Chapter 1007 – Straight, Difficult (1/2)
Chapter 1007 – Straight, Difficult
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The pear tree in front of the dark hall and the pear blossoms falling on Madam Mu made Chen Changsheng recall the sight from a few days ago.
The pear tree on the observation platform had already been chopped by his sword into dust so fine that it couldn't be seen, so he had learned the story about the person in the painting from Luoluo.
He had been touched by Luoluo's deep affection, and he felt that Madam Mu had put incredible thought into making Luoluo accept the Demon Lord.
She probably deeply loved her only daughter, so why was she callous with regards to her marriage?
If his guess was right, why did she treat the White Emperor that she had loved for so many years so coldly?
Just what sort of person was she?
”The Xiang clan are just like massive, uninteresting mountains, as thick and cold as their bodies.”
Madam Mu continued, ”For Your Holiness the Pope to be able to ignore their existences and come to this place, your methods truly are extraordinary.”
She was praising Chen Changsheng, but her gaze never touched his body. It remained fixed on the distant darkness.
It was probably the north.
”When I was very small, Teacher once used a phrase to praise my senior brother while also teaching me. This phrase was: 'A thousand words cannot compare to a single silence.'”
Chen Changsheng said, ”From that moment, I began to speak much less, but I was still no match for Senior. I couldn't help myself from talking sometimes. I wanted to speak to the fish in the stream, or speak to the books in the temple. Every time, I would always criticize myself, and even now, whenever I chat with Thirty-Six, I still get that sort of feeling.”
Madam Mu noted, ”His Majesty the Emperor has always been a mute.”
”This was also how Senior comforted me.”
Chen Changsheng paused for a while, then continued, ”So later on, I changed one word in this phrase and began to follow it.”
Madam Mu asked, ”Which word?”
Chen Changsheng answered, ”A thousand words cannot compare to a single straight.”
Madam Mu slowly arched her brows. ”Wang Po's 'straight'?”
Chen Changsheng replied, ”Correct. I can't make myself conservative and maintain a steadfast Dao heart, so when I think too much, I'll talk too much, making it easy to make too many mistakes. This being the case, why not be more straightforward? As long as I believe that what I'm doing is reasonable, then I should do it.”
Madam Mu said, ”'This' has a right and wrong, and 'that' also has a right and wrong.” (TN: This line comes from the second chapter of the 'Zhuangzi' in a section discussing the relativity of right and wrong from different perspectives, represented by 'this' and 'that'.)
Chen Changsheng answered, ”But at least Wang Po and I believe that there is a right and wrong.”
Madam Mu replied, ”So you were able to come straight to the point tonight and come here to me?”
Chen Changsheng declared, ”Forging straight forward with sword in hand will often let one arrive at one's goal faster.”
Madam Mu ruefully sighed, ”I have never encountered a single obstruction on my path of cultivation, but I truly do tend to waver when doing something. Perhaps this is an innate deficiency of women?”
”Mother…”
Luoluo lightly called out, then hesitated.
Madam Mu's lips curled into a mocking smile. ”The extroverted nature of woman is truthfully also a weakness.”
Rather sad, Luoluo said no more.
”Your Holiness the Pope has spoken rightly. One truly should be more straightforward when doing things.”
Madam Mu continued, ”On the observation platform that day, I should have gone straight to killing you.”
As she spoke, she still did not look at Chen Changsheng. Her eyes remained fixed on the distant darkness.
At the bottom of her eyes was an extremely faint fatigue and remorse.
Did she regret that she had not just killed Chen Changsheng on that day, or did she regret something else?
Just where was she looking now?
On this side of the sea, that side of the mountains, on the lake's opposite shore, there was a black cliff capped with ten thousand years of ice and snow.