Chapter 593 The Love of the Divination Master
"I heard that Jian Feixian only became Da Wuchang on the side of the social order because of his friendship with you. It may be a bit presumptuous of me to ask this question so suddenly, but can Jian Feixian really be trusted?" I asked. "Faced with the ruthless yet efficient plan of human extermination, will he really stand firmly on the same side as you and me, instead of being turned by the Gospel Institute?"
Seeing that I directly raised my doubts, Fa Zheng was not angry. Instead, he smiled confidently and said, "You can rest assured about Jian Feixian's words."
"To swing a sword at the weak in order to survive—Sword Immortal would never do such a despicable thing. Although he may not care as much about the life and death of the masses as I do, we did not become friends for no reason."
His voice was full of trust in his friends.
"Is that so?" I pondered the information about Jian Feixian.
Fa Zheng casually remarked, "Although he's also someone who's lived for two or three hundred years, in terms of mental age, he's probably about the same as you..."
"Mental age?" I asked keenly.
"Uh... don't worry about it." Fa Zheng waved his hand. "Anyway, he can be trusted."
Seeing this, I simply ignored what had just been said and continued to ask, "So... what about the fortune teller?"
"You must have had quite a few exchanges with the Divination Master, right? What is your opinion of him?" Fa Zheng asked seriously.
"Although the Diviner is a transcendental and unpredictable being, what he pursues is an ideal society of governance. However, in order to better achieve this goal, he believes it is necessary to first use transcendental means," I said. "He has lived an unimaginably long life, so much so that the lifespan of an ordinary human being is but a fleeting moment in his eyes. His focus is always on human civilization as a whole, and no individual within it is worthy of his attention."
"Perhaps he values 'all people' highly, but he is utterly indifferent to 'everyone'. It's not out of arrogance or conceit that he so disregards individual mortals. Anyone who has lived such a long time would become incapable of feeling for each mortal who is born in the morning and dies at night."
"The time scales are just too different, so even if he didn't want to become like this, there was nothing he could do. It's like someone who has climbed to the top of a mountain can only look at the masses below from the perspective of 'standing on the top of the mountain.' It's a natural evolution."
As I was speaking, I remembered Xuanming. Perhaps similar symptoms also occurred in Xuanming.
“Yes… Although I have lived for hundreds of years, my youth was during what people today call the Song Dynasty. But in the eyes of a great and unpredictable ancient being like the Diviner Master, I was just a greenhorn.” Fa Zheng sighed. “The ‘modern’ that modern people talk about may refer to the last few decades, but in the Diviner Master’s view, the time from the Song Dynasty when I was born to the 21st century may all be part of his concept of ‘modern’.”
He paused for a moment, then continued, "I understand what you mean. You're saying... the Divination Master is an existence that is overly farsighted due to his own experiences. Because he has a truly extraordinary perspective, he doesn't care about the current history of humanity. If slaughtering almost all of humanity in this world, leaving only a few thousand to reproduce, could rewrite human history, then he would carry it out without hesitation... right?"
"Isn't that right?" I countered.
“No,” Fa Zheng said firmly.
"What makes you say that?" I asked, puzzled. "Do you know anything about fortune tellers?"
Fa Zheng suddenly asked out of the blue, "Zhuang Cheng, tell me, for those who believe in gods, who is more despicable, heretics or heretics?"
“That is heresy,” I said. “An enemy that appears within oneself is more hateful than an external enemy. This has always been the case.”
It's rather strange for someone in their early twenties like me to talk to this old-fashioned, arrogant man born in the Song Dynasty about "since ancient times."
Fa Zheng did not take this to heart. After nodding, he said, "Although I am also called a god and have my own followers, if I were to say that I have a 'god' to believe in, it would be the better future society that I want to achieve, which is the ideal society depicted by the hegemonism."
"The same goes for the Divination Master, but unlike me, he chose to stand on the side of transcendence. Zhuang Cheng, can you understand my feelings? The path I firmly believed in, there was a predecessor who was far wiser and more experienced than me, and in the end, he actually chose a path completely different from mine... How shocking and hurtful this is to me."
"Even so, I have never denied my beliefs, not even for a moment. And I must admit that the Divination Master doesn't need to say anything; his very existence is a constant challenge to me. If I had to say who I was most hostile to in Luoshan, it wouldn't be the indifferent God Zhao who disregarded the fate of all living beings, nor the self-centered God Zhao, nor even the traitorous Wheel King, but the Divination Master."
"That's precisely why...that's because the Divination Master is my number one enemy, that's why I understand him so well, and I can even predict his every reaction after hearing about the Gospel Institute and the human slaughter plan..."
“He would absolutely not side with the Gospel House.”
His voice was so firm that I couldn't help but ask, "Why do you think that?"
"Actually, the answer is already in your description of the Divination Master," Fa Zheng said in a deep voice. "The Divination Master cannot invest emotion in 'everyone,' so he invests all his emotions in 'everyone.' To be precise, he is filled with enthusiasm for the civilization that humanity has accumulated from the Paleolithic Age millions of years ago to the present day."
"Throughout Luoshan's long history, quite a few Great Impermanences have become lost due to their weariness of the human world. On the contrary, the Divination Master, who has lived for countless millennia, can still function normally. This is all because of the immense love he holds for the human civilization that he has watched grow up..."
"Although this love has become somewhat twisted and cruel, it is precisely this spiritual strength that has sustained him until now. To ask him to destroy it with his own hands, or to watch others destroy all the history that humanity has accumulated so far, in order to save the world and continue the race? That would be truly putting the cart before the horse in his eyes."
“Zhuang Cheng, according to you, Huang Quan should have already extended invitations to Taoyuan Village Master, Xuanming, and Mingzhuo on behalf of the Gospel Academy, but I have never received such an invitation. I don’t know if Jian Feixian received one, but similarly, I believe Huang Quan did not extend an invitation to the Divination Master either. Because they—especially Yama—must be very clear that the Divination Master would never allow such a plan.”
So that's how it is. It seems that what Huang Quan said to me in the final battle was just a bluff.
"Well then, I should probably give this technical data to Yuchi. When it comes to array formations, Luo Shan is arguably unmatched. That guy called Number Seven really knows how to pick people."
At this point, Fa Zheng suddenly looked wary and asked me, "You don't have any other secrets you haven't told me yet, do you?"
He seemed to be frightened by the secrets I had revealed one after another, and was quite like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow.
"No, probably." I thought for a moment and then said, "By the way, I wanted to ask you about Mingzhuo... Did he ever harm anyone close to me?"
Fa Zheng asked in surprise, "You didn't even know about this yourself?"
"I haven't met Mazao and the others yet," I said.
“That’s not what I meant,” Fa Zheng said. “The oath, the oath…have you forgotten it?”
He left me completely bewildered, and it took me a couple of seconds to finally remember. Right, when Mingzhuo was defeated and handed over to me, I swore that I would never lay a hand on Asahi again.
In addition, I also demanded that he not target anyone around me, and that he not purify the Xuanming Fire within his body. I even injected my flame into his body as a backdoor.
This oath is not merely a verbal promise; it possesses a mystical nature with objective binding force. However, knowing that something of this level wouldn't have much binding power on a cunning and unpredictable person like Mingzhuo, I've never taken it to heart. But the most important part of this oath isn't the binding force, but rather that when Mingzhuo breaks the oath, I can sense it from another location.
I briefly examined the power of the oath that remained within my soul and discovered that it had unknowingly become riddled with wounds. In other words, Mingzhuo had broken his oath. Not only the oath "not to lay a hand on Asahi or anyone around me," but it also seemed that he had exorcised the Flame of Proclamation over the past four months, even exorcising the flame I had injected into his body.
The current state of fate is practically limitless.
Why did the power of the oath go unnoticed before? The only reason I can think of is that I was in the afterlife before, so anything that Mingzhuo did in the real world could not be linked to me across time and space.
"Do you want to take revenge on Mingzhuo?" Fazheng asked.
I countered, "Are you planning to stop me?"
“He is still the Great Impermanence of Luoshan for now, and according to my laws, I cannot allow you to fight among your own people. In the ideal order I want to establish, even the Great Impermanence cannot be an exception.” Fa Zheng thought for a moment and said, “But after all, he broke his own oath first, so all things considered... as long as you guarantee that a large number of innocent people will not be affected during the battle, I will not interfere in this matter.”
Then, he paused slightly, his eyes sharpening, "...and perhaps...I can even lend you a hand and help you deal with the Life Turbidity."
(End of this chapter)
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