The soul is good and the spirit is evil.
It is recorded in "Zi Bu Yu·Nanchang Scholars" that the soul of a person is good but the spirit is evil, the soul of a person is smart but the spirit is foolish, the soul of a person is righteous but the spirit is evil.
But that is just people's guess.
For humans, good and evil have their standards; for the way of heaven, good and evil have new standards.
The monks practice the way of heaven, and love, desire and scheming are not evil. The real evil is the various uncontrollable emotions that hinder practice.
Such as stupidity, madness, hatred, guilt, and regret.
If people can strip away all these emotions, they can naturally get closer to the Way of Heaven, be between the sentient and the indifferent, understand the Way of Heaven, and become "Taozi".
In the past, when he was reading by the window, he read a few sentences like this and thought: If there is a special method that can separate the soul and the spirit, get rid of the evil spirit and keep the good spirit, and then enter the path of cultivation, then it can be considered to have embarked on the shortcut to Zhongnan.
But he was still the third son of Marquis Xie's mansion at that time, and that was all he thought about.
Later, after I killed Jianchou and sat in front of her new grave, I felt a burning sensation in my heart, with evil spirits stirring in my heart. I felt so ashamed and in so much pain that I could hardly bear it.
The soul and spirit are separated.
Three parts of the soul are in the body, and seven parts of the spirit are in the sword.
From then on, he called this sword "Seven-Point Soul".
He still loves Jianchou, but he will never feel guilty or painful about killing her to seek the truth, nor will he regret it.
What remains with him forever is calmness, restraint and strategy.
He thought that no one in the world knew his secret, even Hengxu Zhenren, who accepted him as his disciple, knew nothing about it.
So, how could Jianchou know
As early as when they went to the Snowy Region to attend the Tantric Buddhism, she had already used the three words "seven parts of the soul" to test her.
Now he even holds this sword in his hand!
When the sword stabbed into his chest, the seven parts of his soul hidden in the sword followed the sword tip back into his body.
The reunion of soul and spirit brings the long-lost heart-wrenching pain!
Xie Buchen failed to kill Jianchou, but she sent back seven parts of his soul with one sword. His ancestral orifice between his eyebrows and his spiritual palace were like being trapped in an eternal calamity, and he began to fight with Pangu's soul.
How far is the distance between heaven and earth
What’s the difference between cold and heat
The moment Jianchou put away his sword, he fell from the void of this desolate area. Jianchou stood at the end of his sight, motionless, gradually shrinking in his eyes, and finally became a blurred dot, swallowed by the surrounding darkness.
He sank completely into the depths of darkness.
He didn't know how many stars he had passed, and he didn't know where he had sunk to. After a long fall, he actually felt like he had crashed into a torrent, being carried and pulled by it, and the boundaries between time and space finally became blurred.
A moment is like a lifetime, a thousand years are like the snap of a finger!
His will had been completely destroyed in the battle with Pangu's spirit, and even his body and blood had become thin.
He knew that he was turning into chaos.
But he didn't expect that he could still see the light, although it was a dim light.
There is a familiar scent coming from the wind.
Xie Buchen opened his eyes.
What I saw was the ever-expanding Hundred Thousand Evil Lands in the Extreme Domain, with withered grass all over the sky and dark clouds forever covering the gloomy sky. The intact Ghost Gate stood on the edge of the Seventy-Two Cities in the Extreme Domain, and in the nearest Wrongful Death City, I could vaguely see the figures of ghost cultivators walking one after another.
At this moment, he was really confused.
There was endless pain in his mind, spreading to every part of his body, but this city gave him an extremely strange feeling.
After the war between Yin and Yang, more than half of the seventy-two cities in the Extreme Domain were destroyed.
Even if Jianchou were to rule Jiyu and be given the title of King Pingdeng, the reconstruction of these seventy-two cities would never look the same as before.
Almost subconsciously, he dragged his broken body towards the city, towards his old house.
No one noticed his presence along the way.
The streets, tall buildings, and alleys all retain their old look.
Xie Buchen just felt that he was in a dream. He heard that before a person dies, many past events would flash through his mind like a kaleidoscope.
This old house should be the starting point of his destiny for the past ten lives, right
The door was closed, and there was actually a formation outside.
However, he didn't even push the door and walked in easily, as if neither the door nor the formation existed.
The blood flowed on the ground and turned into water.
Xie Buchen saw the old locust tree planted in the yard, which had grown so tall.
My mind was groggy and even my steps were shaky.
A man who was exhausted walked up the stairs, but when he passed the half-open window, he saw Jianshou!
There are faint red handwriting on the snow-white window paper.
The plum blossoms in the plum vase have already bloomed.
She stood in front of the desk in the study, holding three purple incense sticks in one hand, with a faint flame coming out from the fingertips of the other hand, and she was approaching the three incense sticks!
At this moment, thunder exploded in Xie Buchen’s mind!
Without even thinking twice, he threw the ink ruler in his palm out and hit her hand!
“Bang!”
The stick of purple incense fell to the ground and broke into several pieces before it could be lit!
Jianchou, who was standing inside the window, was shocked by this. He turned around and looked straight out the window!
She was extremely alert.
Although he couldn't see anything, he didn't know if it was a coincidence or because of her sharpness, that gaze passed through the gap in the window sill and met his gaze.
What does it feel like
It was not until the Mo Gui ruler scratched the back of her hand and pierced through the entire land of the Yuanshi Realm and emerged from the ground on the other side that Xie Buchen realized what he had done, where he was and what time it was!
He actually went back to the day when Jianchou was trapped in the extreme region and discovered the secret of the old house for the first time, and went back to the moment when she grew the plum in the vase and was about to light the incense!
If people go back to the past, they can change the future.
But what can he change at this moment
If I interrupt Jianchou's burning of incense, where will the incense go? Is it here with Jianchou, or with the Nine-headed Bird? If I don't interrupt Jianchou's burning of incense, his cultivation level at the Nineteenth Continent is not as good as it is now. What will he encounter when the incense burns out
But it's meaningless now.
Because the choice has already happened.
After he threw the ruler and interrupted the burning of incense, it was impossible for someone as vigilant and meticulous as Jianchou to burn incense again.
Maybe taking the incense away from Jianchou is a solution.
But after throwing that ruler, he could no longer move a step and was just a dying man.
After hundreds of years of planning for this life, he survived to the end, but instead of being able to control his own destiny, he was controlling his destiny for others!
Living like this, what is the difference between life and death
It would be better if hope had never arisen and had never been born into this world!
Coming from the future, he has experienced everything and knows clearly that he had become someone else's pawn the moment he used the nine-headed bird's blood to make incense.
What is the necessity for the situation in this old house
Deep in his consciousness, Pangu's soul had already merged with his for the most part and was gradually reviving. At the same time, it also seemed to be aware of his inner thoughts and suddenly intensified its devouring!
The two souls were like two trapped beasts in a cage, devouring and biting each other!
But this pain is really nothing.
When one-third of his soul returned, the pain that spread from the bottom of his heart was the greatest pain in the world!
So he seemed to feel nothing at all, and even though he was at the end of his strength, he still stretched out his fingers forcefully!
Writing on the snow-white window paper.
The process was not entirely smooth.
Because his body was sometimes under his control, and sometimes controlled by the other party, it was like a torturous tug-of-war. He could not hear anything, could not see anything clearly, and could only rely on his paranoid will to continue writing.
"It's a trick."
The first two are extremely distorted and have lost their former elegance and solemnity.
But maybe, not being able to recognize it is just right
Such a thought passed through Xie Buchen's mind faintly, and his mind was in a trance for a while. When he paused for the last moment, he could see clearly the eight words he had written -
Kill, thank you for not being a loyal subject;
Cut, seven parts of the soul!
"Seven-point soul..."
I recited these three words silently, and all my thoughts exploded at this moment, and all the unknown doubts became clear at this moment.
Like lightning across the sky on a rainy night!
Light up all the dark corners!
Xie Buchen couldn't help but shook his head and laughed so hard that he almost cried!
Laugh at this life that has been planned for hundreds of years, which is as absurd as a joke; laugh at the fact that I have been scheming step by step for nine lifetimes, but it is just a wedding dress for others; laugh at the fact that I have been called a disloyal emperor for ten lifetimes, and now I am at the end of the road and have become a vassal of others!
I also laughed at myself for my one wrong thought. I sought benevolence and got it!
It turns out that seeing sorrow comes from here, knowing the seven parts of the soul;
It turns out that there is such a turbulent current in the Nineteen Continents that allows people to travel through time!
That's why she tested him with the three words "seven parts of the soul". That's why she was able to summon countless of her selves in the decisive battle in the Wilderness. That's why one of her knew the location of the seven parts of the soul by spying on his dreams or from other times, and could obtain it by returning to the Primordial Realm.
The soul is good and the spirit is evil.
All that is beneficial to oneself and to the Tao is good; all that is not beneficial to oneself and to the Tao is evil.
A person's good and evil are balanced by the soul.
But in this life, he severed his soul and spirit!
Although the Tao is born in the soul and spirit, the soul and spirit are different. The three-point soul can prove the Tao and be disloyal to heaven, and can sacrifice everything for the "Tao", except itself; the seven-point spirit will feel ashamed and painful, and may not be willing to sacrifice everything for the "Tao", but can sacrifice itself!
The good and evil of heaven are actually different from the good and evil of man.
Before these seven parts of the soul merged with the three parts of the spirit, he would try every means to stop the devouring of Pangu's soul, but he would never destroy himself; but after these seven parts of the soul merged with the three parts of the soul, all the old emotions surged up, and at this moment of the struggle between heaven and man, it was enough to make him make the choice she wanted.
Because he is Xie Buchen.
After hundreds of years of planning, he became the Emperor of Humanity for ten generations, all for the sake of being disloyal!
I am who I am, and no one can change me!
It is clearly the most humble and simplest wish in the world, but it is also the most difficult and unattainable wish in the world.
How can people not be changed
"Ha ha ha ha… "
Xie Buchen was still smiling.
But as soon as the thought came up, the soul in the Zuqiao Lingtai exploded like a nebula. While destroying his own soul, it also destroyed the Pangu soul that had merged with him!
If I don't live for myself, what's the joy of life
If I no longer exist, why should I fear death
—He who kills disloyal people is disloyal!
Born because of disloyalty, died because of disloyalty;
What Jianchou said was right after all: It wasn't me who killed you.
Outside the old house, someone knocked on the door. Jianchou inside the window had put away the strange and vigilant expression on his face, walked into the courtyard, and sat down to talk with them.
Two people.
One of them was someone Xie Buchen did not know, and the other was Zhang Tang, who was still a ghost official at the time.
He then recalled all the things he had experienced on the lonely island of the world, watching her bright face standing under the peach blossoms in March, smelling her faint fragrance as she bent over her desk copying Buddhist scriptures, and touching her rosy cheeks illuminated by the burning red candles...
He couldn't help but ask himself, do you regret it
No, never regret it.
I neither regret falling in love nor regret killing.
There is nothing in this world worth regretting, whether it is life or death, love or hate.
Between his slightly indifferent eyebrows, the hostility was undulating, deep and shallow, but it eventually dissipated. The moment Xie Buchen fell, he saw the dried handwriting on the snow-white window paper.
Jianchou was still talking to the two men.
It's time to not see it anymore.
Okay.
On that day above Kunwu Cloud Sea, she toasted him with a glass of wine and said, "You are worth it."
But he finally knew it wasn't worth it.
It was he who created Jianchou, and Jianchou also made him complete—
Until death, I will still be myself!
In the last moment when his consciousness dissipated and Pangu's soul died together, everything in front of his eyes shook, and even his memories dissipated and disappeared along with his consciousness.
So finally I didn’t remember it.
So, is the word written on the window, “命” in “我命著我”, or “卿” in “心悦卿兮”
Maybe both.
Xie Buchen blinked his eyes, and finally slowly closed them. It was a big dream from which he would never wake up. In the dream, there were distant green mountains, misty rain and continuous...