Chapter 22 The essence of human beings is effort
What we are here does not refer to this planet, but to this world after ascendance.
The practitioners who practiced in Chaotian Continent for many years were to ascend the great way. Naturally, they had to think about one question, that is, what is the meaning of ascension.
What Zhao Luyue said to Cao Yuan also included this meaning.
After saying this, she turned around and walked to the temple gate, sat on the high threshold, and looked at the small town in front of the mountain, with a little desolate figure.
Many years ago, in order to save Bai Zao, Jing Jiu was trapped in the depths of the snow field. She went to the small temple in Baicheng and sat on the high threshold for a long time.
Now Jing Jiu didn't know where he was and was also trapped, so she sat in a similar place again.
Zhong Lizi and Ran Handong looked at each other and the scene in the novel actually reappeared in front of him. Why doesn’t it make people sigh?
You know, this is not a movie or a game.
Cao Yuan took two bottles of water and handed them to them.
Zhong Lizi and Ran Handong were flattered and mustered up the courage to look at him seriously, and found that the image of this person was different from what was described in the book.
The golden skin on the surface of this Buddha was severely peeling off. The biggest change was that it was much smaller, but it was a little tall and slightly fat.
"The purpose or reason for my ascension is very simple, that is, basic curiosity."
Cao Yuan walked behind Zhao Layue and followed her gaze to the believers in the small town. The firm lines on his face became softer and said, "I always thought this was the foundation of the Great Way."
Zhao Layue did not look back and said lightly: "You are quite thinking."
Cao Yuan said: "I told three stories before the real person ascended. One of them was mine. The whole world knew about my family. So I had to think about it or not. Besides, March was dead after all."
His life experience is indeed bizarre, and it is hard to describe it in words. His realm and strength have long reached the moment of ascension, but because he can't think so, the genius is not open until he is broken by the well nine points.
Zhao Layue said: "I want to drink water, too."
She has been sitting in the small temple in Baicheng for a year and is very familiar with Cao Yuan and is not polite to speak.
Ada meowed, jumped into Zhong Lizi's arms, raised her head to signal her to feed her.
Cao Yuan ohed, took another bottle of water and handed it to her, and asked, "What's the situation in Chaotian Continent now? Where is the Zen master?"
Zhao Layue said: "The little monk is different from you, he is not so curious about the outside world."
It’s interesting to say that Jing Jiu called the Zen monk back then, but she was much smaller than the Zen monk, and now she is used to calling him this.
Cao Yuan said: "The time I came out was actually very short, but I thought that Guocheng Temple had been through countless springs and autumns, so I missed it for no reason."
Missing such things has nothing to do with realm, level of cultivation, or with ruthlessness, but it is just a natural connection between cause and effect.
He would miss Chaotian Continent, and the same goes for other ascenaries. Otherwise, the monk Happy would not have built this city like Baicheng, built such a temple, and built another Guocheng Temple in that city.
Zhao Layue didn't want to tell him about the happy monk, so she asked instead: "What was the result of your battle with the stone people in Chenwushan?"
Cao Yuan and Chen Ya fought hard on the planet in Wangyou Galaxy. The big crack on the planet's surface is evidence, but no one knows the final outcome. Just like her initial question, why was Cao Yuan here?
"I won, but I don't know how to choose, so I chose to escape." Cao Yuan expressed his feelings very frankly, "He told me this place and gave me the coffin."
Zhao Layue asked in a daze: "Coffin?"
"Yes, I am the coffin guard now." Cao Yuan looked behind the temple and said, "I don't know if this symbolizes something."
In Zhao twelfth lunar month, Ran Handong and Zhong Lizi looked along his sight. At this moment, a cold wind came from the window, brushing the curtain behind the Buddha's seat, revealing a coffin.
The coffin was very huge, made of completely transparent glazed glass, with countless prosperous scenery inside, and white cranes dancing. General Li lay quietly inside with his eyes closed.
Ran Handong and Zhong Lizi were shocked and could not speak. Zhao Layue was also a little surprised. She walked to the transparent giant coffin and looked at the remains of the ancestor in the glazed world, and remained silent for a long time.
She knew how General Li died, and she also knew what his fairy skeleton and the piece of fairy silk in his body meant that many ascenators wanted to get these. What does Chen Ya give to Cao Yuan mean?
"Chen Ya doesn't understand you. You are not a hero in the traditional sense. The lost heroic spirit cannot impress you. You should be willing to keep the coffin to understand something. The problem is..." She turned around and looked at Cao Yuan, "Even if the old world is still like living, it is actually dead and will eventually decay. I don't think you can get any inspiration from it."
"I am not guarding the remains of the old world, but I just feel that the tranquility of the dead is a very sacred thing and should not be disturbed anymore. And I also need a quiet place that is not disturbed, to look at humans and think about the future of humans."
Cao Yuan stepped across the threshold and came to the flat ground in front of the temple. The broken robe trembled slightly in the cold wind.
If such words are said from others, they will only make people laugh, or the person who says such words will be considered a poet, but it is so convincing to say from his mouth.
Zhao Layue said: "What did you see?"
Cao Yuan said, "Follow me."
Zhao leyue walked to the transparent glass coffin, knelt down as a junior disciple, and then followed him out of the small temple.
Cao Yuan took them to the highest point of the snow-capped mountain.
The dancing wind and snow slowly calmed down, and the messy hair on Zhao's temples was still floating.
The top of the snow-capped mountain was very cold, Ran Handong's realm was not low and could bear it, while Zhong Lizi couldn't stand it and began to tremble.
Cao Yuan remembered that there was an ordinary person in the field, and he showed apologies and was about to set up a formation to protect the cold. Zhong Lizi waved his hand and signaled not to use it. He took out the cold clothes from his backpack and put them on, and hugged Ada in his arms tighter.
The higher you stand, the further you will see. Here you can see the big city outside the snow field, and you can see those straight roads and devout believers who walk forward like black dots.
The ultimate destination of those believers is not Baicheng or Xiaomiao, but this snow-capped mountain.
After a short rest in Baicheng, the believers set out again.
They wore thick and worn clothes, resisted the wind and snow and the severe cold, and kept kneeling and worshiping along the snow-capped mountains.
Zhao Layue knew that Cao Yuan would definitely not see this. The so-called piety and perseverance are the excellent qualities and beautiful intentions of human beings, but there are still many levels of gaps with the issues he was thinking about.
"On there." Cao Yuan said, pointing to an ice peak in the west.
The ice peak was slightly shorter than the snow mountain at their feet, and it was shining brightly under the setting sun, which made Zhao leyue think of the ice peak deep in the snow field of Chaotian Continent.
Several ascetic monks climbed up the ice peaks with difficulty. The monk's clothes were thin and tattered, looking like a few pieces of rags. Many wounds could be seen on their bare feet, but they did not shed blood because of the ice and snow.
"Are these people's realm very high? They can actually marching to such a high place without equipment." Ran Handong said in surprise.
Zhong Lizi put down the telescope in her hand and said incredibly: "Are you not cold?"
The cold wind whistled, and the ice chips passed by the faces and bodies of the ascetic monks like a knife, bringing out many blood marks, and they were quickly condensed by the low temperature. Just looking at the picture, you can imagine the harsh environment, the difficulty of moving forward, and the pain that the monks endured was so difficult.
"These ascetic monks are ordinary people. They don't know how to practice martial arts in this world, and they also refuse to accept genetic modification..."
Before Cao Yuan finished speaking, a few stones suddenly rolled down on the ice peak, and countless skiings were carried.
Those ascetic monks were in great danger.
Zhong Lizi picked up the telescope again and exclaimed in surprise.
Ran Handong looked at Zhao Layue, wondering if she would rescue her.
Zhao Layue quietly looked at the ice peak in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.
"...But they learned some magical abilities." Cao Yuan continued.
The situation of the ice peak was getting more and more dangerous. The ascetic monks were a little panicked. Just when they were about to fall off the cliff, they didn't know how they did it, but they actually grabbed their hands and flew up!
The ascetic monks were not high from the ground, barefoot was only a few feet away from the snow surface, and were shaking, pale, and soon fell back to the ground again, but successfully avoided the ending of being rushed into the peak.
Zhong Lizi and Ran Handong breathed a sigh of relief, and felt very puzzled. Since those ascetic monks could not practice, why could they fly up?
"There is no heaven and earth energy here, and you cannot practice Zen skills, and the immortal energy is also very weak." Zhao Layue withdrew her gaze and looked at Cao Yuan and asked, "What do you want to explain?"
"I don't know much about this power, it may be related to faith."
Cao Yuan's eyes came from the big city in the distance, the believers on the road, the lay Buddhists in Baicheng, and fell on the ascetic monks on the ice peak, saying, "I am not saying that human beings need this kind of power in the future, but I want to tell you that human beings have been looking for various different ways to continue to exist and to improve themselves."
Zhong Lizi suddenly felt that it was not that cold. She touched A-big hair, looked at the ice peak in the sun, and said with emotion: "Humanity... is really amazing."
Zhao Layue was silent for a while and said, "Yes, so humans should survive."
Cao Yuan withdrew his gaze and looked into her eyes and said, "If humans need to die if they survive, what should they choose?"
Zhao Layue said: "You know my answer, why do you still ask me?"
Cao Yuan said seriously: "You came to me, naturally I want to convince me not to be as lazy as a real person."
Zhao Layue said: "Do you know why Lian Sanyue bothered you at the beginning? It's because you monks in Guocheng Temple talked too much."
The monks in Guocheng Temple really talk a lot.
Whether it is Zen, Liu Shishou, or the middle-aged monk who has already transformed into a state of transformation.
Cao Yuan has a very amazing image in the history of the Chaotian Continent's cultivation world, but he still talks a lot.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the silence of Guocheng Temple is the best.
But Cao Yuan said nothing wrong. Zhao Layue always needed to convince him if she wanted to find him as a helper, so those discussions that were tired of listening had to be staged again.
"He is also a member of human beings. Human beings have reasons to survive, and he also has reasons to survive." She said: "If you think that he is not a member of human beings like Master Qingshan and that old woman, then what reason do you want him to die for you? Do your own things by yourself, this is a truth that young children should understand. Have you practiced Taoism for hundreds or even thousands of years, and you have cultivated it to dogs?"
Ada meowed in Zhong Lizi's arms, expressing his great agreement, especially the last sentence.
Many people will say that Jing Jiu is a product created by human beings, or the product created by that god should be sacrificed for human beings. The problem is that when parents give birth to children and do a lot of things for their children, children should die for their parents? In fact, everyone understands the truth and knows that it is meaningless. After all, it is the difference in position and way of doing things. There is no question of right or wrong, good or evil, black and white.
Cao Yuan’s view is the same as Zhao Layue, and he does not think that Jing Jiu should be sacrificed, but he cannot stand completely on Jing Jiu like Zhao Layue, and even confront the world for him. There are many people in this world, whether good or bad people, who are working hard to live like those ascetic monks on the Ice Peak, and they are qualified to live at all costs.
"Fortunately, he will die in a few dozen days. After that, the entire human race no longer needs to consider this issue."
When he said this, he and Zhao leyue stood on the shore of a large lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains.
The lake water is very clear, and the white clouds in the sky are reflected in it, forming a certain number.
That's the number of days.
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(I almost forgot to recommend Lin Haida's new book, titled "Fox in the Forbidden Zone", I knew it was a tribute to the old guy Philip... I guess, the advertising slogan and the introduction of the Avenue feel a bit similar: he is a natural shooter, and he never remembers the direction of the goal wrongly!)
Chapter completed!