Under One Person, Golden Light Transforms into God

Chapter 367: How to avoid the three disasters!
If inspiration is compared to water, then the water in Tongtian Valley is like a small pond, drinkable with just a scoop of your hands, while the land on Longhu Mountain is like the land that has cracked due to years of drought, and you won't find a drop of water even if you dig three feet underground.

Longhu Mountain was once one of the 72 blessed places. The Tianshi Temple has been passed down to this day and has produced more than one true master.

It is conceivable that long ago, Longhu Mountain was a holy place for cultivation for Taoism and even the entire world of extraordinary people.

Zhang Zhiwei sighed softly, "In this Dharma-Ending Age, this world can no longer support the true immortals, nor can it become gods or Buddhas. The road ahead is cut off..."

People are meant to live between heaven and earth. Even if they are at the level of a true person, it is impossible for them to live in the void for a long time.

A speck of dust from the times, weighing on the head of an individual, is like the three mountains and five peaks.

Can easily bring down the strongest individual.

As the world has entered the Dharma-Ending Age, it has become even more ruthless.

Even if one is extremely talented and gifted, facing the shackles of the Dharma-Ending Age, even if one exerts a hundred or a thousand times the effort, he may not be able to shake it.

When you are very old, you can only open your eyes wide, tense your limbs and let out a sigh.

Zhang Huaidan felt mixed emotions and an inexplicable sense of sadness. If his master had been born hundreds of years earlier, he would have achieved enlightenment by now.

Zhang Zhiwei sighed, and although he knew that it was all useless fantasy, he still couldn't help but express it.

"Huaidan, with your talent, if you could have been born a thousand years earlier, you might have achieved immortality by now, ranked among the immortal gods. An immortal in his early twenties..."

Zhang Zhiwei sighed deeply.

The world of extraordinary people in Xia Kingdom has never been cut off for thousands of years. Geniuses emerge in endlessly like fish in the river. Even the geniuses are not alone. People who have achieved the status of a true person in their teens can be found.

Huaidan may not be so dazzling in front of those people.

But Zhang Zhiwei thinks!

If Huaidan was born in a good era, he would be no worse than anyone else!

After all, in this Dharma-Ending Age with many shackles, he transformed 60% of his true Qi into Yuan Qi and became a quasi-true person!

If the time is suitable for cultivation, he would fly into the sky like a dragon and become a legend among legends - an immortal myth!

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiwei couldn't help feeling a little proud.

With such a disciple, I believe even the reincarnation of Li Er or the resurrection of Daoling would be proud of him!
Zhang Huaidan took a deep breath and said, "Master, the path is forged by human effort. Even in the Dharma-Ending Age, I believe I can attain the status of a True Person!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhiwei couldn't help but praise: "Good!"

There are billions of people in the world, but how many of them can be so steadfast and stick to their original intentions?

In winter, even getting out of bed to go to the bathroom requires a huge mental struggle, let alone insisting on attaining the status of a true person even though you know it is the end of the Dharma era.

Even climbing to the sky is relatively simple.

He told Huaidan the news of the Dharma Ending Age not because he wanted to undermine Huaidan's confidence.

Having reached this stage of cultivation and become a quasi-real person, he can more or less feel the problems of this world. Instead of guessing secretly, it is better to let him understand directly.

He also respected any choice Huaidan made. If he truly sought the truth, what did it matter even if he knew about the Dharma Ending Age?

It's nothing more than overcoming all obstacles and living up to your goals.

If he really wanted to give up because of this, he would be able to tolerate it and comfort him that it was difficult to go against the will of heaven in the Dharma Ending Age.

Zhang Huaidan calmed his mind and looked sternly: "Master, please teach me!"

Zhang Zhiwei smiled faintly: "Since you have made your choice, you also know that the road to becoming a true person is full of tribulations. There are three disasters, nine tribulations, and eighty-one difficulties. You have already overcome several of them and one tribulation."

He called Zhang Huaidan alone, of course not just to tell him the news of the Dharma Ending Age, but also to see Huaidan's choice before saying the follow-up words.

At present, Zhang Huaidan has made up his mind and is determined to go against the will of heaven in the Dharma-Ending Age and achieve the status of a true immortal.

Then, as a master, he would definitely help with all his might and would never keep anything for himself!

Zhang Huaidan nodded.

The three disasters, nine calamities and eighty-one difficulties are the tests of heaven and earth on whether practitioners can bear the status of true person. Even in the Dharma Ending Age, these tests have not disappeared. On the contrary, because the spiritual wisdom between heaven and earth has disappeared, the means of those who have achieved the status of true person are not as good as before, which makes it seem even more dangerous!
Zhang Zhiwei seemed to see through his thoughts: "That's right, in the Dharma Ending Age, the power of supernatural powers is less than one hundredth of what it was before."

"Oh?"

Zhang Huaidan had a hunch that his true form of three-headed, six-armed supernatural power might be extremely powerful in ancient times, or in other words, any supernatural power would be extremely powerful.

Zhang Zhiwei sighed, "In ancient times, the world was filled with spiritual energy. Not only did disasters resonate with each other, but so did supernatural powers. The primordial energy stirred up the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. When your supernatural powers, with their three heads and six arms, were unleashed, they should have had the power to shake mountains."

Zhang Huaidan smiled, feeling a little uncomfortable, but soon let it go.

Otherwise, why is it called the Dharma Ending Age?

Just like the sea dries up and becomes a pond.

A real person in the ocean can easily stir up thousands of waves with just a wave of his hands and feet, but in a pond, no matter how hard he tries, at best he can only create shallow waves that wet his shoes.

It really proves the saying: When the time comes, heaven and earth work together, and when it goes away, the real person is not free.

"The inspiration has disappeared, and the power of the supernatural power is less than one hundredth. Fortunately, the disaster is also like this."

After saying this, Zhang Zhiwei felt heavy in his heart.

Even so, over the past few hundred years, countless geniuses have emerged, but all they have ended up with is a sigh.

Seeing this, Zhang Huaidan actually smiled: "God is fair after all! I thought the disaster would not change."

Seeing him so relaxed, Zhang Zhiwei smiled and said, "If that's the case, then there's really no way out."

Zhang Huaidan smiled faintly. The world is ruthless, so there is no kindness. There is no unkindness without kindness.

Although he was not very interested in the so-called test between heaven and earth, he did not have much intention of resisting it. He never thought of tearing the sky into pieces to vent his anger after becoming a real person.

It is said in the scriptures that one who bears the disgrace of the country is the master of the country, and one who bears the misfortune of the country is the king of the world.

Putting inappropriate things in too high a position will undoubtedly lead to disaster.

As for why this happened, there is no need to explain it in such a mysterious way, and there is no need to analyze it in detail. It can be summed up in two simple words - unworthy!
To attain the status of a true person and be ranked among the immortals and gods, is it as simple as putting oneself in an excessively high position?
Great perseverance, great wisdom, great courage and great supernatural powers, these four are indispensable to being a true person.

The three disasters, nine calamities and eighty-one difficulties are all ways of testing the practitioners themselves, and they all express the same meaning.

you.

Is it worthy?

Zhang Huaidan naturally had to say - it fits!

Zhang Zhiwei smiled and said, "Let's get back to the topic. The Three Calamities, Nine Tribulations, and Eighty-One Difficulties can be divided into three parts: 'Calm', 'Tribulations', and 'Difficulties'. What do you think the 'Difficulties' are?"

Zhang Zhiwei recalled the obsession he had on his way into the valley. It was undoubtedly a kind of mental difficulty. In the eyes of ordinary practitioners, it can also be called the "demon in the heart", that is, the distracting thoughts, evil thoughts, and obsessions in a person's heart, which are usually in a latent state and suddenly pop up at certain points.

At the very least, it will interfere with the practitioner's judgment, and at worst, it will make the practitioner driven by these distracting thoughts.

What we usually call a stable state of mind is nothing more than controlling distracting thoughts and eliminating evil thoughts.

The so-called enlightenment of the mind means cutting off the source from the root.

While distracting and evil thoughts can be restrained through various means, obsessions are much more difficult to control.

Zhang Huaidan still clearly remembers that when he was in the valley, he was blinded by his obsession and did things that were completely different from the past, so he called it a difficult heart.

In other words, most of the eighty-one difficulties are mental difficulties that arise from the heart.

His thoughts turned, and he thought of the mercenaries who were affected, and the deceived Elijah and other aliens. That was of course also "difficult". They were all caused by Zhang Huaidan's original body, but the forms of expression were very different.

Zhang Huaidan replied: "It's difficult, but it has a clear beginning."

This is a matter of course, just as water has a source and trees have roots.

If he has no obsession in his heart, he will naturally not be tempted.

If the mercenaries didn't covet Wu Gensheng's collection, they wouldn't have come back.

If Elijah and others did not harbor any resentment towards him, then the so-called will of heaven would have no room to play out.

Zhang Zhiwei nodded slightly. Zhang Huaidan continued, "Also, the difficulty won't be incomprehensible, nor will it exceed a certain limit."

The mercenary needs to pull the trigger in his hand to shoot the fatal bullet. He cannot turn himself into a bullet and shoot it out.

Elijah and others can only use the methods they already know, and they cannot suddenly cultivate peerless magical skills to stop him.

He was tempted because of the obsession that always existed in his heart, and there was no big hand reaching out to distort his mind.

Zhang Zhiwei asked, "That's what 'difficulty' means, but what about 'disaster'?"

Zhang Huaidan was silent for a moment. He did not think that the calamity was the calamity of the humorous dart man and the monkey's heart. If he did not see through its origin and chose to suppress it violently, it did not mean that he had survived the calamity. It would definitely come again, and it would be a hundred times more terrifying than the two fused monkeys.

Because overcoming tribulation requires not only great supernatural powers, but also great wisdom to distinguish between the two.

The calamity of the monkey heart was the biggest test in this aspect. Fortunately, he possessed amazing wisdom and successfully passed the calamity of the monkey heart.

And the manifestation of this disaster is too unreasonable.

The monkey, who was neither of the two monsters, suddenly possessed infinite power and was able to fight back and forth with him who was displaying his true form of magical powers.

If he hadn't seen through the root cause, the monkey would have become stronger and stronger.

And fortunately, we are in this Dharma-Ending Age. If it were in ancient times, the Yuan Qi would have interacted with the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and it would probably not be as simple as a cave collapsing. It would really be a fierce battle with mountains collapsing and the earth splitting!

If it were still in the human city, I don’t know how many lives would be killed.

When Zhang Huaidan thought about it at this moment, he felt a little bit of palpitations.

"It arises from causes and conditions, and cannot be measured."

"Indeed, it seems you already have a deep understanding of 'disaster' and 'calamity'."

Zhang Zhiwei's eyes were filled with undisguised admiration.

Huaidan was able to survive the many hardships this time, and it was definitely not luck that was the reason.

In the secrets passed down by the Heavenly Master, the descriptions of 'disaster' and 'difficulty' are incredible, and almost no one can get through them successfully. The ancestors who left these messages should really come and see Huaidan. Disasters are indeed incredible, but there are also equally incredible people in this world!

And this person is his beloved disciple!

Zhang Huaidan then asked, "How many more disasters will we have to endure?"

He did have a premonition. It was impossible for the nine tribulations and eighty-one difficulties to pass through one by one. If this were to happen, no one in the world would be able to endure it. How could he even become an immortal? He could just go home and grow sweet potatoes!
Zhang Zhiwei shook his head: "There is no fixed number."

Zhang Huaidan was puzzled, and Zhang Zhiwei explained the situation.

The disasters vary from person to person, and it is difficult to say how many times they occur. There are even records in history that some people who have attained the status of a true person have never experienced any disasters at all.

But Zhang Huaidan was amazed. Is it so outrageous?

There is someone up there, there is someone in the sky, right?
However, Taoism has been passed down for thousands of years, and there are many records of ways to avoid disasters, such as the mysterious "merit" and "luck".

Eight hundred merits and three thousand virtues mean that those who want to become immortals need to accumulate merits and virtues.

Zhang Huaidan laughed and said, "Master, these statements are too abstruse."

Good people may not necessarily be rewarded with good things, and bad people may not necessarily be punished with bad things. Besides, how do you know if you have accumulated merits and virtues?
There is no data panel viewing.

Zhang Zhiwei was very secretive and smiled slightly, saying, "You may be able to deceive your own heart, but you cannot deceive your own nature."

The secrets of the Heavenly Master's Degree are far more detailed than what he said, and I do have some understanding of it.

However, any merit accumulation by Zhang Huaidan at the moment is just a last-minute effort, because merit requires constant accumulation, and nothing can be seen overnight.

I didn't expect that Huaidan's cultivation would improve so quickly. In the blink of an eye, he became a quasi-real person.

Zhang Huaidan was puzzled, but he didn't ask any more questions. He said half-jokingly, "The one who achieved immortality without experiencing any disasters in history is truly the one who has been favored by heaven and earth."

Zhang Zhiwei laughed, thinking that it made sense.

As someone who has experienced many disasters and knows how dangerous they are, it is inevitable that I will feel unbalanced when I hear that there are people who have never experienced any disaster.

"You're wrong. That person just hasn't experienced any disasters, but it's definitely not smooth sailing. There are some things that no matter how much merit or luck you have, you can't avoid them!"

As he spoke, Zhang Zhiwei's face became solemn.

Zhang Huaidan's breathing also stagnated. Yes, there are always some things that cannot be avoided. Even if thousands of families offer sacrifices to the living Buddha, it will be useless if he cannot pass this test.

He exhaled slowly: "Three Disasters!"

Zhang Zhiwei sighed slightly, "That's right. If calamities can be 'accommodated' by virtue of merit and luck, the Three Calamities, on the other hand, cannot be 'accommodated' at all."

Disasters vary from person to person. Generally speaking, disasters are more difficult, but that doesn’t mean that “disasters” are necessarily more difficult than “difficulties”.

The Three Disasters are undoubtedly the most difficult.

This level forms the gate between ordinary and extraordinary. Once you pass it, you will become a real person.

"The three calamities of wind, fire, and thunder. Heaven is merciless, descending from the sky to sever the foundation of humanity and destroy its life. Huaidan, oh Huaidan, do you know that even if it weren't for the Dharma Ending Age, there would be very few quasi-True Beings who could overcome the three calamities and become True Beings! How many unparalleled geniuses, whose auras filled the universe and who laughed at the world, still turned into a handful of calamity ashes!"

Zhang Zhiwei was touched.

The three disasters are truly terrifying!

Too dangerous!

If you can't cross it, you will almost certainly die.

Somehow, even though Huaidan had made countless choices in front of him, he still decided to help him to the end. He was not a person who was indecisive, but at this moment, when he thought of the Three Disasters, he actually had an impulse to hope that he would "repent and return to the right path."

After all, he is already a quasi-real person and has initially separated himself from the ordinary human race. Why should he face the three disasters head-on?

"Master..."

A turbid air was surging in his chest. Any one of the three disasters of wind, fire and thunder contained endless terror, which made those who dared to "covet" the status of a true person tremble in their hearts just thinking about it.

Disasters have no beginning, catastrophes have causes and conditions, but calamities are truly like the wrath of heaven and earth. They do not need to influence anyone’s heart, nor do they need to rely on anything. They directly bring down boundless power, bombard practitioners and turn them into dust!

Zhang Huaidan's eyes kept changing, and Zhang Zhiwei looked at him silently, with a hint of expectation in his bright and restrained eyes.

How could we just watch him face the three disasters?

Zhang Huaidan's eyes no longer flickered, like two iron courages, and he said loudly: "Master! I understand!"

Zhang Zhiwei also found it difficult to tell what he was feeling at the moment.

"Alright! Master will teach you how to avoid the three disasters!"

Seeing the divine light behind Zhang Huaidan's head, and seeing that he was on the road to becoming a true person and stepping into the realm of quasi-true person, Zhang Zhiwei made a judgment in his heart.

As a master, I must try every possible way, whether it is knowledge or strength, to help him move forward.

He was specially called over for a talk, of course not only to tell him the depressing news of the 'End of Dharma Age', but also to teach Zhang Huaidan the real method of avoiding the three disasters.

There is a saying that goes, "Just do good things and don't worry about the future. Although disasters are terrible, they can be "accommodated" through methods such as "merit" and "luck".

There is absolutely no room for compromise when it comes to the three disasters of wind, fire and thunder. The sky is filled with murderous intent, and the stars are shifting. The three disasters are the biggest and most severe tests on the road to becoming a true person.

But heaven and humans are different. Heaven is ruthless, but also benevolent. Even if it sends down three disasters violently to kill people, there is still a glimmer of hope.

In this world today, no one has been able to attain the status of a true person for hundreds of years.

But Zhang Zhiwei was the Heavenly Master of Zhengyi Dao, and Zhengyi Dao had been passed down for thousands of years. The Heavenly Master's Deeds had been passed down from generation to generation, and they happened to record the methods summed up by those real people who had survived the three disasters in ancient times.

The three disasters cannot be "compromised", but there is a possibility of "avoiding" them.

This is a method of avoiding disasters that was summed up by countless predecessors who fell before the three disasters, at the cost of handfuls of disaster ashes!
Zhang Zhiwei originally thought that he would not tell him so soon, and perhaps he would have to wait until the day of his own death. However, he did not expect that Zhang Huaidan's cultivation speed was so astonishing that he could no longer delay!
Zhang Huaidan asked in surprise, "Avoiding the three disasters?"

Zhang Zhiwei smiled slightly and looked at him with confusion in his eyes, as if he was back to more than ten years ago.

At that time, whenever Huaidan encountered difficulties in his practice, he would come to ask for advice, and he would give him guidance in every detail.

But as time went by, Huaidan's cultivation level improved day by day. He was completely a natural seed of cultivation, soaring up like a rocket. He could no longer help him with his cultivation.

(End of this chapter)