Chapter 1163 Return to the Land
The Chaos Beast performed various future changes for Wu Yi's reference, but Wu Yi did not follow the advice given by the Chaos Beast completely.
On the one hand, it was because the Chaos Beast knew limited things and the advice given was full of mistakes and omissions, so it could not be trusted; on the other hand, it was also because Wu Yi needed to prove that he had enough ability to not be affected by the Chaos Beast.
Therefore, this simple dispute about the route forward actually became a contest between the two, or a battle of wits.
The battle between immortals is not as dazzling and dizzying as ordinary people imagine. There are also plain words, and such seemingly simple, but actually requires great mental support for the deduction of the way forward.
Wu Yi has more information, because this is what he had experienced before, and it stands to reason that he will go on the right path.
But it is not necessarily the case. There are so many strange and extraordinary things in the West Sea. How can we guarantee that there will be no mistakes?
According to the deduction of the Chaos Beast, Taotie is likely to have left, but if Wu Yi does not go to the site in person to see it once, how could he give up?
In order to gain the upper hand in this invisible battle, Wu Yi deliberately chose several routes planned by the Chaos Beast, which are likely to have problems.
What is a problem? The closer to the depths of the West Sea, the higher the possibility of problems. The fear of the past still lingers in Wu Yi's heart.
Through step-by-step calculations and field verification, Wu Yi proved the problem of the road chosen by the Chaos Beast, and then turned to his own road. In this way, even if there are some problems in the middle, the comparison between the two is better than the Chaos Beast, which is considered to be suppressed.
Are you curious? They are obviously two immortals, why are they still arguing like children? Isn't it a bit childish?
In fact, this sentence is right and wrong. Although the way looks like a child, children will not think about the deep meaning behind things. They laugh when they are happy and make trouble when they are unhappy.
However, every detail of the battle between Wu Yi and the Chaos Beast, both overt and covert, is worth pondering. It is not only that the Chaos Beast is deeply studying Wu Yi, but also that Wu Yi is suppressing the Chaos Beast.
After the setback of the Taowu Beast before, the Chaos Beast was much more depressed and no longer looked down on Wu Yi as it did at the beginning, but it was still a little short of making it convinced by Wu Yi.
The Chaos Beast is also different from ordinary monsters. It does not like to fight head-on. Otherwise, Wu Yi would have found an opportunity to fight with it long ago, instead of being scheming like now.
For example, the reason why Taotie was willing to listen to Wu Yi's words before was because Wu Yi showed enough strength in front of it and treated it with courtesy, so Taotie was willing to follow Wu Yi.
Different people need to be conquered by different means. It's such a simple truth.
The journey was silent for nearly a month. If it hadn't been for the twists and turns along the way and the chaos beast, which took some time, the speed would have been faster. Of course, it didn't delay the business.
When they came to the place where they last sensed the breath of Taotie, their spiritual consciousness dissipated and they found nothing. The water of the West Sea was filled with a strong dead air that had not receded for years. Wu Yi was sure that this was the place where he last sensed Taotie. Now he sensed it again, but he found nothing, not even a trace of cause and effect.
The land of the West Sea, apart from anything else, just the ability to hide cause and effect is a good place to rob money and take treasures. It is a very dangerous place. Those who dare to go deep into this place must be people who rely on others, not to mention desperate people.
I don't know if it's because Taotie sneaked into the West Sea and was blocked by dead water, so they couldn't sense the qi. Wu Yi and the chaos beast searched for more than a thousand miles, but found nothing. Even when they sacrificed the black lotus, they still didn't get the breath of Taotie.
"Where are we going now?" The Chaos Beast looked at Wu Yi and asked.
If Wu Yi remembered correctly, this was the first time the Chaos Beast asked Wu Yi for his opinion, which was rare. A look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and Wu Yi said, "Go to the corner of Southern Xinjiang. If Taotie can't find me, maybe he will go back there!"
After that, Wu Yi drew a curtain in the sky and pointed out the specific location above.
"Are you so sure?" The Chaos Beast was a little curious.
Wu Yi raised his mouth, looking confident. To outsiders, he looked arrogant, but only Wu Yi knew in his heart that it was just a possibility. However, if he was not confident in himself, how could he drive the Chaos Beast?
Besides, even if he didn't find Taotie, he couldn't go in vain.
Thinking of this, Wu Yi looked towards the Great Ji Dynasty outside the blue waves of the West Sea, that is, the direction of the land. Wu Yi carried the Black Lotus, and the Black Lotus was the symbol of the Great Ji Dynasty's calamity. In recent times, more and more calamity gathered at the Black Lotus. Even if you use your toes to think, you can understand that there must have been changes in the Great Ji Dynasty.
The calamity that gathered was sometimes not pure, and it would also carry the resentment of the people. Through these resentments, Wu Yi could also roughly understand the current situation of the Great Ji Dynasty. To a certain extent, even the emperor of the dynasty was not as rich in information as Wu Yi.
To manage tens of millions of people, the number of officials, big and small, alone was calculated in the millions. Although the emperor was knowledgeable and strong, there was a limit after all.
He is not an immortal. With a mortal body, it is impossible for him to remember all the officials. As for the people below, it is even more impossible. The control over the dynasty is limited to the area controlled by the confidants. If the person in charge of a place has two minds and makes false reports, it is difficult to detect it.
Especially after the emperor fainted for no reason before, the people below were active and wanted to attach themselves to the new emperor as soon as possible. Gradually, the emperor's control over the country became weaker and weaker.
And the first to challenge the emperor's authority were not the extraordinary forces such as Taoism, Buddhism, Demonism, or Shinto gods, but his most "intimate" sons.
The crown prince Yong Wang, who is the master Wu Yi serves in person, is elected in the east; the eldest prince Lu Wang is in the west, and it is this Lu Wang who wants the holy tree of the White Horse people to refine white lacquer.
The second prince Jin Wang is in the south; the third prince Jing Wang is in the north. Wu Yi has no intersection with these two. If he has, he just saw them from a distance, without any cause and effect entanglement.
Seeing that the emperor's body was getting older and his ability to restrain himself was weakened, and the time for the end of the election system was getting closer, the people's evaluation of them was mixed. In order to successfully ascend to the throne, several princes chose to provoke border frictions to win the hearts of the people.