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.)
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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. Become an immortal. It's just that she feels that her mana accumulation is not enough, and her understanding of the Tao has not reached the limit of a cultivator in the Return to Void Stage, and her Tao heart has not been honed thoroughly enough, so she plans to accumulate it for a while and be fully prepared before overcoming the tribulation in one fell swoop.
The way of cultivation is inherently against the heavens, especially when it comes to overcoming tribulations. Even powerful cultivators dare not say that it is foolproof. Because the calamities are divided into two levels: one is the calamity from heaven, which is mostly thunder calamity; the other is the calamity of inner demons that comes from the mysterious and unpredictable heavenly demon world that seduces the inner demons in the cultivator. One is outside. For internal and external reasons, cultivators face a double test of Taoism and cultivation. Therefore, in history, there are often only ten cultivators who can successfully overcome tribulations and become immortals. This has also led to many magic weapons and elixirs that are beneficial to overcoming tribulations. All are extremely rare and often have high prices but no market.
Fairy Han'e was lucky enough to get the immortal-level enlightenment given to her by You Longzi. After years of practice, her chances of overcoming the tribulation were much greater, but it only increased from 20% to 50%, which was still not safe enough. This time, in addition to being out of touch with Tai Yanren, the main reason for leaving the mountain was to hone the Taoist heart and accumulate external merits by killing demons.
Never think that merit can only be obtained by doing good deeds. The so-called heaven is impartial and impartial, but it is ruthless. An ancient sage once said: Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs. From a broad perspective, everything in the world has its own laws of operation, and the collection of these laws is the way of heaven; the way of heaven runs through the heavens, the world, the past and the future. From a small perspective, each world has its own laws, which are small ways of heaven. And all merit. It does not appear out of thin air but is given by heaven.
For those ordinary cultivators whose cultivation has not reached the stage of returning to the void, most of them only think that they can gain merit by doing good deeds. However, in the eyes of those cultivators who have become Masters of Return to the Void and begun to pry into and study the secrets and rules of heaven, the source of public morality 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 not just doing good deeds. 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 the dying 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 until you gain immortal-level enlightenment. Fairy Han'e's point of view is not much different from that of other returning masters. But after gaining immortal-level enlightenment, her vision became much broader. Being able to become an immortal means that you have a considerable in-depth understanding of the rules and your understanding of the way of heaven has reached a higher level. Naturally, immortals have a clearer understanding of how to obtain merit.
In You Longzi's view, there is only one reason for heaven to bestow merit, and that is development that is in line with heaven! In other words, it is in line with the good operating laws of heaven.
Cultivators who are familiar with classics all know that the reason for the great catastrophe between heaven and earth, although on the surface it is caused by man-made things, in the end it will cause turmoil in the world and spread far and wide. For example, the dragon and phoenix tribulations, lich tribulations, and gods' tribulations in ancient times had a great impact and damage on the universe.
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 the immeasurable 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 broken, resulting in chaos and inability to function well. And all the world. Even the foundation of the entire universe evolved from the interweaving and combination of countless rules. The disorder and destruction of rules directly affect the stability of the universe and all worlds. If this development continues, it will only bring more and more serious destruction and chaos, and finally lead to the destruction of those peak power groups and the universe.
If the universe is viewed as a person, then the factors that disrupt the good operation of heaven are viruses and wounds that, if left unchecked, will make people sick, disabled, or even dead. The way of heaven can be regarded as the consciousness of the universe. It naturally does not want such a thing to happen, so it will find ways to "cure" itself. However, the way of heaven is inactive and has no specific will. It is just a kind of general consciousness. That is to say, 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 cannot really "treat" it personally like a human being. Own. But as the will of the entire universe, Heaven will not sit still and wait for death. It will instinctively reward and support things that help it "treat" and allow it to "grow healthily" so as 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 it is very easy to gain merit if you are lucky. However, luck is intangible and has no specific effect. It can only be sensed but cannot play a specific role. However, it can ensure the safety of those with luck to the greatest extent and will never completely perish before the luck is exhausted; while merit can be manifested and used for sacrifices. Refining magic weapons, practicing exercises, and developing magical powers have many wonderful uses.
After all, it is a gift from heaven that is naturally 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 the way of heaven and nature. Naturally, they pay more attention to these.
Luck is intangible and without 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 know luck. Generally speaking, those bad things in a general sense, such as killing innocent people, destroying nature, disrupting order, etc., are not in line with the good development of heaven. Therefore, after stopping these bad things, heaven will also grant merit as a reward. Protecting goodness, maintaining nature, promoting the good development of things, and restoring order to chaos are all good deeds in a general sense that are in line with the way of heaven, so the way of heaven will also bestow merit as a reward.
The cultivators who have not yet become immortals do not understand the underlying truth, and the immortals who have become immortals will not deliberately promote their views because most of them are busy with retreats and sect affairs and have no time to pay attention to these "trivial matters." Therefore, passed down from generation to generation, "doing good deeds will gain merit" has actually become common sense in the cultivation world. Even later, merit evolved into a proper noun "good merit", which specifically refers to the merit obtained by 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 calamities. Even the arrival of immeasurable calamities. Although there has never been any active publicity or demonstration of doing nothing but doing everything for the way of heaven, it has passed this concept to all living beings and even the universe who have in-depth exploration of the way of heaven through a very effective feedback that has been running for billions of years. All living beings. This is the so-called great sound, sound, and elephant, which is invisible.
Of course You Longzi is just an immortal after all. He could only infer based on his current understanding of these actions of Heavenly Dao, which contained a lot of his own guesses and subjective assumptions and could not be said to be very accurate. The specific movements of Heavenly Dao must be much more profound and mysterious than what he understood. After all, the way of heaven is so vast that even saints dare not say that they can fully understand him. How can a little immortal be so arrogant?
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However, the real way of heaven is, after all, the collection of the great consciousness of the universe dispersed into 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 divine world is order and holiness; while the demon world is chaos and evil; as for the human world, because it is a fragment of the ancient prehistoric continent, it has inherited the ancient law of nature, inaction, and inclusiveness, and does not specifically exclude certain things as long as Anyone who can help the movement of heaven in this world can absorb it. However, once there is any obstruction or damage to the operation of the heavenly law in this world, the recognition of the heavenly law will be lost and merit will be gained if it is removed. As small as the Dao of Heaven in one world, the Dao of Heaven in the entire universe operates in this way.
Of course, there are countless heavens and worlds in the universe, and each world has its own unique will and laws. Speaking of them individually, they are not all of the heavenly laws of the universe. Only the laws in all worlds combined can be regarded as the heavenly laws of the great universe. There is also competition between these worlds, but this competition is more obscure and takes different forms. It can be culture, ideas, or armed war. A world law that can become the winner of world wars is naturally more excellent and easier to occupy the mainstream in the universe. This is also in line with the laws of the universe.
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, it was possible to make the world's will and laws of the Prehistoric Continent become the mainstream of the universe and suppress the gods, demons, Buddhas and other heavenly worlds that appeared later to become the universe. center.
However, with the outbreak of several great catastrophes of heaven and earth and calamities of the universe, the prehistoric continent was shattered and split into the more scattered Eastern system. The heavens and worlds continued to lose their fortunes. This allowed the gods, Buddhas and other heavens and worlds that successively gave birth to saints to rise and disperse. The destiny of the universe also extends its influence to the universe. It's just that there are still four saints in the East, the Sanqing Saint and the Nuwa Empress, so they can still suppress the Eastern Heavenly World and prevent it from completely declining. However, there are also conflicts among the four saints and they cannot work together, so the civil strife continues and the luck continues to be lost.
It wasn't until the Battle of the Gods tens of thousands of years ago that the Four Saints completely fell out, and 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, destroy the world, and retrain Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, and all the saints. Both sides will suffer losses. Although it was later stopped by Daozu Hongjun and 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 Heavens and Worlds was severely damaged, but the Western Buddhist Heavens and Worlds gained a lot of benefits from it and occupied a lot of luck. They successfully rose and even invaded many worlds in the Eastern Heavens and Heavens. Even the human world, the origin of the three Eastern Taoist sects in the remnant of the ancient continent, has been infiltrated and fought against the Taoist branch. Perhaps it is because Buddhism has a relatively mild style and most of them pursue virtues and do good deeds, and they are human beings and are helpful to the development of 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 demon world’s heavenly law on the human world. However, compared to the style of the Buddhist and demonic worlds, it is much cruder. The naked destruction and killing do not help the movement of heaven in the world, so they are naturally rejected. Once it is 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 heaven of the world. Therefore, the rules of the heaven of the world have invisibly added the ability to kill demons. This item of merit.
This is also an important reason why the world of cultivation actively participates in fighting and killing demons. In ordinary times, even if they know that there are such rewards, where can they find so many demons to kill? These can be regarded as opportunities. Naturally, we must seize the opportunity to kill them. Otherwise, if you miss this time, you won’t know when the same good opportunity will come.
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This time, Fairy Han'e and a group of cultivators from the Chongyang Sect came to slay the demons with the same idea. With her power, she can naturally kill a large number of demons and gain a lot of merit. The more merit she gets, the better her luck will be. At the same time, she can also use the merit to practice some powerful magical powers and magic weapons given to her by You Longzi. Be sure to survive the catastrophe.
When she broke out of the dark restriction released by the demon, she immediately released a few spells to test the power of the dark restriction, and realized that the cultivators inside it would be in danger if she did not amplify the move. So she flew high into the air and took out a fist-sized orb with thunder flashing inside from the ring 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 countless years of thunder in the thunder layer and the integration of the vitality in the thunder layer by some coincidence. Extremely powerful lightning power is stored inside. If it can be triggered with a special method, its power will never be less than that of an ordinary immortal's full blow, and it will be 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, accumulated corpse caves, poisonous lakes, etc., and restore peace to the world. . With such an origin, you can imagine how powerful it is. It's just that this spell has been lost since ancient times. When Yun Canghai was traveling overseas and on the mainland, he once obtained a fragment in an ancient cultivator's cave. It only recorded how to trigger the power of powerful thunder and turn it into an attack. There is no record of the method of magic, but how to accumulate the power of thunder and sort it out and soften it. Therefore, just recording it and improving it for later use can be regarded as a powerful method as long as the conditions are right. Later it was passed 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. The cultivators are out!
