Chapter Forty-Six: Dao Heart
As a noble cat, as a cat who is as free as the wind, the little black cat is still very satisfied with the life in the peach forest.
Of course, it would be nice if the shovelers didn't sit stupidly on the top of the mountain full of big rocks every day. What the shovel officer needs is to get small dried fish for the cats, and not to cause Lord Benmeow to go to the creek to catch fish and eat them.
So the little black cat will work tirelessly to climb to the top of the mountain every day to take a look at the guy to make sure that the guy is awake and whether he is not ready to care about it.
When the morning sun began to shine on every corner of the peach forest, the little black cat was still on the way to the top of the mountain. The morning dew is the most annoying thing for the little black cat, because it always makes the little black cat wet, and it can't be dried without lying on the top of the mountain for a while.
On the top of the mountain, the shovel officer was still sitting motionless. The little black cat was a little frustrated, but fortunately she was used to it. The little black cat didn't know why the old man in the peach forest forbade him to get closer, but the little black cat was used to it. Just so far from the shovel officer, lying on a big rock on the top of a mountain lazily basking in the sun.
Warm sunshine, clear wind. The little black cat lying on the big rock was very reverie, and when his eyes were half-open and half-closed, he was about to enter his dream, when suddenly there was some movement around, it was the wind! The little black cat thought lazily, except for the black cat's ears trembling slightly, and there was no intention of waking up at all.
Wait! It seems that there is really a sound! The little black cat suddenly felt a burst of danger coming, and the muscles of his whole body tensed, "Meow!" A warning, the little paw had already scratched it with the thunderous anger of Lord Ben Meow before he opened his eyes.
Uh-huh! The little black cat's heart was cold now, and before he could think of the second move, the whole cat had already been picked up. The little black cat opened its eyes and was about to give a thunderous punishment to Diao Min, who dared to disturb Lord Benmeow's sleep, but saw a familiar smiling face with a little sunshine.
Is Ben Meow dreaming, is Ben Meow mistaken? The guy who can "sleep" for three years while sitting really woke up?
The little black cat lay stupidly in Zhou Cheng's arms, smelling the sun, and then his eyes were still a little straight until he was carried down the mountain.
"Although it is easy to enter the Tao, it is difficult to practice the Tao, and after three years of meditation, can there be an answer?" In the grass house, it is exactly the same as three years ago. The old man still sat on the straw couch futon, and asked with his eyes half-open and half-closed.
"My heart is therefore here, but I don't lose my heart to gain the Tao, why bother to cut it? Cultivating the Tao with fate, everything according to your heart, following the trend, and moving against the times, isn't it all the original intention of the Tao?" This time Zhou Cheng was obviously a lot more confident, and when he saw the old man asking, he immediately replied with a smile.
The old man was slightly surprised, and then pointed at Zhou Cheng angrily, and his voice was raised more than doubled: "Shaft, how can you deny the way of the predecessors? Seven emotions are continuous, six desires are indestructible, your body is fetted, and your heart is worried, can you keep quiet and settle down in the Dao heart? In the final analysis, you don't want to give up! What kind of Tao are you cultivating, why don't you go back to the world and be your rich and long-lived man?"
It was the first time for Zhou Cheng to see the old man so out of shape, although the old man's temper was not really good from beginning to end, those who could usually move their hands would never move their mouths, and those who could never squeak. But there are not many cases of real anger.
So much so that the little black cat in Zhou Cheng's arms was so frightened that the cat hair on his body stood up.
Zhou Cheng knew why the old man was angry, obviously Zhou Cheng gave the old man a completely unexpected answer after facing the wall for three years. And the answer itself is a bit deviant, too inconsistent with the old man's own understanding of the Tao.
The old man hoped that Zhou Cheng would be able to cut off the edge of the dust. Zhou Cheng thought that he could follow the fate, as long as the Dao heart was not lost, why did he have to be killed?
The Tao is different, and they do not conspire with each other. The old man has worked hard to teach Zhou Cheng for so many years, although he refuses to admit the name of master and apprentice on the surface, there is no doubt that he is a master and apprentice. Now Zhou Cheng's answer made the old man angry.
Zhou Cheng didn't want to argue with the old man, and more than ten years of experience told him that the old man was often used to solving the problem by force after the argument failed. Let Zhou Cheng deeply understand what it means to "be within the range of the truth cannon!" and Zhou Cheng has a feeling - the old man is a little strange today.
The sixth sense of a cultivator is very keen, and the higher his cultivation, the more in line with the Heavenly Dao, the stronger and more accurate this feeling will be. Although the old man now looks no different from before, Zhou Cheng's feeling tells him that the old man has something in his heart.
Perhaps the old man was more worried that Zhou Cheng would get lost on this deviant path of cultivation, and it would be difficult to achieve a positive result.
"Everything follows fate, everything follows my heart, and the heart of the Tao follows me, why is it not the Tao?" Zhou Cheng waited until the old man's anger calmed down a little, and then quickly said his thoughts.
Surprisingly, this time the old man did not get angry, but after taking a deep look at Zhou Cheng, he let out a long sigh.
It's not that the old man recognized the Tao in Zhou Cheng's heart, but that he knew that he couldn't change the "Tao" that Zhou Cheng thought he was.
"That's it, that's it, your own way, go and cultivate it yourself. Everything is just as it is! Everything is as you like! That's your own way. It's the same as your master, but I still hope that you will remember to keep your heart and never fall into the fate of your master. When the judgment continues, it harms others and oneself!" The old man's words were obviously not an endorsement, but a warning.
But fortunately, there is no intention of continuing to entangle.
"I'm leaving, I made a bet with your master three hundred years ago, and now that the bet is over, I can finally leave this place where I have lived for countless years. You have your word, and I have mine. The journey of the avenue, maybe it is really different paths and the same end, maybe one day I can see you again in Kunwu!" The old man took Zhou Cheng out of the grass house, turned around and looked at the peach forest around him, a little sigh, a little nostalgia, but more of a relaxation of the fetters gone.
"This is the last thing I gave you! Your master had the idea of this thing back then, but I didn't give it to you. At that time, he easily let it go. It's not like his character. I was a little surprised. The old man handed over a boxy green box. The non-gold and non-jade look mysterious, especially the patterns on it, which look like strings of mysterious runes.
"Now I understand that he doesn't want it, but just wants to leave it to you! Your old man has never escaped his calculations!" The old man was a little lonely, a little emotional, but he was not reluctant.
"Willing, willing, letting go, letting go. Old man, I have been trapped here for 10,000 years, I originally thought that this was my root, but I didn't know that this was also my cage! But he found that Zhou Cheng hadn't woken up for a long time, so he could only sigh deeply and said: "Where you enter the Tao, the foundation is the heaviest." Now that the aura is almost exhausted, it is the last world. Come and see me when you enter the Dao!"