One Planet for Everyone: Starting to Build a Cultivation Civilization

The rich businessman did not lie to Ke An, the natural disaster was really over, and the people in exile returned to this land one after another.

It is a pity that these people are basically unfamiliar faces, and they cannot see the old people in memory.

Ke An knew that everyone was innocent, but he was guilty of the crime.

He holds a large amount of gold gifted by a wealthy businessman in his hand. Once the villagers find out, it will definitely not be a good thing.

Therefore, he scattered the gold and distributed it to every household, leaving only a small part for himself as a spare.

Because of the generous distribution of wealth, although the surrounding residents thought Ke An was very strange, they did not ridicule him or laugh at him, but kept a distance from him silently.

Ke An wasn't a lively person, and he was content to hear the laughter around him occasionally.

The steps were built to the 182nd floor, and a new family came to the village. However, this family had a very bad reputation. People in the village looked down on them on the surface, and even gossiped behind their backs.

Under the influence of his ears and eyes, Ke An probably knew the situation of that family.

The hostess of that family used to be a brothel woman with heavy makeup and scantily dressed clothes. She fled here in a panic after getting pregnant by accident and gave birth to a baby girl.

The girl is very beautiful, with exquisite facial features and fair skin. Unfortunately, she was born in a bad family, and she was often ridiculed by the villagers, both openly and secretly.

Under the guidance of adults, other children in the village are very disgusted with girls. Instead of playing with her, they often use excessive means to tease her.

The girl has developed a withdrawn personality since she was a child. She often doesn't say a word for a long time, and she can't see the innocent smile that belongs to a child.

She always sits alone on the deserted meadow, playing with weeds, chasing butterflies, or lying down with her head raised, quietly watching the clouds come and go in the sky.

Ke An found her by accident. The two lonely people looked at each other quietly, one big and one small, one tall and one short, neither of them knew what to say.

It wasn't until a series of gurgles sounded that Ke An realized that the girl must be hungry, so he took out a scallion pancake and stuffed it in her hand.

The two didn't speak, and they didn't even know each other's names, but they sat together without any hesitation, gnawed on the scallion pancake in their hands, and looked into the distance together.

From then on, there was a baby girl on the steps, who would always watch Ke An silently when he was building the steps.

When the steps were built to the 374th floor, the girl had grown into a slim girl. The boys in the village were fascinated by her and pursued her frantically, but without exception, they all failed.

Although they didn't want to admit it, they knew very well in their hearts that this beautiful girl already had someone in her heart.

Returning to the village again after many years, the girl ran up the steps happily, propped her head up, and looked at Ke An quietly as she did when she was a child, her eyes shining with a moving brilliance.

What frustrates her is that Ke An still concentrates on building the steps as before, ignoring her.

Ke An would only think of her when he walked down the steps to eat after a day's work. Like when he was a child, he gave her a big cake and pampered her.

The girl enjoyed such a simple and warm time. Even if Ke An's eyes never showed the fluctuations she expected, as long as she could stay by Ke An's side, she felt happy enough.

But when she grows up, she can no longer squat on the steps and watch Ke An silently every day as she used to. She still has many other things to do.

When the steps were built to the 521st floor, the girl returned to the village again.

This time she put on makeup, tied up her hair, her eyes rippling like autumn waves shone with a charming brilliance, even Ke An, who was wholeheartedly on the steps, was inadvertently attracted by her.

When the four eyes met, Ke An was stunned for a moment, everything around him seemed to be passing away quickly, and it was already dusk in the blink of an eye.

Ke An walked down the steps and came to the girl, dazed in a daze.

When he saw a young girl in the past, he would rub her head without hesitation, but today, he was a little bit at a loss, and froze on the spot, without saying a word for a long time.

The girl sensed Ke An's strangeness, and there was unconcealable joy in her bright eyes.

However, she didn't say what was in her heart. Instead, she took a step back to distance herself from Ke An, then took out a small wooden comb from her bosom, and gently handed it over.

The girl said that if she missed her, she would go to the city to find her, and she would never sit foolishly waiting for him under the steps like before.

Ke An looked at the back of the girl going away, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

The wooden comb in his hand has a lingering fragrance, and a few strands of girl's hair are still stained.

Ke An stood there, feeling his heart pounding, and an emotion he had never felt before spewed out and occupied his mind.

At a certain moment, he really wanted to leave here and go to the city to find her.

However, Ke An touched his vicissitudes of face, and then looked at the steps behind him who didn't know how long it would take to build, his restless heart instantly calmed down.

His feet also set foot on the steps that looked down on the sky again.

Let's go, let's go, the road is still long...

When the steps were built to the 572nd floor, Ke An saw giant birds with golden feathers covering the sky above the sky, swimming between the clouds, preying on the dragons that flitted among the dark clouds.

A monk came with a sword and scolded the giant bird to stop, because those flood dragons were pet animals raised by this monk.

However, the giant bird's eyes were full of disdain, and with a flap of its wings, this advanced monk instantly turned into a puddle of flesh, unable to even make a scream.

Ke An, who was standing on the steps, saw this scene clearly, and sighed for a moment.

Are those monks who are so powerful and treat all living beings as worthless, so weak at times?

It seems that there is no absolute power in this world, a behemoth that can control the life and death of all things with a flap of its wings, perhaps in front of a certain existence, it is also weak like an ant.

On the 621st floor, Ke An was sweating on the steps under the scorching sun as usual.

It wasn't until dusk that he stopped, rubbed his sore arm, and walked down the steps step by step.

But when he reached the last few steps, Ke An stopped suddenly, because a pair of teary eyes appeared in front of him.

The girl came back, she was no longer as smart and cute as before, she became a lot more mature and stable.

However, no matter how mature she was, in front of Ke An, she still couldn't help being wronged, her eyes were red and swollen, and she shed tears of sadness.

"Why...why didn't you come to me..."

Ke An couldn't answer this question, his heart felt like a knife had been stabbed, and the pain was so painful that it was hard to breathe.

The girl's next words made him even more thunderstruck, as if his head had been hit hard by a heavy hammer.

"In three days, I'm going to get married..."

Ke An stared blankly at the girl in front of him, and after a long while, he finally came to his senses. He raised his right hand tremblingly, and gently wiped away the tears hanging from her face.

The girl threw herself into Ke An's arms and cried for a long time, until she lost all strength in her body, then she reluctantly pulled out.

Before leaving, the girl took back the small and exquisite wooden comb from Ke An.

"If you still love me, come and take it yourself. If you have no idea about me, I will give this wooden comb to someone else, and it will never belong to you again."

"Ke An, this time, I won't wait for you again."

Ke An looked at the back of the girl going away, dazed for a long, long time.

During this short period of time, he wanted to run over countless times to hold the girl in his arms.

But in the end, he turned around with difficulty and looked at the giant steps pointing to the sky.

He has walked on this lonely road since he was young, accompanied by loneliness, and walked with the sun and the moon.

In this life, he is doomed to die alone.

On the 774th floor, Ke An is really old. He used to work from morning to night without feeling anything, but now he will be so tired that he can't straighten up after two or three hours of work.

Every time he walked down the steps to eat, Ke An would think of the girl who looked at him silently, with a bright smile on her face and a sense of sadness at other times.

He didn't remember how long the girl had been away, maybe a few years, maybe more than ten years, anyway, she never came to him again.

The girl should be married by this time, maybe she has several children.

Although a little sad, Ke An felt that this was the best ending for the girl.

He is already old, and he is too weak to build steps, so he can't bring happiness to the girl.

After sighing for a while, Ke An stood up from the ground, and cast his eyes on the giant steps that were beginning to take shape.

This is the path he chose, even if he kneels, he has to finish it.

On the 986th floor, Ke An is getting older and his hair is more than half gray.

Occasionally when he feels tired, Ke An will stop, sit on the steps, look at the clouds in the sky, and his thoughts drift back to the past.

He thought of the villagers who called him a weirdo before, the monks who fought in the air and caused the thunder to explode, and the rich businessman who appreciated his perseverance and rewarded him with a lot of gold.

In the end, he couldn't help but think of the girl who sat on the steps and looked at him silently.

When Ke An gets old, he will always think of the people and things from the past.

He felt that as a mortal, his life was wonderful enough, and he would not feel uncomfortable even if he died.

It's just that the ladder he has devoted his whole life to has only just started at this moment, and there is still an extremely long distance from the heaven above the sky.

He didn't know to what level he could build this step in the few days left of his life, so he could only try his best to build this step as high as possible.