Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 165 Night Talk

After the five returned from the woods, Professor Xin went back to his residence, while the other four stayed at a guesthouse in town. The guesthouse was a self-built three-story building with a restaurant on the first floor, bedrooms on the second and third floors, and an open-air bar on the roof for guests to have barbecues and stargaze. The guesthouse was not decorated in a fancy way and presented a simple rural style.

During dinner, the four of them ate in the restaurant and discussed the current situation, but none of them could come up with a satisfactory solution, and the matter seemed to have reached a stalemate.

After dinner, Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi sat on the long row of swings on the rooftop to look at the stars.

People in the countryside go to bed early. By eight or nine o'clock, there are hardly any people walking around in the town. The early spring night is unusually quiet. You can hardly hear any sound between heaven and earth. Occasionally, a bird will flap its wings a few times and then quickly disappear into the endless darkness. A half-moon casts a cool light in the sky, illuminating the earth in a dim glow.

"These stars are so beautiful, you can't see them in the city." Guo Shiyi held a bottle of milk in one hand, lay back on the swing, and stared at the twinkling stars in the sky without blinking.

"Yes, I remember that my favorite thing to do in the summer when I was a child was to sleep on the bamboo bed in the yard at night and look at the stars. Then my grandma would tell us a lot of scary stories, which made us feel both scared and excited," Qin Xiaochuan said with a look of reminiscence.

"Really? What are the stories? I want to hear them too," Guo Shiyi asked, turning to the side with a curious expression.

Qin Xiaochuan glanced at her and said with a smile, "They're all old-fashioned stories, just meant to scare kids. You might have found them interesting when you were little, but they sound childish now."

Guo Shiyi said dismissively, "That's not necessarily true. I just like listening to stories from my childhood. Besides, I'm still a child." She blinked her eyes, revealing a simple and cute expression, and then tugged at Qin Xiaochuan's arm, saying in a slightly coquettish tone, "Tell me one."

"Alright, let me think." Qin Xiaochuan was at a loss for words. "It's just that so much time has passed that I don't remember many things clearly. Um, once upon a time, a man went to visit relatives in the mountains. His relatives were very hospitable and prepared a lot of delicious food to entertain him. He had a great time at his relatives' house, but then he thought of his own children and secretly grabbed a handful of candy and put it in his pocket, intending to take it home for them. After staying at his relatives' house for one night, he went home early. When he got home, he was about to open his pocket and share the candy with his children, but then..."

He paused deliberately at this point, then asked mysteriously, "Do you know what happened next?"

"What?" Guo Shiyi asked quickly, staring at him without blinking.

"Take a guess."

"I can't guess, tell me quickly!" the girl said eagerly, shaking his arm.

"When that person pulled out all those 'candies,' he found that all he had on his hands were some long fingernails," Qin Xiaochuan said, deliberately lowering his voice.

"Oh, how scary." Guo Shiyi gently patted her chest and stuck out her tongue.

Qin Xiaochuan smiled at her adorable appearance and said, "When I was little, I found it very scary. Every time my grandma finished telling us a story, my cousin and I would huddle together in fear. But our curiosity would drive us to beg her to tell us another one." As he spoke, he crossed his arms behind his head, looked at the sky, and his face was full of memories.

"Yes, I feel the same way, so could you tell me another one?" Guo Shiyi said with a smile.

"You're so naughty." Looking at her bright eyes and delicate face, Qin Xiaochuan suddenly had an urge to reach out and pinch her nose, but he resisted. However, he couldn't refuse the little girl's request, so he told her another story.

"It was so easy to be happy when I was a child," Guo Shiyi murmured.

"Back then, living conditions weren't very good, but we felt like we had so much. Now, although we have no worries about food and clothing, we can't even find a starry sky to look up at," Qin Xiaochuan replied.

"So, what's your dream?" Guo Shiyi asked, taking a sip of her milk and staring at Qin Xiaochuan's profile.

"dream?"

"Yes! The Revelation of Heaven's Way - the writing is amazing and the plot is full of twists and turns! I've wanted to be a doctor since I was a child because that would help many people."

"To be honest, I'm not really sure either." Qin Xiaochuan looked at the sky and fell into deep thought. "When I was little, I wrote essays and thought about becoming a scientist, a doctor, a teacher, or even an official."

He smiled somewhat embarrassedly as he spoke, "But I feel that these are not the things I want to do. It's just that other people say these professions are good, so I want to do them. But I can't really say what I want to do. Subconsciously, it seems that there is something more important waiting for me, and it is something that cannot be told to outsiders, something different from the world. But even now, I still don't understand what it is."

Qin Xiaochuan thought about his mission to become the Blood Witch King. Could it be that this had been in his subconscious from the very beginning?

"Everyone has their own mission. The greater a person is, the stronger their sense of mission will be. Maybe you haven't found your own mission yet," Guo Shiyi said earnestly.

"It's not as great as you say," Qin Xiaochuan said somewhat embarrassedly. Even so, he couldn't help but feel a little excited. When he heard Guo Shiyi say the word "mission," he felt as if something deep inside him was responding positively. Who would be willing to be just an ordinary person for the rest of their life?

"It's true, my dad used to tell me stories about Chairman Mao when he was young. He worked many jobs, including as a worker, a soldier, and a teacher. It wasn't until later that he realized what he truly wanted to do—to save the hundreds of millions of people in this turbulent country from suffering." Guo Shiyi said this with great emotion. Perhaps it was for this reason that she decided to become a doctor to help others.

Qin Xiaochuan was also very happy. Thinking that a great man had once been just as confused as he was, a sense of pride welled up within him, even though the great man's confusion and his confusion might not have been the same.

"Shiyi, do you understand the spiritual world?" Qin Xiaochuan asked, thinking about what happened during the day.

"I once heard my master mention that a person's spirit and intelligence are dominated by the power of the Heavenly Soul, so the so-called spiritual world is also created by the power of the Heavenly Soul. When a person cultivates to a certain level, they can materialize their spiritual world and create anything in their materialized world, just like in a dream."

"This ability sounds like that of a creator who can create the world," Qin Xiaochuan said in surprise.

"Yes, some spiritual schools believe that there is a microcosm within the human body, which is very similar to the macrocosm we live in. That's why there is a Buddhist saying, 'One flower, one world; one leaf, one Bodhi,' which means that there is a microcosm within every life."

She paused for a moment before continuing, "Several years ago, scientists discovered that the image of the human brain is very similar to the image of the universe. Some even speculated that the universe might be a giant brain, and we are all figments of that brain's imagination."

"You know so much," Qin Xiaochuan said sincerely.

"I heard it all from my master. He really loves exploring the mysteries of the universe," Guo Shiyi said with a smile.

Qin Xiaochuan looked at the endless sky, a half-moon quietly weaving through the clouds, the evening breeze gently brushing his face, carrying the chill of early spring. He couldn't help but say wistfully, "Hearing you say that, it really makes me want to explore that mysterious world. I'm a little glad I chose spiritualism. Since choosing this major, I feel like I've opened the door to a new world."

"But it's not easy to find a job with this major," Guo Shiyi joked.

"Who cares? A man is born between heaven and earth, he should wield a three-foot sword and do something magnificent. It's really boring to worry about such trivial things as survival." He said with great pride.

After he finished speaking, he was somewhat surprised, because this was something he had never said before. Although he had thought about these things deep down, he had never thought of mentioning them in front of outsiders, because he knew that once he said it, he would only be met with cold stares and ridicule. But today he said it so naturally. Perhaps Guo Shiyi's words just now encouraged him and gave him the confidence to face all the strange looks in the world.

Guo Shiyi covered her mouth and laughed upon hearing this, and Qin Xiaochuan also chuckled foolishly. The moonlight quietly shone on the two of them, leaving two overlapping shadows.