Chapter 264: The Nine Seals of Ninja

After settling down in the mountain dive and officially becoming a ninja, Long Tao finally learned the secret of cultivation for this profession.

Completely different from the practice in the training room when learning ninjutsu skills, ninjas have their own complete cultivation system that has been passed down for a long time, and although the specific details of each village may be different, the general cultivation steps are the same.

All ninjutsu cultivation is based on the theory that the human body has great potential and infinite mysteries, and as long as you practice the Dharma and make unremitting efforts, you can develop the full potential, so that the body can communicate with the universe and reach the realm of unity between heaven and man.

The ninjas believe that the huge potential is energy, after a long time of exploration, tempering and generation after generation, they have summed up a systematic and relatively perfect method of cultivating energy, in short, it can be divided into three stages, training the body, practicing refinement, and practicing sealing.

Physical training is to exercise the body, and there are various training methods, such as running, jumping, climbing, hanging upside down, diving, ...... Balance training, agility training, endurance training, strength training......

While strengthening the muscles and bones, the ninja also focused on muscles and joints, and exercised himself in many strange ways such as meditation, breathing, massage, and acupuncture.

It can be said that the training of the ninja is all-round, and the purpose of all this is to better understand the energy in the body, to be familiar with how it operates, how it grows and decreases, and how it works on the physical body.

On the basis of physical training, after having a clear and subtle understanding of energy, you can enhance your energy by various methods such as meditation and medicinal food supplements, and be able to skillfully control the operation of energy in the body, and better control your body by regulating your energy.

Many methods of physical training can enhance energy at the same time, and many methods of practicing essence can also enhance the body, both of which are in order to achieve a state of harmony and harmony between the body and energy through exercise, and then you can start practicing seals.

Seal, refers to the ninjutsu mudra, the most famous, but also the most widely spread among ninjas, is the nine-character mantra mudra: pro, soldier, fight, one, all, array, column, in, front.

This nine-character mantra that ninjas often recite comes from Tomi.

During the first century of the Tang Dynasty, Indian Tantric Buddhism was transmitted to China, and then brought back to Japan by Master Kukai, who created the Japanese Shingon Esoteric Buddhism based on the Toji Temple, which was carried forward in Japan and was the Eastern Esoteric Buddhism.

As for the source of the nine characters, it is a Chinese Taoist classic - Ge Hong's "Hug Puzi".

There are two versions of the original text, one is "All the fighters are arrayed forward", and the other is "The fighters are arrayed forward", but when it was transmitted to Japan, due to a transcription error, it became "The soldiers are all arrayed forward".

Later, these nine characters were absorbed by Dongmi and became the mandala mantra of the Nine Societies.

Buddhism spread widely in Japan, and most of the ninjas in ancient times were fanatical followers of the Eastern Esoteric religion, and they took the Nine Societies Mandala Mantra and used it in their own practice, which became the Nine Character Mantra Mudra.

However, at this time, the nine-character mantra has long been very different from its origin, from the original Taoist secret art, to the unique cultivation and combat methods of Japanese ninjas, although the two are related, but in essence, they are two completely different things.

Practicing the seal is to use the method of sealing with both hands and spitting out words in the mouth to mobilize one's own energy and perform various magical ninjutsu. It's not just a matter of making a few mudras, but in order to successfully perform magical high-level ninjutsu, it is necessary to achieve a perfect combination of body movement, sound movement, and mental movement.

The movement of the body is the knot of mudras. The ten fingers of the human body are connected with the five internal organs, and the ten fingers of the hands are crossed into different shapes with each other, and the effect of mobilizing the energy in the body can be achieved with the imagination of the mind.

Singing the mantra is the use of special notes to vibrate the body's qi and at the same time focus the mind on one point through the recitation of the mantra, which not only gathers its extraordinary potential, but also inspires a high degree of wisdom and supernatural powers.

Intention movement is the most critical part of the practice of sealing, whether it is body movement or sound movement, must be combined with the concentration of the mind and mind, visualization, in order to play a role, only through the intention to stimulate the potential of consciousness and then achieve the realm of "transcendent outside the object", and then can control the external object, perform a variety of wonderful ninjutsu.

The nine-character mantra mudra has a different emphasis, and it is the seal of the immovable king, representing a strong will; The soldier is the Donkey Kong wheel seal, representing the tenacious vitality; Fighting is the outer lion seal, representing the brave fighting spirit; It is the inner lion seal, which represents the power of free control of the body; All of them are external seals, representing the power to manipulate the mind......

These nine seals are the most basic and important ninjutsu mudras, which can be derived from a large number of various mudras, and different combinations of mudras can be used to perform many different ninjutsu.

After the ninja begins to practice sealing, he can speed up the absorption of external energy through various mudras, greatly enhance his own energy, and form a feedback effect on the practice of refinement and physical training.

Of course, among them, practicing seals must be the most difficult, which can be seen from the fact that there are only twelve villages and 36 secret ninjutsu in the whole of Japan in the world of "Taiko", and it can be seen that the development of hand seals by ninjas is obviously extremely limited.

After Long Tao's body was strengthened by the energy of the Void Universe, he naturally did not need to practice anymore, and his own energy could actually reach a saturated state at any time, and he could control it to run to every part of his body as he wanted, so there was no need to practice refinement.

He directly began to cultivate the nine-character mantra mudra, and in less than two days, he mastered it all, and at the same time, he also discovered the reason why it was extremely difficult for ninjas to practice seals, that is, the lack of divine power.

When practicing sealing, Long Tao realized that intention is the key to sealing, if only the hands made the mudra, reciting the mantra in the mouth, without the cooperation of the mind and mind, the effect will be quite poor, and it will be difficult to perform ninjutsu at all.

That is to say, although ninjutsu is based on its own energy, but in the later stage, the mind and mind also become very important, which requires the participation of divine power, and if the divine power is not enough, it is obviously difficult to go further.

According to Yoshioka's constitution, people in this world are still unable to cultivate divine power, and that thing is all innate!

Although ninjutsu has been developed for such a long time, it has been limited by divine power on the road to the development of esoteric and subtle, which has caused the status quo that all ninja villages only have this ninjutsu.

Because Long Tao himself had a planetary-level energy level, he was confident that after the transformation of the Xinghai Infinite Technique, his divine power should far exceed the highest level in this world, so he could master the nine-character mantra mudra so easily, and after understanding how the energy in his body works when he knotted various mudras, he didn't even need to knot the mudra to achieve the same effect!

After understanding all this, he had full confidence in obtaining the title of "Enduring the Mysteries", and for Long Tao, who had the Xinghai Wuji Secret and could even increase his divine power through dual cultivation Dafa, it was easy to learn high-level ninjutsu