After answering this question, the tiger outside the temple and the ghosts beside it were filled with anxiety, and the people in the temple were so frightened that they were stunned for a while, so there was a moment of silence.
Ji Yuan calmed down again and thought hard about how to communicate harmoniously with the tiger demon who ate people without blinking an eye.
When the tiger outside the temple began to get impatient, a long voice finally came out from the temple.
"Mr. Lu Shan is quite courageous. If you were to change into a demon, you would probably only deceive a few people. I didn't underestimate you!"
The scholar's henchman couldn't help but clench his fists in his sleeves, and the tiger spirit Lu Shanjun was also secretly delighted.
"Humans are the most intelligent creatures in the world. Perhaps some monsters think that eating humans is the most nutritious. What do you think, Mr. Lu Shan?"
Ji Yuan didn't wait for the tiger spirit to speak and asked again.
In addition to trying to get the creature outside to give up the idea of eating people, he was essentially stalling for time so that he could think of the right words to respond. After all, if he couldn't trick him in the end and the other party got angry, then everything would be over.
However, it was just a simple question, and the tigers and ghosts outside became anxious again.
Lu Shanjun's huge tiger head just stared at the ghost. He didn't know how to answer at all. He felt that saying "yes" would definitely be wrong, but saying "no" was too simple. What if the person in the temple asked "why not?"
The scholar was so anxious that he paced back and forth, feeling as if he had a strict teacher testing him when he was a student.
"Have you thought of it? Have you thought of it?"
"Don't worry, Tiger, don't worry... Got it!"
"Tell me now!!!"
The scholar subconsciously raised his sleeves to wipe off the non-existent sweat and answered in a low voice.
"The answer to this question is naturally not to agree with the previous statement. The key is how to explain the point of view that you disagree with, but you can't refute the previous statement of the tiger. After all, the tiger ate fifty-three people... The tiger needs to say this..."
The expression on Lu Shanjun's tiger head changed from annoyance to frown to relaxation.
"Are you saying that no matter how we answer, it will be wrong, and we just need to be true to our conscience and not contradict ourselves?"
"Yes, Tiger King believes me!"
The tiger nodded slightly and spoke to the temple.
"I have pondered your question for a long time. I, Lu Shanjun, have lived in Niukui Mountain since I was born with intelligence. I have rarely seen other monsters. I don't know what they think. For me, eating humans is indeed nutritious, but your question makes me feel that it is inappropriate. Please teach me!"
Actually threw the question back.
But this is exactly what fate means. As young people who have experienced the era of the Internet explosion, we have seen all kinds of information and knowledge that are rich beyond description. As long as we are not panicked and confused, it is not difficult to come up with something profound and reasonable. Apart from anything else, those chicken soups are very attractive.
This time, Lu Shanjun and his minions didn't have to wait long, as the people in the temple answered the questions directly.
“It is often said that humans are the spirits of all things. The spirits of plants, animals and birds are attracted to humans, but humans are also the most emotionally complex creatures in the world. They are entangled in resentment and cause and effect. Monsters can easily become addicted to eating humans. They think that it is a tonic for their cultivation, but they have already been entangled with resentment. After a long time, they have made more progress than they can break through. As time goes by, their temperament becomes more vicious and their spirits are blinded, until they go crazy... This is the way to self-destruction.”
The big tiger Lu Shanjun swallowed his saliva and the hair on his body stood up slightly.
No one had ever said these things before. Although the books that the scholar and the ghost had read to him often contained content that encouraged people to be good, they also contained many ridiculous and pedantic words. Now, the words of the people in the temple made him break out in a cold sweat.
Because he, Lu Shanjun, really had the urge to eat people the more he ate, and he had indeed been trapped in spiritual practice for a long time. The people in the temple should not be aware of this, so with both factors confirmed, he naturally believed this truth.
At this moment, Lu Shanjun had even forgotten the question he asked at first, and instead asked anxiously towards the temple.
"Sir, is there any remedy?"
Hearing this, Ji Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and the heavy stone in his heart was lifted. This was a crucial clue!
"I have listened to what Lu Shanjun said before. Eating people is like eating birds and beasts. He does not have the intention of killing indiscriminately. He does not eat when he is full. He does not eat during the day. He does not eat the old, the young, the sick and the disabled. This is rare among monsters. Haha, maybe Lu Shanjun did not touch a rotten beggar like me because of this kindness!"
"I dare not! Sir, I dare not offend you, Mr. Lu Shan!"
Lu Shanjun panicked again and hurriedly explained that this was indeed the case at first, but later he gradually felt that this beggar might not be simple, but it was only a suspicion. Today it was confirmed.
Ji Yuan did not dare to go any further, but continued slowly.
"The remedy is simple to say, but it is also difficult to say. It is definitely not just a simple sentence of not eating people, but the fundamental principle is not profound. Cultivation is like being a human being. The body, mind and path are upright. This is the fundamental."
Ji Yuan paused for a moment, thinking that this sentence might not be powerful enough to subdue the tiger spirit, and then immediately added another sentence.
"The way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency; the way of man is to reduce the deficiency and serve the surplus. Before, you asked me why I realized it, and now you asked me how to make up for it. It's all the same principle... Mr. Lu Shan, you and Ji have a deep connection. Today, I have said enough!"
After Ji Yuan said this, he waited nervously for the reaction outside.
The tiger outside frowned and stretched his brows, stretched them and frowned again. He thought hard and seemed to understand something and felt that the Tao was profound, but he felt much more at ease in his heart.
The silence inside and outside the temple lasted for several minutes, which tortured Ji Yuan a lot, but surprisingly he was not too panicked.
“Rustle…rustle…rustle…”
“Hu~~~Hu~~~”
Amid the sound of the wind, after thinking hard, Lu Shanjun began to move slowly towards the direction of the mountain temple.
Every footstep was like a claw stepping on Ji Yuan's heart. Cold sweat oozed out of his back again, and he cried out in his heart: I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!!! I seem to have been too pretentious, and this time I'm killing myself!!!
At this moment, Zhang Shilin and other traveling merchants were in a better state of mind. Although they were also very nervous, they could not hear the tiger's steps, and they had already determined that there was an expert nearby, so they felt much more at ease.
In just a few breaths, Lu Shanjun had arrived at the temple gate.
Then, to the horror of Ji Yuan and a group of peddlers, a tiger with a huge head and a body length of nearly four meters slowly stepped into the temple gate, followed by Lu Shusheng.
He has yellow hair and black stripes, a character "王" on his forehead, and fierce tiger eyes, which frighten people without them being angry.
The traveling merchants couldn't even hold their weapons, they all collapsed in fear, and Ji Yuan didn't even dare to move.
The tiger didn't look at anyone else, but at the beggar sitting next to the broken mountain god statue. Although his hair was disheveled and his face was dirty, his pair of eyes, which seemed to be open and closed, were staring straight at the door.
"Mr. Lu Shan will never forget the guidance you gave me!"
The tiger actually raised its body, crossed its front legs, and made a bowing gesture with its paws, and bowed three times to Ji Yuan.
Then the body returned to all fours, the tiger's eyes turned to the ghost, and it took a breath, and a burst of white gas was sucked from the ghost into the tiger's body.
"I promised you that if you could help me, I would let you go. Go now!"
The scholar's ghost was extremely surprised. He bowed to Lu Shanjun, then knelt down facing Ji Yuan and kowtowed several times. He also kowtowed several times to the traveling merchants. Without saying anything else, he turned into smoke and floated away. The smoke dissipated and could not be seen before it even left the temple gate.
After the scholar's ghost left, Lu Shanjun looked at the traveling merchants. In their frightened eyes, he also spat out the ghost Wang Dong and sent him away as well.
Seeing this, Ji Yuan smiled stiffly, at least he was not scared to death.
"I dare not disturb you, sir, so I'll take my leave!"
After doing all this and leaving these words, the terrifying tiger slowly left the mountain temple, and the wind noise around it gradually calmed down.