Such a melancholy pipa sound evoked all kinds of thoughts in Han Bin. He sighed and walked slowly towards the cave door.
When he came to the door, Han Bin gently pushed open the wooden door. Hearing a soft creaking sound, the wooden door opened, and everything in the cave was in full view. The small hole in front of him was surprisingly small, with a radius of only about three feet, at most.
It can only accommodate a wooden bed and a pair of seats, and there is nowhere to put any more things.
But in such a small cave, there are no two things, only scattered straw.
These straws are scattered on the ground in a haphazard manner, with an area as large as an adult's body. It is not difficult to see that slaves lie on these straws to rest. It can be seen from the color of the straws that they have been there for many years, and some straws have become
They have turned black, and some have even begun to rot, emitting a faint strange smell.
Sitting on the straw was a woman wearing slave uniform. She looked young, only eighteen or nineteen years old, with her hair spread around her waist. If you looked carefully, her face was covered with mud, as if she hadn't been there for a long time.
It looks like she has been groomed. If you remove these mud spots, it is not difficult to see that the woman in front of you is not ugly. Although she cannot compare with Xiao Yuyao and others, she is still somewhat beautiful.
The woman is holding a wooden pipa in her hand. The pipa is five feet long.
A pipa of such length is really rare, but it was being played by an inexperienced woman at this moment, which looked a bit funny.
After Han Bin walked into the cave, the woman put down the pipa. Just as she was about to speak, she saw that Han Bin's gaze was less and less in the cave. In a blink of an eye, she understood the reason. The woman smiled bitterly, stood up quickly, and faced Han Bin.
Bin cupped his fists and said, "Fellow Taoist must have just arrived here! How do you feel when you see the cave where I am?"
Han Bin did not answer her immediately, and his deep eyes could not tell what he was thinking in his heart. After a moment, he let out a long sigh and said slowly: "Hell on earth, the end of the world..." These eight words, it sounds like
It's awkward and difficult to understand, but it truly reflects Han Bin's mood at the moment.
"Hell on earth, ruin at the end of the world..."
The girl murmured both sides, and then said: "I can understand the latter sentence, but what does the former sentence mean?"
Han Bin's eyes flashed, and he quickly scanned the cave, and immediately said: "This place is not a place for people to live at all, let alone monks like us. Before coming here, Han had imagined how the center of the Star Territory was.
It’s so beautiful, but I didn’t expect it to be such a scene.”
The woman smiled lightly and said disapprovingly: "I don't agree."
"Oh, what's that like?" Han Bin looked at the woman in front of him and asked in a solemn voice.
The woman walked up to Han Bin in a few steps, then raised her right hand, pointed at the straw on the ground, and said slowly: "Although this place is simple, at least it has straw to wrap itself, so overall it's not bad." She paused.
After a pause, the conversation changed: "Hell on earth is not like that. There are corpses everywhere and blood is everywhere. It is not a place for monks to live."
Hearing this, Han Bin couldn't help being startled, and immediately clasped his fists and said: "Fellow Taoist's mentality is three points more open-minded than Han's. In such a simple place, fellow Taoist thinks it's good. I admire it! I admire it..." He was saying
I admire you from the bottom of my heart. I have seen too many monks in my life, but it is rare to see a monk who can look away under such circumstances.
When the woman saw Han Bin cupping his fists and saluting, she immediately bent down and returned the salute, and then said: "Actually, I can think of this level because of the situation. The conditions here are really bad. It is possible to leave this world every day. If you don't
If you look at every day calmly and live today as the last day, you can only live in pain forever."
"Since Taoist fellow Taoist can understand my music, he must also be a person of good temperament." The girl glanced at Han Bin and continued, "Actually, although it is difficult here, it is a good place to practice Taoism. The supreme road,
What is the most difficult thing to understand? Of course it is the Tao Heart. However, this is the best place to understand the Tao Heart. No matter what kind of Tao, it can be formally manifested after coming here..."
As he listened, Han Bin suddenly felt that the woman in front of him was unusual. He thought he had a deep understanding of Tao, but compared with the woman in front of him, he was far behind. Suddenly, Han Bin felt that this was an opportunity.
If you can gain a deeper understanding here, you may be able to break through to the realm of the empty space.
Thinking of this, Han Bin clasped his fists again and said: "Please give me some advice, fellow Taoist."
The girl waved her hands and said with a wry smile: "It doesn't matter if you give me advice. Don't think that I really have a lot of insights. These are the experiences summed up by slaves. I just listened too much and felt something after meeting fellow Taoists."
She lifted up her fallen black hair and continued: "Since my fellow Taoist wants to know, I can just talk nonsense!"
"There are many ways to achieve the same goal, but the four most difficult ones are domineering, killing, devouring and destroying." The girl frowned, her brows filled with complex emotions, as if there was some unsolvable knot.
She lingered for a few steps and said slowly: "Let's talk about tyranny first! Those slaves don't regard us as human beings at all. They just say whatever they say, and we have no ability to refute. This is tyranny. Although they have practiced
It’s not overbearing, but we can clearly sense it.”
"Let's talk about the Tao of Killing. This Tao is full of blood and has been cultivated with countless lives. It can also be reflected here. As long as a slave makes a mistake and does not give any chance to refute, he will be killed on the spot. Fellow Taoist, I have never seen a slave.
The scene of being killed can be said to be horrific. First, they were whipped with a whip, and then the skin and flesh were broken, and then the muscles and veins were cut with a long sword. Under such pain, many slaves collapsed because of their spiritual consciousness, and their souls were gone..."
"The way of devouring seems difficult to understand, but in fact it is not. What is devouring? In fact, it is not about devouring something into the body as many monks imagine, but there is another mystery in it. Brothers and sisters can kill each other. In fact, it is not devouring something into the body as many monks imagine.
It is devouring in disguise, by killing the opponent to expand one's own strength..."
"As for the way of destruction, it's even simpler. If a living monk is killed and turned into ashes, doesn't this mean destruction? Destruction is not only reflected in the monks, but also in everything in the world." The girl said.
Here, pick up a very small stone from the ground, apply a little force, and the stone will turn into powder.
The girl waved her long sleeves, and the powder fell from her hands, floated in the air, and finally dissipated.
"This is actually a manifestation of the way of destruction." The girl sighed, "Although the stone has no life, no thinking, and no flesh and blood, it is a real existence and truly appears in our world. And we let it turn into
Ashes, no longer exist, doesn’t that destroy it?”
When the girl said this, she took a deep breath and sighed: "I believe fellow Taoists can understand the rest of the Tao, so I won't go into details here."
After hearing such words, Han Bin couldn't help but frown and felt a little bit.
The girl did not disturb Han Bin and stood quietly aside, not knowing what she was thinking.
I don’t know how long it took, but Han Bin sighed and said, “Thank you so much, fellow Taoist, for your guidance. Han Bin is grateful...”
Hearing this, the girl gave a bitter smile and said: "I just said, these are not the conclusions I came to after enlightenment, but the conclusions drawn by the slaves..."
Han Bin shook his head, interrupted the other party's words, and said: "What the Taoist said is wrong. No matter who summed it up, it was the Taoist who said it in front of me."
The girl smiled slightly and said: "You are really stubborn. Even if I don't tell you today, someone will tell you in the future."
Han Bin did not answer his words, remained silent for a while, and then asked: "From what I just said, Han felt that although we slaves seemed to be doing hard labor and could die at any time, it was an opportunity for enlightenment.
If we can fully understand the Tao in our hearts, can we successfully break through?"
This question reached the key point. The girl looked at Han Bin in surprise and said: "I didn't expect that you could think of something in such a short period of time. After the monk heard these words for the first time, he wrapped me up
, are all thinking about how to understand these Tao,
But few people care about whether they can break through after enlightenment." She was not a fool. From Han Bin's words, she came to the conclusion that if the other party was not arrogant, then he was a thoughtful person and had the confidence to enlighten the Taoist heart.
to a higher level.
Although they have spent a lot of time in contact with each other, the girl can still be sure that the other person is not an arrogant person, otherwise he would not have said such words before. Thinking of this, the girl looked at Han Bin differently, and
He said: "Although my fellow Taoist has a good idea, you have to understand that understanding it may not lead to a breakthrough."
"I have been here for more than a hundred years. Over the years, there have been several slaves who have completely realized the Tao Heart, and through the realization of the Tao Heart, they have understood many Tao, but..." the girl changed the topic and said helplessly.
, "So what if I realize it?"
?All of these people died at the moment when they were about to break through. They either made mistakes and were killed, or died in the cave. The cause of death was very bizarre. On the surface, it looked like they had died of old age, but everyone understood that there was something wrong with it.
There is another mystery..."
Han Bin's eyes flashed and asked: "Isn't there anyone who has successfully broken through?"
"Yes, but they are rare." The girl seemed to know a lot and said slowly, "It is said that one person can appear in a thousand years, and the future of these monks who have broken through to the void period is bright.
Either become a disciple of the leader, or be given a surname and become a disciple of a foreign surname, and you can learn detailed cultivation techniques, as well as powerful forbidden magic powers..."
At this point, the girl sighed, waved her hands and said, "Fellow Taoist, don't think so much. The greater your hope, the greater your disappointment..."
Han Bin frowned, and one thought after another appeared in his mind, as if he had grasped some clues, but they disappeared in an instant. Finally, Han Bin sighed secretly, stopped thinking, raised his fist to the girl, and said
: "Fellow Taoist, since I've been bothering you for so long, it's time for Han to go back. Let's say goodbye..."
Just as Han Bin was about to turn around and leave, the girl appeared in front of him, blocked his way, and said: "I am Liu Yue, I don't know what I call you."
"This is Han Bin." Han Bin was very fond of the girl in front of him and subconsciously said her name.
Liu Yue nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist Han, don't leave yet. There will be a bonfire waiting for you later?"
"Bonfire banquet?" Han Bin frowned. He had no interest in this kind of banquet at all and refused, "No, Han has something to do, so he won't go..."
"That's not okay." Liu Yue seemed to be angry, frowning and said, "You don't have to attend other banquets, but you must go to this time, because you are the only protagonist today..."
Han Bin raised his eyebrows and understood what was going on in the blink of an eye. "In that case, it's better to obey orders than to be respectful." He said this, but he became curious in his heart. Why did the other party hold a bonfire feast? Since he is the protagonist.
, it must be held for yourself, isn’t it just to welcome yourself?
Han Bin had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and just as he was sorting out some ideas, Liu Yue suddenly said: "Fellow Daoist Han, let's go! The banquet is probably going to start soon..."