Chapter 9 The Theory of Innocence
The next morning, Wu Jie and others came downstairs of the inn again and found that the originally simple hall had become magnificent. The waiter Li Xiaoyao also changed into a green robe. Before the sword on his waist was unsheathed, the cold air was everywhere, which made it difficult for people to get close.
He no longer smiled like he had been the same as before. He looked very serious with a stern face, and there was a kind of invisible majesty. People with slightly worse strength didn't even dare to look at his face.
After everyone arrived and sat down, Li Xiaoyao raised his hand and white lights fell in front of everyone, turning into books hanging in the air. All books were exactly the same, with five big words printed on the cover - The Theory of the Supreme Nature.
"The theory of naivety is the method of cultivating immortals created by the Taishang Taoist ancestor in the past. Unlike the general method of cultivating immortals, it focuses on spiritual cultivation, teaches people how to examine their own minds, erase the selfish thoughts that hinder their true nature, and restore the mind to a natural and sincere state." Li Xiaoyao said solemnly, "Maybe you will feel that it cannot bring you any benefits, but for immortals, cultivating the mind is the most basic skill."
"I will give you ten days. What has not made any progress on April 25th is that you really lack understanding and are not suitable for cultivating immortals. I will send them away, wash away their memories during this period, and give them a token that will be left for their descendants."
After saying that, he walked out the door. His steps were obviously not big, but he walked to the door in just one step, and then walked without a trace in two or three steps, leaving only more than twenty immortal seekers holding books looking at each other speechlessly.
These people are naturally outstanding in passing the first round of selection. In just a moment, someone has opened the book and studied it carefully.
It’s a lot to say in ten days, but it’s not much to count. Since this theory of heaven is a wonderful method of immortals, it must be very difficult and profound. Is it enough that I didn’t hear that the immortals only asked for “progress”? Hurry up and study hard!
Wu Jie thought so, but when he opened the book, he was shocked.
The content in this book is not only not profound at all, but is rather very simple.
"Everyone always has many ideas: want a lot of things, want others to pay attention to themselves, want to live better than others, want to enjoy, want to be free, want to be remembered forever, want to be healthy and long-lasting, want to be immortal."
“These thoughts are everywhere and everywhere, I call them desire.”
"Having desire is not a bad thing. Desire is the source of power for all actions. It is precisely because we want to get it that we work hard, make continuous progress, and even eventually transcend the world and become immortal spirits."
"But here, I have a problem."
"What is your most important desire?"
"This question is difficult to answer, and few people can really answer it in one go. Perhaps the more you think about it, the more you become, the more confused you will find that you have too many desires and you don't know what you want."
"And how to help you find out the most important desire is the reason why I founded the 'natural theory'..."
In the following chapter, the book lists many problems, which allow people to examine their hearts according to these problems, compare and filter their own desires, eliminate those that are not important ones, leaving only important ones; then compare important desires with each other, consider which ones can be given up and which ones must be persisted in, and finally find their most important desires.
These words are simple and straightforward, and there is no deep feeling of the secret method of the immortal family, which makes Wu Jie feel a ridiculous and unrealistic.
He frowned and closed the book and looked around, and saw that almost all the seekers were studying hard. Only Luo Yu sat in the corner and closed his eyes to rest. The book in front of him was written together. I wonder if it was finished reading earlier than him? Or he didn't read it at all.
Wu Jie was not actually a long-winded person, but at this moment he was really confused and didn't speak up. Seeing that Luo Yu seemed to be confident, he couldn't help but walk over.
"Excuse me--"
Before Wu Jie could explain his purpose, Luo Yu had already opened his eyes and looked at him in surprise. He asked before him, "Have you finished reading?"
Wu Jie nodded.
"Did you understand?"
Wu Jie nodded again.
"Do you really understand what it is saying?" Luo Yu's voice couldn't help but become louder, and his face was filled with surprise.
Wu Jie nodded in confusion.
“…Explain it to me!”
Wu Jie nodded again and wanted to explain, but found that he could not say anything when he opened his mouth. He was clearly clear about the meaning of the book and was sure to explain it in a few words, but he could not speak, and he could not even make the correct lip shape, as if his mouth suddenly lost its function.
Seeing him opening his mouth like a fish left from water, but he couldn't even say a word, Luo Yu was not amused by this funny look, but was more and more shocked, almost reaching the point of losing his beauty.
"You actually understand..."
Her voice was as dry as if she hadn't drunk water for a few days, full of frustration: "The way cannot be spoken, and those who can speak are not the right way; those who can be truly cannot be named, and those who can be named are not naive... It took me almost ten years to barely understand the theory of naivety, and you can understand it in a while... Don't waste your energy, read my book."
As she said that, she opened her naive theory. Wu Jie looked at it curiously, but only saw a blank space, not a single word.
He was surprised and quickly opened his book, and he still saw the familiar words.
Strange! Why is it just blank to read other people's books, and it just plain simplified Chinese characters when reading your own books?
A lightning flashed suddenly in his heart, and he was frozen in place, unable to move.
Simplified Chinese characters?!
How can there be simplified Chinese characters in this world? How can there be books written in simplified Chinese characters?!
Without caring about being rude, he hurriedly wrote the word "天" on Luo Yu's table with his hand as a pen, and asked: "Do you know this word?"
Luo Yu looked at it, thought for a while, and shook his head.
Wu Jie widened his eyes, looked at her, the books he had on hand, and then her books.
On the covers of the two books, there are five clear simplified Chinese characters: The Theory of the Supreme Nature.
Perhaps because his expression was a little scary at the moment, Luo Yu was also scared to shrink slightly, but she quickly came back to her senses and explained to Wu Jie: "There is actually no word in this book. It is the writer who writes his understanding of the 'natural theory' and reveals different words based on the understanding of each reader - immortal scriptures, which is mostly the case."
"Speech cannot convey the mind correctly, so this method is needed to teach. You see that there are words in your book and there are no words in my book. That is because every book is aimed at us personally, with spell protection, and only those who have approved are allowed to read. Unless you have the ability to break the spells in my book, you will only see the blank."
Wu Jiemuran nodded. He had been shocked too much and could not speak for a moment.
"I don't know how amazing your understanding or what magical encounters you have, but since you have only realized the "Nativism Theory" in such a short time, then it's almost certain to get started." Luo Yu quickly calmed down and smiled dignified and elegantly, "Introduce yourself in advance. I am Luo Yu, from Yunmeng County, the southernmost part of the world, probably... I will become your senior sister."
Wu Jie was not surprised by this. Judging from Luo Yu's words and performance, she was clearly a person in the path of immortality. Coming here to seek immortality is probably the nature of an international student. If you have any doubts, he just wondered why the other party studied with them, and did not get started directly.
So he asked this question.
"My origin...you will know naturally when you have the chance in the future. I admit that I am indeed a person in the immortal world, but what I have learned before is not suitable for me. It took a lot of effort to get the opportunity to come to Qingyang Temple to study this time." Luo Yu sighed lightly, looking a little depressed, "But the rules should not be abandoned. If you want to get started, you must follow the rules."
"Qingyang Temple is very famous?"
"Qingyang Temple is one of the few sects in the world that have the true teachings of the Great Dao that can directly reach the ascension. Its origins have been as long as the legendary ancient times. It has been passed down for twenty-six generations... The immortal family has a shorter age, a hundred years, a thousand years, and a twenty-six generations... I don't know how many dynasties have changed in the mortal world, and even the sea has become a mulberry field..."
She quickly calmed down and returned to her usual dignified demeanor: "It's better not to mention these boring things, but in short, if you have anything you don't understand, you can ask me. Although I can't give you some common sense things, I can still explain some common sense things."
Speaking of this, she smiled sweetly: "I have been talking for a long time, but I haven't asked this junior brother's name for his honor..."
"Wu Jie, a native of Zhaoyang County, Southern Chu State."
After saying this, Luo Yu was stunned and asked quickly: "Which Wu Jie? Could it be that the Marquis of Ji Shi of the Southern Chu State who promoted the epidemic prevention method, and Wu Jie, who edited the "On Bacteria"?"
“That’s right.”
"Are you so young?!" Luo Yu stood up in surprise, "I have read your book and found that my ideas are really unexpected, but the argument is tangible and impeccable... Do you know that this book has come out, and many immortal masters beat their chests and stamped their feet, and some even vomited blood in a sad way!"
"Why?" Wu Jie was also puzzled. It was not a great truth to just a book called "Bacteria Theory". As for making those immortals so sad?
"In the past, the Buddha said that there were 84,000 insects in a bowl of water. This has long been confirmed by the predecessors of the Immortal Sect. There are indeed so many subtle insects in the water, and they even drew out the shapes of many insects. But all the research has ended here. Whether there are insects in the water without insects, it is just a natural nature that produces and grows through the world. There is nothing to care about, and it is not worth delaying the pursuit of the Great Way of Longevity for it... Before your "Bacteria Theory" was published, everyone thought so."
"But you used a mere mortal body to infer these bugs and then prove their relationship with disease... Do you know how many lives this book will save and how much merit will be accumulated in the world?"
"I think I probably understand what you mean..."
"Yes! Those seniors had already discovered 'bacteria', but because they had not studied what they did, they missed this important discovery and leaked the great merits from the cracks of their fingers. It would be fine if it was an evil faction. The cultivation and growth of people in the right path, and even the final tribulation ascension, are extremely important. I don't know how many seniors did not dare to overcome tribulation and could not ascend in the end, and could only reincarnate and start over..."
Luo Yu sighed deeply, and his eyes looking at Wu Jie in addition to admiration, he had a little more enviousness and closeness.
"I said before that I might become your senior sister. This is really arrogant! With your achievements, no matter whether you can get started or not, I should respectfully call you Brother Dao!"
She stood up and bowed respectfully: "Luo Yu pays homage to Brother Dao. If you are destined to be in the future, please give me some advice!"
Chapter completed!