Chapter 86: Where Destiny Rests

Dreaming of Proving the Dao, Beginning by Scheming Against Cultivators

Dream Expert

Was he twisted?

Perhaps.

But if a race is not my own, its heart must surely differ.

A traitor to the human race who had already chosen to no longer be human, who had abandoned his own humanity.

If he wasn’t killed, was I supposed to keep him around for the New Year?

So Lü Yang… no — Lin Qi… held no objection to the Thunder Execution he had encountered after his failure to Return to Emptiness.

Some matters could allow for seeking common ground while reserving differences.

But a Human Traitor — every last one deserved to die!

Perhaps some would think, Oh, he merely chose to become a god. It’s not as if he truly set himself against the human race. Calling him a Human Traitor or a traitor is going too far.

Besides, wasn’t Lin Qi fully aware that Guye’s true body was not human, and yet hadn’t he still planned to help Guye escape?

If one really did the math, Lin Qi was the true Human Traitor.

But in truth, that was not how it was calculated.

Because the past shapes the present, and fate lies in the future.

In the past, Guye had been an innate deity. Now she was human. Whether she would be human or god in the future was not yet decided.

But a failed Return to Emptiness meant that in the past one had been human, now one was a god, and in the future one would also be a god — and there would no longer be any chance to be human.

So it was possible that Guye might still, in the future, become a human cultivator recognized by the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm.

But a cultivator who had failed at Return to Emptiness was destined only to drift further and further from the human race, until he completely betrayed the supreme law of the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm.

Why could one be so certain?

The reason was simple.

The cultivation system of the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm was centered on refining all things of heaven, earth, and the universe.

With humanity and the supreme law binding them, they could maintain restraint and not threaten the life-bearing planets in the universe.

But once one broke free of the bonds of humanity and betrayed the supreme law, one would inevitably walk the path of disregarding life, trampling all things, and destroying and devouring all living beings in the universe.

Otherwise, why refuse to preserve one’s humanity?!

Moreover, the vast majority of those who failed at Return to Emptiness would, at the very first moment they chose to become gods, inevitably kill countless billions of living beings.

Because they knew the iron law, they dared not contact their Master or Fellow Daoists to come help evacuate the living beings.

Thus, the moment of awakening was the moment of the hunt.

Countless billions of living beings. Not a single survivor.

Lin Qi understood these things, and thus understood why the Return to Emptiness Realm was the most dangerous step in cultivation within the Heavenly Immortal Macrocosm.

“Is there really no way to avoid it?”

After Lin Qi asked this, he shook his head. Even he found the question laughable.

When heaven inflicts calamity, there is still a chance to live; when one inflicts calamity upon oneself, one cannot live.

The iron law that one would be executed if one refused to be human was right there in plain sight.

But if one still chose to no longer be human.

Then whose fault was that?

No one’s.

“You understand it too, don’t you.”

“This is why I say she is lying to you.”

“If she truly wanted to be human rather than a god, she should have long ago condensed a strand of innate spiritual light and succeeded at Return to Emptiness.”

“But she has delayed and delayed, on the verge of failure. All I can say is that she herself does not want to be human anymore.”

Guye spoke with absolute conviction.