In the center of Lake of Tears, nine figures surrounded Xiao Ai, each sitting cross-legged in meditation.
People teach Master Xuandu, Li Changshou;
Explain and teach Guangchengzi, Taiyi Zhenren, and Yuding Zhenren;
Jiejiao Taoist Duobao, Our Lady of Jinling, Zhao Gongming, Fairy Yunxiao.
Nine masters of Taoism, nine disciples of the core saints of Taoism, gathered under the 18th floor of the underworld at this moment, less than a foot away from the incarnation of the Seven Emotions of Houtu, Xiaosai, to concentrate on experiencing and feeling...
The voice of the archmage a moment ago still echoed in their ears:
[If you want to fight against the power of the seven emotions, you must understand what such power is.
It is not a supernatural power, nor a magic technique, but a resonance to our own emotions. We must master the methods of resisting the power of the seven emotions through confrontation with sadness.
For example, in the face of Xiao Ai, we try to think of some happy things to offset the negative emotions in our hearts.
If you feel that you can't hold it anymore, just back away, the farther you are from Xiao Ai, the less you will be affected...]
then…
Before the picture of the disciples of the Nine Sages sitting around was handsome enough for a moment, Daoist Taiyi let out a chuckle, with tears glistening in the corners of his eyes, he quickly turned around and fled towards the distance, crying and laughing loudly at the same time, showing no sense of mastery.
Daoist Duobao sighed: "I never thought that Junior Brother Taiyi is also a man of love."
Guang Chengzi smiled and said nothing, feeling a little embarrassed.
The other eight were able to persevere, and the real Yuding who came with the real Taiyi didn't respond, just seemed to be meditating quietly.
"Ah," Xiao Ai sighed faintly lying there, tears could not stop falling down, and murmured in a low voice:
"I'm so miserable. I've become so miserable. I still have to be treated as a sharpening stone and surrounded by people...
This is probably the fate of our incarnation.
Existence is both false and merely an extension of what should not exist.
You all surrounded me, thinking about how to get rid of me, and because of this excitement and being missed by others, I felt a little ridiculous joy in my heart...
It's even more pathetic..."
"Oh, this poor man really can't do it!"
Taoist Duobao stood up, bowed to Xiao Ai, turned around and flew towards the distance.
"I can deal with the other emotions, but I can't stand this one! She is so pitiful!"
"Well, the only person who felt sorry for me has also left."
Xiao Ai showed a sad smile, tapped her finger on the Lake of Tears, and said foolishly:
"Existence, what is there to be happy about?"
The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit stood up, turned around and walked towards the distance, only left a sigh when she reached the distance, raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said:
"I'm the same as big brother."
Death plus three.
Li Changshou looked at Fairy Yunxiao beside him with some concern. Seeing Yunxiao Daoyun and his emotions were all stable, his heart felt a little more stable.
Half a day later, the remaining six people stood up, each bowed to Xiao Ai, and went to the edge of the Lake of Tears with the three immortals who had left the stage before, to hold the first special meeting on "Saving Houtu".
The great master said: "Everyone, brothers and sisters, do you have a clear idea of the power of the seven emotions?"
All the immortals nodded.
Guangchengzi said softly: "The seven emotions and six desires of living beings are unavoidable, and the same is true for you and me who have practiced for many years, but they don't show up on weekdays.
The incarnation of the seven emotions of the Dharma Empress Do not originate from her own seven emotions, but the incomplete seven emotions abandoned by all living beings before experiencing reincarnation, and their power is far beyond comparison with supernatural powers.
We must have the heart to tolerate the incarnation of the seven emotions, so that we can truly save the seven emotions. "
"Eldest brother is right." Master Taiyi folded his arms and nodded, expressing his approval, and then changed his voice, "But after careful consideration, it seems that he didn't say anything."
Guang Chengzi glared at Master Taiyi, who rolled his eyes calmly.
"Then tell me," Guang Chengzi casually took out a large seal and held it in his hand, and said calmly, "How should we proceed?"
Daoist Taiyi showed a solemn face, and said seriously:
"Pindao has just realized it carefully... what the senior brother said is right! To be tolerant and to love!"
"Don't be joking," Master Xuandu said with a smile, "Dear brothers and sisters, do you still need to experience it for a while?"
All the immortals shook their heads in unison, knowing how to fight against the power of the seven emotions.
The great mage said: "Before, Chang Geng and I entered the six-path reincarnation disk once, and fought against evil and desire.
Cough, under my cover, Chang Geng successfully contacted Empress Houtu through the incarnation of desire... "
"oh?"
Zhao Gongming couldn't help but his eyes lit up, he looked at Li Changshou, and said with a smile:
"It just so happens that my second sister is here too, Chang Geng, can you tell me more about this passage?"
Fairy Yunxiao hurriedly said: "Brother, don't be like this, we are discussing business."
"It's okay," Li Changshou agreed with a smile, took out scrolls in his arms, and gave them to the male immortals with his immortal power.
Li Changshou suppressed his smile and said seriously:
"The incarnation of desire can change a lot, for different qi practitioners, she can be very strong or very weak.
Different from Xiao Ai, the incarnation of desire will take the initiative to tease the desires in our hearts. This desire can be cultivation, power, wanting to be respected by others, etc. As long as she is taken advantage of, the Taoist heart will be full of desires and go crazy.
After I survived her attacks several times, she also showed an extremely powerful ability—incarnate into the desire of the living being itself, and directly interfere with you and me.
Fortunately, when she dealt with me, she turned into lust, and I just happened to be carrying some magic tools to calm the Taoist mind... these scrolls.
You can carry them with you, if you are affected by the incarnation of desire during a fight, you can take them out and have a look. "
The several male immortals were full of curiosity, each opened a scroll one by one, and observed carefully, the entire white lake of tears could be heard falling needles...
Suddenly, whoever coughed dryly first, several male immortals turned their heads together and cast very complicated gazes at Li Changshou.
Zhao Gongming took out a Dinghaishen bead, squeezed it hard into his eyes, and sprayed out two small water arrows.
Taoist Duobao smiled, rolled his eyes a few times, and thought of something.
The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit leaned forward and glanced at the treasure map in Zhao Gongming's hand curiously, with a strange expression on her pretty face. Looking at Li Changshou's appearance at this time, she muttered:
"Junior Brother, do you take a look at these masterpieces of yours before meeting Junior Sister Yunxiao?"
Li Changshou smiled and said: "This is just for self-defense, why should I guard against Fairy Yunxiao?"
Yun Xiao pursed his lips and chuckled, but did not speak.
Daoist Master Taiyi sighed with a smile: "No wonder, now all Taoist disciples are compared to you.
The water god can do what ordinary people can't, very human. "
Li Changshou smiled without saying a word, took advantage of the trend to gain the dominance of the topic, and said slowly:
"After I found Empress Houtu, I talked with Empress Houtu for a long time.
How and why the incarnation of the seven emotions came about, all brothers and sisters must have understood, so I won't go into details, let me talk about how to deal with it.
According to Empress Houtu's guidance, to solve the problem of the incarnation of the seven emotions, there should be a process of dredging and erupting. The seven emotions cannot be suppressed, so we can only find ways to guide them out.
This process requires the incarnation of the seven emotions to come into the world together, interact and restrain each other, and reach a stable state like ordinary people's seven emotions.
Then, let the great virtue Houtu return from the incarnation of the seven emotions to complete this rescue. "
He paused for a while, giving the masters a short time to think.
Taoist Duobao pondered a few times, "Must the incarnations of the seven emotions appear at the same time, and the balance of the seven emotions must be achieved
It's a little tricky..."
Li Changshou nodded and concluded:
"This process is divided into four steps in total. The first step is to bring Xiao Ai back to the six-path reincarnation disk. The second step is to liberate the empress of the seven emotions. The third step is to adjust the power of the seven-emotion incarnation. The fourth step is to rescue her. Empress Dowager."
The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit frowned and said, "Then, what about Xiao Ai?"
Li Changshou was silent for a while.
"Don't you claim to be the most resourceful disciple of the people's teaching?" The Holy Mother of Jinling showed a look of indignation, "Why didn't you save her?"
"Yes, but not."
Li Changshou said in a voice: "They are part of Empress Houtu, but they have different temperaments and tendencies, resulting in independent Taoism.
You and I are not the parties involved. I don’t know how painful it is to be cut into pieces. Isn’t the subject of the incarnation of the seven emotions the Empress Houtu? "
The Holy Mother of Jinling hesitated to speak, she was not low in Taoism, and she was only affected by sadness at this time, so she naturally understood what Li Changshou said was right.
Li Changshou glanced at Yunxiao, quickly moved his gaze away, and continued:
"We now need to determine the division of labor for the third step, and I will make a detailed plan later.
At this time, among the powers of the seven emotions, little sorrow is the strongest, followed by evil thoughts, and desire ranks third, followed by fear and anger, and finally love and joy.
After all, when a living being dies, it seldom has the idea of being happy and happy, so love and joy are not left to Empress Houtu...
Evil and anger are the most aggressive, but it is necessary to weaken the power of evil and increase the power of anger, so that the evil thoughts can be alleviated and the anger can be rapidly increased.
Evil thoughts have fought against my senior brother, and I will let my senior brother deal with it next. What do you think, senior brothers and sisters? "
The great mage nodded with a smile, and all the immortals nodded.
Li Changshou said again: "Now there is a question, who can make the incarnation of anger even more angry in the shortest time and the fastest."
All the immortals thought for a while, and all eyes looked at...
The handsome Taiyi Daoist in a red robe.
Master Taiyi's mouth twitched slightly, took out a mirror to take a picture of himself, and said calmly:
"These days, being a male fairy with a true temperament is being targeted like this!
Well, Pindao will deal with the Incarnation of Wrath! "
"That's appropriate," Li Changshou squinted and smiled, "After all, the overall strength of the Avatar of Rage isn't that strong."
Master Taiyi scolded with a smile: "Good job Chang Geng! Go to my Qianyuan Mountain for a drink when you have time!"
"Definitely," Li Changshou agreed, and continued to discuss with the immortals who should deal with him.
Not long after, the list was finalized.
Zhao Gongming was in charge of dealing with the embodiment of fear, and real person Yuding took the initiative to ask Ying to deal with the embodiment of desire;
The Virgin of the Golden Spirit deals with the least difficult incarnation of love and joy, and Li Changshou and Fairy Yunxiao work together to deal with the most contagious incarnation of sorrow.
Guangchengzi and Daoist Duobao acted as a firefighting team, responsible for timely support everywhere.
Li Changshou exhorted: "This is not a simple fight, such as the incarnation of Xi, the purpose is to make her happier.
The incarnation of love has other arrangements. This is not the love between a man and a woman in a narrow sense, but love in the world includes it...
Brother Guangchengzi, there is something here that requires the help of the Xianzong of Xianjiao. "
Li Changshou took out a jade talisman and handed it to Guang Chengzi. After reading it, Guang Chengzi nodded and promised to arrange it later.
It is almost the same as the layout of Jiejiao.
Fairy Yunxiao asked softly: "How can we make Xiao Ai more cheerful?"
The archmage smiled and said, "Chang Geng, you go and demonstrate to Junior Sister Yunxiao, it's also an example for everyone."
"Yes, brother."
Li Changshou stood up, bowed to the many senior brothers and sisters, and then drove towards the lake on a cloud.
"Oh~~"
Xiao Ai's sighs and whispers came from afar.
"Poor me, I still have to be treated as a model...
Sadness is so great, how to fill it? "
Li Changshou lowered his head from the clouds, and said in a warm voice: "You are not me, how do you know that I don't know your suffering?"
Xiao Ai replied feebly:
"Is it necessary to understand each other? Does anyone really want to understand each other? It's just to pretend to understand others in order to get a response.
Are you not tired? "
Li Changshou: ...
It can't be justified, but in this case, no matter what reason you say, there will be more reason to press yourself.
Well, just change the angle.
Li Changshou sat in front of her calmly, took out a book in his arms, and read it while holding the scroll, smiling slightly from time to time, and occasionally putting down the scroll and laughing loudly.
The immortals of the Taoist sect in the distance suddenly showed their faces, and they probably caught the essence of it.
Distract the other party's attention and arouse the other party's curiosity!
It's a pity that Xiao Ai just lay there and wept silently, turning a blind eye to Li Changshou's situation.
Li Changshou continued to read his book, not feeling the slightest danger of overturning...
After another moment, Xiao Ai opened her eyes, with tears in her eyes and a bit of helplessness in her eyes.
"Do you have to taunt me as a sad person here
You have your happiness, I have my sadness, can't you laugh in another place? "
Li Changshou closed the scroll and wondered, "Fellow Daoist, what is there to be sad about?"
"Birth is false, it shouldn't be born, isn't it worth mourning?"
"So, what is truth?"
Li Changshou asked warmly: "You said before that everything comes from the living beings' perception of the outside world, and all the prosperity is false and fleeting, and everything has no meaning.
But Xiao Ai, who is defining these meanings
is it you
Or did other beings give you such a concept
Now you and I are talking here, don't you really exist? "
Xiao Ai murmured: "But my existence needs to be erased and corrected. It is still false."
"Then don't you want to experience other emotions before being corrected?"
"Does it make sense?" Little Sorrow asked back, "Can't I just disappear like this?"
Li Changshou continued to speak softly:
"It may not be meaningful to you, but it is very meaningful to the creature that gave birth to you and needs your help.
Even if Xiao Ai is occupied by grief and sadness, isn't it her
You who have been hiding here and dare not go out for fear of hurting others, and her who has endured all the hardships and still wants to help others, are just the same creature after all.
So gentle. "
Xiao Ai's lips trembled, and she cried, "What can I do to help her? I'm just a piece of trash who only knows sadness and despair!"
"Come on, let's play a simple game, maybe it will help you."
Li Changshou stretched out his right hand to Xiao Ai, "Just for her sake, can you try to sit up?"
"meaningless… "
"Then you can lie on your stomach, look."
Dots of golden light appeared on Li Changshou's right hand, and each light spot contained the picture of Li Changshou laughing while holding a book and reading just now.
"This is my share of happiness, and you share your own sorrow."
Xiao Ai's fingers trembled, and a light blue ball of light flew slowly, hovering in Li Changshou's palm.
Li Changshou closed his eyes to remind him, and kneaded the two balls of light into a ball, and the two colored light beams in it chased each other, turning back into Tai Chi, and back into chaos.
Xiao Ai looked there with her head tilted. Although she felt a very mysterious Dao rhyme, she still didn't know what it meant...
Soon, Li Changshou took out a precious orb, poured the Tai Chi ball into the orb, and covered the orb with a piece of black cloth.
"Xiao Ai, tell me, is it joy or sadness? You should be able to understand the way of yin and yang that I just revealed."
"It's not... it's the chaos of emotions..."
"Chaos is constantly evolving, but the direction of evolution is uncertain. I can tell you clearly that the emotions inside have been finalized.
Chaos produces yin and yang, and the two most basic emotions are born from it, which are sadness and joy.
So, there's a 50% chance of sadness and a 50% chance of joy, right? "
"Well, it seems so."
"Then if you don't lift this black cloth, sadness and joy can be considered to exist at the same time, right?"
"You can also say that..."
Xiao Ai tilted her head, and all the immortals in the distance also tilted their heads together, gradually becoming a little confused.
Li Changshou smiled and said: "So, sadness and joy have been superimposed together, and as long as you don't uncover the cloth, the two can exist at the same time.
Then if you look forward, you may be able to see the next moment or the next hour, but what about further
If the time is far enough, far away that you can't foresee, isn't the emotion there also a state of chaos
In the chaos of emotions, sadness and joy exist at the same time, yet to be determined, and only when you get there, the emotions will collapse in one direction.
It's 50% sad and 50% happy, right? "
"No, what you said is all nonsense," Xiao Ai shook her head immediately, "I can't live that far at all, everything for me is set."
"Then tell me," Li Changshou shook the ball under the black cloth, "is there definitely sadness in it?"
Xiao Ai couldn't help being taken aback.
Li Changshou narrowed his eyes with a smile, and said, "Look down."
Xiao Ai looked down subconsciously, but saw that she had already propped herself up and sat reclined at some point, and the black gauze skirt sling was gently slipping off her shoulders...
Li Changshou stood up, put the orb wrapped in black cloth in front of Xiao Ai, and said in a low voice:
"Sadness is not the meaning of your existence, but feeling the sorrow of living beings is."
After saying that, Li Changshou turned around and flew towards the Taoist immortals on the cloud.
Xiao Ai looked at the precious ball wrapped in black cloth, sat up slowly, stretched out her little hand, but retracted when it was about to touch the black cloth, and so on.
The sadness that filled the Lake of Tears has become much thinner.
"Hey, Senior Brother Xuandu," Zhao Gongming leaned over to Master Xuandu, and muttered, "What is Chang Geng's state now?"
"I don't know," the archmage looked at his hands, where the two balls of light slowly rotated.
Zhao Gongming smiled and said, "Brother Xuandu, what are you doing?"
"Learn it, and go fight the little villain later," the archmage crushed the ball of light and smiled calmly, already confident.
The essence of Tai Chi is simple, of course it is very familiar!