Volume Four, Chapter 399, The Origin of the So-called Merit
Volume 4
Chapter 399: The so-called origin of merit
Volume 4 Chapter 399 The so-called origin of merit
(I just found out today that Gao V can actually get a free monthly ticket. So I happily got one and immediately voted for myself. Hehe, I finally achieved a zero breakthrough to celebrate.)
Fairy Han'e has been studying with great concentration over the years since she received the heavenly enlightenment passed down to her by You Longzi more than ten years ago. She has benefited a lot from it and has benefited a lot from it. Nowadays, her Taoism has become more and more profound, and she may trigger the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation at any time.
She became an immortal. However, she felt that her own mana accumulation was not enough, and her understanding of the Tao had not reached the limit of a cultivator in the Return to Void Stage. Her Tao mind was not tempered enough, so she planned to accumulate it for a while and be fully prepared before making another move.
Overcoming the tribulation.
The way of cultivation is inherently against the heavens, especially when it comes to overcoming tribulations. Even powerful cultivators dare not say that they are foolproof. Because tribulations are divided into two levels: one is the tribulations that come from heaven, most of which are thunder tribulations; the other is those that come from the mysterious
The unpredictable demons in the world of demons seduce the inner demons of cultivators to form the inner demon calamity. One is external, and the other is internal and external. What cultivators face is a double test of Taoism and cultivation. Therefore, it has a history.
In the past, few cultivators were able to successfully overcome tribulations and become immortals. This also led to the fact that many magical weapons and elixirs that were helpful in overcoming tribulations were extremely precious and often had no market price.
Fairy Han'e was lucky enough to get the immortal-level enlightenment given to her by You Longzi. After years of practice, she was much more sure of overcoming the tribulation, but it only increased from 20% to 50%, which was still not safe enough. This time she left the mountain except for the fact that
However, the more important thing for Taiyan people is to hone their Taoist heart by killing demons and accumulate external merits.
Never think that merit can only be obtained by doing good deeds. The so-called heaven is impartial and impartial, and it is ruthless. The ancient sage once said: The heaven and the earth are unkind and regard all things as suckers. From a broad perspective, all things in the world have their own laws of operation, and the collection of these laws
The body is the way of heaven; the way of heaven runs through all the worlds of heaven, past and future. From a small perspective, each world has its own laws, which are small-scale ways of heaven. And all merits do not appear out of thin air but are given by heaven.
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For those ordinary cultivators who have not reached the stage of returning to the void, most of them only think that they can gain merit by doing good deeds. But in the eyes of those cultivators who have become the masters of returning to the void and have begun to pry into and study the secrets of heaven and the rules, morality
The source is far from simple. It feels as if there is a law in the dark that follows a certain principle to deliver merit to those individuals who meet the conditions. This principle is very complicated and includes doing good deeds, but it is not just simple.
Doing good deeds and some actions that are evil from a certain perspective can also gain merit. Therefore, all Huixu masters can only draw one conclusion in their research. Doing good deeds can gain merit, but the definition of good deeds is much more complicated.
.In addition to rescuing lives and helping those in need, we also use killing to stop killing and violence to stop violence! Simply put, punishing evil means promoting good!
At least before she gained the immortal-level enlightenment, Fairy Han'e's views were not much different from those of other returning masters. But after gaining the immortal-level enlightenment, her vision became much broader. Being able to become an immortal means that she has already
I have a considerable in-depth understanding of the rules and my understanding of the way of heaven has reached a higher level. And the immortals naturally have a clearer understanding of how to obtain merit.
In You Longzi's view, there is only one reason for Heaven to grant merit, and that is to conform to the development of Heaven! In other words, it is in line with the laws of good operation of Heaven.
Cultivators who are familiar with classics all know that the reason why great catastrophes occur between heaven and earth may appear to be caused by humans, but in the end it will cause turbulence in the world and spread far and wide. For example, the dragon and phoenix catastrophe in ancient times, the Lich Calamity
Tribulation, Fengshen Measuring Tribulation will cause great impact and damage to the universe every time.
The first tribulation of dragon and phoenix is too far away and there is no record; the inside story of Lich's calamity is too deep and only a few words are left. However, we also know that the outbreak of calamity completely shattered the prehistoric continent. The ancient stars also shattered and evolved into today's earthly fairy world.
and countless stars; and the Battle of the Gods shattered the human world, making it more and more dilapidated, and the world of cultivation is increasingly declining; these are the most obvious examples.
The main reason why it caused calamity and intentional instigation by those who were interested was that the actions of the peak power group of the universe at that time violated the good development of the way of heaven and the development law of the universe's avenue, causing the law to lose balance. The law - losing balance and relying on the law
Countless rules are naturally destroyed, leading to chaos and inability to function well. And the foundation of all worlds, and even the entire universe, is evolved from the interweaving and combination of countless rules. The disorder and destruction of rules directly affects the universe and all worlds.
Stability. If this development continues, it will only bring about more and more serious destruction and chaos, eventually leading to the destruction of those peak power groups and the universe.
If the universe is viewed as a person, then the factors that undermine the good operation of the law of heaven are viruses and wounds. If left unchecked, people will become sick, disabled or even die. And the law of heaven can be regarded as the consciousness of the universe, which naturally does not want such a thing to happen.
Therefore, they will think of ways to "cure" themselves. However, the way of heaven is inactive, and there is no specific will. It is just a kind of general consciousness. In other words, although it can feel that something is wrong with itself, it cannot be specific to the subtle aspects and has no subjective consciousness.
Therefore, it is impossible to "treat" oneself by one's own hands like a human being. However, as the will of the entire universe, Heaven will not sit still and wait for death. It will instinctively respond to those things that are helpful to "treat" it and allow it to "grow healthily"
Reward and support it to produce more things that are good for itself.
And this reward is merit and luck!
Merit and luck can be mixed to a certain extent. If you have merit, you will naturally have luck. And if you have luck, it is also very easy to obtain merit. However, luck is intangible and qualityless. It can only be sensed and cannot play a specific role, but it can ensure the greatest extent.
The personal safety of those with good luck will never be completely destroyed before the good luck is exhausted; but merit can be manifested and used to refining magic weapons, practicing exercises, and developing magical powers, which have many wonderful uses.
After all, it is a gift from Heaven that is extraordinary. Cultivators are the Taoists who have inherited the Taoism of Qi practitioners from ancient times. They are a group of people who have the most systematic and in-depth understanding of Heaven and nature. Naturally, they attach more importance to these.
Luck is invisible and has no quality. It cannot be sensed easily, and it does not have immediate benefits like merit. Therefore, the world of cultivation has developed to the point where most cultivators today only know merit and do not understand luck. Generally speaking, bad things in a general sense such as killing innocent people and destroying
Naturally, destroying order and other things are not in line with the good development of heaven, so after stopping these bad things, heaven will also grant merit as a reward. And protecting goodness, maintaining nature, promoting the good development of things, and restoring chaos to order are also good things in a general sense.
They are all good developments in line with the way of heaven, so the way of heaven will also bestow merit as a reward.
The cultivators who have not become immortals do not understand the deep-seated truth. Those who have become immortals will not deliberately promote their own views because most of them are busy with retreat practice and sect matters and have no time to pay attention to these "trivial matters". So in
Passed down from generation to generation, "doing good deeds will earn you merit" has actually become common sense in the world of cultivation. Later, merit even evolved into a proper noun "good deeds" specifically referring to the merit gained from doing good deeds.
Things under the system of Heaven's Way make actions that are conducive to the good development of Heaven's Way. The rewards given by Heaven's Way in turn further encourage the development of these actions and further promote the development of Heaven's Way. This can form a virtuous cycle to ensure that Heaven's Way can develop better and avoid disasters.
Even the arrival of immeasurable tribulations. Although there has never been any active publicity and demonstration, this concept has been passed on to all those who are interested in the way of heaven through a very effective feedback that has been running for billions of years.
There are living beings and even sentient beings in the universe who have in-depth exploration. This is the so-called great sound, sound, and elephant, which is invisible.
Of course, You Longzi is only an immortal after all. He can only deduce these actions based on his current level of understanding of the way of heaven. These are mixed with a lot of his own guesses and subjective assumptions, which cannot be said to be very accurate. The specific operation of the way of heaven must be better than he understands.
It is much more profound and mysterious. After all, the way of heaven is so vast that even a saint would not dare to say that he can fully understand it. How can a little immortal be so arrogant?
However, the real way of heaven is after all a collection of the great consciousness of the universe. It is dispersed in various worlds, and there are different laws in different worlds. This is what is called adapting to local conditions. For example, the trend of the way of heaven in the divine world is order and holiness; while in the devil world, it is chaos and chaos.
Evil; as for the human world, because it is a fragment of the ancient prehistoric continent, it has inherited the ancient nature and the law of inaction and inclusiveness. It does not specifically exclude certain things as long as it can help the operation of the heaven in this world. But once it is against the heaven in this world, it can be absorbed.
If there is any obstruction or damage to the operation, it will lose the recognition of the way of heaven and it will gain merit. As small as the way of heaven in one world, the way of heaven in the entire universe operates in this way.
Of course, there are countless heavens and worlds in the universe. Each world has its own unique will and laws. Speaking of them individually, it is not the whole of the universe and heaven. Only the laws in all worlds combined can be regarded as the universe and heaven. These worlds
There is also competition between them, but this competition is more obscure. The forms of expression vary. It can be chemicalization, ideas, or armed war. A world law that can become the winner of world wars is naturally more excellent and easier to spread in the universe.
Being the mainstream in the avenue is also in line with the laws of the avenue.
Competition is an instinct. This instinct exists even if there is only a pan-conscious world will. However, because the "life span" of the world is too long and there is no subjective consciousness, it can only expand its influence by affecting the creatures in the world to participate in this kind of instinct.
Pan-universe competition. When the Great God Pangu created the world, the Prehistoric Continent appeared first and naturally occupied most of the destiny of the entire universe. Therefore, the world will and laws of the Prehistoric Continent became the mainstream of the universe and heaven, suppressing the gods, demons, Buddhas, etc. that appeared later.
The world of heavens becomes the center of the universe.
However, with the outbreak of several great catastrophes of heaven and earth and catastrophes of the universe, the prehistoric continent was shattered and split into a relatively scattered Eastern system. The continuous loss of destiny in the heavens and worlds led to the rise and dispersion of the gods and worlds in which saints were born, such as the divine world and the Buddhist world.
The fate of the universe also extends its influence to the universe. However, after all, there are still four saints in the East, the Sanqing Saint and the Nuwa Empress, so they can still suppress the Eastern heavens and prevent it from completely declining. However, there are also conflicts between the Four Saints and they cannot work together.
Working together, the civil strife is not the only thing that is going on, but luck is still being lost.
It wasn't until the Battle of the Gods tens of thousands of years ago that the Four Saints completely turned against each other. In addition, the Two Saints from the West intervened and caused the Jiejiao to be defeated. The leader of Tongtian was so angry that he wanted to destroy the world and destroy the world. He practiced Earth, Water, Wind, Fire and all Saints again.
Both sides suffered losses in the fight. Although it was later stopped by Taoist Hongjun and it did not cause a catastrophe, it still shattered the world that was originally the size of the Zhongqian World into what it is today. The vitality of the Eastern Heavenly World was greatly damaged, while the Western Buddhist Heavenly World was.
Gaining a lot of benefits from it and occupying a lot of luck, it has successfully risen and even invaded many worlds in the eastern heavens. Even the human world, the origin of the three sects of the Eastern Dao Sect, which is the remnant of the ancient continent, has been infiltrated and fought against the Tao Sect Branch.
.Perhaps it is because Buddhism has a relatively mild style and most of its subjects pursue virtue and good deeds, and they are human beings and are helpful to the development of the heaven on earth, so they are recognized by the will of heaven on earth and are not rejected.
The invasion of the demon world into the human world this time can also be seen as the erosion of the heavenly laws of the demon world on the human world. However, compared to the Buddhist world, the style of the demon world is much rougher. The naked destruction and killing do not help the operation of the heavenly laws of the human world. Naturally
It was rejected. Once polluted by the will of the devil's heaven, the world of heaven will be "swallowed" and the human world will become a vassal plane of the devil. This will naturally arouse the resistance of the world of heaven, so the rules of the world of heaven have invisibly increased the number of attacks.
Killing demons brings merit.
This is also an important reason why the world of cultivation actively participates in fighting and killing monsters. In normal times, even if we know that there are such rewards, where can we find so many monsters to kill? These are considered opportunities, so naturally we must seize the opportunity to kill them.
It's right to kill. Otherwise, if you miss this time, you won't have the same good opportunity again.
This time Fairy Han'e and a group of cultivators from the Chongyang Sect came together with this idea. With her power, she can naturally kill a large number of demons and get a lot of merit from it. The more merit she gets, the better her luck will be.
At the same time, Yue Zu can also use her merits to practice some of the powerful magical powers and magic weapons entrusted to her by You Longzi, making her more confident in surviving the catastrophe.
When she broke out of the dark restraint released by the demon, she immediately released a few spells to test the power of the dark restraint. She realized that it would be in danger for the cultivators inside if she did not amplify the move. So she flew high into the air and jumped out of the ring.
A fist-sized orb with lightning flashing inside was taken out from the space.
This is a thunder bead that she took out from the Nine Heavens Thunder Layer at a risk. It is a thunder bead formed by the accumulation of many years of thunder in the thunder layer and fused with the vitality in the thunder layer by some coincidence. It is stored internally.
It has extremely powerful thunder and lightning power. If it can be triggered by a special method, the power will never be less than that of an ordinary immortal. A full blow is no worse than a natural disaster!
Fairy Han'e happened to know such a method. In order to save people, she did not hesitate to take out this valuable treasure that could save lives. She raised her palms to the sky and silently recited the spell and began to cast the spell.
The method used by Fairy Han'e is called the "Nine Heavens of Thunder and Dust Method". According to legend, it is the method used by the ancient thunder god to eliminate those evil places on the earth, such as evil spirits caves, corpse caves with accumulated years, poisonous lakes, and other places to restore peace to the world.
.With such an origin, we can imagine how powerful it is. However, this spell has been lost since ancient times. When Yun Canghai traveled overseas and on the mainland, he once obtained a fragment in an ancient cultivator's cave, which only recorded how to trigger it.
There is a way to turn the powerful thunder power into an attack spell, but there is no record of how to accumulate the power of thunder and sort it out and soften it. Therefore, it is a good idea to just record it and improve it as a backup as long as the conditions are right.
The Qiang** Sect was later passed down to Fairy Han'e.
And with the thunder bead, this spell naturally has the conditions to be used.
After the spell was recited, the thunder from the thunder beads spewed out and responded to the thunder deep in the sky, attracting more thunder. Under the guidance of Fairy Han'e's spell, it hit the dark restriction at the same time. With the help of the power of heaven and earth, it was broken in one fell swoop.