Chapter 73: The World is Too Bitter, and the Darkness of the Night is a Brightness
Chapter 73 The world is too bitter, the dark night should be clear
Under this white light, the old man just looked back, his face even more miserable, murmured: “So what can be done, to last one more day is also good, is also good”
Song Yin sighed softly in his tone, “And then when the time comes, the villages you want to leave behind will all become ghosts like your son, and in the end, the villages will be empty, and you won’t get anything.”
After the old man heard this, he became even more grief-stricken, he almost begged to look at Song Yin, “Can you save them?”
Song Yin shook his head, “I can’t, and I will destroy them so that they don’t harm anyone anymore, don’t ask why .”
The white flame rose again in his hand, he no longer blasted it with his fist, instead, he flung that white flame towards the ghostly creature that had coalesced its form, and the white flame enveloped it, pressurizing it so much that the ghostly creature directly fell to its knees, constantly struggling within the white flame.
Song Yin looked at the ghostly creature and continued to say to the old man, “Only because I am stronger than you.”
“Only because you are stronger than me.”
The old man muttered in disbelief, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, “Then how are you different from those bandits.”
“Yes, I’m no different from those bandits, all of them impose their own reasoning on others, those who go against my way will be eliminated by me, and only those who go along with my way will prosper.”
Song Yin admitted without any hangups, and asked rhetorically, “Aren’t you the same?”
“Yes, the old immortal is the same, otherwise how could he have kept accepting those jerky .”
The old man swept his eyes towards the side of the ghostly creatures, and then turned back to those half-human, half-ghosts that seemed to be fixed in their forms, like puppets, just looking at this side in a fixed manner.
“It’s suffering.”
The corners of his mouth tugged as he kowtowed to Song Yin anew, “Since the Immortal is stronger than me, let’s do it.”
“Good.”
Boom!
Song Yin didn’t say anything, with a grip of his five fingers, the white flame that wrapped around the ghostly creature directly exploded and wiped out the ghostly creature, and in that remnant of white flame, as the ghostly creature disappeared, it seemed that there was another tall shadow that kowtowed to the village.
“My son…”
The old man’s eyes were confused, and he subconsciously reached out, but that shadow disappeared in an instant.
This time, the ghost didn’t coalesce and take shape again.
The old man tremblingly put his hand down, and after a moment of silence, he asked again, “This Immortal, you claimed that we are the evil way, so can you always conclude that you are the righteous way?”
“I don’t know.”
Song Yin said honestly, “I say that you are the evil path, but you surely don’t think so, you incorporate human flesh and feed the villagers, the essence is to survive to survive. Survival to survive is likewise the supreme principle of the world. So in your mind, you are the righteous path and I am the evil path.”
“In the same way, I kill ghosts and destroy these non-human and non-ghostly existences in your village for them to stop harming people in the future, so in my mind, I am the righteous path and you are the evil path. But the only thing that is certain is that”
Song Yin looked at this old man with an unusually firm gaze, “The purpose of my Golden Immortal Sect is to help the world and save people, so I will always help the world and save people. Even if the people of the world, like you, see me as a bandit, and see me as an evil demon.”
The old man looked at Song Yin’s burning gaze and revealed a smile, “Immortal’s thoughts are clear, the old man here congratulates you in advance, and I hope that Immortal can always keep this heart, and don’t be like the old man, who obviously also thought of protecting the village, but ended up in a situation where the village is inhuman and ghostly.”
“I will keep doing this, and I will also make situations like yours disappear in this world.” Song Yin said.
The old man closed his eyes, shook his head, and said, “Then the old man will take the first step .”
With that, his body slumped and fell to the ground, gradually dissipating away.
As his figure dissipated, the darkness that wrapped the village was suddenly empty, and the light of the moon and stars sprinkled down from the sky, shining in the village, only that the light hadn’t completely sprinkled down yet, the village disappeared into thin air, and even those non-human and non-ghostly existences, all disappeared. There were no buildings, no people, and all that remained were the wooden tombstones in the wilderness.
The village was turned into a simple cemetery!
Zhang Feixuan and Wang Qi were staring at their surroundings with wide-eyed disbelief.
Zhang Feixuan opened his mouth wide and tremblingly pointed at the tombstones, saying, “Master, senior brother, this, this, this…”
Song Yin walked a distance forward at this time and looked towards the direction of the house they had originally stayed in, where there were no tombstones, only a picture of withered bones.
“This side of the ghostly world, it wasn’t transformed by that whatever son of his, it was transformed by this old abbot himself, I saw it when I opened my Dharma eyes.”
The old man is a ghost?
Zhang Feixuan and Wang Qizheng froze for a moment, and soon, Wang Qizheng exclaimed, “Ah! That old man has no shadow!”
He remembered, just now, when Senior Brother’s white light shone, they all had shadows, but only that old man had no shadow.
“But, when you eliminated that ghost just now, senior brother, that thing clearly transformed into a human shadow, when you eliminated that Phi Mourning, didn’t that Phi Mourning also transform into a human form?” Zhang Feixuan was puzzled.
“It’s just a blindfold.”
Song Yin walked towards the withered bones and said, “Ghosts are created by obsessions, which still have any sanity, just living according to the obsessions. You can’t see it, but I saw it, that ghost just arrived at the entrance of the village, was kneeling down and bowing, and then took out a large amount of jerky, I guessed that his son should have done the same thing in the past, so he transformed into a shadow and bowed down, to eliminate a little bit of his obsession.”
The village was so dark, and what could be seen by that faint candlelight, the only ones who could see were their own kind, and Song Yin’s own pair of eyes, which could see everything.
“As for this ghost, in the end, those bandits broke in and killed them all. Or is it really as the old man said, his son to protect the village, fall into the grass for the bandits is unknown.”
The people in this village, is it starved to death, or is it that this old abbot died and turned into a ghost, giving birth to a party of ghosts, killing them is also unknown.
“Elder brother knew that it was a ghost, why didn’t you finish it off at the first time, why waste your words on it.” Zhang Feixuan asked curiously.
Song Yin walked up to this withered bone, gazed at it for a while, and then placed his gaze on a long rotted braided vine next to it, where there were still signs of wild vegetable roots that had rotted away almost invisibly.
“Yes, I could have made this ghostly spirit disappear in the first place, so why go to such lengths because I don’t want to.”
“Think of this ghostly spirit, we enter in the daytime, there are children to inform us not to eat meat, even ghosts have acted reason, let alone as a human being.”
Song Yin faintly said, “Cultivation, cultivation is also reasoning, to tell the reasoning to others, to let people know, what we are doing. But reasoning is not thought out of thin air, it is obtained by experiencing the things of the world, such as how this ghost is formed, and what kind of obsession, all must be understood, all must be known, so that we can understand more about what we have to do, not only for informing the world, but also for the purpose of clearing the mind and proving the way.”
He reached out and flicked his hand, a pit came out of the ground, he bent down and lifted the withered bone carefully, put it into that pit, and re-buried it again, then he flicked his big sleeve again, and a withered tree not far away automatically decomposed, and flew in a wooden tablet.
He rooted the wooden stele onto this mound of earth, and only then did he turn to look at the two of them:
“Second Senior Brother, I once asked you if the world was bad, and you answered me that it was alright. But now it seems that it’s alright . It just doesn’t work.”
“The world I see nowadays is too bitter, too sad, and too hopeless. Like this dark night, it only makes one’s two eyes black, so we have to continue to encourage ourselves, sooner or later .”
He waved his big sleeve again, and countless white flames flew out from his hands, landing on the tops of these wooden monuments, the white flames on the wooden monuments reflecting the stars in the sky, illuminating the surrounding landmass brightly.
He put one hand behind him and stood in this dot of white flame, as if the moon resided in the starlight, but even more so, as the sun of the day, reflecting the darkness of the night had lost its color, so that Zhang Fei Xuan and Wang Qizheng couldn’t help but look dumbfounded and lost in thought.
“Black night when bright.”
(End of chapter)