The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 379 Yin and Yang

Chu Nanhuai sighed. “The Luck of heaven is ethereal, so it’s hard to explain it to you. I can only tell you that Taiyuan must be captured within three days, or the consequences are unpredictable!”

Then, Chu Nanhuai told Li Xian about the situation of the Luck of heaven in detail.

Li Xian said in shock, “Li Ye wants to control the altar in the secret region. It’s easier said than done. With Feihong Bodhisattva there, he is unable to compete for it!”

Chu Nanhuai sighed again and looked up at the night sky.

Today, there were no stars and a moon, and clouds covered the sky. He looked solemn as if he had a heavy weight on his back. “In terms of cultivation, realm, fighting ability, and foundation, Feihong Bodhisattva is so powerful that Li Ye has no chance to win. If he can’t defeat Feihong Bodhisattva, everything will be in vain. The so-called famous minister of the revival and the pillar of the country will be doomed.”

Li Xian looked at his senior brother. “Senior brother, have you ever calculated anything?”

Chu Nanhuai smiled bitterly. “No matter how powerful I am, I don’t dare to calculate anything about Feihong Bodhisattva. Even though I dare to do that, I’m doomed to get nothing.”

Li Xian kept silent for a moment. “Then, Li Ye...”

Chu Nanhuai sighed and shook his head. “It depends on his destiny.”

Li Xian remained silent for a long time.

In the end, he said, “Man proposes, God disposes. Whatever the outcome of this battle will be, I’m willing to fight to the death and have a clear conscience.”

Chu Nanhuai opened his mouth, speechless.

In the next day, when the Imperial Army attacked the city, old Prince An went to fight again.

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The darkness didn’t last long. When Li Ye saw the light again, instead of staying in the courtyard, he returned to the mountain.

Feihong Bodhisattva was right next to him. She was no longer old but restored the beauty of her heyday.

They were already on top of the mountain, which was a huge platform, thousands of meters in circumference, paved with white jade. There was a round altar with nine layers in the middle, and its base was several dozen meters in diameter. The altar folded layer by layer up to 30 meters.

They looked as small as ants in front of the altar.

This was the altar of the secret region.

At the same time, a wave of spiritual light flashed in Li Ye’s and Feihong Bodhisattva’s minds. Then, the information about how to use the altar and matters needing attention was accepted by both of them.

After digesting the information, Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva looked at each other at the same time.

At that moment, both Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva had light flashed in their eyes.

Then, they remained silent for a long time.

The atmosphere grew weirder and weirder in the silence. Without a doubt, they began to show their murderous intents.

Li Ye spoke first, “Only one person can use this secret altar, so between you and me, someone must go home empty-handed. I think that you’re not going to give up easily.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said calmly. “You’re not going to give up either.”

Li Ye said, “In this case, why don’t you take action now?”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “If you do it first, you might be able to gain the initiative.”

Li Ye said, “We’ve lived together for forty years, and I didn’t take action, so I’m in no hurry now.”

Feihong Bodhisattva sneered. “Don’t make it sound like I’ve once fought you in the past forty years.”

In the forty years of experiencing the life of ordinary people, both of them had many chances to launch a sudden attack on each other. Even if they took action, they wouldn’t necessarily succeed. But sometimes, the odds of success were pretty good, for example, when the other side was sick.

During those forty years, their cultivation was suppressed, and they became ordinary people. If they fought each other, neither of them had an advantage or a disadvantage. That was their best chance—relatively speaking, that was Li Ye’s best chance.

Forty years were not a short time. During those years, there were no anomalies or strange things. In that peaceful life, they must have ever thought it for that killing the other was the condition for success after all.

Feihong Bodhisattva stared at Li Ye with her bright eyes. “The forty years in the village were the time when you and I had the most approximate strength and your best chance to kill me, but you never even tried.”

Li Ye said calmly, “Maybe, I was timid.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “Of course not.”

Li Ye said, “Maybe, I was cautious.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “No matter how cautious you were, you could not to take action all those forty years.”

Li Ye said, “Maybe, the survival of both of us was the necessary condition for success.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “It was possible that the death of one of us was the only condition.”

Li Ye said, “The truth is that we succeed now.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “Neither of us knew it in advance.”

Li Ye said, “I have a question.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “Why could we succeed?”

Li Ye said, “Maybe, you already have an answer.”

Feihong Bodhisattva said, “My answer is no different from yours.”

Li Ye said, “It seems so.”

The secret region was the secret region of the Tao of Heaven, and the Tao of Heaven was the Great Tao. It was impossible to get the approval of the Tao of Heaven and gain the Luck of heaven before someone could comprehend the Great Tao. Therefore, the third test in the secret region was to comprehend the Tao.

The aspects of disposition, will, cultivation, fighting ability, the comprehension of Tao, and wisdom were combined to measure a cultivator’s strength and how far he could go. Therefore, each of the three passes in the secret region corresponded to each two of them.

With their wisdom, both Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva could think of that after decades.

However, there were 3,000 thousand Great Tao. Even a cultivator of great wisdom could hardly fully comprehend all in his whole life. The so-called comprehension of the theory of Great Tao also depended on a lucky chance. So, what was the Tao that Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva needed to comprehend in the last pass in the secret region of the Tao of Heaven?

They lived in the village as ordinary people.

That was the ordinary people’s life, not the cultivators’. In other words, that was the life beyond cultivators’ reach.

No matter how much a cultivator had experienced, no matter how much knowledge he had, no matter how many ordinary people and their lives he had seen, he would also have blind spots. It was far less than experiencing it.

However, half of the 3,000 Great Tao were in the lives of ordinary people.

Over the past 40 years, Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva had mixed feelings and comprehended a lot. It could be said that those forty years of cultivation greatly improved the state of their mind and the level of their comprehension of Tao. It was a golden chance.

The secret region of the Tao of Heaven was a lucky chance itself.

Some people could get that, but some didn’t.

It was conceivable that if Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva could get out of the secret region, their cultivation power would be greatly improved.

Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva could succeed because they comprehended the Tao that the secret region of the Tao of Heaven needed them to comprehend.

The Tao that the secret region of the Tao of Heaven needed them to comprehend was very basic. Otherwise, they could hardly catch the meaning of Tao of Heaven among 3,000 Great Tao.

Li Ye took a deep breath and watched Feihong Bodhisattva’s bright eyes.

The two people slowly said, “Yin and Yang.”

Day and night alternated and all living creatures grew. The fusion of Yin and Yang was the foundation of the world.

The world didn’t exist without Yin and Yang.

The Tao of Yin and Yang was the basic Great Tao.

Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva lived in the village as husband and wife and worked hard together for forty years. Getting married and having children, the men plowed and the women wove. They carried on the family line as time went by. Pairs of men and women, pairs of Yin and Yang, constituted the human society, with the passage of years.

Those 40 years of life were the most basic interpretation of the Tao that Yin and Yang moved the world.

No matter how brilliant the civilization was, no matter how wonderful the world was, it all came from the initial intercourse between Yin and Yang and from that “husband and wife”.

Those who violated the Tao of Yin and Yang were against the Great Tao and the world.

Li Ye looked at Feihong Bodhisattva deeply and sharply. “The cultivation of Buddhism requires a pure heart and few desires. The discipline of Buddhism prohibits intercourse. “Is this against the Tao of Yin and Yang? Without intercourse, without racial continuity, there would be no civil society. Isn’t Buddhism’s prohibition on intercourse against the Great Tao and the origin of the world?”

Feihong Bodhisattva’s expression changed. “Bullsh*t!”

Li Ye smiled. “Don’t you think so?”

Feihong Bodhisattva retrieved her momentum and slowly glanced at Li Ye. “Do you want to mess with the state of my mind again? Or, do you want to mess with my Taoist’s Heart this time?”

Before Li Ye could say anything, Feihong Bodhisattva continued, “Since you said that, it seems that your comprehension of the Tao of Yin and Yang is far from enough.”

Li Ye’s smile was pure. “I succeeded in going out of the secret region because I comprehended the Tao of Yin and Yang. Therefore, I don’t need to refute you. Instead, I have a question for you.”

Feihong Bodhisattva had a bad feeling. She narrowed her eyes slightly. “You’d better think it over before you ask.”

The confrontation about the Taoist’s Heart and the state of mind began, and it was very dangerous. Feihong Bodhisattva felt that she was in an unfavorable situation because the cultivator of Buddhism was at a disadvantage when discussing the Tao of Yin and Yang.

As expected, Feihong Bodhisattva gave up discussing Tao and directly pulled out her sword when hearing Li Ye’s next question.

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Feihong Bodhisattva’s realm was so high that she already saw through the meaning of life and the impermanence of fate. She regarded life and death as the law of life and didn’t care much about it. Even when 18 arhats of Land Buddhism died, she could treat that calmly and had no feeling about that.

Many of the moral virtues in the world couldn’t constrain her a lot. Those rules and regulations in other people’s eyes were far less than the word “nature” in her eyes, so she had little taboo.

Free and easy was her only motto.

At Feihong Bodhisattva’s level, only two things were worth her pursuing. One was the eternal power, and the other was freedom.

However, in Feihong Bodhisattva’s realm, it was extremely difficult to increase power. It was almost hopeless at normal circumstances, and it was hard to make a little progress even after a thousand years.

No matter the Immortal Emperor, the Saint Buddha, or the Daluo Golden Immortal, their power was rarely increased even after ten thousand years, but they wouldn’t give up the pursuit of power. Instead, their obsession deepened.

Between heaven and earth, only sages would not die, so expect the sages, everyone was like an ant. It was impossible to give up the temptation to become a sage when a cultivator achieved the Pre-sage Realm after a lot of hard works.

But Feihong Bodhisattva was different.

She lacked interest in all this.

Because it was difficult to increase her power, she let go of the obsession.

When facing the same situation, some people would deepen the obsession, but some would let go of it.

After Feihong Bodhisattva let go of the obsession, she lost her goal of life and had no pursuit.

In the long years, her life lost its color since she had no goal or pursuit.

It was meaningless.

As time went on, she lost interest in everything and had nothing to do but to drink wine every day.

Under the circumstances, the Tao of Heaven showed, and the Luck of heaven appeared in the world. She volunteered for the job when the Saint Buddha selected manpower.

Her life was as calm as the stagnant water for a thousand years. Instead of facing the staid, solemn cultivators of Land Buddhism all day long, she wanted something new and interesting.

So after she went down to the Wutai Mountain, the first thing she did was to let the 50 kilometers of peach blossoms fall.

She originally thought Li Keyong would be interesting. After all, he was the hero chosen by Buddhism. But it turned out that a hero and an interesting person were two different things.

It was different until she met Li Ye.