Chapter 545 - 543: They, Are Just Like Grass

Chapter 545: Chapter 543: They, Are Just Like Grass

"Brother, are we going out for a walk?"

"Of course. We’ve been cooped up at home for so long, don’t you want to go out and walk around?"

Su Qianyou giggled. "I think it’s all about the same."

"You’ve learned many languages already. Tomorrow, I’ll teach you something a little different."

"Okay," Su Qianyou showed no particular emotion.

It seemed as if none of it mattered to her.

"Let’s go. We’ll take a walk around the city." Su Qing took Su Qianyou’s small hand.

He strolled along at a leisurely pace.

The Eternal Immortal Skill had been extracted and was cultivating on its own, requiring no management from Su Qing at all.

Its Dao Transformation Skill Level was still at 720,000, but its Skill Level had shrunk to 120,000, progressing by about 0.1 each day.

It had gotten even harder.

Su Qing didn’t feel like cultivating right now. He knew he had a lot of time, and more importantly, with his Poison Absorption Body, he could cultivate very quickly.

On the road, Su Qianyou made no effort to hide her face, nor did she care about the stares of other children.

One child who was passing by pointed at Su Qianyou and said, "Daddy, that person is so ugly."

Suddenly, his father slapped him across the mouth.

"Spit! What are you saying?! This is a Bodhisattva."

"Bodhisattva, please spare him! I’ll be sure to discipline my child properly. He’ll get a thrashing when we get home."

The child started crying. Su Qianyou glanced at the boy, her expression unchanging. His father, worried sick, shielded the child with his body.

"Immortal Master, we didn’t mean it! Please, spare us!" Seeing Su Qing holding Su Qianyou’s hand, the man’s eyes filled with fear. He immediately dropped to his knees and began kowtowing to Su Qing.

Only then did Su Qianyou look at Su Qing.

Su Qing gently stroked Su Qianyou’s head. "Don’t worry."

"Let’s go. Just keep a better eye on your child," Su Qing said, pulling Su Qianyou away.

The father tried to kowtow again, but his body wouldn’t bend at all. Only after Su Qing was far away could he finally fall forward with a THUD and press his head to the ground.

His eyes were filled with terror and fear.

Su Qing noticed that everyone on the street was giving him and Su Qianyou a wide berth.

Even a passing Chief Constable didn’t dare make any sudden moves, hugging the wall as he walked by, his gaze fixed on Su Qing and Su Qianyou with awe.

Everyone’s eyes were filled with reverence and fear.

"Brother, are people truly good at heart from birth?" Su Qianyou suddenly asked.

Su Qing was taken aback. The incident with the child must have made her think.

’But she’s encountered this before. It’s impossible that she’s only thinking about it now.’

’It seems Su Qianyou’s mind is already no different from an adult’s. She’s starting to think about problems dialectically.’

’She just wanted to use this situation as a fitting moment to raise her doubts, to prevent me from wanting her to always believe that people are inherently good.’

Su Qing considered for a moment. "In the beginning, people are neither good nor evil."

"A person is a blank sheet of paper. Other adults are like sheets filled with words. When the blank sheet sees these words, it wants to write them down on itself."

"Is that a metaphor to describe human nature?" Su Qianyou asked.

"Of course. It’s hard to explain without one."

"Then let me use a metaphor too. These people are like grass. A gentle breeze makes them sway. A strong wind makes them bow down. If they’re burned, they can grow back. And if they’re moistened by more rain, they’ll steal the water from the other blades of grass." Su Qianyou’s words stunned Su Qing.

He never expected a five-year-old child could come up with such a metaphor.

Without realizing it, Su Qing found himself stroking Su Qianyou’s head again.

"Since you have such insight, I don’t have to worry about you being deceived."

"Come on, let’s buy some things to eat, use, and wear, then head back." Su Qing didn’t treat Su Qianyou like an ordinary person, because in his eyes, she never had been one.

They bought a few shiny trinkets; anything Su Qianyou so much as glanced at, Su Qing would buy.

After all, to Su Qing, they were far too cheap.

Su Qing’s wealth was not something a single country, or even a single world, could compare to.

Arriving at a bookshop, Su Qing bought quite a few books.

"Don’t you already have a lot of books at home? Why are you buying more?"

"Hahaha~"

"I’ve finished reading all of those books, but you haven’t. Books are for reading, not for sitting on a shelf."

"These are books I haven’t read, so of course I have to buy them to read them."

"You’ve read so many books. You’re amazing, Brother."

"If you want to be as amazing as me, you have to read a book every day. As you keep reading, the number of books you haven’t read will get smaller."

Su Qing led Su Qianyou back home.

"I will."

「Nightfall.」

Su Qing handed Su Qianyou a book.

"This book is for you."

It was a nearly perfect and gentle Qi Cultivation Technique that Su Qing had created based on his own Cultivation Technique.

It could connect seamlessly with any other Cultivation Technique.

Su Qing hadn’t really known what kind of Cultivation Technique to give her.

Rather than worry about it, he figured it was better to just create a Cultivation Technique himself.

Su Qianyou took it. The cover read "Basic Qi Cultivation Method".

Incredibly plain.

But the Cultivation Technique inside was a Technique countless Cultivators would kill to possess.

This was a Technique created by Su Qing himself.

"Is this for Immortal Cultivation?"

"Mhm."

"Learn it on your own. You’re a very gifted child; I have faith in your abilities." Su Qing patted Su Qianyou’s head again.

’It feels amazing,’ he thought. ’And it’s a special kind of thrill.’

’It’s like being inside the temporal trunk of the Star Sea Tree’s main body, touching the Star Sea Tree before it had even grown.’

’How could that not be a thrill?’

As a being who possessed a Rule, Su Qing would bet that Su Qianyou’s future achievements would be no less than the Star Sea Tree’s.

It was very possible that Su Qing existed under the dual timeline of both Su Qianyou and the Star Sea Tree.

Not only was Su Qianyou here, but the Star Sea Tree existed here as well.

Su Qianyou sat at the desk next to Su Qing; it was her own personal desk.

She opened the book and began to read.

Su Qing, meanwhile, looked through the local histories, wanting to see what he could find about Su Qianyou’s past.

This really wasn’t a suitable place to activate the Great Dao Immortal Eye Technique. He was afraid that the moment he saw Su Qianyou’s true form, his entire being would collapse.

The most crucial point was that this girl could touch his self within the Void Realm.

If he wanted to understand, he could at least get a partial picture from books.

The 145th year of the Sui Emperor’s Annals.

In Lingqing City, there was a Demoness. Her face was expressionless. She would taste any clean food offered. To touch her was like touching fire. She was without want or desire.

Therefore, Governor Wei Cheng, seeking to eliminate the Demoness and knowing she was strange, ordered one hundred soldiers to shoot her down from a hundred meters away.

The attempt failed. Governor Wei Cheng and the one hundred soldiers felt as if they were being burned alive. They died the next day. Their corpses remained, but their bodies were unharmed.

The Emperor learned of this and was enraged. He dispatched one thousand cavalry to exterminate the Demoness.

The Demoness was unnatural. Blades could not cut her, and arrows could not strike her. The one thousand cavalrymen felt as if they were being burned alive, and the Holy Emperor himself felt as though he had been struck by heavenly fire.

The next day, the heavens collapsed!

...

After reading this passage, Su Qing realized just how formidable Su Qianyou was.

’Damn, she could even kill the Emperor from that far away.’

’"The heavens collapsed" means the Emperor died. He’s the Son of Heaven, after all. If the Son of Heaven dies, isn’t that the heavens collapsing?’

Reading on, it said that she was a Bodhisattva. As long as no one had ill intentions toward the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva would not punish them in any way.

The most crucial thing was that, according to the historical records, Su Qianyou had been around for several decades.

’She never grew up?’

There was another passage.

An Immortal descended, wishing to take the Demoness as his Immortal Disciple.

For reasons unknown, the sky turned into a fiery lotus. The next day, the sky was normal again.

The Immortal departed; the Demoness remained.

Everyone in Lingqing City lived in fear of her.

Reading this, Su Qing felt as if he were in a dream.

’If this girl starts to practice Cultivation, won’t she become even more powerful?’

’Can that feeling of being burned really cause death?’

’But those who died never felt any actual flames. I didn’t feel any when I touched her, either.’

’Could it be that I’m special?’

Su Qing had thought Su Qianyou was only four or five years old. He never imagined that, according to history, she was at least thirty or forty.

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