Chapter 881 Discussing Taoism with Lu Ya

Even though Huan Yin pondered over and over again about what was the truth, he could not find a breakthrough point in the problem. He had no clue at all. But this was not surprising. After all, this problem had troubled him for hundreds of years. How could he suddenly figure it out when he came to Ziyin Sect?

What really troubled Huan Yin was that it was meaningless for him to read a lot of classics in Ziyin Sect, and it could not help him find the answer to this question. In fact, in Huan Yin's opinion, the contents in the classics repeatedly explained from all aspects that all cultivation methods were true, which was exactly the opposite of the feeling that Xuanyuan Sword and Jiangling gave Huan Yin, which made him even more distressed.

Moreover, if you think about it a little bit, you can find that Ziyin Sect is the largest sect in the human world, and it is also the peak existence in the entire Three Realms, so the collection of classics in Ziyin Sect is probably hard to match in the Three Realms. In this way, even the classics of Ziyin Sect can't find any clues, it seems that it can be considered that the classics in this world are almost impossible to give Huan Yin an answer.

It would be fine if the classics could not help, but what made Huan Yin feel even more helpless was that when he asked for his questions from super senior masters such as Wei Bing and Guang Chengzi, he not only did not get any answers, but instead received strange looks. From those looks, Huan Yin felt like he was looking at an idiot, as if Wei Bing and Guang Chengzi thought that Huan Yin's brain was damaged by cultivation. And obviously, they had never thought about the question Huan Yin raised, never doubted that the Taoism they practiced was false, and naturally never thought about what was true.

People like Wei Bing and Guang Chengzi, whose cultivation was much higher than Huan Yin's today, were definitely at the top of the three realms. In this way, their understanding of Taoism can be regarded as the top understanding of the current cultivation world. And in their understanding, there was no doubt about the so-called true Taoism, so it can almost be said that no one in the current cultivation world has the same doubts as Huan Yin.

As for the classics, they were written by past successful practitioners of Taoism. The contents represent the essence of the thoughts of many predecessors in the long river of history, and are a collection of their various understandings of Taoism. In such a collection of understandings, there is no doubt about truth and falsehood. Doesn't it mean that in the past history of Taoism, no one has ever had the doubts in Huanyin's heart?

No one thinks the same as Huanyin, not now, and not in the past. In this way, Huanyin is like a unique person from ancient times to the present, and is completely isolated. All signs seem to indicate that Huanyin seems to have really thought too much, and the feeling brought to him by the two magical objects of Xuanyuan Sword and Jiangling is just illusory, not real.

If it were someone else, he would probably give up when encountering this situation, thinking that he really thought about the Tao, and he would have to adjust his thoughts and remind himself not to make the same mistake again in the future. However, Huanyin is not like this.

Huanyin has a very strong character, and there are few people in the entire Three Realms who can compare with him. Such a resolute mind can make Huanyin always keep his original heart and nature unchanged, and will not be easily shaken by the mixed and chaotic information.

Take this matter for example. Since Huanyin has already determined the fact that there are mysteries in Xuanyuan Sword and Jiangling, no matter what he does, he will start from the facts, try to dig and seek the real answer. As for the so-called herd mentality, it can't make Huanyin abandon the real facts. Even if Wei Bing and Guangchengzi deny it, and all the classics deny it, it still can't change Huanyin, and can't defeat Huanyin's determination.

However, such persistence is naturally very stressful. After all, there is no like-minded person, just like a person walking on a dark unknown road, not knowing where the starting point is, where the end point is, and even where he is.

Fortunately, Huanyin thought of Lu Ya Zhenren in the end. Lu Ya Zhenren promised to preach to Huanyin several times in these three years, and in the first two years, Huanyin did learn a lot from Lu Ya Zhenren.

In this last year, Lu Ya Zhenren had other plans for Huan Yin, and planned to tell Huan Yin some things he had thought of in advance. However, after Huan Yin presented his questions to Lu Ya Zhenren, Lu Ya Zhenren no longer had the opportunity to say what he wanted to say.

Lu Ya Zhenren is worthy of being the master of the human world and a human immortal. When he first heard Huan Yin's question, he did not show a strange look like Wei Bing and Guang Chengzi, but became extremely shocked.

Huan Yin will never forget the first sentence Lu Ya Zhenren said after receiving his question: "Did the emperor also find this problem?"

And Huan Yin will never forget that when he asked the question, Lu Ya Zhenren showed a shocked expression in front of him for the first time. In that expression, there was also a deep complexity, as if after thousands of years, he finally found a soulmate and a fellow traveler.

From the moment Huan Yin asked the question, Lu Ya Zhenren's attitude towards Huan Yin changed completely. If Lu Ya's respect for Huan Yin was due to Huan Yin's status as the Heavenly Emperor, then when talking about the question of truth and falsehood, Lu Ya would be speaking to someone of the same level of cultivation, as if he were talking to the Heavenly Emperor at his peak, completely on an equal footing. Moreover, whenever Lu Ya talked about this issue, he would not use the tone of preaching and answering questions, but only probing, doubting, and discussing, as if he were discussing the Dao with Huan Yin.

Finally, Huan Yin was relieved to find someone who had the same doubts as him, not to mention that this person was the human immortal Lu Ya. But it was obvious that Lu Ya Zhenren did not understand Huan Yin's doubts. He was in a state of doubt and confusion and could not give Huan Yin any definite answers. In many places, Lu Ya Zhenren even had to ask Huan Yin for advice and ask Huan Yin for his various opinions.

In this way, in the last year of staying in Ziyin Sect, Huan Yin and Lu Ya Zhenren communicated more than ever before. And every time they communicated, they only had one unchanging topic - what is the truth?

The two kept talking and discussing, and they gained a lot. However, the question of what is the truth seems to be in a huge vortex. Therefore, even if they discussed it many times and had some insights, they found themselves sinking deeper and deeper, and there were more and more doubts in their minds.

Of course, no matter how many doubts there are, the gains can never be covered. Especially for Huan Yin, Lu Ya Zhenren's various insights brought him a lot of gains.

Huan Yin didn't know what kind of cultivation Lu Ya had now. But apart from the boundary force, even if Lu Ya was not the eight-source heaven and earth dual cultivation, he was at least at the peak of the seven-source. According to him, as his cultivation became more and more profound, he felt that everything he cultivated had a sense of unreality. It was as if one day if he really became a great Dao, everything he cultivated would vanish into thin air, and he would be completely promoted to another illusory level.

What exactly that level would be, Lu Ya didn't know. Even if that level really existed, Lu Ya didn't know. However, Lu Ya had a bold guess, that is, if that level really existed, it might be the ancient times in the legend, where Xuanyuan, the master of Xuanyuan Sword, lived, and where the strongest beast mother who created the spirit descending method finally set foot.

This idea was undoubtedly an explosive cognitive leap for Huan Yin. Because his current cultivation was far from enough, he couldn't feel the feeling of Lu Ya. But through Lu Ya's oral description, he felt that he seemed to have seen a distant door. This door may be very far away, but at least from this moment on, it has left a shadow in Huan Yin's heart. I'm afraid that there are not many cultivators in the Three Realms who have such a shadow.

Lu Ya Zhenren also said that he found that the higher his cultivation, the more he discovered the importance of "thought". Cultivation is not important, and Taoism is not important. It seems that everything is born from the heart, and no matter how powerful the magical power is, it is all created by a thought. Thoughts give birth to all things, which is the key to Taoism. When thoughts exist, everything exists. When thoughts disappear, everything disappears.

Huan Yin naturally did not have this discovery of Lu Ya Zhenren. In Huan Yin's cognition, Lu Ya Zhenren's statement seemed too mysterious and unreal. After all, cultivation and Taoism are all hard-earned, how can they be easily influenced by thoughts? In this way, isn't it too casual? One thought becomes Taoism, and one thought disappears. Isn't Taoism a child's play?

However, Lu Ya Zhenren's feeling just hit the key point of Huan Yin's doubts. Because if the Tao is born with a thought and dies with a thought, then the Tao is false. In this way, only Xuanyuan is true, and "All animals are false" can perfectly match this feeling. In this way, all the unreasonable things that were originally put together become logical.

These statements by Lu Ya Zhenren made Huanyin more confused about the truth and falsehood. However, this also made Huanyin's doubts more firm, making him feel that he had taken a big step forward in the darkness.

Huanyin didn't know how many steps he needed to take to get out of the vortex of doubt, but he knew that one day, all the truth would be revealed before his eyes.