Wishes in This Life (Part 1)

  Although most people have never actually seen explosives, such scenes are not unfamiliar in TV dramas and everyone immediately understands.

  Yu Zhi knew that this person was also unexpected, and immediately reacted, a handgun appeared in his hand, the person stood up, the gun fired, and the hand still grasping his clothes, the thug's body burst out with blood flowers, fell to the ground convulsing.

  At the same time, the two men who were leaning against him also stood up, pulled out their pistols and pointed at him: "Guo Gang, put down your weapon and plead for leniency!"

  Guo Gang was not panicked, his left hand grasping a detonator, with electric wires connected to a circle of explosives tied around his chest: "Fire your guns! Let's all die together!"

  "Police, he killed Hu Zi!" Another one of the hoodlums shouted. The scene was quite comical, with the robbers actually seeking help from the police, but no one laughed. Instead, two voices rang out simultaneously: "Shut up!" It was both the policeman and Guo Gang who had yelled out at the same time.

  Guo Gang pointed his gun at Liu Zhi's head: "Get up!" Liu Zhi was forced to stand up with the gun pointing at his head, but a fierce glint flashed in his eyes. Guo Gang pulled Liu Zhi to his side, his left hand grasping the detonator, wrapping around Liu Zhi's neck from behind, while his right hand held the gun against Liu Zhi's temple, hiding behind Liu Zhi's body.

  Liu Zhi knew that Ah Li's fingers were about to move, and her eyes hinted at her not to worry, Ah Li quietly dispersed the seal.

  "Move! Get out of the way!" Guo Gang used Liu Zhi as a shield, and the crowd and police could only make way. Guo Gang made Liu Zhi face two policemen, then backed away towards the car door.

  Just as the two were about to exit the car door, these two police officers, who should be special agents in reality, had nowhere to vent their anger. They originally planned to set up a checkpoint at the front and find an opportunity to let the passengers get off the bus. Who knew that something unexpected happened? These few thugs deserved to die! With a burst of anger, two palms chopped onto the necks of the two thugs who were standing there, knocking them unconscious. He bowed his head and said a couple of words to the hidden microphone in his collar, and the sound of police sirens echoed from afar.

  "Guo Gang, we have you surrounded, you can't escape!" a special police officer shouted. In the distance, police cars sped towards them. Before long, they arrived in front of them, and the police got out of their cars, blocking the road.

  "Guo Gang, release the hostages!" The police began to shout.

  "Nonsense! Get a car and driver ready to take me away, I'll let him go naturally! Otherwise, we'll all be done for!" Guo Gang shouted from behind Liu Zhi's back.

  "Don't be impulsive! We'll go prepare the car, you release the hostage first!"

  "Let me be impulsive, you'll let the air out of the police car tires!" Guo Gang's request made the police look at each other in dismay. "Otherwise, I'll kill him!"

  "Okay! Okay! Little Wang, go release the air!"

  Kuang Gang let out a sigh of relief, Liu Zhi knew had been waiting for an opportunity, and unexpectedly took him as a hostage, wasn't he asking to die! Liu Zhi's heart was filled with murderous intent, although he was a cultivator, he was also a warrior, and when a ordinary man gets angry, blood splatters everywhere, this kind of temperament had not disappeared from his body.

  Guo Gang relaxed slightly, and Liu Zhi knew he had made a move. He took a deep breath, and his entire body shrunk down, making him seem smaller in an instant. Although Liu Zhi practiced Xingyiquan and not Houquan or shrinking bone techniques, his martial arts skills were interconnected to a certain extent. As he withdrew his shape and shrunk his body, he immediately became shorter. The gun that was originally pointing at the top of Guo Gang's head now pointed several centimeters above it, completely missing its target. At the same time, Liu Zhi's right hand had already grabbed onto Guo Gang's left hand at the tiger's mouth, and with a twist, he wrapped his hand around Guo Gang's left thumb. With a clockwise turn, his left hand supported Guo Gang's left arm at the elbow joint, and his fingers grasped the curved tendon of the pool. Guo Gang suddenly felt as if his left thumb had been severed, and his entire left arm went numb, completely losing control. He released the explosive press and twist. Before he could react, Liu Zhi took a step back with his right foot, inserting it between Guo Gang's legs. His right leg tensed up like a bowstring, and at the same time, the large tendon on his back also tightened. His body rotated to the right, and his hands swung forward to the right front, sending Guo Gang flying backward like a somersault, landing in front of Liu Zhi.

  Liu Zhi didn't give him any chance, his body slightly stooped, one knee on the ground, using the momentum of a downward rush, he threw a punch that exploded loudly and hit Guo Gang's face. Instantly, his skull shattered, his brain turned into mush, although it didn't splatter out, he was beyond saving.

  This string of actions didn't take two breaths, the situation completely reversed, and a group of special police saw this scene, but they didn't react at all, completely stunned.

  After a while, the police finally came up and saw that Guo Gang's skull had changed shape. Many special police officers even vomited, and their gaze at Liu Zhi Zhu added a kind of fear. Not to mention those passengers, Liu Zhi Zhu's cruelty made them seem like they had gone through a nightmare.

  Ari was quite normal, but that day she destroyed Li Yi's body and erased all traces of him. Ari looked at Liu Zhi's eyes with a gentle affection, even some pride.

  "Hello, I'm Zhao Yongsheng, the person in charge of this operation. Thank you for your heroic actions, which saved a car full of passengers! May I ask your surname?" The captain of the special police team walked up to Liu Zhi's side and extended his hand. Liu Zhi had already stepped away from Guo Gang's body by several steps, as the special police rushed forward in unison.

  "It's okay, I'm Liu Zhi Zhi. Anyway, things have already ended and I should leave too. Captain Zhao, there shouldn't be anything else for me to do here, right?" Liu Zhi Zhi said with a handshake.

  "You can't go, come back with us and make a record, you're suspected of excessive self-defense today!" A voice rang out, not Zhao Yongsheng's.

  Liu Zhiyi's face turned red with anger as soon as he heard this, his tone immediately cold: "Who is this leader? It seems that the thugs were not stopped on the bus, and when they took hostages, the leader hid in the back. Now that it's all over, you're actually speaking up for the thugs. I don't know how you managed to get into the people's police force!"

  The martial artist's blood and energy in Liu Zhi's heart had not dissipated, his tone was very stern. It's no wonder that a martial artist in that situation would not take action unless they intended to take someone's life, and wouldn't put themselves in danger. The thugs were armed with modern firearms and explosives strapped to their bodies; even the highest level of martial arts couldn't withstand those two things.

  "You! In today's society, we are a country ruled by law. What you've done is murder, it's against the law!" The man who was clearly a police officer from his uniform had a red face and spoke incoherently.

  Just as Liu Zhi was about to speak, Zhao Yongsheng spoke up: "Director Zhou, under the circumstances just now, Mr. Liu's prompt action was also helpless and cannot be considered excessive defense. The thugs had explosives on them, if they were not killed, once they detonated, the consequences would be unthinkable, we must also consider the safety of the surrounding civilians!"

  Zhou Zhengwei saw Zhao Yongsheng speak, although unhappy, also didn't dare to offend Zhao Yongsheng's face, hummed a low tone in his nose and stopped speaking.

  Zhao Yongsheng smiled again and said to Liu Zhi: "Mr. Liu, we'll just ask you a few simple questions on the spot, go through the formalities, please cooperate with us, it won't take long."

  Zhao Yongsheng was so polite, but Liu Zhizhi felt a bit embarrassed. However, Liu Zhizhi wasn't a fool and knew that Zhao must have had an ulterior motive for being so courteous, even if he couldn't guess what it was for the time being.

  The scene made a simple inquiry record for everyone, and the passengers got back on the bus. Of course, those three thugs were now two, one was dead, and the other two were taken away. The bus continued on its way, but the crowd kept a respectful distance from Liu Zhi. There was no one sitting in the seats in front of or behind Liu Zhi, and Ali was still leaning against him. Seeing this, Liu Zhi smiled bitterly in his heart.

  He sent A Li back home, and Liu Zhi Zhong returned to school very late. After having dinner at Principal Du's house, he went back to his dormitory, washed up a bit, and then sat cross-legged on his bed, thinking over the events of the day, especially the information that Shao Yan had passed on to him. He carefully read through it again, but there were no specific cultivation methods, only descriptions of the levels of cultivation and inner scenes. Many contents couldn't be seen clearly. Liu Zhi Zhong understood his current level based on his past cultivation experiences. The normal division of Daoist cultivation is into four layers: refining essence to transform energy, refining energy to transform spirit, refining spirit to return to emptiness, and refining emptiness to merge with the Dao. However, different sects have further divisions. Liu Zhi Zhong's realm was roughly at the level of refining essence to transform energy. If he were to be more precise, it would be that his cultivation had just begun, and he could sense the connection between himself and external objects. The next step would be to lay the foundation and cultivate the elixir, waiting for the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit to mature into a true elixir. He would then practice the skill of condensing his spirit and entering the Gate of Energy, where he would await the arrival of the Primordial Yang, which would bring about new life and vitality. In the midst of this process, the Pre-Heavenly One Energy would emerge from emptiness, and the elixir would begin to take shape. He would then reverse the flow of energy in his body, refine his essence, and supplement his brain with spiritual energy. The small elixir would be refined through a series of transformations.

  Strictly speaking, Liu Zhi is just at the entrance, and there is still a long way to go. Moreover, the path that Liu Zhi takes is different from others, entering from modern science, investigating things and reflecting on himself, reenacting the evolution of the universe with his own body. Although he has not yet achieved anything, in terms of thought, he has gradually come to accept this point, and his practice must be different from others, which is the meaning of "the shape is born from the heart".

  Liu Zhi knew again looked at other information, especially for the refining part of the attention, Liu Zhi knew is not entirely with it as a standard, but based on their own experience to interpret these information, these information, for material introduction very detailed, but the vast majority of Liu Zhi heard said have never heard of, even suspect, whether there are these materials on earth, which mentioned the purple gas Ling Xū wood in Liu Zhi's hand, this is a spiritual material, with Yin Shen contractility is very good, can be refined into Yin Shen use attack defense category law instrument, Liu Zhi heart a joy, ready to use it to refine a law instrument, after Yin Shen outing, will use it to protect the body.

  Shao Yan passed on the knowledge of the law instrument to Liu Zhi, but there were not many formation methods, and they were some basic formation methods. However, Liu Zhi couldn't understand the principles, knowing that the way of formation was good, he had to study books like "I Ching" carefully, and then practice a lot. Fortunately, the uses of these basic formation methods were clearly stated.

  Among them, there is a type of Fa instrument that is the refinement of spatial Fa instruments, not just one. Liu Zhi knew that it could be divided into three categories: one category captures a special existence in space-time, which is called a white hole and is opposite to black holes. Liu Zhi had read about Hawking's mention of black holes in his book "A Brief History of Time". Many people think that black holes have extremely strong gravity, which is indeed the case. However, there are also tiny black holes in the universe that are so small they can pass through our bodies without us noticing them - these are called miniature black holes. Hawking's theory of black hole evaporation mentions that such miniature black holes may exist in large numbers in the universe. The white hole is related to the black hole and is essentially its opposite. Some people believe that white holes and black holes are a unified entity, two aspects of the same object. This type of spatial Fa instrument uses divine consciousness with the help of an array to capture tiny white holes passing through our bodies like particles, utilizing their properties to refine spatial storage instruments.

  The second type is to find materials with spatial uses. If you're lucky, you might discover them in meteorites that have flown through the vast universe for a long time. These meteorites capture a hint of spirituality as they pass through massive celestial bodies or areas of space change, and by exerting their material properties, they can be refined into storage devices.

  The third type is to have a deep understanding of space and use one's own cultivation to constrain space, which is currently impossible for Liu Zhi.

  Liu Zhi knew was extremely interested in this aspect, the reason is very simple, Liu Zhi carried many things inconveniently, if there were storage artifacts, everything would be easy to solve, fortunately, there were reference objects by his side, and the gourd of the six calabashes wine was obviously a spatial artifact.

  Liu Zhi knew that for a while, he didn't immediately study the space law instrument, but instead started refining the law instrument that Yin Shen could use. With the Yin Shen Yu Shi Fa instrument, flying in the sky and escaping on land, although it wasn't his physical body, he could still indulge in it.

  This time, refining the instrument was only Liusi Zhizhi's second formal refinement. Liusi Zhizhi was still relatively cautious, and among the materials he had, only this three-foot-long purple gas Lingxu wood could be considered a true material for refinement. He used a sharp knife to cut off one-third of the tree tip, and other tools were really hard to chop it down. With the knife, he sharpened the tip, carved the whole thing into a triangular shape, like a five-six style military spear. Other shapes Liusi Zhizhi couldn't carve well, but this was still relatively ugly. After Liusi Zhizhi made up his mind, he found a master to learn carving from, and now it's just barely passing, the material is too hard, which actually allowed Liusi Zhizhi to carefully control the knife edge wrapped around the knife tip, carefully carving, unintentionally improving his control over the instrument by quite a bit.

  The shape has been determined, and now it's time to comprehend and refine the material properties. Liu Zhi thought it was simple, but he forgot that when he refined the Jian Miao Dao previously, the Jian Miao Dao couldn't even be considered a spiritual material, whereas the Zi Qi Ling Xuan Mu is an excellent spiritual material - the difference between them is not just a matter of a few miles.

  Liu Zhi knew was more cautious, first carving well, and did not immediately condense the material properties, but waited until Friday when all students left school, called Ali, telling her that he would be refining the law instrument this weekend, and might not have time to find her. Then, he sat cross-legged on the bed, placed the Lingxu wooden spear in front of his abdomen, gently held it with his hands, adjusted his breathing, entered a state of stillness, and focused his spirit on the spear.

  Liu Zhi gradually discovered that he seemed to see the cellular structure of Ling Xumu, layered and stacked, with cell walls like honeycombs, hexagonal in shape. The cells were dry, but they left behind a small thing. Liu Zhi examined it closely and found that it was a tetrahedral crystal, very small, yet dazzling in the microscopic world. As soon as his mind touched this small thing, his brain flashed, and suddenly countless small crystals throughout Ling Xumu lit up at once. They had a mysterious connection between them. In an instant, they were like stars in the sky. To outsiders, it seemed that Liu Zhi's hand holding Ling Xumu's wooden stake suddenly flashed with a faint purple glow, and it actually floated up from his hand.

  Liu Zhi only felt a flash before his eyes, as if he had transformed into a small tree, with elliptical leaves unfolding instantly. The stars in the sky sprinkled down rays of starlight, passing through the leaves and entering the trunk. A surge of energy emerged from the earth below, passing through the roots and also entering the trunk. The two merged like water and milk, bringing forth a joy that arose from deep within his heart.

  As the stars gradually disappeared, the eastern sky turned white, and a vital energy emerged from the darkness. A red sun burst forth, and a purple aura seeped in, quickly spreading throughout the tree trunk. Liu Zhi had an epiphany: the dawn breaking in the east, with the purple aura arriving, was not just pure solar energy, but rather the sunlight bursting through the morning twilight, alternating light and darkness, and the natural vitality of all things reviving. The natural vitality was boundless, containing the transformation of yin and yang, tracing back to its origin, and achieving this strand of pre-heavenly purple aura. Afterwards, the sunlight, due to the flourishing yang energy, lost balance with yin, making it impossible for this effect to occur again. It turned out that what the ancients said about capturing the sunrise's purple aura was true. If not for Liu Zhi's unique temperament, he would have thought it was just nonsense. It seemed that the sages indeed observed and experienced the world from another angle, another level.

  Liu Zhi felt himself transformed into a spiritual wood, experiencing all of this, spring, summer, autumn and winter, sunny or rainy, full moon or crescent, the cycle of the four seasons, the changing clouds and winds. Liu Zhi seemed to have gone through another life journey. He began to understand the true meaning of "investigating things and arriving at knowledge". A kind of intuition about nature appeared in his mind, but he couldn't express it in words. This was a completely different perspective. From this angle, he realized that modern science is indeed too limited. Without experiencing this view, how can one possibly reach the pinnacle of life?

  Liu Zhi knew that he was experiencing all of this, and suddenly a fear, a great fear appeared in his heart. The sky was filled with dark clouds, and a bolt of lightning flashed out from the clouds, striking him with an extraordinary light. In an instant, a sense of reluctance, a self-awareness that had just been born, was shattered. Liu Zhi knew felt a deep sadness and anger, but then his emotions seemed to detach themselves, and all sorts of feelings receded like the tide.

  Liu Zhi understood that this was the last impression of the spiritual wood being struck by lightning, and what followed was the loss of life. The material itself left behind information, no longer having that feeling. Liu Zhi seemed to be an onlooker experiencing all of this, with electric light wandering throughout his body. Liu Zhi thought that this was just a residual impression of the spiritual wood's reaction to lightning in his consciousness, and what he experienced was merely an illusion. However, Liu Zhi did not know that this might not be an illusion, but rather a spiritual message reappearing in his mind, even affecting the real world.

  If there were outsiders watching from the side, when Liu Zhi knew that Lingmu was struck by lightning, a layer of fine electric light appeared outside the pale purple glow of the Lingmu spear floating in front of Liu Zhi. Then, a faint halo also appeared on Liu Zhi's body, and a dense electric light wandered around.

  After a while, the glow and electric light on Liu Zhi's body dissipated, but Liu Zhi was completely unaware. As he breathed slowly and deeply, the purple light on his military uniform flickered and changed. When Liu Zhi opened his eyes, the sun outside was already high in the sky. He thought back for a moment and couldn't help but smile wryly - what he had thought was just a short while turned out to be an entire night. It was already past 9 o'clock. Cultivation really made one lose track of time. No wonder it was said that cultivators all had to live in seclusion, indeed it wasn't very convenient.

  With a thought, the military thorn had already floated up, carrying a light purple glow as it wandered around the room in a circle, falling into his hand. It was considered one piece of magical equipment, but it still hadn't completely succeeded. He still needed to use his divine sense to drive out the material objects within and construct a magical array. However, he would talk about that later tonight. The time had already grown late, so he decided to sleep in for a bit. If he waited any longer, he would attract attention.

  Thinking of this, she got up and opened the door to wash her face. Du Shi Niang had already left breakfast, but she was still puzzled. Usually, Xiao Liu would get up before dawn, but today she hadn't seen anyone. Hadn't she come back from exercise yet?

  Jian saw Liu Zhi come out, and hurriedly called out to him to heat up breakfast. Liu Zhi thanked Du Shi Niang, ate breakfast, and went out for a walk to prepare himself before going out the school gate. Not far from the mountain, two people came up, and Liu Zhi recognized them from afar - it was Zhao Yongsheng, the captain of the special police team, and one of the special police officers who had been present that day.

  Captain Zhao also saw Liu Zhi, waving from a distance. Liu Zhi stood up, looking somewhat puzzled, wondering what they were doing here?

  Two men came before Liu Zhi and said straightforwardly: "Mr. Liu Zhi, we are from the Guizhou Southern Special Police Team and would like to invite you to be our hand-to-hand combat coach!"