Chapter 51: So this is what it means to be of the same mind!
This pagoda in Dawuxiang Temple is not only an important center for eliminating evil spirits, but it is also an extraordinary ancient magic weapon.
It is said that this pagoda was originally a Taoist inheritance left by a great Buddhist who achieved enlightenment and ascended to the imperial level. The pagoda has nine floors, and each floor has special trials and tests.
No matter what kind of Taoism a cultivator practices, the longer he stays in the pagoda, the stronger the protection that the Brahma sound will provide to his body.
If you pass the test, you will have a chance to obtain the magic weapon bestowed by the pagoda. However, in addition to the many temptations, the content of the trial in this pagoda is also extremely dangerous: sinking into the illusion of the inner demon, being burned by the fire of karma, the will collapses, and the body disintegrates...
Those who fail will suffer a great loss of cultivation and a loss of their Dao heart at the very least, or even a damage to their soul at the worst, and it is not surprising that they even fall into the tower!
Most cultivators can only climb to the fourth level. There are very few who have the ability to reach the fifth and sixth levels, not to mention the ninth level which almost only exists in legends.
Fortunately, Master Liaowu had said in advance that only the first floor of the pagoda would be open this time, otherwise there would be many cultivators who would cause trouble again!
Chu Sheng stepped into the pagoda.
Although she entered the pagoda together with the others, it seemed to be spiritual and invisibly separated the distance between them, making everyone who entered the pagoda in an independent space.
At this moment, Chu Sheng was standing alone in the wide square.
In the center of the square, as far as she could see, stood a huge bronze incense burner, on which were carved countless intricate hollow reliefs of Buddha preaching and Bodhisattvas saving people from disasters.
There was no open flame in the furnace, only wisps of green smoke rising. That smoke was not really smoke, but rather condensed and did not disperse. It carried a rich, soul-cleansing fragrance, and it could actually slowly condense into lotus flowers, treasure bottles, □□ and other Buddhist images in the air!
Chu Sheng subconsciously took a breath. The fragrance was inhaled into his lungs, and the restless spiritual energy in his body seemed to be docile and calm. It was obvious that the thing burning in the incense burner was definitely not an ordinary thing!
Elder Mochou... Master Liaowu said that the first level of this pagoda should be a place where people can face their true desires and break through delusion.
But no matter how Chu Sheng looked at it, he felt that he did not seem to have entered the test he should have entered.
She took a few steps forward, walked to the incense burner and examined it carefully, and discovered something even more remarkable:
The Buddha statues carved inside and outside this incense burner are not dead objects. Apart from the curling green smoke that is like clouds and mist, the surface of this bronze incense burner has a subtle and warm luster that is like jade but not jade.
Chu Sheng looked carefully and found that the light seemed to be flowing slowly along some mysterious trajectory, and each Buddha statue seemed to contain an entire vast galaxy!
I can't watch any longer.
Chu Sheng's consciousness told her to stop, close her eyes, and turn her head away, otherwise she would definitely get lost in it. However, her body uncontrollably reached out to the incense burner.
"Fellow Daoist?" A gray-robed monk with a serene expression held her outstretched wrist. "Are you okay?"
"......!" Chu Sheng suddenly realized that the uncontrollable feeling had disappeared. She no longer dared to look at the incense burner, but instead bowed to the monk. "Thank you for your help, fellow Taoist!"
"It's okay, fellow Taoist, you are here to get rid of evil spirits, right?" said the monk.
"This is the edge of the third level. Perhaps because you have no distractions and a pure mind, the pagoda spontaneously sent you here."
"So that's how it is. Then may I ask, fellow Taoist, how do I leave this place?" Chu Sheng asked.
"Please look up, fellow Taoist."
The gray-robed monk watched her movements and stretched out his palm. A tree seed emerged out of thin air in his empty palm, sprouting and growing branches. Almost instantly, it turned into a giant Bodhi tree that covered her head and blocked out the sun.
Amidst the lush green, there were leaves with golden veins. Golden drops of water slowly dripped from the tips of the leaves, and then fell smoothly into Chu Sheng's eyes.
"clatter."
The gray-robed monk and the bizarre world disappeared in Chu Sheng's eyes at the speed of light like a kaleidoscope, and the crimson heart-shaped seal between his eyebrows connected him to the other end thousands of miles away.
The girl's consciousness floated in the air, and she briefly felt the special perspective that belonged to Ye Ziqing's cognition, like an unbreakable chain, the intricate and interlocking rune rules.
This is simply... simply an impossible result!
One of the consensuses in the world of cultivation is that Tao is a unique and special existence. Tao is a private origin, a one-of-a-kind sense, and an existence that belongs only to cultivators and cannot be delegated to others.
If one's own path is the same as that of others, it is tantamount to entrusting one's life into the hands of others. Only by fighting to the death can one preserve life and dignity, otherwise one will face the end of being devoured.
Chu Sheng's path is not the same as Ye Ziqing's. As parallel lines that never intersect, they have always been separate and should not have any connection with each other.
But at this moment...an accident happened.
The bond of shared senses showed a special effect far beyond the ordinary level at this time, causing Chu Sheng to open his eyes involuntarily.
The insights and inheritance that belonged only to Ye Ziqing were now fully revealed to her like a book that had been deliberately opened! And something even more incredible actually happened at this moment:
Chu Sheng understood Ye Ziqing's path.
The heaven and earth are a furnace that refines all living things. Behind everything that happens, there is a system of independent runes. However, at this moment, a few tiny gaps appeared on the flawless river channel.
The Tao is inherently flawless, so why is there a flaw? Chu Sheng was puzzled. Existence is reasonable, so how could there be any obstruction?
The fragments of Dao rhyme slowly resonated in her body, and she felt a new and ignorant will extending invisible tentacles, expressing doubts to her.
Is it right or wrong to use rules to summarize everything, to abandon emotions and initial likes and dislikes?
Why do we need to distinguish between right and wrong?
Chu Sheng stretched out her fingertips and gently touched the new tentacles.
The laws of nature are constant, neither existing for the sake of Yao nor perishing for the sake of Jie. Cold and heat, the seasons, birth, old age, sickness, and death, repeat over and over again. This is the original order that has been in place since the beginning of the universe!
In the darkness, Ye Ziqing's soul suddenly shuddered involuntarily for a moment. He frowned and closed his eyes, sensing the familiar avenue. As before, only runes flowed like water through every corner.
As for the source of that strange feeling... He wanted to find out, but something hazily blocked his original intention and gently erased everything he saw.
Strange, what happened? Ye Ziqing shook his head in realization, unable to figure it out no matter how hard he tried, and then fell into the state of delusion again.
Chu Sheng subconsciously reached out and touched the hot talisman between his eyebrows.
Shui Jingxin appeared in front of her casually, reflecting the girl's fair face. The obscure rune originally carved on the center of her eyebrows by the eldest brother of the Hehuan Sect automatically changed into a light red mark.
If the Dao orthodoxy was originally parallel rivers that did not intersect, at this moment, Chu Sheng witnessed the river belonging to Ye Ziqing joining his own flowing "Dao" and becoming an auxiliary tributary.
I...invisibly control the choice of "Tao"?
Chu Sheng was closer than ever to, and even surpassed, her senior brother's understanding of the Tao. The moment she crossed this line, she heard the slight sound of a bottleneck being broken through, like the mouth of a bottle that had been blocked for a long time being pushed open.
——It turns out that the requirements for advancing in the Hehuan Tongxin Jue are not simply about tacit understanding or harmony with others, but rather require disciples to perceive, understand and interpret the Taoism of others!
The moment the girl realized this change, the aura around her suddenly surged, from the early stage of the Golden Core, to the middle stage of the Golden Core, to the late stage of the Golden Core...
Chu Sheng looked up suddenly, and the original sky was completely disassembled into visible talismans in her eyes.
In the sequence of permutations and combinations, the girl accurately found the only gap, and then the jade hairpin that held her friend's spiritual consciousness boldly attacked. The two sword energies intertwined and merged, like a swimming dragon:
“Buzz!!!!”
The unstoppable sharp light cut through space, split time, penetrated layers of barriers, and allowed the tranquility of the galaxy above her head to return to her eyes!
——What exactly is the Tianjiao List?
Regardless of whether it is traveling through time and space or receiving cause and effect, everyone's cognition positions it in the category of magical instruments, and this description is not wrong.
But Chu Sheng knew that these statements were not entirely correct. The girl who had witnessed the events of ancient times had already guessed the origin of the Tianjiao List.
Xingzi panicked and tried to escape from the young man's shoulder, but was grabbed by the girl.
"—got you."
Chu Sheng raised his eyes and greeted the young man who was sitting there with a gentle manner like jade.
"Brother Yuan Qi, do you feel comfortable walking through the world with Tian Yan's body?"
Yuan Qi was not surprised by her sharpness.
"You've just come up and exposed my strategy. Ye Ziqing must have his reasons for choosing you..."
"I'm not as good as Senior Brother Yuan Qi." Chu Sheng gathered the gauze on her arms and spoke in a relaxed tone.
"Using his Nascent Soul cultivation to break through the rules of the Tianjiao Ranking and exploit loopholes, relying on magical instruments to explore inside, this kind of courage, willing to split his own spiritual consciousness, truly worthy of being the Grand Master of Zhongnan Dao Sect."
"It's just different from what everyone else wants," Yuan Qi replied casually. "I don't seek or desire natural treasures. Only the insights gained from the path to enlightenment are the most precious."
The leader of Zhongnan Taoist Sect stood up, gently brushed off the stardust on his robes, then walked to Chu Sheng and said meaningfully.
"Junior Sister Chu Sheng, you are truly too intelligent... No wonder the family takes notice of you and wants you to be my Taoist companion and be accepted into the Yuan family."
"Stop joking, Brother Yuan Qi, you clearly know everything..."
Chu Sheng smiled slightly, and his aura, comparable to that of a Nascent Soul, suddenly burst out with a vigorous airflow, making his robes rustle.
"——I am ruthless."
"It's okay, me too." Faced with such a strong sense of oppression, Yuan Qi approached her without any resistance and replied calmly. "So we are a perfect match."
Seeing the incredible expression on Chu Sheng's face, Yuan Qi's originally solemn and serious expression changed and he laughed heartily.
"Junior Sister Chu Sheng, Junior Sister Chu Sheng, as a fellow disciple of Ye Ziqing, you really haven't learned his cynical nature at all!"
"Because I know that Senior Brother Yuan Qi is serious." Chu Sheng looked at him, his expression did not change because of the other party's softening attitude.
"But you haven't thought about it this way before, so someone must have put some pressure on you behind the scenes... and now you're trying to teach me how to avoid it."
"I didn't say that, I just know that no matter what I say or do here, it will be in vain.
After all, once we get out, everyone's memories of being there will be cut off by force majeure and hidden deep within the sea of consciousness...
Am I right, Your Excellency Bangling?"
Yuan Qi turned his head, avoiding Chu Sheng's gaze, and looked at the dim star.
The spirit of the Tianjiao list?
Chu Sheng lowered his eyes, looked at Xingzi in his hand who was silent, and smiled knowingly.
"Indeed, you are worthy of being Brother Yuan Qi..."
Finally caught you.
The one who created everything, dominated everything, and pushed everything to happen——
"What you said is quite true."
Golden Lotus of Creation!
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