Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 274 respectively

"Are you really prepared to become the Blood Witch King?" Han Kexin's words kept echoing in his mind.

Who can steadfastly follow their own path in life without ever wavering? Especially when this path was never one's own choice in the first place.

When did you decide to embark on this path?

It was after a big fight with Xia Ruoyi, when he saw the disappointment in her eyes, that he clenched his fists and vowed to prove himself to her no matter what.

It was by the underground river in the Land of Witches that he watched Xiaoying shed tears of grievance and sadness after doing everything she could to protect him, and he made up his mind that he would never let the little girl get hurt again.

It was after seeing the stubborn boy who, even when facing death, still chose to protect himself without hesitation that a sense of responsibility to protect everyone suddenly arose in my heart.

It was only after learning that the Blood Witch Clan was stationed in Crescent City to prevent the demon race from wreaking havoc on the human world again that a sense of mission arose spontaneously.

After experiencing so much, he suddenly realized that he had become increasingly unfamiliar with himself. He realized that he had unknowingly gone very far down this path and that he had long since lost control of his own destiny.

But a long, long time ago, he was just an ordinary college student who was naive and worried about his future employment.

He recalled talking to Guo Shiyi about his dreams. He seemed to have never figured out what kind of person he wanted to become, nor had he seriously planned his life. But there was an invisible force pushing him in a certain direction, and he didn't even have time to say goodbye to his former self.

Perhaps, as Master Huiseng said, the script of fate has already been written, but the people involved are trapped in it without realizing it. Only when they look back do they realize that all the coincidences and accidents they thought they had were just footnotes in the process of this script being played out.

When the gears of fate begin to turn, no matter what choices you make, you will eventually walk the path destined for you.

It's not scary to realize that you are already in the midst of fate; what's scary is when you stand in the midst of fate and look to the future, only to find it shrouded in mist. How should you face such an uncertain destiny?

Qin Xiaochuan looked up at the sky, but could not find the answer; his heart was filled with confusion.

What does becoming a Blood Witch King really mean? Does it mean having greater strength or greater power? No, it means taking on greater responsibilities and fulfilling greater missions. At the same time, it also means losing more freedom of choice and no longer being able to act arbitrarily.

Perhaps the process of growing up is destined to be accompanied by loss—loss of former innocence, loss of simple joy, loss of a future with infinite possibilities, and even loss of the girl he loves. "If you want to wear the crown, you must first bear its weight"—that's probably the idea. But has he really made up his mind to this?

He recalled the helplessness of Supreme Treasure choosing the golden headband in A Chinese Odyssey. It turns out that this kind of helplessness exists in everyone's life and is a subject that everyone must seriously face.

But am I really ready?

What Qin Xiaochuan didn't know was that while he was feeling immense pain, Guo Shiyi was also going through a terrible ordeal.

As she said goodbye to Qin Xiaochuan and walked with her parents into the SUV, she didn't even dare to look back, because she was afraid that her tears would flow uncontrollably.

She was an extremely intelligent girl, and although Qin Xiaochuan didn't say anything, she could vaguely guess from his behavior that something must have happened.

So as soon as she got in the car, she coldly asked Guo Tianming, "Did you say something to Xiao Chuan?"

Sitting in the driver's seat, Guo Tianming looked at his daughter's angry face in the rearview mirror and sighed inwardly. He knew that some things were bound to happen sooner or later, and he was already prepared to face his daughter.

As he started the car, he said in a deep voice, "I told him to stay away from you from now on. The two of you are not a good match."

"How do you know it's not a good match? You don't even know him," Guo Shiyi said angrily. "And you don't know me either."

Guo Tianming was stunned. He couldn't utter a single word of the speech he had prepared, and could only drive in silence.

Jiang Qingxue sat next to Guo Shiyi, took her hand, and said gently, "Shiyi, you can't talk to your father like that. Actually, your father has always cared about you a lot." Seeing Guo Shiyi turn her head to look out the car window, she continued, "Do you know? Your father has an ability; he can communicate with birds. When you were little, because of your poor health, you had to be sent to Wudang Mountain to recuperate. Although he wasn't physically present, he actually kept different birds with you so you wouldn't be lonely. He has always been silently protecting you."

Hearing Jiang Qingxue's words, Guo Shiyi suddenly remembered that when she was little, birds would often appear around her and wouldn't leave no matter how hard she tried to shoo them away. When she was lonely, she would chat with them, which made her senior brothers quite envious. But she never expected it was because of her father. Thinking of this, her eyes filled with tears, but she still tilted her head and sulked.

"Your father is only doing this for your own good. Do you know that Han Kexin is a blood witch? You and Xiaochuan have no future together," Jiang Qingxue could only try to persuade him again.

Guo Shiyi couldn't help but argue, "So what if Sister Kexin is a blood witch? She's still good to me. Besides, what does Sister Kexin have to do with Xiaochuan if she's a blood witch?" As she said this, her voice was already trembling with tears.

"What if he becomes a blood witch one day? Do you want to become a blood witch too?" Jiang Qingxue asked slowly. "If that happens, have you thought about how your master and the others will view you?"

Guo Shiyi was speechless for a moment, wanting to say something but unable to, because she hadn't seriously considered the question; it was a difficult choice.

Her body, which had been tense with anger, instantly went limp, and tears finally streamed down her face.

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Qin Xiaochuan ultimately chose to return to Han Kexin's villa with her, along with Kaiming.

The reason this creature followed Qin Xiaochuan was that, in its words, the gate to Kunlun Ruins had been opened, and it no longer needed to guard that place. Therefore, its next task was to find a way back to the Queen Mother of the West, but this was obviously impossible on its own. So it chose to follow Qin Xiaochuan to see if it could find some clues elsewhere.

Of course, Qin Xiaochuan wouldn't dare flaunt Kaiming's terrifying appearance in public. After some intense bargaining, Kaiming accepted Qin Xiaochuan's agreement: it would remain in the form of a child and would never reveal its true form without the consent of Qin Xiaochuan or Han Kexin.

Han Kexin still had some complaints about the result, because she felt that her villa was turning into a shelter. However, she was just complaining and did not mean to shut out Kaiming.

Upon returning to the villa, Han Kexin and Zhou Bin immediately went to catch up on sleep, while Qin Xiaochuan devoted himself entirely to cultivation.

He really had a lot to digest, and the most important thing was to truly experience the wonders of the mind seal.

Since Guo Tianming passed on his heart imprint to him, he hadn't paid attention to it because of his relationship with Guo Shiyi. Now he finally has time to study it properly.

He quickly found that familiar feeling; he felt as if he were traveling in a boundless universe, and all the spiritual energy around him was at his disposal.

This feeling is fundamentally different from the spiritual space. The spiritual space is like a personification of things in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world, everything is visible and tangible. But the heart imprint only gives him a feeling, something between existence and non-existence, which cannot be described in words at all.

Besides, the biggest difference between the two is that the spiritual world exists in the brain, while the heart imprint is more like it exists in the heart. Using the heart and using the brain are completely two different concepts.

In order to better cultivate himself, he had previously read some Buddhist scriptures and Taoist classics. He clearly remembered that there was a sentence in the Qingjing Jing (Classic of Purity and Tranquility).

"Since the three are absent, only emptiness is seen. Observing emptiness, one finds emptiness itself to be empty. Since emptiness has nothing to be emptied, and what is emptied is nothing, even nothingness is nothing."

He thought that was probably the feeling. If he had to describe it in words, he could call it a conduit, a conduit connecting to the universe.

After experiencing this feeling for a while, Qin Xiaochuan felt spiritual energy rapidly gathering in his body. He suddenly had a premonition that the bottleneck of level 8 spiritual energy no longer existed for him.

For ordinary people to break through to level 8 of spiritual power, increasing the concentration of spiritual power is only the foundation. The key is to make progress in the enlightenment of the Dao. Such enlightenment is rare and hard to come by, so many people are stuck at the peak of level 7 for their entire lives and cannot break through.

Just like Han Kexin before, she was able to successfully break through to level 8 of spiritual power only with the help of Qin Xiaochuan's mental pressure. You should know that she was already level 7 of spiritual power twenty years ago.

All he needs to do now is increase his spiritual energy concentration step by step. Once the spiritual energy concentration reaches the required level, he will naturally become a level 8 spiritual energy user.

Having acquired the Heart Seal, the speed at which his spiritual power increased underwent a qualitative change. Previously, he could only increase his spiritual power when he was in a meditative state, but now he can enter a state of oneness with heaven and man anytime, anywhere, which means that he is constantly increasing his spiritual power.

If things continue like this, what would take others several years to cultivate, he might only need one or two months.

This is truly terrifying. He now finally understands what Guo Tianming meant when he said that throughout history, there have been very few people who have reached the state of no cultivation.

Because people who reach this level are too abnormal, practically defying the heavens, so naturally the heavens won't allow too many of them to exist.

Qin Xiaochuan took a deep breath to calm his restless heart.

Qin Xiaochuan felt that the gift Guo Tianming gave him was too big. Using such a big gift to repay his favor was obviously to completely settle the grudge between the two of them, which also meant that he was determined enough to prevent Guo Shiyi from being with him.

Thinking of this, Qin Xiaochuan couldn't help but feel a little sad again.

What Qin Xiaochuan didn't know was that the transmission of the Heart Seal wasn't something that could be passed on to just anyone. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so few people who possessed the Heart Seal throughout history. In the entire history of the Heart Seal transmission, sometimes it would take decades or even hundreds of years for someone to be able to receive the Heart Seal.

This is why some accomplished immortals sometimes need to live in seclusion in the deep mountains for hundreds of years to pass on their spiritual transmission. Some even lose their lineage because they cannot find a destined person to pass on their knowledge.

When the Patriarch Bodhi passed on the secrets of the Great Dao to Sun Wukong in the middle of the night in Journey to the West, he said, "Without encountering a sage to impart the wonderful secrets, empty words will only leave one's mouth weary and tongue dry." This is actually what he was referring to.

In today's world, even Zhao Changyu, the leader of the Wudang Sect, has not obtained the Heart Seal, let alone others.