Volume 2: Achieving the Nine Heavens and Breaking the Cage Chapter 181: Cause and Effect
When Gu Xiaoxing closed his eyes and performed the Life-Saving Technique, this time, he felt an obvious difference. Originally, when he performed the Life-Saving Technique, countless points of light should have appeared in his mind, but this time, those countless points of light were connected to each other, and there were more lines!
Each point is equivalent to a kind of change, and also to a kind of "result", while each line is equivalent to the involvement in the various changes, and also to the "cause"!
When countless points and countless lines are intertwined together, they form an extremely tangled mess. This mess is the result of various causal changes!
What Gu Xiaoxing has to do is to sort out this tangled mess of cause and effect. This is undoubtedly much more difficult than before, but it also means that Gu Xiaoxing's fortune-telling skills have been improved, and what he sees in the end will become clearer and clearer!
At this moment, as Gu Xiaoxing continued to sort out the "tangled mess", dots of mottled light surrounded him, as if flowing away. It was not the first time that Qiao Yanran and Xu Qianxing saw Gu Xiaoxing perform the life-control technique. Every time they could feel that when he performed this strange technique, something on Gu Xiaoxing's body was rapidly consumed.
This time it is especially obvious!
Only Gu Xiaoxing knows what those mottled light stars surrounding his body are. That is the passage of time, that is the price of controlling life, and they are depriving Gu Xiaoxing of his lifespan at a very fast speed!
Qiao Yanran and Xu Qianxing had actually always thought that Gu Xiaoxing was consuming his cultivation , but until a strand of black hair on Gu Xiaoxing's forehead turned gray and then white, they finally understood, and their hearts trembled!
Especially Xu Qianxing, her eyes immediately turned red, and she covered her mouth to hold back her tears. If she had known earlier that the price of using this technique was her lifespan, she would never let Gu Xiaoxing use this technique because of her!
Qiao Yanran did not cry like Xu Qianxing, but just stared at Gu Xiaoxing silently. If Gu Xiaoxing was on the road to the abyss at this moment, then Qiao Yanran must be behind him at this moment.
Until Gu Xiaoxing slowly opened his eyes, a breath of decayed by the long years spread out, and as the thousands of stars in his eyes stopped flowing, it seemed as if endless time had passed in this instant. Obviously, only a short moment had passed, but looking at Gu Xiaoxing's eyes, it felt as if he had experienced dozens or hundreds of years of vicissitudes!
This is not an illusion, but a real existence, because the white hair on Gu Xiaoxing's head at this moment is the trace of decay by time, and it is also the price to pay for peeking into the changes of cause and effect!
At this moment, Xu Qianxing could no longer bear it, and threw himself on Gu Xiaoxing, sobbing, and even his words became incoherent, saying: "We can't go on... Let's give up... Okay? If we go on like this... you... you will..."
Gu Xiaoxing hugged her and could feel her immense guilt, but what Gu Xiaoxing wanted was not her guilt, but a complete Xu Qianxing!
"What are you giving up? Don't cry..." Gu Xiaoxing glared at Xu Qianxing unhappily and subconsciously slapped her on the butt.
Xu Qianxing's body trembled, but at this moment she was choked with sobs and could hardly speak, "But...but..."
"No buts, because, I've found it!" Gu Xiaoxing did not move his hand away, but instead squeezed it gently.
When Xu Qianxing heard this, he raised his head slightly, his face full of tears, and asked in confusion: "Did you find it?"
Gu Xiaoxing snorted coldly, looking very proud, and said: "I told you before, a mere injury can never stump me... ahem... Lin Xiaochi!"
Above the endless sky, on the light boat, Mo Xuyou was looking at Gu Xiaoxing with disgust, feeling very annoyed. She came back again, naturally because of the sword-controlling sect's sword-controlling competition. She thought it might be an interesting thing, so she came to take a look and kill some time.
But when she saw the bastard below, she found it an eyesore, like a thorn that pierced her eyes no matter how she looked at it. For a moment, she hesitated whether to go or stay.
Until the dog man in Mo Xuyou's eyes said the word "alone", she narrowed her eyes and chose to stay.
In Xu Qianxing's eyes, Gu Xiaoxing was still the same Gu Xiaoxing, but when she saw the strand of white hair on her forehead, her heart was inexplicably blocked. Even when Gu Xiaoxing said that he had found a way to cure her, she still did not feel any joy. Instead, she felt more aggrieved and pouted, as if she was about to cry again.
"Don't cry!" Gu Xiaoxing glared with his big eyes, then looked at the pink little mouth and bit it fiercely.
"Hmph! You bastard, you're so shameless!" Mo Xuyou in the sky saw this scene and started cursing again. Now Gu Xiaoxing had become filth in her eyes, the kind that she looked at with dirty eyes!
The moment Gu Xiaoxing bit him, Xu Qianxing was immediately shocked. It would have been fine if it was just the two of them, but when he thought of Sister Yanran standing next to them, the thin-skinned Xu Qianxing instantly became extremely shy and wanted to break free from Gu Xiaoxing's arms.
But how could she be a match for Gu Xiaoxing? She just struggled a few times and became dizzy.
"Are you still crying?"
It was not until a long while later when he heard this voice in his ears that Xu Qianxing realized that their lips had parted. He immediately glanced at Qiao Yanran secretly, and when he saw that she was still smiling and did not seem to be angry, he breathed a sigh of relief.
But Gu Xiaoxing felt a chill in his heart at this moment, because he sensed something unusual in Qiao Yanran's smile, so he quickly helped Xu Qianxing to stand up, then looked into the distance, pretending to be calm, and said, "Here it comes!"
The two girls were stunned and looked in the direction that Gu Xiaoxing was looking. At first, there was nothing there, but after a moment, a figure appeared there and flew towards them quickly.
Qiao Yanran looked at Gu Xiaoxing in surprise. Even she, who had reached the great perfection of Jindan, did not notice the person coming, but Gu Xiaoxing seemed to have known about it in advance.
In fact, Gu Xiaoxing could indeed be considered a prophet, because he had spent nearly a hundred years of his life this time, and the clue he came up with was the Sword Controlling Sect's Sword Competition!
The person who came was none other than Elder Qiu, who was in the late Jindan stage and had come out to stop Gu Xiaoxing when he broke into the Yu Jian Sect that day!
Compared to before, Elder Qiu's attitude has changed greatly at this moment. He bowed to Gu Xiaoxing with great respect and said, "The Sword Competition is about to begin. I am here to welcome you on the orders of the Sect Master!"
Gu Xiaoxing's purpose was to attend the sword competition, so he naturally would not refuse and said, "Lead the way!"
The Sword Controlling Sect is composed of nine ancient swords, forming an extremely large ring, like a nine-sided circle. In the center of the sword ring, it was originally empty, but at this moment, it has formed a light curtain with a radius of nearly a thousand miles.
