Chapter Twenty-Five: Good as Water
After repairing a few gangsters at the school, Li Xuan's merit value actually made a breakthrough. In one fell swoop, the restoration of the second layer of the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth was completed, and this pagoda already looks like a two-story small building, which is very beautiful.
At the beginning, after Li Xuanxuan's Huang merit recipe was built, he got the first layer of the formula "Jinde Zhizheng", and there is a note called "Gather armpits into Qiu, accumulate goodness into a tower, do a good deed every day, and achieve a thousand achievements".
According to Li Xuan's understanding, he had to do enough good deeds to repair the second layer of the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth. In fact, it only took less than a year, and it seems that there are not a thousand good things he has done, and the second layer of the pagoda has actually been repaired, which makes Li Xuan very surprised.
It turns out that the annotation in the mantra "one good deed a day, a thousand achievements are accomplished" is only an approximate number, that is, the merit accumulated by doing about a thousand good deeds can repair the second layer of the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth.
Since Li Xuan cultivated the first layer of the method, he began to insist on doing good deeds every day, and there is more than one good deed done every day.
He won the title of "Three Good Students", which also added a lot to his merits. In addition, he also rescued a hunter in the deep mountains and old forests, and the merit of saving someone's life can be worth the merit of hundreds of good deeds.
The most important thing is that he repaired those little gangsters the other day. Not only did many students avoid persecution and gain a lot of merit, but also stopped them in time when these gangsters had just gone astray, so that they could realize that they had lost their way, and they actually gained hundreds of merits at once.
It is not as good as punishing evil and promoting good, and punishing evil and promoting good is not as good as persuading others to get lost. This made Li Xuan's understanding of goodness and merit more profound.
After the restoration of the second layer of the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, the water on it is shining, and there are two more functions of water storage and making spiritual water.
Li Xuan entered the second floor of the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda, which looked no different from the first floor, this room was also more than three meters high, octagonal, and about eight meters in diameter. The room was also empty, except for a small pool on the ground. There are about a hundred or so pools. In the middle is a large pool.
According to the information fed back to Li Xuan by the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda, these pools are used for storing water separately. The higher the level of water stored in the middle pool, the higher the level, and the middle pool can make its own spiritual water.
At the same time, Li Xuan also obtained the second layer of the Xuanhuang merit recipe "Kindness is like water".
In the commentary on the exercises, it is said that "goodness is like water" is the highest state of good deeds. Just like the character of water, Ze is surrounded by all things without fighting for fame and fortune.
The best is the most perfect. And water: avoiding height and tending to go down is a kind of humility, rushing to the sea is a kind of pursuit, rigidity and softness is a kind of ability, the sea is a kind of generosity, dripping water through stones is a kind of perseverance, and washing dirt is a kind of dedication.
The deceased is like a husband, and life is like a river flowing to the sea. Benevolence does not want to repay, indifferent and humble as water, and here water is a metaphor for the saint who has no quarrel with the world. To attain perfection is to be like a saint.
This sentence can be understood as: water has the virtue of nourishing all things, it enables all things to get its benefits, and does not contradict or conflict with all things, so the greatest goodness in the world is like water.
At the same time, there is also a note: "Between square inches, Tana Baichuan", "tolerance is great, and no desire is rigid".
It is said that the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda can accommodate hundreds of rivers in a square inch, and after accommodating these rivers, it will naturally improve the quality of the pagoda, until there is no need to deliberately absorb it, and you can start to restore the third-layer pagoda.
At the same time, it is also a metaphor for the practice of the Fa to be open-minded and broad-minded, and constantly improve one's self-cultivation, so that "the sea is tolerant of all rivers, tolerance is great, the wall is thousands of thousands, and there is no desire, it is rigid."
It means that the sea can accommodate hundreds of rivers because of its breadth and size, and the mountains are so tall because they are not intrigued and distracted. After cultivating the second layer of the method, there is a kind of heroic aura in the exercise, which is great and strong, and it is unmatched.
After getting this water storage function, Li Xuan was very happy. Unfortunately, in March, the Yushu River was still frozen, and there was no way to get water.
There is a well at the entrance of the village, but the amount of water is not much, if you use the pagoda to absorb water, I am afraid that the water will be sucked dry in a few clicks, and then the people in the village go to pick up water but there is no water, then it will be troublesome.
Li Xuan remembers that when he was herding cattle, he found that there were several springs in the mountains, which were not frozen in winter. When it was time to rest on Sunday, Li Xuan made a special trip to the mountain and drained these springs one by one, but the water volume of the springs was too small, and he really didn't absorb much water.
The information fed back by the pagoda was that it received more than 3,000 catties of spring water from Jiupin Mountain, which was stored in the pool on the second layer from the outermost, and only showed more than ten drops of water. According to the proportion, a drop of water is actually more than 200 catties.
In the following days, Li Xuan began to look forward to the spring flowers, what is the thaw of the Yushu River, and he could absorb a large amount of water from the pagoda.
The days passed in the process of Li Xuan's daily learning and doing good deeds. As soon as Li Xuan had free time, he went to the nearby mountains to collect some mountain spring water, and then went treasure hunting by the way. After a while, a lot of mountain spring water was collected, but the baby was still not found.
After another month or so, the Elm River finally thawed, and when he heard the sound of running water during the day, Li Xuan's heart could not be calm, just like a hundred claws scratching his heart.
In the evening, Li Xuan secretly went to the Elm River, preparing to collect more river water to enter.
Li Xuan sacrificed the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda, and after floating to the middle of the river, he shouted "Collect". I saw that the water of the Yushu River was rapidly surging towards the pagoda, and the spectacle of "dragon absorbing water" was actually formed in the air.
Fortunately, it was at night, and if it was during the day, I don't know how many people would have attracted onlookers. In just a few seconds, the Yushu River actually broke off for more than 30 meters, which frightened Li Xuan and hurriedly stopped the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda.
If you suck it any further, it will drain the Elm River.
After absorbing the water, Li Xuan came to the space of the second layer of the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda again, and found that there was indeed a little water in the outermost pool, but it was only a shallow layer, but it was already much more than the mountain spring water collected a few days ago.
The water in the pagoda is very clear, and there are still small fish swimming in it. Li Xuan was very happy when he saw it, his pagoda could not only collect water, but also live animals. Although it will only collect living creatures in the water, as the pagoda continues to upgrade in the future, there will definitely be more and more functions, and there should be no problem in collecting living creatures.
Maybe I can live in it as a house in the future, anyway, it is like spring all year round, and it should be very comfortable to live here.
According to the information fed back from the pagoda, the water of the Elm River is just a plain water without quality, and it has no use value.
However, Li Xuan doesn't think so. I remember that my grandfather once said when he told a story to himself, "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while".
If you carry a baby who can store water and collect so much water in advance, it is called being prepared, and there will always be a time when it will be useful. For example, when the family is planting crops and vegetables, you don't have to carry water, you can take it out of the pagoda and water the ground, just don't let others see it.
Also, if there is a fire somewhere, the water stored in this pagoda can make a big difference.
It is definitely much better to extinguish a fire with water from a pagoda than a fire truck, and a fire truck can only hold several tons of water. If it is sprayed, you have to go back and add water, and your own pagoda directly put a few rivers into it, and you can put out as many fires as you want.
As for what the fire truck looks like, that is what Li Xuan saw when he went to Mudan City to rescue people. At that time, he saw a red truck whining and screaming, driving forward quickly, and when he saw the red light, he didn't stop, and rushed all the way over, pedestrians and vehicles had to give way, and he was always pulling the wind.
Li Xuan also asked the person next to him what was going on? Fortunately, there was an old man next to him, and this young man must have come from the countryside and had never seen a fire truck. I told him that this was a fire truck, pulling a cart of water to fight the fire, and the warning lights flashed on it.
Li Xuan was very envious of Mudan City at that time. This big city is good, you have to drive a big truck to fight a fire, which is like our rural area, when fighting a fire, it is all up to people to carry water with buckets, if the fire is a little bigger, it can't be saved at all.
At that time, there was no fire truck in Yushu Township, and if there was a fire somewhere, it could only be rescued by people, and the possibility of saving the fire was extremely low if it was fetched from the nearest well.
A few years ago, a family in Guyu Village caught fire, and it was winter, and there was no place to get water. The buckets of water they had poured from the well were useless, and dozens of people could only watch as the houses burned down.
Thankfully, everyone in the house ran out first, and everyone risked their lives to snatch something out of the house, so that the family would not be left with nothing.
Later, with the help of relatives, friends and neighbors, I was able to rebuild a house, and I heard that the family still owes a lot of debts that have not been repaid.
Just to prevent fire and extinguish fires, but also to let the pagoda absorb enough water!
In the following days, Li Xuan went to the Yushu River every once in a while to collect some water. These times, he didn't dare to let the pagoda hang in the air to absorb water, the scene of absorbing water was too spectacular, and it would be bad if others saw it. He always sacrificed the pagoda quietly when there was no one, and landed in the middle of the Yushu River where the water was relatively deep, and then slowed down the water absorption power of the pagoda, and there was a long stream of water, and it could not be stopped. If you suck it for more than an hour, you can also suck hundreds of tons of water.
It took Li Xuan nearly a month to finally collect about half a grid of this small pond containing river water on the outermost side, and a lot of fish were also included in it.
Li Xuan counted carefully, and there were more than ten large carp of about three catties, more than fifty carp and crucian carp weighing more than one catty, more than 200 fish of more than half a catty, and more than half a catty of fish.
This is all wild fish in the river, and the fish pond is not the same as the fish pond now, it is called pure natural green organic pollution-free, anyway, the sky is now advertised, and it is not as good as this original wild river fish.
In the past, Li Xuan relied on his homemade fishing nets to occasionally catch a crucian carp weighing three or four or two, so he was very happy.
And now, Li Xuan estimates that there are at least more than 500 catties of river fish in the pagoda, and if he wants to eat fish, he doesn't have to go down to the river so troublesomely, he can fish directly in the pagoda, or which one he wants to eat, as long as he gives a simple command to the pagoda, the pagoda will directly spit out the fish you want.