Chapter 154: Immortals Fight
It should be because of the injury that when Xunzi said this, his face looked ugly and even a little hideous.
He recalled Yang Zhu's smile back then and added, "I think he has practiced too much in the beast! Humph, if everyone only cares about themselves, then that's not different from beasts!"
After hearing this last sentence, Yang Zheng was filled with emotion and remembered many things.
Textbooks in previous lives once said that the fundamental difference between humans and animals is that humans can use tools. In fact, this statement is wrong, because animals can also use tools. For example, sea otters will smash shells with stones, chimpanzees will smash nuts with stones, and even create complex tools to prey on ants.
This is still in the Earth in the previous life. The spirit beasts had higher intelligence on the Warring States Continent in front of them, and could swallow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which further narrowed the gap with humans. If you want to distinguish the fundamental difference between the two, it would never be a tool for manufacturing and use.
Xunzi's words point out the key point.
In the world of cultivation, human beings have a high degree of thinking, which is specifically reflected in the ability of human beings to understand the Tao and control the heaven and earth for their own use. In addition, there is a more hidden and difficult-to-summary feature, that is, human beings have the ability to correct the majority of people.
The so-called correction ability means that under the premise of respecting the thoughts of a single person, through communication between people, the will and interests of the majority can eventually be formed. Human systems and laws are manifestations of this ability.
To give a simple example, when we see a pregnant woman standing on a bus with a big belly, she will feel pity in her heart. Perhaps many people are unwilling to give up their seats and eventually choose to ignore them, but this emotion itself is something that most people will have.
Therefore, among the human group, the unwritten rule that the elderly, weak, women and children will be given priority. If this rule is followed, human individuals will of course sacrifice their own interests and give up their seats, but it is still formed consciously and accepted by most people.
This is the correction ability of most people.
It can make people consciously give up their desires and interests, and without coercion, they still want to help the weak and follow unwritten rules. The minority obeys the majority and the individual obeys the collective, which leads to morality.
Morality is not a specific person’s regulations and whom must give up his seat, but a social rule achieved by humans through instinct and correction of their abilities.
In animal groups, most behaviors are determined by violence, and they cannot reach consensus on a large scale, consciously sympathize with and piti the weak. Therefore, although animals have their own language, they will not talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and only pursue the interests of the individual.
From this point of view, even if there are no saints to promote and no wise men to summarize, the human community will still use the ability to correct and produce other virtues, but they may be changed to name.
Therefore, Xunzi was filled with righteous indignation and scolded Yang Zhu as if he were a beast.
Yang Zheng, who was a man of two lives, understood Xunzi's ideas very well and admired his noble character. However, he thought more realistically at this time and remembered keenly that Xunzi had said before that someone, like him, had his state of mind, changed his strength and eventually fell into the devil's way.
Isn’t the so-called “animal realm” meant to strengthen the physical body and shake the Tao with force? Now it seems that that person should be Yang Zhu. To practice the “animal realm”, of course, there is no need to temper the mind of the Tao like the sentient beings, as long as you practice like animals and animals.
Over time, Yang Zhu became like a beast, subverting human moral etiquette and only acknowledges interests and selfishness. After all, he ignored the essential difference between humans and animals.
After a moment of silence, Yang Zheng said, "I fully understand why you are worried that I will be possessed by the devil. I think the magic skills created by Yang Zhu should also harm others for their own benefit and encourage others to indulge in desire and greed for merit, right?"
Xunzi nodded and replied, "I will only tell you three of them, you can judge for yourself. One is the most common one, killing people and consuming blood, and plundering essence roughly; the second one is indulging in lust, and the merit of men and women; as for the third one..."
He stood up and looked out the window and continued, "It is the method of taking over the body. Simply put, it is to transfer the soul into the body of the baby before his life spans. Reborn in this way can lead to a lifetime of life!"
Upon hearing this, a familiar face flashed through Yang Zheng's mind, and his face suddenly changed, "That ghost..."
Xunzi understood what he wanted to say, and his voice was solemn, "Yes, Guiguzi also practiced this magic skill, otherwise, with his profound and wise conduct, how could he be the age of a doll? He was bewitched by Yang Zhu back then and almost lost his life. He couldn't bear to die a few years ago, so he used it to prolong his life."
Using it once means killing a young child. This is not a difficult task for Guiguzi, who has great supernatural powers. Although a few people such as Xunzi knew about it, they did not have to lose their big things because of the small, and turn against a saint for their lives.
Otherwise, conflicts broke out between the various families would only sacrifice more people. They could weigh clearly which one was more important, so they had to pretend not to know and ignore Guiguzi's life-extending behavior.
Xunzi added: "Grafting the dragon soul into the baby's body and improving the baby's physique is Yang Zhu's idea based on this skill, and it is rare to do a good thing. However, this is one of the reasons why he was so strong back then."
Yang Zheng clearly remembered that Xunzi had said before that man also had a dragon soul domineering body. Obviously, Yang Zhu must benefit himself first and use the dragon soul to improve his strength.
As for how the Dragon Blood Sword was refined, he has now come up with a very definite answer.
However, the focus of his concern is not on this magic skill, but on what Xunzi said just now, "You said that Guiguzi had been bewitched by Yang Zhu. What's going on? What kind of role did Guiguzi play in that war?"
Xunzi turned his back to him and frowned slightly, "It's very simple. Yang Zhu came from Taoism. Before he entered the school to become a demon, he was Guiguzi's junior brother. Guiguzi didn't know about it at that time, believed in Yang Zhu's incitement and practiced this skill by mistake."
Speaking of this, he paused slightly and added: "That's what Guiguzi said."
Yang Zheng was half-believing and half-doubted, and did not believe in Guiguzi's character. "Misleading? With Guiguzi's scheming and insight, how could he be easily deceived by Yang Zhu? Has he never heard of that martial art before?"
If it weren't for Xunzi's explanation, he wouldn't know that Guiguzi and Yang Zhu, the two peerless heroes, had come from my own disciples and were once a pair of close brothers.
Since that's the case, the battle between the saints should be their wits and courage, which can be said to be a fight between gods and immortals. Now, Yang Zhu is rekindled, and letting Liao and Yang Xuan enter the world are probably also aimed at Guiguzi.
Xunzi said: "That magic skill was created by Yang Zhu, and it seems to be called the magic skill of wedding dress."
The magical skill of wedding dress?
When Yang Zheng heard this word clearly, his expression became extremely exciting. Fortunately, Xunzi did not sit by the couch at this time, otherwise he would definitely be scared by him.
My God! There is actually a magical skill in wedding dress in this world!
Chapter completed!