Ye Su looked at him and said with a smile, "I learned something from your Senior Brother, so I should teach it to you. But I have to pay for it. What do you want to learn? "
Ning Que looked at the bowl in his hand. The water in the bowl was like wine. He was silent for a long time, and then he began to tell the story that happened last autumn.
The thin snow on the city wall of Chang 'an fell like a curtain. The Abbey Dean encountered thousands of knives when he entered the city. The snow in the sky began to burn, burning a piece of blue sky. He wrote a word in the blue sky.
Ye Su was now an ordinary person and did not walk in the cultivation world. He did not know many things. But the Sword Garret had already informed him that the Abbey Dean had entered Chang 'an.
"Since you can write that word, you are invincible in the city. Even the Headmaster was defeated by your knife. But if you come out of the city, you will die if the Headmaster looks at you."
Ning Que admitted it and said, "I want to know how to be equally powerful outside of Chang 'an."
Ye Su said, "You are the first Divine Talisman Master to write that word. Yan Se did not do it, nor did countless predecessors. So no one can teach you, not even me."
Ning Que asked, "How to gather more people's wills?"
Ye Su said, "The most common method or expression is naturally the word 'faith'."
Ning Que said, "I think so too. But I don't want to follow the old path of Haotian Taoism."
Ye Su said, "So you took a great risk to leave Chang 'an and travel in the human world. You are still following the old path that I took when I wanted to see through life and death."
Ning Que did not quite understand what he meant.
"That day, your Senior Brother sat by the pond and read a book. He did not look at my sword at all. Then I realized that to see through it, I still needed to look. The word 'look' was inferior. Later, I meditated in a small Taoist temple and saw the broken eaves. Then I understood the principle of breaking and building again. Finally, I understood that the cycle of life and death is natural. "
Ye Su recalled the sword on the Snow-capped Peak in the Wilderness and the scholar by the pond. He looked at him and said with a smile, "So I could take Jun Mo's sword in front of the Verdant Canyon."
Ning Que asked, "What does this have to do with my current confusion?"
Ye Su said, "You are writing words that no one has ever written before. You are walking on a path that no one has ever walked before. I said that no one can teach you. All I can do is to show you the process of my cultivation comprehension. I will crush it for you to touch. It is not up to me to decide what you can comprehend from it."
After a moment of silence, Ning Que said, "Please continue."
Ye Su said, "Back then, when I traveled to different countries to see through the trial of life and death, I was still a bystander. But now, I've become a disabled man and returned to the human world. I've come to the shabby streets of Linkang City, and I've become a participant."
Ning Que recalled how he looked at the streets and alleys on the city wall of Chang 'an and how he looked at the numb passengers in the cabin on the Great Marsh passenger ship. Only then did he realize that he was still a bystander.
Ye Su looked at him and continued, "You don't want to follow the old path of Haotian Taoism because you instinctively hate the existence of religion. However, you have forgotten that religion is indeed a belief, but not all beliefs are religions, at least not all religions like Haotian Taoism."
Ning Que thought for a moment and said, "I agree with this statement."
"You should be very clear that except for those powerhouses with Divine Skill in Haotian Taoism, the higher the state the cultivator is, the harder it is to keep his mind clear. In other words, the more powerful the person is, the harder it is to have faith. Faith is not above the vault of heaven, but in the humble dust. To put it simply, faith is the most unshakable thought and desire of ordinary people. If you want to use faith to gather people's will, you need to first figure out what they want. "
Ye Su said, "Now that my Snow Mountain and Ocean of Qi have been destroyed, I have become a real ordinary person. I don't have the ability to think about the profound truth, but I have the opportunity to live an ordinary life and understand the thoughts of ordinary people. For example, the belief of the children in this street is just to eat."
Ning Que thought of the scenes he had seen and nodded.
Ye Su looked at him and asked, "You haven't eaten yet, right?"
Ning Que saw him eat a big bowl of green vegetables and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't eat."
Ye Su said, "See, this is where you are different from ordinary people."
Ning Que understood what he meant and asked, "Do you have noodles at home?"
The dilapidated house was really bare. Although there was an old pot and stove, it was extremely difficult to find rice and noodles. Fortunately, Ye Su was now very respected in the street, so someone brought a bowl of plain noodles to him after a while.
Ning Que finished the soup and noodles and put the bowl and chopsticks on the windowsill. Suddenly, he thought of something and asked, "Since you want to live an ordinary life, why do you need those children to send you food?"
Ye Su's answer was very simple and very convincing, "I can't cook."
Ning Que couldn't refute this explanation, so he asked again, "Previously at the entrance of the alley in front, I saw those women wash clothes without using soap powder. I think they are poor, so why don't they even use the washing machine?"
Ye Su's explanation was still very convincing, "The washing machine can indeed wash clothes more cleanly, but the clothes in their homes are not made of good cloth, so they may be damaged after a few times of washing."
Ning Que said, "The people here really live a hard life. Do you have to live in such a difficult environment to experience the feelings you want to experience? Isn't it a little too self-torture? "
"I have just started to understand and learn in this aspect, so I can't give you a direct answer or a clear direction. I can only tell you some of my vague judgments for your reference."
Ye Su said, "We have said before that faith can be used to gather the will of the people. In fact, there is no problem with this saying in reverse. The strongest and most unified will of human beings will inevitably become faith, so we actually only need to know what people want the most."
"Human beings are very good at hiding their true feelings, because exposing them is sometimes like taking off armor, which means danger. In an ordinary day, in a warm and comfortable environment, it is difficult to find out their true desires and thoughts. If you ask them what they want, it is difficult to get an answer. Only in the desperate period of life, in the extreme background, those answers will jump out by themselves and appear extremely clear. No matter if they are numb or philistine before, their behavior is always so honest. "
Ning Que thought of the bravery of the people in Chang 'an on that snowy day and fell into deep thought.
Ye Su continued, "What you said before is wrong. It is not that we have to be in a difficult environment to understand these things, but that difficulty is the normal state of the human world. I didn't go to Chang 'an, but came to Linkang, because the Tangs live too freely and beautifully, which is not a treatment that everyone can enjoy. "
"In Linkang, I've seen the most extravagant nobles, the poorest citizens, the most arrogant priests, and the most miserable slaves. Wealth and poverty seem to be inborn and cannot be changed. This makes me start to think about a question. Why can't these things be changed? "
The twilight spilled into the house through the hole in the roof, as if plated a layer of warm red luster on Ye Su. It did not feel sacred, but it was so intimate.
He looked at Ning Que quietly and said, "In the doctrine of Haotian, everyone is guilty and needs to repent, so that they can be saved by Haotian and enter the Divine Kingdom of Light after death. But in the long decades of life before entering the Divine Kingdom, do believers have to bear the hopeless torture of poverty? "
"I have never been to the Divine Kingdom of Haotian, so I don't know if it is as beautiful as described in the scriptures. But I know that the human world under the Divine Kingdom is not beautiful. Then, if Haotian's compassionate gaze does not fall on the human world, or if it is testing the human world, what should Haotian believers do? Should they kowtow to the West-Hill Divine Palace and wait for the final salvation, as they have done for countless years in the past? Everyone is guilty, but what is the sin of believers? Greed for material things? Desire for wealth? Longing for freedom? Unable to obtain peace because of these things? "
"These are all desires that human beings can hardly get rid of. If these are all sins, then they are the original sins that cannot be completely erased. For these sins, the Buddhism Sect requires meditation and takes the path of restraining desires. Taoism, on the other hand, is based on believers' belief in Haotian, and requires believers to turn these desires into offerings. The bridge between them is faith. Only the Academy has never restrained these sins. "
Ye Su said, "These are all reasonable, but they all have shortcomings. The Buddhism Sect does not look at the present world and only places their hope in the next world. The Taoism Sect does not look at the reality and only places their hope in the Divine Kingdom. The Academy sets the law of the Tang Empire, but it still plays the role of a leader. It requires too much of one's own accomplishment. These days, I have been thinking whether there is any other way to make the human world full of original sins better. "
Ning Que looked at him and asked, "What is it?"
Ye Su said, "Haotian will save us at the end of our lives, but who will save us at the stage of life extension? We must save ourselves. "
Ning Que was silent for a long time and said, "So you teach those children."
Ye Su said, "This is just the beginning."
Ning Que looked at his eyes and said, "According to the doctrine, only Haotian is qualified to save the world. Your current thoughts and actions are already considered blasphemy by Haotian."
Ye Su said, "Haotian loves the world. How can he not allow the world to save itself?"
Ning Que looked at him in the twilight and did not know what to say.
As time went by, if this person really succeeded in preaching, perhaps this street full of sewage and garbage would become a holy land of Haotian Taoism in the future, because he would become a sage.
Of course, it was more likely that this former World Wayfarer of Haotian Taoism would be tied to a wooden frame by the priests in red and then burned into a charred corpse.
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(Yesterday, I said that I would save the manuscript, but I only wrote a few hundred words. This chapter is too difficult to write. My original idea was to create something like a New Religion, but I found that I am not capable enough. No matter how much I read about religious history, it is useless. Without that ability, I will not do it. In the future, I will only write pictures and not these things that I cannot understand. Then I am going to go out. I can only try to write as many updates as possible until the 12th. When I come back, I will work hard to write to satisfy everyone.) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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