Li Ping’an sighed:
"Self-interest isn’t really that beneficial.
"It’s so difficult for a person’s heart to remain guiltless, and even harder to honestly ask oneself if they are a good person.
"Most living beings... Look at Chaoge City, most people are just calculating their daily als, thinking about having warm clothes, what wrong have they done, why should they be burnt because of the wishes and obsessions of the strong?
"Sotis I really want to ask, where is justice?
"After I built the Heavenly Court, I often pondered this, where is justice? Where has justice gone? Is the strong ruling truly order? Can powerful beings just arbitrarily deprive weaker beings of their right to live, is this order?
"Honestly, if achieving a relatively equal order ans all beings must be unable to cultivate and live equally in one environnt, then I’m willing to play the villain and abolish cultivation."
East Emperor Taiyi laughed with abandon: "You are a competent Heavenly Emperor, but not a competent Semi-Saint."
"A Semi-Saint has no duties."
"So what do you plan to do next?"
"Seek the truth."
Li Ping’an took a sip of wine and said softly:
"Before you talked with today, I couldn’t really be sure, I was just making wild guesses.
"Now that I know, I must understand it."
East Emperor Taiyi didn’t quite understand: "Even if you understand, so what? Isn’t it fine just waiting to take over a new world in confusion?"
"And then? I live a life of guilt and tornt, my spirit gradually breaking down to self-destruction, replicating another Old Man Wangri, placing so-called hope and future on my successor?"
Li Ping’an was startled for a mont, inhaling sharply.
East Emperor Taiyi was puzzled: "Did you suddenly realize sothing?"
"It seems, really seems so.
"Seems like what?"
"I suddenly realized, my Transcender Teacher is really like my dad back in the day... Couldn’t get into a good university himself, so he insisted I must, and then he’s satisfied."
Li Ping’an gave a bittersweet smile.
"Damn, I’m starting to believe Wangri is my dad now."
"Huh?" East Emperor Taiyi was completely baffled, "Didn’t you say before you weren’t sure?"
"Ugh, let’s stop guessing wildly, I’ll go ask directly!
"If you want to be a tyrant, just do it!
"Get soone to carry my body back and say I got drunk."
Li Ping’an lay down carelessly, closing his eyes and extracting his spirit.
East Emperor Taiyi had a few black lines on his forehead, waved a fist at the young Ji Dan, then sighed lightly, and continued gazing at the stars.
...
At the Casting Cloud Sect, Li Ping’an was in the new pavilion behind the main peak.
"Can you possibly not be my biological child?"
Li Dazhi glared at Li Ping’an, his expression sowhat indescribable:
"Your mother and I had a love stronger than gold, shared interests, and supported each other through thick and thin. When our father and son ca to this world, if it weren’t for your urging, I might not even have remarried!
"Of course, don’t let this slip out.
"Anyway, this is how it is now, with two new wives already married."
Li Ping’an stroked his chin, pondering East Emperor Taiyi’s words carefully.
He wasn’t too surprised, he had guessed it long ago, only without any proof, but today what East Emperor Taiyi and he laid on the table turned his previous guesses into certainty.
"I’m sure I’m your biological child, so this makes no sense."
Li Ping’an murmured:
"Then why did East Emperor Taiyi say Mr. Wangri let hundreds of cycles of heaven and earth happen just to find ?"
"What?"
Li Dazhi was taken aback, then suddenly seed to understand, and soon after was conflicted:
"Does this an, I am the future Old Man Wangri, I eventually transcended, heaven and earth were destroyed, then I ca back after transcending to save it all?"
"I have to say, that does sound quite grand."
Li Ping’an: "Mr. Wangri killed hundreds of worlds’ people, there are over a hundred trillion, what’s grand about that?"
"I also feel, this doesn’t seem like sothing I could do."
Li Dazhi analyzed carefully, a light of realization appeared, and said quickly:
"Could it be, Wangri is... a woman?"
"A woman?"
"Yeah, that’s right!"
Li Dazhi beca interested, speaking quickly:
"This thing seems outrageous, how could I beco an existence like Wangri? Not to ntion anything else, I don’t have that capability.
"I suspect, Wangri may be a woman you et in the future, getting entangled in love and hatred with ’her’, love stronger than gold, but because of so matters, you parted ways..."
"Stop, stop."
Li Ping’an raised his hand to his forehead:
"It feels like what you’re saying is even more outlandish than Old Man Wangri being your future self.
"However, what East Emperor Taiyi said, we can’t be a hundred percent certain, there might be so sche behind it."
"Do you think, could the cycle of heaven and earth be false? Your teacher often mixes lies in his words just to make the situation develop according to his wishes."
Li Dazhi regained his energy again, sitting cross-legged on the soft couch, then got tangled up again:
"It doesn’t add up either, I’ve seen the Remnants of Heaven and Earth, and I indeed sensed them.
"Hundreds of completely different yet similar heavens, the glass spheres enclosing them are extrely ingenious creations of the Great Dao of Qiankun.
"What’s the deal with the cycle of heaven and earth? Is there a reasoning that’s beyond my comprehension level?"
Li Ping’an sighed: "We just can’t figure out the logic behind this, if we could restore his complete logical chain, perhaps we could find a way to save this world."
"Actually," Li Dazhi glanced around guiltily.
Even though there was really no one else in the room.
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