Chapter 397 Return
Why do many great sects know the answers to many questions, but want their disciples to find the answers themselves, and even in the process of finding the answers, many geniuses will die young?
It is because, on some things, the answers you think out yourself are different from the answers you hear from others.
When you listen to others, you understand at the time, but that is always someone else's understanding.
Always.
"Fool, do you know that listening to me today has helped you break the siege of the demons. In the future, your path to the third rank will be a thousand times, ten thousand times more difficult."
"Li Qi understands, but... I can't let go of something." Demonic Li Qi knelt in front of the Buddha, clasped his hands together, and said calmly.
Of course, he knew what the consequences would be.
Information itself is polluting. People can only think based on their own cognitive level. This cognition is the sum of all experiences from birth to now. People cannot understand things beyond their own cognition.
If you have to explain, it's probably... if you understand, you understand, and if you don't understand, you can't explain it clearly.
Forcing an explanation and getting a half-understanding will easily cause a knowledge barrier.
What is the knowledge barrier?
You should know that once a person's knowledge reaches a certain height and breadth, it takes a lot of effort to re-recognize even his previous knowledge in a new way, or even impossible to do it.
This situation of being bound by one's own knowledge is called the knowledge barrier.
How strong you are and how broad your knowledge is, how strong and broad the knowledge barrier is.
Countless powerful people are bound by it, and in desperation, they choose to open up the Taoism and cultivate the younger generation, so that these young people without knowledge barriers can travel light and break through the barriers that their predecessors could not break through.
"Things that can't be let go... Yes, your lover, friends, everything you once had, you think it's yours, but those have never belonged to you." Amitabha said so.
Hearing this, the demon Li Qi let out a deep breath.
Yes, Amitabha said in one word what the demon Li Qi could never let go of.
Whether it was Shen Shuibi, Zhu Fengdan, or even Uncle Six, Pai Bo Gang, Boyue, Liu Canzhi, etc., they were all clearly presented in his memory.
He clearly remembered his past with them, their expressions when communicating, and their deep emotions.
But... those never belonged to "him".
He was born less than ten days ago, and what he thought he had experienced never belonged to him.
In the eyes of his true "self", he just experienced an illusion. He was another person, another "cause", and also the result of other "cause".
The relationship between him and Li Qi was that they had no relationship. The two just had a "fate". They were two different causes intertwined together. They were both unique, not copies of each other.
From the perspective of time and causality, the demonic Li Qi... had never even seen Shen Shuibi.
But, I was unwilling...
How could those memories be false?
The Buddha told him to let go, let go of everything, and escape into the Buddhist world.
But... I couldn't let go.
How could it be so simple? Just let go? Ask the 'real Li Qi' and see if he can let it go?
What the 'real Li Qi' feels, the demonic Li Qi feels at this moment.
Under his calm appearance, there is indescribable pain.
Such pain drives him to get rid of the threat of the demon as soon as possible, even if his path is bound by the obstacles of knowledge and views, and he may even end up on a dead end in the future, and then do his own thing.
"Foolish child, the next step is that you want to leave here and fulfill your obsession in the secular world, right?" Amitabha said to the demonic Li Qi.
"I dare not deceive the Buddha, the boy does have this intention." Demonic Li Qi folded his hands and replied respectfully.
"That's good, you are just a baby who accidentally has memories, born less than ten days ago, and has never entered the world of mortals, so how can you leave the world of mortals? Go and try, go and talk to the real 'Li Qi', and do what you want to do." Amitabha said kindly.
Buddha will not force anyone to do anything, everything is up to the heart, and the Buddha nature is at ease.
Tathagata has a great cause, which is called "awakening the world", so that all beings in the world can become Buddhas and become enlightened.
As a firm supporter of Tathagata's great cause, Amitabha has always believed that all living beings need to experience everything they should experience, so that they can truly awaken.
The devil Li Qi, of course, is the same.
"Thank you, Buddha, then... I'll set off. I just troubled Buddha to shave my hair in vain." Li Qi said apologetically.
As he said that, he stood up, and his original bald head grew a thick black hair again.
For the seventh rank, it is common to regenerate broken limbs, and it is natural to grow hair.
"If you can't keep the hair in your heart, what's the use of cutting off the hair on your head? Go, cut off the worldly thoughts of the world, and cut off the cause and effect of all living beings, so that you can 'get out of the sea of suffering.'" Amitabha made a Buddhist sound with a buzzing sound.
The devil Li Qi saluted again.
He was going to set off.
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Chang'an, Shangyuan.
Yuzao watched Li Qi leave.
Everything has been negotiated, and the two parties have reached a cooperation intention.
Li Qi successfully sold the first batch of witchcraft silkworms, and it was directly the seventh-grade assembly line. The price was very good, not too high or too low, and within the acceptable range of both parties.
The Miscellaneous Family has two seventh-grade worlds, one of which has a unique specialty, named "Song-teller", which is a special individual of the local world race, with a probability of appearance, and the average appearance period is about one in two hundred years.
Song-teller has an excellent talent for music and can hear sounds of almost all bands by nature. This special individual is the "specialty" of this world.
Specialties do not necessarily have to be materials, skills, local special social forms, or even the natives themselves, can be called specialties.
The Holy Flame of the Holy Flame Realm is also a physical product of the natives.
There is no way.
Chang'an will not give those worlds "fairness". Under the prosperity of humanity, it is very cruel.
After leaving Yuzao, Li Qi returned to the literary gathering.
However, he had not arrived yet. Just halfway through, Li Qi saw the sense of oppression emanating from it.
"Huh? Fighting?" He raised his head and found something wrong inside.
At this moment, he saw Liu Canzhi running out from inside and rushing directly towards Li Qi.
Judging from the appearance, he must have been looking for Li Qi, and now he found him, so he didn't even hesitate and ran towards him directly.
After all, he was also an eighth-grade, and under the acceleration, he arrived in front of Li Qi in almost an instant.
"Li Qi! Where have you been! Why didn't you see your figure nearby just now? Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's go in quickly, it's almost a mess inside." Liu Canzhi ran over in a hurry and pulled Li Qi to go inside.
"Wait, don't rush to pull me in, what happened inside?" Li Qi pulled Liu Canzhi and didn't let him pull.
But I didn't dare to go in casually, I had to test the truth first.
When Li Qi asked this, Liu Canzhi also reacted. It was really useless to rush in like a headless fly.
So he stopped and began to tell Li Qi what happened inside.
"The thing is, after the small test of selecting calligraphers just now-"
Liu Canzhi began to tell, and Li Qi listened carefully.
It turned out that this was the case.
The Lingxiao Flower God did what he said before.
According to the results of the competition, she selected a calligrapher and asked him to copy it alone.
Although only a part of the divine meaning was copied, it still proved the existence of this great article to everyone.
However, this made the Hanlin scholars unhappy.
According to Liu Canzhi's observation and speculation, the reason was probably that they originally thought that the Lingxiao Flower God only accidentally got an authentic copy, and the words in it were at most beneficial to themselves, so they came out to show off, and they were ready to refute the Lingxiao Flower God.
However, when the article came out, everyone present was dumbfounded and speechless.
This turned out to be a "Lingxiao Flower Fu" written specifically for her!
The praise and words in it were far beyond everyone's expectations.
At this time, everyone realized that the Lingxiao Flower God did not want to come back to find a place after getting the treasure, but she really got on the line of Liu Donghe!
So, the scene exploded at that time.
Of course, everyone remained rational and did not make a fuss, but there was only a slight confusion of breath, and the crowd quickly dispersed.
Some of the Hanlin scholars wanted to retreat, while others rushed to Liu Canzhi's side.
Liu Donghe personally expressed his opinion. If he said that Liu Canzhi was not involved, no one would believe it. After all, Liu Canzhi had already appeared at the venue, which was enough to explain many things.
And all this was expected by Liu Canzhi.
Liu Canzhi said to Li Qi: "The Lingxiao Flower God set a trap for me, and I naturally did not want to let her do this, as if she was the only one who would calculate others, so I also set a trap for her."
Liu Canzhi began to explain his actions.
It turned out that Liu Canzhi had intentionally or unintentionally spread the news of the witch silkworm around before the literary meeting began, and when the Lingxiao Flower God danced, he also explained that he wanted to promote the witch silkworm.
These things, linked together, although Liu Canzhi did not say anything out of the ordinary, or even anything worthy of doubt, but it is easy to point to a reasoning result--
Liu Canzhi wanted to instruct the Lingxiao Flower God to promote it, so he asked Liu Donghe for this article.
In fact, this is also the truth.
Liu Canzhi himself would never admit this. If you ask, it's because he is stupid and was accidentally discovered by others.
In this way, the nature of the matter has changed.
The remaining Hanlin sneered twice, then stopped talking and went back to participate in the literary gathering.
The next step of the literary gathering is naturally to write articles. With Liu Donghe's example, everyone has to catch up and write a good article to achieve their goals.
Some want to find a place to become famous, some want to show their faces in front of the flower god, some follow the Hanlin to make connections, some just want to adapt to this kind of occasion, and some come to suppress Lingxiao Flower God, but no matter what, it all comes down to writing articles.
Lingxiao Flower God also mentioned the prize at this time.
She said that the one whose article is most loved by everyone can take Liu Donghe's original work as the prize for this literary gathering.
In this way, everyone is even more motivated, only those fifth-rank Hanlin seem to be considering something.
It was at this time that Liu Canzhi understood why Lingxiao Flower God deliberately destroyed the paper. In addition to making it more valuable and alleviating her suspicion of collusion, she also didn't care about it because she was going to give it away from the beginning.
The benefits of giving it away are also obvious.
There is only one criterion for judging the winner of the literary gathering, and that is the opinion of the Lingxiao Flower God himself.
In other words, if other people who have nothing to do with those Hanlin want to get Liu Donghe's authentic works, they naturally need to be hostile to those Hanlin who are ruining the scene, because their articles are in conflict.
It must be said that the Lingxiao Flower God is indeed scheming.
At this point, Liu Canzhi added: "Things are very stable up to this point, and the accident happened later."
Then he continued to narrate.
After that, the literary gathering began.
Everyone started writing.
However, basically everyone had already written and brought it over, and few wrote on the spot, so the level could not be guaranteed, and it was impossible to consider the words.
After everyone finished writing, they could start the feast.
Lingxiao Flower God personally accompanied them, and many people played drinking games, discussed literary works, talked about Taoism and cultivation, drank fine wine, and ate delicacies. There was a peaceful and lively atmosphere of the literary gathering.
After three rounds of drinking, everyone started to bring out their own articles for everyone to appreciate.
At the beginning, it was fine. They were all clumsy works brought out by young scholars. Although they had some talent, they were immature after all. Everyone made some comments, praised their talents, and occasionally made some minor revisions, and then it was over.
For some particularly powerful young scholars, the trumpet creeper flower god would personally come down to pour wine for them. There was even one who did not write articles, but instead used poems to describe the beauty of trumpet creepers. Because his poems were beautiful and extraordinary, although they were a bit flashy, they were more emotional, and he was even danced on the spot by the trumpet creeper flower god. The atmosphere was jubilant for a while, with climaxes one after another, and everyone was happy.
This is the rhythm and atmosphere of a normal literary gathering.
But unfortunately, today's is not a normal literary gathering.
As time went on, some articles began to criticize and even insult the trumpet creeper flower god.
At first, the trumpet creeper flower god just smiled and it passed quickly. Although the atmosphere was a little cold, she was good at dancing after all, and it heated up again after a while.
But... Another round of drinking games passed, and this time, it was the turn of a fifth-rank scholar from the Hanlin Academy.
The article he wrote began with the title: "Although the snow-capped mountains are white, with overlapping peaks, and cool in summer, there are no lush plants for people to pick."
The meaning is very simple.
Although the snow-capped mountains are white and beautiful, with overlapping peaks, and cool in summer, there are no lush flowers and plants for people to pick, and there is no vitality.
The meaning is already very clear.
But the trumpet creeper flower god still smiled, not taking it as an offense, and continued to read.
Then, it said below that there were many dead trees and flowers in the snow.
Among them, there are two kinds of flowers, snow plum and trumpet creeper. Snow plum blooms in the snow, while trumpet creeper clings to dead branches and dares not to poke its head out.
At this point, Li Qi had already guessed what the article was about.