jdhmnovel Chapter 172 Initial Awakening of Consciousness
Chapter 172 Initial Awakening of Consciousness
After Ye Ling and Xuan He came out, they continued their journey to find the old site of the sect!
As Xuan He flew, he observed Ye Ling. A dark glint flashed in his eyes, and he chuckled to himself before speaking casually, "Why haven't you said a word the whole way?"
Ye Ling didn't even turn her head or glance at him, and coldly said, "I'm afraid you'll find me annoying!"
Hearing his perfunctory excuse, Xuanhe didn't take it to heart and continued, "Little girl, this is how the world is. There's only a distinction between the strong and the weak. As long as they can achieve their goals, whether it's the righteous path or the demonic path, they'll stop at nothing. You have to get used to it! You'll encounter more of these in the future, and you might even... become one of them!"
Ye Ling did not refute him further. She continued flying in silence. She knew that what Xuan He said was true, and that was what she thought too, especially after returning to the Realm of the Azure Sky. She had prepared herself mentally long ago.
She kept hypnotizing herself, telling herself that this was a place without order, morality, or justice; it was a place where only the strong and the weak existed, and one wrong step would lead to utter ruin. She always told herself to be cold-blooded and ruthless, to lower her moral standards, and to try to integrate herself into this world.
But it was only after she experienced these things that she realized that the previous world had a profound impact on her, and her moral values were deeply ingrained in her soul. Even though she considered herself a person who didn't meddle in other people's business, she still felt uncomfortable after observing those things from the sidelines. She couldn't explain it, but she felt a dull ache in her heart, just a sense of unease!
Only then did she realize how naive she had been, trying to change herself using her own understanding. But some things take time and a process to change, and she was still far from being able to perfectly control her emotions!
Ye Ling pondered how to quickly integrate into this world, how to survive in this unfamiliar world, and how to shed her former thoughts.
She could never go back to that peaceful social life. Those ideas were incompatible with her current life, even contradictory. But she didn't want to die, and she didn't want to die without knowing why. She had to find out the truth and know how far she could go and how high she could fly.
"Survival of the fittest is the law everywhere, so I don't want to lose! Old Ghost is right, everything I've experienced here is telling you this principle! Ye Ling, let go of the past, be absolutely rational, only then can you cut through the fog and see the truth. Don't make a mistake for yourself. You'll see more things like this in the future, and you'll get used to it!" Ye Ling kept reassuring herself to soothe her fear and anxiety!
Ye Ling finally calmed down. She rationally analyzed the life of Pei Fuqing, this tragic figure, in an attempt to understand the people of this world more quickly and how to make them work for her.
Pei Fuqing was born in Luoxia Village. His family was a well-known wealthy family in the area. Pei Fuqing was especially pampered by his father, who had him late in life. It can be said that Pei Fuqing grew up in a sweet environment.
However, Pei Fuqing did not grow up to be a spoiled brat. On the contrary, he was very intelligent, especially good at reading people's expressions. In his early years, he read many books of sages and was very knowledgeable. But it was precisely because he was good at reading people's expressions that his keen observation led him to discover many "truths" that contradicted the core ideas of the books he had read. This made the clever Pei Fuqing gradually realize that this was a conspiracy!
This is a huge deception, a deception used to control everyone's minds. They are locked up by those in power like domesticated livestock. It was from the moment he realized this that his worldview was shaken. He was smart and knew that people are best at deceiving themselves. Even if he told the truth, those people would continue to deceive themselves, turn around and blame him, and might even kill him!
This is a conspiracy against the ignorant and a scheme against the intelligent. It ensnares the ignorant without their knowledge, while keeping the intelligent in the know but unable to speak out. He was overwhelmed by a deep sense of powerlessness, and from that moment on, his mindset changed. He felt he had to do something to keep himself from going insane!
So he began to travel the world, seeking immortals and enlightenment, hoping to find a way to liberation! It was in this way that he reshaped his worldview through constant exploration. But his cleverness was both his strength and his weakness. The more he understood human nature, the more complex he felt it was, and the more he wanted to control it. For this reason, he dared to confront and exploit human nature, but in the end, he was defeated by human nature!
His ending is truly lamentable, but Ye Ling thinks he is clever, able to see through this thousand-year-old scheme in the mortal world. However, his cleverness backfired. He was arrogant and despicable, and he knew it was his nature, but he couldn't control it. He could control others, but he couldn't control himself, which is why he ended up in this state!
Luck is a good thing, and he had it, which is why he rose from mortal to the top. Unfortunately, he saw through others but couldn't see through himself, which was a fatal mistake! Ye Ling would never make such a mistake and let herself fall into such a predicament!