Chapter 389: Enlightenment

The eighth level of the Great Freedom Heart Sutra cuts off the realm of cause and effect, but it cuts off the cause and effect of Ling Xiao, a cultivator in Shushan, rather than the cause and effect of Ling Xiao, the owner of this body. Therefore, when the demon of the mind attacks, the Great Freedom Heart Sutra does not have any effect, and Ling Xiao even has no room for resistance!

When the last ray of sunlight was blocked by the lush mountain peaks, the whole world began to gradually become blurred. It is unknown where human fear of darkness came from, but it is obvious that light can give people a sense of safety.

Ling Xiao sat on the river bank, staring at the bushes growing by the river on the other side, listening to the long cicadas and occasional birds singing inside, the night in the mountain village was extremely quiet.

After a long time, Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows, his true energy was empty and his mental power could not be used. He is not even as good as a strong farmer now. Of course, if he had a sword in his hand, the farmer would obviously not be able to beat Ling Xiao.

The middle-aged man's name is Lin Hai, and his son is Lin Lei. In a small town dozens of miles away, there is the only local nobleman, a hereditary baron. In such a small place, it represents absolute power. At least within a radius of hundreds of miles, this noble master wants to compete with the king of the Er Empire is much more famous.

Lin Hai is an honest man. In the eyes of countless people, his son Lin Lei is much better than his cowardly father. Of course, even Lin Lei himself thinks so.

The Lin family's ancestors have never been so promising for eight generations. Although Lin Lei rarely goes home after becoming the guard of the noble master's house, he has not been much better than this promising son.

But Lin Lei is the pride of the Lin family, the pride of this village, and the consensus of everyone.

Lin Hai and his wife prepared the meal, but disappeared from the young man's return. Lin Hai was a little anxious and said, "I'll go find that brother!"

"Brothers! You don't even know where others come from! Whether he dies or not, what does it have to do with us?" Lin Hai's wife complained dissatisfiedly: "There is almost no rice in the family, but you even brought a mouth back! Last year, someone from my mother's family came, and I never saw you so enthusiastic! I followed you..."

Ling Xiao stood outside the Lin family's gate, not feeling much disappointed, but was puzzled in his heart: Is this an ordinary farm life? The couple seemed to be quarreling, but Ling Xiao could see that the couple was still very loving. Didn't they see the woman picking up food in his bowl while scolding her husband for being cowardly?

Ling Xiao sighed softly, then made some noise, Lin Hai stood up suddenly and said enthusiastically: "Brother, are you back?"

Ling Xiaoyangyang ran a bunch of fish wearing willow branches in his hand, which was five or six pounds, and said with a smile: "Let's luck seem good!"

The woman also saw the fish in Ling Xiao's hand and snorted. Although her eyes were a little unkind, she did not embarrass Ling Xiao in person. After all, she still had to take care of her man's face.

"You are really amazing! I usually go fishing, but I can't catch many."

Lin Hai smiled honestly, and then said to his wife: "Go and make this fish, make it fresh, my brother and I have two drinks." After saying that, he smiled at Ling Xiao with an apology and said: "You are poor at home, don't be surprised by it, brother!"

The woman surprisingly did not object. In fact, she did not hate Ling Xiao very much. The young man had red lips and white teeth, just like a man liked beauty. When this woman saw a handsome man, she was willing to take a few more glances.

It’s just that the family is poor, the oppression of life and the rolling eyes of her mother and her family at her men made her gradually become worldly. The so-called love without reason and hatred without reason. That’s it.

So, although she was angry that her husband picked up someone for no reason, she would still protect her own man's face in front of Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao smiled and said, "Where did you save me and leave me here. I'm so grateful."

Although this woman is a little tricky, the dishes are still very good!

The fish in the river were made of her, both of them were full of color, fragrance and taste. Ling Xiao and the middle-aged Lin Hai drank each other. The wine in the mountain village was indeed very inferior. Any one of Ling Xiao’s ring was more than a hundred times better than this one, but Ling Xiao was very happy to drink it.

Just like an ordinary villager, Ling Xiao, who had no strength, was drunk! Lin Hai said a lot to this young man. When he was young, his wife showed a light of remembrance in his eyes. It seemed that everyone had their own story.

Although Ling Xiao was drunk, he had a lot of insights. This kind of real life that he had never experienced in his past and present lives. It was so fresh!

Enter the world, enter the world!

It’s not that if you wander around the world, you are called entering the world. Only in this way can you truly start from the bottom of society, observe their joys, angers, sorrows, and joys, and taste their emotions and desires, be called entering the world!

Ling Xiao finally didn't even know what he said and fell asleep in a drowsy way.

Lin Hai's wife seemed to be infected by the atmosphere and did not speak coldly to Ling Xiao anymore. Instead, she carried him into the room and placed him on the bed.

In the middle of the night, when Ling Xiao woke up, everything in the world was quiet, and it was as dark as ink outside.

Ling Xiao rubbed his head with his hands. He was hangover for the first time in his life. It felt really not very good. He had a split headache and felt even more exhausted.

Ling Xiao actually decided to leave here when he was drinking with Lin Hai tonight. His existence will cause trouble to the family. He doesn't want to bother them too much.

Ling Xiao touched all over his body and finally found a purse on his waist. The purse was still the clothes themselves. Ling Xiao remembered throwing a handful of gold coins inside at that time, because when entering and leaving public places, it would seem a bit silly to take gold coins from the space ring.

Although Ling Xiao would not care about being targeted, he felt quite uncomfortable when facing those strange looks.

Ling Xiao weighed it with his hand and found that there seemed to be more than twenty gold coins inside. The gold coins were common among countries in the Eastern Continent. More than twenty gold coins were exchanged for copper plates, which was more than twenty thousand. If he had saved money, it would probably be enough for families like Lin Hai and others to take two years.

Ling Xiao put the purse on his bed, then quietly got up, the snoring sounds from the room over there were clearly sounds, and Ling Xiao gently pushed open the door. The yellow local dog in the yard raised his head vigilantly. Seeing that it was Ling Xiao, he lowered his head again. It seemed that during dinner in the evening, Ling Xiao threw a fish and bought it. So he saw Ling Xiao without making any noise.

Ling Xiao walked out of the Lin family courtyard, and then followed the path I remembered during the day and began to walk out. As for where he was going, he himself didn't know.

...

The next morning, it was a little cold, and Lin Hai and his wife were used to getting up early. Lin Hai rubbed his head and stretched his waist and said to himself: "What did I say last night? I must have drunk too much, right?"

The woman looked at her husband gently and rolled her eyes. Last night, the husband was moved by her heart. The woman couldn't sleep all night and thought a lot. She felt that although her life was a little poor over the years, her husband and her husband respected each other as guests. Although her life was worse than the sisters in her parents' home, the couple was the most harmonious.

"Yes, if you drink too much, don't drink so much wine in the future." The woman said softly.

Lin Hai was stunned. In my memory, his wife hadn't spoken to him in this tone for a long time. It seemed that his wife was so happy when her son entered the Baron Master's house as a guard, right?

The couple seemed to be back to their youth, and sat on the bed and kept warm with each other for a while. Just as Lin Hai was full of desire, the woman pushed him away, her face blushed, her eyes were as charming as silk, and she said slightly, "There is a little guy over there!"

Lin Hai's desire suddenly decreased and finally disappeared, and then he smiled bitterly: "I forgot."

The couple got up and after cooking, they found that the door of the west house was covered with no movement inside. Lin Hai's wife said, "Go and take a look..."

The couple looked at the empty bed and the money in their wallet, which was definitely a huge sum of money to them, and they were all a little dazed.

"This money..."

The woman's eyes emitted a ray of light, and more than twenty gold coins! They are all real gold coins for the mainland, and even the gold coins issued by the Essay Empire are pure! One gold coin can be exchanged for 1,100 copper coins! However, ordinary Seer Empire coins can only be exchanged for 1,000 coins!

"Can't it come from wrong, right?"

Although the woman wanted to take the money for herself, she was a little worried that even the Seer Empire coins could be rarely seen in their small village, let alone such general gold coins in the mainland with extremely high purity.

Lin Hai sighed lightly and said, "Please accept it, he won't come back, and the money is absolutely fine!"

"Why?" the woman asked. At this time, it was revealed who is the true backbone of this family? No matter how powerful a woman is, she must listen to her own men at critical moments.

"intuition."

Lin Hai smiled with a little self-deprecating smile: "I should have seen that he is not an ordinary person. Didn't you see that he is very different from those of us in the mountain village?"

The woman curled her lips: "What's that? You were once an adventurer at the level of a great swordsman! If it weren't for you, our son would have learned martial arts and entered the noble master's house as a guard?" The woman said, holding the man's arm with a proud look on her face and said in a daze: "I have always liked you so much!"

"But I already..." A painful expression flashed in Lin Hai's eyes. An injury many years ago caused his meridians to be completely destroyed. He had many enemies and had to live in seclusion here and become an ordinary person.

A smile appeared on the woman's face and she reached out to cover Lin Hai's mouth: "Don't say that again! Good people will be rewarded, but you are the ones in charge!... Let's calculate how to use this money! I have always wanted to go to the town to do some small business, and now I have the capital..."

Ling Xiao may never know that his actions of repaying love will make a family more successful.

Walking on the road, Ling Xiao experienced the real hardship for the first time!

This kind of hard work is not the hard work he rode in a luxurious carriage and rushed from the imperial capital to Pengzes City; nor is it the hard work he ran thousands of miles to go to Qicai City to rescue his sister Ling Su; nor is it the hard work he crossed the vast ocean and spent two years traveling around the East and West Continents!

This is a kind of real hard work for a small person.

The vicious sun shone on his body, and sweat broke out layer by layer. He looked up at the blue sky without a trace of clouds, and even felt dizzy.

A fear arose in Ling Xiao's heart. If he lets himself live like this for the rest of his life, it will definitely be a terrible thing for him!

Grasping this fear, Ling Xiao thought carefully, but he was still a little short of it. It was indeed difficult to understand the "fear" of the seven emotions, but Ling Xiao's mental state and cultivation were gradually perfect!

Although the true essence and mental power disappeared, Ling Xiao could already feel that his Taoist heart was slowly but firmly improving with his recent insights.

Ling Xiao climbed over a mountain and stood at a high place to look down. The mountain road was winding and weeds were overgrown, which was a good place for thieves to cut the path. Ling Xiao smiled mockingly. He was now poor and had no copper in his pocket. He was wearing coarse cloth clothes. I am afraid that thieves would turn a blind eye to him when they saw him.

A sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded far behind, and the sound vibrated so that the ground trembled slightly.

A shocked expression appeared on Ling Xiao's face, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, thinking that I wouldn't be so crow-mouthed, right? Such a poor and bad place, at most a few unlucky people would be. How could there be a horse thief?

Ling Xiao had just walked through this mountain path and knew in his heart that it would be difficult for ordinary horses to walk slowly on such rugged mountain roads, let alone run at high speed like this. Therefore, the visitor could never be an ordinary person, but must be someone who is extremely familiar with the environment here!

Ling Xiao thought to himself, feeling the vibration on the ground getting stronger and stronger, and then looking at the mountain behind, the forest was surprised by a bird, with large pieces of yellow smoke and dust rising, and hurried to the side of the road. At this time, the other leader had already seen Ling Xiao, shouted, clamped his legs, and the group of black horses under his crotch neighed a long time, and the speed suddenly accelerated, and he ran on the mountain road as if he was walking on the flat ground!

Ling Xiao said intimately that the long horse whip in the other party's hand had already rolled towards him. Ling Xiao didn't have time to dodge and felt his neck suddenly being clamped, and a suffocating feeling came.

The knight leader had no expression of pity on his face, and a deep feeling of excitement appeared in his eyes. He shouted again, held Ling Xiao with the whip, and ran out along the downhill with the first horse-drawn horse!

Ling Xiao's body was wrapped in a horse whip, and the suffocation feeling became heavier and heavier. The golden moonlight armor that had been refined by Ling Xiao suddenly extended up a little, protecting Ling Xiao's neck, so that Ling Xiao could survive.

The clothes on his body had been dragged to pieces, and the exposed areas were bloody and flesh, and there were even a few places on his arms that showed lush white bones.

There were twenty or thirty riders behind them, and they all shouted loudly in excitement.

One of them laughed: "Damn, I don't have to pretend to be a dead body this time!"

Another knight was very close to him, slapped him on the forehead, laughing and said, "Yes, haha!" As he said that, he clamped his legs and quickly jumped out.

The knight was slapped and muttered a few words, with a little dissatisfaction in his eyes.

That’s right, they are just a group of authentic bandits, robbing families, forcing women, and robbing vendors. They are all their jobs. Within a radius of hundreds of miles nearby, this group of bandits is famous!

The noble Baron Lord here has sent troops several times to completely wipe out this group of damn bandits, but these people are cunning as rats, but they are as fierce as tigers! They escaped every time, but they have a grudge against the Baron, thinking about revenge.

Recently, a batch of goods came in from another place. When the bandits learned about it, they made up their minds and wanted to lie alone in the middle of the road. When their convoy stopped, they suddenly launched an attack!

Although the Baron's convoy had guards, these bandits were not given for free. These twenty or thirty cavalry were definitely elite! Among them, there were even those who had served in the national army!

Ling Xiao was dragged, his mind was sometimes unconscious and sometimes awake, his eyes were fascinated by the dust, and he could not open it at all. He could only hear the neat and surging horse hooves, as well as the loud shouts and shouts of the knights.

A human instinctive fear burst out uncontrollably and instantly filled Ling Xiao’s sea of ​​consciousness! This fear is not something that humans can control. This is the feeling that all living things will have when facing death!

A trace of enlightenment flashed through Ling Xiao's mind instantly. He grasped this feeling tightly and understood the emotion of "fear" in the seven emotions in this moment!

It turns out...this is fear!

Ling Xiao's body had almost no good place on the outside, it was broken and bloody, but his spirit was extremely excited! At this moment, Ling Xiao felt that there seemed to be another fear in his heart.

"break!"

Ling Xiao's throat rolled, making a sound that no one heard!

That other fear suddenly became the obsession left by Ling Xiao in the past!

Hate, kill, fear!

Ling Xiao, Ling Xiao, what are you leaving in your mind? In addition to your paranoid love for Xie Xiaoyan, it actually deeply hides so many negative emotions!

Ling Xiao sighed in his heart, but he also knew that Ling Xiao was like this in the past, but it actually had nothing to do with others!

If a person puts himself in this emotion and cannot extricate himself, over time, even without Xie Xiaoyan, Ling Xiao would have embarked on the road of no return!

A powerful thought burst out from Ling Xiao's mind, trapping the obsession that belonged to Ling Xiao in the past. The obsession was extremely powerful. If it were not for this critical situation of life and death, even if Ling Xiao was strong, he would never have noticed it!

On this side, Ling Xiao’s mind was frantically searching for the obsessions that belonged to another Ling Xiao. On the other side, the bandit leader had already dragged Ling Xiao to a smooth land.

Then, with a whip raised, Ling Xiao's body was thrown out heavily, making a muffled sound, and then it didn't move, smashing a piece of dust.
Chapter completed!