Chapter 1324 of 1406
Chapter 1324
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"Little Zhao, what's the matter?" Li Hai took the young man to the teahouse and asked.
"Shopkeeper Li, the cold poison in my mother's meridians has flared up again in the past few days. I want to buy another Chiyang Tea." The young man bowed his head and said.
"Okay, wait a minute, I'll get it for you." Li Hai nodded, turned and walked into the shop.
The young man looked at Li Hai's back, wanted to say something but hesitated, and finally lowered his head deeply.
Soon, Li Hai came out, holding a red jade box in his hand.
"According to my previous instructions, drink it in three portions to suppress the cold poison." Li Hai handed the jade box in his hand to the young man.
"Thank you, Uncle Li, but in order to treat my mother's illness over the years, my family's silver has been exhausted, and the rest is here, far from enough …" The young man said, from a patched small cloth bag, he took out a few pieces of bean-sized broken silver.
"I know the situation of your family. You take this box of tea back to your mother first. If you need it later, just come and get it." Li Hai smiled slightly and did not take the silver in the hands of the young man.
"Uncle Li …" The young man's eyes were slightly red, and he bit his lips tightly, but the tears in his eyes still fell.
"Well, men don't cry easily. Go back, your mother is waiting for you." Li Hai patted the young man on the shoulder, turned and walked back to the teahouse.
The young man wiped his tears hard, and suddenly knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowed twice to the teahouse, and then turned and left.
In the teahouse, Han Li looked surprised.
Where he and Purple Spirit were sitting, there was a wall between them and the young man, but this wall naturally could not block Han Li.
Han Li has now made some achievements in cutting good corpses, and he was sensitive to good thoughts, so he clearly felt that when the young man kowtowed to Li Hai to thank him, an invisible force of good thoughts appeared on Li Hai's body and wrapped around him.
The force of good thoughts was quite a lot, far better than what Han Li got when he did good deeds before.
"How could it be?
We are both doing good deeds. Why does Li Hai get so much good thoughts? What is the difference between me and him? "Han Li's thoughts turned, and he anxiously thought about the reason.
His eyes were fixed on the cup in his hand, and his breathing was rapid. He had a vague feeling that he was about to find the reason. There was a thin layer of window paper between them, and with a little force, it would be broken.
"Yi!" At that moment, Violet Spirit, who was flipping through the book, suddenly let out a cry of surprise.
"What's wrong?" Han Li looked over.
"Brother Han, look here," Violet Spirit said as she handed the book over to Han Li and pointed to a passage on its cover. "This is the Vegetarian Record of the Pear Garden. It was written by a Confucian scholar, and there's a line in it that's related to the good deeds you've done."
Han Li looked at it and saw the words written on it: "Doing good is not a bad thing. However, if you have a good reputation, you will attract slander and disaster. Be careful and avoid it."
A bolt of lightning flashed across his mind. The paper window in his mind shattered with a loud bang, and he suddenly understood.
"I know, I know!
When doing good, if you have a utilitarian heart, it is just hypocrisy. No matter how much you do, it will deviate from your original heart. Only when you have no other thoughts and don't ask for anything in return, is it really good. "Han Li took a long breath and said so.
Although this Li Hai was a Dacheng stage cultivator, he lived in seclusion in this barren and lifeless small city of the Immortal Domain. He had long seen through the matter of cultivation. Now that he helped the young man, his thoughts were also pure. He didn't want anything in return. This good deed could be said to come from his original heart. When the conditions were right, he would get a lot of the power of kindness.
The first time he helped the storyteller and his grandson, it was actually because he had an occasional thought.
"So that's how it is. Brother Han, although you have done a lot of good deeds before, it was for the sake of decapitating the corpse. There was obsession and utilitarian heart in your heart, so you didn't get much merit." Violet Spirit was also a smart person. When Han Li mentioned it, she immediately understood.
"Now that I know the reason, it will be much easier." Han Li smiled, and the worries of many days were swept away.
Seven years later.
In a secluded place in Xiangyi, a shop had a new owner. It was a Youth couple. They changed the original grocery shop into a medical shop. While selling medicinal materials, they also treated and saved people.
Although the couple was young, their medical skills were extremely brilliant. Not only could they cure the common diseases of mortals, but they could also treat many difficult and complicated diseases. The curative effect was remarkable.
Moreover, the consultation fee charged by the couple was extremely low. Soon, they became famous and spread throughout the abandoned city.
For a time, the remote medical shop was crowded.
This couple was naturally Han Li and Violet Spirit. With their current cultivation base, it was naturally not difficult to treat the diseases of these mortals and some difficult and complicated diseases that troubled the mortals.
Before this, Han Li spent a whole seven years treating himself as a mortal in this small city. He lived here and tried his best to forget the selfish thoughts in his heart and even his identity as a cultivator.
After that, he used the silver that he had saved bit by bit over the years to buy a shop and open a medical shop. He sincerely treated and saved people without asking for anything in return.
However, this kind of selflessness was not something that could be achieved just because he wanted to.
Although he treated and saved people, it was inevitable that his selfishness was mixed in. There was no power of kindness that descended.
Out of a hundred people, he could at most maintain the selflessness of his heart once or twice.
However, Han Li was not anxious. He continued to treat and save people while trying to figure out the true meaning of kindness.
Soon, the medical shop opened for ten years. From a new medical shop, it became an old medical shop. The Youth couple inside also entered middle age.
Time flew, and thirty years passed in a flash. The Youth couple gradually entered their twilight years.
Slowly, Han Li's heart became pure. The number of times he selflessly saved people increased, and the power of kindness he received increased. His perception of the Good Corpse also improved by leaps and bounds.
In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years passed.
The medical shop became a century-old shop. It became a well-known old shop within a radius of a thousand miles. The shopkeeper had also changed "several generations".
In the inner room of the medical shop, Han Li sat cross-legged with his eyes lowered. His expression was tranquil, and a layer of lustrous light flashed on his face. He looked like a precious Buddha.
Violet Spirit stood to the side and silently looked at Han Li.
There was a faint glow in her expression, and her temperament was even more elegant.
All these years, she had been by Han Li's side and had done many good deeds. She had received many blessings of kindness. Although her cultivation had not made much progress, her spirit had improved a lot.
After a long time, Han Li opened his eyes. It was as if two bolts of lightning had flashed through the inner room.
"Brother Han, is everything ready?" Violet Spirit asked softly.
"The Good Corpse connection has been completed. Now that I have a thorough understanding of the true meaning of 'kindness', I have an eighty percent chance of killing the Good Corpse using the Clone Corpse Beheading Technique," Han Li said.
"That's good." Violet Spirit breathed a sigh of relief.
Han Li looked at the medical shop that he had stayed in for a hundred years. Even though his state of mind was extremely high now, he still couldn't help but feel a trace of nostalgia.
"Let's go." He shook his head and quietly walked out of the medical shop with Violet Spirit.
At this moment, the sky was not bright yet, and there were no patients outside.
"Friend Han, Fellow Violet Spirit, are you two leaving?" A voice came. It was the shopkeeper of the teahouse, Li Hai.
"Fellow Li, thank you for your care all these years." Han Li cupped his hands and said seriously.
His bow came from the bottom of his heart. If it weren't for Li Hai, he wouldn't have discovered the problem of doing good deeds.
"Fellow Daoist Han is too polite. All these years, I haven't helped you much. Instead, I've received a lot of pointers from fellow Daoist Han. I thank you." Li Hai hurriedly returned the salute.
For more than a hundred years, when Han Li was doing good deeds, he often went to Li Hai's teahouse to drink tea and chat.
Although Li Hai had decided to live in seclusion in the Crane Ridge Immortal Region, with the guidance of Han Li, he also rekindled a trace of thoughts about cultivation. Sometimes, Han Li's seemingly casual words could benefit him a lot.
"When I first saw you two, I knew that you were not ordinary people. You were far from me. What you two did was also beyond my understanding. But in any case, I wish you all the best in the future." Li Hai looked at Han Li and Violet Spirit with a complicated expression.
"Fellow Li, you too. In the future, Han will come to Fellow Li's teahouse to drink tea again." Han Li said with a smile.
"You are always welcome!" Li Hai was overjoyed and nodded heavily.
When he raised his head, the figures of Han Li and Violet Spirit in front of him had disappeared.
Li Hai looked at the empty street, and he felt a sense of loss for no reason. He stood outside for a long time, then returned to the teahouse.
He looked at the quiet teahouse, and the loss in his heart gradually dissipated.
While the world Han Li and Violet Spirit resided in was far more marvelous than Desolate City, the tranquil life in Desolate City was a different kind of happiness.
Li Hai showed a trace of satisfaction, walked toward the inner room, and began to prepare today's spirit tea.
…
Crane Ridge Immortal Region, in a nameless mountain range, lightning flashed in the void, and the figures of Han Li and Violet Spirit emerged.
"It's here." Han Li looked at a tall mountain in front of him and made a gesture.
A golden sword qi shot out from his fingertips and pierced into the mountain wall like tofu.
The sword qi wandered in the mountain wall like a living thing, and after a few breaths, a cave house was dug out.
"The aura of heaven and earth here in the Crane Ridge Immortal Region is so thin, I am afraid it is not good for you." Violet Spirit said with a slight frown.
"It doesn't matter. At my level of cultivation, I can already absorb the aura of heaven and earth from many spaces. The thin aura here does not affect me.
What's more important is that I attained the true intent of kindness here, so my soul is very compatible with this immortal domain. As such, my chances of successfully decapitating my corpse here are much higher, "Han Li said.
"It turns out that there is such a truth." Violet Spirit suddenly understood.
Han Li immediately flew into the cave house with Violet Spirit, set up layers of restrictions around the cave house, and turned to the innermost secret room.
"Brother Han." Violet Spirit suddenly stopped Han Li, and her expression was full of worry.
Every time the corpse beheading was a big test for the body. If the corpse beheading was successful, it would be fine. Once it failed, it would cause great damage to the body.
"Don't worry, after so many twists and turns, this time, I am confident." Han Li held Violet Spirit's hand and said with a confident smile.
Violet Spirit was infected by Han Li's confidence and nodded heavily.
Han Li let go of Violet Spirit's hand and walked into the secret room.
"Bang", the door of the secret room closed, and a layer of golden light appeared on it, completely isolated from the outside.