691 Turning the World Upside Down II (1/2)

”How to beat Haotian and how to be a strong person like you seem irrelevant.”

For Ning Que, only the powerful cultivators like the Headmaster were qualified to go against Haotian and work out the abstruse questions.

How did the Headmaster cultivate? It was hard to be simply copied, but he could study and consult as his Youngest Uncle did and save himself some twists and turns.

”Some people cultivate by talking and living. It stinks but it's real; as long as you can live longer, you can cultivate better. I am average but I am living a long life.

”How to be strong like me? First, you should learn how to compete with time—one of the two powerful rules of Haotian. You should try to stay alive longer. The longer you live, the better you cultivate, and then the longer you can live. It is a cycle.”

Ning Que said, ”Teacher, you're just spouting rubbish.”

The Headmaster said, ”But that is what I am doing.”

- Looking at his teacher's wrinkles, Ning Que said, ”Teacher, you are the most powerful man in the world. You can fly to the sky and live forever. Strictly speaking, you are not an ordinary person and you have been beyond all human beings. You can live a happy and peaceful life like Drunkard and Butcher. Why do you have to go against Haotian? For the sake of the world?”

”First of all, we should be clear. If the world is simply repetitive, limited, and boring, the longer you live, the more bored you will be. Only a boundless world can bring infinite joy. I have seen many beautiful views and tasted all the delicious food in the world. I am bored living in Haotian's world. It is time for me to break the heavens and go out to see other views. I have told you that before.”

He added, ”Second, you said I was beyond human beings and should not have the mood to look for a new world for humans, satisfying their curiosities... Many years ago, I have also wondered if I am a human being. In order to confirm it, I did one thing.”

”What?” asked Ning Que.

The Headmaster said, ”I ate a piece of human flesh. But I found it tasted bad. More accurately, it was disgusting. I kept spitting until my stomach was empty.”

Ning Que said, ”Indeed, but how did it solve your problems?”

The Headmaster answered, ”The old yellow bull likes eating variable platyfish and it never has beef while the Big Black Horse enjoys mutton and I believe it never wants horseflesh, either. Since the old yellow bull is a bull and the Big Black Horse is a horse, I would like to try all kinds of meat in the world except for the human flesh because I am a human.”

The simple but unreasonable answer was straight and unquestionable.

The Headmaster said, ”Since I am still a person and live in the world, I have to do something for humanity. We are different from the people in the Haotian Taoism, who believe they are the people of Haotian and they will eventually return to the arms of Haotian. Therefore they are doing Heaven's Way.”

At this time, the black carriage had arrived at the Academy. The thermostable flowers full bloomed on the green meadow and looked beautiful. The back of the mountain could be faintly seen behind the fog.

The Headmaster didn't return to the back of the mountain and the carriage kept moving forward.

Ning Que took a deep breath and happily smiled.

Looking at him, the Headmaster said, ”Why are you so happy?”

Ning Que didn't explain, repeatedly waving his hand.

He was happy because the Headmaster did not return to the Academy, so he didn't have to say goodbye to his brothers and sisters, which meant his most worrisome concern would not happen.

The carriage ran heading to the north.

The dialogue between them continued.

”Why can't you overcome Haotian since you are already strong enough?”

”I've already told you. This world is Haotian's world and Haotian is its rules. Though the cultivators who can go beyond the Five States can make their own rules, they are still within Haotian's rules.

”Every flower, grass, tree, wood, smile, and thought are all in its eyes. Even the Karma can't get out. Lotus thought he could get out of the Three Realms, but in fact, he was still in them.”

Speaking of this, he looked at Ning Que's waist and turned to Sangsang. He said, ”As for me, I can ignore the rules, being limitless, but I can't get rid of the so-called Karma that Buddha mentioned. It is the sequence of the things happening and the sequence is the time. Time is everything.”

”In this world, Haotian knows everything and is capable of everything. It can calculate and arrange everything that we can't predict it in advance and avoid it. This is called the unpredictable fate and the inviolable fate.

Ning Que asked, ”Since Haotian is omnipotent, why hasn't it killed you yet.”

”It tried. The thunder, rainstorm, and seaquake. I have seen all kinds of heaven's anger which are probably more than all the cultivators combined.”

He added, ”But I ran faster.”

Then he slightly waved his sleeve and the Qi of Heaven and Earth around the carriage was changed.

Ning Que had sharp sense. After he entered the Knowing Destiny State, he could tell the most subtle changes. At this time, he felt the Qi had been divided into many layers, between which was an ethereal and smooth space.