The Unremarkable Senior Brother
Chapter 215

You Can Break Through Like That? Are You Kidding Me?

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The situation is a bit awkward.

It turned a good mood into something bad.

Lu Changsheng fell silent.

The pit I dug for myself, I ended up falling into myself.

What to do! What to do!

Lu Changsheng felt that this was the biggest crisis he had ever encountered in his life.

The previous events were manageable.

This is a bit troublesome.

They worked hard to train for half a year, and now they've left. You're saying I don't know anything about it.

Anyone would feel bad in that situation.

Now you can just give me a few casual answers, like, "Have you figured it out?" or "Do you know now?"

What should we do next?

Asking people every day, "Have you figured it out yet?" is foolish.

Not everyone is Liu Qingfeng.

He rubbed his temples.

Lu Changsheng quietly pondered the words he had spoken back then.

"You are not allowed to use any magic to chop wood every day, until one day you chop 500 catties of wood, then it will be over!"

"Every day, a bucket of water is used to wipe the inside and outside of the main hall clean. The main hall must not be covered with a speck of dust. After wiping, the water must be clear."

What kind of illogical genius came up with this question?

How can this be so silly?

Wipe it clean, and the water should be crystal clear. Even water purifiers aren't that powerful, are they?

Thinking about it carefully, I feel there are quite a few.

What you do is go to a town outside the Great Luo Holy Land to do a good deed. You can't force anyone, and you can't leave your name. When someone discovers that you are a disciple of the Great Luo, that's when you'll be considered to have achieved your goal.

Without relying on any power, one can advance to the Inner Sect and then pass on the teachings.

What's even more amazing is that they ring a bell once in the morning, noon, and evening, and only when the bell rings by itself do they preach the Dharma.

Damn it, it's not an alarm clock, how could it ring by itself?

Could it be that the clock has grown up and is becoming more sensible, moving on its own? Oh, no, it's ringing by itself?

As for what to do, sweep away the leaves from the main hall.

That's impossible.

He rubbed his temples.

Lu Changsheng regretted it a little. Why was he so casual back then?

At this moment, Lu Changsheng desperately wished that someone could travel through time and space back to the very beginning to warn him against making a foolish mistake, or even just leave a comment in this chapter.

My head hurts, my head hurts, it really hurts.

Lu Changsheng cried, he really cried.

Why did you have to invite trouble upon yourself?

However, sighing and complaining won't do any good.

Lu Changsheng still had to honestly think of a way to get through this.

And so, in the main hall of the summit.

Strange noises could be heard from time to time.

"Hey, I've got it!"

"Oh, no!"

"Hey, I've got it!"

"Oh, it still doesn't work."

Outside the door, Gu Aotian and Longma were deep in thought.

"Third brother, what do you think eldest brother is doing?"

"The Dharma is truly wondrous!"

Who knows what Lu Changsheng is doing, but he's too embarrassed to admit he doesn't know, so Gu Aotian said this.

Meanwhile.

Wang Ye and the others had already left the main peak, and each of them looked worried.

"Sigh, who would have thought that Senior Brother Lu would ask us to do these things as a test?"

Wang Ye sighed and said this.

"Yes, who would have thought? I thought Senior Brother Lu was just asking me to do good deeds, but I never expected there to be a hidden agenda."

"Please stop talking. I'm really annoyed right now. What can I possibly learn by wiping down the main hall every day? If I still can't figure it out in three days, I'm afraid I'll get scolded by my senior brother."

"They probably won't scold us. Senior brother is such a good person. But if word gets out, we'll inevitably be laughed at."

"Actually, it's not a big deal to make a joke, but the main problem is that I can't get past my dad. If he finds out that I can't even figure this out, you probably won't see me this year."

"Well!"

Dozens of disciples, both men and women, sighed.

They never imagined that Lu Changsheng's arrangement for them to do these things was actually a scheme with hidden motives.

In fact, even Lu Changsheng himself didn't expect why he had arranged for them to do this.

Regardless, Wang Ye and the others still diligently did what they were doing, hoping to have an epiphany in these three days and then figure something out.

And so, three days later.

Inside the main hall of the Great Luo Main Peak.

Lu Changsheng finally came up with a solution.

While it might not be possible to fool them, it's at least better than continuing to make them do hard labor.

This day.

Wang Ye and the others arrived as promised, and came to the main hall of the main peak.

There were 27 people in total.

Everyone was a little nervous.

They weren't nervous before, but three days ago, after Lu Changsheng asked them if they had grasped the meaning, they became nervous.

At first, everyone thought that Lu Changsheng was asking them to do these things just to train themselves, but no one expected that this Eldest Senior Brother was actually asking them to comprehend the Dao.

For the past three days, everyone has been without food, drink, or sleep, their minds preoccupied with what they are trying to understand.

"Wang Ye, have you figured it out?"

Lu Changsheng's face was very gentle, without any anger. Instead, his eyes were smiling as he asked Wang Ye.

"Eldest Senior Brother, it is because Junior Brother stupid that I cannot understand anything."

Wang Ye knelt on the ground and spoke with utmost sincerity.

"Then what task did your senior brother assign you?"

Lu Changsheng asked.

"Chop firewood every day until you can cut 500 catties of firewood in a day."

Wang Ye answered truthfully.

"So, what are your thoughts?"

Lu Changsheng asked with a smile. His handsome face was like a spring breeze, and his eyes were full of wisdom.

"Insights?" Wang Ye pondered for a moment, then said, "Junior Brother doesn't have any insights. He just thought about completing the task as soon as possible when he first started logging."

Wang Ye replied in this way.

Lu Changsheng nodded, then he stood up, walked outside the main hall, and looked at the distant mountains.

"You go up the mountain every day and come down the mountain every day. Apart from logging, don't you gain any other insights or experiences?"

Lu Changsheng's eyes held a smile that was both refreshing and wise.

Wang Ye remained silent for a while, seemingly lost in thought. After a moment, he spoke slowly.

"It's impossible to say there isn't any, but if there is, it doesn't necessarily mean it's not enlightenment. Junior Brother cuts down trees, thinking that a sapling needs to wait a hundred years to become a towering tree."

"But after becoming a towering tree, it may be ruthlessly cut down. You work hard all your life, only to end up with nothing. Sometimes you feel sorry for these trees. But when you think about it carefully, although they are cut down as firewood, they are reborn in another way and become tables and chairs. So you don't feel sorry for them."

Wang Ye muttered to himself, saying this.

Lu Changsheng nodded and looked at Wang Ye with satisfaction.

"Then you've already understood."

He wore a smile, and his eyes seemed to see through everything in the world, like a wise man descending to earth. Every move he made was full of wisdom.

"You've already grasped it?"

Wang Ye was stunned; he didn't know what he had realized.

But at that moment, suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind. Wang Ye frowned, and after a long while, he looked at Lu Changsheng and couldn't help but speak.

"Senior brother, you asked me to chop down trees every day. Are you trying to tell me that everything in the universe goes through cycles, and that anything that seems to disappear will actually continue in another way? Shouldn't we cultivators learn from trees, burning ourselves to light up others?"

Wang Ye muttered to himself, seemingly understanding yet not quite, as if he had grasped the meaning, yet also as if he hadn't.

"Great wisdom".

Lu Changsheng didn't say anything, but slowly uttered these three words.

What he actually meant was that everything has value, even seemingly ordinary trees have their own value.

Unexpectedly, Wang Ye was so perceptive that he actually grasped another layer of meaning.

They're really something.

In that instant, Wang Ye froze.

He sat cross-legged and began to ponder. Immediately afterward, his Spiritual Qi surged violently. But after an incense stick's time, Wang Ye broke through, officially advancing from the Core Formation Realm to the Golden Core Realm.

At that moment, everyone else was shocked.

Lu Changsheng was also shocked.

How could they break through that?

Are you kidding me?

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