Chapter 105: You’re Just Livestock
After hearing my words, Old Dog didn’t think too much; instead, he curiously asked me,
“Old Ghost, what realm are you in now?”
Hearing this, I was a bit speechless. I thought, “My dear brother, why didn’t you grasp my main point? Instead, you’re curious about this?”
If it were an ordinary person who didn’t think about what I said and instead wasted their mind on curiosity, I would have already started scolding.
However, since he is Big Brother’s brother, I had no choice but to patiently explain,
“To be honest, according to the understanding of the mortal world, I currently have no realm, or rather, I can have whatever realm I want. Do you understand this statement?
Because the spirit within me has been cultivated to no longer be like an ordinary person, or rather, no longer like my former self. I can control it to change at will. You can understand it as I am me, and I am not me. Or, I possess memories of the past, but I no longer have the mind patterns of the past. Instead, I can enter and exit various states at will. If I absolutely had to define a realm for myself, I think it could only be described by the word ‘god,’ hahaha.”
Hearing this, Old Dog thought Big Brother was talking nonsense. However, after seriously observing Big Brother, he chose to believe.
It’s not like he has a choice but to believe! I even changed my external appearance. What kind of person can do that?
Perhaps immortals in heaven and earth can also do this, but they cannot change the spirit within. At most, they can only change external appearances.
But I have dissolved the spirit and am starting anew solely by the opportunity of life, retrieving memories from the void. For an ordinary person, this ability is truly too unbelievable. It can no longer be defined by any realm.
Of course, this does not mean Big Brother is invincible, or that he can be directly invincible in other worlds. For example, when I go to the Heavenly Realm or the Underworld, I still need to perceive the rules of that world. It requires a process to transform energy and gradually improve, rather than being awesome in the mortal world and then directly awesome everywhere else. Only by cultivating the Great Dao rules of that world to the ultimate can one possess invincible strength.
Actually, I know that even after explaining it so clearly to Old Dog, he will find it difficult to absorb and understand for a while.
However, I cannot force him. After all, everyone has to make their own choices for their life’s direction. Whether the outcome is good or bad, it is their own choice.
Isn’t there a saying in the mortal world? The path you choose, you must walk to the end, even if you have to crawl.
The day Old Dog left the Underworld, Jin Buque, Xue Pan, and I escorted him to the Yin-Yang path connecting the Underworld and the mortal world.
Old Dog smiled bitterly and waved goodbye to the three of us. Big Brother said nothing.
Because Big Brother had already seen the end of his life. If he could persevere in cultivation, then his fate would be uncertain. After becoming powerful, he could also change his own destiny at will.
But after returning to his previous life, there were only two outcomes: one was ordinary, confused, going with the flow, at a loss, full of doubt about life, trapped by various daily trivialities, and unable to break free.
The other was that he did something to become a very wealthy person, then lived a life of pleasure and freedom, eventually losing his personality, falling into emptiness, and becoming melancholic while pursuing the truth of life.
For a mortal, there is not much difference between these two points. Although one seems to live a hard life and the other a carefree one, their hearts are the same. They will still have troubles, still have pain, still be helpless, and still unable to be saved.
Looking at Old Dog’s departing back, Big Brother unconsciously began to sing a song written by the most awesome cultivator in the mortal world:
“Thoughts are shackles, destiny is a cage. Life has worn away the former self, trapped on a road full of thorns, lost and at a loss.
He says this is right, he says that is wrong, but I always feel that is not the true self. Who am I, ahhhhhh, who am I, ahhhhhh…
Following along, pursuing the truth of life, drifting and turning by the Bridge of Helplessness. When a red flower blooms on the Other Shore, that is me, that is Big Brother.
Thoughts are shackles, destiny is a cage. Desperately breaking free from their restraint, seeing the true self, ahhhhhh, achieving liberation, ahhhhhh.”
Just as Big Brother was singing with great passion,
Jin Buque and Xue Pan heard Big Brother sing such an awesome song and couldn’t help but ask,
“Big Brother, what song are you singing? It seems to have a Daoist charm.”
“Yes, Big Brother. It sounds like the melody of ‘Left Finger Moon,’ but why haven’t I heard these lyrics?”
Hearing this, I chuckled, “Hahaha, because Big Brother wrote it himself! Hehe, you two better not steal my lyrics, or I’ll beat you up, hahaha.”
“Let’s go.”
After bidding farewell to Old Dog, the three of us returned to King Yama’s Mansion.
Jin Buque and Xue Pan returned to the spirit gathering formation to continue cultivating,
while Big Brother sat alone under the tree in the courtyard, comprehending the Great Dao rules of the Underworld.
Damn it, when I become powerful one day, I must ascend to the Heavenly Realm and properly teach that group of weaklings, Satō Washii, cough cough cough.
Big Brother was happily thinking about how he would beat them up when he became powerful, nourishing his body and mind amidst these joyful thoughts.
Damn, that made Big Brother so happy that he almost burst out laughing. Those who saw it would know Big Brother was cultivating, but others might think Big Brother was dreaming.
It just so happened that Uncle Li passed by. Seeing Big Brother sitting under the tree giggling, he couldn’t help but worry that I might fall into demonic ways and mistake illusion for reality, and something might go wrong.
He reached out and gave me a big slap, “Slap!”
This slap jolted Big Brother awake from his meditation. He opened his eyes, as huge as oxen, and looked at Uncle Li,
“Ahhh~! Satō the old pumpkin, you’ve gone too far! I’ll fight you to the death~!”
With a “swish,” he got up, hugged Uncle Li’s leg, and fiercely took a bite.
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Afterward, Uncle Li scolded with a smile, “You brat, just cultivate! Why were you giggling foolishly? I thought you had fallen into demonic ways. Damn it! Also, you brat, are you a Sky-Howling Dog? I just patted you to wake you up, why did you bite me?”
Hearing this, Big Brother scratched his head vigorously, dandruff flying everywhere. His face turned slightly red, and he said sheepishly, “Hehe, Uncle Li, you can’t blame me for this, haha. You know, when I’m in meditation, I can’t be disturbed. Otherwise, when I wake up, I might be disoriented. You really can’t blame me for this, haha.”
Uncle Li gave me an exasperated glare and snorted, “Others are only disoriented for a while when interrupted, but you, you bit my leg and didn’t stop, and you even swelled up my old backside. Are you livestock, you brat?”
