Ring Tianyun, Chen Yu and Qing Yu bid farewell to the three elders and went to find the night of moxibustion. Qing Yu led the way, Chen Yu followed, and before they knew it, the two of them came to a small road. The trail is somewhat peculiar and is built on the banks of the river. It is known that this river is often found under the mountain, and it is not possible to see the lake on the top of the mountain, if it is a natural river, it should flow to a low place, but this river is still without waves. There are few stones in the river and large, and it looks like a rockery up close, which is wonderful. On the bank, the purple and red, the branches of a tree seem to like to grow towards the river, and it has crossed half the river. The magnolia hung down from the branches, and the five egrets rested here, as if they had called the tree their home.

Walking along the riverside path, the two entered a cave. There was no light in the cave, and it was clearly the entrance to the cave, but now it became a wall. Chen Yu was a little panicked, and seeing that Qing Yu was calm, he didn't dare to ask more, and continued to walk. After turning a corner, I came to a dead end, and saw a white bone lying by the wall, covered with dust and cobwebs. I was shocked, and when I looked up, I saw a painting on the wall, which depicted Yama guarding hell. The bronze eyes of the Yama were very vicious, and they were staring at him with hatred.

"Brother Dao, please read with me, I have attained the Tao and will not go to hell. ”

Qing Yu's words were still in his ears, but there was no one in sight. Chen Yu's mind was clear for a moment, and he said, "I have attained the Tao and will not go to hell." As the words fell, Chen Yu regained his sight and found that he had come out of the cave. Remembering what I had just experienced, it was like a dream.

"Brother Dao is not surprised. Qing Yu patted Chen Yu on the shoulder and said: "Our sect is regarded as the head of decency with its long history of sect history and exquisite swordsmanship, but few people know that in the depths of our sect, there is a golden lake that can tell the truth from falsehood, and because of this, the bottom of the lake is sealed with the 'Creation God Book'. This book can create all things, save all sentient beings, and guide the heavenly gods and immortals to practice higher, so this book was destroyed for the small and evil people, and the underworld opened a door on the road that must be passed through this lake. The treacherous will lose their lives, but the ordinary will have the privilege of seeing the 'Book of Creation'. Those who cherish this book can get a good future, and those who are destined to abandon the book will be mortals after all, and they will have to follow the laws of the world and reincarnate until their souls are scattered. ”

Hearing what Qing Yu said, Chen Yu suddenly remembered that in the living room of the Ring Tianyun, the couplet in the painting on the wall, the universe is difficult to see, and the wonder of life is difficult to understand, which is also very related to this creation god book. For a moment, I couldn't help but feel a wave of curiosity about this creation god.

Qing Yu led Chen Yu forward again, and the two of them went out of the river and entered a bamboo forest. It seems that the literati and the like to treat the secluded forest, and the two of them heard a long and a young man talking in the forest from a distance. Searching for the sound, I saw a long and a young man playing on a stone table. The old man was bald, dressed in a white-washed robe, with kind eyebrows. This young man's face is like a crown of jade, but he is sharp, a pair of eyes are as black as stars, shining, but it is a pity that there are more things to do, he looks slightly indifferent, wearing a white brocade robe, holding a black chess piece in his hand, a golden belt is tied around his waist, and a piece of jade is hung on the belt, and he is pedaling a pair of boots trimmed with gold wire. At this time, the young man was angry and shouted at the elder: "Old man, you regret playing chess again, am I blind?"

"Boy, respect the old and love the young, can't you let me be an old man?"

The young man rolled his eyes and said sarcastically: "A game of chess regrets 108, you should be making up the chess count!"

The elder blushed at what the young man said, and said angrily: "If you don't come, if you don't come, you will know how to bully the elderly." He rolled his eyes, looked at Qing Yu, and said with a light smile: "Yan boy, do you want to accompany my old man to play a few plates?"

"Uncle Shi said with a smile, I am your opponent. ”

"Uninteresting, uninteresting. The elder shook his head, looked at Chen Yu with bright eyes, and said, "Where is the kid, isn't he a newcomer? Come, come, play chess with the old man." ”

Qing Yu wanted to speak and stopped. The young man rolled his eyes again and sarcastically said to the elder: "For the old disrespect, and for the newcomer." Old man, how many times did you say that this is the first time you have played chess, and you don't admit it. Win you, you are not convinced, let you, you say that you are disrespectful to you. Can you be more shameless?"

"You, you, the angry old man, the angry old man. ”

The old man's face was red when the young man said it, and the index finger of his right hand was trembling and pointed at the young man, obviously angry. The young man turned a blind eye, slowly put the chess pieces into the chess box, and said casually: "Senior Brother Yan, how can you have time to take the newcomer to find the way?"

"Senior brother, you misunderstood. Qing Yu said: "This Daoist brother is not a newcomer from my faction, but a disciple of Bai Huixuan, who was ordered by the family teacher to preach the decree of the Heavenly Dao. ”

"Oh. "The elder and the young man were both shocked. The young man put down the chess box, looked up at Qing Yu, and said sharply: "The decree of the Heavenly Dao is not trivial, have you reported to the master?"

"Big brother. Qing Yu hurriedly said: "Such a big matter, how dare I make my own decisions, I have already reported to the head." Now I have received the order of the head of the master and come to find you, senior brother. ”

Qing Yu then told the things in the living room one by one, and the young man listened quietly, pondered for a moment, and said: "I am the Mandate of Heaven, and I should do my best to awaken the divine beast, and protect the world by Ze. It's just that this way of heaven is a journey, I am afraid that it will be difficult and dangerous, and there will be ten thousand demons to stop it. If you can get the 'Book of Creation God' to accompany you, the book will cross all sentient beings, and you will see the sun through the clouds, and there will finally be a time when the book will be in the world. ”

The young man said this with a lost face, looked behind him, and vaguely glimpsed a blue lake through the crack in the bamboo. This lake is no different from other lakes, but it is very clean, there is no impurity in the lake, and the water is very blue, and the blue is clear. However, this seemingly ordinary lake on the surface is a golden lake that can tell the truth from the false in Qing Yu's mouth and seal the "Creation God Book".

"It's so bright, it's so bright. Isn't there a night pearl in this lake, how can it be so bright?"

Chen Yu, who had never spoken since entering the bamboo forest, was muttering to himself at this time. Qing Yu, the young man, and the elder were all shocked, and looked at Chen Yu at the same time. I saw that his eyes were straight, staring at Jinhu intently, and the soul had already wandered outside.

"This kid is really lucky, he has entered a state of gradual enlightenment at this moment, and I don't know what he has seen?"

The elder looked at Chen Yu with envy, and Qing Yu was also envious. Seeing the two of them in such a posture, the young man couldn't help but reprimand: "What is there to envy, the way of cultivation is to persevere, and you have not achieved positive results, but Er'er." ”

The elder scoffed and said angrily: "Boy, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, how do you know that it is difficult to cultivate an epiphany?"

"Old man, how can you be so stupid, learn that Zen Buddhism, the Pure Land. The young man said bitterly: "Those two factions have been arguing endlessly on the gradual realization and epiphany, and they don't know that the argument is meaningless. Gradual enlightenment is a little bit of enlightenment, and when you realize all the truth, you will get the right result, and epiphany is the realization of the whole truth at one time, and you will get the right result. What is the difference between realizing all at one point and realizing all at once, and finally going to the same end. You have been complaining that it is difficult to cultivate epiphany, but you don't know that it is difficult to cultivate gradual enlightenment. Epiphany cannot see the truth of the universe, does not know the truth or falsehood, so it is difficult to cultivate; although gradual enlightenment can see a little truth, it is easy to be used by demons, because good and evil can be seen. ”

The elder who said the young man was speechless, and then fell into deep thought with Qing Yu.

The young man flashed to Chen Yu's side and asked softly, "Brother Dao, why do you say Huliang, are you willing to share one or two?"

Chen Yu looked at the young man suspiciously, puzzled: "This lake is very bright, what do you need to share?"

"Brother Dao doesn't know. The young man smiled: "This lake is not an ordinary lake, the lake is sealed with the 'Creation God Book', although it looks like an ordinary lake on the surface, but it is not. It's just that if you want to see through this surface, in addition to having a fate with the book, you have to be a gradual enlightener. However, depending on the level and origin of the cultivator, what can be glimpsed will also be different. ”

Chen Yu heard the young man's explanation, nodded, and said secretly. So he told the boy what he saw, but he said: "I don't know if I have peeked into the surface of this lake, but I think this lake is very different from other lakes, and it is too bright." ”

"Oh, what's the light?"

"I don't know how to explain it to you. Chen Yu paused, thought for a moment and said: "The center of this lake seems to have been put into the center of a thousand night pearls, no, it should be ten thousand." I think even at night is like day. ”

"Oh, why is it only the middle of the lake and the rest of the place is not lit?"

"It's also bright, but it's not as bright as the center of the lake. ”

Chen Yu said, as if he had discovered something again, and walked quickly towards Jinhu. Seeing this, Qing Yu, the young man, and the elder also walked towards Jinhu. When the four of them came to the lake, Chen Yu suddenly smiled and said: "I see, I see, why is this lake so bright, it turns out that there is a golden word in this lake!"

"Words?"

The elder's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Little friend, tell me quickly, what is written in this word?"

Chen Yu looked at the words in the lake and read slowly: "People, full of lust, for selfish interests, are unfair. Those who seek profit are greedy, their relatives do not recognize them, and they are greedy and busy all their lives; those who seek fame are angry, they hate sentient beings, and they are hated and tired all their lives; and those who seek mercy are stupid, seek troubles for themselves, and are obsessed and miserable all their lives. Those who are unfavorable are benevolent and righteous, those who are nameless are leisurely, and those who are ruthless are pure and have few desires. Those who accumulate kindness will always be blessed. (This word comes from a poem, and some of the sentences are original in the poem)

"Good words, good words, this word has great wisdom. It's just that this disadvantage, why is it a righteous person?"

Qing Yu looked puzzled, and Chen Yu also said: "I don't think this benefit has anything to do with righteousness." ”

"No, no. The young man said: "I personally feel that this benevolent and righteous man should be related to the ancient merchants' business of 'valuing righteousness over profit'. During the Warring States Period, Mencius was very famous, and every day there were many scholars from all over the world. One day, two mysterious heavyweights came to Mencius's mansion, one was the envoy of the Qi State and the other was the envoy of the Xue State. The envoy of Qi brought Mencius a hundred taels of gold, saying that it was a small gift from the king of Qi to Mencius, which Mencius confiscated. The envoy of the State of Xue brought two pieces of gold, saying that the King of Xue had accepted the gold of the envoy of the State of Xue in order to thank Mencius for his timely help when the State of Xue was in trouble.

Mencius's disciples were puzzled, and said that the gold sent by the Xue State was less than half, so why did they accept it, and why did they not accept the envoys of the Qi State? Mencius replied, when I was in the Xue State, I gave them advice, quelled their wars, and helped them a lot, and I was also a meritorious person, and it was okay to get a little material reward from them. I have no friendship with the king of Qi, they want to send gold, this is someone who wants to buy me. A gentleman cannot buy or sell with money, and this gold cannot be harvested.

Mencius's disciples and the guests who came to study suddenly came to their senses, and they all admired Mencius's high views and his sentiments of not being tempted by money. This 'emphasis on righteousness over profit' later became the business way of ancient merchants, which was used to warn merchants that the more they were in the face of great profits, the more careful they should be, and not to be greedy for ill-gotten gains, because there may be huge traps hidden behind this wealth. ”

Qing Yu and Chen Yu saluted the young man one after another, bowed down and said, "I have been taught." ”

Chen Yu suddenly remembered that the elder had angrily told the young man, saying that he didn't have a backache when he stood and talked, how could he know that it was difficult to cultivate an epiphany. Xindao, this young man must also be a gradual enlightener, and he also peeked through the surface of this golden lake, and couldn't help but be curious, and asked the young man: "Brother Dao, have you also peeked through the surface of this golden lake, dare to ask what you see?"

"Me?" the young man said as he quietly looked at the lake, "I saw all the Buddhas in the sky, layers of golden statues, and they were all bowing to the golden lake. No, to be precise, it is to bow down to the 'Book of Creation'. ”