Chapter 857: Chapter 337: Account Balancing Great Saint
Where did this killer come from?
Ning Zheng’s eye twitched slightly.
Even if such a solution were genuinely adopted, it would only sever the future.
After all, what happens after you solve it by killing?
The world would be vast and empty, desolate, with bodies everywhere. How could those Qi Fortune cultivators continue cultivating?
Once cultivation begins, it will lead to karma, repeating the same mistakes.
Therefore, relying on killing to end karma is merely addressing the symptoms, not the root cause.
Besides, even if the Celestial Destiny World is all killed off, without the people to "harvest," your 3.3 billion daily happiness days will still disappear.
"This method is too stupid and should not be adopted."
Ning Zheng lightly shook his head and looked at the next post.
[I have a method: Call Sun Wukong! Let the Account Balancing Great Saint appear!]
Account Balancing Great Saint?
What’s that supposed to mean?
Sun Wukong, Ning Zheng naturally remembers the classic from his past life, but why call him the Account Balancing Great Saint?
Curiouser and curiouser, Ning Zheng clicked on the post:
"Hello, everyone, I am Crayon Shin-Chan. As a supporter of Emperor Xin Xichen, my reasoning is strong, and I have found a perfect solution."
"If we compare Qi Fortune to a big Monopoly game, then the debt problem can be solved with traditional debt methods, balancing! Fire Dragon burns warehouse, money laundering...high-level financial means. Killing and sinking bodies without settling debts is too low-level."
"Some might say this is absurd. Balancing? Can karma be balanced too? Let’s look at Sun Wukong from ’Journey to the West.’
"He robbed the Dragon Palace, seized ten billion in wealth, and the Dragon King reported thirty billion was stolen. This way, some of the unsavory accounts were balanced behind the scenes."
"Killed a hundred thousand celestial soldiers; in history, at the end of a dynasty, how many armies had fake rosters and misappropriated soldier pay? An army listed as 100,000 might actually have only 20,000 elderly, weak, and sick soldiers. Killing a hundred thousand celestial soldiers is actually balancing the pay accounts! And you can apply for more troops, a huge expense."
"It’s like the yearly repeated road repairs; only by having projects can funds be requested. Taking meat out of the fridge and putting it back, your hands get greasy from the maneuver."
"Supreme Laojun, missing Golden Cores? My Golden Core count refined by Supreme Laojun doesn’t match; how could someone have privately consumed them? The gluttonous monkey ate all the Golden Cores, burnt down the Alchemy Room, and balanced the deficit in numbers."
"Peach Garden? The once-in-9000-years ripe flat peaches were long gone. How to report at the Peach Blossom Assembly? So they let Sun Wukong take a trip."
"What? Underworld also has a share? With a heap of bad old debts in the Book of Life and Death, you can’t pin it on the accountant to take the fall, right? Sun Wukong came and burned the Book of Life and Death; all human social connections."
"Account Balancing Great Saint, dealt with a wave of karma, the Celestial Court’s dirty laundry all took a lap... So, the Otherworld can also create a similar Account Balancing Great Saint, wreak havoc in the world, and erase some rotten karmic debts in one stroke."
"Hahaha!! Today, we cheer for the Great Saint Sun, only because phantom salaries are back again!!"
...
Ning Zheng pondered with some thoughts.
If there genuinely was an Account Balancing Immortal, it would naturally be best.
But breaking the karma between the two sides isn’t as simple as cutting it off; not everyone can balance accounts.
Not everyone is that naturally karma-free mischievous monkey.
But it indeed provided Ning Zheng a line of thought:
"Can I research an immensely powerful Divine Technique that doesn’t consume karma or erases karmic forces? Periodically balance accounts?"
And then pass this technique to a certain "Sun Wukong" in the Celestial Destiny World, letting him balance accounts?
Unknowingly, with a daily strong Qi Fortune Value of 10 billion, Ning Zheng suddenly felt something, his gaze falling on the previously unselected [Heart Mind].
Abide in the Heart and Brain Hall of all beings, seated at the seat of life’s spirit.
With this Divine Technique, transform into a mysterious old Taoist, sit in a cave dwelling outside the heaven, and take an apprentice, is this feasible?
"Consider this method as a backup plan... Night Emperor, you must not die."
The blacksmiths had various brainwaves, pooling their ideas, and Ning Zheng looked at the next post:
[Kill, Kill, Kill! The Nine-State’s slimy and stinky corpse demon monsters strike again!]
"Hello everyone, I am called by the wrath of Man and God. As a loyal supporter of the Pseudo-human Calamity leader, I have a solution."
"Open the gates, unleash the Embers Disaster! Let them all be poisoned, then kill them, turning the entire world into embers, then resurrect and awaken as a Ghost King. After dying once, the debt is wiped, isn’t the account balanced?"
"Dying once and then resurrecting is clearly the best solution."
"But this world does not allow the soul body to be reborn. Someone, as an emperor, cleared the Metal Tombs, piled them in a corner, shut down the Forbidden Demon Area, and the Embers appeared."
"Moreover, it’s easy to find a reason for the outbreak of the Embers Disaster, blame it on the previously fake-dead Emperor Changjin, say he released the Embers virus again, leaving corpses everywhere..."
This person is also vicious.
It’s also killing, but with some special operations, turning into embers and then resurrecting.
The whole world lives a second life, and the account is balanced. It can only be said to be inventive.
But unleashing the embers soiling that world is something Ning Zheng does not want, and presumably Night Emperor and others do not want it either.
After all, once the world is tainted, restoring it to normalcy would be hard.
Piling up Metal Tombs is at most a Forbidden Demon Area, the ancestors wouldn’t crawl out again, the disasters in Nine-State are mostly caused by the accumulation of Ancestral Tombs and Secret Realms.
Inviting the ancestors is easy; sending them back is hard.
Ning Zheng continued to scan through each scheme, finding them all quite similar.
He mused, "Let’s visit the neighboring Xirong Academy and check the thoughts of the top Nine-State scholars."
Then he headed to Xirong Academy.
He walked into Laboratory No. 1 of Civilization and consulted the leading scholars of historical civilization evolution.
"On the matter of destiny, if popularized, do we have methods to address causality?"
Ning Zheng asked, as the foremost scholar of Nine-State, naturally able to command the efforts of scholars across the world.
"No, we do not."
"Currently, there’s no solution."
The scholars unanimously shook their heads.
The conclusions they reached were even less than those of the blacksmiths.
Because blacksmiths can freely speak out without responsibility, acting as keyboard warriors behind screens, saying anything whether it’s useful or not.
However, the top scholars of Nine-State have to be responsible for their words, as misfortune may follow; if anything goes wrong, the Emperor might hold them accountable.
They dared not suggest things like terminating lives to balance accounts or wiping out a realm to erase causality, as such actions were too ruthless and did not align with the surface righteousness of Nine-State scholars.
"We need to continue our research," one scholar said with a smile.
"Indeed, we’ve just explored the notion of causality but don’t yet fully comprehend it," another scholar said conservatively.
Seeing this, Ning Zheng could only nod helplessly, saying:
"Apart from fulfilling weapon orders, our Xirong Academy must focus most of our efforts on studying destiny."
"This path has a significant impact; after the appearance of Celestial Destiny Night Emperor, it might become one of the mainstream techniques in the future."
The scholars were stunned, then agreed.
After all, it seemed quite natural in their eyes.
The path of destiny had just emerged as the third path of cultivation, significantly impactful, so it was no surprise scholars concentrated their efforts on quick research.
Following this, Ning Zheng left Xirong Academy.
He thought to himself:
"Nine-State combat cultivators continue their fights frenziedly, but what do their affairs have to do with me?"
"Nine-State scholars are not adept at combat; assembling under my Xirong name to study Celestial Destiny and with Super Hongmeng as assistance, surely results will appear."
"But surely the speed of results won’t be fast; it seems I’ll still need the ruthless methods of those blacksmiths."
His expression gradually turned cold.
Procrastination results in chaos, a principle Ning Zheng understood.
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Sword Casting Manor.
Ning Zheng’s original plan was to wait a couple of days to adapt to the Firewood Spirit Root before cultivating the next fifth Spirit Root.
Now the situation is urgent; with every day’s delay, the Night Emperor’s chance of discovering clues increases.
His daily substantial profit probably won’t last much longer.
He must use this daily substantial Qi Fortune Value to break the impasse!
"It’s not like breaking through a Great Realm; why should I adjust to Firewood Spirit Root? Just leave it for now; just learn some basic burning abilities. Once tomorrow’s new wave of Qi Fortune Value arrives, directly merge with the final Earth Spirit Root."
"In two days, strive for the Seven-Colored Cycle, quickly entering Self-Transformation Realm, then capable of resolving the Celestial Destiny World issue next door."
He sat cross-legged in the room and continued his seclusion.
One night of cultivation.
The next morning, as dawn blurred, the blacksmiths joyfully went online and began today’s Qi Fortune Treasure Chest transactions.
"They haven’t discovered it next door yet?"
"Haha, we fooled them again."
"I feel a bit guilty; they’re going to die of illness."
"Don’t fear, even tangled in causality; don’t panic. At worst, their Ghost King could die again, living for a third time."
Soon, the transaction concluded.
Ning Zheng’s accounts showed substantial changes once more.
+2.3 billion.
[Current Qi Fortune Value: 3.81 billion]
"Fusion of flash and Shadow Devourer."
Ning Zheng murmured quietly.
