Xiu Erdai's daily essays

2352_ want to be unlucky

Qi Jing: "See, can't you see people? Array?"

Me: "Don't misunderstand, what I mean is that you secretly spread warnings for Lengshuixi to cause people to fall, catch a cold, the ground collapsed, and the pillars cracked, etc., trying to make customers think that Lengshuixi is dilapidated and has bad luck, and then let Lengshui It is shameful for Xixi to lose customers and let those customers choose Jing Jinfeng to worship again. It is impossible for you to say that you are showing this method to the customers you want to attract?"

Me: "There is nothing shady about the formation itself, but there may be ways to use the formation."

Qi Jing and Zhu Yiling are now facing me.Because Zhu Yiling has some familiarity with me, she stands in a more relaxed posture and looks around; Qi Jing is more cautious. Except for asking Zhu Yiling for help before, her main line of sight has always been on me, only the corners of her eyes From the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Zhu Yiling.

I made some adjustments to Zhu Yiling's appearance from her corner of the eye, erased all Zhu Yiling's winking and hinting reminders, and replaced it with a respectful and slightly ADHD look, that is, let Qi Jing couldn't get the message from Zhu Yiling.

So amid Zhu Yiling's hasty shaking of the head, Qi Jing gave an 'ah' and said, "Senior Brother Sect Leader even told you this? I knew Junior Brother Zhu didn't have the ability to keep it secret."

Her Junior Brother Zhu rolled her eyes and gave up the reminder, but she couldn't see it.

Then, Qi Jing confessed: "I really wanted to use the formation to make Lengshuixi look unlucky, but I finally gave up, because now Lengshuixi has held a big event, which has attracted many ordinary people. It does not affect any mortal."

Qi Jing: "When I was hesitant to retreat, I was discovered by the disciple of Lengshuixi and was laughed at. He said, 'If I were you, I would only attack mortals, and this will scare mortals away quickly. You just let We Lengshuixi disciples are unlucky, maybe mortals will find it interesting, but more people will come to see our unlucky appearance, which will completely deviate from your expectations'."

This kind of statement... "What kind of cultivation is the disciple of Lengshuixi who laughed at you?" I asked.

Qi Jing: "The foundation building period is the same as mine."

Me: "That's the elder of Lengshuixi..."

Zhu Yiling: "It's wrong to attack mortals, Senior Pei?"

Me: "This kind of behavior itself is not necessarily wrong, but when it is used as a means, and when it is used to show off this means and ridicule those who do not use this means, there is basically no good chance." To be precise, this is a demon , or preparing to become a demon, or agreeing with the behavior of demons is only the attitude of those who dare not become demons themselves.

2353_For my own cultivation and development

The world of comprehension has always had a very scrutinizing attitude towards bullying the weak, not to the absolute point of "criticize and accuse as soon as it happens", it also regards "the strong can kill the weak at will" as common sense, but bullying the weak by the strong is at most acceptable , and will never be praised, let alone encouraged.

From the perspective of spiritual power, mortals are so weak that their combat power is zero, and any monk who hurts mortals is bullying.In addition, due to the huge differences in living environment, life needs, life goals, etc., there will be basically no resource conflicts or conflicts between mortals and monks.A high cultivation base hurts a low cultivation base may also be the reason for 'revenge for the junior' and 'seizing rare items', but when a monk hurts a mortal, it is almost just a meaningless vent—including demons using the lives of mortals to do it Those life extensions, forced upgrades, etc. are just futile.

A monk has a long life and can waste a lot of time in many seemingly boring places, but in order to go further on his own path, he needs to make every step of himself beneficial to his own path.Maybe monks often don't know what is suitable for their own way, but at least some things that are definitely inappropriate and harmful can be blacklisted early. Bullying mortals meaninglessly is one of them, and almost all ways are not suitable. required behavior.

Don't be a bully.For monks, this is not for morality or kindness, but for a very common utilitarian reason: for their own cultivation and development.

Gaining pleasure, a sense of accomplishment, and a sense of satisfaction from bullying those who are weaker than yourself, all kinds of feelings come too easily, and it will make the monk feel ecstatic, feel that he is powerful and omnipotent, and then self-satisfied, self-satisfied, and stagnant... It's over .

The first test item for many sects to recruit new disciples is mountain climbing. If there are no mountains in the sect's territory, it will be similar, such as trekking in swamps, descending cliffs, etc.

On the way up the mountain, the way down the mountain is easy, but the way up the mountain is very difficult.After getting used to the lightness of going down the mountain, can you still move forward on the difficult uphill road?Someone could, but that was too little to be considered in advance.

Putting this test item at the beginning is a hint: cultivation is like sailing against the current, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. You need to be vigilant at all times, and don’t give yourself the temptation to shrink back and relax.

Only by constantly practicing against people who are at the same level as you or stronger than yourself can you maintain and improve your hand feeling; if you are keen on abuse of food and treat abuse of food as fun, sooner or later you will become a food.

I asked Qi Jing: "Is Lengshuixi like this before? Want to annex you and treat mortals as tools?"

2354_attitude change

Qi Jing: "No, in the past, Lengshuixi was very humble to us, and often came to ask us about cultivation matters. They have always had more contact with mortals than we do. Sometimes they get commissions from mortals that they are difficult to handle, and they will Transferring it to us is to ask for help in name, but it is actually giving us some income."

Qi Jing: "Jing Jinfeng's decline did not start in the past two years. After the change of Lingmai, in order to break up with Lingmai peacefully, our strength declined even more, but during the long period of our decline in strength , Lengshuixi and we still maintain the relationship that they respect us. Until the last few years, about five or six years, Lengshuixi's attitude towards us has changed from looking up to looking down, and then to contempt. At the same time, their attitude towards mortals has also changed. less and less concerned.”

Qi Jing: "Senior Pei suspects it's a demon? But we checked and found no sign of a demon. Moreover, Lengshuixi mainly doesn't care about ordinary people. Although they also design various programs to get benefits from ordinary people, they are getting more and more. The more he doesn't take mortals seriously, but Lengshuixi didn't take any actual action to hurt mortals. Even if he said "should attack mortals" like this time, it was just words. I don't remember this kind of behavior Is it a demon?"

Injury because of not caring is like stepping on an ant under a dead leaf without paying attention when walking.

Me: "You don't need to delve too deeply into the definition of demons, just care about whether you agree with Lengshuixi's practice."

Zhu Yiling: "Of course I don't agree, they are threatening our survival."

Me: "Well, the basis for judging directly to the point."

Zhu Yiling smiled, and seeing Qi Jing's disapproving eyes, he quickly put away his smile.

Me: "Did something special happen to Lengshuixi five or six years ago? Or met someone special?"

Qi Jing: "Yes. At that time, Lengshuixi received two distinguished guests one after another, and one of them has stayed in Lengshuixi until now, as their... guest elder. Because of the existence of this guest elder, Lengshuixi has been in love with you all these years. The titles of the foundation-building period have all changed, and the younger generations call these original foundation-building elders seniors or uncles, avoiding the title of elder."

Me: "The guest elder is the Jindan stage?"

Qi Jing: "Yes."

Leng Shuixi wanted to swallow Jing Jinfeng, it seemed that they didn't just want to get more disciples and win more mortal customers, they planned to become a third-rate sect themselves, a sect that was truly recognized by the cultivation world.

2355_Guest Elder

The so-called 'guest elders' are monks who have the same level of cultivation as the elders of this sect, but were not trained by this sect.When a sect needs to do something that is very difficult and beyond their own capabilities, they may pass some transactions and invite monks who are considered elders to them to come and help out temporarily.

Even if a monk whose cultivation level is lower than that of the elders is invited, the peak strength of the sect cannot be raised—just like Yunxiazong and Jianzong fighting, if they can't fight, they can't find helpers. ——Cultivators higher than this level cannot be invited, so only monks with the same level of cultivation as the elders of this sect can be invited.

Visiting Elder, Nominal Elder, Honorary Elder, Temporary Elder and other titles have almost the same meaning, and when sects give these elders titles, they generally don’t think too much about the background of the other party, as long as they are not friends of the enemy. As for It doesn't matter if this person is a disciple of another sect, has a bad reputation, or behaves badly. Anyway, it's just temporary cooperation and fair trade, as long as he can restrain his current opponent.Time was running out, so it was impossible to pick helpers slowly. Besides, helpers who were strong enough and affordable by this sect, it would be great if they could be found. There was no room for picking and choosing.

Sometimes, the sect and guest elders can also reach a long-term cooperation intention. The guest elder may need to use some special abilities of the sect, so he will be their backing for a long time, not actually helping them with things, but just showing off. State: I cover this sect, anyone who wants to bully them should consider me first.

This sense of existence can exchange a lot of resources every year, so some casual cultivators, although they are not willing to become disciples of the sect, do not mind being the guest elders of the sect, which is free and beneficial; They will do this, but they can't just consider the benefits, they also have to consider whether the sect that gives them benefits conflicts with their own sect, or although there is no conflict now, there may be in the future.

——It may be possible, or you can ignore it first, and then abandon it when the conflict breaks out. Sometimes you can turn back the water and get some information back for your own sect.But generally can't become an undercover agent.Two sects that may be in conflict, even if one sect invites the disciples of the other sect to help, at most they will only temporarily borrow their force, and will not give them the opportunity to access the core secrets of their own sect.

For long-term visiting elders, the sect will consider the person's origin and background more, and don't require complete innocence, at least not to be a drag on their own sect.For example, a monk who is bloodthirsty and makes enemies everywhere, even if the sect does not consider that he may injure or kill his own disciples, he still has to consider that his enemies may anger and endanger the safety of his own disciples.