I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

Chapter 3659: Chapter 1782: Recognition

Hua Changdeng did not elaborate much on that battle.

He also didn’t mention who challenged whom, or the deliberations regarding whether to engage in battle at that time, as well as the entire battle process.

The Struggle for the Great Path inherently has no right or wrong.

Xu Xiaoshou ceased to inquire, but that doesn’t mean he concurred.

"Struggle for the Dao..."

His first encounter with the Struggle for the Great Path, might have been in the White Cave, when Bazhun’an invited him to join the Saint Servant.

His initial understanding of the Struggle for the Great Path might have been during the deep sea, when the Water Ghost unveiled that the struggle inevitably leads to bloodshed.

He fully comprehended the Struggle for the Great Path perhaps after Abyss Island, at the end of the Divine Relics, after battling Ai Cangsheng...

"Did he truly understand?"

Half a year ago, Xu Xiaoshou felt he understood.

He believed his path differed from the people of this era, differing from Bazhun’an, Dao Qiongcang, and others.

At the very least, he might boast a few words, but wouldn’t go as far as seeking the path or exterminating those who shouldn’t die.

Thus, that night, during a conversation with Erzhu and Master Siren, he defined the First Pavilion in the Sky as — terminating errors and rewriting the ages.

Quite a bold claim!

Xu Xiaoshou has been adhering to this to this day.

Today, encountering Hua Changdeng and listening to his words, Xu Xiaoshou once again fell into contemplation:

"In the process of pursuing the Dao, knowing that one general’s achievement means the withering of ten thousand bones, what are people really seeking?"

Or putting it another way:

"At the end of the Dao, what is there?"

The Ten Ancestors, do they count?

But even the Ten Ancestors have the Four Ancestor Reincarnation.

The Holy Ancestor was not content, thus became a devil invasion, Medicine Ghost Life and Death, still unknown to this day.

Even the Ancestor of Sorcery who traversed from "Two" to "One" remained ambitious and did not stop after becoming Sui.

So, is the end of the Dao desire, power, interest?

If so, "terminating errors and rewriting the ages," isn’t that also an absolute adherence to one’s path and an absolute critique of others’ — essentially, isn’t that "control"?

Is the Dao, control?

No.

The Dao should not be that way.

Then, at the end of the Dao, what kind of monument is erected, causing everyone to flock towards it, exhausting a lifetime’s effort to carve their name upon it?

"It seems, not everyone is like this..."

Xu Xiaoshou recalled Ai Cangsheng.

Among the Ten High Nobles filled with ambition, Ai Cangsheng is the one most aware of what he seeks within.

He did not deliberately pursue the end of the Dao.

He possesses the Eyes of the Great Path and appears to be the only one capable of glimpsing the essence of the Dao, thus choosing...

To stop?

Ai Cangsheng does not seek the Dao.

He sits atop the sacred mountain, only wanting to fulfill a mission he has set for himself.

He tells himself, at the top of Sacred Mountain Gui Zhe, beneath the Stairway to Heaven, lies his journey’s end, no need to climb further.

"Is it because he is not ambitious and his aims are modest?"

No!

Perhaps in Ai Cangsheng’s eyes, the Dao is nothingness.

Things as ephemeral as nothingness, what is there to gain, what is there to lose?

From another perspective, under the trend of greed, all people are fanatics, only Ai Cangsheng is the true Daoist!

He clarified the Dao, discerned the self.

Until today, six months later, Xu Xiaoshou revisited the words of Hua Weiyang back then and gained further insights:

"Super Taoization is easy, discerning oneself is difficult."

In a world overflowing with material desires, how many can truly hold onto their original heart?

Even if one adheres to it throughout life, who can ensure that their Dao of the original heart is correct?

"So even my path, might be wrong..."

The Xu Xiaoshou of the past might have been bewildered by such thoughts, unable to escape the whirlpool of self-impasse.

Today, he gazes at Hua Changdeng, who has just narrated the Elder Yu situation, his face calm and composed, tightens his fists, eyes filled with killing intent.

"But, so what?"

No one is nobler than another.

As such, there is no need for excessive pondering.

Whether the Dao is righteous or evil, it ultimately boils down to one phrase: the killer will be killed.

"Woo——"

The Central Yuan world has fallen into pitch-black night, the cold wind wailing.

The matchmaker crouches on the ground, deep in the game, feeling it profoundly.

Before the Elder Yu situation came to light, Lord Shou’s nonchalance did not seem feigned, he could discuss the world with Hua Changdeng as opponents, mutually admiring each other.

Now is different, completely different.

These two have yet to do anything, but their aura is already clashing, with an air of life and death struggle.

Perhaps just one change of words...

Peace will break!

The storm will arrive!

"It seems that you still have doubts."

On the other side, as an opponent, Hua Changdeng sees more clearly than anyone else the tumultuous waves suppressed beneath the calm surface of the young man before him.

Having weathered many storms, he is unmoved by the killing intent and remains calmly speaking:

"I haven’t encountered a young person with your courage in a long time, to achieve such accomplishments at your age is indeed commendable."

"If you still have questions, feel free to ask."𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Is this, a gift?

To meet me with the posture of a brave man, then to receive guidance, whether in matters, or in the Dao?

"Heh."

Xu Xiaoshou chuckled softly upon hearing this.

Such lofty tone, he had experienced many times along the way.

And indeed for someone whose impression of him was still rooted in the "Xiao Shi Tan Ji" stage, facing a "rather outstanding" young person, such an attitude is not excessive.

Hua Changdeng’s confidence and ground allow him such rhetoric.

Xu Xiaoshou did not take offense, on the contrary, he said with a very calm mindset: "How coincidental, I really do have one final question."

"Speak."

Xu Xiaoshou wasn’t entangled in the Elder Yu situation.

Instead, he turned to the north, looking towards the distant direction of the sacred mountain’s Ghost Buddha, pointing and saying:

"I once cut down an aspect of your will."

"That will, seemed to come from the Phantom City, return to the Phantom City, but actually infiltrated through to the Ghost Buddha’s being, and finally returned to the Ghost Buddha’s being."

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