Chapter 15 – Dugu Zhuo[1]

Dugu Zhuo had skilled many abrupt modifications all through his life and shortly steadied his feelings. “The place is that baby?” he requested the outdated monk. “How ought to we contact the Qingtian Sect?”

“Let’s see…” The outdated monk someway introduced out a picket fish[2] and began beating it rhythmically. “This poor monk is within the temper for tofu. Widow Yang on the village gate makes the very best tofu. Would you younger heroes purchase some for this monk tomorrow morning?”

“Oh, come on!” Aotian mentioned. “You’re giving us an merchandise assortment activity at the very best half?” He had been listening excitedly to the principle storyline, and now that he’d abruptly been assigned a activity, he went over and grabbed the monk’s gown.

The second he touched the monk’s lapel, the monk tapped the picket fish, which launched a hoop of sunshine that pushed Aotian away.

The outdated monk continued to beat the picket fish whereas reciting sutras, with an act of “don’t trouble me for those who don’t have the tofu.”

“Guess we are able to’t full this activity at evening,” Ye Zhou mentioned, glancing on the clock. “It’s nearly 11, so I’ve to depart now. Ought to we meet at 9 tomorrow morning?”

“I ought to get to mattress too,” Qingyue mentioned. “Staying up late could be dangerous for my complexion. I don’t have lessons tomorrow, so I can play the entire day.”

After every member of the group mentioned they may play tomorrow and agreed to the 9 am assembly time, Ye Zhou logged off.

Aotian and Qingyue went off to seek out their demon and yao buddies, to be able to see if they’d discovered something, in order that they exited Dugu Zhuo’s get together and left.

After Jet Black had turn out to be a monk and gotten a rosary to guard himself, he might now transfer freely inside each main Buddhist temple, so he determined to domesticate by bathing in moonlight on the temple’s roof.

Quickly, everybody had gone their very own methods, leaving Dugu Zhuo alone and not in a celebration.

Dugu Zhuo sat subsequent to the outdated monk and requested, “Nice grasp, why have I come to this world?”

The outdated monk saved tapping the picket fish. “If you wish to provide incense, you could line up at Tanye Temple every single day beginning at Chenshi.”

“Are you the monk who was therapeutic the individuals through the day?” Dugu Zhuo requested.

“There’s an herb-collecting monk within the mountains behind the temple,” the monk mentioned. “Spirits who want to heal the individuals can discover him to be taken to the therapeutic sales space.”

Most spirits spawned within the again mountains and will transfer round throughout the earth, so it ought to be straightforward for them to seek out the herb collector.

“That baby… is he named Xiao Bao[3]?” Dugu Zhuo requested once more. 

“Have you ever purchased the tofu but?” the monk mentioned. “This outdated monk is just too hungry to have the vitality to talk.”

It doesn’t matter what Dugu Zhuo requested, the monk solely had these three solutions, giving tricks to the people and spirits and requesting tofu.

This wasn’t the Grandmaster Tanji who had abruptly appeared earlier than Dugu Zhuo earlier right this moment, simply an odd NPC.

The NPCs in 9 Heavens have been too life like, and had at all times given Dugu Zhuo the phantasm that they have been all actual individuals. Solely now, when confronted with the monk’s mechanical, rote, and unchanging responses, did he actually notice that he was in a false world.

There appeared to be a soundproofing array throughout the Tanye Temple. Inside the principle corridor, they may hear no sounds from the again courtyard or the Karmic Forest, and irrespective of how loudly the monk beat the picket fish, the sound solely echoed throughout the room.

Dugu Zhuo craned his neck as much as the Buddha statue above him, and abruptly mentioned, “Once I was younger, I didn’t have a reputation, so my mom at all times known as me Xiao Bao.”

He hadn’t even identified his surname, and solely upon arriving at Qingtian Sect had he identified that his father was named Dugu.

Dugu Yue had named him Dugu Zhuo, Zhuo as in impure, a reputation that was presupposed to sum up his total life.

Again then, he didn’t know what the identify meant, solely blindly following Ye Zhou to get his identify registered throughout the sect roster.

Ye Zhou drew a drop of blood from his fingertip, dipped a non secular brush in it, and wrote down “Dugu Zhuo[4]” on the roster. 

The ten-year-old Dugu Zhuo couldn’t learn, however he acknowledged that the character Ye Zhou had written down for Zhuo was completely different. He yelled at Ye Zhou with none manners, “You wrote my identify flawed! You jerk!”

He additionally needed to insult him. He had grown up within the countryside, and although he couldn’t learn a single phrase, he was effectively versed in insults.

Ye Zhou had positioned an index finger towards Dugu Zhuo’s lips and mentioned quietly, “Silence.”

Ye Zhou’s finger was chilly. Dugu Zhuo abruptly discovered himself unable to spit any of the insults that have been on his tongue. He watched powerlessly as Ye Zhou set the jade slip containing his mistaken identify earlier than the memorial tablets of Qingtian Sect’s generations of sect leaders, lit an incense stick, and handed it to Dugu Zhuo.

“Don’t use foul language earlier than the ancestral leaders of the sect,” Ye Zhou mentioned calmly. “You might communicate if you’re keen to talk correctly. If you wish to curse, your mouth can merely stay shut.”

Unable to insult him, Dugu Zhuo held the incense and kowtowed thrice earlier than the ancestral tablets, then left grumpily.

Dugu Zhuo couldn’t communicate for an entire 12 months after that.

Solely when he realized to learn, realized morality, and understood the distinction between the 2 characters, did he notice what sort of a reputation Ye Zhou had given him.

“Thanks, grasp,” was the very first thing he mentioned to Ye Zhou.

Ye Zhou had mentioned unfeelingly, “I’m not your grasp.”

— “Ye Zhou was proper. He wasn’t my grasp,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned to the ignorant monk. “Although he had been the one who led me to the Dao, he nonetheless wasn’t my grasp.”

“If you wish to discover a grasp, you should attain stage 15 and acquire an invite from the Buddhist company at Xuanyang Metropolis to be able to enter the Buddhist sects,” the outdated monk answered in line with key phrases.

Solely as a result of he knew the monk understood nothing, did Dugu Zhuo communicate of those previous issues.

“Now, Ye Zhou has turn out to be my grasp, which is ideal.” Dugu Zhuo smiled barely. “In the mean time of the Pillar of Heaven’s collapse, his shattered soul arrived to this world. Nice grasp, why would his soul be right here? Did my unique world let him down a lot?”

Upon listening to the phrases “Pillar of Heaven”, the outdated monk stopped transferring. He put down his picket fish, wanting clean for a second. After wanting round at his environment, he mentioned to Dugu Zhuo, “Amitabha, benefactor, have you ever appeared on this poor monk’s goals once more?”

Dugu Zhuo was surprised for a second. He regarded on the monk. “Grandmaster Tanji.”

“That’s me,” mentioned the outdated monk, now Grandmaster Tanji.

As Dugu Zhuo watched, the template options of the 9 Heavens monk progressively become these of Grandmaster Tanji.

This was actual!

He didn’t understand how, however he had “pulled” the monk from his unique world into the VR recreation’s world.

“The non secular vitality is so plentiful inside my goals,” the outdated monk mentioned, rubbing his shoulders. “Is that this the world that this poor monk hopes to see?”

“Are you aware the place you’re?” Dugu Zhuo requested.

“Tanye Temple, proper?” The outdated monk regarded as much as the Buddha statue. “This statue appears to be like precisely just like the one I commissioned.”

Tanji struck up a dialog with Dugu Zhuo. Apparently, after their assembly on the therapeutic sales space, 5 months had handed for Tanji.

He had been renovating the temple along with his disciple all this time, discovering a craftsman to create a Buddha statue, begging all over the place for sources to repair the temple, and even hiring a number of wandering refugees to clear the close by land for farming. Since this was a Buddhist temple and Tanji was a high-ranking monk, he was given a bit of land, which he all gave to the helpers other than a portion giant sufficient for the monks within the temple to be self-sufficient.

He had additionally visited the spirit cultivators close by who have been almost bursting from the over-abundant pure non secular vitality, and requested for his or her assist in establishing a charity therapeutic sales space.

A number of years in the past, non secular vitality was sparse throughout the decrease heavens, fought over by the six races, so the non secular cultivators, born as pure treasures favored by heaven and earth, would provide unimaginable boosts to the opposite races. After the collapse of the Pillar of Heaven, the 9 layers of heaven merged with earth, replenishing the non secular vitality. Anybody might accumulate all of the non secular vitality they needed with a bit of cultivation, so non secular cultivators have been not coveted.

In any case, one must combat with a non secular cultivator to be able to receive them, so it was extra worthwhile to spend that point cultivating.

Religious cultivators didn’t must domesticate, as non secular vitality would enter their our bodies robotically, however with an excessive amount of non secular vitality that they couldn’t convert to internal essence, all of them felt overstuffed.

A ginseng that Tanji had discovered was so thick it resembled a tree stump, and when it noticed Tanji strategy, it clumsily struggled to maneuver its physique, having misplaced its unique velocity and nimbleness.

Tanji was rapidly in a position to open his therapeutic sales space, and after 5 months, a bustling small city had grown round Tanye Temple, in stark distinction to the unique desolate land.

“Not all the things has been good,” Tanji mentioned. “A number of avaricious yao have come just lately, coveting human very important essence. The residents of the city have turn out to be plump and wholesome underneath the nurturing of the non secular cultivators, which is precisely to the yaos’ tastes. We’ve already misplaced a number of youths, which is presently troubling me.”

“A lot time has handed already?” Dugu Zhuo mentioned doubtfully.

He had been looking for ten years, and the PC recreation had additionally lasted for ten years. He’d thought that point was the identical between the 2 worlds, however he had solely been right here for 5 hours, but over there, 5 months had already handed.

“Has it been a lot time?” Tanji mentioned.

“Two and a half shichen have handed right here,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned, robotically changing to the time system Grandmaster Tanji was acquainted with.

Grandmaster Tanji thought some and mentioned, “Sir Dugu, time in a dream can change freely. An instantaneous can really feel like a lifetime, or a number of shichen can go right away.”

“Should you clarify this as a dream, then time can change with none rhyme or cause,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

“When does the world stay unchanging? This poor monk has reincarnated for ten lifetimes and seen the entire mortal world. Typically, 100 years can appear to be a day, in case your routine stays unchanged for a century. Typically within the span of 1 12 months, the dynasty has modified three or 5 occasions. Typically, at some point appears like a complete lifetime. Is time not one thing so unfathomable?”

“Is sensible,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

For the reason that system might assign him as a participant based mostly on the playerbase’s notion, Grandmaster Tanji may as effectively decide the move of time based mostly on his personal notion. Dugu Zhuo had been within the recreation world for under 5 hours, however the expertise had felt longer than ten years.

“Does Sir Dugu have any insights on the difficulty with the yao?” Grandmaster Tanji requested.

“The six races intermingle throughout the world, and the Heavenly Dao favors humanity, the opposite races having at all times stood in opposition to them. That is tough to resolve, until…”

“Until what?” Tanji requested.

“Until the realm have been divided. For the reason that human race has a world the place they’re chief, the yao should even have their world the place they’re chief and so forth, every staying inside their very own territory and never encroaching on every other,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

Tanji shook his head. “That may be tough. This monk doesn’t possess such cosmic energy.”

“I do know,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. “It was simply idle speak.”

Tanji checked out Dugu Zhuo, although. “This poor monk could not, however Sir Dugu may. Legends say the dual swords of creation have been shaped from the axe Pangu[5] used to separate heaven and earth, in order that they have the flexibility to divide the world. On this world, maybe solely Sir Dugu can accomplish this division of the realms.”

“The dual swords are already—”

Earlier than Dugu Zhuo might end speaking, Tanji abruptly vanished. The outdated monk picked up the picket fish once more and began calmly tapping on it. Gentle got here from outdoors, the evening having already handed.

Dugu Zhuo went outdoors to take a look at the solar. It was already Chenshi.

It appeared like he and Tanji had as soon as once more entered a separate house in between the 2 worlds, or maybe a dreamscape.

In a single dialog, the evening had passed by.

the writer truly mentioned of their first writer’s be aware that they initially named dugu zhuo 独孤浊, however they didn’t like the way in which it regarded as a result of the characters have been too related lol

thanks all for studying!

Please assist the unique writer over on jjwxc

1. zhuo is written otherwise, 浊, similar pronunciation. it means impure 

2. a picket percussion instrument crushed to maintain timing throughout prayers and such 

3. 小宝 little treasure. a child’s pet identify 

4. the present spelling now. zhuo as in excellent 

5. the creator deity of chinese language delusion. he was born when the cosmos was formless chaos and break up it aside, separating the sky and earth