“Many thanks.” Cao Xi seemed to be addicted to listening to the story, and even said a thank you.
Earlier, Di Jiu’s words about Gao De’s words to Cold Mountain had touched her. It was only Di Jiu’s words later that made her feel a little uncomfortable again. As for what was uncomfortable, she couldn’t say for a while.
“A ship had an accident in the sea, and many people on board drowned. There was a young couple on board, and the wife was carrying a small child who also fell into the sea. They were lucky enough to get a tiny little boat. Only the boat was so small that it could only hold one person at most. Two people in it would have been knocked over by a bigger wave.
Since it was the sea, there were naturally waves. Seeing that the waves were getting bigger and bigger, the wife suddenly pushed her husband into the sea. Almost at the same time as her husband was pushed down, a wave swept her husband away. At this time God happened to be pa*sing by, and God would have wanted to save the family. He just felt that the wife was too wicked and turned around and left.”
The story was told by Di Jiu in a way that could not be more bland, and after finishing it, Di Jiu just looked at Cao Xi calmly.
“No more?” Cao Xi felt that the story wasn’t finished, and that’s when he asked.
Seeing that Di Jiu did not say anything, Cao Xi sighed, “That woman is indeed vicious, but that child is innocent.”
Di Jiu gave Cao Xi a contemptuous look and continued, “Luckily a large ship pa*sed by and saved her and the child. More than twenty years later, the wife finally brought up the child. When the children had started a family and the wife was left alone, one day the wife suddenly understood why her husband had asked her to push her overboard back then.”
“It was the man who made his wife push off into the sea?” Cao Xi asked subconsciously, then frowned again.
If the man wanted his wife and child to survive, then he should have taken the initiative to jump into the sea.
Di Jiu didn’t answer Cao Xi’s question and said, “Many people later speculated that the man was terminally ill, but that wasn’t actually the case. The man only told his wife that if he and the child survived, the child would definitely not survive. Because he would miss his wife, drink and indulge himself, he would end up leaving the child to fend for himself. But he did not have the courage to jump into the sea, and he only hoped that his wife would help him.
His wife loved him very much, but she loved her children just as much. She pushed him overboard with tears in her eyes, feeling guilty but having to be strong for the sake of her child.”
“And what did his wife understand?” Cao Xi asked.
Di Jiu’s voice seemed to be answering Cao Xie and seemed to be answering himself, “It was because of love, he knew that her wife loved him very much and was afraid that once he died, his wife would not be able to bear the blow and eventually fail to raise the child. He asked his wife to push him into the sea while saying that he did not have the courage to jump overboard. It was to make her wife feel less love for him in her heart and turn that love into guilt. When people have guilt, they can still live as long as they have something to hold on to. If one knows that one has lost love, then it is hard to live.”
Cao Xie looked at Di Jiu in a daze and murmured, “When one has guilt, one can still live as long as one has something to hold on to. If one knows that one has lost love, then it will be hard to live.”
After a long time, he bowed to Di Jiu, “Thank you, I think I have understood. I am sure that you are really not the Daoist Monarch of Ten Thousand Poisons.”
In Di Jiu’s story, she was the god who was high above the world but jumped to conclusions without even understanding the causes and consequences, and she was also the giant wave in the ocean. The Daoist monarch of ten thousand poisons is the boat that pa*ses by and saves the woman and the child. Di Jiu was the equivalent of the man who, after saving his wife and child, was still being hunted by her, the god, for over a hundred years.
“Understood on this farewell, don’t chase and kill me again.” After saying that, Di Jiu accelerated his speed and left.
Cao Xie still sped up and followed Di Jiu, not waiting for Di Jiu to ask, Cao Xie smiled to himself, “I have been with you for a short time, but I have heard many truths that I have never heard normally, although simple, they are very thought provoking.”
There was a pause before Cao Xie continued, “Do you want to know my story?”
Di Jiu really wanted to know where Cao Xie came from, and Cao Xie’s face just changed, then she grabbed a sharp stone on the roadside and scratched herself across the face a few times.
That beautiful and compelling face turned hideous in the blink of an eye.
It was only at this moment that Di Jiu noticed a line of people approaching, a line of five guys, each of whom was tall and sturdy.
Although Di Jiu wasn’t really tall, he was still about 5’8″. The shortest stature of the guys here was also two metres away.
A few of them stopped Di Jiu and Cao Xie both, a flurry of gibberish, Di Jiu and Cao Xie looked at each other, they didn’t understand a word.
One of the tall men grabbed a rope and tried to tie Di Jiu and Cao Xi up.
Perhaps because Di Jiu and Cao Xi had a better attitude, the tall men tied Di Jiu and Cao Xi up, but did not continue to do anything to them, they only gestured, meaning that Di Jiu and Cao Xi had to follow them.
Cao Xi and Di Jiu walked in the middle, and she looked at Di Jiu in confusion, “Didn’t you say that when people hit you and scold you, you have to return the favour? How come you didn’t resist at all and just got tied up by them?”
Di Jiu said indifferently, “I can easily take care of these five people, but haven’t you noticed that there are hundreds of people further away from them? Once there is a situation here, those hundreds of people will definitely surround us. Besides, even if there are hundreds of us, they can gather more people to surround us in the quickest time possible. I did have to return the favour, but when I was destined to suffer an immediate loss, couldn’t I just gather my strength and return it later?
Besides, that was not the main reason why I did not fight back. The main reason I don’t fight back is because I can’t fight back. Because I don’t know where this is yet, and once I do, then I will become antagonistic to the people here. I might not even have a place to survive. What does it matter if they tie us up now, at least they will take us to where they live and let us figure out what this place is.”
Even if Di Jiu’s Dao was completely unusable, this bit of rope would not be able to bind him, and he could leave at any time. The important thing was that he could keep trying to build his own rules here now that he was tied up, just as well, so that he could recover his cultivation as soon as possible.
Cao Xie said, “You are a different person, different from all the people I have met before.”
“I’ve told my story, you tell yours too.” Di Jiu could see that although the man here was tall in stature, yet he didn’t have any divine dao techniques on him, at best he was just incredibly powerful and had a strong physical body.
In this place, as long as he was given time, he would be able to recover his strength.
Cao Xie smiled faintly, even though her face was scratched hideously and terribly, her smile still carried a sense of cleanliness.
As if recalling something long ago, Cao Xie looked into the distance for a while before saying, “A long time ago, the Five Elemental Universe was chaotic, and then the Five Elemental Universe opened up, and the Opening Heaven Dao Rhyme also created some extremely strong people. Two of them were the most powerful, and they had the best chance. The man had obtained eight Dao Laws of Greatness, but the woman had obtained one Dao Law of Greatness as well. In addition to that, that woman also obtained 10% of the Essence Dao Rhyme of the Open Heaven Universe and used it to condense her own Dao ……”
Di Jiu looked at Cao Xi in front of him in amazement, “The woman you’re talking about wouldn’t be yourself, would she?”
Cao Xi sighed again, “That man’s name is Du Bu, and that woman’s name is Cao Xi. So you guessed right, that woman is me.”
Di Jiu stood in awe, he had heard so many stories of Du Bu, they were like thunder. Not to mention Du Bu, even Du Bu’s disciple Du Mor, that was just as powerful as a guy to the extreme. There was also Du Zi scar who had become friends with him, all of whom were powerful people standing at the peak of the universe.
He did not expect that this Cao Xi, who was in front of him, was a contemporary of Du Bu.