Chapter 601: Chapter 500: Legacy
"This is..."
Han Zhan looked at the golden text floating on the door, his curiosity about the scene behind the door piqued even further.
"My Divine Light Talent only passively awakens when encountering Ancient Divine Soldiers. Why can this door awaken it as well?"
"Could it be that it is also an Ancient Divine Soldier?!"
Han Zhan thought of this and stared blankly at the door for a long time.
Finally confirming, that it was indeed just a door, not an Ancient Divine Soldier.
"The golden text on the door says my access is insufficient, and below it, there is an unlock progress. If I understand correctly, once the unlock progress reaches 100%, this door should open."
"But how can I increase the unlock progress?"
Without more hints, Han Zhan was at a loss.
The door, it seems, cannot be opened for the time being.
Then how would he leave this bizarre place?
As he was pondering, a faint golden hue suddenly fell in front of him, and Han Zhan instinctively reached out to catch it.
It was a strand of monkey hair.
At the moment Han Zhan caught it, the golden monkey hair swiftly transformed into the form of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, appearing before him.
"Great Sage?!" When Han Zhan saw the Great Sage Equal to Heaven appear, his eyes suddenly shone brightly.
Could it be...
Before Han Zhan could complete his thought, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven in front of him waved a hand and interrupted.
"I am not him, I am merely a strand of monkey hair he left behind beforehand."
The Great Sage had left a strand of monkey hair on him? When? He hadn’t sensed it at all. Han Zhan pondered silently in his heart.
"I have limited time to transform, so let’s get directly to the point." The Great Sage Equal to Heaven blinked his glittering golden eyes and looked at Han Zhan.
"Within your body, there is an evil thought at work, already deeply fused with you, inseparable."
"This is the fundamental reason you fall into a frenzy of slaughter."
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, with his Eyes of Golden Flame, saw the root cause of the abnormality within Han Zhan’s body at a glance.
Thus, he specially left behind a strand of monkey hair on Han Zhan, to help him deal with this hidden danger.
This was the legacy from the acquaintance between the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and Han Zhan.
"The Great Sage really has a way?!" Han Zhan hastened his speech and asked when he heard his words.
"There is a way, but it is not within me." The Great Sage Equal to Heaven said and then continued to look at Han Zhan.
Being looked at like this, Han Zhan had a flash of confusion in his mind.
Could it be, the way is within myself?
At this time, the voice of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven continued to ring in his ear:
"We cultivators, contend with man, contend with heaven, and cultivation is essentially a road where a hundred boats compete, who truly can be without that three-part ferocity."
"This ferocity becomes extraordinarily intense in those chosen by the world."
Ferocity, not merely in the literal sense, can also be an extraordinarily strong character or means.
"For instance, the Queen Mother of the West, her ’ferocity’ was ruthlessly decisive, indisputably killing the Immortals of a world just to start an infinite time loop."
"For instance, me, my ’ferocity’ is defiant, when heaven suppresses me, I shall break through that heaven, when the earth blocks me, I shall crush that earth."
"You also have ’ferocity’, only it never showed, merging with it completely under the provocation of that evil thought, thoroughly released."
The words of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven gave Han Zhan a sense of sudden enlightenment.
The evil thought is merely a trigger, slaughter comes from the heart.
For the Void Origin to fuse so deeply with him, it’s impossible to say that he does not have his own faults.
"In my view, only the fiercely ferocious are likely to break free from the shackles of fate, to walk a path that belongs solely to them, becoming the leader of the world."
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven said indifferently.
Han Zhan lightly nodded, expressing agreement with his viewpoint.
"Therefore, whether suppressing or removing, for ’ferocity’, is merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause."
"Unless you completely give up that hard-earned ’ferocity,’ give up the path of the strong, give up the possibility of becoming a world leader."
This is obviously impossible.
Han Zhan thought of this and saluted the Great Sage Equal to Heaven: "Please guide me to dispel my doubts, Great Sage."
As the strand of monkey hair left by the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, he had no intention of holding back and plainly said: "Good and evil have no borders, yin and yang make no distinctions, ferocity is inherently part of one’s body, so why expel it?"
"My suggestion is, do not reject it, embrace it completely, then tame it."
"For difficult-to-transform people, whose minds are like monkeys, different methods are used to control their minds, only then can they manage and subdue."
This was indeed a path never considered before.
The evil thought that everyone shunned, yet the Great Sage Equal to Heaven provided a solution of complete integration with it.
If this method was proposed by someone else, it would certainly be met with ridicule.
But it was proposed by a true Saint, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
"This is a method from the Buddhist Sect for taming the mind monkey, which you may refer to." After saying this, another golden spiritual light flew from his fingertips, merging into Han Zhan’s sea of consciousness.
After doing this, the figure of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven began to fade.
"My time has come." He looked at Han Zhan and said, "I have told and given you everything I could. What happens next is up to you alone."
The figure of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven completely disappeared, once more turning into a strand of monkey hair, falling onto the calm surface of the water.
Han Zhan then fell to the ground in a sit.
Following the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s suggestion, he began to try not to reject the evil thought in his heart, but instead chose to embrace it, opening himself up.
The Bodhi Treasure Tree stood by his side.
It emitted a faint golden sacred radiance, bit by bit like golden fireflies, sprinkling from the dense leaves.
Illuminating Han Zhan’s entire body, covering him in a layer of golden outline.
The reflection below the serene water surface where he sat cross-legged also showed a figure identical to Han Zhan, seated cross-legged, head bowed in silence.
The only difference was this figure was enveloped in black aura, which grew denser.
Until eventually, the permeating black aura completely engulfed the reflection in the water.
The next moment, the reflection in the water disappeared.
This signified the true and complete integration of Han Zhan with the evil thought of the Void Origin!
At this moment, in his right eye, a deep black vortex began to spin.
The Void Origin Dao Soldiers moved from Han Zhan’s dantian to his right eye pupil.
This gave Han Zhan a somewhat eerie appearance.
Just then, a resonant bell-like sound suddenly rang behind him.
In Han Zhan’s left eye pupil, a streak of gold also appeared.
He closed his eyes again, like an aged monk in meditation, sitting beneath the Bodhi Tree in silence.
Taming the mind monkey is destined not to be a simple and easy process.
Han Zhan needed more time and patience.
No one noticed that on the tightly shut door, the floating golden text flickered for a moment.
"Unlock progress: 0.000007%"
