Chapter 1831: A hundred years in the secular world, a sudden enlightenment
However, the good times did not last long. During one of his expeditions, due to internal strife in the court and the rebellion in power, the marching route was secretly leaked, causing the enemy to set up an ambush in advance with the help of natural barriers.
That battle was a bloody battle!
Even with the courage of a thousand men, it was difficult to stop the situation of being surrounded by enemies!
In the end, all his subordinates died in battle, and the blood gathered into a river, dyeing the entire canyon red. Corpses piled up like mountains everywhere, and broken battle flags fluttered in the wind. It was a tragic scene!
And Tie Dadan's heart was full of resentment and resentment.
He stood on the top of the mountain of corpses in armor, holding a knife in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, blocking wave after wave of attacks and defending the last battle flag of the empire. Wherever his fierce eyes passed, the enemy generals were all frightened and dared not take another step forward!
But his hair was already messy, his armor was also tattered, his body was full of hideous wounds, the flow of blood made his mind numb, and he almost relied on a will to support himself.
In the end, facing thousands of arrows and continuous iron hoof charges, he finally fell in a pool of blood, and the cold and chilly feeling completely surrounded him.
The stars moved and the night fell.
Until his memory awakened and his cultivation was restored, Qin Tian lay in the pile of dead bodies with mixed feelings, and he fell into silence inexplicably.
This time, he understood the meaning of life and death!
Some people seem to be alive, but in fact they are like zombies.
Some people seem to be dead, but they will always exist in the world.
Although there is a great terror between life and death.
But who can guarantee that at the end of death, there will not be another rebirth?
Who can be sure that the place where we are now is definitely the real world?
Who can be sure that what you and I see is definitely not false?
Ask yourself, there is no answer!
Even if he is as strong as a god, he is just an ant trapped in a cage. What is the difference between him and the common people?
Looking around, Qin Tian's mood gradually calmed down, and his heart of Taoism was sublimated again.
Finally, he replanted the battle flag, took out the imperial wine to cheer for the heroic soul, and then bid farewell to Tie Dadan's life, and gradually went away with the stars in the sky, and continued to wander on an unknown road!
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Time flies, and the years pass by.
Another hundred years of cold and heat have passed.
During this period, Qin Tian seemed to have forgotten everything, and he persevered in experiencing different lives.
He was content with his circumstances and wandered around. Sometimes he became an ordinary official by chance, and he had a huge fortune and rose and fell in the business world. In the end, he went through twists and turns and lost his property, and had to fall into the streets and wake up one day.
Sometimes he would study music on a whim, indulge in the leisurely and carefree feeling of mountains and rivers, perform Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu to study music theory, and when he had drunk thousands of cups of wine, he hated that it was difficult to find a confidant.
Sometimes he became a poor scholar, studied poetry and books hard but felt that his talent was not appreciated. When he passed the imperial examination and became successful, he entered the court as an official to benefit the people, but he did not expect that the court was in chaos and incompetent, and the treacherous eunuchs controlled the government. In the end, he was frustrated in the officialdom due to his political views, which led to his wasted years!
Looking back on the past, he also realized that the years of hardship were ridiculous. He was guilty of not wanting to go along with the crowd, so he might as well retire and return to the countryside to spend the rest of his life.
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In short, he never stopped.
Sometimes he transformed into a swordsman to fight for justice, sometimes he became a bandit and blocked the road, sometimes he became a Buddhist monk, sometimes he transformed into a playboy to seek flowers and ask for willows, sometimes he swindled people in the name of a fortune teller, and sometimes he was lucky enough to succeed in the uprising and ascended to the throne to enjoy the respect of the founding emperor.
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But one identity after another had already made him gradually lost, and his moments of clarity became fewer and fewer.
He even forgot the purpose of wandering around, even after experiencing many births, old age, sickness and death, and crawling out of the grave inexplicably, he still couldn't remember why!
He seemed to have forgotten where the path was, and everything about the world of cultivation, and even the meaning of cultivation could not be remembered. He didn't know where the end was, and he only knew to wander blindly.
And this state is the most dangerous moment.
It also means the key to the tribulation.
Once he fails to wake up successfully, he will become a walking corpse and wander endlessly forever.
And in this process, all his cultivation will also dissipate, until he becomes a real mortal, and in a certain experience of life, old age, sickness and death, he completely exhausts his vitality and lifespan and dies!
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After a long time of twists and turns, he is old again, with wrinkles all over his face and gray hair on his temples, and he has become an ordinary old fisherman, hunched over and fishing comfortably by the river, but his vicissitudes of life contain an indelible confusion.
He doesn't know why he does this.
He just vaguely remembers that an old guy seemed to do the same thing before.
But he can't remember who that old guy is!
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It was March, and the weather was bright and sunny, but a few dark clouds floated inexplicably, and there was a drizzle of rain falling down, causing circles of ripples on the river surface.
In the steaming water, the old fisherman shook his head and felt unlucky. He immediately wanted to put away his fishing rod and turn back, but unexpectedly, a buffalo slowly walked along the mountain path, with an ordinary boy sitting on its back.
The shepherd boy looked very focused, riding on the back of the buffalo, holding a book of poetry in his hands, and reciting something in a childish voice:
"Nourish your qi, forget words and keep it, calm your mind and do nothing.
Know the ancestor in movement and stillness, who else can you look for when nothing is going on.
The true constant must respond to things, and responding to things must not be confused.
If you are not confused, your nature will stay, and when your nature stays, your qi will return.
When the qi returns, the elixir will form, and the kan and li in the pot will be matched.
Yin and yang are born and return, and the thunder of universal enlightenment is heard.
White clouds are facing the top, and nectar sprinkles Mount Sumeru.
Drink the elixir of immortality by yourself, who knows about your freedom.
Sit and listen to the stringless music, and you will understand the mechanism of creation.
All twenty sentences, you can climb the ladder to heaven. ”
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At the beginning, the old fisherman was still indifferent.
But as the melodious poems became more and more high-pitched, his originally turbid eyes were quietly bright, and a sense of enlightenment floated in his heart.
This world of mortals and prosperous world is ultimately just an illusion. We pursue the path of immortality, the road to immortality, but what we seek is the heart of freedom!
I am not a stunning guest in the world, but a common person in the mortal world.
Half of my life is drunken, half of my life is prosperous and half of my life is chasing!
Look at the three thousand things in the world lightly, and laugh two or three times when I am free.
I wish to be a free traveler in the world, and I will have no friends in the world from now on!
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In a trance, he only felt a thunder in his mind, and his body froze in place. Everything around him seemed to be frozen, and the world was even more trapped. Silence.
After a hundred years, familiar memories finally emerged.
At this moment, his consciousness fell into emptiness!
But the gray hair was quickly turning black, the crisscrossing wrinkles were gradually smoothed, and the hunched body slowly stood up.
Even the powerful true essence broke the seal and flowed through the long-dried meridians again, flooding with the hidden vitality and life span, and everything was restored to its original state.
The most important thing is that the originally confused Tao heart, after experiencing the cycle of the secular world and the baptism of time, took this opportunity to realize and sublimate again, and it has already been exquisite and perfect!
(ps: Because I am sick, the typing is slow. It is expected that there will be another chapter in the evening. I hope everyone will forgive me. I will do my best to resume and update!)