leonardwarren #1118 - Despair is as vain as hope
#1118 - Despair is as vain as hope
But then, a golden light suddenly radiated from the body of the Medicine Buddha, as dazzling and bright as the sun.
Chu Hao had seen this light once before, and only once, on the Jade Emperor.
The Medicine Buddha emitted a gentle, bright light that shot towards Chu Hao.
For a moment, Chu Hao hesitated, fearing that the Medicine Buddha was planning to ambush him.
However, Chu Hao ultimately chose not to dodge or evade, silently watching as the light entered his body.
[Congratulations on obtaining 100,000 merit points of Vow Power...]
[Congratulations on obtaining 500,000 merit points of Vow Power...]
[Congratulations on obtaining 1,000,000 merit points of Vow Power...]
[Congratulations on obtaining 2,000,000 merit points of Vow Power...]
[Congratulations on obtaining 3,000,000 merit points of Vow Power...]
[1,000,000 merit points are still needed for the next promotion]
Chu Hao stood there, stunned, his eyes slightly widened, unable to believe it for a moment.
Before his death, the Medicine Buddha actually used his last bit of life force to transfer the remaining Vow Power merit points to him?
Only the Jade Emperor had done such a thing before.
And even then, the Jade Emperor had only given one million...
But now, the Medicine Buddha was giving Chu Hao at least two million merit points!
With such a large output of Vow Power merit points, even if Chu Hao had given up on killing the Medicine Buddha, the Medicine Buddha would not have survived.
Because this was essentially cutting off the fuel under the cauldron, stripping away all of his Vow Power merit points. Even if he lived, his cultivation would collapse, making his life worse than death...
The Medicine Buddha really hadn't thought about living.
He lived until the last moment, but he was thinking about liberation...
Chu Hao looked at the Medicine Buddha, who was about to disappear, his eyes filled with complex emotions.
"Medicine Buddha, you deserved your fate, but I am still willing to grant you one wish, consider it a trade..."
After all, he gave several million merit points...
However, a deeper reason was that Chu Hao was infected by the suffocating despair in the Medicine Buddha's eyes.
When the Peng Demon King committed suicide, it was actually because of despair.
But the root cause was hope.
Because they were full of hope, but were repeatedly shattered and trampled upon, every day was torment in the endless years.
In the end, everyone has to make different choices:
Accept and become perverted in silence;
Fight and die in despair;
Even escape is just being caught up by despair.
Even the most powerful people will sink into this kind of grief.
Chu Hao was still willing to give the Medicine Buddha a last bit of hope, as a reward for his blood still being warm until now.
When the Medicine Buddha heard Chu Hao's words, a gleam of light appeared in his eyes, the first time in endless years that a light had been lit in his eyes again.
The Medicine Buddha looked at Chu Hao with endless desire, but firmly.
"If there are people from the Western Paradise who sincerely come to you, please take them in... They are only coming towards the light... Even if you drive them to be vanguards, it is their best redemption..."
"Also... Chu Hao, you must become strong, strong enough to exterminate the Western Paradise and replace it! ... Sages can't do it, only you can..."
"The cataclysm will come again, only you can..."
Until now, Chu Hao didn't know why the Medicine Buddha would do such a thing.
What made him, a famous doctor who had been practicing medicine and saving people all his life, willingly join the Western Paradise and become a lackey of the Western Paradise?
What exactly happened to the rebellion of their Buddhas?
And... what kind of existence could make the Western Paradise and the Heavenly Court, which have extremely strong forces throughout the Three Realms and Six Paths, and even beyond the region, retreat?
In the ancient history of the Primordial World, some things that Chu Hao didn't know seemed to have already happened.
And the Medicine Buddha's last crazy and firm eyes touched Chu Hao even more.
If it was anger or revenge, Chu Hao might ignore it...
But the Medicine Buddha's eyes were firm, a relentless belief!
The Medicine Buddha actually had a belief that Chu Hao should become strong, strong enough to exterminate the Western Paradise and replace it?
Who would believe it if this was said?
Chu Hao didn't think that the Medicine Buddha would be lying, because using the last bit of his life, just to give Chu Hao a doubt that could be easily verified, would be meaningless.
Although he didn't want to admit it,
The death of the Medicine Buddha did have a great impact on Chu Hao.
His despair of living, which was more painful than death, and his obsession with entrusting Chu Hao to become strong enough to exterminate the Western Paradise and replace it at the time of his death,
These were all things that Chu Hao had never foreseen before.
If the Medicine Buddha was just an evil person who exploited the people and only regarded believers as producing Vow Power merit points, Chu Hao would just spit out the water and leave after killing him,
But Chu Hao also saw the Medicine Buddha's relief at the last moment. He was guarding an unspeakable secret, a secret that could make a good person who originally practiced medicine transform into a demon.
Chu Hao knew that the world was not black and white, nor would he defend evil by saying that the world was not black and white.
In any case, the dead are dead, and the living continue to move forward.
No need to bear anything, no need to hope for anything,
Just need the courage to keep moving forward, that's enough.
In the long night, no one knows when dawn will break. It is this boundless darkness that ultimately drives people crazy and makes people exhaust their courage to move forward in hope, and finally fall into despair.
The death of the Medicine Buddha made Chu Hao realize that the situation was probably more serious than he imagined, and also knew that he could not find a way forward in this dark night.
Whether it is to exterminate the Western Paradise or to face the great terror that makes the Western Paradise desperate,
This seems to be something that humans cannot do. Even the sages who have existed since the ancient times cannot do it.
In other words, if Chu Hao lives with the hope of breaking the dawn in the long night, he will also fall into the situation of the Medicine Buddha or the Peng Demon King, like a walking corpse in the endless years.
However, Chu Hao's eyes were still calm and composed, without despair, without firmness, just like when he entered the Glazed Pagoda before.
Chu Hao was still not infected by the Medicine Buddha's despair. What Chu Hao had left, and was proud of, was that he never believed in hope.
"Despair is illusory, just like hope."
Whether it is despair or hope, it cannot change the long night.
Just need to take courage and move forward.
If everyone can see the light in the darkness, most of them can actually persist in going away from the light,
It is precisely because of the long night without light that people are driven crazy, and people exhaust their courage to move forward in hope, and finally fall into despair.
Chu Hao knew that he would eventually face a real great terror in the future, which must be countless times stronger than the Western Paradise of the Two Sages, and even an existence that could make the Western Paradise fall into despair.
But, so what?
Is it necessary for people to sit in place and wait for death in the long night?
Let's fight.
If you have a point of heat, emit a point of light, even if it is like a firefly, you can also emit a little light in the darkness, without waiting for the torch.
If there is no torch in the future, then I will be the only light.