I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 310 Mirage
After Grain Rain comes the Beginning of Summer.

The sky is scorching, and I am wearing a short-sleeved linen shirt.

When the heat comes, beware of heat stroke and flu.

Old Mrs. Bai Qinghua and the descendants of the Bai family have already prepared cooling tea and soup to nourish the body and eliminate evil in advance.

The fleet of Sun Bao and others also purchased a large number of porcelain and tea from Yushan, and then sailed out again.

They promised to tell more merchants next time that there was a magical golden toad here. Human nature was like this. They were controlled by the golden toad and would not tell others. Besides, this was not necessarily a bad thing. Xu Jia needed more ships to go out to sea, to transport disaster victims, and to transport food.

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Shunji Little Dragon King pacified the demons in the Land Office and said to Ao Jin, "You are the water boy among the water and fire boys under Master Xu Tianshi. There is also a fire spirit called Hanba, who is a fire boy. He is naughty by nature and not as well-behaved as you. You need to persuade your master to be careful and not to go too far. I will go to Dongting Lake to meet the hidden demons."

Ao Jin said, "What? That fire boy is also the master's boy? How come I don't know?" He looked shocked, but he got the point wrong: "He doesn't cultivate the virtue of fire, he's just a furnace worker, smelting metal and forging ore, how can he be as caring as me?"

Shunji Little Dragon King was speechless: "You'd better take care of yourself."

After saying this, he turned into a water dragon, soared into the sky, entered the clouds, and when he descended again he had arrived at Dongting Lake.

In ancient times, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake were originally one, the Yunmeng Lake. Later, the world changed dramatically, the lake dried up and turned into thousands of lakes and countless fertile fields.

Because Poyang has a dragon's nest, it can control the evil of water and make it flood, thus making it the capital of Hongze.

Although Dongting Lake has a lot of water, it rarely floods. However, there are many hidden legends in its depths, and there are many strange beasts in the mountains and seas.

Shunji the Little Dragon King came to subdue these strange beasts from the mountains and seas on behalf of Xu Jia. If all else fails, they have to negotiate to maintain peace. Otherwise, Xu Jia might really follow the example of Xu Tianshi and kill the monsters to fulfill his great wish.

But Shunji feels that this great wish is endless and impossible to achieve. What the Buddha said was just talk, that one can become a pure land after death. If you want to transform it into a pure land during your lifetime, the power of this transformation is no less than the creation of the world. And not only will there be obstruction from demons, but also from the sentient beings you want to save.

The obstacles to reform have always been internal, first corrupting the inside and then rotting outside.

When you see pus on the surface, it is actually an attack of internal heat poison. It is useless to squeeze out the pimples and pus. If you don’t clear the internal toxins, you will not be healthy.

There are many big monsters in Dongting Lake. Those who are at the level of earthly immortals are just ordinary. There is a rhinoceros monster, a catfish monster and a mirage dragon, all of which are at the level of gods. The mirage dragon is especially so, it has the image of a beautiful young boy. It is said that he had some affair with Poyang Dragon Mother and was hunted down by Tianshi Xu Xun, but he hid a mirage pearl which contained his natal mirage qi. After being killed by Tianshi Xu Xun, it was reborn with the help of this mirage qi within a hundred years.

Mirage is not a shell, a clam, or a bixi.

It is the essence of the rainbow qi from the water surface, sky light, and water mist.

After all, it is clouds, qi, and light, which are invisible things and can also change in thousands of ways.

Some people have seen golden clouds and cloud energy turning into dragon-shaped clouds in the sky. This was actually transformed by the mirage energy. When practicing alchemy, one is just gathering the clouds. When the dragon cloud dissipates, it is just the mirage energy being taken back.

Shunji was not worried about the rhino monster and the catfish monster. Although the rhino looked scary, it was a vegetarian. It only had a magical horn on its head and was often hunted by people. After it cultivated its power, it did not fight with outsiders and lived with its own rhino clan in Dongting. The big catfish monster liked to lie in the mud and often did not show its body. It only moved its body occasionally, but it had the momentum to shake the earth and mountains.

Shunji the little dragon king came here just to persuade the mirage dragon.

He descended from the clouds and found a place shrouded in mist and haze. However, this place was not the deep and remote Dongting Lake, but just a reed marsh and lotus flowers.

Shunji opened his Dharma Eyes and saw a different scene of reflected skylight on a dewdrop on a lotus leaf. It looked like a palace or a pavilion.

This ability to see the big picture in the small, the reality in the false, and the truth in the false is exactly what the mirage dragon possesses.

From here, when Dewdrop entered Shunji, he saw a small world, which was only the size of a village, but it gave him a feeling of being in the Peach Blossom Spring.

There are people coming and going here, men and women, young and old, rich and poor, noble and humble, short men selling sesame cakes, coquettish women grinding tofu, dandy boys playing with hawks and dogs, dignitaries riding in sedan chairs, and down-and-out beggars snatching food from the dogs.

However, all of these creatures have animal characteristics: short men look like moles, coquettish women look like foxes, dandy boys look like jackals, high-ranking officials look like fat pigs, and poor beggars look like mice...

These people or animals live in this town with two sides.

Yet they are not real people.

"A rare guest has arrived?" A voice rang out, and everyone looked towards Shunji Little Dragon King, saying the same thing: "A rare guest has arrived!"

The little Shunji Dragon King said, "I am the new Shunji Dragon King of Poyang. I am here on the orders of the Lingbao Sect Master, Master Xu Zhenren, to pay my respects."

"An appeasement? I am here deep in Dongting Lake, hiding from the world, living in peace in a corner, not causing trouble, not rebelling. What is he asking for an appeasement for? Does he want to take me in as a dog? Or is he using me to establish his authority?"

But the whole scene suddenly changed, revealing flashes of lightning. In the lightning, light and shadow intertwined, revealing a gauze-covered boy. His steps were ghostly and erratic, sometimes far away, sometimes close. "Are you also a Dragon King? Shunji Dragon King? Wasn't Shunji suppressed here? Anji was killed, which Dragon King are you?"

"Is being a dog so comfortable? You haven't done enough, but you still rush to find me first?"

"You are not a hermit." After all, Shunji Little Dragon King is practicing the virtue of the sea, and he is tolerant and magnanimous. In addition to the virtue of the lake, he is wise and profound. He is not angry: "You have long hidden your hatred in your heart, but you know that now is not the time."

He saw that this mirage was a mixture of souls and spirits. If a human soul acquired the demonic nature, it would return to animal nature and undergo a transformation in this illusion, becoming a half-demon. Everyone was abnormal, yet everyone was also very normal.

If the world is in chaos and enters the Five Turbidities and Evil Times, nine out of ten houses in the world will be empty, the souls of the dead will drift everywhere, and demons will wreak havoc everywhere. If he gathers them together, it can be turned into a mirage, where everyone is a demon and everyone is a ghost.

He can also practice falsehood and cultivate truth, and reverse yin and yang. People will not know whether they are dead or alive, and will spend the whole day in illusion, living a life of drunkenness and dreams.

He said: "This Xu Tianshi made a great vow to save all sentient beings, not just humans. Although the original Shunji and Anji could protect the land and water, they had to sacrifice boys and girls, and their offspring were a disaster. They asked for blood and food, and caused floods. They did not respond to the will of heaven and did not cultivate morality, which led to this disaster."

"Now this Xu Tianshi has already recruited talented people in Poyang, and many kind-hearted demons have come to join him. I believe that there will be great peace in the future, and there will be a pure land for you and me."

(End of this chapter)