Volume 1: Rebirth of the Owl Demon Chapter 383: Who will wake up from the big dream first?
What is Tao?
Gu Qingyang, who created the Seventeenth Realm, seems to be the most qualified person to answer this question among all the bone cultivators throughout the ages.
For such questions, Gu Qingyang's answer is, Tao is the persistence of everyone to move forward resolutely according to their obsessions.
There are no two identical leaves in this world, nor are there two identical people, nor are there exactly the same Tao.
If we say that Gu Qingyang's path is the so-called imperial path, it is a persistent path that makes up for all regrets even if he has to go through thousands of difficulties and dangers.
So, at this moment, Liu Ziyin, who is sleeping soundly next to Gu Qingyang, his current path is the drunken path.
In fact, this Liu Ziyin can be regarded as being in the mountain and not knowing the true face of the mountain. Because he has never seen the true face of this "mountain" clearly.
From the moment Liu Ziyin indulged in alcohol, he began to gain enlightenment.
In fact, in an extremely complex environment like the Liu family, living a dejected life like Liu Ziyin can preserve the strength to the maximum extent.
If Liu Ziyin did not have absolute talent to rely on, he would still resolutely compete for resources with other members of the family.
Then, his people must have no fewer than a hundred ways to make him spit out all his resources in endless suffering.
There is strength in numbers, which is the advantage of a big family compared to a small family.
But appearance and spirit are different, and people are not united in heart. These are also problems that all big families cannot avoid in the process of development.
The resources in the hands of the big family only appear to be a lot. In fact, if the resources are shared evenly, the resources will not be much.
Therefore, children of big families are usually forced to end their childhood early and start growing like crazy after their life bones are awakened.
In this process, these children will transform from children into "children of a wealthy family" in advance.
Although they will lose a lot of happiness, they will also gain strength accordingly.
When most bone cultivators were just entering the life bone realm, the children of these big families often had unique abilities.
And it’s not like Liu Ziyin doesn’t have such abilities at all. He just has a talent, not a person.
However, being born into a big family like the Liu family and in such a situation, Liu Ziyin could only choose to endure it.
The first survival skill that other Liu family members have to learn is to fight for resources.
The first method Liu Ziyin had to learn was disguise, which was to make himself look harmless under his disguise.
Only in this way can he live and ensure that the people around him will not suffer with him because of his eyesore.
However, how could the long-term oppression and long-term frustration be so easily endured?
Perhaps it is for this reason that while Liu Ziyin needed to disguise himself, he also learned to drink to relieve his sorrows.
Wine is indeed worthy of the name of the King of Forgetfulness. It is very special. It can obviously bring people a different kind of pain and make them sink.
However, for a bone cultivator, many things in this world can be regarded as cultivation, and they can cultivate their own way from them.
Liu Ziyin didn't understand this kind of truth.
Liu Ziyin just knew that while he was forbearing, he was also waiting for someone. The person he was waiting for was someone who could completely understand him.
That person can understand his pain, and even more understand his pain.
He is Liu Ziyin, and like other members of the Liu family, he also has ambitions.
Just because of these factors, when others can express their thoughts freely, he can only choose to hide his truest self.
And unknowingly, during this seemingly fruitless waiting, Gu Qingyang appeared.
Just as Liu Ziyin could understand Gu Qingyang's suffering when he first saw him practicing, Gu Qingyang could also understand Liu Ziyin's suffering.
Because the two of them are essentially the same type of people.
He, Liu Ziyin, was unable to realize his ideas due to various pressures. Therefore, he chose to wait for the opportunity because his true ambition was difficult to achieve.
Gu Qingyang, on the other hand, knew that whichever path he chose, he would face all kinds of pressure and would continue to experience losses, but he still had to move forward.
Gu Qingyang is braver than Liu Ziyin.
But that's just because Gu Qingyang has already gone through this journey once. Compared to Liu Ziyin, Gu Qingyang has more experience in facing certain things.
In contrast, Liu Ziyin is more like a real person, a person of flesh and blood.
What's more, if others were to stand in Liu Ziyin's position, they might not be able to do better than Liu Ziyin.
However, the day when Liu Ziyin and Gu Qingyang met seemed destined to be the day when Liu Ziyin became enlightened while drunk.
The first glass of wine was bitter.
This is because Liu Ziyin was like this in the first half of his life. Amidst countless murderous intentions, lies and disguises, he felt that his days were like years.
Such days may indeed seem relatively easy on the surface. But in fact, only those who have experienced it will understand the hardships involved.
The second glass of wine was tasteless.
This is because Liu Ziyin's life is like this now. He still needs to pretend, but after pretending for a long time, he is actually confused.
Many times, or in other words, every moment now, even Liu Ziyin himself can't tell whether he is deliberately pretending or whether he is numb.
Numb days are naturally tasteless.
The third glass of wine is tasteless but can make people drunk.
This is because when the third glass of wine becomes like this, it means that Liu Ziyin can finally relieve himself of the burden and have a good sleep.
Even though life has made him numb, even if he will continue to be numb in the numb life in the future, he will continue to be numb as before.
But in his sleep, he was still himself.
Dreams are always beautiful, ideals are always perfect. It is like a glass of wine, you can feel its mellow aroma after drinking it.
But a dream is still a dream after all. When you wake up from the dream, everything in the dream will disappear. So Liu Ziyin would rather make this dream last longer.
This is not bad.
As for things in reality, those are things that need to be considered after waking up from the dream. He, Liu Ziyin, will not care about those things.
In his opinion, if one day he really can't pretend anymore, the worst thing he can do is suddenly rise up and have a hearty battle.
From now on, even if I die, I will die boldly in the direction of my dream.
Such a death can actually be regarded as a well-deserved death, and it is a very good way to die.
However, Liu Ziyin did not realize that in the past, he would only care about his disguise and would only deliberately be numb.
Invisibly, he lost too many things.
And the most important thing among them is clearly the heart of seeking truth.
Liu Ziyin thought that his way was to be forbearing, but little did he know that his way was to be forbearing.
However, the appearance of Gu Qingyang was a real opportunity.
Gu Qingyang allowed Liu Ziyin to see another kind of life, and that kind of life only contained two words: unruly.
Perhaps it was from that moment, half drunk and half awake, that Liu Ziyin truly understood what he wanted.
After getting the opportunity that time, he also met Gu Qingyang again, and inexplicably pulled him to drink these three glasses of bitter wine.
Someone who can understand him appears.
His way will come naturally.
This was his outburst of forbearance, and it was the best gift he gave to himself and Gu Qingyang after the outburst.
That was this drunkenness.
He gave himself a lucid dream, and also gave Gu Qingyang a lucid and beautiful dream. In the dream, they did not change anything.
But both of them experienced their past lives again in a real and clear-eyed way.
Just like Gu Qingyang, after he experienced the past in this infinitely real way, he saw the past more clearly.
And Liu Ziyin also saw the past him in this big dream. He suddenly realized that he couldn't live like that.
"Life is a road that cannot be turned back. Even if you look back, you can only look back and take a look at the road you have traveled."
"What happened has happened, and it is already a fact. Facts are destined to be unchangeable, and the same is true in life."
"If I don't have the ability and opportunity to change the past, then at least let me seize the opportunity to seize the future, otherwise I will really regret it."
"Even if I am weak, I should try to fight once. Even if the cost of losing is death, it doesn't matter."
"If you live without fighting, what's the difference between it and a salted fish that has been dead for a long time?"
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Liu Ziyin thought this in the dream, but in the real world, Liu Ziyin's body was also undergoing earth-shaking changes.
Runes began to emerge from Liu Ziyin's body one by one, invisibly changing Liu Ziyin's cultivation realm.
Phase bone realm.
Glazed Realm.
Liuli realm, the initial small realm.
Liuli Realm, a small middle-level realm.
Liuli realm, a high-level small realm.
"Fight!"
Finally, at the moment when Liu Ziyin roared out the word while drunk in his sleep, his breath suddenly rose up and became more complete.
Glazed Realm, Perfect Small Realm!
At this moment, in that blink of an eye, Liu Ziyin's cultivation level even directly surpassed that of Gu Qingyang.
But at the same time, the benefits Gu Qingyang gained from this dream were also not small, and they even surpassed the results of his hard training.
Prior to this, Gu Qingyang had undergone ten or twenty days of hard training, and his injuries were almost completely healed.
But there are still some injuries that Gu Qingyang cannot easily heal through hard training. It turns out that those injuries can only be cured through cultivation.
But now, in the dream, most of these injuries were healed in an instant due to Gu Qingyang's enlightenment.
Until the end, whether it was Gu Qingyang's body or soul, both of them had only the last three scars left that had not healed.
Coupled with the infinitely stable state of mind, this also brought Gu Qingyang infinitely close to the kind of perfection he wanted.
However, if Gu Qingyang really wants to break the last shackles and achieve the so-called perfection, then he can only let the six wounds heal first.
And in his sleep, Gu Qingyang's last clone also disappeared.
At this point, only Gu Qingyang's body is still sleeping in this huge Shenlu Academy.
However, among Gu Qingyang and Liu Ziyin, who will wake up first depends on which one of them can be the first to awaken to the Tao in the dream.