Chapter 18: This Is the Law (1)

"Today, the archmage is going to open the altar to give a lecture, one line, you hurry up. A little Taoist priest urged.

"Oh, I'll go. ”

The group sorted out their belongings, and when they reached the main hall, it was already crowded. He found a place to sit, reverent and focused.

He is a disciple of the third generation of Guanzhong, a very ordinary disciple of the third generation, with neither outstanding talent nor good understanding, everything is so ordinary.

The top is the great mage, the Taoist name Xuandu, who opens the altar to preach once a month on the first day of the new year. Every time the altar is opened, it is a prosperous era in the view.

After the group sat upright, the archmage spoke: "The way of the saint is indisputable. The husband is indisputable, so the world can not fight with it. ”

To fight or not to fight?

The line is a little ignorant, he is just an ordinary and ordinary disciple, how can he do it without fighting?

Then I listened to the archmage say, "The way of heaven is beneficial but not harmful, and the way of the saints is not to fight." ”

The party suddenly remembered his life experience, he was originally just a farmer's child, there were a few acres of thin land at home, and his parents worked hard every day, barely able to get by.

In good years, you can barely stick to wild vegetables and fruits, and in hungry years, you need to borrow money to survive.

There were three sisters in the family.

But when he was seven years old, there was a drought, and the family's fields were not harvested, and his parents sold the family's fields and still couldn't maintain the family's food rations.

Finally, in the early morning of one day, my sister was taken away by a wealthy family.

That day, he remembered crying sadly, but his sister was still gone.

The day after tomorrow, at noon on another day, his sister was also taken away, and this time, he didn't cry.

He only remembered that his mother told him before she died: "Son, although my sister and sister have left us, they at least have a way to live." Don't blame your mother, you have to be strong and live. ”

That year, he learned to be strong.

Later, he was taken in by a Taoist and came to Guanzhong, where he learned Taoism for 20 years.

The way of heaven, good but not harmful?

He will not believe in the way of heaven at all, and the benefits will not be harmful.

If the way of heaven is beneficial but not harmful, then why are the people suffering?

What is the source of the suffering of the people?

The people are indisputable, but the people's indisputability has just become someone else's fish and meat.

At this time, the archmage said, "The goodness is like water. Water is good for all things without fighting, and it is evil for everyone, so it is more than the Tao. ”

The group fell into contemplation again, and the goodness was like water. If the best is good, it is good, but the world is like this, the people are like this, if everyone is holy, it is naturally good.

However, all things in the world, how much is the good, what is the hypocrite, what is the evil?

What is the path that I have cultivated for 20 years?

At this moment, he began to doubt himself extremely and doubt his cultivation in the past twenty years. Perhaps, he can't be good at all, let alone water.

He shook his head with a wry smile.

No, since others are suffering, he should help them, and if they are evil, he should punish them.

The next moment, he stood up unusually firmly, and in the stunned eyes of everyone, he turned around and flew down the mountain with great strides, singing loudly:

Parents are formed with a single thought,

Bodhi is sentient beings.

Enlighten the root of the road,

Hongzhi can climb to Cloud City.

The Xuandu Archmage's eyes, which were originally slightly squinted, finally closed at this moment, and said, "Great goodness!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of voices all around.

Then, the group found themselves suddenly awakened, and it turned out to be a vision.

At this moment, an old man stood opposite him, looking at him, his eyes full of expectation.

After the old man came back to his senses, he said: "I had to meet a good talent during the New Year, but I didn't expect it to be a monk." ”

As soon as these words came out, the line was suddenly shocked, and he was almost speechless: "You, you, how can you be conscious?"

"Isn't it strange?" Lao Dao smiled: "I am a Xuandu Daoist, defeated by the Emperor of You, a wisp of consciousness was trapped in this gate by the Emperor of You, and as soon as this door was broken, this wisp of consciousness of mine naturally disappeared." ”

Seeing that the line seemed a little unbearable, Lao Dao smiled and said: "I am a dead person, what does it matter if my consciousness exists or not, and besides, disappearing may not be a relief for me." It's your little monk who makes me very strange that you have the cause and effect of the old monk. ”

"What old monk?"

"Nothing. Lao Dao said: "It's just an old monk who has failed like me, anyway, he is already a dead person, so what does it matter if he knows the name or not." ”

"Oh. Seeing that he didn't want to talk more, he didn't ask any more questions.

Lao Dao was even more satisfied, and said: "Not impatient, not impatient, very much to my liking." I don't know if you'd like to hear a story. ”

"Speak. I would like to hear about it. ”

The old Taoist said: "The world is divided and merged, since the establishment of the Great You Dynasty, a total of nine emperors, the last emperor, that is, the You Emperor, this person is a genius, and the world has no hope of him." At that time, it was not only the peak of the dynasty, but also the most powerful time in the cultivation world. There are many more great cultivators than at any time before. At that time, a grand gathering of various families was held every ten years, and the scene was really prosperous and fascinating. ”

Lao Dao said this, stopped, seemed a little distracted, and after a while he said: "It's a pity that the good times don't last long. No one knew what Emperor Youdi was thinking, and suddenly he announced that he was going to build an imperial tomb. In fact, at that time, he was only in the prime of spring and autumn, far from the end of his life. But the emperor's idea is different from the world, and it is different from people outside the world such as us, and building the emperor's tomb is also the proper meaning of the emperor's question, and everyone didn't think much about it at first. ”

Lao Dao continued: "But then more and more things revealed weirdness. The scale of the Imperial Mausoleum is so large that it takes so long that it is far from ordinary, and in the past few years, great cultivators have begun to die violently for no reason, and various natural disasters have continued. At this time, a rumor came out of nowhere, Emperor You, he wanted to gain eternal life. This imperial tomb is the place of eternal life. ”

"At the beginning, I also scoffed at this, because throughout the ages, how many great cultivators and great supernatural powers have never heard of the method of eternal life. It's not that no one has ever studied immortality, but all studies have proven impossible. Consciousness may last for a while, but no matter how strong the physical body is, it will inevitably die out at some point. But if consciousness is detached from the physical body, it will eventually dissipate like duckweed without roots. It's like my current state, in fact, I only rely on the imperial tomb to have this consciousness, and there is no mana, no cultivation, only a memory, and there is not much difference from memory in essence. If this is eternal life, it is simply ridiculous. ”

Lao Dao said again: "Obviously, the immortality that Emperor Youdi needs is the real immortality, and he wants to make his body and his consciousness not die." Therefore, he needs a huge magic circle, infinite energy, infinite resources, and all kinds of immortal experiments. Originally, he went well with all this, and we were all hidden from him. Until one day, he found me. ”

Seeing the group's stunned expression, Lao Dao was slightly proud: "Lao Dao, I was originally the leader of the Daomen at that time, and the Daomen originally had a very good relationship with the Great You Dynasty, and I also had a lot of exchanges with the You Emperor on weekdays. I call myself a genius, but deep down I also respect Emperor You. When he came to me and talked to me about his ideas, I thought he was crazy, and he asked me to be his experiment. ”

There seemed to be a chill in his tone at this time: "When a genius goes crazy, I didn't expect it to be so terrible, he is really terrible." Lao Dao is naturally not his opponent, so he has become like this. But before Lao Dao died, he finally divided his consciousness and told the purpose of Emperor You. ”

At this point, the cultivators of the world rose up to resist. It was really a calamity in the cultivation world, a calamity in the world. Although Emperor Youdi died, in fact, he did not die at the hands of others, how could such a proud figure as he die at the hands of others. In the end, he chose to die on his own. When he himself knew that he could not achieve eternal life, he chose death when the people rebelled and left. ”

"So, did the experiment on immortality fail?" the line asked.

"There is no eternal life in this world. Lao Dao snorted coldly: "It's just the imagination of a madman." It's just that for the imagination of this madman, too much price has been paid. At that time, although I didn't have a physical body, the Emperor Youdi sealed me in a magic weapon, so I knew everything that happened later. In the end, Emperor Youdi died, but he sealed me in this door, saying that he would find someone who was destined to cause me in the future. Haha, I didn't believe it, but now I have to. ”

"Is the Ghost Emperor really invincible?"

"Ha, you little monk, that's a really interesting question. The Ghost Emperor is naturally invincible. Lao Dao originally laughed, but suddenly stopped, and said with a solemn expression: "Maybe not." Because there's another place, and that place is the place where it's truly invincible. ”

"Where?"

"Lingshan!"