Chapter 13 Immortals are Hard to Find Between Good and Evil
From then on, in order to keep his mind clear, Bai Wei would silently recite the Tao Te Ching in his mind every morning, which was passed down from generation to generation.
The small living room in my childhood was filled with bookshelf of books, all of which were collected by his father. From the origin of history, to religion, Buddhism, and even alien rumors, he loved these strange things.
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The Tao Te Ching was also an enlightenment book that my father taught him to recite. There was also the long thousand-character text that had been bothering with these obscure and difficult ancient books since he was a child.
Now when I recall it, these ancient books have become his only spiritual comfort.
In the Tao Te Scripture, apart from the mysterious Taoist Scripture at the beginning, the rest of the articles talk about the ultimate principles of the universe, that is, the laws of all things in the universe, and also talk about the practice of the various states of the world.
Now that I read it carefully, the saint's ultimate truth makes people feel pure.
Bai Wei didn't think that reading the Tao Te Ching could open the spiritual cave, turn beasts into monsters, and all living things have their own actions. A ants and Taoist saints like Laozi are just humans in terms of organisms.
The difference between the word "worm".
A saint has a way, and an ants have a way. The way is different, and each way is unique.
Bai Wei lived his long years in the tree hole, and the days were inadvertently paddling away day by day, from spring to midsummer, and the hot summer gradually faded away little by little.
At the end of summer, Bai Wei experienced the fourth molting, growing two meters long, and the thickest snake head was already as wide as the adult's four fingers.
Before he knew it, he became the resident overlord in this pool, commonly known as the local snake.
Because there is a dark river deep in the pool water, there are more unknown terrifying aquatic creatures in the surging river leading to unknown places.
By chance, some strange creatures came to the pool and found that there was too little food and they would leave.
Bai Wei's two-meter-long body is already very long for a water snake. After all, it is not the gene of a python. Snakes and pythons are still different.
His venom is becoming more and more poisonous now. Bai Wei tried to bite a gray rabbit. The frightened rabbit ran away and fell down after running less than ten meters away.
He was poisoned to death!
Bai Wei also tasted the rabbit for the first time, which was very delicious, not the same as the fatty fish.
The fatty fish tastes delicious and smooth when you get into your stomach.
When a fat rabbit enters the stomach, it has a tender, fragrant and soft taste.
Even for human perception, swallowing raw flesh and blood is terrible and difficult to swallow.
But for the perception of the taste of snakes, this is delicious!
Now that I have fallen into the water, no matter what kind of creature it is in the pond, he has to give way to him. Those who don’t give way will run into his stomach.
It feels like there is no tiger in the mountains and a monkey is called the king.
But Bai Wei was not easily satisfied. He read and recited the Tao Te Ching for three months, and also baptized his heart and nurtured his snake wisdom. Buddhism says that the six senses are pure and quiet, and the wisdom is deep.
In Bai Wei's view, wisdom roots are not only innate, and acquired wisdom roots are not lacking.
On a summer morning, Bai Wei swam across the pool and climbed up the northwest corner to enter the sky, the narrow and long canyon.
The sun was no longer visible at the bottom of the canyon, and it was dim, but there was an open-air light of more than one meter wide at the top of the two peaks in the sky.
Bai Wei is going out of the valley today to see the outside world.
He was always closed in the valley, and he knew nothing about the outside world, which was not in line with Bai Wei's personality.
Moreover, he was thinking about going to trouble the goshawk one day.
Bai Xi crawled through the dark canyon. Many birds in the canyon felt uneasy and waved their wings to fly over the canyon. Many birds even panicked and fled around.
This canyon is more than a hundred meters long, the narrowest part is less than one meter wide, and the widest part is only two meters.
Bai Xi crossed the canyon and saw the scenery outside the valley.
I saw a river and lake near me glowing with golden sunlight, and the water plants were lush with water birds flying across rivers and lakes, or sinking into the lake to peck fish and eat shrimps. A dense forest is endless, connecting the vibrant green with the distant horizon.
In one color, countless white clouds float in the sky in the blue sky, birds and goshawks soar under the sea of clouds, monkeys climb trees and jump in the forest, wolves roaring, tigers roaring, beasts roaring, and dazzling vitality species.
Full of countless dangers.
Bai Wei stood up, turned around, and observed his body. The crystal white covered with thick mud seemed to be integrated with the black land on the ground. Even birds in the sky could not be observed.
He felt relieved, twisted his body and entered the dense forest in an S-shaped shape.
As soon as Fang entered the forest, Bai Wei discovered his own kind, even many.
There are green snakes hiding among the branches and leaves of trees, gray-brown snakes lying under the fallen leaves, and even a large king cobra with a large spectacle!
Fortunately, the king cobra was only more than one meter long. After looking at Bai Wei for a while, he retreated.
Bai Wei discovered that the battle in the forest was much crueler than his small valley. Fighting was everywhere, and the hidden murderous intent was not careful.
He was almost ambushed by a wild wolf. Fortunately, Bai Wei's body was more than two meters long and was somewhat intimidating. He scared away the wild wolf after he showed his terrifying poisonous fangs.
The wolves have extremely high wisdom. They know that this is a poisonous snake. Once they are poisoned and injured, they will have only one way to die in the forest. So they weigh the pros and cons and give up.
In the forest, you can go hungry, but you must not be injured!
Bai Wei climbed up a tall shiny tree and looked into the distance. He had excellent vision and saw countless mountains in the south, while the mountains in the north seemed to be without forests.
Even, he found smoke curling in the north of the forest, which was human smoke! Because wild beasts could not make fire, and many wild beasts were very afraid of fire.
Bai Wei didn't have the idea of going out to see humans. Is a snake going to see humans? Is it going to give them snake soup?
He looked at the tall mountain to the east, where giant birds were lingering, and Bai Wei even saw the figure of the goshawk.
But the goshawk did not see the white slash. After all, the goshawk was high above, and no matter how sharp its eyes were, it would not be possible to pay attention to multiple preys at the same time. When it locked its target, its focus would be on the prey, resulting in no matter how much the prey was hidden and disguised.
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Bai Wei climbed down the tall trees and wandered around for most of the day. It was time to go back.
This forest is too dangerous, including tigers, leopards, jackals, and even snakes, many natural enemies such as honey badgers.
Bai Wei had already found four or five of them in this forest, but fortunately he had strong eyesight and avoided them early.
Survival here is too dangerous, and he has no place to live and no water source, so he can easily die in such a forest.
Before he is not strong enough, Bai Wei will no longer leave the valley easily. He is a genus of water snake, and can grow up to four or five meters long, or even a limit of six or seven meters long.
He is not a python, and his length is usually the limit. But a snake that is six or seven meters long is enough to make people feel cold when thinking about it, and it is almost difficult to encounter opponents in the forest.
Bai Wei carefully avoided the traps of some predators and prepared to return the same way.
But the snake letter he spit out suddenly felt a different smell, which was a smell that he had never felt before.
Bai Wei twisted his body and buried it in the grass and slowly swam. From a distance, he saw a grass as if it was blown by the breeze. In fact, there was a cold-blooded poisonous snake hidden under the grass.
In front of the grass, a middle-aged man in coarse cloth was lying on the ground with pain on his face, pinching his right hand with his left hand, and hunting tools such as hatches, bows and arrows were placed beside him.
This is a poisoned hunter.
Black had appeared on his face, and it was obvious that the poison had been deeply affected. Bai Wei saw two small holes in his right hand, which were traces of a poisonous snake biting.
If there were no one to treat him, the hunter would probably not be able to get out of this forest. Even if the poison is not very serious, it would have lost most of his life for the hunter without medicine.
Bai Wei was a little curious. This was already a dangerous jungle with deep mountains and old forests, and humans almost extinct. Why did he come here alone? Could it be that this hunter was for something extremely cherished?
In the mountains and forests, there are only spiritual flowers and strange grasses that are rare in the mountains and forests.
Bai Wei's mind moved, and he looked at a sachet on the hunter's waist, which contained something. Even if the hunter was poisoned, he still subconsciously protected it.
So Bai Wei waited patiently, waiting for the hunter to die or be poisoned to the point where his heart and lungs could not move, and then went forward to find out.
Bai Wei has always been an extremely patient hunter.
Seeing that the black purple on his right arm spread more and more, the left hand holding a knife in his face, with a clang, his hand lifted the knife and cut off half of his right arm. The hunter roared in pain like a beast, screaming in pain.
Not only that, he also suppressed his voice and was afraid of attracting some terrible beasts.
The hunter's blood blew out, and the smell of blood spread in the air. He hurriedly wrapped his right arm with an unknown beast tendon and tore off the coarse cloth clothes to bandage the broken arm.
The middle-aged man's face was covered in ferocious face, and tears were shedding from the pain. The blood in his right arm gradually soaked in the coarse cloth strip. He took the machete and gave up the load like a big bow, and stopped looking at his half-right hand on the ground.
Bai Wei was also surprised when he saw it. What a cruel person! He could even use such a desperate move on himself.
The hunter struggled to get up and left here. He was experienced and knew that the smell of blood would soon attract beasts.
Bai Wei followed him silently, splitting the weeds everywhere, like a hunter chasing his prey.
The sky gradually became darker, and fortunately, there was no need to worry about being stiff at night in midsummer. Bai Wei followed the hunter all the way to an outside of a small cave.
The hunter picked up some dry firewood, took out the fire from his arms and lit it, then took some unknown medicine powder and applied it to his broken arm. He pulled many grasses from the weeds outside the cave and roasted them with fire.
After that, it will be swallowed into the belly, and even some grass leaves will be swallowed directly without washing or grilling.
He is already very hungry, thirsty, tired and sleepy.
He could only rely on these non-toxic grasses to fill his stomach and rush in the dark forest. For the hunter with broken arms, he would only be torn and eaten by the wolves.
He thought he had avoided jackals, tigers and leopards, but he did not avoid wild snakes!
After the hunter fell asleep in a drowsy sleep, Bai Wei slowly crawled out of the grass. He quietly climbed up the hunter's body along the hunter's trousers, and then held the sachet on the man's waist. His body was ready to wrap around.
The man's only remaining left arm.
Bai Wei bit hard and did not pull off the sachet. He was shocked and could no longer care about the other people turning around and biting the hunter who had just woken up and injecting venom into the neck of the hunter who had just woken up.
He didn't want to kill people at first, after all, the human race is a clan that is so popular among heaven and earth. Killing people may have this karma for monsters, and it may even damage the fortune of a monster race itself.
But he didn't expect that the hunter was so careful that he could only kill the hunter.
Because once the hunter wakes up, even holding a knife in one hand can seriously injure Bai Wei and even kill him.
So Bai Wei is the best move first!
The hunter felt cold and soft in a daze. He hurriedly woke up, but saw a big snake covered in mud and grey wrapped around his arm and even bit his neck.
He was shocked, his left hand was already entangled by the snake's body. In a panic, he could only bite the snake's neck and bit it hard.
Bai Wei suddenly felt pain, pulled back his body and twisted his body from the hunter's mouth, and turned over and rolled to the ground.
The hunter quickly stood up, picked up the hunting knife and looked at Bai Wei with courage, and sneered: "A beast dares to kill you?"
Bai Wei spitted out the snake's head and spit out the snake letter to guard the hunter, while twisting his body and slowly retreating into the grass.
The hunter didn't dare to come forward and really chop him up. After all, the hunter knew his situation. If he was bitten by a snake again, he would...
He suddenly remembered that when he woke up, the snake bit his neck!
Thinking of this, the hunter felt dizzy in his brain, his eyes were dizzy, and he felt troubled in his breathing, and his whole body was unable to use his strength.
His consciousness gradually became slow, and he seemed to see a white snake looking at him quietly not far away.
Countless thoughts flashed through the hunter's heart, and he murmured unwillingly: "I don't want to die! I don't want to die! I also want to eat this Xuanbone grass and become a martial arts master. I will sell the martial arts secrets I got after I have not yet practiced.
, I want to become a martial arts master, I want all the sluts in the brothel to surrender under me..."
He told all the visions he had hoped for and the future he had dreams of, and fell asleep forever with unwillingness.
Bai Wei was standing next to the hunter and watched him die little by little. This was the first person he killed in two lives!
He sighed in his heart, and he became a snake after all. His heart was really cold. Bai Wei didn't have any panic or touch, just like he was swallowing prey with peace of mind.
Bai Wei waited until the hunter died completely before approaching his body, and opened the sachet that the hunter protected in his hand until he died. The small sachet sewn with a thick thread head, the fragrance in it was just the ordinary smell of mugwort leaves, but it was embroidered.
With the four clever words "Hehuan Ruyi", it can be seen that the woman embroidering this sachet must like him very much.
Bai Wei also recognized some of these traditional characters. It seems that even in ancient times, he did not know a single big character.
When I opened the sachet, there was a small grass inside, with nine leaves blooming without flowers and fruits. The leaves were purple, but the rhizomes seemed to be flesh and blood.
It seems that this grass is quite strange. Bai Wei did not instinctively feel any disgust. It seems that it is not poisonous to him.
Bai Wei swallowed it in one bite, but he would not keep it back in the cave to eat. If there is an accident along the way, it would be more than worth the loss.