Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 979 Li Yang and "Li Yang"

"That's why the metal ball ended up in my hands."

Lu Qibin sighed, "This is also the fundamental reason why I dare not look up at the stars anymore—"

After that, I kept thinking about whether or not to go back to see my teacher, and I thought about it for almost half a year... Just when I made up my mind to go to see my teacher, I received some news.

Li Ming was betrayed.

One of her two companions was an undercover agent of the Star Crown Sect, a disciple from another clan, but a trained assassin trained by the sect. To achieve his goals, he could even help Li Ming kill direct disciples of the sect.

But in the end, during a confrontation with her grandfather, Li Ming was stabbed by him. Afterwards, the other direct descendants of the sect appeared and captured Li Ming…

Afterwards, my teacher returned to the sect, pretending to plead for mercy, but in reality, he launched an assassination attempt on the sect leader and succeeded.

Because he knew that the sect would never let Li Ming go.

After learning all this, and knowing I was on the Star Crown Sect's wanted list, I abandoned my plans to return to the sect and fled far from Star Luo City, or even the Star Luo Empire, to the territory of Heaven Dou.

Zhou Qing picked up the Rubik's Cube again, turned the last turn, and truly activated this special soul tool. From it, he took out Li Yang's research results, a meditation method, and a book with fifty pages of content.

“I dare not observe the stars, and Li Yang’s research results are useless to me. This Star Meditation Method requires star observation to be of maximum use, and it is not very useful for Soul Masters whose Martial Soul cannot absorb the power of stars.” This is one of the reasons why Lu Qibin did not pass it on to the Shrek students. Another reason is that the three Shrek students, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, do not seem to be the type to research this kind of thing.

As for Yu Xiaogang...

He's not familiar with him.

"Li Yang, if she were still alive, I would really like to see her."

Zhou Qing glanced quickly at Li Yang's research results on stargazing and the Star Meditation Method, then paid no attention to them. Instead, he held the book written by Huo Xing in his hands, carefully flipping through it, and sighed, "This is the truly precious thing."

"You do indeed have the same qualities as them."

After saying that, Lu Qibin changed the subject again, "But the difference is that they were all doing it for themselves, while you were doing it for others."

"wrong."

Zhou Qing shook his head. "I have to do it for others, but also for myself. My ambition is much greater than that of the protagonists in all of Grandpa Lu's previous lives."

Lu Qibin had to admit that Zhou Qing not only had a clear understanding of himself, but also saw the future in a way that was far more insightful than theirs.

Even though he could see such a distant future, he was not unrealistic and instead returned to his hometown, focusing on the present and settling in a rural area that neither the two great empires nor the Spirit Hall had ever imagined, finding a direction that they had never paid attention to before.

Admittedly, both the previous empires and the Spirit Hall are now imitating some of the Red Society's ideas, but the results seem to be less than ideal.

reason?

Ultimately, they still believe that ordinary people are not as important as Soul Masters! And they are unwilling to spend a lot of money to open academies for ordinary people and provide them with basic education.

This is the world of Soul Masters and Nobles!

civilian?

All you have to do is pay your taxes!
Based on this kind of thinking, even with a successful case like the Red Society, they still find it difficult to learn its essence—those who have benefited from it will never abandon their original class without great determination.

“Speaking of which, Li Yang also has great ambitions.” Lu Qibin then spoke of Li Yang, “After I let her go, I thought we would never see each other again.”

Twenty years later, he saw her again, but she had become a fallen one, experimenting on people and believing that the human body contained organs or cells that corresponded to the stars in the sky. She had slaughtered nearly thirty villages. In the end, with the intervention of the Spirit Hall, she was brought to justice.

Because of the heinous nature of her crimes, the Hall Master of the Spirit Temple personally came to the town where she was captured, severed her tendons in her hands and feet, tied her up in the center of the town, and burned her to death in front of the entire city.

Even as she was engulfed in flames, she shouted, "Long live the thirst for knowledge!"

This is what is meant by being engulfed in flames.

However, she will never be able to feel the warmth of the rising sun again.

Perhaps Li Zhao was the most insignificant protagonist in this story, but like Li Yang, she hated the sun... The difference was that, at the last moment of her life, she woke up and felt the beauty of the sunrise.

Li Yang died the moment she took the poison... After coming back to life, she lost some of her memories and that feeling of being moved; she was no longer the person she once was.

For the sake of truth, she could choose suicide, a true martyrdom. After all, this act wouldn't affect the actual interests of others; it only sacrificed her own life.

But in pursuit of knowledge and to satisfy herself, the target she chooses to sacrifice is someone else... Without that sense of being moved, she is no longer the person she once was, but merely a wise beast driven by the desire for knowledge and the desire to satisfy it.

This is one of the reasons why Zhou Qing, in the process of establishing the Red Society and in its continued development, constantly seeks like-minded individuals and is able to monitor his members at any time.

If he forgets his original aspirations, the disaster he causes will far surpass anything Li Yang could have accomplished; in fact, it's possible that no one in the world could stop him...
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"Grandpa Lu, are you ready to stargaze now?"

Zhou Qing put the documents, meditation techniques, and books left by Huo Xing back into the metal ball, handed it back to Lu Qibin, and asked with a smile.

"I'm not sure, but I want to give it a try."

Lu Qibin remained silent for a long time before taking the small metal ball and saying earnestly, "I have been escaping fate for nearly forty years. It's time to look up at the stars in the sky again."

By the time the story was finished, the sky outside had already darkened.

Zhou Qing accompanied him out of the living room.

There is no moonlight tonight, only a sky full of stars, and a Milky Way stretches across the sky from east to west, dazzling and mesmerizing.

Lu Qibin took a deep breath, slowly opened his eyes, and gazed at the stars that seemed to be winking at him. He seemed to hear Li Yang's voice in his ear: "Lu Qibin, look up at the starry sky!"

"What a nice view!"

Under the night sky, Lu Qibin sighed, "What have I missed all these years? Really... According to the Red Society, I've just lived a hundred years in vain without any ambition, right?"

"I'm too old! It's too late!"

"Damn it! Damn it!"

But Zhou Qing walked to his side, patted him on the shoulder, and said leisurely, "A hundred years without ambition is a wasted life; there's a first half to that saying—"

Ambition knows no age.

Lu Qibin stared blankly at Zhou Qing, tears welling up in his eyes, and sincerely said, "Thank you!"

He kept this past event to himself and dared not tell Flander and the others. After all, based on his understanding of them, they were all thick-skinned and would at most laugh it off and comfort him, but they could not truly understand Li Yang and the others' thoughts.

Even Zhou Qing wasn't sure at first—

but now!
He was glad he had recounted this past event...
(End of this chapter)