Chapter 258 Stick to the heart of the Tao and guess a riddle
"Well, the fairy orange tastes good. www.biquge.info The quicksand toad shook its head and said, its bulging eyes rolled, and it blew its cheeks and said, "I'm not tired now." If you don't get tired, hurry up and continue to tell jokes! After telling jokes, you want fairy oranges to have fairy oranges, and you want spirit beads to have spirit beads, and I have a big belly and can hold things, so I guarantee that you have what you want. β
Cheng Ziming looked away silently and said: "Be honest in making sand, we have compensated you, it's time to let us go." β
"Brother Cheng. Wen Pearl suddenly stopped talking, and looked at Wen Coral on the side.
"This ......" Wen Coral also hesitated for a while, and turned to look at Qi Feiyun.
Qi Feiyun was very straightforward, and said directly: "Cheng Daoyou, the witch doesn't have a deadline for the task, anyway, we are not in a hurry, so it is better to tell a few more jokes." Just now, I only cared about collecting spirit beads, and I didn't get much spirit grass and spirit fruits, so I lost a bit. It's better to tell a few more jokes and let the quicksand spit out more spirit fruits. Such a delicious spirit fruit, just like the fairy orange I ate just now, is definitely a rare treasure in the world, and it is rare to encounter. We are so lucky to have this adventure, we should seize the opportunity!"
Cheng Ziming looked away firmly and said, "Pray Daoist, the more this time, the more you have to control your desires. If we keep talking like this, and the quicksand Daoist keeps spitting out treasures, it is hard to guarantee that our desires will grow bigger and bigger, and we will be more and more eager to get more spirit beads and more delicious spirit fruits, and when the time comes, will we still think about leaving this place again?
In that case, the witch will make a lot of money. She tempted us with the golden sand that formed the sand dunes, the pearls that paved the sea, the spirit stones piled up on the islands, the supreme power to control the immortals, and the fairy islands with the spiritual trees and spiritual grasses everywhere, and we were not fooled.
As a result, she used an orange and kept us instead?
Don't take these treasures lightly because they look like we've earned them through hard work.
As an immortal cultivator, you should always keep your heart and see the general direction clearly. Don't let the beautiful stones on the side of the road stop you from making your way to a higher mountain.
In any case, this feast of spiritual creatures ends here. It's time for us to hit the road. β
After saying this, Qi Feiyun was stunned for a moment, he turned to ponder, his heart suddenly brightened, and at the same time, his face was slightly red. He thought to himself: This Cheng Daoyou is really not simple. In my insistence on the heart of the Dao, I am inferior to him.
Ever since I was a child, I have heard from my teachers that the road is difficult. And this kind of hardship comes not only from the cultivation itself, but also from the endless temptations around us. Only by restraining the desire and guarding the heart, can we stick to the avenue and not covet the scenery on the roadside and delay the trip.
I was born in a Taoist family and received an orthodox Taoist education from an early age. Unexpectedly, this Cheng Daoyou, who was born in a small sect, and the method of connecting the array has not yet been learned, and his Dao heart is even firmer than mine, and he is really a genius. I lost at his hands, and I was convinced.
How did Qi Feiyun know that Cheng Ziming was a human being in two lives, experienced life and death, and his insights into the world were far better than ordinary people, and he was obviously more experienced than Qi Feiyun.
Cheng Ziming didn't know that his words had made Qi Feiyun have so many mental activities. He was now single-minded, only urging the quicksand toad to quickly withdraw the sand hand so that they could let the group leave.
After some arguing, the toad head said unhappily, "All right, since you are so resolute that you don't even want spiritual objects, then I can only follow you." β
"But!" the toad blinked, and there was a hint of cunning in the sound of the rubbing of sand and gravel, and he said, "Let you go, there are conditions." I'll come up with a riddle, and if I guess correctly, I'll let you go! If you don't guess correctly, you'll stay here and tell me jokes for a hundred years! Everyone has a chance, tell me quickly!"
Hearing this, Qi Feiyun frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "How can this work! Even if you can't guess correctly, there is no reason to keep us for a hundred years! It's not fair at all, with such conditions, we don't guess this riddleββ"
The toad head suddenly interrupted Qi Feiyun's words, and said sharply: "What is real but can't be grasped, the more you try to hold it, the more it will slip between your fingers? Now dozens of times, if you don't guess me, I'll go back to the sand!"
"One, two!" the toad counted loudly regardless of it, and it suddenly sped up its speech, and said very quickly: "*&......%Β₯ eight!nine!"
"Sand!" Qi Feiyun hurriedly shouted: "It's sand, it's real, you can't catch it." Grab a handful of sand with all your might, and just like that, the harder you push it, the more the sand slips between your fingers. The answer is sand. β
Qi Feiyun said as he picked up a handful of sand from the ground, held it in his hand, and clenched it hard. Sure enough, the harder he pushed, the more the sand spilled out between his fingers, and in the end, only a small ball of sand in the palm of his hand remained.
The quicksand toad smiled, and it opened its mouth sharply, "Ahh The sand was impartial, and it happened to fall at the feet of Qi Feiyun, and when it landed on the sand, it actually made a "dang" sound, which shows the hardness of the texture.
Toad Head laughed, "You guessed wrong. Don't believe you can try this sand block?"
Qi Feiyun didn't believe in evil, picked up the sand and put it in his hand, he suddenly clenched his fist, and used his strength angrily, but the sand was like a hard rock, which couldn't be broken or opened at all. He finally shook his head helplessly and threw the sand on the ground.
Wen Coral suddenly said: "I know, it's water! Water is impermanent, real, but unpredictable, grasping water with your hands is like fishing for the moon in the water, and you can't catch anything at all." β
The quicksand toad smiled, and it opened its mouth sharply, "Ahh The ice cube flew straight to the feet of the warm coral, and smashed on the sand with a pop, splashing a burst of sand and dust, which shows the hardness of the ice.
Wen Coral was dissatisfied: "You cheat, this is ice, not water." β
"Who said that? I don't believe you, pick it up and take a look. The quicksand toad smiled evilly and muttered: "There are thousands of worlds, there are no wonders, and less knowledge is less knowledge." Hmph, guess wrong. β
Wen Coral hesitantly picked up the "ice cube" on the ground, only to see that the appearance of this "ice cube" was really watery, with the warmth and wetness of water droplets, but it did not have a fixed form like flowing water, but had a feeling similar to gelatin. She pinched it with her fingers and noticed that the water would also deform, but it was obviously not like running water, which would flow through the gaps between her fingers.
Wen Pearl hesitated for a moment, then finally raised her head and said in a firm voice, "I know! The air is real, we can breathe, but it has no fixed form, and to hold the air with our hands is simply to grasp the air, and we can't hold anything. The air will slip through the gap between your fingers and you won't be able to grasp it at all. β
The quicksand toad smiled weirdly again, and it opened its mouth suddenly, "......Ahh
The toad's big mouth didn't spit out anything, but Wen Pearl really saw that the sand at his feet flew up, and there was obviously an object that hit the sand.
All the way to the sand, the sand hand slowly crawled over, picked up something from the sand, held it high and handed it to Wen Pearl.
Wen Pearl took it and took a look at it, and found that it was a small transparent ball. The surface of the ball is stained with a layer of sand, and the outline of the ball is faintly visible.
The surface of the ball is constantly changing, and there is a faint breeze flowing through it, which is actually a small cloud of air.
"Can't this air be broken?" Wen Pearl didn't believe in evil, pinched the ball with both hands, and faintly exerted force. As a result, the ball was pinched and deformed by the fingers, but the air just gathered but did not disperse, and it could not be pinched by any means.
"How's it going? The toad head said happily: "You have all lost, now, you have to accompany me in the desert for a hundred years." β