Chapter 1126: Ten Thousand Sounds of Hollow Bamboo Become Heavenly Music; Seeking the Endless Ignorance of All Living Beings

Shao Yong poked his head in and walked into the bamboo grove, immediately hearing the rustling waves of the bamboo sea.

This wind seemed to blow from the deepest part of the Netherworld, originally an extremely cold black wind, but after passing through the bamboo grove, countless hollow green bamboos were blown by the wind, emitting faint hollow sounds.

Countless chaotic hollow sounds merged into an incomparably harmonious sound of morality!

As this sound vibrated, Shao Yong's crumbling fortune stabilized.

It was the 'Ten Thousand Sounds of Hollow Bamboo Heavenly Music Array', which Qian Chen had briefly grasped from the Yellow Bell Law-Pitch Dao Fruit and comprehended.

The Yellow Bell Law-Tube was originally made by Ling Lun, the music master under the Huang Di.

He made twelve bamboo tubes from Kunlun divine bamboo and buried them in the valley of Xiexi, hiding reed-membrane ash inside. Thus, when the earth-qi of Yin and Yang grew, Qi would spray from the bamboo tubes, blowing the reed ash up.

On the day of the Winter Solstice, when the earth-qi of Yang was born, the earth-qi in one of the bamboo tubes would erupt, blowing the reed ash!

The Huang Di used the sound emitted by this bamboo tube as the Yellow Bell, which set the twelve law-pitches...

The countless green bamboos in this bamboo sea were different in size, length, and thickness of the bamboo walls, and they grew in the Underworld Yin Division, where extreme Yin earth-qi turned into black wind to blow them. Just like Ling Lun making the laws in the past, earth-qi sprayed from within the bamboo cavities, turning into ten thousand sounds, containing all the musical temperaments between heaven and earth.

It should have been chaotic and disorderly, but Qian Chen used the Law-Pitch Great Dao to harmonize it, making the entire bamboo grove's ten thousand sounds coordinated, like heavenly music.

At every moment, they converged into incomparably harmonious heavenly sounds!

If one treated this green bamboo grove as a Yin mansion, then the resources it produced were the rarest of the five treasures of the Netherworld—the Moral Treasure: 'Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music'.

As the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music entered his ears, Shao Yong's chaotic fortune, which had been on the verge of collapse and was only barely suppressed by his Moral True Words, gradually coordinated, and his broken life-fate showed signs of recovery.

Although still very weak, the backlash from his life-fate being broken and the misfortune that followed him every moment had dissipated.

Shao Yong stood in the bamboo grove, listening to the sound of the ten thousand waves, and for a time, he was actually infatuated!

"Life-fate being broken and fortune crumbling does not bring misfortune," Qian Chen's voice slowly came from the bamboo grove: "A stone, a lump of mud—do they have life-fates? Do they have fortune? Or rather, do they have misfortune?"

"Even if a stone is crushed into powder, even if mud blooms into flowers, is this their life-fate? Is this their fortune?"

"A stone, even if piled into an imperial palace and becomes a footstool for a dragon throne, does it possess a precious life-fate? A lump of mud, even if thrown into a latrine and mixed with excrement, does it encounter misfortune?"

Shao Yong shook his head and said: "It does not, because for them, there is no difference. Whether it is a stone building an imperial palace or a stone building a latrine, for the stone itself, there is no difference!"

"Then why do people have life-fates and fortune? Why can some live forever, some die young, some ascend to the throne, and some become poor slaves?"

Shao Yong said: "Because they have hearts!"

"Because their hearts are not coordinated... because when people see beauty, they have 'joy'; when they see differences and accept humiliation, they feel 'anger'; when they lose what they possess, they feel 'sorrow'; when they enjoy possession, they feel 'pleasure'. Joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, separation, and reunion—the heart has differences, which gives rise to fortune. Once these differences are eliminated, the fortune imposed on people dissipates. Treat all things as equal to oneself; let the heart be the same as others!"

He murmured: "So as long as the body and heart are coordinated with heaven and earth, and the ten thousand sounds are silent, the so-called fortune backlash and misfortune following will naturally dissipate!"

Once this thought arose, he finally saw the fortune above his head clearly.

The fortune canopy, which had originally been like a canopy, was already incomparably broken. Countless gloomy and dark Qi from the Netherworld fell like rain. Without the cover of the fortune canopy, all kinds of fierce and gloomy evil Qi fell upon him, which was the culprit that made him suffer hardships all the way here.

Thinking of the declining life-fate after his true life-fate was stolen by Chen Jintian, Shao Yong almost wanted to shed a handful of bitter tears!

It was just that there were no twists and turns along the way with Qian Chen.

But after returning to Anlu County, Qian Chen and Judge Xi went to the County Government Office together, and he returned to the Shao family alone, only to realize that the life he had originally lived was 'Simple Mode', while his life now, with his fortune crumbled, was 'Nightmare Mode'.

Hearing that his true life-fate was broken, the family immediately turned against him and took away all his preferential treatment and enjoyment.

All kinds of monsters and demons in the family jumped out, using the excuse that he had stolen the family's Yin-Virtue Bamboo to take away all his wealth.

There were also evil slaves bullying their master.

The various schemes of the family ancestor were also accidentally discovered by him. In just a few days, almost everything he did failed. Countless disturbances, countless conspiracies, and countless malicious human intentions came one after another. Even the Yin dew he ate was fishy and gloomy. He could bump into evil ghosts and fierce spirits just by walking. There were seven or eight life-and-death crises alone. If it weren't for Qian Chen's guidance, which gave him extremely profound wisdom in the Life Cultivation path, allowing him to find a few wisps of external Qi protection in the cracks, he would have met with disaster long ago!

Of course, this disaster wasn't necessarily death. After all, although his true life-fate was broken, he still had a Sixth-Rank status, so wanting to die was still difficult.

But he would always suffer some humiliation.

For example, the rabbit-life-fate male-ghost evil slave in the family who had taken a fancy to his buttocks!

It was only by hinting to the ancestor in time and borrowing Qian Chen's fortune to take shelter under his fortune that he turned the ancestor's malice around and let him block those various disasters for himself.

The Shao family ancestor had originally been very annoyed when he saw that the bait he had thrown out had been eaten and the hook had been thrown back.

He was prepared to squeeze Shao Yong completely dry, use up the last bit of his broken life-fate, and refine him into a 'substitute-life human figurine' to block the various backlashes of heavenly secret calculations for himself.

At that time, he would pour blood-fortune mercury into Shao Yong's head, then blind his eyes, cut off his tongue, castrate his male root, chop off his limbs, and peel off his human skin, artificially creating the 'five defects and three lacks'.

Then he would use the 'Seven-Evil Soul-Fixing Nails' to nail his seven orifices and seal his soul.

Then he would use earth-fortune yellow mud to cover his whole body and bury him in the filthiest and most fierce 'Fierce God Position' of the Yin mansion, using heavenly secret calculations, Feng Shui earth-qi, and life-art divine abilities to transfer all the backlashes of the Shao family ancestor's heavenly secret calculations onto him!

Now, thinking of the various clues from the ancestor's actions and the various troubles brought by the misfortune backlash, Shao Yong still felt lingering fear and was chilled to the bone by the mysteries of the ancestor's 'Supreme Yin Evil-Turning Substitute-Life Figurine Technique'.

Especially that rabbit-life-fate male-ghost evil slave!

The ancestor used his life-fate to nurture evil, preparing to refine him into the other two hidden-aperture soul-locking nails of the Seven-Evil Soul-Fixing Nails, to nail him into the 'Broken-Earth Yin Evil Nail' of his own valley-gate earth-door.

When Shao Yong discovered it, the pit had already been dug in the Fierce God Position of the Yin mansion.

Even the bronze human-head urn coffin to hold him had already been decided!

He saw with his own eyes the ancestor preparing the blood-mercury, using nine kinds of Yin evil soil to mix into mud; the preparatory work was already more than half done.

It was clearly not something prepared in a day or two!

If it weren't for Shao Yong using the world-shaking wisdom in his brain to reverse the Yin mansion's Feng Shui and hide the 'Fierce God Position'.

Then, playing along with the scheme, he refined the evil slave into a half-life treasure, the 'Broken-Life Turning-Dragon Nail', in advance, and designed it so that the ancestor's various schemes would collide with another elder who wanted to usurp his life-fate.

The evil slave's peach blossom evil spirit touched the elder under the cover of night.

While the two were rolling around, he activated the 'Broken-Life Turning-Dragon Nail', using the evil slave's ghost-rank to break the elder's true life-fate, forcibly borrowing his fortune. Taking advantage of the short time the fortune protected him, he went to negotiate with the ancestor, using the means of destroying the Yin mansion and perishing together to scare the ancestor, and then used his own wisdom and Qian Chen's identity to make an agreement with him: he would help him restore his true life-fate, and he would help him cultivate into a Life Master!

In this short day, Shao Yong's experience surpassed his previous sixty years.

But Shao Yong was still afraid!

His true life-fate was broken, and he had been fished for 'Empty Death'. The malice of the Netherworld was not shielded, and it was imposed upon him without any concealment. The various misfortunes it brought were simply too terrifying! If he were even slightly careless, he would be refined into a human figurine, using his remaining true life-fate to bear the backlash for others, ending up in a situation where he wouldn't even be able to be a human for nine lifetimes.

Therefore, he had urgently sought to see Qian Chen.

At this moment, under the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music, he saw that the falling broken fortune cloud canopy and the wisps of gloomy Qi falling from heaven and earth could not fall upon him.

The Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music made him one with heaven and earth, incomparably harmonious with the Great Dao, and he had essentially transcended fortune.

This was an extremely high state of 'Heaven and Man as One', where all karma, all fortune, and all acquired things could not fall upon him!

The various earth-sounds emitted by the countless green bamboos in this bamboo grove as the earth-qi grew.

The Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music transformed through the coordination of the 'Ten Thousand Sounds of Hollow Bamboo Heavenly Music Array'—each wisp of heavenly music, where countless musical notes converged, was more precious than the thousand-year fortune of the Calamity-Avoiding Humility Bamboo.

Of course, if one exchanged it for a thousand-year Calamity-Avoiding Humility Bamboo, it could also replace the fortune canopy, avoiding the various misfortunes of a thousand years. By avoiding calamity for five hundred years, his broken life-fate could also be restored to its original state!

And Moral Treasures were notoriously difficult to use.

Even if one were lucky enough to step into the bamboo grove and be in this state at every moment, some people could seek emptiness for a hundred years and gain nothing, while others could have a sudden enlightenment in one morning and become an immortal in seven days.

It could only be said that the gap between people was greater than the gap between people and grass-shoe worms!

"The state of 'Heaven and Man as One' contains a way to avoid calamity, which can keep fortune and karma from being imposed on the body."

Shao Yong immersed himself under the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music, comprehending this wonderful state. He took a step forward, and the corner of his clothes disappeared from the omnipresent Yin wind, and when he appeared again, he was a hundred paces away, after one breath.

"I seem to have comprehended a footwork that can disappear from fortune and karma for one breath, escaping from under fortune and avoiding one breath of misfortune!"

One breath of time, seemingly extremely short—after all, the influence of fortune is a great trend from beginning to end, and a short escape for one breath is of no help.

But for a person, it was completely different!

Many times of fortune were calculated in 'instants'. The previous instant was a dead end, and the next instant there was a path to life. Taking such a step was a change from death to life.

It could be said that with this footwork, ninety-nine percent of the certain-death situations in the world now had a glimmer of life.

Amidst the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music, Shao Yong took a step every breath and soon walked to the small cottage in the bamboo sea.

Qian Chen was standing there, and a group of Demon Path true transmissions, each with their own demeanor and different temperaments, but none of whom looked like good people, were sitting on cushions.

Watching Shao Yong walk out of the bamboo grove, one could only wonder what thoughts were turning in their hearts!

Shao Yong saw so many people sitting on cushions and was stunned for a moment. Although these people didn't look like good people, each of them had fortune like a canopy, not inferior to his Sixth-Rank noble life-fate in the past, and more than half of them were even better.

There was no lack of Fifth-Rank life-fates!

One-tenth of the essence of this generation of Demon Path true transmissions in the Earth Immortal Realm was here, so naturally, their fortune was burgeoning and their life-fates were incomparably heavy.

Shao Yong, who had originally been somewhat proud of comprehending the 'Avoid-Heaven Step' from the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music and finding a way to get rid of his declining fortune, instantly sobered up. He clearly saw that none of these people were inferior to him in wisdom, and some were even resisting the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music, avoiding the burgeoning of their own comprehension.

Shi Wuliang glanced at him and sneered: "This is the first time I've seen someone who has been hit by the Moral Wisdom Parasite and still dares to receive the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music to add to their comprehension!"

"Under the heavenly music, 'Heaven and Man as One', the law-pitches are harmonious, and there is a hundredfold comprehension bonus. This was originally the secret of the Ji clan of Heavenly Zhou. Even their direct bloodline would find it difficult to invite the Primordial Spirit elders of the family to vibrate the Yellow Bell and emit heavenly music to add a hundredfold or thousandfold comprehension."

Dao Wujin said gloomily: "It is said that even for the direct line of the Ji clan, before forming a Jin Dan, they can only enjoy heavenly music for a quarter of an hour each year when sacrificing to the Nine Temples."

"Even if they want to impact a First-Rank Jin Dan, they can only invite a Primordial Spirit to vibrate the heavenly music for one day..."

"After forming a First-Rank Jin Dan, the time for each baptism by heavenly music in the Ancestral Temple must also be exchanged with external merit. Even so, every generation of the Ji clan has several First-Rank Golden Cores, and how many Primordial Spirit True Immortals of other clans want to hear the heavenly music!"

"True Person Qian using his own life-fate to suppress the bamboo sea, making the Netherworld wind blow through the bamboo grove and the ten thousand sounds evolve into heavenly music, is already a divine ability that is nearly unimaginable."

"Although this heavenly music only has the value of a hundredfold comprehension, which is not as good as the thousandfold of the spirit treasure Yellow Bell burning fortune, or the ten thousandfold of the Dao Fruit recovery, it is still a great stroke of luck in the world."

"Hearing the Dao in the morning, one can die in the evening!"

"Even if the wisdom of True Person Qian has been planted in our minds, under the hundredfold comprehension bonus, our wisdom is evolving on its own, erupting at every moment, and has even completely swallowed our own shallow wisdom. But with such good intentions from True Person Qian, do you not even know how to be grateful?"

Shi Wuliang's three corpse gods jumped in rage: "Grateful?"

"Dao Wujin, you are also going crazy! How many of the thoughts in your brain are still your own?"

"You haven't been refined, have you!"

He said yin-yang strangely.

Dao Wujin looked up and sighed: "Six parts are still my own! My wisdom is too dull, limited by myself, and my demonic nature is not deep enough. Compared to True Person Qian's wisdom, the distinction is very obvious! If the thoughts were manifested as sexual light, the thoughts from True Person Qian's wisdom would be like great suns, while my thoughts would be like fireflies. Wanting to shine with the light of fireflies and compete with the sun and moon—how pathetic!"

"I originally wanted to operate True Person Qian's wisdom to grind away my own dullness, but True Person Qian wouldn't allow it and has been suppressing it."

Qian Chen's gaze turned over, also cold.

This is also someone with ulterior motives, dreaming of cultivating himself into Qian Chen!

The True Transmission Dao cultivates 'Supreme Forgetting Emotion' and is crazy enough. Even things like wisdom, which concern oneself and are extremely self-centered, they don't care about.

Only now did Qian Chen feel the disgust Tai Yi had when facing him proving his past.

He had a few points of empathy for Tai Yi's past.

"Wisdom and dullness have no distinction of high or low; they are all based on our knowledge and certain views on the world."

Qian Chen said faintly: "The views themselves have no distinction of high or low; it's just that wisdom is closer to the truth of the Great Dao, while ignorance deviates from it."

"For the Great Dao itself, isn't ignorance also a kind of deviating wisdom?"

"Or rather, your 'dullness' itself is the resource I want to refine. Wisdom has various kinds, and dullness also has various kinds..."

"My wisdom, like a parasite, has completely swallowed your shallow wisdom!"

"But you still have dullness to hold onto, using your lower dullness to resist my upper wisdom."

"The application of wisdom can obtain feedback from the Great Dao, can borrow all things, use the Great Dao, prove divine abilities, clarify right and wrong, and obtain Prajna. It seems that dullness can only delay wisdom, ignorance can only cover up wisdom, stupidity can only waste wisdom, and foolishness can only deviate from wisdom..."

"But the application of wisdom, added to the Great Dao, has various feedbacks. Isn't the application of dullness also like this?"

"Wisdom uses heaven and earth, and has ten thousand things accomplished, which is Yang. Dullness uses all things, and has ten thousand things failed, which is Yin... Wisdom and dullness are also Yin and Yang!"

What Qian Chen didn't say was.

Wisdom is approaching the Great Dao, and dullness is deviating from the Great Dao. Approaching and deviating are also rising and falling.

Qian Chen had only integrated his self-cultivated false wisdom Great Dao into the Ascension-Fall Dao Fruit not long ago, and had taken another step forward here.

Now, not only had he taken another step forward in the world-shaking wisdom derived from his own infinite demonic nature, but he had also taken another step forward, vaguely grasping the opposite of world-shaking wisdom—world-shaking stupidity!

At this moment, he was using the Ten Thousand Sounds of Heavenly Music, in coordination with world-shaking wisdom, to refine world-shaking stupidity from the brains of these Demon Path talents.

He wanted to refine their stupidity into another kind of parasite—the 'Stupid Worm'!

Anyway, whether it's wisdom or not isn't important; what's important is that it's world-shaking!

Dao Wujin heard Qian Chen's words and was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Wisdom is always similar, because there is only one path to truth, but stupidity is strange and varied. Sometimes the badness of our Demon Path wisdom racking our brains is not as good as a foolish person's sudden inspiration."

"Does stupidity really hide power not inferior to wisdom?"

Qian Chen asked: "The Supreme Dao Zangshan Laozu believes in the infinite power of all living beings, so are the countless realms of the cosmos he opened up perfect?"

Dao Wujin was silent for a long time before saying: "Not very perfect."

Qian Chen asked again: "Then do you believe in the wisdom of the many Dao Lords and Dao Venerables?"

"The wisdom of the many Dao Lords may not be perfect, but the wisdom of the many Dao Venerables must be unimaginable!"

Dao Wujin said solemnly, and at this moment, the hearts of the many demon heads were moved.

"The many Dao Venerables possess infinite wisdom, yet this world is still in this stupid state. Isn't this enough to make you believe in the stupidity of all living beings?"

This sentence was like a bolt of lightning piercing Dao Wujin's heart.

He suddenly realized and burst into loud laughter.

He laughed until his whole body trembled, laughed until he couldn't sit on the cushion, laughed until his hair crown scattered, his hair disheveled, like a madman.

"Hahahaha... of course I believe in the stupidity of all living beings. I believe that even if every Dao Venerable, Dao Zangshan Laozu, Buddha Zangshan Laozu, and Demon Zangshan Laozu has infinite kindness and infinite wisdom in their hearts, as long as people are still people and all living beings are still all living beings, they will still be in this stupid state! There is indeed infinite stupidity in the hearts of all living beings, a power sufficient to drag down Dao Venerables and Dao Ancestors!"

He laughed wildly: "Those stupid people, even if the Buddha Zangshan Laozu came to save them personally, they could still ruin the Buddha Zangshan Laozu's merit and ruin the Buddha Zangshan Laozu's affairs!"

"It is precisely because of those stupid people that the living beings of the world cannot be saved and cannot be saved, so all kinds of righteous laws are wrong as soon as they are spoken, and biased as soon as they are spoken! The laws of the Buddha Zangshan Laozu, Dao Zangshan Laozu, and Demon Zangshan Laozu are biased and wrong as soon as they are spoken. This is the power of stupidity!"

Qian Chen sighed: "So, what is there to fear about the infinite wisdom I have planted in your hearts?"

"My wisdom is world-shaking, but is it more powerful than the wisdom of the Buddha Zangshan Laozu and Dao Zangshan Laozu? They couldn't save you or enlighten you, so how could I? Discovering the power of the infinite stupidity in your hearts will naturally allow you to break free from my control!"

"Abandoning holiness and discarding wisdom..."

Dao Wujin laughed: "So this is what abandoning holiness and discarding wisdom means!"

Shi Wuliang trembled beside him: "Dao Wujin, what are you laughing at? You don't really believe it, do you! Believe that all living beings possess infinite stupidity, and think that stupidity is also a terrifying and great power?"

"If stupidity is not a great power, then what are you doing now?" Dao Wujin asked coldly.

Shi Wuliang was stunned.

"Use your Demon Path wisdom to think about it. True Person Qian is right beside you, yet you have been jumping and mocking! If this isn't stupidity, what is? Shi Wuliang, you truly possess the Demon Zangshan Laozu's wisdom and consciousness, stupid without knowing it! You are already using the power of stupidity to resist that supreme wisdom!" ===== CHAPTER 1127 =====