Chapter 238: A hundred years of cultivation is not as good as becoming a demon in a single thought! "Mr. Murong, you are indeed a great man, but you are too arrogant." The Sweeping Monk said quietly, "You think you are omnipotent, but you don't know that human power is limited. There are many things in the world that you can't do anything about. It is best to maintain the status quo. Once you change it, it is very likely that you will be doomed."Murong Fu said: "No need to say more, old monk, you can't shake my determination." "Ah" the sweeping monk's face became more bitter and he sighed deeply. He knew that a hero like Murong Fu could not be convinced by just a few words. Although he had mastered the highest telepathy in Buddhism, Murong Fu had also mastered the Tibetan Buddhism's highest yoga tantra. Between the two of them, Murong Fu was slightly better in spiritual cultivation. He wanted to rely on his spiritual realm to influence Murong Fu like he influenced Xiao Yuanshan, but that was absolutely impossible. It seems that physical persuasion is the only option. However, before that, the Sweeping Monk has one more thing to say. If Murong Fu was not the leader of the Xiaoyao Sect, and if the Child-Fairy of Tianshan was not an old friend of his, he would not have been able to explain this matter. Thinking of this, the Sweeping Monk looked into the distance and saw the figure of the Tianshan Child-Fairy approaching from afar. After many instructions from Murong Fu, the Child-Girl of Tianshan realized the mystery of Tai Chi Yin and Yang. Murong Fu also improved her Changchun Kung Fu, which became perfect. Therefore, the Child-Girl has entered the realm of a grandmaster.
She was already the strongest among the best, so it was not surprising that she had now entered the Grandmaster realm. But the Grandmaster level is not necessarily much stronger than the top level. This is also the limitation of martial arts. Even if the levels are divided, it is difficult to have a qualitative change between one level and another. However, Tong Lao also comprehended some of the true meaning of Xiaoyao, and her lightness skills were naturally second only to Murong Fu and the Sweeping Monk. She was the first to arrive among the many masters. At this moment, Tong Lao landed on the ground, looked at the sweeping monk, and asked: "Who are you? Are you from Changchun Valley?" The sweeping monk said, "Xingyun, we haven't seen each other for ninety years. You haven't changed at all, but I have aged terribly. You may still remember me. I am Wu Chen, the one who sent you and Xiaoyaozi out of the valley." "What? You are Uncle Wu Chen? Then you are 116 years old?" Tong Lao was shocked. "But how did you age so much? And how did you get out of the valley?" After hearing this, Tong Lao explained to Murong Fu: "Wu Chen is the son of the leader of my tribe. He is twenty years older than me. When I left the valley, he was twenty-six years old and still a young and beautiful boy." "After all, if the people of my clan do not leave Changchun Valley, even if they live to be over 200 years old, they will still be young boys or girls. If they leave Changchun Valley, they will age rapidly in just a few days, no matter how old they are." "It's because our people have been drinking the Changchun Spring for generations. The Changchun Spring can make people live forever and stay young, but they can't leave the Changchun Valley. Only after learning the Changchun Gong can they leave. But before Master Xiaoyaozi entered the valley, no one in our tribe could understand the Changchun Gong, and they didn't even know it was called Changchun Gong." Murong Fu said: "It seems that this world is indeed the end of martial arts. The era when martial arts were once glorious may not even be an era of martial arts. A great master created the Changchun Valley, which has become a holy place for your clan, but also a prison for your clan." After that, Murong Fu looked at the sweeping monk and asked, "Wu Chen, why did you leave Changchun Valley and do these outrageous things in Shaolin Temple?" "It's all Xiaoyaozi's fault!" sighed the Sweeping Monk. Tong Lao asked: "What does this have to do with Master?" The sweeping monk said, "Back then, everything was peaceful in Changchun Valley. Although the people in the clan were troubled because they could not see the outside world, they had lived like this for generations, so they could feel at peace." "After all, in Changchun Valley, people have no worries about food and clothing, the chickens and dogs can hear each other, and people do not age. A 200-year-old man can still be very agile. It is more like a paradise for humanity than the utopia described by Tao Yuanming." Tong Lao also said sadly: "It is indeed a paradise, but I don't like it there. The world is endless, and I don't want to live in a corner." "I don't want to either!" Wu Chen said, "My feelings are the same as yours. Especially after Xiaoyaozi came, he was the first outsider to enter Changchun Valley. I don't know how many people in my tribe were disturbed. And you, Xingyun, were the first to take action. He accepted you as his disciple and took you out of the valley. He also took away the Changchun Gong." "After you left, I don't know how many tribesmen were upset. Two more centenarians left the valley, but unfortunately, they were still the same as before. They were young and old, and died of old age outside. Although I yearn to go outside and see what Xiaoyaozi said about the world, I don't want to die, so I have never left the valley." Tong Lao asked, "Then why did you leave the valley again? Did you learn the Changchun Kung Fu? If you did learn the Changchun Kung Fu, did your master return to Changchun Valley later?"
"You are indeed smart." The sweeping monk said, "Fifty-nine years ago, Xiaoyaozi returned to Changchun Valley, and I was responsible for serving him. He told me that he had reached the pinnacle of this world, which is the Taixuan realm." "He originally thought that there was immortality in this world, but in fact there is not. The maximum lifespan of a human is 250 years. No matter how powerful your martial arts skills are, or how blessed you are, you cannot live past this hurdle of 250 years." Tong Lao suddenly realized, "The average lifespan of people in my clan is no more than 150 years. The longest-lived person in history is indeed 250 years old. Master's calculation should be correct." The sweeping monk continued, "In those years, Xiaoyaozi followed Lü Zu's footsteps and found Li Bai's "Xia Ke Xing" painted by Lü Zu on the South China Sea Island. The most profound part of the poem is the last sentence, 'Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing', which is written in a strange language, but was deciphered by Xiaoyaozi." "After cracking it, his martial arts have truly reached the pinnacle of the mortal world. All his martial arts, whether it is palm techniques, sword techniques, knife techniques, stick techniques, hidden weapons, or finger techniques, are integrated into one. There is no difference in martial arts. He just does what he wants. Every move he makes is the most mysterious martial arts in the world." "You can even be extremely free. If the enemy doesn't move, I won't move. If the enemy moves, I will move first. This way, you will naturally defeat the enemy. You don't need to think with your brain. Once you are attacked, your body will naturally counterattack with exquisite martial arts." When the Sweeping Monk said this, Jiumozhi arrived here first. He was stunned to hear that there were such martial arts and such a realm in the world. After that, Xiao Feng, Zen Master Lingxiu and Xiao Yuanshan came one after another. Seeing that the Sweeping Monk was talking about something and Murong Fu and Tianshan Tonglao were listening quietly, they did not want to disturb them. "The Taixuan Realm you mentioned is the one transformed from this 'White-shou Taixuan Sutra'?" Murong Fu asked. "Yes, Xiaoyaozi said that the Taixuan Sutra is the pinnacle of contemporary martial arts, and nothing can be higher than this level. However, even at this level, there is still no immortality." The sweeping monk said, "So Xiaoyaozi returned to Changchun Valley and tried to find a way to break through. As he gradually entered the mysterious realm, the inspiration for the "Zhelong Sleeping Pill Technique" he created in his early years came to him." "In the past, he would only sleep for a hundred days. During these hundred days of sleep, he was actually practicing. The internal energy he accumulated was far beyond what an ordinary person could accumulate even after a thousand days. Moreover, he was full of energy, which could prolong his life." "But after he reached the realm of Taixuan, he had the magical power of Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly in his dream. He dreamed of people and things in some strange worlds. In some worlds, there were people who could fly into the sky and hide in the ground, and in some worlds, there were people who were immortal." Jiumozhi said: "One flower is one world, one leaf is one Tathagata. In spring, flowers bloom and in autumn, leaves fall. The infinite Prajna mind is free, and the body is natural in speech, silence, movement and stillness. My Buddha has long realized that hundreds of billions of Mount Sumerus and hundreds of billions of suns and moons are called the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. The three thousand great thousand worlds of the ten directions of the Ganges River are called the One Buddha World. There is no other Buddha in it. It is actually one Sakyamuni Buddha. This universe originally has countless worlds. Senior Xiaoyaozi can realize this, and he has the cultivation of Sakyamuni Buddha!" Jiumozhi knew that Xiaoyaozi was the ancestor of Murong Fu, the leader of the Xiaoyao Sect, so he naturally praised Xiaoyaozi highly, and invisibly, he also helped Murong Fu. "Shakyamuni is probably Taixuan, I think." The Sweeping Monk said, "After Xiaoyaozi dreamed of those worlds, he realized that he couldn't achieve immortality because our world was not big enough to bear it." "He told me that when he was out at sea, he saw a ten-zhang-long blue Kun. It was the largest creature he had ever seen. The Kun's cry sounded like it came from ancient times, empty and lonely. Only the boundless ocean can give birth to a Kun. Our world is like a pond, and immortality is like a Kun. A pond is not even ten zhang long, let alone one that can accommodate a ten-zhang Kun." Murong Fu smiled and said, "Indeed, the courtyard is square and surrounded by high walls. There are pebbles in the clear water, and a small fish pond in the center. If you only drink water from the well, you will never be able to raise fish. Li Si of the Qin Dynasty also said that the rats in the toilet are thin and small, while the rats in the granary are big and fat. In fact, there is no difference between the rats themselves, but the environment they live in is different. People can adapt to the environment, but it is difficult to surpass the environment." Xiao Yuanshan and the others were puzzled by what they heard. They thought, weren't they supposed to catch up and kill the big devil, the Sweeping Monk? How did it become a discussion about immortality? But since Murong Fu didn't say anything, they could only listen patiently. After all, only Murong Fu had the power to fight against the Sweeping Monk, and they were far inferior to him. "Yes, Xiaoyaozi believes that in order to reach a higher realm, one must break through the void and go from this shore to the other shore. Taoists call it ascension, and Buddhists call it transcendence." The sweeping monk said, "Xiaoyaozi was surprised to find that Changchun Valley is the most special place in the world. This place may have been a paradise for immortals, so the difficulty of breaking through the void in Changchun Valley is the lowest. Unfortunately, even so, the power of Taixuan Realm is still not enough to cross the boundless sea of suffering and reach the other shore of transcendence." Xiao Feng and the others could no longer understand and felt that the Sweeping Monk was talking about something very mysterious. Jiumozhi and Tianshan Tonglao seemed to be thinking about something, and only Murong Fu was greatly inspired, after all, he had already reached this point. "Did Teacher Xiaoyaozi do something?" Tong Lao had a bad feeling. "He believed that the unity of Buddhism and Taoism might give him a stronger power and shatter the void. This was the first method, but it was too difficult. He was unable to do it and had no confidence," said the sweeping monk. "In addition, he could fight with a master of the Taixuan realm, and between life and death, comprehend the supreme truth and shatter the void. Unfortunately, there were no such masters at the time. Although he accepted three disciples, he did not think that his three disciples could reach this realm." Tong Lao was somewhat embarrassed, but when she thought about Wuyazi's poor performance, she straightened her chest again. "Master Xiaoyaozi should have used a third method." Murong Fu said, "What is the third method?" The sweeping monk said word by word: "A hundred years of practicing Taoism is not as good as becoming a demon in one thought!" Murong Fu and Tong Lao were both surprised. "One thought turns him into a demon?" Murong Fu asked, "He chose to become a demon?" Becoming a demon is not something incredible. Being possessed by a demon is actually a state. For example, after Ouyang Feng practiced the Nine Yin Scriptures in reverse, he became possessed by a demon. However, Ouyang Feng had a strong foundation. After being possessed by a demon, he was just unconscious, but his martial arts reached the top in the world and he won the championship of the Huashan Sword Contest. Another example is Zhang Wuji. When he was fighting against the three Shaolin masters, he used the Holy Fire Token martial arts, which became more and more powerful the more he used it. However, Zhang Wuji's will was not strong enough, and he was influenced by Huo Shan, who was not as advanced as him. He fell into a demonic state and was restrained by the three Shaolin masters' Vajra Demon Subduing Circle. He was able to wake up only after Xie Xun recited the Diamond Sutra.
These are all cases of possession. But whether it is Ouyang Feng or Zhang Wuji, the difference in martial arts between them and Xiaoyaozi is huge. Once Xiaoyaozi is possessed by the devil, the inner demon will not only be unable to harm Xiaoyaozi, but may instead allow Xiaoyaozi to transform the outer demon into supernatural powers and greatly increase his strength. "Yes, Xiaoyaozi was too impatient, and he became possessed! He thought he could control himself, and after being possessed, he would break through the void and leave. But after he became possessed, it was true that his strength increased dramatically, but he did not break through the void, so he became furious, and his mind gradually became insane, and he began to kill. One third of the tribesmen in Changchun Valley were killed by him!" said the sweeping monk. "What?!" Tong Lao was horrified. Murong Fu was also speechless. No one had expected that the founder of the Xiaoyao Sect, Xiaoyaozi, a true immortal on earth, would become a demon before becoming an immortal and commit such a heinous crime. The sweeping monk sighed and said, "My father and I worked together to use a formation to lead him to the spring of Changchun Spring, which made him temporarily sober. The spring of Changchun Spring can make people's mind clear. Unfortunately, Xiaoyaozi was too strong, and my father and others all died. Only I survived by chance." "When Xiaoyaozi came into contact with the Changchun Spring, he regained consciousness temporarily. He regretted what he had done and passed on the improved Changchun Gong to me, asking me to go out of the valley and find a way to either combine Buddhism and Taoism to help him escape, or cultivate to become a master of the Taixuan realm to help him escape." "While he was awake, he set up a formation and trapped himself in the Changchun Spring. He could only be awake for less than an hour a day, and the rest of the time, he was in the devil's way again. And drinking the Changchun Spring water every day was enough to keep him from dying." "He originally wanted to commit suicide, but once he did that, his evil nature suddenly revived and he became crazy again. He had no choice but to let others destroy him." "I was eager to solve this problem, so I left the valley in a hurry. However, I had just started to learn Changchun Gong at that time, and my martial arts were not perfect. Instead, I quickly aged to seventy years old. I traveled around the world, improved my martial arts, saw the fireworks of the world, and fell in love with this peaceful world. This is why I don't want the war to start. Master Murong, Xiaoyaozi is your ancestor. You have a responsibility to him, and you also have a responsibility to the world. You should shoulder your responsibility!" Murong Fu said calmly, "I am just shouldering my responsibilities. My magical powers are better than yours. I have mastered destiny. According to my observation, if I do nothing, the Song Dynasty will be destroyed by the Jurchens in 30 years. By then, the north will fall. Zhao Ji, the King of Song whom I have appointed, and his son were all taken to the north by the Jurchens. This is the shame of Jingkang, a shame for the country, the nation, and the world! Although Zhao Ji's son could establish the Southern Song Dynasty in Hangzhou, he did not make progress and treated Hangzhou as Bianzhou." "In order to avoid the Jingkang humiliation that would affect the fate of the Han people, I destroyed the Song Dynasty in advance and used my supreme power to suppress this catastrophe! Since ancient times, good and evil cannot coexist. If I don't go to hell, who will? For the sake of the country and the nation, I have no choice but to sacrifice my life and dare to pull down the emperor. I will become the emperor myself and save the people!" Murong Fu had a righteous look on his face, and every word he said came from the heart, without a single lie. He did want to prevent the Song Dynasty from suffering the humiliation of Jingkang, so he destroyed the Song Dynasty in advance and nipped the problem in the bud. What a great benevolence and righteousness he showed. Unfortunately, no one believed it in the end. The Sweeping Monk just felt that Murong Fu was really shameless. It was a pity that he didn't become an emperor because he was so thick-skinned. Tong Lao even rolled her eyes cutely. "You have such difficulties, but it is not a reason for you to tamper with my Shaolin martial arts. You tamper with my Shaolin martial arts, is it for the unity of Buddhism and Taoism?" Zen Master Lingxiu asked loudly. At this moment, Li Qinglu and others arrived one after another. They did not hear what happened before, but only saw Zen Master Lingxiu loudly questioning the Sweeping Monk. (End of this chapter)