Chapter 6: The True Source
The mountains and rivers are lofty and full of gloom! The vast valley is full of mist and mist, galloping and heroic, and the rising sun is swallowing like rivers and seas, covering thousands of mountains and ravines! The spectacular and beautiful scenery makes people intoxicated and cut off the heart of the world, just like an excellent place to escape from the world and live in seclusion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but in this sea of fog there seems to be a mysterious and cold atmosphere, as if it is an inviolable place for ordinary people.
From the dense sea of flowers not far away, six men, one woman and seven people came up, all of them ragged and embarrassed.
One of them, a slightly older and stout man, said: "Brothers, we have finally arrived, remember to see the eldest brother later, don't say anything about the killing of the sixth brother, just say that he is missing, otherwise he will blame us!"
Another man next to him said: "Second brother, I really can't swallow this breath, our Nine Hells Village has never been so like this time, we must let the eldest brother be ashamed of us and avenge the sixth brother!"
The woman said: "It's just that the eldest brother has practiced the method of ruthless and pure heart in the past few years, will it ......" She felt that this matter was a little complicated, and she didn't go on.
The older one said: "Ninth sister, we all know your concerns, and we will talk about it when we see the eldest brother and see the situation!"
The seven people walked to the edge of a cliff while talking, and the one called "Second Brother" said, "Brothers, let's go down!" The seven people grabbed the vines on the stone wall and slowly rubbed down the cliff until they came to a cave on the cliff wall, on which were engraved three big red characters "Jingxin Cave". They let go of the vines and leaped into the cave.
Walking deeper into the cave, it became darker and darker, and finally he could no longer reach out and lose his fingers. The second brother touched the stone wall, and finally found a mechanism in the dark. When the mechanism was opened, several stones on the stone walls on both sides turned outward, and two rows of oil lamps were turned out, and the cave was suddenly bright. At this time, a person suddenly appeared in front of him and said: "The quiet place of the Lord of the Nine Underworlds, who dares to come here to disturb!"
The man was an old man of about sixty years of age, followed by a boy of seventeen or eighteen.
The one who was called the second brother said: "Old Qian, it's me!"
Qian Lao said: "Why are you here so many people, aren't you afraid of disturbing the peace of the village owner?"
The second brother arched his hand and said: "Old Qian, we have come to find the eldest brother this time There is a very important matter, which is related to the survival of our Nine Hells Village, I hope that Qian Lao will let us meet the eldest brother!"
Qian Lao said to him: "Tie Bald, don't think that if you are the master of the second village, I will be polite to you, I hope you don't get an inch!"
Tie Bald said eagerly: "Old Qian, if you don't let us see the eldest brother this time, don't blame us for breaking in!"
Qian Lao pointed at him and glared: "You dare, without the order of the owner of the village, none of you will want to go in!"
Tie Bald said: "Okay, then don't blame us for being unkind to you!"
Qian Lao burst out: "Presumptuous, if you dare to take another step forward, I will let you turn into ashes!"
Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, a loud voice came from the depths of the cave: "Qian Lao!"
When Qian Lao heard the voice of the owner of the village, his face was slightly stunned, and he said respectfully inside: "The owner of the village, what do you command!"
The owner of the village did not appear, but heard his voice: "If they have to come in, let them in!"
Qian Lao said: "The owner of the village, let them in like this, look at it, they are going to rebel!"
Tie Bald listened to his slander, and said angrily: "Old Qian, don't spew blood!"
Without waiting for Qian Lao to speak, the owner of the village said: "It's okay, let them in!"
Qian Lao saluted and said, "Listen to the instructions of the owner of the village!" He turned his head and said to them: "The owner of the village let you in, you can go in!"
Tie Bald looked at him with all the respectful way he talked to the owner of the village, but he was extremely cold to himself, and glared at him: "Hmph!" and walked in with all the people. A scornful smile appeared at the corner of Qian Lao's mouth.
Tie Bald and a few others continued to walk inside, and when they reached the deepest part of the cave was a spacious place, like a hall, and there was a high stone platform in the innermost part, and there were more than a dozen stone steps below. On the high platform is a pool, and there are several big characters engraved on the side: Pure Heart Pool. There was a naked middle-aged man sitting quietly in the pool, with delicate body and skin, a white and quiet face, looking a little elegant, but there was no expression on his face. The strangest thing is that the man's hair is only left on one side, which is sloppy down to cover half of his face, while the other half is bald.
Tie Bald was the first to go up and cry, "Big brother!" and fell to his knees.
The man in the pool was as steady as Mount Tai, without a trace of touch on his face, and said indifferently: "What's the matter, so loud and noisy!"
Tie Bald cried and shouted: "Big brother, you have to be the master of our brothers in the Nine Hells, if you don't go out of the mountain, we will all become other people's swords!"
The man said: "Why do I want to make decisions for you, I have nothing to do with the red world for a long time, and the Nine Hells Village has nothing to do with me, and I don't want to participate in your affairs or want to know!"
Tie Bald was stunned and said, "Big brother, how can you say that!"
The man said: "Don't call me big brother, you and I are the same thing in heaven and earth, how different from mountains, rivers, plants, insects, fish, birds and beasts, six reincarnations, one law of heaven and earth, ten thousand laws are empty, your own affairs or you should do it yourself!"
Tie Bald couldn't understand his nonsense words, and said: "Big brother, how can you be so disregarding brotherhood, do you know that the Tiger Nest Gang took our cottage and almost wiped us out, big brother ......"
Before he finished speaking, the man interrupted him and said: "I have said, I am no longer your eldest brother, your eldest brother has long become an illusion, and I have forgotten this illusion, now I am just me, I can't replace everything, nothing can replace me!"
Tie Bald said: "Big brother, you are cutting us off!"
The man said: "It is not you who I cut in two, but all the worldly things, seven emotions and six desires, my heart has long been free of pain, hatred, and so-called affection, all kinds of grievances in the world have come to naught in me, even every inch of skin on my body, every bone has no intuition, I can't feel pain, I can't feel whether it's hot or cold, and I can't feel the color of the five flavors, because I have merged with all things in heaven and earth. The grass is one with all laws, the same root as nature, the flesh is just a shell, life and death are no different, there is no difference!"
Tie Bald was a little confused by him, and he was a little angry helplessly, and said, "Big brother, I still don't understand what you mean?"
The man said: "You don't understand, because you have too many distracting thoughts in your heart to comprehend, so you better go." ”
Tie Bald said: "Since you have no intuition, why can you still hear us?"
The man said: "I can not only hear, but also hear what you don't hear, see what you don't see, I can not only see that your heart is full of hatred and murder, but also see your future, if you continue like this, you will be crushed, there will be no return, the sea of suffering is endless, turn back is the shore, if you stop the precipice, you can still be saved!"
Tie Bald said: "Big brother, you weren't like this before, what's wrong with you!"
The man said: "I have forgotten what I was like before, let go of everything, return to the basics, the law is the origin of nature!"
Tie Bald shouted angrily: "Big brother, are you confused by that old man, this is not the big brother I know!" After speaking, he turned his head to the side, panting angrily.
The man never changed his face and said: "That's right, I'm not the big brother you know, I'm ignorant and desireless, and I have no name or surname, if you have to call me, call me Zhenyuan!"
The woman next to Tie Bald, who was called the Ninth Sister, couldn't see Zhenyuan like this, and said to Tie Bald: "Second brother, I think you still don't ask him, I expected that there would be today, let's go, and when we go back, we will think of another way, I don't believe that with the strength of a few of us, there will be no place for this big brother!"
Tie Bald pushed her and blamed: "Don't talk nonsense!" and said to Zhenyuan: "Big brother, you are testing whether we are right, don't worry, we are absolutely loyal to you, no matter what you become, you are our big brother!"
Zhenyuan said: "You and I are not fellow travelers, you better go!"
Tie Bald said: "Big brother, when is this coming, don't test us again!"
Zhenyuan said: "I don't want to talk to you more, don't disturb my tranquility anymore, you guys go quickly!" he said, only to see that his whole body was gradually sinking into the pool, and after finishing speaking, the person was completely immersed and there was no human figure.
The man next to Tie Bald was the third child, and he was curious: "Hey, second brother, why is the eldest brother gone, do you want me to go up and have a look?"
Tie Bald stretched out his hand and slapped him on the back of the head and said, "Bastard, the throne of the eldest brother can be climbed up casually?"
The man said, "That...... So what to do?"
Tie Bald said: "We are waiting here, the eldest brother will definitely come out!"
So a few people waited there for a while, but Zhenyuan never came out. The ninth sister said: "Second brother, after so long, the eldest brother has not come out, and it is not a way for us to wait here to the death, or we will go out first, renegotiate the countermeasures and then come to the eldest brother!" Tie Bald nodded and said: "Okay, let's go out first, and come back after a while!"
Iron Bald walked out of the cave with a few brothers.
When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, the third brother said: "Second brother, what kind of medicine do you say the eldest brother is selling in this gourd, is he testing us?"
Tie Bald said: "Big brother's behavior is extraordinary, I don't know!" he said and complained again, and slapped his palm on the stone at the entrance of the cave: "Anyway, it's all to blame on that old Qian, what kind of bullshit heart purification technique, I should have let him try it first, and the eldest brother wouldn't have become such a virtuous person!"
Jiu Mei comforted him and said: "Second brother, don't be angry, everything has already come to this, what's the use of you being angry, let's calm down and think about what to do next!"
Tie Bald didn't listen to her comfort, but reprimanded: "How can you let me calm down, we are now a lost dog, we can't avenge our brother's revenge, seeing that others have occupied our cottage, but we can't do anything, we really can't do it, we go to the official army to turn ourselves in and report to the official army by the way, let's have a jade burning!"
The ninth sister persuaded: "Second brother, we must not act rashly, there will always be a way!"
Tie Bald said: "What way, do you think?"
The ninth sister said: "I have a way, but I don't know if the spirit is spiritual?"
Tie Bald said: "Say it quickly, don't grind!"
The ninth sister said: "That's the case, in fact, this method of ruthless and pure heart, I have heard my eldest brother tell me before, this method requires pure heart cultivation for three hundred and eighty-two days, and finally achieves absolute affection, pure heart is like extinguishing, the body has no synaesthesia, and it is as safe as grass and trees, the eldest brother has now been practicing for two hundred and thirty-five days, and I have heard that if he is full of three hundred and eighty-two days, he will become ignorant and unconscious, and his body is like a stubborn stone and grass......
"What!" When Tie Bald heard this, he was stunned: "In this way, this is to make the eldest brother become a stubborn stone and a tree!"
The ninth sister said: "I just listened to the eldest brother, and I'm not sure if it's true!"
The fourth brother said: "Second brother, this is all the fault of that old man, if we have a chance, we have to break him into pieces!"
The ninth sister said: "Don't worry, in fact, this pure heart secret method is not irresolvable!"
Tie Bald asked, "How to resolve it?"
The ninth sister said: "There is a flaw in this method of purifying the heart, that is, it cannot be fishy, as long as we use human blood to dissolve into the pure heart pool, let the eldest brother absorb the qi of blood killing, this method can be resolved by itself." ”
Tie Bald said: "Are you sure this method works?"
The ninth sister said: "We might as well try it, didn't you say that you want to clean up that old man, then we just use his blood to serve the eldest brother as a drink." ”
Tie Bald nodded when he heard this, and said with a narrow smile: "Well, that's a good idea!"
The fourth said: "But...... Second brother, will we alarm the eldest brother like this, or we will find a way to lure that old man out of the money!"
Tie Bald said: "What you said also makes sense, so what can you do to lure Qian Lao out?"
The ninth sister said: "We don't need to lead him out, he will come out himself." ”
"Oh?" Iron Bald glanced at her. The ninth sister continued: "When I used to serve the eldest brother here, Qian Lao often went out to collect medicine after midnight, we can stay outside before the child is in time, and we will do it when he comes out. ”
Tie Bald said: "Yes, fortunately, the ninth sister has served the eldest brother here, and she is most familiar with this place, so we will decide!"
It was late at night, and in the Pure Heart Cave, Mr. Qian was packing up the medicine basket and preparing to go out, the little boy next to him was squatting there and bowing his head to pound the medicine, and Zhenyuan was still silent sitting in the pool. Qian Lao said to the little boy: "If the medicine is not enough, I will go and collect some medicine, you are here to watch." The boy said, "Yes, master." ”
Qian Lao turned around to leave, and Zhenyuan's voice came from behind: "Qian Lao, you are going to be dangerous tonight, so don't go out yet." ”
Qian Lao said: "Owner of the village, how can this work, I haven't picked medicine for five days, and now there is not much medicine left." ”
Zhenyuan said: "Qian Lao, you don't have to call me the master of the village in the future, worldly things have nothing to do with me, from today onwards I will change my name to Zhenyuan, and you can call me Zhenyuan in the future." ”
Qian Lao agreed: "Yes, Zhenyuan." ”
Zhenyuan said: "You stay here tonight, I just realized that you are going to be in blood, nine deaths, I am afraid that there will be a disaster, listen to me better not to go out!"
Qian Lao said: "How is this possible?"
Zhenyuan said: "The changes of all things in heaven and earth are all natural operations, I have become one with nature, I can recognize the movement of yin and yang, observe the rise and fall of all things, listen to me tonight, you can't go out!"
Qian Lao hesitated for a moment, sighed and said: "You are worried about me, it means that you still have pity for some things, it seems that your heart is not completely empty, okay, I will listen to you and not go out tonight!"
Qian Lao sat down again.