Blood Moon Hunters - Chapter 308 - Zhuge Liang's Guidance
“Oh, you two don’t have to be like this. Get up, please.”
Zhuge Liang smiled slowly, stepped forward to support Yu Wude and Shangguan Yiyi up, and continued by saying, “It’s also a great blessing in my life that you can inherit the Eight Diagram Tactics.
“As long as you can protect Hua Xia and the world with it, I will be satisfied.”
“Prime Minister…” Shangguan Yiyi frowned, with a surge of distress in her heart.
“We won’t let you down, Prime Minister!” Yu Wude said resolutely, with a holding fist salute.
At this time, it was useless to say many heroic words. Only actions could prove his sincere heart.
“I’m a pretty good judge of men. You are like General Zhao, worthy of my trust.” Zhuge Liang nodded.
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Then, he formed a small Eight Diagram Tactics at his feet and invited Yu Wude and Yiyi to sit in the Yin Fish and Yang Fish respectively.
He shook his feather fan gently and said, “Now I’ll pass on the Eight Diagram Tactics to you. Clear away all distractions from your minds and feel all the talismanic words and patterns of Taoism with your hearts.”
After that, he formed two beams of golden lights with martial arts and cast them into the mind seas of Yu Wude and Shangguan Yiyi.
“Buzz!”
The primordial spirit of the two of them then arrived at a vast and boundless space, which seemed to be a field. And there was much spirit mind constantly appearing in their mind seas.
Everything about the Eight Diagram Tactics was deeply imprinted in their Shen Tang and primordial spirit. This kind of formation was extremely mysterious. They started to calculate and deduce after roughly becoming aware of it.
Up to now, Zhuge Liang had taught them the Eight Diagram Tactics completely. But the more the two calculated, the more profound they thought it was.
There were actually eight kinds of Tao Law involved!
The first one was the Feng Hou Miracle Astrology, which was the predecessor of the Eight Diagram Tactics. It played an important role in the formation. The entire formation couldn’t work without it. The second one was the Post-celestial Eight Diagrams. It was used to form the dragon array, tiger array, bird array, and snake array.
It also contained the Pre-celestial Eight Diagrams, which was used to form the heaven array, earth array, wind array, and cloud array. All the arrays were precisely divided into eight small arrays according to the legalist law, and the eight small arrays corresponded to the stars in the sky by the method of stars.
It also used Huang Lao’s law to form the sky of the Eight Diagram Tactics, and the tai chi law to form the yin, yang and five elements.
Finally, it used the technique of The Book of Changes, together with the law of Pre-celestial Eight Diagrams, to charge in the deduction calculation when the formation was activated.
In this way, when someone let himself be the heart of the formation, he could not only make the entire formation work perfectly with a strain speed almost as fast as he wanted, but also activate all the abilities of the formation more easily.
“The formation is really amazing!” Yu Wude drew in a breath.
“Yes, the Eight Diagram Tactics, popular among mortals, that you showed me are incomplete. They’re just the tip of the iceberg.” Shangguan Yiyi’s eyebrows were knitted.
“Since the falling of the Eight Diagram Tactics Village, the Eight Diagram Tactics has been lost in the mortal world. In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that the real one has been concealed until now. How can mortals control it?”
“It’s a combination of eight kinds of Tao Law, and each of them has been deeply studied by the prime minister. It is even hard for us who are specialized in cultivating arrays to understand.”
“Such a Hua Xia treasure must not decline in our hands. We must understand it as soon as possible and live up to the expectations of the prime minister.”
Yu Wude sighed, and then used the Simultaneous Training with Shangguan Yiyi to comprehend this powerful and mysterious Eight Diagram Tactics together.
Outside, all visions of the Eight Diagram Tactics had disappeared, replaced by a scene of splendid rivers and mountains. Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan against the small formation, and brought out a gentle spring breeze to gently touch every part of the array.
The entire field gradually turned into green water and green hills. The damaged ground was also replaced with beds of soft grass. Thousands of flowers bloomed. Then, Zhuge Liang slowly poured out the water in his tea cup to form rivers.
He also took some sand and stones and sprinkled them everywhere in the array to form many animals, including flying birds in the sky and running beasts in the mountains, which were drinking and playing by the rivers.
“Amazing!!”
After Misawa Chihiro witnessed all this, her eyes twinkled and gleamed. She then began to spin and jump between the picturesque mountains.
“Wow, shaking fan to form wind, pouring water to form rivers and sprinkling sand to form beasts. Is this really just a formation?” Zhao Changge’s eyes were almost coming out of his.
“It’s so realistic, so mysterious!” Lyu Hao opened his mouth wide.
“It turns out that the Eight Diagram Tactics can also be used in this way. Its controller is just like the Creator!” Wang Bugui said with a shock.
Watching the evolution of all these things gave him a deeper understanding of Taoism. Taoism should not only be used to destroy and fight, but to moisten everything and benefit the people.
To cultivate was to seek truth, not just for longevity. It was to pursue the essence of Taoism, to understand the mysteries of the entire universe, and to pursue the mysteries of all beings.
Just like the Heaven Mending Technique of Goddess Nuwa, it was the strongest martial art that Wang Bugui had learned. But it was not for fighting, but to make up for irreparable errors.
It could save everything that had been lost by going against heaven with the essential power of Taoism, not limited to common things, even including human beings and gods.
Even if the primordial spirit of the dead had been annihilated for a while, it could still be revived. With this divine art, Goddess Nuwa mended the Taoism of this plane and saved all the lives in the world.
That was the real Taoism, also the real law. There were only two reasons why Wang Bugui stepped on the cultivation journey. One was to save Hanae Chiou and protect everything around him; the other was to assume his responsibility to remove evil beings.
But since he came out of the mountain, he had spent his life in killing, and rarely had time to enjoy peace and mediation. The time he spent in the Yuxu Pure Land was the real cultivation days.
No wonder that he sometimes felt that his improvement was slow and there were always some obstacles for him that couldn’t be overcome. It turned out that all the problems lay in his Taoist heart.
Since someday, his Taoist heart had been changed. He began to pursue invincibility in this life, to conquer nature, and to break all obstacles without hesitation.
Such a Taoist heart had long been infected with worldly affairs. He forgot what cultivation was. The real cultivation heart should be pure and detached, not wandering in the world of mortals.
So, sometimes he would be troubled by some issues of Tao Law, and his progress of cultivation would naturally slow down. Now Wang Bugui finally figured it out and couldn’t help smiling.
“It seems that Bugui has gotten rid of the problem that always haunts him. Congratulations.” Zhuge Liang laughed.
“What a shame. It turns out that I have been trapped by this kind of demon inside for so long. I didn’t discover it until now. It’s really…” Wang Bugui shook his head.
Zhuge Liang smiled and nodded, replying, “It is not too late to find out mistakes now. The cultivation road always gets narrower and narrower. Every cultivator will be troubled in the later period of practice.
“Only by making mistakes can we become stronger. Only by making mistakes can we know that some things are not easy to get. Only by making mistakes can we understand that some mistakes are forever and can’t be redeemed.
“These are the three major mistakes in life, and now you have fully experienced them. Then, you have to correct them. When you completely correct the mistakes, you will be sublimated again.”
This remark was not difficult to understand. But if everyone here was asked to say something, they might not be able to explain.
“Thank you for your guidance, Senior Marquis Wu. These words will be of great benefit to my cultivation road. I’m going to meditate. See you!” Wang Bugui said goodbye with a holding fist salute.
“Well.” Zhuge Liang nodded slowly.
He then formed a beautiful spiritual mountain, and let Wang Bugui meditate and cultivate on its top.
Then, he turned back to look at Zhao Changge and Lyu Hao, and said, “What did you two learn in this battle?”
“I was reckless. When I saw boss getting injured, I was overcome by anger and almost hurt by the green dragon. I’m not calm enough. I should learn to judge the hour and size up the situation.” Zhao Changge bowed his head.
“I also made a big mistake. I didn’t fully trust Changge and had delayed for some time because I was worried about him. I was also distracted in the fight and failed to give full play,” Lyu Hao said shamefully.
Zhuge Liang nodded and said, “If that is the case, just reflect on it. You should read and copy The Classic of the Virtue of the Tao 3,000 times, reflect on your shortcomings every day, and think about how to improve them.
“Half a month later, you will be tested by my Eight Diagram Tactics again. If you can’t pass it, I will punish you on behalf of Bugui. How about it?”
“Yes, Prime Minister!” Zhao Changge and Lyu Hao replied with a holding fist salute.
They found a place respectively and began to carve The Classic of the Virtue of the Tao on the earth and among the forests using auras as the ink.
Zhuge Liang watched them off, and then turned around and said, “Leng Yueyan, Ning Zhe…”
After that, he frowned and closed his eyes to calculate. A moment later, he opened his eyes suddenly and said with a flash of surprise, “Fan Kong, Yu Zhu?”
“Uh…”
Leng Yueyan and Ning Zhe were startled by Zhuge Liang’s words. They didn’t expect that their previous lives could be so easily calculated by someone.
In the previous years, both Leng Shuangrong and Reverend Qing Chan had failed to see their previous lives clearly. But now, it was easily calculated by Marquis Wu. He was frightening!
“So it turns out that you fall in love with each other in two lives. But one belongs to Buddhism and the other, Taoism. Bugui once told you that Buddhism is also a kind of Taoism, didn’t he? Hehe, it seems that I’m unable to intervene in your affairs.” Zhuge Liang shook his head and smiled.
“Senior Marquis Wu, please let me know if you have any advice,” Leng Yueyan said.
Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, “Did you really put down the previous life in your heart? Are you living for this life, or are you still trapped by the previous life?
“There are still gaps and demons in your hearts. Are you two guys in front of me Leng Yueyan and Ning Zhe, or Fan Kong and Yu Zhu?”
This remark made Leng Yueyan and Ning Zhe speechless. They looked at each other, but only saw each other’s confusing eyes.
