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Zheng Qiu jumped up and looked around. At this time, his realm had reached the fifth level of Jindan. Swallowing the true spirit of the monster had greatly improved his realm.

His eyes traveled through space and he saw the 800-mile Thorn Ridge at a glance.

Zheng Qiu clenched his five fingers into a fist, and the seven Heaven-stealing Seven Absolute Needles used sword intent to weave a basket, and the two women naturally sat in it. Zheng Qiu moved his five fingers and flew towards the thorn bush.

Zheng Qiu stood in the air and looked at the two big trees standing proudly in the economic forest, with a smile on his face: "I would like to ask Mr. Gu Zhi to take a look."

I saw an old tree with dense leaves and winding branches starting to twist slightly. The branches of the cypress tree shrank and turned into a dead green color, floating between heaven and earth. An old man holding a walking stick bowed slightly to Zheng Qiu in the air: "I am an old man, Gu Zhigong! May I ask your name, fellow Taoist?"

Zheng Qiu stared at Gu Zhigong intently, fearing that he would sabotage him: "I am Huosha, the master of Wuxian Palace! I came here to find you for cultivation. My cultivation requires natural materials and treasures, but don't worry, I will give you elixirs to restore your body, so don't worry."

Gu Zhigong smiled slightly, waved his wrist gently in the thorn bush, and the dense thorns began to retreat on their own. After a while, a piece of open space was vacated. Several wooden vines grew on the ground and weaved into a set of rattan tables and chairs.

Gu Zhigong trembled his hands slightly, and five teacups appeared on the rattan table and chairs: "Since you are here to seek the Tao, we should talk about the Tao. Why don't you sit down and chat with me and talk about the Tao? If I am convinced, it's not a bad idea!"

Zheng Qiu led the two girls down to an old apricot tree with twisted roots and gnarled branches. "This must be Miss Xing, right? Please meet me! I'm here for you two!"

The petals on the apricot tree were falling and spinning around the tree. Soon, a young girl in an apricot-yellow silk dress came over. She bowed gently to Zheng Qiu and then sat down on the rattan chair.

Zheng Qiu glanced at Xingnu, and then said to Gu Zhigong: "I don't know what we are talking about!"

Gu Zhi Gong thought for a while and said, "If you can easily quote the Taoist classics, then you have different teachers and different ideas. Since we cannot be bound by the ideas of our own teachers when discussing Taoism, then let's discuss something that is the same for everyone! How about we discuss the calamity?"

Zheng Qiu nodded: "Yes! I don't know where to start. I have never discussed Taoism with anyone since I started practicing Taoism."

Gu Zhigong was an old man. He stroked his yellow and white beard and said, "Since you know my name, you should also know why I died!"

Zheng Qiu smiled embarrassedly: "I really don't know! Why don't you tell me about it?"

Gu Zhigong twirled his beard with his index finger and thumb, thought for a moment, and then said, "The five of us brothers and sisters lived in the 800-li Thorn Ridge, and lived happily for thousands of years, writing poems and discussing the Dao. Until one day, a monk from the Tang Dynasty in the East passed by Thorn Ridge. I kindly invited him to read and discuss the Dao and the Dharma. However, just because I wanted to be a matchmaker and let Xingxian and the holy monk be together forever, I offended the disciple of the holy monk."

"As a result, my five brothers and sisters died under the Nine-toothed Rake! This is our calamity! I want to ask you, fellow Taoist, what is the purpose of this calamity?"

Zheng Qiu scratched his head and said, "There is no village or shop in this place, why did you invite that holy monk to discuss the Dao?"

Gu Zhigong thought for a moment and said, "The holy monk was born into Buddhism and was favored by the imperial court. He sought Buddhist scriptures. I am lucky to meet you and would like to learn something from you. If I could learn something from you, I would be happy for the rest of my life!"

Zheng Qiu smiled and said, "Then may I ask, Taoist friend, have you ever attained the Tao?"

Gu Zhigong showed a barely perceptible smile on his face: "We are delighted by your words."

"The ancients said that if you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening! Since you have already obtained the truth, why can't you die?"

Gu Zhigong frowned and said, "If I hear the Tao, I will die? What is the use of the Tao?"

Zheng Qiu disagreed: "Buddhism in our world has withered, but I still know some of the Buddhist rules. How could such a great monk be greedy for love between men and women? You actually want to make such a holy monk fall into the abyss, shouldn't you die?"

"The Western Paradise has its own Buddhist affinity. Even a novice monk can enjoy a divine prostitute. Why can't I be faithful to her?"

Zheng Qiu looked into Gu Zhi Gong's cloudy eyes and said, "You are not just ruining the practice of one person! You are ruining the practice of people all over the world! Let's not talk about the mortals far away, just talk about his three disciples! If you let this holy monk stay, where will these three disciples go? Are they going to become bandits and degenerate?"

Gu Zhigong shook his head and said, "What if I have obtained the true scriptures? It is just a stone lion with its heart gouged out. It is useless. The Eastern Land of Tang is a pure land. The holy monk did not know about it and instead insisted on speaking Sanskrit. He wasted his straw sandals and did not know what he was looking for! If that is the case, why not stay here?"

Zheng Qiu shook his head: "Does life have any meaning?"

Gu Zhigong frowned and asked, "Why?"

Zheng Qiu continued, "What is the meaning of life? If there is no life in this world, is it no longer a world? Or does life have to exist for people to respect this world? I don't know what Buddhism is! But I know that must be his belief! Why do you want to shatter a person's belief so easily? If life has no meaning, does that mean that the child who was born should be strangled to death in the womb?"

Gu Zhigong frowned and said, "It's just sophistry! It's not about the truth!"

Zheng Qiu smiled and said, "Does everything have to be meaningful before we do it? There is a thing in the mortal world called iron! The reason why heaven created it is to help us live a good life. If this is the case, life should be peaceful. But now iron is used to make weapons, which makes the lives of mortals in the world suffer and the land is full of misery! If this is the case, then isn't the person who discovered iron the first evil in the world?"

Gu Zhigong seemed to be trapped in a cycle of reincarnation. Zheng Qiu was an immovable Buddha, and his understanding of Tao was limited to his own rules. From Gu Zhigong's perspective, his matchmaker Xingxian was not evil, and there was not the slightest bit of evil in him. However, because of this, he made his brothers and sisters and the five demons become stepping stones for the Journey to the West.

However, Zheng Qiu looked at it from a detached perspective and saw another world. Sometimes it is like this, when you are in the situation, you often get lost in it!