Chapter 227: Treating the Root and the Symptoms

"It is possible that it is because the Present World is too manic."

Regarding this matter, Li Heng had a different opinion.

If the Present World were attacking the Yin World merely to plunder the World Origin, then no matter what, the light from his Great Sun Dharma Image could not possibly pacify the Present World and cause it to cease its attacks.

"The Present World is too manic?"

Li Heng nodded.

"Perhaps the Present World does not even wish to see this kind of thing happen."

Lie Dangkong frowned upon hearing this; he admitted that Li Heng's words indeed held some truth. However, one could not help but guard against the possibility he spoke of. Or rather, the causes were multifaceted.

"In any case, we cannot let our guard down."

Li Heng nodded; he naturally understood this principle as well.

He was contemplating what method he should use to resolve the spatial tremors in other places. Now that the matter was clear, using force to suppress them could treat the symptoms, while letting his consciousness enter the Void to resolve the root of the spatial collisions and pacify the Present World should be able to treat the root cause.

But the method to treat the root cause was not necessarily better than treating the symptoms.

At least for him, it was not necessarily better.

Because the method to treat the root cause would pacify the Present World, preventing it from intertwining with the Yin World to form spatial passages. In that way, the demons and Weirds within the Yin World would not be able to come to the Present World through spatial passages. Without the demons and Weirds, he would be unable to harvest Source Power.

Soon, he had already made his decision.

One cannot be too binary, seeing things only as black or white.

The same applies to doing things; one should use the root-cause method when it is appropriate, and the symptom-treating method when it is appropriate. If it is in the wilderness, not involving human cities, first use the symptom-treating method to forcibly suppress it and lure out the demons and Weirds within.

Once there is nothing left to lure, then use the root-cause method to resolve it.

If it does not involve the wilderness, but is instead near a human city, and the connected Yin World region is too dangerous, then to avoid greater risks, one must be decisive.

Use the root-cause method to resolve this matter.

At this time, the somewhat weak Ma Suxuan walked up.

"I have met Senior Lie Dangkong, and I thank you, Senior, for your intervention."

"You do not need to thank me; you should thank him."

Lie Dangkong waved his hand and pointed at Li Heng.

Ma Suxuan felt somewhat awkward upon hearing this.

She had originally thought that Lie Dangkong was a rescue force invited by Li Heng. But from Meng Lingyun's words, Ma Suxuan discovered she had guessed wrong; the man had merely done it as a passing favor.

The man owed Li Heng a great favor.

Li Heng even had the grace of a second birth toward him.

How should she put it?

The thoughts in Ma Suxuan's heart were very complex.

She felt that Li Heng was becoming more and more powerful, more and more mysterious, having long since transcended so-called Dharma. A genius could not easily create a Dharma Aspect Realm great power.

This also made her feel that Li Heng was drifting further and further away from them.

This drifting away was not in distance, but in strength.

They could only stand below and look up.

This even made her unable to muster the courage to chase after him.

"No need, Aunt Xuan, why be so polite? We are family."

Seeing that Ma Suxuan wanted to speak.

Li Heng reached out his hand to stop her and said with a smile.

"How could that be? I still must thank you properly."

Hearing these words, Ma Suxuan felt a sense of relief in her heart. Because this still meant that Li Heng regarded them as his own people, as those by his side, rather than as useless burdens.

After she thanked him, she chatted with Li Heng for a few more sentences, then walked back to Meng Lingyun's side, continuing to listen to her own man's complaints, listening to Meng Lingyun scold her for being a brainless woman who put herself in danger.

But her expression instead held a faint smile.

"This Ma Family girl is not bad, she just thinks too much, and she is not as pure as that Meng Lingyun lad." As someone who had been through it all, Lie Dangkong naturally understood what Ma Suxuan was thinking, and commented as such.

Girl, lad...

Li Heng's expression was strange upon hearing this; what was he supposed to say?

Forget it, it is better to remain silent.

Meng Lingyun and Ma Suxuan were, after all, his elders.

"Do you have nothing you want to say? You should be clear that with your natural talent, you and they are not people of the same world; sooner or later, they will be left far behind by you, and perhaps no longer intersect."

"Even if they might be your relatives and friends."

"Even I have no confidence in keeping up with you; sooner or later, I will be left behind."

Since the subject was brought up, Lie Dangkong stared at Li Heng and asked. Having been proud and arrogant his whole life, this was the first time he admitted he was inferior to another, inferior to Li Heng.

"Is Senior Lie testing me?"

Li Heng chuckled and spoke.

"Rest assured, I will not leave anyone behind. It is just that for now, when poor, one keeps oneself virtuous; only later, when successful, can one benefit the world. When the immortal ascends, the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven as well."

These words of his were not empty talk.

Nor were they some flowery, superficial pleasantries.

With such a massive cheat, if he could not even take care of those by his side, then he might as well find a piece of tofu and bash his head in. A true powerhouse ignores strength and weakness; any gap in talent or strength is not worth mentioning.

"What spirit, I wish you success."

Hearing the word "immortal"—that which is Heavenly Human Above—from Li Heng's mouth, Lie Dangkong did not find it laughable, nor did he tell Li Heng that since the beginning of history, there had never been an immortal; instead, he spoke with sincere well-wishes.

"Then I shall accept your words, Senior."

Li Heng did not say any "chuuni" things like "I will definitely become an immortal" or "At the peak of immortality, I look down upon the world." Rather than saying it, it is better to do it; facts speak louder than words, and he had always had the confidence.

"Alright, what should we do now?"

Lie Dangkong did not continue with that topic, and brought up the matter of the spatial tremors again.

"I must trouble you, Senior, to lead them to investigate the other spatial tremor locations and suppress them temporarily; I will resolve them after I arrive," Li Heng said with a smile.

Lie Dangkong frowned.

"You underestimate me too much. After ascending to the Dharma Aspect realm, although this Divine Sense cannot expand to the entire Beijun, it is not difficult to cover the whole of Beijun in a single night."

"Why is there a need to split into several groups?"

"It was one thing when there were too few people before, making it hard to find all the spatial tremor locations without splitting up. But now, with this old man's Divine Sense perception, finding all the locations is easy."

"It is more suitable to concentrate our strength to suppress the spatial tremors together, to avoid ending up like that Ma Family girl, unable to support herself and falling into danger."

Li Heng's words did not include himself. Lie Dangkong thought that Li Heng wanted to take a different path and not be with them.

Li Heng shook his head upon hearing this, knowing that Lie Dangkong had misunderstood his previous words. "It is not about splitting into groups, but rather I have matters to attend to; you lead them to resolve it for now, and I will catch up later."

"I see, that will do then."

Lie Dangkong nodded upon hearing this.

He was not the kind of ignorant, tedious, or thick-skinned old fellow. Since Li Heng had his own reasons, he would not pester him further; this could also be considered his trust in Li Heng.

"Since that is the case, I shall take my leave first."

As soon as the words fell, Li Heng patted the back of the green ox.

Immediately, he stepped through the Void and departed.

Watching Li Heng leave.

Lie Dangkong turned his head to look at the crowd of the Profound Dao and spoke in a clear voice. "This old man has already found the next spatial tremor location; you all come over quickly, it is time to set off."

After speaking, he felt a bit nostalgic for this feeling.

It was a bit like this old man reliving the wildness of his youth.

Just like back then, when he was the Demon Suppression Division Chief.

Within the plain sealed by the great net of Earth Vein Power.

The green ox carried Li Heng as he broke through the Void and appeared.

What Li Heng needed to deal with was this spatial passage.

It was one thing when he did not know the root-cause solution before and could only let this highly threatening passage that led directly to Hanging Mountain exist. But now that he knew, he could not leave it unattended.

If a Heavenly Demon powerhouse were to really pop out.

The strength of his current seal would not be able to block it.

Although he did have some thoughts of using this to go fishing, unfortunately, the other side was not a fish pond but a vast ocean, and it was highly likely he would fish out a deep-sea giant whale, so he decided against it.

He was not afraid of these whales, but his current strength made fishing for such things not worth it; one careless move and he might end up losing everything, exhausting his Source Power, and falling into poverty.

The green ox did not make a sound at this moment.

Even though Li Heng was destroying his hope of returning to Hanging Mountain.

After an intense internal struggle, he finally gained some awareness of being a mount, feeling that he should just remain silent and obediently act as a means of transport; after all, the more one says, the more mistakes one makes.

If he really made this human demon lord dissatisfied.

This demon lord would really eat the ox.

"Green Ox, you said this spatial passage leads to your mountain peak, right?" Li Heng patted the green ox and asked calmly.

"That is correct, it does indeed lead to my mountain peak. So there is a high probability that no other fellows will notice," the green ox said, naturally knowing what Li Heng was worried about.

Li Heng nodded and did not press further.

The green ox had signed a Contract with him and could not lie.

He sat on the back of the green ox, dividing his consciousness to escape into the Void, wanting to see what the state of the Void layer was exactly.

However, he figured it would not be worse than before.

Because the spatial tremors here had long been suppressed by him and had returned to calm. So even if it were truly a spatial protrusion point of the Present World colliding with the Yin World, the intensity and magnitude of the collision would certainly not be too great.

At most, they were just gently bumping against each other.

Otherwise, the space here would have definitely started trembling again.

His consciousness transformed into a human shape and appeared in the vast Void.

Li Heng sensed slightly and nodded; the Void here was very calm, without any messy Void Turbulence. However, he also observed that a spatial protrusion point of the Present World existed here as well.

This protrusion point extended all the way to an Unknown distance, stopping near a membrane filled with Yin energy in the distance. The two were very close, but they were not colliding; clearly, it had already calmed down.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that he only needed to resolve this spatial protrusion point and let it shrink back, evolving back into the spatial barrier of the Present World, and then the connection with the Hanging Mountain of the Yin World could be completely severed.

Although this meant losing the direct passage to Hanging Mountain.

There was nothing worth regretting about that.

Anyway, Hanging Mountain was not some secret place in the Yin World; it appeared there quite brazenly. If he really wanted to find trouble with Hanging Mountain, he could just run to the Yin World to do so.

He intended to summon the Great Sun Dharma Image to radiate boundless light, pacify the Present World, and make the Present World shrink the spatial protrusion point back. At this moment, however, he suddenly discovered a shadow appearing on the opposite side.

Li Heng frowned slightly and activated his Heavenly Eye with full power.

Observing this shadow carefully again, his expression was slightly stunned.

So it was him?