Chapter 64 Guarding the Family
Five true and seven saints of Xia Kingdom!
These six short words may be just a few words for those who don't understand what it represents. However, just six simple words can be described as thunderous and even terrifying to the high-level leaders of any country in the world.
Because, these six words represent the highest deterrent power of Xia Kingdom!
The Five True Seven Sages, as the name suggests, are the Five True People and the Seven Sages.
In the realm division of qi refiners, the realm of real people refers to the realm of Jindan, and the realm of saints refers to the realm of Yuanying. Therefore, the Qi Refiners of the Jindan Realm are also called Jindan Zhenren, and the Qi Refiners of the Yuanying Realm are also called the Yuanying Saints.
Regarding these titles, in fact, they are not groundless, but representative!
First of all, let's talk about this Jindan real person, everyone knows that since ancient times, words such as refining qi and cultivating qi and becoming immortals seem to have always been the proper nouns of Taoism, and Taoism has another name for cultivation:
Xiuzhen!
For a mortal, generally speaking, only at the moment of his birth, he can be regarded as having life, so birth is called birth.
But for the cultivators, it is different, in the eyes of the cultivators, human beings are already considered to have life from the moment they turn into limbs and have human nature, and strictly speaking, people at this time can be called people in the true sense.
At this time, a person has been endowed with his life characteristics by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, he has flesh and blood, muscles, bones and veins, and he can also absorb nutrients from his mother to survive and grow, then he is naturally a person in a complete sense.
Then why is it said that man at this time is a real man? Because man at this time has not yet been polluted by the worldly environment, his ears have never heard, his eyes have never seen, his mouth has never spoken, his brain has not yet remembered, he relies on his instinct to draw nutrients, he relies on his body to breathe oxygen, everything about him is perfect and new!
And when man is born? He opens his eyes, he sees the world of flowers, he learns to laugh, he learns to cry, he learns to speak well, he learns to be happy, he learns to be angry, he learns to be happy, angry, sad, and happy! Slowly, he no longer has instincts, why? Because he has enough ability to think!
What is the ability to think? The ability to think is a person's acquired thoughts. When you see a game, you want to play, when you see food, you want to eat, and when you see a beautiful woman, you want to go up and talk.
These are your thinking abilities!
Then why is it said that when man has the ability to think, he loses his instincts?
When you encounter food, although you have eaten a lot, but you still want to eat, you are still eating, if it is instinct to control you, will your body allow you to support yourself? For an adult, he will continue to eat, because his mind is still thinking! But for a baby who has not yet opened his mind, no matter how delicious the milk, if he is full, he will also disdain!
Moreover, there are 3,000 beauties in the harem, knowing that excessive indulgence will lead to physical weakness and premature aging, but if it were you, would you stop this beautiful and happy life? Obviously not! Why? Because although your body is already very weak, your eyes are still looking, your brain is still thinking, and you still want to love!
At this moment, you are no longer dominated by your instincts, but by a terrible thing that has entered your body the day after tomorrow.
As for this terrible thing, cultivators are called aware of the gods! That is, they are acquired consciousness! As for people's innate instincts, they are also called primordial gods by cultivators!
The process of cultivation of a cultivator is the process of refining the primordial spirit by recognizing the gods.
And the ancient qi refiners often said that real people only play in Flower Street, and they look for real people in Flower Street and Willow Lane. That is to say, people who have cultivated into "real people" are all practicing in the willow alleys of Flower Street, if a person is in a variety of stunning food scenes, and can still be unmoved, then this person has already cultivated into a real person.
Because the knowledge of God is acquired, it is also called a "false self" by cultivators, which means that this acquired consciousness that dominates one's life is not the real self.
As for the primordial spirit, it is called the "true self" by the cultivators! That is to say, this innate instinct is the real human being, the real "me"!
Then it is very clear that the process of cultivation is to cultivate from the "false self" to the "true self", so the cultivation is also called the cultivation of the truth! That is, the cultivation of the true self!
And the Taoist concept of cultivation is mainly to restore the book one by one, and return to the innate one!
As for why Jin Dan is also called Jin Dan Zhenren, the main reason is that Jin Dan Zhenren can already see clearly and has cultivated his true self!
The so-called golden pill actually has two meanings!
First, the golden pill is the golden pill, which is the inner pill condensed by a cultivator in the process of cultivation, and is an important symbol of a cultivator's success in cultivation.
Second, the golden pill refers to a person's nature: the golden person is strong and not bad, and the golden person is mellow and bright, which is an important sign of a cultivator's cultivation and success.
Taoism pays attention to the dual cultivation of life, and the Jindan period is the realm where a person's dual cultivation of life is successful!
Therefore, the practitioners of the Jindan period are also called real people.
The Jin Dan real person mentioned above just means that a person cultivates his true self and reaches the realm of returning to the innate realm, while the Yuanying Sage is another cultivation realm.
Yuan Infant Sage, as the name suggests: the Sage of Yuan Infancy!
Why, then, can a person in infancy be called a saint?
From the root cause, it is because they have already cultivated the infant body!
This infant body is called differently in various schools of Taoism, some sects call it Yuan Ying, some call it Yang God, and some even directly call it a fetus, "Guarding the Yellow Court, raising the God of Grain, and the man is pregnant with a fetus and laughing at people", which is what this kind of sect is talking about.
However, no matter what the name is, the meaning of this Yuan Ying is the same: Yuan Ying represents the process of a person's transformation from mortal to immortal. No matter how powerful Jindan Zhenren is, he is just a mortal, but the Yuanying Saint is different, the Yuanying Saint can already be called a half-immortal!
As the old saying goes: transcendent and holy!
Break away from the mortal body and enter the holy realm!
Therefore, the cultivators of the Yuan Infant Period are also called the Yuan Infant Sages.
And the Five True Seven Saints of the Xia Kingdom are the five Jindan Zhenren and the seven Yuanying Saints!
The five truths are Lu Yuan, the ancestor of the Lu family, Tang Li, the ancestor of the Zhang family, Zhang Yunzhi, the ancestor of the Shi family, Shi Chenmo, and Wang Tianlin, the ancestor of the Wang family!
The seven saints are Zhao Yusheng, the ancestor of the Zhao family, Chen Zhuang, the ancestor of the Xu family, Xu Wuxin, the ancestor of the Xie family, Xie Xinyue, the ancestor of the Wu family, Wu Xiaoran, the ancestor of the Ma family, Ma Yishan, and Gong Pei, the ancestor of the Gong family.
What a great strength this is!
You must know that this is the mortal world, not the immortal village where Ye Xuan grew up, let alone the immortal realm! In the mortal world, there are actually five Jindan real people and seven Yuanying saints hidden, how can this not be surprising?
It is said that the youngest of these five truths and seven saints are all two hundred years old, and they have been guarding the Xia Kingdom since the successive dynasties.
However, it has been a long time since the Five True Seven Saints have appeared in front of people, and the last time they appeared, it was the time when the Xia Kingdom was invaded by the Japanese Kingdom many years ago, and even if it appeared, the Five True Seven Saints only showed their faces, and did not show the deterrence of force! In the end, it was only by relying on the ordinary mortals of the Xia Kingdom that they had been fighting for several years and had more than 10 million people killed and wounded, so that they were able to disperse the invasion of the Japanese Kingdom!
In fact, regarding the invasion of the Japanese Kingdom, many people have complaints about the Five Truths and Seven Sages, complaining that they stood by and watched when the Xia Kingdom was in trouble!
What these people who complain in their hearts don't know is that the reason why the Five Truths and Seven Saints retired from the front of people was because they were seriously injured in that war of aggression.
This matter has to start with the mission of protecting the family!
In fact, at the earliest time, there were only three guardian families in the Xia Kingdom, namely the Zhang family, the Chen family, and the Xie family. However, due to the missionary reasons, it slowly evolved into twelve families. And these twelve families were formed through several dynasties in the history of the Xia Kingdom.
In the wars and changes of dynasties in the past dynasties, these families are accustomed to seeing the country of the family ruined, the family lost and the wife was separated!
Therefore, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, in line with the purpose of cultivating the mind first, the patriarchs of these twelve families at that time got together and made an oath:
The Twelve Families were no longer detached from the world, but began to stabilize and protect the Jiangshan Sheji and Li Min of the Xia Kingdom! So in the Qing Dynasty, the prosperous era lasted for a long, long time!
As for the subsequent demise of the Qing Dynasty, it was completely the mediocrity of the ruling emperor! The guardian family had no intention of caring about it at all.
Speaking of the invasion of the Japanese Kingdom, in the early days of the Japanese invasion, the twelve families never thought of interfering in this matter at all, because the development of a country, in addition to the support of a strong force, is more important than its own growth!
It was precisely because of the idea of the Twelve Guardian Families that the Wa Kingdom had a chance to take advantage of it, and they actually pushed the Xia Kingdom to the point of dying in one fell swoop!
It was only at this time that the Five True and Seven Sages realized the seriousness of the problem! Then the Five True and Seven Sages went out of the customs and beat the Japanese people! And this also led to the sharp increase in the morale of the Xia Kingdom, and for a time it even had the ability to fight back against the Japanese State.
However, the good times didn't last long, not long after the Five True Seven Saints came out, the Wa Kingdom also invited the patron saint of their own country: the Anameasu family!
The Amaterasu family of the Wa Kingdom is actually composed of multiple families, but because they all believe in the Amaterasu god of the Wa Kingdom, they are collectively called the Amaterasu family!
As soon as the Amaterasu family intervened in the war, the little advantage that Xia Guo had just moved back was instantly gone!
As a last resort, the Five Truths and Seven Saints had to make an appointment to fight the ancestor of the Amaterasu family of the Wa Kingdom, and it was that station that led to the ultimate guardian power of both sides, which never appeared in front of people again.
Some people say that both sides died together, while others say that both sides were seriously injured and went to seclusion to heal.
However, no matter how many rumors Ren had, no one jumped out to explain the matter, and since then, the Twelve Guardian Families have also begun to keep a low profile and gradually fade out of people's sight.