Chapter 118 The Difficulty That Came From Within (2/2)

Underneath Zhao Xiaoyu’s silent eyes, an undercurrent was sparked and suppressed. Shen Lian was a very special person, and very scary too.

Someone like him should see eye to eye with her, but she clearly knew that Shen Lian could not let go of his emotions to chase after something intangible like the laws of heaven.

This was why Shen Lian was still bringing Ruoxi around. To an outsider, no matter how intelligent Ruoxi was, she was nothing but a burden to Shen Lian.

She could feel a scary power that was dormant within Shen Lian. The feeling that she got from the power seemed to be what she had been looking for, cold and ancient. This was why she was so attracted to Shen Lian, she felt that Shen Lian was flawed. She could not suppress the power; while he could not be as emotionless as Dao was.

The law of heaven would always remain in existence; it did not exist for anyone, and it would not cease existing because of anyone.

She believed that Shen Lian knew about this. Why then would he still hold onto the useless and ridiculous emotions cherished by humans?

Her Senior Apprentice-Sister was someone like that too.

She had an indescribable feeling when faced with someone like that.

As Zhao Xiaoyu pondered on these, Shen Lian’s gaze pierced through the Qi that shielded her, and he faced her directly. Zhao Xiaoyu saw herself in his eyes.

The clear pond portrayed both of their reflections.

”However, the Empress was different from you,” Shen Lian continued.

Zhao Xiaoyu replied with an ”Oh”, and she hid away her thoughts. Her wavering heart of Dao was calmed and steadied once again.

”What is the difference?”

”The first time I set eyes on her, I knew that she is not someone who cares about winning and losing. She did what others could not, not because she was trying to prove her abilities, but simply because she wanted to do it.” If the Empress were to hear what Shen Lian said, she would definitely feel that she had found someone who understood her. It was a shame that he did not say this in front of the Empress.

Zhao Xiaoyu was ”impartiality”, which was why she managed to attain the final ”true emptiness” of the Luoism. Where one was naturally empty without self-nature, of course, there would not be a need to find one's true self.

The Empress was ”partiality”; from the fact that she had changed the Dynasty into hers and turned herself into an Empress, one could tell that she was someone who broke through conventions.

However, she was not satisfied with all of these. To her, the meaning of life lies in endless exploration, and that was how she kept herself from being bored by life.

Shen Lian could understand the both of them; naturally, he had some form of similarity to the both of them.

He was at ease and did not care much about a lot of things. He could let go, and yet he was not afraid of any difficulties. From when he chose the Taixu Strategy, one would know that the spirit to persevere through any challenges and the spirit of risk-taking was innate in him.

It was not to say that he had both of the strengths of Zhao Xiaoyu and the Empress. This was the paradox of his life.

Back when Zhang Ruoxu told Gu Caiwei to pass him the words, that ”the difficulty that he is facing came from within”, it was not false at all.

The time he spent previously and the contact he had with the both of them had allowed him to realize this, and corresponded with the chief’s words.