Speaking of which, the story of the old man's other disciple before me, Xie Yifan, came to an abrupt end and did not continue.

Judging from what the old man said, before becoming the heir of the painting spirit, this Xie Yifan was an out-and-out good person, hiding his true nature very deeply, and the possibility of everything he did was a disguise is extremely low. So, what made him, after becoming the first successor of the old man, his temperament changed drastically, and he became a demon who regarded human life like a mustard? ”

It is impossible for the old man to exaggerate in this kind of thing, he said that Xie Yifan, who lost half of his life for the sake of an irrelevant old lady, later became a wicked person who did whatever it took to achieve his goals, and the real situation could only be worse than what he described.

There was a Wu Yue who was deeply loved by Li Changmeng, the founder of the mountain, who was originally a good person, but after coming into contact with the painting spirit, he became a complete careerist, which directly led to the slaughter of the entire painting spirit school overnight, and the blood flowed like a river, so that the teacher's life's work was ruined. Later, there was another Xie Yifan, who was also talented and intelligent, and couldn't bear to even watch a dog starve to death, but after becoming the heir of the painting spirit, he became a demon who regarded life as a mustard. This is only what the old man told me, what he didn't tell me, or it has been buried in the long river of history, and even the old man doesn't know, I don't know how many more.

Is the real painting of spirituality really that scary? Can its allure really be so great that it can turn the originally simple and kind people into demons who destroy human nature?

No one who listens to a story will be satisfied with not hearing the ending, especially at this important turning point that prompts a person's heart to completely change and slide to the other end of the scale, although it may not be a pleasure for storytellers to tell it, so after hesitating for a while, I still asked the reason for Xie Yifan's transformation.

However, as much as I wanted to know, the old man refused to say more, and did not know that it was that memory, which had hit him so hard that he really did not want to recall it, and still thought it was not appropriate to tell me it at this stage.

In the end, the old man only told me that after falling into the evil path of painting spirits and betraying his master, Xie Yifan's growth speed in painting spirits was amazing, and he could even be described as terrifying. Of course, there is an element of his natural talent, but the main reason is that after falling into the evil way, he broke through the moral bottom line and no longer had to be subject to any restrictions, and the puppet that completely changed my life, and the "killing puppet" that I cultivated with my three souls was created by him, so in the future, if it really comes to the point where I need to face him directly, I must be careful.

Although I didn't say it too clearly, from the old man's demeanor and tone, I still heard some inadequacy.

In other words, this is something I've never met, but it's directly or indirectly brought me a lot of great things. The troublesome "senior brother" has grown to the point where even an old man is difficult to deal with......

A new Wu Yue has appeared.

For the old man to comment like this is enough to explain the problem. You must know that this Wu Yue, but at that time, he had a huge impact on the Painting Spirit School, causing a new sect that was originally expected to rise, directly to destruction, and stretched out his hand to the court, and even to the emperor, can be called a hero who stirs up the storm. Although it is impossible for similar things to happen in today's society, it can be commented on by the old man, which shows that at least in terms of mentality, Xie Yifan is no longer inferior to Wu Yue in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

I didn't ask anything more, and seeing that the old man was obviously a little tired, I put the chaise longue that I had brought up the mountain from home to a small open space outside the thatched hut and put it away, set up a sun umbrella, and made a pot of tea and put it next to him, and after he lay down and rested, I went back to the hut, took out a straw mat and put it under the shrine, and began to meditate in front of the bronze statue of the grandfather.

The old man has already said a lot today, all of which he thinks I should know at this stage, since he thinks that I shouldn't know the reasons for Xie Yifan's transformation, then there is no need to ask again. In fact, these alone are enough to set off a huge wave in my heart, and it takes some time to digest it, and if I know too many words at once, I will be greedy and chew too much.

Rising in controversy, destroying in blood, this is the story of this peculiar sect.

There is no magnificence, there is no high spirit, there are just the ancestors of the mountain, from the Taoist charm dismantling and then using his own way to create a combination, hidden in the ink painting, the first successful to make it play the role of the spell, perhaps has begun to accompany a trace of desolation, with his excavation and growth on the painting of the spirit and growth, and finally in the sword light and sword shadow and despair wail, and the blood flow that dyed the earth red, it became a tragedy.

Perhaps from the moment Li Changmeng, the founding patriarch of the mountain, ended the life of the rebel with his own hands, the story of the painting spirit school has ended, and it has ended in his heart, and what has been continued is just a breath in his chest.

And every generation of spirit painters must have this breath in their chests, so that they can really be called spirit painters, otherwise they are just like Yuan Jinzhu's slut, who commented on the heavenly official blessing map I drew on the fifteenth day, just a ghost drawing.

It is now the seventh day that our master and apprentice have moved to the mountains to live. In fact, in the past few days, I have rarely studied ink and drawing, and even barely touched the pen, but under the guidance of the old man, in addition to eating, drinking, and sleeping, most of the time I meditate, cultivate, or look for the breath in my chest.

It's a bit strange to say, I originally thought that the painter was not a cultivator, and he didn't need to do too much meditation and meditation, but it turned out that I was too naïve and wishful thinking, even if I didn't cultivate the "Tao" of the Taoist, the Spiritual Painting School still had its own "Tao".

The Tao has always been an extremely subtle existence, as if it does not exist, and it seems to be everywhere. Since I didn't have much experience in meditation before, and my understanding of the subtle and abstract thing of "Tao" was still at a very superficial level, I can imagine the results of capturing the "Tao" of the Painting Spiritual School in meditation now. Except for dizziness from thinking, sitting with a sore buttocks and numb limbs, nothing else was found.

Although the old man has already turned the extremely abstract "Dao" into a "qi" that sounds more concrete, it is still a difficult thing for me, a layman who was born in Hongchen, grew up in Hongchen, and is more concerned about Hongchen, and who does not think that he has any understanding.

However, it is such a mysterious thing, but it is the most important thing to master the true painting of spiritual arts. After a few days, the old man has made it very clear: only by finding that breath, people can get sublimation from it, so as to comprehend the essence of painting spirits, and become a real spirit painter, otherwise even if you hold the pen and paint for a lifetime, you will still linger at this stage, and you can't enter the threshold, so in the words of the old man, there is no need for me to draw and practice anymore, because the spirit drawing method I have mastered now is completely different from the real spirit painting, and it is useless to practice.

In general, the spirit drawing method I have mastered at this stage is called "introduction", which can only be drawn from the "charm" that evolved from Taoism and belongs to the spirit painting school, which initially has the role of a spirit map, but it cannot be fused with "painting" on this basis, so it cannot be called a spirit map.

This can also explain why the drawings I draw, few people can understand, only after the successful attraction of the spirit, can become a specific image, and before that, as Yuan Jinzhu said, it is purely "drawing symbols". This is the basis of painting spirits, and it is also the prototype of the founding patriarch when he first created the painting of spiritual arts, and every person who paints spirits must be proficient in the painting method of "introduction" in order to learn the real painting of spiritual arts.

In addition to not having the real beauty of the spiritual map, the biggest drawback of the "introduction" painting method is that when you want to make the "spirit" for your own use, the person who paints the spirit will be completely in an absolutely passive situation, just like I have been used to for more than ten years, every time I draw the spirit map, there can be no lack of "spirit guidance", and every time the spirit is drawn to the spirit, it takes four or five minutes, or even longer to complete, and it also requires a certain amount of luck, and there is no guarantee that it will succeed every time.

To put it mildly, it is that after sensing the power of the spirit map, whether the spirit to be attracted or not depends on the mood, and the person who draws the spirit does not have the initiative at all.

The real painting spirit will really have the beauty that a painting should have, because it is really drawing, not painting those "charms" that belong to the painting spirit school. Just like what the old man showed when he drew the "Heavenly Official Blessing Map" on the night of the 15th Lantern Festival, before he actually put pen to paper, the spirit charm had already been drawn, but it didn't fall on the paper.

In addition to having the beauty of painting, the biggest advantage of real painting is that it can completely omit those cumbersome processes, without any spiritual guidance, only need to add the blood of the painter when grinding the ink, and at the same time, there is no need to spend time to attract spiritual, let alone worry about failure.

This method of painting is called "order", which uses the blood of the person who paints the spirit and the charm of the spirit as the medium, directly giving orders to the spirit in need and ordering it to come for his own use.

Giving orders to the spirit is the true essence of painting spirituality, and you can imagine how direct and even domineering this is.

This is also why the ancestor of the founding mountain, when he first created the painting spirit, no one in the entire Taoism came out to say anything, until he finally achieved great success, he began to come out to strongly oppose the suppression, and even expelled him from the Taoist gate, ordering him not to call himself a Taoist anymore.

In addition to painting spirituality because of the country and domineering, once mastered by people with unrighteous minds, it is extremely easy to become harmful to people, the fundamental reason is that because of the painting of spirituality created by the ancestor of the mountain, not only will give orders to the general spirits, but also can give orders to the gods in Taoism, which makes the entire Taoism psychologically and spiritually difficult to accept.

Jumping out of the five elements, how can a god who is not in reincarnation be commanded by mortals, and come and go as soon as he is called!

This is a blasphemy against the gods!

Therefore, when the founding patriarch Li Changmeng finally achieved great success, he vigorously denounced and opposed him, and tried to suppress him, in fact, it was not only the literary and painting circles and Taoism, but also Buddhism was involved, but because of the spiritual maps created by the ancestors, there were not many Buddhist gods, plus some factors that are now unknown, did not make too much noise, and they were gradually ignored.

All things in heaven and earth cannot be included in the painting, so the real painting spirit, when it reaches a certain height, it can give orders to all things in heaven and earth, and the gods and Buddhas of the heavens and the gods of the underworld are also in it!

In this way, Taoism at that time spared no effort to suppress it, which was actually a normal thing, and it would be strange to really allow such a domineering painting spirit art to grow.

And if you want to do all this, that mysterious and mysterious "qi" is an indispensable thing, only when drawing, this invisible and untouchable qi, along with the painting spirit spell into the painting, in order to make the spirit map really have the role of giving orders to all things in heaven and earth, just like that night, as soon as the old man began to write, the outside began to surge, and the divine breath of the Tianguan Ziwei Emperor quickly arrived, and Xiao Qinghe's white-faced scholar did not dare to approach at all.

Without this breath as a basis, everything is just empty talk.

But where is this qi, and how can we find it and capture it for our own use?

The answer is obvious.

Four words, I don't know.

The old man only told me what the real spirit painting was, only told me about the existence of this qi and its importance in the painting of spirits, but he didn't tell me how to find it, and he didn't even have a general idea, so although it was difficult, I still had to find it by myself in meditation.

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of invisible and intangible, mysterious and mysterious things, itself is extremely abstract, can only mean that the indescribable existence, everyone's thoughts, IQ and comprehension ability are different, so the situation will be different, even if the old man wants to teach, I'm afraid there is no way to teach.

I understand the reason, but I don't even have a general direction, I'm completely confused and at a loss, what's the use of just sitting and thinking?

Just like being in an endless ocean, without any wind and waves, and without any objects in the sky such as stars, moons, suns, clouds, etc., no matter how good the water nature is, no matter how abundant the physical strength, how can you know which way to swim to finally reach the shore?

At present, I am facing such a situation, full of hope, but completely unable to find the direction.

When I woke up from the strange state of thinking about everything and not thinking about anything, I intuitively felt that the time was not early, and I took out my mobile phone with some frustration and looked at it, and sure enough, it was already five and a few o'clock in the afternoon, so I sighed softly, and sighed that after another day of nothing, I put away my mind and beat my waist and legs, which were already sore, and stood up, ready to start making dinner.