14. What is useless and useful, the immortals dispute for a long time
Among the twenty-four cities, Xuanniao City is located in the southwest of the twenty-four cities, facing the vast forest sea, this piece is the power of the Daomen, and the Buddhism gate is thousands of miles away, and has established another foundation, called the Blissful Realm, a total of eighteen big cities.
Here, the power of the witch cult has basically been cleared, including the underground underworld, which is already a Dao sect force, and the heavenly court has divided the gods here, mainly the Taoist priests who died in battle, etc., every inch of land here is guarded by the gods, but five hundred miles away, it is already the sphere of influence of the divine court.
Daomen established twenty-four cities, the inhabitants are basically natives, at the beginning of the establishment of Daomen, the mountain was broken, the temple was established, the belief of Daomen was established, among the natives, there are many people who dare not speak out, but in the past 100 years, with the death of the older generation, the new generation has already abandoned the witch religion, converted to Taoism, and believed in the three Qings, and Daomen said that the divine court is extremely brutal, and even described them as man-eating demons, among the new generation, many people have become the backbone of the Daomen, and they use the talisman to exert magical powers, because it is not their own skills, Borrowing the power of the gods from heaven, the power is very fast, and the power is not small, and there are even many people who go deep into the enemy and spread Taoism, they are not afraid of life and death, and they are extremely fanatical.
And the witch religion does have many bloody acts such as human sacrifice, so the influence of Taoism is expanding, many people living under the rule of the divine court, in private spread Taoism and Buddhism, while the witch religion is spread in the upper echelons of the indigenous people, the witch religion tries its best to kill these people, but often fulfills them, because their souls have already been granted, once the body dies, the soul returns.
The Daomen also obeyed them, once they donated their lives, with the edict of the Daomen, they ascended to the throne of the gods, and the immortals of the Daomen also used mana to increase the production of food and the like, so the Daomen has gained a firm foothold here.
After a few days of understanding, Mo Xian saw that people in and outside the city went to the Taoist temple on the fifth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth days of the first lunar month, listened to the Taoist priests' preaching, and looked pious.
He walked to a tree, this is a stinky tree, the trunk is crooked, and it is full of tumors, there are a few people under the tree, they are arguing, seeing Mo Xian coming, Mo Xian is wearing a big red and gold black robe, several people immediately recognized Mo Xian's identity, and hurriedly bowed to the side: "Dao Chief, please!" ”
"Elders, please, I see you arguing, what is the matter?" Mo Xian asked.
"We are arguing about this stinky tree, it is obviously a useless tree, but it can grow so big all the time, doesn't it have a way? Is the Word useless? ”
"In everything, uselessness is not really useless, the tree grows so big that it is not harmed by the axe and saw, and the wood that is usually useful has long been cut down to make furniture and the like, is it not useless for the tree!" Mo Xian said.
"The Taoist is clever, and a word that makes us pause, but it doesn't seem right that it's just useless." The older man said that when they saw Mo Xian, there was no trace of fear in their hearts, which was also a manifestation of Mo Xian's deeds, anti-simplicity and no harm to things.
"Dare to hear about it?" Mo Xian laughed.
"I once stayed at a friend's house. His friend was pleased and asked the boy servant to kill a chicken and entertain him. The servant asked his master, 'One can scream, but the other cannot scream, so which one will you kill?' He said, 'Kill the one who can't scream.' 'The Taoist met the stinky tree, and he could enjoy his life because he was not successful, but the chicken was killed because he was not successful; Dao Chief, what's going on? ”
"I'm going to be somewhere in the middle of what I'm made and what I'm not. Between the finished and the ungrown, it seems to be in harmony with the avenue but not really in harmony with the avenue, so this cannot be free from restraint and fatigue. This is not the case if you can play freely in accordance with nature. There is no praise or denigration, sometimes soaring like a dragon and sometimes stinging like a snake, changing with the passage of time, and not wanting to be stuck in one aspect; Sometimes enterprising and sometimes retreating, everything is measured by conformity, living in the initial state of all things contentedly, enslaving external things, but not being enslaved by external things, so how can we be bound and tired by external things? As for the true feelings of all things, this is not the case with the transmission of human beings. There is aggregation and segregation, and there is success and destruction; Sharp edges and corners will be frustrated, Zun Xian will be overturned, promising will be lost, virtuous will be calculated, and incompetent will also be bullied, how can you be stuck in a certain aspect! Pathetic! I'm afraid that the only way to return to nature is to return to nature! Mo Xian said with a long sigh.
Mo Xian said this, several people were immediately moved, and the elder shook it to the end: "Listening to the chief's words today, I know that the avenue is boundless, we understand too shallowly, the scriptures say that the avenue is natural, we understand!" ”
Mo Xian was in Xuanniao City for a few days, and found that the local people had gone deep into the bone marrow of Taoism, and they were also very devout to Taoism, and at present, the Taoist Gate was confronting the Divine Court, and a group of pious believers and Taoist officials basically did not have any corruption or the like, one by one like a saint, Mo Xian suddenly understood that for this world, Taoism is still a new thing, in the rising stage, plus the competition with the Divine Court for believers, and the competition between the inner and Buddhist sects, everything is at the beginning of the founding, the so-called born in sorrow, and died in peace, for the locals, Of course, everything is better than the witchcraft of the Divine Court.
If the Witch Sect is not reformed, what awaits it will be swept into the dustbin of history, even if the Heavenly Emperor of the Divine Court sees this, the gods under him may not necessarily agree.
After two months like this, it seems that the war has nothing to do with Mo Xian, the current Divine Court and the Heavenly Court have gone through a big war fifty years ago, both sides are accumulating strength, the Heavenly Court has occupied nearly fifty cities, and there is a large vast land in the East China Sea, but it is less than one percent of this world, the Divine Court still has an absolute advantage, but due to the many factions within the Divine Court, there are many contradictions between heaven, earth, people and gods, and the Emperor of Heaven has no choice, he also wants to use this war to unify the interior, but he didn't see that the strength of the fairy world is only a very small part here, It has established itself.
The fairy world is also full of contradictions, the two doors of Taoism and Buddhism compete with each other, but the structure has formed two cultivation forces of Buddhism and Taoism, and the heavenly court is above these two, nominally both listen to the heavenly court, and the divine power is controlled by the heavenly court, but the two doors of the Taoist Buddha form a kind of you have me, I have you, it is not only a competitive relationship, but also common progress, and the fairy world occupies the vast heavens, the background of the war is very sufficient, but because of doctrinal reasons, cherish life and kill less, have a broad vision, and know that it is just not long, so the fairy world is not in a hurry, Instead, this place was used as a place for military training.
At the same time, as a test field, starting from all levels, immortals have a long lifespan, and a hundred years is just a doze time for them.