flstandardbreds Chapter 153 A glimpse
Chapter 153 A glimpse
Xu Weichen had never had such an experience in the first two hundred years of his life. When he walked among the mountains and forests, the grass and trees would bend and sway towards him, the flowers would bloom in front of him, and from time to time small animals would bring wild fruits or fresh prey and put them in front of him.
Even the mountain wind would stop briefly when it blew past him.
"Master is loved by the entire forest!" When Liu Yishu said this, his expression was full of pride as if he was the one loved by the entire forest.
There is a phrase called "与荣有焉", which is very suitable for him now.
"Animals and plants have very simple minds. If you are good to them, they will be good to you." Liu Yishu said to Xu Weichen, his eyes sparkling brighter than the stars in the night sky; when he smiled, it was more breathtaking than the most beautiful flower blooming before his eyes.
Xu Weichen's heart moved. Little foxes can also be considered animals, right?
"Does this count as merit?" he asked.
He knew that Liu Yishu must accumulate merits in order to counter the laws of nature and offset the rejection of him by heaven and earth.
However, ever since saving 100,000 lives in Suzaku King City, Liu Yishu has never done anything similar again, as if nothing had happened.
But Xu Weichen always remembered it, and Liu Yishu's Jindan tribulation and Yuanying tribulation made him realize how important merit was to Liu Yishu.
After becoming a Taoist partner with Liu Yishu and signing a soul contract with him, he and Liu Yishu shared the cause and effect. When he accumulated merits, he was also accumulating merits for Liu Yishu. So he always wanted to do something, but did not dare to do it easily.
As the saying goes, a small move can affect the whole body, and accumulating merit is not as simple as doing good deeds. Just as the boundary between good and evil is never so clear.
"Master, can you feel their gratitude towards you?" Liu Yishu asked instead of answering.
Although flowers, plants and trees cannot speak, and do not have clear facial features like humans to directly express their joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, they also have their own way of expression, which is vivid, vivid and absolutely real.
For example, the shy little grass, or the flowers that instantly bloom to the utmost beauty.
As for animals, they have more advantages than plants in this respect. They will lie in front of Xu Weichen with their four legs facing the sky, exposing their soft bellies to tempt him to touch them, or stop at Xu Weichen's feet and rub their heads against them affectionately.
It's a pity that Xu Weichen already has a little fox, and no other animal can compare to his little fox in terms of acting coquettishly, so he is not moved at all.
But it cannot be denied that seeing such a scene makes people feel sincerely happy.
Xu Weichen took the initiative to mention "merit", how could Liu Yishu not understand what he meant?
The soul oath completely bound him and Xu Weichen together, so he naturally had to make the best use of it and guide Xu Weichen to accumulate merit.
"When human cultivators talk about merit, the first thing they think of is always helping others and relieving suffering, but in fact, this is the most dangerous thing to do."
"Every person, or every living being, has his or her own destiny. It is easy to change the fate of the weak, but it is difficult to bear the consequences of changing the fate of the weak."
"I saved the 100,000 lives in the royal city because I knew they were not destined to die. Saving them did not change their fate, so I do not have to bear the consequences of their actions."
"Humans always think of themselves as the leaders of all spirits. In fact, in the eyes of heaven and earth, a person's life is no different from that of a tree, a flower, or a blade of grass. Therefore, saving a person and saving a blade of grass have the same merit. But a blade of grass is limited to the land where it grows. To heaven and earth, its existence has only benefits and no harm. Therefore, saving it will only bring good karma and no bad consequences. But people are different. People can become Buddhas or demons with a single thought. There are too many variables, and it is easy to lose more than you gain."
As a human being, Xu Weichen had never thought about problems from this perspective. However, when Liu Yishu said this, he actually felt that it made a lot of sense.
Over the past two hundred years, he has seen how dirty people's hearts can be. Imagine if he saved people like Hu Yu, Chen Biyun, and Ye Qianjun one day, he would feel sick just thinking about it.
But the plants, birds and beasts in the mountains are different. He uses his spiritual energy to turn it into rain, which is beneficial to his own practice and also makes them more lively and energetic. Their spirituality then affects the energy of this small world, making it more suitable for his practice, thus forming a virtuous circle.
When he realized this, Xu Weichen even felt that he had lived in vain for the past two hundred years.
Now thinking back on the past, the fact that the origin of his Taoist body was damaged was not inexplicable, and the end of his life was not without solutions. For example, there were ancient species on Xiaoyue Peak, and the wood essence they condensed was of great benefit to his soul.
Although ordinary plants cannot condense such pure wood essence, their advantage is that they are numerous and omnipresent. Even the ground energy can be changed by them. If this trend continues, after thousands of years, Xiaoyue Peak and Tianzong Mountains may be able to regenerate a spiritual vein.
He vaguely felt that he seemed to have touched some principles and rules between heaven and earth. The feeling was mysterious. He was walking on the right path, and Xiaoshu was his guide.
Since he could remember, the most common thing he had heard was that the spiritual energy on the continent was becoming increasingly depleted and less and less suitable for cultivation, so the realm that cultivators could reach was getting lower and lower.
Three thousand years ago, the ancestor of Tai Cang Mountain could even touch the threshold of ascension and was only one step away from becoming an immortal. Three thousand years later, only one person in the entire continent can reach the stage of refining emptiness, and he broke through by force with the help of a magic weapon. The rest of the cultivators can only struggle in the stage of transforming the spirit. These are all signs that the spiritual energy is dissipating and the Dharma Ending Age is coming.
However, now, Xu Weichen, relying on his own strength, has actually changed the geomantic energy of Xiaoyue Peak and Tianzong Mountains, making them increasingly rich in spiritual energy and turning them into holy places for cultivation.
Although a mountain or a mountain range is just an insignificant place in the vast territory of the entire Suzaku Continent, it allows Xu Weichen to glimpse the hope of becoming an immortal as a mortal.
But what happened next made Xu Weichen realize that in the past three thousand years, there might have been some brilliant people in Suzaku Continent who discovered this method to restore spiritual energy, but they all failed in the end due to human greed.
The changes in the Tianzong Mountains attracted many monks. Such a spiritual place was undoubtedly a holy place for them to practice.
But when there are too many people, there will be disputes. When disputes arise, only destruction will be brought.
Destruction is inherently easier than protection.
The fight between cultivators might cause limited harm to themselves, but it is fatal to the flowers, plants, birds and beasts in Tianzong Mountains. Xu Weichen and Liu Yishu stayed at Xiaoyue Peak for a few days, and when they came back, they found that countless creatures in Tianzong Mountains had been killed or injured, and it was no longer as peaceful and tranquil as before.