Chapter 514 The Pursuit of Taoism

Needless to say, what we saw and heard along the way.

Whether it was the various poisonous insects, miasma, monsters, and spiritual herbs spawned by the powerful source of heaven and earth in Wushen Mountain, or the villagers living in it, they all lived in their own way as always.

However, Li Qi would pick a few of the spiritual mountains and springs while he was on the road, mainly to fish and get some herbs to enhance the interest of the journey.

If you have to travel quickly, just let Shen Shuibi drive to the outside of the domain, and you will arrive in a short while. Going out to travel is to relax.

The fish raised in the spiritual spring are delicious, but Li Qi was scolded for making a fire on the old horse's back.

Let him scold, anyway, the old horse himself has eaten a lot.

When he came to Lieshu, he skillfully found a driver to start the switch, completed the questions and tasks of Lieshu, and then obtained the qualification to use it, and came to the edge of Baiyue in a flash.

When they came to the edge of Baiyue, both of them had terminals, so they could easily obtain the basic entry permits of the cardinals of all realms, which was not a problem.

However, there is traffic control in the human world, so we can't let Lao Ma fly at will. Everyone landed and laughed in the bustling street city, bought local snacks, and admired the bustling night view of the human world.

I have to say that the snacks in the human world are quite delicious, and they really know how to enjoy it.

The car is embroidered, the moon shines on the building, and a large shopping mall just opened above the sky. I saw thousands of golden lotuses scattered on the streets, and the lanterns were lit, and thousands of petals opened together, gathering like fireflies and scattering like stars. There were also singing and dancing, and the music was deafening.

After staying in the human world for one night, they took the ground flow car the next day, and with a rumbling sound, they quickly arrived at the local Jintai.

Riding, Jintai, and then whooshing, they instantly arrived at the northeastern border of the human world and the Taoist sect.

The northeastern land of the world, which belongs to the Taoist sect, is a peninsula and archipelago.

The Northeast is the junction of the north and the east. As we all know, the East China Sea is in the east, and the ice field is in the north, so the Northeast is a group of cold islands. Of course, this is the basic climate.

In fact, whatever temperature the Taoist wants this place to be, it is whatever temperature it is.

In this Northeast, there are peninsulas and islands of all sizes.

That is also commonly known as the Three Islands and Ten Continents.

As for the Ten Great Caves and Seventy-two Small Caves, they are widely distributed throughout the world, not necessarily in the Northeast.

The Northeast is just the foundation of the Taoist orthodoxy. Since ancient times, the Taoist has not forced anyone to stay in one place.

That would violate the meaning of freedom.

Freedom is essentially the ultimate pursuit of Taoism. This is a conclusion that Li Qi has drawn from Shen Shuibi and Luofu Mountain's skills during this period.

What is freedom?

Follow your heart, be unconstrained, and do whatever you want. This is the long-cherished wish of Taoist practitioners and their ultimate goal. The ultimate goal of the entire Taoist tradition is similar to the human way of replacing heaven with man and the absolute nature of witchcraft.

Unencumbered by desires, bound by vision, obscured by evil thoughts, physically restricted, and controlled by life and death, they are free and unrestricted by everything.

What they want is individual immortality and eternal freedom.

The immortality here does not mean living a long life, but absolute "immortality", or in other words, they will die when they want to die, and they can live when they want to live, and they cannot be destroyed by any means.

Even the seal cannot do it. Their heart is free and their body is naturally free.

Eternal immortality, unrestrained, free and unrestrained, this is the pursuit of all "immortals", just like what Shen Shuibi showed. Shen Shuibi does not care about the life and death of strangers, because it is not important to her at all.

She just wants to protect the people around her.

But this does not mean that those true immortals are self-centered, cruel and inhumane demons.

Because, the difference between immortals and demons is that the freedom they pursue does not take pleasure in the suffering of the weak. It can even be said that they have truly achieved it, taking the boundaries of the weak as their own boundaries, and together with all things, they form an organic whole.

"On the Equality of Things" says: "Heaven and earth are born with me, and all things are one with me." I am not nobler than all things, but all things are trapped in shackles, but I have jumped out of the cage and can truly experience these situations.

Moreover, true freedom also includes controlling one's emotions, not letting the joys and sorrows of the world disturb one's free and pure state of mind, and maintaining one's natural nature from beginning to end. The benevolence, morality, secular values, fame, wealth, politics, religion, etiquette, etc. in the outside world are all barriers that bind and enslave people.

Truly transcending everything, transcending physical constraints, transcending spiritual constraints, transcending life and death constraints, transcending the causal constraints of the secular world, and finally reaching the absolute place without constraints, that is "freedom".

Practicing, accumulating cultivation, and cultivating one's mind are all for the purpose of achieving the ultimate "freedom", because you can't achieve this out of thin air. Cultivation is the foundation for you to achieve all this. Therefore, Taoism has created many cultivation methods and techniques to help oneself gradually approach this goal.

Of course, this is only the goal of the hidden sect. After all, the Taoist practitioners that Li Qi has come into contact with are basically from the hidden sect, and Taoism actually has the visible sect.

Regarding the visible sect, Li Qi has basically had little contact with it. He only knows that the visible sect has close cooperation with the human way, and even many Taoists go in and out of the king's house, and even as a national teacher, he opened a Taoist temple in the human emperor's palace and was granted the status of a noble lady.

I think both sides must have common interests, otherwise it would never be like this.

But the Xianshi Sect is just a branch. The Taoist ancestor is the Yinshi Sect, so naturally most of them are actually Yinshi Sect, including the three islands and ten continents, especially Penglai, which is the holy land of Taoism, is the core of the Yinshi Sect.

Although there is no support within the Yinshi Sect.

Everyone is together for the sake of freedom, and each has a little sect or personal friendship. In fact, it is impossible to form an effective and complete group.

Only the human way can gather the power of everyone together, while the loose organization of Taoism is that everyone plays their own games and no one interferes with each other.

The dragon flew across the sky, and Li Qi looked at the sea below.

Countless islands, really countless.

Here, practitioners seem to use islands as their own territory, and it happens that it is not difficult for practitioners of the fifth and sixth grades to create islands out of thin air, so there are many, many, many islands.

However, the world is too big, and this sea is also very big, but it is still controlled within a certain range. It can be seen that these are still islands, and there are still dozens of miles of sea between them, rather than a continuous continent.

Although dozens of miles are basically face to face for practitioners, they are still very far away.

Li Qi looked around. He had not been to the Northeast Islands yet, so he should take a good look at the scenery.

The islands are endless, the horizon is far away, and the view is dark and misty. There are many rare treasures and strange paths.

The wind and clouds change, the huge trees are twisted, the red osmanthus is thick, and the branches are everywhere, and the corals are lush.

A large number of coral reefs spread near these fairy islands, among which there are many goblins and more sea beasts, giving a feeling of "island clouds steaming the sea, and mist connecting the jungle".

However, Li Qi can also see that there are almost no cities, settlements and the like around. Some are just fairy mountains. There are occasional Taoist temples in the fairy mountains, but few Taoists. There are few people, and there are almost no mortals.

It seems that if you don't practice, you don't deserve to appear in this place.

"Yu, why are there not many mortals? How did you manage to recruit disciples and pass on the legacy? It's impossible for everyone to go outside the domain, right? People in the world are naturally stronger than those outside the domain. It's not worthwhile to recruit disciples outside the domain." Li Qi asked Shen Shuibi beside him curiously.

Why does the world still have mortals?

Because the stronger the world, the more talented the people living in it are.

It's extremely difficult for people in the ninth-grade world to become ninth-grade. To become ninth-grade is to be the top existence in the world, to dominate the world, to be the supreme martial artist, and only one out of hundreds of millions of people can be born.

But for people in the first-grade world, it's much easier to become ninth-grade.

As for the world, it's a more powerful world than the first-grade world. Among people born in the world, the ninth-grade is about one in a thousand. In comparison, the difference is huge, a difference of millions of times.

Except for Baiyue, the number of people born in Baiyue is about one in ten thousand or even more, because this is where the Dao is fighting, but even in Baiyue, it can still reach hundreds of thousands of times.

Therefore, it is really unwise to abandon these natives in the world and go to the outside world to find disciples.

It is not that there are no people outside the domain. Those geniuses who break through the shackles of the world are indeed no worse than those in the world. After all, the base number is there. What is one in a few hundred million? Even if there is one in a trillion, there will be countless people outside the domain, and some super geniuses will always be born among them.

Moreover, cultivation does not always depend on talent. The way of thinking, commonly known as the mind and intelligence level, is the point that is more worthy of attention, so the major sects do not always choose people from the world.

But the top geniuses born outside the domain are probably only on par with the world itself. Giving up the world is equivalent to abandoning nearly half of the available talents.

But Shen Shuibi shook his head and said calmly: "I don't know, I haven't been to Penglai, in fact, we have no contact at all, we are completely strangers."

Well, the hidden sect is like this.

The sounds of chickens and dogs are heard from each other, but they never interact with each other until they die.

"That's really strange, but it's normal to not understand some things when you first arrive. Go to Penglai and everything will be clear." Li Qi nodded.

It's not necessary to know now, the place he is going to is Penglai, and Penglai will definitely have more things to see.

The old horse continued to cruise, quickly passing countless islands below.

Huliang is not far away, about two days away, and you can get there by closing your eyes and taking a nap.

As one of the 'three islands', Huliang has assumed the function of transportation and is also a gathering place.

The book says: "In the past, Fanghu was a place for playing. The immortals followed each other. In the morning, they rode a crane and not two ducks. They went back and forth in the round cliffs."

This is to describe the grand scene of Huliang. It is also a rare market place in Taoism. The so-called Fanghu is Huliang, also known as Fangzhang.

After all, everyone is a human being. Although most of them are dead otakus like Shen Shuibi, they also have basic trading needs. With more people coming and going, it has become like this, and even the teleportation points were built here in the end.

Soon, the two men and the dragon finally arrived at Huliang.

Here, we can finally see part of the production capacity of the Taoist sect.

The first thing that caught our eyes was the mountains that stood up. The Taoist sect seemed to like living in the mountains, but there were buildings.

The mountains were in the void, the pavilions were exquisite, and the clouds rose. The world around them became more "bright".

Flying swallows startled butterflies, white cranes leaped, clouds gathered and began to turn, and phoenixes danced and wanted to fly.

Countless small boats approached Huliang from the sea. The fairy island of Huxuan seemed to be swallowed by clouds and mist. Countless boats were like immersed in the star palace, with waves rippling and spiritual energy overflowing, which was very gorgeous.

There were also many flying magic weapons or mounts. For example, Li Qi and his friends could see many flying peaks floating in the sky, and floating mountains were suspended in the air.

The treasure box was hung with golden strips, and the crimson bag was locked with jade chains. Countless golden ribbons were seen slowly falling from the fairy mountains to the bottom, with countless runes written on them, each with its own magic. There were jade locks connected to each other on the flying peaks, and the jade chains bound the flying peaks together, so that they would not fly too far.

The precious light was shining, the five colors were dense, the pearls and jade were embroidered, the majestic and magnificent, the majestic atmosphere, spanning the clouds, the gold powder was flowing, and the splendidness was within 200 miles.

As we approached, we could hear the sound of immortal music and the fragrance in the air. It seemed to be the smell of elixir, and not just one or two. There seemed to be a large number of elixirs and herbs here, and the smell emitted from them made people feel relaxed and happy.

As we continued to approach, we were really close to Huliang. The golden palace bell rang at dawn, and thousands of households were lined up. The jade steps and immortal staffs were sitting on the thousands of palaces. The brocade flags and beautiful sun, the feathered clothes brushed the sky, the purple air was refreshing, and the white clouds were staring at them. There were all kinds of immortal beasts and pets all over the ground, and there were also many Taoist practitioners walking and running here.

They did not seem busy, but were leisurely doing their own things, even the Taoist children were the same. Time seemed to slow down here, and reality became more vivid here.

The biggest feature is that everything became very clear, as if a layer of filter in a movie was added. The mountains were more majestic, the water was clearer, the sky was bluer, and even the rolling sea of ​​clouds seemed to be more vibrant.

The flute and drum soared into the sky, the clouds and mists connected, the stars shone brightly, the lights were dim, the wind windows were like cloud beams, thousands of doors and windows, the nine-pillar building, looking east to Lingshou Peak, the moon shaded the jade bed, looking west to Huagai Ridge, bamboos like gold, lush and dew-proof.

The people and symbols were harmonious, the green silk was hidden, the dome was purple, the beauty of the fairy, this is the best.

Old Ma looked mighty and extraordinary when he went out, but when he came here, he was really like a little loach, just like a passerby buying buns in the big scene of the movie.

"This is really... cool, I really didn't know that the people of the Taoist sect liked this kind of pomp." Li Qi sighed.

If these were visions or illusions, it would be fine. Li Qi had seen cooler illusions. After all, he was doing this.

But the most terrifying thing is that all of these! They are real!

If you are less than the third rank, you can't arrange this scene!