Chapter 1204: If One Wants to Soar to the Heavens, One Must First be a Proper Human!
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After he finished setting everything up, Gu Han turned and fixed his eyes on Jun Mo Xie. His face was complicated, and his eyes were conflicted. It was as though he was carrying some intense hope, and also deep plea.
It was this exact look in his eyes that caused even a stone hearted person like Jun Mo Xie to feel a tremor in his heart.
“This old man had lived for two entire lifetimes, a total of nearly 5,000 years so far.” Gu Han said with a bitter laugh. “In the last life, this old man’s cultivation has stopped at the very peak of the Saint Venerable realm, ultimately failing to pa.s.s through the Holy Infant that followed it. Left with death to face, I could only escape with my Holy Infant to be reborn again. I sought out a Xuan Qi cultivation family by the name of Gu Family, entered the womb of a pregnant woman and was born in the body of her infant. Today, I’ve reached the peak of the Third level of Saint Monarch realm!
“I owed my parents in the Gu Family a debt of grat.i.tude as heavy as a mountain, and so although the old Wushan Yun had already disappeared, this old man still chose to go by the name Gu Han! Gu Han only!” A look of reminiscence flashed across his aged face, and he sighed, seemingly having remembered the two loving parents he had…
Jun Mo Xie nodded slowly, creasing his brows. “This junior shall not keep my thoughts from Senior. There is a matter that I am unable to understand.”
“Please ask.” Gu Han said in a warm voice.
“When I met Senior Gu at the Heaven Saint Palace back then, Senior’s cultivation seemed to be much higher than now…” Jun Mo Xie asked. “But I wonder, how did Senior’s cultivation drop to such a level?”
Jun Mo Xie still remembered clearly back when he’d first looked into Gu Han’s eyes and had nearly been lost in the starry s.p.a.ce within his gaze. At that time, every move that Gu Han made seemed to be filled with a mystical and profound aura.
It was as if he’d already formed some kind of connections with the heaven’s dao.
That was an extremely profound cultivation that was capable of shaking the world!
Although the current Gu Han was still not someone that could be underestimated, he had clearly lost that transcendental aura from before. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the past Gu Han and one now were two completely different people.
“So you’ve managed to see through that as well.” Gu Han laughed dryly and lampooned. “We are in a cooperative relations.h.i.+p right now, and my situation is not exactly a secret either, so I shall tell you everything! Back then, I’d already reached the peak of the Saint Monarch realm. With just one more step, I would step into the realms of a Half-Sage! In other words, it’s the same realm that Zhan Kuang had reached! At that time, I did not put anything else in my sights, and the only thought I had was to breakthrough as quickly as possible. And so, I did not go out of my way to make things difficult when you visited and did not even say much when you nearly cleaned out almost all of the treasures of our Heaven Saint Palace. Because to me, if I could get past that threshold, nothing is an obstacle!”
“Jun Mo Xie, do you know what that kind of breakthrough is called?” Gu Han asked with a smile.
“What is it called?” Jun Mo Xie smiled back with interest.
“Returning to the natural state, form of emptiness; body of half-sage, limitless spirit. If one wants to ascend to the heavens, one must first be a proper human! That is a Sage!” Gu Han recited solemnly, his expression heavy and stern.
“If one wishes to ascend to the heavens, one must first be a proper human!” Jun Mo Xie mumbled, seemingly having some comprehension in his heart.
“Indeed, the most important point is this sentence!” Gu Han nodded seriously. “You have to make sure to remember it! It will definitely be useful for your cultivation advancements in the future. This is the greatest thing I’ve comprehended over my two lives! Whether one is good or bad; you need to remember when the most crucial time arrives. You are a human! To be a human, you should revert to the most origin nature… a simple and untainted human!”
“Well said! In this world, there are far too few people who can be called ‘proper humans’!” Jun Mo Xie nodded slowly and said. “Truthfully, no matter what we do, if we want to do it well, the most important prerequisite is to first be a proper human! If one could not even be a proper human, how will they talk about doing other things?”
“That’s right! That is exactly what it means!” A look of admiration appeared on Gu Han’s face. Seeing that Jun Mo Xie had been able to comprehend his words so quickly, he felt extremely glad.
“Humans are doing, and heaven is watching! Perhaps, the three Holy Lands might have indeed gone overboard these years, and I have been too overly concerned about my own moral integrity without thought of others, resulting in a problem with this matter. Just as I had thought that I’ve already prepared very thoroughly to breakthrough to the next level, Zhan Lun Hui, who is also Zhan Kuang, showed up at Mount Heaven Saint!” Gu Han clenched his teeth hatefully as he spoke to here.
In that moment, Jun Mo Xie came to a realization in his heart. The reason that Gu Han’s cultivation had regressed definitely had a huge connection to Zhan Lun Hui!
“The Nine Illusory Quicksand was stolen, and the lands shook as the Pillar of Heavens Mountains collapsed. This old man’s soul, had also received a heavy blow in that moment!” Gu Han’s eyes twitched as he continued. “In that moment, I was concentrated on forging ahead in my cultivation, but my heart wavered because of that incident, and I was unable to stop my mind from slipping. My cultivation went out of control, dropping rapidly, and I only managed to stop it by force at the peak of Saint Monarch Third level!”
“As the saying goes: when one rows against the current, if one did not progress, they will regress. To receive such a heavy blow in a crucial timing like that, it was already a great mercy, and a proof of your powerful mental fort.i.tude that you hadn’t completely lost your mind and become a raving madman from cultivation deviation!” Jun Mo Xie sighed and nodded, finally understanding where the problem was.
No wonder Gu Han felt so vastly different from the first time he saw him.
“Alright, now that we’re done with the idle talk, Jun Mo Xie, this old man wishes to talk with you about the important matters!” Gu Han expression turned serious, and he looked sternly at Jun Mo Xie’s face as he slowly said, “This old man has a few requests. I hope that Manor Lord Jun can promise me them!”
“Please speak!” Jun Mo Xie also grew serious. “As long as I can accomplish them, I will not turn them down!”
“The greatest wish of my life is to be able to step into the realms of a Sage! And then, I want to break through the confines of this world and roam through the world, travelling the entire universe!” Gu Han breathed heavily and said. “But now, all this hope, had already turned into ash, holding no more meaning! Right now, all I wish to do, is to completely eradicate those strange races freaks!”
“But with just the strength of the three Holy Lands, this is clearly an impossible task!” Gu Han looked fixedly at Jun Mo Xie. “Right now, I can only trouble you with this wish of mine! I know that I do not have the qualifications to say these words, but the countless intelligent beings on this continent, rest entirely in Manor Lord Jun’s hands now!”
“Senior is a little too pessimistic… it’s still not that bad right?!” Jun Mo Xie said lightly.
“No! Like you, I’ve also seen everything clearly already! The three Holy Lands are destined to be finished!” Gu Han shut his eyes sadly. “After this battle, the three Holy Lands will mostly likely not exist in this world anymore! Everything from here on… can only be left to you, Jun Mo Xie!”
Jun Mo Xie raised his brows with shock as he looked at Gu Han.
A peaceful smile hung on Gu Han’s face as he sighed. “Regardless of the final result of this battle, the glorious name of the three Holy Lands which has shone so brightly for thousands of years will forever be erased from this world! All of us have already readied ourselves to die for the sake of the people in this continent!”
As he said that, he chuckled. “That day, you once said that whoever dares to mention the words ‘people of the world’ again in front of you, shall die… however, I hope that you allow this old man to say those words once again today.”
Jun Mo Xie’s heart suddenly shuddered, like the tumultuous waves on the ocean.
As long as one was alive, they would have things that they pursued and goals they wanted to reach.
To safeguard the continent and protect the common people, was probably the belief that the three Holy Lands had held onto for the last 10,000 years!
This was an indescribably grand source of glory for them!
And it was also because of this glory, that they had also committed too many sins, among which were many that had irreversible consequences. But similarly for the sake of this glory, they had been willing to live in terrible conditions far from human civilisations for countless generations!
The sacrifices they had made could not be said to be small!
And all of this was for a glory that was as vague as a dream, that only few people were aware of!
Today, this glory had finally been shattered cruelly by Jun Mo Xie. Faced with the strongest army of the strange races they had ever faced, they’d still decided to stand out, preparing to use their lives to wash away their wrongs for the past 10,000 years!
It was an incredibly sad outcome, but also exceedingly respectable!
“We have already decided that in the coming battle, everyone from the three Holy Lands will sacrifice our lives.” Gu Han seemed to be talking about an extremely trivial matter as he continued. “After our deaths, whatever happens to the continent, and to the common people, are fated to not be witnessed by us. What happens afterwards are entirely your matters! I do not dare hope that Manor Lord Jun will take care of the people, but I hope that Manor Lord Jun can promise me one thing… If it is possible, please kill off all of the strange races!”
Jun Mo Xie could not help but smile bitterly at this plea. This old man Gu truly looked highly upon him!
“Truthfully, for some reason that I cannot comprehend as well, I have a queer feeling that you have a hatred towards the strange races that is difficult for normal people to imagine!”
Gu Han furrowed his brows and laughed oddly. “Otherwise, with your temper, after the matter with Xia Chang Tian, you would have immediately pulled out your forces after killing Xia Chang Tian, not caring about the matters here anymore. Even if the Xuan Xuan Continent was thoroughly destroyed, you would not stand out. I believe that with your personality, you would definitely be capable of doing that!”
“However, you still chose to stay! The reason for you staying surely cannot be for the sake of the people of the world, or the glory of Tian Fa. Then… I’m truly curious, why do you hate the strange races so much? I’m truly curious about that!” Gu Han asked with interest.
“Because they are very disgusting… aren’t they? Would this reason suffice?” Jun Mo Xie said with a bitter smile.
Why did he hate the strange races? For a model nationalistic youth, this was an extremely easy question to answer.
But in this world, there was no way for him to explain this.
There didn’t seem to be a way for him to explain it properly! I can’t say that I’m just venting my anger because those disgusting strange races remind me of another despicable and shameless invading nation right? A certain nation that he would not be able to quell his hatred against even if hacked every single one of their old and young with 10,000 blades, and put all of them to death for 10,000 times!
Can I say that I’m doing this because I was reminded of the countless heinous and perverted crimes that those j.a.panese soldiers who were worse than beasts committed in China in those eight years of war? Could I tell you that I’m imagining myself avenging the 300,000 innocent souls of the cruel Nanjing ma.s.sacre?
There’s no way to explain it ah! There is only one thing to do, which is to kill! Kill and ma.s.sacre them until the heavens flipped over, and the earth crumbled!
I had also hated myself for being born 70 years too late in my past life!