What is it like to be a saint?

Chapter 280 Xu Ji's comprehension

After Xu Ji sat down, the Taoist on the jade plate seemed to be the same as before, blurry and wobbly.

He seemed to have once again become a mark, a symbol, in the memory of the old god.

In the ear, a profound and profound voice slowly rose.

Blossoming golden lotuses gushed out in this palace, and countless fairy music echoed in the ears.

All kinds of mysterious and mysterious, wonderful and wonderful illusions emerge from the soul.

Thousands of shadows are all mesmerized.

In a trance, detached from things.

Xu Ji, however, could only hear a few fragments, the rest were all indistinct and difficult to distinguish.

"Cause and effect, the birth of Tao!"

"The Tao is eternal and immortal, so cause and effect are also eternal..."

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"Therefore, the world is not benevolent, and all things are regarded as dogs..."

"That's why saints are not benevolent, and treat all living beings as straw dogs..."

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However, just a few short sentences caused countless ripples in Xu Ji's spirit.

Let him fall into a muddleheaded, yet sober, clear state.

Unexamined, because he has forgotten everything.

Even I have forgotten myself.

Sober and clear, it means that he seems to understand something at this moment.

What is Tao?
For most people, Tao is something that does not exist.

Tao is like the periodic table of elements, the laws of mathematics, the rules of physics, and chemical reactions.

Therefore, Dao is also real, something that clearly exists in this mythical world.

It's just that the mortal body and mortal body cannot see, touch, or perceive
Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, Tao does not exist.

But in the eyes of monks, the Tao really exists.

However, cause and effect is an eternal law that accompanies the birth and death of Dao.

It is the underlying logic of this mythical world.

Like the Dao, it is true.

However, cause and effect are derivatives of Tao.

Therefore, the world is not benevolent and treats all things as straw dogs, so the sage is not benevolent and treats all living beings as straw dogs!
What is a straw dog?
A kind of sacrificial offering, used by the ancient ancestors when offering sacrifices to the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, heaven and earth.

To mortals, the humble dog is real.

As far as Tiandi is concerned, the humble dog is fake.

When Xu Ji understood this, the numbers and symbols in his pupils slowly turned into two yin and yang fish.

One black and one white, one yin and one yang, one true and one false.

When the truth is false, the false is also true, and when the false is true, the true is also false.

At this time, Xu Ji was ejected from the illusion of the old fairy.

This time it's time to realize.

"I see..." Xu Ji muttered to himself.

He finally understood why the gods and Buddhas were afraid of cause and effect.

He also finally knew some truths about this mythical world.

Although, many places are still ignorant, although many questions have not been solved.

But the truth of the world has unfolded.

The world is not benevolent and treats everything as a straw dog, and the sage is not benevolent and righteous, and all living beings are like a straw dog!
Looking at this sentence from the perspective of a mortal, it must be full of mistakes.

However, if you look at it from the perspective of Dao, it is the truth!

Make an inappropriate analogy.

This world is like an online game.

All beings in the world are NPCs.

Avenue is the administrator.

The monks are equivalent to players.

From the administrator's point of view, is there any difference between players and NPCs?

No!

It's all data and code.

Essentially, it's all fake.

Lines of code knock out things.

No matter how well the code is typed, no matter how exquisite the skin texture is, no matter how advanced the engine is, it is just a fake.

In the eyes of the administrator, it's all just fake code in disguise.

Therefore, the world is not benevolent, and everything is regarded as a straw dog!

They are all just straw dogs, things made of grass rings.

No matter how beautiful the packaging is, no matter how beautiful the altar is, a dog is still a dog after all!

But what about from the player's point of view?Especially from the perspective of those top players who are already at the top of the server, have opened a plug-in, and can change the game program and core at will?

Whether it is an NPC or a low-level player.

Also average.

Straw dogs, regardless of mortals and gods and Buddhas.

They're all just dogs.

A phenomenon, a line of code, a program.

That analogy may not be quite right.

But Xu Ji couldn't find any other more appropriate description for a while.

In short, this is the core of this mythical world.

So, here comes the question...

Why hasn't this world collapsed by those cheating gods?
"Cause and effect..." Xu Ji lowered his head.

Although he hasn't figured it out yet, he vaguely already knows it.

The so-called cause and effect are derivatives of Tao.

It is non-discriminatory.

Because, heaven and earth are not benevolent!
As long as someone has used the power of 'Tao', that is, Taoism and supernatural powers, to change themselves or shape the world.

It must be a debt to heaven and earth.

This debt is the so-called cause and effect.

The stronger the power, the higher the Taoism, the greater the supernatural power, and the more karma owed to heaven and earth.

In addition, monks and gods and Buddhas are in the process of practicing and growing.

You will also be in debt to others.

These are all summed up in a system called cause and effect.

Even if it's a debt, it needs to be paid back!
When the time is up, if you can't pay back, you will have to ransack your home, seal your title, and go bankrupt.

In short, it must be returned!

It is easy to repay what is owed to others, but it is not easy to repay what is owed to heaven and earth.

Because in the eyes of heaven and earth, everything is a dog.

He doesn't need these fake things!

All he needs is something real!

Still the metaphor, can you take your game equipment and sell it to the game company to pay off the debt?

So, what is real for game companies?

In reality, of course it is money!

Real value for money!
And in this mythical world...

What can be recognized by heaven and earth like real money?
Xu Ji lowered his head, and he remembered a fact that he once wandered, observed and discovered in this mythology.

Today's human world seems to be an "order" established by the "orthodoxy" established by the great power of the upper realm.

That power, Xu Ji guessed, should not be weaker than the old god.

Such a person worked hard to establish morality and order in the world.

What do you want to do?
It should be directly related to the so-called cause and effect!

It's just that Xu Ji doesn't quite understand it yet, so he can only make some guesses.

"Let's put this matter aside for now..." Xu Ji thought, "Let's see what else the old god left for me?"

Then he slapped the Excalibur, and two green lotuses floated in front of his eyes again.

One, passed down a magical power.

One is that the old god improved his magic weapon sacrificial refining technique.

After reading it, Xu Ji smiled slightly: "You really deserve to be an old fairy!"

The old fairy Qinghe just made some simple modifications, and solved all his countless questions and puzzles.

Those two 'magic treasures' have finally dropped from a level of complexity that even made him feel a little tricky, to a level that can be refined with only Dao foundation.

And that supernatural power is even more interesting.

Xu Ji tried it, and he has learned it.

thump...thump...

He felt his heart beating in his chest.

And in the distant sky, there is something that resonates in its own heart.

　The author is much better today, and should be able to resume normal updates tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)