Dashing Student Chapter 1495 1466: The Eight Sufferings of the Human Path (Part 2)

"No! No! Ah!"

Under the wheel, came the screams of the long-haired man, followed by the teeth-grinding sound of his body being ground down by the wheel.

The cultivators who were rushing over from afar were now all staring dazedly at the giant Chen Nan, mind shaken.

"Where did this monster come from? Given the size, could it be from the wilderness?"

"It seems a new monster has appeared in the Inner Sea."

The cultivators were discussing amongst themselves, but none dared to approach.

After dealing with the long-haired man, Chen Nan took all the storage bags from the dead cultivators and scavenged a few Spirit Stones and Taiyin inside, along with some usable talismans and Elixir Pills.

As for other items, there were none.

Clearly, before entering the Secret Realm, they had left all their possessions behind, preparing for the worst.

Chen Nan's body size returned to a normal human size, and he approached the Bronze Gate, turning to look at the stone tablet beside the door.

The stone tablet recorded this cycle of reincarnation.

The wicked are doomed to eternal cycles, experiencing countless deaths, until they redeem their sins.

"Ha, it truly is Hell, but true villains who possess Taiyin avoid punishment, what kind of redemption is that?"

Chen Nan sneered, feeling the stone tablet should say: The powerless and the weak are doomed to eternal cycles.

Then he stepped into the Bronze Gate.

Long after Chen Nan left, those cultivators finally dared to approach the Bronze Gate.

...

A familiar feeling came over him, and in an instant, Chen Nan opened his eyes, but he seemed to... have forgotten many things.

"Brother Nan."

A cute smiling face appeared before him, with two braided pigtails and a rosy-cheeked little face.

Chen Nan furrowed his brows, who is this child? A throbbing headache came, and suddenly a flood of memories appeared in his mind. This child is the little sister Xiao Yu from his neighbor's family.

And he was Chen Nan, the son of a merchant family.

"I am... Chen Nan? Yes, I'm Chen Nan."

His expression struggled for a moment and then calmed down.

He looked at his hands, now as small as a child's. He smiled dumbly at Xiao Yu.

"Xiao Yu, you've sneaked out again."

Xiao Yu nodded earnestly and said: "Yes, I came to find you to play."

The two children held hands, running and jumping on the road, carefree.

But suddenly, the sky became dark, and without any warning, a heavy rain fell. At the end of the street came a person, that was Xiao Yu's mother.

"Xiao Nan, you should go home. Your parents... passed away."

Before she finished speaking, she was already sobbing uncontrollably.

Chen Nan was thunderstruck, scenes of his parents' affection for him flashed in his mind, making him feel like the sky was falling, he even didn't know how he got home.

At home, his parent's bodies were laid out in the room, already covered with white cloth.

Looking at the pale faces of his parents, Chen Nan furrowed his brows, he felt like he shouldn't have any feelings for these two people, but his memories told him, they were his closest kin.

Feeling a chill on his face, he wiped it with his hand to discover that he was crying.

The overwhelming sadness came, and Chen Nan's tears couldn't be held back, he felt like his heart was being torn apart.

The funeral was simple, and Chen Nan had no other family, so he directly became an orphan.

Fortunately, his uncle and aunt from the neighbor family took good care of him, Xiao Yu often came to play, which helped ease his childhood.

As they gradually grew up, childhood friends Chen Nan and Xiao Yu naturally ended up together. On their wedding day, it was said from ten miles away that Chen Nan married a Heavenly Immortal.

In the bridal chamber, Chen Nan gently lifted the red veil, revealing a delicate face to his eyes.

"Xiao Yu."

"Brother Nan, you must be gentle."

The red candles quietly extinguished in the room.

Life married was peaceful and blissful, Chen Nan took over the family's business, but a year later, Xiao Yu gave birth to their son Chen Rui and then passed away.

Xiao Yu's funeral left Chen Nan crying until he lost his voice, his heart thoroughly torn in two.

In the days that followed, Chen Nan raised his son while managing the business, ultimately sending off his father-in-law and mother-in-law in his thirties.

The remaining half of his heart split again.

Soon after, his son Chen Rui fell severely ill, lingering for three months on his bed, and then passed away too, leaving Chen Nan's hair white overnight, with his remaining heart completely shattered.

Having lost his parents in childhood, his spouse in youth, and his child in middle age, everything caught up to Chen Nan.

On a sunny morning, Chen Nan directly threw himself into a well, slowly closing his eyes.

"Father, Mother, Xiao Yu, Rui'er, I'm coming to find you."

...

Everything returned to darkness, Chen Nan abruptly opened his eyes, a sudden burst of overwhelming sadness and emptiness nearly drove him insane.

He was Chen Nan, also the son of a merchant, Xiao Yu's husband, and Chen Rui's father.

At this moment he couldn't tell if he was living in an illusion or in reality.

He just felt very tired, his eyes trembling non-stop, finally closing them once again.

This time, Chen Nan became a sick old man, and the children who took care of him simultaneously vented their anger at him.

"You're already useless, why do you still burden us? We should have better lives."

"Old fool, it's all your fault!"

The children held a scythe and killed him on the sickbed.

After the illusion ended, Chen Nan opened his eyes, although this illusion was short, he experienced the bitterness of resentment.

Once again trapped in the illusion, this time his goal was high, though a person at the bottom, he wanted to rise above others.

He worked hard, but always fell short of success, just by a tiny bit.

Busy till age, he achieved nothing.

Following this, Chen Nan deeply experienced what birth, aging, sickness, and death meant, what separation from those he loved, meeting those he resented, unattained desires meant, each time filled with deep regret and sadness.

Just as Chen Nan was about to be trapped repeatedly in these illusions, a clear sensation emerged from his brow, suddenly waking him from the illusions.

"Taiyin."

He touched his brow, there he had left a drop of Taiyin, which cleared his mind completely, yet everything that happened in the illusion he remembered clearly.

As if he truly experienced all that pain, causing him to lose the will to live.

"No! None of that is real!"

"Even if it is real, it doesn't matter, no one can stop me from seeking immortality and the Dao!"

Chen Nan gritted his teeth, shouting at himself, mana flowed within him, and Taiyin quietly spread throughout his body, and at that moment, all the sadness in his heart vanished.

Fake is ultimately fake.

"Phew, that was close, this trial was insidious, a moment of carelessness and I would have been led astray."

He felt lingering fear, increasingly grateful for his abundant Taiyin.

At this moment, Chen Nan could finally observe his surroundings, finding himself seemingly in a small room where he couldn't even stretch his limbs.

The Bronze Gate of this path was right in front of him, with no carvings on the door, completely blank.

Chen Nan walked over and saw the stone tablet for this trial.

This path was the Human Path, entering meant enduring the eight sufferings of life, experiencing them repeatedly, those without Taiyin would eventually succumb to the eight sufferings of life.

Chen Nan lifted his foot and walked forward, directly crossing the Bronze Gate, thus leaving behind everything he experienced in this trial.

To prevent any accidents, he deliberately condensed Taiyin to protect his body, only then stepping through the Bronze Gate.

This place was entirely different from the previous one, seemingly a blood-red land where people were fighting on the ground, but their battles were primitive.

Some held weapons fighting, those without used fists

The situation was extremely tragic, people were continuously injured, but once injured, wounds healed instantly, and then continued fighting.

Every face was left with only numbness, eyes vacant, but they still fought on!

Chen Nan only felt his mood becoming irritable, a surge of murderous intent rising, wanting to rush into the crowd to fight, but suddenly, Taiyin once again took effect.

The fighting spirit in his heart vanished instantly, he coldly watched the fighting cultivators, slowly heading towards the next Bronze Gate.