Chapter 222: You Are Not Wrong
Luoyang, Great Wisdom Temple.
Amidst the holy and sacred light, Dan La’s entire body was covered in eye-like symbols, with a vast amount of spiritual energy huddled in the corner of the temple.
Because there was another person in the temple.
Shi Feizhe.
Yesterday, he received a message from the crow that Guan Shan had infiltrated the Demon Sect, disrupting their operations multiple times, finally forcing all their forces to gather with the goal of taking Luoyang.
The time for this was today, August 19th.
So Shi Feizhe arrived in Luoyang early to deal with the Great Wisdom matter first. If everything went smoothly, he might even be able to catch the new furnace at the steel mill producing steel.
“Who are you?” Great Wisdom asked, looking at Shi Feizhe, who had appeared silently.
“You don’t recognize me anymore?” Shi Feizhe did not hide his face. Although he had changed from a few years ago, the change was not significant.
“It’s you…” Mi Er’s voice suddenly appeared in the temple.
Shi Feizhe looked at the Great Wisdom before him. In his eyes, Great Wisdom was composed of multiple fragmented spiritual bodies, one of which was Mi Er.
It was the same woman who, in the crowded courtyard years ago, had explained the origin of the woman with the wooden leg to Shi Feizhe and had said, “If you remember the pain, it will always hurt! So, just forget it!”
“Of course I remember you! You gave us the scripture!” Mi Er’s voice said.
Back then, she had personally received the 《Supreme Wisdom Sutra》 from Shi Feizhe.
“I didn’t expect you to become like this!” Shi Feizhe looked around the interior of the temple at the mutated Φ symbols that resembled eyes.
Shi Feizhe sighed and said, “I only hoped that you would become better, not like this.”
He could see that Mi Er, Dan La, and the others within Great Wisdom were all fragmented spiritual bodies.
Fragmented spiritual bodies, in other words, they were in a state between life and death, relying on the vast spiritual thoughts of their believers to barely survive.
This fragmented state was not their own choice, but rather formed by chance.
They had both independent consciousnesses and could form a new consciousness ━ Great Wisdom.
“No! We should thank you!” Dan La’s spiritual body also appeared, and Mi Er and Dan La’s voices said, “Without your scripture, we would have died long ago! We wouldn’t have met so many fellow sufferers, and there wouldn’t be Great Wisdom.”
“Pain can only be overcome, not forgotten, because pain is not the result of mistakes, nor is it the cause of mistakes,” Shi Feizhe said, looking at Great Wisdom.
“You are right,” Mi Er said. “Forgetting pain is the act of the weak, while the strong inflict pain on others!”
“When we started preaching, we also had the idea of understanding and overcoming pain. But the Jianghu wouldn’t tolerate us. The gangs at our doorstep, the Zhoutian martial artists in the city, and the True Realm City Lord of Luoyang, each one was incredibly powerful.”
“Adding to that the people from the Bright Sacred Cult, we were utterly defeated. My body was burned to ashes, and Dan La was severely injured.”
“But… precisely because of this, we became Great Wisdom. In that disastrous defeat, all our consciousnesses merged into one, becoming Great Wisdom!” At first, it was Mi Er’s voice, then Dan La’s voice joined in, and finally it became a mixed voice.
It was the sound of several fragmented spiritual bodies speaking together.
They were all people who once believed they could overcome pain, but ended up like this.
“So we changed our thinking and became strong individuals who inflict pain on others, while the weak only need to forget their pain,” Great Wisdom continued. “Do you think this is right?”
“…” Shi Feizhe looked at Great Wisdom, looked at the spiritual bodies in the hall, and said nothing.
The Jianghu, would not tolerate naive people, would not tolerate those without power.
“You are not wrong,” Shi Feizhe said. “It’s the Jianghu that’s wrong.”
“Would you like to join Great Wisdom, to make the Jianghu free from pain? To spread the light of Great Wisdom throughout the Jianghu?” Mi Er’s voice asked.
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“But this approach is wrong,” Shi Feizhe said seriously. “Great Wisdom cannot reduce pain in the Jianghu, it only numbs people to pain.”
“No matter what kind of person, they all experience pain, they are the same,” Great Wisdom said.
“No,” Shi Feizhe sneered. “True Realm City Lords are all happy, their happiness is beyond your imagination.”
“…” Mi Er’s voice said, “But there are too few True Realm martial artists in the Jianghu. Most people live their lives numb and in pain.”
“Pain is a useful feeling. It helps people survive, it helps them understand their current situation,” Shi Feizhe said. “When you feel pain, you should think about why the pain arises, how to change the cause of the pain, reverse this pain, not forget it.”
“If the mountains bring pain, then walk out of the mountains, shatter the mountains!”
“If the enemy brings pain, then hang the enemy from a tree!”
“If there is pain in the heart, but no change is made, then isn’t the pain in vain?”
“If the world brings pain, then to hell with the world. If the Jianghu brings pain, then change the damn Jianghu!”
“That’s the way to do it!” Shi Feizhe said.
If the Jianghu brings pain, then change the damn Jianghu!
Great Wisdom seemed startled by Shi Feizhe’s idea, to change the entire Jianghu with one person’s power.
Throughout the history of the Jianghu, how many people could do that?
The person before them not only possessed greater power, but his thoughts were even more audacious than all of them combined.
“But, wouldn’t that be very difficult?” Great Wisdom’s mixed voice said.
“Difficult! Is not a reason to not do it!” Shi Feizhe said. “You know the story of Yu Gong moving the mountains, right?”
Great Wisdom did not speak, of course he knew the story of Yu Gong moving the mountains.
“Changing this world is a long process. In my lifetime, I may achieve it, or I may not. Even if I do achieve it, after I die, it may regress again,” Shi Feizhe said.
“But I still have to do it! Because I believe that this goal is not just mine, but the goal of every bullied person in the Jianghu.”
“Wherever there is bullying, there are people fighting for this goal!”
“If one generation can’t do it, then two generations, if two generations can’t do it, then ten generations!”
“As long as we don’t give up on this goal, one day, we will definitely achieve it!”
His resolute words were like thunder, stunning Great Wisdom into silence.
Compared to such a goal, compared to such willpower, their combined Great Wisdom seemed somewhat ridiculous.
“Forgetting pain is the act of the weak, remembering pain allows us to move forward, did I do wrong?” Great Wisdom’s voice was filled with hesitation.
It was clear that one should persist in the belief of overcoming pain in order to have a chance of completely conquering pain, completely defeating pain, instead of escaping from it.
Once again, they felt they had done wrong.
“No, you are not wrong,” Shi Feizhe shook his head and said. “You haven’t had my experiences. You did what you did, and it wasn’t wrong, but I will stop you!”
You are not wrong, it’s the Jianghu that’s wrong.
