Ye Dong was still immersed in that confused state, unaware of everything that happened to himself and the entire Four Symbol Realm.
Another year passed, and the spiritual energy rain finally completely enveloped the entire Four Symbol Realm, and the Tao Realm was as big as the sky and boundless.
If someone could stand outside the Four Symbols Realm and look at it at this moment, they would find that there seemed to be two worlds within the Four Symbols Realm.
One is the Taoist world belonging to Ye Dong, who is high up in the world and has a majestic mansion;
One is hidden below. Although it is devastated, there is a real Four Symbol Realm that is full of vitality!
Ye Dong has been in retreat for a total of three years.
One year he opened up his own Tao realm, one year he used his own emotions as a guide to stir up the Tao, gathering the auras of all realms, and another year he rained down nectar.
In three years, the Four Symbol Realm, which was almost on the verge of complete death, was finally rejuvenated.
Ye Dong himself still doesn't know all this. He has been persistently pursuing the answer to a question - what is love!
Because of his persistence, because of his guidance, and because of the spiritual energy from all realms that he gathered, gradually, all the lives in the entire Four Symbol Realm were like him, and this question came to his mind - what is emotion? !
In an instant, Ye Dong's soul suddenly floated out of the void and appeared in the Four Symbol Realm.
"Ask what love is in the world, and it will tell you whether life and death are together!"
A middle-aged Confucian scholar stood in front of a tomb, staring at the tomb in front of him with moist eyes full of affection.
Three years ago, his lover unfortunately died in that catastrophe. Now three years later, his longing for his lover has not diminished, but has become deeper and deeper. He even moved to the side of this cenotaph, and it seems that he is still with her. Love is always with you.
Ye Dong's soul stood far away, looking at the Confucian scholar, thinking of Mo Linglong, Liu Xiang'er, Yu Qianshuang, Li Muxue...
"Enforce the law without asking for mercy, behead!"
A military general with a dignified appearance threw out the command talisman in his hand without hesitation towards a young man kneeling below. No one knew that at this moment, there was a heart-like feeling in the heart of this military general. It hurts because this young man is his biological son.
During the catastrophe, he had lost his wife and was dependent on his son. Unexpectedly, his son would do something illegal and disciplinary. As a parent and official, he really could not bend the law for personal gain. Therefore, even if his son committed an unforgivable crime, If he makes a mistake, he will kill him too!
This scene reminded Ye Dong of his parents, his grandfather, and his relatives...
"We are brothers after landing, why should we be close by flesh and blood! Brother, let's have another drink with my eldest brother!"
A strong man was sitting in front of a stone table. There were two wine glasses on the table, both of which were filled with fine wine, but opposite him, there was no one.
Although the big man was smiling, tears were rolling down his face. He remembered the catastrophe three years ago. He should have been the one who died, but at the critical moment, one of his close friends, a scholar, risked his life. He pushed himself away and became the food in the monster's mouth instead of himself.
This sentence is what the scholar friend often talks about. Originally, he laughed at the scholar for not knowing what brotherhood is, but now, he finally understands that what he really doesn't understand is himself.
"Chaoyang, Red Wolf, Prajna, are you all okay now?" Ye Dong turned around quietly, chanting the names of his friends and brothers one by one, with a hint of enlightenment and a hint of loneliness in his expression.
"Quack!"
A crow's cry came from a dead tree.
A simple bird's nest was built on the branch of a tree. Next to the nest, stood a young crow with a worm found far away in its beak, slowly feeding an old crow in the nest. A crow that can barely move.
"What!"
On a deserted grassland, a newborn lamb knelt on the ground and sucked its mother's breast, as if to express its gratitude to her mother.
The sheep have the kindness of kneeling down to breastfeed, and the crow has the kindness of feeding back!
In this way, Ye Dong seemed to have incarnated thousands of people, constantly witnessing one life after another in the Four Symbol Realm, all using their own ways to express the feelings they insisted on and pursued in their hearts.
"Love, family, and friendship are all about emotion. Joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire are all emotions. I know them all and understand them all. But why is there something missing in my way of love after all?"
Ye Dong came to the sea where he had condensed his incarnation. Although the sea was no longer as vast as before, it was still turbulent. Huge waves one after another kept hitting the rocks on the shore, as if they were endless. Generally speaking, there is no beginning or end. As long as the sea is not dry and the rocks are not rotten, this kind of impact will never stop.
Looking at the sea and the stone, Ye Dong seemed to capture something in his heart.
Shaking his head, the next moment, Ye Dong came to Tianduan Forest, the area where he once lived with Liu Xiang'er's grandson for more than a month.
The original formation and the simple house have disappeared and turned into dust, with mountains of rotting leaves piled on the ground.
Most of the surrounding trees have died, with only a few trees, because in the past two years, under the nourishment of the spiritual energy rain, they have regained their vitality and grown some new leaves, bringing life to this lifeless forest. A touch of bright color.
A breeze blew by, and on a branch, a withered yellow leaf trembled slightly and swayed in the wind, but it was never blown down by the wind. It seemed that it was reluctant to let go of this branch. Willing to leave.
At this moment, Ye Dong's eyes suddenly flashed with light.
"The impact of the sea on the rocks, the attachment of the leaves on the branches, these are also love!" Ye Dong murmured to himself: "Love comes from the heart, and everything in the world is in love!"
"All things have feelings because of the way of love!"
These eight short words were like eight thunderbolts, striking Ye Dong's soul one after another, making the confusion he was immersed in appear as clear as the beginning of the world!
"Between heaven and earth, whether it is living things, the family, friendship, love between people or animals, or those inanimate things, the love of the sea for the rocks, the love of fallen leaves for the branches, or even the worlds one by one, The gratitude and attachment to the lives conceived in their bodies, as well as these lives’ in turn towards them, can actually be included in love!”
"Tao generates all things, and all things have feelings. This is the way of love!"
[Author's digression]: There are still two chapters to go. Will update later.