At this moment, it is no longer a question of whether to eat this bowl of rice crackers and whether to eat it.

It's whether God is wise enough to suppress the desires of one's own body!

For a month and a half, at first, the old drunkard refused to let me eat, and over time, I began to suppress my desire to eat, consciously or unconsciously.

Gradually, it did work.

But at this moment, the desire that had been suppressed to the extreme rebounded and erupted, making me like a leaf in a stormy wind. It's like a devil living in my body right now, luring me over and over again and convincing me to eat this bowl of rice crackers.

I was short of breath, sweating profusely, my mind weakened little by little, I flinched, and soon lost control of my body.

I watched as the rice cracker I picked up was brought to my mouth.

I tried my best to block it, but to no avail. The saliva secretion in his mouth became even more violent, and his mouth opened unobeyed the command to greet the rice crackers that had been stuffed over.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, I felt the sky and the earth crack in my body, a loud noise, a violent shock of mana, and suddenly surging and violent like a landslide and the earth cracked. The rapid flow of mana shook my spirit, and Mi Guo stopped at the edge of his mouth.

At the same time, an incomparably cool cold current echoed in my body, my stomach stopped, and my dry and smoking throat was as sweet and cold as a big bucket of mountain springs.

The hunger in his body suddenly dissipated by more than half.

I took a sharp breath, took back control of my body, put the rice crackers back in the bowl, and wiped my head, my hands covered in sweat.

"Do you know what that is?" The old drunkard's voice suddenly came from behind.

I was slightly startled, and immediately turned around to find that the old drunkard had stood behind me without knowing when.

"What is it?" I asked, confused; Something was wrong with me just now, and my body lost control and went on a completely opposite path to my sanity.

"That's a demon." The old drunkard said.

"Demons?" I was stunned, I had heard this term from Miao Miao's mouth, but Miao Miao only looked at it from the information, and she didn't know the specific situation.

"The demon is desire, and you were controlled by desire just now." The old drunkard said, left the entrance of the village after speaking, and walked towards the depths of the mountain forest.

I wiped my sweat and put the rice crackers in front of the tombstone, and slept in the dead man's mansion last night, and a bowl of rice crackers was regarded as a tribute.

Then I caught up with the old drunkard and asked, "What if I was dominated by lust and ate that rice cracker just now?" ”

"Then you are dominated by the demons in your heart, at least you will go mad and schizophrenia, and at worst you will be devoured by the demons and your body will die." The old drunkard said.

The cold sweat I heard came down again, and I said with palpitations: "So thrilling? ”

"Hmm."

The old drunkard didn't look back, nodded and said: "Cultivation is acting against the sky, and the power controlled by the initiator is getting stronger and stronger, and the heavens will not tolerate it, and there will be a heavenly tribulation, and the manifestation of the heavenly tribulation is the inner demon, which comes from all kinds of desires in people, greed, hatred, and evil desires. ”

"Greed, hatred, lust, lust." I muttered, and suddenly I felt a new door open to me, and that was the door after entering the Dao.

"Then did I just defeat the demons?" I hurriedly asked, at this time the hunger pangs were gone, it was simply magical.

"Barely won." The old drunkard replied and said, "But that's just the lowest level of demons, and there will be a level after that, and after that, you will be considered to have stepped into the valley; A month and a half, faster than I imagined, and it lived up to the trust. ”

"What...... What Tor? ”

I keenly grasped the key to his words.

Live up to your trust!

I dare to love him to bring me to suffer and open the valley, I am entrusted by others!

"Someone asked you to take me?" I hurriedly changed the question and asked in a hurry.

It was a little strange before, although the old drunkard has been together for a long time, he really hasn't said a few words, and he is not familiar, although he saved me and conveyed the news to the Qingniu Taoist for me.

But it was all he had with me, and I had only given him some "good wines" that he didn't like to drink at all. He was just a slacker who slept all day and drank fake wine, and suddenly brought me to Bigu without warning, and he was inexplicable at first, there must be a reason.

The old drunkard took a sip of wine from the sky, did not answer, and kept walking.

A figure flashed in my mind, Bai Xiangyue.

But think about it, I'm not very sure, because Bai Xiangyue is asleep, and it seems that she doesn't seem to have much friendship with the old drunkard. And what arrangements she has, she will generally tell me.

Could it be...... The Jade King, or the Green Bull Dao Chief?

Their figures flashed in my mind, and I suddenly felt that they were all similar, but I was not sure.

There is no doubt that the existence of an old drunkard who can be moved is definitely a big man.

I was reluctant to ask a few more questions, but the old drunkard refused to say a word.

In desperation, I had no choice but to return my attention to the present moment and ask, "Is the process between the initiator and the enlightened one a process of exorcising demons and cutting off desires?" ”

"Did anyone tell you that?" The old drunkard seemed to be in a good mood, and his words were a little more difficult, and he began to ask rhetorical questions.

I shook my head and said no, it was just what I had just thought.

The old drunkard was noncommittal, and said, "This sentence may be basically true, but it is incomplete; Then let me ask you again, do you know who created this world? ”

I was stunned for a moment and said, "Demon." ”

When the old drunkard heard the answer, he paused obviously, nodded slowly, and said: "Yes, the devil created the world, so everything in the world has its own demonic nature, and the same is true for people, there are good people who accumulate virtue and do good, and there are bad people who do not forgive them; But people can't be broken in half and simply divided into good and bad; Good people must have small evil, and evil people must have small good, and this evil is demonic nature. ”

I nodded, and it made sense. The real world is not at all as clear as good and evil as expressed in film and television art.

A robber who robbed and abducted Meng, he may be a filial son and a loving father; A fair-minded and upright policeman may also be driven by utilitarianism.

No one is perfect without gold. That's what I'm talking about. At the same time, even if it is a black coal ball, there will be a place for flashing.

Everyone is a combination of good and evil, just in different proportions.

"The root of all demonic nature is desire, cultivators desire higher strength and status, and the power they grasp is getting stronger and stronger, and their desires will gradually amplify, and eventually become latent demons, enlightenment is basically a process of cutting off the demons in the heart and purifying the demons, do you understand?" The old drunkard seemed to open up the conversation and said to me.

I answered and explained, and then asked: "But what about those ghost kings, they hooked the yin and yang worlds, and the desires they displayed were completely undisguised, they obviously did not expel their own demonic nature, why are they still so powerful?" ”

The devil represents something bad, the devil, the devil, nothing else.

Not to mention anything else, when the Lord of the Demon City was awakened in the Great Demon City, he was sacrificed with the blood and souls of hundreds of people from the Strange Gate.

That kind of naked desire to kill, as well as the act of attacking the Beastmaster and the Great Demon City, and treating the two worlds of yin and yang as grass mustard, is completely evil. But they are so strong, and the two worlds of Yin and Yang are like facing a great enemy with more than half a step, which makes no sense.

"The ghost kings and demon kings are all products devoured by the demons in their hearts." The old drunkard told me a secret that shook my heart.

"Devoured by demons?" The electric light volcano in my mind suddenly understood.

The old drunkard said again: "For example, the demon king Zhang Xianzhong hundreds of years ago, he was originally a smart and studious talent, but unfortunately his desire was too strong, and the demon he fed was extremely powerful, and finally his mind was swallowed by the demon and became a demon who slaughtered the world and did all kinds of evil." ”

I've grown up with a mouth, and that's how the Dare to Love Demon King came.

No wonder, it's normal for a normal person to covet beautiful women's treasures, but the thirst for killing seems very wrong, and people can't eat it, what's the use of killing?

"In other words, the demon king who slaughtered the world later was actually not Zhang Xianzhong, but the demon who devoured Zhang Xianzhong's mind?" I said.

"Yes."

The old drunkard nodded and said: "The greater the desire, the stronger the heart demon will be fed, once the heart demon is devoured, the mind is swallowed, the person will be truly destroyed, and even the chance of reincarnation will no longer be there, this is the punishment for acting against the sky." ”

The cold sweat I heard came down again, listening to this, if I really bit down just now, I would be mentally damaged and insane, and at worst, my soul would be destroyed, and I would become a walking corpse dominated by demons!

Your uncle's!

Others are choked when they eat more rice crackers, and they eat rice crackers to death!

Acting against heaven is damned!

The initiates have great power, but at the same time, this power also comes with great risks.

"Then all the ghost kings are formed by the heart demon phagosome?" I asked hurriedly.

"Of course not, the ghost king is just a general name, some ghosts are also cultivating like humans, and they are also cutting off the demons that belong to them, and the cultivation path of people is different, but the principle is the same; The same goes for demons. The old drunkard said.

I nodded, yes.

Bai Xiangyue has already opened the valley, she is a demon, and the Jade King who is good friends with her must be a ghost cultivator in the mouth of an old drunkard. is also the same as a living person, while being strong, constantly fighting against desires and demons.

No wonder she doesn't look like the ghost king at all, but she has a lot of good deeds, and even saved hundreds of people in Yuzhou City under the butcher's knife of the demon king.

"If the demons are cut off, the strength will be strong?" I was like a primary school student who had just entered the Tao, asking questions and learning tirelessly.

The old drunkard nodded, his tone was slightly solemn, and said: "But you have to remember one thing, what can fight against the inner demon is not the strength, but the original heart, and only by sticking to the original heart can the inner demon be expelled." Greed, hatred, lust, and lust are different for everyone, and there will be more or less gaps. ”

I solemnly nodded and said that I knew, and after listening to what he said, I felt that after entering the Tao, the real test came.

It is to fight against one's own desires.

Think about it, if powerful beings have boundless desires, then can there still be this world of flowers?

At this moment, I understood why the Daomen was in seclusion, cultivating one's self, purifying one's heart and having few desires, so that the demons in the heart lost the feeding of desire and became weak.

After thinking about it, I asked again: "Did the enlightened one just cut off all the demons in his heart?" ”

The old drunkard shook his head: "People have desires at any time and no matter what kind of strength, and the same is true for enlightened people, but he has already sublimated to another level." Without the existence of demons, I'm afraid there are only the legendary ethereal immortals. ”

"Immortals?"

I shook my head and shook my head, immortals don't exist at all, this is what Bai Xiangyue said to me personally. In other words, the demons in the heart are eternal, and there is no end to them, and there is a ceiling for acting against the sky after all.

But then I thought, if a person really becomes an immortal, that is, he has no desire, then what is the point of living, or immortality?

Strictly speaking, family affection is a desire, a desire to hope that the loved one is "good".

Love is the same, even more selfish, it is a desire to "be good" to the person you love, and at the same time you want the person you love to love you.

In the same way, brotherhood, friendship.

Even doing good deeds is not for nothing, but for fame, good fortune, or something else.

Just like charity in the world, is it really for good? I'm afraid it's fame and fortune in the name of goodness, right?

When I think about it, I feel that my desire is not a flood of beasts, but a sense of satisfaction of need. If a person has no desires, no feelings, no motives, it is like a stone without thoughts.

Isn't that the walking dead?

What is the meaning of being alive?

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill down my spine.

What this kind of practice pursues turns into a meaningless existence in the end; It's clearly a dead end!

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