Exorcism

The vision was gray, as if it was drizzling, and the surroundings were absolutely silent, without any sound, purer than the deepest thoughts. ơɱ

Mu Xingqiu had been here once as a tourist and knew where this place was - the silent place in the first area of ​​Bamo Cave. He did not go forward because the two areas behind were not good places either. A place of shelter and a place of no self.

Killing comrades, colluding with demons, and causing harm to the world are the three major crimes for being imprisoned in the Demon Ba Cave. Mu Xingqiu was accused of the second crime.

The last time he came to visit, Mu Xingqiu was still a third-level disciple of the Pangshan Taoism. He walked around in the illusion of Ba Mo Cave. He didn't have any special feelings. He just felt that it must be very painful to be imprisoned here. He never thought that one day He will ask to come in.

After standing there for who knows how long, Mu Xingqiu gradually understood the true meaning of "a silent place that makes people pity themselves". It was not just "silent". In the silence, his thinking became extremely active, and thousands of thoughts came to him. , every thought is related to "me": Why did I end up like this? How long will I stay here? Is it possible for me to get out alive? Is there anyone out there who misses me and wants to save me? Who have I ever been sorry to, and who has ever been sorry to me?

The Bamo Cave is a prison specially prepared for Taoist priests. It is completely contrary to the principles of Taoist practice. Taoist priests pay attention to ruthlessness and abandoning desire. The silent place is to put love and desire back into the Taoist priest's body and amplify it. This is a painful process. Taoist priests All kinds of human emotions that have been given up during the process of practice will come back to devour the master's heart and take revenge as much as they want.

Mu Xingqiu's mind was full of doubts, but he did not collapse because he had never formed a true Taoist heart. The seven emotions and six desires had always existed, but now they were just getting stronger.

"Taoist priests like you are rare."

A voice unexpectedly sounded in the silent place. Mu Xingqiu turned his head and saw his ancestor Kun Chao standing beside him.

"I'll give you a ride." Kun Chao said, but he didn't take a step. The "ride" in the Devil's Cave refers to time, not distance. "There is no turning back in practice. If you make a wrong step, your practice will stop at least, or your practice will stop at worst. Then the body dies and the Tao disappears, and the seven emotions and six desires are the biggest source of mistakes.

Kun Chao turned around and looked at Mu Xingqiu, holding his beard in his hands without wind. From this, Mu Xingqiu understood that Kun Chao had not really entered the Demon Pulling Cave, and what was standing next to him was just a lifelike illusion.

"You are a Taoist priest who is full of 'mistakes'. These mistakes have not caused serious harm to you so far. The only reason is that your life span is too short. Decades are fleeting and many mistakes are still brewing."

Mu Xingqiu wanted to laugh and speak, but he couldn't make any sound. He just opened and closed his mouth, all the words were swirling in his mind, "So, it's a lucky thing that I was imprisoned in the Devil's Cave. "

Kun Chao "heard" the words in Mu Xingqiu's mind and shook his head, "The Silent Land has little impact on you, because you have all the seven emotions and six desires it wants to give you. For you, the real test starts from The next step begins.”

"The unprotected place makes people exposed." Mu Xingqiu couldn't hear the sound he made, but his mouth still made speech movements, otherwise he would feel even weirder.

"The Taoist priest restores the seven emotions and six desires in the silent place. When you enter the uncovered place, you will experience the corresponding pains: the people you care about die in front of you, the things you like are beyond your reach, and the mistakes you have made over and over again Repeat."

"Thanks for the reminder, I like Illusion, so I thought I'd like Uncovered Land too."

Kun Chao smiled. Without the attention of the crowd, he seemed more easy-going and more real. "If I can't make you believe it, wouldn't the Devil's Cave have a false name? Many prisoners have been stranded in the unprotected land for many years. Maybe you will meet the real one?" acquaintance.”

"Shen Geng." Mu Xingqiu had already thought of him.

"The Uncovered Land is also the last tangible place. You still have a body there, but it will become weaker and weaker. When it completely disappears, the soul will enter the selfless land, leaving only the residual soul and soul. There, Pain needs no reason.

Mu Xingqiu couldn't help but want to give it a try. Even if it just made the illusion flicker, it was worth it. In the end, he held back because this was part of the seven-emotional desire aroused by the Silent Land.

Kun Chao laughed, "Have you realized the power of the seven emotions and six desires? When they are provoked, there is no difference between falsehood and reality. You will be full of hatred for the illusion, punching it, and you will also be full of love for the illusion, and you will be miserable. "

Mu Xingqiu walked forward, not caring where he would go.

Kun Chao's illusion kept pace with him, "To me, your value lies entirely in the unprotected land, where your body will slowly disappear. I want to separate a little bit of your soul. Just a little bit, with They look for the reincarnation body of the demon soul for at most twelve years. As long as the demon soul begins to awaken, I will be able to find him, and then everything will be over."

Mu Xingqiu's seven emotions and six desires were not strong enough, so he could not leave the silent place. He stopped and said silently: "Since you insist on giving me a ride, can you answer the doubts in my heart?"

At this time, Mu Xingqiu didn't have any secrets in Kun Chaos eyes. As soon as he thought about it, the other party already knew the details, "Why do I want to exterminate all living beings? It's a long story, but fortunately you and I are not short of time."

Kun Chao was silent for a while, seeming to be thinking about where to start. Then he asked Mu Xingqiu a question: "If you were asked to choose a successor to the illusion of mind among all living beings, what would you do?"

Mu Xingqiu also thought for a while, "The simplest way is to recruit a wide range of disciples and select the best. This is what Taoism does."

Kun Chuan laughed, his beard trembling, like a little follower who was snickering.

Mu Xingqiu felt angry for a moment, and the influence of the Silent Land became stronger and stronger, but he could still control it.

Kun Chao waved his hand again, and a few of the little people rose higher, "This is Taoism. The selected disciples are less than one ten thousandth of all living beings. No matter how extensive Taoism's inspection methods are, there are always many who possess Taoism." Mortals are not discovered throughout their lives. They may be good seeds, but they are wasted in a mediocre world. "

Mu Xingqiu couldn't deny this statement. He himself was a clear example. If Mr. Qin, who possesses a demon soul, and Fangfang, who possesses a divine soul, had not lived in Yelin Town, he and a group of friends would probably never have developed Daogen. Even if it happens, it will be difficult to detect. Yelin Town is too remote to attract the attention of the orthodox.

Kun Chao waved his hand for the third time, and most of the little people at a slightly lower position were divided into two groups. One group was approaching Mu Xingqiu, and the other was approaching himself. The two groups of little people started to quarrel, and then charged at each other. After witnessing the fierce fighting, even though he knew it was a very simple illusion, Mu Xingqiu still watched with excitement, as if he was on the battlefield.

"Even if you collect all the Dao Gen disciples, how can you tell who is better? Some people make rapid progress in the early stages of practice, but hesitate when they reach a higher realm. Some people have gone through all kinds of hardships to reach the realm of obeying the sun. , but you can’t explain the reason, and you can’t pass on your experience to those who come after you. Are you willing to choose such a Taoist as your successor? So you need a competition, and competition can reveal the truly outstanding disciples.”

"War." Mu Xingqiu said.

"War is a good thing. It will cause a lot of losses, but it can also make the best stand out. The key is to master the balance, so the monsters cannot be wiped out, and the threat of the demons must always hang above their heads. And it cannot Let the war tie the hands and feet of Taoism, so this must be a war between humans and monsters. For Taoist priests, it is a training ground. You have to be able to get in and out. The period when the most Sun-Mang Taoist priests obeyed is also the period between humans and monsters. The war is at its most intense, but once they reach the realm of serving Yuemang, the Taoist priests will slowly understand the necessity of war. When they reach the realm of serving Sun, they will automatically withdraw from the war and leave the training ground to those who come after them. "

"Zuo Liuying and I have both reached the realm of serving Yuemang, but we don't feel this way."

"That's because you are out of the supervision of the Nine Supreme Treasures. I will explain this later. What I want to say now is that all living beings are full of chance. You don't know who will produce the root of Tao, and you don't know who will become The strongest Taoist priest, so the best way to select is not to select at all and let the strong ones show themselves."

"Let nature take its course." Mu Xingqiu finally understood the true meaning of these four words.

"The decline of the demon clan is that their range of choices is too small, leaving no room for most demons to develop, so we have no choice but to prove our ability by overthrowing them." Kun Chao grasped with five fingers, and the illusion of all living beings disappeared.

Mu Xingqiu frowned slightly, then continued, "You have achieved immortality, so there is no need to choose a successor, so there is no need for war and sentient beings..."

"That's right, the world carefully arranged by Dao Tong is not of any help to me, but is a threat. Occasion, Mu Xingqiu, as long as the time is long enough and the number is large enough, accidents will always happen. The demons will perish because of it, and Dao Tong will be destroyed because of it. It is endless, but for the undead, chance is the only enemy. I must nip it in the bud. I can wait ten or a hundred years, but I will not wait forever."

"Power changes your original intention, Kun Chaos, when you first made your plan, you definitely didn't think about exterminating all sentient beings."

"Of course, my plan at that time was very simple, to gather strength and destroy once and for all the demon souls and demon species that would re-fuse sooner or later. This is how the Third Ancestor was convinced by me. They believed in me because I also believed in myself."

Kun Chaos vision stared at Mu Xingqiu, "You are an accident among all living beings, but you are already in my hands, so I am willing to take a small risk. By the way, your plan is to find the successor of Nianxinke After learning the mental illusion technique, you can break the magic hole from inside - do you understand where you went wrong? "

"There are no successors of Nianxinke in the Uncovered Land, and their remaining souls are all in the Selfless Land..."

Those who enter the land of selflessness are all incomplete souls. As soon as the Demon Drawing Cave is broken, their souls will fly away. Even if Mu Xingqiu learns the eleventh level of mental illusion, it will be useless.

No Taoist priest knew this in advance, not even Zuo Liuying.