Chapter 846 – There is No Good or Evil in Taoism
Chapter 846: The Dao has no good or evil
Feeling the aura of the thunderbolt, the surrounding bloodsucking wood shivered and frantically wanted to flee the land.
But they were held back by the formation, and couldn’t escape even if they wanted to.
The Bloodsucking Woods couldn’t help but turn their bodies towards the one in the formation, bending down hard as if praying for something.
Xu Chuniang ignored the bloodsucking woods as her body rose up in the air, passing through the formation and standing in midair.
Looking at the lightning tribulation that continued on and on, she sighed.
What a nuisance, getting struck by lightning again.
Right now, it was only the sixty-nine thunder tribulation, if she wanted to cultivate into an immortal, there were still several more rounds of thunder tribulation waiting for her.
The aura of the thunder tribulation became more and more dense, the bloodsucking woods became even more terrified, desperately swaying their bodies in an attempt to get out of the control of the formation.
The Bloodsucking Woods made quite a commotion, and Xu Chuniang finally glanced down.
If she were to cross the threshold here, the hundreds of beads of bloodsucking wood nearby would all be struck to death by heavenly lightning, she feared.
But what did this have to do with her, being killed by lightning could only be blamed on them being too weak.
Xu Chuniang had a frank face, not feeling at all that it was because she chose to transmigrate here that she had incurred an undeserved disaster for the bloodsucking wood.
However, …… these formation materials can still be recycled, and it is a pity to be split and destroyed just like this.
She directly moved her hands and began to dismantle the formation.
As the formation was dismantled, the bloodsucking wood gradually regained its freedom and rolled and ran away.
Soon, the area below the thunderbolt became a bare land.
“Tsk, running really fast.”
Xu Chuniang shook her head in disgust and looked up once more.
Seeing that the robbing cloud was still building up, she was a little impatient and flung a direct bolt of demonic energy towards the robbing cloud.
Before this demonic Qi could even get close, it was struck into nothingness by the lightning that flashed from the clouds.
After the lightning shattered the demonic Qi, it did not return to the clouds, but instead quickly struck towards Xu Chuniang below.
Is it about to begin?
The first thunder, the weakest one.
That was why she didn’t utilize her demonic qi, and just stood in midair undefended, using her demonic body to resist this heavenly thunder.
After receiving this thunderbolt, the robbery cloud did not descend a second heavenly thunderbolt consecutively.
Xu Chuniang blinked, finally realizing that this was the punishment that the robbing cloud had sent down in response to her provocative actions just now.
Therefore, this heavenly thunder was not within the realm of the Thunder Tribulation.
It seems …… quite cost effective?
Xu Chuniang smiled, and her fingertips quickly gave birth to a strand of demonic qi that once again attacked the robbing cloud, drawing a second punishment as expected.
This demonic body, was refined from a Grade 6 Extreme Spirit, so she wasn’t afraid of heavenly thunder like other demonic cultivators, instead, she coveted the power of thunder.
However, she was a devil in the end, and her divine soul couldn’t be tainted with too much thunder power, so she could only adapt bit by bit.
And the “punishment” of the tribulation cloud was just within her tolerance range.
Unfortunately, the robbing cloud did not give her a chance to try a third time.
The first round of heavenly thunderbolts struck Xu Chuniang furiously like a storm.
“Quite the vindictive one.”
Xu Chuniang commented, urging her demonic Qi to protect her divine soul.
As for the demonic body, it was left exposed to the robbing thunder.
Anyway, this demonic body of hers was of a high enough grade that it wouldn’t hurt to take some lightning strikes.
Seeing the devil body transiting through the calamity, Little Walnut hesitated for a moment, but still reported this matter to the main body in the small world.
“She left the Valley of the Specter, before and after just over a month, she actually broke through the Refined Void Stage, the cultivation speed of a demonic cultivator, it’s too terrifying!” The principal body Xu Chuniang suspended her cultivation, her eyes slightly surprised, “Quite fast indeed.”
Little Walnut wasn’t too happy, “The fact that she can cultivate so fast isn’t because you used a high-grade spirit object when you built your avatar in the first place.
Otherwise, how could she resist the lightning tribulation so easily?”
Xu Chuniang noticed Little Walnut’s emotions and was somewhat helpless, “She is me, you don’t have to harbor prejudice.”
“She is not you!”
Little Walnut had long been holding a bellyful of anger, taking the opportunity to voice her dissatisfaction.
“She’s too egotistical, acting only on her personal preferences and not thinking about us at all! And she killed other demonic cultivators and used their corpses to cultivate ……”
Xu Chuniang’s complexion did not fluctuate much after hearing Little Walnut’s complaints.
Devil cultivators were inherently temperamental and only acted for their own selfish reasons.
As for taking the corpses of other devil cultivators and using them for cultivation, it was because the devil realm had a lack of resources, and more than ninety percent of the devil qi was controlled by devil emperors and devil kings.
Other devil cultivators want to improve their strength, they can only kill each other, stepping on the corpses of their own kind to climb up.
As early as when she had seen the Valley of Souls, Xu Chuniang had clearly realized this point.
This was originally the cultivation method of demonic cultivators, and was beyond reproach.
It was only Little Walnut’s nature as an “immortal species” that she disliked demonic cultivation.
After thinking about it, she changed her euphemism, “Spiritual cultivators are not necessarily all good people.”
Little Walnut nodded, “That’s true, but the spiritual qi is peaceful, unlike the demonic qi which is violent and can stir up the heart’s desire.”
“But these hundreds of millions of devil cultivators, they became devils at birth, they have no choice. If they want to live, they can only kill each other.”
Little Walnut was silent, although it hated devil cultivators very much, it couldn’t say, let the hundreds of millions of devil cultivators all die out words.
“But I think …… it’s not fair! Devil cultivators do all the bad things, why is the cultivation progress fast, can be a thousand miles a day, or even ascension?”
Xu Chuniang shook her head slightly, heaven and earth had their own balance and laws, the so-called good and evil, good and bad, was just an artificial definition.
Spiritual cultivation and demonic cultivation are just different ways of practicing, and different paths may lead to the same destination.
“You think that demonic nature is inherently evil, let’s just count it as evil, but if a demonic cultivator slaughters tens of thousands of evil demonic cultivators, then is this behavior good, or evil?”
The little walnut froze, it hadn’t thought about this question.
According to its logic, as long as one kills tens of thousands of demonic cultivators, it is a good deed.
In that case, it seemed that the more fellow clansmen a devil cultivator slaughtered, the more good deeds he did instead.
“Moreover, all people have desires and likes and dislikes, and the devil body of me never restrains these desires and likes and dislikes, but rather indulges them to grow unchecked.”
Xu Chuniang nodded, “That’s why the Dao doesn’t inherently distinguish between good and evil; it allows for the existence of good as well as evil.
What we need to do is to trace the origin and follow the laws therein to find the essence of the Dao.”
The little walnut once again fell silent, it lowered its head in anguish, and thus missed, the strange runes that flickered in Xu Chuniang’s eyes.
Those runes, resembling stars, were bright and dazzling, revealing a certain mysterious aura.
The little walnut shook its head, it didn’t quite understand these words, but in a trance, it seemed to understand some reasoning.
It simply threw these aside first and asked the one question it was most worried about.
“If the demon body grows too fast, what if she surpasses you in strength and even tries to kill you?”
Xu Chuniang smiled and shook her head, her tone flat but with a powerful confidence.
“If she doesn’t submit, then we’ll have to fight and subdue her.”
(End of chapter)