Gu Long's World: Starting with the Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Jiang Fengyue was already sitting on a large stone chair. In the open space below the stone steps, the followers of the Ma Yi Sect were all prostrating themselves on the ground.

Below the Heavenly Ladder, the elders of the Ma Yi Sect lay there. Perhaps some of them were able to stand up, but at this moment, playing dead was more useful than anything else.

The old woman in black was still at the bottom of the ladder, her face solemn. In her eyes, nothing in the world was more absurd than this: a church and family with a long history actually wanted to support outsiders as gods.

Chu Liuxiang and Zhang Jiejie looked at each other and laughed, finding it all quite amusing.

Zhang Jiejie whispered, "Your friend is so amazing, could he really be a god descended from heaven?"

Chu Liuxiang laughed and said, "If he is a god, he must be a god who has compassion for all living beings."

Jiang Fengyue inexplicably became a deity of the Ma Yi Sect, and he was still sitting on the altar, not yet able to react.

After a while, he decided to do something he had already planned to do.

Jiang Fengyue said in a deep voice, "If you take my words seriously, stand up. You are not allowed to kneel."

His majestic voice wasn't very loud, but everyone in the sanctuary could hear it clearly, simply because he was using his inner strength to project his words into everyone's ears.

The followers of the Ma Yi sect looked at each other, realizing that people who had been kneeling for a long time would find it difficult to stand up all at once.

But now no one would disobey Jiang Fengyue, and they all stood up.

Jiang Fengyue said, "From today onwards, any of you who wants to leave here may do so."

The greatest help he could offer to the followers of the Ma Yi sect was to give them freedom.

The followers of the Ma Yi sect were astonished.

At that moment, a voice rang out, and an elder at the foot of the Heavenly Ladder stood up. He shouted, "Impossible! Never! Anyone who wants to escape from here must climb the Heavenly Ladder!"

Jiang Fengyue said coldly, "Do you think you can stop them?"

The hopeful eyes of the Ma Yi sect members were fixed on Jiang Fengyue.

Another elder stood up and said through gritted teeth, "Jiang Fengyue, we really don't have the ability to stop you, but anyone in our clan who wants to leave will have to step over the corpses of ten of us."

When the members of the Ma Yi sect heard their elders threaten suicide, they all lowered their heads and fell silent.

Jiang Fengyue frowned, and after a long while, he lightly swept off the altar and onto the Heavenly Ladder.

He wanted to know what lay behind the door at the top of the ladder.

A hand grabbed his left leg; it was an elder of the Ma Yi sect lying on the ground. He shouted, "You can't go up! The sect rules state that only those who want to leave from here can ascend the Heavenly Ladder!"

Jiang Fengyue lightly stomped her left leg on the ground and shook off that hand. In the face of absolute strength, all rules are just empty words.

Others were already on the Heavenly Ladder, a forty-foot-high ladder. People on the ladder felt as if they were in heaven.

There are two doors on the ladder to heaven, almost identical doors, and no one can tell the difference between them.

Jiang Fengyue gently pushed open the door on the left, walked out and then walked back. This door led to the outside world.

He went to another door, and whatever was behind it couldn't stop his curiosity.

He pushed open the door and understood everything.

Jiang Fengyue walked down the Heavenly Ladder expressionlessly, the eyes of the Ma Yi Sect followers fixed on him.

He said slowly, "Now, whoever wants to leave, should step onto this heavenly ladder."

Upon hearing this, Chu Liuxiang looked at Jiang Fengyue in surprise, not understanding why Jiang Fengyue had suddenly undergone such a big change.

The members of the Ma Yi sect became agitated. Among them, many may have considered leaving, but they were afraid.

Their ancestors came to live in such places only because they had experienced too many blows and torments, and had become cynical, eccentric and withdrawn.

The ancestors of the Ma Yi sect knew that others disliked them, and they also disliked others, so they preferred to isolate themselves from the world and have no contact with the outside world.

But the world is changing every day, and people's ideas are constantly changing. The ideas of the next generation are already very different from those of the previous generation.

The reason this generation stays here is simply because they have a fear of the outside world; they are afraid that if they go outside, they will not be able to adapt to this environment and will not be able to survive.

But Jiang Fengyue's arrival made them realize that they were not much different from the people outside.

The first person to step onto the Heavenly Ladder was a ten-year-old child. In his childish voice, he asked Jiang Fengyue, "Holy Father, in the outside world, can we really eat delicious food every day?"

The child was very close to the ladder, so he could run across quickly, and it was too late for anyone to stop him.

Jiang Fengyue gently stroked the child's head and smiled, "That's right, there are always more delicious things to eat in the outside world."

Having received Jiang Fengyue's affirmative answer, the child staggered up the ladder to heaven.

The old woman in black followed and leaped up. Once someone stepped onto the ladder and opened the door, they could never turn back. The old woman in black would not allow anyone to break this rule.

Jiang Fengyue did not stop the old woman in black; he simply smiled and waited for the next person to ascend the heavenly ladder.

The second person to step onto the ladder was a middle-aged woman, the mother of the child from before. She didn't say a word, but just rushed up quickly.

Her husband, the father of her child, was not far behind and followed closely behind her up the ladder to heaven.

The fourth person to ascend the heavenly ladder was a young woman. She approached Jiang Fengyue and smiled sweetly, saying, "Holy Father, is there an endless supply of beautiful clothes in the outside world?"

Jiang Fengyue nodded, and the young woman, without further hesitation, slowly walked up the Heavenly Ladder.

The fifth person to step onto the heavenly ladder was a middle-aged man. After a moment of silence, he slowly asked, "In the outside world, can silver buy anything?"

He won a lot of money from others through the gambling games brought by Jiang Fengyue, and he wanted to turn these cold coins into something of value.

Jiang Fengyue shook her head and said, "Silver can buy most things in the world, but there are some things it can't buy."

The middle-aged man tensed up, asking in surprise, "What can't I buy?"

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "As things stand now, your freedom is something that money can't buy."

The middle-aged man understood Jiang Fengyue's meaning, stopped asking questions, and strode forward.

People kept climbing the ladder to heaven, and people kept leaving. The once vast Ma Yi Sect was reduced to less than half its original size.

The last two to ascend the Heavenly Ladder were Chu Liuxiang and Jiang Fengyue.

Chu Liuxiang laughed and said, "You were originally trying to stop me from coming here, how come you've changed your mind now?"

Jiang Fengyue did not respond; the two doors in front of them remained unchanged.

He smiled and said, "You go to the left, I'll go to the right, how about that?"

After speaking, Jiang Fengyue stepped into the door on the right.

Chu Liuxiang was surprised, but he still followed Jiang Fengyue's instructions and walked into the door on the left.

As he stepped out the door, the first thing he saw when he looked up was Jiang Fengyue, who was all smiles.

Chu Liuxiang turned around, and behind him were two identical doors.

Courage is the eternal hymn of humanity.