Chapter 857 (1/2)
Published
at 2nd of April 2019 10:50:08 AM
Chapter 857
The middle-aged Taoist entered the temple . He was very shocked when he saw the Abbey Dean standing by the window and smiling at the black peach blossom . He hurried forward to help him lie back down on the couch .
He looked at the Abbey Dean gravely and said, ”Senior Brother, are you really going to abandon your belief?”
The Abbey Dean smiled and said, ”I grew up in the Taoist temple, and the first book I read was the Taoist scriptures . My belief in Haotian has long entered my blood, becoming my every breath . The point of my life is to carry out Haotian's will . If I give up on my belief, it would mean betraying myself . I can't do that . ”
The middle-aged Taoist asked curiously, ”Since this is so, why have you allowed Long Qing to stay in the Zhishou Abbey? Why did you spread the gospel at the South Sea, and why did you treat that person in the Divine Hall of Light . . . ”
The Abbey Dean interrupted, ”I believe in Haotian, and not the person in the Divine Hall of Light . ”
The middle-aged Taoist was even more confused . He thought to himself that the girl in the Divine Hall of Light was Haotian, this could not be wrong .
The Abbey Dean looked at him and said, ”If she were Haotian, who's the one fighting with the Headmaster in the Kingdom of G.o.d? Even though she might have been Haotian once, is the Haotian who came to the mortal world still the Haotian we believe in? Is the Haotian that has been blasphemed against by mortals still the Haotian we believe in?”
The middle-aged Taoist said in a trembling voice, ”Belief does not allow any doubts . ”
The Abbey Dean said, ”What is piousness? It is loyalty to belief . What is loyalty to belief? It's not just the object of our belief, because faith comes from you and me . It involves you, me and Haotian, andnot a single one of us can be missing in this equation . Then only the Haotian that we believe in is the true Haotian . ”
This statement was rather enigmatic, but the middle-aged Taoist understood this, and his clothes became drenched with sweat . He said, ”But Haotian would not think like this . ”
”I told Long Qing earlier that since she has come to the mortal realm, she is no longer omnipotent and omnipresent . Now that I think about it, the Headmaster is indeed an impressive figure . ”
The Abbey Dean looked at the sky outside the window and lamented .
The middle-aged Taoist said, ”However, no matter how great he was, he was not able to defeat Haotian .
”Is death really scary? Do humans cultivate just so they can possess eternal self-awareness? The Drunkard and the Buther thought that they would live forever for they have their own Divine Kingdom, but I doubt it . ”
The Abbey Dean said, ”Haotian is not life, so it has eternal attributes, but each beginning should have an end . Every life should return to eternity that is not life . If life wants to be eternal, then it can only change and become a completely different form of existence . Then how is it any different from death?”
The middle-aged Taoist asked, ”Then why do we cultivate?”
The Abbey Dean thought of the hundreds and thousands of blades in Changan and the incident filled with the sensation of the human realm . He thought of how he had landed by a lake south of the city and how the fish had struggled in the pool by his face . He said, ”Cultivation is to sense so that we may free ourselves . This is the only way to peace and joy when we die . ”
The middle-aged Taoist frowned lightly and asked in confusion, ”There are many cultivation sects in the world, should they all walk on this path?”
The Abbey Dean answered, ”The people in the Academy are arrogant and lively . They would all eventually take the path against Heaven . They can face death calmly because they have not let down the time they have alive . But only true powerhouses can live like them . The ordinary people in the world are like pigs and dogs, how can they face the end so narcissistically like them? Neither the Headmaster nor Ke Haoran had ever considered these issues, but Haotian Taoism has always been considering them because we know that we are all dogs and pigs under Haotian . That is why we have to search for a way for even ordinary people to face the end calmly . ”
The middle-aged Taoist understood this, and he said, ”Then that is faith in Haotian and hope for the Kingdom of G.o.d . ”
”Indeed, Haotian never wanted us to believe in her, but we had to . I need to believe in her, but I only believe in the one who is in the Kingdom of G.o.d and not the one who is here . ”
The Abbey Dean looked in the direction of the West-Hill Divine Kingdom in the distance silently .
The middle-aged Taoist asked after a moment of silence, ”What are you going to do to Long Qing?”
The Abbey Dean retracted his gaze and looked at the black peach blossom in the sand box before the window . He said, ”I was really quite disappointed in him . After experiencing so many setbacks and terrible things, he still did not have the courage or desire to challenge rules . Even if he reads the seven tomes now, he will only be a second Drunkard or Butcher, no matter how much effort he puts in and no matter how blessed he is . Then what is the point of it all?”
The Drunkard and the Butcher were booth Grand Cultivators who have experienced the last Everlasting Night and were of the highest status in the cultivation world . Their cultivation state was so high it was beyond charts . They had only appeared in Chang'an and had managed to suppress the Academy and the Tang Empire was forced to sign a deplorable agreement with the West-Hill Divine Palace . However, it was rather surprising to hear that the Abbey Dean would not be pleased with Long Qing even if he became someone like them .
The middle-aged Taoist fell silent . He knew that his Senior Brother had never thought well of the Drunkard and the Butcher . The Abbey Dean's state encompa.s.sed the Taoism, Buddhism and the Devil's Doctrine skills before he entered Chang'an . After he had attained the State of Pureness, he felt that the deterioration in the Drunkard and the Butcher's mental states were not worth mentioning . He only had eyes for the Headmaster, who was his goal in life . And he wanted to reach the Limitlessness State that the Headmaster had achieved .