Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 500: Huang Tianji's True Identity
Noticing that Bai Tu looked a little strange, Yu Ji sternly corrected him, "When I first traveled around the world with Zhang Jue, I was the one who spread the talisman water! It was just that Zhang Jue wanted to use his name later, so I never publicized it... As for the Yellow Turban Rebellion, I no longer cared about it."
This is exactly what Bai Tu was questioning in his heart - don't think I don't know, you only treat the rich and powerful, and you only treat ordinary people with Isatis root...
This is also the difference between Yu Ji's and Zhang Jue's preaching. Yu Ji completely took the "high-end route". Before he met a wise leader, he was also a guest of honor for many famous scholars and noble families in Jiangdong. His deception of the people ... was just a coincidence and a stepping stone.
In comparison, judging from the composition of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jue’s preaching at the time was purely a “grassroots approach”!
"Ahem, Taoist priest, please continue your practice." Bai Tu looked like he had no doubts in his heart.
"Later... I discovered some changes in Zhang Jiao, but I thought that as he continued to travel, his edges would be smoothed out, so I didn't worry too much. After all, cultivation is one's own business. Later, because I met Miss Ning, Miss Ning chose Zhang Jiao, and I also wanted to part ways with them.
However, I made a big mistake... That night, Miss Ning, who had not yet decided to marry Zhang Jiao, came to see me..."
Bai Tu's ears suddenly stood up.
"I lent her the scroll!" Yu Ji said with regret in his tone.
"Miss Ning originally told me that she was worried that without me, Zhang Jue's nosy nature and that half-baked magic water would kill him sooner or later, so...she said that she would leave on her own and asked me and Zhang Jue to continue traveling.
I would not agree, but Miss Ning knew that Zhang Jiao valued his ideals more than love and even his own life, and therefore he also thought that I was more important than her...
I was also bewildered by the devil, and in a moment of mixed emotion and jealousy, I wrote down to her the scroll that I had thoroughly comprehended, and reminded her not to let Zhang Jue know its contents!
Miss Ning was originally from the medical field. Her parents died in a bandit incident and were saved by Zhang Jue and I. Although she is a girl, she has been able to read and understand medical knowledge since she was a child. If she wants to learn the medical content in the earth volume, she should be able to do it.
Moreover, at that time, I only thought that Miss Ning would use the Earth Scroll as a means to make Zhang Jiao dependent on her, and would not show it to Zhang Jiao. Moreover, after the incident with Senior Brother Zuo Ci, Zhang Jiao has never wanted to look at the Earth Scroll again in the past few years!"
"But later Zhang Jiao also comprehended the contents of the Earth Scroll?" Bai Tu also understood that this should also be related to the appearance of Huang Tianji.
"That's right. It is precisely because of this that I finally understand why Master did not allow us to comprehend each other's Taoist books. It would be fine if we only choose the aspects we are good at from these three volumes of Taoist books. However, if we are greedy and read too many, there will be unexpected chain reactions when two volumes are combined. This is not something we can bear with our lack of practice.
Zhang Jue obtained the Earth Scroll of "God and Wisdom", which can easily win people's hearts, and his own Human Scroll of "Inviting Gods and Immortals" is a kind of self-suggestion, or in other words, it consumes a lot of mental energy to temporarily create a false personality for himself...
After the two were combined, Zhang Jue realized the ability to draw spiritual power from the admiration of others, and used it to create a permanent "true personality" that was entangled with his own personality and even suppressed his own personality...which was later called "General Tiangong".
After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, I secretly went to meet with him. His condition was very bad at that time, and I suspected... his two younger brothers took on part of his real personality, namely 'General Earth' and 'General Human', otherwise he would have lost himself even more.
It was under the influence of his 'true personality' that Zhang Jue's temperament became more and more extreme. General Tian Gong... could be said to be a collection of the resentment of the poor people who believed in him at that time towards the Han Dynasty and the world.
Zhang Jue's personality was increasingly affected by this, and he eventually began to plan an uprising. First of all, an uprising requires a "foreign concubine", and he combined the two volumes of Nanhua Sutra and thought of a way to transform a living person into a foreign concubine, but it requires cultivation from the "innate" stage, and the one he chose is his own daughter...
When I learned that Miss Ning had two miscarriages, I wanted to go and treat her, but each time I passed by Zhang Jue's travel route. Now that I think about it... maybe Zhang Jue was deliberately avoiding me!
The two miscarriages were probably not due to Miss Ning's physical condition or accidents, but because the son she was carrying could not withstand the transformation into Chengji, which led to the miscarriage.
The third time... Miss Ning finally got pregnant with a daughter, and the daughter was born safely. However, because of the two previous miscarriages, Miss Ning was very weak and died not long after giving birth to her daughter...
Zhang Jue named his daughter Zhang Ning. I met them once after Miss Ning passed away. However, Zhang Jue was still able to control "General Tiangong" at that time, so I didn't see anything. I just felt that Miss Ning's daughter, although only four or five years old, was indeed very sensible and much better than her father.
It was not until later... after Zhang Jue started the rebellion, that I realized that Zhang Jue had created an ideal town of peace and prosperity, and transformed the people's expectations for it into a real personality. Before his daughter was born, he used her as the 'tripper', so before Zhang Ning was born, she was the 'Huang Tian', and her own personality and real personality were almost one and the same!
When Ning Er was sixteen years old, her true personality completely merged with her own personality and matured, and she also transformed into 'Huang Tianji'..."
“Then during the Guangzong period, Huang Tianji disappeared and Zhang Jiao died suddenly because…” Bai Tu understood a little, but was also a little confused.
"I don't know the details. The last time I saw Zhang Jue and Ning'er was when the Yellow Turban Army was at its peak. After learning some of the secrets, I wanted to settle accounts with Zhang Jue and stop him from continuing to use Miss Ning's daughter.
However... at that time, I was no match for Zhang Jue, or General Tian Gong. After a fight, it was Zhang Jue's own personality that controlled him to show mercy, so I was able to escape." Yu Ji said helplessly.
Although both the Taoists and the counselors have strong spiritual powers, their methods are different.
In fact... to some extent, it is similar to the difference between the battlefield school and the martial arts school in Qi training.
The battlefield school and the martial arts school are different in terms of their fighting styles and the cultivation and application of true qi. The former focuses on practicality while the latter focuses on subtlety. The former is good at fighting on the battlefield while the latter is good at competing in the arena...
The two of them coincided in their peak. Lü Bu, without wearing armor, could kill any martial artist in a duel. Zhao Yun was an undisputed transcendent general and a famous figure on the battlefield.
The Taoist use of spiritual power is usually one-on-one, or one-to-many in an infectious way.
That is to say, you need the other party to believe in you, create an atmosphere that is favorable to you, and then gradually "mislead" more people. It is impossible to really kill everyone by relying on Taoist methods.
It was as if Yu Ji was given enough preparation. He could perform magic tricks and even control the heavens and the earth in front of countless believers, making people feel that he was like a god. But when two armies were facing each other, could they expect him to confuse the enemy?
The enemy will not give him the opportunity to gradually deepen the hints!
In comparison, Zhou Yu's Shura Commander has a more direct effect, instantly taking effect on both the enemy and the enemy at the same time...
Of course, this does not mean that Zhou Yu's mental power is stronger and his use of it is more scientific. To some extent, it can be seen as Zhou Yu's prior preparation, which takes effect during daily training - the Shura General has a larger and stronger effect on his own side, while the intimidation effect on the enemy is only incidental.
Moreover, the effect on the enemy is only to make them more panicked. In fact, in a one-on-one fight, Zhou Yu is definitely no match for a group of soldiers. He can only try when the number is small to see if he can scare them all away...
However, whether they are Taoists or strategists, the role of spiritual power is the same. First, it interferes with other people at the spiritual level, such as Zhou Yu's Shura General, and Yu Ji's spiritual suggestion;
Second, strengthen yourself spiritually - such as Pang Tong's "traveling thousands of miles" and Zhang Jiao's "inviting the gods";
The third is to temporarily blur certain rules and achieve a "magical" effect - such as Chen Gong's "bright strategy", Yu Ji's "drawing talismans", and Lu Su's "observing the earth's energy".
The common point is that none of them can kill directly, let alone move objects with their mind...
The reason why the Taoists seem incompatible with the counselors, and are not like the martial arts school and the battlefield school among the military generals who have the same goal, is mainly because... the martial arts school warriors who become military generals also know how to learn military tactics and read military books!
However, people in the Taoist sect often have little interest in governance or military strategies.
Also, just like Pang Tong, the brain that was used to think about strategies and tactics is now used to think about chemical reactions and physical changes, isn't it just as useful?
It's just that it's difficult for other people to quickly absorb so much knowledge from different aspects like Pang Tong. For ordinary people, if they can do well in one aspect, they are already good enough...
Although mental strength has the effect of enhancing the activeness of thinking, but... using this "activity" to think about policy and military strategies or to think about the mysteries of nature will have a huge difference in effect. It's just because the knowledge mastered is different and the way of thinking is also different. Yu Ji can't think of any policy and military strategies, and it's impossible for him to calm down and study this aspect.
Zhou Yu and Lu Su both boasted that they were the real "enemies of ten thousand men". What they wanted to do was to "plan strategies in the tent and win battles thousands of miles away", and they certainly would not bother to learn any "unconventional methods".
Zhang Jue might have really learned some of it, and Ji even suspected that "General Tiangong"'s personality was very suitable for learning these things!
If Zhou Yu and Lu Su were fighting, it would definitely be more efficient to draw their swords and chop each other, and it has nothing to do with mental strength.
However, for Ji and Zhang Jiao, two Taoists of such high status, it is not an exaggeration to describe their duel as a "battle of wits".
After Yu Ji returned empty-handed that time, he never saw Zhang Jiao and Zhang Ning, or rather Huang Tianji, again.
After learning about Zhang Jue's fate, Yu Ji suspected that Zhang Ning's own personality had realized something, which led to some confusion. He was unwilling to help Zhang Jue anymore, and the personality of "General Tiangong" was completely out of control...
