Chapter 385: Good and Evil of Mortals

Time continues to pass and the hill remains quiet.

The village has expanded and expanded and now has a population of nearly 400 people.

Originally Zhao Guanshan’s courtyard was on the edge, but now it is almost becoming the center of the village.

When the older generation who used to fear him passed away and the younger and stronger generation took over the village, their fear of Zhao Guanshan gradually faded. Of course, this was also related to the fact that he would not leave his yard for many years.

In addition, it must be said that these mortals are also excellent targets for Zhao Guanshan to observe the rhythm of life.

“Immortal Riding the Wind!”

A burly old man with a full beard stood outside the yard and looked greedily at Zhao Guanshan’s vegetable garden. The fruits and vegetables here were growing quite well and were unique in the village.

The farmland reclaimed in the village is quite fertile, but it always feels like something is missing.

If it wasn’t really impossible to get in, he would have been instigated to go in and steal things since he was a teenager.

“Is something wrong?”

Zhao Guanshan walked out of the room and asked calmly, “It has been the eighty-second year since the immortal world returned to normal. Yang Ti’s sister has been dead for twenty years, and the middle-aged man in front of him is Yang Ti’s nephew. He is currently the oldest guy in the village and seems to be over fifty years old.”

“Master, I want to discuss something with you. You see, there are more and more young people in the village recently, and they are getting married to each other. This won’t work. If we can form an alliance with another village, that would be great.”

Zhao Guanshan listened quietly without saying anything.

Seeing that he didn’t say anything, the old man chuckled and said, “I was thinking, Immortal, you are so powerful, why don’t you do us a favor? You see, I have three daughters, six nieces, and two nephews, all of whom are as beautiful as flowers. I see that you are very handsome, why don’t you lend us your seed?”

what!
Zhao Guanshan still didn’t say anything, but the old man didn’t give up. He changed the subject and said, “If the Immortal Master doesn’t agree to lend us the money, you can help us by going down the mountain to find a matchmaker or something like that. After all, you, the Immortal Master, have watched us grow up, and you can’t bear to see so many monsters appear in this village, right?”

Hearing this, Zhao Guanshan nodded and said, “What you said makes sense, but it is inconvenient for me to go down the mountain, so you should find a way by yourselves.”

“Don’t, Immortal, people are all made of flesh and blood. How about I kowtow to you?”

The old man pretended to kneel down, but his knees bent and then bounced back.

Zhao Guanshan looked at him calmly, without anger, watching monkey shows, or threatening. He was just observing. This old man might be considered a variation of life. What changed was not his body, but his personality and consciousness.

“So it’s no wonder that the Fallen Immortal starts with people’s emotions and personalities, because the evil of human nature is indeed a kind of pollution.”

For a moment, Zhao Guanshan’s thoughts were scattered and he was in a state of confusion. When he came back to his senses, several months had passed and the old man was gone. However, outside his yard, there were a group of people crying and wailing, demanding justice.

But a few months ago, the old man finally couldn’t help it, and led a team of young and strong people carefully down the mountain and walked onto the deserted road, wanting to plan a future for the village. As a result, he never came back.

What to do? We can only ask the powerful immortal to save us.

If you don’t save us, we will slap our thighs and cry loudly, and kneel here without getting up. You want peace and quiet, but I won’t let you have it.

So Zhao Guanshan simply continued to daydream. This was not the first time this happened. Yang Ti’s parents, his sister, and those people had used the same trick decades ago.

He felt that this was the karma she brought back from her repeated reincarnations.

But this is just the beginning. When he reincarnates for the third time, maybe he will bring back a few immortal cultivators.

In this kind of thing, anyone who gets involved will lose.

In a blink of an eye, several years passed. Occasionally, there would be a pile of rotten vegetable leaves or a few dead rats outside Zhao Guanshan’s yard.

If you are lucky, you will see a group of people shouting aggressively to drive him out…

It was at this time that two uninvited guests finally came to the mountain.

A man and a woman, they should be a couple, because the woman’s belly is slightly bulging, which means she is pregnant.

Well, the beginning of the third life is a bit complicated, so let’s directly increase the difficulty.

Seeing strangers going up the mountain, the people in the village were almost crazy with joy. They had wanted to go down the mountain in recent years, but they were afraid. Two waves of people had gone there and never returned. Who wouldn’t be afraid?

But if we let them go and find out for themselves, we’re afraid they won’t come back.

“Everyone, my husband and I are just passing through your precious place. We have no ill intentions. You don’t need to mobilize so many troops.”

The two men were also frightened by the villagers who rushed out and thought they had entered a robber’s den.

But they are all cultivators, so naturally they are not afraid of mere bandits.

“We are guests from afar and have no ill intentions. Young man, let me ask you a question: Is everything peaceful down there? Are there any monsters that eat people?”

A woman asked anxiously.

“It’s naturally peaceful at the foot of the mountain. Maybe in today’s world of immortal cultivation, there are still many monsters hiding in strange and wild places, but I can guarantee that there are no monsters at the foot of the mountain!” The man smiled and thought, these must be refugees who took refuge in the mountains at some point, so pitiful.

However, this hill has no strange peaks or valleys. It is just a lonely hill and looks ordinary. Why don’t these villagers go down the mountain to take a look? After all, there is a big city nearby with a population of one million and a famous residence of a spiritual practice sect.

Of course, he didn’t think much about it. He just bowed and was about to leave with his wife. They really came out for an outing. If his wife hadn’t said that the hill was quite interesting, they would not have climbed the mountain.

“Wait a minute! You are not lying to us, are you? Or you are an accomplice of the demons. You dare not make trouble and eat people in the mountains, so you have to trick us down the mountain to eat us.”

Some villagers had some creative ideas.

The man was almost laughing out of anger, but he still patiently explained:
“Everyone, I am a cultivator at the Golden Core Realm. What’s the point of lying to you mortals? I just took my wife out for fun, that’s all. If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing I can do.”

“Then can you use your children to swear that you are not lying to us?” another villager asked harshly.

Hearing this, the man’s face was instantly filled with gloom, and the murderous aura almost became real. He really couldn’t have imagined that there would still be such foolish men and women in the world of cultivating immortals!
Do you really not know how to write the word death?
However, after looking at his wife, for the sake of the unborn child, he no longer paid attention to these foolish men and women. He snorted coldly, and a gust of wind swept over, throwing all the villagers to the ground. They fell with bloody heads and cried for their parents. When they got up again, the two men were nowhere to be seen.

And it was not until this moment that they finally understood what fear was.

Zhao Guanshan witnessed the whole thing, but did not intervene, nor did he plan to come out to say hello. Even though the villagers became more and more hateful and more and more rogue, he definitely did not intervene. To him, this was more like the process of a living life deteriorating and moldy, which was very helpful for him to further understand the logic of the operation of karma.

It sounds ruthless, but this is the best defense strategy Zhao Guanshan can come up with. Forget about going down the mountain now, he won’t even go out of the courtyard. He is resolute and firm, without any karma.

“This is the evil of mortals. It is intertwined with the good of mortals, and they are not mutually exclusive. Those who do good all day long may suddenly do evil when the external environment changes. Those who do evil all day long also have shining points of humanity.”

“But when you are in it, you can’t see clearly what is good and what is evil, because behind good and evil there are emotions, joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, worry, fear, and so on, which influence each other. It’s like chaos, and you can’t tell which one will emerge.”

“And the good and evil of mortals is not limited to mortals. Immortal cultivators and Qigong practitioners are no exception. At best, it is because of their practice that their self-control ability has gradually improved.”

“But, is there any connection between the good and evil of mortals and the mechanism of karma? Is this just the bottom layer? Is there also the good and evil of heaven and earth above it?”

As Zhao Guanshan was thinking, there was also a ball of almost invisible light mist in his hand, which was almost invisible under the daylight, but this was the large model of the mechanical Taoist talisman that he deployed for simulation training.

It is a chaos algorithm that takes the Lihuo Taoist Talisman as its foundation and backbone, the Mechanical Taoist Talisman as its entry point, and its ultimate goal is to coordinate and resonate with the rhythmic laws of life.

Alternatively, it can also be seen as a new kind of Taoist talisman.

This talisman does not save others, nor does it save yourself, it only saves karma.

Of course, it’s just overthinking now.

After a long time, he opened his eyes, and the invisible light mist in his hands slowly condensed together and turned into a grain of green merit sand.

That’s right, in order to avoid revealing the secret, Zhao Guanshan directly used the green merit sand to evolve and calculate.

The effect seems good so far.

The other green grain of merit sand was melted in the fire of life. He had no choice but to do so.

At present, he has not absorbed any spiritual energy from the outside world, and is completely supported by the innate pure yang energy generated by his pure yang body. However, this cannot last long, so it is necessary to integrate a green merit, which directly increases the upper limit of his lifespan from the original 1,200 years to the current 4,200 years.

Without lifespan, everything is nonsense.

To others, it may not make sense at all.

But for Zhao Guanshan, this is a battle in the void. This battlefield is not just a head-on confrontation, but also needs to be considered from all angles.

“what?”

Suddenly, he had an idea in his mind, glanced around, and sighed. See, trouble is coming.

But at the foot of the mountain, a delicate little girl, about four or five years old, was standing on a deserted path, looking at the hill curiously.

There was no adult around.

Yue, are there such irresponsible parents in this world?
The villagers rushed over with shining eyes as if they had seen gold ingots. The little girl seemed to be frightened and ran away crying.

Perhaps the villagers suddenly became braver at this moment, or perhaps it was because the little girl was too harmless. If she could do it, so could we.

Then, at least forty or fifty villagers rushed down the deserted path, and then ran farther and farther away, and could no longer be seen.

The village was once again filled with cries.

However, Zhao Guanshan sighed. The little girl was frightened. He didn’t know whether she would imagine this place to be an extremely evil place in the future and subconsciously stay away from it.

You see, he felt that these people in the village were the karma she brought back.

(End of this chapter)