Chapter 48: A Clear Conscience
The ruins of Kueiin Temple in the dark night seem to be connected to some unknown place.
That unknown place attracted Jiang Wang to get closer, consciously or unconsciously.
Jiang Wang walked more and more urgently, but the direction became more chaotic, and he simply walked backwards and forwards, left and right. Chong Xuansheng was obviously following closely, but there was a feeling that his people were drifting away.
It feels unsettling.
Jiang Wang's face was expressionless, but the look in his eyes showed that he was still awake, and even thinking, but on the contrary, he seemed to be completely unaware of the current situation of his body.
This scene is so weird, but Chong Xuansheng doesn't have enough information after all, and he can't start analyzing it.
But you can't just let it go.
With such a judgment, Chong Xuansheng couldn't help but reach out and try to stop Jiang Wang's strange movement with heavy techniques.
But the power of the heavy technique was about to touch, and Jiang Wang's hand had already pressed back on the sword, and the sword qi was about to burst out! This was the body's instinctive response to fight back.
In this case, Jiang Wang couldn't stop fighting, and he couldn't grasp the proportions, so he could only disperse the heavy technique.
While the heavy technique dissipated, Chong Xuansheng glanced at Fourteen.
The tacit understanding accumulated over the years can be understood by fourteen with just one look.
Even with armor, he was already standing in front of Jiang Wang.
Standing still in one step, it gives people the feeling that it is like a mountain rooted in the ground, majestic and heavy.
Without any intention of attacking, nor any active contact, Fourteen was fixed on the front road, "waiting" for him to approach.
Sure enough, as Chong Xuansheng expected, it did not cause Jiang Wang's instinctive reaction.
He just hurried forward, colliding with Fourteen, who was wearing the armor of Yue—it was like he had hit a mountain!
The "mountain" is immovable.
Jiang Wang's body also stopped, blocking in front of the "mountain".
But judging by his forward stance and tense muscles, he was still trying to move forward.
Fourteen could also feel Jiang Wang's advance, and then nodded to Chong Xuansheng.
As far as Jiang Wang's half-hung refining body is concerned, it is impossible to push away the fourteenth with the instinct of the body alone.
Chong Xuansheng approached to observe his eyes.
Jiang Wang's eyes were like a still sea.
Bright, peaceful, firm, as if forever there, forever beautiful, never changed...... But there is something unfathomable brewing.
In that calm sea, Chong Xuansheng suddenly saw a ...... "swastika" that was up and down!
At this moment.
In Jiang Wang's feelings, he also "saw" this swastika in a non-visual sense.
Then he "heard" a voice, in a non-auditory sense.
He suddenly had a realization in his heart, and saw the appearance of the yellow-faced old monk, the bitter monk who appeared in Qingyang Town inexplicably and wanted to accept him as an apprentice.
The voice asked—
"If you live as long as you can, don't kill, can you hold it today?"
In your lifetime, you will never kill, will you be able to keep this precept from now on?
And the essential question it represents is, are you willing to take refuge in Buddhism?
Jiang Wang's consciousness is awake, he has been awake. He's been thinking about it, but some of the problems are real.
He can't see the outside world until he solves his inner problems.
The fog of obscurantism, the fog of obscurantism. The cultivators of the Tenglong Realm were originally beginning to face up to "ignorance", and they were already trekking through obscurantism.
The so-called "if you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world." ”
The so-called "original source", one's own body is the foundation, and the heart is the source.
The voice of the old monk suddenly appeared, asking his heart-
"If you live as long as you can, don't kill, can you hold it today?"
Jiang Wang knew very well at this time that as long as he could take refuge in the vows, he would be able to "walk" out of the endless torture immediately.
It is to get rid of the sea of suffering, and it is also to "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground".
The so-called "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot" does not mean that if you kill someone, you can become a Buddha if you put down the knife. Rather, it is to let go of the evil thoughts in the heart, to let go of all the "butcher knives" that can harm living beings, to have no evil in the heart, to be compassionate to all sentient beings, and to become a Buddha.
The endless torture hit his heart all the time.
One mistake is the end of the broken heart of the Dao.
And as long as you keep the vows, as long as you "change your mind and face", you can immediately get rid of this dangerous situation.
But Jiang Wang's voice sounded in the bottom of his heart - "I can't hold it!"
"If you live as long as you can, don't kill, can you hold it today?"
"I can't hold it!"
Why do I need to follow the rules? I follow my own heart.
As soon as this voice appeared, the outside world, Chong Xuansheng and Fourteen, could clearly feel that Jiang Wang's forward trend stopped.
And in the heart.
For those tortures, Jiang Wang faced them directly and answered them one by one.
"For Fang Pengju, I remember him and miss him, but I don't regret killing him. Love is true, and hatred is also true.
For Hu Shaomeng, I follow the agreement and have no worries.
......
For those with pork bones, snakebones, and keels...... I am resolute and unshakable. If there is really an age of bones, I will kill it again!
......
For the soldiers of Yangguo, going to the battlefield means gambling everything and giving their lives to it. So they are, and so do I!
There is only life and death on the battlefield, how can there be right or wrong!"
The "swastika" character in his eyes dissolved instantly, and those approaching faces and fierce questioning all disappeared.
Everything that is seen and heard is at peace.
In the end, Jiang Wang was in a good mood, regained control of his body in an instant, and blurted out: "I have a clear conscience!"
By this time, he had already understood the cause and effect.
When he was in Qingyang Town, without his knowledge, Kujue left a symbol on him - "swastika".
This is the auspicious symbol of Buddhism, which means the collection of auspicious virtues.
This swastika itself did not hurt or affect Jiang Wang, the only effect was to point him out the direction when he was confused. It can be said that it plays the role of protecting the mind, and of course this "direction" must also lead to refuge.
This swastika will probably never be able to play a role, because Jiang Wang's heart is firm and far away from ordinary people.
It should be said that the old monk Kujue has no malicious intent.
But tonight, when he came to the ruins of Kueiin with Chong Xuansheng to find the answer.
This swastika pulls something in Kueiin, so that he is trapped in an almost endless torture of the Dao Heart, and people are also attracted to some unknown place.
It almost hurt him, but it also saved him.
When he was caught up in the torture of the Dao heart, this swastika provided him with a way to hold on to his "precepts" in order to atone for his "sins".
But Jiang Wang chose his own way-
He directly let go of all defenses and questioned his heart.
And he has a clear conscience!
The body and mind are clear, and the will is the same.
"What happened?" asked Chong Xuansheng.
He looked at Jiang Wang, feeling that his person seemed to have undergone some kind of washing from the inside out, and there was a dusty temperament.
Jiang Wang recounted everything that had just happened in his heart.
Only then did Chong Xuansheng and Fourteen know what kind of danger he had just experienced.
"Get out of here first. Chong Xuansheng said immediately.
There must be some secret hidden here. And the current Chong Xuansheng can't even perceive it, if it weren't for the swastika that Kujue left on Jiang Wang's body, Jiang Wang would not be an exception.
This is enough to show that the secrets hidden in the ruins of Kueiin are beyond their current strength.
Chong Xuansheng was of course a smart person, so he chose to leave as soon as possible, ignoring even the answers he was looking for.
If you don't have the strength, you have to be curious, that is, to find death!
But just as they were walking outside, a new voice sounded outside.
This time, Jiang Wang was not alone, and all three of them heard it.
The voice was:
"Bang-Bang!Bang!Bang!"