Chapter 153 - Ghostly Man Zhuge and “Like Dissolves Like” Principle (2/2)

“That’s it!” Liu Shuai beat on his thighs, “It was us who went for him. It was you who retrieved Xiao Hong. Even if the panacea to save Zhou Yuan was obtained because of your favor to Avalokitesvara. And the panacea was smashed in the end. In fact, it was you who sealed the god! Avalokitesvara wasn’t entwined with any causality, but everything turned out to be like this!”

“That’s amazing…” Hao Ning whispered, “Without tangled with any causality he associated so many fortuities together. How did he make it?”

“He returns to the world full of hardship after his own success in cultivation and delivers others from torment. He is literally an Avalokitesvara, though he seems to deviate from the norms,” Liu Shuai kept nodding in such stir that he didn’t catch Hao Ning’s words. He rubbed his hands, “He is really different. He acted in a miserly way and was fussy about it when Xiao Hong cursed him “sometimes a male and sometimes a female”, but he was really admirable when dealing with the serious righteousness and wrongness.”

“Yes.” At that point, Hao Ning got a flicker in his eyes, “What did you say?”

“I said when dealing with serious righteousness and wrongness…” Liu Shuai got a bit nervous at his question.

“No, the sentence before.” Hao Ning grabbed Liu Huai’s hand urgently.

“Xiao Hong cursed him sometimes a male and sometimes a female…” Liu Shuai glimpsed at Xiao Hong. Xiao Hong grinned timidly.

“That’s it!” Hao Ning hit the table and unconsciously used his inner strength in the stroke. All the cups on the table bounced up. He said, “No wonder he refused to tell Monkey King about the information of his body. But that’s odd as well. Based on Xiao Hong’s saying, Monkey King should have entered his nirvana, right? Why does it start to be illogical?”

“Hao Ning? Hao Ning?” Liu Shuai, watching Hao Ning mess up himself, waved the hands before his eyes hurriedly, “What’s in your head?”

“Xiao Hong,” Hao Ning gazed at Xiao Hong and spoke seriously, “I’ll tell you the story about how I met your uncle in Creation of the Gods. Though I have no idea about your absence of memories on that ‒”

“Any need for an ‘idea’?” Liu Shuai scorned at his words, “You once told the idea yourself. Why can’t you make sense of it?”

“Em? What’s the idea?” Hao Ning, buried with too many stuff, kept no impression on that.

“You once told about the like dissolves like principles of chemistry, didn’t you? And you applied that to explain the souls, right?” Liu Shuai said in a smirk.

“Yes. It’s like mixing alcohol with water.” Hao Ning said as Liu Shuai mentioned that. That was where his expertise lay, “And the alcohol will get dissolved in water.”

“Exactly. People foster faiths on books, so the world made by books from faiths, “Liu Shuai stated, “is essentially people’s incense of faiths, right?”

“Right. And then?” Hao Ning got perplexed at Liu Shuai’s reference of that at the moment.

“Xiao Hong is a god, so he belongs to the incense of faiths, right?” Liu Shuai pointed at Xiao Hong. Xiao Hong nodded submissively.

“Right.” Hao Ning was still puzzled, “So?”

“So, when Xiao Hong, as an incense of faiths, went through a barrier made from the incense of faiths in a book,” Liu Shuai drew a circle in the air, “what would happen?”

“The incense of faith would melt with the incense of faith?” Hao Ning got it this time, “It’s as if Xiao Hong were alcohol, the book Creation of the Gods were water and they melted when alcohol went into the water.”

“That’s it!” Liu Shuai nodded in a smile, “And then it would be hard to separate the alcohol from the water. And even if they were separated, they would forget what they used to be.”

“But why did Xiao Hong remember me when I entered the world of Creation of the Gods?” Hao Ning recalled the scenes then. Xiao Hong had called him Brother Hao Ning as he did now. “I didn’t notice that but now it seems more and more strange.”

“Because at that time I entered the world by you.” Xiao Hong nodded. He appreciated the metaphor of Liu Shuai as well, “One point of my spirit was conserved in your body. You’re not a god, so it was like you used a bottle to contain the alcohol and threw it into the water. Water was still water and alcohol still alcohol.”