Chapter 123 Blood and Tears in the Sword River (1)
At the foothills of Mount Taihe, Queen Shansheng’s sad and indignant shouts were mixed with the low roar of the black tiger, echoing among the mountains. [] It was not just because the queen’s voice was too sad, but also because of the low roar of the black tiger.
It was full of chilling meaning, and the entire Taihe Mountain was silent at this moment, without any sound. Only the roaring and shouting of this man and an animal came with the wind, and penetrated clearly into the ears of the prince who was hurried into the mountain. Every time
A cry full of nostalgia is like a fence taking root on the ground, like a flexible rope, and even like a drop of spring rain, which revives the family affection in the heart of the marching prince, and his steps gradually slow down.
It can be said that this is a tug-of-war between family affection and Taoism, and the bargaining chip in this battle is either to be reincarnated in the world of mortals or to have the fate of eternal life. This is a war of two attachments, one is the unforgettable affection between mother and son, and the other is the fate of eternal life.
It is about restoring the original, and the achievements of the previous life cannot be thrown away. But no matter what, there will never be a winner in this war. What one side loses is the hope and sustenance of the second half of life, and what the other side is about to lose is all the joys and sorrows of the entire vast world.
The prince's originally light and windy footsteps gradually became like heavy lead, and finally stopped. He looked back and sighed leisurely, looking in the distance in the direction where his mother was chasing him. Only then did he understand in his heart that it turned out that he had just cut off his robe with a sword and abandoned the person he had abandoned.
It is just a mere cup in this surging world. Those worldly ties still have countless seeds buried deep in some dark corners of the sea of consciousness. As long as the breeze blows, they will sprout and grow immediately, and they will disappear again.
Come. Once again, set up insurmountable barriers on your own path to enlightenment.
Sighing, the prince once again sat cross-legged on the ground, trying to dig out the roots of these bonds from the depths of his consciousness. He suppressed the chaos in his heart, once again sank his soul into the sea of consciousness, and traveled around along the meridians. Sure enough, he found that...
In those corners that were difficult to overcome or enter when he first traveled with his soul, with every call from the Queen Shan Sheng in the distance, those places would always tremble slightly, and then there would be traces of
The memories that he had removed emerged from it and spread at an extremely fast speed, causing the meridians that were already clear and smooth to become barren and messy again, even worse than before.
Because of the lesson learned from the last time, the prince no longer panicked this time. He calmed down, got rid of all distracting thoughts, and even tried hard to completely forget about the calls from the outside world and himself, and began to attack these barriers with all his strength.
Penetrate bit by bit.
As time went by, the prince's body, sitting cross-legged, gradually became stiff, and his face was pale and almost colorless. His breathing was weak and almost inaudible. At this time, the queen who had rushed to his side hurriedly stepped forward and gently stroked her son.
, only to see that his body had become as hard as stone, and his tentacles were as cold as ice. If it weren't for the slightest trace of heat in his chest and the feeling of his heart beating, he would almost look like a dead person.
Although Queen Shansheng was panic-stricken, she had also seen some outsiders practicing Taoism in the palace, and had heard a little bit about some of the strange phenomena that occurred during their cultivation. She knew that the prince might have reached a very important moment at this time.
At this critical moment, not daring to disturb him, he immediately restrained Black Tiger and the palace guards who came after him and retreated a few feet, leaving him to sit quietly next to the prince, waiting for him to wake up.
At this time, the prince had already been immersed in his own world, completely losing his perception of external things. After unremitting efforts, his soul finally broke through a memory barrier and entered it.
In his consciousness, it was as if his soul had turned into a transparent drop of water. Every time he entered a small space behind this barrier, his shape would change. And these small spaces surrounded each other.
The trap is like a maze. If the prince's six senses were not clear at this time, he would almost get lost in it.
The prince's soul was constantly roaming in these spaces, expecting to find many clues related to worldly memories, but to his disappointment, these spaces seemed small, but seemed to be infinitely large. The prince's soul was in
After cruising for a long time, he found that the place was completely empty and he couldn't see anything he wanted.
In desperation, the prince had no choice but to withdraw slowly and look at the corners in front of him from the perspective of an outsider again.
His soul was sitting in front of these corners. After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly realized that these corners themselves were the so-called roots of memory, just because they had already merged with the meridians of the body and became
In other words, your entire body is a huge memory warehouse, and all the experiences you have had since the body was born have become an inseparable part of it, connected by flesh and blood and inseparable.
All the emotions and memories that were forcibly separated and expelled by the prince with the power of his soul just now are just a layer of foam on the vast sea. Compared with the vastness of the sea, they are really insignificant. As long as a breeze blows from the sea of heart,
As the waves ripple, these foams will grow and grow forever.
Once he figured this out, deep despair immediately surged like a flood in the depths of the prince's consciousness. He immediately thought that maybe in this way, he wanted to truly abandon the past and step into the ideal world.
To purify the world, what he has to abandon is the body he relies on to survive in this world. But if the body dies, where will his soul go? At this time, he already understands in his heart that his body is his life.
The biggest obstacle on the road to non-destruction and non-rebirth is the only carrier that he relies on to survive in this world and temper the girl baby, the golden elixir of the Tao. If he fails to truly condense his soul, he can leave.
Before the body can exist independently, this body is a carrier of the soul that cannot be abandoned no matter what. In other words, as long as you want to survive in this world, you must accept the reality that it carries with it the complicated world.
Countless emotions and memories, struggling to survive amid contradictions and pain, overcoming thorns in the chaos of emotions, carrying scars all over the body, seeking the balance of heaven, and finally achieving the infinite realm in my mind.
Just thinking about such a process already makes people shudder, because it will be a journey destined to be scarred, with endless loneliness, endless loneliness, endless longing, and endless desires. In such a process,
Human nature and the things pursued by thoughts are in conflict and entanglement with each other. The pain involved is naturally beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
Endless sadness overflowed in the heart of the prince. Only then did he realize the true meaning of Taoism, and at the same time, he also understood the difficulties involved. The so-called Taoism means that a person relies on his perseverance to endure the loneliness that ordinary people cannot.
and loneliness, using the vitality of heaven and earth to nourish one's own vitality to temper the body and spirit, and finally achieve the unity of heaven and man, and survive without relying on the body. The unity of spirit and flesh, tempering spiritual consciousness with the power of the spirit, and achieving purity
A person who is separated from the world of mortals in a state of selflessness is an immortal; the body and soul are destroyed and the soul is reorganized with spiritual consciousness and exists in another invisible and traceless new form, which is a god. From humans, one enters the immortal way, and then from the immortal way
When entering the Shinto, there is no life, no death, no desires, no pursuits, no distinction between appearances, and no burden of species. This is the ultimate goal of seeking the Tao.
The prince's soul gradually returned to his spiritual aperture, and he had been keenly aware of the presence of his mother beside him. At this time, he did not dare to open his eyes, for fear that once he returned to the real world, he would not be able to face his mother's tears.
Stick to your Taoist heart. Once your mind wavers, all your previous efforts will be wasted.
The prince gritted his teeth secretly, and once again used the power of his soul to drive away the debris in his meridians and consciousness, and then transported it to the Dantian to store and compress it, preparing to drive it out of the body again, in order to gain a moment of mental strength to get rid of his mother's pain.
Entangled.
Thanks to the previous experience, the prince's emotional expulsion went much more smoothly this time. Without the anxious Queen Shan Sheng beside her noticing, another drop of golden blood came from the prince's finger pointing diagonally at the earth.
The tip overflowed out and fell silently into the grass at his feet.
The mountains shook and the earth shook.
The blood seeped into the ground silently, and the entire Taihe Mountain suddenly trembled. A pale golden blood stain quickly extended between the prince and the queen, like a long snake with no head or tail, quickly passing through the grassland and dense forest, turning its feet
The land separated to both sides, but there was no crack. It was just that the distance between mother and son suddenly widened a lot.
The queen was caught off guard, but could no longer overcome this bloodstain. So far away, she looked at her son, who was sitting motionless like a piece of wood or stone, inexplicably horrified.
The prince's stiff body suddenly moved slightly, and his bones made a crackling sound like fried beans, as dense as heavy rain. He slowly opened his eyes and looked back at his mother, with a hint of compassion in his eyes.
It flashed by, and then returned to indifference.
It's just that he seems to have exhausted all his energy at this time. Although he is trying hard to move his body, his thoughts are empty and his body is motionless.【】