Catalog of Destruction

In shock, Shi Xuan still couldn't help but resist the blow from Taoist Yu Jing.

These resistances came from his own insights from more than 20,000 years of practice, from his firm path, the intersection of dragon and tiger, from breaking through illusions, seeing the mind and nature, and achieving the primordial spirit, from holding on to his nature and sticking to his heart, thus surviving the 49th calamity, the five declines of heaven and man, and achieving the life experience of Daluo.

If he did what Taoist Yu Jing said, all the past would become illusions and meaningless. Since he had to kill his nature to achieve harmony with the Tao, what was the point of being firm on the path? What was the point of seeing the mind and nature? What was the point of holding on to his nature? !

As if seeing Shi Xuan's resistance and hesitation, Taoist Yu Jing turned sideways, looked at Shi Xuan, and walked towards Shi Xuan step by step:

"If you are not firm in the path, how can you see your mind and nature?"

"If you don't see your mind and nature, and hold your nature, how can you really kill your nature?"

"Taoism follows nature, combines Taoism cultivation, and removes all kinds of acquired contamination, just to reach the point where you can really kill your nature, return to the innate, and merge with Taoism."

"In the past, whether it was the cultivation of skills or Taoism, it was all to lay the foundation for this step, which was a means, not an end."

"You are obsessed with the past, confusing the difference between means and ends, taking means as ends, and being confused by vanity."

"Don't you understand yet?"

The pressure was getting bigger and bigger, and every word directly hit Shi Xuan's Taoism heart, making Shi Xuan feel breathless. It seemed that everything he said was right. Was he really obsessed with the past and confused about means and ends?

Under this questioning from the heart of Tao, Shi Xuan felt that his heart of Tao began to waver, and he had a feeling of "realizing that today is right and yesterday is wrong".

Just when Shi Xuan's heart of Tao was completely shaken, some pictures suddenly flashed in his soul:

The Jade Granny who laughed so hard that she leaned forward and backward, and was free and easy;

The unrestrained, kind and humorous Wudaoshanren who was unrestrained like the wind;

The Ziyun Daojun who was ostentatious, humorous and innocent;

The solemn and easy-going, approachable former and future Baoguang Buddha;

...

All the Half-Step Golden Immortals who had witnessed the performance of the external Tao and realized the emptiness of the nature did not kill their nature. Only when they performed the emptiness of the nature did they have an ethereal breath, like the Great Dao.

On the contrary, Kong Fang Mojun, who was evaluated by Wudaoshanren as having taken the wrong path, was still cold and plundering the Great Dao even without performing the emptiness of the nature!

With these half-step golden immortals as examples, Shi Xuan's wavering heart began to stabilize. As his thoughts turned, the seemingly ordinary but actually profound things in the past emerged one by one.

On the Tianji Peak of Penglai Sect, Master Mo Yuan explained to him some words when he explained the foundation of Taoism:

"In this world, there are people who kill their fathers, mothers, brothers, wives, and children, kill all living things, achieve the great way of killing, and finally operate the destiny to create a world. There are also people who give up the opportunity to become a Taoist for their wives and children, but after reincarnation, they make rapid progress and achieve the Tao in a short time. Who can you say is better or worse among them?"

"In the end, the ultimate goal of cultivating the mind is to be able to change the nature at will to correspond to different things, just like the 'Tao'."

These two sentences are known to most cultivators in the heavens and the worlds, but now thinking back, they are really meaningful.

Then, Shi Xuan thought of what Granny Yu had said to him: "When you have no way forward in the future, think more about the foundation of your practice."

What did he rely on to reach this state step by step? It was great perseverance, great wisdom, and great determination. It was to stay on the right path, see the truth, and stick to his nature.

How could he completely deny the past, deny all his understanding of practice and the Great Dao, and give up his own nature just because of what Taoist Yu Jing said? !

As his thoughts turned, Shi Xuan's heart gradually stabilized.

Taoist Yujing came closer and closer, his voice was not loud, his tone was calm, but he had a more intense feeling:

"How can the nature be empty without killing it?"

"How can the nature be in harmony with the way of no nature without getting rid of all nature?"

"How can the emptiness be in harmony with the Tao without completely giving up self-existence?"

"The reason why the perception of past practice was false is to set off the truth of today."

"Do you understand or not?"

Standing in front of Shi Xuan, Taoist Yujing had no expression on his face, standing with his hands behind his back. He was slender and not tall, but he had a sense of filling the universe.

The faint and peaceful questioning made Shi Xuan recall all the words Taoist Yujing had said before. It was so right and so in line with the foundation of Taoist practice.

"My understanding of cultivation and the Great Dao is also consistent with the foundation of the Taoist cultivation theory, but it is diametrically opposed to that of Taoist Yujing."

"The Great Dao is not only without nature, but also contains all natures!"

"But he is Taoist Yujing, who has cultivated step by step and successfully broke through the three difficulties of cultivation. He is a great man who has truly taken that step and is in harmony with the Dao. He is the master of creation who can evolve three thousand great Daos by himself, and every word he says seems to be true, without any falsehood. In terms of his realm and his understanding of the Great Dao, he is much higher than me."

"How can my understanding of cultivation be comparable to his?"

"Who is right and who is wrong seems to be self-evident?"

Although Shi Xuan is very confident in his own cultivation understanding, he is facing Taoist Yujing, who is the most amazing and brilliant person since the creation of the universe, and is also praised by countless cultivators as a true cultivator.

He is the authority, he is the Great Dao!

Comparing the two, Shi Xuan's Taoist heart was shaken again. Taoist Yujing had cultivated step by step to another realm of creation. How could his understanding of cultivation be comparable to that of Grandma Yu, Baoguang Tathagata, and Enlightenment Mountain? People, Ziyun Daojun, etc. can compare.

Could it be that I really can’t let go of my past experiences, including my spiritual practice and understanding, and I have become obsessed with it? !

He questioned himself, and in comparison, Shi Xuan was sometimes shaken, sometimes firm, sometimes he felt that all his experiences were real and not false, sometimes he thought that what Taoist Yujing said was true, and that he had his own success ahead of him. example.

During this period of vacillation, Shi Xuan became more and more inclined to his own understandings about spiritual practice, because they were something he had gained steadily step by step. They were extremely solid, real, and were the foundation for his progress.

Compared with it, even if the other party is the Lord of Creation, it seems a bit ridiculous and false!

"My nature is the 'nameless beginning of all things'. It is to return to nothingness, to the beginning, to accommodate all true spirits, to include all natures, and to be kind to teachers, disciples, friends, etc. as the core, and tolerant with the great path I have realized. How similar are all natures? Why should I give up these realizations and follow the path of killing nature as taught by Taoist Yujing?"

With this tendency, Shi Xuan once again thought of Granny Yu's words:

"The three difficulties of practicing, the golden elixir, the Yuan Shen, and the Hedao, are all rooted in one's own nature and path, and each has its own conditions. Therefore, no matter which technique or elders, we will only briefly talk about it. Focusing on the details after taking the first step, rather than how to take the first step, is afraid that the disciples will have intellectual obstacles and regard others as themselves. If you want to succeed in that way, it will be extremely difficult. "

"Can't you regard others as your own?" Shi Xuan was suddenly startled and saw the key point.

At this time, Taoist Yujing asked again:

"You still don't understand what the great road is?"

Shi Xuan suddenly said: "Understood."

Taoist Yujing said nothing, but just looked at Shi Xuan.

Shi Xuan smiled freely: "Senior, yours is the great road, junior, mine is also the great road."

Taoist Yujing's path is his own road to heaven, pointing directly to eternity, but for Shi Xuan himself, it is a wrong road and a dead end.

Your way is not my way!

As Shi Xuan answered, the "Taoist Yujing" in front of him gradually dissipated into the void.

Shi Xuan already understood what was going on.

This is "the envy of heaven and the envy of all the 'foreign' practices"!

No wonder Grandma Yu wants to remind herself not to let her true self be blinded by the heretics.

It turns out that the "Dharma" of the heretical practice is the various enlightenment insights engraved in the void universe. They are the enlightenment insights left by the great people who successfully took this step in the past and became one with the truth.

When a Half-Step Golden Immortal approaches Hedao, the void universe will turn these enlightenment insights into itself and come to perform the Dharma. And the first Half-Step Golden Immortal approaching Hedao will encounter an outsider who performs the Dharma. It should be the paradoxical truth that the void universe transforms on its own.

For those great figures themselves, every kind of enlightenment is the true truth and a smooth road to enlightenment, but for other monks, it is a crooked road and a dead end.

Once you are confused by these enlightenment insights, the fate of Demon King Kong Fang is the same. There are even some half-step golden immortals in the realm of heretics who are confused by the enlightenment insights without knowing it. After all, Taoist Yujing has such extreme enlightenment insights. It's rare to see him, and it's also rare to see Demon Lord Kong Fang behave like this clearly.

The so-called heretics, except me, are all heretics!

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Looking at the dark void that became calm around him, Shi Xuan smiled slightly and recalled what "Taoist Yu Jing" had just said one by one, discarding the false and retaining the true.

Since it is his enlightenment and enlightenment, it must contain the secret of harmony.

Shi Xuan combined his own understanding with the experience of witnessing the failure of three half-step golden immortals to join the path and the experience of a future Buddha attaining enlightenment. He gradually understood how to achieve the emptiness of one's true nature and how to take the step of joining the path.

"Since your true nature is empty, you should still kill your true nature. However, this 'killing' is not the 'killing' of Taoist Yujing. It is more extreme than the thought of retreating and the true nature manifesting itself. Let your true nature be in a state of emptiness and let the true nature disappear. The Daoguo Qingyun has a subtle connection with the Dao."

The state of emptiness is both mysterious and mysterious. It seems to be placed in the void, and it seems to be converging consciousness in the deepest part of the Taoist heart. It is both, and it is a kind of understanding that Shi Xuan gained after seeing through the heretic performance.

"And taking one step to join the Tao is what Taoist Yujing said, kill yourself and your self-existence. But if you lose yourself and your self-existence, isn't it like committing suicide and falling completely? What can you do to join the Tao? With Kong Fang What’s the difference between the Demon Lord and the Great Dao?”

"No wonder only the Tathagata of Baoguang who has completely let go can successfully merge with the Tao. His nature is just like emptiness, and still retains some traces of existence. The Shanren of Enlightenment and Taoist Ziyun who cannot achieve complete emptiness have fallen into the step of joining the Tao. "

"But if you completely let go and kill yourself, even if you don't have yourself, where can you find that glimmer of hope?"

Shi Xuan roughly understood the step of joining the Tao, but he increasingly felt that it was extremely difficult and dangerous. He had to completely give up his own existence and completely merge into nothingness. This was really no different from committing suicide.

After all the emotions in his heart calmed down, Shi Xuan began to try to emptiness himself.

His nature turned into nothingness, into an uninitiated state, accommodating all thoughts, and Shi Xuan gradually fell into darkness.

The consciousness of nature spreads inwards and outwards. The inner part returns to the depths of the heart of Tao, and the outer part merges into the surrounding Yin and Yang Dao.

If you are not careful with such a move, your nature will be damaged and your soul will be backlashed.

When Shi Xuan's consciousness of nature carefully integrated into the Yin-Yang Avenue, he suddenly had a wonderful feeling. He was looking at the Yuanshen outside and inside the body at the same time. After making contact, the "Qing Yu Yu Da Yin and Yang Qingyun" in the soul suddenly came to life, and there was no sense of shortcomings anymore. It seemed that the incarnation of the Yin and Yang Dao had arrived.

But just when Shi Xuan realized the mysteries of "nature is self-empty", something changed in the Yin-Yang Dao.

The consciousness of Shi Xuan's nature, which had been integrated into the Yin-Yang Avenue, sensed another nature that had long been integrated into the Yin-Yang Avenue. It was pure, free, peaceful, colorful, and as clear as glass.

Such a nature is incompatible with the Yin-Yang Dao, and is being greatly repelled, even causing slight fluctuations, which makes the natural consciousness that cannot sense each other come into contact, allowing Shi Xuan to directly sense him!

"Tao Ancestor of Annihilation?!" Shi Xuan recognized his identity with some shock. He had actually reached this step a long time ago!

When Shi Xuan sensed him, he naturally sensed Shi Xuan too!