Cultivation? First, You Need a Dream!

After leaving Suotuo City, Bu Yi, sitting in the carriage, patted her plump steamed bun, which made Zhou Qing's gaze involuntarily drift over.

"You're looking at Elder Yi's chest, aren't you!"

Romantina's tone was slightly amused, "What a sleazy little kid."

"No way!"

Zhou Qing blushed, but the blush vanished in an instant. He retorted sarcastically, "Besides, what right do you, a pervert, have to call me lewd?"

"Hiss--"

Romantina crossed her arms, trembled slightly, tilted her head back, closed her eyes, and blushed slightly on her cheeks, clearly enjoying herself.

"Just as I expected! I admire your stubbornness and hypocrisy!"

Zhou Qing: ⊙⊙‖∣°

Tang San:

[Tang San!]

What's with that look in your eyes?

What's with that smile?

Don't think you can get away with this by pretending to be deaf and dumb! Just wait and see, your deep-seated resentment will be exposed to the public in the future!

At this moment, Bu Yi realized where Zhou Qing had just looked at her, and two blushes appeared on her cheeks. "I'm almost thirty, and I can still attract the attention of young men..."

Have you caught the Romantina brain?

Zhou Qing was speechless at Bu Yi's deliberate ignoring of Romantina's personality issues and his self-deprecating humor after truly understanding her real character.

All I can say is that this woman, who is almost thirty and still hasn't found a partner to marry, is perhaps even more "corrupted" than Romantina!

"Ahem! Speaking of which, Zhou Qing, why did you make things difficult for that Flender?"

Seeing Zhou Qing's discomfiture, Bu Yi knew when to stop teasing him. "You know, he's Soul Saint! It's only because he still respects the rules. If it were any other Soul Saint, they would probably have released their Soul Pressure and forced us to submit obediently."

This is not an exaggeration. During the Friendly Tournament held in Nuoding City, Soul Saint Zhong Dingxiu didn't waste any words. In fact, if anyone dared to question his decision, he would directly use force to suppress them, giving people an extremely domineering feeling.

In comparison, Flender certainly seemed much more amiable.

"It was precisely because I realized he respected the rules that I spoke to him about the matter at hand," Zhou Qing said. "This time, I left a rather deep impression on him. Of course, if he were the kind of person who would bully others with force without saying a word, I wouldn't bother arguing with him. I would rather walk than say another word to him."

Tang San thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out the key point. "Why should I leave a deep impression on him?"

"If I want to realize my dream, I first need like-minded people with talent and strength. Flender is a commoner, otherwise he wouldn't have personally gone to a small village to find two talented commoners," Zhou Qing said. "Leaving an impression might be something to look forward to in the future."

"I don't think they're exactly on the same page as us," Tang San thought. Although Flender and the others weren't bad at heart and followed the rules on the surface, they still had a kind of thuggish air about them.

Could these be like-minded people?

"You can't say that, otherwise we'll really be at odds with the whole world!" Zhou Qing laughed. "I want to make a lot of friends."

To be at odds with the whole world?

Making friends?

Are these two things really not contradictory?

Tang San fell into a state of existential doubt.

Bu Yi was taken aback and asked, "What are your dreams? Are they so terrifying that you want to be an enemy of the whole world?"

"At the level of status and humanity, everyone is equal. That is, even powerful Soul Master and nobles with authority cannot arbitrarily use their power to oppress ordinary people." Zhou Qing openly described his dream.

"That would really be going against the whole world," Bu Yi sighed, finding the dream unrealistic. "Only children would have such thoughts."

"Am I just a child?"

Zhou Qing blinked and asked Bu Yi in return.

"Hey, to be honest, I'm speechless!" Bu Yi, taking Zhou Qing's words as a joke.

But he was serious and asked, "Sister Bu Yi, what are your dreams?"

"Dream?"

Bu Yi's smile faded slightly, and her brows furrowed before she spoke, "So, you mean you can cultivate to the Soul Ancestor realm, or even the Soul King realm... right?"

"This can hardly be called a dream; it's just an instinctive pursuit of self-improvement," Zhou Qing said. "Using this instinct as a dream doesn't actually generate any spiritual power."

"What do you mean? Spiritual Power?" Bu Yi was a little confused.

"No, it's an idea."

Zhou Qing thought for a moment and gave an example, "For instance, if someone kills your parents, you will inevitably want revenge, and this desire for revenge drives you to pursue power! It drives you to actively try every means to enhance your own strength so that you can wield your sword against your enemy!"

"On the contrary, if you cultivate only to pursue a higher realm, you will find that your motivation to reach a higher realm is actually very fragile, and various factors will affect you during the cultivation process."

"Among them, the most basic issues of Soul Power cultivation will affect you, after all, the act of actively using your mind to move the Soul Power within your body during cultivation is actually very tedious!"

"But once you have the thought of revenge, it's different. You will ignore all physical pain, the tedium of cultivation, and other factors, and force yourself to undergo all kinds of training and cultivation methods that can even be described as torture."

Tang San and Romantina strongly agreed with this principle.

Bu Yi also understood Zhou Qing's statement.

"Of course, I used revenge as an example because it's the most intuitive one, but I think everyone can see that if you go too far in the process of revenge, it can easily lead to worse results." Zhou Qing added, also giving Tang San a heads-up, "Revenge is not wrong, but revenge should never be the ultimate goal. The key is to think about how to prevent the same fate from happening to others after revenge."

Tang San did indeed take it to heart, and even gained a deeper understanding of the experiments Zhou Qing conducted in Falling Star City—

[Qing Ge wasn't seeking revenge for his biological parents; rather, he had transcended the framework of revenge and was considering how to prevent what happened to him from happening to others... and his answer was to overthrow everything that existed and establish a new world where everyone was equal in status!]

In that instant, Tang San's mind cleared up, and he realized that if his mother had really died at the hands of others, then what he needed to do was not just to complete the revenge, but also to find out the whole cause and effect, and like Zhou Qing, to find a way to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Even if not for others, one should consider one's future descendants, who may also experience a situation similar to that of their mother...

Upon realizing this, Tang San felt a deep respect for Zhou Qing.

Ordinary people do not overindulge themselves.

But Zhou Qing already wanted to die!