Chapter 93
Chapter 93 Finding His Original Heart
Xiao Hong drove the car while Hao Ning and Zhou Yuan sat on the back seat. Hao Ning acted like a poor loser. He touched the car seat excitedly and asked tentatively, “So, Mr. Zhang, your car was not created using mana, was it?”
“What?” Zhang Chihang was sitting in the front passenger seat, fiddling with his medicine. Hearing Hao Ning’s question, he asked without turning his head, “Why do I need to use mana to create a car?”
“Err …” Hao Ning was stunned by the question. He looked at Zhou Yuan, while Zhou Yuan also glared at him but did not say a word.
“How do you feel to be a new god?” Zhang Chihang asked Zhou Yuan straightly without caring about what Hao Ning and Zhou Yuan were thinking.
“Bewildered, but clear.” Zhou Yuan replied honestly.
“It’s normal.” Zhang Chihang slightly muttered to himself, “You haven’t learned how to restrain and manipulate your immortal strength. The enlightenment I just gave you is to help you have initial learning on how to control your talent.”
“Enlightenment?” Hao Ning thought back to what Zhang Chihang did at the intersection. He felt that Zhang Chihang was handling the issue of a cheating woman and an express deliverer, but now it seemed like he had other intentions.
“Yeah, even though I know that the talent of WeChat moment is fake, kindness and beauty,” Zhou Yuan nodded and recalled,” But I cannot differentiate the truth from fakes or the fake in fakes. I always show people kindness and beauty, but I cannot understand the essential part in the end.”
“What’s a WeChat moment?” Zhang Chihang frowned and asked.
“Err …” Xiao Hong was driving, and after thinking about it, he said to Hao Ning, “Hao Ning, please show it to Zhang.”
Hao Ning immediately took out his phone, but Zhang Chihang held onto him and proudly took out his own. Hao Ning noticed that it was the latest version of iPhone X. He turned it on, and the phone was empty. Then he opened WeChat and showed WeChat moment to Zhang Chihang. The latter flipped through it and frowned, “What is this for?”
Since Zhang Chihang did not understand, Hao Ning explained to him thoroughly from the beginning to end until Zhang Chihang could not stop laughing. Even while driving, Xiao Hong also laughed, “So you became the god of WeChat moment?”
Other than Hao Ning, everyone else in the car was gods, so Zhou Yuan had nothing to be proud of. He merely nodded with a reddened face.
“This Master Yun Zhong,” Zhang Chihang laughed and shook his head, “I intended to see how you made a choice, but I did not expect that it would end like this after his disturbance.”
“You didn’t expect it?” Hao Ning was even more baffled. That day when he was in the Legends of Conferred Gods, he had truly heard Zhang Chihang’s voice and Xiao Hong was fighting beside him. “I heard your voice in the book that day, and Xiao Hong —”
“It was me that day, and it was not me as well.” Zhang Chihang said mysteriously, “It was Xiao Hong, and it was not Xiao Hong either.”
“What do you mean?” Hao Ning did not understand.
“No matter how powerful the divine abilities of the gods are, they can’t casually cross over the various scriptures,” Zhang Chihang said as he looked at the crowd of people outside the car, and patiently explained, “Because every scripture includes the author’s mental state and his followers, or in other words, the readers’ faith.”
“Then how did you get into it?” Hao Ning thought about that battle. The one beside him was Xiao Hong.
“With you as the medium,” Zhang Chihang laughed. “All gods are born from the faith of people, and the direct combination of their faith and belief in books will cause unpredictable situations. However, using a mortal as the medium, the combination can be avoided. However, since ancient times, no mortals were entering a book, so the seed we put between your eyebrows also went in. ”
“Between my eyebrows?” Hao Ning remembered. Xiao Hong seemed to have mentioned that before, but he did not pay attention to it at the time.
“Hao Ning, you have a Mountain Lojia between your eyebrows.” Xiao Hong could not help but laugh and say, “At that time, a bit of our true spirit was inside.”
“Damn!” Hao Ning immediately rubbed his forehead.
“It’s gone,” Zhang Chihang laughed and said. “So the things that happened in the book was done by our bit of pure spirit, but it’s possible that something unexpected happened while you were walking out of the book. We don’t know what happened inside. Everything has its rule. It’s like a dream, a bubble, a shadow, a dew, or lightning….
“So, you guys don’t know about the Great Sage Sun Wukong’s demise?” Hao Ning subconsciously blurted out.
“What!” Xiao Hong suddenly stepped on the brakes, and Zhang Chihang’s face changed slightly. The two people’s reactions gave Hao Ning a shock as if he had said something wrong.
“Sun Wukong demised?” Zhou Yuan was startled, and immediately asked Hao Ning, “How come I didn’t know about this? You should have told me.”
“Nonsense, you don’t know that you’re the heart ape under the boat either.” Hao Ning muttered in his heart. Originally, Hao Ning wanted to find an opportunity to tell Zhou Yuan about his relationship with Sun Wukong, but when he witnessed the transformation of Zhou Yuan from a person without his soul to a moment god, he did not know what would happen if Zhou Yuan found out about his so-called exact situation. Since the Great Sage did not ask him to tell Zhou Yuan, he preferred not to cause more troubles. However, Hao Ning did not expect that Zhang Chihang and Xiao Hong would be surprised like that. Still, did Zhang Chihang know that Zhou Yuan was the Heart Ape under the boat? Hao Ning thought about it and decided to find another chance to ask Zhang Chihang.
Zhang Chihang calculated with his fingers, then patted Xiao Hong’s shoulder, “All causes and effects have their determinations. Let’s go.”
After saying that, Zhang Chihang lowered his head and muttered to himself, as if to say, “But it’s so different this time …”
“This time?” Hao Ning asked curiously, “What this time?”
“What this time?” Zhang Chihang’s expression was rather unnatural. He asked back, “Did I say anything?”
Seeing their reactions, Hao Ning did not say anything else. There were too many strange things happening today. Qili fainted due to some unknown sound, and he somehow learned the “Toad Technique” and caused a ruckus in his “dream” at a restaurant, then finally was subdued by Hao Ning using Yi Yang Finger. In the hospital, there were a few “physical bodies” of animal souls that had turned into a vegetable because of Li Longfei. Qili’s right-hand phenomenon had some similarities with those people. Moreover, Zhang Chihang and Xiao Hong did not know that Great Sage Qi Tian had died, and this Zhou Yuan in front of them, how did he become “enlightened”?
Hao Ning faintly felt that there was some connection between the past events, but he was unable to pinpoint the specific connection.
“Fellow Taoist Zhou,” Zhang Chihang did not continue with the previous topic just now but directly talked with Zhou Yuan.
“About that, Mr. Zhang,” Zhou Yuan scratched his head, “I’m not some you Taoist friend. Please call me Zhou Yuan …”
“OK, Zhou Yuan,” Zhang Chihang did not hesitate. “We have different origins, so I cannot teach you much. As for the rest of your cultivation, you have to figure it out yourself.”
“Different origins?” Hao Ning asked curiously. He was confused that they were all gods, so what the difference was?
“Yes,” Zhang Chihang nodded his head. “Traditional Formless Fragrance Flames attach to fixed idols that can restrain the Formless Fragrance Flames. However, for the new god that you are conferred to be, the Formless Fragrance Flames is attaching to an incorporeal idol, which makes it difficult for you to control your talents, and sometimes it might even backfire on you when you use them. The most troublesome thing is that your talents are paradoxical.”
“Paradoxical?” Hao Ning thought about Zhou Yuan’s performance these past two days. He would occasionally shine from head to toe. Furthermore, he did not doubt the woman’s obvious cheating behaviors at all and was about to give her money right away.
“Fake, kindness and beauty.” Zhang Chihang looked outside the car, “If you pay too much attention to kindness and evil, beauty and ugliness, how could you differentiate authenticity from fake? If you pay too much attention to dividing authenticity and fake, how could you deal with kindness and evil? ” As he said, he looked at Zhou Yuan in the rearview mirror, “When you face that cheating woman, did you care more about good and evil in her, or whether the issue was true and fake?”
“Err …” Zhou Yuan thought about it carefully, and said hesitantly, “I seemed to forget about whether it was true or fake.”
“Exactly,” Zhang Chihang nodded. “If you only care about the good and evil, regardless of the truth or fake, where do the good and evil come from? If you only care about the truth and fake, not differentiating the good and evil, where does the good and evil come from? If you only care about the beauty and ugliness, not thinking about the good or evil, then both the beauty and ugliness are fake. ”
“Damn…again,” Hao Ning was most afraid of this Bodhisattva’s parallel questions, so he could not help but blame him in his heart.
“Of course, gods that were born from traditional idols have a way to fix it.” Zhang Chihang continued, while Xiao Hong was listening carefully.” All the past cultivation methods were created based on a default agreement that Formless Fragrance Flames moved around idols, and then the idols became gods, but Zhou Yuan’s situation is the exact opposite. No matter what happens in the future, you must comprehend it on your own, and only when you find your original heart can you truly become a god.”
“Find his original heart ….” Hao Ning thought about it. It seemed that Sun Wukong said the same thing before.