Great Thousand Robbers

Behind him lay ruins, surrounded by dark forests.

The moon and stars were sparse, and there was a slight gleam. In the dark night, a Taoist priest wearing an ancient Taoist robe was already standing in front of him.

Kind-faced and kind-eyed, with white hair all over his head, his face is full of dimples, maybe it's been a long time, the dust whisk in his hand has turned gray, and his Taoist robe also looks dilapidated.

He looked at the Taoist temple that had been turned into ashes, shook his head and sighed softly, and said, "Infinite Heavenly Venerable."

Gu Que couldn't help but said: "The Taoist priest forgive me."

The Taoist priest looked at Gu Que, but he didn’t get angry. Instead, he felt a sense of relief on his face. He said slowly, “Why do you need to forgive me? The replacement is all in its witness. It carries a piece of history, a kind of belief, and finally turned into ashes.”

"When the strong wind blows, it will sprinkle on the earth, nourishing every inch of soil. And the fertile soil will give birth to new vitality. This is a reincarnation!"

Gu Que's body shook, and he couldn't help looking at the Taoist priest, only to see his eyes were deep, like stars in the universe, constantly changing.

With a smile on his face, like spring returning to the earth, he said softly: "This life is destroyed, nourishing the fertile soil, and burying it deep in the back soil. As autumn goes and spring comes, it will sprout new shoots again, between the years and the sun It grows vigorously and grows into a towering tree. The big tree can be carved, and it can also become a pillar of Taoism."

He said softly: "The change of everything in the world comes from this. Nothing is eternal."

He looked at Gu Que, not afraid that he was just a skeleton, and said with a smile: "You said, is the greatest immortality in the legend eternal?"

Gu Que said in a deep voice: "It is true that there is no immortality, and life is endless."

The old Taoist said: "Then why did so many immortals fall? Then why are the Emperors, the ancestors of the wind system, Tianji, the ancestors of the beginning, the ancestors of the devil, and the son of Tiandao all want to recover completely?"

Gu Que was speechless.

And the old Taoist continued: "Because they also have reincarnation! They are ruined and they fall, so they will be reborn. Everything in the world is like this. You may think that some people exist forever, but you don't know their hearts. , How many reincarnations have you experienced?"

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The old Taoist took a deep look at Gu Que, and said: "Reincarnation is not terrible, what is terrible is being helpless in reincarnation."

Gu Que shook his head slowly. He understood what the old Taoist meant, but some things were not reasonable.

The old Taoist was not in a hurry, but he sacrificed a cauldron and said slowly: "Since the Taoist temple is destroyed because of you, how about you help me refine a pot of elixir?"

Gu Que said: "I won't."

The old Taoist said: "You will. Although your body is gone, your heart is still there. I need your assistance."

Gu Que nodded hesitantly.

The old Taoist smiled and waved his hand, and the rare treasures of heaven and earth that Gu Que couldn't understand at all had already arrived in the cauldron, and then blue lights emerged, and the elemental flames automatically ignited under the cauldron.

The old Taoist's movements were obviously very skillful and quick. He sighed: "The medicinal materials and utensils refined now are not important, and even the heat is not important. The important thing is that it needs the energy of the five elements."

"The energy of the five elements?"

Gu Que wondered: "The qi of the five elements is contained in the elixir, what is the effect?"

The old Taoist said: "The qi of the five elements can constitute most of the objects in the world, and it can also derive most of the objects in the world."

Gu Que said: "Do you want to refine the Derivative Pill?"

The old Taoist said: "Derivative pills are not easy to refine, so they are extremely precious to the entire continent."

Gu Que knew that she met an expert, but she shook her head and said, "But with the Qi of the Five Elements, I can't help you."

The old Taoist looked at him and smiled slowly: "Why can't you help?"

Gu Que said: "I can't summon the five elements."

"Yes! You can't summon the five elements."

The old Taoist sighed softly: "You only know vitality and vitality, you only know the cycle of yin and yang, but you can't distinguish the vitality, you don't know which ones belong to metal, which ones belong to wood, which ones belong to water, which ones belong to fire, and which ones belong to it. Soil. Do you remember the Tao you once comprehended?"

Have you ever comprehended the Tao?

Gu Que thought about it for a long time, but for some reason, her mind was in chaos, as if she didn't know anything.

He murmured: "Yin and yang go side by side, yin and yang rotate, yin and yang merge into the way of chaos, and... and... the original way."

The old Taoist said: "If you don't know the five elements, can it be considered the origin?"

Gu Que was silent.

But the old Taoist waved his hand, and saw the vitality fluctuate suddenly between the heaven and the earth, and golden lights shot out from nowhere, and suddenly poured into the black cauldron.

The black cauldron trembled unceasingly, and suddenly there was an invisible aura surging out of it, this aura was sharp, fierce, heavy, and cold, and it was the aura of the five elements of gold.

And as soon as the old Taoist priest came out with his big hand and waved his big hand again, clusters of red light emerged from between the sky and the earth.

He said in a deep voice: "Use the gold of the five elements to lock the loss of medicinal properties, and use the fire of the five elements to melt the invisible gold."

Speaking of this, white light flickered all around, illuminating the universe, like rippling water, pouring into the black cauldron.

"Too much fire will also damage the medicinal properties, so it is poured with water, and the water can grow wood and give birth to vitality."

While he was talking with a smile, streaks of green light had already been born inside the black cauldron, and at the same time surging outward, waves of vitality rushed towards his face.

The old Taoist said in a deep voice: "Using gold to lock the medicine, fire to suppress gold, water to suppress fire, and water to grow wood, life is born from this. Do you understand the way of the five elements and the root of all things?"

Gu Que shook his head and said, "I don't understand."

The old Taoist said with emotion: "You are well versed in the cycle of yin and yang, but you don't know that the five elements are changing and mutually restraining each other. Why can the supreme immortal exist forever? Because the five elements in his body are constantly changing and radiating vitality, just like this derivative pill. The gold of the five elements bears a certain responsibility, the fire of the five elements bears a certain responsibility, and water, wood, and earth all have a certain responsibility. If it remains the same, if the metal is too heavy, it will destroy the medicinal properties, if the fire is too heavy, it will destroy the medicinal properties, and if the water is too heavy, it will annihilate the medicinal properties. use it?"

"Everything can only bear the responsibility for a period of time. Your way of yin and yang parallelism bears the responsibility for the first two years; your way of chaos bears the responsibility for the next two years; And Huangzhou; your way of the emperor, the sixteen-character maxims in the "Renhuangjing", carried your last few years of vicissitudes. You lost, your heart was broken, your martial arts were lost, and your body was old, but really this is Is it bad?"

"Your past is like this ancient Taoist temple, which has witnessed too many vicissitudes. Tianji is like a big fire, destroying you to ashes, but in fact? Even if there is no such big fire on the decaying pillars, How much time and years can it last? When the fire burns out, the ashes will nourish the earth, sprinkle every inch of land, and every inch of land will be reborn."

"Gu Que! This failure is a reincarnation for you. Like this Taoist temple, you have disappeared from everyone's sight. Your original way is supporting you, the world is supporting you, and your new life is here again. where?"

Gu Que's body trembled violently, and he couldn't help but lay down on the ground.

He had to admit that the old Taoist priest had good intentions, but he didn't know where his new life was.

He was right, just like a Taoist temple, this is a reincarnation.But the ashes of the Taoist temple can nourish the land, and what can the broken self nourish?

As if knowing what Gu Que was thinking, the old Taoist smiled lightly and said: "You have been down and out for seven years, and you have been a storyteller for three years. It can be said that you have tasted all the sufferings of the world and are well versed in the sorrows of all beings, but you have at least discovered that too many people are affected by you. You have embarked on the path of cultivation without hesitation, and too many people have learned your best qualities, brave, strong, responsible, and everything."

"This world is the land you nourish, and those young heroes are the radiant vitality! Then they pass on, and what about you? What about your bravery? What about your strength? What about your responsibility?"

Gu Que lay on the ground, feeling extremely sad in his heart, if he had skin, maybe he would have shed tears.

The old Taoist said: "True bravery is not about fighting for something, but facing everything bravely even if there is no hope. True strength is not about resurrecting someone, but about being able to face life directly. The so-called Responsibility means taking responsibility for yourself, not for others.”

"Has Bingluo disappeared? Is Tianji Bingluo? Will she remember the past one day, remember you, the husband who made her willing to give everything? You have been struggling with this and thinking about it. But But you haven't thought about it, are you still the original self? If you are not yourself, then how do you get back to the original person?"

Hearing this sentence, Gu Que suddenly raised his head, his soul fluctuated violently.

The old Taoist put away the black cauldron, and a white pill was already in his hand. He looked at Gu Que and said, "You thought your shackles were your wife, but do you understand now? Not at all, yours The shackles are yours. The moment your wife dies, the shackles are created, and at that moment, you die."

"And all these years, like this piece of ashes, is actually when you nourish the earth, and your mind is broken, which means the end of nourishment. At that time, it should be the time when new life sprouts."

His eyes were extremely deep, with a kind smile on his face, he said: "Words are always messy, you don't have to worry, you are here, feel it!"

As he was speaking, Sheng Dan touched Gu Que's forehead, and it shattered, and the infinite vitality came from all over the world.

Meridians and blood vessels sprouted from the pitch-black bones, flesh and blood began to grow, muscles squirmed, and everything revived like the naked eye.

After a while, Gu Que stood up, and the old Taoist went nowhere.

He looked up at the sky, only to see the twinkling stars and the hazy full moon, which dyed the surrounding clouds with a halo.

The surrounding mountains are steep, the dead trees sway gently, and the yellowed leaves flutter down, breaking the whole earth.

It is another year of autumn killing, and the broken leaves will rot under the soaking of winter rain, will be decomposed and melted, and seeped into the earth. In the coming spring, flowers will bloom, and the place will be full of vitality again.

What are the five elements, what are the roots of all things, the five elements are the law of the world's changes and rotations, and this is the root of all things.

It is precisely because of the observation of all things that the five elements are summarized, and the heaven and the earth are summarized by the five elements.

O wisdom of life!That's the way!

Gu Que suddenly sat down cross-legged, his cloudy eyes became softer, he looked at the Taoist temple that had turned into ashes, and his whole figure seemed to become ethereal.