
“I’m hungry.” Ye Frost suddenly covered his stomach with a pitiful look.
This was already the norm, when she was in Settlement County, it was Zhou An who took her around to go on eating binges.
When Ye Frost was on her own, sometimes when she was in the capital, she would also go out to eat in her gray state, but Ye Frost always felt like she was missing something.
This time, after seeing Zhou An, he felt that the lesser thing in his heart was leveled out.
When Zhou An heard Ye Frost say this, he thought about it, this trip has been running around, it seems like he really didn’t eat any meals, so he stood up, “Alright, go, I’ll take you to try the specialty snacks of Maple Forest State.”
When Ye Frost heard this, his eyes lit up and his foodie attribute instantly erupted, nodding his head like a chicken pecking at rice.
At this time, everyone had nothing to clean up, so they were ready to go out.
The woman in black’s eyes turned slightly.
Don’t look at her face full of confusion right now, but she quickly carried the chair on her shoulder, as if she was afraid of losing this thing.
Even if she had to follow, she would still have to bring the chair with her.
Seeing this scene, Zhou An said breathlessly, “You put it at home and no one came to steal it, what are you afraid of?”
The woman in black shook her head, then pointed to her head and said pitifully, “It’s empty.”
This meant to tell Zhou An that he had just reminisced too much, and that he was now carrying this chair in order to soothe the memories in his heart.
Seeing this stubborn appearance of the woman in black, Zhou An knew that there was nothing he could do, and could only extend his hand towards the woman in black.
The woman in black had a joyful expression on her face, joyfully holding Zhou An’s palm with an I am obedient look.
With everything ready, Zhou An then took Ye Frost and the woman in black and headed to a small stall in the Maple Forest State.
On this journey, Zhou An became a sight to behold.
To be precise, it was the woman in black next to him that became the scenery.
Before going out, Ye Frost had returned to his gray-clothed state and became ordinary.
Only the black-clothed woman carrying the chair caused people to give her frequent side glances.
Sitting in front of the stall, Zhou An looked at the woman in black who was still holding the chair, and shouted to the stall owner next to him, “Serve the food, specialties each come with one.”
“Okay!” The boss left with a smile.
Next, another two or three days passed.
These two or three days down, Zhou An also did not have liver proficiency, almost accompanying Ye Frost, eating all over the entire Maple Forest State.
To say that it was still a person in the line of work, this eating was like a bottomless pit.
Ye Frost was also happy after a long time, the gray state has continued, at all times a heartless look.
Well, this day didn’t last much longer, Ye Frost had to leave.
This time, he had come here on the orders of the State Master, and the matter had been completed, and he had had enough fun staying these two or three days, so Ye Frost left happily.
“Goodbye, Zhou An.” Ye Frost kept his gray clothes and stood at the city gate of Maple Forest State, shaking his hand at Zhou An.
Zhou An waved his hand in greeting and looked at Ye Frost’s back as he gradually left.
Only after Ye Frost had left did he then take the black-clothed woman’s hand and rush towards the inside of Maple Forest State.
On this trip, Zhou An did not return home, but traveled to another place.
In fact, in these few days when he did not have liver proficiency and had been accompanying Ye Frost to eat and drink in Maple Forest State, he had long been thinking that there was a method on how to improve arithmetic.
Since it was about improving arithmetic, then it was just simple calculations.
In the recent period of time, he tried the mental arithmetic oral arithmetic, these are quietly tried, but there is no effect.
So then Zhou An thought, this thing has to be a different method.
Since it was counting, it had to actually be counted with a tool.
So he decided to try the abacus.
Abacus in this era, is the most important tool for counting, in fact, Zhou An had understood it before, but as a person who had traveled from the previous life, this thing will not be at all.
So Zhou An upholds the attitude of learning if you don’t know how, he decides to learn it first.
As for how to learn, it was related to today’s destination.
Pulling the woman in black, it wasn’t long before Zhou An arrived at the destination of this trip.
–Fenglin State’s Hengtong Chamber of Commerce.
Inside the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce.
At this moment, the person in charge, Meng Jiang, was sitting in the meeting room, pouring a cup of tea for the old man across from him.