Chapter 348 Discussion
Wang Xuan raised his eyebrows, but did not get fidgety because of Puji Bodhisattva's words. He was determined and never felt any regret for what he had done.
It is necessary to reflect on ourselves, but constantly worrying about past mistakes will eventually hurt our mind and make us gradually become autistic.
"Senior, what do you think is wrong with me?" Wang Xuan asked.
Puji said: "You have killed too many lives. Each of the Life Yuan Fairy Peaches in the Fairy Sky Square is a living being. You can imagine that the lives that have died in your hands are in the millions."
Buddhism emphasizes compassion and trying to kill as little as possible. They participate in world wars to protect the sentient beings on their home planet and kill the invading alien races.
However, they do not recommend killing ordinary natives of the alien world, especially the lower-level creatures.
"Is that so?" Wang Xuan certainly knew how many aliens had died at his hands. You know, he had hundreds of millions of Life-Essence Immortal Peaches.
“The world of all monsters has been defeated. In a few years, that world will disappear without a trace. The mother planet will not spend too much energy to arrange a new planet for the natives to live on.
Their end will only be death. It makes no difference whether they die today or in a few years, whether they die at the hands of me or the origin of the mother planet.
What's more, there is no possibility of resolving the blood feud between our world and them. It can only be ended if one side completely disappears.
Keeping them will only bring harm to oneself. The mother planet does not have the extra energy to take care of them, so the right thing to do is to seize all resources to make them stronger.
My killing may be unfair to them, but who cares?
If one day the mother planet is destroyed and billions of lives are slaughtered, who will care? "
What he said made some sense, and from the perspective of the mother planet, there was nothing wrong with it, and no one would blame him as long as he did not harm the interests of the mother planet.
What's more, the appearance of the Life Yuan Fairy Peach will benefit hundreds of millions of cultivators, enhance their strength, and contribute to future world wars. It is a great merit.
"The situation on our mother planet is like this, so what you did is reasonable. But killing will cause resentment and form karma. I'm afraid that one day you will be infected by your inner demons and become a great demon of killing," Puji said.
Wang Xuan shook his head: "Senior, you are worrying too much. If I am infected, it only means that I am not strong enough."
What he didn't say was that he didn't want to argue about the right or wrong of his killing. If one day all the creatures in the demon world died out, who would be able to stand in front of him and discuss right or wrong?
What's more, war is the biggest mistake.
Without war, none of this would happen, but if the mother planet does not fight, it will be destroyed by other worlds.
Peaceful coexistence may be possible, but who can guarantee that the other party will not strike first in the future? The law of the dark forest is bloody.
Survival is the first need of civilization, but the mother planet cannot even meet this requirement now and is on the verge of extinction every day.
Even the earth is struggling for survival and trying its best to grow in the balance of strength and weakness. If we don't seize every opportunity to grow stronger and destroy the enemy's living strength now, will we regret it in the future?
"I am just advising you not to lose your original intention in the war." Puji said.
From this conversation, Wang Xuan made clear his pro-war stance. Facing alien races, his heart was as hard as iron, and he would show no mercy when necessary.
When he thinks killing is unnecessary, or that killing is optional, he may hold back. But when he thinks killing is of great benefit to the home planet, he will not hesitate even if his hands are stained with blood.
Having experienced too much and facing the ruthless attacks of the aliens time and time again, Wang Xuan had already seen through the cold faces of the aliens.
Since there is no room for relaxation, only killing and death, and it will not stop until death, why should he keep a tiger as a threat and expect the enemy to let go of his hatred?
And Puji, or Buddhism, has the idea of not killing if you can, and only killing when there is no other way.
The angry Vajra does not get angry on normal days.
They pay attention to good and evil, right and wrong, so they have sympathy for the common people of other races who have not participated in the war.
Therefore, Puji objected to Wang Xuan's killing of hundreds of millions of lives and condensing a large number of life essence peaches, believing that this was a sin of killing.
"I know I did something wrong, but I don't have the time or energy to think about them, because our mother planet was defeated in the world war with the Ten Thousand Demons Realm, and our ending will not be better than theirs now." Wang Xuan said.
He knew that he had committed the sin of killing and had stained himself with too much blood, but if he stopped this open source behavior, within sixty years, the mother planet would be destroyed. You must know that the Heavenly Demon Realm, as a subordinate world of the Ten Thousand Demon Realm, was destroyed by a supreme being in one blow, without mercy, even though there were tens of billions of intelligent creatures on it.
If Wang Xuan hadn't been able to spy on the future, all the millions of Mother Star creatures stationed in the Heavenly Demon Realm would have died. Moreover, in the war, the Ten Thousand Demon Realm was stained with the blood of the Mother Star creatures, and there was no such thing as them being victims.
"You're on your own. Here's a few words for you: Don't forget your original intention."
Puji pointed to a pond in the distance. A trickle of water from upstream was constantly pouring in, replacing the original water in the pond, while water was constantly flowing out of the gap below.
The living water constantly replaces the old water, and the lotus leaves in the pond are green and grow under the nourishment of the living water.
Wang Xuan could understand what Puji Bodhisattva meant. He meant that people’s thoughts change all the time and receive new information every day. The lotus leaves representing wisdom, will and concepts receive nourishment and continue to grow.
It is this kind of living water that replaces the old water, so that with each passing day, you are no longer the same person you were yesterday.
If we don’t control the entrance of living water, no one knows what kind of lotus will bloom in the future.
“The tragedy of mortals is that they cannot control their own thoughts. They change with the water in the pond, cutting off the old self in oblivion every day and forming a new self in the new day.
One day, they will become so different that they don’t even recognize themselves, but they have to accept it. They may be willing to admit that they are still themselves, but in fact they are no longer that person. "
Life is like the water in a pond, it is constantly changing.
Wang Xuan smiled and said, "I can remove the living water that enters the pond of my soul and become what I want.
It’s just that the environment of heaven and earth is like this. If I don’t change myself, I can’t survive. I am not changing passively, but actively doing so.”
He could choose to quietly manage Emperor Xuan Star, accumulate incense and faith, and not participate in the war, then he would definitely enter the realm of true immortals in a few decades.
He can avoid committing sins of killing and live a peaceful life without competing with the world.
It's just that he doesn't want to do that.
Puji said that he was selfish from the perspective of his mother planet, doing everything for the benefit of his mother planet and ignoring the innocent lives of other races.
This is true.
But from another perspective, he is very great. He fights for his mother planet and fights to protect billions of lives.
In the alien world, he committed countless killings, but on his home planet, he had immeasurable merits. The golden light of merit on his body condensed into substance, and he easily refined it into a halo of merit.
He is so contradictory, both selfish and selfless.
Although Wang Xuan and Pu Ji were only discussing Taoism, the swordplay and saber-beating involved was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Despite the argument, no one was clear about who was right or wrong.
"This era needs people like you." Puji sighed.
"Let's not argue. You and I each have our own beliefs, and we are not enemies. There is no need to argue endlessly." Puji looked at Wang Xuan, "No one comes to the temple for no reason. What are you doing in my Baoguang Temple?"
Wang Xuan flipped his palm and a life-saving fairy peach appeared. The white and rosy peach exuded a refreshing fragrance, making people want to eat it in one bite.
Because taking this thing is indeed beneficial to evolution.
"I came here to make a deal with Baoguang Temple. Everyone in the world knows that the Life Yuan Fairy Peach is precious and can greatly benefit spiritual practice. I think your temple is also short of it."
Puji frowned. The peach, which looked white and rosy, looked bloody in his eyes. He asked, "What do you want in exchange?"
Wang Xuan said solemnly: "The power of faith!"
(End of this chapter)