The Spirit World

Chapter 648 Parents’ Favor

[Everyone will find a reason to live for themselves, as long as the logic is self-consistent, even if it means deceiving themselves. ]

"Who is he?"

Chang Yufeng asked his great master.

That is, my mother’s senior sister.

Li Xiuyuan.

Although Chang Yufeng had never met Li Xiuyuan, he was not a rookie in his twenties. He couldn't tell at a glance who was good to him, but at least he knew who was bad to him.

"He is a god who specializes in collecting souls. According to your understanding, he is called the God of Death." Li Xiuyuan walked to Chang Yufeng's side, took the whisk in his other hand, pulled Chang Yufeng to his right side, and pulled Erica to his left side.

She kept Chang Yufeng and Erica by her side.

"Nice to meet you." The man named Death took off his bowler hat, looked at Chang Yufeng, and bowed slightly.

"Why does the Grim Reaper keep following me?"

Chang Yufeng wanted to look at Li Xiuyuan, but Li Xiuyuan slapped him with a whisk, telling him not to move.

Li Xiuyuan was also tall enough, like a big man, with a broad enough frame to make her pure white Taoist robe fit her so well.

"Because you have two gods helping you change the time of your death. So this god of death is very uncomfortable." Li Xiuyuan answered Chang Yufeng and put the whisk on his arm.

"Is it Xun Huangying and Yilongzhi?"

"Of course, who else could it be?"

Victoria walked over from behind the Grim Reaper and stood next to Chang Yufeng. She turned around and tidied her messed up hair. The hair was shining beautifully with layers of colorful light.

"In fact, he is not following you, but everyone. He just has an aversion to those who arbitrarily avoid death."

Ms. Mei Qingzi was also fixing her hair. The two of them had a quarrel, but they still consciously came to Chang Yufeng's side.

Just like the aunts and uncles, although they look young, vigorous, and even beautiful, their maternal instinct still makes them become old aunts who protect their cubs.

"To make a long story short, you have avoided the death you were supposed to have. As a mortal, you have surpassed all other living beings and broken the rules of the God of Death. Therefore, he will always want to take your life." Li Xiuyuan reached out to take the object hidden in his sleeve: "It's not accurate to say that. It's more accurate to say that someone wants to make you a god through unreasoning methods."

"In the past, there was only one way to become a god, and that was to step into the divine realm. Ascending to the level of a god is not what mortals call ascension. Ascending is just shedding into a mortal body. Ascending to the level of a god is no longer an improvement of the physical body, but a gift from the original power of this world."

"I don't understand."

Chang Yufeng looked at the man opposite who was no longer making a fuss. His name was the God of Death, or rather, his god rank was that of the God of Death.

"It's very simple. I'll just give you a concept. The power of this world is not just spiritual power. There are also some endless sources of power. They don't have names themselves. They are just generally called spiritual power for the sake of convenience."

Victoria straightened her clothes. In her eyes, Chang Yufeng was just a little brat. Or rather, in the eyes of everyone here, except Erica, Chang Yufeng, a kid who had only lived for more than twenty years, could only be called a little brat.

In fact, his mental age is definitely more than this, but the law of time always has an end. Whether one can do it or not should be the standard for judging mental age.

In other words, some adults have only grown up in age, but when it comes to life, their ability and methods to handle it seem weak.

"The prerequisite for becoming a god is to cultivate spiritual power, qi, true qi, thoughts, original magic and other original powers that can enhance one's strength to the peak, then wash away the mortal body, and then transform the spiritual power, qi, true qi, thoughts, original magic that one has cultivated into one's own things, without having to absorb the essence of heaven and earth from nature to enhance oneself, and then cultivate to the peak, survive from the jealousy of heaven, and become a "power" source that can emit the same "power" that represents one's own power attributes as the essence of heaven and earth, so as to further become a god."

Victoria glanced at the Grim Reaper, rubbed her waist twice, and said unconvincedly: "Simplified, it is three links, the so-called [Human Sect], [Heaven's Jealousy], and [Earth's Control]"

“At this time, the status of ‘Earth’ is higher than that of Heaven in the traditional sense, because to finally ascend to the realm of deification, what one needs to face is the gifts from all the people in this world to the gods. As long as all the people in this world are willing to bestow gifts on this god who is about to enter the realm of gods, this god can naturally be reborn from the cycle of life and death and no longer be bound by the earth.” Ms. Mei Qingzi added. Her body was made of golden light, so she didn’t need to tidy up her clothes, but she was obviously not wearing any clothes. She was just taking care of her soft golden hair.

"Tsk, exhibitionist." Victoria spread her hands and glanced at Chang Yufeng indifferently: "I just failed the [Earth Control] test back then, so I came here and carried out my plan to become a god. I led their ancestors to create the current principality, and naturally passed the assessment of heaven and earth, and was assigned a natural god rank that belongs to me."

"【Hui Yuqing God of Thunder】" Mei Qingzi said the name of Goddess Victoria with disdain.

"Come to think of it, there's nothing we can do about it. Humans are trouble. Luckily, I'm a step ahead of them."

Victoria crossed her hands, turned her head away, and stopped talking, with no intention of saying anything more.

"Then..." Chang Yufeng listened but didn't hear the main point he wanted to hear. It seemed that in the end, it became Aunt Victoria's complaint.

"In other words, you did not obtain the throne of God through your own strength, or the normal strength, and escaped the suffering of reincarnation set by the God of Creation. Therefore, you were subjected to the indefinite punishment of the God of Death..."

Li Xiuyuan looked at Chang Yufeng, as if she understood what he wanted to ask, and nodded at her. She had already walked in front of Chang Yufeng, turned her back to the god of death, and began to observe Chang Yufeng carefully.

"So, what you need to do is to accept this power from God. Although you did not accept it, it is consistent with the description I heard about you."

"You are my mother's senior sister, which means... my great master?"

Chang Yufeng looked at Li Xiuyuan's whisk. The white whisk was held steadily in her hand.

"Yes. It's nice to meet you, Tai Padawan."

Li Xiuyuan smiled with his eyes narrowed, because he looked so handsome that for a second, Chang Yufeng mistook him for a man.

"Wait a minute, can you let me... stroke it for a bit?"

Chang Yufeng asked as he looked at everything here one by one.

In addition to himself and Erica, two ordinary people, there are four gods here, one is called Victoria, another is named Lu Qing, one is Li Xiuyuan, who is said to be his mother's senior sister, and the other is a goddess named Ms. Mei Qingzi, who is in charge of the Time Box. Chang Yufeng has heard Xun Huangying mention her. She is hiding in his sea of consciousness, but he only found out about her recently.

Due to Chang Yufeng's personality, he has a "bystander" perspective and is not too concerned about any messy things, and hears everything.

The more fundamental reason is that he is too pragmatic. He no longer follows the crowd. No matter who talks to him, he needs to think, have his own understanding, and have his own independent ideas. He judges which part he should listen to based on his own experience and knowledge.

The main thing is that Xun Huangying taught him well. Xun Huangying really tortured him for a long time, so that he never really trusted others blindly.

Furthermore, as far as the current situation is concerned, the God of Death should also be a certain god. He now understands the hostility, because he has a grudge against me because I have escaped his control or escaped from his death declaration through irregular means.

Although this kind of hatred was just his own imagination, or he blamed himself for Xun Huangying's bullying of him.

Speaking of Xun Huangying, this guy always does things like this, which is really unbearable. What about giving God-level or not, and never asking about your feelings.

Things like god rank are not necessarily a good thing. It is like cheating and will definitely cause jealousy from others. If this thing is used, and you become the target of hostility of certain people, it will not be too easy.

An ordinary human with no spiritual power suddenly becomes a candidate for the god level. What do all those who are working hard, those who are willing to devote their entire lives to it, those who work hard for the pursuit of power, and those poor people who have sacrificed so many things think?
This ordinary person, just because he knows such a person, can get his favor, and it is such a huge and enviable favor. This kind of thing is simply an insult to despair for those who break through step by step through their own efforts.

Therefore, when Chang Yufeng heard this, he felt something was wrong. He had never thought of this abnormal way of gaining power.

He could raise his hands and swear that he never wanted and was never willing to obtain what Xun Huangying gave him, just like the power he gave up to him.

Although he was weak enough and worked hard enough, he had never used the power of Xunhuangying.

This is not hypocrisy, he has never done it, and naturally he has never thought about it. Although this train of thought is not ordinary - because most people hear the words of effort reward theory or talent upper limit theory, which are deceptive words that make people believe in the existence of fate.

Normally speaking, the theory of hard work and reward is simply untenable in deceptive rhetoric, because Chang Yufeng has also farmed his own land and hunted in the mountains.

In terms of hard work, he gets up early and goes to the mountains to hunt for a living, then pickles meat, and even grows some edible vegetables. He is busy until night, and only when others are enjoying the snow, moonlight, and flowers at the night market can he really finish his work, and then he can wash up under the moonlight.

There are many farmers who do this day after day, year after year. Isn't this hard work? Can anyone deny this kind of effort?
But the reward... just not going hungry is a pitiful amount. The theory of hard work and reward has always been an insult to those who really work hard and try their best.

Even if Xun Huangying felt that this kind of gift was reasonable and no one dared to have any objection to him, it was ultimately a gift obtained through interpersonal relationships, not something he gained through his own strength. Their covetousness and jealousy for this power would definitely vent their anger on him.

The theory of the upper limit of talent is even more nonsense. It is true that everyone has things they can and cannot do, but relatively speaking, determining a person's upper and lower limits of talent based on a momentary perspective on life makes all the life experiences that person has worked for no longer so important, because no matter what he does, he can't break through this limit.

It's like a doctor telling a patient's family that this person has a terminal illness, so they should hold a funeral for him decades in advance because that's all he will live to.

This kind of theory about the upper limit of talent is just a playful rhetoric for smart people, a tool to fool others, and should not be trusted.

But why is this argument so popular? Because it is difficult for most people to think independently, or their education and experience have not yet reached this level of ability. In other words, everyone's life is an unpredictable fog, there are traces to follow, but there will never be a final conclusion.

That is, an acquired fool.

There are many words in this world to describe people as stupid. As you can imagine, there are indeed some people who are stupid and fit the description of these words.

So are there people who are born wise?

Of course we should believe that there are some, but they are so rare that they can only exist in dreams. It is better to believe that a person is a genius than to believe that he works harder and stands out among his peers, and thus attracts more attention.

It is just like this in life.

God, God, this word that is so distant and unreal, yet appears so close and real in this world.

Now in his eyes, there are four gods, and it is no longer a gimmicky rhetoric, nor is it a deceptive rhetoric.

But the real God.

Li Xiuyuan, her mother's senior sister looked at her meaningfully. Her contemplation perhaps made her more certain that this was indeed her junior sister's son.

"Have you thought about it?"

"I think I should think about it."

"Well, I believe you have thought it through."

"Yes……"

"Have you figured out how to ask?"

"Yes."

"I'm sure you've thought about it."

Chang Yufeng looked at Erica who had been watching them quietly. Erica was listening quietly, not enthusiastic, not familiar, nor indifferent, she just watched silently.

Her state is more natural, and it is not wrong to say that she is calm and relaxed.

The main thing is that these four gods, in their posture, demeanor, and behavior, are all like ordinary people, with nothing special about them. They stand here gracefully, yet also very simple.

Those high-spirited and powerful men in the world came, and they all had stronger aura than them. It was conceivable that the four gods in front of them definitely restrained their attitude. Maybe this was the boss. In Erica's eyes, these three women were like Chang Yufeng's aunts and uncles, nagging a lot, and their concern for Chang Yufeng was almost visible to the naked eye.

And the god of death who claimed to dislike Chang Yufeng also had an extremely calm aura, and it was completely hard to tell that he was a god.

Most of the strong people in the world are eager to tell others that they are the owners of great power. From clothes to weapons, from conversation to behavior, they are all the products of the ultimate to accompany their strong status.

You have to know that it is very rare for a strong man in the world to wear such a simple and pure white Taoist robe. It may be the true simplicity of the Tao. An ordinary aunt or uncle can be called a god.

And it can be seen that, except for Victoria, no one else seems to care about the title of their god.

"I want to ask a lot of questions, but this one is probably the most important one, and I must ask it clearly."

Chang Yufeng saw that the man named Death was looking at him quietly, so he felt that the situation was not very dangerous now.

For example, if the god of death wants to harm you, he must go through the pass of your aunts and uncles.

If Xun Huangying was not around, he would definitely not say anything nonsense. In fact, only Xun Huangying could make him feel a little safe. Even Li Xiuyuan, who was closer to him among the four gods, he only felt that he was nice to him because of his mother.

There is nothing wrong with this. Kraft has said it a long time ago, and he has also understood it a long time ago. Once you come into this world, it is absolutely impossible to escape the shackles of your parents. Your parents' friends, your parents' hatred, and everything your parents mean to you cannot be simply brushed aside. If your parents' friends or enemies appear, you, as their descendant, must take over and bear them.

Grudges, love and hatred, intrigues and deceptions, to put it bluntly, are nothing more than the appendages of various emotions. This kind of emotional belonging to people is inescapable.

Furthermore, even these women who are called gods are not truly separated from the human world. They still care about the ordinary people living in the world.

He did not feel honored to be noticed by the gods.

Because he was too ordinary, he was simply unable to withstand the attention of the gods, whether it was the gods' destruction of him or the gods' love for him.

He is very self-aware and knows his own strengths and weaknesses. He is not a tragic character.

Although he was thinking about his future, he was definitely not a person who was worried all day long, let alone a person who...

A foolish person who only faces things with optimism.

He knew everything about himself, and he also understood that he could not bear the love of God.

He had to weigh everything about himself, especially his parents who had never been around him. This kind of reliance on human affection could not withstand the numerous problems of his own ability.

"I really want to know everything about me."

"Everything about you?" Li Xiuyuan smiled happily.

"Everything about you?!" Victoria looked at Chang Yufeng in confusion, and her eyebrows raised.

"Everything about you..." Mei Qingzi sighed dully.

"Everything about you...ha..." Death snorted.

"I think Xun Huangying won't tell me..."

"Looking for the shadow of the wilderness..."

Li Xiuyuan stopped smiling and looked at Chang Yufeng.

"Didn't he tell you?"

"No."

"That's really weird."

Li Xiuyuan frowned and looked at Victoria, and Victoria looked back at her, somewhat confused.