Simulation becomes reality, have I ever looked down upon the eternity?

Chapter 380: The Master's Life, Like a Mayfly Seeing the Blue Sky

Chapter 380: The Master's Life, Like a Mayfly Seeing the Blue Sky
Yu Ke's mind was racing and his thoughts were shaking.

Several options in the original simulation came flooding in like a tide, and Master Dong, who had been giving hints all along, turned out to be the mastermind behind all of this.

As the mentor of Xie Guan in this life, Master Dong gave Xie Guan many Confucian classics before he came of age, many of which had a profound influence on Xie Guan.

Because of this, Xie Guan had great respect for Master Dong.

As for the second gentleman's calligraphy, if it had not been given by Master Dong, Xie Guan would not have had the subsequent opportunity to "fish for calligraphy in the lake" in Hongjingyuan, or even the good fortune of Lu Hua and the Sanzhen Sect.

However, the news eventually came that Master Dong died at home due to alcoholism.

Xie Guan had considered this option several times, and all of them pointed to Master Dong.

Unexpectedly, the person who was secretly observing everything behind the banquet today was actually Master Dong.

Xie Guan had already been secretly watched by this person.

Yu Ke had a vague guess about this person's identity!
The old man in the carriage spoke slowly, his voice containing a slight sigh.

Just like an ordinary old man.

"This is the first time we've actually met."

Yu Ke nodded. Facing such a person, he was not panicked.

after all!

In his eyes, this world is like "mirror flowers and water moons", illusory and unpredictable.

Even if this old man was the person he guessed in his heart.

In his perception, it was like an unfathomable black hole, and the level of cultivation was so high that it was difficult to guess.

As soon as Yu Ke's spiritual thoughts touched the old man, they were like a drop in the ocean, swallowed up without a trace.

Yu Ke had no fear in his heart, and even had a vague sense of strangeness.

The other side seems to have a kind of "fear" of him?
This fear was hidden very deeply. If Yu Ke had not been in a mysterious state similar to "observing the Tao" at this moment, he would probably not have been able to detect it at all.

However, Yu Ke was not in a hurry and could not leave at this time.

Although Master Dong on the opposite side did not reveal any aura or any malice, the invisible pressure was like a ladle of clear water taken out of a large water tank, standing still.

The air around was silent.

Yu Ke simply stood with his hands behind his back, his heart as calm as an ancient well, standing quietly.

The two of them didn't say a word for a long time.

The old man slowly got down from the carriage.

He was hunched over, with gray hair that was meticulously combed.

A short, stiff mustache hung from his mouth.

The two stood facing each other, and there was an indescribable silence in the air.

The maroon carriage behind was still parked there quietly, without any movement.

The horse also did not move.

The mist from the river bank blew slowly over and lingered between the two of them.

The old man finally raised his eyes, his gaze as deep as a pool.

He spoke again, his voice low and slow.

“Old man…” As if he felt that this self-proclaimed title was inappropriate, he paused slightly and then changed his title.

"My name is Dong Cheng, and I am a teacher at the academy of Da Qi."

Although Yu Ke had already guessed it in his mind, he was still shocked when he heard the other party confirm it in person.

The old man in front of him was actually the number one man in the world—Master!
The legendary figure who searched for immortals in the East China Sea for two hundred years and founded the Da Qi Academy.

Despite his inner turmoil, Yu Ke remained calm on the surface.

The old man seemed to notice Yu Ke's calmness and continued.

"I'm not the first one to invite..."

Dong Cheng seemed to be choosing his words, and finally uttered a simple "you".

Yu Ke thought for a moment and decided that if it was counted as personal participation, he had personally participated three times before.

He responded calmly: "Not really."

Dong Cheng's voice sounded particularly distant in the river breeze, as if it carried the accumulation of years.

"Have you heard of me?"

Although Yu Ke did not understand why the Master asked this question, he still answered frankly:

"Of course there is."

“Many times, even.”

The old man seemed to smile when he heard this:
"It seems that I have not lived in vain."

Dong Cheng's gaze gradually became deep, as if he was lost in memories.

"When I was young, my brother A Xiu and I founded the Tang Dynasty together, determined to unify the world, and suffered a lot."

"Later, when the world was unified, Ah Xiu said that he was the ruler of the world and no one should be above him. So, I thought about it for a night and decided to kill him."

His tone was calm.

"I have always wanted to be like Lu Chen and Lu Yu back then, two brothers living in harmony and finally ascending to this world together."

"Unfortunately, I am not Lu Chen, and he is not Lu Yu."

There was a hint of regret in Dong Cheng's voice, "I thought that after the world was unified, there would be a chance for ascension."

"I have waited for three hundred years, but not a single gate in heaven is willing to open for me."

At this point, the old man seemed to sigh. He looked at Yu Ke, with a hint of apology in his tone:
"Please forgive me. I have lived too long and have too many words in my heart."

Yu Ke didn't show much expression at this time.

He was full of interest in this master who he could not avoid in the simulation of this life.

Dong Cheng's words seemed to reveal a corner of history.

Confucius was a figure from the Tang Dynasty, and even the founder of the Tang Dynasty.

Yu Ke accepted Xie Guan's memory, and also knew the future identity of "A Xiu" mentioned by Dong Cheng.

It was the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Ran Xiu.

And Dong Cheng’s surname may not be Dong, but Ran.

If not, he would not call him "brother".

Dong Cheng's voice was low and slow, as if he was narrating a distant history.

"In the next hundred years, the Tang Dynasty fell into chaos again. It was the same in any dynasty. It was human nature to eat each other. Warlords fought in various places, and the people suffered."

"At that time, I didn't care about so much anymore. I was about to die. But I couldn't die, so I performed my first autopsy. I buried myself at the bottom of an icy lake. Three hundred years later, I was resurrected."

At this point, the old man's eyes seemed to light up, and his tone became a little gentler.

"I met a woman who was a fisherman's daughter. I married her and had our first child. I named him 'Qi', and those four or five years were some of the happiest times of my life."

"The woman died, and I raised Qi. I had the idea of unifying the world again, so I helped him establish the Great Qi and founded the academy."

After hearing this, Yu Ke was slightly surprised.

He didn't expect that the ancestor of Da Qi was actually the teacher in front of him - Dong Cheng.

This legendary figure, who lived for nearly two thousand years, actually created two dynasties with his own hands and witnessed the rise and fall of countless historical events.

The river breeze is still blowing and the mist is lingering.

The old man's voice was low and calm, yet it carried an indescribable vicissitude.

"Qi died, and his son and his son's son ascended the throne. They finally began to fear me."

Dong Cheng lowered his eyes slightly. "At that time, I was also dying. I pretended to let them kill me, and they modified the family tree and changed my surname."

"So, I started my second corpse transformation. I went to Changshengtian in the north and took on another identity - the son of Changshengtian and the magician of the Demon Cult. I established the Xu family to fight against Da Qi." Yu Ke was shocked and remembered the grassland golden family that the magician Xu Jiangxian had mentioned.

Could it be that it was also built by the Master? The Xu family is also his bloodline.

He was confused, but did not interrupt the old man's narration.

"There is no chance of ascending to heaven in the grassland, and I am about to die. So I transformed into a corpse again and went to the south."

"There are many temples there in spring. I became a monk, and what they call a living Buddha. I founded the Dongsheng Sect and slowly developed it into a Buddhist country."

"No matter how much people praised me, I still couldn't survive that winter. I knew I was going to die. I accepted many disciples, all of whom were virtuous and high-ranking monks. That night, they knew that my body was incorruptible... They rushed to eat me."

The old man's words came to an abrupt halt, and the air seemed to be filled with an indescribable heaviness.

Yu Ke thought of the Dongsheng Sect where Master Lianchi was located, which was also founded by the Master!
The old man's voice remained calm.

"I transformed into a corpse again and came to Zhongnan Mountain, a great sect that has been passed down for three thousand years."

"I became a Taoist priest, thinking that with so many experiences of corpse transformation, I could become a Heavenly Master of the Three True Ones lineage... But I didn't expect that I would meet the ancestors of the Three True Ones lineage in the Tomb of the Living Dead. Their bodies were not decayed, but their spirits were still there. They found me, and I was injured by them. I had never been injured so badly before."

When Yu Ke heard this, he was surprised.

He had a deeper understanding of the Three True One Sect where Lu Hua belonged in this world.

The greatest religion of the time!

No wonder the Sui Dynasty was the only country that could compete with the Qi Dynasty. It turned out that the Sui Dynasty had the support of the Three Truths and One Religion.

As for places like the Eternal Heaven in the north, the Buddhist Kingdom in the south, and even the Great Qi itself, with this master's shrewdness, how could he not have left behind a counter-measure?
"Of course, they didn't feel well either. I killed the physical bodies of more than a dozen generations of ancestors, but in the end I was still forced to transform into corpses again."

"I returned to Da Qi and became a master. I was worried that they would be afraid of me, so I walked the world again as the second generation master."

Speaking of this, Dong Cheng's gaze became deep, as if penetrating the torrent of time.

"For so many years, I have been looking for an opportunity to ascend. Unfortunately, I have traveled all over the world but still haven't found it."

The old man's voice was deep.

“Although I have not personally seen the teachings left by Lu Chen in the Tomb of the Living Dead of the Three True One Sect, I have learned a lot of the secrets of the Three True One Sect.”

"Peng Chuan cast a tripod and a dragon flew up to heaven, so I also cast a large tripod, placed it in the academy, and raised a dragon in the lake."

"Unfortunately, the tripod is not a tripod, the dragon is not a dragon, it is just a copycat, and everything will be in vain in the end."

At this point, Dong Cheng's tone held a hint of regret, but he quickly regained his composure.

“Although I felt disappointed, I accepted a disciple in Da Qi, and gradually, I had four disciples.”

"I discovered two things. One is that during these five hundred years, the world began to revive again."

"Second, my four disciples are better than anyone I have ever seen. In a short period of time, their cultivation is already as good as mine during my second corpse transformation."

The old man's eyes flickered slightly, as if he remembered something.

"Especially the second one. When his destiny appeared, I felt scared for the first time."

When Yu Ke heard this, he was moved and remembered what Lu Hua had said.

The Second Master has one sword and one style, and when the nine swords are combined into one, they can kill the Master.

It seems that this statement is not groundless.

"But I am also happy because I have finally found that glimmer of hope for ascension."

"I built the God-Shocking Formation, deliberately revealed my identity, and waited for the four disciples to come and kill me, completing the fifth corpse transformation."

At this point, the old man's tone became solemn.

"Although the corpse transformation is a blessing from heaven and earth, it is also difficult to escape the fate of heaven and earth."

"There are only six reincarnations, that is, six corpse transformations."

"I have performed five autopsies, and the last one is left."

When the old man reached this point, he finally straightened his back for the first time, and spoke like this as if this long past experience, five corpse reincarnations, was an incredible and bizarre life for an ordinary person.

Finally, I felt confident in front of this person.

His eyes were as deep as a pool, looking straight at Yu Ke and asked slowly:

"What does a human life of 1,900 years look like to you?"

When Yu Ke heard this, his heart trembled slightly and his thoughts became vague.

He thought of Lu Chen's life, which was just a five-day simulation in the Shenxiao Sect.

The second simulation took only one day, so the total was no more than six days.

however!
Within the Kunxu Realm, tremendous changes have taken place and three thousand years have passed quietly.

One day on earth is equivalent to three thousand years in the cauldron.

The 1,900 years that the Master spent in the human world were, in Yu Ke's eyes, just one day in the Shenxiao Sect.

now!

The ancient cauldron in Yu Ke’s heart roared quietly. The sound was ancient and profound, transcending time and space and echoing throughout the universe.

Great sound!

Carrying endless vicissitudes and heaviness, resonating with heaven and earth.

Yu Ke nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and finally spoke.

"Like a mayfly, like the morning dew!"

After hearing this, the Master murmured in a low voice, repeating those two words:
"ephemera……"

"It is like a mayfly that is born in the morning and dies in the evening; it is like the morning dew that leaves no trace and comes back without a trace."

"At this moment, it is like... a mayfly seeing the blue sky!"

There was a subtle hint of emotion in his voice, as if he was savoring the deep meaning behind these two words.

The river breeze was still blowing, somewhat chilly and misty. It seemed as if the only conversation left between heaven and earth was that of the two people, clear and long.

The old man smiled sadly, but felt it was reasonable.

Dong Cheng asked again, "Have you seen that Lu Chen?"

Yu Ke nodded.

Lu Chen has been gone from this world for three thousand years.

The old man asked, "Lu Chen, what did he ask?"

Yu Ke shook his head and said, "I have seen him, but he has never seen me."

The Master showed a puzzled look on his face, but did not ask again.

The old man finally asked the question that concerned him the most, "How do I compare to Lu Chen?"

Yu Ke looked at the word "Fu" in front of him. In fact, it is undeniable that his life was long and had great achievements.

The academies built and the Confucian teachings left behind.

He is a figure that cannot be avoided in later generations.

If Lu Chen is compared with him, he is also the most brilliant figure in the past three thousand years.