Chapter 144 Seek for Harmony in Diversity

When they return to the hotel, Gao Ge immediately goes back to his room for a rest, trying to recover his power of stars as soon as possible. In this way, he can use the power of stars to help Xia Lu get better, whose soul has been injured.

Only by doing so can he feel less guilty.

After all, if it were not for him, Xia Lu would never have come to Suzhou and got bitten by the ghost worm.

While running the Star Rotating Method, Gao Ge seems to encounter an obstacle, which is a bit like the bottleneck often mentioned by the cultivators. Yet, Gao Ge believes that the bottleneck he has met with is not about cultivation. After all, it is a long time before he can break through.

After coming back from the tube-shaped apartment building, he has been thinking over one question.

After seeing the illusion created by Qin Yan, he got rather angry with great hatred towards those gossip mongers, who just followed others’ lead in voicing opinions and didn’t know how to think independently.

However, the remaining spirit of Master Wen’s master showed up later and recreated a new picture. If that is true, it means that Gao Ge actually puts those people in the wrong.

Even though he doesn’t hurt those people out of anger, he can’t help asking himself.

What’s the difference between him and them?

What he saw was the illusion created by Qin Yan and yet, he didn’t think about whether everything that happened in the illusion was true or not.

Although he was cheated by his own eyes, what he did was not different from what those people did who he thought of hateful.

While thinking about that, he also slows down the speed of running the power of stars.

After a long time, he opens his eyes and stands up to pace in the room.

He keeps thinking over the question but he fails to have an answer anyway.

“Boss, what are you thinking about on earth?” Yue Xincheng who lives in the same room with Gao Ge can’t stand him anymore.

Gao Ge looks at him and thinks for a while. He walks to his front and drags him out of his bed.

“Boss, calm down. I am still a kid...” Yue Xincheng becomes pale instantly.

It is true that he is close to Gao Ge and willing to sacrifice himself.

He cannot be selfless to this extent!

He grabs his pants tightly.

“Calm down!”

Gao Ge kicks him over, “Stop the crap talking. Let me ask you a question.”

Yue Xincheng notices that Gao Ge is not bamboozling him so he becomes serious, asking, “What question?”

Then Gao Ge tells him what he has seen in the illusion created by Qin Yan as well as the question he cannot figure out.

After hearing Gao Ge out, Yue Xincheng almost falls asleep.

“What do you think?” Gao Ge slaps the sleepy Yue Xincheng and asks.

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Gao Ge shudders with shock and then looks at Gao Ge with a confused look.

He rubs his eyes and coughs, saying, “If I were you, I might think in the same way. Nevertheless, if you must blame someone, blame yourself then. You cannot make yourself always think positively no matter who you meet. It is not practical. After all, we have enemies and we can never think of them as nice people. Yet, of course we shouldn’t be indifferent to all the things that happen in front of us.”

While hearing Yue Xincheng talking, Gao Ge nods his head now and then, thinking that he is somewhat a bit insightful.

However, after he finishes talking, Gao Ge realizes it is not like that.

Yue Xincheng has said a lot and what he said is quite insightful but Gao Ge feels more frustrated.

He doesn’t provide a proper solution after all!

“As to this question, Boss, you shouldn’t ask me. I hate thinking most. After we go back to the Academy, you can go to ask Mr. Lou, a great Confucian expert. He must be able to give you an answer. Or you can ask Mr. Liu!”

Gao Ge takes a long breath and makes a decision.

After he returns to the Cultivation Academy, the first thing he will do is to ask Lou Zhoutian about this question.

Yue Xincheng makes a good point. Mr. Lou is a great Confucian expert at present indeed.

It must be right for him to ask Mr. Lou about such a question.

After sleeping for a while, Gao Ge and his friends also set off for the Cultivation Academy.

Xiao Linran has already gone back first so that he can report to the Academy about the Ghost Sect.

As to Gao Ge and the rest of the people, they also need to report on the details of the task. Actually, it is just like writing an essay.

Compared with Yue Xincheng, Gao Ge feels more headache. After all, he is the leader for the task. He led four members to execute the task but in the end, he came back with Xia Lu only. He must give an explanation to the Academy on the result.

Apart from that, Gao Ge also asks Xiao Linran to bring the long sword back first. He can put away his Flying Star Sword within his body but he has nowhere to place the sword given by Qin Yan. He cannot carry it with him anyway. The high-speed train staff won’t allow him to take it onto the train.

When they return to the Cultivation Academy, Gao Ge puts down his luggage and notices that only Liang Bufan is cleaning the dorm. Although he is still dressed in a coquettish way, on second thought, Gao Ge envies him very much. After all, he never cares about what others think of him. As long as he feels good without hurting others, it is okay anyway.

Honestly speaking, there are very few people who can actually do that. Likewise, Gao Ge and Xia Lu had a conversation in the yard, one of the Precious Lands of Aura of Jiangnan City. It is so difficult to live for oneself only regardless of other things.

After putting away the luggage, Gao Ge goes to find Lou Zhoutian.

“What’s wrong with your boss? He is in such a hurry.” Liang Bufan asks Yue Xincheng while tidying up his hair.

Yue Xincheng sighs, and puts away his things on the bed, “You may not believe this. My boss is hurrying to discuss about philosophy with others...”

Liang Bufan has only a hazy notion and appears rather confused.

When he reaches the library, he sees that Lou Zhoutian, as usual, is lying on the chair at the door in the sun, who looks rather comfortable.

Gao Ge walks to his front quietly. Without opening his eyes, Lou Zhoutian speaks first.

“You come here just after you are back. Do you have other things to do?”

Gao Ge laughs and squats down beside Lou Zhoutian.

“Mr. Lou, I have a question to ask you.”

Lou Zhoutian opens his eyes and then sits up, narrowing his eyes, “Ask then.”

Hence, Gao Ge briefly repeats what he told Yue Xincheng last night.

Hearing Gao Ge’s words, Lou Zhoutian doesn’t answer his question immediately. Instead, he touches his beards and falls into deep thought.

“What you are thinking is actually doubting yourself. You feel that you are like those who follow others’ lead in voicing opinions. Am I right?”

Gao Ge nods his head.

“Actually, not only you but also I feel this way.” Lou Zhoutian says, “To avoid making such a mistake, we must avoid those people who just follow others’ lead in voicing opinions first. Second, we must hold a firm belief. A gentleman must know himself before knowing others.”

Gao Ge listens to him carefully and starts to think about every word that Lou Zhoutian says.

“To live in the world, we cannot avoid meeting different people and facing various things. Do you understand the saying that gentlemen seek for harmony in diversity?”

“Harmony is the code of life. We live in harmony with others but we don’t need to agree with others without giving serious thought.” Gao Ge says after thinking.

Lou Zhoutian narrows his eyes, “Good.”

“Mr. Lou, I have one more question.”

“Spill.”

“Are all the common people ignorant?”

Lou Zhoutian is a bit surprised that Gao Ge should raise such a question. He laughs and says, “There is a common term–ignorant people. If the people are not ignorant, how come such a term is put forward? According to the “Three Character Primer,” man’s nature at birth is good but Xuncius said, man’s nature at birth is evil. If a man is not well educated after being born, he will not nurture moral integrity, which makes him an evil person. Only if he is educated by parents, teachers or elders, he can become a noble man. A man who succeeds in educating others becomes a sage.”

Gao Ge feels shocked and asks subconsciously, “Do you mean that sage takes the ignorant people as his stepping stone?”

“Watch your mouth!” Lou Zhoutian gazes at Gao Ge and stops Gao Ge from saying more.

Gao Ge coughs and hastens to shut his mouth.