Chapter 2: The Tribulation of Cultivation
"Qi Refiner?" Changning was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said, "Ah Weng, are you talking about a cultivator?" ”
"Cultivator?" Shen Shu repeated, "Seeking the true self, removing the false and preserving the truth, the word 'cultivating the truth' is also appropriate." ”
"Ah Weng, do you know the Qi Refiner?" Changning looked at her grandfather with glowing eyes, when Ah Weng taught her the inner strength method, she was also excited that she had actually crossed into a martial arts world where she could practice internal strength, and now Ah Weng mentioned the Qi Refiner, could it be that she had traveled to the world of cultivation? Thinking of this, Changning's expression gradually became excited.
Seeing that the little girl was so excited, Shen Yan couldn't help but wonder, "Of course I know." He paused, "Because I'm also a Qi Refiner." ”
Changning stared at his grandfather with wide eyes, Ah Weng is a qi refiner? "Ah Weng, you can teach me how to cultivate." Changning said without thinking.
Shen Yan lovingly rubbed the top of his granddaughter's head, this child really has a relationship with Xuanmen, and the child next to him is afraid that he said the word Qi Refiner, and he is still ignorant and doesn't know what it is, "Don't worry." He'er, cultivation is very hard and dangerous, can you bear it? "Cultivation is easy to say, but since ancient times, there have been countless people who have given up halfway, and he doesn't want his granddaughter to regret it in the future.
"Yes." Changning said firmly.
Shen Shu asked, "Even after cultivating, you may die at any time. ”
"Death at any time?" Changning was puzzled, "Ah Weng, why would he die at any time after cultivating?" Doesn't it mean that the Qi Refiner seeks immortality? "Ascending to immortality and immortality are too far away for her, but can't she pursue a good life?
"Just because we seek the way of immortality, we will suffer disasters everywhere, otherwise everyone will be able to live forever." Shen Shu sighed with emotion, "The benefits of the three calamities alone have caused many talented cultivators to fall on the road of immortality. ”
"Three calamities? Ah Weng, what are the three calamities? Thunder Tribulation? Changning asked.
"Yes, it's a thunderstorm, but it's not just a thunderstorm." Shen Tuan explained to his granddaughter what the benefits and harms of the three disasters are, "The so-called benefits of the three disasters refer to thunder, yin fire, and wind. Our Qi Refiners practice, the sects are different, and the classics are also different, but the cultivation realm is roughly the same, which is nothing more than the four stages of refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, refining gods and returning to void, and refining voids and merging the Tao. Our Qingjing faction is also known as the four realms of Zhuji, Jindan, Yuanying, and Yangshen, and the foundation realm is no different from ordinary people, and the life span is extended to two hundred years old at most.
When the thunder tribulation appeared in Chengdan, he could hide and live for thousands of years; If you can't escape, you'll die. When Yuan was an infant, he couldn't see his mind, and there was a yin fire that burned from his own spring acupoint, penetrating the mud wall palace, until the five internal organs turned into ashes, and the limbs were rotten. When you cultivate into a yin god, there will be a wind blowing into the six intestines, passing through the dantian, wearing the nine orifices, and being able to block it, you will be able to turn from yin to yang, and the true god will see the form; can't stop it, the natural flesh and blood are sparse, and the body is self-extricating. Even if you pass the benefits and harms of these three calamities, you can't comprehend the way of heaven and lift the glow to soar, you can only get rid of the yang god and turn into a scattered immortal. Although there is a word 'immortal' in the scattered immortals, it is not a true immortal in the end, and there is a catastrophe descending every thousands of years, if you can carry it nine times, or you can knock on the door of heaven again, otherwise you will die and re-enter the reincarnation.
Putting aside the benefits and harms of the three calamities, there are still all kinds of setbacks in our usual cultivation, we must keep the word "pure and quiet" when we practice, but we must also pay attention to both movement and stillness. The world is like a bitter sea, the flesh is a raft, the bitter sea is boundless, how can you cross the sea without a raft? There are also people who have an urgent desire to cultivate, and when they practice, they only want to improve their cultivation, but the urgent heart is mortal fire, and only true fire can be used for cultivation, and mortal fire will only lead to burning one's body and going mad. All these are all calamities for cultivation.
Changning, let me ask you, do you know the calamity of cultivation, but are you still willing to practice? Shen Lu's last sentence, like Huang Zhong Da Lu, hit Changning's heart.
Every time Shen Shu said a word, Changning's face turned white, she knew that she thought about cultivation too simply, cultivation can make people live longer, and make Qi refiners different from ordinary people, if there are no these calamities, the ability is too easy, and the world will not be chaotic early? "Do you know the pain of cultivation, but are you still willing to practice?" With her grandfather's words lingering in her ears, she was dazed for a moment, and then suddenly a stirring spirit was blown, and she said loudly: "I do!" There was no hesitation.
An imperceptible smile appeared in Shen Yan's eyes, "Don't regret it?" Although ordinary people have a short lifespan, there are no such calamities. ”
Changning didn't answer immediately, "Ah Weng, if the Qi Refiner can't survive those tribulations, will his soul be scattered and not enter reincarnation?" ”
"The six realms of reincarnation are set up by the Heavenly Dao, and even the immortals can't break free, so how can we and other qi refiners just mortals, how can we not enter reincarnation?" Shen Shu said that he didn't understand why his granddaughter asked this.
"I don't regret it." Changning cut the railway, what if there are so many disasters? She lived for two lifetimes before she had this opportunity, and she didn't know how much virtue she had accumulated in her previous lives to cultivate. Just because of the catastrophe and retreat, she will regret the countless lives in the future, even if she dies this time, the next reincarnation is not so lucky to be reincarnated with memories, she has no regrets. Being an ordinary person without these calamities does not mean that life is smooth sailing. Life is impermanent, life and death have fate, and what she needs to do is to try to take her fate into her own hands.
Shen Yan nodded with satisfaction, he really didn't mistake this child, he comforted his granddaughter gently: "He'er, you have excellent qualifications, and you know in your heart, as long as you are willing to continue to work hard to cultivate, you will definitely succeed in less than ten years." "He finished beating his granddaughter and started encouraging her again.
"Ah Weng, I will definitely work hard to cultivate." Changning Xi diligently promised that she would also work hard to cultivate for herself.
Shen Shu opened the secret door of the quiet room, and the two of them went up a narrow staircase to the hidden third floor, the third floor is quite spacious, which enshrines the portrait of the ancestor of the Qingjing sect and the tablets of the ancestors of the past dynasties. ”
Changning stepped forward and respectfully kowtowed to the ancestor and the ancestors of the past dynasties, "Disciple Changning to meet the ancestor and the ancestors of the past dynasties. ”
Shen Jian and the other granddaughters got up and said: "There are only three rules for our Qingjing Sect: no deception and destruction of ancestors, no cannibalism with the same family, and no harm to heaven and reason. ”
Changning nodded obediently, and Shen Jian said again, "In addition, because of the cultivation of the Qingjing Sutra in our sect, we focus on temperament, and you can't do much in the future, even if someone bullies you, you are not allowed to hurt people at will." ”
Changning asked in confusion: "What if someone wants to harm me?" Even in modern society, where the law is relatively strict, there is also the word of justifiable defense.
"If you don't provoke a dispute in advance, how can someone harm you for no reason?" Shen Yan's face sank, "You have been cultivating for many years, you can't beat people, you can always be beaten." ”
Changning glared at the apricot in protest, "Ah Weng, I'm your own granddaughter!" She angrily emphasized, "Dear! "If you want me to spit on my own face and bear it, is it too much for me to be killed?
Shen Shu laughed and laughed, and finally understood why his old friend sent his granddaughter to another sect, and he didn't want to teach himself, because he must have felt that he couldn't stand up his majesty in front of his juniors. This girl was really spoiled by him, Shen Yan complained that he spoiled the little girl, but blurted out: "I forgot everything I taught you?" You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to defend people. ”
Changning was satisfied, she knew that Ah Weng was reluctant to be wronged, she smiled and said: "Ah Weng, don't worry, I will definitely not take the initiative to cause trouble, and I will not show off." ”
Shen Yan bowed slightly, this child was raised by him since he was a child, and he knew her character clearly, knowing that she was not a frivolous person, otherwise he would not let her inherit his mantle. He led his granddaughter to sit down on the other side, "I'll tell you about the cultivation of refining and refining the Qi Realm today, don't underestimate this first stage, this stage is called foundation building, and you know its importance." If you don't lay a good foundation, you will not have to mention the future realm.
The foundation building realm is divided into three small realms, collecting qi, passing through the veins, and building the foundation, and the foundation building method in the door is called the Huang Ting Qi Collecting Method, which is to let you introduce the aura of heaven and earth into the Huang Ting every day at the turn of the sun and the moon, and integrate it with the true qi of your own body, nourish the Ding furnace, wash the marrow and cut the hair, open up the twelve meridians, the eight veins of the strange meridians, and complete the cycle of the big and small Zhoutian, then you will be able to turn the true qi into mana, cast the Dao base, and fly the sword. I didn't teach you how to collect qi before, because you are still young, your mental strength is too weak, and your meridians have not grown well. ”
"Edgeworth Flight." When Changning heard these four words, his eyes sparkled, "Ah Weng, do you also have a fairy sword?" ”
Shen Yan smiled, "Of course." However, the flying of the sword is just an analogy, some people are born not to like to practice swords, so they change to other magic weapons to fly, for example, the Baiyun real person of the Qingwei faction uses a white cloud as a car. ”
Changning was leisurely fascinated, she must work hard to cultivate, and in the future, the sword will fly.
Shen Jian also taught her the mental method of the Huang Ting Qi Collection Method in detail, and also injected her own mana into her granddaughter's body, so that she could experience the feeling of heaven and earth spiritual qi entering the body, "The so-called refining and refining qi is to turn the acquired essence qi in the body into true qi, I used to only let you cultivate for one hour, but I didn't let you refine the essence in the body too much, which will make the Ding Furnace* Qi and blood loss, but it is not conducive to cultivation." There are no more than two kinds of acquired essence to make up, one is to take bait, and the other is to collect the aura of heaven and earth. The former can be used by any monk, but the latter can only be done by those who have spiritual roots. ”
"Linggen? What kind of spiritual root is Aweng? Changning asked.
Shen Shu said: "I don't know what a spiritual root is, and I haven't explained it in the classics, if a qi refiner has a spiritual root before building a foundation, he can directly collect the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to supplement his own essence, and the cultivation speed is generally faster than that without a spiritual root." ”
"Ah Weng, you mean that people who don't have spiritual roots can cultivate?" Changning also thought that people who didn't have spiritual roots couldn't cultivate.
"Of course! Even those who are clothed with hair and horns and who are wet and egg-like can cultivate, but as the spirits of all things, who can't cultivate? Shen Shu said, "Whether there is a spiritual root or not, it's just a little different, when you are young, it may not be good." Among the Jindan real people in the cultivation world, there are many people who have no spiritual roots, and after entering the innate realm, those who have no spiritual roots can also collect the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Therefore, the sect accepts disciples, and the root and bone qualifications are still secondary, mainly looking at their hearts, and only those who are kind and stoic can have the opportunity to ask the avenue. ”
After Shen Shu taught his granddaughter how to cultivate, he took out another volume of scriptures, "This book of sexual exercises, my generation's practice pays attention to the harmony of lead and mercury, and the dual cultivation of life*, this scripture is only more than 500 words, you need to recite it every day." ”
Changning took it with both hands, and wrote five big characters on it, "Ah Weng, I will read it every day." ”
"The practice of sexual gong depends on your own physical understanding, and I have nothing to teach you, I can only teach you a meditation cultivation method, you try to cultivate slowly, remember not to rush, otherwise you will only go mad." Shen Jun solemnly warned his granddaughter that the four characters of double cultivation of life are easy to say, but it is not easy to do, especially the practice of sexual skills, without the visible results of life gong, unless you have great determination, it will be difficult to persist in cultivation.
"I know." Changning knew that her grandfather was for her good, and she remembered everything he said.
Shen Shu nodded slightly, "Cultivation is important in perseverance, don't be in a hurry to cultivate, you will finish copying the scriptures in the next day or two." ”
Changning nodded, "Okay." "Copying books can calm her mind, Ah Weng wants her to cultivate in a peaceful state of mind.