Finally... After hearing these words from my master, my sadness suddenly reached the extreme. After all, having the master's blessing and not having the master's blessing are two completely different concepts.
Even if the master is in a spiritual state and cannot take action or do anything from now on, as long as he is around, he can still give us great psychological comfort.
Accompanying this sadness is a strong uneasiness. I don't know why I am uneasy. Even if the master leaves, there is no danger. Why should I be uneasy
My face looked ugly, and I stood blankly next to the boundary monument. Over there, Chengzhen said excitedly: "Master, why do you want to separate from us? Why don't you come with us to find our master? They are also your disciples. They disappeared looking for you, could you...?"
Chengzhen was outspoken and outspoken, which made me feel annoyed. I turned to Chengzhen and said, "Chengzhen, please stop talking. Do you want to be disrespectful to our master?"
Chengzhen retreated behind me with red eyes, but Master turned around and looked at us and said: "She said what she wanted to say. It is natural for us, Lao Li, to laugh and curse. What we say is true, our attitude is true, and our heart is true." It’s true! Don’t worry too much about seniority or anything like that.”
"Master, since you don't like rules and are so free and easy, why can't you be more free and easy with us?" Chengyuan couldn't help but speak at this moment.
The master said: "I have my own reasons, and I will explain them to you later. But after all, you fought in the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, don't you want to know all this?"
Since Master said this, I remembered the hints in Master's video tape. It is said that there is a chance in the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts. We have been fighting until now and have not seen any chance appear... If you know all this, say indefinite!
Thinking of this, I suppressed my sadness and nodded to my master.
The master did not speak, but looked at the ferryman. As for the ferryman, he was very weak at this time. He leaned against the boundary monument and half-squinted his eyes. Hui Gen'er lit a fire in front of him, as if he felt the master's gaze. He opened his eyes. Open your eyes.
"Master Hongren once said when he was here, what can be said is what has been let go! What cannot be said is the eternal knot in the heart." The ferryman's voice was a little weak, but what he suddenly said was something inexplicable. if.
We were silent, while Hui Gen'er sat obediently next to the ferryman. The ferryman didn't look at us, but took a sip of the wine he asked us for before, and continued: "Now it's time for you little guys to tell me about the past. The past has happened, and speaking of it, you are also the benefactors who helped me untie my knot. Now that I have explained the matter to you, my worries are over, and it’s time to leave."
"Master." Hui Gen'er shouted in a low voice. His mood when facing the ferryman is not the same as how we face our master.
"Is Huijue okay? From what you said, I know that Li Chun'er, the little guy back then, has gone to look for Daoist Li. According to my disciple's temperament, he should pursue him. After all, he has no transcendent monk who needs to be protected." Faced with Hui Gen'er's call, the ferryman suddenly said this.
"I wonder if Master is okay? Because Master, you guessed it right, Master went with Master Jiang." Hui Gen'er's voice became softer and softer, and then her eyes turned red.
"It is expected that what kind of master there is, there will be what kind of disciple. In fact, let's use the relationship between Hui Jue and Na Li Chun'er as an analogy. The friendship between me and Na Ning Zhifeng back then was like this. Different It's just that I have the guardian monk Hong Ren, the monk who saved me, but Hui Jue doesn't. What's even more different is that my apprentice has a better eye for people than I do." At this point, the ferryman took a sip of wine and looked very painful. .
We were silent. Their feelings may not be that strong, but I felt the pain of the ferryman very strongly. After all, my growth path was accompanied by not only my master, but also the figure of Uncle Hui. No one knows better than me what their relationship is like. It is a friendship between men who are closer than brothers and can risk their lives. If this relationship encounters betrayal and the two parties become hostile, one party will Even having to kill one party, that kind of pain... is like asking me to kill Surou and Qinhuai.
Therefore, I suddenly understood a little bit how the ferryman felt when facing Master's inquiry, he no longer made up his mind and avoided Master's gaze.
The ferryman's voice continued: "Master Hongren is not a person who likes to go out. He spends most of his time studying Buddhism. As a monk at that time, my mind could not rest. I hope to travel all over the country, gain more experience, be a chivalrous person, and be happy in the world! Ning Zhifeng was my best friend at that time. We had the same ambitions, so we naturally walked together. Before I entered the lake to ferry, I spent most of my life Being together with Ning Zhifeng, we went to many places, encountered many dangers, and had great gains. These experiences made us brothers connected by life... Later, we even accepted each other's apprentices. , has never changed. As long as we need each other, with just one word, we can drop everything and accompany each other on adventures."
The ferryman said it very simply, but in a few words, he had already clearly described the friendship at that time and the glorious years of his youth.
"We are so good, but that doesn't mean we don't have conflicts. The conflicts are based on each other's goals. In my opinion, walking out is for chivalry, to refine one's heart in the mortal world, and to accumulate more merits... And Ning Zhi What Feng usually likes to study the most is the secrets in the circle, as well as the legends of gods and goddesses everywhere, and the stories of successful practitioners. He goes out for various opportunities, opportunities that can allow him to achieve greatness. We debated this, but no one could convince anyone. Later, we stopped mentioning it. After all, in my opinion, it is impossible for a cultivator not to pursue the Great Way or the Right Fruition throughout his life. The idea is not wrong, as long as you don't do anything that is harmful to nature. Now it seems that I was terribly wrong." At this point, the ferryman's face showed a hint of bitterness again, and he took a big sip of wine. .
We all sighed, yes, it is right to seek the great road and seek righteousness, but if you immerse yourself in it and forget the most important tempering of your mind, it is very easy to go astray, so what is the great road? What are you talking about? Even if he becomes a heaven-defying being in the end, he will still not be recognized as the right path or the right fruit. Why can't many practitioners fail to realize this level? Or maybe you are too desperate on the road to spiritual practice and are willing to take more extreme measures to give yourself a chance
I'm still young and can't understand this level of state of mind, so I can't solve this doubt.
"The Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts is our last adventure place. After that, he became the lord of the new city here, and I became the ferryman here! I don't want to go into details about the specific process, but in the end, I I discovered that Ning Zhifeng had been practicing in an extreme way for a long time. Many of my adventures with him were to find something to help him in his practice! He used high-sounding reasons to deceive me, and among all ghosts, The lake is his last step." The ferryman's tone became very fast, but we were confused and didn't understand what he meant.
The master sighed at this time and added: "The meaning is very simple. Taoist practice is about having both form and spirit, and the final goal is metaphysics! This is the Taoist way. To put it more simply, it is ** and If the souls are connected together, they can achieve the Great Path! No matter how difficult it is, the soul must accumulate enough merits to be protected enough and be reincarnated! But either of these two roads can be called the ethereal fairy road, and the difficulty is not to mention And metaphor."
Having said this, the master paused and said: "Ning Zhifeng is also a man of great talent. The scary thing is that his pursuit of the Tao has reached a paranoid level! He is afraid that his life is limited and he will be unable to prove the Tao, so he simply He took advantage of his talents and embarked on a crooked path and became a person who specializes in soul cultivation. However, this is not the kind of serious cultivation that accumulates merits. It is just practicing exercises, cultivating techniques alone, and completely giving up on a powerful soul alone. **! He also gave up the Taoist heart that a Taoist should have. To put it more clearly, he started a thorough evil practice, and the ferryman unintentionally became his accomplice in searching for various resources."
"If it's just like this, it's fine. If the foundation is not stable, the building will always collapse. He will also suffer the consequences and see his whole life's practice turn into water. Even if I am an accomplice, it is just that the ignorant is not guilty. After all, it has not been affected. Innocent." The ferryman said that sentence, and then continued: "But how could he be willing to do this? So he lied to me to come to the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts because he knew that there was a Kunlun soul suppressed here. Let’s say it’s Kunlun’s soul power. This kind of power shouldn’t be available to humans, so it’s suppressed here. His last step is to merge with Kunlun’s soul.”
"The ferryman was used in this way, and together with Ning Zhifeng, he destroyed part of the outer formation, and even destroyed a small part of the heaven and earth formation, and then caused this result..." Master added.
"Yes, if a small part of the heaven and earth formation was not destroyed, how could the Yin Qi here leak out? If a part of the outer formation was not destroyed, how could the leaked Yin Qi eventually spread so far? The formation is destroyed Easy, but difficult to repair... Even if the Heaven and Earth Formation can repair itself, it will take time. In this time, it is enough for him to do so many things. It's a pity that he lied to me back then. There is one here that will threaten the entire China. He tried his best to encourage me to come, but I didn’t expect that the person next to me turned out to be that evil being.” The ferryman sighed.
This is probably the process of the whole thing. This is the real reason why the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts suddenly became turbulent. The formation was destroyed, and Ning Zhifeng successfully integrated the Kunlun Soul... Although the ferryman said it very briefly, even Omitting many processes of that year, we also got a general idea.
"Then what is his purpose?" I couldn't help but ask, since Ning Zhifeng, the soul of Kunlun, has been successfully integrated, what is the purpose of doing so many things