Volume 3: The One Who Should Think Thinks Chapter 120: Ideas
These people were not all monks, they taught their disciples the way of cultivation, but also taught various other skills. One of the most important is very similar to what the Wind Collector did in the castles, which is to tell the story of various places and various things that have happened in history, which sounds like telling a story.
The people in the remote villages may not have seen the officials in their own lives a few times, and the major events they hear about in the country are passed down by word of mouth, but the disciples in the school palace can hear the doctors talk about various world events every day. Insight and experience are the source and accumulation of knowledge, and when a wise doctor explains everything and everything, he will also tell his disciples the principles that should be followed, why people do what they do, and why they get the results they do, which is a very valuable asset for the disciples.
Why is it that the oldest of the tribes are often respected by the tribes? Not only because people yearn for longevity, not only because they have enough time to gain respectable status, but most importantly, they have experienced enough things, have enough experience to know what to do, and have valuable life insights.
People live in a simple state day after day, often for decades, and they don't know how to respond to emergencies that they have never experienced before. So not only the elders are respected, but also the knowledge that has been passed down orally from generation to generation is valued. For the disciples in the Academy, they can concentrate on learning the knowledge that usually takes a long time and travels to many places.
There are also many people who can fully understand the preciousness of this experience after leaving the academy for a long time. Because most of the people were selected and recommended by various cities to be taught in the school palace, the most concerned thing was whether they could break through the initial realm and cultivate, or whether they could get guidance from the secret method inheritance of a higher realm. The reason why cultivation is so important is not that everyone has the luxury of hoping to embark on the path to heaven and live forever. It's that it does allow people to have magical abilities that others don't have.
In primitive tribes, those who have reached the beginning realm and have been able to cultivate will often also become priests or witches, and they will naturally be elected as leaders by the clansmen. Not to mention the powerful supernatural powers possessed by the monks of the Three Realms and above, the keen inner perception of the Beginner Realm Monks and the perfect physical state of the Second Realm Monks are enough to make them live longer and become stronger in the treacherous environment. People are also sharper and smarter.
The patriarch elected by each tribe is usually a monk in the clan, if there is more than one monk in the clan, then the highest cultivator is elected, and everyone believes that it is such a person, in this wilderness where Baoyu has lived since childhood. That's basically the case. Patriarch Qingshan, Gu Xin, Xiaobai, Yueniu'er, Da Mao, and Da Jiao are all the people with the highest cultivation in their respective clans. There is only one person who is an exception, and that is the patriarch of the fish family, Yu Dahu.
Yu Da Shell is a monk of the Three Realms, and the number one master of Youyu Village was the leader of the hunting team, Yu Liang, and Yu Liang has been cultivated in the Four Realms. There are two reasons for this, one is when the fish big shell became the patriarch. Yuliang's cultivation is not as good as his, and Youyu Village is the most populous, the most developed, and the most prosperous tribe in this wilderness.
When the scale of a village develops to a certain extent and gradually departs from the most primitive and simple state, then the management and operation of various affairs need the best talents. Therefore, there is a council of elders in Yucun, and there are three elders in the council of elders, who jointly agree on the affairs of the clan. Although Yu Da Shell is not the opponent of the Qingshan Patriarch, it cannot be denied that this person is very good, and he is already a very rare talent in the wilderness. He is known for his scheming, and he is also good at assigning and planning big things, which Yuliang does not have.
The situation of Youyu Village seems to be a special case among the tribes in this wilderness, but in fact, the Zhu Ming clan was also like this back then. At that time, the highest cultivators in the Zhu Ming clan were Pan Gu's parents, but they were not patriarchs and priests, and the Zhu Ming clan was a larger, more prosperous and wealthy clan than Youyu Village.
This situation is more common in the castles on the Ba Yuan. For example, Yue Geng, the lord of Gaocheng City, is not only not the number one master of the Gaocheng clan, but also an ordinary person who has not even entered the initial realm. There are many reasons why Yue Geng can become the lord of the city. His grandfather was a monk of the Five Realms and a co-worker in the national capital, and he liked this grandson the most. Since he was a child, he has taken Yue Geng with him and has been to many places. Yue Geng has a lot of experience and insight because of this, and his status among the clansmen is certainly not low.
Compared with other young people in the clan, Yue Geng has the most outstanding ability to manage various affairs, and also understands the etiquette and law of the country, with the support of several important elders in the clan. Elected as the patriarch. At that time, this clan did not have the clan name of Gaocheng clan, and it was only after Yue Geng made great achievements that he became the lord of Gaocheng City, and he got such a new clan name. A clan may have several different clan names, and its descendants will have different branches.
However, there are still many city lords in Ba Yuan, who are the highest cultivators among the most powerful tribes in the local area. For obvious reasons, personal strength also made it easier for them to establish authority among their clansmen, and it was not surprising that they were elected lord of the city. However, the level and means of governing the city are probably uneven, and not everyone can handle affairs as well and experienced as the mountain master.
However, there are many monks who focus their main energy on cultivation, and are not willing to worry about all kinds of complicated mundane things, as long as they can accept offerings and cultivate with peace of mind, and occasionally help the clansmen to do something, other miscellaneous things will not be asked. Especially those monks who have gone to the eighth or ninth turn of the Five Realms, their goal is to break through the Six Realms and become masters who can truly leave a legacy.
And after breaking through the Six Realms, most monks will of course seek a higher cultivation realm on the path to heaven, and even grow into immortals, so they don't care too much about the position of patriarch or city lord.
It was the most difficult position for the engineer in each city, because it had to be filled by monks from the four realms or above. But there are no absolutes in everything, and there are many masters who still like to sit in the position of the patriarch or city lord, and they can also enjoy more resources in cultivation, and they usually hand over a lot of miscellaneous matters to their subordinates.
But in any case, those who can enter the initial realm and cultivate will be valued by various tribes, and they will also have a higher status in the country, and in order for them to be able to cultivate better, they will be exempted from ordinary people's labor. If they can have the cultivation of the three realms or above, they will be respected by the tribe and the city and have a noble status, and if they are willing to serve, it is easy to get various positions, and most of them will choose to be supported as co-workers.
In fact, the Qingshan Patriarch didn't want to be idle, but to be honest, apart from him, no one could preside over the overall situation of Shanshui City. The changes and disputes in this wilderness for more than ten years were both violent and complicated, and even the Qingshan tribe and Huahai Village were almost wiped out, and now they have finally just regained stability. Although there are outstanding talents among the younger generation, their ability and prestige are not enough to convince the public.
During this time, Zhu Ming focused on introducing Baoyu to the things he knew about the world. He may be the best teacher in Bayuan today, not only has more than 300 years of experience, a hundred years of experience as a mountain god, but also has been the host of the school palace. If you change people, it is impossible to tell Baoyu too many things in just half a year.
At this time, it can be understood why monks above the Six Realms can leave their own inheritance and be called the real masters of the world. Because Xiuwei has broken through the Six Realms, he has a means to imprint complex information into other people's primordial spirits in the form of divine thoughts. Otherwise, a simple experience may not be covered in a few days, and it is difficult to describe the most important details clearly.
This kind of spiritual mind contains not only words, but also a variety of specific scene demonstrations and complex physical and mental experiences, making people feel as if they are there. Of course, the use of this method is not without limitations, if it is used on ordinary people, the Divine Thoughts and Heart Seals must not be too complicated, otherwise it will impact people's minds and the other party will not be able to accept and interpret them.
Theoretically, those who have the cultivation of the Three Realms can only receive the more complex Divine Thought Heart Seal in the fixed realm, and after reaching the Four Realms of cultivation, the interpretation of this Divine Thought Heart Seal will be basically smooth. The Qingshan Patriarch had been cultivating the Five Realms and Nine Transformations for decades, but even the last step towards the Six Realms had been slow to break through, so he had not mastered this method either.
For the worldly masters, the Divine Thoughts and Heart Seals are in most cases not used to tell stories, but to guide the successors. Because many realms and perceptions in cultivation are difficult to describe and express clearly in words, it contains a lot of very intuitive or abstract feelings, which can only be taught clearly and completely with the Divine Thoughts and Heart Seals, otherwise it will take a long time for disciples to experience and explore, and they often will not be real.
But Zhu Ming did not teach Baoyu any secret cultivation methods, which is equivalent to telling stories to Baoyu, and many things that have happened in many places over the years have enabled Baoyu to know everything in the world before he leaves the mountain, and understand what kind of people and things are in the world. But these are all Zhu Ming's observations, and Baoyu still needs to experience them in practice, and he may have different feelings at that time.
There are so many things that a child can't understand all at once. Therefore, Zhu Ming started from the situation that Baoyu was most familiar with, and the first thing he introduced was the people and things in this wilderness. Baoyu had only lived in the Qingshan Clan and Huahai Village all these years, and he had not even been to the Central Valley. And Zhu Ming, with the vision of a mountain god, introduced to Baoyu the things he had not seen with his own eyes in the wilderness where he lived.
In the past ten years, this wilderness can be said to have undergone an unprecedented upheaval, and even a condensation of the evolution process of a long historical era, many things happened so suddenly but so naturally, it started after Baoyu opened his eyes.
If it weren't for the sudden extinction of the Zhu Ming clan, if it weren't for the intervention of the Xiangmuro Kingdom from the outside, the lives and living conditions of such a barbaric primitive tribe might not have changed too significantly for hundreds of years or even longer. The emergence of the Ba Yuan Shang tribal alliance, the city outline, and the establishment of the state also went through a long period of time.
And now the emergence process of Shanshui City is to condense this long era into just over ten years. For many primitive tribes, experiencing such a violent upheaval may result in many kinds of outcomes, and even die out in strife. And fortunately there is the Qingshan patriarch here, which can be said to be the luckiest ending at present.
Baoyu hadn't seen much with his own eyes, some of which he hadn't even heard, and Zhu Ming told them one by one about what had happened and was happening in his world, how quietly or thrillingly it had changed. When did the conflict between Shioi and the Central Valley begin, what does it mean for the Aoyama clan to form an alliance with Hanamimura, how did Ariyu Village get the support of the Aimuro country, and why did it collude with the Hamin......
If it's just something that has nothing to do with herself, Baoyu may not understand it deeply enough, it's just a child listening to an adult's story. But Baoyu himself has experienced all this and has personal feelings, so Zhu Ming chose to first introduce to him the things in this wilderness for more than ten years, which is equivalent to explaining the changes of a historical era.
In this way, Baoyu can also understand how all kinds of people in the world appear with interests, what choices different people will make in the face of interests, and what kinds of things they do with various purposes and what results they get. Zhu Ming asked the child to think about the answer on his own - why there are such people and things in the world.
Baoyu has been very happy and happy all these years in addition to playing and cultivating, he is a carefree child, but he has his own secrets. Zhu Ming's purpose is not to make this child no longer happy, but to let him see the world more clearly.
Consciously, all this violent upheaval takes place. The village where Baoyu lived since she was a child seems to have hardly changed. The stone houses are still those stone houses, and the people are still those people, but he himself is growing up. Looking back on this process, it feels a bit like the stillness in movement and the movement in stillness that I have experienced many times in cultivation.
Baoyu was only accepting and interpreting the thoughts of the mountain god in the fixed state, and more thinking could only be done after the fact, which was just a natural experience at that time.
The changes of the various tribes in the wilderness were very similar to his own cultivation experience over the years. When I thought about the first time, it was like returning to a baby's state. Clearly perceive your body, open your eyes in ignorance, and then feel the impact of various desires. It's like the tribes have come out of a primitive state and experienced various conflicts and conflicts of interests.
From the first realm to the second realm, it is necessary to eliminate the hidden dangers in the muscles and bones in order to have a healthy body before you can continue to cultivate. Just like the tribes also have to strengthen their own strength, they can get more products and become richer, so that they can survive better. Facing all kinds of difficulties in the world. The refining of the form in the second realm is the growth of itself, and at the same time, it can extend the perception and clearly observe the things around it. This is like the beginning of people knowing themselves and the world, so that they can transform themselves and transform the world.
Break through from the second realm to the third realm. Learn to control the emerging power, as it can injure oneself if one is not careful. When you learn to control and use this perception and power, you will have the power to control things. Mortals do not have the power of objects, but they also have more power to seek from foreign objects.
Break through from the Three Realms to the Four Realms. For the realm of cultivation, it is a qualitative leap. Monks can refine and change external objects, and even reach a state of physical and mental coexistence. This is the work of refining the weapon. Then look at the tribes in the mountains, they have learned to integrate and coexist, and have created a lot of new things that have never been seen before, there are fish villages and clans as slaves, and Shanshui City appeared in the wilderness, everyone has become a Shanshui clan, with a common city outline, and the way of life and production is not different.
Baoyu's experience was still very hazy, as indescribable as a dream, and he tried to tell the mountain god how he felt. And the mountain god said: "Cultivation is to seek the transcendence of the personal realm, but everyone in the world is also looking for their own path, and even the evolution of this world itself is also in the avenue. Everything in the world may be a confirmation of the realm of cultivation, and you should know how lucky you are to be able to enter the initial realm and cultivate. ”
Zhu Ming introduced to Baoyu not only the changes in the general trend, but also the details of many things. For example, he focused on the beginning and end of the dispute between the Qingshan clan and Youyu Village, why the Qingshan patriarch wanted to train such a military formation in the first place, and how he discussed it with Ruoshui, Gu Xin and others. The best way to deal with a problem is to be prepared for it before it shows its signs.
It is not easy to plan, this is the truth that Zhu Ming told Baoyu through this matter. When Youyu Village had just started training the military formation, the Aoyama Patriarch was already training a stronger military formation, otherwise it would have been too late when the conflict really happened. The military formation was originally used for fighting, but a few years later, when it came to the Central Valley, the two military formations did not move at all.
Surrendering without a fight is the highest level of solving the opponent. But planning for it is a prerequisite for victory without a fight.
Although the big shell of the fish was defeated by the patriarch of Qingshan, its methods were not without merit. The collusion with the Yu Nation to raid the Qingshan tribe and Huahai Village was really unexpected, if it wasn't for Baoyu coming forward, the result at that time would be difficult to say, and this wilderness would be a different situation now. Even if the Qingshan Patriarch can be undefeated in the Central Valley, but the village has been destroyed, and Youyu Village will definitely be wiped out.
Wise as the patriarch of Qingshan, he did not calculate all things, people always have unknown things, there are always shortcomings, we must always keep this in mind. But knowing one's own shortcomings does not mean that one does not do things, people can only use the existing conditions to do what they should do as much as possible, this is the right way to act
Youyu Village took advantage of the Yu people and almost turned the tables, which was an unexpected surprise. Most of the methods used to deal with conflict are the same, not only in this wilderness, but also in the world.
Zhu Ming also made a point of mentioning the battle that took place among the Qingshan tribes. In terms of cultivation, Gu Xin was of course inferior to Da Mao, but he added an uncle with a lower cultivation level, but he shot Da Mao. Otherwise, Baoyu alone would not be enough to turn the tide of the battle. The reason why Gu Xin was able to win was very simple, because he had no way out, and once he was defeated, it would be a disaster to exterminate the clan, so he could only fight with all his might regardless of life and death.
And Da Mao's mentality is completely different, he is not here to fight hard, what he wants is to easily loot the Qingshan tribe and Huahai Village, and he is not ready to fight hard at all, let alone fight to the death. Gu Xin and Shu Zhuang, although their strength is not as good as Da Mao, they are not very far behind, so Da Mao is defeated. When the comparison of the strength of the two sides of the conflict is not enough to completely determine the victory or defeat, then the mourning soldiers will win.
Seek the omen, do not fight, act right, use the odd soldiers, and mourn the victory of the soldiers...... These truths are what Zhu Ming wants to tell Baoyu, and they are contained in all things in the wilderness. Baoyu needs to learn not only these methods and wisdom, but more importantly, to understand why things in the world develop and evolve the way they do, and the results that people see.
When talking about this to a child, Zhu Ming started with Baoyu's most familiar personal experience, and then extended it to introduce all the things and things in the vast Ba Yuan. Zhu Ming has seen and known for more than 300 years, and there are many things that are unheard of in the wilderness. But no matter how it changes, Baoyu can always find something familiar in it, and many of the truths are the same.
The countries on the Pakistan Plains are more developed in production, more prosperous and wealthy, and the skills mastered by the people are more advanced, and they have more means and things that can be done, and the best and choices of action are also different. This is the general trend of the evolution of the world, and the world is also looking for different paths, but there is always a reason why the avenue has existed since ancient times.
In the past half a year, Baoyu has not practiced any secret methods, and every time he comes to sit in the ruins of Taihao, he hears Zhu Ming's narration. When he returned to the village, he often interpreted and reviewed those divine thoughts and heart seals in the fixed state, Zhu Ming told him too many things, and he needed to digest and experience them continuously. And some of the insights must be experienced in the future in order to have a real experience.
But in any case, Baoyu knew everything in the world before he came out of the wilderness.
Baoyu's stone eggs had been lying quietly in the five-colored lotus pond, half-buried in the five-colored divine mud, soaked in the spring of eternal clarity, and he did not continue to refine the magic weapon. Half a year has passed, and it seems that there is no secret method to cultivate, but Baoyu's mana has invisibly become more profound. Baoyu has already changed his cultivation in the four realms, Zhu Ming didn't ask, and he didn't think about it himself, because there are too many things to learn and think about every day.
When Baoyu accepts and interprets so many and so complex divine thoughts in the fixed realm, there is almost no break, which is also a very rare cultivation. No teacher would teach a disciple like this, unless he didn't do anything himself, and Zhu Ming just couldn't do anything else, and he didn't care about the cost.
In the afternoon, Baoyu sat down in his hut while the people had just finished eating. After all, Baoyu hadn't eaten for almost a year, and he didn't feel hungry, and he didn't need it anyway. This is the work of Bigu, and if you have the cultivation of the Four Realms, you can cultivate in the Valley, but it is too rare for a cultivator of the Four Realms like him to be able to naturally cultivate the Valley for such a long time.
Who can take such an immortal elixir like Baoyu, even if it is an ordinary person, he can no longer eat any other food. The spiritual effect of the divine medicine that Baoyu fused into the form and god now knows how to refine and absorb it, even if he doesn't eat for several years.