Chapter 1142 - 227: Never Walked the Heaven-defying Dao

Chapter 1142: Chapter 227: Never Walked the Heaven-defying Dao

’A single Charm Fruit can exchange for ten thousand years of power!’ Mu Qingge took a deep breath, such a great fortune, such a huge benefit, had unexpectedly landed on her.

"Mengmeng, how long do you think I need to refine this Charm Fruit?" Mu Qingge asked.

Mengmeng appeared in front of her, tilted her head, pursing her lips in thought. "Hmm... ten thousand years of power, at the very least, it would take a hundred years to fully refine it."

A hundred years of cultivation can exchange for the effects of ten thousand years, this deal is undoubtedly worthwhile.

However—

Mu Qingge slightly furrowed her brows and said to Mengmeng, "Accelerate the time in the space by a hundredfold."

Mengmeng looked at Mu Qingge in shock, "Master, you want the outside world to have passed one year while inside the space a hundred years will pass!"

Mu Qingge nodded. "I still have many things to do, if it’s delayed by a hundred years, it really can’t be afforded. I can only use this method."

"I have no issues." Mengmeng mumbled.

Mu Qingge raised her eyes to look at her.

Mengmeng said, "It’s just that the gap of a hundredfold is too large, I’m afraid when you leave the space, you won’t be able to withstand the backlash caused by this difference."

Backlash hmm?

Mu Qingge’s eyes darkened, and she fell silent for a moment.

After a while, she spoke to Mengmeng, "First, do as I said, during this period, pay attention to observing the situation of me refining the Charm Fruit. When it’s close to completion, slowly adjust the flow of time back."

"Alright, I understand." Mengmeng disappeared from the spot after speaking.

After giving these instructions, Mu Qingge then began to gather her mind and started refining. The change in the flow of time would not be noticeable to anyone in the space.

Mu Qingge followed what Yin Jue said, using divine power to refine the Charm Fruit.

Threads of dark green gas were extracted from the Charm Fruit and flowed into Mu Qingge’s nose.

As the dark green gas entered her body, Mu Qingge felt a tremor throughout her body. As if suddenly, the divine power within her had grown by a year’s accumulation.

She had previously experienced Phoenix Fire, her cultivation reached the First Layer of Saint Realm, and later she refined True Dragon Blood. Although her realm didn’t change, her divine power had accumulated to the peak of First Layer of Saint Realm. At this moment, the sudden infusion of a strand of formidable power equaled a year of painstaking cultivation, unexpectedly causing a small crack to appear in her realm barrier!

’Good! Good!’ Mu Qingge rejoiced in her heart.

But, she also reminded herself, ’Divine power can be continuously accumulated, but breakthrough relies on one’s understanding of the Dao.’

Dao, what is Dao?

My Dao is the Heaven-defying Dao!

My lifelong pursuit is merely to not yield to man, not yield to earth, not yield to heaven!

But, how to achieve non-yielding?

Struggle huh?

Struggling against fate? Freeing oneself from the control of fate? Freeing oneself from the shackles of fate?

Then, what is fate?

Is it that the moment a person is born, they have fate and are dominated by fate? What is my fate then? As someone who has returned to life, does my fate truly belong to this Otherworld Continent?

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To seek Dao, the first step is to inquire Dao!

Dao is why, it’s the doubt in the heart, it’s the thing that is unclear yet exists.

In the past, Mu Qingge questioned the Dao of heaven and earth, the Dao of life and death. But now, she questioned the Dao of fate.

’I want to not yield to fate, I want to control my own fate, yet in the end, I can’t explain what fate truly is? So, have I reached this step today, freed from the entanglement of fate, or am I still deeply trapped within fate?’ Mu Qingge asked herself in her heart.

She continually absorbed the power of the Charm Fruit, the power that entered her body and transformed into divine power and cultivation power, continuously compressed the huge vat within her that housed divine power.

Divine power, increasing year by year, Mu Qingge’s vat could no longer bear it, she needed a bigger vat.

But how to replace it depends on when she can comprehend!

’Ultimately, what is fate? Is it a process that exists at birth and no matter how far one deviates from the track, will eventually return to the origin? Heaven and earth are unfair, treating all things as straw dogs, is this saying really correct? Heaven and earth, are they truly unfair? If unfair, where is the selfishness of heaven and earth?’ Mu Qingge tightly closed her eyes, furrowing her brows, seemingly trapped in a whirlpool where it’s difficult to find answers.

Dao is ruthless, heaven and earth are ruthless. If it’s ruthless, it should be impartial and selfless.

If heaven and earth are fair, then how could every life in this world walk a different trajectory? Some people are wealthy for life, some people have a troubled fate, some are poor all their lives, some meet unexpected disasters!

Are these all predestined?

Everything that is inevitable and unavoidable, is that fate?

’No! It’s not right!’

Mu Qingge denied her own reasoning in her heart, her mind flashed back to the three years spent questioning Dao in the Ruishui River in the Middle Ancient Realm. Three years, she observed the vicissitudes of life, sensed hundreds, thousands of lives.

At that time, she merely experienced them once, initially sensing the location of Dao.

Now, as she recalls and reflects again, she experiences different feelings. Those people, those lives, only have the possibilities she saw?

No, they do not!

If, at the time, choices were different, fate would be different, life would change!

And choice comes from one’s own heart, nature, not driven by heaven and earth!

Heaven and earth are fair, they merely provide everyone with opportunities to choose, among these choices lie challenges of greed, anger, ignorance, different choices result in different fates.

Therefore, fate is never predetermined by heaven, but in one’s own control.

The lines on the palm of one’s hand are the heaven and earth Dao, containing all truths, those intricate lines, constantly crisscrossing fine lines, are simply different results caused by different choices.

All of this, is chosen by oneself.

Poverty is not blamed on heaven!

Wickedness is not blamed on earth!

Heaven and earth nurture us, this is the greatest mercy. Good or evil, wealth or poverty, just depend on one’s input and choices.

Crack!

Inside Mu Qingge, it seemed as if something shattered.

The divine power long waiting in the vat surged forward.

Break!

Break!

Break!

Spring turns warm, winter freezes, summer heats, autumn cools, a year passes quickly. Mu Qingge had not appeared before Hou, he was somewhat anxious, yet extremely trusting of Mu Qingge.

Accompanied by the awakened Yin Le, he’d waited another year.

Two years passed, while tasting fresh fruit personally picked by Yin Le, Hou suddenly shuddered, dropped the unfinished fruit in his hand, and ran towards the back.

Yin Le paused a moment, then hurriedly chased after him.

When Hou rushed to the house prepared for them by the Mountain Charm, he saw a familiar back facing him, wearing red clothes, standing with a straight waist and an unyielding momentum.

"Qingge!" Hou happily shouted.

However, Mu Qingge stood in place and slowly spoke, "I was wrong, I’ve never walked the Heaven-defying Dao!"