When the fireball shattered the blue giant crab, the roar of the explosion caused the little woman Cuilian and her husband to turn back to watch what happened.
When they saw the blue giant crab dying in the flames, their faces were filled with joy.
But when he saw Zhou Yang, who was waiting for death on the ground, he suddenly stood up from the ground and ran towards the couple as fast as flying. Their faces were immediately filled with panic, as if they had seen some ferocious monster.
"Spare your life, Brother Daniu, please spare your life! We were wrong, we never dare to do it again, please do a good job and spare our lives!"
Before Zhou Yang could reach him, the husband on the little woman Cuilian's back had already slipped off her back, and he was lying on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
His desire to survive is quite strong.
"Where did you go wrong?"
Zhou Yang looked at the man lying on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy, and asked in an indifferent tone.
When the man heard what he said, he immediately shouted: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have let Cuilian take me to escape, and I shouldn't have stopped Cuilian from helping you, Brother Daniu!"
"Very good. You know where you went wrong. You are not hopeless."
Zhou Yang nodded slightly and his tone was slightly gentle.
The man seemed to be encouraged, his spirit was lifted, and he shouted again: "I know I am very wrong, but please, Brother Daniu, for the sake of past friendship, don't forget the villain's fault and go around me."
This time, Cuilian and I will definitely act like cows and horses to repay Brother Daniu for your kindness!"
When Zhou Yang heard the man's words, he showed an indifferent expression and did not respond. He turned to the side and looked at the little woman Cuilian who seemed to have not recovered yet and said: "Where are you, sister Cuilian? Why haven't you spoken?
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The little woman Cuilian's body suddenly trembled. She looked at him with shame and fear in her eyes and said: "Brother Daniu, I... I'm sorry for you. It's me who is useless and ungrateful. If you want to blame, just blame me!"
"I agreed to take you to escape because you gave me a meal when I was hungry."
Zhou Yang looked at the timid little woman and said in a calm tone: "Now that I have repaid you for this meal, you can take care of yourself from now on!"
After saying that, he didn't even look at the couple, turned around and hurried towards the fishing village.
"Brother Daniu, Brother Daniu..."
The little woman Cuilian looked at his back and shouted loudly, as if she wanted to say something, but she was quickly pulled to the ground by her husband, and she covered her mouth and stopped.
When Zhou Yang returned to the fishing village, he quickly used magic to kill several monster beasts that were causing trouble ashore, calming down the chaos of monster beasts.
When the villagers in the fishing village heard that the monster had been killed, they all returned to the fishing village with great joy, surrounding Zhou Yang with compliments for the hero who had killed the monster.
At night, Zhou Yang, who had nowhere to go, returned to the home of the young woman Cuilian.
The villagers who escaped during the day returned one after another within half a day, but there was no trace of the young woman Cuilian and her family.
The villagers thought that their family had been killed by monsters.
Zhou Yang was noncommittal and didn't care.
Now he just wants to find the flaw in this illusion and escape from it.
In the middle of the night, Zhou Yang, who was meditating instead of sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes and looked out the door.
"Who's out there?"
He shouted low, waved his sleeves and hands, and the wooden door opened with a clang.
"Brother Daniu, Brother Daniu, please save your husband, please save your husband, you are the only one who can save him!"
Outside the door, the little woman Cuilian, with her pretty face stained with blood, crawled on the ground step by step with her husband on her back, and crawled all the way to the door. She looked at Zhou Yang with a pleading look on her face and begged endlessly.
Zhou Yang raised his eyes and saw that the man's paralyzed legs had been cut off at the roots by an unknown weapon. Only two pieces of clothing were used to wrap the wound. He was lying on the back of the little woman dying, having lost consciousness.
Seeing this, a light flashed in his eyes. He did not rush to respond to the little woman's plea. Instead, he looked at her and asked, "Where are your two children?"
Hearing his words, the little woman's face turned pale, and then she suddenly burst into tears: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.dead, all dead, all died in the mouth of the monster!"
When Zhou Yang heard this, he suddenly said with a strange expression: "This is strange. Your husband is paralyzed with both legs and can survive the monster's mouth. How come your two children with complete hands and feet can die from the monster's mouth?"
The crying little woman's voice suddenly stopped, and a look of resentment and pain appeared on her face as she whispered: "Yes..."
"What is it?"
Zhou Yang looked at the little woman who stopped talking at the beginning and asked after her.
The little woman couldn't help but shook her head violently and cried: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Brother Daniu, please stop asking, I beg you, please stop asking, please save your husband, you
If we don’t save him, he will die!”
"You refuse to say it because the person who killed your two children must be your husband!"
Zhou Yang looked at the little woman with an indifferent expression, and the words in his mouth made her freeze on the spot as if she had been struck by lightning.
Then she shook her head desperately and shouted: "No, no, no, no..."
"Zhang Cuilian!"
Zhou Yang suddenly shouted loudly, looked at the little woman who was frightened by his loud shouts with cold eyes, and said in a cold tone: "You are affectionate and righteous, and you can still never leave your paralyzed and disabled husband. This is a good thing.
, worthy of respect!”
"But you shouldn't cover up and protect him in everything just because he is your husband. You shouldn't just ignore the evil things he does just because he is your husband and pretend it didn't happen!"
"During the day, you listened to him and ignored my pleas for help. I had nothing to say. I just thought I had misjudged you. But now you want me to save a villain who killed his own children just to survive. That's no way to think about it.
Don’t think about it!”
After saying that, he left the room directly and quickly disappeared from the little woman's sight.
The next morning, the body of the young woman Cuilian was discovered by passing villagers. She hanged herself from a beam in her home.
As for her husband, his body and head were separated and lying in a pool of blood, with a blood-stained kitchen knife scattered next to him.
When Zhou Yang learned the news and rushed to the scene, he looked at the bloody kitchen knife on the ground with a happy smile on his face.
"Can you still laugh? All of this was caused by you. If you hadn't been cold-blooded and refused to save someone, Zhang Cuilian would not have died, let alone kill her husband before she died!"
"This human tragedy of a couple killing each other was all caused by you. How can you still laugh?"
A sharp shout suddenly rang in Zhou Yang's ears, causing his eardrums to hurt.
A light flashed in his eyes, and he did not look for the owner of the voice. He just said with a serious face: "Why can't I laugh? Zhang Cuilian's husband is selfish and cruel. In order to survive, he not only ignored the life and death of his savior, but also saw
If you refuse to save yourself, you can even abandon your own children to monsters to save yourself. Such selfish and vicious people will not be spared if they are cut into pieces by a thousand cuts!"
"Although Zhang Cuilian is kind-hearted, she is also ignorant and ignorant. She only knows how to obey her husband without any opinion of her own. Even after witnessing her husband killing her own flesh and blood, she still did not wake up and tried to deceive herself and others to excuse her husband."
"I'm not refusing to save those who deserve to be killed!"
"The murder of Zhang Cuilian and his wife is not a human tragedy, but the self-salvation of a woman who was oppressed and tortured and awakened her conscience!"
"Death is not a bad thing for her, but a relief. Otherwise, she will only spend the rest of her life in endless sorrow and regret. It will be a life worse than death!"
"I laugh because Zhang Cuilian is finally free. It is really gratifying that she was able to realize and realize self-salvation before she died. It can be said that she died a well-deserved death!"
After he finished speaking, his master asked him, but there was no reply for a long time.
Fortunately, Zhou Yang was not in a hurry, he just waited quietly with an indifferent expression.
He knew that whether he could pass this test depended on whether he could convince the owner of the voice to accept his point of view.
And if he guessed correctly, the owner of this voice should be a conscious clone left by the [Master Donglai].
"Wrong truth, Chunmin is a fallacy!"
"Zhang Cuilian's husband just wants to live. Is it wrong for him to want to live? If you don't save him, do you think it's not because he didn't let Zhang Cuilian save you before and you are resentful of him?"
"Besides, he didn't actually harm you. His two children were killed by monsters just because they escorted him to escape!"
As expected, the owner of that voice was not so easily persuaded by Zhou Yang, and quickly refuted his words angrily.
The words that came out of his mouth filled up some of Zhou Yang's doubts.
A look of understanding flashed in his eyes, and then he retorted unequivocally to the words of the owner of the voice: "Zhang Cuilian's husband was right in wanting to survive, but the method he chose to survive was wrong. Humans are not beasts.
You can't completely abandon human morality just because you want to live. That's the idea of a person who practices evil ways and evil practices that we monks will punish on sight!"
"Of course the reason why I didn't save him was because of the reason why he prevented Zhang Cuilian from saving me before, but that was by no means the main reason. The main reason was as I said before, such a cruel and vicious villain was not worth saving at all!
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"As for saying that he didn't take the initiative to harm me, this is a fallacy. When you have the ability to save people but refuse to save them, it is actually the same as killing someone with your own hands. Isn't this what you just accused me of?"
"And you said that both of his children were killed by monsters because they escorted him to escape. Isn't that the evidence that he mutilated the two children? He is a disabled person, and when he is chased by monsters, it can be said that he will die.
Undoubtedly, but he lies on his wife's back and lets his wife and children share the monster's attention for him. Not only does this not show any responsibility as a husband or a man, it is also a kind of deliberate murder!"
Zhou Yang’s words were very resounding.
He responded righteously to what the owner of the voice said, without any sign of shrinking or cowardice because of the other person's identity.
The real test of xinxing is not to let the person being tested blindly cater to the will of the tester, but to make the xinxing of the person being tested be recognized by the tester.
Zhou Yang is already a monk at the Nascent Soul stage, and in terms of character, he already has his own subjective character.
Even if he knew in advance what kind of person the [Donglai Zhenren] who was testing his character liked, he would not have deliberately distorted his character to please him during the test.
Not only would this not be able to hide the truth from the other party, it would also be harmful to his own practice.
At the same time, he also believed that when [Donglai Zhenren] set up this kind of test, he would never set any fixed passing standards, otherwise it would be basically impossible to find people who truly strictly meet the standards.
Therefore, the current debate is actually about him persuading the other party and making the other party agree that his approach meets the standards.
At this time, after listening to his words, the voice was silent for a while, and then shouted again: "You said that Zhang Cuilian's husband did not take responsibility, then let me ask you, if you and his identity were reversed, are you sure you could have done it at that time?"
Are you willing to sacrifice yourself and let your wife and children go first?"
"Of course I can do it! And I've always done it!"
Zhou Yang replied without hesitation, completely following his heart.
"I'll let you pass this level for now. I hope you can remember what you said today so you can take care of yourself!"
As the voice fell, Zhou Yang's eyes blurred, and his consciousness left the illusion and returned to his body.
At this time, he looked at the wordless stone tablet, and there were three more characters on it - the heart-knocking tablet!
"[Knock on the Heart Monument], does it mean to ask about your true heart?"
Zhou Yang nodded thoughtfully, and couldn't help but murmur to himself: "This thing is an excellent treasure for sharpening one's mind. If it can be brought back to the family, if there are those cold-blooded, ungrateful and cold-hearted people in the family in the future,
People can see their true colors as long as they walk inside this treasure, so be prepared in advance!"
Of course he was just talking.
Not to mention whether this thing can be moved, even if it can really be taken away, it will have to wait until he has passed all the tests and successfully inherited the Taoist inheritance of [Donglai Zhenren].
Therefore, he just took a deep look at the stone tablet, and then continued to climb up the stone stairs.
After climbing hundreds of stone stairs in this way, a humanoid figure suddenly appeared on the stone stairs in front of Zhou Yang.
A sixth-level puppet whose cultivation aura has reached the early stage of Nascent Soul!
"Beat me so you can move on!"
The humanoid puppet whose body was covered with silver metal scales pointed at Zhou Yang with a silver sword in his hand, and told the method of clearing the level in an indifferent tone.
And when the humanoid puppet finished speaking, Zhou Yang suddenly felt that the power that suppressed his flight disappeared.
With a thought in his mind, his feet automatically lifted off the ground and floated in mid-air.
"Come on, let's fight!"
He yelled with fighting intent in his eyes, and immediately used his magical weapon [Qianyang Golden Pagoda] to hit the humanoid puppet.
The golden pagoda came crushing across the sky, but the humanoid puppet calmly waved his hand and hit the long sword.
An extremely sharp silver-white sword energy shot out, instantly blowing away the flying [Qianyang Golden Pagoda].
Then the silver lightning flashed on the humanoid puppet, and its body disappeared into thin air.
When he reappeared, he was already ten feet away behind Zhou Yang, and the silver sword in his hand was slashing straight towards Zhou Yang's head.