Chapter 296: Freedom?
He wants me to be his pawn?
At this moment, Long Xiaoyao's pupils sunk deeply into his eyes, "I...I..."
Whoosh!
At this moment, a sound broke through the air, and a man in gray robes with black hair suddenly came to the field.
He waved his hand, and it was like a bolt of lightning hitting Long Xiaoyao's chest. The blow was so powerful that Long Xiaoyao was so surprised that he felt as if his abdomen had been hit hard!
Boom! !
As a loud noise came, Long Xiaoyao's figure flew out instantly and fell directly next to his master.
Long Xiaoyao's eyes widened. He raised his head and saw that the person who came was a Nascent Soul Stage monk, and he was extremely young. His real age should be about the same as Long Xiaoyao.
I saw that this person was wearing a gray robe, and there were two pairs of wings-like patterns on his back, but this was not the most distinctive feature of this person.
Instead, he had the same mark on his forehead. The mark was also a pair of wings, crossed and printed on his forehead, like a slave mark, giving people a heavy sense of oppression.
And Long Xiaoyao knows this person!
"Jin...Ling?"
As Long Xiaoyao read out these two words blankly, he saw the man he called Jinling turning his head with an extremely cold expression, "Don't be embarrassed anymore, Xiaoyao."
Long Xiaoyao lowered his head when he heard this. He was not familiar with this guy and had only met him once on the battlefield.
And fought.
That guy was very strong, very strong, and Long Xiaoyao was almost defeated.
He lost his body completely.
But at that time, Jinling did not kill him, but asked him a question.
"Now, do you think we are free?"
Long Xiaoyao was scared to death after hearing this question. He was afraid of death. This was an indisputable fact, but he didn't know how to answer Jinling's question.
He just replied in a panic, "It should be...not free."
At that time, Jin Ling smiled after hearing what he said, and then let him go, leaving those words.
"So you think so too."
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Returning to the court, Jin Ling suddenly turned to look at Chen Xuanqing who was turning to leave, "Hey, let's have a fight. This is my challenge to you."
"Do you want to accept the challenge?"
Chen Xuanqing slowly turned his head when he heard this, his eyes flashed like an unsheathed sword, "Oh, are you very strong?"
Jinling glanced at Long Xiaoyao when he heard this, "I'm not sure, but I'm at least better than that guy just now."
When Chen Xuanqing heard this, he turned around and slowly looked into Jin Ling's eyes. Those eyes, that kind of gaze, were very unusual.
"Okay, I accept your challenge."
As Chen Xuanqing slowly approached Jin Ling, Jin Ling's eyes suddenly flashed, "Before that, I have another question to ask you. What do you think..."
"Are we free?"
Chen Xuanqing turned his eyes when he heard this, "Why do you ask that?"
Jin Ling's eyes were a little deep, and then he slowly raised his head and looked at the sky, "No reason, I just want to hear your answer."
Chen Xuanqing said: "Free."
Seeing this, Jin Ling closed his eyes and said, "Well, that's what you think. But are we, like caged birds, really free?"
Chen Xuanqing stared into Jin Ling's eyes. There was a secret hidden in this guy's eyes, "Caged bird, so what do you think? Do you think this world is a cage?"
Jinling slowly opened his arms, "Isn't it?"
"Under the law of heaven, we will all be controlled by something, bound by something, and walk on an arranged path to complete some things that have been planned for a long time."
"How can we talk about freedom when we are like puppets?"
"Aren't you curious?"
"What is the situation outside this world? Is there a fairyland, a more prosperous civilization and a glorious history?"
"As long as we leave this world, as long as we get rid of the way of heaven, can we be free?"
"Have you ever thought about these questions?"
This guy is from the Ascension Sect.
Chen Xuanqing heard from the ancestor of Tianji that even in this era without Tianzun, there are still countless people who yearn for ascension.
They want to leave this world. Human beings and heaven are shackles, and the world is a bondage. Disaster will come sooner or later as scheduled, and there is no way to stop it.
Only ascension.
Chen Xuanqing laughed twice, "I don't know what is outside this world, but I don't think it is necessary to ascend."
"If you are afraid of the three disasters and think about ascending and escaping from this world, I think you are just putting the cart before the horse. Someone will always stand up, just like I stood up to deal with the flood."
"There will be future generations who will stand up and fight against the fire."
Jinling gradually gritted his teeth after hearing this, "So, what I hate most is you. I am different from those hypocritical people. Although they don't agree with you in their hearts, they all admire you as a saint on the surface."
"But I'm not, I hate you from the bottom of my heart to the surface!"
"Do you want to know why?"
"Because I feel that this world does not need so-called saints to bear everything. The three disasters are meant to be a calamity for all living beings, but they must be blamed on individuals!"
"Just because saints like you stand up, all sentient beings become more despicable, selfish, and only think about their own interests. Anyway, there will always be someone who stands up to solve the three disasters!"
"You think so too, and they think so too. That's why the land of Jiuzhou today is always in war and has no peace."
"Under such circumstances, it is better not to stop it, or let the world be destroyed, or let the immortals perish. If death does not fall on their heads, how can they understand the truth?"
After hearing what he said, Chen Xuanqing made some moves, and then pulled out the long sword, "It doesn't matter to me what you think, but what you said should have nothing to do with freedom."
Jin Ling smiled when he heard this, "It doesn't matter. How could it not matter?"
"It is because of the selfishness of the immortals, who only want to live an ignoble existence, and only want to leave this world, that I was planted with an iron seal by my parents when I was born."
As he spoke, Jin Ling pointed directly at his forehead, "Look, this is the iron seal passed down by my family from generation to generation. This is an obsession, an obsession imposed on future generations!"
"When I was young, this iron seal told me all the time that only by ascension can we be free, and only by ascension can we be liberated!"
"My family has been striving for ascension for generations, and I am no exception. I have been given a mission since I was born, and ascension is my life's mission."
"So I have not been free since I was born. Forget it, I seem to have said too much."
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