Extra: "The Step of Being a Man"
I saw you, walking towards me step by step, just like I saw me when I was younger. I can't tell if you're a Terran, an elf, or whatever.
I've been waiting here for a long time, and I've seen too many strange things pass by here. Saying the same thing to everyone and never telling them my story. Kid, you're in luck. Don't be impatient, just spread your ears and listen. Although I am not a good storyteller, this story has been repeated countless times in my heart just to be able to tell it smoothly.
Master once told me that since I have chosen this path, I will continue to walk no matter how difficult it is. You can't trust anyone, and you can't trust anyone.
At the beginning, everyone was telling me, let it go, this path is not for you. I see them all as enemies! It seems to me that they are holding back, they are afraid, they are beginning to be afraid.
I never gave up, and I followed Master's last wish and inherited His mantle. It was a long, long time ago, and when I tried to remember it, it was blurry, and inadvertently, the memory was as clear as it was vivid.
Master was killed, and I had another reason to live. So, I thank Master that if He didn't die, I wouldn't have the idea of living. Apart from him, the one who loves me the most is the senior brother, he is old, he can't fulfill the master's last wish, he said that the last wish is that the master asked him to kill 10,000 living beings.
I said I'll do it for my brother, if I can't help him fulfill his wish, he will definitely die. So, I went. I killed 10,000 people, and everybody said I was wrong! No, they never told me what I was wrong! They just chased and killed! I could only run and keep running!
Confused, I spent my best time in confusion. The world never tries to explain to me where the distinction between right and wrong lies! Hypocritical Terrans, they themselves do not know! They only kill people with intrigues, kill with malicious intentions, and even more terrible kill with smiles!
In those years, I had many dreams, and even in my dreams, those nasty people never gave up chasing me! Just when I was most helpless, I dreamed of my senior brother. I asked him why he was here? It's too dangerous. Look at it, the creatures all over the mountains are rushing here, and they have only one goal, and that is my junior brother. I said, "Let's go." Fleeing is always a one-man business.
Senior brother said to me, when the whole world doesn't understand you, I don't know if you can still persevere.
I laughed, it turned out that my brother didn't believe me. Who am I? I was originally a demon spirit under the Immortal Mountain. I can only survive if I am rescued by my teacher, how can I die? Master has refined my demon body for me with the method of pure demons, how can I give up so easily! I am Master's most proud disciple, how can I be ashamed of his old man?!
I swore to kill, but unexpectedly, in a mountain, I was hunted down to death. My soul and body couldn't help but drift and float, and I floated to a poor family. It was a snowy time in the depths of winter, and I saw a girl. She said she was cold.
Mother stuffed her into a shabby quilt and asked her a long time later, "Is it still cold?" She asked her mother curiously, the quilt was cold, did she warm the quilt, or did the quilt smug her?
I was stunned.
On the run, I never thought about why those people were chasing me. If it's just me who kills someone, you're going to hunt me down, that's easy. However, this is not the case.
The way of the world has never existed in isolation. The worldly way can never surpass the heavenly way, and under the heavenly way, how many unfinished ways are there? Who instructed the Master to say that killing 10,000 people can achieve the way of killing?
I swore to kill one person, and my heart was terrified, and when I killed ten, I was cold-blooded and ruthless, and when I killed a hundred, I became mad, and when I killed a thousand, I became a demon, and when I killed ten thousand, I became calm. The girl's words awakened me, my true self, which is compassion.
It turns out that all sentient beings are like that quilt, and they have cultivated too many Taoisms. Who would have thought that there was mercy behind this murderous way?
The emperor would say that the opening up of the territory was for the well-being of the people, but what they did was to bring greater disasters to sentient beings; the sages would say that to solve the difficulties of the people, it was even more necessary to prevent the danger of poverty, and to stop the chaos by means of banditry; and the sages would say that when sentient beings are in trouble, it is inevitable that they should give priority to survival and abandon sickness and weakness.
All living beings will eventually be reduced to the dust of time. It seems that we have been freed from the distractions of the world, so we don't have to worry about status, identity, and other things outside of our body. Wrong, kid! When have you ever seen such orderly dust? Are they willing to stay in that position? No one knows why, I've spent endless hours here, I've seen so much dust, they seem to be unrestrained, but it's like they're doing some kind of duty, you look far away, you look high, they always follow some kind of rules.
Compared with the dust of time, what is the disturbance of the world, natural disasters and wars. The basic rule of living beings is to live!
I am grateful to Master and Senior Brother for deceiving me, so that I have achieved the Supreme Path, and I can calmly tell everything about me here......
But then I met her. She's the Lightbringer, the most unbearable thing for me, she's an elf!
She said, my mission has been accomplished, and on the many avenues in the world, I have contributed my own strength to the completion of the Heavenly Dao, but in fact, I am just a cornerstone of the Dao.
It turned out that I was just a cornerstone! I suddenly realized that I had actually been deceived! It was not those hundred clans who shouted and shouted to kill, but I was deceived by the dead master and senior brother. I am unwilling, I want to escape! I want to enter my own time, find my life and death, find my right and wrong! Find my way!
I succeeded, I reached the top of all beings, I failed, I became a Daoji spirit in the Avenue of Time.
I look whole, no different from you, and I'm much luckier than those dust. I look at them every day, not to mention how comfortable it is. I was a seeker, I was a martyr, and now I am a soul, a soul that looks like I was alive. But there was no perseverance, no madness, no bravery, no fearlessness above this soul, and all those steadfastness were cast into this foundation stone under my feet.
Yes, child, this is my body, the sustenance of my soul, and all my pride!
Give up, young man. The endless road ahead is full of unknowns. If you are persistent, step on this cornerstone and let me take you to a higher peak.
Alas, is it a kind of success to live at the feet of others?