Practicing qi, the years are long, like a white horse passing through the gap.

Generally speaking, the lifespan of a qi practitioner is longer than that of a slender body, and Liu Guanshan was an accident. His vitality is too strong, like a 10,000-year-old tree. So he was able to live for a long time, and now it's finally over. When Xie Baoshu opened his eyes, the yard was already full of snow.

His body was also snow-white.

When he stood up, not only did he not feel tired, but he was refreshed, and this is the benefit of spiritual practice. Murong Yingcai and Su Cha walked out at the same time, both wearing padded jackets, one thick and the other thin. The winter in Chang'an City is actually not too cold, and it is far worse than that of Ice and Snow State.

Xie Baoshu asked, "How long have I been meditating?"

Su Cha was wearing a gray cotton jacket, which looked extremely lively, and on her waist, the jade-colored sword raising gourd looked extremely eye-catching in this snow-white weather. She walked up to Xie Baoshu, stretched out her finger, and said, "You have been sitting quietly for two months. How's it going, hungry or not?"

Xie Baoshu touched his stomach, he was really a little hungry.

Su Cha went back to cook noodles.

Murong Yingcai looked at Xie Baoshu and said, "Boy, you are really good." When I was boxing a few days ago, I shocked the heavens and the earth and attracted the glory of physical cultivation. Now he meditates and meditates, and realizes the Tao and contemplates the heavens. What's the matter, do you really want to use the path of dual cultivation of qi to seek immortality?"

Xie Baoshu smiled slightly and said, "It doesn't matter if you live forever or not." ”

Murong Yingcai nodded, he was the same, he didn't have much pursuit of the word immortality. What he was thinking about now was that before he died, he could go to the Two Realms Mountain to have a look. As a native of the Tang Dynasty, he admired Liu Guanshan very much, and naturally wanted to take a look.

Xie Baoshu shook the wind and snow on his body, and looked inside his own cultivation. The golden pill in the body has grown and become the size of an eyeball. Now between breaths, there is a little bit of heaven and earth aura. He entered the room, prepared to eat something, and discussed the cultivation of Qi Practitioner with Su Cha.

Su Cha cooked another bowl of green onion noodles, and he hadn't eaten for two months, Xie Baoshu was really hungry. Not only did they eat all the noodles, but they even drank the soup clean. After drinking, he discussed with Su Cha the cultivation method of practicing qi. The lotus sword technique that Su Cha is now practicing has reached the second realm of gathering gods.

Sword cultivation, like swordsman, is a kind of qi practitioner, but it is different from qi practitioners, and it can be said that it is a kind of monk independent of qi practitioners.

In the human world, the oldest qi practitioner is the Taoist priest.

It's different now, Qi Refiners are not necessarily Taoist monks, but a considerable number of Taoist Qi Refiners can be subdivided into Qi Refiners, and these Taoist Qi Refiners and ordinary Qi Refiners together constitute the cultivation group of Qi Refiners. They are somewhat similar to the ascetics in Buddhism, who eat and drink dew, only seek to improve their cultivation without using means such as waidan, and practice the "five qi in the chest" instead of the "golden pill".

But there are also people who say that they are all Neidan masters, also known as Fangshi, who are people who practice with the goal of restoring their ancestral nature and seizing the spirit of heaven and earth.

Qi refiners in the world, no matter what exercises they practice, are divided into four levels.

Refining and refining gas, refining gas and transforming gods, refining gods and returning to emptiness, refining void and merging the way. The difference between each level is only three levels: upper, middle and lower. However, this set of cultivation methods is too old and is not used much now.

The current division realm is the five immortal realms recognized by the people of the world!

There are a total of fifteen realms, and Xie Baoshu only knows the first nine.

The lifespan of a Qi Refiner is much longer than that of ordinary people, and in the early stage of the Ghost Immortal, he can also live for more than three hundred years. When you reach the fairyland, your lifespan will definitely exceed 800 years. And the Qi Cultivators of the Earth Immortal Realm have a lifespan of almost a thousand years. For the vast majority of Qi Refiners, the Heavenly Immortal Realm is the end of their realm. has lived for thousands of years, but it is painful to see that there is a supreme avenue in front of me, which cannot be touched.

There is a saying in the cultivation world, if you cultivate to become an earth immortal, if you don't fight with others, you will live for three thousand.

After refining and refining qi, the nutrients needed by the human body are no longer just ordinary food. If necessary, you have to take some pills. It is said that if you can enter the Cave Heaven Blessed Land to cultivate, you can avoid this situation, and even if you don't take the pill, your cultivation will naturally increase.

It stands to reason that Xie Baoshu's current state is that he no longer needs to eat, commonly known as Bigu.

However, he also practiced the body refining method, and between one breath and one inhale, the energy consumption was huge, so he still had to eat.

Before the founding of the Qin Dynasty, hundreds of schools of thought arose, and various schools of thought were mixed in it, causing controversy among many people. In ancient times, people insisted on the existence of the art of immortality, and various elixirs also appeared in it. I practiced the exercises of refining the body. At that time, Daqin was known as a million sword immortals, and many of them were qi practitioners.

Now that Su Cha wants to practice, Xie Baoshu has to teach with his heart. In the past, he didn't know much about qi practitioners, but now it's different, and after meditating and contemplating, he has achieved a little success. When I meet someone destined in the future, I will go to find a sword immortal master for Su Cha, and now that she is like this, she can only teach her by herself.

Xie Baoshu and Su Cha sat opposite each other, both of them very serious.

Xie Baoshu started from the beginning, the origin of practicing qi.

In ancient times, generations of kings and courtiers have been pondering day and night how to live a long life and practice the secret of immortality. In the past, Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to lead 3,000 boys and girls into the sea to find the elixir of immortality, and later there were kings of all generations who spent 20,000 yuan of silver to build an alchemy furnace to fry day and night.

At this time, the qi practitioner was called a monk.

At the age of thirty-nine, the First Emperor Ying Zheng unified the Six Kingdoms, ascended to the throne of an unprecedented emperor, and became a peerless Great Sword Immortal. But he was one hundred and forty-nine years old when he died, and he had only been emperor for more than a hundred years. At that time, the average life expectancy of people was almost 100 years, and Qin Shi Huang's life expectancy was already much higher than that of others.

Of course, judging from the level of today's monks, there is still a lot of room for improvement in his lifespan. Therefore, like all high-ranking and powerful people in history, he has a small goal, that is, he wants to "live for another thousand years" and enjoy the country he has just laid.

In order to achieve this goal, Ying Zheng began to take active action, and he sent people around to find ways to make people immortal and prolong their lives. At this time,

Someone recommended him some monks from the Qi Kingdom, that is, a group of people who are good at worshipping ghosts and gods and alchemizing immortals. It is said that they have a way to make people immortal.

In ancient South and East China, there was a concept that after a person died, the souls of the dead would not dissipate, and they would live on the high mountains near the living, especially the cloud-shrouded peaks. From time to time, they return to their offspring to see the lives of future generations. For example, during the New Year's holidays, people invite the spirits of the dead from the cloud world on the top of the mountain, and send them away when the festival is over.

In ancient South China, they all liked hanging coffins on the high mountains.

Because they think that if the soul is close to the sky, they can become immortals.

In the beginning, the people in the east could still figure out that the so-called world of immortals was the place where the spirits of their ancestors lived. But Qin Shi Huang, who came from the west, didn't quite understand this truth, and it is also possible that the coastal people who passed these concepts on to him did not express them clearly.

In short, when he became a sword immortal, for the first time, Edgeworth came to the far east to see the sea, and as soon as he came into contact with the folk beliefs of the Qi country, he was immediately attracted by the "immortals". He regarded the eternal world that people go to after death in Dongyi's concept as an immortal that exists forever.

Treat those ancestors who are immortal after death as immortals who can truly live forever.

The monks told Qin Shi Huang that the names of Penglai, Fanghu, and Yingzhou were cut out from the "Liezi" on the three sacred mountains in the sea by the gods and immortal elixirs, and were embedded in this ancestral belief. As a result, Qin Shi Huang believed it and really sent a monk named Xu Fu to take a bunch of boys and girls to the sea to find the immortals. As a result, before the gods could be found, the first emperor won the government and died.

Thinking about it, the alchemists deceived him.

At that time, the First Emperor was already the number one sword immortal in the world, and his realm was extremely high. If you practice well, it shouldn't be a problem to live for thousands of years. But he didn't know it, and he was afraid of death, so he tried to live forever. In the end, I don't know what happened, I was in the prime of life, and I just died.

His death has always been a mystery for future generations.

The Fang Shi at that time is now the Qi Practitioner. Xie Baoshu didn't know if they were really cultivating, but he knew that their realm was definitely not as high as the First Emperor himself. It's a pity that Ying Zheng didn't want to believe in himself, so he died early.

is also known as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Coincidentally, the first emperor "burned books and pit Confucianism", disliked those who read and preferred scholars. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was different, he "deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone". This is also the highlight of Confucianism's history.

In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Dongxing Shizhou dug up an ancient tripod, which was originally an ordinary treasure incident, but a monk there came to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and said: "It was a winter, the Yellow Emperor got the Baoding; It's not an accident, it's a necessity. This is the will of heaven in the underworld, the Yellow Emperor has already made a consummation of his merits and ascended to heaven, and the emperor should also go to his footsteps to become an immortal!

Through the sky, the sky can pass through the immortals. If you are immortal, you can pass everything, and you can be happy. ”

When Emperor Wu of Han heard this, he was overjoyed. It turns out that this tripod still has such a function, not only to summon gods, but also to make the emperor ascend to heaven. So he directly asked Gongsun Qing what he should do to ascend to heaven and become an immortal.

Sun Qing only replied with eight words: "Sincerity, gold and stone are open." ”

Only these eight words touched the heart of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to seek immortals. So, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty got carried away and said: "Carry the flying immortal to travel, hold the bright moon and end up." After speaking, he appointed Gongsun Qing as the Lang official, responsible for going to Songshan Taimur Mountain to wait for the descending of the gods who welcomed his ascension to heaven.

Xie Baoshu didn't understand, there was the first emperor to win the government, why these later emperors, one by one, wanted to seek immortality? He asked Su Cha.

Although Su Cha is not very old, he has a lot of wisdom, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Because they are still nostalgic for the world, or they are reluctant to give up the glory and wealth of this life, or they can't give up the love and hatred of this life." ”

Xie Baoshu nodded, feeling that it made sense.

If it's for glory and wealth, it's really boring. If you want to spend more time with the people around you, it's understandable.

At this time, Murong Yingcai on the side interjected: "It's wrong, it's wrong, how can those emperors seek immortality for the sake of the people around them? You're too young to understand. “

Su Cha said with a smile: "Grandpa Murong knows a lot. ”

Murong Yingcai smiled: "The little mouth is so sweet. “

Xie Baoshu smiled slightly, thinking that it was really fun for the two to praise each other.

Su Cha pestered him to talk about the next thing, Xie Baoshu took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then told Su Cha the story of the gods and qi practitioners.

In the life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he climbed high and sealed Zen, went to sea to seek immortals, and tightened his belts in pavilions and palaces, but in addition to seeing a few suspicious footprints, he didn't even see the shadow of the gods. But Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was happy to do it.

It is precisely because of his dedication to seeking immortals that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to Donglai for the last time in the first month of his life. Facing the rough sea, the old man made a tragic voice of "I want to live for another 500 years", and then chose to return to the court.

In March of that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty listened to the advice of his ministers, remorseful, and finally came to his senses and said the following sentence: "In the past, he was foolish and deceived by the scholars, how could there be immortals in the world? ”

Xie Baoshu couldn't help but sigh a little emotionally, in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he finally woke up. Unlike the First Emperor, he couldn't ask for it until he died.

Regarding the word immortal, the belief in immortals arose in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it reached a higher level in the Qin and Han dynasties. Liu Xiang, a historian during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty, wrote "The Biography of the Immortals", which recorded many immortals from ancient times to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Qian also mentioned immortals many times in his writing of "Historical Records".

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China had already begun to have the belief in immortals. The roots of the immortals should be from the ancient people's mysterious legends about nature and some extraordinary powers

The power of people. For example, in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Tianwen", they all show the consciousness of immortals at the bottom of superhuman life. That kind of superman is immortal, not tired of things, free to rest, and does nothing, so he is envied by Taoists.

At first, people envied the immortals for freedom.

Now, the envy is eternal life.

From the perspective of cultivation, the Heavenly Immortals are the highest level of cultivation and the highest level of cultivation. The Dacheng realm of "refining the void and merging the way" referred to in the Dan Dao. At that time, the light of the gods will shine and there will be thousands of incarnations. One is eternal, one is eternal, the magic power is magnificent, and the mana is boundless. Heaven and earth are closed when they are not closed, and when heaven and earth are open, they open up people.

Because of the realm of immortals, it is no longer available.

The twelve Taoist monarchs also do not appear all year round, and there are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of Buddhism. Therefore, in the world, the only one who can see the most powerful monk is the Heavenly Immortal Realm. For example, Xie Baoshu has seen it, the ancient giant, and the golden jade fairy.

and the Duke of Lu in Chang'an City, all of which are heavenly fairylands.

No one in the world is exempt from death, only immortals can obtain eternal life. To a place free of distractions, to enter a gateway to the realm of infinity, to travel the wilderness where there is no end. Radiating light with the sun and moon, it becomes one with all things in heaven and earth.

After talking about the immortals, Xie Baoshu decided to talk to Su Cha about the sword immortals.

Regarding the Sword Immortal, he took out the book "Sword Immortal Spectrum" and explained it slowly.

Sword immortals are not only "imperial swords", they must first reach the level of "immortals" through some kind of internal refining, and then "refine the essence into a sword". Internal refining is the mainstay, supplemented by swordsmanship. First there were immortals, and then there were swords, and swords could be seen as a part of themselves.

But unlike other immortals, the sword immortal is not "compassionate", but has such behaviors as "good war" and "fighting for the cave". However, it is mainly reflected in the chivalrous righteousness, "when you hear that there is an injustice in thousands of miles, the flying sword is standing up", "knowing that there is injustice, the ventilation place, and the sword is ready for a while"

Swordsmanship is also one of the most secret. A first-class famous swordsman, an inferior famous swordsman.

The study of sword immortals can be traced back to the time when the distant ancestor Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor "made fifteen sharp weapons of the divine sword and suppressed Kyushu". And throughout the ancient rolling thousands of years, there have been a lot of quite powerful swordsmen, but a considerable number of them belong to the kind of rumored swordsmen, there are fake natural and true, some swordsmen are real in historical records,

Most of the sword cultivators have a straightforward and heroic personality on the surface, and a witty and tenacious personality on the inside.

Be ruthless to others, not really ruthless;

If you are ruthless to yourself, you are really ruthless.

Sword cultivation, who often takes the initiative to wander between life and death, is a real ruthless person. This kind of ruthlessness is not due to innate character, but is required by the cultivation path of sword cultivation. For sword cultivation, meditation is the way to accumulate ability, and combat is the way to break through ability.

In battle, life and death, the six forces of personal desire, emotion, reason, will, movement, and aura activity are highly integrated, which is called "Liuhe". Harmony is the way to a natural breakthrough in ability. Therefore, Jian Xiu loves to fight and is not afraid of life and death. This spirit is also in line with the objective needs of the sword cultivation group as the most important combat strength in the cultivation world.

The only thing that can be compared to it is physical cultivation.

The purpose of sword cultivation is "born by the sword, died by the sword, only the sword in life, the sword is in the people, and the sword is dead." "For sword cultivation, the sword is the source of strength, a partner, a confidence, a guarantee of safety, and the only warmth in a long cold night. Therefore, their attitude towards the sword is far greater than the attitude towards ordinary utensils.

After hearing this, Su Cha said to Xie Baoshu: "If I can't be ruthless, won't I be able to practice the sword well?"

Xie Baoshu nodded and said, "But for weirdos, you naturally have to be ruthless." ”

Su Cha nodded, in fact, she had inherited the sword qi of many sword immortals, how could she not be ruthless? She just remembered the man in a black robe, he was the First Emperor, Win the government. Su Cha felt that among all the sword immortals, he was the most domineering.

If you want to practice swords in the future, you can comprehend more of the sword qi of winning politics.

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