#314 - What is love?
Listening to Xu Ming's explanation, Shixin tilted his head, looking very puzzled.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Xu Ming looked at Shixin speechlessly, feeling like Shixin was looking at him like some kind of animal.
“It's nothing.” Shixin shook his head, “It's just that I didn't expect some things.”
Xu Ming: “Didn't expect what?”
“Didn't expect that someone like you would actually have someone you care about so much.” Shixin said bluntly, without the slightest circumlocution.
Xu Ming's eyebrows twitched: “Hey, what do you mean 'someone like me'? Why do I feel like you have a deep prejudice against me?”
Shixin tilted his head, his face full of innocence: “Do I?”
“…” Xu Ming was silent.
Because Shixin wouldn't lie, let alone be sarcastic.
This also meant that in Shixin's heart, he really thought so.
Shixin continued to look at Xu Ming: “Why aren't you talking?”
Xu Ming: “I have nothing to say.”
Shixin: “…”
After half an incense stick's time, Shixin suddenly opened his mouth: “Is that person the person you like?”
Xu Ming was stunned for a moment: “I didn't expect Master Shixin to be such a gossip?”
Shixin shook his head: “I am a Buddhist disciple, I don't understand the art of gossip.”
“…” Xu Ming's eyebrows twitched a few times, he waved his hand, “Forget it, you're really boring. To answer your question just now, that person is indeed someone I like, but why did you ask this?”
“It's nothing.”
A hint of doubt flashed in Shixin's eyes.
“Buddhism speaks of the seven emotions and six desires. My master told me that 'love' among the seven emotions refers to feelings of admiration and liking, but I don't understand. What is the difference between the liking between a man and a woman, and the liking between relatives and friends?
Why does 'love' in the seven emotions and six desires specifically refer to the liking between a man and a woman?”
As he spoke, Shixin looked at Xu Ming: “I wonder if benefactor can enlighten me?”
“Can't enlighten you at all.” Xu Ming shook his head.
Shixin tilted his head, puzzled: “Benefactor doesn't understand either?”
Xu Ming: “It's not that I don't understand, but that only 'love' needs you to comprehend it yourself. If you have never loved someone, then you will never understand love. But in my opinion, Master Shixin probably won't like anyone either.”
“…” Shixin lowered his head, lost in thought.
Xu Ming didn't say much, just sat on the top of the mountain, looking at the dozens of Blood Bodhi trees.
Some people felt that there was really something wrong with Blood Bodhi Mountain, and simply went down the mountain to continue looking for other opportunities.
Some people felt that they had already come, so they couldn't go back empty-handed, and tried to pull up a few Blood Bodhi trees, but after a few bursts of profound lightning struck down, these people became honest.
Obviously, these Blood Bodhi trees were protected by the Heavenly Dao of the Rootless Secret Realm.
There were also people like Xu Ming who planned to wait for two or three days to see the situation, and try to deduce roughly when the Blood Bodhi trees would bloom, and then come back later.
In short, people went up the mountain and people went down the mountain, coming and going, constantly, as if this place was a market.
Zeng Rong and others looked at Xu Ming, feeling very speechless in their hearts.
To be honest, they didn't understand why Xu Ming was so obsessed with the Blood Bodhi fruit.
It hasn't even bloomed yet.
Wouldn't it be better to go to other places to look for other opportunities?
You're just staying here waiting, how long will we have to wait before you fight someone to the death…
But naturally they didn't dare to say a word, and could only wait silently by the side, that's all.
A day and a night passed.
Just on the second night.
Suddenly, someone shouted: “It's blooming! It's blooming!”
This person's shout made everyone's spirits lift at once.
Xu Ming, who was meditating, slowly opened his eyes.
Sure enough, the budding flower bones of hundreds of Blood Bodhi trees were gradually blooming outwards. Under the bright moonlight, they looked even more delicate and beautiful. The scene was extremely spectacular.
Even Shixin, a person who cultivates his mind, blinked his golden eyes, looking at this red spectacle!
In less than an incense stick's time, all the Blood Bodhi trees were in full bloom. A night breeze blew past, and thousands of flowers swayed in the air, and a faint fragrance floated throughout the mountaintop.
And immediately after the flowering, most people thought that they would have to wait for some time for the Blood Bodhi trees to bear fruit, but the reality was that the fruits actually grew out immediately.
Although the fruits were relatively small at the beginning, the Blood Bodhi fruits grew larger and larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just half an hour, thousands of Blood Bodhi fruits grew out from the trees and grew to a normal size.
Moreover, the color of these Blood Bodhi fruits was constantly changing from green to red, and the color became deeper and deeper.
From this, it could be seen that the Blood Bodhi fruits were becoming more and more mature.
Until the end, thousands of Blood Bodhi fruits were red, exquisite and translucent, and red, delicate and dripping. When the petals fell, red leaves grew out to support them, and the Blood Bodhi fruits were completely ripe.
The cultivators who had been holding back finally began to act.
They all went up to snatch the Blood Bodhi fruits.
In the past, there were only a few dozen Blood Bodhi fruits. Generally, in the process of frantic snatching, they would also be attacked.
But now, there were too many Blood Bodhi fruits. At the beginning, these cultivators couldn't care about others.
However, this was only limited to the beginning.
At most, there were only twelve or thirteen Blood Bodhi fruits on a tree, and at least only seven or eight.
The total number of Blood Bodhi fruits on the entire mountaintop was only a little over a thousand.
There were already two or three hundred cultivators on the mountaintop alone, and even more cultivators were coming to the top of Blood Bodhi Mountain.
As soon as they arrived at the top of the mountain, all they saw was “gold”, and as a result, more and more people fell into a kind of madness!
The later cultivators who did not get the Blood Bodhi fruits went to snatch them.
Some cultivators, although they had obtained the Blood Bodhi fruits, felt that their Blood Bodhi fruits were not big enough, not enough, not good enough, so they went to snatch others'.
Desire has never had an end.
The entire mountaintop fell into chaos.
Fresh blood and Blood Bodhi fruits were intertwined together. The fallen corpses kept flowing with fresh blood. For a time, it was difficult to distinguish whether the red flowers on the ground were the original color or were dyed red by the fresh blood.
But Xu Ming didn't make a move.
Xu Ming was constantly shuttling through this chaos.
He was looking for the Blood Bodhi main fruit.
But this main fruit never appeared.
