It was gray in front of him, as if it was drizzling, and there was absolute silence all around, without the slightest sound, purer than the deepest thoughts.

Mu Xingqiu had been here once as a tourist, and he knew what kind of place this was—the Silent Land in the first area of the Demon Extraction Cave, and he didn't walk forward, because the two major areas behind him were not good places, namely the Land of No Shelter and the Land of No Self.

Killing fellow people, colluding with demons, and harming the mortal world are the three major crimes that are imprisoned in the Demon Pulling Cave, and Mu Xingqiu is accused of committing the second crime.

The last time he came to visit, Mu Xingqiu was still a threefold disciple of the Pangshan Dao Sect, and he was wandering around in the illusion of the Demon Pulling Cave, and he didn't have any special feelings, but he felt that it must be very painful to be locked up here, and he never thought that one day he would take the initiative to ask to come in.

After standing in place for an unknown amount of time, Mu Xingqiu gradually understood the true meaning of "the silent place makes people feel self-pitying", it is not just "silent" here, in the silence, the mind becomes extremely active, and a thousand thoughts come to me, every thought is related to "me": why did I fall here? How long should I stay here? Is it possible for me to get out alive? Is there anyone outside who misses me and wants to save me? Who have I ever been sorry for, and who has ever been sorry for me?

The Demon Cave is a prison specially prepared for Taoist priests, completely contrary to its practice standards, Taoist priests pay attention to the desperation of desire, the silent place is to stuff the love and desire back into the Taoist body, and amplify it, this is a painful process, the Taoist priest in the process of practice to give up all kinds of human feelings, at this time will in turn swallow the master's heart. Revenge as much as you want.

Mu Xingqiu's mind was full of doubts, but he didn't collapse, because he had never formed the heart of a true Taoist. Seven emotions and six desires have always existed, and now they are only getting a little stronger.

"A Taoist priest like you is rare. ”

A voice actually sounded in the silent place, Mu Xingqiu turned his head and saw Patriarch Kun Chu standing beside him.

"I'll give you a ride. Kun Zhu said, but did not take a step, the "one journey" in the Demon Pulling Cave refers to time, not distance. "There is no turning back from practice, and if you take a wrong step, your practice will stop. The most important thing is that the body will be eliminated, and the seven emotions and six desires are the biggest source of mistakes. ”

Kun Zhen turned to look at Mu Xingqiu, a handful of beards without wind and automatic, Mu Xingqiu understood. Kun Chao didn't really enter the Demon Pulling Hole. Standing beside him was just a vivid vision.

"You are a Taoist priest full of 'mistakes' that have not caused you serious harm so far, the only reason is that your lifespan is too short, decades have passed in a flash, and many mistakes are still in the making. ”

Mu Xingqiu wanted to laugh and wanted to speak, but he couldn't make any sound, his mouth just opened and closed. The words were all swirling in my head, "That's it." Was it a lucky thing that I was imprisoned in the Pull Hole?"

Kun Chao "heard" the words in Mu Xingqiu's mind and shook his head, "The Silent Land has little effect on you, because the seven emotions and six desires it wants to stuff you have, you have it yourself, and for you, the real test starts from the next step." ”

"The unsheltered space is exposed. Mu Xingqiu couldn't hear his own voice, but his mouth still made a speech movement, otherwise he would feel even more weird.

"The Taoist priest restores the seven emotions and six desires in the silent land, and when you enter the uncovered land, you will experience all the sufferings corresponding to them: the person you care about dies in front of you, the things you like are out of reach, and the mistakes you have made are repeated over and over again. ”

"Thank you for the reminder, I love illusions, so I think I'll love the Shelter too. ”

Kun Zhen smiled, he didn't have all the attention, he seemed more easy-going and more real, "If you can't believe it, wouldn't the Demon Pulling Cave have a name? ”

"Shen Geng. Mu Xingqiu had already thought of him.

"The Uncovered Land is also the last tangible place, where you still have a body, but it will grow weaker and weaker, and when it is completely gone, the soul will enter the land of selflessness, and there will be no reason for suffering. ”

Mu Xingqiu couldn't help but want to throw a punch to try it, even if it was just to make the illusion flicker, it was worth it, but in the end he held back, because this was part of the desire of the seven emotions aroused in the silent place.

Kun Zhen laughed, "You appreciate the power of the seven emotions and six desires, right? When they are provoked, there is no difference between the false and the real, you will be full of hatred for the illusion, punch and fight, and you will also be full of love for the illusion, and you will be in pain. ”

Mu Xingqiu walked forward, not caring where he would go.

Kun Chao's vision was in step with him, "For me, your value is all in the uncovered place, where your form will slowly disappear, and I will separate a little of your soul, just a little, and use them to find the reincarnation body of the demon soul." At most, twelve years, as long as the demon spirit begins to awaken, I can find him, and then everything is over. ”

Mu Xingqiu's seven emotions and six desires were not strong enough, so he couldn't walk out of the silent place, he stopped and said silently: "Since you have to give me a ride, can you answer the doubts in my heart?"

At this time, Mu Xingqiu didn't have any secrets in Kun Zhen's eyes, and the other party already knew the details as soon as he thought about it, "Why do I want to exterminate sentient beings?" It's a long story, but fortunately, you and I don't lack time. ”

Kun Chao was silent for a while, as if thinking about where to start, and then he threw a question at Mu Xingqiu: "If you were asked to choose an inheritor of the Mind Illusion Technique among all living beings, what would you do?"

Mu Xingqiu also thought for a while, "The easiest way is to recruit disciples and select the best, which is what the Dao Tong does." ”

Kun Zhen laughed, his beard trembling, like a snickering little henchman.

Mu Xingqiu felt a moment of annoyance and anger, and the influence of the Silent Land was getting stronger and stronger, but he could still control it.

"You're ridiculously ignorant of the Dao system. With a wave of his hand, a large number of blackened figures appeared around his and Mu Xingqiu's chests, each only four or five inches tall, floating in the air blinking, frowning, and yawning.

Kun Chao waved his hand again, and a very small number of villains rose higher. "This is the Dao system, and the selected disciples are less than one ten-thousandth of all sentient beings, no matter how extensive the inspection methods of the Tao system are. There are always many mortals with Dao roots who have not been discovered in their lifetimes, they may be good seeds, but they are wasted in mediocre mortal worlds. ”

Mu Xingqiu couldn't deny this statement, he himself was a stark example, if Mr. Qin, who had a demon soul, and Fangfang, who had a divine soul, didn't live in Yelin Town, he and a group of friends would probably never have produced a Dao Root, and even if they did, it would be difficult to be discovered. Yelin Town is too remote to be noticed by the Daoists.

Kun Chao waved his hand for the third time, and most of the villains in a slightly lower position were divided into two groups. One group was close to Mu Xingqiu, and the other group was close to himself, and the two groups of villains began to quarrel, and then charged each other. A fierce battle began. Knowing that this was a very simple illusion, Mu Xingqiu still looked enthusiastic, as if he was on the battlefield.

"Even if you collect all the Dao Root disciples, how can you tell who is better? Some people have advanced by leaps and bounds in the early stages of cultivation, but they have hesitated when they reach a higher realm, and some people have reached the realm of serving the sun after a lot of hardships, but they can't tell the reason and can't pass on their experience to those who come after them. Would you like to choose such a Taoist priest as your successor? So you need a competition. Competition can reveal truly excellent disciples. ”

"War. Mu Xingqiu said.

"War is a good thing, it will suffer a lot of losses, but it can also make the best stand out, the key is to master the balance, so the demon clan cannot be killed, and the threat of the demon clan must always hang over their heads. And you can't let war tie up the hands and feet of the Dao system, so this must be a war between humans and demons, and it is a training ground for Taoist priests, and they can get in and out. The period when the most Taoists served the Sun was also the most intense time for the war between humans and the demon race, but once they reached the realm of serving the Moon Mang, the Taoists would slowly understand the necessity of war, and when they arrived at the realm of serving the Sunmang, they would automatically withdraw from the war and give the training ground to the latecomers. ”

"Zuo Liuying and I have both reached the realm of serving the moon, but we don't feel this way. ”

"That's because you are out of the supervision of the Nine Great Treasures, I will explain this later, and now I want to say that there are many accidents among sentient beings, and you don't know who will produce Dao Roots, and you don't know who will become the strongest Taoist. So the best selection method is not to choose at all, and let the strong show their heads. ”

"Go with the flow. Mu Xingqiu finally understood the true meaning of these four words.

"The decline of the demons lies in the fact that their range of choices is too small to give most of the demons room to play, so we have to prove our abilities by overthrowing them. Kun Chao grabbed his five fingers, and the illusion of all beings disappeared.

Mu Xingqiu's brows furrowed slightly, and then he expanded, "You have obtained an immortal body, so you don't need to choose a successor, so you don't need war and sentient beings ......."

"That's right, the world that has been carefully arranged by the Dao Tong is not helpful to me, but rather a threat. Accidentally, Mu Xingqiu, as long as the time is long enough and the number is large enough, accidents will always occur, the demon race will perish because of it, and the Dao system will live and die because of it, for the undead, chance is the only enemy, and I must destroy it in the bud. I could wait ten years, a hundred years, but not forever. ”

"Power changes the original intention, Kun Chao, when you first made the plan, you definitely didn't think about exterminating sentient beings. ”

"Of course, at that time, my plan was very simple, to accumulate strength and destroy once and for all the demon souls and demon seeds that would sooner or later reunite. That's how the Three Ancestors were persuaded by me, and they believed in me because I believed in myself. ”

Kun Zhen's illusion stared at Mu Xingqiu, "You are an accident among all beings, but you have been pinched by me, so I am willing to take a small risk." By the way, your plan is to find the soul of the Nian Xin Sect and break the Demon Extraction Hole from it after learning the Mind Illusion - you understand what you're wrong with, right?"

"There are no more descendants of the Mind Science in the Uncovered Land, and their remnants and souls are all in the Noless Land......"

Those who enter the land of no-self are all incomplete souls, and as soon as the demon cave is broken, the soul will be scattered, even if Mu Xingqiu learns the eleventh layer of the Mind Illusion Technique, it is useless.

No Taoist priest knew this beforehand, and Zuo Liuying didn't know either.

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