If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 659 Stealing Water
"What do you mean by root dust and delusion? I don't understand. Please explain it more clearly."

Xiaoyu muttered a lot to herself.

Fangfengji was completely confused by what he heard, and felt both bewildered and anxious.

Before Xiaoyu entered the Whale Ruins, if he heard her say these words, he would definitely not take them seriously and would not bother to understand them, let alone be anxious.

But he witnessed the birth of a miracle with his own eyes, she even took away the sun of the small world.

She did things with ease that he had never dared to think about, so of course he longed to be able to do them too.

"As you interact with the world, you develop various thoughts and emotions, which come together to form your thoughts, morals, and experiences at this moment. Together, they make up 'you' at this moment.

You think that this "you" is yourself, but in fact, they are just "roots, dust and false thoughts".

The false thoughts and ideas of the root world are like a thick net that blocks and obscures your true heart.

Only in the dead of night, in an empty room, when you are lying on the bed, there is a moment when your mind suddenly becomes extremely clear.

You feel a little confused and melancholy, and feel that your life is like the interpretation of a movie character. It is not the real you, nor is it the life you really want.

This is your 'true nature', which shines through the meshes of the big net, revealing a faint 'light'.

The next day, when you wake up, you will feel that you were stupid and ridiculous for being confused at that moment last night.

You shook your head, smiled and greeted the new day, repeating the desire to pursue 'you', gaining short-term satisfaction from success and long-term frustration from failure."

Xiaoyu sighed softly, a Buddhist aura emanating from her body naturally, and her eyes were clearer than ever before.

It's not bright, it's transparent.

“The fundamental meaning of Buddhism is to wipe away the dust on the mind, capture and strive to amplify the faint light that shines through the mesh.

When the inner light shines, the true nature will naturally emerge. "

Feng Fengjie exclaimed: "Your body is radiating light! Have you attained Buddhahood?"

Xiaoyu can "see" a faint Buddha light shining through her skin without having to look down.

There was even a hazy light at the back of his head.

She smiled, feeling somewhat proud: she had not yet attained Buddhahood, but now she was one step closer to it. By going to Mount Lingshan, she could at least attain the status of an Arhat, right?
When desire arises, true love dies.

Before the smug smile could fully bloom on her face, the Buddha's light on her body disappeared like a phantom.

That spiritual sense that captured the "bright light" was like a big fish that had escaped from the hook and could never be seen or felt again.

The smile froze on her face.

Xiao Yu cried out in frustration, "It's so hard to become a Buddha! Even if you capture the bright light, even if you find your true nature, if you don't protect it carefully, your pure true heart will be polluted by obsessions and distractions, and it will be covered by the root dust and delusions again."

She suddenly had a strong urge to stop going to Daqin and go directly to Lingshan to become a nun.

If she could listen to the Buddhas preaching every day, it would definitely be much better than guessing on her own.

But at this time, going to Lingshan Tongtian Rat King is suspected to be the second "Jade Cicada"!

She is not afraid of the Rat King now. At worst, she can just keep walking on the waterway.

But the appearance of the "Second Jade Cicada" represents the attitude and determination of some bigwigs in Buddhism, who are determined to kill her.

After a month, the boundless "deep pit" in the river has been filled with river water.

As Xiaoyu and Fangfengji surfaced, they saw many witches wandering around nearby.

Fang Feng Ji revealed his true form, greeted several familiar wizards, and told them that there was a whale ruin that was thrown into the "Sky River Hole" by the gods and was currently evolving into a small world.

Afterwards, he rejected the wizards' invitation and continued to rush westward with Xiaoyu.

During the journey, Xiaoyu saw that Fang Fengjie was very interested in "true nature", so he taught him his own understanding of Buddhism in detail.

After swimming in the water for more than half a month, Xiaoyu finally saw the "Yaochi Holy Spring".

Lingquan is located at the "bottom of the river" more than 20,000 miles deep.

However, it was not a spring dug out from the bottom of the river, but rather the "essence of all waters" gathered from the Milky Way within a radius of countless miles and poured into the hole below to form a spiritual spring.

This hole absorbs the essence of the water from the Milky Way.

It is not simply absorbing the spiritual energy from the river water.

Xiaoyu felt that it disliked the water spiritual power because it was too low-level.

"The Essence of All Waters" is the word that Xiaoyu came up with after wandering around for thousands of miles with Fangfengji.

As the saying goes, "All rivers flow into the sea."

The Milky Way is the final resting place of all the seas.

Through water vortices or other channels, many of the rivers, lakes and seas on earth are directly connected to the Heavenly River.

For example, the ancient Ji River and today's Heilong River.

The Heilong River connects to many rivers, and there is even an underground river channel between it and the Liusha River.

For example, the "abyss" in Windy Bay.

Every river has its own spirituality and essence. The spiritual essence in the river flows through the vortex along with the river water and enters the Milky Way.

The spiritual essence of countless rivers and oceans on earth are all integrated into the Milky Way.

The spiritual spring that the Queen Mother dug out with a "hairpin" was specifically used to absorb this kind of spiritual essence.

In other words, the "spiritual essence of the world" that flows into the Tianhe River with the river water is attracted by the "Jade Pool Spiritual Spring" here and merges together to become a special spiritual spring water.

Xiaoyu calls it "the essence of all waters."

"You have now seen how big and deep the Heavenly River is. How much water can flow into the Heavenly River from rivers on earth? It's like a drop of water falling into the ocean. Can you sense the spiritual essence in it?"

Although Xiaoyu's words made sense, Fangfengji was still very skeptical.

"If the 'Great River Spirit' was scattered throughout the Milky Way, I would not be able to sense anything. But look there..."

Xiao Yu pointed at the pale blue beam of light two hundred miles away and said, "The essence of all the waters has gathered together to form a spring. It's so bright that it can be seen with the naked eye. How can you not sense it?"

The Milky Way is not completely dark. After all, “above” it is covered with stars.

However, the light of the stars, like the aurora borealis, could not illuminate the Milky Way clearly. Especially since the Milky Way was very deep, and deep into the riverbed, only a hazy fluorescence remained.

But at the Yaochi Lingquan, it seemed as if a nuclear-powered flashlight was erected, shooting a bright beam of light upwards.

The closer to the spiritual spring pool at the bottom of the river, the brighter the light column; the closer to the water surface, the less obvious the light is.

At this time, Xiaoyu and Fangfengji had gone more than 10,000 miles deep into the Tianhe River. The "horizontal distance" from the Lingquan was about 200 miles. They could see a very obvious green light.

They didn't dare to get any closer. Xiaoyu wanted to get closer, but Fangfengji told her that there were gods patrolling near the spiritual spring.

"Not only did I see it, I also drew water from there countless times, but I didn't sense any essence of all waters." Fang Fengji said.

"Have you stayed in Tianhe for too long and forgotten the 'taste' of the river on earth?" Xiaoyu asked doubtfully.

She clearly felt it very strongly, so how come this guy was completely unaware of it?
She's not even in black dragon form, just human.

"What is the 'taste' of the river on earth? When I entered the Tianhe River from the Huai River, I didn't feel the 'taste' of the river water. What changes have taken place?" Fangfengji asked.

"The rivers of the human world are docile and obedient, while the rivers of the heavens are violent and wild. Uh, you seem to be living in an ignorant and uncivilized era."

Xiaoyu suddenly realized that the Fengfeng Festival was an antique.

In his time, the Black Dragon River was probably still the violent and wild Ji River.

"It's true that I'm an ancient man, but our era was not ignorant and uncivilized." Fangfengji said unhappily.

Xiao Yu pondered and said, "The 'Five Emperors Era' lasted until the end, when Dayu became the Great Emperor, and only then did he begin to truly conquer the rivers, lakes and seas of the human world.

Probably around the time when Dayu controlled the floods, some changes took place in the major rivers on earth.

The process of human beings digging rivers and controlling water is to apply the power of humanity to rivers, lakes and seas.

Humanitarian forces directly change the direction and flow of rivers.

Before Dayu, all the big rivers, lakes and even lakes were wild and untamed.

After Dayu, the rivers and lakes changed dramatically in the direction of meeting the needs of the human race."

Feng Ji said impatiently: "Even if the human race dredged the river and changed the direction of the river, the river is still the river, and the river water is still the river water. What does it have to do with the essence of the spirit?"

Xiao Yu said: "You have never been a king, so you don't understand the interaction between the 'Qi of Heaven, Earth and Man'. The Qi of Man can really affect the mountains and rivers."

Fang Fengji shouted, "I have never been a king? My father was the king of the Fang Feng clan. After he was murdered by Dayu, I became the King of Fengzhu!"

"What kind of king is that? He's just the head of a tribe, no different from the 'Sand Head' I was when I was a barbarian in the dunes.

I'm talking about the real 'Human King', who is one level lower than the 'Human Emperor'.

Through the country's destiny dragon python, directly control the power of heaven and earth, just like the sky in this world, you know. "

Xiao Yu almost slipped up and said something extremely treasonous in front of the Jade Emperor's house.

"I don't understand! Even if you have been a prime minister, can the prime minister of a barbarian country be more powerful than the emperor of China, or that bastard Dayu?" Fangfengji said.

"Forget it. You are an ancient who has never seen the Human Emperor. No matter how much I say, you will not be able to imagine or understand. Let's go closer to the spiritual spring and fetch some water." Xiao Yu said.

Fang Fengjie was very unconvinced.

He felt that there was no way Xia Yu could be inferior to the "human king" of a barbarian nation.

But Xia Yu chopped off his father's head, and he had been belittling Xia Yu before, so he was unwilling to praise Xia Yu now.

"The sacred spring is guarded by gods. We have to wait until the dark night on earth, around midnight, and then quietly approach it." He said sullenly.

"After midnight, will they change shifts or end their patrol?" Xiaoyu asked curiously.

Feng Ji said: "After midnight, the stars on earth are the brightest, while the stars on the Milky Way are the dimmest during the day. Didn't you notice?"

Xiao Yu said: "The power of the stars is limited. More is poured downward into the human world, so less is naturally emitted upward to the Milky Way. What does this have to do with the spiritual spring?"

The stars in this world are not the stars that burned all the time in the previous life.

At night, the "sun" really does rest; when the sun is at its highest during the day, the moon and stars also "go off work."

In this vast world, there is no such thing as "time zone".

At most, the star maps seen in different regions will be different, but sunrise and sunset occur almost at the same time.

"When Marshal Tianpeng revealed his identity to you before, did you notice that although he lives in Tianhe, he is a star lord!" Fangfengji said.

"Is it the North Star or the Big Dipper?" Xiaoyu didn't really pay attention.

"It's the Pojun star of the Big Dipper! There should also be a star god among the gods guarding the Yaochi Lingquan. The starlight on earth is brightest at midnight, and it is also the time when the star god focuses most of his attention on the stars and the earth." Fangfengji said.

Xiaoyu seemed to be thinking about something.

The essential job of the Star God is to control the stars he represents.

In addition to their basic work, they also have clerical duties in heaven.

For example, Tianpeng.

He is the Star God and the commander of Tianhe's 80,000 naval forces, doing two jobs at the same time.

When you focus on one job, you may neglect the other.

"But the patrolling gods will not be affected!" she said.

Feng Ji glanced at her and asked, "Would you care about those little gods?"

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's right, it's not difficult to hide it from those scumbags. The real danger is only to Xingjun. Brother Fangfeng, you are a habitual thief. I admit it."

Fang Fengji's rough face flushed slightly, and he muttered loudly: "I'm not a thief, I'm just drawing water from the spring."

——If you draw water from a spring, it’s not considered stealing?
Xiao Yu agreed with her face, "The Tianhe River belongs to all living beings in the three realms, and the 'essence of all waters' drawn from the Lingquan belongs to ordinary people on earth. We are ordinary people on earth, so of course we can go and fetch water."

Fang Fengji nodded repeatedly, "The essence of all waters comes from the rivers, lakes and seas of the human world. It is the essence of the spirit born from the power of humanity. The gods stole the spiritual water of us mortals. They are stealing!"

——Don’t you disagree with the terms “the essence of all waters” and “the spirit of humanity”?
Xiao Yu muttered to himself, and the smile on his face became wider. He nodded and said, "That's right, the thief is not us, but the gods in heaven."

After preparing themselves mentally, as soon as midnight arrived, the two of them immediately turned into a stream of clear water and quickly approached the green spiritual energy column in front of them.

(End of this chapter)