Chapter Thirty-Eight: Reading the Jade Slip

At this moment, Zhen Qing was still reading the pharmaceutical classics in the study, and when he saw Shi An coming, he still just shook his head, telling him plainly that he still hadn't figured out the use of the elixir.

He already has a preliminary understanding of the pill technique, Shi Anxin knows that there is no verified pill, and if he wants to deduce its effect based on the medicinal properties itself, it basically will not work, but he can let himself try, he really doesn't have the guts. Once the effect of this elixir is harmful to one's body, it will be too late to cry at that time. Therefore, there was no expectation that Zhen Qing would be able to guess the efficacy of the Blocking Elixir. Although he didn't have hope for this, he could see Zhen Qing's slightly apologetic expression, and out of politeness, he also made a look of great disappointment.

When Zhen Qing heard that Shi An had finished reading "Miscellaneous Treatises on Divine Sense", he was shocked again, this kid's understanding is really very high. So he asked Shi An what else he wanted to read, this time Shi An didn't plan to tell him that he was going to try to read Jade Jane, so he didn't tell the truth, only said that he still wanted to browse some other books, but he didn't know what to read, and asked if he could find it on the bookshelf by himself. Zhen Qing didn't want to break his train of thought for this, and he didn't want to delay his work to deal with Shi An more, so he arranged for him to enter the study at any time, and all the books could be read by himself.

Zhen Qing's study has a lot of books in the middle line, all of which are basic introductory, and many guys in Danfang often borrow them to read. Of course, there are a lot of jade slips, the content is much more precious, they are all some experience in alchemy, and there are also some pills with slightly greater efficacy, because they are not the foundation of the Zhen family's life, there is nothing to avoid. In addition, Zhen Qing didn't know the strength of Shi An's divine sense at all, thinking that he could only read some thread-bound books, and there was nothing worth hiding.

Shi An walked to the bookshelf, first pretended to pick up a thread-bound book to read, and when Zhen Qing was muttering something in his mouth, he paced out of the study, and after entering the Dan room, he put down the book, picked up a piece of jade slip in his hand and tried to read.

Holding it in the palm of his hand was a pale green jade slip, Shi An put him on the forehead ancestral aperture, and his divine sense slowly gathered and probed in. The light of divine consciousness that gathered for a moment suddenly dissipated, and the long-lost scene appeared in front of me again, still the woman with crystal eyes, or the tears that seemed to flow endlessly, and the words that could not be heard clearly.

Why did this scene appear again? Such a situation had not occurred since the success of that inward vision, so Shi An gradually forgot that there was such a situation that interfered with his divine consciousness. Try again, he told himself, you must devote yourself wholeheartedly, and you must not have the slightest ape.

Exploring the jade slip again, this time the scene did not appear again, the light of divine consciousness smoothly entered it, and what appeared in front of Shi An's eyes was a hazy fog first, and then the fog dissipated, and the sea of consciousness was like a wall as smooth as cloth, and lines of words and symbols were directly projected on it, which was clearly visible.

It turned out that the divine consciousness read the jade slip like this, and Shi Anxin was ecstatic.

Looking at the content of this piece of jade slip again, it should be Zhen Qing's experience in refining the elixir, starting from the first time he came into contact with the Dan Furnace, Earth Fire, and Spirit Grass, all the way to the recent process of refining the Soul Blocking Pill. After only one meal, Shi An finished browsing this piece of jade slip. This was not what he needed now, and Shi An picked up another piece of yellow jade slip and read it.

At the end of the day, Shi An read almost three jade slips, and he had little experience, but he improved his skills in reading jade slips a lot, and now he can pick up a jade slip like a veteran, and explore the content in a few breaths. In the process of reading, I also had some new understanding of the world of cultivating immortals, for example, the heavenly fire in the heaven, earth and human fire refers to the fire of the heavenly thunder, the earth fire refers to the fire of the earth's lungs, and the human fire refers to the true fire of the monk's own cultivation, such as the Dan fire of the Jiedan monk and the infant fire of the Yuanying monk, all of which are such flames. Both human fire and earth fire can be alchemy refiners, earth fire has a high success rate because of its long-lasting stability, pure and high temperature, and human fire is convenient and mild, suitable for warming and raising pill vessels.

In the days to come, Shi An soaked in the study, looked at the thread-bound books, looked at the jade slips, and understood all the conventions of the immortal cultivation world. Although the ancestor Yuan Miaozi is his own spiritual initiator and personally guides his own cultivation, he can spend all his energy on his own spiritual physique, but he has not explained the basic principles of cultivation, so the jade slip in Zhen Qing's study has become Shi An's enlightenment teacher.

The content of one of the pure white jade slips benefited Shi An a lot. This is a piece of jade called "Classification of Monks", which introduces several common professions in the immortal cultivation world, which can open Shi An's eyes.

According to the book, not only human beings can be cultivated in the world of cultivating immortals, but also demons with the identity of beasts, ghosts with the identity of ghosts, and spirits without vital signs, all of which can be cultivated, which are called human cultivation, demon cultivation, ghost cultivation and spiritual cultivation, and according to different cultivation methods, or different methods of cultivation, they can be classified as Taoist cultivation of life cultivation, Buddha cultivation of the realm, Confucian cultivation of the mind, and demon cultivation of cultivation.

Taoist cultivation is the Taoist goal of pursuing immortality, and there is a cloud in the Tao Te Ching: "Heaven and earth can last for a long time, and because they are not self-generated, they can live forever." "Chasing the qi of heaven and earth as a means to seek the eternity of life; the realm of Buddha cultivation means that Buddhism advocates great wisdom, and cultivates the Hinayana realm of the path of liberation from reincarnation that "all actions are impermanent, all dharmas have no self, all suffering, and nirvana is silent", and the Mahayana realm of "educating sentient beings"; Confucianism cultivates the mind, which means that Confucianism recognizes that "there is nothing more important than cultivating the mind", pursuing meritorious service, speech, and virtue, and educating the world with "neutrality and righteousness" morality, so as to seek the sacred merit of the most holy gods; and demonic cultivation means that the people of the demon sect do not give up any heart** Hope, the pursuit of supreme power and power, not confined to any external morality, tradition, and human ethics, and the pursuit of "heaven and earth and external things are for my use, and all the laws in the world belong to me".

After looking at it, Shi An knew that different cultivation goals were different cultivation categories, no wonder Master Ancestor kept saying "Dao Heart", which seemed to mean that the ultimate goal was different, so he took different cultivation paths. What is one's own Dao mind, life, realm, mind, and nature, and it seems to have all of them, but they don't seem to have any. Let's just leave it at that, I don't even know if I can continue to cultivate, where can I care what the Dao Heart is, let's put these aside.

The book also said that if the monks are divided according to their personal interests or specialties, different industries will be formed, such as medicine, medicine, Danshu, talismans, formations, refining, etc., and those who have made achievements in this industry also have the titles of physicians, elixir masters, danorcerers, rune masters, array mages, refiners, fortune tellers, animal tamers, etc. These titles are also divided into grades, the first level is either beginner or low, the second level is called intermediate, the third is called advanced, and then the grandmaster level.

The entry requirements of various industries are also different, some such as spirit planters, breeders, and animal trainers can be engaged in by mortals, some such as elixir masters, array mages must be above the qi refining period, and doctors, Dan magicians, refiners, and rune masters must at least build the foundation period or above, and divination masters must be above the divine consciousness realm above the god touching period.

Of course, this is not to say that there are insurmountable gaps in various industries. In fact, many industries are interconnected, typical is that doctors and Dan magicians, breeders and animal trainers, spirit planters and elixir masters, etc. are all intersecting with each other, and there are some great monks who have dabbled in several trades, and they are all proficient.

The further part of the book is a specific description of various industries, and Shi An read him in one go, and he also has a deeper understanding of the world of cultivating immortals. He kept fantasizing about what kind of industry he would engage in in the future if he could cultivate, and what he should do to become a leader in it, and of course, doctors were still the first choice.

More than half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and Shi An became more and more anxious, saying that the ancestor would come to pick him up in half a month to a month, but Yuan Miaozi still hasn't heard from him so far.