Xianlu

Chapter 212 Xianwu has a different way of polishing Taoism
When it rained, the thirst of ten thousand acres of wheat fields was solved in time. The farmers in the nearby villages rushed to invite Xu Dao and his three to visit. Xu Dao and the others were invited to a banquet on the loess mound.

Moreover, some tables, chairs, food materials, and candles are ready-made, and other things can also be sent back directly to get them.

Faced with such a warm invitation from everyone, Xu Dao was not easy to refuse, and he was also very interested, so he accepted with a smile.

After the rain, the sky cleared and the fresh smell of the wheat field, a farm banquet was held in the open air.

The sound of slaughtering pigs and sheep, butchering chickens and cooking dogs, chopping firewood and lighting the fire, and shouting continued.

Among them, Xu Dao was not idle, because the water in the ditch was still turbid, which was not convenient for washing rice and cooking. He also stopped ordinary people from rushing home to fetch water, directly activated the formula, and filled the water for everyone on the spot. Several large jars of clean water.

Such a scene was more intuitive than his begging for rain just now, and it was much more down-to-earth, which immediately attracted the exclamation and praise of the surrounding villagers.

Preparations for a feast of drinking and drinking began at noon and continued until the afternoon, when the sunlight began to dim.

The old man among the peasants has a red face when drinking, and Chen Wan is also interesting. Although he is a Taoist, he is very happy to mingle with ordinary people and hang out with them. There are no less than thirty people who have toasted with him .

Xu Daoduan was sitting on the upper table in the east, and from time to time someone would come to toast him with a cup.

In the end, the children from the nearby villages all ran over, kowtowed to him, and said a few auspicious words.

During this process, he was not impatient, and he never refused to come. He smothered the toast, kowtowed and touched the other person's head, and said a few words of blessing, which made the other party's parents very happy.

Standing beside him, Su Jiu would take out rock candy from her storage bag and put it into the child's palm with a smile.

The crowd was jubilant, and the dim yellow sunset fell on Xu Dao's face, causing him to raise his head and look around with emotion in his eyes.

Touching the scene, Xu Dao felt a vague sense of peace in his heart, as if he had returned to his previous life, and also as if he had returned to the time when his parents were still in this body.

Looking at the old men, women, farmers and women, and ignorant children all around them, all at ease, completely different from the distressed situation when he first came, Xu Dao felt a sense of excitement in his heart, and the restless thoughts that had been entrenched in his chest for a long time All settle down.

Aware of this, Xu Dao fixed his eyes, then simply closed his eyes, silently comprehending his mind.

"It's not an illusion, the restless thoughts in the body really calmed down a lot." He was pleasantly surprised to find out.

After opening his eyes, Xu Dao looked around at the eyes full of enthusiasm, respect, and admiration, and his heart couldn't help but move.

"Is this accumulating good deeds and cultivating one's heart?"

According to the above statement in "Cultivation of the Realm", the way of immortality is not the evil way, and the way of martial arts is not the evil way.

A Taoist, a moralist, needs to help the poor, do good deeds, and cultivate virtue, so that the heart of the Tao can be stabilized, the spiritual platform is clear, the evil thoughts can't be suppressed, and the way can be accessible.

It is full of a sense of preaching, and even puts forward the saying that "only by accumulating three thousand merits and virtues can you prove Taoism and live forever".

When Xu Dao read this point, he was skeptical about the first half, and even more scoffed at the second half.

After all, whether in this life or in the previous life, all he has seen and heard is that strength is not linked to morality. The strong are either shrewd and capable, or scheming, not necessarily good people.

But now by coincidence, Xu Dao himself was haunted by evil thoughts, and he did a rare purely good deed, and suddenly found that it was quite worth pondering.

After thinking for a moment, he sank his mind and directly used his spiritual consciousness to scan his physical body and surrounding environment thoroughly to see if there were any changes.

But after some careful inspection, his physical body has not changed, and his surroundings are still the same, without adding a single bit of aura, let alone the "treasure" from the sky to suppress his evil thoughts.

In this way, Xu Dao realized that the restlessness in his heart was purely related to his own psychological state. Doing good and accumulating virtue can only bring about changes in his heart, and will not trigger a secret to reward good deeds.

Moreover, after doing a good deed today, the impatience in his body just didn't appear, it was still deeply ingrained. Right now, the reason why he can maintain the sobriety of the Lingtai is the pure-hearted talisman that keeps vibrating in his brain.

This is because his demonic thoughts are not self-obsessed, but originate from the animal nature in his blood, which conflicts with his human nature, causing confusion, and eager to devour all blood food, similar to "virtue is not good" coordination".

It can be said that if he is only doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, no matter how good his heart is, he will still develop in inhuman aspects because of the persistent influence of blood.

In the end, Xu Dao's will either obeys the body and becomes an inhuman existence, or the will dies, and the body regenerates another self to rule the body.

After all, according to the experience of previous lives, the will of man is very likely to exist just now for the better operation and survival of the body.

There are many people with split wills in the world, because the original will cannot bear and adapt to the living environment, and then the new split gave birth to a personality.

In order to avoid such a fate, in addition to self-cultivation and self-awareness, it is also necessary to strengthen the soul and self, and not be disturbed by the outside world or even by one's own body.

Putting it on Xu Dao, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue can calm his mind and regain his popularity, while practicing the spell of calming the mind and calming the energy can stabilize his spirit platform and prevent the erosion of magic thoughts.

But thinking about this, Xu Dao was also startled in his heart.

"In this way, the ultimate return of martial arts is the evil way?!"

According to the above considerations, as the physical body of people in martial arts continues to change, without cultivating the soul, their will to control the physical body must and will obey the physical body to meet the various needs of the physical body. Clothes, sleep when you are tired... It is similar to tigers and wolves who want to eat meat, and zombies who want to suck blood.

If the will to control the physical body must go against the needs of the physical body, people in the immortal way can still leave their souls, but people in the martial arts must have a lack of body and mind, and they will only go straight in the direction of destruction.

But when Xu Dao continued to think about this point, he faintly felt that he had fallen into a rut.

Leaving aside the pre-life, at least there is a soul in this world. Whether the soul is a by-product of the body, or the body is just a "clothes" of the soul, or both.

Xu Dao realized in his heart:

"In the eyes of the Immortals, the physical body is nothing more than the object of the human soul, and the long-lasting will is the real long-term existence."

"In martial arts, no matter whether a person in martial arts takes the initiative or not, with the improvement of practice, especially the leap of life level such as refining qi and establishing a foundation, he will definitely take the road of putting the body first and the soul second. .”

With this realization in his mind, he was filled with emotions, and suddenly felt that he had faintly touched the core difference between the immortal way and the martial way.

"Of course... there must be many omissions in such a perception, and it may not even be correct. We have to think about it in the future."

Although he warned himself so much, Xu Dao sorted out what he had cultivated, what he saw and read, and confirmed that the general direction of the truth he had comprehended was correct.

"It's no wonder that among the three paths of immortality, martial arts, and sword immortality, immortality is the easiest to obtain longevity. In addition to the strangeness and many methods of immortality, the "I think, therefore I am" that immortality itself pursues is also more direct to the so-called " Longevity' concept."

"After all, if only the physical body survives forever, then refining one's own body into a zombie is the most convenient way to live forever, but the Taoist's will will perish... But whether it can be counted as longevity depends on the cultivator Judgment by self-will, otherwise man is a thing of heaven and earth, and he will die when he dies, but his body will be turned into dust, and he will not be completely annihilated if he changes his way of existence."

"Perhaps this is also the reason why 'Martial Arts' is called 'Martial Arts', not the physical body."

"There should be an important key in it, which can promote the coexistence of the flesh body and the Taoist's will, or force the flesh body to transform in the direction that the Taoist needs, instead of blindly polishing the flesh body and increasing the blood, resulting in the final will being taken by the flesh body. Affected, dehumanized, or abandoned by the flesh, self-destruction."

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Dao's mind was filled with all kinds of whimsical ideas, which sometimes made him realize that he had understood the truth, and sometimes made him feel like he had fallen into a rut.

During the banquet, seeing Xu Dao pondering for a long time, the others didn't dare to disturb him at first, and even his voice became quieter, but as his brows frowned again and again, except for a drunken Dude, all the others tensed up, showing concern.

In the end, Su Jiu had the courage to stand beside him and tugged at his sleeves, calling softly, "Master, someone is toasting you."

"Huh?" Xu Dao recovered from his contemplation, he raised his eyes, and saw the worry in Su Jiu's eyes, as well as pairs of caring eyes around him.

The 90-year-old old man sat beside him, leaned his head, and said in a low voice:

"Does the Taoist priest have any worries? Although the old man is old and short-sighted, he has lived most of his life and has seen a lot of things. If it is possible, the Taoist priest can ask me to see if the old man can help you."

Hearing this, Xu Dao's brows immediately relaxed.

What he is thinking about is naturally not something that an ordinary old man can point out. If you talk to the other party, I am afraid that the other party will not even be able to understand him, and will only think that he is unpredictable and confused.But this kind of concern has greatly benefited him.

Xu Dao smiled casually, cupped his hands towards the people around him, and said in his mouth:

"Thank you, old man, and everyone for your concern. It's just that Pindao hasn't returned to his hometown for a long time, and he just remembers the scene when he was a child."

Hearing this, a farmer shouted carelessly: "Duo Duo, the Taoist priest, come to us. There is enough food and drink. I will make you never miss home."

Others echoed: "Extremely, Fatty Wang's family is well-off, so the Taoist priest can live in it!"

After saying this, there was loud laughter all around, and there was a lot of excitement.

When the old man at the table heard this, he also grinned and waved his hands again and again, signaling for everyone to restrain themselves and not to rush and disturb Xu Dao.

But Xu Dao himself also laughed out loud. He raised the cup in his hand and shouted to the crowd: "Don't talk about this. Come on, everyone! Drink to win!"

There was a loud voice, and many mortals picked up the pottery bowls and shouted: "Drink!"

In an instant, the wine bowls collided, the tables and chairs trembled, and the bowls and chopsticks knocked.

The loess mound returned to the state of laughter and laughter again. The delicious pasta, cooked pork, chicken and duck were all served on the table, and nearly a hundred people shook their chopsticks, chattering and eating and drinking.

Xu Dao looked at the lively scene in front of him with a calm face. He quietly picked up his wine glass and took a sip of the muddy wine.

In any case, according to today's experience, if you want to calm your mind, sharpen your Dao heart, and not be disturbed by evil thoughts, in addition to practicing a few more spells for calming your mind and calming your mind, you must be strong and free from interference, and you must also contact people from time to time. Recognize yourself.

Among them, doing good and accumulating virtue is the most effective way to be born as a human being and recognize yourself.

After all, human nature is a thing of good and evil, evil is easy to deal with, and it is enough to obey the animal nature, or obey the original desire, but good is hard to come by. Only a clear-headed and strong person can spare the energy to do good deeds.

Being awake and doing good deeds, these two influence each other for Taoists.

Today's comprehension not only made Xu Dao truly aware of the fundamental difference between immortal martial arts, but also allowed him to have a clear mind and insight into the fundamental means of tranquility, which gained a lot.

From now on, as long as he follows the above mentioned, has a strong will, does good deeds and is quiet, he will never have to worry about becoming a demon!
All of a sudden, Xu Dao was full of emotions, and he got such a big harvest from a mere task of praying for rain.

"Cultivating the Tao is also called comprehension. I don't know what the true self is, but I already know how not to lose the true self."

"If you don't distort your true self, you can continue to pursue your true self."

In the dark, he suddenly felt that he could comprehend this method of not distorting the true self, and he was vigilant. This is the real foundation on the road of cultivation, which can make the road ahead bright and not take the path of bias.

The banquet continued.

When the wine was completely drunk, the dusk had passed, and the twilight was deep. Torches were planted around the loess mound, and fires were raised.

The stars were twinkling in the sky, but the farmers were still celebrating when they were singing and laughing like today.

"Huh!" But quietly, the eighty-ninety-year-old old man looked over to the side, ready to toast, he suddenly froze slightly, then stretched out his hand to wipe his eyelids, and exclaimed:

"Where is Daoist Lu, and where are the two Daoist priests, Chen and Su?"

"Hey!" Everyone around immediately exclaimed.

In the banquet, the seats of Xu Dao and the others were empty.

The person in the first seat, that is, Xu Dao, had already carried the little fox girl Su Jiu, carried the drunk Taoist Chen Wan, and drifted away.

"The three priests are gone!"

"Where did the priests go?"

Everyone hurriedly turned their heads and looked around, trying to find the figures of Xu Dao and the others, but they found nothing. They only found some silver taels on the tables and chairs, and the silver taels were still rolling, reflecting silver light.

(End of this chapter)