Chapter 1673 analysis

The way you want to live does not have to depend on money, circumstances, luck or even reality but your own Heart.

Chapter 1673, such a stunning chapter full of wisdom that can be incorporated into our lives and is the essence of Fang yuan.

"The way you want to live does not have to depend on your strength and cultivation level but your own heart"

Fang yuan says this as a mere weak rank 3 gu master in front of the frost tide tribe's Leader threatening to kill him and baiting him with all kinds of rewards to make him stop.

Fang yuan here is weak, poor, alone without any backing after having suffered hundred of years and met countless setbacks yet Fang yuan resolutely chose to follow his own heart and live according to his own feelings even though that might have put him in the danger of certain death.

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Frost Tide tribe’s leader was frustrated, replying quickly: “Since you know these truths, then you should know you are taking great risks now! This is our merman internal political battle, what are you, a weak human Gu Master, doing by meddling? You like Xie Han Mo? I can guarantee that after this matter is finished, I will gift you many more beautiful mermaids! Don’t doubt my sincerity, I can swear an oath to the Sea god!”

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If any person was in this situation, even us, even I, I would choose wealth, security, beauties, prosperity and I might rejoice over them but Fang yuan is beyond that. Fang yuan does not desire them, but why?

If not them, what does Fang yuan want? what does Fang yuan value? what is the purpose of life for Fang yuan?

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“I have not finished speaking. Since the attitude of outsiders is not important, what is truly important in our lives?” Fang Yuan asked with a smile.

Xia Lin was stunned for the third time: “Master, forgive my ignorance…”

Fang Yuan pointed at Xia Lin and then pointed at himself: “It is us, ourselves. It is our truest feelings. Ask yourself, listen to the voice in the depths of your heart. What do you want to do, what kind of person you want to become, where do you want to go? You will obtain the answer in the depths of your heart.”

“If you want to travel, then travel around the world. If you want to treat others well, then treat them properly. If you want to attempt flying, then collect money and resources to purchase and practice flying Gu worms.”

Fang Yuan pointed at the alley then at the street: “If you want to remain in the alley, you can stay. If you want to walk into the street and enjoy the event with others, then walk out. Don’t mistreat your own feelings because of their attitude. If you mistreat yourself frequently, then you will end up with regrets, you will constantly wear a mask to act as another person, you will no longer be yourself.”

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This is what is truly valuable in life, it is us, ourselves, the goal is us, the goal is you, we live for ourselves, for our feelings, for our desires, for our own happiness and pursuits.

Even when told he is Naive, even when told he needs to accept reality for what it is and not be naive, Fang yuan follows his own heart.

But still what is the purpose of life?

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"I used to wish for a long life before, but now, I am tired of this thought. Life has become increasingly boring. Sometimes, the final destination of the journey is not important, the important thing is the process of the journey and how you feel during the journey.”

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The goal is not to arrive somewhere, its not the destination, it is the Journey itself that is the goal. It is how you feel during life that matters, the way you live it your own way, your own pursuits, your own life.

The journey to eternal life might succeed or not but it does not matter, the journey to eternal life is more valuable than eternal life itself.

The point is not to arrive but to fully experience the journey.

Does a song begin to end? does a book read to be finished? no, it is all for the experience, the experience itself is the purpose of life.

That's why Fang yuan said "even if my life is the setting sun, I will live my own splendor."

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Frost Tide tribe’s leader involuntarily opened his eyes wide at these words, it was hard for him to understand Fang Yuan’s way of life: “You are saying the position of saintess is not important, the important thing is helping Xie Han Mo in this competition?”

“Correct, but there is still more. You talked of the dark side of politics and promised to gift me mermaid beauties, both have no importance to me. Let me put it this way so you might understand a little, I have lived long enough that I am already sick of wearing a mask to live. Death is not scary to me at all.

Right now, I only want to live using my truest emotions and feelings, I will achieve my goals in my own way. Only by living like this can I feel the excitement of life and the desire towards living!”

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Fang yuan's ultimate desire is to live using his truest emotions and feelings, Fang yuan's goal in life is to be himself, to live the way he wants to, to pursue what he likes.

Fang yuan like all of us now used to live with a mask, hiding his own feelings, fearful and indecisive in pursuing his passions, but Fang yuan after having lived long enough and suffering through countless trials found wearing a mask while living to be sickening.

but so what you would say? atleast wearing a mask offers a safety net, atleast you wouldnt be shunned by other people or having to face trials.

"Destiny is fickle, so why uphold your disposition, throw away your mask and find your true self."

Fate will always fuck you over, destiny is fickle, the world is cold, you will always face trials and tribulation in your life, you will have moments of pain, dark night and tragedies...

So why do you hold on to this mask? why do you hide yourself? why do you fear? why do you hesitate in pursuing your passions?

You will suffer anyway, you will fail countless times anyway, so why not make it count? why not make the pain count and let it be towards your goal and passion, why not suffer for your passions willingly and live the way you want to live?

Why not work the job you want? if you want to travel the world? why not? If you want to create a project? why not? If you want to some random places or pursue things that other people deem weird or even insane? Why not?

Because of fear? because of difficulties and suffering? because of failure? because its insane to take big risks? because you are poor and weak?

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Frost Tide tribe’s leader was dumbstruck and stupefied, he finally understood as he shouted: “So that’s it, you are a lunatic! You have said so much but they are nothing more than saying you have lived long enough and don’t want to live anymore! So be it you were a Gu Immortal, but you, a mere rank three Gu Master, want to live life your own way? You are dreaming!”

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Frost tide tribe's leader thinks Fang yuan is insane like all of us would, we think that it is power and wealth that allows freedom but Fang yuan sees it completely differently!

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Fang Yuan smiled: “You think becoming a Gu Immortal can allow people to live according to their will? Live without wearing a mask? A place with people has society and conflict. Survival and living are two different things. The way you want to live does not have to depend on your strength and cultivation level, but your own heart.”

After a brief pause, Fang Yuan continued: “Actually, low strength is also quite interesting. When you live without a mask, low strength will allow you to face more difficulties and challenges of reality; surpass these difficulties, face these challenges, and life becomes much more wonderful.”

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It is extremely risky to pursue one's passions and way of life, it is filled with thorns and difficulties, and Fang yuan does not deny this, not at all, he says clearly low strength will make you face harder difficulties and challenges.

but here is the kicker, as long as you keep following your own path, as long as you face these challenges of reality and fight these difficulties and surpass them, your life would become much more wonderful than if you had never done it to begin with! you would have no regrets, you would have lived your life fully, taking on the difficulties and challenges would have made your life so much more interesting and beautiful, it would have made your life so worth living and exciting that you will not be able to imagine having done otherwise.

Fang yuan could have settled on just being a gu master collecting oil gu or settled as a rank 6 or 7, but Fang yuan's path is the pursuit of his own self, his own dream, his own pursuit of eternal life!

He could have easily settled as a rank 7 or 8, but it is because he walked his own path that his life was so interesting and filled with triumphs, this without a doubt made his life so much more difficult and filled to the brim with catastrophies, but after suffering through them and surpassing them made Fang yuan's journey much more meaningful, exciting and worth living!

This is what made frost tide tribe's leader nearly go insane, he couldnt believe a mere rank 3 gu master would dare to stand up to him

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“He is too strong-minded and stubborn. He clearly only has rank three cultivation, how dare he? Unreasonable, unreasonable! A lunatic, a madman! He is too arrogant, he actually shows contempt for life and death!! Right… he does not even fear death, what would he not dare to do? All the wealth, beauties and status in the world might be useless when compared to his own true feelings! What else do I have to entice him?

But right when Frost Tide tribe’s leader was about to succeed, he failed, he completely failed. Because he ran into Fang Yuan. This person had no ‘aspirations’!

No, that was not exactly right. Frost Tide tribe’s leader believed Fang Yuan liked wealth, beauties, power and fame too, but he liked to live by his own feelings even more! That was his aspiration.

What was the point of having such a grand aspiration? With such an aspiration, wouldn’t the majority of other people end up looking crude and ordinary? He was really courting death!"

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Fang yuan's aspiration is to be true to himself, to follow his own heart, to walk his own path regardless of the circumstances, by living like this, Fang yuan finds that life becomes truly interesting and worth living.

The world doesn't matter, what matters is your attitude towards it.

All of these points join together and merge in the Poem he recites later on

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The blue sea is laughing, the tidal waves are surging.

Drifting with the waves, only caring about today.

Heaven laughs, at this hectic mortal world.

Who will win, who will lose, only heaven knows.

Human lives have ups and downs like the waves, sometimes high, sometimes low. Why do we have to be always concerned about victory or defeat?

The natural romanticism intoxicated the crowd.

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Life is like the waves, sometimes we win and succeed, sometimes we lose and crash, sometimes we are excited and happy, another time we might get depressed and crash to rock bottom, sometimes we have good days, sometimes we have very bad days..

Life has its highs and lows like the waves, normal people are exhilarated in highs and deathly afraid of the lows, trying to maximise the highs and reduce the lows but this is impossible, life is itself, how can anyone control it?

Thats why the blue sea laughs, thats why Heaven laughs at this hectic world,

Everyone is being fragile to ups and downs and are slaves to them, despite knowing they dont have complete control over life they still struggle trying to maintain the illusion of safety.

Fang yuan however sees it different, human life has ups and downs that are inevitable, so why do we have to always care about winning or losing?

Only Fang yuan drifts with waves of life, aloof, he accepts the highs and the lows and lives for the Journey,

He is never afraid of the lows nor does he seek the highs, all he cares about is pursuing his own True feelings, he doesnt care if he is losing or winning as long as he is living true to himself.

Thats why Fang yuan lives in the Now caring only about Today, whatever tomorrow or the future may bring he is unfazed. this is true disposition and character, thats why the the natural romanticism intoxicated the crowd.

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The rivers and mountains laugh, the misty rain is far away.

How many great men and heroes, have the tides washed away?

Smiling at the breeze wind, lost in quiet solitude.

Heroic feelings remain, reflected in the cold night.

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how many people, how many great men and heroes, people who impacted the world and appeared omnipotent have been washed away by the waves of life and died? countless, from emperors to conquerors down to people of high status and geniuses, all washed away, no matter how brilliant one is, in the end, they will be washed away by the waves of life.

Fang yuan recognises this, thats why he smiles at the breeze wind lost in quiet solitude,

He knows this fate is inevitable, that death is inevitable but still his heroic feelings remain, his aspirations remain, his pursuits remain!

Fang yuan is unfazed by failure and death and has accepted them as long as he lives according to his own true feelings.

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Bold and lofty, free and unrestrained, all kinds of ‘aspirations’ would be washed away by the waves. Even life itself will perish. But what is the big deal?

A noble man is not a slave to external matters, aloof from the world, forgetting gains and losses.

Destiny is fickle, so why uphold your disposition?

Throw away your mask and find your true self!

True self is unyielding, True self is lonely.

Even if my life is the setting sun, I will live my own splendor."

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Having accepted failure and death and the fate of life, Fang yuan is bold and unrestrained, by accepting death and life, he becomes free of them and they no longer move him.

As long as you walk your own path and accept death, you are free to live the way you want, all aspirations, all life, all thoughts and memories will be washed away by the waves of life and in the end even life itself will perish.

But so what? does a song begin to end? does a story begin to finish? Should one be enshrouded in gloom by the inevitable fate of life? No!

A noble person is not a slave to the outside world, aloof, free of it, uncaring, indifferent, free, come gain or loss, life or death, he is unmoved.

Fate is unjust and unforgiving, you will be screwed either way, so why do you uphold your disposition? Why do you pretend to be someone you're not? Why do you submit to reality? You will suffer and die either way!

Might as well throw away one's mask, pursue your own inner heart and find your true self.

True self is unyielding, it does not yield to life, it does yield to death, it only lives according to itself and pursues its own desires and walks its own path, it does not yield to challenges of reality, it does not yield to force nor pressure.

True self is lonely since its sole purpose is to be authentic and pursues its own path uncaring about others.

as Fang yuan said to Bai ning bing, I have my own path, I cannot show yours, you will have to find it yourself, he could only help bai ning bing from the sidelines, each has their own path to walk,

True self accepts loneliness and dwells in it since no one will be able to understand you, it is only in loneliness that one can pursue their own pursuits and be their true self fully.

Fang yuan says this to Bai ning bing previously in Gu yue village while fighting the lightning lycan.

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“Humans only live for a hundred years, it is as unreal as a dream that ends in an instant. What is the point of a person living in this world? No more than just being on a journey, and witnessing interesting things. Although I do not want to die, I do not fear death. I am already on my right path, I have no regrets even if I die.”

This was Fang Yuan’s true feelings.

Since the start of time itself, who could live forever?

Even if it was a Rank nine Gu Master. Or even Ren Zu himself who could only live longer, but not forever. They eventually face destruction.

So be it if one dies, what’s the big deal? Even if in the next moment, Fang Yuan dies in this wolf tide, he would have no regrets.

Because he had already worked hard for his goals. He had given it his all, and lived all according to his will!

Being able to look beyond life and death. Only then can one live unrestrained, only then can life have true freedom.

Bai Ning Bing heard this, and his entire body shuddered.

He kept saying he was not afraid to die, but he was still never free and at ease. Because he could not see beyond death, and was unable to let go of this life.

When a person fears, he becomes a slave.

Bai Ning Bing himself was just a slave to life and death.

However, this was not his fault, since he was still way too young. Many things needed to be experienced by themselves; only then can one gain enlightenment.

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We are all slave to life and death, small waves, small uncertainties and we are hysterical as if we are going to die, we fear letting go because we hold on so much to our illusion of safety, we think that if we just did things right and forgot about death, it will somehow disappear.

This is in no way true, death is inevitable so are the tragedies, so why fear them? instead go face them bravely! bear bravely the burdens of life and pursue your own passions no matter the obstacles!

if problem arise, solve them, if obstacles stop you in your path, overcome them! keep moving forward even if its slowly, as long as you are genuine and sincere in your dreams, you cannot fail!

back to the poem

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The rivers and mountains laugh, the misty rain is far away.

How many great men and heroes, have the tides washed away?

Common people laugh, there is no more loneliness.

Yet the unyielding spirit in me is still laughing crazily.

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Knowing all these high and mighty men have been washed away by the waves, that the high and low are equal before death, ordinary people laugh, they can sympathise with each other and accept death.

But the Unyielding Spirit in Fang yuan is Laughing crazily! death or destruction is nothing to him! he laughs at the chaos in the world and still walks his own path relentlessly!

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I struggle to survive in the mortal world, I came to life and I joined the world.

I lived my own life, I lived according to my own feelings and even if the waves toss me up and down, sending me to the border of death!

I will never grieve, lament, fear, or worry; I will savor these flavours thoroughly and I will still laugh crazily until the end!

I am true to my nature.

I am a true person.

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Fang yuan struggles to live, we all do, we just come to life and join the world, we are pained and we suffer, we are plagued by worries about trivial things, we fear what never happens, we are shaken by little things and by pain and suffering, we lament, we grieve, we fear living our own lives because it would make things worse, because it would remove our sense of safety.

but Fang yuan has gone beyond all that, he lives his own life, according to his own heart and true feelings and no matter what happens, the waves take him to heaven or hell, it doesn't matter him.

He will never grieve, he will never regret for being himself, he will never lament having walked his own path, he will walk it relentlesslty without worries, and even if all these feelings of lamentation arise in him, he will savour their flavours and use them to firm his resolve even further to continue walking his own path!

he uses all these weaknesses and melancholic feelings as fuel to strengthen his perseverance and sharpen his heart and soul, he will never relent and he will walk his own path fully without regret until the very end!

This is not just some big talk, Fang yuan has swore to himself that he would walk his own path till he dies!

This is what it means to be true to one's own nature, to be true to one's true self.

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"Even if the black coffin luck on him intensified, even if powerful enemies surrounded him and the wind veil of assimilation isolated everything from the world, heaven would never seal all of one’s paths!

There was no absolutely desperate situation in this world, there were only people who despair.

The answer to resolving problems will always be in our own hands; when we inspect our inner hearts, we will find that the miraculous heavenly power was in ourselves all along!

To discover oneself, to recognize oneself, and to rely on oneself!"

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as Fang yuan said if we look deep within our inner self, we will find that that heavenly power we thought was out there, that heavenly power we thought was so out of reach, that was only exclusive to geniuses and the most powerful or was the power of gods and people beyond them, this power was in fact in ourselves all along!

we just never realised it! because we always put our head down, we never realised the truth about ourselves.

this Power within us is like a diamond incased in dirt, we only have to put our own effort to remove the dirt and to find the jewel within ourselves.

This is what it means to be a true person in the ocean of human living with masks and in fear

This what it means to be truly free ~

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The familiar melody rang once again in Fang Yuan’s ears and intertwined with his memory.

He had once stood on the stage as an accompanist, closing his eyes and slightly smiling.

Now, he stood outside of the stage as a spectator, his eyes hiding dark light.

After living for several hundred years, the vast power of time had changed him, but it also seemed like nothing had changed.

He had always been Gu Yue Fang Yuan.

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I made a video about Chapter 1673, do check it out : https://youtu.be/CzLMkCK51bo

my video about Fang yuan's perseverance : https://youtu.be/twMdkUWRaBg

chinese video about Fang yuan's perseverance : https://youtu.be/qN9L5mo95lU

another special post about Ri : https://reverend-insanity.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000002026299

discord I made : https://discord.gg/NgbE7SQ6