Ye Hongfei and Su Xiao respectively held Jiang Feng and Xia Yedi, led by Elder Yuzhen, and a group of ten people returned to the main hall.

"Okay, Fei'er! You are tired of returning to the sect in the starry night, take Feng'er and Ye'er down to rest! Prepare for the Dao Ceremony in seven days, and we will jointly send a letter to the senior brother in charge to inform him of this matter, believing that he will return to the sect in advance regardless of whether he finds a cure for himself or not. Elder Yuzhen patted Ye Hongfei's shoulder and said.

"Disciple retire!" Ye Hongfei and his wife saluted and said goodbye.

The other five hall masters said in unison: "Go! they are all going to be the hall masters, show some courage, and act neatly, so as to save the children from learning their skills well in the future, and learn a lot of sour etiquette and Confucianism!"

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Seven days later, the Cloud Hall opened the altar to discuss the Tao.

According to the ancient teachings of the ancestors, before the succession ceremony of the new hall master of the Yunxiao Palace, it is necessary to open the altar in front of the main hall in the sect to discuss the Tao, and sit with the brothers of the same sect to discuss the avenue.

The first is to show one's own ability and show others morality, and the other is to convince the same sect and the same sect with the etiquette of the Tao.

Since then, we have worked together to expand the Sky Palace. This is also the final level of the trial, if you can't convince everyone with your own way, you will regard it as no way and no virtue, and you will not be able to be the master of the hall, and you will be disqualified from the succession by the sect, and you will be able to choose another merit.

It is to "let it be able to do it, and then it will be virtuous"!

Today, Ye Hongfei is wearing a Taoist robe, and after sacrificing heaven and earth and ancestors, he sits on the platform, facing the children of the same sect, and there is a two-finger-thick incense pillar inserted in the inscription behind the sacrificial ding. The Lord of the Six Halls sat beside him with a group of elders, quietly observing the ritual of the Dao.

In front of the hall, all the disciples were also dressed in Taoist robes, sitting facing the hall, clasping their hands together and speaking quietly. Just wait for the bell to ring three times, and then start talking about the gift of the Tao!

Ye Hongfei needs to be unable to be refuted until the incense pillar burns out, so that he can be regarded as passing, otherwise his previous efforts will be wasted.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

The bell rings three times, and the incense is burned!

Sitting in the first row in front, the descendant disciple of the contemporary hall master of Yunxiao Hall "Master Yunyi", the second son of Yunxiao's nine sons, and Ye Hongfei's senior brother, "Ye Huan" first arched his hand and asked: "For my brother, I want to ask my junior brother, my generation of monks, because how do you look at life and death?"

"Why did Senior Brother come here to ask?" Ye Hongfei asked with a smile.

Ye Huan thought for a moment and replied: "My generation of monks, take cultivation as their practice, and hope for immortals! However, the road of cultivating immortals is long and vast, and it is difficult to escape life and death in the end. Although all souls are equal before birth and death, all beings have different thoughts and thoughts, and their thoughts and actions are also different. or fear, or calm, or head-on, or evasive...... Therefore, for the brother, I have this question!"

Ye Hongfei said with a smile: "Today, there are thousands of cultivators, and there are differences between various sects in the way of life and death. Buddhism talks about the way of rebirth, the demon sect talks about the way of rebirth, and only the way of eternal life is the way of eternal life. What did the senior brother ask, which one?"

"What's the difference?" Ye Huan asked again.

"Buddhism talks about the next life, and uses the cause of this life to cultivate the results of the next life. It is a person who has lived in the past, who is more serious about death than life, not happy with life, and not sad with death. And the demon cult values itself, takes away his life, and avoids his own death. It is to take away the living, greedy for life and evil to die, to live for joy, and to die for sorrow. Only I am reborn and light on death, sacrificing the vanity of the next life and striving for the reality of this life. It is the one who is immortal, there is no life and no death, life is nothing, and death is nothing. This is the separation!"

Ye Hongfei's fourth junior brother, the descendant disciple of the hall master of the array hall, "Qing Yuan", heard the words and asked again: "According to the words of the senior brother, there is no death or life, so the monk does not have to be obsessed with life and death, before life and death, there is no fear, no sorrow and no joy." Even so, then my Sect Yunyi Hall Master is seriously injured and difficult to recover, and his longevity is about to end, so why don't he accept it calmly, but go out to find a prescription to heal himself, and prolong his life and avoid death like a mortal?"

Ye Hongfei replied: "I said, 'Life is nothing, death is nothing, nothing is nothing, nothing is nothing'. The monk lives for death, for death is for life, and if the mind is attached to it, death is also life, and if the mind is dead, life is also death. When I say life, I am talking about the way of sacrificing one's life for righteousness, and when I say death, I am talking about the way of killing oneself to become benevolent!

"Senior brother asked me how to view life and death? In fact, he asked me how to choose in the face of life and death? I only answered with two words: from the heart! When the thoughts in my heart have transcended life and death, and are above it, then life and death will be indifferent, so let it go!

"As for the matter you asked the hall master, the realm of the hall master is even higher than you and me, life and death, far deeper than our understanding, how can you not understand this reason? Do you really think that the hall master went out to survive just to heal himself?"

Qing Yuan was silent, and Ye Huan also closed his eyes and said nothing, the reason, they knew, they understood......

They didn't notice it, but only the six hall masters felt it slightly. At this time, outside the crowd, there was an old man with white hair who was silently watching them, and when he heard Ye Hongfei talk about life and death with "nothing", he couldn't help but nod secretly.

This person is the contemporary hall master of the Cloud Palace, Master Yun Yi!

They didn't even notice that Xiao Jiang Feng, who was supposed to be resting in the room, had sneaked out at some point, and was walking towards the main hall in three steps and five steps......

"Since the senior brother talks about the way of life and death, the senior brother takes this opportunity to invite the senior brother, and I can hear that the Confucian classics in the mortal world once said: 'Those who hear the Tao will die in the morning and evening, it is enough. What do you mean by that?"

The question was asked by the descendant disciple of the master of the Royal Heart Hall, the third junior disciple of Ye Hongfei - Tang Wuye!

"Confucianism educates mortals with benevolence and etiquette, and what they say about 'life and death at night' is not what we talk about life and death. It means that when a person learns and understands a new truth, it is like being reborn from yesterday. It is the 'me' of yesterday that is irretrievably passed away like yesterday's thing, and it is for the 'death of the night'. And today's 'I' is different from the past because of the realization of new truths, just like a new life, for the 'morning life'.

"Yesterday I died as yesterday, and today I will be born today!" What this means is the wish and interpretation of the correct attitude and cognition that those who seek knowledge and ask questions should have, and it is not a reason to teach people to die for the Tao. The junior brother is wrong!"

Ye Hongfei is logically concerned, Tang Wuye bowed his hand and pondered silently.

Everyone wanted to ask again, but suddenly heard a childish child's laughter in their ears. Following the prestige, I saw Xiao Jiangfeng, who was less than a year old, sitting on the ground beside him in a decent manner, listening to everyone's arguments with relish, and when he heard "Yesterday I died like yesterday, today I will be born today", suddenly clapped his hands and laughed.

Su Xiao was shocked, and he was afraid of messing with the ancestral etiquette, so he wanted to get up and take it down, but was stopped by Elder Yuzhen. Elder Yuzhen was also surprised when he saw this scene, and with a gesture of raising his hand, Xiao Jiang Feng fell into his arms, gently dusted off his body, and let Jiang Feng continue to listen to the lecture.

The discussion continued, Ye Hongfei's fifth junior brother, the descendant disciple of the master of the Forging Soldier Hall, "Wu Fei", took the baton and asked: "Senior brother, the cultivation of heaven and earth is divided into gods, demons, people, immortals, demons, ghosts, and Buddhas. However, if there is only one way, why is it different?"

"The Tao Te Ching once said: 'The Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, three to all things...... although I can know, but I have not fully understood. In my opinion, the Tao is nothing, giving birth to one and begining, turning two into progress, and extending three into multiplication. Although the ten thousand laws are different, they are still ten thousand ways to return to the sect!"

"Since they are different, why don't they be unified?"

"The general trend of the world, if you divide for a long time, you will be together, and you will be divided for a long time!

The surroundings were quiet, and Ye Hongfei's eighth junior sister, Zhou Zifen, the descendant disciple of the master of the Immortal Hall, immediately asked and recounted: "Senior brother, as the saying goes: 'Heaven is not benevolent'! However, since all people are treated equally and all souls are equal, then why do these heavens and earth give birth to all things, and why do they divide the strong and the weak into the rich and the poor?"

"The Great Dao is inaction, ruthless, and nameless! Heaven gives birth to heaven and earth with nothingness, runs the sun and moon with ruthlessness, and nourishes all things with namelessness...... However, the way of heaven is ruthless and the creatures are merciful, and the way of heaven is nameless and the creatures are famous! All things fight because of their actions. Because of affection and selfishness, because of fame and victory. Heaven is not benevolent, so that the natural selection of things and the survival of the fittest are the supreme principles of heaven and earth!"

The argument continued to heat up, and Ye Hongfei's words became more and more agitated, and he was no longer calm.

Ye Hongfei's sixth junior brother never asked in a rigorous manner: "Senior brother, life is complicated, how can you be free?"

"Feel at ease, you can be free!NEXT!" Ye Hongfei waved his sleeves, and Yanjing's question ended.

A female disciple who is not valued in the sect on weekdays and whose status is mediocre asked: "Senior sister, please senior brother, the earth rises from the peak, but the mountains have high and low, why are there high mountains that become peaks, but low mountains are nameless?"

"You ask the height of the mountain, but you really ask the height of the people. High mountains can become peaks, but low mountains may not become mountains. You compare yourself with the peaks, and it is naturally difficult to see the magnificence of the mountains. What is right for you is the best. I have two words for you, I hope to solve the confusion in your heart - 'bow your head'!

"Senior brother, what is the difference between immortals?"

"Immortal cultivators, take karma as the force, turn karma into a heart, purify their hearts and have few desires, understand the changes in the truth of heaven and earth, and make their hearts infinitely great! Mortals with a limited heart hold infinite desires, and eventually become a desire to disturb; while immortal cultivators accept the infinite way with an infinite heart, and finally attain transcendence! This is the difference between immortals and mortals! Next!"

"Senior brother, the road of cultivation is long, and I will die for a lifetime, why am I still unwilling to give up?"

"Because you're still alive!"

"Senior Brother......

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The discussion continued, and Jiang Feng, who was in Elder Yuzhen's arms, was also sitting in his lap, listening intently to Ye Hongfei's lecture on the Tao. Every time I hear the wonders, I dance and laugh.

After several times in a row, the six hall masters no longer thought it was a coincidence, and they all looked at Jiang Feng curiously, as if they were looking at a rare treasure, and even the Venerable Yun Yi who was hidden on the side shifted his gaze to Jiang Feng several times, and was pleasantly surprised.

Before the incense pillar was burned out, when the incense pillar was less than half burned, no one from the seat spoke. Ye Hongfei took out the water bag, drank a few large sips of spiritual spring, relieved his dry mouth, took a long sigh of relief, and said...... It's finally over!

Smack!

The applause rang out suddenly, as if out of nothing, and the Venerable Yun Yi, who had been hidden for a long time, finally appeared......