Because of the misfortune on Jiao Mountain in Zhenjiang, Sha Limi, and the sudden appearance of Wuxu, Shen Changqi in order to appease Ao Lisheng, Ao Mad and others, exonerate Wuxu from suspicion, and make a statement to keep Wuxu as a guest for a few days. Wuxu knew the power of the Buddha beads of righteousness and life and death, and the sea sound conch passed down by Guanyin Bodhisattva, but he was not afraid, so he received Shen Changqi's kindness, and took a colorful dragon boat with him to visit Taihu Lake.

The three of Ao Qing, Ao Lisheng, and Ao Mad left separately to deal with various matters.

Under the clear sky, the smoke and waves of Taihu Lake are vast, the clouds are steaming and foggy, and the colorful auspicious light is ten thousand ways. Wuxu and Shen Changqi sat opposite each other, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised in their hearts: This third prince of the Dragon King, Ao Wudaunt, after the catastrophe of Dongji Island, seems to have eliminated the rumored violent temperament, between gestures, extraordinary bearing, not impatient or impatient, quite a bit of celebrity style, but there is a faint ruthlessness between Gu Pan, presumably because of the transfer to the ghost path exercises.

Shen Changqi, with long hair tied with a jade crown, dressed in a golden silk dragon robe, with a white face with cold dew, dark green eyes shining with golden light, looked at Wuxu, and said slowly, "Master Wuxu, as far as this king knows, the six peaks of Lushan Mountain have gradually been banned, rare treasures have been revealed, and the martial arts books have been born. If this seat was as carefree as the master, he would have gone up the mountain a long time ago to find the fairy fate. ”

"Then, the third prince, why do you stay in the world? Could it be that the supreme avenue can't compare to the worldly power in front of you?"

"Hehe," Shen Changqi laughed in a low voice, his expression was indescribably free, "Dare to ask the master, what is a demon?"

Buddhist scriptures say that demons are often mentioned, the Great Nirvana Sutra mentions that the demon king Bo Xun persecuted to ask for the world-honored Nirvana, and the Lengyan Sutra mentions the Fifty Yin Demons. Some refer to the wicked, and some are metaphors for suffering on the road to Buddhahood. Later generations extended it to either refer to all bad things in general, or to refer to the unpleasant things in general. The demon that Shen Changqi asked was obviously this last one.

Wuxu clasped his palms together and said Amitabha, signaling that he was willing to listen to it.

Shen Changqi said again, "This king has experienced life and death on many islands in the East Pole and Peach Blossoms, nine deaths and one life, escaped from death, and barely cultivated into a ghost body. Looking back on all this, my heart is uneasy. If you go to Lushan on this, I'm afraid that the demons in your heart will be difficult to get rid of. ”

Wuxu replied, "Since the third prince has experienced life and death, he should know all kinds of things in the world, just like dream bubbles, like dew and electricity, and should be viewed as such. ”

Shen Changqi smiled but did not speak.

Suddenly, a breeze blew up, and an egret in the distance swept past the water, bringing a trace of ripples, and then flew away in the long clouds and mist, and the lake was like a mirror.

Shen Changqi groaned, "The white crane goes with the wind, and the autumn water of a lake sends ripples." Looking at this mirror of life and death, there is always cause and effect. ”

Shen Changqi, these four poems. The first two sentences are about the situation. White cranes swept by, and the lake rippled. The last two sentences, followed by the integration of the scene, the life and death that he has experienced, his heart is still like a flat mirror lake, but all of them are like the breath of the lake rising into clouds, with a causal relationship, which means that after he has experienced a catastrophe, he has not yet reached Lushan with the realm of real people's four-layer cultivation, and he has stayed in the world, which is also due to the consequences of the past.

"This king has experienced life and death on many islands in the East Pole and Peach Blossoms, nine deaths and one life, escaped from death, and barely cultivated into a ghost body"

Therefore, Shen Changqi wants revenge and repays his debts. Revenge, the revenge that caused him to kill him, and the debt to repay the debt, to help him escape from death and cultivate into a ghost body.

This is the understanding of enlightenment. At this moment, Wuxu didn't know that Shen Changqi had devoured the divine consciousness of the third prince of the Dragon King, and thought that the person in front of him was the real third prince of the Dragon King.

Wu Xu, nodded, expressed understanding, pondered for a moment, and said, "The power of the East Sea Demon Alliance in the human world has almost been uprooted. The third prince's revenge, if he still wants to revenge, he must go to Lushan. As for whether to go to Yingang Peak or Rakshasa Peak after going to Lushan Mountain, the little monk thinks that he might as well choose Rakshasa Peak. After all, the third prince is now a ghost monk. “

Shen Changqi sighed, knowing that Wuxu didn't know his true identity, so he said this. didn't refute it, just shook his head, and said slowly, "Don't hide the master's joke, this king has gone through life and death, but he hasn't seen through the red dust, saying that the four are empty, but because of this, I feel that there are too many injustices in this world." From theft, robbery, and persecution of innocent people, to harsh government and tyranny, torture and unjust imprisonment. Someone has to do the right thing for heaven. This king is not talented, and he is willing to do his best. This is also the demon in the heart of this king. “

Wuxu was stunned for a moment, and then clasped his palms together and said, "I see." The third prince has a wisdom root between life and death. One thought becomes a Buddha, and one thought becomes a demon. If the third prince really has this heart, the devil is the Buddha. Whether it is a Buddha or a demon, it is only in a thought. “

Shen Changqi shook his head again, looked at Wuxu again, and said, "Huigen can't talk about it, but this king always acts without the word cause and effect. If we are separated from cause and effect, whether we are human beings or demons, what is the meaning? Isn't cause and effect the most important thing in Buddhism?"

"Amitabha," Wu Xuan paused, "Buddhism does value cause and effect. The so-called all laws are empty, and cause and effect are not empty. Bodhisattvas fear causes, and sentient beings fear effects. But the entanglement of cause and effect, so that life and death flow, and the sea of suffering is boundless, why didn't the third prince put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground?"

The so-called inseparability from cause and effect in the mouth of the third prince means that there is revenge and revenge, and there is kindness to repay kindness, and if there is any wish, he will go, because this wish also has a cause and a result. This is indeed inseparable from the word cause and effect, but when Buddhism says cause and effect, it means that suffering is empty, and after talking about cause and effect, then it is said to avoid cause and effect, extinguish the outer edge, and nirvana is pure. Otherwise, today's cause, tomorrow's effect, tomorrow's effect, and tomorrow's cause will become tomorrow's cause, entangled and circulating, and will never stop. Wuxu's words are to persuade the third prince to look down on these causes and effects, otherwise he will be blindly entangled in the world, and he will inevitably get lost in the sea of suffering and will not be able to come out.

Shen Changqi suddenly laughed and said, "I heard that the master was almost killed by a lama named Moen, and he also experienced life and death. In this, all kinds of horrors and epiphanies, presumably the master also has. So why doesn't the master go to Lushan now? What is the cause and effect, what are the demons?"

Wuxu only felt that he was drunk as a stick, and sat on the bow of the boat in a daze, stunned.

Morn kills and robs, outsiders know. But who knows that enlightenment is reincarnation and rebirth in this world? To say that after going through life and death, dying in a time and space in the afterlife, and being reborn in the present world, this is the great life and death! Between the great life and death, there is great terror and great understanding. It is to realize the void, only to realize the void, and read that "everything is the law, such as a dream bubble, such as dew and electricity, should be viewed as such", and then he naturally felt it, and read that "color is emptiness, emptiness is color." When you want to do it, you will naturally be happy, and you will want to practice the Dharma and pursue the great path.

However, Wuxu has always had a trace of potential doubts about the reincarnation of good and evil. You are a cow and a horse in this life, and you are bullied by others, because you did evil in your previous life? He now has a lot of wealth, and he is a villager with fish and meat, because he did good deeds and accumulated virtue in his previous life? Some people have done all the bad things and lost all their conscience, but they live well, is it because they have to wait for him to live a long life of 100 years before he has to enter the eighteenth-layer hell? Especially in the era of the end of the Yuan Dynasty, people are not as cheap as dogs, good people do not live long, and evil people are unscrupulous and go unpunished. Could it be that doing good deeds and accumulating virtue in this life is for the sake of being powerful and blessed in the next life, and enjoying the glory and wealth of this world?

Moreover, those monks regard mortals as ants. For these monks, how does the cycle of cause and effect, the cycle of good and evil, that Buddhism talks about, respond?

Because of these doubts and confusion, Wuxu Fang was expelled from the mountain gate by Miaoyin, and inexplicably got close to and loved those White Lotus Sect members who rose up, dared to fight, and were unwilling to go against the grain, and also subconsciously relaxed the precepts, did not quit drinking, and were not afraid of sex.

Therefore, to this day, Wuxu is not in Lushan, because of two things, one is the White Lotus Sect, and the other is with Zhao Tongzhi's ****. I always think about protecting the thousands of White Lotus Sect members so that they will not go astray and suffer great calamities. always secretly hopes that the world will be peaceful as soon as possible, and then Zhao Tong will have to avenge his family and country, let go of everything, and get rid of the devil, so that Wuxu himself will be at ease. This is the attachment of Wuxu, the demon of Wuxu.

Fang Cai persuaded the third prince to let go of his attachment to Lushan, but the third prince in turn asked himself what his attachment was, why he didn't go to Lushan.

Wuxu's heart is really overturned.

The third prince may want to dominate the world, display his ambitions, and live an emperor's addiction. He was reincarnated and reborn, experienced great life and death, and his heart for seeking the Tao was unswerving, and he actually saw the so-called imperial position here, glory and wealth, and even the love of men and women, in fact, he looked very lightly, but because of the slightest doubt about Buddhism, he could not accept that a person's life was destined to speak in his previous life, and he still couldn't let go of a little bit of the world.

What are these two? They are both unable to let go of their attachment to the world, and they are both cause and effect.

It seems that he really wants to quickly break the cause and effect of the world, go to Lushan as soon as possible, and pursue the avenue. "Amitabha!" Wuxu was silent for a long time, and bowed to Shen Changqi, "Thank you for the words of the third prince, which made the little monk wake up suddenly." “

A few days later, Wuxu flew up from Taihu Lake, first arrived at Yangzhou Mansion, and in Ao Qing's stunned look, he handed over two fifths of the Demon Spirit Pill to his hands. "Ao Daoyou, don't you dare?" asked Wu with a smile.

Ao Qing hesitated slightly, and then said with a smile, "Since the master dares to send it, Ao Mou dares to accept it." Then he bowed his head and muttered for a moment, and said, "If the master is in a hurry, Ao will retreat tomorrow." The power of this demon spirit elixir is overbearing, it is one-fifth, and it took me nine days and nine nights to refine it before. “

Wu Xuan smiled and said, "That little monk will come to visit later." After that, he got up and flew to Yingtianfu to find Zhu Yuanzhang, the junior brother of Rujing, who had not met for a long time and did not know how domineering he had become.

That's right

People and ghosts have different paths, and the white crane ripples in Taihu Lake.

There is always cause and effect, and Yangzhou flies over in response to the request of the sky.