Tian Gang Chapter 195: Turbulence (4)
Grandpa Shi's words were simple, but they sounded so mysterious. I stood there thinking for a long time, but still didn't quite understand what he meant.
Seeing that I looked distressed, Grandpa Shi asked again: Have you ever seen your mother cast a spell?
Seen it.
How is it different from your spellcasting? Grandpa Shi asked again.
Different? I thought about it carefully. The number of times my mother had performed magic in front of me was very few. If there was any difference... I had never seen the magic she used before, and she used it very easily. Her spells were much shorter than mine.
I have always thought that it was a spell that could only be obtained through divine intervention later on, but looking at what Grandpa Shi said, it didn't seem to be the case. After thinking carefully about what Grandpa Shi said, I had a vague idea.
Is it true that the Ba Suo lineage only needs a thought to cast a spell? The spell is secondary, and the will is the most important. Because Ba Suo acts on behalf of the heaven, he uses the will of heaven. This is the true meaning of Grandpa Shi's words "What you want to do is what the heaven wants to do! What you want to say is what the heaven wants to say!"
I see! I shouted excitedly.
Grandpa Shi looked at me and smiled: Tell me about it.
I said my answer, and Grandpa Shi nodded as he listened, which made me more certain that my guess was correct. When I said the last word and didn't say anything for a long time, I suddenly heard Grandpa Shi ask: "That's it?"
Huh? It's gone...
Alas... Grandpa Shi shook his head again and said: You only understand half of it. Didn't I say that even if you act on behalf of the heaven, you are not the heaven after all. No matter what you do or what you mean, you must follow the will of heaven. You can't do what the heaven doesn't want to do. Do you understand?
This sounds simple, but the more I listen, the more confused I become.
Since I represent the will of heaven, then what I do should be what heaven wants to do. How can there be something that heaven does not want to do? Moreover, what does this have to do with casting spells? I am not a god. I don’t know what heaven is, let alone what heaven wants to do and what it does not want to do.
Grandpa Shi explained to me: This is why the old saying goes, "It is hard to predict the will of heaven." If you can't guess it, even if you follow the will of heaven, you still can't have a good ending. Your grandfather was the previous head of the Basuo family. His skills were amazing, but he died before he was 80. Do you know the reason?
You mean, Grandpa's death was due to his going against God's will? I asked in astonishment.
I don't know. Grandpa Shi shook his head, which surprised me even more. He sighed and continued: In fact, there were some signs before your grandfather died. His power continued to drain away in his later years . No matter what method was used, it could not be stopped, and the reason could not be found. Those powers were like being drawn out of his body and then dissipated out of thin air. At the moment before his death, he was no different from ordinary people. On the contrary, he became more unbearable than ordinary people because of the rapid decline of his power. This is also an important reason why your mother questioned the inheritance of the Eight Ropes. If he had not violated the will of heaven, how could he have suffered such a strange punishment from heaven?
It seems that the senior agrees with the idea of the current Basuo family master. The old Taoist interrupted.
That's right, I do agree with her in part. Grandpa Shi nodded, not hiding his true thoughts. He said: That girl is naturally arrogant. When she senses something is wrong, she naturally wants to get to the bottom of it. She believes that the Eight Ropes inheritance fundamentally subverts the will of heaven and goes against heaven, so she suffered. Therefore, she wants to change heaven and earth to solve the mystery of her father's early death.
Eighty years old is considered early death, only for my grandfather, because he is too powerful. Such a person, but he can't even live as long as an ordinary person, and more importantly, how can his strength decline so quickly for no reason? Let's talk about other things, just take the Zhou family elders, all of whom lived to be over a hundred years old, and their strength has increased more than before. Their bodies are decaying, not their strength.
This was indeed a strange thing. Suddenly, I understood why my father burned all the ancient books and left only a jade pendant for me.
Perhaps he knew that Grandpa was abnormal and was afraid that I would follow that path in the future, so he wanted to cut off all my possibilities of cultivation. Grandpa had a bad temper in his later years, which was probably due to his physical abnormality. He never told me anything related to the Eight Threads. There was only one possibility, that is, although he disagreed with it verbally, in his heart, he admitted that my mother's speculation made sense.
My mother didn't want me to practice cultivation before she found out the truth. She didn't come back for decades and was cold and indifferent to me when we met. There was a reason for this.
The only thing is that my mother once told me that my practice was beneficial to her.
This is a very strange sentence, which contradicts the previous speculation. The true meaning of this sentence may be related to something that Grandpa Shi is unwilling to tell me. If the two of them don't say it, it will be difficult for me to guess the truth.
The mother thinks that Ba Suo has subverted the will of heaven, but what is the true will of heaven? Is it wrong to act on behalf of heaven and control the world?
This is so hard to understand...
Regardless, guessing the will of heaven seems to be a skill that the Eight Ropes must learn. If you don't understand the will of heaven, you won't be able to exert your power. If you go against the will of heaven, you will even suffer a heavier punishment than ordinary people.
The Eight Ropes lineage is very powerful, but behind its power there are many limitations.
Just trying to figure out God's will is like being given an invincible weapon in a game but not being told where to use it. If you use it in an inappropriate place, you will die.
It’s such a rip-off!
I felt like I was on a pirate ship.
I have lived with your grandfather for decades, watching him grow from an ignorant kid to a heroic young man, and then watching him become invincible, and finally die of depression. Grandpa Shi sighed, with a bit of sadness on his face. After sighing twice, he continued: I know the details of how to practice the Eight Ropes. But I can only tell you the general idea, and you have to figure out the details yourself. Because there is God's will in this, which can only be understood, not expressed in words.
I don't know what invincible means, because I only saw my grandfather getting older. Is there really someone invincible in this world? The old Taoist is not, Wei Qingcang is not, and my mother is not either. They may be powerful, but they are not powerful enough to fight the world alone.
So invincibility is just a concept, an exaggeration, and can never become a fact. What's more, behind this invincibility is the desolation of old age. If this is the case, I would rather be an ordinary person.
Grandpa Shi didn't look at me, he just looked out the door and said: The Eight Ropes don't have fixed spells. Any word or gesture is a spell, representing the Tao and the will of heaven. The three spells you received from the divine are not real spells. They may have different effects, but in fact, they are the guidelines for cultivation. They are to let you understand how to cultivate, not to use against the enemy. If you use the cultivation guidelines as spells, you will naturally not be able to cultivate the Tao.
Yeah, I see. I nodded.
You don't understand. Grandpa Shi shook his head, and as I stared in astonishment, he picked up a cup and put it in his palm, saying: Try to break it.
I hummed and looked at the cup in Grandpa Shi's hand. Suddenly, another question came to my mind: Uh... do I need to point at it? Or can I just look at it and think about it?
Grandpa Shi was slightly startled, and then suddenly burst into laughter. His body was shaking with laughter, and he said: You little thing, now you understand it, hahahahahahaha…
I felt extremely embarrassed and couldn't help scratching my head. When my hand rubbed my cheek, I felt a burning sensation. Needless to say, my whole face must have been as red as a monkey's butt.
After laughing for a long time, Grandpa Shi stopped and said: Forget it, just point with your finger.
I smiled awkwardly, pointed at the cup in his hand, and began to imagine breaking it in my mind.
When one's willpower begins to focus, it's as if the whole world has become narrower, and in your sight, there is only what you want to see. At that moment, you can feel an invisible force in the void. Sometimes you feel that you can lift the cup in front of you out of thin air, but in fact, almost no one can do it.
I don’t know whether the so-called will of heaven is the same as this, but the method I am using now is what I think.
I stared at the cup, imagining my mother casting a spell. I pointed at the cup and whispered, "Chengtian! Break!"
The imagined scene of the cup breaking did not appear, it was still intact in Grandpa Shi's palm.
Why? No? Grandpa Shi asked.
I nodded in frustration. I thought I had found the answer, but I was wrong. This practice is really too difficult.
At this time, Grandpa Shi's expression changed slightly. He glanced at Frog Girl, but soon turned his eyes to me and said: Try the cup on the table.
Uh , okay…
I nodded and looked at another identical cup on the table. Just like before, after a "Chengtian! Broken!" sound came out, there was a sudden "bang" on the table.
I was shocked to see the teacup shatter in front of my eyes. Some of the fragments even fell on me. It felt so real, it wasn't a dream!
I did it!
I really succeeded!
All of a sudden, my frustration turned into joy, and I shouted out in joy: "Grandpa Shi, I succeeded! I guessed right! That's it!"
Grandpa Shi laughed and after glancing at Frog Girl again, he asked me: Do you know why the one on my palm didn't break, but the one on the table exploded?
Uh, I don't know... why? I looked at him nervously, why didn't it work before?
Because this is my hand. Grandpa Shi said with a smile.
Huh? What does that mean? I looked at his hand in confusion. Is there anything special about it?
You mean... your hands don't...
That's not what I meant. Grandpa Shi shook his head and said: This is my hand. If the cup is a person, then the palm of my hand is his heaven. If I want it not to break, you can't break it. Because the heaven knows very well that I am stronger than you, and my will is stronger than yours. Doing the will of heaven does not mean that you are heaven. Now, do you understand the meaning of this sentence?
