Eternal Tranquility

An old voice drifted from the distance and lingered in his ears, finally calling him back from his unconsciousness.

Like waking up from a big dream, his blurred consciousness made him think for a long time before he figured out who the other party was talking about.

"Liu...Liu...Liu Qinghuan?"

"what did you see."

He opened his eyes, and the dazzling white light made him want to avoid it, but there was a voice in his heart that kept urging him urgently, as if closing his eyes at this moment would most likely lead to extremely serious consequences.

So he tried his best to open his stinging eyes, and the white light finally began to change, and his vision began to become clear.

The whistling wind sounded in his ears, and the clouds kept passing by him. He seemed to be riding the wind high in the sky, with only a crescent of blood moon above his head. Looking down at the land, the mountains and rivers recede rapidly.

He was not awake yet, just looking at everything under his feet calmly. Occasionally, the appearance of someone would attract his attention.

There were various expressions on the faces of the people who passed by. The woodcutter carrying firewood walked carefully on the steep mountain path. The young daughter-in-law who sold flowers in the town was pushed by a naughty gangster. Someone He came out of a broken house with a sad face...

It wasn't until he flew over a mountain and saw two monks fighting in the forest that his mind finally moved.

Looking closer, there is another dense building below, surrounding a rotating light hole like a large lake in the middle. Monks are constantly coming, jumping in with magic weapons in hand.

However, his speed was too fast, and the light hole just passed by in a flash, and when he turned around again, it was already thousands of miles away.

"what did you see."

The voice asked again. He came back to his senses and opened his mouth hesitantly: "The sea..."

The previous land has disappeared at the end of the field of vision, and in front of us is the boundless sea. Occasionally, there are one or two islands that flash past very quickly.

He had been flying on the sea for an unknown amount of time, until he finally regained his consciousness.

Liu Qinghuan was startled and finally remembered everything.

A moment ago, he was attacking the Nascent Soul in the quiet room of Songxi Cave Heaven Map, but now he suddenly found himself on the sea, and he was still flying forward at the speed of lightning!

He lowered his head, but he didn't see his feet, and he couldn't feel the existence of his body at all. He only saw a faint flowing purple light, which made him panic for a moment.

How is this going? Could it be that his attack on Yuanying failed and his body was destroyed, leaving only a little bit of Yuanshen? !

No, he was sure that the Songxi Cave Sky Map was extremely safe. Even if the map itself was destroyed, the small cave sky in the map would at best be left in the void and sealed.

Yes, the last thing he remembered was to take the Jiu Qiao Yang Shen Dan and prepare to face the last level of the infant: the inner demon level.

So, he is currently in the inner demon level, but the inner demon level is just flying around in the sea?

Liu Qinghuan only felt that this was too ridiculous, and the scenery under his feet finally changed, and a continent appeared in front of him.

He couldn't help but sigh that his current speed was too fast. One moment, the mainland was just a black shadow on the horizon, and the next moment he had flown over the coast.

As the mountains and rivers appeared again, Liu Qinghuan gradually felt something strange. When a mountain so towering that it seemed like it could pierce the sky appeared in front of him, he finally knew where he was.

Liu Qinghuan turned his head and watched the familiar Langdian Snow Peak sliding past the right side. The Burial Valley not far away had been renovated, but traces of its destruction could still be seen.

Liu Qinghuan was lost in thought. He had only heard that after the birth of a baby, the soul could leave the body and travel to the void, but he never knew that this would happen before the birth of a baby or when experiencing the inner demon level.

Looking at the almost invisible purple light outside his empty body, he couldn't help but guess that all this was because of the Jiu Qiao Yang Divine Pill?

Before he could think clearly, the Floating Moon Fairy City had already disappeared under his feet, the mountains were getting lower and lower, and the Black Claw Mountains soon appeared in front of him.

Liu Qinghuan couldn't help but perked up, looked carefully, and was shocked!

Countless corpses were lying all over the mountain range without anyone collecting them. Only the ruined palaces were left on the Finger Bone Peak. Countless monks from the Yin Moon Blood Realm passed through the ruins and poured into the space channels in waves!

Yunmengze was repulsed, and the alien monks finally invaded Yunmengze? !

Liu Qinghuan felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and uncontrollable despair filled his heart. He landed on the Finger Peak in a daze, and was carried into the space channel by the laughing and roaring monks from another world, and returned to Yunmengze, where he had been away for many years.

The captured Eagle's Nest City was dodging the fleeing crowds, and the broken mountains and rivers appeared in front of him in an extremely cruel manner. When he arrived at the coast of the East China Sea, the nine giant peaks of the Wenshi sect appeared completely undefended for the first time. Countless disciples in sect costumes were fighting bloody battles, and among them were many outsiders. The remaining monks in Yunmengze stained the once wonderful peaks with blood.

Liu Qinghuan felt that his heart was bleeding. He wanted to join the battle in front of the Taiyi Hall below, and wanted to prevent the invaders from entering the power transmission building where countless treasures were hidden, but he could only watch helplessly from the air.

The Great Xumi Qiankun Pagoda fell, the back mountain was breached, and every familiar person died under the enemy's sword.

Lin Guang, Bai Fengming, Xuan Bo, Lu Enming, Yin Ba...

Mo Qianli died in battle, Di Rou and Jiang Nianen died in battle, Zuo Zhishan died of exhaustion, Ji Yue died together with others...

Liu Qinghuan felt wetness slipping down the side of his face. He watched Yun Zheng's eyes full of determination and turned into an ice blue sword. After drinking the enemy's blood, it shattered into ice crystals all over the sky. He watched Mu Yinyin's mouth curl up with a trace of faintness. Laughing, like a phoenix and a flying luan, burning out the last brilliant flame; watching his master Ming Yangzi finally self-destruct among the enemies...

The Wenshi sect fell and Yunmengze was destroyed.

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Liu Qinghuan stood on the ruins like a wandering spirit, and the old voice sounded in her ears again: "What did you see?"

Yes, he finally knew what he saw. He saw his fear, obsession, and attachment, which were his biggest inner demons.

Liu Qinghuan raised his head: "Old man Liu."

The voice in the void smiled, and a figure slowly appeared in front of him, looking at him lovingly.

"Sure enough, it's you." Liu Qinghuan sighed. He looked at the old man, and the face that had long been forgotten in his memory became clear again. The wrinkles representing suffering were mixed with dirt that could not be washed away, and the scribe's robe on his body was layered with patches.

"Qing Huan, you have grown up." A pair of slightly trembling hands gently stroked his hair, just like the warmth the other party gave him countless times when he was a child.

Liu Qinghuan realized that he finally had a body. He reached into his arms and took out the Sutra of Immortality. His eyes were clear: "Old man Liu, look, I have become an immortal, and I will soon be promoted to Nascent Soul."

"Okay, okay!" Old Man Liu shouted loudly, his face full of joy: "You have finally accomplished something for me that I have never been able to do in my life. Great, great!"

He took the blue-covered scripture, caressed the five words on it with nostalgia, and asked, "Is this book really a sacred book?"

Liu Qinghuan said: "Yes, this is a very powerful spiritual method for cultivating immortals, written by a great master in the ancient world of cultivating immortals."

Old Man Liu smiled happily, opened the page of the book, and read: "The husband's determination is the ultimate in the world, and it is the end of peace. The shape is like a gaunt tree, the heart is as gray as ashes, there is no feeling or desire, the silence is so deep, there is no intention to settle down. And nothing is uncertain..."

Liu Qinghuan was in a clear mind and listened to him reciting the scriptures quietly.

After going through the previous scenes of despair, he finally came to his senses. Heaven is supremely private, and its use is supremely public. Kindness is born from harm, and harm is born from kindness. This is how to gain love and forget love, and forget love to be fair.

The way of heaven is ruthless, and the Supreme Being forgets his feelings.

At some point, Old Man Liu closed the book and said, "It's time for you to go back."

Liu Qinghuan nodded: "It's time for me to go back."

In the blink of an eye, he was back in the quiet room. Amidst the rumbling spiritual power, the light curtains in the courtyard were dissolved layer by layer, and a shuddering pressure enveloped the entire Songxi Cave Sky Map in an instant.

Liu Qinghuan's heart moved, and a little man about an inch tall appeared from above his head. His body was covered with green light, and his appearance was exactly the same as Liu Qinghuan's.

But he saw the little man grinning, shaking his body, and another little man was shaken out.

This one looked like a hollow body at first, but when the two were completely separated, its body condensed and became exactly the same as the previous one.

The two little people held his chubby little hands and rolled around in his bun.

Liu Qinghuan's face looked a little weird, and it became even worse every time the two little people separated and merged into one. After a while, she gradually understood and couldn't help but be ecstatic.

At this time, Xiao Hei's excited roar came from outside the door. The Nascent Soul above his head stopped playing, merged into one and sank into his body.

Liu Qinghuan stood up, but this was not a good time for him to be happy or to study carefully. There were still many things to do later, such as finally trying to see if he could break through the void space of the mirage, and the catastrophe that he would have to endure next. .

The one who is determined is the ultimate in vulgarity and the end of peace. The shape is like a gaunt tree, the heart is as gray as ashes, it has no feelings and no desires, and it is extremely lonely. There is no intention to settle, but nothing is settled...Self-denial and diligence, the hollow spirit of the valley... - From "Zuowang Lun". This classic played a great role in the development of Taoism, and its ideas have been quoted in many novels. The meaning of this passage is: The so-called tranquility is the highest state of eliminating all worldly thoughts, and the completion of maintaining peace of mind. The human body that achieves tranquility is like a dry wood, and the mind is like burned ashes. It is not moved by external fame and wealth, and has no pursuit. It is extremely quiet and indifferent. There is no need to intentionally pursue meditation, and the heart is in a state of silence all the time. .

Forgetting one's feelings is a state pursued by Taoism, but forgetting one's feelings is not unfeeling. People have seven emotions and six desires. To forget one's emotions means not to be swayed by the seven emotions and six desires, but to control it and control it. It will be there when it should be, but not when it shouldn't be. Many people interpret being too supreme to forget one's feelings as being unfeeling and unfeeling, which is incorrect.

Readers should all know that the way of heaven is unkind and treats all things like straw dogs. Heaven and earth regard all things as just like grass dogs. They are not particularly good to people, but are particularly bad to other things. Everything in the world is ordinary, and there is no high or low, nobility, or inferiority. When it comes to distinctions between honor and inferiority, superiority and inferiority, good is not regarded as good, and evil is not regarded as evil. Therefore, it is said that the way of heaven is impartial. And Taishang Wangqing is to achieve this state.

In fact, the philosophy contained in our Chinese Taoism is really profound and profound.

Of course, the above is the author's understanding, and book friends are welcome to express different opinions.