Taiyi Taoist Master smiled leisurely and said: "When you have reached this stage, it is just like me. Why bother to compete with me for a moment? Why don't you just retreat, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with you in the eternal years from now on."
Shen Lian truly understood the power of Taoist Taiyi, but he also knew that the Taoist who manifested into the world was only a step above him. Although it can suppress him, it can't really do anything to him.
To put it bluntly, after he attained the perfection of the Five Innate Masters, he had discovered the source of the Supreme Path, but the door had already been opened and he had not yet stepped in, so he was fundamentally different from all other living beings.
This was probably what he was like when Taoist Taiyi and the Buddha had not transcended the human world.
But Shen Lian understood one thing better. Even if the Taoist master could not kill him, it was not impossible to trap him for hundreds of millions of years. It’s just that the Tao Master’s eternity, hundreds of millions of years, is not much different from the blink of an eye. But Shen Lian was destined to become a Taoist master, so there was no need to do this.
But if he really insists on going his own way, Taoist Taiyi may not do such a thing. He will be banned for hundreds of millions of years. When he comes out, it may not be the same era, and all the things in the past will disappear.
It is also difficult to accept for a sentient being like him who was born the day after tomorrow.
What's more, the pain caused by the burning flame was really difficult for Shen Lian to endure. However, there is an indomitable arrogance in Shen Lian's calm temperament. It is impossible to retreat like this.
Shen Lian said: "There is no difference between Tao Master's thoughts and eternity. Since there is no difference, fighting for the moment and fighting for eternity are the same."
Taoist Taiyi was not worried. In his opinion, Shen Lian and he were the same people after all. If it had been like this for anyone else, they would have been ashes by now.
He said: "Although we say that one Dharma is connected and all Dharmas are clear, we each have some unique abilities to achieve enlightenment. Otherwise, there would be no difference between Tao and Buddha. Therefore, when the Supreme Being transforms Hu into a Buddha, he can only practice whatever is the original Tao of Buddha." It's just a battle of spirits with Amitabha, and you should know this by now. So I know that Buddha has given you a lot of help, so let me see what means he has prepared for me."
Shen Lian knew that nothing could be hidden from the Taoist Master. After he went to the Immortal Palace last time and met Kong Xuan, he understood that his achievements were indeed inseparable from the Buddha, and were even a reflection of the struggle between the Buddha and the Taiyi Taoist Master. . Therefore, he cultivated the Taixu path in the front, and cultivated Alaya consciousness in the back, but he benefited from both Taiyi Dao Master and the Buddha.
Moreover, at first, the Buddha secretly took action and gave him the Supreme Pure Spirit Refining Method. Later, he saw the mark of the soul in the Tai Chi Diagram. It can be said that Shen Lian alone got the true inheritance of the existence of four Tao masters. Such an opportunity, It can be said to be unprecedented.
And this also brought out the complicated struggle between Tao masters, and finally gave birth to the result of Shen Lian.
After all, although the Taoist master can control everything, if other Taoist masters interfere in other Taoist masters' plans, things will be out of control. It's like what was originally just a chess record on the chessboard, later turned into a competition between several chess players. Even though these players are all top chess players and have tried almost everything, the outcome has become uncontrollable.
Now in the final stage, the situation has been decided, and all the Taoist masters can do is to fight for the corners and cannot change the overall situation.
Therefore, when the situation has reached this point, Taiyi Taoist Master probably wants a face, so he proposed to become a Taoist couple with Qingshui Taoist Master. In this way, Taiyi Taoist Master will gain face, Shen Lian will gain face, and in the future We can get along well with each other even through endless years.
Taoist Taiyi pointed this out.
Shen Lian understands, and it can even be said that what he is doing now is a bit too far. He will be suppressed by Taoist Taiyi for tens of millions of years, which is what he asked for.
It can be seen from this that Master Taiyi is a truly ruthless person. He does not care about others in his actions, but only seeks to understand his mind. Only then did Shen Lian understand why Taoist Master Qingshui wanted to teach him about the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and help him complete the Five Innate Masters. It's not that Taoist Qingshui thinks highly of Shen Lian, but he is expressing his dissatisfaction with Taoist Taiyi. To put it bluntly, this is Taoist Qingshui seeking his own pleasure.
In this way, the father and daughter really have the same temperament.
After figuring out the cause and effect, Shen Lian felt quite strange. He did regard Qing Shui as a friend, and finally became too ruthless towards Qing Shui to kill three corpses, which was a bit of a sigh. But now he understands that Qing Shui is this kind of person, and he has also achieved his own way.
She accepted that Shen Lian was born with fireworks in Qingshui, which was also a reflection of her willful side, rather than a result of love.
From the beginning to the end, it was him, Shen Lian, who misjudged Qing Shui, which had nothing to do with Qing Shui.
Although there were many disturbances in his life, most of them went smoothly in the end. Regardless of whether he was an enemy or a friend, most people looked at him differently. It was this father and daughter that really made him realize that he was not as important in the eyes of others as he thought.
It was this sense of gap that made Shen Lian realize that the world is impermanent and changeable. No matter whether he is sentimental or ruthless, there will always be unexpected things in the world. The sea of suffering in the world of mortals came to life in his heart again, but it could not trouble him. .
"Before this, I originally wanted to show the Taoist master the Bodhi I achieved." Shen Lian said.
Taoist Master Taiyi smiled and said: "I have also seen Taoist Bodhi's methods. Even if what you get is combined with the Buddha's view of Bodhi, it is not new to me. If you use it, you will only be able to use it." I can do it with a snap of my fingers.”
Shen Lian said: "It is indeed the case, so Shen Lian will not show off his ugliness. There is another way, and I would like to ask the Taoist Master for advice." After he finished speaking, his whole person changed from emptiness to reality, and the flames on his body burned brighter, but there was more A kind of mystery.
Master Taiyi said: "The body is Bodhi, and the mind is like a mirror. Seeing mountains is mountains, seeing water is water. This is indeed good, but it is nothing more than that."
It turns out that Taoist Taiyi saw through Shen Lian's lies and revealed Shen Lian's current state.
What is meant is that the body is Bodhi and the mind is like a mirror. Taoist Master Taiyi solved the key point by saying that mountains are mountains and water is water. Because spiritual practice in the world can be divided into three different realms: one is seeing mountains as mountains, and seeing water as water; second, seeing mountains as not mountains, and seeing water as not water; third, seeing mountains as mountains; seeing water as water.
The first level is to see the external appearance, the second level is to see the inner appearance, and the third level is that the inner appearance is the same as the outer appearance.
Therefore, as Buddhism says, there is a difference between the body being a Bodhi tree and the Bodhi tree not having a tree at all. In the end, everything is Bodhi, so the body is also Bodhi. It has the same meaning as the three realms, which are ultimately indistinguishable from inside and outside.
Therefore, Shen Lian transforms emptiness into reality at this time, which is both emptiness and reality.
If there is no difference between reality and reality, even if you are not a Taoist, this is still a Taoist level method.
But Taoist Taiyi said a word, that's all. That's right, and I don't mean to underestimate Shen Lian.
Because there is no difference, after all, there is a separate word.
The Taoist master is transcendent and has long stopped sticking to these things.
Shen Lian smiled slightly and said, "It's not just that."
Having said that, he showed off his sleeves.