"Breaked through?"
Patriarch Dongyan looked at Xia Manggan in amazement, who had already reached the center of Wanlian Cave and was only one step away from entering the Lotus Heart Cave. His eyes were full of disbelief.
"You are so young, but you can hone such a Taoist heart," Patriarch Dongyan admired sincerely, "Your Majesty's methods are beyond imagination, beyond imagination!"
Many of his Dongyan clan's elites came to accept the triple illusory formation of Wanlian Cave.
According to usual experience, those who can overcome the first level of "greed" will definitely be able to become immortals in the future.
If you can get through the second level of "anger", you can't say that you will become an immortal, but even if you fail to overcome the tribulation and become a loose immortal, you can often easily live for three to four hundred thousand years.
As for the third level of "madness"...
"In the past few years, 50% of those who have been able to pass three levels in a row have become immortals in the end. And the longer you persist in the third level, the greater the harvest will be." Patriarch Dongyan said softly to himself, "It depends on how you persist. How long."
Having said that, Patriarch Dongyan had a thought and accelerated the flow of time where Xia Mangqian was.
Normally, he would not have done anything like this. But in ten years, the Immortal Fate Conference would be held, and he did not want to waste Xia Mangqian's time, and he was even more afraid of disrupting Emperor Xia's arrangements.
"In the past, the longest I could persist in the third level was seven years. Now I have increased the time flow rate to one day equal to one month, which will take more than eighty days at most, or more than two months." Dongyan Patriarch Weiwei He nodded and closed his eyes.
All he left behind to guard the tribe was a clone of an immortal. Using magic to increase the flow of time out of thin air was a big burden for him and required full concentration.
Inside Wanlian Cave.
After Xia Mangqian's spirit and will broke through the second level of illusory formation, he felt relieved and endless fatigue flooded his heart.
But even though he was mentally exhausted, the feeling of relaxation in his mind of letting go of everything and venting all his past grievances and anger still made him unable to help but smile.
"It's useless to complain, and it's useless to be resentful. Those are emotions only experienced by the weak."
"Whether it is the previous life or this life, all opponents will be my stepping stones, and they will eventually be stepped on by me to reach the top." Xia Mangqian looked at the cave wall that had been revealed in front of him and stepped forward firmly. .
call.
At the moment when his body was about to leave the passage, his eyes suddenly became dark and his ears fell into absolute silence.
"You can't see with your eyes, you can't hear with your ears, you can't even perceive taste, touch, or even the sense of Tao?" Xia Manggan stood where he was, and he could only vaguely detect his heartbeat and the flow of blood in his body.
This feeling is like waking up from a dream in a hazy sleep. But the feeling of loneliness is countless times stronger than when sleeping.
"Does the third level of illusory formation correspond to one of the three defilements of Buddhism, 'Insanity'?" Xia Mangqian sat down cross-legged.
Of course, that was what he imagined sitting cross-legged.
Due to the lack of five senses, he had no way of judging whether his body was following his instructions.
"The three defilements of Buddhism are "greed, anger, and ignorance." I have overcome the first two levels. The last level left is to let me feel the darkness of my mind. Then I can realize my true nature from ignorance, and then get rid of all troubles?" Xia Mang Qian silently recalled the various Buddhist classics he had read in his previous life.
The so-called "madness" is also called ignorance. It refers to the darkness of mind and ignorance. Buddhism believes that "madness" is the basis of all troubles and is one of the fundamental troubles of living beings. Therefore, the purpose of Buddhist practice is to eliminate ignorance and eliminate it. Stupid.
If you can turn away from greed, anger, and delusion and become precepts, concentration, and wisdom, you will be able to perceive the Buddha nature and achieve the status of Arhat.
This is also consistent with the Taoist philosophy of "using tranquility to make people retreat from their desires and eliminate their delusions, and to use one's own emptiness to clear up the delusions of others."
So Xia Mangqian didn't panic. He sat silently, enjoying this rare peace of mind.
That's right.
Just enjoy.
You know, this kind of absolute solitude that strips away the five senses and even isolates the sense of Tao, even a cultivator with a firm Tao heart will find it extremely boring.
Uncomfortable. Ordinary mortals are afraid that they will collapse and go crazy after just one cup of tea.
After all, in absolute silence, even thinking will become very slow, as if the whole world is a void, an emptiness. This is much harder to endure than many tortures and being locked in a small dark room without seeing the light of day.
But Xia Mangqian's heart is too strong.
Especially the setbacks and blows experienced in the previous life. The pain of going from the high position of the Nine-Five Supreme to being completely destroyed and swallowed up, and even all the memories were extracted and turned into the nourishment of others... After experiencing this After everything happened, Xia Mangqian's inner will was simply terrifyingly strong.
In a sense, many immortals who have lived from the ancient era of gods and demons to today may not have the tenacity of his will.
Time passes day by day.
Although he couldn't feel anything from the outside, and even the memory and thought connection with the second soul was blocked, Xia Mangqian felt extremely comfortable and relaxed.
Including this life, he has been a human being for three lives.
Every life is in a hurry, either for livelihood, survival, or life.
I'm tired and it's time to take a rest.
In this way, you can't practice, you can't realize the Tao, and you can only think about your most fundamental self and reflect on the past... which is good.
Heaven, Lingshan Mountain in the West.
"Wow."
In an ordinary palace, a skinny monk sitting cross-legged suddenly slowly opened his eyelids.
He was extremely old, and his body was covered with dust. His whole body was like a sculpture, dead and without any fluctuations of life.
But when he slowly opened his eyelids with great effort, the vitality in his body seemed to gradually come back to life.
"Nirvana is Bodhi. Because all appearances are eliminated...it is a great good to be able to feel at ease on the Bodhi path." The skinny monk whispered to himself. A pair of clean eyes, like those of a newborn baby, looked outside the palace.
Dongyan Mountains, Qinglian Peak.
"Junior Sister Jiulian, Junior Sister Jiulian."
A young man in black attire shouted down from high in the sky.
"Senior Brother Liuyun?" Jiulian, who was dressed in aqua-blue robes and had long hair hanging behind her, walked into the courtyard.z.br
"Junior Sister Jiulian." A trace of fascination flashed in the eyes of the young man in black attire high in the sky when he saw the beautiful woman with an outstanding temperament like a fairy lotus.
Following him, he flew down directly and landed in the courtyard without waiting for Jiulian's invitation.
"I heard from my subordinates that Junior Sister Jiulian had returned home and invited a fellow disciple to come back as a guest, so I rushed over immediately. I have been away on Yinglongwei missions in the past few years, and recently I followed after returning to the family. My father has been cultivating and has never had time to return to the academy. Since a fellow disciple has come this time, I should also come and meet him."
As he said that, the young man in black attire swept his eyes towards the palace in the mansion, "I wonder which junior brother is here? Where is he now?"
"His name is Xia Mangqian, and he is an official disciple of the Admission Palace three years ago." Jiulian glanced at the young man in black attire, "He is not with me, you don't have to look anymore."
"Then we are at Yingke Peak?" The young man in black attire suddenly felt relieved, and a smile appeared on his face, "I am hosting a banquet at Tianbao Peak in Shangshui City today for Junior Brother Xia Mang. Junior Sister Jiulian, you—— "
"Chen Jin." Jiulian suddenly interrupted him.
"Huh?" The young man in black attire paused.
Chen Jin is his real name, but because they are both disciples of the Black and White Academy, Jiulian usually calls him "Senior Brother Liuyun".
But now calling him by his real name... Thinking of the information he had found out, the young man in black attire suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart.
"Chen Jin, you know. In these years in the Black and White Academy, no one knows my true identity except you and Qingqing. Now I can bring Xia Mang back to the tribe as a guest..." Jiulian sighed softly ,"Don't you understand yet?"
"What do you want me to understand, Xiaoyun?" There was pain in Chen Jin's eyes, "Is it true that you have chosen a Taoist companion as they said? Is it the junior brother named Xia Mangqian? Just because he is from the royal family?"
"Not just because of his identity." Jiulian shook her head and looked at Chen Jin, "He was the one who asked me to move
A man with a heart, I like him. I like the feeling of staying with him. Even if he is practicing cultivation, even if he only has a few moments to say a word or two to me, but for me, that is It’s already happiness.”
After saying these words, Jiulian felt that the problems that had troubled her for several days were relieved, and her heart completely calmed down.
"Just saying a few words to you can make you feel happy?"
Chen Jin couldn't believe it, "Xiaoyun, we grew up together. Didn't you also like to be with me when you were a child? And for you, I even left Shangshui County and went to Anchan City with you to worship Black and White. Academy... You know, my leaving Shangshui County will have a great impact on my status in the tribe. If I become a Taoist companion with you, I will lose the qualification to compete for Shangshui Marquis... But For you, I have no hesitation—"
"I have sacrificed so much, and I have never had a second thought about you all these years. Now what I get in exchange is you, you," Chen Jin growled in pain, "Is that what I want you to do to me?!"
"Chen Jin, you should understand that I have never promised you in so many years." Jiulian sighed, "I treat you as my best friend, even like Qingqing is my sister. You are in my eyes He is like an older brother."
"Brother? Do you regard me as your brother?" Chen Jin's painful eyes gradually flashed with a cold light.
After so many years of pursuit, he even gave up the qualification to become the next Lord of Shangshui, only to get back the words "brother"... This caused all Chen Jin's love for Jiulian to quickly turn into hatred.
"Dong Yanyun, do you think I will believe the bullshit happiness you said? With our status, would we simply like someone and be happy just by staying with someone?" Chen Jin shouted coldly, "If he is not With royal status, if he hadn't defeated the sloppy senior brother in the Lundao Hall as soon as he entered the academy, would you have approached him on your own initiative? You would have even put down your body and chased him to the Red Dragon Mountains?"
Jiulian was startled, "You know everything?"
"What do you think I have been doing these past few days?" Chen Jinhan said in a cold voice, "Since I received the news that you brought a man back, I went to check everything. I even made a special trip back to the Black and White Academy."
"If that's the case, why do you come here to ask me?" Jiulian's voice also turned cold.
"If I don't ask you face to face, how can I see clearly that you are such a woman." Chen Jin took a deep breath and said, "Dong Yanyun, from now on, I will not pester you again, nor will I have anything to do with you again. Any relationship. Next, I will do everything I can to fight for the next "Shangshui Hou". One day, I will let you understand that your choice of following the trend today will be the biggest mistake of your life!"
After saying that, Chen Jin glanced at Jiulian for the last time, and then turned into a stream of light and flew into the distance.
To be continued...