If everyone has their own reasons for longing for immortality, then Liu Changming and Liu Laodao's pursuit of immortality is definitely the purest and most noble one - Liu Changming's initial pursuit of immortality was to hope that he could have a longer time to study and research.

Liu Changming's first thought of pursuing immortality was when he was nearly 70 years old, and his research was at an impasse (there were no materials to make microphysics research equipment), and he had to change his research direction again.

This was Liu Changming's most profound feeling at that time, although as a person of the Tao who had achieved cultivation, Liu Changming's body was far stronger than his peers. However, compared to the myriad subjects he wanted to study, this life seemed so small and insignificant.

Liu Changming's pursuit of immortality is because there is no end to learning, and with a human lifespan of only a hundred years, it is impossible to satisfy his strong desire for knowledge!

Therefore, comparing hearts to hearts, poor old Taoist still thinks that Liu Shengyuan and this young sword saint also have the same idea as him.

And in the eyes of Liu Lao Daochang, Liu Shengyuan and this young man are obviously smarter and more far-sighted than him - you see that people know the pursuit of immortality at the age of fourteen, and they know that in the future, in the face of endless learning, infinite life is needed to satisfy the infinite curiosity of scholars. And I, who are almost seventy years old, only discovered this in hindsight.

Of course, if you want to break the head of Liu Lao Daochang, you won't think that Liu Shengyuan's initial motivation for pursuing immortality is completely different from his old man's, and although Liu Shengyuan is young, he is completely afraid of old age and death to pursue immortality.

In these years of study and research, Liu Changming's greatest regret is that he did not directly start learning scientific knowledge when he was a child, but fell into the big pit of Taoist cultivation - otherwise, he would have at least 20 more years to study and research.

However, it is also the Taoist way of health preservation that allows Liu Changming to maintain a good physical condition, he can still maintain strong energy at the age of forty or fifty, and change several research directions, and actually has a lot of achievements in various research fields, in the final analysis, it is also because of his successful cultivation and the support of a good body.

From this point of view, it seems that the time spent on cultivation when you were young is not a waste.

With the study and research of modern science and technology, the more Liu Changming learned, the more he felt that the path of traditional Taoism was wrong, and Taoist cultivation should not be to hold on to the traditional secret book inheritance and penance.

For example, the traditional Daomen uses the Five Elements Theory to explain the way of change in the world, but in front of the surface of the modern elemental cycle, this Five Elements Theory is completely scum!

The periodic table of elements can guide researchers to discover countless new elements, and can deduce the physical properties of an element that has never been discovered.

In addition, the traditional inward-looking practice of Taoism is based on the visualization of the five internal organs and five gods, and the inward-looking practice improved by Liu Changming and built on the modern human body system has been tested by a comparative group (Liu Lao Daochang is the head of the teaching group, and his experimental products are all masters at the level of the king of soldiers), and the progress and quality of the practice are more than double that of the traditional introspection idea.

Therefore, even if Daomen once represented the world's most advanced level of science and technology, if it is always so closed-door and arrogant, there will always be a day when it will be eliminated by the world.

In fact, since the Song Dynasty, Daomen has become a relatively closed, practice-based small group, as a result, the decline from generation to generation, to modern times, Daomen is not even as influential as Buddhism.

And not only the Daomen, there were always a group of literati in the Celestial Empire who believed that the things handed down by their ancestors were always good, and even explained the Pythagorean theorem as the ancestor of geometry, and it was this attitude that hindered the progress and development of science in the Celestial Empire.

A mere Pythagorean theorem is just a pearl in the geometric sea, although it is dazzling, but it is too much of an exaggeration to say that it is the whole sea.

Therefore, the Celestial Empire's action to break the four olds after the success of the revolution certainly destroyed a lot of traditional culture, but it also completely broke the authority of Confucian traditional culture and cleared the obstacles for the development of science and technology.

From this point of view, the Red Flag has been able to gradually catch up with the developed countries in the world in recent years, and the movement to break the four olds cannot be said to be completely wrong; of course, the social chaos and educational stagnation caused by it have indeed caused great harm to society and culture.

Modern Taoism has gradually declined, but because Liu Changming reorganized the historical materials of Taoism 40 years ago, put things in order, and proposed that Taoism should return to the original practice concept of "investigating the wonders of heaven and earth externally and looking at its own creation internally", and introduced a large number of scientific research talents, it was revitalized.

Such a gate has also been relatively smoothly supported by the government and is no longer the object of supervision and surveillance.

If it weren't for the fact that the current red flag could not accommodate a newly established political party, Liu Changming would have planned to set up a new school like the 'Jiusan Society'.

In fact, modern Taoism has little to do with religious Taoism.

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In his decades of research career, Liu Changming's biggest feeling is that manpower is sometimes poor!

Not to mention anything else, mathematics alone is a knowledge, even with a mind like Liu Changming, it can't exhaust the knowledge points that are now published in major academic journals - this is just learning, and you don't need to discover and create by yourself.

As for other related high-energy physics, microscopic physics, and unified fields, although he has been involved in them, he can only be said to be an expert, but he can't talk about academic leaders.

If 20 years ago, Liu Changming could still say that he was at the international leading level in terms of micromechanical structure, but now, it is a level that can keep up with the development of science and technology.

The only thing that Liu Changming can be proud of is that he has found a fulcrum of communication between traditional Taoism and modern science and technology -- the human body! This is the focus of Liu Changming's research.

However, the years are not forgiving, and Liu Changming, who is in his nineties, finds that he is no longer able to continue his in-depth research in this field.

If you want to talk about disciples and grandchildren, of course he also has them, but among these disciples, some inherit his martial arts, some inherit his medical skills, and some inherit his research disciplines, but none of them can inherit the research project that he is most proud of.

In order to combine the inheritance of Taoism and modern science and technology to study the mysteries of the human body from two different perspectives at the same time, especially to continue the research of Liu Changming's previous research materials, it is necessary to achieve a very high level of cultivation of traditional Taoism (it is best to cultivate to a congenital Qi);

At the same time, he has a strong desire for knowledge and curiosity, has the ability to innovate, is willing to learn modern science and technology, and is best a young man with high plasticity, so as to pass on his research route and research results.

These requirements are separated, except for the cultivation of the innate Yiqi, the other conditions are not too demanding, but taken together, where can such a candidate be found? In the past 20 years, Liu Changming, a suitable candidate, has also seen Liu Shengyuan and such a person.

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"It's really fate! I was nearly seventy years old before I suddenly woke up, Zhuangzi sages said that 'life has an end and learning has no end' is so helpless, my generation pursues the endless sea of learning, and really needs a boundless life!

I didn't expect Xiaoyou to be able to see this at such a young age, and go straight to the theme of immortality, it's really rare, it's rare!"

Changming Taoist twisted his beard and smiled, and he was relieved.

"Little friend! Lao Dao has a reluctant request. ”

"Master Liu, please speak, the kid will do his best!" Liu Shengyuanhe agreed, no matter what help this old Taoist needs first, anyway, Liu Shengyuanhe decided, as long as he can help, he will definitely do his best, these days, he owes too much favor.

"Lao Dao has a research project at hand, which happens to be about the road to immortality, of course, it is far from being able to live forever, but it is also Lao Dao's life's work, I hope to find someone to continue to study it, I don't know what Xiaoyou wants?"

I'm going, where is this asking for my own help? It's obviously to send myself pies! Liu Shengyuanhe was shocked in his heart and reacted.

At this time, Liu Shengyuanhe finally opened his mind. Some time ago, he felt that he had taken too many benefits, how could anyone come up and send this and that, and not ask for anything in return?

If it is said that it is to let himself help treat this patient, Matsushita Ake, but this old man is Japanese! Not to mention the question of nationality, it is impossible for him to stand idly by among the people who escorted this patient over, as well as his father-in-law.

What's more, this old Taoist Liu said clearly that this research project is related to the road to immortality.

In the past, Liu Shengyuanhe also thought about immortality relatively simply, and always felt that he had come to the end along the path of cultivation of the sages, and maybe he could take another step, that is, immortality.

But during this time, what he saw and heard in the process of treating Matsushita wisely told him that immortality was not what he imagined at all.

What exactly does the structure and working mode of the human brain, the different characteristics of different cell structures in the body, and the mysteries of the meridian system represent?

If you don't know why you know it, can you live forever?

These, the little arrogance that had already refined Liu Shengyuan and the innate sword qi were not half a cent left.

There is no end to learning!

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Ming's memory of gradually aging, sluggishness, and finally even mental confusion in his previous life was so profound, Yanagi Yuanhe would simply feel that his pursuit of immortality was completely self-defeating.

Of course, with his feelings about aging and death in his previous life, not to mention what was in front of him, it was just a long road with no end in sight, even if it was a cliff or an abyss, he would not hesitate to step over!

"Dare to ask Old Daoist Liu, are you willing to accept a disciple like me who is not a talented person in the year of mackerel?" Liu Shengyuan leaned over and asked respectfully.

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Today is a very ordinary day, but the unusual thing is that there is something going to happen today that is not big or small-Changming Daoist is going to accept disciples!

Liu Changming has been an old man all his life, and his contributions to Chiqi can be said to be countless. As the most respected scientist in Chiqi, his disciples are all over the scientific community, so to speak, if all the scientists who can be linked to Liu Changming are called, at least one-tenth of the Chinese scientific community will have to rush to the capital!

And that's just the apprentice level. Don't forget that this old man Liu is also a holy hand of traditional Chinese medicine, and he is ten years old, and he is called the double wall of traditional Chinese medicine. Of course, now it can only be called a double old. These two old people have saved countless people, many of them are high-ranking officials and wealthy people, I heard that Old Daoist Liu wants to accept apprentices at this age, how can they say that they are not?

In addition, although Taoism and Taoism are not the same thing, but it is good that Old Daoist Liu still hangs the sign of the honorary president of the Taoist Association! By the way, Liu Shengyuanhe also hangs the sign of the honorary chief of the Sword Hao Association, and the chief of the Sword Hao Society, Sasaki Shinpei, is actually a registered disciple of this old Taoist Liu Lao!

So, on the day when Liu Lao Dao officially announced the acceptance of disciples, all kinds of people from all over the world crowded the entire Ming Garden (this Ming Garden is Liu Lao Dao's private courtyard, located at the foot of Lingshan Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing, well, not the Lingshan where the West Heaven learned scriptures).

"Disciple toasts tea!" According to Liu Laodao's meaning, he was originally not going to hold a special ceremony to accept apprentices. After all, at his age, he has no interest in this kind of false name.

He accepted Liu Shengyuan and this disciple completely to inherit his research ambitions, especially this disciple is not only rare, but even his ambition is the same as himself, and he is really the heir of the mantle of the old way.

However, just like the old man in an ordinary family, he may not want to live a big life at all—Nima didn't remind me that the old man was one step closer to death? However, just because the old man doesn't want to do it, it doesn't mean that his children don't need to be filial.

Therefore, although Changming Dao people have a transcendent status, they can't stand a group of old friends, apprentices, sons and granddaughters coaxing together (Liu Laodao has a wife and family, but his wife has passed away), this apprenticeship ceremony was originally to inform some relatives and friends, but it has become like this.

But it's okay that at the insistence of Old Daoist Liu, the apprenticeship ceremony of the Daomen has already been simplified a lot, except for the tea to the master, there is no kowtow at all, which is simply simpler than in Japan, where Liu Shengyuan and himself accept Dashan Zhongyan and them as registered disciples.

Moreover, under the advocacy of Daoist Liu Lao, the modern Taoist sect has accepted disciples, and it is not as limited to Taoist disciples as before.

What kind of degree of Taoism, this kind of identity certificate is not particular about people in modern Taoism at all, but there is still this kind of identity certificate in Taoism.

Now the Taoist sect only pays attention to the teacher and witnesses, as long as there are people in the Taoist sect who are willing to include disciples, and there are people in the Taoist sect to testify, it is considered complete.

Liu Shengyuanhe's apprenticeship witnesses are Mr. Fang Shishi Fang and Major General Zhang Zhenyue, this Major General Zhang Zhenyue is also the senior brother of the martial arts lineage passed down by Liu Changming.

As the master of ceremonies announced the tea ceremony, Liu Shengyuan and his hands picked up a cup of tea, and respectfully brought it to Liu Changming, who was sitting on the main seat.

"Yuanhe, this master-apprentice fate between our two masters in this life is really rare, and Lao Dao doesn't ask you for anything, as long as you make any progress in your research in the future, don't forget to burn some papers and experience to Lao Dao, Lao Dao can also be happy under Jiuquan. ”

Liu Laodao looked at the young man standing in front of him, and the relief in his heart was really indescribable.

At his age, in fact, there is nothing that he can't let go, his children and grandchildren are all capable, and in his life, he has come to revitalize the Daomen and is worthy of his teacher's kindness; second, he has made some contributions to the country and the people; third, he has a happy family and a full house of children and grandchildren.

The only thing I am worried about is that there is no successor to my research project, and now that I have this disciple, I can even be considered relieved from this concern, but the fly in the ointment is that this disciple is still young, and the accumulation of knowledge is far from enough, so he can't take over the research immediately, and when he grows up and is enough to inherit his own research, he is probably no longer alive -

In the joy of the successors of the research project, Liu Changming couldn't help but sigh secretly.