Self-struggle starting from Douluo

Chapter 251: Pure Lotus Demon Fire Map

After hearing Qing Huan's words, Yao Chen pondered: "So Xiao Yan needs to find a True Lord?"

Xiao Yan couldn't wait to ask: "How to do it specifically?"

Qing Huan pointed at Xiao Yan's heart and said, "Your heart!"

Xiao Yan was stunned, as if he had grasped something, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

Qing Huan thought for a moment and said, "There is a simple way... Just tell me a magical power you want!"

Xiao Yan was stunned and asked casually: "Clairvoyance?"

Qing Huan looked around, picked up a piece of wood, and said, "This is a statue of a deity with the ability to see from afar. You can use various methods, such as daily worship, to make your heart believe and recognize this!
Then tell yourself that you have worshiped it, you have a connection with it, you can ask it to possess you and borrow its magical powers..."

Xiao Yan looked as if he had seen a ghost, and blurted out, "Ask the gods? The gods to beat you?"

"Please? You can say that, but more strictly speaking, it should be an 'imperial decree'!"

Qing Huan's eyes were filled with meaning, and he said, "In short, when you are sure of this and continue to deepen your understanding, this thought will eventually become stronger and stronger, strong enough to be qualified to compete for the position of the Lord... which is what you call the Jade Emperor.

Then you can use this thought as the true ruler and command the gods among your myriad gods who have clairvoyance to exert their magical powers and use clairvoyance!"

Xiao Yan swallowed his saliva and said, "You mean, I have the ability of clairvoyance, but I just can't use it?"

“This involves another concept.”

Qing Huan waved his hands and said, "Appearance, substance, and function. Everything in the world is an illusory "appearance" that changes with our "substance"... Is it difficult to understand?"

Xiao Yan nodded blankly.

Qing Huan picked up another piece of wood and said, "I think this wood is ugly, I want to change its image."

As he spoke, he raised his finger, and the fighting spirit on his finger tip became a blade. With a casual stroke, he cut the wood into two pieces and said, "Look, this wood has changed its shape according to my will."

Xiao Yan was confused and asked, "Didn't you use your fighting spirit to cut it open?"

"Appearance, substance, and function, this is the "function"! All appearances are false, the Dharma appearance is also an appearance, the original God's manifestation is false, and the fighting spirit is poured into a solid body, which is also a kind of "function"!"

Qing Huan put down the wood and said, "Alright, only those who follow the 'Way of the Heart' can comprehend this aspect, you should just follow your 'Way of the Body' honestly."

Xiao Yan really couldn't understand it at all, so he had to give up and said, "What about the development of the Dharma image?"

Qing Huan sighed and said, "You saw Medusa use the Dharma Image, right? She understood the meaning of "Swallowing the Heavens" and used this "intention" as the master to command all the gods in the Dharma Image to perform the "Swallowing the Heavens" magical power.

Didn’t you give the Dharmakāya the name “Fire Lord”? Then use your understanding of fire as the master to command all the gods in the Dharmakāya.”

Xiao Yan was dumbfounded and said, "No matter what kind of magical power it is, can it be displayed through the Dharma Image?"

"Of all the gods, naturally they possess all the magical powers!"

Qing Huan said unhappily: "The Way of the Heart believes that all things are self-sufficient in nature and do not need to be sought outside... In short, I have said so much, how much you can understand depends entirely on you."

Xiao Yan nodded blankly and said, "Okay, I'll try to figure it out."

……

Xiao Yan sat aside and thought hard.

Yao Chen sighed and said, "I'm afraid few people can understand your explanation."

Qing Huan shrugged and said, "If you have realized it, then you have realized it. There is no need to say more. If you can't realize it, no matter how much you say, it's useless... Thinking is useless. He should just walk towards the "fire" honestly."

Qinghuan had also taught Medusa these things. She herself was a Sky-Swallowing Python, so it was easier for her to comprehend the meaning of "Swallowing the Sky". Then she could expand on it. Now, couldn't she also use the means of swallowing other people's fighting spirit to restrain them?
This is Qinghuan Blue Silver Tree's specialty.

Xiao Yan should delve into the study of "fire" and then expand on the basis of "fire".

Yao Chen nodded, and stopped asking, "What about the soul?"

Qing Huan asked back: "When ordinary people die, their souls will dissipate. Why doesn't this happen to you?"

Yao Chen said: "Of course, my soul is strong."

Qing Huan continued to ask: "There is no standard for being strong!"

Yao Chen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, "Because my soul has broken through the spiritual realm."

"Spiritual Realm, the word 'spiritual' is a good word." Qing Huan sighed and said, "Everyone's soul has spirituality, but only after breaking through the spiritual realm, the spirituality in the soul is qualified to become the true ruler, commanding all gods, gathering souls and keeping them from dispersing!

Isn't it the same for ordinary people who have deep obsessions and whose souls do not dissipate after death and become ghosts?

However, some of your current original gods died with your physical body, resulting in nothing to do and thus returned to their original form.

So, your current state is a soul, but not a primordial god, let alone a divine soul!"

Yao Chen thought thoughtfully: "If I had a new body..."

"Those gods who have returned to their original gods will naturally return to their respective duties."

Qing Huan rolled her eyes and said, "How else do you think you can control Xiao Yan's body?"

……

Xiao Yan sat in Qing Huan's yard for a day and a night. He seemed to have realized something, but he did not elaborate.

Afterwards, he said goodbye to Qinghuan and planned to return to the Xiao family.

But before leaving, Xiao Yan secretly pulled Qing Huan aside, away from others, and whispered, "I heard that several major forces are going to form an alliance?"

Qing Huan nodded and said, "Yeah, what? Do you want to join?"

Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and said, "With my relationship with Yunlan Sect, how can I join?"

Qing Huan curled her lips and said, "Didn't you see that even the Snake People are joining? Can this little thing between you and the Yun Lan Sect be compared with the hatred between the Snake People and humans?"

Xiao Yan was speechless and said hesitantly: "I am wondering if my Xiao family can join?"

"I don't care about anything, it's useless for you to ask me."

Qing Huan said: "But with the strength of the Xiao family, even if you join, I'm afraid you will only be at the bottom... unless you are counted."

Xiao Yan thought for a moment and said, "I'm thinking about it. After returning to the Xiao family, I will go to Canaan College. Let's talk about it when I come back."

Qing Huan said indifferently: "It's up to you."

Anyway, he just wanted a force to help him collect medicinal herbs.

Xiao Yan looked around, furtively took out a torn map, and whispered: "When the alliance is established, can you ask them to help me keep an eye out for this kind of map?"

"Sneaky..." Qing Huan snatched the map, unfolded it and took a look. She said, "Oh," and said, "It's the Pure Lotus Demon Fire."

Xiao Yan was dumbfounded: "How did you know?"

Qing Huan smiled proudly and said, "Because I have one too!"

Xiao Yan was stunned and speechless.

Qing Huan pretended to be calm and said, "You should have told me earlier if you wanted this kind of map. I don't know where I threw it away now... Really, why didn't you tell me earlier? Otherwise, I wouldn't have thrown it away so casually.

I don’t know if I can find it… or if it has been picked up by someone, oh!”

Grabbing Qing Huan's arm, Xiao Yan anxiously asked, "Where did you throw it? This is the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, how could you just throw it away?"

"What's the use of a quarter of the map? I don't expect to be so lucky as to collect all of them..."

Qing Huan spread his hands and said, "It would be better to just drop it when it's flying high in the sky, and let it fall into the hands of the right person... I didn't know about it beforehand, and you also have a share."

At this moment, Xiao Yan's expression, which seemed like he was crying but not crying, was extremely wonderful.

Qing Huan patted his shoulder with a "sad" look on her face and said, "I'll look for it later and see if I can find it."

Xiao Yan was about to cry: "You must find it!"

He hid it so carefully, but ended up missing out on the other one… If he hadn’t taken it out now, he wouldn’t even have known Qing Huan had it.

If he had trusted Qinghuan earlier, he might have had two copies of the map by now, half of it!
If I had known this earlier, I would have told Qinghuan in the cave!

Patting Xiao Yan's shoulder sympathetically once again, Qing Huan turned and left, afraid that she would not be able to hold back her laughter.

The map has been obtained from Hai Bodong and is now lying in the blue.

(End of this chapter)