Rebirth: The Ascent of a Socialite-Chapter 613 - 247: Her Wedding Approaches
Thank you Zi Sang for the reward~
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Though perplexed, Yuhua’s God Stick, being a sharp-tongued charlatan who had deceived tens of thousands with slick words, still possessed some quick wits.
"At that time, you hadn’t even been born yet? Anyway, it’s you who reaped the benefits, while others lost their lives," Yuhua’s God Stick thought about how to muddle right and wrong, and how to send Su Ziceng away sooner, "Moreover, that matter back then is uncertain. When your mother died giving birth to you, it wasn’t because of a difficult labor."
"That wasn’t a difficult childbirth, who told you nothing was certain? From my birth to my mother’s avalanche, to my own death, every single event followed a sequence," Su Ziceng, upon hearing Yuhua’s God Stick’s nonsensical claims, just wanted to tear him into pieces.
"Impossible, at that time Yamamoto and I had clearly defined our roles, I was in charge of ’divining’, Yamamoto was responsible for ’swapping’," Yuhua’s God Stick, chastised into clearer thought, began to explain.
Back then, he and Yamamoto deceived their teacher, Master Wang, and found a book on the Mao Mountain Forbidden Technique, the Life Swapping Technique. It was written that among all things within heaven and earth, humans are the most spiritual, capable of shifting stars and altering fate according to the heavens. However, there are also objects in the world that, though inanimate, have absorbed nature’s spiritual energy throughout the transformations of billions of years. These objects slowly come to life, and under certain conditions, can achieve a mental resonance with their owners. If the owner’s emotions are strong, they can control the activated spiritual object, but if the owner’s will is not firm, they can be dominated by it.
"We agreed to your mother’s request back then, firstly because we saw her desperate longing for her daughter, and secondly because she just happened to carry a red artifact that was coming to life," Yuhua’s God Stick recalled. When he first met Qiao Chu, she was kneeling outside the Master’s door; her gaze and the diamond-shaped spirit artifact on her instantly attracted him and Yamamoto. Coming across a treasure that was a perfect match for the Life Swapping Technique was too good an opportunity for the two young men to pass up.
"If my mother met the requirements, how can you say that nothing was certain?" Su Ziceng, listening to Yuhua’s God Stick’s explanation, felt the clouds of confusion swirling in his mind began to clear, inching closer to the truth.
"That red diamond could only bear your mother’s ’life’ alone. We were still lacking a spirit artifact to carry the life your mother was passing to you. It’s akin to selling a house; there’s always a need for an intermediary. I dealt with your mother’s ’number of lifespans’, but Yamamoto did not have a suitable spirit artifact to carry out the ’exchange technique’. At that time, the Master discovered the matter, and altering others’ fates was a major taboo in Daoism. In a fit of rage, he expelled Yamamoto from the order."
Speaking of this, Yuhua’s God Stick was evasive. For the past six months or so, he had supposedly gone on a journey, but in reality, he had been searching for Yamamoto across Japan. At the time, Yamamoto, as the junior disciple, took full responsibility, sparing Yuhua’s God Stick from being expelled. A part of this was also because he was the beloved son of Master Wang, and he had always felt guilty towards Yamamoto.
When Yamamoto left, he did not explain much, and he left the book on the Life Swapping Technique to Yuhua’s God Stick. In the early years, Yuhua’s God Stick was cautious of the Master; later, with the addition of his junior disciple Pello, he never found the time to search for Yamamoto in Japan until he set his heart on it this year. But half a year’s effort turned out to be in vain; he had searched all over Japan and could not find Yamamoto again.
It seemed that after being expelled, Yamamoto must have been aggrieved or, given his obsession with Daoist Skill, could not accept leaving the Life Swapping Technique half-done; he must have sought out Qiao Chu in secret. At that time, Su Qingzhang happened to give the "Yellow Love" to Qiao Chu, perfectly filling the missing piece in the puzzle.
"Yamamoto has gone mad," Su Ziceng informed Yuhua’s God Stick, "If you truly wish to see him again, you can go to a deserted temple outside Karuizawa next spring. Perhaps you’ll find him there."
"Mad?" Yuhua’s God Stick said incredulously, as among their group of disciples, Yamamoto was the most talented, albeit not the most talkative. He was famously sharp-minded, "When did he go mad, and why?"
