Chapter 406 Dancing Tree, Fruit of Immortality (1/2)
Fang Yanying held her sword up high, a five-colored Halo circulated, and with a simple chop, Shan Jue's head fell to the ground.
But when the head that fell from the neck rolled and turned, it reattached itself to Shan Jue's headless body, seamless, it hardly looked as if the head was cut off in the first place.
Fang Yanying stepped back in shock, she did not expect the cultivation of this person to be so high. The head of person is the Point of Concentration for the Six Yang, once it is severed, death is sure to follow. But Shan Jue had a high cultivation, and could even reattach his decapitated head, without any trace of the decapitation.
If his head can be reattached, then it would surely not be of use to sever any of the limbs.
Shan Jue chuckled, ”Daoist Shen, how about you make the move, poor monk moving unhindered between the heavens and earth, would not want to go back and take the walk of reincarnation again.”
Fang Yanying turned back to see Shen Lian, but the Uncle-Master only smiled lightly. She took the sword and abruptly delivered another chop, the head fell and reattached itself again.
But then the more times she chopped off his head, the more Shan Jue's body looked withered. After countless times of repeating her actions, in the end Shan Jue fell to the floor and seated cross-legged, his body was like gold all over, his skeleton and skin the only visible remains. The gold light faintly emanated from within him, similar was the skull that lay just beside, motionless.
It was only now that Fan Yanying retracted her sword and walked towards the Uncle-Master. Shen Lian let out a breath, and the golden body immediately turned to dust, mixing with the soil of the netherworld. At the end there was spring water that flowed through, converging into a small lake, the golden dust became one with the soil and turned into golden sand. A single lotus flower blossomed in the middle of the pond, swaying with the wind, calm as the breeze, a distant feeling of Zen was present.
Shen Lian softly asked, ”Is there any difference in your heart now that you've killed him?”Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.
Fan Yanying replied, ”There is none.”
Shen Lian looked at her with praise, and warmly said, ”Where there is life, there is also death. One only fears that immortal Zhenren and Golden-Bodied Arhat are the same, there must be added cautiousness when one cultivates higher, yet one cannot lose the spirit of aggressive bravery. Just like riding against the current, your state of mind must be even more aware. Shan Jue is strong in chi, barring a calamity, whether he dies by your hand or mine is no different, only by my hand or by the laws of heaven, the trouble for it. Actually, I gave him the chance to lay out his conditions for a way back to life, but there was actually a meaning behind it. He still wanted to be calculative, it could be said that his last chance at life was vanished just like that. Both the lives he cultivated, it is all just a picture now. Such a pity.”
Fan Yanying replied, ”According to your words, Shan Jue cultivated in both lives. But is it not true that when you are reincarnated, Daoist immortality becomes harder, could it be that nothing could bind him?
Shen Lian laughed, ”In the 3 thousand years of Qing Xuan history, the only twice Daoist Immortal is my master, fairy Ziling. Therefore, to be twice the Daoist, is incredibly hard, and this is not an exaggeration. However, this is not applicable to Buddhists, for they have their own secret method of reincarnation, capable of bringing with them all the cultivation, start afresh, progress, become one, and finally break free of all restraints with the use of the their great technique; proof of an Arhat, Budhha. Only on this point, they are supreme, and can be considered better than those of the Profound School.”
Thoughtfully, Fan Yanying said, ”Putting it that way, the Ultimate Indigenous Technique of Buddhism, could it be greater than Daoism?”
Shen Lian answered, ”True obsession, the Way of Dao is there, even though there is no difference between those who are enlightened, one fears the long nights and many dreams, the Golden-Bodied Arhat can perhaps easily be proved, but for Buddha's karma, thousands of years of cultivation is not necessarily enough, lingering in this word, in oneself only good and bad are born, born floating, karma floating, the more time passes, the more likely it is to encounter danger. One bit of carelessness, and the ending will not differ from Shan Jue today.”
He paused, then continued, ”The Buddhist sect passed down a saying: a good man who passes the immeasurable trials, can then become Buddha. But these immeasurable trials take place over a long span of time, and whoever can guarantee nothing happens during that period? That is why people of my generation only cultivate today and ask nothing of the next life, treading lightly as if on thin ice, being able to stay content even in times of adversity.”