Chapter 57 - A Thought of Good and Evil
Li Xiuyuan asked suspiciously: "Detector, what can such a strong spiritual pressure detect, the threshold is too high!"
Hua Ping'an continued: "With your cultivation, of course, it is impossible to touch the safety valve of this Demon Suppression Tower. Because it is intended for monks who break through the primordial infancy.
On the third or fourth layer of this Demon Suppression Tower, once a monk breaks through the Yuan Infant Stage, reaches the Turbidity Immortal Realm or cultivates to a True Immortal, this detector will be activated.
The tower keeper will then sense this and come in and take him to the appropriate floor.
There are also many people in the third layer, and it is a good way to use the spiritual pressure of this detection to cultivate. ”
Li Xiuyuan nodded when he heard the old man's words, and then seemed to think of something, and apologized to the old man: "Old Mr. Hua, I'm really sorry to disturb your cultivation!"
Hua Ping'an smiled and waved his hand, and said, "This race against time cultivation may be very important to others, but for me it is dispensable.
Because our Yinian Hall's exercises are special, the focus is not on penance and accumulation, but on comprehension in an instant, and in a single thought, and attaining the way of heaven.
This is our belief in Yiniantang, which is why I let you in and talk to me as well. ”
When Li Xiuyuan heard Hua Ping'an say this, he thought: "Although this Niantang is a demon sect, this epiphany coincides with my Buddhism.
Buddhist enlightened people need to practice the 'four minds', which are the mind of retribution, the mind of shame, the mind of joy, and the bodhichitta mind. If the monks of this temple also have these four hearts, how can they be called the Demon Sect?
It seems that the division of good and evil in this Xuanling Continent is not based on the good and evil of the sect. Rather, it is purely divided by relying on the power of the Heavenly Palace or the Underworld.
Those who rely on the power of the Heavenly Palace are the righteous path. Those who rely on the power of the underworld are the Demon Dao. Therefore, just by relying on a person's sect, it is impossible to judge whether he is evil or not.
It seems that my luck is still relatively good, at least the Righteous Qi Academy is indeed Righteous Ling Ran. It seems that you have to be a little more careful when you go out to travel in the future. ”
Li Xiuyuan saw Hua Ping'an's kind eyes and patience and meticulousness when he spoke, so he really wanted to get more information about the Demon Suppression Tower from him.
So he asked again: "Senior Hua, can you tell me about the situation of the third and fourth layers?"
Hua Ping'an said: "Just this little thing, naturally there is no problem."
Don't look at our third and fourth floors, they're all set up exactly the same. But now the composition of the personnel in these two layers is very different.
You've come all the way, and no one has opened the door for you to talk to you, so naturally it's not very clear.
But if you see these people, you will find that in this entire third layer, there is not a single demon beast that has cultivated into a spirit, and all of them are the demons of the human race. ”
"Why is this so?" Li Xiuyuan asked, "I heard that in this Demon Suppression Tower, they are all imprisoned according to the cultivation level. It doesn't involve any races, does it?"
Hua Ping'an replied: "It was true that before, the demon beasts and the Terran monks were mixed together, and they were evenly distributed to the third and fourth layers.
But there has always been a problem with detention regardless of race, that is, some human monks and demon beasts are naturally hostile to each other. So even if they knew that they would be punished by the Demon Suppression Tower, they didn't hesitate to attack each other.
I don't know exactly what kind of attitude the monks in other levels have when they cultivate. But the third and fourth layers are places where everyone pays special attention to hard practice.
Even if there is such a person or demon beast, he provokes everywhere every day. Although it is impossible to really hurt someone.
But because of this person's actions, it often causes the sound of warning from the Demon Suppression Tower to be heard in everyone's ears from time to time, so who can still have the mind to cultivate quietly?
So at the unanimous request of everyone, the guards of the Demon Suppression Tower imprisoned the monks of the human race and the spirits who had reached the primordial infant stage on the third and fourth floors respectively. ”
After listening to this, Li Xiuyuan thanked Hua Ping'an: "Thank you for your advice! If Mr. has no more instructions, then the junior will leave."
Because I still have to find the caretaker of this Demon Tower. ”
Hua Ping'an stopped Li Xiuyuan with a loud voice: "Little friend Xiuyuan, you don't have to be so polite."
And I have a little favor, I hope you can help me, of course, it is definitely within your ability, and it will not be too difficult for you. ”
Li Xiuyuan said: "Senior Hua can answer my questions and solve doubts, and it is natural for me to do something small for Senior Hua, so as long as your request does not violate morality, I will do my best to complete it." ”
Hua Ping'an listened to Li Xiuyuan say this, and the appreciation on his face was overflowing: "Xiuyuan Xiaoyou acts in a relaxed manner, and his temperament is even more impressive, and the future is limitless!"
As he spoke, he took out a token from his arms and handed it to Li Xiuyuan: "This is the elder token of my Yinian Hall, when you travel to the rivers and lakes after you build the foundation, I want you to go to Anzhou and bring the token back to my wife Hua Xiangrong."
Because I am not a cultivator myself, I was born in an ordinary herdsman tribe in Anzhou, and I have been migrating and grazing with the pasture for generations.
At that time, in addition to my parents, I had two older sisters in my family. My family lived very happily together, and if it wasn't for something that happened later, maybe I wouldn't have known what cultivation was for the rest of my life.
I remember that it was the dry season of one year, and the pastures of our tribe shrank a lot, so we had to look elsewhere for places where we could graze.
Once, we found a meadow that could barely feed the sheep, and we thought that this small pasture had no owner.
Who knows, but strayed into the sphere of influence of a large tribe. The leader of our tribe hurried to apologize to that large tribe and offered a generous compensation.
The leader of that big tribe, ostensibly pretending to accept our apology and compensation, actually wanted to seize our horses, cattle and sheep.
Soon after we left his pasture, the great tribe sent their cavalry to attack us.
We had no power to fight back in that battle, and almost everyone in the tribe was killed, including my parents, who died at the hands of the rebels.
Some of them survived, with men sold into slavery and women sold into prostitution. My two sisters and I were also arrested by them.
When they got to the vicinity of town, the tribesmen were going to sell my sister into a brothel in the city, and they swore to die, so they cut off their heads and hung them on flags to warn the others.
In this way, my sisters' corpses were separated every day, and I watched them slowly turn into two dried corpses.
I came again to take advantage of the soldiers of the big tribe to enter the city to buy salt, and I saw an opportunity to escape.
Later, I fled to Taiping City in Anzhou, when I was only seven years old and could not live on my own, so I begged in the streets when I was hungry and slept in a ruined temple outside the city when I was sleepy.
Until I met my current wife, Hua Xiangrong.
At that time, she was not a few years older than me, but not only did she not dislike me for being a beggar who had fled, but she also looked at me pitifully, and asked the family around her to take me back to Yiniantang.
Later I learned that she was the daughter of Elder Yi Nian Tang. I practiced hard in Yinian Hall, not only to repay her for her kindness, but also to remind myself all the time not to forget the blood feud!
Later, my cultivation became more and more profound, and I gradually gained a firm foothold in Yinian Hall.
And I also chased my life-saving benefactor Hua Xiangrong and became my wife. After my father-in-law drove west, I also inherited the position of elder.
Although I was proud and prosperous to outsiders, I never forgot my hatred for a moment. In these long years, I have been searching for the tribe that slaughtered my people.
Finally, the emperor lived up to his wishes. These people appeared near Taiping City, and I don't know if they came to sell the loot they had obtained through the massacre again.
So I decided to take revenge, I couldn't wait any longer, so many years of bitter hatred didn't allow me to let them go alive.
Every time I think of the tragic death of my parents, and the headless bodies of my two sisters hanging on the flagpole, gradually becoming two dried corpses, I wake up from my sleep.
So I didn't tell anyone, including my wife, because I was afraid that she would persuade me to let go of my hatred. If she did persuade me not to take revenge, I don't know what choice I would have made.
Don't go to revenge, sorry for my dead family. To take revenge, and to be afraid of my wife, to see me kill mercilessly and sadly.
So I hid from everyone, avoided every guard in the academy, and came to that tribe.
The people of that tribe don't know me anymore. When they saw a monk from the Yudan period coming to the tribe, they were only terrified, but they couldn't remember who this person was.
But come to think of it, who would remember a little slave who escaped many years ago?
I stood at the door of that tribe with the respectful leader and the elders of the tribe in front of me.
Looking into the depths of the tribe, with the children playing and the family laughing, this place looks like my childhood home.
I greeted them with a smile and then picked up my knife and decapitated the first person, and the people became frightened and fled in all directions, screaming.
In this way, I stabbed everyone in front of me, including pregnant women and children waiting to be fed.
There are more than 10,000 people in the entire tribe, and I don't have a single one left alive. Because I am afraid that there will be people like me who will seek revenge against me in the future.
In order to avenge the revenge of my parents and relatives in the past, and to protect my current family, I had to kill them all.
After killing all of them, I still thought about sneaking back to Ichientang.
But at this moment, a person slowly fell from the sky, looked at the corpses all over the ground, and said to me that my killing was too heavy, and I must suppress the Demon Suppression Tower.
Then the figure of the man disappeared in an instant, and appeared in front of me in an instant, and I thought about drawing my knife to resist. But soon I didn't know anything, and I woke up in this demon tower.
After thinking about it, it was because that man's strength was too much higher than mine, and before I could react, he had already knocked me out.
I regret it very much in the Demon Suppression Tower, but I certainly don't regret killing those people. Even if I were given another chance to do it all over again, I would still kill them all.
I just regret that I left in such a hurry that I didn't have time to say goodbye to my family, so this time I want you to take my token and go to my wife.
Tell her all this as it is, and say sorry to her, she has suffered for so many years. At least let her know that I'm still alive and homesick. ”