Chapter 296 Sitting in the World

  The standards for selecting scholars in the imperial examination are body, speech, writing, and judgment.

  The so-called "body" refers to the physical appearance, which ranks first among the four standards, which shows how important the appearance is for the imperial examination.

  A good appearance is better than a good article. Sometimes whether you can be a judge is three points for the article and seven points for the face. For example, in the palace exam, one person's strategy theory came first. But the emperor thought he was not good-looking, so he gave the champion to another handsome candidate.

  Feudal society believed that a person was born from the heart, and a person must be talented if he looks good.

   There are even express regulations that those with short eyebrows and small eyesight cannot be officials, but only officials.

  As for the white-faced scholar, although he has the word "white face", but his skin is relatively fair, but his facial features are not very good, even a little wretched.

  The right eye is somewhat deformed, and the eye socket is slightly distorted, which is obviously deformed by nature. .

   "Amitabha."

  Du Shi muttered a dharma name in a low voice, and said, "If you really want to serve the people, I can make you look good."

Hearing this sentence, the scholar was stunned for a moment, touched his head and said with doubts on his face: "Shouldn't an expert like you just go down the mountain and let the old emperor issue an edict? Let the world no longer judge people by their appearance, so Isn't it better?"

   "So what if I got a good skin? There will still be ugly people in the world who suffer, and I just took the opportunity to get out of the quagmire. You should be a great fairy, so it's enough to tell the world not to judge people by their appearance?"

  Du Shi had a touch of approval in his eyes, he was considered a man who could be made, with a bit of Buddha nature.

  There are many qualified people in the world, and there is no shortage of geniuses in the era, but there are very few people who are worried about the world and dare to be the first. Just like Jianzong thousands of years ago, he did what he knew he couldn't do.

   Before he could explain, the person in the thatched cottage came out.

  The Taoist man was dressed in Tsing Yi, with regular features, red lips and white teeth. He wasn't very handsome, but he couldn't move his eyes away from that ethereal demeanor.

  He said: "The love of beauty is human nature, and the prejudice of the human heart is a big mountain. Even if we have the ability to move mountains to catch up with the moon, it is difficult to move them."

  This person is Li Changsheng, who is the number one immortal in the world today and is known as the living true immortal. Even if it is Huashen, you have to bow to him.

  Dushi put down the scholar, put his right hand upright in front of him, bent slightly, and said respectfully, "Immortal Elder."

   Seeing the monk's respectful attitude, the scholar didn't dare to make a fool of himself, and hurriedly bowed his hands and said, "I've seen a fairy."

  He is a mortal who does not know living immortals. There are many legends about immortals among mortals, but these immortals do not refer to a specific person. But he still knows some ways of the world. If such a powerful monk has to bow his head, then the Taoist in front of him must be even more powerful.

  Li Changsheng nodded slightly, and said in a calm voice: "One of my decrees can change the sky in all directions in Kyushu, change the emperor's position, and make the people cut their hair and skin, and change their long hair to short hair, but they can't change people's hearts."

  The scholar opened his mouth slightly, full of knowledge and wanted to blurt out, but he was afraid of offending the god. He was apprehensive for a long time, but soon he mustered up the courage again.

  Because he didn't feel any sense of oppression when he looked at the Taoist, unlike the eminent monk next to him, nor like any big man he had seen.

  It is as gentle and peaceful as a spring breeze, without any depth.

  Ordinary people will think this is approachable in the true sense, not only without a sense of distance, but even soothing. And those who practice will be even more awed, because the immortal's return to basics has reached the point where they can't detect it.

  Dushi belongs to the former, and he still remembers being able to feel the breath of the immortal when he first met him. I thought that after being promoted to Huashen, he would be able to sit on an equal footing with him, at least in the same realm.

   But when he came to Huashen, he only saw an even bigger gap.

The scholar belongs to the latter, and he thinks he is pleading for the world, and said solemnly: "How will you know if you don't try? Thousands of years ago, there was a sword sect who saved the world from fire and water, and today's peace is still there. Why can't we follow the example of the predecessors and serve Whoever has aspirations in the world will open up the world again?"

   "If you really have that ability, Jinkou can at least save many people's careers."

   Li Yi shook his head with a smile, and asked back: "If I speak, how can you guarantee that you will not become new privileges?"

   "You just opened your mouth to cancel the body in the sentence, how can it be a privilege? If you really want to talk about privileges, those descendants of the family are the ones."

  The scholar replied, his voice raised slightly, and he seemed a little excited.

  He seemed to regard this conversation as an opportunity to change the world. It's a pity that Li Changsheng won't be instigated by him, just like adults don't care about children's words and deeds.

  Scholar is undoubtedly a child in Li Changsheng's eyes.

  Speaking up by yourself can indeed ensure that these phenomena will disappear. The separation between immortals and mortals does not mean that the mortals are completely left alone. The Shangqing Palace still retains the right to supervise the mortal dynasty. Every three years, some disciples will go down the mountain to investigate, both publicly and privately.

  The standards are different from those of the two. On the surface, they attach great importance to the emperor's virtue, but in private, there is only one hard target to be able to eat and clothe. Unless there is a famine, generally speaking, as long as the tax is not so heavy, there is no problem with eating enough.

   "Immortals like you are people with great merit, why don't you do one more good deed?"

Li Changsheng looked up at the waterfall slightly, and replied in a flat voice: "When something is too heavy, it will produce a huge inertia wherever it falls. Just like this waterfall, the flowing water is harmless, and it falls into the water. In my words, it is more important than this." Heavier, heavier."

  The scholar's words are naive, but his nature is not bad. Moreover, only by standing high enough can you see things farther away. Position determines the way of thinking, and Li Changsheng is well aware of his own weight.

  The greater its power, the greater its harm.

"When I tell the mortal dynasty not to judge people by their appearance and treat ugly people kindly. Then the people below will continue to deepen it around this sentence, and in the end your appearance will become the next body in the judgment. Furthermore, if ugliness is regarded as beautiful, it is not impossible to reverse beauty and ugliness.”

   "Do you want the world to follow you, or you to follow the world? Inequality is normal, I can only let everyone at least stand on the ground."

  The scholar was completely stunned and didn't know how to answer, his full of economics choked in his throat.

"this…"

   He couldn't reply for a long time.

   "But I can help you alone, if you don't plan to practice Buddhism with monks."

  Li Changsheng turned his head to look at the monk, and asked, "Are you planning to take him in as a disciple?"

   "It is rare to have Buddha-nature, and it is even rarer to find one who repays grievances with virtue." Dushi did not deny it.

  He does have plans to accept apprentices, and he has observed this scholar for a long time. Although he is discriminated against because of his appearance, he still does a lot of good deeds on weekdays.

   "Repaying grievances with virtue, how can we repay virtue?" Li Changsheng asked, and then looked at the monk with some helplessness: "You, the brain is the axis. It is good for Buddhism to teach, but not everyone can teach."

   "Amitabha, you monks will know how to measure themselves."

   "Your duty is to help people to the end, send Buddha to the West, don't you feel tired? Forget it, let you go."

  Li Changsheng shook his head and no longer cared about the monk's affairs. Although the monk's good-natured temperament is tiring to look at, at least he knows that killing people pays for their lives.

   Instead of blindly de-educating.

  He turned around and walked into the thatched hut, Du Shi followed, leaving only the scholar alone in deep thought.

"sit down."

   Dushi sat down very naturally, looked around, and said, "How long has the Immortal Elder been here?"

   "Three years."

   "Isn't the moon palace coming back? Recently, the poor monk heard some rumors that the rabbit spirit has become more and more presumptuous towards you since it broke through.

   Du Shiyue said that the expression on his face became more excited, with a little anger.

  As a Buddhist, although he didn't go to the point of shouting and killing monsters as soon as they met, he didn't have a good face due to the tens of thousands of years of conflicts between monsters. Not to mention that the rabbit gave him a bad impression at the beginning, and the monsters lurking among humans are a potential danger.

   Only the monsters that do not enter Kyushu are good monsters.

  But the other party is very pleasing to the immortal, so he has no choice but to give up.

  But there have been some bad rumors in the Moon Palace recently, and I happened to be passing through the world, so I came here to ask.

"That rabbit spirit is too outrageous. Immortal, how could you be deceived by the beauty of the goblin? No one with a high level of morality will be seduced by the goblin. The immortal should stop her as soon as possible, lest the rumors spread more and more widely, otherwise there will be more rumors. Ruin your reputation."

   Dushi said with great pain, his words were sincere, but it fell into Li Changsheng's ears as if he was connoting himself.

  Li Changsheng paused while drinking tea, raised his head and asked, "Monk, I'm not a monk, nor a Taoist priest of pure cultivation."

  Since he beheaded Taishang Wangqing, his emotions and desires and his physical body are all normal. People with great supernatural powers are not emotional, but they have seen too much, their horizons are too high, or they don't have that kind of thought.

  Li Changsheng was like this thousands of years ago, but after a thousand years, he can’t stand the softness of rabbits. Feelings can be cultivated. He admits that he has followed the way of rabbits. But there is not much resistance to this, just go with the flow.

"Um?!"

  Du Shi suddenly turned his head, as if he understood Li Changsheng's meaning, his eyes widened and he asked in disbelief, "Are you really having an affair with that rabbit spirit?"

  Li Changsheng's face turned black when he heard this word, and said: "An affair refers to an improper relationship. I have no wife and she has no husband. How can I have an affair?"

   "But she is a monster."

   "What about demons?"

   "It's over, it's over, Xianchang, you must have been confused by that rabbit spirit. I have a mental method here, to enter my Buddha..."

boom!

  Du Shi leaned forward suddenly, and then came into close contact with the ground. There was a loud bang, and the whole person was stuck in the mud, and even with all his strength, he couldn't get up.

   "Immortal Elder, it's the right way to turn around, and the monsters have different paths."

  The monk still didn't forget to preach at this time, and just after he finished speaking, his body sank a few centimeters into the mud.

  Li Changsheng took a sip of tea lightly, and said: "The difference between a monster and a monster is for mortals. They can't bear the evil spirit, just like it is difficult for a practitioner to combine with a mortal."

  After a while, Du Shi got up in disgrace, opened his mouth slightly and was about to speak, when he was shot into the ground again.

   Repeated this several times, and finally he stood up silently, and stood beside him very obediently, no longer preaching.

   "Prince Immortal, in fact, Rabbit Spirit is not bad. Although she used to lurk in the land of smoke and willows, she used paper dolls as substitutes to serve as maids, and her vital yin still exists. The vital yin of a demon saint is helpful for cultivation."

  When they met for the first time, Toshi saw the reality of the other party. At the beginning, he was a perfect body, and he has been surrounded by immortals since then, so he should not commit himself to other people.

   Originally, Dushi thought that the two of them would not have that kind of relationship, but he didn't expect that Rabbit Jing was planning to plot evil.

  The matter has come to this point, Dushi can only support it.

  While crossing the world, he took out a volume of Buddhist scriptures, made of gold silk and satin, on which there are endless Buddhist teachings, containing the Dao of Yin and Yang.

   "The poor monk is a monk of Qingxiu, but the inheritance of Huanxi Buddha is still preserved in the sect. At present, practice is prohibited in the Buddhist sect, and it is useless to keep it. It is better to hand it over to the elder."

  Yin-yang dual cultivation has not been an evil way since ancient times, but some people's bad behavior has stigmatized it. The mainstream of Buddhism now pays attention to pure cultivation, but monks will not speak ill of dual cultivation.

  Huanxi Buddha belongs to the branch of Buddhism that was born in a very long time, and there must be no problem before ancient times. But after entering the age of Immortal Dao, after his own Great Thunder Sound Buddhist Sect was in charge of Buddhism, the status of Huanxi Buddha became very embarrassing.

  Some of the exercises and ideas are good, but most of the disciples are rapers and robbers.

  Now the Huanxi Buddha faction has been sent to the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, so that their disciples will not harm women from good families. The inheritance fell into Dushi's hands, he didn't want the harmless exercises to perish because of others, but he couldn't practice them himself.

  It happened to be sent out today.

boom!

  Toshi was filmed again.

  Li Yi frowned slightly and said, "Am I that kind of person? But since you have the heart, then I will accept it."

   "..."

  Dushi got up again, not much to say, he was used to the character of an immortal who likes to do things when he comes up.

   Back in the day, he also said that he couldn’t beat him, but he would be persuaded in the end.

  Li Changsheng took the scroll of Huanxi Buddha's inheritance and read it, and in his spare time, he also focused his attention on the protagonist on the table.

  《Pro》

  【The next one, the location of tomorrow, the understanding of the origin of all things, the meaning of the three talents...】

  The black font is neat and elegant, if you don't look carefully, you can't find any clues. But once he put his attention on it, his eyes were pulled closer in an instant, and the word was infinitely raised, as if it was still taller than the mountains.

  Du Shi couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, until Li Yi tapped his eyebrows, and then slowly came back to his senses.

  Even so, he still stared at the bamboo slips on the table and asked: "Xianchang, what is this?"

   "Proverbs in Linzi." Li Changsheng replied, "I don't know what it is given by heaven and earth."

  It is rare for Tiandi to actively teach the method, and there are various information attached to it, which is extremely clear, and it does not seem to be the work of Tiandao.

   "Perhaps it is the inheritance of a certain ancient power left between heaven and earth, which happened to be realized by me."

   "I beg the immortals to pass on the Dharma!"

  Du Shi knelt down on both knees and put his head on the ground, and was lifted up by an invisible force in the next second.

   "You can take it if you want to learn it." Li Changsheng handed it over to Du Shi like a trash. This thing is knowledge, which can be copied infinitely.

   "I used it a bit, and it can increase my understanding of the world."

   "Thank you Immortal for teaching the Dharma."

  Dushi picked up the bamboo slips, as if he was picking up a small world.

  He brought the scholar back to Buddhism, and after careful consideration, the other party also decided to shave his hair and follow the monk. The reason sounds grand and not in line with the great love of Buddhism, to fight for justice for the deformed and ugly people in the world.

  Hundred years later, the Red Buddha passed away at the age of 2008.

  According to Buddhist legends, Master Toshi did not die, but became a true Buddha.

  Because after that day, the bodhi world was very quiet.

  (end of this chapter)

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