Meng Zhou coughed lightly and quickly calmed down his somewhat overly divergent mind.
At this moment, the two of them are in a very special state.
If he wants to enter here, he must rely on the guidance of Bai Zhi's mind.
Relying on Bai Zhi's emotional pull, the two people actually achieved a kind of connected mind.
The most active thoughts in your heart will be naturally transmitted to another person's heart.
After realizing this, Meng Zhou still dared to think wildly.
Meng Zhou, who controlled his mind, stared at Bai Zhi and looked at it.
Bai Zhi stared back and said, "Why are you staring at me like that?"
Between his words, he inadvertently revealed a bit of wild and delicate meaning.
Meng Zhou's expression became even weirder.
"Hey!" This time, Bai Zhi's voice pierced directly into the depths of Meng Zhou's mind.
After Meng Zhou came to his senses, what he saw was Bai Zhi's rather unhappy face.
Meng Zhou coughed again and explained: "You are very different from what I imagined."
Bai Zhi said: "What's so strange about this? You've never seen me before."
Meng Zhou shook his head, held his right hand with Bai Zhi's left hand, then waved his left hand gently in front of him, and a picture scroll unfolded in front of the two of them.
In the painting, a woman looks like she is dining in the wind and drinking dew, standing on a mountain peak, with no frontal face visible, only a back view, as if she is looking at the mountains, clouds and sea in the distance.
The strong wind blew her skirts up and down, vaguely outlining the outline of her graceful figure. It also showed her lightness, as if she would be blown away by the wind at any time.
"Are you the person in this painting?" Meng Zhou asked.
Although there is only one back figure of the person in the painting, Meng Zhou can basically conclude from the temperament and charm revealed in it that this is completely different from the Bai Zhi in front of him.
The Angelica dahurica in front of him gave Meng Zhou a feeling of natural wildness without any decoration, and a vitality unique to girls.
Bai Zhi's answer surprised Meng Zhou.
When she saw this painting, Bai Zhi was obviously startled for a moment, and then her eyes stayed for a moment on the figure in the painting with only the back, and shook her head and said: "This is not me."
Meng Zhou was surprised, "It's not you? Then who is she?"
"Xingying." Bai Zhi said.
With a completely unfamiliar name, the doubts in Meng Zhou's heart were not only not solved, but instead became more intense.
"Who is Xingying?" Meng Zhou asked.
Bai Zhi seemed to read something from his doubts, and suddenly said: "You may have heard this name for the first time, but you must be familiar with this person."
"Who?" Meng Zhou asked hurriedly, his heart full of curiosity. Before waiting for Bai Zhi's answer, his mind had turned over countless times.
But I have never been able to match the person in the painting with a certain person in my memory.
"Xingxiu Palace was founded by Xingying," Bai Zhi said.
Bai Zhi's answer shocked Meng Zhou, "This... the person in this painting is actually the first ancestor of Xingxiu Palace?"
"Um."
"The first ancestor of the Xingxiu Palace was actually a woman?" Meng Zhou stared at the painting in front of him that he had restored with his thoughts. He still felt extremely incredible when looking at the figure in it that gave people endless reverie just from his back.
"Isn't this obvious?" Bai Zhi said lightly.
"..." Meng Zhou glanced at the back of the painting again and thought, it is indeed obvious, but I was still shocked.
After calming down and allowing himself to accept this fact, new doubts came to Meng Zhou's mind.
"Why does this have anything to do with her?"
Bai Zhi blinked and said, "This matter has always been related to her."
Speaking of this, Bai Zhi looked at Meng Zhou and said:
"Even you and her have a very close relationship now."
Meng Zhou was surprised and said: "What relationship do I have with her? Since she is the first ancestor of Xingxiu Palace, wouldn't her bones have been turned into slag long ago?"
"You might as well take a guess." There was an inexplicable meaning in Bai Zhi's eyes.
Meng Zhou shook his head, not guessing at all, and said directly: "If you can't guess, you'd better tell me directly."
"Yaya." Bai Zhi said with a half-smile.
"Yaya? Why are you and Yaya again..."
Meng Zhou suddenly fell silent.
All kinds of thoughts are stirring back and forth in my mind.
After a long time, he looked at Bai Zhi again and said, "What is going on?"
This time, Bai Zhi did not continue to play off the situation, and clearly laid out the cause and effect in front of Meng Zhou.
All kinds of information, including what was known before and what was learned from Bai Zhi this time, were finally connected together into a relatively complete picture.
To put it simply, Xingying, the first ancestor of Xingxiu Palace, was still a newbie in Qi training. She was just a small casual cultivator with no roots and no support. She got a huge "adventure" by an "accident".
The pattern of this "adventure" is similar to the process by which Lian Ziling and Yan Zhuang obtained their "adventure".
There are two biggest differences. First, Bai Zhi at that time could still communicate with Xingying on a conscious level.
Therefore, when Xingying was growing up, she played the role of a "portable grandpa". No, she should be called a "portable grandma".
The reason why Xingying, a small, rootless and helpless cultivator was able to fly high and become the True Monarch of Nascent Soul, was probably due to Bai Zhi, the "travelling grandmother".
Perhaps it is precisely because of Bai Zhi's careful guidance that Xingying has the confidence to cultivate Yuanying on her own, or perhaps Xingying herself has a pure nature. From beginning to end, she is not as good as "Uncle Zheng" and Lian Ziling.
Generally, the first thing that Yanzhuang and others think of is how to make the most of this unexpected opportunity.
She is determined to truly resurrect Bai Zhi.
This is also the real reason why she entered the Demon Sealed Land and became a "jailer".
As for the result, of course it was a failure.
If it succeeds, nothing will happen next.
And that failure had two impacts on "Baizhi".
One is good and one is bad.
The good thing is that the power that wanted to completely wipe out her "spirit" has been weakened to a certain extent, which allows her to continue to persevere and wait for the next "adventure".
The bad thing is that her "spirit" fell into a deeper silence, and the weaker "spirit" could no longer appear as the "carrying old lady".
And her failure also caused Xingying, who had reached the peak of Nascent Soul at that time, to suffer disaster, and her body and soul were destroyed.
In the usual sense, Xingying has completely fallen.
However, "Baizhi" preserved Xingying's lingering "spirit" before she fell into complete silence, and sealed it up using a "self-portrait" drawn by Xingying with her magical power of painting as a carrier.
In the place where "Bai Zhi" lived at that time, a bright pearl had also turned into powder, so she took the opportunity to squeeze into a "house" with Xingying's "spirit".
It was not until many years later that the ancient paintings fell into the hands of "Uncle Zheng" that the stories that Meng Zhou knew about were revealed.
The ancient painting first went through several twists and turns, from the hands of "Zheng Bo", to the hands of Lian Ziling, to the hands of Yanzhuang Yanzhuang, and finally to the Jade Lake in the "Juye Wilderness", under the "Secret Method of Cleansing the Soul by the Blood Successor"
Under the influence, it has been circulated and washed in the blood of the Yan family from generation to generation.
——There are two things worth mentioning. Before starting the formal action, Xingying had already made sufficient preparations for failure.
She has also laid out all the "clues" for later discovery, including the "secret method of replacing an infant" and the soul armor made by Xingying with the magical power of painting.
Moreover, although Xingying was the first ancestor of Xingxiu Palace, when she entered the Demon Sealed Land, she did not enter with her true face. Instead, she used her magical power to seamlessly transform into another person and enter the Demon Sealed Land in her place.
Not only were all the forces responsible for guarding the Demon Sealed Land deceived by her, but the Xingxiu Palace she founded was also kept in the dark by her, and her true identity was never known from the beginning to the end.
It is precisely for this reason that Xingying's "self-portrait" with only one back did not arouse any suspicion.
She is capable of painting Taoist Nascent Soul and possessing various magical powers.
Furthermore, although Xingying had reached the peak level of Nascent Soul when she fell, she was still not close to being able to exist independently in the form of a "spirit".
Only then did he barely save the "spirit".
It is precisely for this reason that when Yaya broke through from the third level to the fourth level, her "spirit" only recovered somewhat, but did not fully wake up.
This is also the reason why after the breakthrough, Bai Zhi clearly understood various causes, but Yaya was still ignorant of everything in the past.
Bai Zhi's narration solved the doubts that had troubled Meng Zhou for a long time.
Some of them were quite consistent with his original guesses, and many were completely inconsistent with his original guesses.
Listening to Bai Zhi's narration, Meng Zhou suddenly sighed from time to time: "So that's how it is."
Finally, Bai Zhi asked: "Is there anything else you don't understand?"
Meng Zhou smiled and said: "There is one, but I feel that I have found the answer, but I don't know if it is right."
Bai Zhi also smiled and said, "I guess it should be 'Grandma Bai', right?"
Meng Zhou nodded: "Yes, I guess she must be the unlucky one before Xingying, right?"
Bai Zhi nodded, but said angrily: "What an unlucky girl, if it weren't for me, she wouldn't even have the chance to cultivate into the Nascent Soul."
Having said this, Bai Zhi suddenly sighed with regret.
Because they were connected, Meng Zhou understood Bai Zhi's thoughts but said nothing.
Maybe she was thinking of the turbulent years with "Mother White"?
However, Meng Zhou would not have such emotions. He was not familiar with Granny Bai, and he would not feel any emotion because of her complete annihilation.
Meng Zhou's thoughts did not stay on "Grandma Bai", but spread away from her and thought of more.
Bai Zhi, who was feeling sentimental, suddenly changed her expression and turned to look at Meng Zhou, "What are you thinking about?"
Meng Zhou also turned to look at Bai Zhi, without any aversion in his eyes, and said bluntly:
"I suddenly realized that your calculations are much deeper than what you said - you are quite sinister!"
It was also when he was thinking about "Grandma Bai" that Meng Zhou suddenly thought of a question. There was "Grandma Bai" in the front, Xingying in the back, and Angelica dahurica in the back. So -
Is "Grandma Bai" really the first recipient of "Qi Yu"?
After this question arose, Meng Zhou already had the answer in his mind.
Most likely not.
Then, the problem comes again.
If not, then where are the "adventure" winners before her?
The answer is also very simple. You will know it by referring to the experience of "Grandma Bai".
Those who received "adventures" were naturally as early as the Xingying period, or even the "White Granny" period, or even earlier, and were completely annihilated like "White Granny".
Inexplicably, Meng Zhou thought of the "Secret Method of Cleansing Spirits with Blood Heirs" and the "Secret Method of Cleansing Souls with Beads" that he created based on this secret method.
Suddenly, Meng Zhoufu reached his heart, and in a trance, he felt that he had a wonderful hallucination.
A long river of time flowing down from the very distant past and extending to the present appeared in his heart.
At the very source, this long river of time is dark, chaotic and deep, but as it flows down the river and extends to the present day, at different points in time, illusory figures appear one after another.
When this was still dark, chaotic and deep in the beginning, after passing through the illusory figures one after another, it became clear and bright little by little.
Meng Zhou looked at "Baizhi" - because of this awareness, Bai Zhi once again became a little vague and strange in his heart.
"Bai Zhi" was also looking at him.
The two of them had similar minds, so she could naturally understand Meng Zhou's emotional changes at this moment.
She couldn't help but tighten her grip on Meng Zhou's hand, and between her brows, there was something familiar and familiar to Meng Zhou.
"What are you worried about?" "Baizhi" asked.
"I'm thinking, if it weren't for me, whether Yaya and Bai Zhi would disappear one after another like 'Bai Po Po'.
And you will continue to go downstream in time." Meng Zhou said.
"Bai Zhi" stared at Meng Zhou without evading his gaze at all.
"But there are no what-ifs.
I'm like a drowning ghost, helpless, and I don't even know if there will ever be a day when I can actually come ashore and be saved... You know, every time I "go ashore" for a short period of time, I will become weaker and weaker.
If it weren't for you, what's waiting for me is more likely to melt silently into the long river of time, leaving no trace left.
It was you who saved me!
Because of that wonderful connection, I was truly pulled ashore.
Why do you need to doubt me?"
"You should also be able to see that after I came ashore, I had been forcibly twisted into the shape of Angelica dahurica!
Now, Angelica dahurica is me, I am Angelica dahurica.
these years……"
Hearing Bai Zhi reveal her true feelings, Meng Zhou was not happy, but felt tense. What was going on?
Just like listening to your wife complaining about her grievances, will you feel "chilling" next?
Meng Zhou quickly spoke up, forcibly interrupting the increasingly frightening emotions brewing, "Stop, stop, I was wrong!"
After saying that, before Bai Zhi could react, Meng Zhou looked at her with a sincere face and said, "Let's change the topic, let's change the topic and talk about baby!"
Bai Zhi blinked, as if her mood hadn't completely turned around yet, and asked confusedly: "What do you want to talk about?"
At this moment, Meng Zhou's thinking was extremely flexible.
From Xingying to Angelica dahurica, there is actually an obvious watershed.
Until Xingying, "Bai Zhi" existed in the form of a "portable plug-in", and the relationship between her and the recipients of "Qi Yu" was even closer.
Starting from Angelica dahurica, there has been a separation between "Angelica dahurica" and "Entertainment Winner".
Although I am somewhat curious about the specific process of this change, this is obviously not a good time to continue this topic.
So, Meng Zhou looked at Bai Zhi and asked another guess in his mind.
"The Demon Sealed Land should be more than the one we are in now, right?
Moreover, the time span may be very long, but the birth of new demon-sealed lands has never stopped!"
Bai Zhi nodded and said in surprise: "I haven't said this yet, how did you find out?"
Meng Zhou said:
"Didn't you already say that your brief awakening can only be completed within the Demon Sealed Land?"
Bai Zhi nodded.
"Well, if I were outside the Demon Sealed Land, I would have suffered a devastating blow when I first started to overcome the tribulation!
And I can only use each magic-sealed land once."
As she said this, a look of surprise appeared on Bai Zhi's face. She already understood Meng Zhou's reasoning process.
As long as you understand her situation, it's not complicated.
And Meng Zhou was already immersed in the outer world that was further "expanded".
After a while, Meng Zhoucai looked at Bai Zhi again and asked in a deep voice:
"Sealing the Demonic Land, what exactly is it sealing?"
Bai Zhi asked: "Block me."
Although he was mentally prepared, Bai Zhi's answer still left Meng Zhou speechless.
"Block you? Are you the 'devil'?"
Then thinking of his imagination about the long river of time, Meng Zhou suddenly felt that this didn't seem too outrageous.
Bai Zhi chuckled and said: "Aren't those who are not tolerated by the right path the devil?"
When he said the word "righteous way", his tone of voice was specially emphasized.
Bai Zhi paused and continued: "Of course, I am only one of them, including my teacher, and all existences like me and my teacher."
Having said this, Bai Zhi looked at Meng Zhou, her eyes filled with appreciation, and said, "Of course, that includes you now!"
Meng Zhou was not surprised that he became a "devil". In fact, when he understood the confrontation between the camps of the laws of heaven and earth, he had already had a similar awakening.
Now, I just got the real confirmation from Bai Zhi.
"Seal the devil? What exactly is a devil?" Meng Zhou said softly.
"It's a bit complicated to say, let me show you what happened to me."
Bai Zhi said, stretched out her fingers and touched Meng Zhou's eyebrows with her index finger.
In an instant, under the guidance of this finger, it was like time was flowing backwards, and it was like entering the depths of Bai Zhi's mind. An ancient picture scroll of the past that existed very long ago slowly unfolded in front of Meng Zhou's eyes.
…
In the wild land, in the center of a huge tribe with a long history and a large population, stands a huge tetrahedron altar.
At this moment, a dense crowd gathered in front of the altar, and it seemed that a grand ceremony was being held.
In front of the altar, there is a high platform surrounded by a large number of people.
A girl was kneeling facing the altar, and in front of the girl, a skinny old man was taking off a crown full of gorgeous wings from his head, and putting it on the girl's head little by little.
After doing all this, under the girl's tearful gaze, the skinny old man put a wooden mask on his face with extremely exaggerated facial features.
Under the enthusiastic and pious eyes of the dense crowd of spectators, the dance often performed by the tribal people in daily celebrations was performed.
At first, every move of the old man was casual and ordinary, even a little naive and childish.
But gradually, the old man's movements began to deform and twist, as if he was fighting or sneaking in the dark night.
Day, night, night, day...
Day and night cycle.
The old man's figure gradually faded away, leaving only a line that seemed both real and imaginary, winding in the void on the high platform.
And these lines meandering in the void gradually condensed into a seemingly ordinary picture, like a child's graffiti.
The graffiti-like paintings seem to reproduce the process of the tribesmen hunting ferocious monsters.
However, under this painting, the ferocious monsters are not ferocious at all, but rather silly and cute.
From dancing to rope, from rope to painting.
Before the rising sun on the ninth day, at the darkest hour before dawn, the last traces of the old man, together with the "hunting picture", dissipated into the void like morning dew.
There seems to be no trace of him left in the world.
During these nine days, the regular tetrahedron altar in front of the high platform was also extremely active.
Among the three huge sculpture groups on the triangular base of the altar, there is a faint but endless smoke rising out, eventually blending into the altar, and then flowing upstream, blending into the calm and detached statue at the top of the altar.
On top of the stone statue.
The head of the stone statue seemed to be lit up, especially at night. After the fifth day, it became even brighter to the naked eye, as if there was a small sun hanging on the top of the altar.
When the old man dissipated like morning dew in the darkest hour before dawn on the ninth day, the brightness of the stone statue reached its limit.
Just when the morning light is about to break but has not yet arrived, and the darkness is about to dissipate but has not yet dissipated.
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In the sky above the head of the stone statue, three phantoms vaguely appeared at the same time.
A shadow is like a dancing figure, a shadow is like a winding rope, and a shadow is like an ever-changing painting.
When they appeared, the "hunting picture" transformed by the old man disappeared like morning dew.
And these three phantoms seemed to have received some great nourishment and became a little more solid.
The crowd watching the ceremony, which had not dispersed for nine days, all shouted loudly, and the atmosphere reached its boiling point at this moment.
The girl who witnessed all this had a slight smile on her lips, but the tears in her eyes couldn't stop flowing down like a floodgate.
…
Meng Zhou, who witnessed all this from a bystander's perspective, exclaimed in his heart.
"Transformation!"
Of course, in the minds of the girl, her teacher and the large number of spectators, there is another name, "self-sacrifice".
Once upon a time, Meng Zhou had clearly understood this state. This was also a state that he and all normal practitioners avoided.
But here, no matter the girl or the old man, or all the spectators, in the minds of all the participants, they do not think this is an evil act.
Instead, he thinks this is the old man's greatest honor.
The old man who has reached the twilight of his life has proved himself in this way and has firmly carved his mark into the world.
As long as heaven and earth are immortal, he can exist forever in another form.
"The laws of heaven and earth."
Meng Zhou was shocked after witnessing all this.
He has imagined that the three laws that suddenly appeared under the old man's "self-sacrifice" were "poured" by the old man and many beings like the old man.
The laws of heaven and earth can actually be "raised" in this way.
Such laws of heaven and earth seemed to turn into tombstones in Meng Zhou's heart.
…
The screen does not stop.
The girl has talents and talents that surpass those of her teacher, at least in terms of strength.
One day, she left the tribe and walked in the vast world.
She sometimes visits other tribes and communicates with other tribal elders;
Sometimes I also linger in the bustling big cities with huge crowds of people and have fun in the markets;
More often, I walk in the deep mountains and swamps, in the secret realm of Jedi;
Through the girl's walking, Meng Zhou also seemed to see a vast world immersed in the scene.
The girl's journey ended due to the pursuit of two strong men.
They met in an unknown mountain without any communication. The moment the two people across from her saw her, they immediately took action without mercy.
One of the two can turn into thunder, and the other can turn into flames, chasing her to the sky and nowhere.
Just when the girl was about to fall into despair, she was besieged from all sides and was about to be completely refined by the flames. Suddenly, there was a long and sharp cry, and a divine bird whose whole body was made of flames rushed out.
The flame divine bird wrapped the girl in it, and then the flame wings shook slightly and disappeared.
The next moment, the flames that besieged the girl from all directions transformed into a human form again, looking at the empty void with an angry look on his face.
…
Meng Zhou was also startled when he saw the flaming bird that rescued the girl from the desperate situation.
He could almost confirm that the flame bird that suddenly appeared and then left suddenly had a deep connection with the laws of heaven and earth in the form of the fire bird that came to his rescue.
It seemed that he knew what he was thinking, and then corresponding information poured into Meng Zhou's mind, which solved his doubts.
From then on, Meng Zhou understood that there are generally three ways to form the laws of heaven and earth.
Among them, the most mainstream one is that Meng Zhou himself has long understood that in the vast world and endless time, he refines, summarizes and sublimates from those "flashes of life", and gradually forms a variety of laws of heaven and earth.
The formation of this kind of law of heaven and earth is passive and slow, but it is also extremely vast.
The process of the formation of various laws of heaven and earth is like that in the chaotic universe, nebulae are first slowly formed, and then stars are formed. Different galaxies composed of stars formed by different nebulae are like different laws of heaven and earth.
And as long as the world is immortal and life continues to pursue the path of sublimation and progress, the growth of these "galaxies" will also continue and never stop.
In other words, the laws of heaven and earth formed in this way will become stronger and stronger even without any human intervention.
And this means that if the path a practitioner follows happens to be these laws of heaven and earth, then the upper limit of his or her achievements will naturally increase.
This kind of law of heaven and earth is also the well-deserved mainstream of righteousness.
The laws of heaven and earth, such as the path of fire, the path of thunder, the path of water, the path of wind, the path of wood, the path of gold, the path of earth, the path of ice, etc., are all within this category.
Any one of them is like a vast galaxy, with infinite potential that can be tapped.
The second type is what Meng Zhou has witnessed before, either active "self-sacrifice", or passive, unconscious "transformation", and finally "watering" various laws of heaven and earth.
The characteristics and strength of these laws of heaven and earth depend on the number of these "sacrifice" and "transformers" and their respective understandings.
The way of sacrificial dance, the way of knotting, and the way of painter are all imprinted between heaven and earth.
Whether the strength of these laws of heaven and earth can continue to grow cannot be expected to "grow" naturally like the first type of laws of heaven and earth.
If there is no successor, it is like water without a source;
If there are those who come after us, the fire will be passed down from generation to generation, and only then can we continue to grow and continuously increase its upper limit.
What needs to be mentioned is that the laws of heaven and earth "watered" by this kind of "self-sacrifice" and unconscious "transformation of Tao" are not completely unrelated to the first category. On the contrary, many of them overlap.
For example, if someone observes thunder and realizes the Tao, and finally transforms into the Tao, his contribution will naturally be attributed to the "Law of Thunder", providing him with new "living water".
The third type is even rarer.
That is, a certain life individual, with its own efforts, creates a single path and establishes a law of heaven and earth.
Such examples are too rare.
Merely being unparalleled in understanding, talent and talent is not enough, you must also have enough "power".
Facts have proved that many human monks may be able to reach this level in terms of understanding and talent, but they are all deficient in "power". This is something that only the innate true spirits who are most favored by heaven and earth and are born with powerful background can get involved.
field of.
That flame bird belongs to this category.
…
When Meng Zhou woke up, he found that Bai Zhi had removed his index finger from his forehead.
The scene from who knows how many years ago, like the moon in the water or the flowers in the mirror, quietly dissipated as she moved her fingers away.
Meng Zhou looked at the Angelica dahurica in front of him, and then thought about the girl he had just seen from a spectator's perspective, and finally understood what she meant when she said she was "forcibly twisted into the shape of Angelica dahurica".
Some apologetic emotions arose in my heart for no apparent reason.
According to his understanding, this is a fundamental reversal of a person's self-perception and self-positioning.
Bai Zhi didn't care about this, because she had already accepted from the bottom of her heart that "everything in the past is my past life".
Asked: "What's the gain?"
"a lot of."
After understanding the three ways of forming the laws of heaven and earth, the mystery that had troubled Meng Zhou for a long time automatically dissipated.
"Tell me about it." Bai Zhi said.
"Compared with the formation of the second and third laws of heaven and earth, the advantages of the first one are too obvious."
“And there is a fundamental contradiction between the second type and the first type.
The quantity and quality of practitioners and the laws of heaven and earth on which they follow are mutually influencing, promoting, and reinforcing each other.
The more practitioners who practice a certain path and the higher their quality, the corresponding upper limit of the laws of heaven and earth will be higher and higher;
On the contrary, the corresponding laws of heaven and earth will be like a stagnant pool of stagnant water with no possibility of progress.
And in this world trend, if we don’t advance, we will go backwards.”
"Compared to the second type of laws of heaven and earth, the first type has an absolute advantage, and the third type has an absolute advantage and is naturally the mainstream of righteousness.
But no one would think that what they are doing is too strong. The stronger, the better, and the higher the upper limit, the better.
This is the reason why the laws of heaven and earth are organized into camps, and there are ‘good’ and ‘demonic’.”
Listening to Meng Zhou share his insights, Bai Zhi nodded lightly at first, and then shook her head slightly.
"What's wrong with what I said?" Meng Zhou asked.
Bai Zhi said:
“I can’t say it’s wrong, it’s just too one-sided.
Although the laws of heaven and earth can be roughly divided into three categories based on how they are formed, they are not so distinct, and the formation of the laws into camps is not due to the different ways in which the laws of heaven and earth are formed."
…
After Bai Zhi's narration, Meng Zhou realized that there was a deeper truth beneath the surface he saw.
The real contradiction is not the difference in the way the laws of heaven and earth are formed.
In fact, in the "right way", all three ways of forming the laws of heaven and earth are included.
The "Magic Way" also includes the formation methods of the three laws of heaven and earth.
Therefore, from the way in which the laws of heaven and earth are formed, it is impossible to distinguish between "good" and "evil".
The real contradiction lies in concepts.
As for the two concepts, Meng Zhou himself had already been involved in them, and he chose the "magic way" without hesitation.
The so-called "righteous way" can be called "Tiandao Sect" from a conceptual perspective.
The core of its concept is that there is an established and stable "way of heaven", that is, the existence of "Tao".
Different aspects of "Tao" show different laws of heaven and earth, and different laws of heaven and earth give rise to colorful and endless phenomena of heaven and earth.
The so-called "magic way" is what Meng Zhou has always insisted on. There is no so-called "way" in the world, and all phenomena in the world are the source and foundation.
"Tao" changes due to changes in all phenomena in the world. It is uncertain and dynamic. It is changing all the time. It is also elusive.
Don't the "Tian Dao Sect" know that the concept of "Demon Dao" is more consistent with reality, and their philosophy is a bit wishful thinking?
of course I know!
But precisely because they know it, they become more and more "wishful" and even build the entire practice system around this "imaginary core".
This is like taming a horse, turning a wild horse that is "uncertain, dynamic, changing all the time, unpredictable, and unpredictable" into "certain, stable, thinkable, and predictable"
, a war horse that can be controlled.
This is the root of the contradiction.
Depending on your own will and some talent, you just scribble on the big screen of the world, without following the rules, regardless of the overall situation, and just play whatever you want...
These practices, in the eyes of "righteous people", are simply cancer!
The greater the ability, the higher the talent, the deeper the poison, and the harder it is to eradicate it!
You really have to be capable, talented, and follow the "right path". There are so many laws of heaven and earth, each of which has infinite mysteries. If you want to be a pioneer, are you still afraid that you will be restricted and unable to perform well?
Just imagine, if the "righteous way" turns a blind eye to all this and allows these "magic ways" that are talented, capable, and prefer to be "unique" to spread, the forcibly determined "fictional core" and everything surrounding it,
Wouldn’t it mean that he would be immediately rushed to pieces and turned into a complete mess?
By doing this, the "magic way" himself felt at ease, but the whole world was harmed.
So, shouldn’t these things that have something to do with “devil” be suppressed and sealed?
After hearing Bai Zhi's explanation, Meng Zhou was really dumbfounded.
It sounds ridiculous at first, but after thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhou actually feels that this is really not nonsense, and there is actually some truth in it.
He almost felt that he had committed a heinous crime.
Meng Zhou found that he agreed very much with this concept of "right path".
There is no doubt that he himself has indeed followed an extremely pure "devil's path".
But it is precisely because of this that he understands more and more how difficult this road is. It is true that "no one can enter this door unless he is extremely talented and beautiful."
However, Meng Zhou also believed from the bottom of his heart that the "righteous way" could be the mainstream, but it would be a big mistake to drive out the "devil way" and completely ban it.
The moment the "Demon Path" is truly "killed", the "Right Path" will also enter a countdown to death.
"Dynamic, uncertain, elusive, and unknown" are certainly not popular, and may even be subconsciously rejected by people, but this is exactly where "vitality" and "activity" come from.
When all this is "static, certain, and knowable", it is not far from "dead".
Thinking like this, Meng Zhou remembered the various contradictions and divisions in foreign affairs that he had glimpsed from various clues a few days ago.
Now, Meng Zhou suddenly understood and even had a new interpretation.
"This...could it be that the higher-ups of 'Right Way' deliberately designed it this way?"
"At the strategic macro level, the 'right way' and the 'devil way' are incompatible, sworn in, and absolutely hostile, leaving no room for relaxation."
"But at the specific implementation level, everyone is allowed to have selfish motives and have their own agendas, so the 'devil' can't be truly killed."
"In this way, a situation is formed where the 'righteous way' is strong but not independent, and the 'devil way' is sealed but not destroyed."
Thinking of this, Meng Zhou couldn't help but gasp.
"Isn't it because I'm overthinking it?"
However, Meng Zhou quickly firmed up his thoughts.
"I can think of this in such a short period of time, why can others not think of it? You can't treat others as fools!"
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Then, Bai Zhi shared many secrets about the laws of heaven and earth, which really opened Meng Zhou's eyes.
Among them, what impressed him the most was how the laws of heaven and earth showed a "strong will" that seemed to have spiritual intelligence.
After Meng Zhou "translated" it with his own understanding, it showed a different kind of interest that only he could understand.
According to Meng Zhou's understanding, the "strong will" expressed in the formation of the three laws of heaven and earth is also different.
Among them, the "strong will" of the laws of heaven and earth formed in the first way is like a national parliament.
Among them, every monk or true spirit who has reached the level of Nascent Soul and above and touches the laws of heaven and earth has his own "right to speak".
In the world of spiritual practice, one is judged by strength. The higher the level of cultivation, the deeper the understanding of this Tao, and the more important the "right to speak" in the laws of heaven and earth.
In real decision-making, the Nascent Soul level is all about soy sauce. Only those above the Nascent Soul level have the qualifications to truly turn their attitude into a "strong will" of some kind of law of heaven and earth.
For example, after Meng Zhou successfully overcame the tribulation, he faced those "law stars" who wanted to completely destroy him.
As for the laws of heaven and earth formed in the second way, its "strong will" tends to the common will of those "sacrifice" and "transformers".
For example, the "hobby" of arbitration oaths expressed in the laws of heaven and earth such as "the way of knots" is probably a manifestation of this "common will".
The laws of heaven and earth formed in the third way are the most "flexible and individual" because they originally come from a living body with clear likes and dislikes, and clear right and wrong!
Even, to some extent, it can be regarded as a special clone.
These are consistent with Meng Zhou's own experiences and feelings.
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Meng Zhou also asked Bai Zhi about the Lihen Cult and other "demonic" forces similar to the Lihen Cult.
Standing in the same camp as them, Meng Zhou himself was actually a little uncomfortable with it.
What comforted him was that when Bai Zhi heard this, she showed a look of disgust and disdain.
"They don't deserve to be called 'devils', they are just plagiarists and tailors."
"The statues of gods they created are not even accepted by heaven and earth. They can only wander in the world like lonely ghosts with no place to stay."
"It looks good, but in fact it is a dead end. At most, it will become a god and there will be no way to survive."
Bai Zhi's comments had so many flaws that Meng Zhouyi didn't even know where to start.
On the one hand, Meng Zhou felt that although Bai Zhi had a bit of a venomous tongue, her comments were accurate and even hit the nail on the head.
Regarding the description of those statues of "lonely souls and wild ghosts", Meng Zhou was a little confused at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized how wonderful it was.
However, what she said, "It can't be sustained until it reaches the point of becoming a god" made Meng Zhou a little confused as to where to start.
If this is considered a "dead end", then there are not many real "survival paths" in this world.
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"Xingxiu Tianchi".
Meng Zhou and Bai Zhi each opened their eyes, looked at each other, and then closed their eyes again.
Meng Zhou felt a little throbbing in his heart and felt a little emotional.
According to what Bai Zhi said, when she was at her peak, she had pushed her cultivation to a level comparable to the peak of becoming a god.
However, because of her "magic path" attribute, when she was about to break through to a higher level, she was immediately suppressed and blocked to the point of death.
In the end, both spirit and form are destroyed, and only one "spirit" escapes.
The altars worshiped by the tribe were also confiscated, and together with several other altars confiscated elsewhere, they were driven deep into the ground. With the addition of numerous arrangements, the "Demon Sealing Land" was born.
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While thinking quietly, Meng Zhou once again thought of the flaming bird that single-handedly created its own laws of heaven and earth.
Meng Zhou thought of himself from this flame bird.
"If you think about it carefully, my situation is similar to it."
"Creating a unique path of law requires not only understanding and talent, but also 'strength'. This is not something that human monks can achieve."
"Strictly speaking, I have long been unable to regard him as an ordinary human monk. Not to mention other things, just talking about his physical foundation, he is no less inferior to the innate soul."
"In my current state, I have jumped out of the 'right path' framework and walked out on my own path."
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Several years of thinking, coupled with the collision of various information in my mind at this moment, stimulated and gave rise to various inspirations.
One after another, the question marks and mysteries were eliminated one by one.