Chapter 65: Three Calamities and Five Tribulations
Back in the Yunming Taoist Temple in Mingcheng, Su Wufang was ready to find a room to rest, although sleep was already dispensable after the Qi training period, and it was completely possible to take the cultivation test, but he still insisted on sleeping for a while every day, even if it was just a stick of incense, which would make him feel happy.
Su Wuxian explained to Liu Hao: "Senior brother, I'll rest for a while, and call me up after a stick of incense." ”
After explaining the explanation, Su Wufang followed Daotong to rest, and Liu Hao showed Lu Lin the cat demon in his hand and said: "The matter of the trail outside the city has been solved, you can go back and hand over to my junior brother." ”
Lu Lin also learned the ins and outs of the matter from Liu Hao's mouth, and couldn't help but sigh: "Su Xiaodao is not at a loss, he is the first place in the entrance competition of Chongxu Mountain, such a big demon may not be able to win in the later stage of ordinary qi training, since Su Xiaodao has already gone down." ”
Liu Hao listened to Lu Lin's praise and was also proud, after all, this was the junior disciple he brought into the cultivation realm single-handedly, but he didn't show it, but instead taught Lu Lin: "He is still far from being a kid, don't say this to Lu Guan in front of him." He was proud and complacent. ”
"I know, I won't say it. ”
Su Wuxian woke up at Liu Hao's knock on the door after sleeping for a while, although he only slept for a short while, he felt that the state of the whole person was different, and when he got up and opened the door, he saw Liu Hao sitting on the steps not far from the door drinking wine.
Su Wufang walked to Liu Hao's side and took Liu Hao's wine jug and poured it, Liu Hao glanced at Su Wufang and said lightly: "Get up." ”
Su Wufang nodded and returned the wine jug to Liu Hao and asked, "Senior brother, your wine jug seems to be a magic weapon, how much wine can be filled in it, how do you feel like you can't finish drinking." ”
Liu Hao shook the wine jug in his hand and said, "Good wine is also a tradition in our family, and when you arrive at the God Transformation Realm, Old Man Liu will probably give you one." There are a total of seven large and five small wine pots, originally seven gourds knotted on a spiritual vine, but when the old man saw it, he even pulled back the spiritual vine with the gourd, and planted it at the back of the grass house, next time you go back to see it. ”
Su Wufang nodded and then realized that he had seen that Liu Jiang also had such a gourd on his body before: "Then senior brother, what is the effect of your gourd, you can't only pretend to be a bar." ”
Liu Hao put away the wine jug and stood up and said: "In addition to the fact that these seven gourds can hold things, each of them has a wonderful use, this gourd of senior brother can take the initiative to absorb spiritual power, and this spiritual power can be directly absorbed into the body to quickly replenish the lost mana, which can be said to be a first-class treasure." Okay, let's not talk about this, senior brother will take you to Yunming Market for a walk. ”
After Liu Hao finished speaking, he took Su Wuxian to the back door of the Taoist temple, there is a small forest here, this land belongs to the industry of the Taoist temple, and occasionally children come here to play.
After walking a short distance, he saw a rather elegant small building in the woods, and the two stopped in front of the small building, Su Wufang looked at the small building in front of him and looked at Liu Hao suspiciously: "Senior brother, this can't be the Yunming Market." ”
Liu Hao smiled without saying a word and took Su Wuxian into this small building, and there was an old man sitting at the door of the small building, this old man leaned on a recliner and rested leisurely with his eyes closed.
Liu Hao respectfully bowed to the old man and said, "Senior Brother Yun, I'm here again." ”
The old man opened his eyes slightly, glanced at Liu Hao and said, "Little mouse, you know the rules, just put the spirit stone in the box on the side, go and get it." ”
After saying that, the old man closed his eyes again, Liu Hao took out two spirit stones from his arms and put them in the box next to the old man, and then took Su Wufang to push open a room on the side and walked in.
Su Wufang hurriedly followed in, there was nothing peculiar about this room, Su Wufang was about to ask suspiciously, and saw Liu Hao close the door, at that moment, Su Wufang suddenly felt that there was something different around him, and he sensed that there was some change in the space, this room was still that room, but it didn't feel like it was the original room.
After Liu Hao closed the door, he immediately pushed the door open again, although the door was still in the small building this time, Su Wufang felt the difference, and there was a boiling voice outside the small building. Obviously, the small building outside is not the original woods.
Liu Hao took Su Wuxian to the outside of the small building, this place is completely different, outside the small building are monks coming and going, in addition to the human monks, there are also many demon cultivators with half-demon images, a harmonious scene of coexistence of human and demon.
Liu Hao looked at Su Wuflaw's shocked appearance and felt quite interesting, and he didn't bother Su Wuflaw. This junior brother has always been well-informed, and even when he gave him the Qiankun bag, he was extremely bland, and this was the first time I saw his shocked expression.
In fact, this can't be blamed on Su Wufang, although he is a newcomer to the cultivation realm, but in the novels of his previous life, the space equipment can be said to be standard, and subconsciously thinks that the value of the Qiankun bag is not high, but he never thought that this Qiankun bag is enough to make countless people fight for their heads and bleed. If it weren't for the fact that the disciple this time was really good, Jun Yunyi, as the senior brother of the Gong Transmission this time, would also be willing to take out this Qiankun bag as a reward for the disciple he taught for the first time, and he would not have had a chance to get this Qiankun bag this time.
The picture in front of him was very similar to the other world in his fantasy in his previous life, so Su Wufang would fall into shock when he saw this picture, and when he came back to his senses, Su Wufang looked at Liu Hao and asked, "Senior brother, why are there so many demon cultivators here." ”
"Let's go, I'll say as I go. After speaking, Liu Hao took Su Wuxian and walked towards the Hundred Treasure Pavilion, and at the same time explained: "Demon cultivators are different from human cultivators, except for some special demon clans, they are all spiritual wisdom that can only be opened after tomorrow. So many times they have some nature, but this can't be blamed on their natural selection, which is the rule set by heaven. You can't let a tiger become a grass-eater, as long as they don't kill innocents indiscriminately after opening their spiritual wisdom, many times our Taoists will open up their nets, so the relationship between our Taoists and the demon clan has always been good since ancient times. At the same time, many demon cultivators will choose self-cultivation after opening their spiritual wisdom, after all, the killing karma of Zhaocheng is too great, and it is even more difficult to cross the tribulation. ”
Su Wuxian fell into thinking when he heard this, Liu Hao's words revealed too much information, one is that the demon clan is actually not as incompatible with the human race as he thought. But according to Liu Hao, it seems that there is still a pure hatred of the demon clan. There is also the Tribulation that he said that he had cultivated for so long and never learned about the Tribulation, and he thought that there was no Tribulation in the novel of his previous life here.
Liu Hao didn't know what Su Wufang was thinking, and then explained: "Originally, the relationship between the demon race and the human race was still quite tense, but a long time ago, there was a big scuffle between humans and demons, and in the end, the human race and the demon race joined forces to repel the attack of the demon race. After that, the direct relationship between the demons eased, but there are still many human races and demon clans that do not deal with each other directly, among which the more representative ones are a part of the hundred schools represented by Confucianism and Legalism. However, under the maintenance of Taoism and Buddhism, the principle of determining right and wrong by good and evil rather than by race was established, which led to the later division of the three ways of good and evil. ”
Hearing this, Su Wufang suddenly realized, it turned out that the good and evil were determined in this way, so as long as the demon clan cultivated the righteous path, he could also enter the market of the human race.
But he still didn't understand the matter of this tribulation, so he adhered to the concept of asking if he didn't understand, Su Wuxian opened his mouth and asked, "Senior brother, what did you just say about the tribulation?"
This time, it was Liu Hao who glanced at Su Wufang suspiciously: "Don't you know the tribulation, the mountain technique should have said this from the beginning?"
Only then did Su Wufang understand why he didn't know this, although he was a secular beginner, he already had cultivation in his body when he started, and he chose to occupy the art at the beginning, so he missed the process of talking about the tribulation at the beginning. Afterwards, everyone saw that Su Wufeng had a flawless cultivation in his body, and they all tacitly acquiesced that he knew this, and no one told him this.
Su Wufang said: "At the beginning, I didn't learn mountain arts, senior brother, you tell me about it." I'll ask you for a drink when I turn around. ”
As soon as Liu Hao heard that there was wine to drink, he immediately came to his senses and began to talk about the conditions: "Okay, I want to drink the Baihua brew full of flowers." ”
"Okay, okay, you can say it quickly. Su Wuxian was anxious to know about the catastrophe, and agreed with his mouth full.
"Okay, then I'll talk to you. As soon as Liu Hao heard that Su Wufang agreed, he swallowed his saliva greedily and began to speak: "The spiritual power of this world is fixed, no matter whether you cultivate or practice qi, the spiritual power is always there, this is the beginning of heaven and earth. This is also the basis of everything, although this spiritual power is extremely huge, and so far there has been no spiritual exhaustion. However, if a cultivator absorbs spiritual power for his own use and uses it to break through the limit of longevity, this is going against the sky. ”
"It's like if you're a very rich man, you can't use up all the money, the whole world is your property, you use the money to help the people, and in the end the money will go back to your pocket. But one day a man kept putting your money in his own pocket. This person doesn't spend money, the money becomes his money, and in the end this person even starts to rob you of your money, will you be angry. If you get angry, of course, you have to punish him, so there are three calamities and five tribulations, which are commonly known as heavenly tribulations. ”
"The three calamities of this Taoist family are fire, flood, and wind disaster, which are the three realms of refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, and refining gods and returning voids, and you should have already experienced fires when refining and breaking through to the qi cultivation period. ”
Hearing this, Su Wufang remembered the Nine Shadows Black Flame, it turned out that this was the Heavenly Tribulation, and at the beginning, he thought that it was just an accident caused by his improper operation.
Liu Hao saw that Su Wufang nodded and continued: "In fact, these three calamities are different in each way, just like the three calamities of Confucianism are not the same as those of Taoism, and only they need to know what they do, I don't have a deep study of this." Moreover, according to legend, there is a higher realm of cultivation after practicing the gods and returning to the void, and the cultivation of the void and the combination of the Tao to this point is the completion of cultivation. Legend has it that there will be a thunderstorm at this step, and as long as you get through it, you can become an immortal, and I don't know if it's true. ”
The Five Tribulations are more abstract, originally referring to the Taoist division of heaven and earth into the five great tribulations of all things, which are the five stages of the generation and evolution of all things in the universe, also known as the Five Ancestral Tribulations. Later, it was borrowed to refer to the five tribulations to be experienced on the road to becoming an immortal, some said that it was the five tribulations of birth, old age, illness, death, and suffering, and some said that it was the five tribulations of sleepiness, love, separation, hardship, and death. ”
"There are different opinions, it seems that everyone is different, but one thing is for sure, this is a tempering set by the Heavenly Dao, and everyone will experience it. You don't know when you go through it, only when you really get through it you will feel it, but you don't know which of the tribulations you've passed is your calamity. ”
"Legend has it that there are people who wake up feeling like they've survived, but they don't know what happened. If you had the opportunity to ask people who practiced life magic, they might find out better. That's probably all about the catastrophe, I'm talking about it, my mouth is dry, anyway, the matter of Baibao Pavilion is not in a hurry, let's go to Huamanlou to drink first, this is what you said to invite me, I have been coveting those hundred flowers for a long time. ”
After Liu Hao explained the Three Disasters and Five Tribulations, he sped up his pace and rushed to Huamanlou, Su Wufang could only speed up his pace to keep up, and after knowing the Three Disasters and Five Tribulations, he also realized for the first time that cultivation was difficult for many years, and he couldn't just commit murder. If you not only strengthen the rich man's family, but also kill his subordinates to steal money, then it is strange that the rich man is not in a hurry, it seems that he can not do it in the future or try not to do it.
Although these things are very important, as soon as he saw Liu Hao like that, he knew that he was going to bleed heavily this time, and he suddenly didn't have the heart to think about the three disasters and five tribulations, and began to feel sorry for his wallet.