Zhutian: From Douluo, the illusion becomes real

Chapter 716 715. Little Fire God Chihuo!
"interesting……"

Looking at the figure that floated in through the door, a young man in a red robe, with a sharp look in his eyes and a head of dry yellow hair standing on end like a bristling hedgehog, Ye Qingcang thoughtfully propped his face up with his fist and mumbled something indistinctly to himself.

Two other people fell with the young man.

One was a cool-looking young man with dark skin, but not completely black; rather, it was a bronze color from prolonged sun exposure. He held a sword and had two strands of hair hanging down on either side of his forehead. His eyes revealed a clear sense of defiance, directed at the young man in the red robe.

The other one has fair skin and looks like the Empty Prince from a movie. However, compared to the Empty Prince, he is obviously full of energy. He holds a feather fan and has a smile on his face, but he looks rather hypocritical. Compared to the previous two, he is obviously much weaker in terms of demeanor, or you could say he lacks some of the edges of a person.

This is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

Whether you have sharp edges or not depends on the kind of people you meet.

Generally speaking, people with sharp edges have a difficult path in life, because human nature is inherently moderate, and no one likes a sharp-tongued junior in the martial arts world. These sharp-tongued juniors love to climb the ladder by stepping on the faces of their seniors, which is tantamount to challenging the seniors' authority, and this is inherently a rebellious act.

But then again, if the world were full of sycophants, no senior would like it either, because those who achieve great things are often those with strong personalities. These people with strong personalities possess a certain boldness. In other words, they hope to see the younger generation surpass the older, each generation stronger than the last. They hope to see the younger generation surpass them and prove that their path is not lonely, rather than handing over their legacy to a group of sycophants or overly slick people, who will become victims of the treacherous power struggles of human nature.

Therefore, the best concept is actually a circle on the outside and a square on the inside.

Hiding the sharp edges beneath the smooth surface.

This can prevent bumps and knocks.

You can also strike back hard when someone crosses your bottom line.

To put it simply, it's like wrapping a square piece of wood in a ball of paper.

It looks like a crumpled piece of paper.

They tossed things around, played around, and didn't seem to care.

But what if you encounter someone who's just being a jerk and deserves a beating?

Throw this crumpled paper at them.

At the very least, he'll be badly injured.

Most importantly, the opponent was completely unprepared.

After all, who would care about a seemingly harmless crumpled piece of paper?

Of course, everyone has their own way of living.

Just like the novels he saw in later generations.

There are three thousand great roads, each leading to a different path.

Many are courageous and diligent in their progress.

However, there are also those who claim to be revered through the art of cunning.

There are those who are great, glorious, and righteous.

But there are also dark versions like the Great Love Immortal Venerable.

Ultimately, as long as one doesn't forget who they are, doesn't lose sight of their goals, and doesn't betray their own heart, that's enough. Being outwardly flexible and inwardly principled is merely Ye Qingcang's pursuit. He won't use this standard to judge others, nor will he say that only the path of being outwardly flexible and inwardly principled is correct and all other paths are wrong. Obtaining evidence by attacking others is just self-deception.

The debate between sharp edges and smooth edges is based solely on reality.

However, it would be a lie to say that it didn't attract the attention of others present.

The three people outside the door didn't pay much attention.

However, Dongfang Huaizhu, Dongfang Qinlan, and Xiao Shutong, who were at the same table, all noticed Ye Qingcang's sudden muttering to himself.

Oriental bamboo prefers quiet environments.

He was well aware of the principle that too much talk leads to mistakes.

So, I didn't ask.

But Dongfang Qinlan doesn't need to care about that.

He fiddled with the chopsticks in his hand.

Curious, he asked, "What's interesting? Are you referring to those three people outside?"

"That's it."

"But it refers more to fate."

"Whether it's man-made or divine will."

"From the moment I came into being, my destiny had already changed."

"Although I don't know whether this change is good or bad."

"But it is quite interesting."

Ye Qingcang was not a native, but a time traveler.

The biggest advantage of a time traveler isn't the life experience of living two lifetimes. After all, experience is something that naturally accumulates with age. A young person who lived to be twenty before time travel only possesses twenty years of life experience. After time travel, at the age of one, they might be able to overwhelm a group of ancient people in their twenties with their modern knowledge, and might even be stronger than those in their thirties. However, when facing people in their forties or fifties, they would still experience being intellectually outmatched. This is the shortcoming of experience; simply put, they haven't suffered enough. A student who has studied in an ivory tower for twenty years and a prodigal son who has struggled in society for twenty years have completely different understandings of society, and their experiences are naturally different as well. Therefore, the biggest advantage of a time traveler lies in their sufficiently modern cognitive thinking and a degree of foresight.

Modern cognitive thinking ensures that they can view things more rationally and objectively, and that they can accept new things at the fastest speed. Foresight ensures that they can find the most appropriate time to enter the market and gain the greatest benefit.

This is also why Ye Qingcang said his fate was changed.

According to the plot description in the original work.

Don’t say anything else.

Shi Tang will definitely appear in this restaurant.

The story should rewind to the time before he appeared.

Dongfang Huaizhu and the young pageboy beside Dongfang Qinlan pushed open the door and entered. Then, they were greeted by the sword blade swung by Shi Tang. Although Shi Tang was careful and did not actually kill anyone, it was still quite a good little trick to scare people at the beginning.

Then, the little fire god Chi Huo made his appearance.

They helped the young pageboy out of a predicament.

This also helped to extricate Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan from their predicament.

This proves that these people are not monsters.

This interrupted Shi Tang's pretentious act.

From the perspective of someone who's been through it all, Ye Qingcang completely understands Shi Tang's actions. To put it bluntly, after transmigrating—to be precise, on the day he gained extraordinary power—he excitedly unleashed his soul power for an entire afternoon. When the abilities from mythology materialized in reality—breathing clouds and mist, commanding lightning, and so on—he personally shattered boulders and ancient trees, causing the earth to crack, and controlling water dragons to strangle them. The pure aesthetics of violence brought him extreme excitement. This feeling of possessing great power was indescribably wonderful. For Shi Tang and the others, being able to simply enjoy showing off after mastering power, rather than deliberately harming others, was already a considerable level of restraint. This shows that Shi Tang and the others weren't lacking in mental cultivation; at most, they had cultivated it less, or perhaps it wasn't yet up to par.

In fact, Wang Quanba and others were the same.

Once they have cultivated to a certain level, they will not rashly choose to go out and explore.

To put it bluntly, they got carried away.

Driven by revenge, they lost sight of who they were.

This point is also reflected in many film and television works.

The most obvious example is Sasuke from Naruto.

The sky is clear, the rain has stopped.

Erzhuzi thought he was invincible again. Then, he got a beating and immediately came to his senses.

Of course, Ye Qingcang didn't have the hobby of acting like Naruto, and Shi Tang wasn't some kind of fool. As long as Shi Tang didn't provoke Ye Qingcang, Ye Qingcang wouldn't bother with him. Besides, the little pageboy beside Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan wasn't exactly a good person. If he happened to run into Cuiyu Xiaotan, the silly girl who was tricked to death by Jin Renfeng in the original story, he might let her go. But as for this little pageboy and most of the members of Shenhuo Mountain Manor, he wouldn't mind killing them all after the selection. Perhaps there were indeed innocent people among them, but if nine out of ten were killed, there would definitely be some who slipped through the net.

So don't say that Shi Tang didn't kill the pageboy in the original novel.

Even if you kill them.

He would not use this as a reason to retaliate against Shi Tang.

Some might say that his arbitrary attitude is too biased towards Shi Tang, or that his values ​​are swayed by appearance. Just because this young page betrayed Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan, he deserves to die. But from the young page's perspective, his loyalty is clearly to Jin Renfeng. From this perspective, he can be considered a loyal and good person.

Then, here comes the problem.

Why did he choose to see things from the perspective of this young page?
He's not this little pageboy!
Besides, this young pageboy is eating the food of Shenhuo Mountain Manor, not Jin Renfeng's food. The disciples of Shenhuo Mountain Manor are also eating the food of Shenhuo Mountain Manor, which is a gift from the old manor master, Dongfang Guyue, not Jin Renfeng's food. Since they chose to side with Jin Renfeng, they are naturally betraying him.

As the saying goes, "He who eats another's food is bound to do his bidding, and he who takes another's money is bound to do his bidding."

There's also a saying: "If you take someone's money, you're obligated to solve their problems."

Everything in this world follows the predetermined order of sustenance. Either don't eat the food of Shenhuo Mountain Manor, or don't join Jin Renfeng. To put it bluntly, in that situation, it wouldn't be inexplicable if the disciples of Shenhuo Mountain Manor chose not to help either side.

After all, they had taken Dongfang Guyue as their master.

The food was given to them by Dongfang Guyue.

Regardless of how Jin Renfeng and Dongfang Huaizhu fight, it's all internal business. One is the master's daughter, and the other is the master's disciple. The master is dead, and the two are fighting for power. It has nothing to do with them, these small fry. They just need to watch the show. Whoever wins, they represent the legitimacy of Shenhuo Mountain Manor.

And once they choose to take sides...

Just like in the original story.

There are no innocent people.

In short, that's roughly the plot of the original work.

Then monsters appear.

Poisoned.

Summon a gale.

The wind scattered the bamboo of the East and the orchid of the East.

Next, Dongfang Huaizhu encounters Wang Quanbaye.

He charged into the southern lands with a sword in hand.

The current situation is that although the young page also volunteered to push the door open and enter, because Ye Qingcang had no interest in facing Shi Tang's sword, Shi Tang was not there, perhaps due to the butterfly effect. Instead, he arrived late, after Ye Qingcang and the others had sat down.

From a time perspective, if you walk slowly and take half an hour, the difference between arriving in ten minutes and taking half an hour can still create a time difference, which is not inexplicable from this angle.

However, another possibility is that Shitang encountered trouble on the way.

Sometimes it might just be one or two more little monsters.

This would allow you to conveniently delay the process by ten minutes.

In many things, ten minutes is just a blink of an eye.

However, there are some things that might only require those ten minutes.

Fortunately, the wind he stirred up wasn't too strong.

Whether it's Shitang, Chihuo, or even Ximen Chuisha with his feather fan, everyone who was supposed to be there has arrived. Including Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan, the only people missing from the trip to the South are Wang Quanbaye, Li Quzhuo, and Li Zizai. So, there hasn't been much impact yet.

However, Ye Qingcang never underestimated any problem.

What he just thought was merely his guess.

If the Third Young Master noticed this visitor from outer space and plucked a monkey hair, blew on it, and created a passing demon king to delay Shi Tang and the others, actually creating space and opportunity for him to see what he wanted to do, the probability of this happening is not entirely zero.

Or it could be the work of some outsiders.

They wanted to use him to cause trouble for the Third Young Master.

The most typical example is the Black Fox Lady.

To put it bluntly, the fox demon's combat power ceiling is very high, at least two major realms higher than Douluo Continent. According to the division that the Great Demon Emperor can be equivalent to the God King, although Douluo Continent has the Dragon God, the Dragon God has long died. The Black Fox Lady, who is likely at the same level as the Dragon God, is still alive. Above the Black Fox Lady, there is also the powerful Third Young Master. If the Four Monkeys of Aolai had succeeded in their experiment, they might have already achieved individual ascension and transcended this realm.

This level of combat power would be extraordinary even in Battle Through the Heavens.

At least one Dou Zun is bound to be caught.

For a Battle Saint, that would be a bit difficult.

However, he can't say for sure what the specifics will be.

Because he hasn't seen many strong people yet.

There is no clear understanding of the Dou Sheng.

Add to that the differences between worlds.

For example, if a person on the moon says, "I can jump three meters high," and a person on Earth says, "I can also jump three meters high," then the former, upon returning to Earth, would only have the physical abilities of an ordinary person, while the latter could be called a superhuman on Earth. If the latter went to the moon, jumping ten meters would not be a problem, because the difference in gravity would result in a different form of force.

Therefore, his actual cultivation level is still a little short of that of a Demon King, and his combat ability is still a little short of that of a Demon Emperor. Although he can contend with a third-level deity, he mainly relies on the Heavenly Lock. There is still a gap between him and the Poison Emperor Huan Du Qingtian. If he wants to fight Huan Du Qingtian one-on-one, he can only guarantee that he can escape smoothly. Whether he can win or not is a promise he dares not make easily.

As long as he faces the enemy with the most pessimistic attitude.

The result will always be a positive feedback loop.

However, Dongfang Qinlan didn't quite understand.

In fact, Dongfang Huaizhu didn't quite understand either.

But she spoke less than Dongfang Qinlan.

The sense of proportion is also more precise.

He patted his younger sister, Dongfang Qinlan's, head.

He appears to be kind.

In reality, it's a threat.

She gently reminded him, "Eat well and don't pry too much. Everyone has their own secrets, and we should respect that."

"All right……"

Dongfang Qinlan was suppressed by her bloodline.

He obediently lowered his head and ate his food.

However, the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop.

Soon, the conversation between Shi Tang, Chi Huo, and Ximen Chuisha caught Dongfang Qinlan's attention, and naturally also reached the ears of Dongfang Huaizhu and Ye Qingcang, as did the little page sitting to the side.

(End of this chapter)