I, the mortal, come from the great world of Xuanhuang

"What will happen if I don't want to leave, and you still have the path they've planned for you? Will you die?"

This was the issue that concerned Zhang Ruochen the most. His expression was more solemn than ever before when he finished speaking. Clearly, he didn't want to follow the path laid out for him by anyone. He wanted to forge his own path.

"If you were a god now, saying this would be perfectly fine, proving you have the ability to say it. But clearly, you are not a god now. Since you are not, don't say such things. Your future has already been arranged, at least during your time as a god. All paths have been planned. No matter which path you choose, it's a preordained path; you have absolutely no choice. Do you understand? Before you become a god, all your paths are predetermined. They were all arranged for you by those bastards, designed by that old bald monk, leaving you no room for choice. Do you understand? If you don't understand, then I can't help you. That's all I can tell you. Before you become a god, you have no choice; you can only follow the path they've arranged for you because you lack the strength. Mainly, you don't have enough strength. If you had enough strength, then you could naturally walk your own path, however you want." Go wherever you want, no one can stop you, no one can refuse you, no one can hurt you, because you have enough strength to suppress all of this. Your strength is there for all to see; no one can do anything to you. They simply don't have the right, the ability, or the skill. You can carve out your own path through your own strength—that is your ability. But clearly, you don't have that ability yet. What you need to do now is follow their instructions, follow the path they've laid out. Although this path will subject you to unimaginable pain, will cause those around you to leave you one by one, and may even cause them to die before your eyes, there's no other way. Only through sufficient suffering can you become strong enough. This is unavoidable; not only you, but even I can't do it. You know, even I can't do it. The road ahead of you, frankly, is truly difficult. You could say it's extremely painful, unbearable, and unbearable to walk. But there's no other way. The path ahead is predetermined by those old fogies; no one can change it, not even me. You can't alter it, because there's no way around it. If you don't follow their instructions, you won't even survive. So, what can you do? You have absolutely no options, right? If you had even the slightest choice, I wouldn't be saying this. Unfortunately, you have absolutely no options. You have no choice but to follow their orders, their arrangements, their plans, their schemes, and everything they say. What is your path? I've already told you. Now you just need to walk it. You don't need to worry about anything else, because it has nothing to do with you. It's irrelevant to me, and it has no bearing on you. I will handle everything, you understand? If I can't handle it, then it proves that this matter is beyond my control. If it's not beyond my control, then I can definitely resolve it. "It can be solved, but if it's beyond my capabilities, then I can't solve it. There's nothing I can do about it. Sigh, to be honest, it's really a headache. It's a real headache for me. I don't want to be in this situation, but I can't help it. If I weren't in this situation, then you would be the one in a headache, you know? The reason I'm in such a headache is entirely because of you. If you had even a little bit of sense, I wouldn't be in this situation, you know? If you had even a tiny bit of sense, I would never have done this. If you had any sense at all, you should know what I mean. So stop wasting your breath on me, because it's pointless. What you should be doing now isn't wasting your breath on me, but listening to me. Of course, I know you definitely won't listen to me. That's the crux of the conflict between us. You won't listen to me. You want to choose your own path, so you won't listen to me. In this situation, what can I say? I can't say anything at all, right?"

“If I listen to you, wouldn’t that mean my life will be controlled by you? If that’s the case, I’d rather follow the Holy Monk’s arrangements. After all, compared to the Holy Monk, I simply cannot trust you.”

"Right, you simply can't trust me, so there's nothing more for us to say. I've already told you so much, but you still can't believe me, still can't trust me. What does that prove? It proves there's absolutely no trust between us. So, there's no point in wasting your breath talking to me here, because there's really nothing for us to say. You don't trust me, no matter how wonderful the life I plan for you is, you won't believe me. You'll still think, as you just said, that I'm trying to control your life. Yes, I do want to control your life, because I want your life to be better, because you are..." My brother, so I want to make your life better. Is that wrong? Is it a mistake? Isn't this what an older brother should do? Yet you're doubting me. I don't really mind your doubts; I understand them. I know it's normal for you to doubt me, since we don't know each other at all. It's understandable that you trust that old bald monk. Compared to him, I'm completely untrustworthy because he has a good reputation. But have you heard about what that old bald monk has done?

"If you haven't heard about what that old bald monk did, you can ask the big black cat beside you. If his memory returns, he should know what I mean. That old bald monk did many, many things. If it weren't for what he did, the world wouldn't be like this today. So, the real culprit for the world becoming like this is actually that old bald monk. And that old bald monk only did one good deed before he died—no, it should be several good deeds—but that doesn't mean that the old bald monk deserves everyone's approval. The most important and crucial reason why the world has become like this is that old bald monk, and our ancestors, or rather, our great ancestors, it should be the things they did. If it weren't for them..." If they had done those things, we wouldn't be in this state. You could say our inability to become gods is also because of them. So even if I hate them to the core and curse them to the point of obsession, it's perfectly justified. Because we are in this state, and the world is in this state, it's inextricably linked to them. They are the culprits and don't deserve forgiveness. Everything they did was merely to atone for their mistakes. Does that mean they can be forgiven just because they atone for their mistakes? That's utter nonsense. We can't completely ignore the mistakes they made just because they atone for them. Besides, they haven't fully atoneed for their mistakes, so there's even less reason to forgive them. They don't deserve forgiveness. Do you believe it? They are completely unforgivable. If it weren't for them, the world wouldn't be so tragic, so many people wouldn't have perished because of them, wouldn't have died because of them, wouldn't have had their families torn apart, wouldn't have had their loved ones die before their very eyes. This is what they did, and it is because of what they did that these tragedies occurred, that the world became what it is today. Therefore, they are absolutely unforgivable. If you insist on forgiving them, I have no objection; it's up to you. But that only proves one thing: what you are experiencing and suffering now is entirely deserved, completely deserved. Everything you are experiencing now is fucking deserved. If you didn't deserve it, you wouldn't have made this choice. It's precisely because of these deserved things that you've become like this, you know? So you completely deserve it, nothing but deserved. If you think they deserve forgiveness, then everything you're experiencing now is your just deserts. You deserve the same fate as them, and no one will pity you anymore. I won't help you anymore either. You decide your own future. Anyway, no one will help you or protect you anymore; that's impossible. I hope you understand this. So don't think they're so good. They're bad; they're extremely cruel, extremely shameless, extremely excessive. Everything you've done and experienced now is because of them.

"If you can still forgive them under these circumstances, then I can only say, sigh."

"All that you've said is to make me doubt that everything the Holy Monk and the others did was justified, and that they did it to atone for their mistakes, so they're not worthy of pity or admiration. So what you're really trying to say is that I should do what you say, instead of what the Holy Monk and the others have planned."

Zhang Ruochen raised a question. Although he believed Fang Yu's words to some extent, he did not believe them completely, and it could even be said that he had never believed them much.

After all, compared to that holy monk, Fang Yu's words were hardly credible.

But he also felt that what Fang Yu said was true and that he was not being deceived; the holy monk had really done so many things.

"If that's what you think, then I can only say that everything you're going through right now is your own fault. Besides 'you deserve it,' I can't think of any other words to describe what you're experiencing. You really do deserve it; there's no other way to describe what you're going through. I just don't understand why you still don't believe me after I've explained it so clearly. If you don't believe me, then you can get lost now. Don't bother arguing with me anymore, and don't listen to me anymore, because it's pointless. Everything you're experiencing is your destiny, arranged by those old fogies. So you don't need to believe me, and you don't need to trust me at all. You just need to follow your own path. No one will care about you anymore, no one will ask you questions, and of course, no one will pity you. Who told you to be such a fool? Since you're a fool, you should do what a fool should do, instead of arguing with me here." "Go on, you should do what a fool should do. And what should a fool do? A fool should do what a fool should do. For example, right now you should cultivate properly and become stronger. Only then will you understand how foolish everything you're doing is. Only then will you understand why everything I'm doing is for your own good, my dear brother. You should understand this, but you actually doubt me! You actually doubt me! Your doubt hurts me deeply, you know? If it weren't for the fact that you're my brother, that we share the same blood, I really want to beat you up, crack your head open, and see what you're thinking, whether you even have a brain, how much brain you have. Because you're just too foolish, foolish to an indescribable degree. Really, I really want to crack your head open and see if you have a brain at all, so I can decide whether to continue helping you." (End of Chapter)