[Jinjiang Exclusive] That Xiuxian is Xun

Maybe it’s because people who write novels can always talk about something unusual in their daily conversations.

Luo Shiqin doesn't like to write novels about cultivating immortals, but she will chat with her pen pals about the latest popular memes on the Internet, explore the preferences of readers recently, and lay the foundation for the subject matter of her next novel.

Regarding the 'killing one's wife to prove one's teachings' meme, pen pals have complained about it more than once, saying that those authors, in order to highlight the hardships of the protagonist's cultivation, would write all sorts of crap, as if they were putting a pile of shit in front of the readers, pouring some paint on it and calling it 'writing art' - there were more specific complaints, so Luo Shiqin didn't think about it any more, lest she couldn't help laughing out loud in such a serious atmosphere.

When she was free, her pen pal would harass her with the question "What is the Way of Ruthlessness?"

"Stop typing and tell me what you think."

Luo Shiqin also understood this problem a little.

"I can't really say what I think," she said helplessly, unable to type because of the vibrating phone. "Let's just talk about the results of previous research."

"The so-called 'ruthless way' can actually be called the 'formless way'."

“The Great Way is formless, giving birth to heaven and earth.[1]”

A streak of lightning struck from the dark sky, briefly illuminating the beach.

The wind was still howling, pushing the surface of the river. The cold river breeze was like a row of sponges embedded with long needles, piercing into Pan Ji's spinal cord in waves.

The muscles on his face twitched, half of him was trying to laugh, and half of him was wailing in pain.

“The Tao is ruthless, operating as the sun and the moon.[2]”

There are sounds of wind, water and sorrow in my ears.

But Shang Kaixun looked at the person not far away, and at this moment only her voice was in his ears.

“The Great Way is nameless, nourishing all things.[3]”

Luo Shiqin: "If a person can always be clear and calm, all heaven and earth will be his."[4]

Her eyebrows were slightly lowered, and her voice was cold. It seemed that the heavens were also affected by her words, and thunderous sounds were emitted from far and near. The woman standing on the beach was like a fairy casting a glance from the sky to the human world, with a face full of compassion and sorrow.

“——People’s spirits like to be clear, but their hearts disturb them; people’s hearts like to be quiet, but desires pull them. If you can always let go of your desires, your heart will naturally be quiet; if you can clear your heart, your spirit will naturally be clear. Naturally, the six desires will not arise, and the three poisons will be eliminated! [5]”

She looked at the young man trapped in the middle of the talisman, her lips and teeth touched, and she uttered a word: "Greed."

“The reason why one cannot do this is because one’s mind is not clear and one’s desires are not eliminated.[6]”

In the final analysis, the so-called "ruthless way" is not to make people cut off emotions and love, but to make people calm down and focus more on self-cultivation. You can't understand the "ruthless way" literally, right? Is your cultural level only enough to allow you to read the pronunciation? ?

However, it is not impossible to understand those who tamper with the meaning of ancient sayings - "Men are superior to women[7]", "No business without evil (sharp)", "Wealth and honor are sought in danger[9]", etc., aren't they just taking the ancient sayings out of context and taking the meaning they want the most?

Our ancestors would all shout out "What a great way to play."

'Killing one's wife to preach' is even more outrageous.

"People who practice the ruthless way will kill those around them, and eventually they will be left alone, becoming a person without emotions."

Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay?!

What normal person would come up with something so tasteless?

Your heart is dead, but your hands are still alive! You will kill your wife and children. How terrible!

Under the banner of "The ruthless way should be heartless and loveless", you do things to satisfy your own selfish desires! You also shout in a high-sounding manner, "I want to kill her because I love her" and "I love her and I can't lose her." Who are you trying to impress?

The wind became colder and colder, and it felt like a knife cutting us.

Luo Shiqin clenched the only two talismans left in her hand, feeling extremely ironic.

In the past, from the perspective of writing novels, the author only wrote a flat character story. But now, Luo Shiqin has truly felt the tragedy of practicing this evil and ruthless sword art and strongly agrees with the popularization of compulsory education.

The ruthless sword art created by Shang Qihan is simply a piece of garbage, but it has to be disguised as an academic art to show off.

And the apprentices he taught were stupid and foolish.

She held a talisman in her right hand, her eyes sharp as a knife, and sneered, "I don't care about your grievances, and don't dance in front of me."

"Now, take your stuff and get out of this world!"

As if in response to Luo Shiqin's words, in an instant, thunders descended from the sky!

"……Leave?"

Fan Ji chuckled twice, then his eyes shifted from looking at Luo Shiqin to looking at Shang Kaixun.

"That's not why I came here."

The muscles on his face twitched and he smiled, "My good junior brother, do you remember what you were doing before you came here?"

The person he was questioning endured the headache and looked at him unkindly. Shang Kaixun said hoarsely, "It was you who tampered with my memory?"

"Ah," Hansai said with a sneer, "It seems we are all the same, always shifting the blame onto others."

The crazy Fan Ji seemed to care about nothing except Qu Zhiwei. He said in a sinister tone: "I don't have the strength to do anything to your brain, and don't even think about pointing the finger of murder at me."

"I just killed that old bastard Shang Qihan and the bunch of idiots who were in cahoots with him."

Luo Shiqin narrowed her eyes slightly, her attention constantly sliding across the catalog pages and chapter contents of "Seeking Destiny and Asking the Way".

As the leader of the Sword Sect, Shang Qihan's behavior of cultivating practitioners like the monk Fan Ji who opened the incense burner was like a perverted version of scientific selection in her opinion.

At first, Shang Qihan, as the first test subject to "kill his wife to prove his truth", thought he was about to succeed. However, the samples were too few to be mass-produced.

So he started choosing 'seeds'.

There are very few powerful people who can ascend to heaven in the world of cultivating immortals.

She deduced a deeper and darker truth from Fan Ji's words - the entire cultivation world might know about the experiment conducted by Shang Qihan.

How many practitioners participated and were participated in?

Luo Shiqin cursed secretly.

What kind of people are these who have slipped through the net of compulsory education?

You are a guy whose ideological quality is not even up to standard in elementary school, but you turn around and participate in illegal human experiment research. How can you be so stupid?

"Don't hate me like that, Junior Brother."

Hanji said slowly: "I originally came here to help you."

"Look, I helped you kill that old bastard Shang Qihan to prevent you from following my old path."

"I also helped kill those parasites in the world of immortal cultivation, so that more cultivators would not be disturbed."

"I've already opened the cage for you—" he said in a long tone, with a bigger smile on his face, "Why are you still like an idiot who lost his mother, trying to get into the cage!"

"Bang!"

He summoned his natal sword, a bone sword that shone with mottled blood. Then, regardless of the high-voltage electric current, he held the sword in his hand and chopped at the talismans surrounding him one after another.

"How much better do you think you are than me?!"

Fan Ji slashed the yellow talisman paper with his sword, and the sword emitted a faint black aura, corroding the edge of the talisman paper.

With a smile that was not sure whether it was hatred or happiness, he said loudly: "I was indeed stupid and believed what that old bastard said. But what about you?!"

"I had clearly killed Shang Qihan. Without his control, you still killed your wife!"

Shang Kaixun's pupils constricted: "I..."

He covered his head in pain, and in an instant, a flood of memories flooded towards him!

"Fellow Daoist Yan."

A middle-level female cultivator released the accompanying bird-beasts, and then said to the woman beside her: "That ghost cultivator has already wiped out half of the Qi Sect's cultivators. We have already released all the communication beasts that the Beast Sect can send out, but the information we receive is getting less and less." She paused, gritted her teeth and said, "Maybe he has discovered us."

"Don't panic."

The person she called Fellow Daoist Yan was a young female cultivator. Her expression remained unchanged, her eyebrows slightly drooped, and she looked like she was thinking.

"What is the environment like on the seven peaks of Yuanshan?"

"We have sent people to investigate. Apart from a village at the foot of the mountain, the rest of the area is densely wooded, making it a good place to set up a formation."

Yan Zhiyun: "No, let's change the place."

The female cultivator was stunned: "But this is the most convenient way to set up the formation."

"Then let me ask you," Yan Zhiyun raised his eyes, "how many households are there?"

"Maybe, maybe two or three..."

"There is a stream at the bottom of the outer circle of the distant mountains, and the terrain is flat. If there is a village, it cannot be just two or three families," she sighed. "It's unlikely that we can ask them to move away now. Let's move to another place."

"Fellow Daoist Yan!" Two male cultivators walked quickly to the cave entrance and were very anxious when they heard this. "No! We have finally chosen a good place, how can we change it just like that?"

"The Seven Mountains of Far Mountain can just use the Seven Killings and Six Cuts Formation of the Fu Sect," another person disagreed, "You are the number one Fu cultivator, so you naturally know better than us how much the terrain restricts the formation. If you suddenly change the ground, wouldn't that put us in danger?"

Yan Zhiyun did not rush to explain. Her eyes were like swords, piercing the two who spoke: "Then according to what you two Taoist friends said, should we ignore the village and forcibly set up a formation?"

"They are just a bunch of mortals..." He muttered, but saw the disapproving looks from the people around him, "I, I am right! It is their fault that they left their home here!"

Before Yan Zhiyun opened her mouth, the female cultivator following behind her spoke hesitantly, "But, the mortal you mentioned saved your life from that ghost cultivator, didn't he?"

When the ghost cultivators were slaughtering these cultivators at will, a few lucky ones were seriously injured but not dead, and were picked up and hidden by the people who found them.

Perhaps influenced by the illusion, the mad Hansai did not attack the people she helped in her lifetime, but instead avoided the mortal world.

Yan Zhiyun took the remaining cultivators and hid at the edge of the mortal world, so as not to disturb their lives while also not being easily discovered by the ghost cultivator.

"I hope you can wake up." Yan Zhiyun said without any emotion, "Cultivators are also human beings. They just live a little longer than the 'mortals' you call them."

She scanned the surroundings and said, "Some cultivators are not even as good as the so-called 'mortals'."

"you!"

"You also said that I am the number one talisman practitioner."

Yan Zhiyun made hand gestures with her right hand, and golden threads of light wrapped around her fingertips, rapidly weaving into a rune bird.

The completed talisman bird chirped briskly, then left Yan Zhiyun's fingertips and flew out of the cave.

"What?" She said calmly, "If you don't obey me, just erase your consciousness during this period and you can leave on your own."

At this point, the eyes of all the cultivators changed, and they looked at the two male cultivators with ferocity in their eyes.

Of course, we can't let them leave intact.

The two men also obviously sensed the tense atmosphere around them, their expressions relaxed, and they said awkwardly, "We will naturally follow Fellow Daoist Yan."

Yan Zhiyun nodded: "Okay, then please do more research and discuss anything with my fellow apprentices."

Having said this, she walked out of the cave.

The sun was about to set in the sky, and a large patch of red clouds gathered overhead. Yan Zhiyun found Shang Kaixun on the top of the mountain, who was on guard with a sword in his hand.

"Ah-hung."

Looking at her lover, Yan Zhi's nerves, which had been tense for several days, finally relaxed a little. She smiled and walked to the side of Jian Xiu.

"Zhiyun." Her swordsman whispered in response, then let go of the sword and hugged her sideways, "Thank you for your hard work."

"No." Yan Zhiyun whispered, "You've worked hard too."

Half a month ago, Yan Zhiyun went out alone to the mortal world to look for some rare ancient books. When he came back, he saw Shang Kaixun, covered in blood, sitting against the stone wall.

She was startled to see her lover covered in wounds, and she hurried over to check.

Fortunately, this kind of injury was not too serious for a cultivator, but Shang Kaihuo still took half a day to recuperate before he slowly woke up.

However, before Shang Kaixun opened his mouth to explain what had happened to him, a large number of injured cultivators rushed towards Fu Zong.

Later, we learned that a ghost cultivator suddenly broke into the various sects of the immortal world, slaughtering cultivators and causing rivers of blood. The first to suffer was the Sword Sect.

Shang Kaixun's sect was destroyed, and he was the only one who survived.

"Although our Fu Sect is not famous for its offensive power in the world of immortal cultivation, we at least have some strength." Yan Zhiyun stood beside him and said, "A-Dong, you are the pride of the Sword Sect and the pride of the world of immortal cultivation."

She tilted her head and said comfortingly, "But I don't want you to bear all these expectations alone."

"Things concerning the world of immortal cultivation must naturally be borne by all cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation."

Her voice was calm, but it was filled with unquestionable firmness.

The two stood quietly on the mountain, watching the sunset fall into the mountains in the distance. As night fell, the surroundings became completely dark.

"...Go and have a rest for a while." Yan Zhiyun whispered, "Don't work too hard, I'm here for you, okay?"

Shang Kaixun: "I'm fine."

He turned his head to look at Yan Zhiyun: "I'm worried about you."

When he said this, Yan Zhiyun laughed.

"Don't underestimate me," she said with a slight curl of her lips. "Although Fu Sect focuses on supporting, which of our Fu Sect disciples doesn't know how to save their lives?"

She was about to push Shang Kaixun away to take a break, but suddenly her ears twitched slightly and her expression changed suddenly: "Who?!"

The golden rune shot out from her fingertips and then suddenly exploded, with the roar echoing throughout the valley!

Before the smoke cleared, a hoarse male voice was heard.

"--oh?"

A sinister laugh came from behind them.

"Really?"

Chapters 18, 19, and 20 are about the story of two girls. Please don't think the author is too long-winded~ (pointing fingers)

After that, the group battle started~

[1] The Great Dao is formless, yet it gives birth to the heaven and earth: This is from the Classic of Purity and Tranquility, which was written down by Ge Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty and is one of the classics of Taoism. The space between heaven and earth seems to be empty, without any form. However, although the space between heaven and earth is formless, it can give birth to all living animals and plants, as well as inanimate sand, stones, and many other objects. (Anonymous)

[2] The Tao is heartless, yet it moves the sun and the moon: The movement of heaven and earth is originally without any emotion; although there is no emotion, there seems to be emotion between heaven and earth, which keeps them moving.

[3] The Great Way is nameless, yet it nourishes all things: The space between heaven and earth does not know its own name, so there is no name that can be used to refer to it. However, although it has no name, it is able to nourish all things, nourishing them and allowing their lives to continue to grow.

[4] If a person can always remain clear and peaceful, then all things in heaven and earth will be within his nature. Therefore, if a person can always remain clear and peaceful, then all things in heaven and earth will be within his nature. This is the foundation of learning the Dao, but everyone ignores this foundation.

[5] The human spirit likes to be clear, but the mind disturbs it; the human mind likes to be quiet, but desires pull it away. If one can always get rid of desires, the mind will naturally be quiet; if one can clear the mind, the spirit will naturally be clear. Naturally, the six desires will not arise, and the three poisons will be eliminated! For example, the human spirit originally likes to be quiet, but it is disturbed by the acquired consciousness. The human mind is the same. It also likes to be quiet, but it is pulled away by greed. Therefore, if a person can get rid of these greedy thoughts, the human mind will naturally be quiet. After clarifying the mind, our spirit will naturally be clear. In this way, the six senses of “eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind” that come into contact with us will naturally not cause interference, and the three toxins of “greed, ignorance, and anger” will also naturally disappear.

[6] The reason why some people cannot do this is because their mind is not yet clear and their desires are not yet eliminated. However, some people just cannot do this. This is because their mind and nature have not yet been clarified, so there are still some things that they have not eliminated.

[7] Men are superior to women: Some say it comes from Liezi, while others say it comes from the Book of Changes. You can search for the specific text yourself. It does not mean that men are superior and women are inferior. Taking the Book of Changes as an example, men should be as tall as the sky and constantly strive for self-improvement, while women should be like the earth, tolerant and selfless. (If there is any inappropriateness, please forgive me.)

[8] There is no businessman who is not dishonest: In fact, there is no businessman who is not dishonest. The origin of this phrase is that in the old days, people used a liter bucket as a measuring instrument to buy rice, hence the saying “liter bucket is for the common people”. When measuring rice, the seller would use a mahogany ruler to flatten the bulge in the liter bucket to ensure that the amount was accurate.

[9] Wealth and honor are sought in danger: Wealth and honor are sought in danger, and they are also lost in danger. There is a one in ten chance of success in seeking, but a nine in ten chance of failure. From Zeng Guang Xian Wen

This chapter drops fifty small red envelopes~