The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 281 William's Demon

The appearance of the dire bear brought a lot of trouble to the trip of William's family of five. Not only was Finia injured, but all the livestock were frightened and unable to provide animal power for the time being. They were blessed with the [Stable Mind] spell, but it was still difficult to recover within three to five days, which inevitably slowed down the progress of William's family.

Although Finia has recovered from his physical injuries, his physical strength has not recovered, so he can only be carried by the only unaffected Pegasus, Mo Xiao.William held a little girl in one hand, and Misha was as lively as a little flea, wantonly releasing her naughtiness and liveliness, dragging William's fingers up and down for a while, continuing to sing the ballad that William made up for her, almost a moment I can't be free either.

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He was scared and fell over by a cat!

a cute kitten

The cat ran away, and Jess was pissed

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"My little Misha, can't you just be quiet for a while?" William let Misha pull his fingers, and said with a helpless wry smile.

Misha'er chanted "Jess is a coward" softly, waving her brother's fingers with great interest, and her smile was like falling beads: "Hehe, why should you be quiet, Misha'er likes to sing, I really like it. Oh ho ho— —!”

William held up his finger, with a pretended fierce face that even a child could see, and said in a vicious voice: "Look, brother's finger is almost broken by you. Maybe you should learn from Miluna What." As he spoke, he looked at Miluna who was very quiet on the other side, this little guy was as crazy as Misha before.However, Miluna has been surprisingly quiet these two days. Ever since she left Locke Town, she always looked up at the sky quietly with a sullen face, even when she was walking, as if there was something on it. As if attracting her.

Misha'er curled her lips, and said in a rather resigned manner: "Okay, then I'll keep silent for a little while, only for a little while!"

However, William realized that he had overestimated Misha'er's patience, but after walking a dozen steps, Misha'er blinked her big brown-blue eyes, raised her head pitifully and said: " Do you have to stay obediently? Misha'er doesn't like it."

William heaved a long sigh, shook his head and made an exaggerated look of dejection on purpose, and said, "Forget it, you'd better be a mischievous Misha'er. Stuffy gourd is not Misha'er's demeanor. But you can't Run around, be careful and another big monster will come out."

Misha'er hopped around, grabbed Mao Maochong's ears, and said cheerfully, "I'll help Yasuna drive the horse, and I won't run around." Then she ran back in a hurry The herd of livestock, cats and insects followed in her footsteps.

These livestock were temporarily unable to ride after being frightened by the dire bear, but they could not be left alone. Fortunately, there is a spell called [Charm Animal] in this world.Yasuna led the dozen or so animals to put a short distance between William and the others. One was that these frightened animals were too timid to see too many people; the other was to avoid Misha, because She and Cole's horns are very mischievous, and they always cancel Yasuna's spell from time to time to make the herd run wild for a while.

William took the little girl's hand, slowed down his pace and walked forward slowly. He looked down at Miluna's little face while walking, and asked softly with a smile, "Little guy, what are you looking at? Can you tell me?" What?" Xiao Mi Luna glanced at William expressionlessly, then looked away and continued to look up at the sky.

William lowered his head and whispered mysteriously: "I know your secret! Little guy, you should be able to talk, right?" The emotion on Xiaomi Luna's face didn't change at all, only the expression in her eyes The strange color did not escape William's eyes.

William flicked Xiao Mi Luna's smooth and jade-like forehead with his fingers, and deliberately teased: "A certain little girl was very dishonest when she was sleeping last night, and she seemed to make some strange sounds. I have to think about those sounds. What does it mean, is it Yiya, or Yiyi Yaya? Or maybe something else.”

Xiao Miluna's face immediately changed when she heard this, her little hands tightly covered her little mouth, she looked at William with a pale face, her black crystal eyes were full of fear and uneasiness.William stroked Miluna's little head, sipped and laughed softly: "You little guy, you have a lot of ghosts! Don't worry, no one can hurt you with me."

"Those little secrets about you, if you don't want to talk about them, then keep them. Speaking of which, the falling meteor a few days ago was really weird, by the way! I was almost thrown to death by Mo Xiao at that moment, little guy, Do you know who saved me?." William was chatting with Xiaomi Luna, when Yasuna shouted angrily from behind.

"Damn Misha! You nasty little troublemaker! Stay away from me, don't let me catch you, or you little bad girl!"

William and the others who were walking in front looked back in amazement, and saw that Yasuna was venting her anger on Misha who was running away with a full face, while the dozen or so livestock were already running away in fright.Miluna watched Misha'er's "masterpiece" and clapped her hands for joy, while William covered his face with his hands and smiled wryly, "I knew it would be like this! Misha'er, you little troublemaker, come back quickly! Alas, Can't you, little ghost, not cause trouble for me?"

Seeing Misha'er and Miluna who came back clapping their hands to celebrate the success of the prank, William was not angry. In fact, he knew very well the reason why the little girl made trouble deliberately, and there was also a factor of his deliberate connivance.Ever since the fire fell from the sky that day, William had a very bad premonition. They seemed to be targeted by something terrible. This kind of cold, unknown, and terrifying feeling of despair, William was only bombarded by missiles in his previous life. Only once did I die.

As long as there is life, there is an instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Out of the unknown danger ahead, William was afraid, and he was a little hesitant. This is why a dozen or so worthless livestock were scared to death. Courage, the reason why William William still refused to abandon them and travel lightly—he was looking for excuses for his cowardice.

This is William's real heart barrier, inheriting the resentment and unwillingness to die that penetrated into the soul at the moment of death in the previous life, and the fear of failure to forcefully break through Baodan.Of course, William also knew that this was his inner demon, and it was the biggest obstacle for him to regenerate himself and break through his energy.If William can't overcome it, then his martial arts path will stop here, and he may even go backwards and never recover from it.

But the reason why the heart demon is called the heart demon is because you clearly know where the heart is hindered but you are irresistible to it, just like the temptation of the devil.Just like a "drug addict" clearly knows that "drug addiction" is a kind of suicide, but he still can't get rid of "drug addiction", because "drug addiction" has been deeply engraved into his instinct, unless it is reversed from the root. This instinct, otherwise it will be difficult to resist the temptation of drugs after all.

But all people with the seven emotions and six desires have their own inner demons, but although the inner demons are difficult to control, the ancestors and sages have also summed up some methods to overcome the inner demons through exploration. Using Taoism to prove the way, Buddhism is also called breaking Becoming a Buddha.

Why testify?What is the way to prove it?

Proving the Tao is the process of breaking the demons, turning the demons into a life obstacle, pouring into the sea of ​​suffering, transforming the process of breaking the demons into a step-by-step practice and baptism of faith, so as to break through sublimation and complete detachment, "purity" Inaction, clear mind and see nature."

Of course, the most brutal and direct breakthrough method to get rid of the inner demons is to "prove the way with strength". What Taoism said about enlightenment and ascension, and the instant enlightenment of Buddhism refers to this kind of people, and such people are also called saints, but this method of directly reversing the nature and eliminating obscurity is really too difficult However, there are very few people who can do this. According to legend, there are only two people, Daozu and Buddha. As for whether it is true or not, no one knows.

After all, not everyone has the great perseverance and great wisdom of the second ancestor of Buddhism and Taoism. For ordinary people, the sages have also summed up a set of effective methods. "Corpse", Buddhists call it "certificate fruit position".In Taoist belief, the "three corpses" represent the three "evil desires" in the human body. The Taoist book "Dream of the Three Corpses" says: "There are three corpses in the human body." , Three corpses and three insects, so it is called "three corpses and nine insects".

The so-called "cutting the three corpses" refers to the three ways to get rid of the demons, the nine methods, namely goodness, evil, attachment, breaking the hypocrisy, breaking the cowardice, breaking the evil, and breaking the desire. Cutting the good, cutting the evil, cutting the attachment corresponds The three major fruit positions of the Buddhist certificates are the Bodhisattva, the Vajra, and the Arhat, and the nine ways are the nine causal gates.

What do you mean by chopping a corpse?To give a simple example, a person is very cowardly, so cowardly that he is afraid of everything he sees, and he dare not even step on an ant to death. In terms of a certain value of good and evil, this person is a very good person (of course, this kind of person is also extremely good. rare), but in person he was abnormal, possessed of demons, and deep.As far as this person is concerned, he needs to break cowardice, kill good corpses and practice evil ways, and take the road of killing and proving the way, killing ants, rabbits, pigs and even killing people all the way. .This is a gradual process and requires guidance and control, because enlightenment does not require you to do evil and sin.And those who are vicious by nature should kill the evil corpses to do good deeds, take the road of merit and virtue, and prove the status of Bodhisattva.

When talking about getting rid of demons, we have to talk about beliefs.The so-called belief in God is to entrust one's inner demons to God, and take the location of God as the support of the heart, and God is the demon.Therefore, those who preach the Tao have no faith. They do not believe in God but only believe in themselves.

(End of this chapter)