Chapter 80: The World Separates the Red Dust
On the left wall, there are two lines of poetry at the beginning, for the line of writing, but there is no ethereal momentum, the pen is stagnant, the scratches are very deep, and it seems that you can hear the heavy and contradictory sigh of the writer.
"Where is the golden reincarnation, who will see the sun rise in the day?"
After this question, it was a review of Zhou Yan's nearly 100-year cultivation career.
Quietly looking at these bland, confused or excited narratives, Man Jianghong found that he could not be regarded as a simple religious person or a benchmark for cultivation, but at least a complex humanist, a stubborn researcher of mystical culture, and a lonely explorer of the development of supernatural abilities.
Zhou's research field not only covers talismans, pills, and qi refining, but also witchcraft and Buddhism. For example, in the process of his cultivation, he combined the Taoist theory of "form and spirit keeping together" and Buddhism's theory of "separation of form and spirit" to force his own divine consciousness out. This is consistent with the historical record, "it is often mixed with the monks". Although this method cannot achieve the effect of the ancients' "out-of-body", it is very sharp, which is equivalent to projecting consciousness in a lucid state.
For example, he can use the wind and clouds and fog to sweep away, although it is not a real flight, and it is impossible to "swim in the twilight of the North Sea", but he has broken through the limits of the human body and entered another field.
But these, he personally thinks are "small skills".
What is the purpose of cultivation, is to ascend.
What is the purpose of ascension, is to become an immortal.
What is the purpose of becoming an immortal, it is immortality.
In the eyes of the world, he seems to have become a land immortal. But he himself knew that he was not.
At that time, he was already at the pinnacle of the world. A hundred feet ahead, and it is difficult to make an inch.
He found that there were countless immortals before Qin, but there were very few ascensions after Qin. After some research, he believes that most of the cases of becoming immortals that have been circulated in various places are "spread by falsehood", and only a very small part are "contingent".
After Yijiazi's research, from some obscure classics and some secret oral traditions, he pieced together a terrifying and gloomy history of the development of Xiuzhen.
The golden age of Xiuzhen was before Qin, to be precise, it was called "refining qi".
The first catastrophe faced by the Xiuzhen Realm was at the end of the Warring States Period, when the goddess "broke the gate of heaven with a sword", causing the connection between the heavenly realm and the human world to be cut off. Since then, not only has it become extremely troublesome for heaven and man to descend to earth, but also due to the lack of aura from the heavenly realm, the aura of the human world has become a source of water and gradually collapsed.
The lack of aura, the difficulty of cultivating the truth, and the Fu Gong Dan Fang and so on were developed to make up for the shortcomings, but after all, it was not the right path.
There are fewer and fewer people who have achieved cultivation from generation to generation, and after all, there are still people, so they have to go to Kunlun Mountain to find immortal fate.
Although the gate of heaven is interrupted, the heavenly palace will appear on Kunlun Mountain once every ten years to attract people who are destined. Among them, there are many particularly outstanding characters, and Tiangong will also take the initiative to come to pick them up, which is for "the day of the sun".
However, this situation of lingering was devastating in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty.
One day, the masters of the Daomen Qi refining level above the eighth level disappeared collectively, and even the Buddhist monks and mountain spirits and tree monsters were not spared.
This is a huge scene of ascension, which has never appeared in the pre-Qin period.
Starting from Kunlun Mountain at sunrise and ending at sunset, all the cultivators were suddenly restless, and the deeper they cultivated, the stronger they felt. Then they were stunned to find that the division commander, who happened to be talking or sitting in silence, was dancing and struggling to fly into the air, like a little chicken cub suddenly pulled up by a rope.
Those who are in the house go out through the roof, and those who retreat in the deep cave break out through the door. If you are unlucky and run into a stone gate or an iron gate, you will have no luck in the middle of being caught off guard, and your head will break and bleed, your brain will burst, and your body will fall from mid-air.
The sea was rippling, and the sea monster dragon flew straight into the sky, although it was useless to show its teeth and claws.
Those who were lucky enough to witness it all bowed to the ground and chanted "become immortals", but those close to them shuddered. Although they whitewashed it to the outside world as "the division commander has ascended to the Tao", in fact, they understand better than anyone else in their hearts, as if an invisible net has been cast in the sky, killing all the big fish in the world, leaving only some small miscellaneous fish that are not in the climate.
Turning over the river and the sea, drying up and fishing!
Since then, Xiuzhen has been dying, and some have even broken the inheritance.
In the secular Taoism, it is mainly based on metaphysics, helping the world, and self-cultivation.
The remaining batch of sixth- and seventh-level Qi refining masters at the beginning have left a psychological shadow since then, and their Dao hearts are dirty, and they cannot advance an inch.
Who would dare to ascend?
It is for the coming of the end of the Dharma era.
But everything in the world is no match for time.
The original secret, not many people knew the truth, and it was gradually forgotten.
What's more, longevity has always been the biggest dream of human beings!
Therefore, groups of cultivators still followed one another, gathered in Kunlun Mountain, and gradually formed a famous gate sect - Immortal Valley.
And since that day, the Heavenly Palace has no longer been exposed to the world to indirectly lead to ascension, and in fact, no one can fly on their own.
After a hundred years of this, a strange omen suddenly appeared in Kunlun Mountain, and the heavenly palace reappeared.
But some go, but no one returns.
Zhou Luo has reached the twilight of his life, after settling down Emperor Jianwen, he calculated that the second hundred years are approaching, and the Heavenly Palace may be afraid of reappearing, so he decided to gamble his luck and go to Kunlun Mountain to wait.
He was ready to go all the way, and did two things along the way.
One is to go to Wushan to find out why the goddess wanted to "break the gate of heaven with a sword". According to him, the dragon people could not be the descendants of the goddess, but they were a bit like the pawns of the guardian goddess peak.
Another thing is to go to Taodu and visit the "sacred trees" left by ancient times.
When he sent Emperor Jianwen to visit overseas, he found it on this island, and at that time he felt that there was a thin aura here, and the flowers and trees were exceptionally fresh and lush. This time, I returned from overseas and passed through this island, and I had a whim. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth dissipates quickly on land, but it is slower under the water, and there may still be condensed spiritual veins under the sea. After diving into the deep sea, he really found something, so he expanded it into a hole and protected it with a formation.
This formation not only isolates the sea water from the outside, but also closes the spiritual veins internally, only allowing the spiritual energy to seep out at an extremely slow speed. If anyone wants to dig a vein, he will not break through the barrier with a skill stronger than his. It's just that in this way, it will cause seawater to pour in, and the jade will be burned.
Therefore, he advises those who come after him not to move such crooked thoughts.
He didn't even tell Emperor Jianwen about this hole, feeling that such a precious thing belonged to all mankind and should not be monopolized by one faction. What's more, the predecessors have ruined a lot of good things, and a little must be left for future generations.
"But save every inch of land, and leave it for children and grandchildren to cultivate. ”
He guessed that the person who could find this hole would never be ordinary, so in addition to advising the other party not to destroy the hole, he also hoped that the other party would not hurt the two ghost spirits who protected the cave, an octopus called Xiao Ash, and a killer whale called Xiao Hei. Also, he devoted himself to cultivation and ignored mundane things, and in retrospect, he really failed his family a lot. When the young left home and the eldest returned, "only the grass arches on the graves of my parents were seen, and the pines and cypresses were green, and the villagers did not know them." So I also hope that when the family is in danger, the other party can help, "once is enough".
Since the other party is a master, the ideological realm must also be extremely high, and "the person who is not a clay kettle" will never care about any treasures. What's more, he is so poor that he really has nothing to handle. Therefore, he wrote down some of his experiences in the cultivation of luck in the cave, hoping that it would be helpful to the other party.
However, in the end, he added that cultivating in such an abundant aura environment did increase his strength greatly, but it didn't seem to be of much use to becoming an immortal!
Continuing to look down, Man Jianghong swept a few words "qi" and dense terms such as "three flowers gathering at the top" and "five qi dynasty yuan", and he was no longer interested, squatting down in pain, holding his head and moaning.
You're always flattering and throwing it to the blind! The kid is a big funnel, and he has no sense of qi, so what's the use of being angry?
Hey, the kid is the person of the clay kettle, and what he loves most is the yellow and white things. You don't have any treasures, so you can leave a little worthless antique! There is really nothing, and I will never dislike the unbearable gold and silver treasures, including copper plates!
If the light doesn't slip away, what do you mean, there is only one futon left. I took it out and said that it had been sat on by the mad immortal's butt himself eight hundred years ago, and that it would be beaten out with a big stick, and no one would believe it!
Hey, forget it, you don't know Marx, you don't know that the economic base determines the superstructure!
Someone ran to the beach with an evil belly, used his two feet as a mine probe, and while lifting the sand indiscriminately, he said to him, your old IQ is average, but your EQ is really not good. Ran to Wushan to touch the bottom of the goddess, you can figure it out. It's like insisting that someone take out an heirloom for you to sign, isn't that the rhythm of finding a fight?
He suddenly remembered Bing Ling's words, "The goddess made a grand wish back then, saying that the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, who would dare to block my sword!" Well, after going out, you have to avoid the murderous Qiandapo, quietly find the ice spirit, and ask what is the matter.
According to this inference, the old man may not have been courted in Wushan, so Emperor Jianwen's Nanhai faction formed a feud with the Wushan Dragon Clan. There was a big battle last night, and the source came from your old man! So who am I going to help?
The form and the god are separated, and the shocking thorn of the South China Sea faction is designated to be born from this. This belongs to the application method, it should be developed by the bitter and hateful Emperor Jianwen, you should not be so bad.
The person who can enter the cave must have fought with your old gray Xiaobai first, and it is purely an afterthought to ask others to show mercy. However, it's still useful to remind the other party not to chase and kill after you go out, you definitely haven't thought it was so complicated. As for me, I was almost eaten, and I don't want to see my face again! The question is, what if they want to hunt me down? You have to leave a way to restrain them!
Well, forget it, you have been gone for 800 years, and it seems that you will not be able to come back, and even the will has been written.
Boy, I'm so-so and half a descendant, then this hole will belong to me in the future, how I develop it, no opinion, right?
See, if you don't answer, you should acquiesce.
Someone crossed his hands on his hips, looked around the cliff of the light curtain, and became happy again.
Although he slandered the old man for leaving nothing to turn into cash, he knew very well in his heart that the hole itself was a rare treasure, and its value could not be measured, but he was afraid that the jewels in the world would be bombarded into slag in seconds. As long as this news leaks out, it will definitely start a war.
It's just that whether it is the spiritual vein or the mental method, it is not easy to develop, and it needs to be carefully considered.
It's good to make it a high-level sanatorium under the sea, and the little gray is a doorman, and he doesn't have to pay a salary.
The strangled cat came back to life, and someone couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he squatted down by the light curtain and dug up the sand with all his might. Let's see what kind of light source is buried underneath, and the light emitted can actually bend to form a cover.
After digging more than a meter deep, I touched the hard rock. The sand gradually became wet, and there was a faint light streaming through the side. But if you want to see what is going on, you have to reach out and dig through the sand in the light curtain.
Without hesitation, he inserted his hand as if he had touched a thick, solid rubber wall. The fingertips have the touch of being inverted, but they can no longer move forward.
Someone smiled, with a look that he had expected such a long time, and he didn't care about punching.
Bah, the light curtain is not moving.
A sense of foreboding rose from his heart, and he hurriedly stood up and jumped out of the pit, tilting his shoulders and slamming it hard.
Bang, to no avail.
This time, he was really anxious, retreated seven or eight meters, and accelerated towards the light curtain.
I only heard a scream, and a crooked word "Tai" slid down from the light curtain.
After this scene was repeated three times, someone put his hands in the sand to prop up his leaning body, and sat on the sand with a blue nose and swollen face, snorting and panting.
If you can't get out, there is no water or food, and the master can't open the valley, and you can't starve to death? Grandma's, the legendary pig's feet find a hole in the heavens and blessed land, just practice, as if you don't have to eat at all!
In theory, it shouldn't be that bad. Didn't the Chinese ancestors say that there is no endless road to heaven? Didn't the Fanbang barbarians also say, "God will open another window when he closes the door for you"? Don't panic, don't be in a hurry!
Someone walked heavily across the beach and looked for a window.
He returned to the cave first and studied the mental method left by Old Man Zhou to see if there was any trick to break the formation.
The answer is, wood has!
You can guess with your toes that no matter how magical the light curtain is, if you want to resist the water pressure thousands of meters deep, without the corresponding internal pressure and firmness, it will never be possible, and it is impossible to leave a flawed door!
Presumably, Old Man Zhou never thought that people who could dive into the deep sea naked did not have any spells, and they couldn't get in and out.
After turning around the cave twice, not even a little grain dregs could be seen, someone walked out in a daze, looking at the magical and majestic light curtain in a daze.
He suddenly understood that Lao Zhoutou could only close that small hole, why did he bother to make such a big image project.
On the one hand, you want to protect this spiritual vein, but on the other hand, you don't want it to be buried, and use the half moon to attract masters.
Your old realm is really high, several stories high!
But what's the matter with these little masters? The little master is locked up here by you old fool, and he is about to starve to death!
You said that you are old, what kind of grain is a good place, how good it is to hide dozens of tons of dry food in the cave. When you are a god in the world, it is inconvenient for you to steal food, hide at the bottom of the sea and secretly Missy, who can see it!
Xianju Linzi Mansion is deceitful, so a person who is separated from the red dust!
Probably because of inhaling the aura, and seeing the wonderful and magnificent scene, Man Jianghong's originally extremely tired body eased his physical strength, and his spirit was always in a state of excitement. But after all, I hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and I had only drunk a little water at the foot of the eagle's beak cliff, and when I suddenly found that there was no water or food under the dome, the feeling of hunger and thirst was immediately magnified and became more and more intense. It's like a person who is addicted to cigarettes and doesn't want to smoke, but if he doesn't have a pack of cigarettes in his hand, the uneasiness and desire to smoke immediately surface, like a cat's claw scratching his heart, and an evil fire rushes straight up.
A lonely figure wandering on the beach, for a day, two days......
During this time, he hit the light curtain countless times, all of which ended dismally, and finally completely gave up this boring and ineffective attempt.
In addition to the lack of food and water, he also encountered severe mental challenges. Staying in such a closed and silent space is equivalent to confinement. Due to the lack of communication with the outside world, it is equivalent to being deprived of feelings, and the mind begins to be dulled, anxious, and hallucinations begin. To explain the imprint theory proposed by himself in "The Origin of Everything", that is, no new imprints are produced, the old imprints begin to be confused, and consciousness is moving towards chaos.
He controlled himself with great perseverance, and still couldn't figure out the passage of time.
I don't know how many days have passed......
Beyond the light curtain, clinging to a huge octopus as a gray mountain, and a white whale skeleton. They stared blankly into the light curtain, apparently unsure of what was going on.
The skinny someone sat slumped on the beach, staring at them blankly, and said slowly, if the master accepts you in the future, he must change his name. Little Gray Gray is so earthy, let's call it Paul, and pay tribute to the god-like prophetic emperor. And Xiao Hei, when did you become so handsome, you changed your name to Xiao Bai.
He smirked smirk, reached out and pulled a handful of damp sand from the pit next to him and stuffed it into his mouth. However, this dampness could not satisfy his body's thirst for water, and his lips were already dry like two old orange peels that had been exposed to the sun for a long time, white and rough hair.
The walls of his stomach were shriveled and shriveled like a fire, like sandpaper, and the pain was so painful that he could only walk with his waist bent. Later, when I knocked down a piece of "glass" on the cliff wall and swallowed it, the entrance of the thing turned into a liquid, and after filling a belly, it temporarily relieved the hunger. As the spiritual fluid entered his stomach, his skin became smoother and more delicate, but it also became more and more loose and pale, so that the hiccups were fragrant aura.
However, this is of little use.
He was still getting weaker and thinner day by day, his eye sockets were deep, and his fingers were like chicken feet.
......
I don't know how long it was, but one day, he struggled to crawl back to the hole in the sand, shook the rope and untied the nuclear boat from his chest, placed it at the exit of the aura, and twisted forward like a worm with difficulty, pillowed his head on the futon, looked up to the sky and took a long breath, and closed his eyes.
I don't even know who my parents are, what a loss!
Grandma, I miss you so much......
Uncle Zhu, Brother Da Niu, I'm here!
Rhubarb, Heigu, Red Lotus, Brother Rong, Fifth Brother, Ninth Brother, Chasing Life, Water Monkey, Meat Floss...... Bye!
Green Calyx, why are you so stupid and don't want to see you again!
Jingjing, I'm sorry!
Ice Spirit, I love you!
......
A very fine and very fine cloudy tear quietly poured out of the dry corner of the eye, like a drop of dew left on the cracked earth, lonely and sad.