Chapter 28: Self-realization

Xiao Yi spent a lot of effort digging out the high soil of the hill, but he couldn't see any trace of the slate. Calculating that the delay was not short, he hurriedly grabbed the food box and ran towards the stone cave behind the mountain.

When he walked past the bones of the sect disciples, a sense of respect arose, and he actually stopped and bent down to bow to the bones.

At this time, the prisoner said "hey" and said, "The kid is not small, he dares to worship these infidels, aren't you afraid that the bull noses of Chongzhen will punish you?" Xiao Yi was in a good mood now, and said: "There is no one else here, how can they know?" The prisoner smiled and said: "The kid is ignorant, and he doesn't know the power of the immortal family's methods." Shut me up here, do you think there's no one watching?" he moved his body as he spoke, stirring up a thread of gold, and his voice was even more sarcastic.

Xiao Yi thought of the two feather-clothed Taoists, knowing that what they said was true, he suddenly became vigilant, looked around nervously, and only relieved himself after making sure that there was no one, and secretly reminded himself in his heart that he must be careful in the future.

After returning to his residence, Xiao Yi's passion was undiminished, and he rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and opened the classics collected by the Changqing Daoist one by one, hoping to find the Taoist method of intercepting the teachings. However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and the result was nothing. Xiao Yi was slightly disappointed, but thinking about the stone slab on the strange stone peak, he suddenly became happy again.

After a sleepless day, Xiao Yi was still full of energy, and after finishing the things in the kitchen, he reviewed and reviewed the newly acquired interception theory last night. Different from the natural exposition of teaching, the interception of religion focuses on the power of the "original heart", abandons the complicated moral concepts, uses its own strength to gain insight into the way of heaven, and then cuts off everything that deviates from the way of heaven, breaks it and then stands up, and finally reshapes a better world.

Due to the influence of the fat chef, he realized the way of life every day, and he had deviated from the Chongzhen teachings, and it was not strange to accept a new way at this time.

At night, Xiao Yi hurriedly walked towards Qishi Peak with a lunch box in one hand and a shovel hidden in his clothes in the other. There was no one on the road, but he was not afraid of being questioned by others.

When he arrived at the Dragon Seal Stone, he sat on the Dragon Seal Stone and rested for a while, then turned to the slope behind the cliff and excavated hard. I dug until I was two zhang deep, and I finally saw the end of the slate. Xiao Yi was amazed at the high mana of the immortal family, but he didn't care about the hot sweat all over his body, and even dug and planed, and quickly cleaned up the remaining soil.

Xiao Yi squatted in the soil pit, couldn't wait to look at the handwriting on the stone slab, his face was thinking hard for a while, his eyebrows were open for a while, he was amazed for a while, and he was excited for a while, his expression was changeable, but he was very focused.

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The Taoism on this stone slab is deeper and more difficult to understand than the Taoism on the first stone slab, and it took Xiao Yi two nights to memorize it half-baked. When he tried to go deeper, he found that he had reached the fracture of the slate.

He looked at the land inch by inch along the hillside, trying to find another stone with complete handwriting, but after a few days, he had to reluctantly admit that with his meager efforts, it was impossible to gain any more.

At this point, he had to calm down again, start over and practice the Dao method of interception, and strive to build a system of Dao method in his mind. When encountering some untouched theories, they are confirmed by the Tao taught by the fat chef, and there are many similarities.

"The lower road is only virtuous, and the upper road is not virtuous". When Xiao Yi comprehended this sentence again, his eyes suddenly lit up, grabbed the "Tao Te Ching" in his hand, and looked at the cross on it, "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs", he was very excited, and said excitedly: "The way of heaven is natural, and it remains unchanged for eternity." Expounding and cultivating is the Tao, intercepting the teaching and cultivating is also the Tao, the fat chef's 'Tao in the bowl' is also the Tao, and the Tao of the Confucian family is also the Tao, however, these are just lower Taos. There are countless ways to seek the upper way from the lower path, but the upper way is the same, and at the same time, there is no law. The Chongzhen Sect thinks that I am not qualified to practice the Chongzhen Dao, so can't I learn other Dao techniques? Isn't it ridiculous that Changdan Zhenren cut off my path of cultivation with his narrow path?"

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, the more he thought about it, the more it made sense, and the heart of seeking the truth, which had been silent for a long time, really burned at this moment.

In fact, Xiao Yi misunderstood the relationship between interception and exposition from the beginning. Whether it is expounding or intercepting teaching, it is a branch of Taoism preached by the ancestor of Boyang, and all Taoism is evolved from the "Tao Te Ching", and the "Tao Te Ching" of interception is naturally consistent with the "Tao Te Ching". However, Xiao Yi mistakenly thought that this was the true meaning of this avenue, and the two coincided. In the end, it's the fat chef's way of eating a bowl that has too much influence on it. However, whether it is crooked or wrong, Xiao Yi's idea has opened up a new path for his own cultivation.

Since then, Xiao Yi has re-studied and expounded the Taoist scriptures with the idea of intercepting the teachings, always holding an attitude of skepticism and discernment, which can cause countless thoughts and realizations. As the fat chef said, only by being well-informed can you understand it in simple terms. After this understanding, I have a new understanding of the way of nature, and the world of thought is more open, and I have unconsciously entered a new world.

In particular, we have re-seen that "if there is a great grievance, there will be residual grievances; and if you repay your grievances with virtue, you can do good?" There is Desched, there is no Deschee. Heaven has no relatives, and is always with good people", suddenly his heart moved, and he pondered: "The saint repays grievances, neither reconciles grievances nor repays virtues, so what should be done appropriately? The way of a saint is not to hold grudges, but how can there be a reason not to hold grudges when he is born in the world?" With this doubt in his heart, he took this as a follow-up point in his subsequent practice and continued to think about the results.