Chapter 72 71. All rivers flow into the sea, all the universe becomes one!

It is because everyone in the Prince’s Mansion is Xue Qinghe’s die-hard fan.

Therefore, the talents in the Prince’s Mansion are the least likely to survive.

Qian Renxue is cruel and ruthless enough.

He completely destroyed the power that he had once built.

This is a tragedy!

This is the sorrow of those who regard Qian Renxue as their master!

It is also Qian Renxue’s own sorrow!

She personally broke the backbone of the Tiandou Empire and killed all those people who once believed that she could lead the Tiandou Empire to the top. At the cost of sacrificing this achievement, she gained greater rewards.

"In fact, you can give them a chance. Those who obey me will prosper, and those who disobey me will perish..." Standing on the balcony at the top of the Tiandou Palace, Ye Qingcang and Qian Renxue were sharing the fruits of victory: "If you doubt their loyalty, you can also use them as tools; tools don't need to have a heart, as long as they can play the corresponding role, for example: disguise as an evil soul master who escaped from Tiandou City, wander around, kill all the city lords, generals, and officials who don't obey your orders, and let the local Wuhun Hall take over under the banner of clearing out evil soul masters. The resistance will be much smaller, and you don't need to collect those evidences."

"After all, they have followed me for so many years, they deserve a decent death!" Qian Renxue habitually pondered the meaning of life. This was also a question she gave to the light in her heart: "I know you have many ways to control people, and even control a person's thoughts, but they are human, not beasts; now, until they die, they will believe that they are dying for their ideals, to wash away the grievances of Prince Xue Qinghe, and to restore order and stabilize the Tiandou Empire; they may die with their eyes open, but they will not question themselves, because they always think they are on the right path..."

"So..." Ye Qingcang turned his head: "Are you questioning yourself?"

Qian Renxue was silent for a long time.

She could avoid the subject.

But her beliefs did not allow her to avoid the subject.

It was as if her belief was questioning her: Is everything you are doing now really bright? Or is it just an excuse to satisfy your own desires and comfort yourself under the banner of light?

"Yes; I am questioning myself..." Qian Renxue didn't know how Ye Qingcang would view her after she gave this answer. Would he think that she was a useless person who clearly ordered the killing of so many people and pretended to be sad? But she was willing to reveal her true self to Ye Qingcang because she thought Ye Qingcang was her friend: "To be more precise, I don't know whether everything I did was just, whether it was bright, and whether it was really without any selfish desire!"

Ye Qingcang let out a long sigh.

In fact, he had encountered this problem before.

He is a time traveler after all.

Possess the IQ of an adult.

This is a good thing and a bad thing.

The good thing is: he is more mature than the others.

The downside is that his three views have already been fixed.

The speed at which he accepts new things is far slower than that of a seven or eight-year-old child. Even after he traveled through time and was adopted by Liu Erlong and had never suffered, after he gained autonomy, he has always attached great importance to the cultivation of his mentality. The requirements for "heart" have far exceeded those for "strength". He has always believed that the relationship between mentality and strength is "mind controls strength" rather than the other way around or the two being parallel. When he created Violet, he also had this doubt.

The weak are busy working for their own food.

Mediocrities are busy pursuing immediate interests.

The strong are busy with their stubborn beliefs.

The wise man is busy with the unknown truth.

This is an eternal law and truth.

So, what exactly is truth?
He searched through history books and ancient works by sages, and finally found the answer in Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind; perhaps this answer cannot convince everyone, but it will surely allow him to reconcile with himself: this heart is bright!
"This world is inherently unfair, dark, and incorrect!" Ye Qingcang thought for a moment and tried to translate it into plain language so that it would be easier for people to understand and accept.
“If the world is fair, there will be no concept of fairness; because only when unfairness is the main theme will fairness become something that most people pursue and what most people defend.”

"If the world is bright, there will be no moon and stars; the land will crack under the eternal light, the rivers, lakes and seas will evaporate under the eternal light, and the world we live in will also lose life."

"The Great Dao is fifty, Tianyan is forty-nine."

"We all have to learn to accept the night, just as the night has to learn to accept the light."

"We all need to embrace our own darkness, because darkness is also a part of us."

"One yin and one yang, that's called balance."

"When a wild goose passes by, it leaves its voice behind; when a person passes by, he leaves his name behind. We are part of this vast multitude of living beings, so naturally we must leave traces of our existence. Whether it is right or wrong, in the end, it is up to future generations to judge. We only need to confirm one thing: Can we live up to our conscience?"

"For us, the slightest movement can cause a huge wave!"

"Take myself as an example: I have provided a smooth path for civilian spirit masters, which is Blue Tyrant Academy. In the eyes of those civilian spirit masters, I can say responsibly that they regard me as their father and mother. In many small villages, I have even seen my ancestral temple. But behind this, the promise that "Blue Tyrant Academy will bear all responsibilities" is the bottom line I set after using countless means to break the teeth of countless noble spirit masters and make them never dare to show their fangs again. I am a benefactor in the eyes of these civilian spirit masters, but am I not an enemy in the eyes of those noble spirit masters?"

"If you want to help one party, you will definitely offend the other party!"

"Similarly: if you want light, you must be tainted with darkness!"

"So, in the final analysis, you still have to touch your own heart."

“Ask yourself: Is everything I do going against my original intention?”

"If not, there's no need to question it later."

"If there is, correct it."

“Some people will say: I would rather do nothing than make a mistake; but I would like to say: I would rather make a mistake than do nothing.”

"That's probably what you want to say, right?"

Qian Renxue looked at Ye Qingcang for a long time.

Close your eyes, look back and smile. Take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

The wave was neither too big nor too small, and it attracted a lot of attention.

"To put it nicely, the relationship between you and me is like birds of a feather flock together..." Qian Renxue opened her starry purple eyes and said self-deprecatingly, "To put it bluntly, we are birds of a feather, neither of us is a good person. But I still admire your attitude. You are right, I am too hypocritical. If I really want to be entangled, I should first be entangled about whether the moon and stars should exist. Speaking of which, I am nearly ten years older than you, and girls generally mature earlier than boys. I actually need you to persuade me. It's really embarrassing..."

“Just be content!” Ye Qingcang said jokingly, “I can’t compare to your innate soul power of level 20, but I am also half a person with innate knowledge; if I can still lose to a little kid like you in terms of IQ, I might as well find a pit, pee in it, and drown myself; otherwise, it will be a disgrace…”

"I told you you were fat, and you're still panting?" Qian Renxue, who had untied the knot in her heart, rolled her eyes: "By the way, how did that so-called master end up being dealt with?"

"Of course he was fired." Ye Qingcang had no shame at all, and smiled: "He had only been in love twice, once with my mother and once with your mother. I tortured him several times and made him resign voluntarily and leave with Tang San. How are you going to torture him?"

"Are you the devil?"

"Throw this thing to me?"

"You think I'm not annoying enough, right?"

Qian Renxue's eyes were filled with annoyance, and she subconsciously raised her hand to press Ye Qingcang's waist, but she quickly realized that pinching someone was too intimate, so she coughed unnaturally, quickly withdrew her hand, and put it behind her back.

He pondered for two or three seconds.

Pull back the thoughts that have just run wild.

He struggled to find the topic again: "Alright, who made me your friend? I don't have any way to toss it around, let's see how that woman behaves. Anyway, I can't accept that woman finding me another father. Even if she finds a father, she can go to the God Realm to find me. But I won't acknowledge a stepfather like Yu Xiaogang even if she beats me to death. Let's not talk about these things for now. I'm thinking about it here. Since you are by my side, can you give me some advice?"

"Tell me about it?" Ye Qingcang vowed: "I will definitely help if I can, but I can't guarantee that the advice I give you is a good one..."

"It's okay if it's not bright, okay?" Qian Renxue interrupted Ye Qingcang's teasing unhappily, adjusted her expression which was really hard to be cold, and said solemnly: "Xue Ke is not annoying, I don't want to kill her, but if she doesn't die, I want to take charge of the Tiandou Empire, I need to spend a lot of extra effort..."

"Then don't kill her..." Ye Qingcang used only one sentence to make Qian Renxue suddenly realize, and also made Qian Renxue unable to complain: "People who often usurp power or rebel know that rebellion is the worst strategy, usurping power is also a medium-low strategy, and the best strategy is to abdicate. You support her to ascend the throne on the grounds that "the Tiandou royal family has no male heirs". In this way, you can show the world that you have no intention of seizing power, and the reason is particularly sufficient. After that, let her say that she is incompetent and abdicate to you... To be more specific, how do you negotiate with her, I don't need to teach you, right?"

"You have a dirty heart..." Qian Renxue said something very truthful. She was not the kind of person who often usurped power. She was clearly a newbie with no experience: "When are you going to go find a new world?"

"I've found it." Ye Qingcang took out the jade seal machine and fiddled with it for a few times, then showed Qian Renxue a photo: "See the most famous academy in another world?"

"Shrek Academy?"

Qian Renxue looked at the photo on the jade seal machine.

I feel like this name sounds strangely familiar.

He crossed his arms and thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered where he had heard this name before: "Yu Xiaogang is a faculty member of Shrek Academy. Before, the team that defeated the Royal Fighting Team was called the Shrek Seven Devils. Is this Shrek Academy the same Shrek Academy that has joined your Blue Tyrant Academy now?"

Two Shrek Academies.

People who don’t know would think it’s a duplicate name.

Not really.

"The world I discovered is at a time node ten thousand years later..." Seeing Qian Renxue's interested look, Ye Qingcang knew what Qian Renxue was thinking and ruthlessly shattered Qian Renxue's fantasy: "The backgrounds of the two worlds are similar, but there are also differences. For example, I don't exist in the other world, and the person who got the Shura Sword was Tang San; in the final battle, Tang San won and the Spirit Hall lost, and the Sun Moon Continent merged with it. Anyway, it was very chaotic; even the Dragon God who died under the Shura Sword was just split in half in that world. I advise you not to take it seriously; but for other aspects, the description of ten thousand years later is still objective, such as why your mother hates you so much, and why she wanted to kill your father..."

"It seems that the winners didn't leave any face for us losers!" Qian Renxue laughed in anger. Never mind why her mother hated her and why she wanted to kill her father. These were absolute secrets that she couldn't even get out of her grandfather's mouth. In another world, they were openly disclosed. It was simply a humiliation: "Tang San can die now!"

"Then let him die in the battle of the destruction of the Haotian Sect according to the original plan..." Ye Qingcang has always been very broad-minded, and he can hold a boat in his stomach. "Changing the original plan for him is putting the cart before the horse. Since he has not been able to grow up and is still developing along the original route, then strangle him to death on the original plan route; the more temporary modifications are made to plans, the more loopholes there will be. It is said that the Great Dao evolves forty-nine times out of fifty days, and one is missing. But we only need to firmly grasp these forty-nine, which is enough. Missing one can be regarded as accumulating blessings for ourselves; doing everything to the extreme will shorten your life!"

"When you leave, don't forget to tell me, I'll see you off..." Qian Renxue tidied up her wind-blown golden hair: "Now that it's come to this, you should at least say a few words to let me know if this is the big thing you encountered before, right?"

"Yes." Everything has come to an end. Ye Qingcang will certainly not hide it from Qian Renxue anymore: "In the other world, there is the more powerful Sun and Moon Empire, the split Heaven Dou Empire and the undivided Star Luo Empire, as well as a Shrek Academy that can compete with the Spirit Hall in its split state. If we can't take down the Heaven Dou Empire this time, we will have to use our strength to forcefully attack if we want to occupy it again. Moreover, I don't think the split Spirit Hall has the ability to withstand the pressure of the other world..."

"But, truth cannot be hidden!" Qian Renxue shook her head and denied: "Since the Spirit Hall in another world has failed, it means that I in another world have also failed. Is there any meaning in abdication?"

"There's no me in the other world yet!"

"Why is it meaningless?"

"You are you!"

"Qian Renxue from another world is Qian Renxue from another world!"

"You are not her!"

"Is it not allowed that there are forks in the road?"

Ye Qingcang's question woke Qian Renxue up from her dream.

Yes, no one is anyone's shadow.

No one can decide anyone else's future direction.

Several new buds can sprout from one branch.

This is indeed the best answer.

"As for telling you when I leave..." Ye Qingcang smiled slightly, holding the jade seal machine in his hand, and disappeared in an instant. Only the second half of the sentence was forcibly retained at the moment of leaving: "This is a temporary farewell."

"You guy..." Qian Renxue was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded at the air: "You are too straightforward. You didn't even give me a chance to be sentimental. I was thinking of asking you to bring back some local specialties from the other world!"

　Four thousand words, no laziness.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)