"Your feelings for her are real, but you care more about your own obsession. Then, are you obsessed with your feelings or your personality?" Lu Yin asked.
Yuan Huo shouted, "No, Kui Niang has never left this city. She doesn't understand how vast the outside world is. I want to bring her out to see the world and the universe. I want to accompany her through her exciting life."
"To her, every flower and blade of grass in this city is the world, every water and wood is the universe. She'll experience her most exciting life the moment she leaves this house. This is the life she wants."
"No, no!" Yuan Huo roared.
"If you bring her around the world and she still wants to come back, what will you do?"
Yuan Huo didn't hesitate, "I'll stay here with her for the rest of my life."
Lu Yin nodded, "Alright, I'll give you an answer."
He then used karma to create karma from Yuan Huo's experiences into Kui Niang's past, allowing her to experience a portion of Yuan Huo's karma. She could see the vastness of the world and the vastness of the universe.
Kui Niang walked out of the house once more and found Yuan Huo, "Brother Yuan, I saw the light of Changbao Mountain. It's beautiful."
Yuan Huo was confused, "What are you talking about?"
Kui Niang smiled beautifully, "I also saw the saber-toothed tiger that you like. It's so cute."
"I also saw the snacks in Chino City, the waterfall in Meitou, and the lights in Bingcheng. I saw the waterfall from the Sea of Karma and the winding sea of golden sand. Brother Yuan, you've experienced all of this, right?"
Yuan Huo stared at Kui Niang in disbelief. How was this possible?
How could Kui Niang have seen all of this?
He looked at Lu Yin again.
Lu Yin looked at her, "Are you still willing to leave with him?"
Kui Niang raised a hand and caressed Yuan Huo's face, "Brother Yuan, are you willing to stay with me?"
Yuan Huo trembled and stared blankly at her, "You want me to stay?"
Kui Niang smiled and nodded.
Yuan Huo's eyes reddened, "Alright, alright, I'll stay. I'll stay with you."
"Thank you, Brother Yuan." Kui Niang hugged him tightly.
Lu Yin smiled. Yes, this was her persistence. Just that one sentence, "Brother Yuan, are you willing to stay with me?"
This sentence was all of his persistence.
Yuan Huo wanted to take Kui Niang away, but Kui Niang couldn't bear to leave this city. They had been entangled for nine years, tormenting them and the people of this city.
Now, he was finally free.
Yuan Huo had actually been waiting for Kui Niang to let him stay. This was the real reason.
This was true misery.
Even Lu Yin hadn't been able to see through the pain at first. It was only when Kui Niang urged him to stay and Yuan Huo's relief that he saw it clearly.
There were so many mysteries in the world. There were so many powerhouses who had crossed the Bitter Calamity. Each and every one of them said that they had seen through their own Bitter Calamity. Had they really seen through it?
If they could see clearly, even ordinary mortals could pass through, why couldn't they?
They simply couldn't see their own suffering clearly. The more they experienced, the more they couldn't see clearly.
Even with Lu Yin's current level of cultivation, he still had to rely on the power of the Law of Words and the Creation of Karma in order to see through Yuan Huo and Kui Niang's suffering, let alone others.
Therefore, this was the most difficult path to immortality.
Only by overcoming the tribulation could one step into eternal life.
The people of the world simply could not see their own suffering.
However, mortals could pass through it.
Lu Yin didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Perhaps from the very beginning, cultivation had always been a path of regression, but this was a path that had to be walked.
Who in this world wasn't the same?
They pursued fame and fortune, but in the end, they became indifferent to it. After walking a circle, they returned to the starting point. However, this circle was not wrong.
Cultivation was a circle.
Lu Yin had also seen through that his own power of the Law of Words could never change people's hearts.
The Creation of Karma could not change fate.
When he left this city, Kui Niang and Yuan Huo were still here. They hadn't left, and it was as if nothing had changed.
Lu Yin lay on the bamboo pole. Then, what was his obsession?
How could he see through his own Bitter Calamity?
He knew that after what had happened with Yuan Huo and Kui Niang, it would be too difficult for him to see through his own suffering. This was not something that could be determined by his cultivation. What he thought of as his obsession might be the Bitter Calamity, but it might not be.
As he thought about it, he lay on the bamboo raft for three days. No matter how many people called out to him, he didn't get his fortune told.
It was only after three days that he got up and wrote the word "Zhi". This word would accompany him for the rest of his life.
…
In Yehai, Qinglian Yu retracted his gaze, and a faint smile appeared on his face. The results were better than he had expected. This person seemed to have seen through something.
Some things might seem ordinary to ordinary people, but they held extraordinary meaning in their eyes.
Even though this person had not cultivated for long, he could still see through these things. He was indeed worthy of being the chosen one who had comprehended Karma.
Now, he could let go of his desires.
…
Another year passed, and it had been two years since Lu Yin had left the Sixth Night Pillar.
In the Tianyuan Universe, there was an endless sea of insects. From time to time, strange and powerful insects would tear through the void and travel from one parallel universe to another. Battles would break out from time to time, and human cultivators would use their own power or technology to destroy the sea of insects. They could usually clear out a few parallel universes, but those parallel universes would quickly be occupied by the insects again.
Mie Wuhuang sat on a broken planet. He watched as the ground beneath his feet split apart and dissipated into the starry sky, crashing into another planet. He lay on the ground and thought of what happened in the Square Inch. Was this what that guy meant by peace?
A few years ago, he had crossed the Core Space and arrived in the Tianyuan Universe. The first thing he saw was an endless sea of insects.
He had thought that this was a characteristic of the Tianyuan Universe and that these insects might have been reared by the Tianyuan Universe's experts.
However, he had been wrong. When he had entered the Tianyuan Universe and encountered these insects, he had been drowned by the endless sea of insects. Even though these insects posed no threat to him and he could wipe them all out with a wave of his hand, there were just too many of them. Occasionally, a few powerful ones would pop out.
Some of these insects were weak, but their methods were strange and disgusting. Some of them looked disgusting to begin with.
In the process of killing these insects, he had finally found someone from the Sky Sect, but he had been mistaken for an insect. If not for the fact that these people knew Lu Yin and treated him as their master, he would have killed them all.
He had followed them to the Sky Sect, and it had to be said that the Sky Sect was very grand. Its presence was no weaker than the Realm Beyond Heaven. The moment he saw the Sky Sect, he had subconsciously taken out the Virtue Banner and was about to hang it up.
He had explained everything to the people from the Sky Sect and told them about the disaster that had befallen him, but they were extremely wary of him and did not believe him completely. Fine, it did not matter. He had never planned on making them believe him in the first place. As long as he could hang up the Virtue Banner, he could do whatever he wanted in the Tianyuan Universe. Did he care what the people of the Tianyuan Universe thought of him?
However, he had underestimated the Sky Sect.
There was someone called Lu Yuan who clearly only had the strength of a Primordial realm expert, but he was actually on par with him. He was confident that he could defeat Lu Yuan. In terms of battle prowess, Lu Yuan was powerful, but he was nowhere near Lu Yin's level. There were so many Primordial realm experts in the spiritualized universe, and Mie Wuhuang believed that he was only second to Yu Sang Tian and Wuhuang in the spiritualized universe.
However, Lu Yuan could actually use his innate gift to create a large group of experts. What General Appointment Platform? What Divine Investiture Catalog? What baffling names. The strength of the experts he created was only so-so, but there were so many of them that he actually struggled to take them down.
Lu Yuan was definitely a genius to be able to match Mie Wuhuang as a Primordial realm expert. He had a rather terrifying battle sense. Once he advanced a step further and increased his strength through Kuai, Mie Wuhuang really had no confidence in being able to suppress him.
Afterwards, someone called the Ancient God returned and clashed with him, but Mie Wuhuang was actually unable to do anything.
This Ancient God relied on something called the Battle Force Mastery Realm, but Mie Wuhuang was actually unable to do anything to him. What the hell?
Afterwards, someone called Jiang Feng appeared, and Mie Wuhuang's days began to dim. Jiang Feng's battle prowess was strange and terrifying, such that Mie Wuhuang was unable to fight back at all. He felt powerless, like he was facing Yu Sang Tian. No, even more powerless. He did not know what was going on.
Afterwards, his Virtue Banner was confiscated, and he was even forced to swear an oath to help the Sky Sect fight the insects. He had never thought that this would happen.
Didn't they say that there were no experts in the Tianyuan Universe?
Didn't they say that it was very peaceful?
Didn't they say that the ones left behind were the elderly, women, and children?
Why didn't those top experts go to the spiritualized universe? Why did that Jiang Feng stay here?
To the spiritualized universe to disgust Yu Sang Tian. It was as if he had stayed here to disgust Mie Wuhuang.
Mie Wuhuang was truly disgusted. The insects disgust him. Those from the Sky Sect disgust him. He did not want to fight at all. He turned around and buried himself in the ground. No one would be able to find him. At most, he would just hide like in the spiritualized universe.
The wireless Gu vibrated.
Mie Wuhuang glanced at it and did not pick it up.
The wireless Gu continued to vibrate. He was impatient and was about to put it away when his eyes suddenly widened. Wu Jiang had returned?
…
At the border of the spiritualized universe, a figure suddenly charged through the door and headed towards the spiritualized universe.
Many cultivators tried to block him, causing the starry sky to crack. Too many cultivators were bleeding. This person risked his life to barge in, it was Calamity.
Calamity took out the insect nest and threw it into the depths of the spiritualized universe. He fled in another direction with blood at the corner of his mouth. "The mission is completed. I really hope to see the day when the insects appear in the spiritualized universe. Hahahaha …"
…
Time continued to pass. It did not stop because of a single person or a single event.
In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.
Lu Yin was already very famous on that river in the Eastern Divine Region, and countless people had come here to ask for his calligraphy and divination. After ten years, Lu Yin seemed to have forgotten all his troubles. He watched each person go through their own experiences, felt their troubles, and experienced the myriad facets of the world.
There was a template for happiness. Everyone seemed to have the same template, but everyone was different in their own way.
Regardless of whether they were powerful cultivators or mortals, emotions were fair to everyone. They would be happy, sad, angry, or regretful.
These ten years did not seem to be of much use to Lu Yin, but they also seemed to be very useful.
He wanted to pick up his obsession, but in the end, he let go of it. He did not see through anything, but he seemed to have understood something. Some things were better left to nature.