Chapter 7: Essays on Cultivating Immortals
"So, after Old Man He rescued you, he was seriously injured and died?"
In the cold night, Old Man Yan and Ling Ran drank a little wine with beef jerky and peanuts.
Yes, there is actually wine in the kitchen.
Old Man Yan's wrinkled face was slightly red, and he didn't drink much.
After a few bowls of wine, the already slightly drunk old man Yan became even more dizzy: "Hehe, I just want me to never pay off what I owe him, or whatever, people will always owe something in this life, otherwise what do you want to do with this life?" ”
At first, he just found that Lao Yantou was drinking alone, Ling Ran saw that he was drinking barely, so he cut a plate of beef and fried a stack of peanuts, and the two drank together, and they couldn't stop drinking Lao Yantou.
talked about his glorious past, laughed as he spoke, and talked about his frustrated past, and cried as he spoke.
Although it is the story of two old men, Ling Ran didn't know why Lao Yantou would tell him this, but Ling Ran listened very seriously, Lao Yantou's story moved him and envied, he was saved and couldn't repay him with his life, and he couldn't repay him for the life of others, that is, death will save you!
Ling Ran took the bowl and saluted the sleepy old Yantou.
In the night sky, the huge and somewhat blue "moon" was exceptionally bright.
Since I have the life to come to such a world, then I can't waste this life, no matter what the outcome, I Ling Ran will definitely live a wonderful life in this world!
Ling Ran got up early the next morning, and brought a bowl of noodles to Lao Yantou and himself, and the two of them were addicted.
Xiao Xiao was a little speechless at the exaggerated expressions of the two, and fiercely took out a jelly bean and stuffed it into his mouth, and found that it was not noticed by the two, and he was happy again.
In fact, this jelly bean is also a pill she refines herself, and she can't help but use it to quench her cravings.
In the morning, Ling Ran sat in the courtyard, holding a book borrowed from Lao Yantou, and he could see that the sun was warm, but it was a little dazzling.
"In this way, this world is still somewhat similar to the earth, the difference is that the earth focuses on science, and this world focuses on cultivation?" Ling Ran nodded and muttered to himself.
Cultivation strengthens oneself and allows one to live better in this world.
Some people practice some fist and foot kung fu to strengthen the body, and the body is strong and less tormented by some diseases.
There are also people who are like those who practice martial arts, learn stunts, and cover one side.
There are also people who break through the limits of martial arts, get a glimpse of the way of heaven for the first time, and prolong their lives.
And above the blue sky above this head, there is heaven, immortals and gods have access to heaven and earth, Taoism is natural, and longevity is in harmony with heaven.
However, the vast majority of them are ordinary people, and their cultivation is to work all their lives, birth, old age, sickness and death.
Seeing this, Ling Ran's mouth was dry, this was not a mythological story, but what was recorded in the "Cangyun Historical Words" that Lao Yantou gave him.
"Hahaha", Ling Ran suddenly laughed,
"Do I still have a chance to cultivate into an immortal?"
"It's not impossible," Xiao Xiao didn't know when he had finished pharmacology and came behind Ling Ran,
"Well, here's your medicine for today. ”
Ling Ran took a sip and drank it, it was sweet and delicious, I don't know how this girl managed to make the medicine so delicious, wiped her mouth and asked with some unfulfilled intentions: "How to do it?"
"Oh, first of all, you have to get a method of cultivating the immortal mind, run it all the time, and when you can run your body, you can try to break through the zenith gate, and then after you break through the zenith gate, you need to absorb the heaven and earth aura forging body, and after the forging body is completed, ......" Xiao Xiao poured out like an emotionless endorsement machine pouring a bamboo tube.
"What is the Zenith Gate, what is the mental method?" Ling Ran frowned and made an embarrassed face, like a mentally retarded person.
Seeing Ling Ran's appearance, Xiao Xiao sighed in his heart: Could it be that his stick was really as bad?
After realizing that Ling Ran's experience should be almost blank at this time, Xiao Xiao thought seriously with his right hand around her braid,
"You wait!"
Ling Ran saw Xiao Xiao floating away like the wind and wanted to float like the wind, and there was already an ancient seal in his hand.
"Give", accompanied by Xiao Xiao's crisp voice, this book that changed Ling Ran's life was delivered to Ling Ran's hand.
"Cultivating immortals, scattering memorization?" Ling Ran read suspiciously,
......
What are you kidding! Ling Ran jumped in shock! Even if he already knew that there was an ethereal immortal cultivator in this world, it was another thing to understand the knowledge and what he saw in front of him.
The four gilded characters of "Essays on Cultivating Immortals" caught Ling Ran's eyes like fire.
"This can't be a book about how to cultivate immortals, right?" Ling Ran swallowed and asked tentatively.
"Yes, this is a book about how to cultivate immortals!" Xiao Xiao replied with a grin, she thought Ling Ran's reaction was really cute, just like someone gave her a jelly bean, she tentatively asked if this was an edible jelly bean?
"It's mainly about how to enter the ranks of cultivating immortals from ordinary people, there are a lot of puzzles in it, and some I don't understand. ”
Xiao Xiao said happily.
Ling Ran took a deep breath and gently opened the pages of the somewhat old book, only to see nine thin words written on the first page: "Ancient and spiritual, divided and noisy, gathered and lonely", read carefully, there is no charm!
Sure enough, it was about cultivating immortals, and I couldn't understand the first sentence, it was really profound! Ling Ran couldn't help but nodded.
Turning the second page,
"Cultivating immortals mainly depends on perseverance, then fate, and then talent, that is, if you think you can cultivate, then you can, otherwise even if you are talented, you can't cultivate......"
Which elementary school culture wrote this? The whole vernacular is like a record of what you say on a daily basis.
"Xiao Xiao, are you making fun of me, right? Who keeps this stinky account?" Ling Ran said boringly with the book in his hand,
"Hahaha," Xiao Xiao couldn't hold it back, bent over and laughed,
"I thought so when I first read it, but I didn't lie to you, this is really a basic lecture on cultivating immortals!" Xiao Xiao smiled and smiled and became serious again.
"You look at it well, maybe you will cultivate into an immortal, didn't the book say it, the key depends on perseverance!"
Seeing that Xiao Xiao was not making fun of him, Ling Ran felt that it was the same, and he hadn't read a book on cultivating immortals, so how could he know that this article-like article couldn't be a secret book for cultivating immortals.
Thinking about him, he felt a little uncomfortable, since it was a secret book for cultivating immortals, it must be extremely precious, Xiao Xiao actually gave it to him like this, and he was very moved for a while.
He hesitated a little, "Xiao Xiao, you gave me such a precious book, in fact, my head ......" Ling Ran was ready to confess to Xiao Xiao that he had not lost his memory, he was from another world, maybe for this magical world, it would not be a big deal to cross over.
"Ah, you, you can see for yourself first, if you don't understand anything, you can ask me later!" After saying that, he ran out of the kitchen yard.
Fortunately, Xiao Xiao took a breath, just now he seemed to be asking me about his head, but fortunately, this girl reacted quickly, hey...... I really blamed myself for beating people stupidly that day, I looked at my little white hands in the sun, and patted my head with some distress.
After a long time, Ling Ran realized that this "Essays on Cultivating Immortals" was not a rare book, and he could buy one for only five coppers.
As soon as Xiao Xiao left, Ling Ran watched "Essays on Cultivating Immortals" with a very serious attitude.
"So it's so magical, this world is made up of "spirits", and cultivation is the ability to control "spirits"?"
In this way, isn't the "gate of the zenith of heaven" just the soles of the feet and the seeds of the brain?
"Oh oh! This is amazing, the cultivation master can fly to the sky and the earth, call the wind and rain, and do anything. ”
......
The more Ling Ran looked, the more fascinated he became, the more he watched, the more surprised he became, the more strange he became, his face was red and his head was dizzy, and he felt that the whole person was traveling in a new world.
Only then did Ling Ran understand why the author wanted to use vernacular words to describe, and the advantage of this was to make it easier for people to understand. If it's like the first sentence of the opening paragraph, then I'm afraid the vast majority of people don't know why.
Ling Ran suddenly had such a thought, is the author's purpose to let everyone understand what immortal cultivation is all about and how to cultivate immortals?
But judging from Ling Ran's current understanding of the world in which Cangyun Continent is located, immortal cultivators are rare, ordinary people may have heard of immortal cultivation but have never seen it in their lives, it is extremely normal, maybe there will be more traces of immortals in the prosperous and vast Central Continent.
Even if they live in the same world, after all, the lives of ordinary people and immortal cultivators seem to be not in the same world.
It seems that this author's wish has not been realized, and Ling Ran feels a little sorry for him in his heart, but it does not prevent him from admiring this author.
If he can explain the obscure knowledge of cultivating immortals through tireless explanations and various popular analogies, and describe it in a way that ordinary people can understand as much as possible, he must be a great person himself!
From the words in the book, Ling Ran felt that this author was quite kind, maybe straightforward, maybe a little hot, maybe a raunchy old man?
Hahaha, Ling Ran thought secretly in his heart. Unfortunately, the name of the author is not indicated in the book, and it is not known when and when it was written.
A short heart method is attached to the book, according to this author, this heart method is simple and easy to understand, the threshold is low, and everyone in the world can try it.
"The spirit travels the world, the air sinks into the river, the detention is leading, the top is down, the bottom is up, the break is standing, the building is destroyed, the destruction is ......"
A little embarrassed, because Ling Ran found that he really couldn't understand this piece of mind......
But he didn't care, what did it mean to understand? He decided to experience it as he thought.
Ling Ran stood on the snow in the courtyard of the kitchen, his feet slightly open, his body straight, his hands hanging down to his sides, his mouth and eyes closed, his breathing steady, and repeating those few words in his mind.
The sunlight slanted quietly in the courtyard, and the dead branches stood without shaking.
After a while, he opened his eyes, and the yard was still the same yard, and dried bacon and other dry goods were quietly hanging on the wall.
Look around yourself and there is no change.
It's true that he said it doesn't matter, just try,
But in fact, there are deep expectations.
It's like buying a lottery ticket and saying that you buy it casually and play it, but when is it not with anticipation?
Ling Ran said, maybe he would become an immortal as soon as he ran and cultivated, otherwise, why did he take himself all the way from the earth?
However, the lottery was not won.
For some reason, Ling Ran suddenly felt a little embarrassed, as if he was ashamed of himself standing in the courtyard and cultivating in a hurry.
But it only happened for a moment, and he was back to normal, amused by his reaction.
It's not that I'm laughing at my own cultivation, but cultivation exists in this world, and it's the law of this world.
He laughed at the fact that he actually fantasized that he could soar into the sky and touch the top floor of this world in this small courtyard.
He began to somewhat understand the meaning of the word "perseverance" in the "Essay on Cultivating Immortals".
Ordinary people's fantasies about cultivating immortals are not powerful, but the difficulties of cultivation cannot be said to be unpowerful, and many times powerful fantasies fall in front of powerful difficulties, so perseverance is extremely important.
"With my nine-year compulsory education level, I can't understand what this god's babble is talking about!" Ling Ran said grumbling.
He packed up his books, took a bite of the washed cucumber (long strips, yellow skin, and a cucumber-like taste, which Ling Ran called "cucumber"), and took off a piece of bacon.
It's noon, it's time to cook.