Chapter 274 (1/2)
The light surrounding his stick-like fingers gradually faded away as it swayed like a small heatless fire. It reminded one of the little lamplights on a windy and stormy night that seemed to extinguish anytime yet it would never extinguish.
Ye Hongyu gazed at the holy light between Master Lotus' fingers, her eyes perplexed. Mo Shanshan was not any better than her as her eyes filled with shock. They could clearly feel the holy aura emitting from the light and couldn't help thinking over Master Lotus' words. They could not keep calm.
Ning Que's cultivation state and knowledge were not as high as the two ladies. Hence, he did not appear as shock as them. He was only surprised why the old monk's enigmatic Divine Skill was not pressurizing at all despite his advanced state? It was as if his existence was fict.i.tious.
The light emitting from the old monk's fingers was translucent, warm and bright. It was not blazing, neither was it scorching. It was similar to how the suns.h.i.+ne shone onto all the living things on earth, depicting an indescribable high state.
Mo Shanshan mumbled, ”When Taoism connected with Devil, they would join the G.o.ds?”
The old monk smiled and looked at her. His eyes filled with admiration as he said, ”For the past decades, I have been brainstorming about the differences between Taoism and the Devil. I'd used the Taoists Law outside my body to confine a world and the Devil's law within my body to confine another world. Finally, I've discovered a possibility, which what you've mentioned just now.”
Upon hearing these words, Ye Hongyu was finally awakened from the shock. She then recalled that whether the connection between the Taoism and the Devil could enable them to join the G.o.ds, one would need to attempt to join the Devil first. She stared at the old monk in the Bone Mountain distressingly and felt that her own judgment was too absurd. How is it possible that the Divine Lord Lotus...
”Your guess is right. I have indeed joined the Devil.”
In the midst of the Bone Mountain sat a skinny stick-like old monk. For the past decades, the air had been dry and cold. Only the thin cracks at the ceiling of the room in the Bone Mountain revealed slight moisture. It was unclear how many days did those moisture take to acc.u.mulate and form a tiny drop of water.
The old monk slowly lifted his head as he gently raised the corner of his mouth. A drop of water fell from the ceiling and onto his cracked dry lips, which formed a smile on the skinny old monk's face. That smile was full of compa.s.sion, which made one's heart ache upon watching it.
The old monk grinned as he stared at her and said, ”That year, I was worried that Ke Haoran joined the Devil. It was unexpected that I'd join the Devil in the end as well.”
At this point of time, Mo Shanshan and Ye Hongyu were too stunned and shook up by the fact. Each of them was in their own deep thoughts, and only Ning Que alone was still observing every movement of the old monk.
The moment they stepped into the main hall of the Devil's Doctrine and followed by meeting this legendary man who had been isolating himself to atone his sin for decades, Ning Que had many doubts on his mind. How did this Master Lotus manage to survive without any food and drinks for decades? However, after noticing that Mo Shanshan and Ye Hongyu did not have such doubts, he guessed that perhaps this master was already in a state that was beyond average mortals' imagination, a state that made him an inediate.
Now that he observed how the drop of water that was formed from the moisture acc.u.mulated at the cracks of the ceiling dropped and landed on the old monk's cracked lips, he couldn't help but be in a daze. He thought that this old monk must have been very clear about the regular pattern of the water droplets. For the past decades, he must have repeated this process for numerous times, or perhaps, missed this drop of water for numerous times, which made him full of regrets. Else why would he be so proficient in this?
The moisture in between the cracks had been serving this legendary man who had been atoning his sins for decades. Whoever seen this scene would feel pitiful and respectful towards this old man. Yet Ning Que's heart was hard as steel. He raised his brows and thought,
if he was here to atone his sins, then why did he even attempt to survive?
If he had planned to atone for his sins via suffering, then why would he feel miserable when he missed the drop of water, which made him master the habit of raising his head to catch hold of that drop of water at the right moment?
As Ning Que was thinking of these things, Master Lotus had already begun his argument and a.n.a.lysis about the highest level in Taoism cultivation with Ye Hongyu and Mo Shanshan. He couldn't help but frowned, as he thought that since Master Lotus could brilliantly debate at Lanke Temple till the hierarch of the Divine Hall came to visit, his standard was certainly not similar to that of Prince Long Qing. After all, he had locked himself up in the Devil's Palace and debated with himself every day for several decades. Who could possibly win him in the argument then?
Indeed, as time went by, only the old and sorrow voice was heard in the room.
”If there's true logic on earth, debating will make things clearer.”
”What exactly is a cultivator searching for? If what we are searching for is the method to know the world better and the strength to change the world, then why would strength be cla.s.sified into good and evil? Only the person using the strength can be cla.s.sified as good or evil.”
”A knife can be used either to chop vegetables, sculpture the carrot or to kill people. A stone can be used either for play, to build foundation or to kill people as well. A lake can be used either to breed fishes, to row boats or to kill people too. A mountain can be used either to climb, to build a temple on it or to kill people.”
”Everything on earth that can be used to help people, can also be used to kill people. However, these things are not at fault. Instead, humans are the souls of everything. They give spirits and purposes to everything. Thus, the blame should only go to the humans. The differences between Taoism and the Devil come from the method or the path taken, which is similar to all things on earth. As such, why should we blame them? Hence, the one and only to blame is human.”