Museum of Demons

Chapter 308 On Taoism

Wei Yuan once again returned to the world of mountains and seas.

This time he went to Chaoge City first, and got what he had thought about before from the old master of Chaoge City. Wu Yu and Feiyu also helped to collect it outside for a while. The pockets were tucked into the cuffs.

Then, riding a barge beast, they rushed to Zhongshan in the dark.

When Wei Yuan and Zhu Jiuyin were discussing before, the beast was also there, so when the dragon heard that Wei Yuan was going to Zhongshan again, he couldn't help feeling a little bit of uneasiness in his heart, and finally accompanied Zhong Shanyue The closer you get, the stronger this feeling becomes.

It raised its head and said, Master Mountain God, there is something that Xiaolong wants to ask you.

Are you still going to meet God Zhu Jiuyin this time?

yes.

...Do you still want to cook for him?

certainly.

Baron said more cautiously:

Then you killed the Drum God this time?

Wei Yuan glanced at it: It's very smart.

The fur on the dragon's body was about to explode, and it froze in the void, refusing to go any further, its voice seemed to be screaming, and it said with a mournful face: My god, you killed someone's son, and you still want to kill him! To cook for someone?!

This... let's go back.

Let's go back!

In your place, do you say that it's the custom to eat when someone else's son dies?

Wei Yuan was serious, nodded and said, Yes.

ha?!

The dragon's voice was directly blocked in his throat.

Wei Yuan stretched out his hand and patted the dragon, saying, Go ahead, I'll keep you safe.

The young Taoist rode upside down on the dragon and sang to himself jokingly:

As soon as the person lies down and the cloth is covered, the whole village waits for the food to be served.

Walking, lifting, followed by a piece of white.

At this time, it was night in the world of mountains and seas, and the dragon was walking between the sky and the earth. I just felt that Wei Yuan's not-so-sounding ballad had an inexplicably gloomy feeling. For some reason, the scales felt a little cold. Until the last sentence, he clapped his hands and laughed to himself, saying: From now on, I will never come back from this world.

Although it is still very simple, it has a sense of freedom and ease.

I don't know if it's the words, or because of the person who sang the last sentence.

The dragon's speed was so fast that Wei Yuan could already see Zhong Shan in the dark. It would be a lie to say that he was not worried about Zhu Jiuyin's reaction, but Zhu Jiuyin asked Wei Yuan to do this matter after all. With Zhu Jiuyin's character, he wouldn't be angry with him.

When Wei Yuan fell down, Pilong's legs and feet felt a little weak.

Thoughts came to mind.

I always feel that Wei Yuan intends to give it to Zhu Jiuyin as a spare sacrifice.

Tremblingly, he said, Do you still want to find some prey?

Wei Yuan shook his head and said, It's not necessary this time.

He looked at Zhong Shan in the middle of the night in front of him, pondered for a while, and tapped the void, saying:

Zhu Jiuyin, I'm here for an appointment...

……………………

As the fluctuation of magical powers gradually dissipated, a ripple seemed to surge around Zhong Shan, sealing off the entire world that Zhong Shan belonged to. At that time, Zhu Jiuyin had already appeared in front of Wei Yuan.

He was still wearing a dark uniform with red piping, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist.

It's hard to see.

But even if he couldn't see clearly, Wei Yuan still felt two gazes on his face.

Zhu Jiuyin said slowly: Did you bring the true spirit of the drum...

Wei Yuan nodded and said, Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life.

Raising his hand, he took out the bulging real spirit from his cuff. When he took it out, the real spirit lit up with a layer of light, escaped from Wei Yuan's palm, and flew towards Zhu Jiuyin. Finally, Zhu Jiuyin looked at this The true spirit in the stream of light fell silent for a while, and said in a flat voice:

Can.

You have completed your part, and I will perform my duties and help you refine the Emperor Chi.

Seeing Zhu Jiuyin's gloomy demeanor, Wei Yuan was different from his usual indifference. He knew that even gods would inevitably feel sad when they saw the true spirit of their only son. Thinking of Feng Siyu's answer, Wei Yuan restrained his expression, Looking wide and solemn, he pointed to the stone table and said, It's rare to see you, Zhu Jiuyin.

Before going to Dichi, do you want something to eat?

The dragon was almost howling in shock.

Does your old man have to bring up such a topic at this time?

Zhu Jiuyin was not angry or displeased, and stared at Wei Yuan through the mist, and said slowly: I just heard you say from a distance that after the death of human beings in the world, there will be a feast. Could it be that human life is short? So don’t you take life and death seriously?”

From your point of view, what does life and death represent?

Wei Yuan was surprised, and immediately sensed Zhu Jiuyin's hidden feelings from such an inquiry.

For such a big question as life and death, rather than asking Wei Yuan, the god is just asking himself. No matter how calm Zhu Jiuyin is, he is still a god, and he doesn't think that such a question can be answered from a human being. .

Normally, he wouldn't ask such a question at all. It was the death of his only son, which brought a huge shock to his heart. Even the gods who supported Jiuyou in the ancient years would occasionally have emotional fluctuations , and that moment of bewilderment.

Even insignificant.

Wei Yuan adjusted his sitting posture and let the dragon look for prey.

Then he flicked his sleeves and let the food be ground into powder by the reversed wind. This time he was going to make some pasta and other food. While waiting for the beast to come back, Wei Yuan wiped his hands and thought for a while. Said: Your question is very big, and there may not even be a real correct answer.

However, I thought of a story, you can listen to it for now.

Like a storyteller, his voice paused, and said:

There was such a person, he and his wife loved each other all their lives, but his wife passed away before him, and when his friends came to visit him, they found that this person was just sitting on the ground, drumming and singing, That is to say, beating the clay basin as a musical instrument, and even singing loudly.

Zhu Jiuyin asked: This person has a bad relationship with his wife?

Wei Yuan shook his head and said, No, it's very good, the two of them will grow old together, um, I mean, they will grow old together slowly until their hair is all white.

Zhu Jiuyin frowned, and said slowly: Is this person heartless?

Wei Yuan still shook his head and said, No, he can be said to be a person who values ​​love and righteousness.

Zhu Jiuyin pondered for a long time, but couldn't figure it out, and asked, Why?

Although we live forever, we have seen human beings die like grass and trees. Their relatives are extremely sad. Why does this person react like this?

This is different from the reactions of human beings and even some gods that Zhu Jiuyin saw.

Some mountain gods will also die, and they are also in extreme panic.

Sitting cross-legged, Wei Yuan looked at Zhu Jiuyin, and replied: Because he said that between heaven and earth, in the past, his wife was never born in the first place, she had neither body nor aura of birth, but the vastness between heaven and earth. A wisp of breath, there is a breath under the change of chance and coincidence.

The breath changes and has a shape, which conceives October and has life, and then dies again.

This is the same as the rhythm of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. What good is it to cry when you are sad?

Wei Yuan's voice paused slightly, and when Zhu Jiuyin seemed to be in a trance, he leaned forward slightly and said, As people are like this, so are gods.

He asked: When the world was first born, were there gods?

not at all.

At the beginning, the gods were just a mass of breath, which changed to give birth to a form, and with the form, there was life, and life will eventually change back to death. Everything is like the cycle of the four seasons. Including that, grief and pain doesn't change the process.

Zhu Jiuyin's eyes moved slightly.

There is a faint sense of shock in my heart.

Under Wei Yuan's description, he seemed to see a carefree man, drumming and singing, uttering words that almost no one understood at the time, but implicitly including everything in the world, even the life and death of gods, Zhu Jiuyin secretly didn't believe it , slowly said: Is he really just a human...?

Wei Yuan nodded and said, His name is Zhuang Zhou.

It's a person who only lived to be more than eighty years old. What does Zhu Jiuyin think of his outlook on life and death?

Zhu Jiuyin suppressed the ups and downs of his heart, and said indifferently in his voice:

Just because it doesn't involve me.

For things like life and death, seeing others die is at most just a feeling in the heart. If it doesn't fall on yourself, no one will know the horror of death.

Wei Yuan picked up a branch and pulled down the rising fire, and said with a smile:

God, you are right.

Then, it should come to the day of his death.

When his wife died, he said, 'The world is like a rich house, and singing and crying make great connections'.

And when he died, he said, 'If I die now, who will be the first? If I live a hundred years, who will be the last? The first is unavoidable, so why be greedy for a moment?

Zhu Jiuyin seemed to be hit by a thunder, a faint shock in her heart, and murmured:

It's unavoidable first, why be greedy for a moment?

At this moment, he seemed to see the peaceful eyes of the man named Zhuang Zhou, who could endure life and death, staring at the gods. However, the longevity of the gods is only greedy for a moment. From the perspective of the vastness of the world, there is not much difference in the rotation of all things.

With such plain but bold words, Zhu Jiuyin was absent-minded for a long time, and then asked:

he died?

Wei Yuan replied, It's been thousands of years since I died.

Zhu Jiuyin was silent for a while, and said, It's a pity...

He sighed again: Even if Gu committed the crime of violating the contract and killing the gods, and was finally killed by Yao and returned to the heaven and the earth, is it no different from other creatures?

Wei Yuan smiled, and said calmly: There is another old man who said a few words.

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat everything as a straw dog.

The way of heaven is eternal, it does not exist for Yao, and it does not perish for Jie.

The combination of these two sentences probably means that the Dao of Heaven and Earth is extremely fair. It will not change its own laws just because there are more virtuous people or more violent prisoners in the world. It treats everything equally in its eyes.

As an ancient god, Zhu Jiuyin can feel the meaning contained in such words even more.

It was rare for him to feel the ups and downs of his heart again, and said slowly:

Is this also what Zhuang Zhou said?

No.

Wei Yuan replied: This is what an old gentleman named Lao Dan said.

Although later generations have sealed many legends and myths about him, there is no doubt that he is only a mortal. I feel that compared to gods and immortals, those legends created by mortals are more heart-warming. Longing.

It may also be because we all feel that these things are almost impossible for humans to do, so we can only push them to gods.

There was a wave of fluctuation in Zhu Jiuyin's eyes.

He was silent for a long time, and said:

I began to feel that the choice King Yu made back then might be right.

Wei Yuan said calmly: I have been in China for thousands of years, and I have never lacked such people. If Zhu Jiuyin has the heart, why don't you follow me to live in the world temporarily? Your life span is long, even if it is hundreds of years, for you It’s just a flick of a finger.”

Isn't it great to witness the birth of outstanding people from generation to generation and get to know them?

Also, there are more delicacies in the world than I know.

how?

Wei Yuan seemed to just suggest it casually.

Zhu Jiuyin stared at him, and said flatly: You want me to favor the human race?

Wei Yuan froze, and simply raised his eyes to look at Zhu Jiuyin, and said calmly:

But I didn't lie either.

Zhu Jiuyin shook her head and said, No need.

Wei Yuan regretted that it would be great if Zhu Jiuyin really had enough interest in the human world, but this might turn the world into a second Jiuyou, who must rely on Zhu Jiuyin to live a good life. This made Wei Yuan's heart tremble, such a human race would return to ancient times.

This matter, I'm afraid I still have to rely on myself.

When the dragon came back, for some reason, I instinctively felt that the atmosphere between Wei Yuan and Zhu Jiuyin had eased a lot, without the heaviness and solemnity it had when it left at the beginning. When Zhu Jiuyin was in the dark, I was relieved from the bottom of my heart.

Wei Yuan made all kinds of cakes, and used the little supernatural power of Yushui obtained from Wuzhiqichu, combined with the earth magic spell, to successfully create a magic steamer, and placed the cakes in front of Zhu Jiuyin. For some reason, this One time, Zhu Jiuyin didn't eat as much as before, but was more gentle.

It seems that the matter of the drum still has a huge impact on him.

But speaking of drums...

A doubt emerged in Wei Yuan's heart, and he subconsciously looked at Zhu Jiuyin several times. Zhu Jiuyin ate a pastry and said lightly, What else is there? Just tell me.

Wei Yuan considered his words and said, Gu is your son?

Zhu Jiuyin nodded.

Wei Yuan pressed his fist against his chin and said, Is there a second Candle Dragon in the world?

I don't remember you ever having a wife.

I didn't write it in my book.

This is a big omission.

I have to make up.

Cough cough, I just finish the job for King Yu.

Definitely not out of curiosity and gossip.

Zhu Jiuyin paused.

He looked at Wei Yuan calmly, and said, Why do you think that gods have genders?

Wei Yuan was stunned, looked at Zhu Jiuyin, and stammered:

You, you, you... Zhu Jiuyin, you are a lovely man...

Zhu Jiuyin said in a flat voice: According to what you humans say, I am a male.

I just corrected what you said.

Also, swallow the questions you want to ask.

Or, one day you will go to Queen Mother Xi and ask her what's going on.

I can recommend it for you.

Then I will be beaten to death.

The corner of Wei Yuan's mouth twitched, and he swallowed the words in his throat.

Taking advantage of the situation, he asked, Where is the Queen Mother of the West, do you know?

Zhu Jiuyin glanced at him and said, I know, but I can't tell you.

Your current strength...well, it's acceptable.

Zhu Jiuyin reluctantly gave an evaluation, glanced at Wei Yuan, and said flatly:

Ordinary mountain gods and water gods will not be your opponents, but that's all.

If you rashly participate in the affairs of West Kunlun, you will be completely out of your wits.

Including the matter of King Yu, don't ask me. I can't tell you. I asked you to go to the east of Chongwu Mountain and take Yu's sword away. It's a little out of line, so you'd better let it go. This thought.

Wei Yuan said: Can I ask, why can't you say it?

Zhu Jiuyin replied: Because this is a contract.

With whom?

King Yu.

Wei Yuan was slightly taken aback when he got a completely unexpected answer.

Zhu Jiuyin got up and said:

When I told you about the nature of the gods, I just told you that the gods were all in a state of yin and yang at the beginning. They chose a certain aspect of themselves, and drums, he was not conceived like a living being. I have seen it before. Wahuang, imitating the way she created the original human race, created the drum.

It's a pity that I have to give him peace in the end.

Zhu Jiuyin sighed and said, Let's go.

Talking for a long time, it's time to help you refine the Emperor Chi.

Thinking of the Taoist-Buddhist dispute half a month later, Wei Yuan restrained his thoughts for the time being, and nodded slowly.

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