msmithbooks Chapter 162
Chapter 162
In the Daqing Mountains, in the Li Mansion.Ding Qin sat on the porch of the courtyard where the gods once lived.
There is a pond in the courtyard, in which the shadows of fish are flickering. She used to draw water from this pond to water the garden.
There is a tree beside the pool with green and wide leaves. She once practiced calligraphy on the leaves of this tree.
There are stone tables and chairs under the tree. She once saw the gods tease the mice with sycamore fruit.
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Ding Qin opened her gray eyes, praying over and over again in her heart.
She was here once, and saw the mighty and clear light, which fell on her compassionately and compassionately, shining on her all the time when she was the most tired, most dangerous, and most confused.
Now the light is out.
She prayed over and over again, but she could no longer make the divine seal on her forehead light up, and she couldn't feel the will that was always there.
A bright red figure fell from outside the courtyard, but stopped outside the door, hesitating.
After the house spirit, Li has quietly appeared, looking at Xuanniao with a questioning look.
They only saw the shocking changes in the world, but they didn't know what happened.The black bird rushed to the sky in the darkness of the dying sun.Now the sun and stars are bright again, and the black bird is back.Does he know what happened?
Xuanniao frowned, his heart was in a mess. He saw Hou Li's question, but he couldn't answer it.
The sun star hangs high in the zenith, and before he arrives, the sun star lights up again.And then...he was summoned by Lord Yan.
This was one of the only two gods he knew.
12 years before the rise of the catastrophe, the gods of the world almost never intersected with sentient beings.
Because there is no need.People see Fuyou living and dying, and the dragon king who has lived for thousands of years sees no difference between people and Fuyou who lives and dies. For the gods who have always existed in ancient times, the dragon king who is still in reincarnation and people, and Fuyou , what is the difference?
Only by practicing to see the Dao, at least to achieve an existence that can transcend samsara and not lose one's mind, can you be qualified to have a meaningful intersection with the gods.But that's also unnecessary.The Tao has clearly revealed everything, so why ask the gods?
Ordinary people may tease insects and ants on a whim, but gods do not have such evil desires.That being the case, there is really no reason for the intersection between gods and sentient beings.
Even if karma destroys life and causes chaos, only Changyang hangs down his eyes on the mortal world.
Because of this, Xuanniao got acquainted with this god.
When he stood alone among Tang Man's remains, he had nowhere to go and nowhere to return.The world is vast, and there is no other home.
That's when the gods appeared.
"Are you going with me?"
No more words were needed, he felt it when he saw the embodiment of the god, when he heard the voice of the god, when he was looked into by those eyes.That is the gaze that fell directly on the heart, the voice that sounded directly in the heart, stripped of the appearance of language, and touched with the most essential meaning.
He felt a warm, soft light.
The gods could not free him from his torment, but kept him from being completely swallowed up.He was like a person standing in a swamp, with half of his body submerged in pain and half of his body covered in brilliance. He was immersed there, looking up at the light in the sky. Even though he had fallen into the swamp, the light was still willing to shine on him.
Since then, Xuanniao followed the gods and established Xuanqingjiao.To establish a ruthless but just salvation for this karma-destroyed world.Just like the gods he saw.
The gods ignore the world, and Changyang intervenes in the mortal world only because he thinks there is a mistake in the mortal world and needs to be rectified.
He will not save a dying creature for no reason, nor bestow blessings for devout prayers.
The gods are ruthless, and because they are ruthless, they are impartial.
God is compassionate and guides because of compassion.
He has personally experienced a long time with the gods, so when Lord Yan told him that Changyang had become a great mystery during the summoning, how could he believe it?
But it was Lord Yan who spoke.
This was another celestial being with whom he had acquainted.After the catastrophe, he guided all sentient beings and gave help to the Xuanqing sect who had just lost the god he enshrined at that time. He had contact with Lord Yan at that time, but in such chaos, Lord Yan was caught off guard and had to take care of him. There were too many of them, and I didn't notice them for a while, and was taken away by the well-prepared Hun Chao to go to Xuanqingjiao.
Xuanniao was later soaked in a poisonous pool to kill his soul, made 12-year-old wood, and used Changyang to cut off the cause and effect, and was reborn after the complete destruction of Xuanqingjiao.
He still remembers that day, when he leaped onto the cloud covered with golden sunlight, and reunited with the gods who had been separated for 12 years at the peak of the new sunrise.
Changyang instructed him... to go and work with Lord Yan to lay a dead end for Emperor Yin who is the incarnation of Chaos.
During that time, Xuanniao had a little understanding of this god who had guarded the world for 12 years.But he had never seen the appearance of Lord Yan when he summoned him this time.
Are gods also sentient?Otherwise, how could he feel like a falling stone amidst the fireworks?
Xuanniao didn't want to believe it, but he felt that what Lord Yan said was true.
He hesitated outside the courtyard door.
With a slow creak, the courtyard door opened by itself.Ding Qin stood in the courtyard, her gray eyes turned towards him.
"What happened?" she asked.
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The sound of the pine is like a wave.
The fairy-like red-crowned cranes opened their eyes in the wind.She was in deep concentration, but was suddenly awakened by an invisible shock.
Bai Hong woke up from his samurai, and subconsciously looked at the sky.The dark sky brightened at a speed visible to the naked eye.Not the dawn when the sun rises, but the re-lighting of the sun star high in the sky.
what happened?
She subconsciously sent a message to her acquaintances, and learned of the recent shock from them.
The huge red-crowned crane suddenly spread its wings and flew towards Li's mansion.
Among the summons just now, only Ding Qin did not respond to her.But she already knew the reason from Li Na.
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Ding Qin lowered her head, quietly listening to Xuanniao's narration.
She's like a normal person now.Chaos forcibly manipulated her to see all the netherworld, which was fatal to her wear and tear, not to mention she resisted desperately.
How can the price of mortal beings fight against God be so light?Death is the simplest price.
Just looking at her pair of spiritual eyes that belonged to Master Yunzhang, the price of that power will continue for several lifetimes to come.The gods are eternal, and this characteristic is not harmful to the mortal world.There are only water droplets that converge in the sea, and no sea adapts to the water droplets.The price related to the gods will not be changed by reincarnation, nor will it be eliminated by death.
Dan Dingqin is Changyang's envoy.From the moment the imprint of the gods was dotted on her forehead, she had the protection of Changyang.
She survived, and Changyang's divine power healed her broken body, and eliminated the invisible consequences that might extend to the next few lives.But Changyang is not a god in charge of vitality, he can heal, but this time, it is Chaos who caused the damage, an existence born from the gap between heaven and earth that has been irreparable so far.
The divine power supports Ding Qin's life, she can feel the divine power filling her body, but she can't use them.
She can live, except for those eyes, which are healthier and sharper than anyone else, and will not be attacked by illness, but she can only be like an ordinary person.
Maybe there will be a way to use divine power again in the future, but at least for now, she can't do it yet.
But before she did it, the world had already undergone a shocking change.
Ding Qin finished listening to Xuanniao's narration.
"You..." Xuanniao paused for a while after opening his mouth, his thoughts were like heavy boulders stuck in the narrow mouth of the bottle, nothing could be poured out.
Ding Qin looked incredibly calm.
"I don't believe it." She said it so calmly, as if she believed she was right, so nothing could shake her heart.
Xuanniao was touched by her firm belief, but soon became exhausted.
He didn't want to believe it either.But he has already got a testimony from Lord Yan.Things in this world, you don't have to believe it if you don't want to believe it.
Ding Qin seemed to guess what he was thinking, she opened her hand, and the sun fell on her palm: "God promised me that wherever the sun shines, it will be my eyes."
"I can still feel it now, everything under the sun."
The shadows cast by the clouds, the bugs on the grass stalks, the waves in the pool... When the sun star shines again, all these light up in her world again.
"God's promises are never false." She accepted the sunlight, her slightly upturned face was calm and bright under the sun, "God once said that the way is walked under the feet."
"God walks in his way, and I should walk in mine."
"What do you want to do?" Xuanniao asked.
"I'm going to find God."
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The sun is scorching, and the mausoleum is dark.
The movement between heaven and earth also spread to Jiuyou, but this short quarter of an hour was not enough to figure out exactly what happened.
Nüxu and the ghost kings have been purging the Netherworld. The Netherworld environment is special, and it is not easy to communicate. But fortunately, there are also a few disciples of the Lantern Sect here, and their lampstands are very useful at this time.
However, Yang Cang also had no source of information at this time.
He had already chanted the name of Danyao Rongguang Cheming Zhenjun to pray to Lord Yan, but the god who had helped before had not responded.
At this time, they were uneasy about the changes between heaven and earth, and Lord Yan also didn't know what to do with them.
It's not them who make Lord Yan troublesome, but Daxuan.
If it’s just these monks, it’s all right, even though they are rare beings among all living beings who have traveled far on the road, even if they have participated deeply in the calamity and made achievements, even... even if they have everything special, they are just the reincarnation of this world The monks among them are nothing more than those who cannot escape reincarnation, so they are ultimately unable to compete with the gods.
But they all had close ties with Changyang.
That is Daxuan who managed to get to today's situation with his own efforts.
Are there any tricks he set up for these people?Are they his offspring?
The Daqing Mountains, the Netherworld, the Bright Lantern Sect...they are all closely related to Changyang.What did he plan on them?
Thinking of this, even Lord Yan couldn't help but want to smile wryly.Longer ago, when karma was not yet chaotic, Changyang used a joke to let him take the title of Danyao Rongguang Cheming Zhenjun.After the catastrophe began, he used this name to help all living beings, leaving behind the inheritance of the Lantern Sect.
He couldn't see through Changyang's plan, but... Changyang at that time probably couldn't have predicted today.No matter why Changyang chose this name for himself at the time, it was definitely not for the sake of the current layout of the Bright Lantern Sect.
Changyang can't count everything, otherwise... the world would not have come to this point.
Similarly, 12 years ago, Changyang, who had not yet become Daxuan, made a plan when he was about to fall under the backlash of the life-recording pen, and it would never be a plan for becoming Daxuan today.
He did three things at that time: stripping out the pen spirit, hiding in the underworld, and arranging tricks in the netherworld.
This is where Daxuan's shortcoming lies.
Because it was not Daxuan who made the decision at that time, but Changyang.
During the period between escaping from Sunstar and revealing his identity, Daxuan must either make amends or make use of it, but what he can do is also very limited, because he still has to hide under Changyang's temperament at that time.
Now that Daxuan has uncovered his own puzzle, there is no need to tie his own hands and feet.If he wants to do something, now is the best time.
As for what exactly Changyang arranged in the Netherworld at that time, the clue lies in Xie Chun.
This strange beast, who was born with the ability to discern people's hearts and distinguish right from wrong, acquired the supernatural power to enter the netherworld.Before that, the only change in You Ming was that Chang Yang made arrangements there.
Lord Yan finds Jiechai in his incarnation, and takes him step by step into the nether world.
He wants to be ahead of Daxuan.
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The Nether is silent, only the dead souls flow in the next reincarnation in the nine springs.
Even if Chaos created the Ferryman of the Underworld, the Ghost King, Nvxu, and the Bright Lantern Sect entered it to fight against it, and the Inn of the Underworld was built and then destroyed, all these movements only stopped above the Underworld.No one can really enter the nether world.
Netherworld is a state. All the so-called beings who have entered the Netherworld have only entered the underworld, but they will never be able to leave the two sides of the underworld, in the truly pure Netherworld.They just stayed above the underworld with the help of their own magical methods.
On the contrary, the chaos used the Yellow Spring Inn to forcibly reverse the chaos of the netherworld, turning it upside down, and successfully stepped into the nether world.However, after the collapse of the Huangquan Inn and the power of the community to reset the Jiuquan, Nether also returned to normal.
But this "normal" is based on the result of the game of the gods.
If the chaos overturns the heaven and the earth with a catastrophe, then the peaceful scene of the nether world at this time is just an egg destined to be broken under the overturned nest.
Nuxu put one hand on the bone blade, and asked the people beside her, "Is there any news yet?"
The monk of the Lantern Cult shook his head.Lord Yan didn't respond, Yang Cang had already asked all acquaintances who might know the inside story, including Xuanniao, but...no one answered.
There was no joy, anger or worry on Nuxu's face, she turned her head and looked at Xi Chen'an who had been silent all this time: "What do you think?"
The chain on Xi Chen'an's arm is dimly lit, and the light is uncertain.He is a person with uncertain positions. He did not have the true intention to form an alliance with the ferrymen of the underworld before, and it may not be true to cooperate with Nuxu at this time.But his idea is also simple: if the Taoism is strong, he will act according to the Taoism, but at this time the Taoism is not solid, so naturally he must choose it.Just like speculative mortals.
Nuxu disagreed with his actions.Ordinary people speculate for profit, and the foundation of practice lies in the heart.To play with the chosen path is to deceive oneself.
But whether they agree or not does not prevent them from cooperating.Xi Chen'an is a very experienced oriental ghost king. He can open a ghost market, and his ability and methods are beyond doubt. Although he considers his interests when he cooperates, he also tries his best. He is not someone who is still vacillating after making a choice.
At this time, the world is changing drastically, no matter whether Xi Chen'an understands it or not, his guesses and ideas are worth referring to.
"What do I think?" Xi Chen'an murmured, without answering, but instead asked Nvxu, "You have also climbed the inverted ladder and entered the bottomless pit, so what do you think?"
Nuxu looked at Xi Chen'an's narrow and slanted eyes, and silently tightened her hand on the bone blade: "What do you mean, fellow daoist?"
Although getting along with Xi Chen'an during this period of time was acceptable, even with a hidden look of repression, she was always very clear that it was just that Xi Chen'an voluntarily chose to give in based on the situation.This big ghost king has never been an easy character to get along with.
Falling down the ladder is not climbing the bottomless gorge, but the way of self-cultivation.
In the bottomless pit, what you enter is not the bottomless darkness, but the leakage of the heart of the comer.
If you can live up to the heavenly ladder, the benefits to your own practice are self-evident.Xi Chen'an has been the master of the Bottomless Cave for countless years. Although he has not reached the state of cutting me, he can often detect the leaks in his own Dao heart and reflect on his own practice. It is more perfect.
Thinking to this point, Nuxu suddenly noticed an omission that she had never thought of before: If Xi Chen'an had a firm heart, why would he engage in such speculative things with an uncertain position?
Xi Chen'an smiled at her, his face was blue and white, his eyes hung from the corners of his eyes and his lips were long and thin. When he laughed, he always seemed to be sneering at something with disdain, but at this moment, there was a hint of sadness in his smile that flashed away. .
"There are gaps in the way of the world," he said.
The beard frowned and waited for his next words.The lack of the way of heaven and earth is not a secret to them. Ordinary monks may not understand why the catastrophe happened, but for those of them who have already participated deeply in the catastrophe, it is self-evident It's clear.
"I knew about it long before you guys." Xi Chen'an said again.
"Because of the bottomless pit?" Nuxu asked.
"Not bad." Xi Chenan said.
The bottomless pit was born after the catastrophe 12 years ago.No one knows why it was born, but it's possible to guess.The god of the earth is named Shetu, and the earth conceives birth and death, so Shetu leads to seclusion and controls the cycle of life and death. 12 years ago, the social land fell and the earth cracked. It is not impossible that something happened to Nether that caused it to be connected with the earth.
Or maybe because of this reason, there is a hint of kalpa hidden in this bottomless pit that can find out the lack of Taoism.
Xi Chen'an honed his Dao heart in the bottomless pit, and reflected on his own way in the inverted ladder.After practicing for a long time, he has been faintly feeling an obstacle, and the longer the time, the more obvious the obstacle.Until he finally confirmed that there is a lack of Tao.
The shock of that moment made his Dao heart shake, almost torn apart.
Walking towards the Tao is because the Tao is permanent, correct, neither increasing nor decreasing, neither born nor destroyed.But if there is a gap in the way...
"If there is a deficiency in the Tao, it is to make up for it." Nuxu said.Although this matter is difficult, how can practice be afraid of hardships and dangers?What's more, they are not the only ones who pioneered the way forward, there are gods in the world.
"Have you ever seen a mortal jigsaw puzzle?" Xi Chen'an asked.
This is a jigsaw puzzle game played by children. Each board has a different shape and can only be assembled into a complete board if it is placed in the correct position.
"If there is only the last blank that cannot be filled, it may be because the direction of the last board is wrong. You only need to turn it and you can put it together. The positions of the other boards are correct. But..." Xi Chen'an continued, "There are also Probably from the very first plank, it was misplaced."
The eyes of the female beard are sharp.She understood what Xi Chen'an meant.
The jigsaw puzzle has straight edges, even if the front boards are not in the right position, you can continue to put together until the last piece of vacant shape does not match the board, and it is revealed that the original position of each front board is wrong.
If it's just the last piece that is wrong, just fill in the gaps. If the first piece is wrong, you have to take it all out and start over.
However, if the jigsaw puzzle is misspelled, it can be dismantled and restarted, right?
Nvxu suddenly felt a chill rise from her marrow.
"The heaven and the earth have been running for a long time, why do fellow Taoists suspect that the fault lies at the root?" She stared at Xi Chen'an with burning eyes.
"Because in the shocking changes in the world just now, I have noticed another change in the lack of Tao from the bottomless pit." Xi Chen'an said.
The gaps in the jigsaw puzzle correspond to more than one board. The more pieces that cannot be joined together, the greater the possibility of mistakes ahead.
But this did not convince Nvxu.Her mind has recovered from the previous shock.
"Fellow Taoist has practiced for a long time, don't you have confidence in your own way?"
Their Tao did not come from listening to others, they have personally experienced every step of practice, and every change in their Tao mind is clearly understood.Today, why are you so suspicious when you have come step by step in a down-to-earth manner?
Xi Chen'an's smile turned into that kind of cold ridicule again: "Are you unwilling to believe it, or are you afraid to believe it?"
Fish in the sea think they understand the changes of water best, but they never know that water will rise into the sky and become clouds.
You and I are not holy, how can you be sure that you must be right?
Even the way of heaven and earth is lacking, An Neng is confident that he has no mistakes?
It is this mistake that may overturn everything he has cultivated before, so why is it impossible?
Scholars firmly believe that people are divided into three, six, and nine classes, and that the life and death of servants and maidservants is up to the master. This is the etiquette and the correct way, but they don't know that they will also become servants and maidservants in the cycle of reincarnation.Ordinary people are used to slaughtering livestock, and the monsters who occupy a city in Liang Guozhong and raise human animals also think so.
The way he practiced is also the result of thinking about what he has seen and heard based on his own experience.
Why can't he be wrong?
Isn't it a kind of arrogance to be firm?Isn't it a kind of humility to be uncertain?
"I know that I am not a sage, and there must be mistakes in what I do and what I think." Nuxu looked at him calmly, "But the way needs to be done by oneself."
It's not wrong to not move, it's not bad, how is it different from a stubborn stone?
Tao is coming out.
"It's not the same way, you can do what you want." She already understood why Xi Chen'an said these words.
As he said, he would cooperate with the Ferryman of Huangquan to test the lack of Tao and see if there is another correct Tao in this world.He would abandon the Ferryman in the Yellow Spring and come to cooperate with Nuxu instead to see if the way of the world is just the last piece of wood that has a problem.
Now that he has thought about it, he doesn't want to stay here to waste any more time.
Xi Chen'an's gaze suddenly shifted to behind her, his expression shocked and inexplicable.
Before Nuxu turned her head, she spread her spiritual consciousness.The nether world is impenetrable, so her spiritual consciousness is naturally restricted to the underworld, and everything is normal according to her spiritual consciousness.
Pretending that something happened behind his back is a mortal trick. The movement behind him can't fool a monk's spiritual sense, and naturally he can't play a sneak attack from behind.Xi Chen'an doesn't know how to play this kind of trick, what did he see?
Nuxu looked back, her pupils shrank suddenly.
She saw a broken skeleton, a sick and disabled wolf, and a feeble old man, they rose up in the boundless darkness that was neither empty nor real, and followed behind the god in black clothes.