Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Old Past

"Then it's true that he was reincarnated in the ninth life?"

Luoyang recovered from the shock for a long time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"I don't dare to comment on rebirth, I just want to tell you what I know, the 9th Kailash Living Buddha, I have an old relationship with him. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was vigorously launched, and the central government put forward the slogan of "sweeping away all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods", calling for the destruction of the four olds and the elimination of feudal superstitions. Since then, the secular world has basically lost the soil for the survival of the awakened, and the contradiction between the awakened and the secular power has also intensified to the extreme. ”

Luoyang didn't know why Old Man Bai said about Kailash Living Buddha, why he suddenly talked about the historical event of the Cultural Revolution, but he thought it was very interesting, so he didn't talk too much, and listened quietly.

"The first is to advocate that all the awakened people unite to overthrow the regime of the Han and Tang Dynasties, this voice disappeared the fastest, the group of people who imitated the White Lotus Sect of the Ming Dynasty and pretended to be gods and Buddhas to incite the masses to rebel, they didn't even see the regular army, they were suddenly attacked by the militia, and there were some, running to assassinate government officials, although there were also some who succeeded, but there were more people who hit the streets, after all, there were a few powerful people, and it didn't make sense, the positive ones died, the deputy ones went up, and the policy would not change at all."

"The second type, which I also proposed back then, is that the awakened should completely hide from the world, not only strictly abide by the three precepts, but also establish a few new rules, resolutely prohibit the use of secret methods to seek benefits from the world, prohibit linking with religious beliefs, prohibit demonic acts to confuse the public, if it is not necessary, reduce walking and settling in the world, and at the same time avoid emotional entanglements with worldly people, and after the secret method cultivation is successful, try to stay away from the world......"

"The third is proposed by the 9th Living Buddha Kailash, to be open and honest, to cooperate with the government, to recognize the existence of the awakened beings, and to give back to the world with good deeds, to universalize all sentient beings, and to gain worldly acceptance and recognition."

"Which voice prevailed in the end?" Luoyang listened with relish, his interest was already aroused, and he began to take the initiative to ask questions.

"The two routes and guidelines, in fact, have their own drawbacks, according to my implementation, although I can obtain temporary stability, but it will make the entire race a rootless tree, without fresh blood injected from the bottom, the secret method inheritance is bound to wither, or even cut off, once the inheritance is broken, the Awakened will exist in name only." Old man Bai said frankly.

Luoyang didn't understand too much, how to completely hide from the world, it will make the awakened eventually go extinct, the individual abilities of the awakened are very strong, so he asked: "How do you say this?" ”

"The fire of the awakened comes from hundreds of millions of mortals, not inherited by blood relations, even if the two awakened people are combined, the children born may not be the awakened ones, but the probability of awakening is higher than that of ordinary people, probably only two or three percent, the world is equivalent to the nursery of the awakened, if the relationship with the world is completely severed, the group of awakened people will never have an heir." Old man Bai's explanation made Luoyang instantly clear about the implication.

"As for the set of guidelines and routes proposed by Kailash, if it goes through, it will naturally be better than my path, not only will the awakened get a good living space, but also the collision of secret methods and technology, no one knows what kind of sparks will be rubbed, maybe it will allow the awakened to find a way to cross the moat, and the secular level of science and technology will also be greatly improved, but the risk of this set of routes is too great, it is completely adventurism, after all, the awakened and human beings are essentially different, and the two groups cannot completely trust each other, This suspicion will eventually turn into hatred. When Old Man Bai said this, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he had returned to the moment when the entire Awakened Race was facing life and death.

"Which route did you choose?" Luoyang couldn't wait to ask, he wanted to know how the contradictions were resolved back then, and the current situation is somewhat similar to that year.

Due to the effect of the powder keg of the Roselle project, the contradiction between the awakened and the secular regime has intensified to a very serious extent.

"Later, it was implemented according to my proposal, but after the **** ended, the chaos was quickly set right, after the situation was not so tense, some bans were naturally invalidated, and the awakened began to infiltrate the world, and today, the society is becoming more and more free, and individual awakened people have even forgotten the lessons of the past six years, and they don't even abide by the three major precepts, I think it will end sooner or later!" Speaking of this, the old man Bai was a little angry, and seemed to hate iron but not steel.

"What is your relationship with the 9th Kailash Living Buddha?" Luoyang listened to him for a long time, but he didn't get to the point, and after recovering from the old things of ****, he quickly brought the topic back.

"He and I are both members of the Starry Sky Poetry Society, and I am friends with him." Old man Bai said.

Luoyang was confused by these words, Starry Sky Poetry Society? Could this old man and Kailash be both Yasao people?

"What Starry Sky Poetry Society? You and Kailash met when you were writing poetry? Have you ever been a poet? Luo Yang asked with wide eyes.

Old man Bai waved his hand and explained: "The Starry Sky Poetry Society, although it is called a poetry society, it actually has little to do with poetry, the founder of the poetry society is Ji Tang, the previous sect leader of the Ji clan of Qingqiu Mountain, the society was established in 1900, and there are seven members, including me and the ninth Kailash Living Buddha, I won't introduce the other members to you one by one, anyway, you haven't heard of it, and they are all dead." But at that time, the seven members of our Poetry Society could be said to be the most powerful group of awakened people in the world, and they had one thing in common, they had all reached the realm of the Heavenly Moat, that is, the cultivation was at the end, and there was no room for improvement. The purpose of our association is to put aside the view of the gateway and exchange experiences with each other, in order to find the realm beyond the Qi Sea Realm. ”

"Why did you come up with such a name?" Luoyang wondered.

"At that time, the president Ji Tang was about to end his two-hundred-year life, unwilling to bury himself in the loess, and when he looked up at the starry sky, he wrote a poem: Ah, the endless starry sky, you are the destination of my generation."

"Is this poetry?" Luoyang felt that he was about to commit embarrassment

"Modern poetry, that will just rise, and this tune will be popular." Old man Bai said nonchalantly, and then sighed: "This poem gave me a lot of shock back then, we pedantic and arrogant awakened people, all along, have always boasted of mastering the creation and mystery of the way of heaven, but in the face of this infinite heaven and earth, the universe, how small, the most powerful awakened person, even the gravitational pull of the earth can not get rid of it, the starry sky can only be used to look up, and even earlier, we don't even know what the sun, moon and stars are, far inferior to those mortal scientists who have established a model of the universe, This poem directly turned my pride into dung, and since then, I have been working hard and studying hard. ”

Luoyang saw that Old Man Bai had turned the topic away again, and hurriedly dragged it back: "What is your relationship with Kailash Living Buddha?" ”

"It's okay, I've communicated a few times, and I'm a Taoist friend, but because of the **** route dispute, the relationship broke down."

"Not really, right?" Luoyang felt a little surprised, this is really a boat of friendship that will capsize.

"I was only in my nineties at the time, still a little young and vigorous, and just restored the flying sword technique that had been lost for tens of thousands of years, my mentality was a little inflated, and after the dispute with the ninth Kailash line, I went to him to theorize, his spiritual cultivation was very mysterious, but when it came to killing people, no one in the world could compare with me at that time, and the old god stick was also very nostalgic for the old love, and he didn't move with me, only used his divine sense to block my central nervous system, so that I couldn't move temporarily, but I had just recovered the flying sword technique, he didn't know, thinking that my body couldn't move, If you can't attack him, you will be invincible, and after I fly my sword out of the sheath...... "The old man said this, which should be the most exciting, but he suddenly closed his mouth and let out a sigh.

Luoyang's heart was scratched like a cat, "What happened after that?" ”

"I stabbed him to death." Old man Bai said with a guilty face.

The plot turned too fast, Luoyang didn't react, and couldn't help exclaiming, "Huh? ”

"At that time, I only recovered the flying sword technique, I still lack experience, I can't do it freely, and because of the interference of his divine sense, the aura is not running smoothly, I was fighting to win, but I accidentally stabbed a sword into his chest and pierced his heart." The old man said carefully.

"The Living Buddha Kailash was stabbed to death by you, so who is that one in the Lingzhu Temple in Yanghu now?" Luoyang felt that his brain was a little out of the corner.

"It was the ninth life that I stabbed to death, and now it is the tenth life, one is an old god stick, and the other is a small god stick." Old man Bai explained.

"What is the relationship between them, master and apprentice, father and son?"

"Neither, it's hard to describe the relationship."

Bai Lao pondered for a long time, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, thinking about how to describe it, and he could describe this complex relationship clearly.

When he was three years old, he rode a bull alone to the old Lingzhu Monastery where the old god stick practiced before his death, claiming to be the reincarnation of the old god stick. According to the rules of the past dynasties, the disciples of the living Buddha must examine it before his death to verify the authenticity. I also heard the news and rushed to the old Lingzhu Temple and saw the little god stick who was only three years old at the time. Before that, I didn't believe in reincarnation, but after seeing the little god stick, I became skeptical. At the age of three, he debated the Dharma with several disciples of the old god, and he did not fall behind in the slightest, and the profundity of the Dharma can only be explained by what I was born to know. And without anyone to guide him, he mastered the method of cultivation, and when he came to the old Lingzhu Temple, he had already built the foundation in the early stage of cultivation. The most incredible thing is that he actually recognized me and said a word to me: I still have the cause and effect of the sword with the benefactor, and I don't know when I will be able to do it in this life...... He is thirty-one years old this year, and his spiritual cultivation can already be compared with the old god stick of the year, and even surpass...... How can there be such a genius in the world? ”

"Is there really such a thing as reincarnation?" Listening to Old Man Bai talk about the almost legendary life of the little god stick, Luoyang not only questioned his own cognition.

"I don't know, depending on what you think." This was the first time that Old Man Bai showed his ignorant side.

"......" Luoyang didn't answer him, because he didn't know how to look at this matter, whether it was a supernatural phenomenon, or whether it was actually in line with scientific principles, but he couldn't understand the truth yet.

"I think that even if reincarnation exists, it is not what it is as it is in legends, there can be no such thing as a soul, and it is impossible to retain all the personality and self-consciousness, which is equivalent to eternal life, if you really want to be so capable, why did the old god stick join the Starry Sky Poetry Society in the first place? He was also afraid of death. The old man Bai's words suddenly changed, and his tone revealed a bit of disparagement and questioning,

seems to feel that the previous remarks raised the 'enemy' of the little god stick too high and pulled himself down.