I saw that the old monk's original pale face had returned to normal, and he looked at Zhao Qing, who had defeated himself with only five moves just now, and sighed: "The old man has practiced martial arts for 135 years and practiced meditation for 40 years, so I thought that there was nothing in the world that could shake the old man's heart."

"However, tonight, I saw the peerless miracles of the layman, and knew that the old man could have the possibility of witnessing the feat of others "ascending" in his lifetime, but it made the old man's heart lake ripple suddenly."

Although he claimed to have a rippling heart, he spoke in a flat tone, as if he had seen through everything.

The moonlight shone through the ice mist, just shrouding the old monk in a pale white light, blending with the silver-covered ground, giving people the illusion that he had been standing here since ancient times.

One hundred and thirty-five years of martial arts? Zhao Qing's heart moved slightly, just talking about the masters she had seen with her own eyes, in the world of heavens, the age of the sweeping monk was already the oldest.

At the age of about one hundred and fifty years old, it is no wonder that the other party seems to have some kind of relationship with the Loose Sect, but he is still old enough to look like this.

The rejuvenation effect of the Northern Shengong and Xiao Wuxiang Gong can probably delay the aging speed by half, and the Xiaoyao faction is really good at the martial arts of rejuvenation and immortality, and it has to be the "Heaven and Earth Immortal Changchun Gong" practiced by Tianshan Tong's grandmother.

As for the reason why the old monk was able to recover quickly after the failure of the spiritual confrontation, when he reached Zhao Qing's current realm, he instantly understood the truth.

Martial arts such as "yoga" can greatly improve the ability to heal oneself, in fact, because the mastery of the first seven senses is also a process of strengthening the control of the body, which can release the various potentials contained in the body.

With the attainments of the Sweeping Monk and the ability of Ezuna to contemplate all things around him, even if he had not practiced "yoga" or other exercises, his physical vitality was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

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"Seniors, I don't know what are the masters in history who have successfully "ascended" and "nirvana"?" After thinking about it, Zhao Qing asked.

The old monk pondered for a while and replied, "In the most distant time, the Buddha Shakyamuni was naturally the first person to attain Nirvana, and in the Spring and Autumn Period of the same period, there was also a master who "soared" away. But after these two people, rumors of "ascension" and "nirvana" appeared many times, but there was not much evidence."

"It's just that if the physical body is not corrupted or corrupted, the realm of Taoism refining gods and the position of Buddhism seeing the Tao can be completely achieved, and the physical body will be immortal for thousands of years after death. Ordinary people who lack vision can easily mistake this phenomenon for that they have become immortals and Buddhas."

"And in the absence of the addition of true qi and internal force, after death, the physical body is still harder than iron, and the vajra is not bad, which is better than the pure physical body is not corrupted, and as long as it reaches the realm of refining the void and the void, it can be initially cultivated."

"Ge Hong in "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter?? In "On Immortals", the immortals are divided into three classes, namely autopsy immortals, earth immortals, and heavenly immortals. Of these three, only the "Heavenly Immortals" are the realm of "Harmony" that breaks through the void and soars by day."

"And the so-called "autopsy immortal", which is claimed to abandon the body and go to the immortal after attaining the Tao, is actually just a manifestation of refining the gods and entering the void. After cultivating to this level, relying on a certain special technique, their Yuan Shen can survive for a long time after leaving the body, and they can manifest some miraculous abilities."

"The Earth Immortals, known as the Earth Wandering Immortals, are truly "one between heaven and man" and possess abilities that surpass mortals. Throughout the ages, there have been only a handful of people who have been able to achieve this state. Most of the "Earth Immortals" are actually just cultivators who have not abandoned their physical bodies, and they are not worthy of their names."

Speaking of this, the old monk's voice paused, and said, "Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Daomen "Earth Immortals" or masters of the same level as Buddhism known to Lao Qu include Bodhidharma Patriarch, Zhong Liquan, Lu Dongbin, Padmasambhava and others. And like the second to sixth ancestors of Zen Buddhism, although the realm of Buddhism is profound, the cultivation of martial arts is not very outstanding."

"In the past, when Patriarch Bodhidharma came from the east, he was already in the realm of arhat fruit, and his martial arts were beyond the world. However, he did not cherish the miracle of the Arhat Fruit, and resolutely turned to the Mahayana Bodhisattva Path, which took decades to rebuild to the realm of the Bodhisattvas of the Eight Lands. As for the last move, whether he succeeded in taking it or not, the old man doesn't know."

"Speaking of which, the old man is a hundred

Over the years, I feel that the aura of heaven and earth seems to be gradually thinning, which shows that after the prosperity of martial arts in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the martial arts of the world began to decline step by step."

"However, as if it was a return to the light, in this era when martial arts were about to wither, there were Duan Siping, Murong Longcheng, Lao Qu and other masters of the Void Level, and two great masters who had entered the realm of the unity of heaven and man and refining the void were also born, and they were even more rare characters with qualifications like you."

"Two great masters who have entered the realm of the unity of heaven and man?" Zhao Qing was slightly shocked in his heart, one of them was Xiaoyaozi, and who was the other one? Is this man still alive?

The old monk nodded and explained, "The first one, who is a half-teacher and half-friend of the old man, whose name is Xiaoyaozi, as early as seventy or eighty years ago, has already crossed heavens and man, and walked on the road of refining the path of harmony with void. The second place, known as the sword demon Dugu in the martial arts in the past, swept the world with one person and one sword, invincible."

"Forty years ago, Dugu Jushi stepped into the realm of returning to the void and defeated the old man who was still a Taoist at the time, leaving an irreparable wound on the old man, and he had to turn from the Tao to the Buddha, and he could not erase the shadow in his heart for forty years."

"Forty years have passed, although I don't know where Dugu Jushi is, but according to his talent back then, most of them have reached the realm of "unity between heaven and man", which is enough to compete with Brother Xiaoyaozi."

It turned out to be a lonely defeat? Zhao Qing was shocked in his heart, and his thoughts fluctuated.

In "The Condor Heroes", Yang Guo first guessed that Dugu was a character at least sixty or seventy years ago, and then thought that the Condor had lived for hundreds of years, and it was not surprising that Dugu was earlier than the Tianlong era.

Prior to this, Zhao Qing found that in this dream, most of the masters were fighting the enemy empty-handed, and the divine weapons that might contain the qi of Jin Xing were quite rare, except for the previous sword of Li Qiushui, there seemed to be nothing else.

This is quite different from the previous two worlds, where there was more harvest than consumption.

Now it seems that the harvest of Jin Xing's qi may fall on a few swords in Dugu's sword mound.

Having said that, being able to defeat Dugu, who specializes in kendo and martial arts has reached its peak, is definitely much more inspiration for his own harvest than a sweeping monk.

I don't know, have the two of Dugu and Xiaoyaozi ever met and fought each other? Xiaoyaozi left the Xiaoyao faction sixty or seventy years ago, and it is suspected that he went overseas, and the two have not met, which is normal.

The location of the sword mound is near Xiangyang City, and it shouldn't be difficult to find Dugu if you want to defeat it.

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"I don't know, what kind of conflict did the predecessor and the sword demon Dugu have?" Zhao Qing thought secretly in his heart and asked.

In her opinion, when the sweeping monk sensed herself, she didn't react normally, as if she was afraid of being found. Could it be that the reason why he stayed in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Shaolin Temple and became an inconspicuous miscellaneous monk was actually to avoid Dugu and seek defeat?

As if he had guessed Zhao Qing's thoughts, the old monk sighed lightly and explained, "More than fifty years ago, the Gusu Murong clan invited the old man to help resolve a conflict, and because Murong Longcheng had a great favor to my Li family in the past, the old man immediately agreed to go."

"I heard the head of the Murong clan at that time say that when he was more than ten years earlier, he thought that Dugu Jushi belonged to the same Xianbei clan as himself, and he was extremely talented, so he tried his best to win over him and promised all kinds of benefits."

"However, the other party did not accept the kindness, but took advantage of the fact that he was not at home to sneak into the Shenhe Village and Shi Shui Pavilion, secretly read the martial arts secrets in it, and through ten years of practice, the martial arts surpassed the head of the Murong family, and he wanted to return to retaliate."

This head of the Murong family, inferring from the conduct of Murong Bo and Murong Fu, is probably slandering others. Zhao Qing's mind moved slightly, suspecting that the so-called "trying to win over" was probably "coercion and temptation".

In addition, Dugu Jiujian is eclectic in the world's martial arts, and it turns out that he also has some credit for returning Shi Shui Pavilion, which is indeed quite reasonable.

The old monk sighed lightly, knowing that the people in the Shaolin Temple would come to investigate because of the loud noise during the fight, so he began to walk towards the bottom of the mountain, and continued:

"At that time, the old man heard that the reputation of the lone lone monk in the rivers and lakes was very bad, and he was called the "Sword Demon", and he regarded it

The demon-like figure was convinced of the words of the Murong family master, and not only wanted to resolve the conflict between the two sides, but also prepared to punish the Dugu Jushi with a big punishment."

"In fact, when it was time to really fight, Lao Gao found out that the other party was definitely not the villain in the rumors and the words of the head of the Murong family. However, after the conflict broke out, the swordsmanship of the Dugu Jushi was too fierce and there was no retreat, so in desperation, the old man had no choice but to use his life level to defeat him."

Zhao Qing followed the old monk down the mountain and nodded when he heard the words.

A person who is skilled in martial arts can deeply understand others from martial arts, just as a literary person can recognize the character of the other party from words.

Although there is also the possibility of camouflage, the sweeping monk may have reached the realm of "sympathy between heaven and man" at that time, and his perception ability is extremely amazing, and there should be no problem in making a judgment.

The old monk said as he walked, "About six or seven years later, Dugu Jushi struck again, slashed the head of the Murong family with a sword in Shenhe Village, and then began to look for the trace of the old man. After another five years, the old man made an appointment with him in a place called the Valley of Despair, and was defeated on the spot, barely escaping."

Valley of Despair? Zhao Qing's heart moved, the Gentleman and Lady Sword and other weapons in the Valley of Despair are quite good in terms of material, although they have not experienced any masters, they may also be able to cultivate a small amount of golden energy.

"If your guess is average, the reason why Lao Wei stayed in this Shaolin Temple was indeed to avoid the Dugu Jushi's divine sword in the first place."

The old monk narrated the matter: "In the first battle of the year, he left an indelible sword intent on the left rib of the old man, which was enough to sense the position of the old man at a long distance and lock the soul for thousands of miles."

"In order to change his spiritual temperament and avoid being sensed by the sword intent, Lao Qu transformed all his Taoist true qi into the internal force of the 'Yi Jin Sutra', became a pure Zen man, and with the help of the previous abbot Lingmen master, he turned into an ordinary serving monk and lived in seclusion on the edge of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion."

"Forty years have passed, and the old man has gradually felt his deep relationship with Buddhism from the panic when he first entered the Zen Gate, and gradually got rid of the three poisons of "greed, hatred, and ignorance" in his heart, and created a Buddhist internal strength that can be compared with the Yijin Sutra, as well as the five ways to seek Buddha and protect the way."

"Alas! In fact, kindness is fate, and enmity is also fate, hatred cannot be attached, and kindness does not have to be attached. The things of the world are like clouds of smoke in the past, it is precisely "all laws are born from fate, and all laws are destroyed from fate", "gains and losses follow fate, and the mind does not increase or decrease".

"Now it seems that the reason why Dugu Jushi didn't use the killer after the battle back then was mostly because he had already found out the truth of the matter and knew that Lao Gu had been deceived by the head of the Murong family."

Speaking of which, the two of them had already walked back to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and there were mysterious spiritual fluctuations emanating from their bodies, which naturally made Xuan Sheng, a first-class expert of Shaolin Temple, who rushed over to investigate the situation, ignore their existence.

I saw that the old monk casually opened a door on the edge of the pavilion, took out a wooden box from the house, opened it, and revealed three rows of wooden dolls placed side by side inside.

These puppets are oiled with a layer of tung oil, painted with black lines, a total of eighteen, the carving is extremely exquisite, and the faces are lifelike.

The expression of each puppet is the same, or joy, or crying and tears, or tearing, or staring with affection.

The old monk introduced: "It's a shame to say that the old man named this self-created internal skill 'Arhat Demon Suppression Gong', which is a bit offensive to the title of Dugu layman."

Does the Arhat subdue the demon? Zhao Qing's mind moved slightly, and he looked at the eighteen puppets, and found that the exercise route above was quite mysterious, and it was not under the Northern Shengong and Mingyu Gong.

"This exercise is the culmination of the internal strength of Buddhism, and it is also integrated with some Taoist theories of yin and yang, which is very subtle and profound. Only those who are gifted and intelligent, who have got rid of all mundane worries and distractions, can they get started."

"This skill focuses on the harmony of yin and yang, nourishing the spirit, and the internal force cultivated can promote the practitioner's perception of the first seven senses, invisibly improve the realm of Buddhism and the mind, and finally incarnate an arhat to subdue external demons."

The old monk elaborated: "The Yijin Sutra handed down by the Bodhidharma Patriarch is mainly a minor practice that can transfer and adjust the muscles, bones, meridians, and acupoints. It's qualifications

Ordinary people, as long as they have a Zen mind, can become a supreme genius in the eyes of ordinary people through the adjustment of the muscles and bones in their bodies."

"Although the 'Arhat Demon Suppression Gong' created by Lao Wei does not have the magic of changing the qualifications of the 'Yi Jin Sutra', it can be practiced together with the 'Yi Jin Sutra', and the two complement each other."

"In today's battle, like Zhao Jushi, Lao Wei has also gained a lot, and it may not take long to be able to melt the sword intent that has been lingering in the flesh and blood for forty years, and the internal injuries will be gone, and there will be a little more hope on the road to proving that there is more than Nirvana."

The old monk said to Zhao Qing in a grateful tone: "If the layman agrees, the old monk wants to exchange with the layman the mysteries of the "Yijin Sutra", "Arhat Fu Demon Gong", "Liberation from Troubles", and "Buddhism Four Zens and Five Links".

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