Chapter 750: Gun steals the breathing soil to restrain the Weak Water!

Chonghua stands on a transcendent viewpoint, using his many years as emperor and sovereign to judge the era's development.

The ideals and path that humanity now believes in, he does not deny their superiority; they are quite perfect.

However, precisely because this path is overly idealistic…… it becomes unrealistic.

On this path, there is a biggest pit.

This pit, the one being dug is not someone else, but the supreme leader who has chosen this path, reached the peak, and won the contention over the Pangu Dao; they are demanded to fill this pit, make the greatest sacrifice, to overturn the era's atmosphere.

This cannot be faked in the slightest!

Its strictness, Chonghua also feels somewhat excessive.

Just like when the Dragon-Phoenix Era ended back then, the situation faced by the August Emperor Heavenly Emperor at that time…… At that time, the Human Dao had cries, wanting to establish reincarnation.

Even for this, they did not hesitate to turn against the August Emperor.

At that time, the possible choices were few.

One side is his own adhered ideological path, the other side is the vast masses' cry; the August Emperor Heavenly Emperor who opened heaven and earth is caught in the middle, truly being neither inside nor outside a person.

By accepting the Human Dao's proposal, it means continuing the entanglement of cause and effect, sacrificing future beings, trampling one's own belief; while holding onto one's own idea and rejecting the Human Dao's idea, however, it is to be against all beings, and decades of achievement are erased in that moment, and moreover be opposed by the Human Dao.

This is a dilemma.

Of course.

Pangu is a transcendent achievement, not without a way to break the situation.

As long as the August Emperor back then was willing to self-sacrifice, filling up all of himself, it might not be impossible to achieve compatibility.

However, facing the willful masses of the Human Dao, a generation of Heavenly Emperor's kind words, infinite tolerance and concessions……

Dreaming!

The August Emperor flipped the table.

"The rise of the Human Dao is thanks to me alone; without the Fortune Great Dao suppressing all demons and monsters, granting a platform where gods and humans coexist and develop together, how could there be today's Human Dao?"

"All realms of Honghuang attaining Great Luo, henceforth eternal and undying, concepts everlasting, this I proposed and presided over; the merit ledger is filled with my name, no one can deny it."

"Upholding justice, guarding fairness, I have upheld this all my life…… I can exert my strength for Honghuang, but that does not mean I am without temper!"

"You still want me to foot the bill for your absurd proposal?!"

"Excessive!"

"I can't tolerate any more!"

"To hell with it! Love who you will!"

The August Emperor's temper flared, he flicked his sleeves and ran off.

Frowning coldly at the multitude's pointing, bowing willingly to be an ox for the child……

This is easy to say, hard to do.

Those with great talent and peerless heroes also have their own prideful stance…… Right is right, wrong is wrong, what can be done, what one does not want to do, they accept no coercion at all.

They often see farther, not wanting to take a detour…… but the common masses sometimes like to try something new; before learning the lesson they are steadfast, yet walking on they end up on a detour.

When the Human Dao takes a detour, either they themselves pay the price, or the leader with the greatest talent and wisdom does——this is mostly the Pangu beings!

It somewhat carries the meaning of undeserved disaster, a mistake that could have been avoided.

On what grounds?!

The previous Pangu, in anger, gave out his own choice.

He threw down the burden, quit.

The precedent is here; as the nominal leader of the successor, the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court, Chonghua sees it clearly.

Such mighty strongmen, all cannot contend with the Human Dao, unwilling to make such meaningless sacrifice…… what about those who come after?

If someone can treat all strangers as their own siblings to respect, this is already an outstanding virtue.

And if someone can treat all the world's beings as their own children, to carefully nurture and raise them, that is a moral model that can serve as a benchmark for the present age.

Furthermore, if someone can regard the countless beings of the Human Dao as parents and elders, listen to their varied worldviews accumulated over time like deep chasms, accept them sincerely and patiently, and be willing to support and serve them, with everything centered on the masses' will, disregarding one's own interests and thoughts……

Such a person deserves to be revered by all beings for myriad ages.

Serve the beings, unwavering!

This is the principle that the executors of humanity's path, the supreme leaders, need to uphold.

Sitting in that position, not only does one have power and status, but also must have sacrifice.

Today the leader of humanity is Nüwa.

In Chonghua's judgment, he highly approves of this Nüwa Empress, with great praise and evaluation…… but even the most optimistic estimate, Nüwa merely has a three-tenths chance of realizing this highest idealistic path.

This still takes into account Nüwa's path and her virtue, possessing the maternal radiance that embraces heaven and earth.

The Nüwa Empress governs creation; at the origin she has transformed all beings of the world, she is the creator of countless races…… in a sense, all beings of Honghuang can barely be classified as her nominal children.

Nüwa possesses the most radiant maternal radiance; naturally she has three-tenths more affinity to the Human Dao's spirituality than other innately born divinities…… and her virtue, the patience honed by Fuxi, also qualifies her to fulfill this maternity, to nurture and raise the beings.

Nüwa can rally today's humanity faction this troop, resisting the Heavenly Dao, not without reason…… to a certain extent, the identity of this rebel army leader belongs to none but her.

Yet even if Nüwa reaches such a state, she also touches the limit.

Treating all the world's people as one's own children to care for, no problem.

But, to thoroughly serve the beings, regarding them as parents, everything starting from the Human Dao's interests——frowning coldly at the multitude's pointing, bowing willingly to be an ox for the child?

But don't!

If it really were like that, how would life go on?

Just say a simplest, most realistic problem.

The Human Dao wishes to act as "parents" to mediate the relationship between Fuxi and Nüwa, this sibling pair, letting the small be small, the big be big……

——Stop! You all stop! You all don't fight anymore!

This situation placed before Nüwa, her blood pressure will surely rise greatly.

The next day, the 'filial piety' was gone.

What 'selfless servant'?

Bullshit!

I'm your mother!

As a parent, it's not just patient teaching and persuasion; it's also having a stick at hand, and beating those who don't listen!

"From an emotional standpoint, no one can demand that strangers be infinitely good to themselves, treating themselves as parents."

Chong Hua calmly said, "By the same token, we would not infinitely respect and care for strangers, showing the utmost benevolence... This goes against human nature."

"So, I say, the human race's path has a problem... it's overly idealistic."

"Perhaps it could exist for a moment, but it cannot last forever... For us eternal beings who constantly observe past, present, and future, if it cannot last, merely existing for a brief moment is hardly different from never existing at all."

"At most, in the midnight dream's return, one occasionally reminisces about the past, lets out a long sigh, and feels moved."

"If Heaven had feelings, it too would grow old; the righteous path of humanity is vicissitude."

"After all, ideals fall, returning to reality... I walk upon this path of mine."

"Divine spirits arise from myriad races, controlling heaven and earth, transcending above all beings."

Chong Hua spoke slowly.

He was certain to the end that the Human Dao would choose this path.

Jun was speechless.

After a long while, he sighed, "Is there really no exception?"

"Isn't there still a glimmer of hope with the Great Derivation Fifty, using forty-nine, leaving one line of life?"

"Hmm..." Chong Hua looked at his own child, raised his eyebrows, and for this questioning, he was not angry but rather somewhat delighted—being able to question is good, not blindly trusting authority, having his own firmness and cognition—"Your said exception... how to put it, it's not that there is no hope at all."

"The key to breaking the situation, actually saying it's complex is complex, saying it's simple is simple, but it's just five characters——"

"Love others as you love yourself."

Chong Hua smiled, "What caring for children, what supporting parents... these metaphors instead obscure the true nature, not showing reality."

"To love others is to respect them, understand them, know what they seek, clarify what they need."

"And speaking of respect and understanding... for a person, who is most respected and understood, if not oneself?"

"As long as the direction of loving others and loving oneself is the same, with shared interests, many problems will be readily solved."

"Actually, the vast mountains and rivers, the Honghuang heavens and earth, have such special things existing......"

"What is it?" Jun's ears perked up.

"It is... the myriad beings themselves!" Chong Hua laughed.

"The myriad beings?" Jun could not understand.

"Just the myriad beings alone, naturally it's not enough, but above the myriad beings... the Human Dao?" Chong Hua retorted, leaving Jun stunned, "The Human Dao loving itself is equivalent to loving the myriad beings."

"As long as the Human Dao has spirit, self-verifies itself, and is willing to self-sacrifice... actually many problems are no longer problems."

"The Human Dao, perhaps the only one able to willingly offer sacrifice, able to become the 'selfless servant'... other gods still need to worry about noodles, or their own ideals and paths, the Human Dao..."

"This is doing things for oneself... sacrificing and yielding to oneself, not feeling cold!"

"Taking care of oneself, cultivating oneself... you see, isn't this pretty good?"

Chong Hua laid it out, making Jun nod repeatedly.

"Unfortunately, this is good, but the probability is low... you yourself said, the forty-nine to one disparity makes people really not hold hope."

Chong Hua sighed, "This is a kind of miracle—even for us such people, it's thus."

"Compared to the Heavenly Dao achieving the Primordial Ancestor Hongjun, it's even more illusory and unreal."

"That's why I have put forth my current path."

"Perhaps, in an incredibly distant future, in the era when a Pangu reaches the summit, could nurture such brilliant light of hope, light of humanity, to reverse the mistakes accumulated across ages?"

"For me now, it's too far away......"

"I'd better focus on the present good... first strive for Pangu to reach shore, then talk about other things."

Chong Hua rubbed his brow, dispelling fatigue, his eyes shining with wisdom's light, having everything under control.

"My great trend will succeed."

"The Eastern Barbarians shall all be mine, never again bound."

"I have overthrown the Dragon Masters, won over people's hearts, split consciousness, proposed negotiations......"

"Step by step, all the anticipated goals have been achieved."

"Don't look at now, outside the noisy old-timers, each one nostalgic for the past, using sacrifice as an article, to hinder my steps."

"Unfortunately, the times have changed!"

"When they argue over the direction of consciousness's form, and in constant wear lose grasp of the military's power over the great army, all they can do is just talk."

"The present tumult is merely the dying glow before extinction, just like the Dragon Masters' final turmoil before collapse... they cannot change anything!"

"The Eastern Barbarians' money bag is here with me."

"The threat of weapons is with the Heavenly Court."

"We sit down to negotiate; those old-timers who neither control money nor command the army, what are they worth?"

"No matter how they jump about, they're just autumn grasshoppers that can't last long!"

Chong Hua declared.

And the development of the situation seemed to verify his words.

The Bird Masters' peace talks with the Heavenly Court, despite waves of opposition, ultimately brought little substantive obstruction.

Only because……

The most stubborn Dragon Master was blown up!

Those with the greatest resistance and sacrifice were also worn down by the relentless disasters of Weak Water, exhausted, and had no choice but to compromise with reality.

Even those who still have the determination to fight to the end, the Bird Master is not afraid.

He raised his hand to signal—

You can do it, so go ahead!

Outside, Weak Water has become a disaster, with countless bandits running rampant—go wipe them out and let me see!

This is a struggle with no hope of victory in sight.

In the constant tug-of-war and wearing down, each hard bone was softened, turning silent and voiceless, leaving only a few die-hards at the end.

As for the Heavenly Court, this time they also knew how to act like a 'person': regarding the peace talks proposed by the Bird Master on behalf of the Eastern Yi, they showed not the slightest arrogance, but instead were very respectful, acknowledging the inherent strong status of humanity.

Yes, the Heavenly Court acknowledges humanity's status, regarding it as a strong clan, even as an imperial clan!

This is also the achievement won by humanity, which no one dares to insult.

The Heavenly Court will not insult either…… it only wants to erode and assimilate, letting this strong clan change its heart, jointly becoming a member at the top of the pyramid, and together exploit and oppress the weak clans below.

If business can be done, the Heavenly Court does not want to fight to the death.

Everyone happily bullying the weak together—wouldn't that be better?

Under such a strategy, humanity will not perish.

It's just…… a change of heart.

However.

If this bottom line is breached.

Who knows…… today it is exploiting the clans below; tomorrow, one day, will these methods be turned inward against humanity itself?

The breach of the bottom line is either zero times or countless times.

But judging from the current situation, the Weak Water crisis facing the Eastern Yi and the Heavenly Court's military front still seem able to be eased.

The sacrifices of the ancestors, the development of the present…… such a complex and tangled situation leaves countless members of humanity speechless.

They want to say something, but cannot say anything.

The Eastern Yi…… are lost.

Until a certain person stepped forward.

That was Gun.

"Who says flood control must rely on fighting water with water? Who says we must let the Heavenly Court strangle our lifeline?"

"We, humanity, will not accept such a threatened negotiation!"

"I will seize the soil's breath to check Weak Water!"

(End of chapter)