Chapter 100: Lethe

Legend has it that after death, the soul will cross the Santu River and float in the Lethe River with the fragments of the flower on the other side. If the sins are deep, then the petals will sink into the Lethe, and the yellow-brown waters of the Lethe will carry these spirits up the eighteen tortured mountains, and only when the sins are light enough to stand on the petals on the other side can they step on these petals to climb the Nannai Ho Bridge.

Xiao Ran once read a story about an old monk who had been sitting on the top of a mountain for 500 years and finally got the call of the Buddha and was able to become a Buddha on the ground. However, the old monk did not follow the Arhat to the holy mountain for the first time, but asked the Arhat whether it was right or wrong, good or evil. If you can't decide to take the Arhat, you can only go back to Lingshan to ask the Buddha, and the Buddha's answer is very simple. That is, let this old monk who has been sitting on the death pass for 500 years be pressed by this mountain for 500 years, because this old monk has pressed this mountain for 500 years. It doesn't say right or wrong, it doesn't say good or evil, it just talks about cause and effect.

Looking at the flowing Lethe in front of him, Xiao Chao suddenly found that a person's life was so difficult to judge. Right or wrong, in fact, there is no essential reason. Human nature is not a mathematical problem, there are no obvious boundaries, because it is only the human heart that distinguishes between good and evil. When everyone thinks you're wrong, only you think you're right, that's right and wrong. And when everyone thinks you're right and only you think you're wrong, that's wrong and right. The so-called right and wrong is nothing more than the majority judging the majority judging the opinion of the minority.

I remember reading a story when I was a kid about a village where everyone was a thief. Everyone has to steal to make a living. Because everyone is going to steal, no matter who goes out at night, they only have the little savings in their hands when they come back the next day. The whole village lived in poverty, but it was peaceful. But suddenly one day, a talent came to this village.

This Xiucai reads the books of the sages every day, never goes out, and even at night he has to stay in the house to study. Because of this, every thief who enters Xiucai's house to steal nothing steals anything, and the thief who returns home and does not steal anything can only be hungry. And some thieves have not been stolen because of this home. Not only did you not lose anything, but you stole something. Because of this, there is a gap between the rich and the poor among the thieves.

The thief is so rich that he already has savings. They don't go out to steal at night, but this makes the poor thief even more devoid of anything to steal. Over time, those poor thieves who want to survive can only work for the rich thieves, and use the goods stolen from the homes of other poor thieves to the rich thieves' homes in exchange for food and money. That's because of it. The rich are getting richer and richer. The poor are even poorer because they steal from each other.

The final result is that Xiucai was killed, because if Xiucai didn't steal, then the balance would not be broken, and there would be no gap between the rich and the poor, but although Xiucai died, the pattern had been decided, no matter what was done, the rich were still rich. And the poor are getting poorer and poorer.

throughout the process. There is nothing wrong with all the thieves, because they are following their own desires but circulating. Similarly, Xiucai is not wrong, because Xiucai also survives according to his own heart. If the only thing is wrong, I'm afraid that Xiucai didn't adapt to this village, so he was eliminated. Everybody is not wrong, but again, everybody is wrong.

The so-called right and wrong are actually just the heart. If you are not wrong, why bother with the opinions of others. But if you don't get used to this world, you can only be abandoned by this world, isn't this sad? Xiao Chao felt that he was not wrong, but Xiao Chao didn't know how he should cross the river. In the legendary method, it is to pull off the petals of a flower on the other side, and then concentrate the power of the whole body on the petals, so that you can cross the river.

But Xiao Chao is not a soul, and the soul does not have any weight, so it can step on the petals, but Xiao Chao is a person, a living person, and it is purely self-defeating to cross the river in this way, but Xiao Chao can't jump directly into Lethe River and the middle. Legend has it that Lethe River is condensed by the tears of countless souls, and for countless years, countless souls have crossed the Santu River into the underworld, and remembered the past and present lives under the stimulation of the flowers on the other side, and the endless regrets and thoughts made the tears of the dead fall one after another, and finally converged into this Lethe River.

Make a wish to the stars, then the stars will not be able to bear the thoughts and wishes and fall into meteors, and the thoughts and regrets of these countless dead souls are gathered together, and the weight is extremely terrifying. Goose feathers do not float birds, but here is the legendary Lethe. Not to mention that Xiao Chao is just flesh and blood, even if Xiao Chao enters the realm of Dacheng, as long as he has not entered the Holy Rank that can defy the sky, it is impossible to swim in this Lethe River.

The yellow-brown Lethe River is constantly surging when it flows, and from time to time there will be dead souls emerging from the Lethe and crying to the sky, and whenever there are dead souls appearing, skull arms will appear in the Lethe River, dragging these crying dead souls into the Lethe River again. Because the color of the Lethe River water is dark yellow, Xiao Chao can't see how many souls and skeletons there are in this Lethe River, how dare Xiao Chao risk his life lightly?

Just when Xiao Chao didn't know how to cross the river, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and a piece of white flying flotsam suddenly floated in front of Xiao Chao. Xiao Lan stretched out his hand to take the flying flotsam in his hand, but the white flying flotsam turned into fly ash the moment it touched Xiao Lan's palm, and he couldn't catch any traces at all. Turning around suddenly, Xiao Chao's pupils immediately contracted rapidly!

I saw that in the sea of blood-red flowers on the other side, patches of bright red flowers on the other side turned into snow-white colors in an instant! Every time, there are more than ten flowers from red to white, and then quickly drift into fly ash, according to the shape of the other side of the flowers, it is a footprint! Xiao Chao took a closer look, and the surprise in his heart became even stronger, because the flowers on the other side that turned into fly ashes were all the flowers he had just stepped on! These changing footprints that have turned into ashes are exactly what Xiao Chao has just stepped out!

In the sea of flowers on the other side, there seems to be a pair of hands or a person, who is walking step by step along the chaotic trajectory! Looking like that, he was actually forcing Xiao Chao to spend time in Lethe! (To be continued......)