Time flies by in the blink of an eye. In a hurry, everyone has lived in Lu Mansion for more than ten years.
In the past ten years, except for causing trouble for everyone from time to time, Tongtian Sect has not done much.
The world fell into tranquility again.
Everyone practiced separately, and Lu Dongbin also began to teach Bai Mudan how to practice Taoism, hoping to make her an immortal and avoid the thousand-year love disaster.
At the same time, I also want to take advantage of this kind of relationship, hoping to be like Lingqing and He Xiangu, and turn love into family affection.
Instead of being a Taoist companion seeking the Tao together.
On this day, Lingqing was looking at the lotus flowers in the pond with He Xiangu in the courtyard.
He Xiangu became interested, holding the lotus and blessing it with divine spells.
The last disaster of the Zhuxian Net allowed her to see the power of Tieguai Li Fabao.
Now I am very interested in this newly refined lotus, and I want to sacrifice it like Tieguai Li's gourd and use it as my powerful magic weapon.
"Fourth brother!"
Lingqing heard the sound and looked back, seeing it was Lu Dongbin.
After taking a look at He Xiangu who was concentrating on reciting mantras and blessings, Lingqing quietly left the courtyard and walked side by side with Lu Dongbin.
"Third brother, why aren't you with Mudan today?"
"Alas!" Lu Dongbin sighed softly after hearing this and said, "I am very confused now."
Lingqing asked: "What are you confused about?"
Lu Dongbin said: "The eight immortals all have their own shortcomings. Tieguai and Li are in the United States, Han Zhongli is in gambling, and He Xiangu is in delusion.
And I am in a love word.
The current situation between me and Bai Mudan makes me very worried.
I'm worried I won't survive this. "
He paused and then said: "I won't hide anything from you when we are brothers.
Donghua in my previous life did not have no feelings for Fairy Peony, but they had been suppressed for nearly a thousand years due to the rules of heaven.
Only then will there be a thousand-year love catastrophe.
Originally, after a period of time, maybe the two of them would break up this relationship, and then both of them would come to this world to experience the love of husband and wife for a lifetime and understand the love.
However, he encountered a demonic calamity and asked Donghua to reincarnate and lead the Eight Immortals to defeat the demon.
So he suppressed these feelings in order not to be trapped by disaster.
But after reincarnation, I forgot my past life and touched Fairy Peony's heart again.
After I understood the thoughts of my previous life through Sun Wukong's Three Brightnesses and Six Paths, I began to be timid again, and in the end, the Peony Fairy violated the rules of heaven and was demoted to the mortal world.
Now it's like this again, she is willing to die to save me.
I...I really don't know how to face her true feelings! "
Lingqing patted his shoulder and asked, "I understand your worries.
Thousands of years of love tribulation and demonic tribulation are involved. You are afraid that you will not be able to survive the love tribulation, and then you will not be able to unite the Eight Immortals, so that the demonic tribulation will come and all living beings will be in ruins.
But you also feel that if you survive the disaster, it will cause harm to the peony, and you can't bear it.
The most important thing is that you also have feelings for peony in your heart.
I once worried that being passionate would damage the Qing Dynasty, and I was afraid of being separated from the beautiful city when I entered the mountain. I have both peace and harmony in the world, and I will live up to the people and you. "
Lu Dongbin was moved after hearing this and said: "Yes, there is a way to have both peace and tranquility in the world..."
Lingqing patted him on the shoulder, walked forward, and said: "I don't know if there is a way to have both.
But how about I tell you about my situation with Xiangu for your reference? "
Lu Dongbin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he chased him and said, "That's perfect, I came to you just to ask you for advice.
After all, I think the relationship between you and Xiangu is closer than the relationship between us and Xiangu, not as strong as the relationship between me and Peony. "
Lingqing smiled and said: "Everyone has different ideas about love. Some people think love is above all else, like White Peony.
Some people are struggling between love and career, like you.
Of course, there are also people who value their careers and think love is just embellishment, like me and Xiangu.
If Tao and emotion require one to give up the other, I think both of us will follow Tao and give up emotion, and we will not regret it.
However, Tao and emotion are not actually opposites, and they are not incapable of coexisting.
I have said before that the brotherhood between you and me, and the master-disciple relationship between you and Han Zhongli, are all feelings, and I did not say that such feelings should be given up.
The main difference is whether a practitioner will abandon the path due to emotions.
If one cares about emotion but not Tao, then in terms of Tao, emotion is the devil.
If we care about emotion and Tao, in terms of Tao, emotion is also Tao.
The reason why you think your feelings will lead to disaster is because you think you will give up your path for love.
So, now I’ll give you a multiple choice question. "
Lu Dongbin said: "You say."
Ling Qing asked: "Now the Three Realms are facing a calamity, and you are the only savior.
But only if you kill Bai Mudan can you survive this catastrophe. What will you do? "
Lu Dongbin's heart skipped a beat and he couldn't help but take a step back and turned his head.
Ling Qing took a step forward and said: "Kill her, and your love tribulation will be over, and the Three Realms will be saved.
If she is not killed, the Three Realms will perish.
How do you choose? "
Lu Dongbin suddenly took a step back, held his head and said, "I don't know, I don't know!"
Lingqing calmed his emotions and asked softly: "What if I am the one who is going to die? Will you choose to kill me?"
Lu Dongbin still shook his head and said: "I don't know, I really don't know!"
Lingqing patted his shoulder again and said, "Do you see yourself clearly now?
What troubles you is not love at all, but that you have opposed love and Tao.
You take love tribulation too seriously.
Thinking that if you can't survive it, the world will be destroyed.
And you also regard love as a calamity, and you should cut off love and stop love and thoughts.
In fact, this is completely wrong.
In the mortal world, there are generals who go on expeditions. They fight on the battlefield to protect their families and country, and at the same time to protect their wives and children.
If you want to lead the immortals through the evil tribulation, you will be like a general fighting on the battlefield.
Not only to protect sentient beings in the three realms, but also to protect me, my parents, and White Peony.
Your desire to save the three realms and your love for us are not contradictory. "
Lu Dongbin looked at Ling Qing and asked, "Then what should I do?"
Lingqing stretched out two fingers and said: "Two choices!
First, since you think love is a calamity, then I will teach you the method of "turning a calamity into a demon, refining a demon into a Tao".
You refine your emotional calamity into the inner demon, and after you kill the inner demon, you will naturally survive the calamity. "
Lu Dongbin asked: "Is this the way you used to kill your feelings for He Xiangu before as a demon in your heart?"
"Yes." Ling Qing nodded and said, "Although this method carries the risk of becoming a demon, as long as you keep your true intentions, the love demon will eventually be slain."
Lu Dongbin thought for a while and asked: "What about the second method?"
Ling Qing put his hands behind his back and said: "The lifespan of an ordinary person is only a hundred years.
I destroyed Bai Mudan's cultivation, and you also sealed your own.
You have just lived an ordinary life as a couple, experiencing birth, old age, illness and death together, love, hate and separation.
When Bai Mudan grows old and dies, and when you have experienced all kinds of sweetness and bitterness, you will be able to understand what love is.
You will no longer be bound by love. "
Without waiting for Lu Dongbin to be happy, he added: "It's just that you two are also in disaster now.
I'm afraid it's not that easy to live an ordinary life.
Not to mention Tongtian Church, Chunying alone will not let you go.
Although we can protect you, we can only commit a thief for a thousand days, but there is no way to prevent a thief for a thousand days.
As time goes by, there will eventually be oversights. "
Lu Dongbin said with a self-deprecating smile: "Sure enough, there is no perfect strategy in the world."
"I found that you two grown men have talked about it for a long time, but they have never started from Peony's idea."
The two turned their heads and saw He Xiangu walking towards him holding a lotus flower, "Xiangu."
Lu Dongbin asked again: "What happened to Peony?"
He Xiangu said: "The reason why Fairy Peony was able to ascend to immortality was not just because of the Queen Mother's love.
She is a serious person, someone who has achieved great success and soared to the top, and she also has great love and righteousness in her heart.
She is just obsessed with love and has temporarily forgotten the righteousness.
When it comes time for her to make a decision, I believe she will be willing to sacrifice for the common people. "
"Yes." Lu Dongbin murmured, "She has a very kind heart."
Ling Qing smiled inwardly when he saw it and said, "Then, third brother, do you want to have a bet?"
Lu Dongbin asked curiously: "What are you betting on?"
Lingqing said: "Bet on your Taoist heart, bet on Peony's kindness.
You turned your emotional calamity into a demon, then sealed your mind and took the initiative to become a demon.
This way you can experience the taste of love without any scruples.
When the time comes, we will conquer the devil and let Mudan choose. What she likes is Lu Dongbin who gave up everything for her.
He is still the same Lu Dongbin who sacrificed himself for others in order to save the world. "
Before Lu Dongbin could speak, He Xiangu was startled and asked, "Dao Qing, what are you talking about? You clearly know..."
She originally wanted to say that Lu Dongbin's love situation was serious, but what if he was really possessed by a demon?
But he felt that he didn't trust him enough, so he changed his words: "It's already difficult for us to deal with the Tongtian Sect, but with the addition of Dong Bin who is possessed by the devil, how can we cope with it?"
Ling Qing smiled and said: "Then let's see, in the heart of the third brother, whether he is Taoist or Demonic.
This has nothing to do with love.
Your love for Peony is love, and your love for us is also love. Maybe the two emotions are different in severity.
But after all, it is all love, there is no difference.
You are a ruthless person when you give up White Mudan for us, but you are also a ruthless person when you kill us for Bai Mudan.
Having feelings and selfishness in your heart is a devil!
Being affectionate and selfless in your heart is the way!
There is also Peony. It depends on whether she is willing to become a devil for love, or if she is willing to stick to the Tao for love. "
Although He Xiangu felt it was inappropriate, she had no better way.
She herself has experienced that the longer things like emotions drag on, the more complicated they become and the harder it is to resolve.
So I had to look at Lu Dongbin to see how he would choose.
Ling Qing also looked at him.
Lu Dongbin glanced at the two of them, tapped his forehead and said, "Let me think about it."
After that, he left uneasily.
Ling Qing smiled and said: "It seems that it is done!"
He Xiangu looked at him and asked, "Why do you have to let Dong Bin become a demon?"
Lingqing pulled her forward and said, "As the saying goes, if you don't cut it, it will become messy.
After thousands of years and several lifetimes of entanglement, his relationship with Mudan had already become a mess.
Just cut it all off and let the two of them love unbridledly.
But the shackles of heaven's rules and regulations are too deep in the heart of the third brother. If he is sober, it is impossible to let go.
That's why I want him to be possessed. "
"Then the leader of Tongtian Church really won't use this to kill Lu Dongbin?"
Lingqing patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, I believe in Third Brother, I believe in Laojun, and I believe in me."
"Okay, then I won't worry about it." He Xiangu said with a smile.
