After finishing the pear in his hand, Lu Jin’an burned the core, turned to look at the torrential rain outside the cave and the occasional Rashamon Ghost Face rushing to the cave entrance again, and said after a moment of silence: "I particularly dis kind of Secret Realm."
"If all Secret Realms forbid the use of Spiritual Power, then what’s the point of all the hard cultivation?" Lu Jin’an shrugged: "Being unable to exert one’s strength, life and death become a joke."
Xiao Yinruo’s eyes gleamed with amusement: "Indeed, but this Secret Realm is a place created by the Buddhist Sect to discard the Five Desires and Six Dusts, so spiritual power can’t be used, to prevent subconsciously resisting this test directly."
Lu Jin’an nonchalantly said: "Can’t use Spiritual Power while Crossing Tribulation?"
Xiao Yinruo rolled her eyes at him: "Don’t be argumentative, I’m your aunt!"
Lu Jin’an chuckled, then asked: "I just saw a Dao Field here, are we around that Dao Field now?"
"No." Xiao Yinruo ate a peach: "It’s over a hundred kilometers away, the Dead Tide there is the most turbulent, you’re lucky nothing happened to you."
"Probably because of this Buddha Bead."
Lu Jin’an glanced at the Buddha Bead in his hand, then placed it beside Xiao Yinruo, before standing up and walking towards the cave entrance.
Xiao Yinruo quickly unfolded her Forget Love Dao Domain to protect him, unable to help but ask: "What are you doing?"
"You said this is a Dead Tide, an energy tide triggered after the Buddha’s nirvana, so it contains the Death Law, right?"
"You want to comprehend it?"
"Yes." Lu Jin’an nodded: "But I know I can’t face this energy tide alone, so Aunt Ruo, can you be my protector?"
Xiao Yinruo looked at him, her face somewhat dim due to the backlight, her expression unclear.
After a moment, she said softly: "You child..."
She chuckled lightly, stood up, and used Spiritual Power to lift the Buddha Bead to Lu Jin’an’s side: "Since you want to comprehend the Death Law, don’t leave the Buddha Bead with me, otherwise, can you use Spiritual Power?"
"I wanted to try facing death directly."
Xiao Yinruo raised her hand and knocked on his head: "That’s not something you can try at your current Realm."
Lu Jin’an smiled: "Anyway, with Aunt Ruo around, you wouldn’t just watch me really die, right?"
Xiao Yinruo’s eyes flickered, what was this child hinting at?
She said calmly: "I don’t want Nanzhi to become a widow at such a young age."
Lu Jin’an sat cross-legged, Xiao Yinruo looked down at him, thought for a moment, and asked: "What do you think is greater, life and death or Yin Yang?"
Lu Jin’an replied without hesitation: "My current understanding is, as long as there is life in a Realm, there is Yin Yang, and when the Realm dies, its Yin Yang dies with it.
Just Secret Realm, because of its existence, there are Laws inside it, if it disappears, those Laws will dissipate with it."
He paused, then continued: "This is just my current understanding, but as the saying goes, ’there is always someone better,’ and if that’s the case, then larger Yin Yang gives rise to smaller life and death, but outside the larger Yin Yang, wouldn’t there be larger life and death?
This ’big circle encompassing small circle’ concept has no end, and I don’t have the strength to comprehend realms that far, but for now, in my Dao, life and death encompass Yin Yang, and I think that’s enough for me to comprehend for a long time without error."
Xiao Yinruo nodded gently: "That’s enough."
Lu Jin’an responded with an "Mm," then looked up with some curiosity and asked: "Aunt Ruo, do you know where those Transcended powerful beings from the past went?"
Xiao Yinruo shook her head: "These secret histories should all be in the Upper Realm now, the Lower Realm can’t access them."
"I see..." Lu Jin’an nodded, closing his eyes without asking further, unfolding his Domain.
Xiao Yinruo waved her hand, the Barrier at the cave entrance dissipated, and the outside Dead Tide surged in, those vicious Rashamon Ghost Faces approached, but within Xiao Yinruo’s Forget Love Dao Domain, they turned directly to dust.
Xiao Yinruo gestured with skillful hands, tempering the strength of the Dead Tide, and when she felt it could present some threat to Jin’an, she ceased her spell-casting.
However, the gray mist and Black Rain that entered with the Dead Tide made her frown slightly.
She liked cleanliness.
But these gray mist and Black Rain also secretly contained the Death Law.
Xiao Yinruo sighed softly, created a Barrier around herself, allowing Lu Jin’an to be enveloped by the gray mist, drenched by the Black Rain.
A white robe seemed like it was stained with ink, exposed skin burned by the Black Rain emitted steam and sizzling sounds.
Xiao Yinruo frowned slightly, then her eyes flashed with a hint of unnaturalness.
Because Lu Jin’an’s clothes were being corroded by the Black Rain!
Even clothes could be ’killed’ by the Dead Tide.
Xiao Yinruo couldn’t help but roll her eyes, do you have to make me see this?
Clearly, on the Flying Boat we implicitly understood each other, I must’ve been crazy listening to Wanyu to come into this Secret Realm...
Uh... seems like I acted even faster than Wanyu instructed.
Xiao Yinruo’s eyes held helplessness, what a situation!
Thinking, she wanted to turn around and not watch Lu Jin’an, but before she turned, a thought involuntarily arose in her mind: the Black Rain might corrode skin too, what about the lifeblood...
Xiao Yinruo pressed her lips, slightly dazed as she looked at the messy Sanskrit left on the cave wall, this child opened five Dao Palaces, so should be able to recover, right?
She clenched her teeth, quickly formed a spell to protect Lu Jin’an’s core, while glancing at his cheek.
The skin wasn’t corroded?
Xiao Yinruo quickly checked elsewhere, seeing this, her eyes held a trace of embarrassment, then she hurriedly averted her gaze.
Because Lu Jin’an had frozen the Black Rain within his Domain to comprehend it.
’What am I even thinking, freezing in the Domain is normal...’
Xiao Yinruo looked at the cave wall, inwardly blaming herself for imagining things when she thought of him naked.
She sighed softly, shaking her head, hearing the storm outside the cave, the intermingling thunder and lightning, she absentmindedly recalled an important matter.
Since Jin’an had frozen the Black Rain within his Domain for comprehension, why did he let his clothes get corroded by the Black Rain?
Was it... intentional? Read full story at N0velFire.ɴet
Author: Still owe fifty-six thousand words.