Painter

Chapter 149 Chapter 140 Nine: Seeing All Beings
As the sun sets on the western mountain, everyone returns home singing, boating on Mingyue Lake, which is different from the Wuli Pavilion.

For Li Chan, who has always been in the company of monsters, it is very rare to travel with friends.After returning to Luming Academy, he hummed a new song composed by Xu Yingqiu, spent a lot of valuable Huaqing, Shiqing, Shilv, painted a picture "Spring Tour" and wrote the half of the poem on it.

Sao Qingniang looked at Li Chan's paintings, and said with a smile: "Shaolang used Xu Yingqiu's name to fake "Cat Playing with Candles" a month ago, but this "Spring Tour" can no longer be called fake."

"It was also forced by livelihood at that time." Li Chan put down his pen and smiled, and said: "Since sitting on the mountains and empty mountains like now, it won't take too long to sell paintings for a few hundred taels. My Taoism is probably the nearest, and I will leave Xuandu by then. We can’t take much with us. For those pens, inks, papers and inkstones, let’s keep one inkstone, four pieces of ink and one knife of paper, and we have to sell the rest.”

Sao Qingniang said: "Young man is going down the mountain again?"

Li Chan said: "Trust Du Jinyou to do it."

"Okay." Sao Qingniang nodded, "It's getting late, Shaolang should go to rest first, I'll sort out those things."

"hold on."

Li Chan went back to the back room and turned out another scroll. There were two worms on the painting, without feet and eyes, smooth and smooth, one black and one white.

Li Chan left for a long time, and the monsters at home played around in several dusty pavilions relying on the fact that there were no practitioners in Xuanming Temple.Hong Yao helped Dai Zhu clean up the dust on the wing feathers, and when he saw the strange monster, he asked curiously, "Ah Lang, what is this?"

Li Chan wiped off the dust on the edge of the scroll with his fingers, "Tong Li."

"Tongli? What can they do?"

"It's the monsters in the eyes of parasites. You see, the black ones are always on the left and the white ones are on the right. They feed on human eyes. When they eat up human eyes, they will grow to the size of human eyes. And be eaten People who have lost their eyes don't even realize it, they still see things with their pupils, and they can see that night is like day."

Even though Hong Yao was a demon, he couldn't help but feel that there are all kinds of strange monsters in the world, and asked, "Where did A Lang get it?"

"Three years ago, I was in Xieling." Li Chan spread out the painting and pressed it down with a porcelain tiger paperweight. Seeing Hong Yao's puzzled look, he explained: "Xieling is outside Longwu Pass, under the control of Dayong Kingdom. , Fengtu is almost the same as Dayong Kingdom, except that there are often demons in it."

Hong Yao nodded, and Li Chan continued: "There is a man in Xiling who suffers from an eye disease. One fall, and he died forever."

Hong Yao groaned, and Li Chan said again: "After the man's mother left, strange things often happened at home. It is said that when his wife was sleeping, she saw a pair of eyes staring at the beam, and sometimes these eyes appeared on the wall. Come on. When I heard the news, I went to the door to investigate, only to find out that the old lady had kept a pair of pupils in her eyes without telling others."

Hong Yao was surprised: "She raised it herself?"

Li Chan nodded, "She planned to use her own eyes to feed a pair of pupils and replace them with her son, so that he would no longer have to worry about eye diseases."

Hong Yao pondered for a while, then thoughtfully said: "The reason why she suffers from eye disease is because of raising this pair of pupils. If she wants to hide it from her son, she must know that he won't allow it. Pity the parents of the world. "Speaking of this, Hong Yao sighed, "It's a pity that I didn't develop it, so I fell that way."

Li Chan shook her head, "She didn't fall that fall."

"Who is that?"

"The man suffered from an eye disease, and it was difficult to make a living. The old lady could help with some things before, but after suffering from an eye disease, she had to be served by others."

Hong Yao didn't understand at first, but in the next moment, she understood what Li Chan meant, and opened her eyes wide, "It was her son... who killed her?"

Li Chan said: "The couple conspired together."

Hong Yao said: "That's his mother!"

Li Chan said: "In fact, there are still many people in the world who will do the same when they are in this state, but they have not yet fallen to this point."

Hong Yao was speechless, and murmured: "It's really bitter."

All living beings are in a difficult situation, and Li Chan suddenly remembered what Lianyi said when he discussed Taoism in Mingyue Lake.

The suffering of Buddhism is to see the suffering in the world, which corresponds to the seeing of Taoism.Li Chan condenses 24 body spirits, and walks the way of seeing all living beings. What he sees behind these 24 evil spirits are also beings in affliction.Condensing the red medicine of the first body and spirit for him, lamenting the suffering of others, she was also a fisher girl who suffered misfortune in the past.

Li Chan patted Hong Yao on the head, stopped talking about Tong Li, and turned his attention to the picture scroll.

This Tong Li's evil spirit can just make him concentrate his eyesight.

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Because of Xu Yingqiu's visit to friends, the name of Li Dan in Qingxin West Academy spread overnight in Luming Academy.

Early in the morning, someone came to visit, but saw that the tin ring on the courtyard gate had been removed.

In Taoist colleges, it is common to practice retreat. If the owner of the house hangs a sign on the door, or removes the door knocker, it means that he is retreating and does not want to be disturbed.
The visitors had to return disappointed.

Once the door knocker was removed, it took six days. During this period, except for the servants who carried water and delivered food, no one else entered Qingxin West Courtyard.

It took Li Chan only three days to condense the remaining four spirits of eyes, nose, ears, and hair.Every time a body spirit is condensed, there will be an additional incomplete demon law, and the body and the world will be more compatible.

24 Dao body and mind condensed, Li Chan didn't notice any special changes, but felt that his eyes and ears became clearer. He watched the sun rise and moon set, and the stars moved from the window, as if he could see some mysterious and hidden laws.Seeing the old locust tree in the courtyard blowing by the east wind and the green leaves swaying, he would also have an inexplicable intuition.He guessed which locust tree leaf would fall, and played and gambled with the monsters, and he was able to guess exactly every time.

But the usefulness of condensing 24 body gods seems to be nothing more than that.He can clearly perceive the air mechanism circulating between heaven and earth, that is, the "Tao", but he can't move it. He is still a qin watcher and has not planted the Tao.

This is in response to Xiao Lingsu's worries. Li Chan's method of condensing 24 body gods is quite different from that of Qingque Palace. road.

What's more difficult is that he doesn't know where the problem is.

Even, with the completion of the 24 body and spirit, the 24 obsessions of demons have become more and more intense, often stirring in Li Chan's mind and disturbing his mind.

He was originally a steady penman, but during the past few days when he practiced painting, his hands shook more than ten times, not to mention not being able to make a painting he wanted, and even knocked over the inkstone twice.

However, Li Chan was not anxious because of being taught by Shi Jun in his dream, and he heard Lian Yi's talk about suffering beings a few days ago.

Three days after becoming 24 gods, he practiced, painted, and polished mirrors in the house.

Even though the 24 gods were condensed, the first mirror was still blurred, as if nothing had changed.Li Chan didn't know what to do. After thinking about it in the house for three days, he stopped thinking hard and went to visit Luming Mountain again.

He went to the mountains to pick dragon head vegetables, and to the mountain streams to pick up orpiment. The most frequent visit was the peach blossom forest on the mountainside.

The grove has lost its peach blossoms, and no one is there to enjoy them. Only Li Chan sits in an ancient pavilion without a stele or a plaque with his Lichun mirror, looking at the peach branches without flowers from time to time, pondering what Xu Yingqiu said, the flowers bloom and fall in his heart. The supernatural power of heart extinction.

He doesn't worry about the 24 gods. Although the obsessions of those monsters have not subsided, he has gradually gotten used to them.

At dusk on the ninth day, Li Chan sat in the pavilion and wiped the mirror repeatedly with felt as before, and finally her hands stopped shaking.Outside the pavilion, Xu Da sharpened his claws with peach bark, while Hong Yao blamed it for ruining the peach tree.Seeing Hong Yao's back, Li Chan felt a strange sense of familiarity.

This sense of familiarity does not come from getting along day and night, but it seems to come from the mirror he faces all day long.

Li Chan looked at the bronze mirror. The originally blurred mirror surface became as clear as spring water.

It was like a breeze blowing past the ancient pavilion, without any warning.It is also like the tip of a bamboo shoot breaking through the spring mud, quietly seeing a new world.

In the clear mirror, that mirror image is red medicine.To be precise, it was Jiang Hehe, the psychic fisherwoman.Sitting on the edge of the boat, paddling the water with your feet, creating ripples.

She is the first body god, the first of 24 living beings.

Birds are singing in the distance, Hong Yao and Xu Da are still arguing in the peach blossom forest.The changes in the ancient pavilion, like the first spring rain at night, are unknown to the dreamer.The young man from Taodu Mountain, who has experienced all kinds of demons, greeted the rain quietly like a withered bud that has survived the winter.

He faced the first bronze mirror and began to see sentient beings.

(End of this chapter)