Chapter 52: The Path of Cultivation
The moon is like a hook, such as a bright scimitar hanging in the air, the cold wind is bleak, blowing the fog in the mountain is not clean, in the Wudang Mountain, an unknown peak, like a sharp sword straight into the vast earth, such as the hilt of the sword peaks into the sky, there is a thousand-year-old pine on it, the ancient pine is vigorous like a dragon, even in this late autumn is still so lush, it seems that the entire mountain top is under its shroud, under the ancient pine, a five or six-year-old child sits cross-legged in a single dress, surrounded by cold air, it is better to say that it is cold than to say that it is fog, but this mist seemed to be close to the child's body, but a lot of it was inhaled by him, and finally turned into turbidity and spit out.
Even if the child is wearing a single coat, but the little face is red, there are beads of sweat on the forehead, this child is none other than Li Mobai, since he learned from the old beggar, every night after settling his mother down, he will be taken by him to this place where birds don't, saying that birds don't but it's not all right, there are still a few remnants of bricks and foundations on the ground, no one knows what place this used to be, no one knows what use this place used to be, Li Mobai doesn't bother to care, just listen to the old beggar's words, Meditate and breathe every night, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, according to his words, although this is not the source of the dragon vein on Wudang, but it is where the dragon vein is located, the essence of the heaven and earth aura and the sun and the moon contained here is not much worse than the source of the golden top, as for why not go to the golden top to cultivate, the old beggar just casually said that he was afraid of thunder and sloppy, Li Mobai did not ask again, just spit out according to the method that the old beggar said every day, read and read in the study during the day, and was here at night, of course, it was not so simple at first, It was only five days of breathing time, and the first two days were spent reciting and learning the names and locations of the meridians and acupoints of the human body.
A total of 365 acupuncture points in the human body correspond to 365 days a year, the 12 major meridians travel all over the body corresponding to a year and 12 months, and there are eight strange meridians hidden inside, intricate, so remember every acupuncture point on the body, and the direction of the twelve meridians is very important, the most difficult of which is the eight veins of the strange meridians, mainly these eight veins are small and obscure, a careless will make the wrong meridians and will not recover, fortunately, Li Mo has excellent resources during the day, and his memory can be said to be unforgettable, it only took one day and one night, I memorized all the complex acupuncture points and meridian diagrams in my heart.
In today's world, the greatest use of martial arts is no longer to kill, and stronger performance has become the goal pursued by everyone, but there are naturally people who do not forget their roots, the most basic two categories are external strength and internal strength, external strength as the name suggests is to practice muscles and bones, through a variety of ways to make the whole body resistant to hitting ability stronger, coupled with the development of muscle potential, to achieve the highest level of the need to first train the whole body like steel, and then supplemented by a variety of boxing moves, in order to achieve the purpose of confronting people, Among them, especially the thirty-six rooms outside the Shaolin Temple are the best, although this is less in the eyes of ordinary people can be regarded as a master, but after all, it is a lewd, according to the meaning of the old beggar, the body is affected by the parents, not lightly, plus long-term training, the body's sensitivity and reaction will be greatly reduced, this is a taboo in cultivation.
The internal power corresponding to the external power is not the same, the internal power is the main cultivation of qi, the breath in the body, with the heart of the qi, with the qi body, pay attention to the observation of the heart, tap their own potential, every inch of muscle, every inch of the meridians, every inch of the nerve can really feel and for their own use, everything they do follow the qi, it seems to be weak and powerless, but in fact, a punch can open the mountain and crack the stone, meaning to the qi, there is no place where the qi can not reach the upper and lower body, practice to the highest level and the whole body is integrated, called body knowledge, no need for consciousness control, qi welcomes it, The so-called he is strong, he is strong, the spring breeze blows on the hills, he is horizontal, the bright moon shines on the river, he is ruthless and he is evil, I am full of true breath, talking about the signs of internal success, such people usually can't see whether they are masters, but if you encounter the kind of people who breathe slowly and steadily, and pull out their backs with their chests, they should be careful.
It sounds very powerful, and the old beggar also admires the people who created these internal exercises back then, but all laws have a source, and nothing is produced for no reason, so you can't be born! Tracing back to the source, internal strength is actually a continuation of the cultivation exercises, or a part of the cultivation exercises, because each person's understanding is different, and the exercises created in the end are not the same, in short, they are all practicing qi, and the internal skills are practiced to be the qi in the body, that is, the potential of the individual, but unfortunately everyone has a limit, once this limit is exceeded, it must be a thousand injuries to the enemy and eight hundred, so is there a way to solve this situation?
The answer is yes, cultivating the Tao, cultivating all the ways of all things in the world, absorbing the energy contained in all things in the world for one's own use, and achieving the unity of internal and external qi, is the great achievement! What the old beggar taught is this monastic lineage, the most basic is divided into six realms: foundation, enlightenment, fusion, golden pill, creation, and streamer, and the foundation realm is mainly to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body and turn it into essence stored in the dantian qi sea for their own use, initially in the form of fog, with continuous accumulation, gradually the essence in the dantian becomes a liquid state.
At this time, you will encounter the first bottleneck of the path of cultivation, the realm of enlightenment, the so-called realm of enlightenment is the opening of spiritual consciousness, seeing the clarity of the mind, you can feel the changes of all things in the world, and you can also feel the flow of aura in the world, to put it bluntly, the sensitivity has been raised to a very high level, many things that could not be seen before, can now be seen, this step does not know how many cultivators have been stumped, only one step, stepping out is considered a real cultivator, if you can't step out, at most you can be regarded as a cultivator, but Li Mobai is not worried about this, In the words of the old beggar, he is a person who has been enlightened.
After the consecration, you can clearly feel the essence all over the body, the next realm is fusion, the essence of the dantian is fused into Dan, it is simple to say, but it is actually difficult and abnormal, there is a little mistake in the fusion process, the light is to cultivate to be wasted, and the heavy Dantian bursts and dies, plus there is a thunderstorm after the Jin Dan is completed, so many people will stay in the fusion of qi and dare not improve.
However, when you reach the realm of Jindan, you can really take the first step in cultivating immortals, and those who reach this realm can fly with the sword, feel the avenue of heaven and earth, and understand the work of the creation of all things, and then seize the creation of heaven and earth, invade the mystery of the sun and the moon, and everything is used to achieve the avenue of creation.
As for how to cultivate the old beggar in the later streamer realm, he didn't say much, but simply described that when entering the streamer realm, people's speed has exceeded the limit that human eyes can perceive.
Is the streamer the end of cultivation? Of course not. Li Mobai clearly remembered the yearning look on the old beggar's face when he said this, there are four heavens above the streamer, which are the Tao, the Tao, the Dao, and the morality, each of the four heavens has four realms, collectively known as the sixteen realms: entering the Dao, seeking the Dao, asking the Dao, learning the Dao, enlightening the Dao, touching the Dao, cultivating the Dao and attaining the Dao, forgetting the Dao, giving up the Dao, becoming the Dao, doing nothing, humanity, immortal Dao, the Tunnel, the Heavenly Dao, each realm has the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, but now there are very few people who have really reached these sixteen realms, almost unheard.
"Master, what is your old man's realm now?" This is one of the few times when Li Mobai did not call the old beggar.
"Count it up, it should be the threshold of stepping into the first realm of entry!" The old beggar sighed.
"So, have you reached the Streamer realm early?"
"Oh, that's not it, it's not accurate to say that the streamer realm is a realm, that's a perception of space and time, I just know some skin, you look at the Wudang Mountain, there are people who have stepped into this realm early, but I don't know which realm these sixteen realms have reached!" The old beggar scratched his head embarrassedly like a young man and said.
"By the way, those who cultivate external and internal skills can only be imprisoned in their own cage forever?" Li Mobai asked.
"Self-cage!? Yes, you are more educated than a teacher! In fact, it is not necessarily the case, anything cultivated to the extreme will break through its own shackles, but these two are more difficult, but once it is broken, the external martial artist can enter the realm of King Kong is not bad, and the internal martial artist can reach the realm of the unity of heaven and man, these two realms are the existence that can compete with the power of the sixteen realms, but over the years, the number of people who have heard and encountered it is not more than five fingers, and there are very few! ”
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The moon hangs in the western sky, more than half of the night has passed, Li Mobai still closes his eyes tightly, is it exhaling a dragon of air, through the fog around his body, it seems that there is a point of light on his body that keeps swimming, flashing and flashing regularly, and the little face covered with sweat is also exuding bursts of red light, and suddenly he only heard him shout, opened his mouth and inhaled violently, and the mist around his body magically turned into water droplets in front of him and condensed into a small stream of water and flew into Li Mobai's mouth......
An old man hung upside down on an arm-thick branch on the old pine and nodded with a smile, and said with random emotion: "Can it be fused so quickly?" It took me three years back then! ”