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Chapter 1174: Don't Forget Your Original Intention (2)
Chapter 1174: Don't Forget Your Original Intention (2)
Chapter 1174: Don’t Forget Your Original Intention (2)
Editor: Henyee Translations
Shen Ping’s old self didn’t talk nonsense. Because he had been in society for so many years, he had long understood that it was useless to refute such a thing. The uncle hesitated for a moment before shaking his head and saying, “No, the clan only chose ten. Your luck isn’t too good.”
Shen Ping said, “Am I unlucky or do I have no status in the clan? My parents have long died. There might be an immortal encounter in the Cloud Mountain Swamp. If I achieve great achievements there, will the clan regret today’s decision in the future?”
The uncle looked at Shen Ping. “You were a man of few words, but I didn’t expect you to say so much today. Perhaps when faced with a choice, people will grow up in an instant. You’re right. The reason why the clan chose you is mainly because you don’t have anyone to support you in the clan. Who can predict the future? Even if you reach the Foundation Establishment stage or even the Golden Core stage in the future, that is your fortune and has nothing to do with the family.
“Live or die, it’s your own fate.”
The uncle let out a long sigh and said, “Cultivators of my generation fight with the heavens for life. No matter what we choose, we have to continue on. Those who regret it are those whose Dao hearts are not firm and their beliefs are uncertain. Ping’er, you have to remember that no matter what you encounter in the future, you are a cultivator. From the moment you embark on this path, there is only one path you can walk, and that is to survive.”
He shook his head, got up shakily, and turned to leave. In the candlelight, he dragged his old figure and slowly disappeared. Shen Ping stared at it for a long time. He had never heard these words before, but he could feel the care this elder had for his clansmen.
To survive. It was probably this elder’s belief, his current belief.
The next day, the elder brought him and the other clansmen to the Golden Sun Sect and took a flying ship to Cloud Mountain Parlour. At this moment, Cloud Mountain Parlour was still in the middle of development. Other than a stone shop and a scattered shop street, there was nothing else.
Those who came to explore the land like Shen Ping were all casually building wooden houses near the stone shop entrance and living there temporarily.
He found a random place, built a simple house with wood and looked at the various cultivators around him. More than eighty percent of these people would die in the previous rounds of exploration.
Cloud Mountain Swamp was filled with demon beasts and poisonous creatures. Even if the Golden Sun Sect’s Foundation Establishment cultivators led the sect disciples to sweep through and cleaned up most of the demonic beasts, the remaining ones would still pose a fatal threat to these cultivators.
In the following days, Shen Ping watched quietly. Some died, but soon, new cultivators arrived. Perhaps they all had their own difficulties, but since they were here, there was only one reason, and that was to survive.
No matter how miserable these cultivators were, how painful some of them were, or how difficult their lives were, it had nothing to do with Shen Ping. He realized that he was just a passerby, an observer. The vast memories of his true spirit and hundreds of years of information had already made him like the chaos, about to lose his humanity.
Even here, he could not feel the passage of time. In his eyes, the sunrise and sunset were just a visual flow. Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and the seven emotions and six desires seemed to have lost their touch and could not attract any fluctuations.
Only then did Shen Ping truly understand how difficult it was for the Primordial Palace elder to find his original intention. He knew that even if he abandoned his memories, it would still be the same.
He could not see the Wei Kingdom in the Cloud Mountain Parlour, the Fire Toad Cave in the Wei Kingdom, the Southern Flame Continent in the Fire Toad Cave… the Abyss of Supreme Darkness, the Immortal Dao World, and the vast Chaos…
One Dao era was a hundred million years, and a hundred thousand Dao eras was a chaos year. Similarly, a hundred thousand chaos years was a year. He has lived for hundreds of years. Time could make people forget everything, even their humanity and the meaning of their existence.
As the Primordial Chaos Realm pursued the laws of time, they were also being influenced by time. No matter how firm their Dao hearts and beliefs were, they could not resist the corrosion of the laws of time.
Even though Shen Ping had relied on the dark beast to grow to his current level, he was also affected when he comprehended time. Now he knew, but it was useless.
He sat in front of the cabin in a daze. Shen Ping did not know what to do, how to find his Dao heart and beliefs. Just like that, time passed. No one noticed him, and no one could sense him.
Until this day.
The wooden houses nearby were built, and the smell of petals wafted from the neighbor’s wooden house. It was only then that he woke up from his daze. He subconsciously looked at the neighbor’s wooden house and saw a female cultivator in a robe with wet hair in front of the door. She was pouring a basin of bath water into the alley.
She seemed to have sensed his gaze. She grabbed her waist and glared at him. “What are you looking at? Have you never seen a woman’s bath water? Look at you. Ever since I came here, I’ve seen you sitting in the wooden house in a daze. If you don’t earn spirit stones, you probably won’t even be able to find a Dao companion in the future.”
Shen Ping looked at the female cultivator and blurted out, “You’ve become younger.”
The female cultivator frowned and said, “Oh, you’re quite eloquent. I’ve always been so young.”
Shen Ping could not help but size up the female cultivator seriously. He did not seem to have seen her before, or rather, he did not remember this Yu Yan. She was even younger and more charming. Even though she didn’t have the mature aura, her personality was still shrewish.
“Hey, that’s enough. Why are you still looking at me? If you want to look at women, go outside. If not, go to the brothels and music shops in the market. As long as you spend some spirit stones, I guarantee that you’ll be able to look at them enough. I won’t let you stare at me like this.” She then sashayed into the wooden house.
Shen Ping got up and followed. The female cultivator frowned and turned around to block the door. She put down the wooden basin and crossed her arms. “What? You want to force your way into my room in broad daylight?” She glanced at Shen Ping and snorted. “If you really can’t take it anymore, go find those secret prostitutes. They’re cheaper. Don’t look for me. I won’t sell myself.”
She slammed the door shut with a boom. Her voice sounded from inside, “If you dare to barge in with that weak cultivation of yours, I’ll make you suffer.”
Shen Ping suddenly smiled. “Yu Yan, can you make my legs go weak?”
The door opened again. The young and charming female cultivator narrowed her eyes. “Yo, you even know my name. It turns out that you’ve specially asked around. With your small body, I can squeeze you to death. Do you believe me? Alright, I won’t argue with you anymore. I’m not like you, who can sit still. I still need to earn spirit stones.”
She closed the door and walked towards the main street of the market. Shen Ping followed behind her. Looking at the lines of her hips, he found it quite interesting.
The female cultivator did not mind. But she snorted in her heart. She did not expect her neighbor to be so bold. He could be said to be lecherous.
They arrived at the main street of the market. She started walking along the side of the road where the stall was set up. When she saw that Shen Ping was still following her, she muttered to herself, wondering if there was something wrong with the guy behind her. How could he follow a female cultivator like this? If he was so tactless, he would have died long ago.
He might have something to rely on. Therefore, she shopped until evening. When it was almost dark, the sunset disappeared into the clouds. When they returned to the alley, they encountered a robbery. “Hey, snap out of it. You deal with two of these four mid-stage Qi Refinement cultivators and leave the rest to me. How about that?”
Shen Ping didn’t even look around. Instead, he said, “Walk slower. I can’t even keep up.”
The female cultivator was speechless. This guy is out of his mind.
“Come on, we’re surrounded by four cultivators. I won’t care about you later! Don’t blame me if you die!”
The four robbers had already taken action. Shen Ping was still standing there without any intention of attacking. This made the female cultivator even more speechless. She could only grit her teeth and take out the white snake puppet. At the same time, she attached a few talismans to it.