Chapter 78: A Clever Deception
The Skull God was bullied since childhood and has always been inferior. Lies are his first weapon, and they are engraved in his bones.
His family discovered that he was a habitual liar and kicked him out. He had no choice but to wander around, relying on lies to get food and drink, cheating and harming others.
There are many people who are sincere to him, but unfortunately their sincerity is built on false lies from the beginning, and the Skull God does not have the courage to expose the lies and dissect his true self.
False truth breeds more falsehoods and lies, and once discovered, you will end up with nothing.
The Skull God was once extremely angry at himself for not telling the truth, but he could never open his mouth and reveal his true self.
How sad.
Gong Mengbi listened while knocking the skull like a wooden fish.
Since I can't get true love, I don't want it anymore.
The Skull God thought so and gradually became a person who used lies to gain benefits.
He entered the mountains to practice Taoism by replacing someone else's identity, and deceived his master's favor with lies. In the end, he burned down the Taoist temple. Looking at his master's pain and despair, he was both twisted and happy.
Look, you don't deserve it. This is what he told himself, forcing himself to go down a dead end, forcing himself to become a heartless person.
Later, he lost hope of becoming an immortal and sneaked into Xima Mountain. He was valued by the Ghost Immortal Sect and gradually became the backbone of the Ghost Immortal Sect.
And just as he said, excluding dissidents and suppressing fellow practitioners made Xima Mountain a mess and cut off many inheritances.
Later, when he was old, he raised an apprentice with good roots, and nurtured him with pretended love, hoping to take over his body and be reborn.
But unfortunately, some clues were discovered, and he was counterattacked from both inside and outside and turned into a Skeleton God.
He once had loved ones, but because of the love woven from lies, they eventually parted ways.
There was once a division commander who had high hopes for him, but because of his identity replaced by a lie, he eventually burned the mountain and fled.
He once had good friends who treated him like family, but in order to deceive them into giving away their skills and souls, he eventually turned against them.
He once had a disciple who regarded him as his parent, but for the sake of longevity and immortality, he was eventually killed and turned into a magical weapon.
It's so hateful.
Gong Mengbi thought so and stopped knocking on the skull.
The skull, immersed in the guidance of the illusion, said, "After being refined into a magical weapon, I can only obey orders. I can no longer speak, and I have no freedom."
"Why is this happening?"
"Why is this happening?"
The Skull God cried loudly, but did not say anything about wanting to die.
He probably reflected on it, but he was simply unable to go against inertia, and he didn't have the strength or courage to make changes.
He knew that everything he did was wrong, but after being rescued, the first thing he did was to deceive his savior.
Gong Mengbi watched the skull in a trance and said, "How weak."
"Hmm?" The Skull God slowly came back to his senses, but was not yet fully awake.
Gong Mengbi stood up, and the skull fell from his body and rolled to the ground, looking at him with empty eyes.
"I say your deception skills are terrible," Gong Mengbi said. "You're a habitual liar, but your lies are all petty lies, inconsistent, and shifty. You think you have others in your grasp, but in fact you're full of mistakes."
Great! You used magic to trick me into revealing my past, but instead of feeling sorry for me, you actually mocked me!
This is too much!
The skull was furious and said, "You're just a little fox. You've fooled a few people, and you dare to say that my deception skills are not good enough?"
Gong Mengbi glanced at him and said, "I'm a fox, you're a human. You want to compete with me in deception? Ridiculous."
The skull angrily asked, "Who have you deceived?"
Gong Mengbi said: "I have deceived gods and mortals, and the number of people I have deceived is countless."
"Of course, this isn't surprising. I'm only better than you in one thing." Gong Mengbi leaned over to look at him, his round eyes gleaming green. "I can deceive myself."
The skull was shocked.
Gong Mengbi retreated again and said meaningfully, "If you can't fool yourself, how can you think you can fool others?"
The Skull God seemed to see the light and the direction to move forward.
Gong Mengbi tempted: "This may be your only way to get rid of it, don't you want to try it?"
The Skull God immediately asked, "Teach me!"
Gong Mengbi said, "I can teach you, but you may not be able to learn it. First, you have to decide what kind of person you want to be."
"Being a human?" The Skull God was puzzled.
"No way, do you really think you are a human?" Gong Mengbi asked in surprise, "You don't think that just because you were born with a human form you are a human, do you?"
The Skull God was startled again: "I was born a human, how can I not be considered a human?"
Gong Mengbi shook his head: "If we are born human, then why is there a saying of 'learning to be a human'?"
"Humanity is acquired, not innate. If your body and spirit haven't been unified, what kind of person are you?"
The Skull God always felt that he was insulting him, but he also felt that what he said seemed to make some sense, so he asked: "How can I decide what kind of person I want to be?"
Gong Mengbi said: "Do you recognize your true nature? Inferiority, cowardice, hypocrisy, greed..."
"Stop scolding me, stop scolding me." The Skull God was now sure that he was scolding himself.
Gong Mengbi shook his head: "I'm not scolding you, I'm teaching you."
"When I caught you lying to me, before you asked for death, what were you thinking in that moment?"
The Skull God fell silent.
Should I deny everything about myself, or retreat to advance after being exposed?
The Skull God gradually understood what Bai Mengbi meant. He tentatively said, "If I want to be a..."
"No need to tell me so soon." Gong Mengbi narrowed his eyes.
The Skull God swallowed the words.
"It's easy to deceive for a while, but hard to deceive for a lifetime. It's easy to deceive others, but hard to deceive yourself." Gong Mengbi shook his head: "Your cultivation is okay, but your deception skills are terrible."
For a moment, the Skull God couldn't tell whether the little fox was telling the truth or a lie, and he couldn't even tell whether he was talking about himself or the Skull God.
The Skull God was dizzy and confused by Gong Mengbi's questions, but Gong Mengbi started a new round of questioning.
Gong Mengbi said, "Come on, let's start now." He blew a breath and propped the skull up again.
"You are from Xima Mountain. How did you end up in the hands of General Banyin?"
The Skull God sat cross-legged on the ground and said, "Have you seen Ghost Old Man? That's my disciple."
Gong Mengbi was actually a little disgusted: "Is that your taste? You're attracted to that kind of appearance?"
The Skull God argued, "He wasn't like this when he was young!"
"The disciple you've been eyeing has had his body eaten by General Ban Yin, and his soul transformed into a ghost? Isn't that ridiculous?"
The Skull God said, "What do you know! He volunteered."
Gong Mengbi couldn't understand this.
The Skull God said, "He plotted against me and was injured by me. He has no hope of continuing his cultivation and his life span is coming to an end. He voluntarily transformed himself into a ghost to share his immortality with General Banyin."
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