my weird life.

Chapter 1501: Banquet of Ghosts
Qu's heart began to beat fast.

Ji Chang smiled and said, "Without the title of the Duke of Zhou, I am just an old man. Now I can save the lives and futures of nine young men. Isn't this the best thing?
I don’t know whether the king is willing to exchange me for nine hostages to return home safely.

If he is willing, that would be great. If he is not willing, then there are other ways to deal with it."

"Many allies revolve around you, but you want to abandon the title of the Governor of Zhou and exchange your old body for the safety of nine worthless hostages--" He said halfway, and suddenly realized the true meaning of Ji Chang's response!
He shuddered all over, his face filled with shame, and he was unable to speak any more!
He suddenly realized that the response of Fangbo of Zhou State was the correct response, and it was a perfect response without any mistakes or omissions!
It’s just that most people can’t think of such a response!

Su Wu's eyes were deep. He understood more clearly that since King Wen of Zhou had made such a response, he must have a corresponding strategy after the failure of such a response.

And the Zhou State behind him must have been even better prepared.

Although Ji Fa is young, among the Qiang people who have been used as blood food and sacrifices for hundreds and thousands of years, there should be an outstanding person emerging at this time. That person should be from the Jiang family, named Zi Ya!

If the Zhou Kingdom is given a few more years, there might no longer be any difference in strength between the Zhou Kingdom and the Shang Dynasty. It is still unknown who will be the master of the world by then!
"You taught me the changes of the Way of Changes, which is of great use to me and may help me see the situation ahead clearly.

Now that your eldest son is imprisoned in Yindu, I can join hands with you to help you rescue Kao." Su Wu said to Ji Chang with a serious look.

Ji Chang heard this and shook his head: "You are not from this world, you are from outside the well, how can I let you interfere in this matter?
What's more, I don't need anyone else's help to pass the exam.

You are outside the well, observing what is happening inside, just like observing a fire in the dark night. Everything has left its mark over the years, and you already know what the 'answer' is.

But those of us who are in the well have different answers in our hearts.

If you bring the correct answer into the well and make everyone in the well agree with you, wouldn't you become the next Heaven?

I evolved the Yi Dao in order to understand the original laws of the universe, so that humanity can always be strong and resist the unrighteous spirits that oppress humanity, but it is not for the Yi Dao to replace the Heaven and become the next rigid and gloomy Heaven. "

"I understand your intention." Su Wu heard the voice, his face solemn, and bowed deeply to the old man.

He stood up and said to the old man, "Although I don't know what the 'answer' in your heart is, a person like you must believe in yourself and not want to rely on external forces to achieve your vision.

However, if you cannot save Kao now and your eldest son dies, won't you regret it?"

Ji Chang thought about it seriously, nodded and said: “When the army and spirits of Dayi Shang invaded Zhou territory, Kao volunteered to be a hostage and was imprisoned in Yindu by the Shang army, only because he felt that his brother was too young to withstand the cruel punishment of the Shang people.

He made his choice and naturally had the courage to face the consequences of that choice.

The same is true when I make this choice.

If I cannot save Kao and change the current situation, I will not regret not accepting your help now."

"it is good."

Su Wu nodded: "I will not interfere in the secular war between Shang and Zhou, but the dispute over the legal system of 'Heaven' is fundamentally related to the survival of humanity in the future and is deeply involved with my foundation, so I cannot ignore it.

——That’s all I can promise you.”

"As long as you have a clear conscience, that's good." Ji Chang said, and then bowed to Su Wu and said goodbye, "I will now set off to the palace to meet the king.

If I can complete the creation of Yi Dao changes, I will also pass on the remaining forty hexagrams to you through Yi Dao Qi Shu. "

Upon hearing this, Su Wu bowed his head and thanked him.

He looked at Ji Chang's back and fell into deep thought.

As for the original twenty-four hexagrams of the changes of the Book of Changes passed down by King Wen, they are all-encompassing and have penetrated the essence of things. Even with Su Wu's current practice and the "Book of Changes" that has been circulated in later generations as a blueprint, Su Wu will never be able to reversely deduce the original "Twenty-four Hexagrams of the Changes of the Book of Changes".

The fact that King Wen Jichang was able to deduce the twenty-four hexagrams was certainly related to his own talents. He was the most suitable person at the time to inherit and deduce the "Fuxi Eight Trigrams", but it was more related to his own level of practice. Unless one had seen the true face of the heavens and even explored the origin of the Way of Heaven, there was no way to deduce the changes in the Way of Changes so that he could in turn include the Way of Heaven!

However, the level of cultivation that can directly see the true face of the sky and explore the root of the way of heaven is merely the 'human king level' displayed by King Wen Jichang, which is far from enough!

Ji Chang is the originator of the Yi Dao, and the Yi Dao is an orthodox and prominent school of thought in this world and even in the future for thousands of years!

As the founder of this famous school of thought, his practice must have surpassed that of a human king, transcending the "this shore" and "crossing the river" realms of later generations, or existing on the other shore.

However, the existence of the other side runs through the past, future and present.

Time is the river that flows around them, but it cannot cause them to be trapped in it and drift with the flow.

However, the current King Wen Jichang did not show such aura that runs through the past, future and present. He did not know the scene of future generations, but only deduced Su Wu's identity as a "latecomer" and "outsider" based on the aura displayed by Su Wu.

Why is this?

Is it because in this world today, there is no division of the realms of "three absences"?

Therefore, since Ji Chang had never set foot on the other side, there was no way to talk about connecting the past, future and present life - this reason was denied by Su Wu in an instant.

For Maoshan ancestors like Tao Zu, there was no state of "three absences" in the era they lived in. There was no distinction between this and that, only the vast Yuan River covering everything. However, Tao Zu suffered severe injuries and still evolved his body into the underworld, while his Yuanshen found an opportunity in later generations and reached this shore in one fell swoop!
The power of time is still evident in Tao Zu, but when he is at his peak, he may be only half a step away from jumping out of time and traveling through the past, future and present. In fact, when he is at his peak, he may even be a luxurious figure who can reach the other side!

The feeling that King Wen Jichang brought to Su Wu just by these twenty-four hexagrams was stronger than that of Tao Zu.

Then the ancestor of Yi Dao should at least be at the same level as the other side.

If the reason is not this, could it be because people like Ji Chang, although they have reached the other side, eventually fell? And the Ji Chang that I see now is just a historical image?

Su Wu's thoughts raced, and in the blink of an eye he denied this possibility.

If they can reach the other side, it can be said that they have "realized it forever" - their destruction must be thorough, severing all causes and effects, and eliminating all possibilities of "resurrection from the dead". But now King Wen Jichang still has the strength of a human king, and most importantly, he still has the "root of the Yi Dao". Since this root is there, he cannot be truly destroyed. If he has not been destroyed, he should not be in such a "weak" state as shown to Su Wu now!
So, where is the root cause of this?

Su Wu started to run through the twenty-four hexagrams passed down by King Wen. Possibilities and traces were quickly constructed before his eyes. He calculated them and then kept the useful ones and eliminated the useless ones.

Ghosts, Buddhas, the souls of the Three Pure Ones, the various tribes of the Three Pure Ones, and various terrifying creatures on the other side are nowhere to be seen in this world.

Although we cannot rule out whether they are isolated from this world, we can be sure that their aura has never had any connection with the sky of this world.

From this perspective, can this world not accommodate the existence of "the other shore" or "the other shore at the same level"?

The real body that exists on the other side like Ji Chang is actually wandering outside this world - the real world can naturally accommodate those who are on the other side and on the other side, but the world deep in front of him is not the real world, but a 'man-made illusion'?
This realm of illusion excludes ghosts, Buddhas, the Three Pure Ones, and all the horrors on the other side.

Perhaps the Qi energy of Ji Chang, which exists on the other side of the world, should also be excluded - but there is some other force interfering with the illusion itself, forcing it to accommodate the fundamental Qi energy like that of Ji Chang?

Inside Su Wu's body, the Wheel of Heaven was rumbling.

The twenty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes were added to the operation of the Wheel of Heaven in his body. That weight had expanded further and further, almost becoming Su Wu's only fundamental Wheel of Heaven. Under the interaction of the twenty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes, a wisp of the charm of heaven's principles began to dissolve.

The part that belongs to God's will still remains within the wheel of heaven.

The part belonging to the Yi Dao, on the Wheel of Heaven, meanders into a series of Bagua symbols - the Wheel of Heaven is covered with more and more Bagua symbols layer by layer, and finally becomes something that looks like a Bagua mirror.

Su Wu put his mind into the Bagua mirror.

His "gaze" fell on the center of the Bagua mirror. With the help of the bright mirror light, he saw the "world outside his body" and the "world outside the game" - a dense spider-like web of cause and effect surrounded him in circles, and he became a thread floating in the web of cause and effect.

The drinkers at the wine stalls at the gate of Yindu City are just one of the threads in the countless web of cause and effect.

The Great Shang, Zhou, Pu and many other countries were webs of cause and effect formed by many intertwined threads - these many webs of cause and effect covered Su Wu's body and imprisoned him tightly.

And at the top of all the webs, a spider with the face of a young girl was walking on it.

The "spider" slowly slid down from above along the silk thread of the web, and turned into a girl of six or seven years old, standing beside Su Wu. The twenty-four hexagrams of the Yi Dao gathered the "Yi principles" disassembled from the Wheel of Heaven in Su Wu's body, and gathered into the traces of the beginning between Su Wu's eyebrows, his own dark breath, the faint hair by his ears, and the ancient shadows under his feet.

They changed and interacted with each other due to various Yi principles, and finally formed Su Wu's mirror image.

This hazy shadow was hidden in the vicissitudes of time. It crouched beside Su Wu. Through its shadow, Su Wu saw where he was and the scene outside him - he thought of what Er had really done.

There was a crowd of people at the feet of the young girl named "Xiang'er".

Countless human figures gathered at its feet and turned into the continent under its feet. Those human figures all stretched out their hands and struggled to lift up Su Wu's body.

Su Wu looked at the densely packed and almost endless figures beneath him, and sensed a fresh breath from them.

They are all living people!

They lifted Su Wu's body up, and the blood flowing in their bodies protruded out of their bodies, flowing along their arms and palms, winding around Su Wu's body and connecting with Su Wu's own roots. From a bystander's perspective, the moment Su Wu saw this scene, he understood what those people who lifted him up represented.

They represent Huashan.

It also represents the root of humanity!

They wanted to lift up a human king to support their shattered world and create a new world, but this human king would eventually fall down in vain and become the main dish on the table of the terrifying aliens.

When Su Wu thought of this, a deep sense of guilt almost pierced his mind!
While Xiang'er was standing beside Su Wu's body, the countless hands that held up the 'Human King' turned into a dining table for Xiang'er and many terrifying creatures to eat and enjoy this 'unprecedented Human King'.

A figure with three heads and six arms, with a vague and endless rhythm all over its body, sits at the main seat of this "dining table".

The Buddha, whose entire body seemed to be made of pure gold and with a golden sun behind him, tore apart the layers of the web of cause and effect and came to the dining table.

A snake's tail tore through the net and coiled around Su Wu's neck on the dining table.

A graceful figure was faintly outlined in the crack created by the snake's tail.

Cracks surrounded the dining table, and in those cracks, there was a terrifying and ferocious aura flowing, outlining figures that stretched from sky to earth!
These evil spirits that stayed on the other side tore apart Xiang'er's web of cause and effect, and shared the delicacies on Xiang'er's table - and the so-called delicacies on Xiang'er's table were actually Su Wu himself - his chest and abdominal cavity had been completely split open, his heart was stuffed into his thin chest by Xiang'er, and his lungs were being fought over by Xiang'er and the Three Pure Ones' souls.

The ghost Buddha put his hands together. On his wrists, there was an intestine wrapped around it, with a slightly wriggling stomach on the top.

A dense spider web covered Su Wu's liver, and in a crack that stretched across the web of cause and effect, thousands of thunders were intertwined like jagged teeth. A dragon-like claw stretched out from the crack and hooked the liver that was surrounded by layers of the web of cause and effect!

Many horrible things competed to take over Su Wu's internal organs and every part of his body!

And because Xiang'er had seized the initiative, the internal organs that were now in its hands were occupied by it, as well as most of them. Perhaps it was not Xiang'er's intention to attract the group of ghosts to share Su Wu's food. However, since these horrible creatures had torn through the web of cause and effect and descended here, it was completely impossible for Xiang'er to send them back!