Chapter 448: The Original Path

Chapter 448: The Original Path

Chapter 448: The Original Path
Just as the old man in Wanbao Tower said, it is difficult for anything in the world to be perfect.

Shopkeeper Song knew very well what choice he should make.

I made up my mind.

But before doing this, he wanted to see his wife and children again.

When Chu Qing and his group returned, Bai Sheng and Qian Cheng had already brought the proprietress and the child back to Manager Song's residence.

The place still bore traces of the previous fight, and the proprietress was not feeling very stable. After all, she was attacked for no apparent reason, and when she woke up, she saw two men she didn't recognize at all.

Although they spoke kindly and sent her home, it was not enough to calm her down.

It wasn't until she saw Shopkeeper Song that she breathed a sigh of relief.

The couple was talking to each other from the bottom of their hearts, so Chu Qing and others naturally didn't want to disturb them.

While waiting outside, Chu Qing temporarily entrusted Miss Jiang to Bai Sheng and others.

Miss Jiang had a painted skin disguise on her face, so Bai Sheng and the others didn't know her identity, but they didn't refuse Chu Qing's request.

And he promised that he would protect her.

By the time Shopkeeper Song came out of the room, it was already dawn.

He found Chu Qing:

"Young man, please help me."

Chu Qing nodded:

"You come with me."

Two people entered the room, and Wu Qianhuan, Wenrou, Bai Sheng, Wan Chunhua and others were waiting outside the door.

In the room, Shopkeeper Song had already obeyed Chu Qing's words, sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Although he had internal strength, he didn't know a single mantra, nor did he know any meditation techniques. After tossing and turning all night without sleep, he felt a little drowsy as he sat cross-legged.

Until he felt a chill between his eyebrows, he subconsciously looked up and saw Chu Qing's finger pointing at his eyebrows.

Suddenly I remembered what those monsters and demons had done to me before, and I couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.

I want to ask if it will hurt?

But I just felt dizzy, as if I was trapped in a fog.

Everything was in chaos, I felt off the ground, and the pain was indescribable.

But there was a force pulling him back from the darkness, preventing him from falling into complete chaos.

I don’t know how long it took, but scenes after scenes penetrated the layers of fog and appeared before my eyes.

That is my own experience.

It’s just that these experiences are played backwards…

The events of tonight were tracing back. He was rescued by Chu Qing, captured, and assassinated. The pretty boy brought two girls to stay overnight... He had been tracing back to the past. It was very slow at first, but then it got faster and faster.

He watched the child grow smaller and smaller, from the teenager he is today, back to the toddler stage.

I see that my wife looks younger and younger, but her smile is always warm.

Then he saw a river.

It seemed as if I was in a river, floating upstream along the current.

The subsequent scenes are trivial and broken...

Many of them were incomplete. He saw himself as a beggar, begging on the street, being bullied by other beggars and chased all over the street.

He saw himself being hung and beaten for stealing.

He also saw a knight doing justice, killing people and saving others, and then leaving.

Then he also saw himself locked in a cage with many other people.

After a bumpy ride, we passed one stop after another...

It seemed that he had been in a daze for a long time and could not remember many things. The only thing he could remember was a dull pain in his head, and this pain accompanied him for a long time.

I don't know when the picture suddenly stopped.

It seemed as if something was blocking him from moving forward.

He was attracted by a golden light in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was a series of chains.

The golden chains bind the entire heaven and earth.

【Three Yang Soul Locking Order】!
This word suddenly appeared in his mind. Did he hear it from the mouths of those monsters and demons?
It seems that it is not just that...it seems that I knew it long ago.

He wanted to break the chain, but he didn't know how.

He felt an anticipation in his heart and couldn't wait to untie the chains and find out the truth behind them.

Such expectations gradually turned into anxiety and irritability.

He could do nothing but watch.

Suddenly, he saw a finger.

The fingers were huge, as if they were Mount Buzhou that could hold up the sky and the earth, and they pierced through with tremendous pressure.

He pointed a finger at the huge chain.

The whole world, the entire sky, trembled under this finger, the chains made a violent sound, and many cracks appeared.

But not broken.

Shopkeeper Song suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something extra in his mind.

He subconsciously shouted towards the sky:

"Three Yangs, Three Yangs are the foundation, Baihui is the gate, turn your back on the Yang and embrace the Yin, seal the gate of the gods with all your strength!!"

The finger that was about to click again suddenly paused, as if hesitating for a moment, and then the finger stopped moving, but the chain began to make a complicated clattering sound.

Immediately afterwards, there were bursts of noise, one root after another breaking.

In the blink of an eye, almost half of the chains broke.

At this point, the finger clicked again.

At this moment, the chains in the sky turned to dust, and memories surged forward like a tide.

One picture after another appeared in front of Shopkeeper Song.

He saw that he was in a daze and didn't know what was going on. Someone gave him food and drink, and after he ate and drank, he was locked in a cage.

He saw himself performing Qinggong and running among the mountains and forests, and it seemed that something terrifying was chasing him from behind.

The scene changed again and he saw a person.

He and I were fighting so hard that the mountains were collapsing and the earth was cracking.

In the end, he was defeated, but he managed to force the warrior to retreat with a secret method. When he was trying to escape, he was hit on the back of the head by the warrior.

All the memories were coming together, and Shopkeeper Song's originally panicked mood gradually calmed down.

With a roll of the inner breath, all of this will naturally be restrained.

The next moment, the scene appeared in a room.

Shopkeeper Song, with a calm expression, sat there quietly. Opposite him was a figure wearing a black robe, hiding himself in the darkness.

Shopkeeper Song's voice was steady:

"You used the safety of the people of the world to deceive me into giving you the first [Original Scripture of Enlightenment], but you didn't use it for the right purpose.

"The First Dao will never let this matter go!"

"What if I am willing to return the [Original Scripture of Enlightenment] to you?"

The person on the other side was hiding in the darkness, and his voice was full of iron and steel.

"Are you kidding me?" Shopkeeper Song stood up slowly.

"Li Juechen, you said that there is a terrifying organization that wants to overthrow the world and is gathering strength!

“I believe it.

"You said that they have inherited the legacy of the Daqian Dynasty, and the martial arts they have practiced are far beyond the ordinary!

“I believe it too!
“You also said that only the [Original Scripture of Opening the Way] can inspire people to move forward and not be complacent, and only then can it enable ordinary people to become like dragons and control their own destiny!

“I still believe it!!
"I have complete faith in you and am willing to take the risk of giving you the sect's secret method.

"But, what on earth did you do!?

“You cheated me of the first [Original Dao Sutra], killed people, and used extremely cruel means to create a new martial art!
“Big words, for the sake of common people?
"You are just doing this for your own selfish reasons!!!"

Li Juechen listened to this in silence, and suddenly interrupted:
“Without sacrifice, where is the future?
"Aren't the unique skills we are practicing now also created by our predecessors at the cost of their lives?

"After years of thinking, how many people have taken detours? How many people have gone astray and died? Without the experience of our predecessors, how could you and I be here today?

“Those who pioneered the past and present will always shed blood! But their sacrifices and lives are by no means meaningless!
"I didn't lie to you... That group of people will really show up. I've already seen some clues. They are unstoppable. With our current strength, we will never be able to resist them!
"Song Chengdao! Believe me!!!"

"I just trusted you wrongly...that's why I hurt so many people."

Song Chengdao slowly exhaled:

“You are the current Martial Emperor, revered by all the people, and regarded as a god-like being by many people in the martial arts world.

"What a pity, you are not worthy of your position.

"I will make this matter public. I will resign from the position of Dao Lord. Even if I have to commit suicide in Daoling, I will be willing to do so.

"But... Li Juechen, you have to pay the price for everything you have done!

“You took the wrong path. Even if everything is as you said, you took a path that you absolutely shouldn’t have taken.

"The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors will not tolerate you, and neither will the world..."

In the picture, after saying this, Song Chengdao turned around and was about to leave.

Li Juechen suddenly attacked and injured someone.

Both of them were peerless masters, but Li Juechen launched a surprise attack, catching Song Chengdao off guard.

Although we had taken precautions, we were still suppressed.

One wrong step led to another, and finally Song Chengdao was defeated and fled. Before leaving, he was hit by Li Juechen's [Three Yang Soul Locking Order].

However, as the Taoist master, Song Chengdao naturally has his own methods.

It's a pity that Li Juechen's internal strength was extremely domineering, and the [Three Yang Soul Locking Order] was extremely strange. Although Song Chengdao delayed a little time, his memory was ultimately sealed.

While in a daze, he was deceived by the slave-catching team and treated as a slave, and they wanted to sell him.

But during that period of time, Song Chengdao was like a madman.

I can’t remember anything, I know nothing, and I will forget what happened today tomorrow. It seems that every day is a new beginning.

People who bought slaves did so for labor or sex, or for other reasons. But no matter what the reason was, no one would be willing to have such a muddle-headed lunatic. After all, no one's money came from the wind.

This also caused Song Chengdao a lot of trouble.

Whenever the slave owner was unhappy, he would capture the slave and beat him up.

Fortunately, although he had forgotten his past, he was still a top master who was able to fight against the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Even if he was beaten all over, he would recover in just two or three days.

The slave owners saw this and thought it was a rare treasure and were reluctant to throw it away.

He was actually brought all the way from Zhongzhou to the Southern Region... and was finally rescued by a chivalrous man.

It's a pity that the knight was probably only concerned with taking it easy and only saved half of the people. He didn't ask what to do with the slaves he released or how to arrange them.

Then, just as he had seemed at the beginning, he lived as a beggar for a while.

Finally, during a fight for the chassis, he accidentally fell off a cliff, was washed into a small river bay by the current, and was rescued by the proprietress.

This is how the current Shopkeeper Song came into being.

Taking his fingers away from his brows, Chu Qing slowly opened his eyes.

Song Chengdao's eyes also opened naturally. Although the expression between his brows remained the same, his temperament had undergone a drastic change.

His eyes were deep and melancholy, filled with an indelible sorrow.

He raised his eyes and looked at Chu Qing:

"You have seen that I have made a grave and irreparable mistake.

“From what I saw tonight… the number of people killed for this is too numerous to count.

"I deserve to die."

Chu Qing was silent for a moment, then asked:

"What kind of martial arts is [Original Kaidao Sutra]?"

"I am the master of the First Dao. Do you know where the three words 'First Dao' come from?"

"...I heard Huangfu Yixiao mention it. It is the first Tao created in the universe?"

Trina wasn't so sure.

Song Chengdao also laughed in silence:
“It’s an exaggeration, but it does have this implication.

“The so-called [Original Scripture of Opening the Dao] is the first path of my first path, and the foundation of my first path in the world.

“All the martial arts of the First Dao come from the [Original Dao Sutra].

“But the [Original Scripture of Opening the Dao] that each person practices is different, and ultimately what is derived from it is a variety of martial arts.

“In the First Path, it is called the root of all things.

“Therefore, some people named it the [Root Sutra] and described it as the root of all martial arts in the world.

“Do you think it’s exaggerated?”

"……Yes."

Chu Qing nodded:

"The path of martial arts is vast and boundless. No matter how powerful the [Original Scripture of Opening the Dao] is, it cannot be the root of all martial arts in the world."

"Then where do you think all the martial arts in the world come from?

"Who was the first person to learn martial arts? Where did he learn it from?"

Song Chengdao asked Chu Qing.

Chu Qing thought for a moment:
"From the fight?"

Song Chengdao smiled:
“That actually makes sense, but look at those street thugs, fighting and causing trouble all day long, have they ever learned any skills from these fights?
"If martial arts can be learned without a teacher, then everyone in the world would be a master!"

Chu Qing thought about it for a while, but shook his head:
"No, nowadays, martial arts are flourishing and many martial arts masters are emerging.

“Naturally, those street vendors seem to be worthless… But when the word “martial arts” had not yet appeared in the world and everyone in the world was an ordinary person, there would inevitably be superiors and inferiors in the struggle.

“If someone were to delve into this and gradually develop the theory, wouldn’t martial arts be born?

"Even among today's street thugs, aren't there high and low ones? Otherwise, why should he be the big brother and he the little brother?"

Song Chengdao raised his eyes to look at Chu Qing, and suddenly laughed:

“As expected of you, you are the leader of the martial arts world. What you said makes sense.

“However, you asked me what kind of martial arts [Original Kaidao Sutra] is, and I was just answering you.

“This is a martial art that is… completely different in the eyes of different people.

“In other words, it can be any martial arts.

"The martial arts that those people talked about tonight were all extended from the [Original Dao Opening Sutra], but these martial arts are still limited to Li Juechen's own knowledge."

(End of this chapter)