. Haotian wants to eat, what to eat is a question, but come to think of it, no matter what it eats, it doesn't have to pay, and people always have to pay for eating.

The master asked Ning Que to settle the bill, and then took him and Sang Sang down to the restaurant, walked around the capital of the Song Kingdom for a while, saw a semicolon of Chen Kum Kee, and walked in to buy some fat powder for Sang Sang.

Ning Que felt that the teacher was too good to Sangsang, and he didn't feel like the teacher he knew, but at this time, his mind was all occupied by those questions, so he didn't have time to think deeply.

The black carriage left the capital of the Song Kingdom, and after a while, it returned to the grassy wasteland.

Ning Que looked at the weeds and sheep in the wasteland, thought for a while and said, "Teacher, can it be simpler?"

The Master got out of the carriage, looked at the endless meadow, and said, "The grass grows in the wilderness, gets sunshine and rain, and absorbs the essence of the soil, so it can grow, and this is what it eats." ”

The Master pointed to the flock of sheep not far away and said, "The sheep eat grass." ”

He pointed more than ten miles away and said, "Look, those wolves are eating sheep. ”

"So what does Haotian eat?"

Ning Que suddenly remembered Master Liansheng's angry scolding in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, remembered Master Qishan's emotion in the autumn rain in the Buddha Hall, and remembered the doubts of many seniors, and said in a trembling voice: "Cannibalism?"

"Sheep can't eat soil and sunlight directly, so they eat grass, wolves can't eat grass directly, so they eat sheep, people are relatively much more powerful, we basically eat everything, but in general, the gradual progress of the diet is the improvement of energy utilization efficiency, and finally the life of the previous layer can only eat the life of the next layer. ”

The master shook his head and said, "According to my guess. Haotian's life supplement comes from the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, and it can't directly eat the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, just like a sheep can't eat soil and sunlight directly, and a wolf can't eat grass directly, so he also needs a transition link, that is, people. ”

Ning Que said: "That's what I said just now. ”

The Master said, "Ordinary people don't know what Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is. How can we change the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi? We still need cultivators to refine and improve the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi as the nutrients that Haotian needs. ”

Ning Que said: "You mean that the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is grass. Cultivators are those sheep that eat grass, turning the nutrients in the grass into something that Haotian's wolf can absorb?"

The Master said, "That's probably what it means." ”

Ning Que said: "It has always been said in the Daomen classics. Cultivation is a gift from Haotian to mankind, and according to your statement, this gift is really a bit eerie and terrifying. ”

The master said: "Of course, Haotian is much more picky than the wolves in the wasteland, after all, it is the top-level rule collection of our world, ordinary cultivators are tasteless sheep in its eyes, and those cultivators after crossing the Five Realms begin to have their own world and create their own rules. Purify the heaven and earth vitality in nature into their unique essence, and at this time, it will become a delicacy in Haotian's eyes. ”

Ning Que looked at his master and asked, "What about you?"

"When it comes to the process of being a teacher, of course, it is a beautiful sheep. The master smiled and said, "But just like the relationship between a lion and a herd of bison, some bison are too powerful. Or the bison herd is too strong, and the lion will also feel threatened. ”

Ning Que has always been very calm, and when he discussed with his master, he still had the leisure to look at the grass and the sheep like clouds under his feet, in fact, his mood oscillated to the extreme, and for a while it was like a boiling sheep soup pot. For a while, the mutton jelly was like a frozen condensation, and it was already on the verge of collapse, and it was an academic discussion that did not involve reality, so I persevered.

After a long silence, he asked the most important question of the discussion: "Teacher, do you have any evidence?"

Without evidence, this is an academic discussion, he can diverge his thoughts, think to the deepest, the most incredible, the most eerie and terrifying, without any psychological burden, if there is evidence, then this is a cruel and sad story, I can't bear to listen, let alone discuss.

The master knew very well his mood at this time, and said with a smile: "This is not a sad story, let alone gloomy and terrifying, for countless years, the number of cultivators who can cross the Five Realms is not as much as the sheep that humans eat in a day, if you really want to say that it is eerie and terrifying, human beings are much more terrifying than Haotian." ”

It was difficult for Ning Que to get comfort from this passage, because he was a human being and not a sheep, so he opened his eyes and looked at the teacher innocently and pitifully, still wanting to hear the answer.

"Of course, there is no evidence for such a thing. ”

The master said, and then without waiting for Ning Que to breathe a sigh of relief, he continued: "But your junior uncle, as well as me, have directly proved that Haotian is conscious, it is a life form similar to and higher than humans, so he must need to eat, this kind of inference is difficult for you to deny." ”

Ning Que's expression was ugly, similar to that of a pig who was pushed in front of the boiling bucket during the Chinese New Year.

"Cultivation is indeed a very difficult thing, but on top of such a large number of human beings, it is actually not too difficult, there are always some people who can practice, and there are always people who can cross the five realms of the world. ”

The master looked at him and said, "No matter how rare the cultivators who have crossed the Five Realms are, they have accumulated over countless thousands of years, which is a very large number when you think about it, so can you tell me where they went?"

Ning Que said: "Birth, old age, sickness and death are common, and it is not surprising that those people may naturally die of old age. ”

The master smiled and said, "I have lived for more than a thousand years, if I want, I can continue to live, birth, old age, sickness and death, for the people above the Five Realms, it is indeed a very unusual thing." ”

Ning Que felt that his mouth was a little dry and a little bitter, and after a while, he said: "The Buddha Sect Nirvana, the Daomen Feather Became an Immortal, these are all described in mythological stories, those people went to the heavens to enjoy the blessings of immortals?"

The master smiled and said, "Heaven, where is the heavens? Where is the Haotian Divine Kingdom? After returning to the origin of the world, are you still alive? If you don't even have yourself, are you still alive?"

This question was discussed by Ning Que and Master Qishan in the Rotten Ke Temple, and he knew that there was no answer to this question, and if he really thought about it in the deepest depths, the possible answers could only point to the cold side.

"No one has ever been to the Haotian Divine Kingdom. And then come back, your little uncle may have glanced at it back then, but forgot to leave a few words, so I didn't have an answer to this question before. ”

The master looked at the blue clouds above the wasteland and said, "It wasn't until I saw the bright god general on the golden chariot that I finally saw the answer. ”

Ning Que asked, "Where is the answer?"

The answer was in his face. ”

The Master said, "His face is too perfect, and there is no such thing as perfection in the world." So he's not real, and his perfection comes from thousands of old people, so he's not one of my old people. ”

The master's love is a little low. With some emotion, it seems to recall a lot of past events.

Then he retracted his gaze, looked at Ning Que and said, "I saw the unified Haotian consciousness on his face. But I didn't see the consciousness of the individual, I saw the eternal, and I saw death. ”

This is a simple world, these are simple truths, but before the master said it, Ning Que couldn't think of these problems even if he was a human being and had seen the most bizarre things in the world.

He was silent for a long time, and then said, "Haven't other cultivators thought about these issues?"

"Back then, in the mountains behind the academy, you once told me. As soon as humans think, Haotian will laugh, but in fact, there are many humans who don't care about being ridiculed by Haotian, far before me. And after me, there are a lot of practitioners who are constantly thinking, and many people have similar doubts as me. ”

The master walked under the meadow and said, "That kid Liu Bai, why didn't you dare to take that step, and you have been hiding in the Sword Pavilion all these years and didn't dare to come out? Why did he betray the Xiling Temple and create a demon sect in this wasteland? ”

Hearing the Great Divine Priest of the Founding Demon Sect, Ning Que couldn't help but think of the Xiling Divine Temple, and asked: "Daomen and Haotian are the closest, the masters in the Daomen should have a deep understanding of this aspect, could it be that except for that Great Divine Priest of Light, for tens of thousands of years, no one else has ever doubted Haotian?"

"Daomen pursues feathering into immortals. Being led to the Haotian Divine Kingdom and returning to the origin of the world is their greatest happiness, and it is also the ultimate goal of their survival and struggle, this is their yearning, where do they need to be doubted?"

The master looked at him and said, "It's just that for many other cultivators, it is always a question whether to be eternal with Haotian or die alone. ”

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To live or to die, that's the question. Eternal with Haotian, or die alone is also a question. But can all questions be answered?

Ning Que once again remembered what Master Liansheng had said in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate.

"Look at this filthy world, there are many mediocre and pig-like fools who live, don't you feel that the air you breathe is so dirty and smelly? With a thief who has been silent for an unknown number of years, don't you feel extremely unhappy to breathe? It is natural for people to live in the world to eat meat, pigs, dogs, chickens, and heaven and earth, how can there be any reason to talk about!"

"In my opinion, the way you and I exist in this world is a collection of our own ways of understanding the world, and I have been struggling to understand the origin of the real world, and finally change the way I exist in the world, and finally want to change the world, and find the world that is impossible to come back to. ”

"I'm just pursuing power, looking for ways to change the world, I don't care about the difference between Dao and Demon, and I don't care who wins and who loses, the reason why I am willing to come to the Demon Sect is because I want to see the lost book of heaven. ”

"I went to the Great River of the Southern Jin Dynasty to the Moon Wheel Country, and finally I went west, to that distant and unknowable place, in that Hanging Temple, I finally heard the first lecture, saw the light of the Buddha of Qingman, and heard the deafening Buddha words between the brilliance, but after a few years, I finally found that the great monks in the Hanging Temple are just some turbidity, the so-called Buddha words blindly trick the mystery, and the fortune teller on the Song Street is no different, what is more disgusting is that the Buddha cultivates his own body, and will only wait humbly in the face of the transfer of the wheel of life, as if how to reach the other side？”

"I thought that I had finally found the right place to have the opportunity to know the real world, but I didn't expect that after spending some time on Peach Mountain, I found that the Xiling Temple was all a bunch of cowardly and timid idiots. It's all a bunch of dogs, so what's the Broken View? After all, it's not a dog raised by Haotian!haha...... It's all dogs!"

In the past, Ning Que had always thought that Master Liansheng's words were just some crazy nonsense, but it was not until this moment that he finally understood how great this Demon Sect master who had studied the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism was.

Master Lotus has always stood at the highest point of the cultivation world, and the purpose of his survival is to point directly at this old world, and if he wants to open up a new world, there is not much difference between him, Master and Uncle Xiao, but the method he chooses, the means he uses are more bloody and cold.

Ning Que knew that in his life, he might not be qualified to do this multiple-choice question, because he might never be able to reach the realm of Master Lotus Sheng, but he thought about it carefully, if he really had to face this multiple-choice question, he would really choose the same answer and method as Lotus Sheng.

Master Lotus is great, and the teacher is even more amazing, he already knows how Lotus is chosen, and he guesses how the teacher will choose, but he doesn't know how the teacher will do it.

"Teacher, what would you do?" he asked.

The Master asked, "What did Lotus Sheng plan to do back then?"

Ning Que said: "He plans to destroy the old world, create a new world, and then fight against the Heavenly Dao. ”

The master shook his head and said, "After all, it is the relationship between eating and being eaten, since the Heavenly Dao does not eat people, why bother dragging hundreds of millions of ordinary people in the world into this war?"

At this time, the master and apprentice had already walked under the meadow, the water in the pot had been boiled, and the board was full of freshly cut mutton. ”

The three of them began to eat shabu mutton.

"Shabu mutton should eat fresh meat, and frozen meat is much worse. ”

The master touched the sweet garlic out of nowhere, chewed it crisply, touched his stomach with satisfaction, and then looked at Ning Que and said, "I am a person who likes to eat." ”

Ning Que thought to himself, if you use a more concise word to describe it, it is a foodie.

The master picked up the chopsticks and fished them in the pot of clear water, and found that there was no mutton, and he was a little regretful, and then pointed to the sky with a chopstick, and said, "Since I like to eat, of course I don't like to be eaten by others." ”

"Why fight with the sky, because it wants to eat me, then I have to find a way not to be eaten by it. ”

"How can I avoid being eaten by it?"

The master put a piece of frozen tofu into the mulberry bowl, looked at the little girl who was eating meat with her head down, sighed, and said, "This is indeed a very troublesome problem. ”

Ning Que pushed away the big black horse that had come to his bowl to grab meat to eat, and suddenly thought of a possibility, looked at the sun above his head, and said: "If Haotian needs to eat, just eat the sun, what do you do with the vitality of heaven and earth?"

The wasteland is located in the cold north, although it is spring, the sun still cannot be blazing, faintly like a fake painting.

The Master raised his basket again to the sky, pointed to the sun, and said, "What if this is false?"

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(Writing this chapter, thinking back to Chapter 790's Enchantment, I feel that this kind of work may not have worked well at the time, but after all, it will make people feel satisfied.) Ning Que will inherit his master's great wish and Ke Haoran's spiritual spirit, but as Lian Sheng said before his death, Ning Que inherited his mantle. Liansheng has a very important impact on Ning Que, and for Ning Que in the second two-fifths of the story, and it still has today. Your support is my biggest motivation.) ).