Medical Master

Chapter 1566 84,000 Thoughts!

In the ruins.

Under Fang Qiu’s guidance, they continued to climb the Heavenly Ladder.

Standing in front, Fang Qiu took a step towards this brand new section of the Heavenly Ladder, under everyone’s gaze.

After a step on the stair…

He found everything around completely changed in an instant.

It was foggy.

The thick white fog covered everything up, making it impossible to see the situation clearly, as if he were in total chaos.

And he was in the midst of it.

Without even having the time to see the surroundings clearly, Fang Qiu’s mind went blank suddenly, or rather, he had lost his consciousness, not even knowing who he was.

It seemed that this space had a special ability to make everything return to zero and become empty.

He had lost consciousness.

But his heart was still beating.

Fang Qiu could hear clearly his heart pumping, where a desire was struggling madly and trying to break free.

The desire gave him endless power for some unknown reason!

The restless heart dictated how he acted.

Again…

Everything around him completely changed in an instant.

As the thick white fog dispersed, people suddenly appeared in the originally desolate and empty space, one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the crowd of people filled the entire space.

“Help us, help us!”

“As long as you die, we’ll live.”

“You’re going to save all of us by killing yourself.”

“Are you going to save us or not?”

Miserable cries for help came one after another.

Then…

The scene changed again upon these cries for help.

After a closer look…

Directly in front of Fang Qiu, the earth suddenly caved in, and bright red magma surged out from the west. The magma was constantly boiling, which spurted clouds of suffocating steam to him. It was a kind of depressing fear that made people couldn’t help but back away.

At the same time…

Thousands of people, just like Fang Qiu, were standing on the edge of the crater.

Every single one of them had indifferent expressions on their faces, with their eyes full of supplication. They kept moving forward, and upon every step, some of them would fall off the crater.

At the moment of their falling, the indifferent expressions on their faces suddenly disappeared, replaced by panic and fear, as loud cries for help rang out.

“Help me, help me!”

Seeing this, Fang Qiu, whose mind was blank, suddenly felt as if his heart had been pricked by a needle.

“How? How can I save you?”

Fang Qiu asked.

“Jump.”

All the people standing at the crater cried to Fang Qiu, “Jump. If you die, we can live.”

Fang Qiu turned his head woodenly.

Looking at the boiling magma and the hot steam surging from the crater…

He was terrified to the extreme.

But…

What was more terrible than fear was that the needle was ruthlessly and painfully piercing into his heart.

That feeling was even more unbearable than death.

Swoosh!

Fang Qiu no longer hesitated.

He spread his arms, closed his eyes, leaned forward, and quickly fell towards the magma.

Hot steam.

Almost before he fell, his clothes and hair were burned off, and the moment he touched the magma, his flesh even melted in an instant, revealing his bones.

Instantly…

Irresistibly, Fang Qiu showed a look of pain on his face.

However…

There was a splash.

He fell into the magma entirely.

The powerful and dreadful temperature made him instantly evaporate!

He, was dead!

But…

He could still see the magma, the space, and also everything he wanted to see. However, he felt no pain, and did not have to make a choice.

Gradually…

It became dark.

A beam of light descended from the sky, shining on his body.

Everything before him changed.

The magma, the crater, and the crowds all disappeared.

Around him…

It was unbearably dark and quiet.

Fang Qiu turned around to observe his surroundings.

All of a sudden…

He saw something.

It was a thought which occurred to him from nowhere.

It came immediately after the look, and then it kept enlarging and enlarging. He didn’t want to have it, but this thought had been running in his mind all the time, and he couldn’t stop it at all.

He wanted to escape and throw away the thought. He didn’t want to keep it.

Then…

He turned his head to search for other things in this space, trying to divert his attention.

He did it.

It was another thought.

Upon the look, the second thought also appeared in his mind. Like the first one, this thought had been constantly enlarging from the moment it appeared.

Neither of the two thoughts stopped, and they were constantly enlarging. Even if he forcefully restrained himself from keeping them, he failed. They were just there.

He tried to divert his attention again, only to see the third thought.

It was followed by a fourth, a fifth, a sixth…

Just like this…

One after another

After some time…

Fang Qiu felt that his head was about to explode. 84,000 thoughts were enlarging infinitely in his mind. His head was stuffed with these thoughts, making him even have no strength to think. A feeling of being almost torn apart overwhelmed him and made his head nearly blow up. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ Novᴇ(l)Fɪre.net

Fang Qiu gritted his teeth, and panted heavily while trying his best to suppress his anger. He clenched his fists, and his nails, which were not long at all, even pierced into the flesh of his palms fiercely.

Around this pitch-black space…

Various thoughts were still appearing one after another. Just like eyes, as long as he saw them, they would rush to him ecstatically and enter his mind.

Fang Qiu had to close his eyes.

As he knew…

If it went on, he would be enslaved by these endless thoughts and become a living corpse, so he had no choice but to close his eyes.

Stay cool.

He needed to stay cool!

He felt his expanding head and also the long-term insomnia. He had absolutely no control over these thoughts.

Fang Qiu took a deep breath.

He made a decision.

He would neither avoid nor face them.

Since these thoughts were enlarging on their own, then he could set them free and allow them to grow.

Finally, when he heaved a long sigh of relief, Fang Qiu suddenly felt something.

It seemed that…

He had clearly experienced it before.

As if accompanied by a cool breeze, he took a deep breath and exhaled deeply.

When had it happened before?

Fang Qiu thought of it。

It had happened when he was experiencing the Start of Autumn during the twenty-four stairs of the previous section.

At that time…

White Dew had just passed, and the lingering heat of summer was still present, but a cool breeze was already blowing in the air.

He sighed because he realized that the seasons passed too quickly. The scorching sun of summer hadn’t even descended yet when the cool breeze of autumn arrived. But the appearance of the cool breeze seemed so fitting, sweeping away all the heat during summer and bringing an incomparable sense of comfort.

Fang Qiu recalled that scene.

He saw countless withered yellow parasol leaves falling with the wind.

Back then…

He only lamented about time.

But now, as he reminisced about that scene, Fang Qiu suddenly had an epiphany.

“The autumn wind scatters fallen leaves in piles and sweeps them back and forth countless times. Finally, after an easy laugh, it fades back and leaves them into ashes on the ground!”

Fang Qiu smiled.

He opened his eyes.

He was no longer afraid of this pitch-black space, the countless pairs of eyes hidden in the shadows, as well as the thoughts represented by these eyes.

Thoughts, actually, never came and never went.

Let them arise! Let them perish!

The smile on the corner of his mouth widened.

All those eyes representing thoughts in the surrounding space closed, and silence returned. It’s empty here again.

The 84,000 thoughts in his mind also vanished.

Everything returned to its original state.

Emptiness.

However…

Just as Fang Qiu was about to take a short rest…

The third trial had arrived.

The scene in front of him changed again.

It was a scene of daily work, with tasks that needed to be done, conflicts, and social interactions.

Fang Qiu, whose mind went blank, integrated himself into daily life and lived a normal life.

Every day…

He insisted on getting up, running, and going to work at the same time.

No matter how busy he was, he would not hesitate at any moment.

After that…

When Fang Qiu lived such a life, some changes gradually took place in the small world. He made a lot of money and became a successful person. More and more money kept rushing to him, both legally and illegally. In the end, Fang Qiu only took the portion that rightfully belonged to him.

As time passed…

Fang Qiu got the clue.

He was being put on a trial.

The first trial was a test of his physical prowess and benevolence.

The second trial tested his spiritual force and self-reliance.

The third trial was a test of his living habits, of his resistance to wealth, women, fame and delicacies, and of his ability to get up and work when he was exhausted and had the chance to enjoy the comfort of lying in bed.

The scenes unfolded.

One after another.

A multitude of temptations grew from every dirty corner, like tentacles, trying to drag Fang Qiu into the darkness.

However, Fang Qiu remained unmoved throughout.

He did what he should do, got what he should get, and never touched anything unlawful!

One year passed.

The small world collapsed when there was not the slightest deviation from his norm during the year.

This time…

No change took place in the world. Neither the original fog nor the darkness and silence returned.

Fang Qiu was still alive in the world.

But…

He was no longer a person who had lived healthily for an entire year. Instead, he was a person lying on the bed, in a state of near death.

He knew clearly that he was going to die.

He could feel his soul trembling, as well as the panic and fear in his heart in the face of death.

His body began to ache, and the thoughts in his mind began to reappear. The desire in the bottom of his heart grew wildly.

Everything that had been perfectly solved by him came back to him when he could least resist them.