Chapter 118: Following Great Wisdom
“Sister, this Academy Head Shi can actually cook! Brother Guan shouldn’t go hungry following him, right?”
After Shi Feizhe and Guan Shan left, Dan La finished cleaning the kitchen and sat on the bed, speaking to Mi Er.
Mi Er was a bit older than her, but because Mi Er was petite, she didn’t appear older.
“Brother Guan gave us his home and moved out himself. Why bother…” Mi Er sighed and said, “Why go to such lengths for two dead people like us?”
In front of Guan Shan, they maintained an optimistic facade.
Because they didn’t want Guan Shan to worry.
In reality, after seeing through the true nature of the Bright Sacred Cult, they felt despair.
From eight years old to eighteen, then to twenty-eight.
From bishops to followers, to people in the outer city.
They weren’t stupid!
Precisely because they weren’t stupid, precisely because their intelligence was normal, when the lies were exposed, they felt despair, feeling as if their lives were merely puppets of the priests, manipulated and controlled at will.
The familial love, romantic love, and friendship in life seemed to have no connection to them.
The joys and sorrows, anger and happiness of others seemed to have nothing to do with them either.
They were just puppets, tools, used to satisfy and achieve a certain purpose.
Such a life was utterly meaningless!
Two people who should have died found meaning because of Guan Shan. They supported each other, not for themselves, but to live for Guan Shan.
They didn’t waste Guan Shan’s hard work and kindness.
It was that simple.
Mi Er knew this, so she always encouraged Dan La to be optimistic and move forward.
Even though their final outcome might be a painful death on a sickbed due to illness or something else.
At least they had lived in this world.
“Sister, that visualization technique Academy Head Shi taught you, did you understand it? Is it truly a martial arts visualization?” Dan La asked.
She had only heard a part of it while inside the house.
“I feel like it’s a bit strange, not quite the same as what the Sacred Cult taught us,” Mi Er thought for a moment and said.
“Then sister, you shouldn’t try it, lest something goes wrong,” Dan La advised.
There had been more than a few people in the Sacred Cult who had gone mad or become fools from practicing incorrectly.
“I know!”
The two of them chatted for a while longer, and as the sky darkened, they each went to sleep.
She said she knew, but Mi Er still tried it. Because she felt that Shi Feizhe was a good person, a good person wouldn’t lie to her, right?
From Shi Feizhe, she felt a kind of sympathy, a feeling of being treated as a human being, not as some kind of tool.
It had been a long, long time since she had visualized. When she was young, she used to visualize the divine messengers of the Sacred Cult.
But ever since becoming a walking corpse, she had stopped visualizing, she couldn’t fool herself.
As she struggled to visualize, a Φ symbol slowly took shape in her Sea of Consciousness.
But this symbol was slightly different. The vertical line in the middle of the symbol slowly expanded, then suddenly split open, releasing a light from within, illuminating her entire Sea of Consciousness.
Her Sea of Consciousness became bright.
Three dots appeared above the outer circle of the Φ.
The entire symbol now resembled an open eye with eyebrows.
This was the Eye of Wisdom, and she suddenly felt a sense of understanding in her heart.
Wisdom is born from confusion. Those who know everything are not necessarily wise, they might just be cheating.
But those whose hearts are filled with doubts and “whys” have the potential for wisdom.
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For a girl who grew up in the Bright Sacred Cult, at the age of eight, having her foot chopped off, the immense pain nearly killed her.
She had felt confusion.
At the age of twelve, while serving the bishop, she had also felt confusion.
At nineteen, when she had to accept the sins of dozens of followers a day, she had felt confused again.
These confusions were kept in her heart because no one cared.
And it was meaningless.
Now it had meaning because wisdom was born.
The light of wisdom made her recall her entire life, allowing her to discover the details of life, to see truth in the smallest of things, and to suddenly understand.
Confusions were resolved, but new confusions were also born. New confusions gave birth to new wisdom, and so the cycle continued…
Wisdom will gradually change a person, allowing them to realize that everything encountered in life is merely a probability arising from the workings of society.
It’s not about escaping reality by numbing oneself, but about recognizing the source of suffering in reality and trying to change it!
Thus, strength was born along with will and wisdom.
Dan La, sleeping beside her, suddenly felt a brightness beside her.
Dan La was surprised to see Mi Er floating in the air, surrounded by a faint light. A symbol resembling an eyeball flashed and appeared on Mi Er’s body.
“Sister?” She didn’t know what was happening.
After half a cup of tea’s worth of time, Mi Er slowly descended, and the light surrounding her disappeared, but a symbol resembling an eyeball appeared on her forehead.
She opened her eyes, filled with compassion: “Dan La. Pain cannot be forgotten, pain is only buried in the heart, then suddenly remembered at unexpected moments!”
Dan La didn’t understand why Mi Er was like this, she was a bit bewildered.
Before, Mi Er had advised her to forget the pain and look forward!
“Forgetting pain is the act of the weak, while the strong are those who inflict pain on others!” Mi Er said. She had understood that pain is a part of life, it needs to be faced, it needs to be overcome, not avoided.
She continued: “The world is a vast sea of suffering! In this sea of suffering, no one can reach the shore. Only great wisdom can transcend it.”
“Follow great wisdom, save the world, and cross the sea of suffering!”
“!!!”
Dan La didn’t understand, but she was greatly shocked. She couldn’t comprehend how Mi Er seemed to have become a different person after just a short sleep.
“My sister, you don’t understand!” Mi Er extended a hand to Dan La.
Dan La hesitantly took that hand, then felt Mi Er’s experiences and thoughts. Their identical experiences, yet due to different occurrences, led to simultaneous confusion, which also allowed them to simultaneously generate wisdom.
There were no two people in the world who were more alike.
No, that’s not right.
There were many people in the world who were as miserable as them, those people were also waiting for great wisdom to resolve the confusion in their hearts.
Their lives had meaning, which was to share great wisdom with these people, resolve the confusion in their hearts, and create even more great wisdom!
People follow wisdom, and wisdom grows because of people!
Dan La completely understood, and she also spoke: “Follow great wisdom, save the world, and cross the sea of suffering!”
The sea of suffering is difficult to navigate, they were the ferrymen!
At the Bright Sacred Cult’s church, Shi Feizhe had no idea that 《Supreme Wisdom Sutra》 had actually led two women to comprehend great wisdom.
At this moment, he was mercilessly slaughtering.
The fog formed by sword Qi enveloped an area of one mu, this was the maximum range of Shi Feizhe’s sword Qi transformation into fog.
The followers of the Bright Sacred Cult only saw the fog sweep past, then felt a chill on their necks, and then they knew nothing more.
If he encountered a tough opponent, the fog would transform into a massive sword Qi, killing them with overwhelming force!
Even Zhang Yi, at the Zhoutian realm, was instantly killed by this sword Qi combo, let alone these people from the Bright Sacred Cult?
Follow great wisdom!
