Chapter 43: The Inner Demon Breaks the Seal and Brakes
"This is the capital city, there are so many people." Ge Yiyi looked around, shuttling through the crowd like a butterfly, and her clear and pleasant voice came from time to time, adding a bit of fun to the boring journey.
As for Wu Yi, he was not very willing to stay here. He walked hurriedly, eager to pass through the crowd and find a secluded place to rest temporarily. It was not that he was born in the prime minister's family of the Great Xuan Kingdom and was accustomed to prosperity, unlike Ge Yiyi, who was restrained by his family at home since childhood and did not know the vastness of the world.
But Wu Yi found that after entering this prosperous place, the inner demon suddenly attacked and tore a crack in the seal. No matter how he tried to make up for it, he could not completely repair it, but at least he stopped the trend of further expansion.
The shouting and hawking, the crying and begging of children, the fluttering clothes of women, and the faint ravines on their chests as they walked, as well as the interlaced fragrance and stench in his nose, made Wu Yi alert, because he didn't know whether what he saw and heard was true or false. Not long ago, he heard Li Gu's voice calling him, but fortunately, he was familiar with Li Gu's speaking style and knew that he would not speak like that, and he was not deceived by the inner demon.
Li Gu, who was walking at the end, looked at Wu Yi in front of him and was very confused, because Wu Yi's aura was very strange, sometimes calm as water, sometimes violent as fire, sometimes the two auras combined, and sometimes the two auras clashed fiercely, but this change was almost invisible under the cover of the crowd. If Li Gu hadn't paid attention to Wu Yi, even he would not have noticed it at all.
But Li Gu had not yet comprehended the Tao rhyme, and could not see that this was a Tao rhyme confrontation, a confrontation that was bloodless but enough to determine fate.
Wu Yi never expected that just walking on the capital avenue, the inner demon would suddenly attack. Now on the street, the inner demon's six dusts are like fish in water, and any illusion is enough to be mistaken for the real thing.
A five or six-year-old child suddenly appeared in front of him and stood in the middle of the road. Wu Yi turned sideways to avoid him. Who knew that this was just the color dust of the inner demon, which made Wu Yi see the children on both sides of the road as in the middle of the road. Wu Yi turned sideways, not only did he not avoid him, but he bumped into the real child, causing the child's mother to complain. If she hadn't seen Wu Yi in a Taoist robe and knew that he was a Taoist priest, she would have said a lot of dirty words. Fortunately, Wu Yi apologized repeatedly and finally got the woman's understanding and stopped pestering her, but it also made Wu Yi look embarrassed.
Because of this incident, Wu Yi was also looked at curiously by other disciples for several times. I don't know why he bumped into the child on the side. Yes, in the eyes of outsiders, Wu Yi didn't walk on the right road, but bumped into the side, as if he wanted to hit the child on purpose. If Wu Yi hadn't been keeping his head down, as if he was worried, his bumping into the child wouldn't have been considered unintentional by other disciples.
Wu Yi lowered his head to concentrate on making up for the Daoyun seal. Although this took a lot of energy and his mind was mostly focused on this matter, after all, he had a strong mental power from visualizing the stone tablet every day, so he wouldn't be unable to see the road clearly. In the end, it was the devil in his heart that did it.
If Wu Yi hadn't stood carefully behind others and watched them move, he would have made a lot of jokes. For example, it was clearly an intersection, but Wu Yi saw it as a brothel because of his devil in his heart. Seeing everyone entering the brothel one by one, Wu Yi was stunned. After confirming that the people in front of him were not illusions, Wu Yi confirmed that the brothel was an illusion. He suppressed his trembling heart and walked into the "brothel" with a calm face. As his footsteps fell, all the beautiful women with colorful skirts turned into phantoms and gradually dissipated.
Finally, after more than half an hour, the group finally arrived at their destination, the largest Taoist temple in the capital. Usually, it was just a place for mortals to pray to God. There were not many monks living here. They were all managed by some disciples who could not improve their cultivation. Even so, there were tens of thousands of pilgrims a day, and countless incense halls, enough for disciples from Taoist temples across the country to live here. However, if there were monks staying, the guest rooms would be closed and pilgrims were not allowed to live here at night.
When approaching the capital, Wu Yi and his group took back the flying boat. It was not allowed to be rude to the emperor in the capital. As for the flying boat, it seemed to have some inscriptions. When Li Gu urged it, the flying boat shrank to a size that could be held in one hand and was put into Li Gu's sleeve. The disciples of Qingshui City in Runan County found an excuse to leave halfway after the banquet and did not continue with Wu Yi and his group. Although Wu Yi felt sorry that he could not continue to travel with the generous Fan Mingqing, he did not say much. After all, it was better to separate. At least Li Gu must have thought so in his heart. Wu Yi did not have the idea of singing a different tune from Li Gu.
Walking into the magnificent Taoist temple, you will see a huge lake, which adds a sense of tranquility to the bustling capital, but the smoke everywhere in the Taoist temple reminds Wu Yi that this is a place for mortals to burn incense.
In the sparkling waves and the curling smoke, there are thousands of towers and pavilions, golden palaces and palaces, shengs, xiaos, jade flutes, and mysterious sounds.
If a mortal came in, he would be amazed by the heaven, but Wu Yi could see at a glance that it was just a few simple spells, or those spells that he had abandoned and used to deceive some mortals. Some of them were not even spells, but just a trick. If you are careful, even mortals can see it.
But after all, he was away from home, so Wu Yi didn't want to be so particular about it. Besides, showing off his magical powers too much in front of the emperor would cause trouble. Since ancient times, there were countless kings who failed to become immortals. If the emperor, who enjoyed all the prosperity in the world, practiced Taoism, he would encounter many more disasters than ordinary people. Even the cultivator who led the emperor into the door of Taoism would not have a good end, and would surely fall into the three disasters and five calamities.
Therefore, the masters of the Taoist world often do not show their magical powers in front of the emperor. They always send their disciples to use some small magic to deceive the emperor. As for whether the emperor knows the story behind it, no one cares, but even if the emperor abandons the throne to cultivate immortality, he will encounter many more disasters.
In the Taoist temple, there were many people dressed as Taoists standing on both sides to give guidance. Most of them were mortals, and they did not even have the sense of Qi, but there were also some old Taoists in purple robes who would welcome foundation-building cultivators like Li Gu. These old Taoists were not necessarily much lower than Li Gu. Many of them were also in the first stage of foundation-building, but most of them were content with wealth and honor, and only wanted to enjoy their grandchildren and live out their lives in peace, and no longer had the ambitions of their youth.
The places where foundation-building cultivators and Wu Yi, who were in the first stage of Qi-refining, lived were naturally different. They lived in the inner courtyard, each of them had a quiet courtyard, while Wu Yi lived in the outer courtyard, which was just a cramped small house, which was usually a place for pilgrims to live, but fortunately he did not live with others, but had a separate space.
Moreover, many monks gathered, and runes that blocked vision and hearing were also placed on the door. There were also runes of solidity that made the door stronger than gold and iron. You should know that the foul air exhaled by the monks during cultivation is enough to pierce a hole in the ground. If there is no prior preparation, the house will be full of holes after the disciples move in and cannot be lived in.
In fact, the room is not so shabby. Of course, compared with the stone table and stone bed in Wu Yi's cave, other disciples who can practice Taoism have strong family backgrounds. They have all kinds of external things, not to mention luxury and wealth, and there are endless servants to serve them. How can they look like practicing Taoism? The last sentence was said by Wang Chuchen to Wu Yi, which shows that he is deeply dissatisfied with this, but more of a warning to Wu Yi not to fall into corruption.
Although he knew that there were runes that blocked vision and hearing after the investigation, Wu Yi was still worried and placed a few more runes. These were runes of warning, blocking and killing. Even when Wu Yi was practicing, he had time to spare a little mind to defend against the enemy.
After looking at his masterpiece, Wu Yi nodded with satisfaction, and then he concentrated on solving the inner demon in his heart. Today's incident made him very angry.
Once he left the crowded place, the inner demon had fewer external objects to rely on. If he wanted to deceive Wu Yi again, he would need to create illusions out of thin air. He could not transfer or move real objects, which was very easy for Wu Yi to see, so he gradually calmed down, but the inner demon's calmness did not mean that Wu Yi was willing to let it go. Especially since the Dao Yun seal that the inner demon broke had not been completely repaired.
Wu Yi tried to use his own Dao Yun of the Great Dao of Quiet to erase the alien Dao Yun of the inner demon, but the result was the same as before, with no effect. It was like cutting leeks, one crop after another, and it was endless. Instead, it became tougher little by little. Every time it was erased, more energy was needed to erase it. Not only was there no possibility of repairing the broken gap, but there were signs of it getting bigger and bigger. Now Wu Yi relied entirely on his powerful Dao Yun to suppress it, and dared not relax.
But this is not a long-term solution. Before, the inner demon came out to make trouble in the crowded place, but now it gradually calmed down in the quiet place, but insisted on not letting Wu Yi repair the gap, which was the channel it relied on to influence the outside world. Even if Wu Yi has a slight advantage now, once he goes to that prosperous place again, wouldn’t it give the inner demon another chance to stir up trouble.
So Wu Yi must close the gap opened by the inner demon, otherwise it will greatly restrict himself. Apart from anything else, he dare not not go to the birthday party of the king in a few days. If he goes, if the inner demon causes trouble again, it will be embarrassing in front of the whole country. This is something Wu Yi cannot tolerate.
But now Wu Yi wants to close the gap with all his heart, but he has been unable to succeed. He can't help but feel flustered and lost his past calmness.
But in the Dao Yun confrontation, it is precisely necessary to fully exert one's Dao Yun. Wu Yi comprehended the Dao Yun of the Great Dao of Stillness, which emphasizes the use of stillness to control movement, while the Dao Yun of the Heart Demon is just the opposite, emphasizing the use of constant movement to wear down the enemy's living power and find the enemy's flaws to succeed in one fell swoop.
This has already been reflected in the previous Dao Yun confrontation, but the problem is that Wu Yi's Dao Yun is much thicker and more magnificent than the Dao Yun of the Heart Demon. It is like a choice question of whether a slow-moving but powerful elephant is willing to let a clever kitten provoke him. Wu Yi's choice is no.
But the result is that Wu Yi not only failed to achieve anything, but also exhausted himself. Although the Heart Demon has not launched a counterattack, once it sees the opportunity, it will probably be like thunder and lightning, and the host and guest will change instantly.
After a long time of fatigue, Wu Yi gradually realized his mistake and no longer tried to block and eliminate the Dao Yun of the Heart Demon, but built a larger encirclement outside it and expanded the defense line.
After the inner demon no longer felt oppressed, it thought Wu Yi was exhausted and tried to counterattack, but when it expanded the crack, the original seal became as fragile as a cardboard and was easily torn. Just when it thought it had escaped and intended to compete with Wu Yi for control of the body again, a new line of defense blocked it.
This time Wu Yi took control of the initiative. After discovering the attack direction of the inner demon, he flexibly mobilized the arrangement of Dao Yun and always suppressed the inner demon tightly. There were also times when Wu Yi made mistakes in judgment and the inner demon almost broke out, but in the end he persisted. The inner demon became tired and gradually shrank its power. Wu Yi took advantage of the situation and occupied it. Finally, Wu Yi completed the repair and bound the inner demon again.
"Is this the way to use Dao Yun?" After the end, Wu Yi looked at the inner demon and recalled the previous confrontation, muttering to himself.
What Wu Yi didn't know was that this was just his way of using Dao Yun, and it might not be applicable to all Daos. It was a bit of a generalization. But he would know these things sooner or later in the future.
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