Merit can indeed improve one's cultivation, but this is for those who are originally monks.

Shennong and Xuanyuan were both uncultivated during their reigns. Otherwise, how could the Earth Emperor Shennong have seventy poisons in one day when he tasted a hundred herbs?

Whether the human emperor can cultivate or not, there are no hard and fast rules at the moment. Fuxi has cultivated, but Shennong and Xuanyuan have not. This situation is largely due to the influence of the protagonist Qingzhu Daoren. The protagonist preemptively accepted Shennong's as an apprentice, but only taught him all kinds of knowledge in the world, and did not mention a word about cultivation. Therefore, it was not until the Shennong clan retreated from the Huoyun Cave that he was taught the master Lao Tzu to teach the cultivation exercises. Xuanyuan's situation is similar, although I had the intention to teach him the way of cultivation at the beginning, I can't compete with the Qingzhu Dao people.

So Xuanyuan, who is still a mortal, felt that his body was aging, and saw the people around him go one by one. It is not incomprehensible that he turned to Qi Bo to try to maintain his health and prolong his life.

The elderly in the high-dimensional world still like to read health knowledge, and Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is also a human.

According to common sense, I should put on a peerless posture - first show the immortal traces, and then hide far away in the mountains, and let the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor take the initiative to beg me. And I couldn't answer it once, I had to ask it three times, and I reluctantly began to instruct him.

But the problem is that the Xuanyuan tribe still lives in the protagonist Qingzhu Daoren.

Now the Qingzhu Daoist people have indeed been fooled by me into retreat. What if he gets out of the house while I'm pretending? As the protagonist, Qingzhu Daoren can have the favor of the author's will. Maybe the timing of his breakthrough was very appropriate, and he came out on the days when I was away. When the time comes, the advantages I have worked so hard to gain will be wasted in an instant.

There was really no way, so I had to take the initiative and sit up and move on my own.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, I ordered the attendant to inform Xuanyuan that day that I wanted to see him.

"Teacher, you came to see your disciple, I don't know what happened?" Xuanyuan waited for me to sit down and asked.

"I heard that you have often asked Qi Bo for advice on health preservation techniques recently?" I'm straight to the point.

"Exactly. Qi Bojing is good at this, and has also written medical books to benefit thousands of families. Xuanyuan said.

Do you need to introduce this? After he wrote the medical book, he made merit from heaven, and anyone who had eyes could see it. And didn't you Xuanyuan also get forty percent? Didn't the later name of "the art of disambiguity" come from here?

It's kind of strange to say. Although the protagonist Qingzhu Daoren has a little bit of merit, he only ignores the medical merits of the Yellow Emperor and Qi Bo. No, it's not just Qingzhu Dao people, but other protagonists who are emperors and rob merit seem to have ignored this.

Could it be that it has something to do with the age of the author? Ignoring the merits of Qi Huang's technique indicates that he is not interested in the health preservation of doctors. I guess the author is a young man in his twenties, and his body is just right, so he doesn't pay attention to these things. If it were written by someone in his fifties or sixties, hehe, it would probably become a health lecture hall.

"Do you want to live forever?" I asked in the tone of a charlatan.

"It's good to be able to prolong my life, I know that I don't dare to be extravagan......t in my life," Xuanyuan suddenly stopped when he said this, and looked at me carefully with his eyes, "Dare to ask the teacher about longevity?" ”

That's what you can think of. What else is not extravagant to live forever, am I not a living example of immortality?

"The poor Tao was born in the reign of Emperor Jun, and since the teacher Yuan Shi Tianzun became holy, he has been a disciple of the teaching. In the past, Nuwa Niangniang made people, Qingzhu Daoyou turned into a friend, and the poor road also witnessed it on the side. I smiled and struck a heartfelt blow.

Regulus, do you hear me? I'm older than Qingzhu Daoren.

In other words, would you choose to ask an 80-year-old how to maintain a healthy life, or how to ask a 50-year-old how to maintain a healthy health?

The answer couldn't be clearer.

Living longer than the protagonist, it is estimated that it is the second advantage of Guang Chengzi's identity.

Sure enough, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor's eyes lit up suddenly, and his eyes looked at me as if the middle-aged and elderly people who forwarded the common sense of health care every day saw a hundred-year-old Chinese medicine doctor.

"Ask the teacher to teach me the way of immortality!" He bowed deeply to me at once.

"The essence of the Tao is slender. To the extreme, faint and silent. Ignore and listen, hold on to your mind, and act to the end. It will be quiet and clear, without toil and spirit, but it will be immortal. "I memorized the original famous line.

"Isn't that the mantra you taught me to meditate back then?" Xuanyuan asked in surprise.

"Yes, this is the cultivation mantra for the introduction of teachings, and it is also the door to immortality." I said to him in a tone of "stupid, you didn't know the goods back then", "The poor road is a living example, Xuanyuan disciple has any questions about the longevity of my jade Qing Miao method?" ”

"No, no, it's because the disciple was stupid back then, and he couldn't bear the teacher's education." Regulus shook his head.

"Young people are popular and healthy, and it is common sense not to take health care to heart." I also have to show that I am a reasonable and generous person, "When I am old and my body is decrepit, I know the value of health." It doesn't matter, you have great merit, and the speed of cultivation will naturally be twice as effective with half the effort, and it is still too late to start. ”

"Teacher, the disciple turned to learn Teacher Qingzhu's homework back then, don't you blame me?" Xuanyuan couldn't help but ask.

The drama is here - I have a vague premonition that after many efforts, I finally ushered in an opportunity to completely suppress the protagonist.

Xuanyuan asked such a question, which showed that he felt guilty about me. This guilt comes from regret for the choice made. Since there is regret, it means that in his heart, what I taught with Qingzhu Daoren is more important, and his value judgment has been a little shaken compared with before.

When he was young, he obviously believed in the Qingzhu Daoist set. At that time, Xuanyuan chose Qingzhu Dao people, which can be described by the words "without hesitation". Even after the Battle of Zhuolu, I was more of a skilled helper to Xuanyuan than a teacher who could teach him knowledge.

Now is the time when Regulus really feels he can learn something from me.

"It's okay to be a teacher. You didn't have the heart to seek the Tao back then, and I can't force it. I said, "Besides, the knowledge taught by the Qingzhu Dao people is indeed beneficial to all the people of the human race. ”

"Did it really make any difference?" The dignified Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor actually showed a rare trace of confusion on his face, "I admit that the things taught by Teacher Qingzhu have indeed made the human race gain many inventions, and it is often more convenient to act in this way." But...... Some of the disputes I have tried over the years have come from this. Even the contradictions that have arisen as a result of this are much more numerous than before, and Cheng dù is much more violent. Is this kind of life really better than the simple and desireless life before? ”

"Oh? So what do you think? "I guided Regulus to his conclusions, and only from his own mouth could he be convinced that these words were from his own heart, and not from my own instigation.

"If you think about it carefully, although these disputes are strange, the reason is nothing more than anger, greed, lust and other irrational and uncontrollable **." Xuanyuan said slowly, "In short, it's all due to personal temperament. As for the qiē that Mr. Qingzhu guided us to invent, it is just to magnify all the shortcomings in our hearts, which seems to increase the contradictions. Well, yes, the simplicity of the past may not be really desireless, but there is no way to show **. In the past and present, in fact, people's hearts have not changed, only external objects have changed. ”

"Yes, the things taught by Qingzhu Daoyou are all foreign things." I finally spoke, and continued to deduce downward along Xuanyuan's train of thought, careful not to add any new ideas, "The development of external objects can satisfy the needs of the heart. However, the desire is insatiable and the people's hearts are endless, and how can the development of external things be satisfied. On the contrary, the development of foreign objects can stimulate more demand and lead to greater **. And so on and so forth, never ending. ”

"What the teacher taught is that the human heart does not change, and how external things develop is useless. If the mind is restless and the desires are not calmed, there will be no true peace and happiness. Xuanyuan is quite empathetic, "In recent years, I have sought to teach the art of health preservation, and part of the reason is because the doctor teaches people to be temperate**. In my opinion, it is better to look for things from the outside than to reflect on oneself from within. ”

"That's a good thing!" I was amazed, thinking that I finally let you speak of this step yourself, "Add another sentence for the teacher, introspect your own body, it is better to cultivate your own heart." If you want to be free and easy, and you want to be peaceful and liberated, you need to regard ** as a cage and a shackle, and exercise your heart to be strong and tenacious before you can break it. Think about that mantra again. ”

"The essence of the Dao, the ...... of the Dark," Xuanyuan's eyes brightened the more he muttered, "I see, I see!" If you keep the way of quiet and inaction, you can exercise your heart and break the **. Compared to immortality, this is the true beauty of cultivation. ”

"Yes, the desire is calmed, and the body and mind can be calm. Only when the body and mind are quiet can we practice the avenue. Spiritual practice is actually the self-improvement of each individual. I continued, "From this point of view, supernatural powers and immortality are secondary. The perfection of the state of mind is the foundation of cultivation. ”

Xuanyuan chewed on my words: "In this way, even though most of the human races are limited to qualifications, they have no chance of immortality. But if they can really achieve a quiet and inactive state of mind, they can also spend a peaceful and comfortable life. Instead of wasting life in the pursuit of fame and fortune and needless busyness. ”

I nodded: "Perfecting the state of mind is cultivation for mortals. No matter how foreign things develop, there will be no progress in the individual Terrans, because their state of mind has not changed. The perfection of the heart is the true perfection of the self and the true progress of the human race. True happiness can only come from this. ”

Xuanyuan gave me a deep salute when he heard this: "The way of the teacher can benefit the human race." Your wisdom is far-reaching, and you are really my teacher! Looking back on what we have learned, we have gone astray. ”

As soon as I said this, I clearly felt unusual. The part of the luck that was originally distributed to the Qingzhu Dao people from Xuanyuan suddenly changed direction and submerged into my body. I know that this means that Xuanyuan thinks of me as the only emperor from the bottom of his heart.

It's not easy to get to this point. It's not in vain that I poured chicken soup for the soul on Xuanyuan.

To be honest, there are not many logical loopholes in the core of the story of "Holy Father and Emperor", which is much better than "Pangu Four Qings". But this kind of novel often feels more shocking.

In addition to the disgusting use of clichés, there is a more important reason: this kind of novel is fundamentally in conflict with the flood system.

Torrent, no matter what, is just a type of Xianxia. Xianxia, the most important thing is the wonder of cultivation and personal detachment. Because readers are bound by money, bodies, social status, and even the laws of science in real life. That's why they aspire to enter a free world that is detached and unfettered. In this world, people can live forever, they can fly away, they can socialize with familiar mythological figures, and they can see with their own eyes the dreams they had quietly imagined in their childhood, which have not yet been shattered by science and matter, are being realized.

In other words, Xianxia novels, including the torrent, want that "fairy energy".

However, novels such as "Holy Father and Emperor" do not have "fairy energy". The protagonist must teach several emperors all kinds of scientific knowledge, guide them to complete one invention after another, and even try to expel the forces of Buddhist and Taoist cultivation and establish a materialist society......

When the reader chooses to click on the big category of "Xianxia" to find a novel, he has already preset certain expectations for "Xianqi" in his heart. When he sees this kind of novel that goes the opposite way, he may still have some freshness once or twice, but after many times, he will inevitably get bored.

This type of novel, no matter how perfect the logic is, will not be liked by readers.

I thought so, and as the world collapsed and went back into darkness. The protagonist Qingzhu Daoren completely lost his identity as Emperor Xuanyuan, and the luck of the Three Emperors of Heaven, Earth and Man was lost, and he could no longer be recognized by humanity, which conflicted with the core of the story.

The story collapses.