I am doing meritorious deeds in Liaozhai

Chapter 546 The spirit of love
Let’s first look at the nearby mortal world of Zhongzhou.

"The spirit of this good love is firm and passionate, and will move forward indomitably!"

Song Yushan saw a pair of good choices and took a closer look at their details:
"The two of them are... mortal lovers who have made a private lifelong commitment?"

Song Yushan frowned: "The rich lady and the poor scholar have a private life-long contract?"

Can this combination be happy in the end? Looking at the current love spirit, it is quite pure, and they can be regarded as a good couple!
Not knowing what the future holds, Song Yushan continues to look ahead:

"The two made a private decision for life, but the young lady's family firmly disagreed... so the two eloped to the mountains together, preparing to live in seclusion in the mountains and live a life as a couple of gods and gods.

Soon, the lady became pregnant.

Living in poverty in the mountains, the scholar put down his books and picked up a hunting bow. He often came back empty-handed from hunting.

Listening to the howls of wild beasts in the mountains, the young lady felt restless and unable to sleep.

There was no other way, so they moved to the edge of the village at the foot of the mountain.

The scholar hunted and farmed, and the lady made embroidery, barely surviving.

Due to discomfort and fatigue during pregnancy, the young lady narrowly escaped death before giving birth to a pair of skinny children, and her health began to deteriorate.

The already tight life has become even worse.

A few years later, the scholar went to the town to get medicine for his wife and daughter. He saw a good news posted in the town. Someone was a high school student and he was a classmate who had asked him for advice. He felt complicated.

If he hadn't eloped, would he already be in high school? Instead of being like now, I haven’t touched pen and ink or read books by saints for who knows how long.

In order to support the family, the young lady went to the embroidery shop in the town to sell embroidery products. She was afraid of meeting acquaintances and revealing her identity, but she couldn't help but go to the door of her former home to take a look.

The home is the same as before, but in just a few years, the servant at the door no longer recognizes her.

She has called life, and it has changed.

What would she be like now if she hadn't eloped? Have you been married to a well-matched family and lived a life without any worries?

The two returned home and said nothing to each other.

We are still with each other, living the days we longed for in the past, but we have long been in the same bed and in different dreams..."

As Song Yushan expected, the sincere, pure and desperate love eventually lost to real life.

But is the aura of love generated by such a relationship considered the "aura of true love" from the couple, or the "aura of resentment" from the resentful spouse?

Only the "spirit of true love" from the couple and the "spirit of resentment" from the resentful spouse can be combined to create the red thread of marriage.

Song Yushan looked at the relationship between the two people and saw a bright red word "[Good]" that was extremely eye-catching.

According to the marriage book, they are indeed a "good couple" now.

But under the word [good], there is a line of notes: "(Please collect it before the two elope. After the elopement, the love between the two will gradually turn into [resentment].)
Song Yushan suddenly realized: "It turns out that the so-called happy couple and resentful couple only focus on the present moment! If there is true love now, they are lovers. If the love turns bad and resentment arises, then they become resentful couples! If there is no love and no resentment, there will be no love."

She glanced through the entire marriage book and found that there was far more resentment than true love.

The spirit of true love is often found in: "young men and women who fall in love at first sight, marriageable men and women who have just fallen in love, young couples who have childhood sweethearts, newlyweds who long for love..."

It seems that love is always the most sincere and moving when it starts, but as time goes by, they become resentful couples for various reasons.

Others, although they are husband and wife, have no love at all.

The energy of love comes from the heart, not from a marriage contract. There are not many couples in the world who stay together for life, but they are still a couple, and the spirit of affection they generate is the "spirit of true love". There are very few of them.

The "air of true love" is often temporary, while the "air of resentment" is permanent.

Looking at the world of immortality, the "spirit of true love" lasts a lot longer and is of higher quality, but the quantity is much rarer than in the mortal world.

Not only is there a small amount of "spirit of true love", but also a small amount of "spirit of resentment".

Mortal love will be wasted by gold and silver, status gap, trivial matters in life, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, food and clothing expenses.

Although the love of immortal cultivators will also be worn away by spiritual stones, cultivation, discipleship, life span, cultivation resources, and long years.

However, the advancement of cultivation in this world not only focuses on spiritual root talent, but also on character.

There is also a saying that it is more conducive to practice to retain Yuan Yin and Yuan Yang before forming the elixir.

Immortal cultivators who hope to advance to the next level will form Taoist partners after the golden elixir stage.

Basically, their minds are much more mature than those of young men and women in the mortal world, and they must be more restrained when it comes to feelings.

Of course, more immortal cultivators feel that becoming a Taoist couple delays their cultivation and affects their Taoist mind.

Even the Hehuan Sect, which specializes in dual cultivation techniques, only has many dual cultivations, and very few are truly in love.

But once a high-level immortal cultivator forms a Taoist couple, the shelf life of their relationship is longer than that of ordinary people.

Because it was the result of careful consideration from the beginning.

Only when cultivators share the same goals will they fall in love. After falling in love, their talents and strengths are equal, and their life spans are equal. After passing the test of time and practicing together to a high level, they can become Taoist couples.

Even so, love is only a part of life for these immortal cultivators, not all of it.

There are also many high-level monks who have become Taoist companions, but they are all marriages between sects. After the marriage, there is just an extra layer of relationship. The two parties may not have any intersection, and they are still practicing on different mountains.

There's nothing romantic about this either.

In the Immortal Cultivation Family, there are quite a few low-level Immortal Cultivators who form Taoist partners, but they all form Taoist partners when they have no hope of advancing, hoping that their descendants will produce good offspring and earn more cultivation resources for the family and themselves.

Such cultivators are supported by their families. Regardless of whether they are male or female cultivators, most of them will marry more than one concubine who has even worse qualifications and low cultivation level.

With the purpose of having children, there was a relationship between husband and wife from the beginning, but there was no atmosphere of love.

The concubines have average backgrounds and talents, and what they compete for is not favor, but family status and training resources.

As time goes by, feelings may develop, but they are rarely pure.

There are also cases where two families of immortal cultivators of equal strength marry each other, which is called forming a Taoist couple. Generally, the Taoist couple will not agree to this and will not take concubines.

The relationship between the two parties is similar to that of a sect marriage. They are not partners because of love, but for the exchange of benefits and cultivation resources.

Compared with love, there are more master-disciple relationships, family ties, and friendships in the world of immortality.

Immortal cultivators value cultivation more than love.

"It seems that the energy of love mainly needs to be collected in the mortal world!" Song Yushan sighed.

Fortunately, most of the red threads she compiled are also used in the mortal world.

A ray of true love and a ray of resentment can weave a roll of red thread, and only a short length is needed to tie two clay figures.