Mastering the key to sanctification does not mean that you will definitely become a saint. Zhang Cundao understands this very well. Just like getting a girl’s fog chat number, you may not necessarily develop into a girlfriend.
Apart from these, there is nothing else in the house. This is a very simple hut. But at this moment, the lotus flower outside suddenly shouted: "Destined person, have you finished reading?"
Zhang Cundao was about to speak, but Lianhua did not wait for his answer, but continued: "The master said that if you want to leave here, you need to figure out how to leave here, otherwise you will be trapped here for the rest of your life!"
Zhang Cundao was stunned when he heard this, and then he suddenly discovered that the island had changed. A force sealed the island, making him unable to feel the outside world at all.
Zhang Cundao was slightly stunned, and he tried to use the ubiquitous characteristics of the Immortal Trapping Sword. Unfortunately, this place seemed to be isolated from the world. His Immortal Trapping Sword could appear here, but he could not feel the Immortal Trapping Sword from the outside world.
After all, he is a super powerful person who has understood the way of a saint, so it is only natural that he has such means.
Zhang Cundao lowered his head and thought for a moment, then asked: "What did the senior leave behind for me to understand? You can't let me understand the realm of a saint before I can leave."
Lianhua said with a smile: "I don't know, you can figure it out yourself..."
Zhang Cundao scratched his head. He looked at Feng Wu beside him and comforted her and said, "Don't worry, I will find a way to get out."
Feng Wu smiled at him and said, "I'm not in a hurry, Brother Zhang."
Zhang Cundao walked around the small island and thought carefully. He looked at the sky above, the sea next to him, and the land under his feet. In fact, since he saw
After reading "Tai Chi Sutra", he has always had many ideas in his mind.
These thoughts are like messy thoughts, constantly arising and annihilating. This means that he has learned too much, leaving him at a loss as to what to do.
He needs to calm down.
After walking around, he returned to the hut, then sat cross-legged on the bed and began to close his eyes and meditate.
This should be a 'casual test' left by Senior Lianxi. As long as he can gain something, he can leave here. Otherwise, wouldn't it be in vain if Senior left his thoughts and wisdom behind but gave them to someone who doesn't know how to use them?
His hard work was blinded.
Zhang Cundao slowly calmed down and began to capture the thoughts that kept rising in his mind.
The first three paragraphs of "Tai Chi Sutra" are all spread to the outside world, or they are spread to the outside world based on a certain understanding. The last paragraph has not been spread. This is probably intentional by the saints. It is like some old masters in the real world.
When teaching skills, they may pass on 90% of the skills to their apprentices, but the last 10%, which is the most critical 10%, will not be passed on early. Generally, they will have to wait until he is about to die.
Only then will a disciple be chosen to teach it.
This method of inheritance ensures the absolute authority and absolute strength of the master. No matter how well your apprentice learns, he will not be able to reach the level of the master because of the skills left by the master. So the apprentices want to learn the last craft.
, you need to obey the master honestly. If you don't want to do this, then rely on your own understanding to master the final craft. Then you will be better than your master and can become a master.
The saints are probably like this. They don't spread this last paragraph to block the saint's position. If other people can understand the way of the saint on their own, then they will welcome such amazingly talented people.
If no one can understand the way of a saint on their own, then they can only wait for their arrangements to compete for the position of a saint.
The competition for the position of saint today is probably just like this.
In the last paragraph, "Therefore, the sage and the heaven and earth harmonize their virtues, the sun and the moon match their brightness, the four seasons match their order, and the ghosts and gods match their good and bad luck." There is also "The way to establish the sky is called yin and yang. The way to establish the earth is said to be yin and yang."
Softness and strength. The way to establish a person is called benevolence and righteousness.' Add the last sentence, 'The original is the end, so we know the theory of life and death.'
The meaning of these words is that the sage controls the heaven and earth, based on the five elements of yin and yang, whether it is hard or soft, or benevolent or righteous, they are all two sides of yin and yang, and the five elements change. Combined with the Tai Chi diagram left by Mr. Lianxi, we can know from the analysis of the yin and yang and the five elements.
.There should be nine saints.
Yin and yang, there are seven positions in the five elements. The last two positions of "The Theory of Life and Death" represent "life" and "death".
This understanding is also consistent with the terms "Heaven and Earth", "Sun and Moon", "Four Seasons" and "Ghosts and Gods". "Heaven and Earth" represent two saints, "Sun and Moon" represent two saints, and "Four Seasons" represent spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are four
Saint. And the last 'ghost' is a saint. Ghosts and gods are actually two sides of the same body. In ancient times, ghosts and gods were indistinguishable, and people had no way to practice. Gods and ghosts are both entities of nothingness, and it is normal to be confused by them.
Moreover, the divisions of 'Heaven and Earth', 'Sun and Moon', 'Four Seasons' and 'Ghosts and Gods' also represent the position of the saint. Among the saints, 'Heaven and Earth' is the highest, followed by 'Sun and Moon', and then 'Four Seasons'.
, and finally the 'ghosts'.
Today's seven saints, humans and demons, the two who were first to become saints, are both named after "Heaven". One reaches the sky and the other is equal to the sky. There are also two saints named after "earth". One reaches the earth.
, a regretful place. And the spiritual mother-in-law is estimated to be 'birth' or to represent spring in the 'four seasons'...
Every seat of the saint has meaning and is consistent with the interpretation of the scriptures.
If this is the case, then the newly promoted saint is very likely to represent the seat of 'ghosts' or 'death'. Thinking about it this way, Yama Devil Lord's hopes are great...
Zhang Cundao thought for a while, and suddenly felt something was wrong. Because there are still two holy seats left, what if the one taken out this time is not the seat representing 'ghost' or 'death', but something else?
Zhang Cundao shook his head. He couldn't say for sure about the saints. It was all his imagination. But the number of nine saints should be fixed. It would never exceed this number.
There is no hope for him in this battle for the Holy Throne. His strength and realm cannot keep up. But if he follows his understanding, he still has one last chance to compete for the Holy Throne.
A saint will release a saint after a long, long time. The current seven saints are not sanctified together, but appear one after another. The last one to be sanctified is the saint and the holy king. He is the founder of the human dynasty.
According to this, it has been ten thousand years.
If the saint is elected this time, then the last saint's position should not be released until ten thousand years later. When all nine saints are ready, then the saint's position will be closed forever, and no one in the world can hope to see the saint.
position, the end point of their cultivation can only be the realm of quasi-sage.
Thinking of these, a sentence suddenly appeared in Zhang Cundao's mind, 'The saint will not die until the great path continues.' In order to maintain his status as a 'sage', the saint set nine positions, cutting off the chance of all beings in the world to reach the top of the 'sage'. They are like
He is like a big thief, stealing the authority of the great road, maintaining his own interests, and suppressing the interests of all non-'saints'.
Is this kind of 'saint' the 'saint' that Mr. Lianxi expected?
Judging from various signs, Mr. Lianxi, who has comprehended the "Tai Chi Sutra", is the most qualified to ascend to the holy throne. This is the Tao he compiled. But the real situation is that among the seven saints, none of them is called
Mr. Lianxi's. If there is one, no matter how ignorant Zhang Cundao is, he should know who it is.
Looking at it now, after Mr. Lianxi understood the way of the saint, he did not go to realize the way, but did not know where to go. Then the people who got this scripture realized the way of the saint in turn, forming the current pattern.
If this is really the case, then Mr. Lianxi is really just like what is written in his "Shuo on Love of Lotus". He is a noble gentleman, neither arrogant nor impetuous, neither spreading nor branching.
I went through the thoughts in my mind, but they were all assumptions about the way of saints, not useful insights. But after this kind of 'gossip'-like thoughts ended, my mind began to calm down and focus, and began to think about other things.
s things.
Zhang Cundao looked at the lotus outside. Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something.
The calyx of this lotus is black, but the petals are like fire. In the five elements of yin and yang, black represents water and red represents fire. Fire and water are like yin and yang. They are two opposite forces, and they are also in conflict with each other in the five elements.
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Then why does this flower grow like this?
There are thousands of flowers in the world, and it is not surprising that they look all kinds of strange. But when Zhang Cundao saw this lotus, he thought of the theory of yin and yang and the five elements in the scriptures.
'When Tai Chi moves, it generates yang, when it moves to the extreme, it becomes still, when it stays still, it generates yin, and when it moves, it moves again. Each movement and one stillness are the roots of each other.' This explains the principle of Tai Chi's yin and yang cycle. And on this lotus, the water extreme generates fire.
, Fire generates water at its extremes, water and fire complement each other and are roots of each other.
Zhang Cundao looked at the lotus carefully, thinking about it, and suddenly came up with a bold idea.
This lotus is not born like this. The power of water and fire is acquired. Water and fire maintain the endless power in the cycle of movement, which makes this lotus look like this.
In "The Theory of Loving the Lotus", the lotus emerges from the mud but is not stained, and washes the water without being evil. It is a holy plant. So why does Mr. Lianxi, who appreciates the holiness of the lotus, plant a lotus that combines water and fire?
?This is obviously not in line with his preferences.
If something is obviously problematic, then it is a problem. To solve this problem, Mr. Lianxi may give Zhang Cundao the test question.
Zhang Cundao thought about it carefully. When he first saw this lotus, she was constantly emitting chaotic energy. Later, he also discovered that the chaotic energy of this lotus was actually the thoughts emanating from her. She had many and complicated thoughts.
, has reached an extreme point. If other creatures passively accept these thoughts, their processors will naturally be burned out, and then they will fall into chaos.
So what exactly causes the lotus to have so many thoughts? These are obviously not thoughts that a 'quiet and holy' lotus can have. And other living beings' processors (brains) will be dry-burned, so won't this lotus be able to?
It doesn't look like this Lotus is smart. Its information processing function shouldn't be that strong.
Zhang Cundao thought for a while and began to have an idea in his mind. So he walked to Lotus and said to Lotus: "Can I have half of your petals?"
Before the lotus flower responded, Zhang Cundao took the initiative and cut off a small piece of her petal with the Sinking Immortal Sword.
Lianhua screamed "Ah" with some dissatisfaction in her tone. But Zhang Cundao didn't care about this, but stared at her wound closely.
In just a moment, her cut petals grew back and became intact. From the perspective of ordinary people, this means that the lotus flower has extremely strong vitality and excellent self-healing ability.
But under the observation of Zhang Cundao's spiritual mind, he discovered some clues.
This is not a strong self-healing power, but the time of the lotus has been accelerated. The petals that should have taken a month or two to grow, under the acceleration of time, she grew in just an instant. The acceleration of time is like
You can see it if you watch the video quickly.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Cundao sat next to Lianhua, and suddenly a sentence came to his mind.
The phrase "the four seasons are in their order" means "the rotation of the four seasons changes regularly", which reflects the saint's ability to control the heaven and earth and formulate the rotation of the four seasons.
But then I thought about it, the "four seasons" don't refer to time. The rotation of the four seasons is essentially the change of time. If you think about "the order of the four seasons" in a more advanced way, does it mean "setting up the rules of time flow"?
If time can be regulated, then it shouldn't be a problem to make time flow faster.
Zhang Cundao can't control the speed of time, but that doesn't mean that Mr. Lianxi can't do it. If Mr. Lianxi sets the speed of time for this lotus... No, it's not that Mr. Lianxi sets the speed of time for this lotus...
…
A thought suddenly flashed through Zhang Cundao's mind.
In an audit course at the university, a professor from the physics department once said that there is no attribute of 'time' in this world. The 'time' we perceive is just because we see changes in the situation. When we see flowers blooming, we feel
You know it's spring, you know it's summer when you see the wheat ripening, you know it's autumn when you see the fallen leaves.
The changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter are realized by observing all these. We observe ourselves, growing from a babbling child to a strong and tall young man, from a head full of black hair to a head full of white hair, and then we have feelings.
'The deceased is like a man who never gives up day and night.'
Time is a meaningless thing, and only observing changes gives it meaning. If everything does not move and change, then time will be meaningless and cannot be observed at all.
On the other hand, if the speed of change in everything is accelerating, can we 'observe' that time is accelerating?
‘When Tai Chi moves, it generates the sun... When it moves and when it is still, life and death are endless.’ Mr. Lianxi did not exert any magical powers about time on the lotus. He just accelerated the movement of water and fire on the lotus...
The movement of water and fire speeds up, causing the 'time' in Lotus to also speed up. The 'time flow' felt by Lotus is different from the real 'time flow' in the outside world. Her time is faster, so she has so much,
Such complicated thoughts. Because these thoughts have been "accumulated for a long time" by her.