The question raised by the Immortal Sage is really sharp for the current Yun Qing. Among the several Taoisms she has come into contact with, no one has ever made such shocking remarks as "achieving Taoism has nothing to do with immortality". "Elegant * Wen * Words * First * Issue" Even if Yun Qing completely disagrees with these words, she can't find any strong evidence to refute the immortal saint.
She could only sit and think quietly.
Humanity has always had the attitude of "If you don't know life, how can you know death?" As far as Yun Qing knows, he never cares about death during his practice at the Temple of Heaven. They pay attention to the holy virtues of great benevolence. One of the sages of the human world once said, "If you use all the light to control yourself, how can you not exhaust the principle of sacrificing your life? You have no time to ask about the way of ghosts." What this means is that there are so many great ways of heaven and earth, and it takes a long time for practitioners to understand them all. Living is not enough, so how can there be time to care about the ghost realm after death
Yun Qing felt that these few sentences were barely applicable.
"The ways of heaven and earth are vast and boundless, and death is one of them. However, Huangquan wants to peek into the sky and seize a glimmer of life. The saint should not use this to force me to follow this way."
Yun Qing couldn't answer. She was completely different from the saint in terms of realm. She could only scribble some words from her memory to respond, trying to avoid the question of the immortal saint.
But she obviously underestimated the Immortal Saint's determination to kill her. He put his hand on the screen wall and said with a low smile: "You are still searching, you don't know what the Tao is, and you don't know what attaining the Tao means. Fighting. It doesn’t matter if you have been alive for thousands of years. In the end, all you will get is confusion that lasts countless times longer than those of mortals. When you become enlightened and understand what the Tao is, and there is no longer any desire in your heart, no more obstacles, then live here What meaning does the world that has been thoroughly understood mean to you? I will not ask you to force this way, I only ask if your Tao heart can bear the weight of enlightenment and the freedom of death."
For the living, it is clear that death is heaviness and enlightenment is freedom. However, in the comments of immortals, the two are completely reversed.
Yun Qing frowned. She was completely suppressed by her realm, but she couldn't just surrender: "Then why is the Saint alive?"
The Immortal Sage seemed to have expected her to ask this question, and replied quite easily: "Of course because no one can kill me."
Yun Qing was really speechless now. The other party's shamelessness was unprecedented among saints. Just now, he relied on the saint's realm reflected in his words to suppress her, but now he directly uses his strength to speak. That's right. The question "If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening" can force Yun Qing to death under the realm of a saint, but she cannot use this to force a saint who is already immortal. en8.
She was silent for a long time, and then she said without giving up: "Didn't the saint ever think about this kind of thing before he attained the holy status?"
The Immortal Saint must have never thought about it. If he thought so, he should die when he attained the Dao. How could he have time to stay here and make things difficult for her.
The Immortal Saint said very gently: "No, if I had thought about it, maybe I wouldn't be like this now. Huang Quan, I know what you mean. You want to refute me by saying, 'The saint attains the Tao and lives forever'." It is said that you will perish as soon as you attain the Tao, but who told you that the path followed by the saint is the right one?"
Yun Qing felt that every word spoken by the Immortal Saint during the short interview had a subversive meaning. She didn't even have time to reflect on his previous words before she was directly hit by his next words.
"Perhaps, we saints are just people who took the wrong path. This wrong path has continued for decades...?" His voice passed through the screen wall, clear and calm, and his tone was so light that it could be heard. No fluctuations at all.
In these few words on Taoism, the Immortal Saint first downgrades the "immortality" that all practitioners think is invincible to "eternal confusion and hardship", and then calls those saints who are at the peak of the cultivators " "People who have taken the wrong path"... At this moment, Yun Qing couldn't help but wonder if there was any other way out besides becoming a saint, but she immediately felt a shiver in her heart. Now was not the time to consider whether his words were right or not. You should first find a way to get out of this eternally unanswerable argument.
"I haven't attained the holy status, so naturally I don't know whether this path is right or wrong..." Yun Qing felt that he couldn't get around him, so he immediately tried to change the topic.
But the Immortal Saint interrupted her quickly and accurately: "I have achieved the holy status, and now I tell you that it is wrong."
Yun Qing was stuck again. The discussion with the Immortal Saint was the most uncomfortable of all the conversations she had experienced so far. Although the thoughts of the saints of the devil are unpredictable, they are the elders of the devil, so they naturally never have any difficulties in their practice. The Saint of Humanity and the Saint of Demonic Path seem to have some kind of agreement, so they tell everything they know, and they won't interfere with her practice. The Buddhist and Taoist saint had a predestined relationship with her before he attained enlightenment, and she called her her senior for two years, so he had a softer ear and rarely made things difficult for her.
The guy in front of me has been using his own realm to suppress Yun Qing from the beginning to the end. He directly passed over the demon master and started to give her instructions on how to practice. He did it so smoothly that he bullied the small ones. Yun Qing finally understood that although the saint could not directly attack the juniors who had not yet attained the sainthood, a few casual words could drive people crazy, provided that he was as shameless as the immortal saint.
Yun Qing took a deep breath and began to answer while thinking carefully: "I'm still not sure. For me, I can't make a conclusion even if I haven't traveled the road. But as the saint said, 'You will perish if you gain the Tao. ’, please forgive Huang Quan for speaking bluntly, there are quite a few loopholes.”
The Immortal Saint said nothing, seeming to allow her to continue speaking.
Yun Qing's thoughts gradually became clearer: "Aspiring to practice Taoism, what practitioners seek is not just answers to doubts, but perfection from soul to body. Many of the words of the saint are biased. If you practice Taoism with death, you will grow spiritually. It exists, but the body has been destroyed, which cannot be regarded as enlightenment. Ten years ago, I was fortunate enough to read the "Liang Jiao Bian" in Tianyi Pavilion. Although it was not written by Immortal Dao, some of the words in it quite touched my heart."
At this time, the immortal saint no longer interrupted her, but instead helped her with the formation. The sound echoing in the formation poured out like a waterfall, with a hearty meaning.
The more Yun Qing spoke, the smoother she became. She told her what was in her mind: "It was mentioned in the book that the Taoist's words are to nourish this spirit and refine this body in order to live forever. I think the saint is I purposely confuse 'eternal life' and 'eternal life' in order to confuse my Taoist mind. Eternal life is naturally impossible to exist, but long-lasting vision is exactly what we cultivators want. Through cultivation, practitioners Obtaining a long lifespan, with the body lasting forever and the spirit immortal, this is the way to live forever."
"Life and death are intertwined. For us living beings, death is an absolute evil. A perfect person should be able to avoid death. If one dies in pursuit of the Tao, it can only mean that he has not yet attained the Tao."
"In this way, what the saint said can be broken."
The Immortal Saint withdrew the formation, waved his sleeves and left the edge of the screen wall. He said calmly: "I understand everything I need to know. You can go back."
Yun Qing bowed deeply to him and saluted him with his hands in hand: "Thank you, Lord Saint, for your guidance regardless of past suspicions."
"I didn't teach you a word." The immortal saint stood with his hands behind his back, looking unrealistic in the shadow wall.
Yun Qing still didn't straighten up, so she thanked him calmly and sincerely: "Thank you, Lord Saint, for asking me. Huang Quan has offended many people before, and I deeply regret what happened to Ling Feizi."
"Yes." The Immortal Saint still looked lukewarm, "You understand why Sheng Tianxiang asked you to come here. What you asked for has been answered. You have already figured out the way to ask. Yes, let’s go.”
"Then Huang Quan bids farewell." At this time, Yun Qing had learned how to treat the way of heaven humbly and those who heard the way before her. Only by lowering your posture can you draw more from it, and in the end you will be stronger than anything else.
The Immortal Sage asked three questions in total: "Why do you seek the Tao?" "What Tao do you seek?" and "What is the Tao?"
These three questions are what every ascetic must face. They are the foundation of practice and the beginning of the path. Yun Qing's character and cultivation have never been bad, and she has now made the first two questions quite clear, namely "meaning Qingyun" and "the way of Yama". Only for the latter one, a practitioner can only work in this direction after clarifying the criteria for "obtaining the Tao". Yun Qing obviously has some unclear understanding of this matter.
She knew why she practiced Taoism and what Taoism she wanted to cultivate, but she just didn't know how to achieve Taoism, so she had mental obstacles. She knows the magnificent goal, but can't see how to reach it. At this time, she will feel her own weakness, and she will feel uneasy, confused, doubtful, and have all kinds of false and meaningless emotions. After all, this is the source of her murderous intention towards Amang.
The demon saint sacrificed Zong Wushen in exchange for not only Yun Qing's life, but also an opportunity for her to ask Yu Xian. Stones from other mountains can attack jade. Perhaps things that the demonic saint cannot point out can be left to this immortal saint to complete.
Yun Qing came out of Tongtian Divine Vein and flew directly from Beihai to Beichuan Continent without saying goodbye to Xie Yao. The power of the Yama's Holy Body was enough to allow her to move unimpeded in the strong wind. The strong wind roared violently in her ears, but there was silence in her heart.
The Great Teleportation Formation of the Demonic Path is spread throughout the Beichuan Continent, and has been increasing in recent years. Yun Qing has a jade slip that was personally refined by the leader of the Hell Sin Demon Sect. Every change in the Great Movement Formation will be clearly reflected on it. She can even know who used the Great Movement Formation at what time.
She has been cultivating in the Beihai Underworld for ten years, and she doesn't know how the war in the outside world has developed. Looking at the number of Great Movement Formations, Wuwu Demon Realm probably wants to take action against the Beichuan Continent. But Yun Qing can't care about this yet. All she has to do is to return to the sect immediately, realize what she has gained from this, and try to go further.
If the Immortal Sage's statement that "the holy position is wrong" is true, then their fate may have been decided long ago, and this era will only belong to Yun Qing's generation.
Yun Qing thought so, and soon crossed the rippling blue Beihai, and came to Beichuan, the vast world. This dynasty on the continent has gone through countless years of ups and downs, and is deeply involved in the chaos of the world. I don't know what else is there. How many peaceful days.
In the preface of the Spring and Autumn Dynasties, when cold and heat overlap, when small people feel that all things are changing and their bodies are declining along with it, they begin to try to understand the way of heaven and transcend life and death. However, there are very few people who can complete this path, and the vast majority of practitioners will just disappear into the mortal world.
If there is only a glimmer of hope, Yun Qing hopes that the one who can seize it is herself.