Immortals and Mortals
God... does not exist
Chang Xia was lost in thought, then realized that this "non-existence" might be somewhat different from her understanding of "non-existence." She looked at Feng Yibai, motioning him to continue.
Feng Yibai smiled and pointed to the sky, saying, "As I said before, the laws of nature are unchanging. The Lord above us is the most fair. Gains and losses are constant."
"Time and space spell" Chang Xia asked.
"That's right. That was the first thing Heaven gave to mortals, and it's the closest thing to Heaven itself. Before the Heavenly Ladder was cut off, the six realms shared what they had, so it wasn't a secret."
"Humans don't have innate magical powers, nor do they have strong bodies, nor do they even have long lifespans. Even if they reach the pinnacle of cultivation, their lifespan is no more than ten thousand years. But the six realms all agree that Heaven loves humanity."
"Because only humans have a 'future'."
"The demons only have this life, and do not cultivate for the afterlife; the monsters are born without wisdom, and need opportunity to awaken their wisdom; they become ghosts after life and death, and when ghosts enter the cycle of reincarnation, all their past lives are annihilated; they have great magical powers, but they cannot even touch a tiny ant, and the immortals..."
Feng Yibai's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he suddenly smiled, "Girl, do you know what it means to become an immortal?"
Chang Xia said: "I have some guesses."
The immortals in the sky... are too weak.
It's like it hasn't made any progress in thousands or tens of thousands of years.
She continued, "Time is the fairest thing. I guess the immortals gain time through immortality, and the price they pay is only time."
"Young lady, you are indeed as smart as your senior brother said. There is nothing more precious than time, but the value of time lies not in time itself, but in the things it can bring. However, the greed of those who are short-lived for immortality is hard to see."
Feng Yibai's voice was deep and profound. "Mortals say a single step can travel a thousand miles, a small stream can become a river or sea, but that's not the case with immortals. No matter how many years pass, they can only be the way they were at the moment they became immortals. From then on, thoughts, talents, and abilities—all the things that were once readily available to mortals—are no longer relevant to them."
Chang Xia felt that he was even gloating. She said in a calm voice: "It's like time has stopped for them."
"It's more like they gained time, but that's all they gained." Feng Yibai sneered, "What comes after that has nothing to do with them anymore. The once-brilliant genius can no longer even comprehend the newly created spells by mortals in the Qi training stage."
"Living like a dead person."
Changxia suddenly felt his heart shrink, and his fingers couldn't help but clench the empty wine glass in front of him.
These little movements naturally couldn't be hidden from the old senior who had successfully transcended the tribulation. Feng Yibai raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you thinking about, girl?"
Changxia didn't answer him, and Feng Yibai didn't get angry.
It could be nothing more than the love and hate of a young man, the most exciting thing in his life. He lowered his head and laughed, thinking that he had grown up and could still enjoy watching other people's good shows.
Changxia was thinking about Xie Fengxue.
Her senior brother was extremely intelligent, gifted, and proud. He disdained the things that other people strived for all their lives.
What was he thinking when he could no longer understand the star map hanging high in his room?
Feng Yibai continued, "As for the gods... they wield the authority of the laws of heaven, and as a price, they will also integrate into the laws. The immortal world has mountains, rivers, seas, birds and beasts, and it is all maintained by the laws of divine arts. It can be said that the mountains, rivers, and seas are all transformed by the gods... The southern border is the immortal world after the gods are gone."
Chang Xia only realized it then and raised his head: "The mountains, rivers, and seas are all transformed by the gods."
Feng Yibai said in an ambiguous tone, "Yes, it was transformed by the gods."
“They are conscious.”
"Yes, but it's the same as not having them. They're limited by the rules and can't touch the real world. There are some secret places in the immortal world where they have more freedom. But other than that, they're also being assimilated by the rules. When they're completely absorbed into the rules... can you still expect a rule to have its own thoughts?"
Changxia was silent. If this were the case, there would be gods in the world, but it seemed that there was no difference between that and having no gods.
"Now you understand how partial the master is to people."
You don't sound grateful.
Chang Xia said calmly, "Humans are born weak and have a limited lifespan. Heaven forbids perfection, and humanity forbids completeness. How can there be any favoritism?"
You can't just forget what you have when you see what others have.
"Little white-eyed wolf."
Feng Yibai suddenly poured himself a glass of wine, his tone melancholy.
"At the beginning, the separation of the Immortal Realm and Cang Xuan was actually out of good intentions."
There wasn't so much hatred in the beginning. Immortals aren't born that way. Mortals' purging, tribulation-surviving perfection, and ascending to immortality were just two different paths back then.
"Among the six realms, only humans and demons need to cultivate step by step. Gu Cangxuan has accepted many mortals who have ascended from the incomplete realms. In comparison, the humans and demons who have not yet grown up are too weak."
Sometimes being weak is also a sin.
"Their thoughts at that time... were actually very simple. They just wanted to use Cang Xuan as a... hatching ground for cubs."
Feng Yibai laughed when he said this.
"People and monsters who haven't grown up yet do need protection. Many immortals who have already become immortals are willing to stay in the mortal world without immortal power for this reason. And then..."
And then what else?
But "people's hearts are no longer the same as they used to be", that's all.
"People are always like this. Once they get one thing, they want something else, always thinking that what they don't have is better. Becoming an immortal doesn't elevate one's character. It's fine at first, but when there's been no progress for thousands or tens of thousands of years, fate begins to take its toll."
"It would be fine if one were content with the status quo, but who among those who can become immortals is not a child of destiny? Who would be content with fate?"
So the changes began.
"They first experimented on the demons. Immortals are calm, orderly, wise, and thoughtful, while demons are chaotic, crazy, less intelligent, and more powerful. At that time, the immortals believed that immortals and demons complement each other, and that demons could make up for what they lacked. Although Asuras are born with natural strength and superior killing power, there are more people in the immortal world. Moreover, immortals are almost immortal. As long as they are not killed on the spot, they can recover from even the most serious injuries. Therefore, the situation is almost one-sided."
Some things are hard to end once they start.
The demons were hoarse in this way, so that by the time they reacted, they had already been extinct, the six paths were out of balance, and they were forced to piece together a monster like Bie Jingchun.
"At that time, many immortals were very curious about your master, but he was the last straw that maintained the balance of the six realms and could not be touched. As the balance of all parties was maintained, he was sent to the human world and handed over to the Human Emperor at that time."
That Human Emperor was the father of Zuo Qin and Ji Zhao.
Quan Cangxuan knew that Zuo Qin and Bie Jingchun were close friends, but they seemed to be close friends who suddenly appeared and had been inseparable since they became well-known.
No one knows that the friendship between the two boys who never grow up originated from their real boyhood when they were once unknown.
"The Immortal Realm's covetousness for your master has never ceased. Not everyone there is intelligent enough to consider the greater good, otherwise they wouldn't have done something as foolish as wiping out the demons. Therefore, there will always be those who are self-righteous and foolish enough to do things worse than pigs and dogs."
Hearing this, Chang Xia suddenly raised his head, looking at Feng Yibai with hesitation.
There seems to be a lot of personal emotion in this passage.
She already knew what was going to happen next.
Zuo Qin was implicated and died, and Ji Zhao was forced to take the throne.
The person in front of him was Princess Mingyue Ji Zhao, whom she was determined to marry despite the great disapproval of the world.
Feng Yibai poured himself another glass of wine.
"You should know what happened next. The situation in the Eastern Territory was too complicated, the Southern Territory was too close to the Divine Tree Ladder, and the brainless... and unplanning swordsmen in the Western Territory were easily fooled. So, your master and Zuo Qin were sent to the Northern Territory and accepted as disciples by Chunyu Bai, the then-master of Morning Star Mountain."
Changxia had a good memory. She remembered that Chunyu Bai and the previous Luhu Master Jiang Xinyue were the witnesses of Ji Zhao's shocking wedding.
Master Luhu has always been open to all, teaching without discrimination and embracing all things. It wasn't surprising that she attended this wedding. But Chunyu Bai...
No wonder the treacherous and unpredictable Lord of Morning Star Mountain was willing to get involved in this mess. It turned out that it was all due to his apprentice's debt.
Changxia had never seen this master before. He had passed away many years ago when she became a disciple.
After the story was told, Feng Yibai suddenly took out a box from his sleeve and handed it to Changxia.
Changxia raised his eyebrows.
This thing is actually real, not an illusion.
"Your senior brother told me that the debt Qiu Wu owed forty-seven years ago should be repaid by Qiu Wu forty-seven years ago."
Changxia opened the box silently, and inside was a wooden carved peach blossom hairpin.
She whispered, "Why isn't it your favorite pear blossom this time?"
The mechanism box that Xie Fengxue gave to me suddenly fell out of the storage bag, landed on the ground, and the box opened.
Little Xie Fengxue came out of the box and then slowly grew bigger. He seemed to be sitting in front of Changxia. He stretched out his hand, then retracted it as if he had been electrocuted.
Chang Xia looked at the immortal in green clothes with wide sleeves and said with a smile: "The pear blossoms are too cold."
This forced exit seemed to have exhausted all the remaining spiritual energy of the phantom. Almost the moment the words fell, the green robe disappeared.
Changxia closed his eyes and then opened them again.
She calmly picked up the mechanism box and put it back into the storage bag.
As he was about to leave, he suddenly thought of something and turned to Feng Yibai and said, "Senior, have you carefully looked at this landscape?"
Feng Yibai was stunned: "Mountains and rivers"
He thought that it was already the limit for Xie Fengxue to be able to transcend time and space and open up such a piece of land for him.
Chang Xia lowered his eyes: "This dream uses Ji Sheng and my dreams as a carrier, exhausting the lifelong learning of two top illusion masters, and almost recreating the entire Cang Xuan."
Of course, it is not as simple as she said. For example, one of the illusion masters is equivalent to the incarnation of the dragon vein, and the other has been reincarnated for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.
For example, one of the owners of the dream is Cang Xuan’s most controversial and greatest last human emperor, while the owner of the other dream, because of someone’s unwillingness, actually broke the predetermined fate.
She took a step forward, leaving the sound behind.
"If you have some free time, you can take a closer look."
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