HLnovel Chapter 538 Xue Lan, you have your own heart.
Chapter 538 Xue Lan, you have your own heart.
"What do you care if I'm dreaming or not?"
Xue Lan swung the hammer and struck the iron block beneath her, watching the sparks fly from it as it struck:
"This is currently the best and only way to preserve the Yuanming Realm!"
Heaven was indignant, and the young man picked up a spirit stone from under his body and threw it at Xue Lan:
"You are being treasonous!"
Xue Lan put down the hammer and shrugged: "How is that so rebellious? I never intended to remove you from your position in the Heavenly Dao."
Looking at the smile on Xue Lan's face, Xue Tong thought to herself, "This guy is really annoying!"
Xue Lan truly had no intention of becoming the Heavenly Dao; she wanted to become the Lord of the Yuanming Realm, transcending the Heavenly Dao and controlling the entire Yuanming Realm.
Xue Tong, putting himself in others' shoes from the perspective of the Dao, probably thought:
I supported your efforts to save the world, and now you want to be my father!
Anyone would find that intolerable.
Xue Lan threw the iron block, which she had hammered herself, back into the smelting furnace. Then, she crossed her arms and looked at the boy on the pile of spirit stones, her bright gray eyes sparkling.
"Have you thought it through? You have no other choice."
Tiandao looked at Xue Lan and spoke with hatred:
Aren't you afraid I'll find someone else to save the world?
"This is indeed a troublesome matter," Xue Lan said with a light laugh, then looked at Xue Tong:
"If He stops letting me save the world, will you find a new host?"
Xue Tong quickly and honestly shook her head: "No."
Seemingly feeling that her answer wasn't firm enough, the girl looked into Xue Lan's eyes and spoke again solemnly:
"I will always be with you."
Xue Lan felt a warmth in her heart and smiled with satisfaction.
Lord Wolf tilted his head at the Heavenly Dao: "Are you really going to change it? If you do, I won't care anymore."
"Xue Lan!"
The young man shouted, but his fierceness was merely a facade; he was utterly intimidated by Xue Lan, a man who had been a traitor for two lifetimes.
The woman put down the hammer, took a few steps forward, met the golden eyes of the Heavenly Dao, and spoke in a light and carefree tone:
"Stop struggling, you can only choose me."
"Your strength is far inferior to that of the previous Heavenly Dao, and you have no way to annihilate the new Heavenly Dao that was born before. You have no other choice but to trust me!"
Tian Dao turned his head away from her, his voice deep and hoarse:
"I will not hand over the entire Yuanming Realm to one person."
"Xue Lan, do you understand what I mean?"
He himself is the Heavenly Dao of the Yuanming Realm, and can treat every living being here without any selfishness.
But what about Xue Lan?
Born in the Northern Region of the Yuanming Upper Realm, Lord Wolf King had a clan he desperately protected in his previous life, and in this life, he has a sect and mentors he cares about...
The boy's voice was gentle yet sorrowful, and his golden eyes held a deep compassion for the myriad beings of the Yuanming Realm.
"Xue Lan, you have your own heart!"
"Among the myriad beings in the Yuanming Realm, some humans and demons touched that heart long ago."
He didn't blame Xue Lan for being biased; only when living beings have their own selfish desires can they be vibrant and natural.
Xue Tong finally understood what the boy meant, and she couldn't help but speak up:
"But those mountain and water deities, city gods and land gods in the Yuanming Realm also had their own selfish motives, right? Why can't Xue Lan..."
"A heart can keep expanding." The Heavenly Dao interrupted Xue Tong:
"But there's always a limit."
"Mountain and water deities, city gods and local gods are upright and selfless when they guard their own territories, without any selfish motives. But their hearts can only control that one area at most."
The young man looked at Xue Lan, his words piercing her heart:
"Why did Lord Wolf King save Yuan Mingjie?"
"Is it really for the sake of the countless lives lost?"
Xue Lan wanted to say yes, but a specific face first appeared in her mind.
Ling Yuanzi, Jin Guang, Ji Jinjin, Zhu He, Cui Wu...
Familiar faces flashed through her mind, and Xue Lan chuckled hoarsely twice:
"You were right, Xue Lan is biased."
The woman's voice was gentle yet solemn, and her eyes curved like the moon in the sky.
"If there were no one Xue Lan loved or wanted to protect in the Yuanming Realm, I would probably watch it be destroyed little by little by the demons without doing anything."
Tiandao's heart slowly sank to the ground, and the boy bit his lip in grievance.
As Xue Lan said, He could not find a savior more suitable for the Yuanming Realm than Xue Lan.
If Xue Lan didn't want to become the realm lord...
The boy looked up at Xue Lan, and spoke as if he had made up his mind:
"How about we make a deal? I'll grant you supreme authority in return..."
"I do not want to."
Before Tiandao could finish speaking, Xue Lan coldly interrupted.
"Xue Lan, I haven't stated my conditions yet."
"But I already know what you're going to say?" Xue Lan said with a playful smile, her words exceptionally clear:
"You want to trade the authority of Heaven with me so that I can save the world."
"Having inherited the authority of the Heavenly Dao, I am now the next Heavenly Dao. Having lost my selfishness, I will henceforth love all living beings in the Yuanming Realm."
The iron blocks melting in the smelting furnace hissed, producing a faint "hissing" sound that was particularly clear in the silent forging cave.
Urgent and faint, like the beings of the Yuanming Realm struggling amidst demonic chaos, urging the Heavenly Dao to make its own choice.
Xue Lan looked at the Heavenly Dao.
Ten thousand years is hundreds of reincarnations for ordinary mortals.
For immortals, it means a long and arduous period of cultivation.
For this supreme Heavenly Dao of the Yuanming Realm, however, it was extremely brief.
No one taught Him how to recognize His own selfishness.
Just when Tiandao thought he was destined to return empty-handed, Xue Lan spoke softly:
"Don't you think you're being a little biased by asking me to give up my own feelings?"
"What?" the boy asked in surprise.
"What did you say?"
Xue Lan fished out the iron block that was constantly "screaming" in the smelting furnace and threw it into the water tank without hesitation.
The woman's expression was icy:
"Forcing me to give up my own feelings for the sake of countless lives in the Yuanming Realm, don't you think that's a bit unfair?"
The Heavenly Dao was momentarily at a loss, and the young man stammered as he spoke:
“I am not… I gave you the authority of the Heavenly Way.”
“But I don’t want it,” Xue Lan said dramatically.
"I prefer my own emotions to the power to control the entire Yuanming Realm."
She loved the snow and wind of the Northern Plains. When she was little, her father and mother often took her and Xue Cheng to play on the snowfield.
She loved the osmanthus flowers of the Xuanhuang Sect, and Qinghe would pick osmanthus flowers every year to make her sweet osmanthus cakes...
The Heavenly Dao stood frozen in place, its expression blank and bewildered, like a child who had just been born into the world.
Xue Lan resisted the urge to pat His head and spoke gently:
Why do you only love the myriad beings of the Yuanming Realm?
Why not look at other worlds?
"Because that's my responsibility..." The boy's expression changed as he subconsciously replied, then he looked at Xue Lan in astonishment.
Lord Wolf King laughed heartily and said loudly:
"Because the Yuanming Realm is your selfish desire!"
"To be heartless and selfless is truly heinous!"