The ground was full of thorns and the fog was smoking.

Qi Hufei almost thought that he had traveled to the ancient desolate world.

He looked at the wooden statue in his hand.

The divine sense penetrated deep into the texture of the wood, and a distorted face gradually appeared on the god's faceless face.

The face smiled strangely at him, as if to tell him some secret.

The wood carving in his hand gradually became nothing, leaving only a grim reaper-like face, which remained in the palm of his hand.

He clenched his fist and squeezed the face tightly, and the face appeared on his fist; He wrapped his fist with his other hand, and his face appeared on the back of his other hand.

He turned his head away from looking at it, and his face appeared in the void in front of him.

The face said, "You can't dodge." The more you try to forget me, the more you will think of me and see me. ”

Qi Feifei asked, "Who are you?" ”

The face said, "I am you, I am your heart." ”

Qi Hufei said: "No, you lie to me, you are an evil god!" ”

The face said, "There is no good or evil in this world, there is no good or evil. ”

Qi Hufei said: "Since the opening of heaven and earth, yin and yang, all things have two sides, how can there be no good and evil, no good and evil?" ”

The face said, "If there is no righteousness, where does the evil come from?" If there is no good, where is the evil? As you said, the two parts of heaven and earth have two sides. With good and good, there is evil and evil. It is your prejudice that leads to the dichotomy between good and evil, good and evil. These things did not exist at the beginning of Chaos. ”

Qi Hufei said: "You are the highest realm of the Dao, and I have not yet reached such a high realm. ”

The face said, "Your heart is the Tao." I am your heart, and I can take you back to the origin of the Tao. ”

With that, he stepped back, into a dark void.

The surrounding fog was surging, and the ground was full of thorns, some condensed, some divided.

Qi Feifei saw that with himself as the center of the circle, many roads appeared in the thorn forest around him, like a spider web around him.

He counted them, and there were twenty routes in total.

Of these, in front of him and behind him are the two largest roads.

On his side, there are six straight roads to the left and right leading in different directions.

There are also six horizontal loops that weave through the thorn bushes.

He heard someone in the void saying, "Choose for yourself, choose a path, and I will take you to the path you seek." ”

Qi Hufei said: "I don't choose. You're a demon, you're luring me into a demon. I will ask for my own way, and I don't need you to lead me. ”

"Hey, hey, hey...... Hahahaha...... Hehehehehe......".

The laughter struck his mind, his brain, and his heart.

"Hehehehe...... Since you know the dichotomy between yin and yang, why don't you understand the truth that 'the devil is the Tao, and the Tao is the devil'?

The demon and the Tao were originally one, but they were forcibly separated by man.

If you don't have a demonic heart, how can you have a Taoist heart, and if you don't go crazy, how can you become a Taoist? ”

Qi Feifei felt that what he said made a lot of sense.

Some of the things I didn't understand in the previous practice process seem to be a little clear.

He longs to seek true knowledge, but he doesn't want to be led by the nose, and he still sticks to his heart.

The surrounding thorns and black fog slowly faded.

Gone are the cages that had trapped him, and the paths he had chosen for him were gone.

Only a dark void remains.

Qi Hufei couldn't see anything, there was nothing in front of him, and there was nothing behind him.

I can't see the starry sky when I look up, and I can't see the earth under my feet.

Then, in the void, that face appeared.

It was a face that you could tell at first glance that it was a dead man.

Faces were everywhere, and no matter how Qi Feifei adjusted his position, he could see that face.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Hehehehe......

This is not a demon, this is death.

Death is the Tao, and all the Tao, the ultimate Tao, is death.

No one can avoid death.

Hehehehe...... Hahahaha......"

Qi Hufei stubbornly retorted: "No, Immortal Dao Guisheng, our cultivation is to avoid death and immortality. ”

"Hahahaha...... Do you think that the gods will not die?

No!

All are going to die!

Immortals also die!

Saints also die!

No one can escape death.

The extreme of heaven is death.

Don't you know that the universe will eventually die of heat?

The universe itself will eventually die.

Originating from the singularity, attributing to the singularity, an infinite loop, only death is eternal.

Those who dare not face death are cowards!

It's useless to run away.

Even if you have gone through thousands of knots and escaped thousands of catastrophes, the final destination is still death. ”

Qi Hufei said: "Although there is some truth in your point of view, in fact, you can't say it clearly, right?" Who came from the beginning? Who went through the end? What exactly is death? What is it when you die? ”

"Hehehehe...... I've been here since the beginning...... Hahahaha...... You're going to experience the ultimate ......

What is after death? That's what you are now!

You look around you, there's nothing, nothing, nothing!

You look at yourself, can you see yourself? Hehehehehe......"

Qi Hufei glanced at himself, and sure enough, he didn't see anything.

He wanted to reach out and touch his face, but he couldn't find his hand, let alone his face.

His body was gone, everything was gone.

An inexplicable sense of emptiness and fear struck.

"You see, you can't even find yourself, you can't even see yourself, there's nothing! Nothing! This is death! ”

"And what are you? I can see you. ”

"Yes, you can see me, because I am death. I am the god of death, I am the king of the underworld, I am the destiny of the universe, I am the origin of the Tao......"

"You just said you were my heart."

"Yes, I was your heart just now. It is your heart that has brought you here, that you have seen the way you seek, that you have seen me, that you have seen death. ”

Qi Hufei was a little flustered, and felt that his heart was beating very strongly.

But he couldn't find where his heart was.

He felt like he had only a little consciousness left, floating in the dark void.

He was not willing to be imprisoned in the dark.

There was always a glimmer of light, dangling before his eyes, like a rope for life.

But he couldn't catch it.

He thought and thought hard, remembering all he had.

He remembered the previous life.

From the birth of the mother's womb, from the loud cry that croaks to the ground.

He lay on the soft little bed, opened his eyes, saw his mother's face, and saw the world full of unknowns, infinitely curious, and later made him experience infinitely bumpy.

He started by crawling, trying to get up and stumbling along the road of life.

He experienced the love and hate that all people in the world have ever had.

How the passions and desires, which seem nothing now, stirred his soul at the time, influenced his decisions, and kept him awake all night long.

He remembered his father's rickety shoulders and his mother's frost-white sideburns.

I remember the helplessness of the eldest sister who set up a stall on the side of the road and struggled under the wheels of the chengguan;

I remember hesitating at the cafeteria window for a long time, and finally there was no taste of braised beef that I was willing to buy.

He remembers the joy of getting his first salary, the melancholy of spending his salary, and the anxiety of not being able to pay the rent.

The streets are full of people and cars, hurrying and bustling.

The burden of life rests on everyone's shoulders.

This is definitely not given to people by the way of heaven, this must be the suffering brought by the devil to the world.

He remembered the mirror, which was covered with green rust, a mirror that had never seen anything, but which had seen his heart countless times, allowing him to face the mirror in the dead of night and recognize his true self.

Mirror......

He remembered.

Yes, this is the light that has been shaking in front of his eyes, but he has never been able to grasp it, this is his lifeline.

So, in the dark void, he saw a ghostly light.

He reached out and touched the glow.

His hand was back, his body was back, and he found himself again.

Like a newborn baby, he opened his eyes.

In front of him, a misty white light appeared.

He was a human being, reincarnated through the mirror, and now in the face of death, he has been reborn through the mirror.

Three-year-old, it turned out to be such a three-year-old.

The white light flashed, and the heavens and the earth reopened.

He saw a great white river running in front of him.

Bad!