On the Avenue.

Chapter 414: Interpretation of Laozi

If we sympathize with them because of what the ancestors of the thirteen families did, where would we place the students whose lives have been wasted for the past six thousand years?
Should we sympathize with them because of the good deeds of one person in the Thirteenth Family, but where should we put the people who have died because of their oppression over the past six thousand years?

Should we sympathize with the Thirteen Families for the suffering they are about to endure, but where should we put the sentient beings who have died in vain at the hands of evil spirits over the past six thousand years because of their incompetence?

Therefore, no sympathy can be given to them!

The ancestors of the Thirteen Families had lofty ideals, but that was just them.

The Thirteen Families must pay a sufficient price for the evil they have done!
The wooden cart was rolling, and before anyone knew it, a snowflake was falling from the sky. Xiao Linden opened his hands and watched the snowflakes falling into his palms with joy.

She was carefree, but when Chen Shi saw the snowflake, he began to feel worried.

"Wang Tianguan said that the heavy snow that year lasted for two or three years." His voice became much deeper at some point, as if the sound was buzzing in his chest before he uttered it.

He looked up and watched more snowflakes falling. Dark clouds had appeared in the sky at some point, blocking the moon and making the light much dimmer.

This winter is destined to be very cold.

Black Pot ran in front, spewing white mist-like hot air from its mouth and nose, melting the snow around it.

After a while, a cold wind blew, carrying with it a sinister aura that was bone-chilling.

Xiao Linden ran down excitedly, frolicking in the field, and threw a ball of snow at Chen Shi. She was carefree, but Chen Shi seemed a little more worried and did not respond to her.

Xiao Linden threw another ball of snow at Chen Shi's head. Chen Shi jumped out of the car and grabbed a ball of snow to fight back.

Xiao Linden ran away quickly, and the two of them played around, throwing snowballs at each other and laughing all the time.

Suddenly, the little linden fairy came back with a gloomy face, jumped onto the wooden cart, sat down, and whispered, "Childish."

Her neck was full of snowballs, so she had to take them out bit by bit.

"Don't run." Chen Shi rushed over, grabbed a ball of snow and stuffed it into her collar, then laughed.

The little linden fairy looked at him coldly. Chen Shi, who had originally been planning to stuff the snowball in, put it down hesitantly and climbed back into the wooden cart.

The little linden fairy caught a glimpse of him secretly glancing at her collar, and became alert. She hurriedly pulled up her collar and looked at him with unfriendly eyes.

Chen Shi's heart was pounding, and he said with a smile: "I have seen it all in our wedding night, let me see it again..."

"Say it again!" Little Linden Fairy was murderous.

Chen Shi's mind was distracted and he couldn't help but think of the beautiful scene in the wedding chamber on that night. He became a little emotional and quickly calmed his mind to avoid being controlled by Peng Qiao.

"Xiao Shi, from today on, I will teach you Laozi."

Zhu Xiucai hung on the canopy, raised his hand to brush off the snow on his head, and taught earnestly, guiding people to be good, saying: "...This chapter says, so always be without desire, so as to observe its wonders; always have desires, so as to observe its subtleties. In the state of no desire, one can observe the mysteries of the great way, and in the state of desire, one can observe the subtleties of the great way. Therefore, those who practice Taoism are in a state of no desire when entering into meditation, and have desires in daily life. Practicing in this way is the way to attain the Tao."

Chen Shi was originally thinking about how to kill the three corpses because of lust. Hearing this, he was shocked and blurted out, "So, is killing the three corpses and eliminating lust good or bad?"

Zhu Xiucai said: "Can you really eliminate lust after the three corpses are killed? It is impossible to eliminate lust, it is just control."

Chen Shi said: "How can we break through without killing the three corpses?"

Zhu Xiucai said, "How should I know? I am just a scholar who didn't even pass the imperial examination. I am a waste. You are the number one scholar, you are much better than me."

He was so miserable that he didn't know what had touched his nerves. He started to cry and choked up, saying, "I have lost the inheritance of my ancestors!"

Fairy Xiao Linden's complexion returned to normal, and she said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. He misinterpreted me. If you practice according to what he said, you will only go astray."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "If I don't kill the three corpses and cultivate to the three corpse realm, let me see it."

The little linden fairy was furious. If she hadn't had to live under someone else's roof and rely on his small temple to avoid being transformed into an evildoer, she would definitely have taught this scoundrel a lesson!

"You can't do it!"

"Let me see it when it's done!"

Fairy Little Linden was so angry that she gnashed her teeth, and suddenly she figured it out, smiled, and said, "Okay. If you can do it, I'll show you. If you can't, our engagement will be canceled, and I'm no longer your wife!"

The moment she smiled, she was charming and indescribably charming.

Chen Shi agreed and said with a smile: "You should smile more often. You look very beautiful when you smile."

Fairy Xiao Linden snorted and said, "Don't mess with my mind. You can't arouse my lust... No more talking. I'm going to retreat!"

She didn't know what made her angry, she flew up angrily and hid in the little temple behind Chen Shi's head.

Zhu Xiucai's voice came: "The young lady found out that she was emotional and became angry."

"If you bite your tongue again, I will pull it out and tie it around your neck and strangle you to death!" The voice of the Little Linden Fairy came from the small temple.

Zhu Xiucai didn't dare to tease her anymore. Although Little Linden Fairy didn't dare to kill Chen Shi, she was very brave to kill him. Moreover, Little Linden Fairy was stronger, so it was almost certain that she could kill him.

Chen Shi clenched his fists, full of confidence: "I will definitely see it! Therefore, always have no desire, so as to observe its wonders; always have desire, so as to observe its subtleties. This sentence means that the use of subtleties..."

He suddenly felt that as long as he could comprehend this point, he would be able to understand the secret of breaking through without killing the three corpses.

The snowstorm passed quickly, and the moon came out again. Chen Shi felt relieved, jumped out of the car, and said, "Hei Guo, you come check the map, I'll walk for a while!"

Hei Guo responded, jumped onto the car, took out the sheep-horn sky-spiritual lantern, hung it on the canopy, and lit the wick.

It spread out the geographical map, held up the map of mountains, rivers and the country, and compared it with the surrounding geography to search for any extra mountains.

Chen Shi walked beside the wooden cart, quietly pondering the wonders of existence and non-existence.

Fairy Little Linden sat in the small temple behind his head, trying to enter a state of meditation, but she was always restless and unable to enter a state of meditation. She felt uneasy in her heart: "If he...if he really understands the secret of breaking through without killing the three corpses, shouldn't I take the initiative to take off my clothes in front of him?"

Her face turned red with shame, and she clenched her fists, cracking them. "Why did I agree to this without thinking? Am I also influenced by the Three Corpse Gods? No, no, I killed the Three Corpse Gods a long time ago... But why do I still feel lustful after I killed the Three Corpses?"

She suddenly became alert.

Chen Shi had a profound influence on her, or rather, on Xiao Linden.

When she woke up, Xiao Linden disappeared. In fact, it was not that Xiao Linden fell into a deep sleep, but that Xiao Linden became a part of her memory and thinking. In other words, she could remember the intimacy between Xiao Linden and Chen Shi clearly!
Xiao Lini's love for Chen Shi affected her and caused her to have lust! "When my injuries are healed, I will kill Xiao Lini as a corpse god, and I won't have to fall back to the realm."

She made up her mind secretly, but suddenly thought that the world was becoming evil now, with evil mixed in with goodness, and the evil was getting stronger and stronger, so she couldn't become an immortal. If that was the case, with a limited lifespan, it would be a good thing to find a good man and marry him...

"Wait! This idea is not mine, it's Xiao Linden who is influencing me!"

She took a long breath and whispered, "Since ancient times, everyone must kill the three corpses before their soul and body can become pure yang, and then they can practice to the next level. You are no exception! If you want to see me... you're dreaming!"

Chen Shi entered into a state of meditation unconsciously. At this moment, he was neither thinking nor not thinking. His thoughts seemed to be there and not there. He activated the sixth new talisman, and the thunder in his body was tempered. The yin and yang energies blended together, and he felt the wonder of yin and yang.

As he took a step, there were many Taoist temples around him, the sixty-four hexagrams kept changing, and the various mysteries of the Eight Trigrams became clear to him.

This state is what Laozi said about being free from desire in order to observe the wonders.

At this moment, a thought came to his mind, and he used this thought to observe the mystery of the changes of yin and yang, and see it more carefully and meticulously. This is what it means to always have desire to observe the details.

At this moment, desire and lack of desire are surprisingly harmonious.

He is in a state of desirelessness, revealing the mystery of the immortal secrets. One thought is desire, and he gains knowledge through the investigation of things and understands the subtle details.

After a long time, Chen Shi came out of this state, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and his eyes became bright.

He walked briskly, suddenly feeling relaxed, humming a little tune, and his soul had already descended to Xiandu and appeared in his own Yuanchen Palace.

His body still followed the wooden cart, and everything was normal.

In Yuanchen Palace, Chen Shi's Peng Qiao was like a giant demon god. He pushed open the door of the central hall with a bang and shouted, "You didn't come yesterday, and you won't come today! What's the use of the master raising sparrows? Brothers, follow me to the underworld and sue... the master!"

Peng Qiao suddenly smiled, his huge body looking down, his face almost close to Chen Shi, his face full of flattery: "Master, what brings you here? Which young lady do you like today? Master, I have found a few sisters for you, let's enter their dreams and have some fun with them!"

Peng Ju said quickly, "My Lord, I know of a newly opened tailor shop. Is the craftsmanship good..."

"Oh!"

Peng Qiao smashed it flat with one punch, and said with a smile: "My Lord, don't listen to it. Come with us and have a good time! Have fun!"

"Okay." Chen Shi said with a smile.

Peng Qiao was surprised and delighted. He embraced Chen Shi and walked out. Fearing that he would regret it, he shouted, "Two brothers, hurry up and follow the master! After drinking enough wine and having enough girls and sleeping enough, we should act like masters too!"

Peng Ju and Peng Tu shouted and surrounded Chen Shi as they broke into the streets of Xiandu.

Although it is now a doomsday scene, Xiandu is still bustling with debauchery, sensual pleasures and extravagant life.

The Three Corpse Gods took Chen Shi to have fun and wished they could try all the fun things in Xiandu. Chen Shi followed them, living a life of debauchery and reveling in women's daily lives, but he seemed to be in a state of meditation, looking at everything in Xiandu with a desireless mentality. Suddenly, the truth of Xiandu became clear and vivid in his mind.

Xiandu is a wonderful realm constructed by the thoughts of countless people and demons. Everyone's Yuanchen Palace is their innate fate palace. The buildings on the streets are nothing more than paper offerings, and the beauties in the brothels are nothing more than paper figures.

The truth about sensual pleasures is revealed in his constant state of being free from desire.

The big and small Pengqiao, Pengtu and Pengju on the streets are demon forms made up of desires. They are the self formed by human consciousness and the forms condensed from the desires emitted by those people's souls.

The stronger the desire, the stronger the Three Corpse Gods become, and the more they desire.

Suddenly, Peng Qiao stopped and said, "Strange, after seeing through these enchanting beauties, I find them mediocre and vulgar, nothing special. I suddenly have no interest in them."

Peng Zhu said: "I also think that the delicacies created by these demons are nothing special and cannot be hidden from my eyes."

Peng Ju said, "Who would like these clothes made of burnt paper?"

The three corpse gods looked at each other, and saw the fear in each other's eyes. Suddenly, the three corpse gods screamed as if they had seen a ghost. Peng Ju shouted, "Go to the underworld to complain! The master is losing control!"

The three corpse gods left Chen Shi behind, flew away, and soon disappeared.

Chen Shi chuckled, his spirit returned to his body, and said with a smile: "Little Linden Fairy, I'm determined!"

Fairy Xiao Linden still couldn't enter into meditation, and snorted, "Talking without practice is just a show! You speak to me like this, do you know that according to the laws of the Shang Dynasty, you will be burned to death?"

"Then I want to see it too!" Chen Shi clenched his fists.

The little lime fairy was very confused and ignored him.

Chen Shi said: "Fairy, you need to first understand that you can always have desires and always have no desires, then you won't be confused."

Fairy Xiao Linden's face was uncertain, and she thought to herself: "My Great Shang Xuanniao Heavenly Palace should still have some oracle bones that record torture. I don't know where they are hidden, otherwise I can try to find them!"

It would be difficult for Chen Shi to break through to the Three Corpses Realm in a short period of time, but he was not in a hurry.

Passing by a village ahead, Chen Shi stopped the car and went into the village for a tour.

"Is there no one here?" asked Zhu Xiucai.

Chen Shi shook his head.

This was the 32nd village they had encountered along the way. Most of the villages were empty. Some of the villagers had died at the hands of ghosts and evil spirits, while others had moved to cities farther away.

There were also villagers in the village who did not seem to have died at the hands of ghosts, but were killed by humans, and the wounds on their bodies were obviously caused by magic.

They only saw living people in four villages along the way. These four villages were guarded by monks, which could ensure their safety for the time being. However, these villagers did not know whether there were new mountains around them.

Hei Guo compared the geographical map and the surrounding scenery, but found nothing.

The underworld is so vast that searching for newly grown mountains is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

At this time, he noticed a canoe docked by the creek in front of the village, and a horse-faced ghost was leading the souls of the dead in the village onto the boat.

Chen Shi ignored him and continued walking.

When the horse-faced emissary saw him, he was slightly startled, took out a portrait and compared it with it.

"Scholar, wooden cart, black dog, and a hanged man! Found it!"

(End of this chapter)