Chapter 295: Karma and Responsibility, Merit and Reward

Chapter 295: Karma and Responsibility, Merit and Reward

Taihua Mountain, the golden top of Yuxu Peak.

The whole place is covered with silver makeup, the mountain wind is howling, the sea of ​​clouds is rolling, and a three-legged golden tripod is vaguely visible.

call!

At this moment, the sea of ​​clouds suddenly rose, and a purple electric light was seen rising from the bottom up. It passed through the air of the sea of ​​clouds, rolled up the sky with wind and snow, and landed on the Golden Summit.

When the light dissipated, a handsome young man wearing Taoist robes appeared.

It was Zhou Heng.

"Junior brother, congratulations on stepping into the sixth level of Secret." Yan Shou came over and said with a loud smile, "Refining the true energy to form a body, leaving the ground and flying into the sky. If it were in ancient times, it would have been known as the 'Flying Immortal'."

"It's just the first time I've entered Xiantian. How can I be called an 'immortal'?" Zhou Heng shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Senior brother, actually I came back to the mountain this time because I have something to ask."

"I just said that I feel you have doubts." Yan Shou smiled and walked to the stone table on the edge of the cliff. With a flick of his finger, two cups of tea appeared out of thin air on the table. He sat down and said, "Here, let's talk."

"Yes." Zhou Heng followed and sat across from Yan Shouyi, saying in a deep voice: "Senior brother, what is 'merit'?"

"Merit?" Yan Shouyi was slightly startled when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Junior brother, are you trying to collect the energy of merit?"

"That's right." Zhou Heng nodded, not hiding anything, and said, "It's needed for practicing Taoism."

"That's it." Yan Shouyi did not continue to inquire further, but smiled and said: "Sincerity is merit, perfection is virtue, sincerity and kindness are merit, this is a common explanation in Buddhism.

"However, if we talk about martial arts, merit has another explanation. Buddhism talks about cause and effect, and Tao talks about responsibility. Although the meanings are somewhat different, they actually all mean that one's actions will bring about various retributions from heaven and earth, and merit is one of the retributions. "

"There is a saying that 'heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as stupid dogs'. Why would heaven and earth have retribution?" Zhou Heng wondered, if heaven and earth have feelings, then there must be selfishness, and the rules of the world will be messed up.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, treating all things like rotten dogs..." Yan Shou murmured, chewing this sentence carefully, and clapped his hands, "It's so descriptive, so profound. Junior brother, I should write this sentence down."

"No, no, no, senior brother, I heard this from the sages." Zhou Heng waved his hands repeatedly and shook his head in explanation.

He didn't dare to plagiarize this sentence, not even to the extreme of his guts. The picture of Taishang riding an ox was still in Qiankun's brocade bag. Although he didn't know the effect, he still erred on the side of caution.

"This is a great sage." Yan Shou was full of praise, and after a while he continued: "Junior brother, you are right, the world is unkind, ruthless and selfless, but it does not mean that there will be no retribution, because it is natural part of the law.

"All things in the world are interdependent and there is nothing that does not affect each other. The actions of any thing will definitely affect other things. Just like when you walk and step on the ground, the ground will support you. This is the principle."

"Are the effects of force mutual?" Zhou Heng thought to himself, already having some understanding, and said: "Senior brother, what do you mean, the retribution of merit is actually the natural feedback of heaven and earth to a certain behavior?"

"That's right." Yan Shouyi nodded his head slightly, feeling very pleased and said with a smile: "The more your actions conform to the current rules and conditions of the operation of heaven and earth or the closer they are to a certain great principle, the easier it will be to get feedback from heaven and earth. , and this feedback includes merit.

“To a certain extent, this process of getting closer to the principles of the Great Dao is very similar to the process of approaching the Great Dao of the Fourth Grade Induction Dao. Therefore, the great master’s breakthrough to heaven and human beings is sometimes called the ‘perfect merit’.

"Like our world, the current trend is to resist evil spirits, kill evil spirits and eliminate evil spirits. Killing monsters, evil things, and ghosts is actually accumulating merit."

"But I killed a lot of ghosts, evil things, and monsters." Zhou Heng frowned and said, "Why didn't you gather the energy of success and virtue?"

"Because you are still too insignificant now." Yan Shouyi shook his head slightly and said: "For this world of heaven and earth, your power is insignificant, and the evil spirits you killed are too weak, and it is not enough to cause merit feedback from heaven and earth.

"Just like an ordinary person punching a mountain, he will only feel slight pain, but will not be crushed by the mountain and crushed into powder, right?"

"Well... that's the truth." Zhou Heng nodded, but he was still a little confused and said: "But senior brother, I don't seem to have even felt a slight pain."

"Junior brother, what do you think the good deeds of Zhou Tian Xunjie Division are?" Yan Shouyi said with a half-smile, "Is it just a trading tool designed out of thin air?"

"..." Zhou Heng was awakened by this sentence and suddenly realized a lot. He said happily: "So that's it. Good deeds are actually extremely subtle feedback of merit. No wonder killing evil spirits and ghosts will lead to good deeds."

"That's right." Yan Shou nodded and smiled.

"If I accumulate enough good deeds, is there a way to gather the virtues of success?" Zhou Heng suddenly thought.

"This is not allowed." Yan Shou said with a smile: "Although good deeds are subtle feedback of merit, the two are essentially different.

"The idea of ​​​​gathering good deeds into virtuous achievements is like an ordinary person pushing a mountain 10,000 times and trying to collect the feedback of these 10,000 times. It is obviously not possible."

"Then if you kill the evil spirits of the third grade, you can gain merit?" Zhou Heng guessed again. He thought that according to the rules of the Zhoutian Star Chart, the good merit gained by the warriors of the third grade by killing the evil spirits was very low.

This is inconsistent with the laws of heaven and earth.

Perhaps it is because at this level, it can already affect the operation of the laws of heaven and earth to a certain extent. Killing the evil spirits of the middle third level will directly gain merit, and good deeds are the remaining scraps, so naturally there will be less.

And the strong man of the middle third level killing the evil spirits of the lower third level is like an ordinary person crushing a piece of soil. It is effortless, and the feedback obtained will naturally be infinitely reduced.

"That's right, but now the sixth level of the secret is not enough, it must be the fifth level of the sect." Yan Shouyi said.

"Now?" Zhou Heng found a problem.

"Yes, now, because the laws of the operation of heaven and earth will change." Yan Shouyi sighed softly and said: "Maybe in a few years, killing the sixth level of the secret can also gain merit."

"..." Zhou Heng was silent after hearing this.

He already understood what Yan Shouyi meant. The lowering of the threshold for gaining merit means that the crisis of this world has worsened, and the laws of operation have changed, which will make it easier to get feedback.

"Junior brother, for you now, the evil spirits of the fifth level are still too dangerous." Yan Shouyi changed the subject and smiled: "I just thought of a good way to collect merit."

——When ghosts reach the fifth level of the sect, they may be promoted to ghost immortals, and when evil spirits reach the fifth level of the sect, they may be promoted to evil spirits, and the danger will be greatly increased.

"What method?" Zhou Heng asked curiously.