The joy under the mountain did not infect Li Ye's mood at all, and after the realm dropped to one level, he did not go to the snow to practice his sword again, nor did he rush to quench his body in the cold pool water.

For the past few days, he has been quietly weaving a hat in the shed that he had not finished weaving before.

Although the realm had dropped, he didn't feel the loss of true essence in his body at all, but it was much more condensed than when he was in the fivefold realm.

Xiaobai still went to sleep after eating, and no longer ran out to find the old wolf.

The knife in his hand turned gently, and the thin bamboo slowly emerged one by one with the rotation of the knife.

It was as if what he was weaving at this moment was not a hat, but a treasure. From time to time, he put the bamboo pieces in his hand on the stove to bake, and the whole wooden shed was filled with the fragrance of purple bamboo.

After reading the Huafa Sutra many times these days, he would always compare these trivial matters in his daily life with some of the main points mentioned in the scriptures.

Thinking about the incomprehensible scriptures spoken by the old monks in the Big Buddha Temple, I felt more and more that it was important for Mr. to practice his own state of mind.

According to the Mahayana root nature that the old monk at the foot of the mountain told himself, there are upper roots, middle roots, and lower roots. And the root mechanism of most cultivators in the Five Realms is the blunt root.

The so-called: the heart desires the Tao, but it cannot be accomplished. The old monk said that he wanted to practice meditation, he wanted to practice samatha, he wanted to cultivate to be quiet, but he couldn't come to silence. If you want to practice samadhi, you remember it, but you can't remember it. If you want to practice meditation, you must first practice the concept of counting breaths, but you can't count your breaths......

I feel that the more I practice the Dharma, the more profound it becomes, and the more I practice, the more shallow I become.

It's like a hat in your hand, the further back you weave, the more troublesome it becomes, just like carving scriptures in bamboo strips, and if you are not careful, you will break it in the middle.

I had to re-cut the bamboo slices into slivers, and then bake them on the stove to soften them before I could continue to weave them on the hat.

It was as if the old monk was sitting in front of him and preaching to himself: You must know that you can only move forward and not retreat when you work hard in your cultivation. Where are you retreating? Are you retreating to the position of a mortal?

Thinking about the day I started practicing with my husband, there was no way back.

Whether it is walking with weights, or cultivating oneself with dervishes, whether it is carving on the stone wall, or practicing swords in the glacier, which one does not require you to pay a huge mental and physical strength?

He has retreated from the fivefold realm of Jindan to the onefold realm, do you still have to retreat to build the foundation and retreat to gather qi.

Li Ye shook his head and muttered, "This is absolutely impossible, I will never let such a thing happen." ”

"Is it impossible, what kind of thing you won't let happen?" the door of the wooden shed was pushed open, and the old ape walked in with a small bamboo basket in his hand.

Li Ye was stunned, looked at the old ape and said, "It's nothing, I was just thinking about my own cultivation." ”

He stopped knitting and placed the hat on the table. Add water to the kettle and boil on the stove.

"I have a question, I've always wanted you. The old ape tapped lightly on the stone slab on the tabletop.

"Before the little girl came here, your realm broke through to the fifth level, why do I see why you have returned to the first level in the past few days? Could it be that you have encountered some major problems in your cultivation?"

Li Ye looked at the old ape, smiled lightly and said: "I still haven't been able to hide from your eyes, my husband said that my realm has improved too quickly, so he asked Xiaoqing to bring me a pill, melt my five-fold golden pill, fight back to the first realm, and start all over again." ”

The old ape looked at Li Ye and said, "Is this okay?

"I heard Xiaoqing say that this elixir is from another world, and it is a very precious thing, and Mr. has put a lot of thought into my cultivation. Li Ye took out the tea leaves and began to make tea.

Then he took out a plate of peanuts from his back, put it on the table, and motioned for the old ape to eat it.

The two of them began to drink tea quietly in the shed, peeling peanuts, Li Ye occasionally added some hot tea for him, and then peeled the flowers himself and sent them to his mouth.

The old ape suddenly laughed.

Li Ye also laughed.

The old ape pointed at Li Ye with a trembling big finger, and his voice trembled a little: "Count you ruthless! I have practiced on the Tianshan Mountain for thousands of years, and you are the first young man to poison yourself." ”

The old ape said in a rambling voice.

"Is it easy to cultivate to the fivefold realm? How many cultivators have given everything they have, but in order to improve a realm, you actually cut off your own fivefold realm in one fell swoop!"

"I ask myself, I can't do it! I don't believe you go and ask the old wolf, if he does it, I will lose this old face to you. ”

With a sigh, the old ape picked up the pot and added tea to the cups of the two, and sighed heavily.

"I really don't know what your husband is thinking in his head? ”

Li Ye looked at him and smiled silently, just peeled peanuts and sent them to his mouth.

"You call him up, I want to ask him well. Reason with him!" said the old ape, glaring at him.

Li Ye looked into his eyes, didn't speak for a long time, carefully peeled a peanut and threw it into his mouth, and chewed it seriously for a while.

After a while, he muttered: "The moment Xiaoqing gave it to me, I felt the same as you, thinking that there was no such pit in the world for his own apprentice, and he actually asked me to take poison." ？”

"That's right, how can there be any reason to force your apprentice to eat poison?" the more the old ape spoke, the more excited he became.

Li Ye looked at the excited old ape, shook his head and said, "But what Xiaoqing told Mr. said: The stable cultivation of the Jindan Realm is extremely important to me, and if I break through too quickly, it will cause the foundation to be unstable. ”

"Is there such a saying? Why don't I know, and I haven't heard the old wolf say it?" the old ape was surprised when he heard this.

Li Ye ignored him and continued: "The only way is to melt this fivefold realm and start over!"

"So there really is such a saying, it seems that we are a little ignorant in the mountains!" the old ape sighed.

"Not to mention the fivefold realm, even if I have cultivated to the ninefold golden pill now, my husband will force me to melt it and practice again. This is my husband. ”

Li Ye couldn't help but laugh when he remembered that his husband wanted to wear iron armor by himself.

"Xiaoqing told me that there is no such elixir in the Five Domains, and even that sky is extremely precious. ”

"After I took the pill, it was only that the realm dropped, but I tried to run the true yuan in the dantian, but I didn't lose a single thing, but it was a little more condensed than before. ”

The old ape frowned and remained silent.

"It turns out that this is the truth, at your age, Mr. Xiao, it is indeed a little scary to break through the realm to the fifth level of Jindan at such a young age. The realm is inevitably a little unstable. ”

"Sir, for the sake of your future cultivation, it seems that you can only shatter the realm and start your cultivation all over again. Yours have already gone the way before, and it just takes more time and effort to start all over again. ”

The old ape sighed: "And time and energy, you don't lack both, so naturally you are not afraid of melting these realms." ”

"If according to the current situation of me and the old wolf, we don't dare to give up the realm lightly, we look forward to feeling the arrival of the Nine Tribulations every day, and being able to smoothly cross the tribulations and break through the void. ”

Waving his hand, the old ape was a little depressed.

Li Ye said: "My situation is quite special, and it is not suitable for you two seniors. Mr. also said that this elixir is poison for other cultivators, and it is only good medicine for me, and this is just different from person to person. ”

"It's just because you're too young, the so-called: you don't have to worry if you have more debts, and you don't itch if you have more lice, is this the truth?" the old ape shook his head.

Li Ye reflected the black fruit in the bamboo basket and asked puzzledly, "What kind of fruit is this, and can I eat it?" Why do I think it is dirty, and it is more poisonous than the pill I eat. ”

The old ape smiled and said, "Fart! Who let you eat these fruits? This is a good thing that my children picked up from the mountains, grind them into powder and put them in a pot until they boil out the oil, and rub them on the body to eliminate the scars of poisonous insect bites, and eat some of the inexplicable stomach aches to get sick." ”

"I saw that you had been weaving a broken hat for months and hadn't finished it, thinking that you were treating it as a treasure. When you have time, grind this fruit and boil it to make fat, and then rub it on the hat, wipe it several times, and no matter how strong the wind and rain will be in the future, even if you soak it in water, it will not deform and leak. ”

Li Ye's eyes lit up, and he looked at the old ape excitedly and said, "I've been worrying about this for the past few days, thinking that even if I make it up one day, as long as it rains heavily, it will definitely leak and deform." I didn't expect you to think of all these trivial things for me, so I really want to thank you. ”

After speaking, he handed the hat on the table to the old ape.

"My fingers are so thick, how can I make it up for you, you're kidding me!" the old ape took the hat and played with it in his hand.

"You flip it over and take a closer look. Li Ye didn't tell the old ape the secret in the hat. "Let's see if you can understand my little hat. ”

The old ape flipped the hat in his hand and put it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.

After a while, he took a breath of cold air, looked at Li Ye blankly, and said, "I said that you spent months of thinking about making up a hat, it turns out that you carved so many scriptures on the bamboo chips. ”

"Do you want to let the hat recite the sutras for you while getting drenched in the rain, or do you pray to the heavens not to wet you when it rains?"

The old ape glared at Li Ye, as if looking at a little monster, feeling incredible.

Li Ye laughed when he heard this, and said while laughing: "Where do I have so many thoughts, it's just to hone my state of mind." ”

Looking at the puzzled look on the first ape's face, he continued: "Mr. has always asked me to cultivate my state of mind, and I have never found a good way, so I don't want to slowly weave a hat while slowly honing my state of mind. ”

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"It's all very simple words, and it's really good to do double capacity. The old ape thought of Li Ye sitting quietly under the shed and weaving for the past few months, and his heart was a little excited.

"I believe that there are not many practitioners in the world who are willing to spend a lot of time on such troublesome and complicated matters. ”

The old ape looked at him and admired him sincerely.

Li Ye smiled: "I am not the majority of cultivators in the world. ”

The old ape was stunned for a moment, and in a blink of an eye, he thought that since the night Li Ye came to the mountain, that thing was something that cultivators in the world could easily do.

He practiced for hundreds of years before he dared to stand under the pool of water to practice, and Li Ye was only as old as he dared to temper his body in the pool of water.

looked at Li Ye with a relaxed face beside him: "Although I haven't worked as hard as you to hone my state of mind, you are the heir of Mr. after all, and you are destined to take a different path from the cultivators in the world!"

"Maybe neither I nor the old wolf will see you grow up, but I still want to bless you from the bottom of my heart. ”

He took a sip of water and continued.

"The sweat you put in today will eventually pay off one day, I believe that. ”

Ning Que smiled and said, "I don't think about it that much, I just occasionally think about how many days I have on this mountain, thinking that you and the old wolf seniors haven't left yet, so I think it's very interesting for me to weave a hat, so I want to stick to it." ”

Looking at the moisture on the stove, Li Ye smiled faintly.

Looking at the sunny boy in front of him, the old ape also laughed.