Long Chen shook his head. He had always thought he was being targeted by the Heavenly Dao and had always wanted to kill him, but as for why, Long Chen truly didn't know.
"When Heaven entrusts a great responsibility to such a person, it first exhausts their will, exhausts their muscles and bones, starves their body, leaves them deprived, and acts with disrupted actions. This is to stir the mind and endure the nature, and to increase what they cannot do."
None of the truly strong have a life as they wish. Only when rejected by heaven and deceived by humanity can they reveal the strength of grass in the wind and the true gold of the flames.
From the very first moment I saw you, I could feel the cruelty deep within you. Although your other eye was sealed, I could sense a terrifying dark power within it.
If you are allowed to grow, you will possess the power to destroy the entire world. By rights, you should be an anomaly of heaven and earth, not meant to exist between heaven and earth, and would be destroyed by divine punishment.
But you have survived until now, which proves you have great goodness in your heart. Heaven will not destroy those who do great good.
But if you harbor great evil in your heart and the Heavenly Way seeks to destroy it, you are a mixture of contradictions, so the Heavenly Way also becomes contradictory. Whether you destroy or not perish, it lies between your good and evil. Luo Zichuan looked at Long Chen and said.
"You mean that the heavenly way does not destroy me because I have good thoughts in my heart; it dislikes me because I have evil thoughts?"
But everyone in the world has good and evil in their hearts, so why do they target me? Long Chen asked in confusion.
Luo Zichuan nodded and said, "That's the key question, but you shouldn't ask me—you should ask yourself." "
Ask myself?" Long Chen was taken aback.
Long Chen's heart raced wildly. Could it be the identity of the Nine Star successor?
Luo Zichuan stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance, murmuring, "The current Heavenly Dao is no longer what it once was. A mysterious existence has used supreme power to influence the fairness of the Heavenly Dao."
But there is one thing you must understand: whether it's the way of heaven or the way of humanity, both have distinctions of good and evil.
If someone harms you, there will also be someone who helps you. You need to distinguish between enemies and friends, and don't be hostile to everyone just because of enemies. "
Long Chen was shocked, as if Luo Zichuan had noticed something and deliberately reminded him. Could it be that he was targeted by the Heavenly Dao because of his identity as a Nine-Star successor?
However, while Long Chen was targeted by the Heavenly Dao, he also received some of its favor. He was not an outcast of the Heavenly Dao; it was just that he had always excluded the power of the Heavenly Dao since childhood. It wasn't until he met Luo Zichuan that he changed his mind.
However, Luo Zichuan spoke very subtly without explicitly stating it, so Long Chen wasn't sure if his guess was correct.
"Drawing on the power of the Heavenly Dao is a hundred times harder than others. Today is just the beginning; from now on, you'll need to slowly comprehend and understand it yourself." Luo Zichuan said.
"Understood, kid." Long Chen hurriedly said.
Today, Luo Zichuan's words were like opening a huge door for him, showing him a whole new world. Long Chen had gained a lot.
"Your own strength is too strong. Compared to the knife in your hand, you rely more on your own strength.
This is the farthest place you are from me right now. Heaven has its principles, things have their nature. The blade is not an extension of your body, but the bond that unites heaven and earth.
I can't teach you this kind of mindset. If you understand, you understand; if you don't, you don't.
If we explain it with a knife, then after the cut, only one of us will survive. That's not teaching, but truly fighting desperately. So these things will depend on your own understanding in the future.
But don't worry—you haven't found a knife that suits you yet. Maybe one day, even if you don't look for it, it will find you. Luo Zichuan said.
Long Chen immediately thought of Dragonbone Evil Moon. Dragonbone Evil Moon had once been his most trusted companion. If he had it, Long Chen might have comprehended more blade techniques.
Compared to the blade, Long Chen currently only favored the first form of the Heaven-Opening technique, but this move was completely unused in front of Luo Zichuan.
Luo Zichuan's attacks were like a raging storm; any ultimate move in front of him was a joke, giving him no chance to strike. Forcing it was no different from suicide.
But after this battle, Long Chen saw a new direction. His First Form of Heaven-Opening could be improved entirely by integrating the power of the Heavenly Dao, greatly shortening the guiding time—this was what Long Chen was most looking forward to.
Watching Luo Zichuan's back, Long Chen hesitated for a moment and spoke with difficulty, "Grandpa, I ...."
"Let's go, the food is ready." Luo Zichuan interrupted Long Chen and continued down the Sharpening Heavenly Staircase.
Long Chen had no choice but to follow down. Previously, he had been rolling down the slope, but now, as he descended the Sharpening Knife Ladder, he realized that going down the mountain was even harder than going up. He struggled to control his body to follow a specific rhythm while going down.
"The road of life is like crossing one mountain after another, with mountains beyond mountains, but most people only see what lies ahead.
When you reach a peak and gaze into the distance, you will see even higher mountains; to cross it, you need to descend.
But many people can only go uphill and can't accept going downhill, not realizing that the downhill road before them is actually preparing you to hit the next peak.
Countless people, when they are on a downward slope, become dejected, depressed, and depressed. By the time the next peak arrives, they are already exhausted in negativity and have no strength left to climb.
The lowest point in life is the greatest test for a person; only by stabilizing the Dao heart in the valley can one be fully prepared to challenge the next high mountain.
You did this very well. No matter what desperate situation I pushed into you, your Dao heart remained firm and your confidence unwavering. This was something I couldn't have achieved when I was your age. Luo Zichuan walked down, walking as he spoke.
Every word Luo Zichuan said seemed to carry deeper meaning, but Long Chen was only thinking about how to find out his mother's whereabouts, and didn't pay much attention to these words.
"Grandpa, my mother ...," Long Chen finally couldn't help but ask.
Suddenly, Luo Zichuan stopped in his tracks. Long Chen was startled and, almost reflexively, gripped his broadsword in his hand.
Luo Zichuan didn't turn around and said calmly, "Don't you understand what a downhill path is?"
Sometimes, the path you walk may seem farther from your goal for now, but that's actually the only right path.
Your identity must not be revealed to anyone, including your uncle. Do you understand? "
Got it."
Long Chen could only nod helplessly. Luo Zichuan's actions were too secretive, and many of his words were extremely subtle.
But this time, Long Chen understood. Luo Zichuan didn't want to talk about his mother. As for why, Luo Zichuan definitely had his reasons. By saying this, he was basically telling Long Chen not to bring it up again.
At the same time, the matter of Long Chen being his grandson was not allowed to be told to anyone, not even his two uncles. Long Chen vaguely sensed that there might be something unknown to him.