Emperor’s Domination - Chapter 7016

[Chapter 6937 You are not a farmer]

“No, no.” After hearing what Li Qiye said, the old man couldn’t help but laugh dryly and said, “I am not a businessman now, I just want to return to my original state.”

“Return to the original state?” Li Qiye glanced at the old man.

“I used to be a farmer.” The old man paused and said, “Whenever I came back from farming, I couldn’t help but look up at the stars. Unconsciously, I walked on this road.”

“Really?” Li Qiye looked at the old man with a half-smile and said, “I’m not that old yet, at least, my memory shouldn’t be wrong, right? Are you still a farmer?”

“There was a life, there was a life.” The old man couldn’t help but laugh dryly, and said truthfully: “In that life, I was a farmer. It was the best life I’ve ever had.”

Li Qiye couldn’t help but look the old man up and down and said, “Why, you have come so far, why can’t you let go in this life? No, it’s not this life that you can’t let go of, like the time when you couldn’t let go of the farmer.”

“That’s right.” The old man couldn’t help but ponder for a moment, and finally nodded gently and said, “At that time, it was very good, very good.”

“Your feet are so high, there are not many people who can compare with you.” Li Qiye looked at the old man and couldn’t help but said: “You are still thinking about the time when you were a farmer, and you don’t think about the time when you became an immortal. This is interesting.”

“Actually, sometimes, it’s good to be a mortal.” The old man couldn’t help but sigh softly.

Li Qiye looked at the old man slowly and said calmly: “That means there is someone you can’t forget, someone you can’t let go of. He or she has an incomparable weight in your life.”

Li Qiye’s words made the old man’s hand holding the teacup tremble. After a long while, he nodded gently and said, “Yes, it’s my wife.”

Li Qiye couldn’t help but narrow his eyes. Finally, he sighed softly and said, “This is very beautiful.”

“It is very beautiful. It is indeed very beautiful.” The old man sighed softly, then looked up at Li Qiye and said, “In this world, everything can be exchanged, right?”

“You’ve been running the business for so long, you know more than me.” Li Qiye smiled, shook his head gently, and said, “I can’t answer this question for you, because the answer is in your heart.”

The old man could not help but be silent for a moment, and finally nodded gently and said: “Not only in the human world, but also in the world of immortals, everything can be exchanged.”

“It is also possible not to change it.” Li Qiye touched his chin and said calmly: “With limited knowledge, it may not be possible to change it. In the locked state, it cannot be changed.”

“That’s right, knowing too much is not a good thing. The more you know, the more painful you will be.” The old man said with emotion.

Li Qiye couldn’t help but laugh. He looked at the old man and said leisurely, “What do you think is better, the pain of a wise man or the happiness of a fool? You want to be a farmer, but why do you want to look up at the stars? Being a farmer, you are happy enough, aren’t you happy enough?”

The old man couldn’t help but fall silent, looking at the teacup in his hand. He didn’t answer for a while. After a long while, he finally said softly: “Suddenly one day, I felt that something was missing in my life, something very important.”

“You are already very happy.” Li Qiye smiled faintly and said, “You have been around for more than one lifetime, but you still remember it. Isn’t that happiness enough? Why do you still feel that there is something very important missing?”

The old man couldn’t help but sigh softly and said, “Perhaps, I just need this link in my life, a very important link, just like it’s nature, you will never stop chasing it.”

“Because you are not a farmer.” Li Qiye said with a smile: “You were not born to be a farmer. Your life is not in that tiny world. You were born naturally and just went through this life.”

“But, I once really wanted to stay.” The old man couldn’t help but sigh softly, with an indescribable sense of regret.

“This is a kind of happiness, which makes you never let go.” Li Qiye smiled faintly and said, “But, nature is nature. If you try to restrain it, it will either make you mediocre or crazy. So, which step did you take?”

At this point, he looked at the old man with a half-smile and said, “Back then, when you made such a deal with Mang, was it just because of greed and compromise in your heart? I’m afraid that’s not the case.”

The old man held the teacup in his hand, trembled a little, and fell silent.

“So, go for your Heavenly Immortal. You are not a farmer. Otherwise, you will go crazy again.” Li Qiye patted the old man’s shoulder and said with a faint smile.

“Do you trust me so much?” After a long while, the old man looked up at Li Qiye.

“What to trust?” Li Qiye smiled and said lightly.

The old man looked at Li Qiye and said slowly: “All of this, the people you taught, the people you loved, the legacy you left behind… and all living beings.”

“No, I can’t say I trust anyone.” Li Qiye smiled, shook his head gently, and said, “I just said that we should leave our fate to each person. In the end, it still depends on them. This is true for my disciples and all living beings. The final outcome still depends on themselves. It all depends on them, not me.”

“Isn’t there the result you want?” The old man said to Li Qiye.

Li Qiye glanced at the old man and said calmly: “I handed it over to them. This is the result. I am my result. The rest is their result. It’s like a tree. If you plant it, the fruit it bears is the fruit of the tree, not mine.”

“So, do you want to be the farmer’s fruit, or do you want others to give you the fruit of happiness?” Li Qiye asked the old man seriously.

The old man fell silent.

“So, you don’t want to be a farmer, got it?” Li Qiye patted his shoulder gently.

“Since you think it can be changed, why are you so sure?” the old man asked Li Qiye again.

Li Qiye couldn’t help but laugh, and said calmly: “My confidence is my confidence in myself, not in others. It is my way and my destiny. If we talk about fate, this is my destiny. As for others, it is their own business and their own destiny. I don’t ask others to give me anything, I only get what I want.”

“What’s the difference?” The old man couldn’t help laughing.

Li Qiye said slowly: “Asking others to give is up to them, and I get it, that’s up to me. You can choose not to give, but I want it, and I have to have it, so you have no choice but to give it to me.”

“Ha, ha, actually, you have never changed at heart.” The old man shook his head and said with a smile: “You have always been that bastard. Even if you become a true immortal, you are still a bastard.”

“Then I’ll take it as a compliment.” Li Qiye smiled faintly and said, “At least I, a bastard, seek truth for myself, instead of being afraid of the common people. I am who I am, regardless of life or death. But the common people are afraid of death and succumb to darkness.”

“All those who talk about being the savior of the common people will not have a good ending in the end. In the end, all the common people will be buried with them.” Li Qiye patted the old man on the shoulder.

“What you said is biased.” The old man couldn’t help but smile and shook his head.

Li Qiye glanced at the old man and said slowly, “Really? You are an immortal. If everything you do is not for yourself, but for all living beings, do you believe it? If any immortal does not do it for himself, but for all living beings, then he does not care about his own gains and losses. For an immortal who does not even care about his own gains and losses, what else does he care about?”

Li Qiye looked at the old man and squinted his eyes and said, “If you don’t care about the happiness you cherish most, you will undoubtedly ruin the Red Dust Golden Immortal Realm of the past. So, ask yourself, did you care back then? If you don’t care about yourself, do you really care about all living beings?”

Li Qiye’s words made the old man’s hand holding the cup tremble.

“So, why would you let me save the already dead Red Dust Golden Immortal Realm now? Is it because you care about all living beings? No, it’s because you care about whether you can cut off cause and effect, and whether you can reach the other shore. If you don’t care whether you can cut off cause and effect, and whether you can reach the other shore, then would you let me save the already dead Red Dust Golden Immortal Realm? In fact, the answer is very obvious.” Li Qiye said slowly.

“Yes, I don’t care.” The old man took a deep breath and said softly.

“The same goes for this. Without a deal with you and without getting what I want, would I go and save a dead world?” Li Qiye smiled, shook his head and said, “No, what does this have to do with me?”

“That’s right.” The old man sighed softly.

Li Qiye smiled faintly and said leisurely: “So, a world without self-interest is a world of death. If not death now, death will also occur in the future. Because all the benefits have nothing to do with oneself, the final result is actually not important at all.”

“You’re still a bastard.” The old man couldn’t help but smile bitterly and nodded.

“Don’t give yourself too much drama. You are not a farmer. You are that stone, one of the three stones.” Li Qiye patted his shoulder and said, “You can miss it and reminisce about it, but don’t think about being a farmer again. Otherwise, one day, you will go crazy again.”

(End of this chapter)