Xue Yulu held her sword and roared: "The Holy Spirit can suppress evil! Those are the words of the God-Detecting Hand! I can only shout the Holy Word once. If you can understand the Holy Way, you can suppress the resentment. If you can't understand it, we will all die." You don’t have much time here.”
"Holy?" I couldn't help but feel confused: "What is holy?"
I have never practiced Taoism, and I am not a Confucian. I have read a few Buddhist classics but cannot understand them at all. How can I understand the word "holy"
My mind was racing, but I could only think of the content in "Shuowen Jiezi". I studied "Ancient Chinese" when I was in college, and I remember that I seemed to have been tested on the explanation of the word "圣" at that time.
The explanation of the word "holy" in "Shuowen Jiezi" and the popular fantasy novels are basically two different concepts:
Saint can be interpreted as a person with the noblest personality and wisdom; it can be interpreted as the most noble, a respectful name for the thing that is worshiped; it can represent the way to beautify the emperor in the feudal era; it can also be called someone with extremely high knowledge and technology. A man of achievement.
It can be said that in today's novels, saints are equivalent to gods and can be in harmony with the way of heaven. This statement is not necessarily unreasonable.
Unless a person becomes a saint, he will never forget the seven emotions and six desires, and will never be able to look past joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. No one can be truly ruthless. Sanctification? I’m afraid those who become saints have already lost their human nature, right
No, saints are ruthless. It is they who see through everything in the world and get to the essence of things.
I don't know why the legend "Zhuangzi Drum Basin" suddenly popped up in my mind.
Legend has it that Zhuangzi’s wife passed away. When his relatives and friends were mourning and crying, he would bang the basin and sing songs. In his eyes, human life and death are just like spring, summer, autumn and winter, which are the laws of nature.
Although some people in later academic circles said: Zhuangzi's drum basin is actually the true temperament of true sadness, and he replaced sadness with elegiac songs.
However, one thing is undeniable. Zhuangzi became a saint because of his wisdom, which transcended death and even surpassed all wisdom. Zhuangzi passed away leisurely as he approached the end of his life, which was very poetic. He didn't fear death, but he didn't live casually. He saw through the essence of life and forgot about life, and his spirit was so happy.
Only when you see through everything can you stand indifferent to everything and stand in the world and see the reincarnation of all things.
At that moment, I seemed to have broken free from the package of resentment, and stood in front of countless wronged souls again. I watched them desperately crying in front of me, but I felt neither joy nor sorrow. Everything they experienced hovered in front of my eyes. But I regarded everything I saw as an illusion.
Just when I was about to escape from my resentment, I heard a burst of applause from the distance: "Not bad, not bad, I finally have all the people I want."
When I suddenly turned around, I saw Xu You, who had disappeared on the ghost ship, appeared in the cave. He was the one who applauded just now.
Xue Yulu said sternly: "Protect Wang Huan."
The general corpse waved his hand, and the Qing troops he led immediately walked up the stairs quickly, surrounded me in the middle, and pointed their spear points outward at Xu You.
Xu You said calmly: "This way of greeting is not very friendly, isn't it?"
Xue Yulu said in a deep voice: "Wang Huan, I'll hold him back. If you have a chance, you should leave quickly."
I said calmly: "There is no need to leave. Wouldn't it be better to kill him if we have the chance?"
Xue Yulu suddenly became anxious: "What are you thinking about? You..."
Before Xue Yulu finished speaking, the cold light from the long knife in my hand swept across her face.
"Wang Huan, listen to my explanation!" Xue Yulu screamed and wanted to retreat, but my blade swept across less than two inches away from her, and instantly pressed under Li Qingyang's neck.
"King..." Just as Li Qingyang said one word, the long knife in my hand suddenly sank and cut into his neck. When I pressed the handle of the knife and drew it back, a figure appeared under Li Qingyang's head. A body wearing Taoist robes.
"Stop... stop..." Before Li Qingyang finished shouting, I had already cut off his head and held it in my hand again.
Li Qingyang's decapitated body fell to his knees on the ground with a thud, holding his hands on the ground to stand without falling.
When I looked at Xu Youjian coldly, the other party gave me an "it doesn't matter" gesture.
I was immediately stunned: Could it be that Xu You in the distance was not an illusion
As soon as this idea flashed through my mind, the human head in my hand suddenly turned into a piece of phosphorus fire and floated to the ground. Immediately afterwards, Li Qingyang's kneeling body also collapsed and exploded into fluorescent light swimming all over the ground.
When I released my hand and looked at Xu You again, the latter couldn't help but laugh: "Li Qingyang's side is just a flaw I deliberately sold to you. My illusion is impeccable, even the faceless woman can't see it. If it weren't for it, I deliberately sold you a flaw, can you obediently walk to the corpse dump?"
My face couldn't help but darken.
When I carried Li Qingyang's head and rushed to the corpse dump, I noticed that the weight of the head in my hand had changed slightly several times. At that time, I suspected that Li Qingyang was just using illusions to cover up his figure, leaving only I saw a human head, but he himself kept squatting and followed me quickly.
Until I hung the head on my waist to attack the magic flower, I was completely sure that the other party was using illusion.
Just like Xu You said, even if I know, what can I do if he is using illusion? I don't dare to expose his tricks easily until I get to the place where the corpses are accumulated. I can't see through the illusion, so I can only choose to capture Li Qingyang when I am absolutely sure. Once he escapes, how can I save Si Ruo
I said coldly: "Who are you?"
Xu You smiled and said: "I have already introduced you, I am Xu You. As for my other identity, you can think of me as a descendant of Xu Fu. I came to Dan Island to take away the things left by my ancestors. .”
Xu You paused and said: "Several restrictions on Dan Island require special people to open, so I had to use some small means to find some suitable people to help me. However, I also I didn’t expect that you would bring me such a big surprise.”
Xu You put his hands behind his back and said as if he were an elder commenting on his disciples: "This little girl named Xue Yulu is not bad. Although her cultivation is not too high, she is very courageous. She has seen through the hidden clues I buried among you."
Xu You waved his hand and said, "Don't you want to explain to Wang Huan? Just say it directly!"
I turned to Xue Yulu, who hesitated for a moment before saying: "When you and the little demon sister went down to look for the dragon turtle, I realized that our team was wrong. Although my eyesight skills are not perfect, I can still see something. Question. For example, Zhang Yuan, who was killed by you, was actually being controlled by others. "
No wonder Ruan Dalong and Tao Xiaoyao could still bear it when I killed Zhang Yuan. It turned out that they had long realized that there was something wrong with Zhang Yuan, so they allowed me to kill Zhang Yuan.
I nodded slightly and said, "You continue."
Xue Yulu said: "We can't tell what the problem is in the team, so we can only find ways to probe from other directions. The first person we think of is you, and it is most appropriate to force you out of the team. At least, let People in the potential team think it makes more sense.”
"However, we were blocked by dragon-eating grass on the mountain and had to meet you. At that time, the little demon sister gave me the task. She asked me to find a way to break away from the team and assist you secretly. So, I I will cause trouble for you everywhere.”
now it's right.
Mother Fox told me that no one in the Detective's Hand is a fool, and even a fool cannot be a Detective. Xue Yulu behaved like an idiot before she came to Eat Dragon Grassland, but Tao Xiaoyao, as the supervisor, couldn't do anything to her. Although Tao Xiaoyao gave people the impression that she was worried about Xue Yulu's background, so she treated her To be patient everywhere, in fact, this reason seems extremely far-fetched in this environment.
However, at that time, I didn't think about it. I simply regarded Xue Yulu's behavior as targeting the Demon Sect and me.
Xue Yulu said: "After I left the team, I swam to Wen Decheng's military camp according to the place you told me."
It turns out that the general's corpse is called Wen Decheng. As far as I know, Wen De's surname should be the surname of the Zhenglan Banner of the Eight Banners. It seems that the other party's message on the stone platform should be correct.
Xue Yulu said: "After Wen Decheng led the Detective Hands into Dan Island..."
What Xue Yulu recounted was exactly the same as what I saw on Li Qingyang's boat, except that the protagonist was replaced by Wen Decheng, and the person who didn't want to take the Corpse Pill and starve to death became the senior detective of the magic hand.
From this point of view, Li Qingyang is indeed a real person. Xu You took a section of what Li Qingyang and Wen Decheng experienced into an illusion and presented it in front of Ruan Dalong and me.
Xue Yulu didn't know what I was thinking, so she said to herself: "The senior detective of the magic hand was not willing to turn into a zombie and sacrifice himself on Dan Island, but before he died, he told Wen Decheng that if someone could recognize him in the future, When the person who issued the token appears, we must help him leave Dan Island. Only the magic hand can break Dan Island. This is why I can bring back the Qing soldiers."
Xue Yulu looked at my face and then said: "I also found the corpse dump based on Wen Decheng's statement. At that time, I saw that you seemed to be surrounded by illusions, so I wanted to prevent you from entering the corpse dump."
"At that time, I couldn't find a suitable reason, and I was afraid that the person who created the illusion for you would see the problem, so I had to blame Si Ruo and wanted to keep you. Who knows..."
Xue Yulu said a little aggrievedly: "Who knew that your methods were so drastic that you almost left me outside the corpse place."
I looked at Xue Yulu quietly and said, "You were deceived."
"Cheated? Who?" Xue Yulu said in horror: "You mean..."
Before Xue Yulu finished speaking, the Qing soldiers around us suddenly turned their spears and pointed them at the vital points of the two of us. The general corpse standing behind Xue Yulu even grabbed the other person's neck unexpectedly: "The person he is talking about is me."