Chapter 9 Tao Te Ching
After the whole information was transmitted, the aperture above Xiao Tian's head disappeared, and his head seemed to explode, and the amount of information made Da unable to think, all of this was too magical and strange for him, but looking at the more illusory white-bearded old man in front of him, others were tired of calling him the immortal of Tai Bai Xing, and he had to believe that this could be true. Especially these four continents, aren't they exactly the East Continent, the West Continent, the South State, and the North Continent?
But Xiao Tian immediately thought of a question, and asked at the afterimage: According to your information, only the aliens sent by Tiangong Star and God Star saved two continents, why are there four continents now?
The phantom Tai Bai Xing smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I don't know about this, I was desperately supporting the energy shield at the time, and I didn't care about the surrounding situation at all, but I just felt the breath of the God Star creature, and the other two breaths, I don't know which force."
I have sent you so much information, I just hope that you can return to the era of believing in immortals, although the belief in immortals, although it will blind mankind's understanding of the world, but for example, the more you know, the greater the greed, the greater the greed, the greater the catastrophe will come, and the weak human life will not be able to withstand the interstellar war at all, and even the earth can be easily destroyed. And this faith is the power that we have proven to be able to resist greed. May humanity not perish again. ”
Xiao Tian was even more puzzled, but he didn't dare to bring it up, that is, human beings can only be slaves of these so-called immortal aliens?
Tai Bai Xing seemed to be able to see through what Xiao Tian was thinking, his expression was a little displeased, but he didn't care about it, and then said: In order for you to be able to do this next, I passed on to you the "Tao Te Ching" of the human power Li Er, and you cultivate according to this, I believe that you can guide the human race in the last days to survive smoothly, otherwise it is destined to perish.
After speaking, without waiting for Xiao Tian to agree, a white light shot into his brain. Next, the Tai Bai Xing became more and more illusory, slowly disappearing from the footsteps, and said the last sentence when he reached the head: My mission has been completed, and it will be wiped out, I hope you can get out of this sea alive!
And then it didn't show up. Xiao Tian sighed lightly, this Tai Bai Xing finally told the truth. Whether I can escape from the bottom of this sea is a question, and how can I worry about the survival of human beings? Suddenly I felt a mess in my mind, and I fell asleep.
When Xiao Tian woke up again, he found that the hamster didn't know when it woke up, and the dark underwater cave didn't know how much time had passed, and the squirrel's green eyes stared at his wound, making him quickly struggle to get up, this was the squirrel was very hungry and saw the blood stains on his body a little unbearable, if he woke up later, maybe this squirrel would be swallowed as food.
He got up and looked at the cave, it was empty and there was nothing else, the same pearl light that had chilled the cave the last time he woke up, and the remnants of the Immortal Tai Bai Xing had never appeared. There was a faint film-like thing between the cave and the seawater, so that the seawater could not rush in, Xiaotian didn't understand what was going on with this film, and he didn't dare to reach out and touch it, for fear of breaking the film and rushing in. I don't know why there is constant oxygen in the cave, otherwise this person and a rat would have suffocated to death in it. Thinking of the squirrel, Xiao Tian looked at the squirrel that no longer faced him, that is, why the small mouse that was a few inches long in history suddenly became so big, and why did it appear on the Dongzhou Continent.
But Xiao Tian's stomach grunt interrupted his thoughts, and the most important thing now is to solve the food problem. Otherwise, even if you don't starve to death, you will be eaten by this squirrel first!
Of course, there is no food in the cave, and there is no food for the remnants of the immortals, but Xiaotian can't. When he looked up and down the cave, he was dejected to find that there was nothing that could be used as a thing. A thought flashed through Xiao Tian's head, but he immediately shook his head, if it weren't for this squirrel, he would have died at the bottom of the sea, he wouldn't have dived. What's more, I have been with this squirrel for more than a year, and I still have some feelings.
When the squirrel looked at Xiao Tian from time to time with green eyes again, they had been in this cave for a long time, and Xiao Tian decided to go out first, so he rode on the squirrel and rushed towards the entrance of the cave. I didn't think it was easy to rush out of the strange film that could block the seawater. And after he rushed out, the sea water did not enter the cave. Xiaotian didn't bother to think about it if he didn't understand. Holding his breath, he was carried by the squirrel and swam up quickly.
Xiao Tian found that the movement of the squirrel in the water was almost unaffected, and he could move quickly when he floated to the surface of the water and carried him, and Xiao Tian distinguished the direction on the water surface and directed the squirrel to swim south. He only remembered that the south side should be the Nanzhou Continent, and the Dongzhou Continent was thousands of miles away, so he didn't expect the squirrel to quickly bring him back to the Dongzhou Continent.
About two or three hours later, Xiao Tian set foot on the land of the Nanzhou Continent again, but it was no longer the place where the original war took place, because Xiao Tian walked for a long time and did not find the city and corpses, and took the hamster in the dense woods I don't know how far he walked, and when it was getting dark, he found the crowd, Xiao Tian pacified the squirrel to stay in the woods, and he stepped forward alone and knocked on the door of one of the more than a dozen mountain village residents.
The one who opened the door was an old sweat in his fifties, his dark skin was full of wrinkles, and he was a little scared when he saw Xiaotian outside the door. Xiantian had already taken off his black armor and black helmet and threw it in that cave, leaving only a black cloth coat on his body. When the old man looked at Xiao Tian, who was only 1.6 meters tall, he was still a child, his face was still childish, and his expression was a little relaxed.
"Who are you, what are you doing at my house?" asked the old man.
Xiao Tian licked his chapped lips and said, "I'm lost here, I've been hungry for a day, and I want to come to your old man's house to borrow some food." After that, Xiaotian's face was red, he rarely lied, and if he wasn't extremely hungry, he wouldn't be so embarrassed.
The old man didn't say much, the folk customs of this era were still very simple, reflexively took out two dough cakes from the room, brought a bowl of water, looked at the little wolf swallowing, and couldn't help but say: The child slows down, not enough to eat.
Xiaotian quickly finished eating two dough cakes, drank a sip of water, still raised his head, looked at the old man, and the old man turned around and took two dough cakes and handed them over.
"Eat, kid, where are you from, what are you doing here, how can you get lost?"
Xiao Tian was asked all of a sudden, and Xiao Tian hurriedly said: My companion is still in the woods over there, and I brought these two cakes to him, thank you old man. After speaking, he ran towards the woods without turning back, for fear that the old man would ask him any more questions.
Turning back to the woods, he fed two breads to the squirrels, and the squirrels who were anxious to eat them, Xiao Tian wondered again, is this hamster really a vegetarian? Why do the squirrels on the battlefield also eat the corpses of the enemy?
Soon Xiaotian fell asleep with the body of the squirrel tiredly.
The next day, Xiaotian took the hamster in the woods for another day, and when it was almost dark, he turned to the place where he slept yesterday, and he finally found that he was really lost, and this boundless forest seemed to be a maze, and he couldn't get out.
When Xiaotian knocked on the old man's door again, a smile flashed in the old man's eyes.
"I'll just say, no one in the five hundred miles of Lost Forest walked out without anyone leading it, you left in a hurry yesterday, and you haven't had time to tell you!"
Xiao Tiancheng's face really blushed now, he didn't want to talk to the old man yesterday, but he didn't expect the old man to come back.
The old man stopped asking him, took out four pieces of bread from the house, stuffed them into his hand, and turned around and went into the house.
It was not a day to go, nor was it to stay, but in the end I returned to the woods, ate bread and slept with the hamster.
The next morning, Xiao Tian came directly to the old man's door, knocked on the door and went in, and saw that the old man's house was extremely simple, except for a bed, a few shabby stools and things to eat, people in this era are still in an agrarian society, and the simple problem of food and clothing is very hard to solve, Xiao Tian can't help but think of the home where he and his mother depend on each other for a similar situation.
Xiaotian cautiously asked the old man: Old man, do you have a way to get out of this lost forest?
The old man smacked his mouth, glanced at Xiaotian and replied: I can't help it. No one can walk through this forest. Seeing that Xiaotian's face was full of doubts, he couldn't bear to sell Guan Zi anymore, and then said: It's summer: the infusion is luxuriant, and people get lost as soon as they enter, plus the scope is so large. Those of us who live on the edge seldom go into the forest, let alone you, a foreigner.
"The only way to get through this lost forest is to wait for the leaves to fall in winter, preferably just after the heavy snowfall, so that you can not only find the way, but also leave a mark in the snow, so that you can smoothly walk through the forest and reach the nearby city. ”
Xiaotian couldn't help but admire when he heard it, and only the old man could go out in this way, if the old man didn't say it, he might not be able to turn out.
The old man then went on to ask, "Who are you, and why are you here?"
Xiao Tian knew that the old man would have this question sooner or later, and replied indifferently: "I am a soldier of York City, who resisted the foreign invaders and the troops were separated some time ago, and came here on the way to escape. Seeing the old man looking at his black clothes suspiciously, he hurriedly said, "I was chased by the enemy on the way to escape, so I changed into the enemy's clothes." The original is too bright with gold. There was also a wounded comrade outside, but he died last night. Now it's just me. ”
"What happened to these hateful foreign invaders after they died?" asked the old man, in this remote area, where he knew almost nothing about the things on the other side, Xiao Tian had been thinking about it for most of the night last night before he made up the above lie for himself. If you let others know that you are an intruder who has slipped through the net, and you still have a hamster, then I am afraid that the consequences will be chased everywhere.
"Don't worry, old man, the invaders have been eliminated, and we dispatched the Night Bat Knight troops to kill the other party. When he said this, Xiaotian couldn't help but think of the comrades around him who fell one by one, but war has little to do with civilians, and civilians are often the biggest victims of war. The wounds of war take generations for civilians to heal. But these truths are not what Xiaotian can understand now. He just wanted to survive, and in order to survive, the lies he would tell were all the lies he had before he was sixteen.
The old man may have believed Xiaotian's words: "Yes, you are still a child, you went to the battlefield at such a young age, it is the most stupid to die there, and it is smart to live well." "The old man doesn't care about the big reason of desertion, the victory or defeat of the war outside really has little to do with them.
"Then you can live here with me now, anyway, I'm the only one left in the house. You can't get out of the forest. I starved to death inside. Wait until winter to find a way to leave." The old man said to Xiao Tian.
Xiaotian hurriedly thanked him, and there was no other way but to live with the old man.
In this way, Xiaotian helped the old man to farm and chop wood during the day, and when he lay down at night, he began to recall in his mind the "Tao Te Ching" passed to him by Tai Bai Xing in the cave, which is divided into two parts, the Tao Te Ching is used to cultivate himself, a total of thirty-seven chapters, and the virtue chapter is used to educate the faith, a total of forty-four chapters. came up in the first chapter, and Xiao Tian was dizzy:
The Tao is very good, and it is very good. The name is famous, and the name is not very famous.
The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth, the mother of all things.
Therefore, there is often no desire to observe its wonderfulness, and there is often a desire to observe its 徼 (jiào).
These two have the same name and different names, and they are the same as the mysteries, the mysteries and the mysteries, and the doors of all the wonders.
Xiao Tian thinks that this should be the general chapter part, in combination with the historical memory of Tai Bai Xing, it should be said that learning this Tao can see through the mystery of heaven and earth, master the power of Taoism, and finally travel the beginning of heaven and earth, be the mother of creation, observe the changes of the universe, and control the mysteries of the world.
Xiao Tian was stunned by this thought, he was just an ordinary human being, and he could not help but have some doubts when he cultivated this Tao Te Ching. But curiosity drove him to keep looking. Chapter 2: Therefore, there is no symbiosis, difficulty and ease are mutually compatible, long and short are dwarfed, high and low are inclined to each other, sound and sound are harmonious, and the front and back follow each other. Xiaotian saw vaguely and didn't know what to understand, so he repeatedly meditated in his heart, and saw that the old man had fallen asleep, so he got up and sat up straight, sat cross-legged, and continued to meditate: Therefore, there is no mutual birth, so there is no mutual birth and slowly it seems to be in a fixed state.
So the next day, when he was working in the field, the old man asked him, "What are you doing sitting there at night without sleeping?"
Of course, Xiao Tian didn't dare to tell the truth, so he replied: "Actually, I fell asleep, I had a problem since I was a child, that is, I sat there like a dream when I was sleeping, and I was actually unconscious. You don't have to worry about me, old man. ”
Looking at Xiao Tian's serious answer, the old man was skeptical, and finally found that Xiao Tian sat there every day, and he didn't seem to be in bad spirits during the day, so he didn't ask again.
In fact, every two days, Xiao Tian had to secretly take two breads at night when the old man was asleep and go back to the woods to feed his squirrels. And the old man thought that the child was growing and should have eaten bread at night. Therefore, he didn't say anything about his own little bread, but urged Xiaotian to eat more every time he ate. made Xiaotian look very embarrassed.
Therefore, Xiao Tian sat upright and read for a month on this night, Xiao Tian found that there was a faint breath in his body that slowly flowed along the meridians of the whole body, but this feeling came and went, and he couldn't grasp it, but he still followed the reading: it was difficult to get along, the length and the short were dwarfed, and the repeated silent recitation finally found a clue, first slowed down his breathing, entered the state of emptiness, and slowly felt this breath rising from his dantian, first slowly upward through the various meridian acupoints, to the top of the head, and then returned to the dantian. Xiao Tian slowly tried to control the time that this breath stayed on the top of his head, and then guided it to concentrate its hands on the box, and finally returned to the dantian. After repeated attempts, slowly this breath was controlled by Xiao Tian, and he was able to swim on Xiao Tian's arms, and his legs passed through various parts, and he returned to the dantian after a week.
But Xiao Tian didn't know what this breath was of any use to him in three months, but in the eyes of the old man, Xiao Tian had grown a lot taller in a few months, from one meter six when he first saw him, to one meter seven now, especially when he was chopping wood and working, as if he didn't know how tired. Whenever I look at Xiaotian's sweaty appearance, I always think in my heart how good it would be to have such a son