Volume Two Chapter Eight (Part 2) What is life
"A long time ago, there was a ferocious wolf living in a forest. One day, it fell into a hunter's trap and was caught by an iron clip. At this time, a goat passed by the iron clip to save the wolf. Since then, the wolf and the sheep have become best friends and play together inseparable."
"Aren't mother-in-law, wolf and sheep natural enemies?"
"The nature of a wolf is to eat sheep. They should be natural enemies, but by chance they became friends. The wolf told the sheep that you saved my life. From now on, I will protect you. So no animal dares to attack this sheep. Everyone knows the power of the wolf. Soon after, there was a unique drought. There was no rain in the forest for two consecutive years. The animals withered plants kept starving to death. There were corpses everywhere. The wolf and the sheep were almost starving to death."
I was attracted by the story and asked, "What happened later?"
The old woman continued, "At this time, the wolf and the sheep quarreled over a trivial matter. The wolf waved his claws and killed the sheep. Before the sheep died, the wolf regretted and cried and asked the sheep to forgive him. She said that eating the sheep is natural and destined to be the fate of God. Looking at the sheep's corpse, the wolf did something." After saying that, she stopped and said, "This is the story."
I shouted, "You haven't said what the wolf did in the end."
She looked at me with bright eyes: "What would you do if you were this wolf? There are two answers you can only choose one. The first one is hungry wolf and the second one kills suicide with regret."
I was stunned and the old woman said slowly: "There is no fixed ending in this story, only choices. Tell me which one do you choose?"
I thought for a while and said, "I will choose the first answer because I want to live."
The old woman smiled and said, "You are not hypocritical. But if it were me, I would choose the second answer."
"Why?"
"To dominate my own destiny!" She shouted in shock, with a terrifying look on her head. Her white eyes flashed with strange light. At this moment, the one in front of me seemed to be no longer a declining old man but a heroic god.
I had a sudden inspiration: "Mother-in-law, I understand! If a wolf eats sheep, it is God's destiny; then the wolf chooses to commit suicide to fight fate!"
The old woman laughed happily: "The good boy has some spiritual roots! I'll ask you again if this wolf killed the sheep is destined?"
I pondered for a moment and shook my head: "No. The forest drought wolf is about to starve to death. Deep in its heart, I'm afraid I've wanted to eat this sheep."
The old woman patted my shoulder suddenly: "Okay! You finally understand that what is destined is not fate but heart! What people want to fight against is not fate but our own heart! It is us who decide our own destiny!"
I suddenly said, "A person's biggest enemy is himself, right?"
The old woman smiled slightly: "It's good to say, stay, be bad, and emptiness are the fate of all living beings in the north. The only thing that can see through fate is your own heart, not the map of the free heaven."
"Success", "Sustain", "Bad", "Empty" I have heard three beauties say many times but I don't quite understand what it means. So I asked: "Mother-in-law is successful, live, and bad, what is empty?"
The old woman said: "When the ninth level of the northern realm is formed, it is accomplished; people and demons are born in this land, reproduction is to live; humans and demons fight and kill each other is to be bad; in the end, all living beings cannot escape and die, and the northern realm returns to nothingness. This is emptiness. Formation, residence, destruction, emptiness is the law of human affairs, that is, destiny."
I suddenly said, "As the story tells, the constant death of dry animals in the forest is called broken."
The old woman nodded and stared at the pattern on the ground: "Although a person's fate is ultimately determined by himself, how to decide is a difficult and profound knowledge that requires careful calculation. I have been studying hard in the belly of the dragon whale for more than ten years but still made little progress."
I said in confusion: "It is also a knowledge to decide your own destiny?"
The old woman said "um" and suddenly a hint of pain appeared on her face. Her palms pressed her whole body and floated up and flew backwards. In front of a huge blood cell that was beating, she stopped and lifted her robe and pressed her legs tightly against the blood cell. I was shocked to see that her legs were covered with dark green liquid, sticky and a piece of liquid seemed to be still squirming upwards and trying to climb up the whole body.
"This big blood cell is the heart of the dragon whale." The old woman said calmly: "More than ten years ago, I was cursed and could only survive by relying on the blood of the dragon whale's heart. This is life. I am destined to live in the dragon whale's belly but I have to live forever."
I was suddenly shocked. The dragon whale's heart was like a peach, constantly expanding, with thick and long blue veins on the contraction surface secreting bright red blood and dripping on the old woman's legs. Soon the dark green liquid stopped crawling and then a while later the liquid slowly retreated down until her ankle was still. She put down her clothes and smiled sarcastically: "I'm used to it when I do the poisonous curse twice a day."
I said angrily: "Who is my mother-in-law so vicious and you are so cruel?"
The old woman smiled miserably: "It's my husband."
I was stunned and the old woman said indifferently: "My husband was chosen by myself, so my fate was also caused by myself. I am a little tired and you come and talk to me tomorrow. You can take the secrets here and read it."
I said with concern: "Mother-in-law, are you okay? If you need anything, just tell me to do it."
The old woman's eyes flashed: "Boy, will I just give you a few secret books to make you grateful?"
I sighed softly: "A pauper gives him a ingot of silver, which is equivalent to a world. If you have too little, you will cherish it even more. Mother-in-law, you can rest well. I will come to see you tomorrow." I bent down and gave a gift, I turned around and left.
The old woman's crazy laughter came from behind: "It's because having too many is like abandoning her shoes! It's my fault, it's my own fault!"
The old lady in my heart also had a sad past. Back in the mushroom forest, I sat down and looked through the two secret books in my hand.
The first thing I watched is "Mirror Pupil Secret Taoism" which is a secret Taoism that cultivates the eyes. If you don't look at it, you will be shocked and shocked. Simply put, the secret Taoism of Mirror Pupil is to cultivate both eyes like a mirror that can see through any illusion, a bit like Gan Ning's real Lianxinyan. But what is even more awesome than Lianxinyan is that it can send the opponent's attack moves back intact and counterattack like a mirror that can reflect light. However, it also has its shortcomings. If the enemy attacks from behind and sideways, it will not work.
On the last page of the secret book, there is a line of red pen instructions with a graceful and elegant handwriting like white clouds coming out of the mountains: "If you can practice with the "Miscellaneous Eyes Demonic Book" it will be more powerful."
This line of instructions was probably written by my mother-in-law. I finished the "Secret Taoist Art of Illusion" and picked up the "Strange Swords of Ksitigarbha Demons". A red pen letter appeared on the page, saying: "Stand tolerate as if it is the earth." After reading it, I realized that the page's instructions have covered the essence of the entire secret book. The core of the "Stand tolerant" is the word "Stand tolerant". It uses the earth in the five elements as the basis to connect the body and the earth into one. No matter how the opponent attacks, it will be transferred to the vast and boundless earth.
I focused on the secret book and completely forgot to rest. I don’t know how long it took when I stood up and wanted to pee. I suddenly saw a little white light flashing across the face.
"Damn you are here again!" I screamed and rushed towards the white light. It flew backwards again. I chased and kept close to the heart of the dragon whale. It suddenly dodged behind the old woman.
Chapter completed!