Chapter 9: Good is like water

The North River is frozen, thousands of miles away, and the silver snake winds its way to the heavens and the earth.

The snow cover of Nanshan, the hazy yarn is wrapped, and the jade dragon lies in the town.

However, such a majestic weather, as a hibernation species, Erqing can't see it.

The sun and the moon swirled, and the silver snake danced lightly and the jade dragon trembled.

The spring thunder sounded on the earth, and the stinging insect raised its head suddenly.

Erqing raised his head, opened his bloody mouth, yawned, and had another good sleep.

Looking back, Xiaoqing also woke up, and when he saw Erqing coming, he spit out the letter and wrapped it towards him.

Er Qing did not refuse Xiaoqing's intimate behavior, exchanged letters with him, chatted privately for a long time, and then went out of the cave to forage for food. Xiaoqing followed closely behind, following suit, like a little daughter-in-law.

When I came out of the hole, I met a stupid rabbit holding a grass stalk and chewing it, completely unaware of the predators. Erqing glanced at Erqing sideways, shrunk her neck and jumped, and the stupid rabbit died directly under her mouth.

Erqing raised his head to look at the sky, not looking at the scene of Ru Mao drinking blood.

Shake your head and look around, the spring buds start, and ten thousand points of emerald blue should be seen.

The grass hasn't grown yet, and you can't eat it, so how about digging some grass roots?

Erqing shook his head and opened his third eye, looking for a place where the colorful qi lingered.

Having said that, in the past two years, these hundreds of thousands of miles of green mountains and valleys, those herbs that have been old have also been almost harmed by him.

At first, he took the initiative to cause the scourge, and then some birds and beasts came up to pay homage.

While cruising and watching, after a while, Er Qing saw a faint cloud of colorful rui qi lingering on the edge of a secluded stream. As I walked past, I saw a mountain vine wrapped around the bushes.

Under the bushes, a yam rhizome is being exposed. Being able to form colorful gas filaments means that it can be regarded as a vintage, and it can swallow the essence of heaven and earth, although the amount is very small.

Erqing did not hesitate, the snake's tail rolled, and pulled the yam out of the soil, washed it a few times with the stream water in the stream, shook off the spring mud on it, and swallowed it with his mouth open.

When he came to the old locust tree, there were already many birds and beasts waiting here.

Seeing Erqing's arrival, one by one, one by one, greeted him: "Hello Erqingshijun!"

These birds and beasts regard him as a 'teacher', and Erqing does not refuse, although he only teaches them human writing and the Tao Te Ching, but he can be regarded as their teacher.

Not long after, the news of Erqing's appearance spread in this big green mountain, and the fierce birds and beasts of each mountain rushed in this direction.

Quackling, the sky squadron lined up, black pressed into pieces.

Roaring and roaring, the ground is clustered and heaped in the dark.

When Xiaoqing had a full meal and swam slowly to this time, around the old locust tree, there were already patches of snakes, insects, rats, fierce birds and beasts, which was a wonder in the world.

Erqingpan lay on the old locust tree and said: "Today, we talk about the chapter of 'goodness is like water'. The good is like water, the water is good for all things without fighting, and it is evil for everyone, so it is more than the Tao......"

When they see this scene, it is estimated that some people will laugh, a group of wild beasts, and tell them, 'The good is like water'? Do they know what 'goodness' is? Do they know what 'the heart is like stopping water'?

Erqing himself can't do 'the heart is like stopping water'.

However, if you can't do it, it doesn't mean that you can't teach, otherwise how can there be 'blue out of blue and better than blue'?

Birds and beasts only know how to act according to instinct, they want to eat when they are hungry, they want to drink when they are thirsty, and meat-eaters will not run away to eat vegetarian food, and vegetarians will not change to eat meat casually.

It is an immutable theorem that wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and rabbits travel thousands of miles to eat grass. Unless there is such a situation as Erqing, or they have turned into demons, they know self-cultivation, and they understand the cause and effect of good and evil.

However, Taoist practice does not talk about cause and effect, and monsters do not need to be talked about.

However, in the "Taishang Induction Chapter", there is also a saying that "there is no way for good and evil, but people call themselves, and the retribution of good and evil follows like a shadow". It shows that although Taoism does not pay attention to cause and effect as Buddhism, it also has the theory of 'retribution', which is not much different from Buddhism's 'planting good causes and reaping good results'.

It's just that Buddhism is about the afterlife, and Taoism is about this life.

That is, 'Buddha cultivates the afterlife, and seeks eternal life'.

Previously, the two young thieves ate the elixir guarded by all the birds and beasts, which was regarded as summoning a disaster, and only then did the birds and beasts unite to find trouble with him.

Now, he has educated all the beasts and beasts, and he has repaid this report.

However, although the grievances are removed, the cause and effect are also settled.

These beasts, if he succeeds in cultivation one day, this is the cause of his condition.

It's just that, as he now says, 'good is like water,' he doesn't expect anything from these beasts in the future.

Like water, it is good for all things without fighting.

If a person with advanced Taoism comes here at this time, he will be surprised to find that on Erqing's body, there is a faint golden light of merit, which is the result of educating sentient beings.

Xiaoqing swam to the tree and coiled on Erqing's side, and all the birds and beasts were not surprised to see this, they all knew that this green snake was Erqing's sister, and lived in a cave with Erqing.

Even many beasts think that Xiaoqing is Erqing's daughter-in-law.

Today's Xiaoqing, the body is already more than a zhang, in this big mountain, if you don't take the initiative to provoke those fierce birds and beasts, there will be no birds and beasts that will be unfavorable to it.

After explaining for a long time, Er Qing began to roll up a branch with the snake's tail and write on a piece of sand that had been made out by the beasts.

He wrote the phrase 'good as water' on the sand and taught them to recognize it.

The days passed quietly under such circumstances.

Many times, Erqing didn't go back to the cave, and gave the spiritual cave in the cave to Xiaoqing to use, and he coiled on this old locust tree, swallowing the moon at night, and eating purple gas.

It doesn't even take a long time to feel a little hungry.

Erqing estimates that in another year or two, he will be able to achieve the realm of dining and drinking dew.

However, even though he didn't eat anything, his body was constantly growing, and it was obviously growing much faster than the other snakes, nearly four feet long.

Such a long worm, between these mountains and forests, can be regarded as a hegemon, few fierce birds and beasts dare not avoid this kind of overlord-level long worm, unless those demons who have cultivated well.

However, it is strange to say that in this reckless and reckless green mountain, it seems that there have never been monsters who have achieved cultivation, and even those fierce beasts have never heard of monsters.

If it weren't for the fact that he had just entered the mountain, he would have doubted his judgment when he saw the thousand-year-old Shou Wujing crossing the tribulation.

And if a cultivator passes by here, he can sense that this big green snake has cultivated a wisp of demonic power. Demonic power and merit are accompanied by golden light, and this situation is generally only seen in the spirits of the Buddhist cultivation sect.

It's just that Erqing doesn't know how to use this wisp of demonic power, and he can't use the method.

In this case, if it lasts for hundreds of years, it is believed that it is possible to cultivate into a monster.

However, Erqing couldn't wait, he didn't want to waste a hundred years, in the end he was still a little demon, and then he didn't need to wait to go out, and he was killed by a thunderbolt from God.