Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

The Taoist priest finally couldn't hold it anymore: "Don't you have anything to say?"

Gu Yue suddenly realized: "Oh! The ritual is over... cough cough cough!!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was extremely hoarse, as if he had not spoken for five hundred years, and his tongue was also very clumsy.

The Taoist priest thought, why did you announce it on my behalf?

He fetched a soft pillow, helped Gu Yue stand up and leaned against it, and gave him some water to drink. Gu Yue tried to raise his hands, but his arms were in so much pain that he had no strength at all, so he could only drink a few sips from the edge of the bowl.

With water in his throat, he felt much better.

"Master, what's wrong with me?" Gu Yue asked hurriedly.

The Taoist frowned slightly: "You still don't remember what happened before?"

"I remember now. They were asking me about what happened after I was shot by an arrow..." Gu Yue explained, "What place is this... Where is Gu Xu?"

The Taoist said: "Gu Dashi is dead. There is no such person in the world anymore."

Gu Yue was stunned.

He couldn't help but think of the words he heard before waking up. It was like a dream, but the impression of that voice did not fade away after waking up. He was very familiar with that voice.

It’s Qin Zhaoyue.

Everything matched up. Gu Yue thought, it was indeed Qin Zhaoyue who planned everything. He used words to stir up Gu Dashi's hatred in order to prepare for the future "helping in need" and winning over Gu Xu.

"...What about me?" He also noticed the meaning of the Taoist's words.

His body was in pain and he had no strength at all, but he could move his eyes. Gu Yue looked at his body and was shocked by the shrunken quilt - the quilt covering him had almost no rise and fall, only a very faint human shape protruding. The hand exposed outside the quilt was only a layer of skin and bones, looking like a newly unearthed mummy.

Gu Yue was horrified.

The Taoist said, "Don't be surprised. The dead are alive, the flesh is white, how can there be no price to pay? You have just recovered from a pile of bones. This body shape is normal. You will be fine after a period of rest."

Gu Yue was stunned for a long time.

These words contain a lot of information.

He understood the difference between the living and the dead. Both Gu Yue and Gu Dashi were completely dead. The Taoist must have used some secret method to...

No, not Gu Dashi.

Flesh and bones...

Gu Yue moved his hand that was resting on the quilt.

He slowly turned his wrist to expose his entire palm. There were calluses on it from working for many years, but he could tell the difference between Gu Dashi's hands and the hard calluses from farm work.

Completely different palm lines and nail shapes...

Gu Yue's heart began to beat violently.

He tried to take a deep breath to calm himself down, and tried to calm himself down based on his past experience, but he found that the discomfort that always occurred when he was emotionally excited had completely disappeared.

Gu Yue grabbed the quilt vaguely.

The Taoist said: "Your three souls have returned to their original places, and you should also remember what happened in your previous life. Your body has turned into bones in that world. My original intention was to find a new body for you and slowly transform it with Taoist methods, but I didn't expect that you would be so reckless."

He said calmly, "The Dao is the law of heaven. I followed the instructions of the hexagram to fuse Gu Dashi's heart with you and give you a healthy body. Although the price is high, it is better than losing everything. If you want to return to your normal appearance, you have to work hard."

Gu Yue's first reaction was panic.

why?

He was murdered by someone and should have died, so why did he have this strange encounter?

He found his former body and even cured the mental illness that had been bothering him. The so-called Taoism gave him another chance to be reborn. The time he resurrected through borrowing a corpse was the second time.

why?

Gu Yue asked: "What price should I pay for such a good thing?"

There was a look of surprise in the Taoist's eyes.

"You...what the hexagram shows is exactly right. You are naturally intelligent and you got to the point at a glance." said the Taoist.

"Could it be... that they see some kind of immortal fate with me and want me to practice the ruthless way, cut off all emotions and love, and achieve the great way to ascend to heaven?" Gu Yue told a not-so-funny joke.

A complicated expression once again appeared on the Taoist's stern and indifferent face.

"Don't worry, if fate has not arrived, we will not force it." The Taoist answered seriously, "What is the ruthless way? I have never heard of it. As for ascending to heaven, it is even more nonsense... What do you think I am? An NPC in the immortal cultivation literature?"

Gu Yue was shocked. This Taoist priest also knew the immortality text? And he could speak English?

He had no time to complain, and asked again: "I don't have to pay anything, and I can be restored to health with my memories for free, and I can also cure my congenital difficult and complicated diseases? I don't believe it. I know that there is cause and effect in the world. Since I have the result, it is impossible that I have not been involved in the cause at all."

The Taoist said, "I am only acting according to the hexagram. Your cause and effect is part of a larger cause and effect. Therefore, the hexagram means that your merits are complete and everything will come naturally. You have come here as the last step."

Gu Yue was silent; he had a vague guess.

"A greater coincidence of fate means..." he asked tentatively.

The Taoist said: "It is a matter of destiny."

It’s indeed related to Gu Xu!

Gu Yue was horrified.

Since it was a link, then was his arrival and everything he had traveled through here to correct the chaotic ending caused by Qin Zhaoyue's deception? Qin Zhaoyue had hindered the people favored by the destiny of heaven, so he, a relatively smart bystander, was taken here to rewrite the ending.

Can……

Gu Yue smiled bitterly, he couldn't help at all.

Gu Xu himself was reborn, even without him, he would recognize Qin Zhaoyue's true face and make his own choice. He was just a person who took advantage of the arrangement of heaven.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, the Taoist thought that he had understood, so he stood up.

Gu Yue said again: "Master, I have something to ask."

"You say." The Taoist replied.

"If someone...did not carry out the cause, but unexpectedly obtained the result." Gu Yue said, "In other words, he did not act according to the will of Heaven, but accidentally achieved the result that Heaven wanted. Is this considered a loophole in Heaven? If Heaven finds out that someone has taken advantage of the loophole, what will be the result?"

The Taoist looked at him for a while.

"You are wrong." The Taoist said, "There is a cause before there is an effect. If the cause is not fulfilled, there will definitely be no effect. There are no loopholes in the way of heaven."

"But..." Gu Yue wanted to explain.

The Taoist said, "I understand what you mean. You think you haven't achieved the 'cause' required by the Heavenly Dao, but you have achieved the 'result' of a new body. But have you ever thought that your existence is an indispensable part of the 'cause'? The Heavenly Dao has no loopholes, and will not violate the iron law of cause and effect."

The Taoist priest half warned: "Don't delve into it, don't let it scare you."

Gu Yue muttered to himself, "Heavenly Dao? This is just a world in a book. After all, Heavenly Dao is written by human beings, so how can there be no loopholes?"

The Taoist priest had already opened the door, and a ray of sunlight poured into the room.

After listening to Gu Yue's mumbling, he sighed and said, "A world in a book? Gu Yue, you claim to be from the capital, so let me ask you, what is the name of this capital you are talking about?"

Gu Yue was stunned for a moment, as if struck by lightning.