Viewing the Tao Ten

Author: Longqian Harbor

Knowing that you can easily control people's hearts with just a raise of your hands, I suddenly wondered if I would appear in a hallucination.

In other words, I was controlled by knowing.

The Five Elements Imp is specifically in charge of the Five Elements of the Underworld and is under the command of Lord Yama, but why is he obeying the instructions of Ming Ran now? What is the origin of Ming Ran?

All kinds of questions keep popping up in my mind, and I don’t know what’s going on!

"Throw yourself to death and live again."

Just when I was confused, the voice in my body sounded again.

“Throw it to death and then live, put it to death and then live, put it to death and then live.”

I recited it silently three times in my mind, and at that moment, all the Five Elemental Imps rushed towards me.

A flash of inspiration flashed through my mind, and I simply sat cross-legged on the ground and recited the Tao Te Ching silently in my mind.

The Five Elements Imp was getting closer and closer to me, but I sat on the ground and didn't move.

When I opened my eyes again, a familiar face appeared in front of me.

"Qingde, are you not dead?"

I pinched his face excitedly and looked at Qingde grinning in pain, not to mention how happy I was.

"What? Are you cursing me to death?" Qingde said with a serious face.

"No." I quickly shook my head and said, "How could I curse you? It's good to be alive."

It turns out that everything that just happened is not true, wait! No, why are the bodies of the boss and his daughter-in-law lying there? But unlike before, they have not mutated.

I asked tentatively: "Qingde, what happened just now?"

"You...have forgotten?" Qingde's eyes widened with an incredible expression on his face. "Just now they were trying to pull you to jump from here."

Qingde pointed at the cliff in front of me, and then I realized that I was standing on the edge of the cliff.

"Had Taoist Aunt Qingran not stopped them in time, the consequences would have been disastrous. The two of them have been controlled and are not human beings at all." Qingde pulled me aside as he spoke.

I looked back at Ran and saw her smiling at me!

"What's going on? What's wrong with me? Is everything that just happened really an illusion?"

Knowingly walked towards me slowly and said, "Girl, I think you must have been hallucinating just now."

"Hallucination?"

Now my mind is completely blank and my head is dizzy. I can no longer tell which part is hallucination and which part is reality.

"When you got close to them, did you smell a faint fragrance?"

After hearing this, I did smell a refreshing fragrance.

Just as we were talking, the boss and his wife suddenly stood up from the ground, their bodies straight.

Since I had my back to them, I couldn't see what was going on behind them, and I didn't know they were rushing towards me.

"careful."

Qingde shouted and knocked me aside. He himself was seriously injured by the eldest daughter-in-law. When the second daughter-in-law came up, she punched him through the chest.

Looking at Qingde, who was risking his own life to save me, his body was slowly falling down.

"Qingde..."

I cried and crawled towards him desperately.

Qingde's mouth was bleeding, and he looked at me affectionately and said, "Ai'er, I can't survive anymore, you have to take care of yourself!"

When Ming Ran saw this, she was furious. With a wave of her hand, the boss and his wife flew away a few meters away.

I held Qingde who was about to expire, and thought of how he died in the illusion just now. Is he still in the illusion now?

"Qingde, wake up quickly, don't sleep. Wake up quickly!"

I shook Qingde vigorously, but there was no reaction from Qingde.

At the same time, Mingran had already subdued the boss and his daughter-in-law.

The two of them were wailing in pain, and I looked at Ming Ran in confusion.

Ming Ran explained: "The two of them were poisoned by someone, and it was an animal poison. They are having an attack now!"

I thought to myself: Who is so cruel and cruel? These are two living lives!

When a figure in the crowd saw this scene, Yaoyao was helpless and said to herself: "Oh! Finally, I don't have to suffer anymore. It's a pity that the two people's deaths were not miserable enough."

After the man finished speaking, he went down the mountain.

Ming Ran knelt down to check on Qing De, rolled his eyelids, and covered his heart with his hand.

Then he looked at me with a special look. "Do you want to save him?"

I was stunned for a moment when I heard this. After I regained my composure, I nodded vigorously.

"follow me."

I picked up Qingde and followed me into the Qinglian Taoist Temple. Although there were many believers who came to visit, the inside of the temple was simple and unpretentious.

When we came to the front hall, four tall golden statues came into view.

"they are..."

Although I am a member of the Taoist sect, I have never seen the four great heavenly masters of the Taoist sect. It is normal not to know them.

Ling Ran looked me up and down first, and then said: "They are the four masters of Taoism. The one in the middle is Master Zhang Daoling, Master Ge Hongge, Master Sa Shoujian, and Master Xu Jingyang."

Finally, I added another sentence: Didn't you say that you are also a Taoist? How could you not know them?

I scratched my head in embarrassment and said casually: "I followed a poor master and didn't learn much. I have never met the four great masters of our Taoist sect."

I don’t know if the old beggar will be angry if I say this to him.

After saying that, I knelt down in front of the statues of the four heavenly masters and kowtowed four times respectfully to show my high respect for them.

"Do you really want to save him?" Miao Ran changed the topic and asked directly.

"Yes! Of course I want to save him. After all, he died for me." I said what was in my heart without thinking.

Without saying anything, she lit three incense candles, inserted them into the incense burner, and began to recite the incantation softly.

When she turned around again, there was a command flag in her hand. The command flag was composed of five colors, namely black, red, white, blue, and purple.

Seeing these five colors reminds me of the Five Elements Imp in the fantasy world.

"What is this? Why is it so beautiful?"

I wanted to reach out and touch it, but unexpectedly, it just glanced at me and made me shiver all over.

I thought: Let’s forget it! If anything happens again.

Miao Ran said: "This is the Five Ghost Flag, which can mobilize the Five Elements Imps. It is a sacred object given to me by the Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling. No one can touch it casually. I hope you will forgive me."

I smiled awkwardly: "It's okay, it's okay."

I thought to myself: "What's so great? Isn't it just a divine object? I also have the Soul Love Sword?"

"Your soul-loving sword is not worth mentioning in front of Five Ghost Lingqi."

That voice came again, and I was panicking inside, worried that someone would find out and say I was crazy.

"Don't worry, no one can hear me except you."

I was just wondering, but "she" seemed to know what I was thinking and expressed my doubts in advance.

"Who are you? How do you know what I'm thinking about?"

"I am you! Didn't I tell you before?"

"You are me." I repeated the words of the mysterious "her" and asked, "What is your name?"

"Because we are one person, well. You can call me Shadow."

"shadow?"

I accidentally said these two words, and I turned around and asked, "What did you say?"

Only then did I realize that I almost said it, and hurriedly explained: "Nothing, I mean why there are no shadows in this room!"

As soon as I said it, I realized that I had asked a stupid question.

Miao Ran smiled after hearing this. "The roof is covered by the sun, so of course there is no shadow."

After a pause, he continued: "Actually, shadows are inseparable from us. Although we cannot see shadows without the sun, it does not mean that shadows will leave us. If we look carefully, shadows are still with us."

I knelt down curiously, and sure enough, what Ming Ming said was absolutely correct, but without the sunlight, the shadow was not so obvious.

"Really! You are absolutely right."

Miao Ran continued: "People are divided into men and women, which is yin and yang, and nature is divided into black and white, which is yin and yang. Everything in the world has yin and yang. The universe is vast. After all, you can't escape the destiny of heaven. All methods can be successful without departing from their origin.
To be continued...