Chapter 1453: Chapter 233: The Rise and Fall of Past and Present, Chuunibyou
“The losers fall into the abyss, and the successful can’t go much further, because the number of Dao Embryos is limited, and no matter what… one cannot find peace of mind.”
At this point, Iron Hand extinguished the cigarette in his hand, smiling, but his tone was almost lancholic: “The more you know, the less you can wholeheartedly die for a certain ideal. Your parents died early, the older siblings had their grudges, and although I did too, after all these years, the grudges must have been avenged by now.”
“I don’t want to rember those awful things. Instead, I miss those days, Huo Qing, the ti when your father and I, the five of us, then six of us, lived together… Those were probably the happiest, most peaceful days of my life.”
Huo Qing understood Iron Hand’s aning.
Carrying hopes and dreams, with siblings of like minds striving together, though arduous and dangerous, that ti was undoubtedly one of the rare bright monts in Iron Hand’s life.
He stood beside his uncle, who was no longer taller than him, shoulder to shoulder with his unrelated kin.
“Now the carriers of those mories have all disappeared.” The young cultivator also said nostalgically, “The house where I once lived with my parents, where I was born, played, ate, all those reminiscing places, they’re all gone… The scratch marks on the walls, childhood graffiti, the alleys and streets, the morable paths and slls are all gone, never to return again.”
“Our little shop is about to be gone too.”
Iron Hand sighed, looking at Huo Qing: “I originally wanted to pass it on to you, but now it’s no longer needed.”
“How could that be?” Talking about the old small shop, Huo Qing laughed: “Didn’t we start a general store because what we first ca into contact with was your old shop, Uncle? The entire Peace Group can be said to be a continuation of your old shop back then, and you have shares in it too.”
“So things, even if they ended and vanished, haven’t truly disappeared; they’ve transford into new things and carried on.”
“Indeed.”
Iron Hand closed his eyes and murmured, “My little shop might still exist, but the Guiyi Army is truly going to disband.”
“It was originally an external organization for the Four Saints to regulate the group. Until now, I didn’t realize the essence of the Guiyi Army… Just the na, ‘Guiyi Guiyi’, which ans to discipline the group, to ensure it does not forget ‘Righteousness’, and the group was also a kind of trial to hone us, colliding and struggling to remove the rust, so it could last long…”
“And the real purpose of the Four Saints has recently been widely announced.”
At this point, Iron Hand couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “An Jing was originally just an ordinary young cultivator, not even a cultivator—when I first t him, he had just undergone Spirit Awakening. Who could have imagined that in less than ten years, he would… achieve such a great thing.”
“Don’t underestimate yourself, Uncle,” Huo Qing also laughed: “Without your assistance, An Jing wouldn’t have grown so quickly, and just like with the Peace Group, you had a part in it too.”
“That’s not what I ant.”
Iron Hand also laughed, then sighed deeply: “It’s too fast, but the problem lies there.”
Looking up, Iron Hand glanced at another small town and new city district being rebuilt in the distance, sighing: “I can stop hating, the Guiyi Army disbanded, the group underwent massive changes, a better new world is about to be born, I’ve reconciled with this world—but the majority who cannot reconcile is vast.”
“Countless people who cannot reconcile, so many died from the group’s indirect or even direct oppression, so many were denied entry to the safe zones and Spiritual Vein City, the hardships they endured, their hatred for the big group, can a few truths smooth that away? The forr perpetrators in those big corporations, those who decide the lives of others from above, their heads haven’t been chopped off, the blood hasn’t flowed, the world is about to be changed, and they can have good days, how can that be?”
“How could the new world still hold the decay of the old world? I don’t care anymore, I can pretend not to see, but there will always be many who cannot tolerate.”
“Hatred, cause and effect, resentnt… rembering is ‘Karma’, forgetting is ‘Sin’.”
“Karma and Sin, how can they be eliminated? The old era vanished, like the small towns before our eyes, flattened and rebuilt by greater powers, but also like the mories in our hearts, the lost souls of the old era… will not dissipate.”
“So, what of it?”
To this, Huo Qing just smiled calmly: “It’s better than the past, isn’t it? In the new world, with the sins of the past, resolving these, or being resolved by them, is what we should do.”
“An Jing created the foundation, when he encounters sin, he punishes, when he encounters evil, he kills, but he has more important things to do, to resist greater oppression, so these cleanup tasks, we must handle ourselves—this is also what we should do.”
Huo Qing was long prepared.
He understood clearly, even if the world changed, the karma that persisted is the eternal, unending entanglent of demons, and there will always be those who beco obsessed because of it, hence the Four Saints’ ultimate idea at the ti was to perish together, to end everything with a fair death for all beings, including themselves.
But, that’s rely escapism.
Facing problems through sacrifice is rely a shortcut.
The truly painful Righteous Path is to solve all the problems face-on, step by step, including the entanglents of the heart, the feedback of karma, like the heavens and earth, accepting and bearing everything no matter what happens…
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