Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 975 Reasons for Participation
  After Xiao Ling boasted a few words, the outspoken Tian Ming asked Xiao Ling another question:
  "To put it this way, Dao Dao Brother, I feel that your Tianzong is very impersonal, don't you care about everything?"

Upon hearing this, Shao Yu couldn't help but bump Tian Ming's side with his elbow, causing him to grin and rub his side.

Before Tianming could get angry and fight back, Shaoyu rubbed Tianming's head vigorously and explained to him with a smile, "Brother Lingli, don't mind, this kid Tianming... has no education, he doesn't know a few Chinese characters, and he can't speak well." But for the brain, normal people like us still have to take care of him to some extent."

Tianming was so angry that he wanted to jump up and hit Shaoyu, "Who do you think is uneducated!? Who can't read!? Who can't have brains!? Why am I not normal!? How can you..."

Shaoyu relied on his own brute strength to completely ignore Tianming's yelling and suppressed it by pressing his head.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling waved his hand nonchalantly and persuaded, "Okay, Shao Yu, this kind of problem is not a big deal."

"If you ask any Tianzong disciple about it, they won't care."

"Oh, you don't belong to Tianzong if you care."

Shao Yu smiled when he heard this, "Hehe, that's true."

As he spoke, the strength in his hands unconsciously loosened. Tianming worked hard with both hands and finally got rid of Shao Yu's restraint.

He was so angry that he wanted to pounce on him to retaliate, but Xiao Ling just spoke to him at this time and attracted his attention away.

"Tianming, you can't understand Tianzong's inaction and ruthlessness. This is normal."

"Everyone's life is different."

"But..." Tian Ming turned to look at Xiao Ling and asked puzzledly, "If you stay in the mountains every day and don't care about anything, what's the point of life?"

"Besides, your Tianzong is so powerful, why don't you go down the mountain and do something?"

Xiao Ling pursed her lips and smiled at this, turned her head and glanced through the fluttering curtains of the carriage at the desolate scenery that was rapidly retreating outside, and then replied:

"Although the two sects of heaven and man have different concepts, their ultimate pursuit is the same, which is to achieve the supreme Taoist realm of the unity of heaven and man."

"This is also the reason why the Yin and Yang family split apart - they have completely deviated from this realm and are blindly pursuing the so-called limits of heaven and man."

"The Human Sect's entry into the world and the Heavenly Sect's emergence are all for cultivation and... seeking the Tao."

"When Tianzong was born and entered the mountain gate, it was equivalent to abandoning everything in the world. The changes under the mountain and the changes in the world have nothing to do with us."

"Tao is the only pursuit."

Tianming's little head couldn't understand Xiaoling's words more and more, "How can..."

He gestured with his hands, but couldn't express what he meant.

Xiao Ling nodded understandingly, "I know, I know what you think."

"From what you said before, I know that you should be determined to become... a knight, right?"

"When the road is rough, we should hoe the strong and help the weak, be benevolent and righteous, and save lives."

"But... Tianming, a hundred years of life seems to be a long time. Compared with the eternal existence and the vastness of the world, it is only a blink of an eye."

"Birth, old age, sickness and death at the foot of the mountain, and even the change of dynasties, are no different to Tianzong than the flowers blooming and fading, the sun rising and the moon setting on the mountain."

"The lives you have saved, the people you have helped, the things you have done, the evil you have eliminated, will ebb and flow over time, and die...and then be reborn." "Tai Chi arises and dies, Yin and Yang flow, It might as well be like this, a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years, it remains the same.”

"Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature, and nature... is heartless and has no desires, because heaven and earth are unkind."

"We, the disciples of the Tianzong, are pursuing this natural way. The state we want to reach is to be ruthless because we forget our emotions."

"I..." After Tianming listened to this long list of truths, he couldn't even seem to understand. He was completely confused and replied blankly, "I don't understand."

Shaoyu smiled awkwardly and responded, "I... don't quite understand either."

"Haha..." Xiao Ling chuckled and waved his hand, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Or I should say that you don't need to understand in the first place. You are not disciples of Tianzong."

"It's good to have your own pursuit. As for the Tao, haha... Even we Taoists never think that everyone should seek the Tao."

"Just listen to it. It will be a good conversation piece when chatting with others in the future."

Tian Ming replied in a daze, "But I do understand why Shao Yu asked you that before. I feel that Dao Dao Brother, you and the Tianzong disciple you mentioned are indeed... Although I don't quite understand, I really don't feel like it." Too much the same.”

"You obviously saved us before!"

"I said, I am an outlier in Tianzong." Xiao Ling shrugged and replied casually, "Besides, the state of being too supreme and forgetful of emotion has always been pursued by Tianzong, but this state can truly be achieved. There are only a handful of people—you can really count them on one hand.”

"But to be honest, I'm not helping you just to save people."

"What do you mean?" Shao Yu was stunned and asked curiously.

Xiao Ling glanced sideways at the unconscious Gai Nie, "Because of Mr. Gai."

"Uncle?" Tianming tilted his head, "Did you know uncle before, Brother Dao?"

"No." Xiao Ling shook her head and explained, "Although it is the people from Niququsha who deal with you, the people who want to deal with Niququsha must still be wanted by Mr. Gai's empire."

"I don't know what kind of deal the two parties reached, but... I don't want the empire to get what it wants."

"This..." Shaoyu hesitated and asked, "Brother Lingli, are you also against the empire?"

"Well..." Xiao Ling pondered for a moment, without explaining in detail, just replied vaguely, "To be precise, it is because the personal grudge between me and the Yin Yang family has only affected the empire to which the Yin Yang family is loyal."

"Oh...that's why, brother Lingli, you will attend the Anti-Qin Alliance Conference." Shao Yu nodded with a look of surprise on his face.

Hearing this, Xiao Ling hesitated for a moment, and replied half-affirmatively, half-negatively, "Participating in the anti-Qin meeting is not only my own wish, but also the entrustment of my elders."

"Ah? But Tianzong isn't..." Shaoyu was stunned when he heard this. As far as he knew, Tianzong should have nothing to do with the anti-Qin forces.

He had wondered before why Xiaoling, who was born in Tianzong, would participate in the anti-Qin meeting. Just now he thought it was because of his grudges with the Yin and Yang family, but in the end, it still involved Tianzong itself?
  "Hmm..." Xiaoling thought for a moment and confirmed Shaoyu's understanding, "You are right. Tianzong should have no intention of participating in the anti-Qin affair."

"Perhaps the reason why I was arranged to attend the conference was just an excuse given by the elder to persuade me to come down from the mountain. After all... without this mission, I might not be able to make up my mind to leave Taiyi Mountain."

"However, my heart is not at peace, and I am always trapped in the grievances and hatreds at the foot of the mountain. I must finally settle them..."

(End of this chapter)