Chapter 1037: The Mysterious Man
"Does it matter who I am?"
The shadow gradually emerged from the dark night, revealing an unfamiliar face with distinct features and a confident smile.
Liu Zixuan fished out a cigarette from his pocket and just lit it when the man snatched it away, took a couple of puffs at the corner of his mouth, and asked, "Have you seen Stephen Chow’s ’Journey to the West’?"
Liu Zixuan lit another cigarette and asked puzzledly, "I have, what’s up?"
"At the ending, Zizun Bao stands on the wall holding Fairy Zixia in his arms, gazing at Sun Wukong growing distant below, and says something." The man paused, then laughed word by word: "Look, that person looks like a dog!"
"Are you mocking me?" Liu Zixuan laughed.
"You can see it as mockery, or you can see it as praise!"
The man lay directly on the rooftop, gazing at the shining stars in the sky, and laughed: "This sentence has different meanings for everyone."
"Uh-huh!" Liu Zixuan shrugged his shoulders, waiting for the man to continue.
The man flicked the cigarette ash and continued: "Some say living is like being a dog—enjoying the owner’s care while also facing disdain and abandonment from many. Others say one must live like a human to escape a dog’s fate."
"Those who say enjoy care and face disdain and abandonment are often the most ordinary people in life. They’ll suffer blows when abandoned yet find comfort during kindness. They often live in these two states, leading to an unimpressive life, muddling through."
"But those who say live like a human are unwilling to accept fate’s arrangement, aiming to break through themselves, not wanting to be seen as ’dogs’ by others but to be their own masters. Such people love to strive and challenge, and they mostly are leaders in various fields."
"How about you? How do you interpret that sentence?" Liu Zixuan asked.
The man didn’t hurry to answer but countered: "How do you interpret that sentence?"
"Wearing the golden circlet to achieve righteousness but can’t love you, yet without it can’t save you. Zizun Bao has good brothers, a loved one, rushing through the world for them, but in the end must choose between righteousness and great love."
Liu Zixuan paused, his expression turning peculiar: "When having nothing, one dreams like Zizun Bao to gain strength and loved ones, but this world is fair; being a hero wearing armor and stepping on clouds means you lose something."
"At your last moment, with no choice, asking oneself, you know whom you love, thus must choose—whether to complete the person you love or selfishly for yourself."
The man laughed: "Therefore, Zizun Bao must put away his selfishness to save Fairy Zixia and fulfill righteousness, then become a cloud-stepping, armor-wearing Sun Wukong. Only by doing this, he merely loses himself, not others."
Liu Zixuan heard this and twitched several times at the corner of his mouth: "If you want to gain something, you have to lose something."
The man patted Liu Zixuan’s shoulder: "You were asking me how I interpret that sentence, right?"
"How do you interpret it?" Liu Zixuan asked.
"Live with joy and die with sorrow!"
The man flicked the cigarette butt through the air in an arc, murmuring.
Liu Zixuan furrowed his brow: "That sentence..."
"I believe you will soon truly understand it." The man slightly raised the corner of his mouth: "Alright, I’ve said what I needed to say, leaving now!"
"Wait!" Liu Zixuan stood up: "Who exactly are you?"
"You wouldn’t want to know who I am. Otherwise, if I appear in my true identity to see you, I’d be tempted to kill you!" The man’s eyes flashed with a cold gleam, then he jumped to the ground and disappeared without a trace in seconds.
Liu Zixuan squinted his eyes, gazing at the night sky returning to emptiness again, "Appearing strangely, telling me such a truth, then saying you want to kill me? Does your brain have a hole or something?"
"Whoa, Zixuan bro, come down quickly!"
Just then, Tiger’s voice rose from the ground.
Liu Zixuan looked down: "Why are you shouting?"
"Isn’t it? We’re fine here, and the brothers haven’t idled finding ways to save you, you can’t think so negatively to jump off the building!" Tiger said anxiously.
Liu Zixuan’s forehead immediately showed several black lines: "It’s you who should jump... Ouch!"
In words, he lost his footing and fell straight down, realizing in mid-air, he’s just an ordinary person now!
Even though the building isn’t high, falling isn’t good either!
Tiger saw Liu Zixuan really jumping down and rushed forward, but the City Center Restaurant is merely two floors, first surprised, then past too late, no time to perform cultivation techniques, directly becoming a meat cushion below!
Thud!
Liu Zixuan grinned and rubbed his back to get up: "Whoa, jumping down from this high didn’t kill me, seems my physique is quite good!"
"I don’t know how good your physique is, but I know I might need to lie in bed for a few days!"
Tiger’s features twisted together, enduring the pain to get up: "Zixuan bro, can’t do this, it’s not like we still have three months, why think negatively to jump off?"
Liu Zixuan slapped him: "Jump your sister, I lost footing and fell! Besides, have you seen someone jump off a two-story roof?"
"That’s true; two floors indeed won’t kill anyone." Tiger murmured.
Liu Zixuan pinched his forehead: "Dammit, why do I know this dumb tiger!"
"Hey, hey, hey, Zixuan bro, what were you doing on the roof then?"
Liu Zixuan paused his steps: "Did you see a shadow earlier?"
Tiger looked at Liu Zixuan dumbfounded: "No, did you see an illusion?"
Liu Zixuan squinted slightly, considering Tiger is now an Innate Emperor Realm powerhouse, such that he should have felt the man that appeared earlier.
By this reasoning, might that man’s realm be much higher than Tiger’s?
But thinking back and forth, Liu Zixuan truly couldn’t recall knowing such a person.
Unwillingly shook his head: "Everyone left?"
"Everyone left, your wife called and asked us to take you back, searched a circle without finding you." Tiger’s body seemed to scatter, shook a bit: "Let’s go, Yiyi said there’s some news to tell you."
"What news?"
"Seems someone from Jiang Family came, specifics I’m not too clear." Saying this, Tiger led Liu Zixuan out of the restaurant together.