#918 - Neither Being nor Non-Being (II)

Yun'an Temple.

Broken walls and dilapidated buildings, a scene of utter ruin.

The cold moonlight fell on a man and a Buddha, the silver glow lightly dyeing the surrounding desolation.

His hands clenched the Longquan sword tightly, drops of blood sliding from between his fingers.

Countless broken swords scattered across the ground, the dying Zhulong and Huanglong crawling among the nearby rocks, their massive bodies trembling slightly.

Three shichen, six hours.

Wei Changtian's eyes had long turned bloodshot, and the robes on his body were even more tattered.

In these six hours, he had tried all possible means, but still could not defeat the golden Buddha in front of him.

Oh, except for Divine Strike.

It wasn't that Wei Changtian was reluctant to use system points, but that he couldn't use it at all.

The reason was the same as when he "Cut Yama" in Fengyuan last time—he couldn't lock onto the target.

In fact, this was not difficult to understand.

After all, this true Buddha was a product of the illusion array, not real.

And Divine Strike certainly couldn't kill something that didn't exist in the first place.

Logically speaking, this was reasonable.

It's just that this made it very difficult for Wei Changtian.

Staring intently at the tall golden body in front of him, his legs trembled uncontrollably from exhaustion.

Wei Changtian could feel that he had reached the point of exhaustion, and now even breathing required all his strength.

He now finally understood that his power could not exceed the upper limit of this illusion array.

And this also meant that he would never be able to break the array by relying on brute force.

Not being able to break the array was not a big problem in itself.

Anyway, he had the Qingjue Jade Pendant. As long as the golden Buddha took action to "kill" him, he could use the jade pendant to escape.

However, the former seemed to be deliberately avoiding this from happening. It clearly had several opportunities to kill him, but stopped at the last moment each time.

Obviously, the old beggar didn't want him to escape.

He wanted to kill him today.

Fuck his mother!

Slowly closing his eyes, Wei Changtian felt a sense of despair for the first time.

Including the Qingjue Jade Pendant, all the life-saving items in this world had a "baffling" restriction, which was that they could not resist a fatal attack from the holder "himself".

In short, these treasures could save lives, but could not be used to "prevent suicide".

Wei Changtian didn't know the reason, but in short, such a restriction made it impossible for him to trigger the Qingjue Jade Pendant by "punching himself".

The same was true for Ning Yongnian, Yan Huanwen, and others who had died before.

Slowly opening his eyes and looking again at the golden Buddha, which was like an insurmountable mountain, Wei Changtian slowly inserted the Longquan sword back into the Star Blade sheath.

Now he could no longer unleash a single move or sword.

But he knew that this golden Buddha would not attack him again either.

As an illusionary shadow, this golden Buddha was undoubtedly unable to perform a "body search".

Otherwise, it would have snatched away the life-saving items on his body long ago and slapped him to death.

Therefore, its mission should only be to beat him half to death, and then let someone else complete the final blow of "searching the body and killing".

And this person must be a real person.

Looking up at the night sky, Wei Changtian didn't know who the old beggar was going to send into the array to do this.

It might be the unknown Child of Destiny, it might be a small fry, or it might be the old beggar himself.

In short, no matter who it was, they should be arriving soon.

At the same time, in a house not far from Yun'an Temple.

The candlelight in the room was not bright, not even more able to reflect the faces of the old and the young than the moonlight.

"Go."

At a certain moment, the old beggar sitting on the futon slowly opened his eyes and said the first sentence in three shichen.

"It's time."

"..."

His eyes widened slightly, and the young man who had been guarding the old beggar's side asked somewhat urgently:

"Foster father, Wei Changtian, he..."

"Yes, he has reached the end of his rope."

The old beggar nodded slightly, his face unable to hide his fatigue: "Remember, after entering the array, do not talk to him. Just search his body and kill him as quickly as possible."

"No matter what he says, do not believe his bewitchment."

"We most likely only have this one chance."

"Kill him, and the Heavenly Dao luck on his body will all be yours."

"...Foster father, rest assured, your son will return soon."

He was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily.

Although the young man didn't know the situation in the illusion array, he firmly believed the old beggar's words, so he got up immediately to kill Wei Changtian.

However, just as he was about to push the door open, a sentence suddenly rang out from behind him.

"Don't let me down."

"..."

Don't let me down.

Without a doubt, since Wei Changtian no longer had the power to fight back, the old beggar was not worried that the young man would fail.

Therefore, this sentence could only be a warning.

"Foster father..."

The young man paused, how could he not understand the meaning.

He looked back at the old beggar and said with utmost sincerity:

"Your son will never betray you."

"That's good. Go."

"Yes!"

"Creak~"

The door opened and closed again, and the room quickly returned to silence.

Then, the next moment, the old beggar suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, and his expression changed from the previous calmness to something somewhat ferocious.

"I didn't expect you to actually have some ability."

"I originally wanted to keep you to help this old man kill a few more Children of Destiny, but alas..."

"Forget it, it's not bad either..."

"..."

The cold self-talk echoed in the room, and the candlelight in the corner flickered for a moment.

It sounded like the old beggar initially planned to wait for Wei Changtian to kill enough Children of Destiny, plunder enough luck, and then "wipe them all out" and kill Wei Changtian to seize all the luck.

And the reason why he chose not to wait any longer now was probably because Wei Changtian had found out his identity, so he had no choice but to "close the net" early.

As the old beggar said, although it was a bit of a pity, the harvest was enough.

The only thing was that he couldn't go to kill people himself now because he had to control the illusion array, so he could only send the young man.

And this also meant that the old beggar would have to do one more thing sooner or later in order to gather all these Heavenly Dao luck on himself...

"Hehe..."

He sneered and glanced through the window at the figure who had already walked to the courtyard gate.

"This old man treats you as a son, so you must not let this old man down."

"Come back early..."