Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

Chapter 500: A Dream Within a Dream

If the spruce trees cannot form a forest, it will be hard to wake up from the Buddha’s dream!

In the Forest of Lost Buddhas, Shen Yichen fell into a dream, but it was not his dream, but Ximen Xuanyue’s dream!

In the dream, Shen Yichen saw some of Ximen Xuanyue’s past, and also saw the dream in his dream, and of course, he also saw the result of practicing good and evil together!

But Shen Yichen couldn't wake up. It should be said that Ximen Xuanyue couldn't wake up. He didn't enter the dream to seek the method of practicing good and evil together, but died in the dream!

Ximen Xuanyue's teachings came from Xuantian Pavilion, which is a pavilion located above the nine heavens. However, it is not a castle in the air, but is based on the eight paths of the world!

Above the eight paths in the world is Xuantian. The eight paths in the world are Buddhism, Demon, Taoism, Monster, Confucianism, Immortality, Sword and Weirdness!

However, Shen Yichen was very confused. He didn't understand whether the Eight Paths in the World were inherited from Xuantian Pavilion, or whether the Eight Paths in the World respected Xuantian Pavilion. Also, why was Xuantian Pavilion so high above?

Shen Yichen knew nothing. He only knew that Ximen Xuanyue was seeking Buddhism, one of the eight paths in the world. When Shen Yichen saw it in his dream, he had a very bad feeling in his heart, because he met the monk again. It seemed that Shen Yichen's fate with Buddhism was a bad fate!

Ximen Xuanyue is a genius who has practiced Buddhism for thirty years, entered the secular world for thirty years, and attained the great Buddhist path for thirty years. During this period, Shen Yichen saw a monster. Although it was very blurry, he felt it looked like a dragon!

Ximen Xuanyue's following years were spent resolving the world's resentment, relieving the world's hatred, saving all living beings, and saving the world!

However, what Ximen Xuanyue didn't expect was that a demon would be born at the end of the Buddhist Avenue. He didn't know whether it was the hatred in the hearts of the people or his own demon!

Lord Xuantian, Ximen Xuanyue knelt down to ask for an answer, but no one gave him an answer. However, Lord Xuantian gave him a hint:

"The way of heaven and earth lies in one's own body, not in cultivation; the way of the world lies in one's own heart, not in the secular world!"

Ximen Xuanyue seemed to understand, but he made a decision to test the law with his own body. He decided to prove the truth through the devil!

Ximen Xuanyue is a man of extraordinary talent. He practiced magic for thirty years, became a demon for thirty years, and proved the great magic formula for thirty years. During this period of time, Shen Yichen saw some strange techniques, but he could not understand them. It seemed that everyone in the world can be controlled!

Ximen Xuanyue's later years were spent slaughtering the treacherous people in the world, killing the evil in the world, seeking equality for all beings, and wishing for justice in the world!

But what Ximen Xuanyue did not expect was that at the end of the path of magic, a Buddha was born. He did not know whether it was the wish of the people in the world or the devil in his own heart!

The inner demon of Buddhism is the devil, and the inner demon of the devil is the Buddha!

Not only Ximen Xuanyue was confused, but Shen Yichen, who had entered the dream, was even more puzzled!

Lord Xuantian, Ximen Xuanyue did not kneel this time, but waved and left, because he no longer had the ability to seek answers. He had done all the best in the world, but he had also done the most evil in the world. He himself could no longer distinguish between good and evil, and he could no longer distinguish between Buddha and the devil. Ximen Xuanyue did not know what was righteousness, nor did he know what was evil, because the end of righteousness is evil, and the end of evil is righteousness!

At the end of Ximen Xuanyue's life, he walked into a spruce forest. He went from Buddha to dream, and from dream to earth. Looking back, he realized that his past was really just a dream. There is no distinction between Buddha and devil in the world, and there is no distinction between good and evil in the world. The distinction between Buddha and devil lies in oneself, and the ultimate distinction between good and evil lies in the human heart!

Shen Yichen finally woke up from his dream. He was tricked again because the Forest of Lost Buddhas had no way to solve the problem of good and evil practitioners! Ximen Xuanyue did not die a good death, but his heart died. He spent his whole life seeking to prove the ultimate of Buddha and devil, but found that it was just a dream, and he himself ended up in this dream and could never wake up again!

But Shen Yichen needs to wake up!

Shen Yichen now knew that he had not entered a formation, but Ximen Xuanyue’s final dream, an endless dream, and this dream took place in the spruce forest!

So what Shen Yan in Baiyi and Meng Yimeng saw was not wrong, this is a spruce forest, and it is also the place where Ximen Xuanyue is buried!

Shen Yichen's heart felt like it was sinking into the abyss. He realized that he might be unable to walk out of the spruce forest just like Ximen Xuanyue. No, it wasn't that he couldn't walk out of the spruce forest, but that he couldn't walk out of Ximen Xuanyue's dream!

Shen Yichen was puzzled. Why did he see a grave and a tombstone instead of a spruce forest? And Shen Yichen didn't know what he was doing here. He should really believe in himself. There was no problem with his own practice of good and evil. But he believed in Bai Yi Shen Yan and Meng Yimeng and came here to find the so-called solution to the practice of good and evil!

The results of it?

Ximen Xuanyue is indeed a person who practices both good and evil, but there is no disaster! No, there is a disaster, and the disaster is Ximen Xuanyue's own heart. He can't tell what is good and what is evil!

But Shen Yichen himself doesn't make the distinction, otherwise he wouldn't have practiced all kinds of skills. This means that the end of Ximen Xuanyue is the beginning of Shen Yichen, but it's not about cultivation, not about skills, but about state of mind!

Therefore, Shen Yichen felt that he had come here in vain. Ximen Xuanyue was of no help to him at all. Instead, he was trapped in his dream and didn't know how to leave!

"Sister Yan, you are deceiving people by knowing everything in the world, and you are even more deceiving by not knowing things!"

After Shen Yichen finished complaining, he laughed because he thought of himself again and muttered to himself:

"I listened to others, and I got into trouble! I didn't listen to others, and I got into trouble too!"

Shen Yichen thought about it and said:

"Now that you mention it, it seems like it has nothing to do with Sister Yan. It's just my bad luck!"

No matter how much he mocked or complained, Shen Yichen still had to find a way to leave. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life alone in Ximen Xuanyue's dream!

Shen Yichen looked at the grave and the tombstone. He knew that what he saw at first sight was the end of Ximen Xuanyue’s dream. In other words, if he saw the spruce forest, it meant that he had gotten out!

"Ximen Xuanyue, you said you are a genius, why do you have to distinguish between good and evil? I really don't understand what you are thinking. Since the end of the Buddhist path is the devil, and the end of the devil is the Buddha, it means that good and evil can coexist. Why do you have to pursue the ultimate?"

"You said you were dead if you wanted to, and you couldn't tell the difference if you couldn't. You still want to know the answer after you die. If I give you the answer, can I get out? But you can't hear it, so what's the point? Besides, even if you know the answer, it will still be blown away by the wind."

"Ximen Xuanyue, you didn't tell me if practicing good and evil together would cause physical problems. No, practicing good and evil together is not because of problems with the technique, but because of an unstable mind. From your experience, there is nothing wrong with practicing good and evil together. It's just that people's minds are bound by the distinction between good and evil, and they can't tell whether they should be good or evil, which leads to physical problems. In other words, if a person has no good or evil in his heart, then there will be no problem if he practices good and evil together, because good and evil techniques are the same to him!"

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In front of Ximen Xuanyue's tombstone, Shen Yichen was talking to himself, but there was a response in the void!

“How can a person achieve a state where there is no good or evil in his heart?”

The sudden words scared Shen Yichen so much that he left the tombstone in panic and searched around for a while, but there was really nothing!

"Who... who are you? Come out and scare people. You'll scare them to death! Are you Sect Master Meng?"

After Shen Yichen asked, he denied it. How could Meng Yimeng get in!

Shen Yichen exclaimed again:

"You, you are Ximen Xuanyue? Are you dead or not?"

After Shen Yichen asked, he denied it again. Ximen Xuanyue must be dead. But, who is this voice?

Shen Yichen felt a chill on his back and shuddered. No one responded to Shen Yichen at all!

Shen Yichen waited for a long time and asked several times, but there was no sound!

In the Forest of Remaining Buddhas, there is really only a grave and a tombstone, and nothing else!

"Did I ask myself that question?"

After Shen Yichen finished speaking, he returned to the tombstone, but the question still entered his mind!

“How can a person achieve a state where there is no good or evil in his heart?”

Shen Yichen leaned on Ximen Xuanyue's tombstone, lowered his head and pondered this question!

Ximen Xuanyue chose to enter a dream, and it was a dream of death. No, Shen Yichen suddenly woke up!

Ximen Xuanyue's tomb and tombstone are telling him that only when a person dies and his teachings disappear, there will be no good or evil in one's heart! This is the answer to the practice of good and evil that Ximen Xuanyue got after entering the dream for thousands of years!

If not for this, Shen Yichen would not have seen the grave and tombstone!

But this stumped Shen Yichen, who muttered to himself:

"Can all problems between good and evil only be solved by death? But I don't want to die!"

Under the moonlight, Shen Yichen closed his eyes and concentrated, thinking about how to break the situation! He also looked back at his past, and gradually he also entered his dream!

In the Buddhist forest, Shen Yichen fell asleep leaning against Ximen Xuanyue's tombstone. He also wanted to enter a dream to find a way to survive!