Free Web NovelChapter 1498: Chapter 156: Different Paths
It’s hard to imagine how talented a person must be to be considered a peerless genius by someone as arrogant as Yu Beidou.
We only know that this person truly found a way to break through the dead end of Life Prediction Technique, but it created the biggest mistake for their lineage...
Regarding the dead end of Life Prediction Technique, presumably they’ve divined it countless times.
Yet those unwilling to face the results walked a stray path.
So regarding the "destined" outcome, is it really only something to be accepted?
"What is the difference between Blood Divination Technique and Life Prediction Technique?" Jiang Wang asked.
Yu Beidou said: "If fate is a long river. Life Prediction Technique is to leap out of the water, observe the flow of the long river from the bank, and spy on the birth and death of each fish within.
Whereas Blood Divination Technique is to kill one of these fish, based on its connection with the river of fate, and use the ripples it causes in the river of fate to temporarily perceive the river of fate.
In a sense, Blood Divination Technique is a tributary of Life Prediction Technique.
The biggest difference is that Life Prediction Technique peers into the river of fate through oneself, while Blood Divination Technique uses human lives to impact heavenly destiny."
Yu Beidou’s explanation was simple and clear, telling the differences between Life Prediction and Blood Divination thoroughly.
"To impart teachings" is originally a manifestation of ability, and being able to elucidate such high-level Tao Path like this demonstrates his profound strength. He is truly someone who can pass down orthodoxy and found schools.
Unfortunately, Life Prediction Technique is no longer passed down...
"Can it be understood like this..." Jiang Wang said: "In cultivating Life Prediction Technique, the stronger the cultivation, the longer one can stay out of the ’water,’ observing the river of fate longer. In cultivating Blood Divination Technique, the stronger the cultivation, each fish killed creates larger ripples, therefore seeing more changes in the river of fate."
Yu Beidou nodded: "Exactly so."
"Life Prediction Technique is the diviner’s own adventure, while Blood Divination Technique creates waves with others’ lives." Jiang Wangdao: "Thus... it is an evil technique."
"In some sense, he really opened up a new world for Life Prediction Technique." Yu Beidou said: "The process of leaping out of the river of fate is dangerous, you’ve just felt it.
Because fish cannot leave water, being born into fate means that separating from the river of fate itself is a form of adventure.
In almost every generation, there are successors of Life Prediction Technique, who cannot return once they have leaped out of the river of fate. And Blood Divination Technique completely shifts this danger away... for diviners, this is certainly a good thing. But for the Human Race, this is a poison sac."
Jiang Wang listened silently.
"My senior brother said, diviners are pioneers, naturally they should not be sacrificed. There are always those willing to sacrifice, who should be sacrificed. But ah, once someone has the thought of sacrificing others, their roots are rotten..."
Yu Beidou said: "At the beginning, he would pay an appropriate price to willingly dying people for divination. Later, he would capture those who ’deserved to die,’ using guilty blood for divination. But who deserves to die, who doesn’t, how can there be a completely just answer? The standard of ’deserving to die’ kept changing, kept lowering... and later in emergencies, he would just grab someone..."
"Who to sacrifice, how to sacrifice, all decided by diviners alone. Once this kind of Blood Divination Technique is passed down, its evil will be endless. With my senior brother’s strength and disposition, even he could not handle it himself. How can anyone else in the world do? Some cages, once opened, can never be shut again..."
Jiang Wang could fully understand these words, because his hometown Fenglin City was sacrificed in this way...
Comparing to Blood Divination Technique, Fenglin City was like that fish being killed.
When Zhuang Gaoxian sacrificed the Maple Forest City Region, he did it under the guise of Zhuang Country’s future.
Sacrificing oneself is a kind of greatness, sacrificing others is a kind of crime, no matter how grand the reason may be.
"In terms of evil techniques in the world, none surpasses Blood Divination." Jiang Wang said: "That senior of yours, he has already transformed into a demon."
"I fully believe, at the very beginning, he merely wanted to break the dead end of Life Prediction Technique. He simply didn’t want the brilliant history to end, didn’t want our efforts to all be for nothing in the end.
But he forgot. Life Prediction Technique was born initially to help the Human Race.
To enlighten the future of the Human Race, that’s why Life Prediction Technique existed.
It wasn’t from the start forcing others to sacrifice. Killing people for the sake of seeking new paths is fundamentally wrong with Blood Divination Technique from its roots."
Yu Beidou said: "He practiced Life Prediction Technique for three hundred years, but after creating Blood Divination Technique, it took only three years to go from walking on thin ice to being utterly reckless. When sacrificing others becomes a habit, it’s not perceived. The poison of Blood Divination lies in killing humanity."
Jiang Wang remained silent.
Yu Beidou’s account brought him much contemplation.
In this world, there are many who do not regard themselves as humans, and even more who do not see others as humans.
Throughout this journey, he has seen too much.
Cultivation is about transcending the mundane, refining and discarding impurities, embracing Transcendent courage, responsibility, and compassion, not about being aloof.
"In terms of effect. Blood Divination Technique cannot see as far as Life Prediction Technique. But specific to each person, it can often be more precise.
In terms of cost, Blood Divination Technique almost requires no cost from the diviner.
Just from the diviner’s perspective, Blood Divination might seem superior to Life Prediction.
Those who harm others without benefitting themselves flock continuously. If harming others can benefit oneself, since ancient times, this technique is hard to eradicate." freёweɓnovel.com
Yu Beidou sat cross-legged, immersed in past events, his words carrying a hint of ruefulness: "That night when Blood Divination Technique achieved success, I saw the river of fate, all tainted with blood. At that time I silently told myself, this is a wrong path, I must correct it... But do you know, how did I kill my senior brother?"
Jiang Wang knew that when Yu Beidou asked this question, he was not seeking an answer, just needing someone to listen.
Thus he listened attentively.
Yu Beidou’s eyes slightly lowered: "He had no defenses against me."
Regarding the death of his senior brother, Yu Beidou only said this one sentence.
But all complexities and turmoil were contained within.
Jiang Wang now of course knew, Yu Beidou personally killed his senior brother and for many years has been hunting down human demons, aiming to eradicate Blood Divination Technique. This was Yu Beidou’s decision made based on the tradition of Life Prediction Technique and from the standpoint of the Human Race.
But standing from his senior brother’s standpoint?
That peerless genius simply was unwilling to see the disappearance of Life Prediction Technique, unwilling to meet a dead-end, thus tried to create an unprecedented path. To forge a new path, he surely endured much hardship, sacrificed much effort, and ultimately succeeded!
Whom would he share his joy with?
His masters, his juniors, those he thought were on the same path...
Even though he clearly stepped onto a different path. Someone who could establish a Tao Path like Blood Divination Technique should be a person indifferent to worldly affairs, viewing humanity as mere grass... Yet he had no defenses against Yu Beidou and ended up dying in Yu Beidou’s plot...
Humans are truly complex.
Not merely Yu Beidou, not merely Yu Beidou’s senior brother.
Including fortune-telling human demons, who can be an exception?
From any angle, fortune-telling human demons deserved a thousand deaths.
But from the perspective of fortune-telling human demons, his master clearly opened a new path for Life Prediction Technique, an outstanding figure who found a school but was deceived and killed by a jealous uncle... How can he not be hateful?
To his dying day, he stared at Yu Beidou, never shutting his eyes!
What "poison sac," what "cage," he only considered excuses.
In his perspective, Yu Beidou is nothing more than a despicable man who envies talent.
He did not hesitate to fall into demonhood, dare to sacrifice himself for his sword, to complete this revenge.
When he casually used human lives for divination, and when he sent people to blood-bathe Green Cloud Pavilion for the balance of blood...
Would he feel he was doing something wrong?
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(Forgot to mention at noon, the thank-you event in the Starting Point book circle offering Red Heart peripherals and the physical book of "Journey to the West Records" starts in August...
O, If you can’t find O, don’t hurry, it’s in preparation by the operators.)
