Chapter 4 Le Zhenren, Bitter Saint
"Le Zhenren?"
When I first came into contact with the idea of the fat man, countless memories and information came flooding in, and Lin Yifan's soul sea set off a monstrous wave.
Some of this information is the fat man's life experience, and more is the basic exercise content of some telekinesis and alchemy, as well as the fat man's cultivation experience and combat experience, as well as a special spirit cultivation method, which is very suitable for Lin Yifan, who has lost his physical body.
What originally came to Lin Yifan's mind was the fat man's life and cultivation experience.
The fat man is an archmage who has cultivated to the realm of soul exchange, and is known as "Le Zhenren" in the underworld. However, Le Zhenren's cultivation experience can be described as twists and turns, which is very enlightening for Lin Yifan's future cultivation path.
Born in 1615, Le Zhenren was a monk in Yangzhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty. After the Qing soldiers slaughtered the city in Yangzhou, Le Zhenren transformed into a professional killer and specialized in killing the Qing soldiers, which he called "slaying demons and defending Buddha".
With the cover of illusion and monkhood, Le Zhenren successively killed more than 20 high-ranking officials of the Qing army without realizing it. Later, the matter was revealed, and Le Zhenren was besieged and killed by the Qing soldiers and came to Yuanpan Difu.
Due to his firm will and high level of thoughts, Le Zhenren successfully passed the test of the Great Illusion of the Soul Refining Road, and the level of thoughts was upgraded by two levels, and in one fell swoop, he was promoted to the lower grade of the ground level, and reached the conditions for customs clearance. If he can be reincarnated, the starting point will be much higher than that of ordinary cultivators, and he can cultivate in advance in his mother's womb, and he will have a lot more cultivation time than others out of thin air, and his future achievements will naturally be limitless.
However, due to the restrictions of the plane rules, the thoughts of reincarnation can only be of human level or lower, so Le Zhenren who has reached the earth level cannot leave the underworld to be reincarnated, and can only stay in the underworld, continue to cultivate while working for the underworld, and start the hard life of the Moonlight Clan.
The so-called moonlight clan means that all the monthly income is spent. And Le Zhenren's Yulu is not high in the first place, and he has to buy Yin Soul Stone for soul preservation, and he has to save money to buy Da Sun Crystal Stone for thought cultivation, so he is naturally stretched.
According to the rules of the plane, when each person is born, the soul will imprint a natal soul imprint in the reincarnated body, just like the house number, which is arranged and registered according to the serial number.
The soul is a formless and immaterial mass of energy, which is feminine. The physical body is masculine, nourishing each other with the soul to achieve a balance of yin and yang. After death, the soul loses the nourishment of the physical body and quickly dissipates.
There is a special energy in the Hell Illusion that nourishes the soul, so the practitioner does not have to worry about the soul dissipating. But after coming out of the illusion, you have to face the problem of the shelf life of the soul.
Although the underworld is heavy on yin qi, which is conducive to soul cultivation, souls without physical bodies will still gradually escape, which is the rule of the plane. Of course, there are some remedies, such as absorbing the energy in a Yin Soul Stone every month, which can keep the soul intact for a month or two.
This kind of Yin Soul Stone is sold by the Prefecture Management Office, and the price is not cheap.
At the same time, there is no sunlight in hell, and it is difficult for the soul to ascend from the fugue realm to the sunshine realm. Unless you spend a lot of money to buy the Great Sun Crystal from the Prefecture Administration, absorb a trace of the sun essence contained in it, and after a long period of accumulation, it is possible to break through the realm.
When Le Zhenren passed through the Hell Illusion Realm, his thought level had reached the ground level, but the realm of the exercises was still in the realm of fugue, and he could only be regarded as having just crossed the threshold of spell cultivation, and he was still several realms away from the realm of soul exchange. Therefore, he could neither reincarnate nor leave the underworld to take reincarnation, so he could only stay in the underworld as an ordinary staff member, and spend most of his monthly income on buying Yin Soul Stones and Great Sun Crystals.
Le Zhenren started from a low start, had no background and no resources, and it took him more than 200 years to cross the Rizhao Realm, and then he broke through several major realms successively, and finally cultivated to the Soul Change Realm, and he could be reincarnated, so he obtained the noble status of "real person", and changed from an ordinary staff member to one of the underworld instructors.
As for the person in charge of the underworld, he is a real person who has experienced three thunder tribulations and already has some thunder and lightning attributes in his soul, which is two realms higher than Le Zhenren, and his strength is much stronger than Le Zhenren.
"I thought the fat man was an ordinary waiter in the underworld, but it turned out that he was an instructor and a fellow earthman! If I can't surpass him, I may be even worse than him, after all, I have never cultivated before!"
"However, once I can pass the illusion test and be able to reincarnate with the memories of my past life, it will be amazing. Others may not be able to officially cultivate until they are in their teens, but I can practice telekinesis from the time I was a fetus, and I can easily sweep my peers in the future, get more resources, and get ahead step by step. This is literally a 100-meter race, which made me run 50 meters ahead of schedule!"
"It's just that reincarnation is not as easy as Le Zhenren said before, and only a small number of people who have passed the test of illusion can be reincarnated, and they are basically picked up by the sects of other planes and reincarnated in other planes. In this way, it can not only keep the powerhouses of earth-level ideas in the Yuanpan plane and protect the plane, but also allow some human-level cultivators to go to other planes to branch out and obtain resources and opportunities, which can be regarded as a talent exchange between planes. ”
"Going to other planes to reincarnate can also prevent cultivators from disrupting the normal order of the mundane world because of grievances in previous lives, which can be regarded as killing multiple birds with one stone. But in this way, unless I cultivate to become a super powerhouse, I don't want to return to the Yuan Pan Plane and return to the Earth. ”
"No matter what, I must pass this great illusion, and I must seize the opportunity to reincarnate. Therefore, at most, I have cultivated my thoughts to the best of the human level, but I can't overdo it like Le Zhenren, and in the end, I can't be reincarnated, and I will be delayed in the underworld for hundreds of years in vain. ”
Seeing this, Lin Yifan suddenly realized, and had a greater sense of crisis in his heart, and at the same time, he also had a preliminary understanding of the cultivation level system of the Yuanpan plane.
In the Yuan Pan plane, most cultivators cultivate in pursuit of immortality and transcend the cycle of life and death.
There are two main types of techniques for cultivators: one is the mage who cultivates the divine soul, mainly cultivating the power of the thoughts in the divine soul, that is, the telekinetic technique, also known as the spell, and the realm is divided into ten layers, namely, out-of-body, fugue, sunshine, exorcism, manifestation, channeling, soul exchange, distraction, thunder tribulation, and metamorphosis.
The other is the martial artists who cultivate the physical body, they call the martial arts they practice, and the realm is also divided into ten layers, namely copper skin, iron bones, easy tendons, practicing dirt, quenching marrow, blood exchange, opening the body, fusion, supernatural powers, and breaking the void.
Whether it is a mage or a martial artist, each level of realm is divided into four stages: the early stage, the middle stage, the late stage, and the peak.
On the earth, whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, those who have achieved cultivation can be honored as mages. Successful cultivation refers to a Taoist priest or monk who is proficient in the scriptures and precepts and Taoism, can maintain health and educate people, help people enter the Tao, and serve as a model for others. For example, Tang Seng in Journey to the West is called Sanzang Master because he has read the scriptures and laws to discuss Sanzang, which is different from the magicians who manipulate supernatural forces and make it a profession in Western literature.
On the Yuanpan plane, the mages who cultivate the soul are closer to the Eastern mages on the earth, they believe that the body will eventually decay, and the soul can live forever, and the body composed of mundane things is the stinky skin that will eventually be abandoned after a hundred years, while the soul can live forever in the world, so the body is false, and the soul is true. Cultivating immortals is the process of cultivating the soul through the false and the flesh.
Martial artists, on the other hand, admired the refining of the body, believing that the soul was ethereal and ethereal, and it was difficult to achieve positive results by cultivating the soul, while the physical body was a self-contained miniature universe, and the acupuncture points corresponded to the stars in the sky. Cultivating to the limit, the physical body can be fused with the rules of heaven and earth, becoming a piece of heaven and earth, and finally possessing the supernatural power of the physical body, mobilizing the power of heaven and earth, breaking through the void, and flying to the immortal realm.
Soul cultivators and martial arts practitioners have their own opinions, and neither can convince the other. In the end, they became two major factions, coexisting and competing with each other for a long time in the meta-disk plane.
Some cultivators even cultivate both magic and martial arts, cultivating both spells and physical bodies at the same time, but the cultivators' longevity is limited, and their time, energy, and resources are limited, making it difficult to meet the needs of cultivating both magic and physical bodies. Therefore, the vast majority of the dual cultivators of law and martial arts ended in failure, and they died before they cultivated to the realm of soul exchange, becoming a negative example that future generations took as a warning.
It is said that this is not only true in the meta-disk plane, but also in most other planes.
"Ascend to the Immortal Realm, is there really an Immortal Realm in this world?" Seeing this, Lin Yifan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.
In Lin Yifan's impression, the fairy world on the earth has always been just a legend, just a fiction in novels and movies.
And in the Yuanpan plane, according to ancient legends, mages and martial artists can smash the void when they cultivate to the final realm, soar to the immortal realm, and become immortals. In this way, whether it is soul cultivation or martial arts, in the end, they will all end up in the same way, and they will be in the same immortal class.
There are many doubts and debates in the world about whether there is a fairy world, legends are legends, and no one seems to have seen a living immortal.
However, according to the rules of the plane, when a mage cultivates to the realm of soul exchange, the soul can remove the natal soul imprint from the original physical body, and then occupy the soul sea of others, and engrave the natal soul imprint in the physical body of others, so as to achieve reincarnation and soul immortality. Such a cultivator, in the eyes of mortals, is also equivalent to an immortal.
This kind of mage is revered by the world as a "real person", which means that a person who has initially achieved the goal of cultivating truth through falsehood, has a true insight into the origin of life, and is truly enlightened.
Le Zhenren has been staying in the realm of soul exchange now. With his realm, he is enough to be called a master and an ancestor on some planets, but in Yuanpan Difu, the most important thing is to cultivate a successful spirit body, and there are many small instructors like him who have cultivated to the soul exchange realm, so they can't get special cultivation resources.
And the martial artists who have cultivated to the realm of enlightenment not only open the ancestral aperture of the eyebrows, but also be able to correspond the acupoints of the whole body to the stars in the sky one by one, attracting the power of the stars to quench the body, and laying the foundation for having physical supernatural powers in the future. Therefore, the martial artists of the enlightened realm are also called martial saints and saints.
And the black-robed thin man who was standing next to Le Zhenren just now cultivated to the realm of enlightenment, and was respected as the "Bitter Saint". In the outside world, he may be a big man, but in the Yuanpan Mansion, even the dragon has to be coiled, and he is just an ordinary instructor.