Chapter 141: Chapter 137: Finally Meeting Ye Wenjie Chapter 141: Chapter 137: Finally Meeting Ye Wenjie Li Ping’an was utterly dumbfounded in the face of such an entirely mysterious and bizarre scene, and he had a vague feeling that meeting the Council President was certainly not going to bode well for him; deep inside, a voice was urging him to leave this place as quickly as possible.

However, if he left now, his karma with the man in sunglasses and the Bright Council President Ye Wenjie would continue, endlessly entangled, so today it was imperative to end it all, sever the karma, escape was not an option!

Whew!

Li Ping’an took a long breath, constantly reminding himself that he was truly an Earth Immortal, and there was no reason for him to be afraid of these cultivators playing tricks and pretending to be gods. So, after quickly calming his shocked emotions, he strode forward confidently.

As he walked towards the center of the formation, for the sake of caution, he also stopped hiding his abilities and openly used his Divine Power: Insight into the Hidden in front of everyone, causing his eyes to burst forth with a golden purple light, scrutinizing each person carefully.

“What? You are cultivators too?”

“…”

Li Ping’an’s smiling inquiry was met with cold, expressionless responses from them.

“This is so weird!”

Upon closer observation, Li Ping’an discovered a chilling truth that made his back break out in a cold sweat: the birthdates of the male cultivators on the left were all Yang Year, Yang Hour, Yang Minutes, meaning they were all born during Yang Year, Yang Hour, Yang Minutes.

The female cultivators on the right were the same, except they were all born during Yin Year, Yin Hour, Yin Minutes!

What was most terrifying was that all these male and female cultivators had cultivation levels, albeit not high—essentially all of them were at the half-step Qi Gathering Realm.

However, this was terrifying enough! Given that the Dao in this world had long since been extinguished, and there wasn’t even Spiritual Essence to speak of, for them to have cultivated to this extent was akin to having exceptional talent coupled with the inconceivable!

Bright Council President Ye Wenjie had gone to great lengths to deceive him here, and gather all these cultivators with strange abilities. To say that Council President Ye Wenjie had no schemes—who would believe that!

When Li Ping’an cautiously made his way to the front of True Immortal Taoist Temple and took a careful look at this strange formation, he could not figure out the reason behind it.

“Immortal Li, it’s been a long time!”

Suddenly, the main gate of the True Immortal Taoist Temple was pushed open from the inside, and the man in sunglasses who was initially near the elevator appeared inside enigmatically, pushing a wheelchair. On the wheelchair sat a woman in her fifties wearing sunglasses, who was none other than Ye Wenjie, the Bright Council President of Yan Kingdom, whom he had only previously seen on TV!

“Council President, what are you up to here?”

When Li Ping’an saw the person in charge, he became even more composed and resumed his proud demeanor, squinting his eyes as he assessed Ye Wenjie thoroughly.

He was taken aback to discover that this Bright Council President Ye Wenjie, who often directed affairs on TV, looked much older than she did on screen, and what’s more, she was disabled in both legs.

“Something’s not right…”

Now Li Ping’an even began to doubt whether the disabled woman before him was really the Bright Council President Ye Wenjie of Yan Kingdom!

“Immortal Li, I am indeed Ye Wenjie, the Bright Council President of Yan Kingdom, the genuine article, you need not doubt,”

Ye Wenjie said as she took off her sunglasses, revealing her eyes—the key here was that her eyes only had whites with no black pupils!

“You…”

Li Ping’an, who had just calmed down, felt his heart stir again; because the Bright Council President Ye Wenjie he often saw on TV had no disabilities and was not blind. But what on earth was happening here?

“Immortal Li, you must be very puzzled as to why I don’t resemble the person you civilians see on TV, right?”

The man in sunglasses pushed Ye Wenjie closer to Li Ping’an, giving him a clearer view.

To ascertain this person’s identity, Li Ping’an once again used his Divine Power: Insight into the Hidden to examine her.

With such a close observation through Divine Power: Insight into the Hidden, Li Ping’an saw even more; he saw her fate, her life pattern, her destiny—known as the Five Failings and Three Flaws.

Yet the Ye Wenjie in front of me suffered from a different kind of deficiency, one not of “disability,” but of “fate.” So, just as when I saw the anchorwoman Zhou Shufenzi’s life span, I could clearly see Ye Wenjie’s fate. It was as unclear and intermittent as Zhou Shufenzi’s, meaning his life could end at any moment!

“Exactly!”

Once Li Ping’an had figured this out, he immediately questioned the “fake Ye Wenjie” in front of him:

“The Ms. Ye Wenjie, President of the Bright Council, that is often shown on TV is a normal person, while you are disabled and even blind, yet your destiny clearly isn’t marred by ‘disability.’ How could you have fallen to such a state, disabled to the point of being like a useless person? So, who is real and who is fake between you and the Ye Wenjie on TV?”

“Hahaha, you’ve seen it for yourself, haven’t you? This is Immortal Li! A real Immortal, who only needed to look at me once to guess my general situation. Impressive indeed!”

Such a high-profile figure as Ye Wenjie, instead of getting angry upon hearing this, actually smiled and complimented the man pushing the wheelchair with sunglasses. After his remark, he turned to Li Ping’an, gesturing with his hand and invited him:

“Immortal Li, let’s sit down and talk.”

“Since I’m here, I might as well be at ease. I don’t care if you are real or fake, human or demon; I’m all in today!”

“What courage! Please, take a seat!”

Li Ping’an sat down on a meditation mat that hadn’t had a pistol on it, while the “fake Ye Wenjie” was lifted out of the wheelchair by the man with the sunglasses and placed onto another mat with a pistol on it.

“Immortal Li, I will now reveal the mystery for you!”

Ye Wenjie sat upright and began to earnestly explain:

“I am the real Ye Wenjie, President of the Bright Council. The one you see on TV is fake, my body double.”

“Why would you do such a thing?”

“There are secrets I don’t want others to know about!”

“Then why did you become disabled later on?”

“Cultivation! Cultivating!”

“That can’t be? I cultivate too, but I haven’t become disabled, and my eyes are fine, aren’t they?”

“It’s not just about cultivating, but also the price I’ve paid for other matters. My legs and eyes gradually became disabled over these past years!”

“For what matter? What would make you pay such a painful price?”

“You’ll find out soon enough!”

Li Ping’an originally wanted to ask why Ye Wenjie would entrust state affairs to an actor, but he then thought these matters were irrelevant to him, an ordinary citizen, so he held back the question and instead asked something else:

“So, what do you want to do now?”

“Recite scriptures!”

“What? Recite scriptures? I didn’t hear you wrong, did I?”

“You heard me correctly!”

“You’ve called me all this way just to listen to you recite scriptures?”

“It’s more than that. When the time comes, you will understand!”

“Fine, I’ll wait for you. I really want to see what exactly you’re up to!”

Li Ping’an said his piece and then settled down in silence, waiting to see what sort of trick Ye Wenjie was going to play.