Chapter 9: Demons and Chaos
The name in the abyss comes from the ninth day of the Sutra in the Book of Changes. Do not use it. The nine fours may leapt in the abyss without any fault.
It is said that there is a dragon in the abyss, who has been hidden in the abyss for thousands of years, and he does not know his life or death. The surroundings are filled with wind and clouds turning into dragon breathing, and all things grow lushly, and they all have the shape of a dragon, which is quite mysterious.
This is a legend. No one knows whether there are really dragons lurking in the abyss. However, near the abyss, whether it is flowers, plants, trees, birds and animals, they are indeed dragon-shaped, and with dragon energy on their bodies, but this legend seems to be groundless.
The dragon, the leader of scale insects, has a strange and lustful nature. All things that are nourished by dragon breath around the abyss seem to have inherited the bad habits in the nature of the dragon clan and reproduced wildly. After thousands of years, several or even dozens of bloodlines are mixed together, making the ecology near the abyss very complex and aggressive. Fortunately, this abnormal ecological change has not shown a tendency to expand in recent years, and this is only characterized as a mysterious forbidden area.
As for Fulong Mountain, it is estimated that it means subduing the hidden dragon. Its geographical location is really close to Zaiyuan. There are often some weird dragon beasts or dragon-shaped monsters that have evolved special habits to plant them here. Therefore, except for some desperate people who want to go to Zaiyuan to find opportunities and occasionally pass by, few people come here. If you think about it in another way, it is a rare quiet place.
However, since the quietness is quiet, Ye Kongqing has never guessed the way of thinking of his two masters. He has not yet figured out why he had to build a cave in such a dangerous place as a long-term residence in the secret realm.
On the first day Ye Kongqing started practicing, Yu Cangshu and Zhu Gexing took him to find a crack on the Fulong Mountain and built a cave in it for the future practice of the three of them.
As a place where cultivators practice and retreat in daily life, the cave must consider the secret of the place where they are located when they are built. It has been said before that Fulong Mountain is rarely visited, and the cracks in the mountain where Atractylodes and Zhuge Xingxun are tricky, and there are grass and trees around it, which is very consistent with the secret.
As for the cave after the construction of the cave, a ban was set up around it to prevent anyone from entering. Even Ye Kongqing was in his home in the suburbs of the present world, otherwise even Yu Cangshu would not dare to leave his Xuan Ding and Creation Alchemy Furnace at home rashly.
Although one of his two masters has a strange temper, perhaps because of the skills he practices, he looks very ghostly and can almost stop children from crying at night. He is also addicted to various ways, whether it is alchemy or weapon refining, and is familiar with it, which is a bit of a Frankenstein. The other one is a person who is distracted by nature, plays in the world, is full of energy in the world, and is always unregulated in daily life, giving people a sense of difficulty in being reliable.
But even these two people have a bit of a paranormal style. At least Ye Kongqing has never seen anything that can stump them.
Just talking about the ban set up outside the cave, Ye Kongqing has been practicing until now, and has turned a blind eye to the outside world under the supervision of his two masters. He practiced wholeheartedly and rarely went out. However, there are strange beasts and monster plants in the mountains, and the place where the cave is located is indeed secret, but there has never been any intrusion in the cave for more than ten years. This shows the mystery of the ban on the cave.
Where to leave the secret realm and where to return to the secret realm, this is one of the rules of the secret realm.
After breaking my fingers and calculating, Ye Kongqing has lived in Fulong Mountain for more than ten years. As a wandering cultivator without a gate, he used to go in and out with his two masters, relying on each other and relying on each other for his life. But now he returned to the secret realm and sat in the cave dug by the two masters, Ye Kongqing originally wanted to calm down and practice to make up for the past two days of cultivation that was wasted due to busy living, but he found that he felt at a loss in his heart.
Before, because the two masters suddenly left, Ye Kongqing had to think too much for a moment, including daily life and practice, and now he needed to prepare for the future, so he might not have paid attention. When he calmed down, he seemed to suddenly lose his goal, and his eyes were in a vast state.
Ye Kongqing can be said to have started practicing since he was sensible, and practicing has almost become a part of Ye Kongqing's life and even life.
In the past, the master and the second master have always urged themselves to practice diligently, and warned them that the great way would be expected if they practiced continuously. But now the masters don’t know where they are going and no one is restraining themselves, so why should they continue to practice?
Is it for the so-called immortality? Or to gain the awe of others? Or for some other reason? And are these really what you want?
Ye Kongqing's calming heart suddenly became chaotic. At this time, he had never known that what he was experiencing now was the so-called inner demon.
The origin of the inner demon can be traced back to the source of practice. Since the first cultivator in history, the existence of the inner demon has already existed. The inner demon and practice are like the two sides of a human being, and are transformed by the inner demon that hinders the practice. Similar to the distracting thoughts that Ye Kongqing has experienced at the moment, it has fallen into this category. In contrast, the external demons in the practice of Taoist sects are called heavenly demons, which will also hinder practice.
In Buddhism, this situation is called the obstacle of knowledge and view, also known as the obstacle of knowledge. In Buddhist teachings, people have three obstacles, namely the obstacle of afflictions, the obstacle of knowledge, and the obstacle of karma. Among them, the obstacle of knowledge refers to the inability to realize the true nature of the Dharma Realm and the root of all dharmas, and therefore the inability to achieve Buddhahood. This is the obstacle of knowledge. As for its name, it refers to the lack of knowledge of the truth of the Dharma Realm, which has become an obstacle to the Buddha's path.
However, no matter what Buddhism and Taoism know about this situation, they are quite dangerous. If you are not careful, you will get into a devil at the least, and you will die at the worst. Moreover, if you have this experience, it is generally difficult for outsiders to interfere, and you can only rely on yourself.
But there are exceptions in everything.
Like the orange-white protector Luo Yuanzhi, who practiced the Nine Heavens Heart Demon Art, is the best at understanding the inner demon. If he was the guardian of Ye Kongqing, he would cut off the spiritual sound of the mind and remove the demonic obstacles in his heart, Ye Kongqing's problem would be solved at this moment.
However, Luo Yuanzhi is Jubai's Taoist protector, and he is not Ye Kongqing's Taoist protector. No matter how good he thinks, it will be useless. Now we can only see whether Ye Kongqing himself can break the inner demon and resolve this crisis.
There were more and more distracting thoughts in his mind, as if he was igniting an invisible lead, which actually caused the spiritual energy flowing in Ye Kongqing's body to escape from his spiritual consciousness. The originally extremely docile spiritual energy began to gradually lose control, wandering around in his body and rushing around. What was terrible is that Ye Kongqing didn't feel anything about this!
Chapter completed!