pappabearbooks #377 - The opposite is the movement of the Tao, the weak is the use of the Tao! The seven emotions a
#377 - The opposite is the movement of the Tao, the weak is the use of the Tao! The seven emotions a
According to the story of the Red Chamber, Lin Daiyu was born to repay tears.
However, the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass, growing on the banks of the Spirit River, does not need any nectar at all, and doing so would be entirely superfluous.
But if the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass is some kind of spiritual root of heaven and earth, rooted in the Stone of Three Incarnations, then the so-called truth of repaying tears seems to be hidden within.
Even Luo Fu believes that the so-called tears are actually just the process by which the real mastermind behind the scenes processes the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass.
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Isn't the so-called process of repaying tears like washing and cutting the inedible parts when processing ingredients?
After completing this step, the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass naturally becomes a perfect spiritual material.
Especially since it is rooted on such a treasure as the Stone of Three Incarnations, it might even be said that from beginning to end, it is the process of the real mastermind seizing the Dao and Dharma contained within the Stone of Three Incarnations.
With a grass and wood spiritual root like the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass, rooted on the Stone of Three Incarnations, absorbing the Dao and Dharma of the Stone of Three Incarnations to grow, but seizing such a treasure of heaven and earth by such means will inevitably lead to unusable karma and sin.
The Stone of Three Incarnations itself is a treasure on the path of the soul, and the process of running the cycle of life and death inevitably becomes contaminated with human love affairs and karmic debts.
By repaying tears, the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass expels these components that are harmful and useless to cultivators, and what remains is naturally the coveted benefit.
In this light, the Grand Void Illusionary Realm, whose origins are unknown, is truly a grand scheme.
Of course, from a human perspective, the actions of the Grand Void Illusionary Realm are indeed cruelly outrageous.
But if viewed from the perspective of a cultivator.
The actions of the Grand Void Illusionary Realm are simply a typical example of paying the smallest price for the greatest gain. The only sacrifice is a group of romantic ghosts, but what is left behind is the Dao and Dharma of the Stone of Three Incarnations.
A mere few dozen souls, even if they are exceptionally talented, how can they compare to the Dao and Dharma of the Stone of Three Incarnations in the eyes of those truly great powers?
After discerning the possible conspiracy behind the Grand Void Illusionary Realm itself, Luo Fu suddenly understood that if he wanted to embrace all twelve beauties, the greatest obstacle was not the power of the human world, but the Grand Void Illusionary Realm.
On the other hand, after being questioned by Luo Fu, in Lin Ruhai's eyes, Luo Fu was like a lecher, staring intently at his precious little darling.
While inwardly furious, Lin Ruhai was about to reprimand him, but in the next moment, his mind suddenly opened up.
Although he disdained Luo Fu's actions, there was one thing Lin Ruhai had to admit.
That is, Luo Fu is indeed an existence with accomplished cultivation.
He may not be able to see it, but the City God of Yangzhou is a Spirit Blessing Marquis ranked at the third grade. Whether in the human world or the underworld, he can be considered a regional official.
But when Luo Fu occupied Yangzhou, the underworld deity, the Spirit Blessing Marquis, could only ask Lin Ruhai for help, even going so far as to allow Lin Ruhai to temporarily return to the yang world.
This shows that, at the very least, the City God of Yangzhou, the Spirit Blessing Marquis, can only bow his head before Luo Fu.
In this way, whether for himself, the imperial court, or his daughter, it can be considered a win-win situation.
Now it depends on whether Luo Fu can stop.
Of course, what really made Lin Ruhai's mind suddenly open up was his own age.
Although Luo Fu looks tall and sturdy, in reality, it is not difficult to see from his appearance that Luo Fu is at most fifteen or sixteen years old.
Although he is a few years older than his daughter, so what?
The feudal era is not the future, and even in the future, there are not a few old husbands and young wives. Even Lin Ruhai was actually several years older than his wife, Jia Min.
In the current era, as long as the age difference is not too great, it is almost considered a match made in heaven.
When Luo Fu's gaze finally returned from the swaying Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass behind Lin Daiyu.
Lin Ruhai, who was only left with his ghostly soul on the side, reacted in a way that made Luo Fu raise an eyebrow.
"Lord Lin, is my question so difficult to answer?"
"This old man agrees." Lin Ruhai, whose mind was wandering elsewhere, directly agreed when he heard Luo Fu's voice: "As long as you treat Yu'er well in the future, this old man will definitely petition the court and have the Emperor personally bestow a marriage."
Lin Ruhai's words caused both Luo Fu and Lin Daiyu to fall into silence.
After a brief silence, Lin Daiyu instantly blushed, stomped her foot angrily, and said: "Daddy."
The corner of Luo Fu's mouth twitched. Although he did have designs on the twelve beauties, wasn't Lin Ruhai a bit too... lacking in the integrity of a scholar-official?
Coming back to his senses, Lin Ruhai also realized that he had been a bit too rash just now, and had blurted out all the thoughts in his head.
But in fact, this cannot be blamed on Lin Ruhai.
Ghostly souls themselves are different from humans. Although there is talk of detailed planning, once a person's soul leaves the physical body, it will naturally be affected by yin energy, and the seven emotions and six desires will all move in an extreme direction.
It is not an exaggeration to say that all ghosts and monsters are potential neurotics.
Only by truly obtaining the title of the incense god path can one resist the invasion of yin energy into the soul and will.
But Lin Ruhai is clearly not among them. Although he is entrusted by the Spirit Blessing Marquis, the City God of Yangzhou, he is ultimately just an ordinary ghostly soul.
Especially during the time before his death, Lin Ruhai was most worried about his daughter.
This obsession became even more obvious after his sudden death.
Realizing this, Lin Ruhai now wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
However, compared to this, he is now more concerned about whether Luo Fu is really willing to cease fighting and withdraw his troops.
Even if it means marrying his daughter to him, he would not hesitate.
Firstly, in Lin Ruhai's eyes, Luo Fu is indeed a good neighbor and a good match, and secondly, it is for the sake of the world.
After all, Lin Ruhai still has the ideals of serving the emperor, loving the country, and governing the world, and even in death, this ideal is still deeply rooted in his heart.
When righteous words could not make Luo Fu change his mind, Lin Ruhai had no choice but to change his approach.
Even his address to Luo Fu changed from the previous Heavenly Daoist Luo to the Great Emperor Luo Tian.
Bowing to Luo Fu, Lin Ruhai said: "What does the Great Emperor think of my daughter?"
Luo Fu did not beat around the bush at all, but went straight to the point and said: "She has a captivating beauty that makes me feel pity."
These are not Luo Fu's exaggerated words, but as the reincarnation of the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass, Lin Daiyu does indeed have a captivating beauty. As for the so-called congenital deficiency that came from her mother's womb, Luo Fu understood it at the first sight of Lin Daiyu.
This is just because Lin Daiyu's main body, the Crimson Pearl Immortal Grass, was treated as an ingredient, and her reincarnation, the so-called repaying tears, is actually just to clear away the human seven emotions and six desires karma and sin that had to be absorbed due to being rooted in the Stone of Three Incarnations.
How could she be healthy when she was entangled in sin from a young age?
This so-called congenital deficiency is not a problem with the physical body, but is brought about congenitally when the soul is reincarnated.
For this world centered on the incense god path,
The seven emotions and six desires, karma and sin, are naturally forces that all gods and deities avoid, but Luo Fu is different.
Don't forget that the earliest Luo Fus in the Shared Space started by mastering the power of the seven emotions and six desires.
It can be said that the seven emotions and six desires, karma and sin, which the gods and deities of this world avoid, are instead a means of strengthening themselves for Luo Fu.
"I see that the Great Emperor is similar in age to my daughter. How about I betroth my daughter to the Great Emperor in exchange for the Great Emperor ceasing fighting and giving the world peace and prosperity?" Since Lin Ruhai unconsciously revealed the thoughts in his heart due to his ghostly obsession.
At this moment, he was also frank and directly expressed his thoughts to Luo Fu in front of his daughter, Lin Daiyu.
Lin Daiyu's eyes widened at once.
Although she had lived in the Rong Mansion for a long time and had developed some budding feelings for Jia Baoyu, in the feudal era, the order of parents and the words of a matchmaker were the true process of a formal marriage.
As for the budding feelings between her and Jia Baoyu, they were not worth mentioning at all.
Luo Fu fell into deep thought upon hearing this.
Since he wants to unify the Three Realms, starting from the human world, and has the ambition to embrace all twelve beauties, then he cannot just use cunning and forceful means.
And if he really gets married, in Luo Fu's opinion, among the twelve beauties, the most suitable to be his wife, at least for him, the most suitable to be his wife, is Lin Daiyu.
Yes.
It is Lin Daiyu, who seems petty in the eyes of others.
The twelve beauties, to varying degrees, each have their own problems. Among the four spring sisters, Yuan, Ying, Tan, and Xi, let's not mention Yuan Chun, who entered the palace.
Ying Chun developed a dull personality in the Rong Mansion. Unless she marries a husband who wholeheartedly supports her, the dull personality she developed from a young age will make her unable to stand up at all. Ying Chun, who is good at chess, does have the potential to become a wife and has enough scheming, but the atmosphere of the Rong Mansion over a long period of time has made her cautious and careful, and she completely lacks the confidence and confidence to become a wife of a clan.
As for Tan Chun, she is a bit too sharp and revealing, and even seems to be a bit unclear about who is close and who is distant. Of course, this was also deliberately cultivated by Madam Wang. Tan Chun's biggest shortcoming is that she cares too much about the so-called ethical codes and even regards them as the standard.
For Luo Fu, the most crucial aspect of being his legal wife was understanding how to weigh pros and cons, rather than blindly adhering to Confucian ethics and morals. One must know that besides the bottom line and principles, everything else can be a little flexible. In this regard, Tan Chun's excessive concern for Confucian ethics was counterproductive and unsuitable.
Xi Chun is even more out of the question. As a young lady of the Ningguo Mansion, yet raised in the Rongguo Mansion, her biggest problem lies in her escapism after seeing through the fickleness of the world and the coldness of human relationships. She cares about nothing but herself, and even the maid who has been taking care of her since childhood can be sacrificed when needed.
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Although Yuan Chun is outstanding in all aspects, not to mention the issue of her already being in the palace, her concern for the Jia family, this cesspool, is enough for Luo Fu to exclude her from the choice of legal wife.
The other Twelve Beauties of Jinling also have their own problems. Therefore, the most powerful contenders for Luo Fu's legal wife are undoubtedly Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu.
When comparing Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, in Luo Fu's eyes, Xue Baochai actually has great drawbacks, not because she, like Lin Daiyu, has inherent deficiency from birth.
But because of her background as a merchant's family, she is habitually weighing the pros and cons in everything.
Although on the surface, compared to the generous Xue Baochai, Lin Daiyu, who comes from a family of officials, appears petty.
But in Luo Fu's view, Lin Daiyu's reaction is normal.
Even in terms of status and position, Lin Daiyu is enough to be above Xue Baochai in the Rongguo Mansion. Her many fits of pique are actually more because she has not received the attitude and treatment she deserves.
Unfortunately, her father fell seriously ill from the beginning and later passed away, leaving Lin Daiyu completely without support.
In fact, from Lin Daiyu's attitude towards Xiren, it is not difficult to see that she has the potential to become a legal wife. Her targeting of Xue Baochai is more because Xue Baochai is not qualified to compete with her, but she is compared with Xue Baochai by everyone.
It was just that Lin Daiyu's mother and father died one after another, and without support, she felt depressed, giving people the impression of being petty.
Numerous thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, and Luo Fu couldn't help but look at Lin Ruhai with interest.
For him, if Lin Daiyu really becomes his legal wife, it would be of great help to him in seizing the world.
That is Lin Ruhai's background.
As a Tanhua graduate and a five-generation marquis, it can be said that he has considerable connections among both scholarly families and powerful military officials. The combination of the two can allow Luo Fu to pacify the world at the fastest speed.
This is not to say that Luo Fu is compromising with the landlord class.
But because taking the world and ruling the world are two different concepts. In the process of pacifying the world, a certain degree of compromise is inevitable. But when Luo Fu has completely secured the world, then it is time to clean up the former helpers.
The Tao Te Ching says, 'Reversal is the movement of the Tao, weakness is the function of the Tao.'
In the process of Luo Fu seizing the world, those landlord classes, if they can be won over, will become his greatest help, but when he has secured the world, then these landlords will become thorns in his side.
Although Luo Fu can crush the world with pure domineering power, even if Luo Fu is rereading Marxism-Leninism, he is still a person who has received nine years of compulsory education. Making more friends and fewer enemies is completely an instinct under habitual thinking.
Keenly aware of Luo Fu's thoughtful expression.
Lin Ruhai thought that Luo Fu really had the intention to agree.
Not only was he overjoyed, but he then persuaded: "Great Emperor, your cultivation is profound, and although you can unify the world by force, the current dynasty, though there are twists and turns, has definitely not reached the time of dynastic change. As far as the current dynasty is concerned, the current problem is just a minor ailment. The current Holy Emperor is wise and decisive and will definitely not sit idly by and watch the situation deteriorate, and will definitely have a solution. If the Great Emperor insists on his own way, he will inevitably follow in the footsteps of the Great Virtuous Teacher."
Needless to say who the Great Virtuous Teacher is, it is Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turban Taoist who wanted to ask the Han Dynasty to die with the words 'The sky is dead, the Yellow Sky shall stand, the year is Jiazi, the world will be prosperous'.
In Lin Ruhai's heart, he doesn't know how strong Luo Fu himself is. He completely subconsciously regards Luo Fu as the current Zhang Jiao.
It's a pity that compared to Lin Ruhai's position and thoughts standing on the orthodox position of the court, although Luo Fu is a firm feudalist fighter, before he becomes an emperor, his position still stands somewhat on the position of the common people.
Shaking his head, Luo Fu said: "The world has today, it is not my fault. Although the Great Virtuous Teacher is my predecessor, the Great Virtuous Teacher is not necessarily like me!"
Seeing that Luo Fu was so determined to rebel, Lin Ruhai's heart tightened, and he said: "If the Great Virtuous Teacher had not rebelled back then, he would have been respected by the people of future generations. The Great Emperor is so young, yet has such cultivation, he should take this as a warning, how can he have the heart to follow his example?"
Looking at Lin Ruhai with a smile, Luo Fu said: "Just as you said, the current world has indeed not reached the time of dynastic change, but now, I want to ask the Great Qing to die."
That's right, the dynasty that Luo Fu is in, like the Qing Yu Nian Luo Fu, is a dynasty with Qing as its national title.
It's just that today, although there are changes in the north, the Great Qing is a truly unified dynasty, while the Great Qing of Qing Yu Nian, although powerful, can only be regarded as a separatist force, not a truly unified one.
"You..." Lin Ruhai glared at Luo Fu, seeing that no matter what he said, even if he put his own daughter on the line, he couldn't make Luo Fu change his mind. At this moment, Lin Ruhai was almost completely disheartened.
However, since Luo Fu had the idea of making Lin Daiyu his legal wife, even with his status and power, he wouldn't treat Lin Ruhai as an old fool, but if he could win over Lin Ruhai, it would also help him win over Lin Daiyu and further grasp the many connections and legacy left by Lin Ruhai.
The so-called legacy is certainly not the Lin family's millions of taels of assets.
After all, it is only now that women are in power, and the Rongguo Mansion, with its shallow vision, will regard the millions of taels of assets that Lin Daiyu carries as treasures. The truly smart people value only the connections that Lin Daiyu has from the Lin family's five generations of marquises, plus Lin Ruhai, the Tanhua graduate, the Lantai Temple Doctor, and the Salt Inspector.
That is a network of connections that truly spans both civil and military officials.
Civil officials have always liked to form cliques for personal gain, and those of the same year are even more natural reasons and excuses for forming cliques.
In Luo Fu's view, the reason why Lin Ruhai is so convinced that Luo Fu will not succeed is that on the one hand, he believes that the current Great Qing Dynasty has not exhausted its destiny and has not reached the time of dynastic change. Even if Luo Fu makes a lot of noise, he will at most be the Zhang Jiao of the generation, at best a pioneer for the king, opening a chaotic world and leaving a bad name for future generations.
On the other hand, he has a serious lack of understanding of the power under Luo Fu's command.
I believe that with Lin Ruhai's knowledge, if he sees Luo Fu's more than 16,000 loyal and brave soldiers, each capable of fighting a hundred men, even if he does not change his position immediately, his mind will be shaken. You must know that even among millions of elite soldiers, it is not necessarily possible to find many who can fight a hundred men.
And what about Luo Fu? All of his subordinates are truly capable of fighting a hundred men.
Now, after experiencing the capture of Yangzhou, they have gradually begun to transform into elites. It is a pity that the process of capturing Yangzhou relied more on skillful methods. But after experiencing several real bloody battles, even if 16,000 men capable of fighting a hundred men are reduced by half, leaving only 8,000, that is enough to become the power to secure the world.
The fact is that Luo Fu uses bloodline energy to mass-produce seeds of energy, creating a large number of existences at the level of fighting a hundred men. For today's era with backward productivity, it is simply like opening an invincible cheat.
Simply relying on verbal arguments, neither Luo Fu nor Lin Ruhai can convince the other.
So, Luo Fu directly asked the maids and servants under his command to send Lin Daiyu to the backyard first.
Then, Luo Fu personally took Lin Ruhai on a trip to his own military camp.
After seeing Luo Fu's subordinates, one after another truly capable of fighting a hundred men, especially among them, there were also 3,000 terrifying armored forces because of the capture of Yangzhou.
Lin Ruhai became even more silent in an instant, and his heart, as Luo Fu had thought before, produced a serious shake.
He didn't understand how Luo Fu such an existence could appear in the world.
Because of the Yin spirit, Lin Ruhai could truly feel that none of Luo Fu's more than 16,000 men capable of fighting a hundred men were created using Xuanmen Taoism.
Although the Taoism of the Yellow Turban Warriors is mysterious, it cannot exert much power in the face of the evil spirit of the military formation, especially in this world dominated by the incense Shinto, Xuanmen Taoism is even more unbearable.
But Luo Fu's 16,000 men capable of fighting a hundred men are different. If Luo Fu hadn't been protecting him, I'm afraid that even with Lin Ruhai's current Yin spirit, he would have been dispersed by the other party's energy and yang just by approaching any of Luo Fu's soldiers.
After returning from the military formation, Luo Fu was very considerate and used the method of reversing life and death, which can be called a great supernatural power in this extraordinary system world with incense Shinto as the core. He restored the vitality of Lin Ruhai's body, which had already produced corpse spots.
Of course, although Lin Ruhai's spirit returning to his body is no different from a real living person, Luo Fu did not give him extraordinary means such as the seed of energy. Being able to return to the Yang world as a living person is more supported by a force of Luo Fu's energy.
The reason why Luo Fu helped Lin Ruhai return to life is more based on the consideration of the Yin spirit's paranoia.
Only true mortals will have the agitation of seven emotions and six desires, and will not be gradually biased and extreme in nature like Yin spirits under the influence of Yin Qi.
Once again experiencing the process of Yin spirit returning to life, but this time, Lin Ruhai did not have the surprised attitude towards Yin spirit returning to life that he had before when he was entrusted by Lingyou Marquis.
In his heart, he was always hovering between following Luo Fu and seeing the shock of more than 16,000 men capable of fighting a hundred men.
At any rate, he was born as a Marquis of five generations, Lin Ruhai is not a weak scholar who is truly ignorant of the military formation, not to mention that his wife is also Jia Min, the eldest lady of the Rongguo Mansion who comes from a powerful military family.