Chapter 403: Heart Sutra of Freedom

Of course, Xiao Mian did not suffer no loss during this tribulation.

A large number of precious spiritual herbs were swallowed by Xiao Mian like a cow chewing a peony, and the only defensive magic weapon on his body, the patchwork clothes, had also lost its spiritual power.

After taking off the tattered patchwork clothes on his body, Xiao Mian smiled bitterly.

At this time, the patchwork clothes were already full of holes. Even though Xiao Mian had little experience in refining tools, he knew that this patchwork clothes could never be repaired.

In fact, the patchwork clothes could be completely avoided from damage. After all, the five elements of divine thunder were all received by the Five Spirit Swords, and the body-tempering gold thunder and the soul-refining silver thunder would not harm the patchwork clothes.

The reason why the patchwork clothes suffered such a catastrophic disaster was that Xiao Mian was bewitched by the inner demon and rashly broke into the fragments of the chaos thunder. If it weren't for the patchwork clothes' active defense, Xiao Mian would have been hit by the chaos thunder and burned on the outside and tender on the inside...

He took a brand new green shirt and put it on. He was bored and had no mood to practice for the time being. Xiao Mian simply sat next to the little monk and took stock of his assets.

It has been more than half a year since he left Wanzong City on the fifth day of May.

In the past six months, Xiao Mian was first chased by the mountain-piercing dragon carp beast, and then wandered aimlessly in the death sandbar for more than a month, and then accidentally broke into Shanjian City, encountered Baoxian and the little monk, a pair of life and death enemies, and finally passed the catastrophe safely in Shanjian City.

It was not without gain along the way.

After taking out all the storage bags on his body, Xiao Mian began to classify them.

As for the spiritual herbs, Xiao Mian had almost squandered all of the ones he had obtained from Li Mudao. Now, most of the spiritual herbs on Xiao Mian were stolen from the secret vault of the farmer's family. Fortunately, Ding Kaishan turned a blind eye and said nothing.

There were many other precious spiritual herbs obtained from Shanjian City, many of which even Guitou didn't know the origins of. Xiao Mian sealed them in a cold stone box for emergency use.

After a careful count, the most precious things on Xiao Mian were the Udumbara flower, the Yinshen grass with a missing leaf, and more than a hundred Wulou seeds. The Udumbara flower was called one of the three treasures of Buddhism by the little monk; the Yinshen grass was related to Xiao Mian's third round of spiritual refining in the future; the Wulou seeds were even more important and related to Xiao Mian's future practice.

After carefully putting these three flowers and herbs away, Xiao Mian looked down on the remaining spiritual herbs. He took some that might be used in the future and put them in a bag. The rest, Xiao Mian packed in another bag, intending to find an opportunity to dispose of them.

On the talisman, the talisman of the Vajra Sword and Shield had been used up by Xiao Mian in the heavenly tribulation. Anyway, Xiao Mian was now a Jindan strongman, and consumable objects such as talismans were no longer of much significance, so they were used up to avoid waste.

As for the Divine Shadow Wuji Talisman, it was still useful and was carefully placed by Xiao Mian.

As for the magic weapon, Xiao Mian would mainly use the Star Magnetic Sword and the Five Spirit Sword in the future. Of course, if the soft tongue whip obtained from the Mountain-piercing Dragon Carp Beast was completed, it would also be an unexpected magic weapon. As for other small gadgets such as the Divine Machine Crossbow and Thunder Wings, Xiao Mian was already a little disappointed.

However, the practice of the "Five Elements Escape Method" was much more difficult than the Five Elements Divine Light, and it was difficult to achieve anything in a short time.

If there was a chance, we still had to find some top-quality acceleration and defense magic weapons. Take this time of tribulation as an example. If there was no patchwork clothes, the consequences would be disastrous.

Looking at the array again, the Five Mountains Chaozong array had been destroyed by the Chuanshan Dragon Carp Beast, but the Star Magnetic Divine Sword's own celestial star and earth magnetic array was well preserved.

As for the spirit beasts, there were only Qingjing and Xunxiang Rat.

After confirming that there was no danger in Shanjian City, Xiao Mian released the two little guys and let them play and frolic in the huge Shanjian City. Later, in order to overcome the calamity, Xiao Mian was afraid that the calamity thunder would accidentally hurt them, so he summoned them back.

Now after releasing the two little guys again, Xiao Mian was thoughtful.

At the beginning, the Qingqiu Patriarch fed Xunxiang Rat a pill of enlightenment pill and said that Xunxiang Rat had a trace of Xunling Rat's bloodline, and it might be able to advance in the future.

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional.

It was just that Xiao Mian had been shelving the matter because he didn't know how to make the spirit beast advance, and he was entangled with many things afterwards.

Thinking of this, Xiao Mian's eyes fell on Qingjing again.

After seeing Qing Jing imitating the monk's meditation, Xiao Mian almost laughed out loud.

"Donor Xiao! Your spirit beast is quite intelligent!"

"Intelligent? This one? Ha!"

"All living beings go through the six realms of reincarnation. Who knows, it may be able to cultivate into a human in the next life, but who knows, Donor Xiao may end up as an animal in the next life! Who knows..."

"Who knows, it may still be my master in the next life, right?"

"Donor Xiao is indeed very intelligent!"

"Tsk!" Rolling his eyes, Xiao Mian was too lazy to pay attention to the monk. He waved at Qing Jing and said with a wry smile, "You are a monster. Why are you learning to be like him?" "Are you a monk who is meditating and chanting?"

"Amitabha! People are born from human mothers, and demons are born from demon mothers. As long as you are devoted to Buddha, even if you are a demon, you can escape from the sea of ​​suffering and reach the other shore!"

"Little monk! Don't Buddhist monks always talk about killing demons and eliminating evil? Why do you have a different meaning? May I ask: What is a demon? What is a demon?"

Xiao Mian's question is not aimless. If there is anything that is beyond Xiao Mian's expectations in this small heavenly tribulation, it is the invisible heart demon tribulation.

Buddhism has always been known for its magical powers to subdue demons. In addition, the little monk in front of him looks young, but in fact he has awakened his wisdom. Xiao Mian wants to listen to the little monk's high-sounding opinions.

"Master Xiao, what you said is wrong! It is true that we should slay demons and eliminate evil, but we should still treat demons and monsters differently. Demons are innate, while monsters are acquired." Seeing that Xiao Mian was listening carefully, the monk simply turned around and faced Xiao Mian, explaining concisely: "In short: all non-humans are demons, and all outsiders are monsters!"

"Non-humans? Outsiders?"

"Non-humans are all races that are not human at birth, such as animals, fish, insects, flowers, plants, and trees; such as stubborn stones, flowing water, whirlwinds, flames; such as spirit swords, ghost clothes, and divine robes... Once these non-human things are born with intelligence, they can be called monsters. That's why it is said that monsters are innate attributes and cannot be changed. As for demons, they are acquired attributes. All intelligent objects, including humans, can be called demons if they have demonic thoughts, practice demonic skills, and fall into the path of demons! "

"In other words, if a person practices the path of demons, he is a demon; if a demon practices the right path, he is the way?"

"This is a great saying!"

"But what is the right path? Little monk, you said that Buddhism is the right path, Taoists said that Taoism is the right path, Qigong practitioners said that Qigong is the right path, and body practitioners said that body training is the right path." At this point, Xiao Mian asked provocatively: "Demons, will you say that the path of demons is the right path?"

"I am not a demon, I don't know!"

The little monk opened his eyes and looked at Xiao Mian quietly. Xiao Mian was stunned when he heard the words, and then laughed dumbly.

But at this time, the little monk took out a golden Buddhist book and handed it to Xiao Mian.

"What is this?"

"I see that your beast is quite intelligent. If you abandon it, I don't know if it will sink into the animal realm in the future. Since we have a chance today, I will enlighten it. This is the "Heart Sutra of Freedom" that my Buddhist sect specially provides for the practice of outsiders. You may as well borrow it to read it."

"I'm showing it to it. What are you doing to me?"

"After all, it is the beast of Mr. Xiao. I have to put this account on Mr. Xiao, right? Including the golden pill without trace in Wanzong City last time, and the thunder bottle a few days ago, this is the third time that I have opened the door for Mr. Xiao..."

"You..., wait! What do you mean? Thinking?"

"Helping others is also a benefit to yourself. Donor Xiao should know this, right?"

"...So, you are plotting against me? Do you have something to ask of me?" Seeing that the little monk just smiled but didn't speak, Xiao Mian rolled his eyes and snatched the volume of "Heart Sutra of Freedom", muttering to himself: "Humph! You count one account, I count another. If it's just a little help in the future, I will naturally give you convenience; but if you want Xiao to work for you with these small favors, I advise you to save your mind!"

"Donor Xiao, you worry too much!"

After saying that, the little monk closed his eyes again and chanted the sutra.

After flipping through the volume of "Heart Sutra of Freedom", Xiao Mian realized that the full name of the Buddhist sutra in his hand was "Heart Sutra of Great Freedom of Others", which was specially given by Buddhism to those creatures of non-human origin for cultivation. After a closer look, Xiao Mian found that he could understand every word in it, but it was difficult to understand when they were put together. Seeing Qing Jing looking forward to the scripture in his hand, Xiao Mian threw it to Qing Jing with a smile.

Qing Jing cheered and began to practice in a serious manner.

I don’t know who compiled this volume of "Zi Zai Xin Jing", but it seems to be written specifically for monsters like Qing Jing, which is also a strange thing.

After that, Xiao Mian packed up some sundries and spirit stones. The scattered sundries almost occupied more than half of Xiao Mian’s bag. After packing the spirit materials that would be used in the future in different categories, Xiao Mian packed up all the things he would not use.

As for the spirit stones, you don’t know until you count them, and you will be shocked when you count them.

As a newly promoted Jindan strongman, Xiao Mian’s wealth is not inferior to that of ordinary old-fashioned Jindan strongmen, and even better.

For spirit stones alone, Xiao Mian had nearly 100 high-grade spirit stones, more than 200,000 medium-grade spirit stones, and countless low-grade spirit stones...

Suppressing his joy, Xiao Mian shifted his attention to another thing - a jade slip for passing on skills - "The Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book"!

When Dan Qiusheng handed this volume of "The Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book" to Xiao Mian, he said that Xiao Mian's cultivation was low and he must not force himself to comprehend it; now that Xiao Mian has successfully survived the minor heavenly tribulation, he is at least a Jindan strongman, so he has set his sights on "The Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book".

It should be noted that this "The Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book" is a fragment of the heavenly book that even Yuanying ancestors like Shusheng could not resist the temptation, so how could Xiao Mian be immune?

No matter what Xiao Mian did, he could not read the contents recorded in "The Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book". Obviously, even Xiao Mian, who had condensed the Jindan, was not qualified to read this "The Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book".

Disappointed, Xiao Mian became more and more excited about the Secret Records of the Purple Mansion Heavenly Book...