Two days later, the middle section of the southern vein of Zijun Mountain.

At a three-zhang high cliff, next to the waterfall that flew down from the top of the mountain, there was a newly excavated cave, and Shi An was sitting in a mountain room inside talking to Zhu Liang standing in front of him.

"Brother, this is much better than the cave we've been living in. Zhu Liang said to Shi An.

"Oh, why is it better than that?"

"I can't come out of that cave without you, it's not as convenient as here, and there are trees to climb outside, flowers to pick, and so many small animals to play with me. ”

"Playing with you?, then let me ask you, how did the wind-chasing rabbit in your hand die?" Shi An asked, pointing to the bloody demon beast that Zhu Liang was carrying in his hand.

"I ran out for a walk today, and when the little animals saw that I had run away, they saw that it was stupid and didn't move. I wanted to say, 'Little Bunny, let's compete and see who can run faster, and whoever runs to the waterfall first wins, okay?' but this guy didn't listen to me, and before I could shout 'start,' it ran away, and without the route I said, it ran around, and finally ran into a tree hole, and it didn't come out, and I was so angry that I used a water knife to kill it. ”

"You think that's what kills it, don't you?"

"No, if you kill it, I won't have anyone to play with. Zhu Liang flattened his mouth and said a little dejectedly.

"Is it because no one is racing against you anymore that you think you're doing something wrong?"

"Well, of course. He nodded.

"Alas," Shi An sighed and said, "Have you forgotten what I originally told you about the 'Heavenly Dao'?"

"No, you said that you should have a benevolent heart and not indiscriminately hurt the innocent, but it doesn't listen to me, it's 'innocent'!" Zhu Liang defended.

"Let's not talk about that, but let me ask you, would you be happy if someone pressed you to do something you didn't like?"

"No, it won't. Zhu Liang thought for a moment, and then replied honestly.

"Do you think that Wind Chaser likes to race against you?"

"I don't like it, or it wouldn't be hiding. ”

"Then why do you want to take its life?"

"Because I'm better than it, if it doesn't listen to me, I can hurt it. ”

"So, if you don't do something you don't like, that person will hurt you, do you think he did the right thing?"

"Why did he hurt me?"

"He's better than you. ”

Zhu Liang lowered his head and was silent, and thought for a while before saying, "I feel that he did something wrong." ”

"On the flip side, does that Wind Chaser think you're doing the right thing?"

"But it's just a rabbit!" Zhu Liang argued.

"The rabbit is also a life, and it has the right to live. If you have to kill it because you don't have food, I can say you're doing the right thing, but if you kill it because it just doesn't make you happy, I don't think it's right. ”

This is another opportunity to use the topic to play, Shi An then taught Zhu Liang: "A cultivator is to pursue and explore the true meaning of the Tao, although I don't know what the Tao is now, but I still remember the Tao Te Ching I recited when my master taught me to read when I was a child. A lot of it is not very memorable now, but there are still some things that are still hard to forget. For example, there is a sentence 'Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law of the Tao, and the Tao is the law of nature'. Do you understand what that means?"

Seeing Zhu Liang shaking his head, Shi An explained: "This sentence means that human behavior must follow the rules of the earth, that is, to live in accordance with the environment, the earth must move according to the changes of the sky, and the heavens must follow the Tao, and the so-called Tao must obey nature. I don't know what nature means, but as far as I understand it at the moment, self means 'self, root', and then 'form', and together it is 'as it is', and nature refers to the most basic and primitive state of this world, and it is the starting point of all Tao, that is to say, the Tao is to follow the fundamental way of this world. ”

"I don't know what this world is fundamentally like, but I know that all people and other living beings have to survive, and there are rules for survival, and there are rules for survival, and eating the big and the small, and the strong and the weak are the rules, but this rule is limited to the aspect of survival, and is it necessary to have fun and satisfy the desire to kill? In nature, apart from people who take fighting for fun, are there any other beings who do this? Don't answer me first, go and observe for yourself for a few days. ”

Zhu Liang didn't seem to understand when he heard this, turned around and ran out of the cave.

Shi An looked at the back of the departed, sighed, and muttered, "Is it useful for me to do this? I just hope that one day he will return to normal and return as a kind person." "After that, he entered the Cave Heaven Stone and began his own cultivation.

In the more than a year since following Yuan Miaozi to return to the Four Elephants, he has experienced a lot of things, and Shi An's cultivation has also stopped for a long time. Especially after Yan'er's death, in addition to rushing to bring down Yuan Daozi, he guarded Yan'er who seemed to be sleeping next to the Yijing coffin whenever he had free time, and also threw his cultivation aside.

With Yijing's function of maintaining life vitality, the blessing of the fresh-keeping formation, and the nourishment of the aura he constantly sent into the water and wood, Yan'er's body was well preserved, without the slightest sign of dryness and decay, and the flowers on the coffin were also delicate and watery.

After watching for a long time, Shi An sighed and walked into the Spirit Gathering Array.

Three days later, when a divine sense saw Zhu Liang enter the cave, Shi An reappeared outside the cave stone.

"You're back, what's the catch?" Shi An asked first.

Zhu Liang snorted for a long time before he said: "Brother, you are right, those demon beasts in the woods all hunted and killed other animals because they were hungry, and none of them were killed for pleasure. I think you're right, I shouldn't have killed that little bunny for my own pleasure. I just made a grave for it and buried it. ”

"Well, you get it. Of course, this doesn't mean that you can't hurt demon beasts if you don't eat them. You are a human being, more intelligent than demon beasts, and you also have your own understanding of the Dao, if you believe that this matter is right, it is in line with the rules of the Heavenly Dao, you should work hard to achieve the goal, sometimes killing is one of the means to achieve it, and at that time you must not show mercy. ”

"Brother, I still don't understand what you're talking about. ”

"In a little while, when your divine consciousness is almost ready to reach the out-of-body realm, I will give you some jade brief readings, and you will have a deeper understanding of this. And at that time, I will also return your memories to you, and you will be able to be your true self again, but I hope that by then you will already be a Zhu Liang who understands the way of heaven. Alright, now you can go ahead and cultivate your divine sense. ”

Zhu Liang nodded, took out the pages from his arms, and ran to the mountain room outside to cultivate.

And An An, who had been hiding in that mountain room, saw Zhu Liang leaving, and rushed back to Shi An with a clip of his tail, and found a corner nearby to hide.

......

Three years later.

Shi An came out of the Spirit Gathering Array and thumped his chest in frustration.

It is now the peak of the third layer of foundation building, and it will soon be promoted to the middle stage of foundation building, but in the past half month, although he has been cultivating hard, he has been unable to exhaust his efforts.

Whenever he settled, the figures of the master and the master repeatedly appeared in his mind, or he comforted himself with a pleasant face: "An'er, don't be too tired, it's time to rest." You haven't enjoyed the true happiness of life for so many years, but you just keep cultivating every day, is this kind of life interesting? It's better to take a look at the world of flowers outside while you're young. Our real enemy is Jin Huan, who has long since become a corpse, and we are also satisfied, so you don't need to hunt down that Sun Lang anymore. ”

Or the second elder scolded himself angrily: "You unfilial child, you haven't avenged us for so long, and we won't be at ease underground, you'd better kill that Sun Lang now." ”

Single-mindedly cultivating and improving cultivation has always been Shi An's goal, although there have been times when his mind was disturbed in the middle process, mostly because of memories and Yan'er's past, whenever he always wanted to keep the dantian at this time, he could calm down. And this time is different, as long as you enter the meditation, you will inevitably see the second elders, and you will inevitably hear their words, which is not a way to cultivate at all.

"Dao heart is unstable, or is it possessed by demons?" Shi An instinctively thought of these two words.

He recalled Yuan Miaozi's original warning that he entered the Dao with revenge, and in the end, it would be difficult to advance due to the end of the Dao heart after revenge. But now that Sun Lang has not been killed, how can there be a situation where the Dao heart is unstable, or the heart demon is possessed?

This question was pondered in his mind for a long time, and finally after two days, he figured it out.

Since he entered the Dongtian Stone and listened to his mother tell him about his life experience and mission, although he said very little, and he didn't understand everything at all, he had unconsciously regarded flying to the immortal realm as soon as possible, rescuing his mother, and completing his mission as the ultimate goal of cultivation, so that is where the real Dao heart lies, as for the current situation, I am afraid that it is the revenge that has not been fulfilled for a long time, which has caused trouble to myself.

Thinking about it, it has been a full twenty-five years since I entered the immortal cultivation realm until now. Three years in Kaiyuan City, three years in the north vein of Zijun Mountain, fifteen years in Shuangta City, one year in Sixiangguan, and now it is another three years in the south vein of Zijun Mountain.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but blame himself secretly, and the matter of revenge could not wait any longer.

He was about to arrange the next plan of action, when suddenly his divine sense, which was monitoring outside this mountain, felt that Zhu Liang was walking towards here.

He flew out of the cave stone and walked to the door of the mountain room, waiting for Zhu Liang to come.