I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World
Chapter 566 - 515: Chenzhou
Jiang Yuebai remained noncommittal, recalling how her mother had always told her that old men waving such flags were con artists and child abductors, so she never had a positive impression of such people.
Buxu Wanderer took a step forward, and Jiang Yuebai suddenly noticed that he had a slight limp in his right leg, causing him to lead with his left. This was aligned with the city’s regulations; if his left leg were lame, walking in Xiiyun City would be difficult.
Walking down the street, Buxu Wanderer observed the orderly people packing up their stalls and joining the queue to go home, and he asked with a smile, "Young lady, what do you think of Xiiyun City?"
"Like a livestock pen," Jiang Yuebai replied honestly.
Buxu Wanderer halted, "Why do you feel that way? Don’t you think the people here live peacefully, and the city exhibits a scene of prosperity and stability?"
Jiang Yuebai frowned, "Peaceful, indeed, and stable, yes, but it also extinguishes desire, stifles the human path, and those so-called three thousand city regulations are riddled with loopholes. The people here have been restricted by these rules for so long that they haven’t realized it. Now, just look."
Jiang Yuebai nodded with her chin to the opposite side of the street, where two male cultivators in Qi Cultivation were quarreling over an item at a stall.
"Don’t spray me with your wasteland insults; I paid first, so this is mine. How can someone with such distinctive features be so unruly?"
"Ha~ You are truly naturally beautiful, surpassing the limits of ordinary folk. Please don’t talk to me; I like cleanliness, and I don’t understand the languages of beasts and birds."
Buxu Wanderer laughed at the scene, "How amusing, and these words certainly aren’t in your ’Witty Words Collection.’"
Jiang Yuebai also chuckled; she hadn’t intended to hide the matter of the ’Witty Words Collection.’
"So, when Immortal Monarch Fatian banned foul language, did he ever consider that if people want to quarrel, they will find ways to insult each other? Could he possibly forbid everyone from speaking?"
Buxu Wanderer nodded, "Indeed, he cannot, but more rules can be supplemented to fill those gaps."
Jiang Yuebai looked helpless, "Senior, take a look at this grass beneath our feet."
Buxu Wanderer lowered his head and saw a tuft of grass growing out of a crack in the broken stone slab.
Jiang Yuebai continued, "People are like this grass; the stone slab is like these city regulations. Do you think the grass or the slab is harder? Even if the stone slab is hard enough, if the grass wants to grow upward, it will always find a gap, or it can simply break through a crack on its own."
"As long as there are seeds, the stone slab cannot seal this grass, just like the city regulations here. Before my ’Witty Words Collection,’ it must have been the same. The reason there are as many as three thousand city regulations is because they are so full of gaps, always being filled."
"There’s really no need for this. Doing so merely turns people into unthinking livestock, limiting their growth potential. Everyone becomes the same under city regulations—what’s the point? The world is so magnificent because of its diversity."
Buxu Wanderer squinted, stroking his beard, "Are you saying the Great Dao is simple, all things born with their own paths, shouldn’t be limited by rules, and should be allowed to develop freely? But if everything is left to grow freely, how would one prevent slaughter and disputes?"
"Why must it be prevented?" Jiang Yuebai retorted, "Look at other Realms; they don’t have as many rules as the Doumu Realm, yet these Realms exist well enough without being utterly destroyed, some even more prosperous and stable than the Doumu Realm."
"Moreover, this Xiiyun City seems bustling, but in reality, there are not many High-Level Cultivators willing to settle here, and Golden Core Cultivators are rare. The reason, I believe, is because Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment Cultivators have low abilities, and city regulations can protect them well. However, Golden Core and Nascent Soul Cultivators, no longer concerned about safety, seek higher pursuits and do not wish to be bound by city regulations. They are not truly willing to follow them, only forced to do so."
"Have you ever understood the Natural Path of the Demon Clan, senior? I find the Demon’s Dao most aligned with the Heavenly Dao, allowing each tribe’s free development. The powerful tribes die in peace, while the weak survive in adversity, balancing each other, creating a cycle of their own."
"Just like the Heavenly Dao which treats all creation equally, throughout ancient and modern times, this Primordial Chaos World has not perished due to the Heavenly Dao’s inattention to it. Instead, each clan and path flourishes in a hundred different forms. Can’t this prove the Great Dao is indeed simple?"
As the words fell, Buxu Wanderer’s pupils slightly shook, a wave of Daoist Rhyme rippled out from him, silencing all sound. Everything in the city froze beneath this Daoist Rhyme; Jiang Yuebai even saw the spit from the arguing two men freeze mid-air.
"Hahaha, there’s some truth in your words. Good child, in the southeast direction, eight thousand eight hundred miles from here, there is what you seek."
Buxu Wanderer’s voice echoed in her Sea of Consciousness. Before Jiang Yuebai could react, everything around her returned to normal, and a flagpole knocked against her head.
Jiang Yuebai quickly caught the ’Iron Mouth Direct Decision’ flag that almost toppled to the ground. She looked around but could no longer see Buxu Wanderer’s figure.
At this moment, a breeze rose from the flag in her hand, carrying a vast aura that instantly swept through the entire Xiiyun City.
Across the street, the two men, losing their temper, accidentally spat out crude words.
"You crap-brained, foul-mouthed scoundrel!"
"Who are you calling a bastard?"
Afterward, both of them were stunned, covering their mouths, unable to believe they had spoken such vulgarities.
Jiang Yuebai paused in astonishment, trying to lift her right foot and stepped forward without hinderance. Had the three thousand city regulations disappeared?
Jiang Yuebai looked at the yellow, tattered flag in her hand. Although she had thought Buxu Wanderer might be an expert, she never dared imagine he was Immortal Monarch Fatian or a clone of him.
"My heavens, was I blabbering nonsense in front of a Mahayana Immortal Monarch?"
Jiang Yuebai covered her mouth; it was purely her youthful defiance after ’Rejuvenation,’ recklessly arguing.
Gulp!
Jiang Yuebai swallowed hard, hurriedly holding the flag as she dashed out of the city.
*
At that moment, at the very center of the Doumu Realm, under the vast heavenly dome in the Immortal Palace, an old man with white hair and beard awoke from his meditation. Recalling what his clone had seen and heard, he snorted with a chuckle and instructed the Daoist Child by his side.
"With nothing to do, I shall visit the Demon Realm, to experience the Demon Clan’s Natural Path, learning from their strengths and making up for weaknesses. From today, I will not receive visitors."
"Yes!"