The fairy father

Twenty-fifth day after Li Pingan set off.

Heavenly Palace, Punishment Hall.

Li Dazhi, wearing a red silk robe with a black background and embroidered python, walked in from outside the hall with his hands behind his back. The heavenly soldiers and generals along the way bowed their heads and saluted. The clerks in the hall who were interrogating the guilty immortals and reviewing the files in different areas stood up and bowed.

"Meet the Heavenly Emperor Father."

"Everyone, please be polite. I'm busy. I just came here to take a look."

Li Dazhi smiled and waved his hand. He looked up and distinguished the paths in the hall. He could see eighty-one thunder dragon pillars and the Heavenly Punishment Pool filled with lightning.

The main hall was empty. Several gods moved their eyes from their portraits.

"Why did Daddy come here?"

The voice of Fairy Ziyao came from the corner of the hall.

She turned around the screen and bowed to Li Dazhi. Li Dazhi bowed and smiled, "I just want to ask you something. Your Majesty is not at home. It is not proper for me to go to Yaochi. I can only come to you."

"Why is Daddy avoiding suspicion?"

Zi Yao dispersed the screen, ordered the fairy to set up the futon, and invited Li Dazhi to sit opposite him.

Li Dazhi sighed, but did not beat around the bush and directly explained his purpose.

"Do you know that Ping An used the Chaos Bell to practice?"

"Such a big thing, how could Zi Yao not know?" Fairy Zi Yao sighed, "He should have been detached from the world, but he couldn't escape his obsession. What he thought and thought was actually not detached or not, but to prove that he was right."

Li Dazhi smiled bitterly: "You can see it clearly?"

"After all, he has been sleeping with me for hundreds of years."

Zi Yao raised her hand and gently called, and the fairy beside her restored her body, turned into a white cat and fell into her arms, and she gently stroked her fur.

Zi Yao said softly:

"I'm just worried about him. He has a simple heart after all."

"Generally speaking, those who accomplish great things should be ruthless, not to mention being heartless. But my husband is different. He has a bit of benevolence in his bones. He thinks about how to minimize casualties instead of what is best for himself.

"This is all thanks to Daddy and another senior."

"You don't know the background of his character," Li Dazhi said gently, "In the world of Honghuang, it is natural that whoever is ruthless will stand firm, but he comes from a peaceful world and has not suffered much since childhood, so sometimes he tends to be idealistic and pragmatic."

Zi Yao pondered for a few times: "Dad really avoids talking about his own mistakes."

"Why is he avoiding talking about this?"

Li Dazhi smiled bitterly:

"I never thought Ping An would be in this position today.

"When we first came here, who knew there would be an old man Wangri manipulating everything behind the scenes.

"During those two years in the secular world, all I thought about was giving Ping An the opportunity to cultivate immortality and to live freely between heaven and earth. How happy that would be.

"I never thought that I had top qualifications and luck, entered the immortal gate, and worshipped the founder. Then I naturally thought about helping my precious son. At that time, I still thought that Ping An could find a fairy to be his Taoist partner, and then have a few fairy grandchildren, so I wouldn't have any regrets.

"Who knows? Hey, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop. I did everything I could to promote the good things between Ping An and Ning Ning, and even secretly asked Ning Ning's master to say a lot of good things. As a result, Ping An went out a few times, and things were completely different.

"The human race was actually in chaos, and ASEAN was infiltrated by Western religions and demons and became a sieve. Ping An was chosen by Emperor Xuanyuan and had the so-called destiny.

"In the battle of Xizhou, Ping An made a great ambition and determined the will of Emperor Tian... Just at that moment, really, just at that moment, I didn't know how to pave the way for him, and that was not a path I could pave... Alas, after all these things, Xuanyuan of Dingbaizu died, the blood sea and the heavenly court were all powerful, Hongjun Suan Wangri appeared, and I could only stay in the heavenly court, guarding the land of the Ministry of Finance, thinking that I could keep this pass for Ping An.

"I thought it was good, and it was beyond my expectations, but who knew that the end of the catastrophe would appear again.

"Let the end be the end, what does it have to do with the three religions breaking the head barrier for us two? But Ping An has his own set of justice, and he can never consider the problem from the standpoint of Emperor Tian and the way of heaven. Just as he gradually changed, the old man Wangri couldn't hold it anymore.

"Wangri actually took the initiative to show his cards.

"Later, I realized how painful Wangri's patience was. A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. He was just one step away. As long as he waited a thousand more years, everything would go according to his script. The world would complete 430 reincarnations, Ping An would become the new Taoist master, and then create a relatively perfect world.

"So far, this is a good ending, don't you think?"

Zi Yao nodded gently, with a lot of thought in his eyes.

Li Dazhi said, "But who would have thought that Ping An would not be willing to bow his head after all."

"This is actually something that my daughter-in-law can't understand," Zi Yao asked softly, "Since this is a good ending, why is Ping An unwilling to bow his head?"

"This, I actually know what's going on... but I can't say it."

Li Dazhi asked back:

"Zi Yao, you are thoughtful and intelligent, what do you think?"

Zi Yao smiled and said, "He is just a little... unwilling, unwilling, unconvinced, and unbelieving."

"Wrong, it's not like that. "

Li Dazhi smiled and shook his head:

"The essence of the problem is that he can't bear the guilt and doesn't want to bear it.

"If it doesn't concern him, for example, when he saw Ji Chang using living people to imitate the Shang people's sacrifice, he could watch indifferently, because he didn't feel any guilt. He knew that what he did in Nanzhou was to save more people, and he also knew that the kind of etiquette represented by the Ji family could alleviate the danger of Nanzhou.

"So Ping An just laughed it off.

"Similarly, he didn't kill all the tribes in the matter of the Hundred Races, which didn't meet the expectations of most of the old ministers of the human race, because the old ministers of the human race really hated the Hundred Races.

"In order to balance the power of the human race, he also consciously reused the Tiannu Guards. Generals like Cai Lin, Niu Benben, and Yin Kui did make contributions to the Heavenly Court.

"And the 430 reincarnations of heaven and earth, too many lives died in this process.

"Objectively speaking, Wangri is the creator and destroyer of the world. For all the creatures in this world, he is at least 90% of the credit, which is far greater than the 10% fault.

"If we don't open up this world, how can we talk about destruction?

"Although his motive is selfish, a gentleman judges by deeds rather than by heart. Each world has existed for a long time and has supported countless lives.

"But Ping An is the most special among them.

"Wang Ri caused so many tragedies in order to deceive the Great Dao to save him. He became the only beneficiary, and with it came the kind of guilt that he couldn't get rid of.

"The reason why Ping An was so determined to embark on the path of finding new answers was to get rid of this guilt.

"He didn't want to prove that he was better than Wang Ri. He was a person who could have great ambitions but also be content with a small fortune.

"He just wanted to make up for the mistakes he made before. At the very least, he didn't have to bear such mistakes. What he yearned for was still that kind of hero."

"Hero?" Zi Yao was puzzled.

Li Dazhi smiled and said, "It's the storybook he read when he was a child. The greatest heroes serve the country and the people. When encountering major events, they go out of the mountains to settle things. After the matter is done, they leave in silence, live in seclusion in the mountains, and enjoy the beauty."

"This...isn't this still the mind of ordinary people."

"You are right," Li Dazhi sighed, "I came to you today to ask you for a favor."

"Daddy, just say it."

"The path he wants to take will eventually fail."

Li Dazhi raised his hand to cover his heart:

"I have a lot of memories left by Wangri, and I roughly know how powerful he is. Ping'an's current reaction is actually within Wangri's expectations.

"It's just like it's difficult for a person to lift himself up without relying on external forces.

"Ping'an is now using the Chaos Bell left by Wangri, walking the path that Wangri once walked, and experiencing the Three Thousand Avenues and the Buddha World that Wangri carefully designed. After all, he is bound in this framework and it is difficult to jump out."

Li Dazhi sighed, and his eyes became a little distant.

"I am his father. He is past the age of confiding everything to his father, and usually he only tells good news and not bad news.

"I guess that if he encounters setbacks and the pressure is too great to dissipate, he will definitely return to our current normal time and space. It should not be long in our perception.

"If you see him, you should comfort him more and try to tell him a truth in a roundabout way."

Zi Yao asked hurriedly: "What truth?"

"It is difficult for the world to be perfect. It is precisely because of regrets that good things are precious. But do good things and don't ask about the future. It is enough to do these eight words."

After saying this, Li Dazhi stood up and bowed.

Zi Yao hurriedly stood up to return the greeting.

When Zi Yao stood up, Li Dazhi's figure had quietly disappeared.

She was a little dazed, turned her head to look at the fairy beside her, and looked down at the Persian cat in her hand.

When did her father-in-law have such magical powers? Come and go without a trace, and leave no trace in the heavenly way.

Zi Yao remembered something, and casually summoned the sky-patrolling mirror to take a closer look.

Above Nanzhou, Li Dazhi was lying on the clouds, enjoying the performance of a dance troupe from a city in Dongzhou dancing on the clouds in front of him. He was so comfortable and relaxed.

The one who came just now... wasn't Dazhi?

'If that's the case, my husband is probably going to come back soon. I don't know if he is coming to find me, Ningning or Qingsu. '

Zi Yao pursed her lips slightly, but in her heart she took this matter more seriously.

She thought carefully, took the initiative to find Mu Ningning to discuss, and sent her trusted fairy to send a letter to Qingsu.

Sure enough, only three days after that 'Dazhi' came to find Zi Yao, a figure cut through the universe and time, returned from the starry sky to the 'baseline' time and space, and appeared in...

Xuanyuan Mausoleum.

...

Li Ping'an didn't know why he came to find Nuba again.

He is not someone who likes to get tangled up, but at the moment, he is under too much pressure and wants to find someone to chat with, at least to find some of his appearance in the past.

In the main hall, Nüba sat cross-legged on the cushion in the middle, surrounded by fire lotuses.

‘Why not just forget it. ’

Li Pingan turned around and was about to leave, when Nüba suddenly said, “Since you are here, why don’t you show up?”

Hmm? Her cultivation is so high? Even he can find it?

Li Pingan stood still, and Nüba waited for a while, then lowered her head and sighed, muttering, “Another illusion.”

“It’s not an illusion this time,” Li Pingan laughed dumbly, and jumped in through the window.

Nüba was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and then stunned again.

She looked up at Li Pingan, a little afraid to recognize him.

Previously, Li Ping'an had always had a youthful appearance, with a handsome appearance, sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and his long hair would be tied up with a high crown or tied into a hairpin, but today...

He was unkempt, his long hair was disheveled, there was still some blood on the edge of the dark green robe, and his eyes had a tiredness that couldn't be concealed.

"What's wrong with you?"

The female demon asked softly.

Li Ping'an was startled for a moment, then his figure swayed, and with a little golden light, he returned to his previous appearance.

But the fatigue in his eyes did not completely dissipate. He also yawned and walked directly to the female master, pulled a futon and sat down.

Li Ping'an smiled and said: "I'm just a little tired. I've been watching too many things recently. The main soul is a bit overloaded, and the heaven is almost smoking."

The female master was puzzled: "What did you see?"

"I have seen the death of Emperor Jun, the rise of the Golden Crow clan, the battle between the innate beings, the Wu clan hunting the earth, how the Sanqing traveled in the ancient land, the enmity between Kunpeng and Hongyun, and the enmity between Kunpeng and Hongyun. Pangu’s last axe.”

"Ah?" The female slayer was a little confused.

"Enlightening the Tao," Li Ping'an said with a distant look in his eyes, "I will soon cross the normal time and space and enter the last reincarnation of heaven and earth. I have recently understood more than a hundred great ways. They are fighting, and I am learning secretly next to them. , The Dragon-Phoenix War inspired me the most. When those masters fell, the avenues collapsed, and I secretly observed from the side... I also saw how you integrated the avenue of disaster, and it was very painful, so I thought, Come and see you."

The female demon raised her hand to cover her forehead: "You guy, you came here all of a sudden and that's why I'm talking about these weird things..."

Her red lips were suddenly blocked, and her eyes widened.

There was no warning at all, nor any resistance. Her bursting avenue was as obedient as a sheep at the moment. The familiar face in front of her made her heart feel messy, and she silently closed her eyes.

After a while, Li Ping'an stood up, jumped two steps back, and said with a smile:

“Now that the pressure is not so great, I continue to explore. Although I have a bad premonition now, I can still see a glimmer of hope.

"Wait for me, I will come to find you after the sky opens! Hahahahaha!"

He left a villain-like laugh.

The female scourge cursed in a low voice: "He left just like that!"

She raised her hand and touched her lips, sighed softly, then turned around to face the statue of Xuanyuan, lowered her head and recited a few words about shouldn't and sins.

The female slave actually didn't know that in Li Pingan's impression, the two had not seen each other for a long time.

Li Ping'an originally planned to go around and take a look, but in the end he just took a look, because at this point in time when he came back, no one was too aware of his departure.

Actually;

After thousands of years, I walk alone on the road.

However, he spent most of his time enlightening and was not too aware of the changes over time.

Now he rekindled his fighting spirit, so he jumped out of the scroll called the present world, went upstream, and traced back to the origin. Now he can cross the 430th opening of the sky, go to the world where Donghuang Taiyi was born, and continue Find the path of the unknown.

The reincarnation of heaven and earth, the great road is stable, the three thousand return to one, and perfection can be achieved!

…

One and a half months after Zi Yao met ‘Li Dazhi’.

Zi Yao, who had been waiting, finally met Li Pingan, who returned to the world for the second time.

Li Ping'an paid attention to his appearance this time. He was not as embarrassed as the last time he saw the female demon. However, when he saw Zi Yao, he immediately broke the skill, bent his legs and knelt on the ground, and hung his head feebly.

Zi Yao summoned his true body and hurried forward, trying to help Li Pingan, but was directly knocked away by the weak Taoist rhyme emanating from Li Pingan's body.

"I'm fine."

Li Ping'an held his knees, took a breath, stood up with strength, walked a few steps forward, took the initiative to hold Yaochi's arm and let her support him, and walked to the bed to rest.

He smiled and said: "I have been enlightened for too long, and I have forgotten to move. My body is a little out of control. Fortunately, I have gained something, understood something, learned something, and have no complaints."

"Why does Your Majesty need to torture yourself like this?"

"It's not that I'm torturing myself. I can do better. Of course I have to do it. Maybe if I work hard here, I can save tens of millions more people."

Li Pingan took two sips of tea and couldn't help but yawned:

"I'm going to sleep for a while. Don't tell them that I'm back and I haven't accomplished anything yet. It would be a bit embarrassing to tell them."

"Hey, Your Majesty is just taking a rest. I'll be watching over you."

Yaochi said softly and immediately backed away from everyone, while he waited quietly on the side.

Li Ping'an slept for a full half a month.

When he woke up, he opened his eyes. His eyes were a bit dazed, and then indifferent. Then he regained his vitality, sat up and stretched.

Yaochi came forward to greet her, and Li Ping'an took her hand and sat down. He didn't do anything too intimate, but just talked about his recent gains.

I have understood more and more great ways, understood various truths, and seen the reincarnation of different heavens and earth, the similar destiny of heaven and earth, and the similar prehistoric world.

He said: "Only when I see the end of the sky can I realize how difficult it is to open the sky. Only when I see the end of the sky can I understand the eternity of the end. I still want to find the uncle of Master Taiqing... I will go first and give him a kiss."

"Why."

Before Yaochi could persuade him to take a rest, let alone explain the truth that he had been told, Li Pingan quickly kissed her cheek and disappeared in a flash.

Yaochi couldn't help but sigh, but there was a bit of a smile in his eyes.

She could feel that Li Ping'an had become stronger again, and it was not an ordinary increase. She could not understand such a Tao state.

Although Li Ping'an could easily make the dragon see its head but not its tail before, the feeling given to Yaochi now is different.

The amazing thing is that the magical power is vast and invisible.

It does not stand within the main road, but is detached from the visible.

At this time, Li Ping'an looked at the long river of time and the years of enlightenment had actually passed... hundreds of thousands of years...

Immersed in the Tao, he has almost been assimilated by the Tao, and his way to resist the power of assimilation by the Tao is to find the anchor points he left behind and use them one at a time.

He went to Taiqing Courtyard and stayed there for half a year before continuing his journey.

Things in this world seemed to have nothing to do with him.

There is only Tao, only thought.

About a year later, Li Pingan appeared in the human world for the third time. He went to find Qingsu and stayed for two or three months.

Two or three years later, Li Ping'an appeared in the real world for the fourth time. This time he went to look for Mu Ningning and stayed for four months.

But this time, after Li Pingan left, Mu Ningning hurriedly found Qingsu and Yaochi. After a brief discussion, he rushed to the sky above Nanzhou to find Li Dazhi, who had built an immortal palace on the clouds.

They all felt the abnormality of Li Ping'an's condition, and after comparing with each other, they discovered...

Li Ping'an's condition is getting worse and worse.

…

Li Dazhi listened to the descriptions of his three daughters-in-law and sat behind the desk without saying a word for a long time.

Yaochi said:

"He came to me first and told me that he had found a path that might be able to fulfill his expectations or even exceed them, but it would only take a long time and effort. He had already divided his soul into three thousand parts, but only one could do it. Thinking, others are enlightening or mastering the Tao.

"He said that he clearly understood the principles of the Great Dao, and he could go through the entire years, looking for the escaping oneness in the reincarnation of heaven and earth.

"The goal he told me at that time was to break through the nine barriers and reach the original world of Old Man Wandering. That is where everything begins and where the hope of getting rid of the reincarnation of heaven and earth lies."

"When he came to me, in his perception, an extremely long time must have passed."

Qing Su said:

“His eyes seemed to have lost their color and I was trying to comfort him the best I could.

"I can directly feel the years, the heaven and the earth in him, but I can't feel himself. He seems to have become a part of Tao, and it is an extremely important part.

"What he told me was different, too."

Li Dazhi hurriedly asked: "Why is it different?"

"He said... this path is wrong, and he will encounter obstacles if he pursues it, even if he can have a glimpse of the original world, understand the original world, understand the avenue beyond the three thousand avenues, and even understand the basic avenue of the Sea of ​​Chaos , but cannot transcend this original world.

“The original world has been destroyed by Wandering Sun, from the level of Tao.

"Wangri has done many, many things to start the reincarnation of heaven and earth, killing all oneness.

"In the process of constantly going back through the years to find the truth, he would meet a time traveler every time he reincarnated in the world, and then he watched with his own eyes as this time traveler was strangled step by step by the chess game played by the old man.

"A time traveler represents a counterattack from heaven and earth, and represents the possibility brewed by the three thousand avenues, but Old Man Wanri can always easily defeat these time travellers, every time with an understatement.

"He also said that many of the beings in the cemetery of heaven and earth who are neither humans nor ghosts, nor spirits nor souls, are those who have traveled through the reincarnation of heaven and earth.

“Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you understand how desperate those four hundred and twenty-nine times were.

"He has filled himself up in the past and has reached the pinnacle of all avenues. He has spent countless years and countless methods to realize the Tao. He has even cut himself into tens of thousands of pieces and buried them in various eras. After absorbing the avenues, he has unified himself... Such extreme measures have been taken before.

“But now he understands something.

"In the frame, he can jump out of the years, but he can't jump out of the shadow of the sun. The sun is everywhere..."

Qingsu finished speaking in one breath, sighing softly, with tears in her eyes.

She asked in a low voice: "Master, is there any way to stop him? He didn't let me tell anyone this, so I told him behind his back. He was afraid that everyone would worry about him, but... if this goes on, how can he What to get?”

Li Dazhi smiled bitterly: "If I could stop him, I would definitely stop him now. He didn't even come to me. Did he say anything else to you?"

"He said he was going to the future to find..."

"I know," Mu Ningning said hurriedly, "After he came to my place, I quickly called them over."

"What did he find?"

"Found nothing."

"Huh?" Li Dazhi's heart was at the top of his voice.

Mu Ningning sighed: "At first, his expression was a little strange, and the order of his words was also confusing. He always said the word "frame" in his mouth, and then he fell asleep next to me. He woke up after sleeping for more than a month. It’s back to normal.”

She explained quickly:

"Brother said that the past is the trunk and the future is the branches. There is usually only one trunk. What has happened cannot be changed, otherwise the present world will collapse. But the future is divergent and there may be different possibilities.

"He's looking for different possibilities in the future.

“Then, the higher you stand and the clearer you see, the simpler the problem becomes, and the simpler the problem, the more unsolvable it is.

"From the moment the original world was destroyed, the whole world fell into a reincarnation, repeating the four processes of opening up, prosperity, decline, and ending under the rules carefully woven by Wangri. Wangri would also advance the ending to ensure that more of the original power of heaven and earth could be extracted each time.

"The source of the original power is the true spirit, the light that blooms when the true spirit disappears.

"He also said that we are all in this framework. Only by breaking the framework can we reach the truth, glimpse the true appearance of the avenue, and then open up a new world.

"The original world, four hundred and thirty reincarnations, and the new world are parallel, and we are now stuck in the middle stage, unable to break through and find a way out. "

Li Dazhi asked: "Did he say what would happen if it was not broken?"

"It is Wangri's new world," Mu Ningning explained, "This reincarnation set by Wangri, when it reaches the end of the years, all the avenues will be reorganized. "

"Then why don't you just listen to him? "

"The price is that all living beings must be wiped out, leaving only a mark, and then this mark can be combined with other true spirits in the new world to become a new living being."

Mu Ningning whispered:

"And the new world is the existence of the original world. These 430 reincarnations of heaven and earth have become part of Wangri's plan to open the sky.

"Everything is an extremely sophisticated calculation. Even if Wangri finally gets anxious and reveals the secrets a thousand years in advance, it cannot change these. The framework is here. Mortals cannot hold their noses and lift themselves up.

"The future set by Wangri is restricted to death, because all possibilities must be killed to ensure that the one who escaped is an external traverser, thus attracting him and you."

Yao Chi said: "Your Majesty has reached such a realm of Taoism, and is not far from Wangri. Since there is nothing to gain, you should give up."

"He always feels that there is one who escaped."

Qing Su said:

"We came to find the headmaster to solve this matter. Please come forward and try to persuade him.

"Now, only you, the master, can make him let go of his obsession."

"Obsession, obsession, it's all obsession."

Li Dazhi sighed:

"I know about this. I'll try to contact Wangri. He really left me some tips. Don't worry too much, you three. Just go back and practice freely.

"Ping An keeps trying to save the suffering and save the people. You are his concern and his family. Don't let him do it with so much hardship, and then look back and find that you three are sick because of worry."

Mu Ningning smiled bitterly: "We are worry-free all day long, Dad, you don't have to worry."

"Go, I won't keep you for dinner, I'll ask my two aunts to make some delicious food for you later. "

The three girls gave Li Dazhi some more instructions, hoping that he would pay more attention to the situation, and then left together and returned to heaven.

They were going to continue to discuss countermeasures.

Just as the three girls left, the paperweight on Li Dazhi's desk emitted a little light, and then transformed into the shape of Li Pingan.

Li Pingan smiled bitterly: "It's bad, I made them worry."

Li Dazhi frowned tightly, looking at Li Pingan's current appearance, and didn't know what to say for a moment.