Chapter 33: Great Freedom (II)
The white clouds were long, the air still smelled of dirt, and there was dew on the grass on the hillside.
There is a stream below the hillside, and on the other side of the stream is a village. The flowers on both sides of the creek are red and willow green, the sound of the stream and the sound of chickens and dogs barking are intertwined, and there is a breeze passing by the ears, but these sounds do not make Li Daoyi feel bored, but he is relaxed and happy, and most of the original fatigue has dissipated.
Last night, he carried Xu Changan on his back, and he had to throw Xiaobai in his arms, and left the mountain with a pestle.
After last night's battle, there will definitely be people who will go to that mountain to investigate, and they cannot stay to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Watching Xu Changan wield the fire, he felt relaxed, and the big sword went over and slapped directly on the face of the grandmaster, but when this sword reached Li Daoyi's hand, it was extremely heavy. Hanguang is okay, although Li Daoyi can't touch it, but Li Daoyi carried Xu Changan on his back one by one, and Hanguang stuck tightly to Xu Changan's back.
This is a convenient matter, but this burning, holding a strange weight. A magic sword, still thinking about killing the lord at any time, I wanted to make the decision for Xu Changan and lost it. But after Li Daoyi threw it away, he took two steps with Xu Changan on his back, and regretted it again.
Looking at the burning lying in the mud, Li Daoyi finally gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and brought it with him.
In the second half of the night, he was so tired that he happened to stop raining, and he couldn't care so much, so he directly threw Xu Changan and lay on the grass.
Unexpectedly, when he woke up in the morning, he could smell the fresh air, bask in the sun, hear the wind and the sound of chickens and dogs barking, and even smell the fragrance from the other side of the stream.
Li Daoyi looked at this environment, even if it was him, he couldn't help but think of what the sages said, "after the new rain in the empty mountains", although it is not autumn yet, and it is morning, but Li Daoyi really felt the tranquility.
Even in a trance, he wanted to live in seclusion here, to be a reclusive Taoist priest, a reclusive monk.
Li Daoyi patted his face and pulled a piece of mud from his face. Then he looked at his body, and saw that although the robe was not very tattered, it was covered with mud, and the hair bun was also full of mud. He was originally quite comfortable, but he immediately felt uncomfortable.
Li Daoyi glanced at Xu Changan beside him, and couldn't help laughing.
Now Xu Changan is completely like a mud monkey, there is no blood on his body, and the blood has long been washed away by the rain.
Li Daoyi patted Xu Changan's face, looked at his blue and purple face, and even had fist marks on his face, and frowned.
He originally planned to go to the village at the foot of the mountain to rest, but Xu Changan was not easy to see people at all.
When seen by the people, he must be regarded as a second-rate person who fights and fights every day, but he can't reveal his identity.
Although he still didn't know where the assassins came from, he knew that something must be wrong with Chang'an. Otherwise, how could their whereabouts be calculated so accurately.
Suddenly, his stomach screamed twice, interrupting Li Daoyi's thoughts.
Why do you want to do so much, it's better to be cheeky and beg for something to eat; it's really not good, he goes to steal, the affairs of the people in the rivers and lakes, stealing some food is not called stealing, it is called Jianghu relief!
Li Daoyi stood up and helped Xu Changan up, but found that Xiaobai was gone.
But he didn't care too much, Xiaobai's physique was much better than the two of them, he must have woken up first, and it had a contract with Xu Changan, where Xu Changan went, it could sense it and find it.
Li Daoyi sighed, took off his shoes, and couldn't help but turn Xu Changan over and twitch his ass a few times with the soles of his shoes.
"Stinky boy, let you practice hard, worry about the country and the people every day, Lao Tzu sent you!" After smoking, he felt incomprehensible, a smile appeared on his dirty face, rubbed his hands, tore the clothes on Xu Changan's chest, and then put Xu Changan's hand on his chest, and he also pinched Xu Changan's face, making Xu Changan's expression look very enjoyable, and a little ...... Voluptuous and charming......
Li Daoyi fumbled in his arms for a while, and found a jade talisman, intending to keep the current image, thinking of Xu Changan's stunned expression in the future, he laughed proudly.
Just as he was about to cast a spell, two villagers appeared not far away.
When they saw the two of them from a distance, they hurriedly ran over, and wanted to ask a few questions, but suddenly looked at Xu Changan's chest, to be precise, the scar on Xu Changan's chest.
When the two saw the familiar scratches, they were overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "When you see Engong, hurry up and take Engong down to serve him." ”
Li Daoyi was confused, but looking at their appearance, it didn't look like they would harm the two, so they let them carry Xu Changan down, originally the two wanted to take the burning in Li Dao's hand, but this burning was in the hands of the two, but it almost pressed them to the ground.
Li Daoyi thought for a while, and finally found an explanation.
This magic sword burning is different from ordinary weapons, they are all bloodsucking and confessing the master, and it is difficult for anyone other than the master to pick it up.
Li Daoyi was able to pick it up because of Xu Changan's two catastrophes. These two times, because of the existence of the same life ring, almost took Li Daoyi's life.
And because the vitality of the two is connected by the same life ring, he can also pick up the burning.
Li Dao glanced at his mouth, and felt a little regretful in his heart, he just gave Xu Changan a few blows on the buttocks, and he suffered a little.
He can only hold the burn, which is heavier than Xu Changan!
He followed the people back to the village, took a bath, ate their meal, and inquired as to why they did what they did.
It turns out that there has been a white eye in the vicinity recently
The big insect (tiger, often used to refer to the tiger in the water margin, I will also use it here.) But this morning, the corpse of the big insect suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village, and the people in the village had a few catties and a few taels, and they all knew that it was definitely not done by the villagers.
These two people were sent by the village to walk around to see if any strangers appeared near the village, and they thanked their benefactors. Unexpectedly, as soon as I came up, I saw Li Daoyi and Xu Changan, and saw the scratches on Xu Changan's chest.
Li Daoyi squinted his eyes when he heard the words of thanks from the people, feeling a little strange.
The scratches on Xu Chang'an's body were naturally left by Gen Liang when he carried Xu Chang'an and beat him. But this big insect with white eyes made him think that it was arranged by someone.
Otherwise, they would never have been treated like this.
The villagers were given medicine, a few new clothes, and even a few flavors of medicine, which would definitely not appear in these ordinary mountains.
Li Daoyi asked the villagers, and the villagers said that these medicines were picked up this morning, and they didn't know them anyway, and they were about to sell them, but the two of them came, and Li Daoyi recognized this herb for treating cultivators, and the people simply gave the herbs to Li Daoyi to treat Xu Chang'an.
All of this made Li Daoyi feel a little uneasy.
......
In the next two days, it was unusually calm, Xu Changan also woke up, and Xiaobai also came back, even holding two snake gall bladders.
Li Daoyi glanced at Xu Changan with envy, although Xiaobai had been with him for a long time, it was also tightly limited to the relationship between gambling friends. Where will it be like Xu Changan, and will help him find something to heal.
Xu Changan knew the current situation as usual, but instead of being uneasy, he smiled freely.
"Why do you think so much, it will never hurt you and me, otherwise it wouldn't be arranged like this. ”
When Li Dao heard this, he could only nod.
He peeked at Xu Chang'an and found that Xu Chang'an today is very different from the past days, and now he has a sense of freedom and ease. It's not like before, either with a straight face, or just frowning, looking extremely serious.
"By the way, your enchantment situation ......" Li Daoyi still couldn't help but ask.
Xu Changan smiled, looked at this good brother who shared life and death with him, and did not hide it.
"I'm not going to forcibly suppress it, my heart is the demon heart, and my heart is the sacred heart. Xu Changan said lightly, his eyes wandered, his eyes were staring at the red and green willows in front of him, but his thoughts drifted to Zhan Xu and Cheng Baiyi, and even thought of the master.
Are these three wicked people?
For him Xu Chang'an, these three people can be described as bad people, the master has calculated him since he was a child, Zhan Xu needless to say, the gap between the two clans is there, he wants his life several times, and even caught Qu Catfish to blackmail himself; As for Cheng Baiyi, the case of the Mei family in Anhai City almost killed him, not only that, but he also planned to destroy himself from the bottom of his heart, and even deceived Mei Ruolan.
But are these three really wicked people?
What the master did was for the sake of the human race, and even for the sake of defending himself, it was for the sake of the human race; what Zhan Xu did, from the perspective of the demon race, was not wrong, and even he had a kind heart and knew how to appreciate everything about the human race, if it weren't for the problems of the race, Zhan Xu would definitely be a very good person; as for Cheng Baiyi, he was actually a bit like the master, he was not a wicked person, they were all the same, they just put too much burden on themselves.
They want to maintain the world, they want to maintain it on their own, they only believe in themselves.
The figures of these three people were engraved in Xu Changan's mind, especially the master, he was only targeting himself, but he wanted to protect the whole world, but because of himself, because of his background and power, the master became the object of the world's spit.
Xu Changan sighed, withdrew his gaze, looked at Li Daoyi who was frowning, and asked, "Is good and evil absolute?"
This is a question that Lee Do-il can't answer and can't answer.
"You see, my senior brother, owes a lot of debts, and those creditors hate him to death, but this can't stop him from becoming a great man, and can't stop him from walking on the road of protecting the world; Master, yes, he is targeting me, but he has never owed the world a little. Birds eat insects, which is good for a tree that is bitten by insects, but insects think that birds are evil. Standing in different angles, there are different good and evil, in the world, there is nothing that can be done, and all living beings are satisfied. ”
"It's like the sun, I say it's warm, but some people say it's harsh. In other words, good and evil, good and evil, are actually the boundaries of people's self. It's like the sea, you look at the blue sea and think it's pure and refreshing, but there are also massacres and blood at the bottom of the sea, and even a lot of people pee and. ”
Xu Changan lowered his head, looked at the clothes of the villagers on his body, bowed his head and said: "Everything in the world is like this, you can only tolerate it, have the world in your heart, and everything is in my arms." There are so-called good, evil, good and evil in the world, and there must be a reason for their existence, and we cannot stop any so-called demons or good, because good, evil, good and evil are too one-sided. All we can do is keep it here!"
Xu Changan said, pointing to his chest.
"The heart, as Buddhism and Taoism say, if you don't step on the red dust, how can you see through the red dust? If you don't enter the world, how dare you say that you are born. I firmly believe in my own beliefs, my own way, my own heart, I am into the devil, the devil confuses me, so how do you know that it is not me who crosses the devil?"
When Li Daoyi heard this, he looked at Xu Changan in a daze, and finally took a deep breath and bowed slightly to Xu Changan.
Although these words are complicated, they contain a lot of true Buddhist principles.
Li Daoyi is a fellow practitioner of Buddhism and Taoism, so he naturally understands.
Xu Changan was afraid that Li Daoyi would not be at ease, so he immediately pinched a Shushan's "Ten Thousand Sword Technique", but what came out of this sword qi was the phantom of the red lotus.
Seeing this scene, he was even more surprised.
"When I returned to Chang'an, I didn't deliberately go through the customs, but I was thinking. Master Zeng left me a word, and I was also puzzled, the demon clan has done so many things, why did Master Zeng leave that word. Later, I figured it out, so I also realized that many exercises can be used slowly, and in the end, with that sword, I can kill Gen Liang, and I also have killing intent in my heart, but there is also a voice telling me that I can't continue to fall. The so-called righteous demons have to look at their own hearts, the demon race is not all bad, and the human race is not all good. ”
For example, my senior brother Qi Fengjia, who played the world in the first half of his life, came as he wished, and also adhered to his heart, this is freedom, little freedom!"
Li Daoyi was like a well-behaved student at this time, and when he heard this, he muttered, "Is there great freedom then?"
"Yes, do whatever you want, don't care about other people's eyes, don't care about worldliness, do what you think is right, even if the whole world thinks it's wrong. In today's world, people in the world only see the present, taking their own interests as the starting point, their own truth is right, and other people's truth is evil. But all these things have their own reasons, and everyone in the world wants to benefit themselves, and they are all demons in each other's eyes. The four directions of heaven and earth are said to be the universe, and the past and the present are said to be the universe, and my heart is the universe, so it seems that the world is much wider. I stick to my own heart, observe all living beings with the meaning of the universe, Buddhism, Taoism and demons are the same, and act with my heart, which is great freedom!"
"Actually, what is your truth, my truth, in fact, the truth is in heaven and earth, but sentient beings can only see those that are beneficial to themselves. ”
Li Daoyi could understand it before, but when it came to the back, even Li Daoyi was a little puzzled to understand.
However, he knew one thing, Xu Changan walked on the avenue.
Even if he is a demon, he will not cause misfortune, nor will he deliberately harm any life.
This is the "equality of all living beings" in the Buddha, and this is the Taoist "heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs".
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A few days later, the two of them hit the road with a cat and headed towards Iron Sword Mountain.
Of course, Xiao Bai also sent a message to Xu Chang'an, after the battle with Gen Liang that night, Xiao Bai sensed another group of demon clans.
However, Xu Changan didn't think much about it, just smiled faintly, what's the matter, he Xu Changan followed!
After the two of them and the cat left, on the small hillside where they were lying before, Lin Haotian reappeared.
He looked at the village below, his eyes narrowing.
"Fauber, don't you imitate the angle of someone else's sword and the wound of the stab?"
Fu Bo was stunned, the news came back to the pavilion a few days ago, but the pavilion didn't have any opinions, as if he hadn't heard it, which made Lin Haotian a little frustrated.
Fu Bo understands what the young pavilion master means, but the people below are all mundane!
"If it weren't for the mundane, maybe the pavilion wouldn't pay attention to it. Besides, their lives are exchanged for the Sword Pavilion to avoid falling into the hands of demons, so that we can better protect this world in the future, which is their honor, sacrificing them, but they can protect more people. ”
When Fu Bo heard this, he glanced at Lin Haotian worriedly, and finally Lin Haotian took out the token, and Fu Bo could only sigh and act according to his orders.
That night, a fire broke out in the village, and the peaceful village ceased to exist.
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Zhan Xu looked at the spies in front of him, and then looked at Luo Ziang with a smile.
He knew that there were some things that he couldn't hide from Luo Ziang, so it was better to let him listen to them generously, otherwise he wouldn't be able to receive the news.
The demon clan spies in the water and clouds glanced at Luo Ziang, a little afraid, and even when he came to the courtyard, he was scared, no one had ever experienced this kind of thing, reporting in front of the enemy, and going straight to the enemy's base camp.
"It's okay, just say it. Zhan Xu said lightly.
"Young Master Qiqi, we were ordered to protect Xu Chang'an, I wanted to make a move, but I didn't expect that Gen Liang was not Xu Chang'an......'s opponent;
"But what?" Zhan Xu frowned, and so did Luo Ziang.
The spy between the clouds gritted his teeth and said, "But that village was slaughtered, and the wounds of the Shushan Sword Technique used seemed to be caused by the magic sword. That group of people wanted to frame Xu Chang'an, young master, you only ordered us to protect Xu Chang'an's safety, and didn't say anything else, so we didn't stop it. ”
"Who did that?" Zhan Xu squinted, feeling that this matter was becoming more and more interesting.
"Young Pavilion Master Lin Haotian of the Sword Pavilion!"
When Zhan Xu heard this, he waved his hand to let the spy go down, and the assassin spy between the clouds swallowed his saliva, looked at Luo Ziang a little nervously, and then left safely and uneasily.
"Luo Ziang, although my subordinates are human witnesses, no one will believe the words of the demon clan. Zhan Xu took a sip of tea and glanced at Luo Ziang casually.
Luo Ziang frowned, did not answer, and left.
It's not easy to deal with!
Zhan Xu looked at Luo Ziang's back, and suddenly smiled: "It's really interesting, my demon clan protects the demon sword body, but other clans want to murder Fa'er!"
"Interesting, interesting!"