Chapter 23: Practice
In the prayer pool...
The little turtle swam into the bottom of the pool and sucked the red dust and smoke from the cloud pattern jade pendant into its mouth.
The picture scroll of mountains and seas is presented again, and as a wisp of turbidity submerges into it, various memory fragments also emerge on the scroll.
Teacher Aunt Ningzi's real memory fragment...
When he was a little Taoist child, he met Zhang Yangming, who was also a Taoist child, and faced his intelligent and high-spirited senior brother, and the girl's feelings were secretly born.
The two have known each other for many years, and they have reached the point of talking about marriage and becoming a Taoist couple, but they were suddenly bound by the so-called 'fairy fate'.
The fates of the two are like two lines that originally intersected but diverged, drifting apart with time...
All kinds of twists and turns, which make people sigh...
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The memory fragments manifested on the mountain and sea painting scrolls gradually dimmed, and some small characters of ancient seals surfaced: get a wisp of 'red dust and fireworks', dip the immortal word seven products of cause and effect, and give a 'fairy fruit'.
Zhang Xiuyuan inexplicably had an extra fruit shaped like a white pear in his hand, and then he realized that he also knew what the so-called 'Immortal Yuan Fruit' was for.
Eating it can wash the essence and improve cultivation!
He sighed in his heart, he was still worried about not cultivating his body in the middle of the night, and now he had a 'Immortal Yuan Fruit' that could improve his cultivation, and he was really lacking something.
He looked at the 'Immortal Yuan Fruit' in his hand, but he was not in a hurry to eat it, but carefully took it into his pocket.
It's not that he doesn't want to eat, it's that he doesn't have a cultivation method now, not to mention the method of eating qi in the Immortal Dao, that is, there is no method of internal and external martial arts cultivation in the martial arts!
Taixuguan originally had many excellent martial arts exercises, but they were all in the quiet room of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and now the Heart Cultivation Hall was burned by the master, and even those martial arts exercises were lost.
And that 'Immortal Yuan Fruit' has the effect of washing the essence and cutting the essence and enhancing cultivation, it is obviously not a mundane thing, he doesn't even have the method of cultivation now, how dare he eat it in his stomach?
Just like a glass of water, his current situation is that there is no cup connected to the water, if he directly fills the water out of thin air, then the improved cultivation is not as good as the rootless duckweed?
Wouldn't it be a waste of fairy fruit?
Thinking that his aunt had said before he left that he would send a few articles on the method of eating qi for his own practice when he returned, he didn't bother too much.
It's just a matter of waiting a few days...
Five days have passed in the blink of an eye...
He had just taken over the Void Vision, and there was no one available under him, so he could only clean the inside and outside of the Void with a clean dust, implying that the flaws were cleansed, and the willows were bright.
Under the big banyan tree at this time...
Zhang Xiuyuan tilted his head and looked at a bird's nest that had been built in the treetops at some point, and two larks were chirping and playing.
He lived alone in this huge void, like a lonely old man, so he was still very welcoming to this new little neighbor.
And the two larks on the tree are not afraid of people, and they will hook their heads from time to time to peek at the people under the trees...
Suddenly, a high-pitched crane chirped from the sky.
The two larks on the big banyan tree seemed to be frightened and flapped their wings and flew away.
Just as they flew away, a large white crane fluttered its wings and fell from the green shadow in a graceful posture, its claws hooked with a bookcase.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiuyuan also knew that his aunt had sent something, so he walked over and smiled: "I'm tired of Aunt He." ”
The big white crane knew human nature and understood his words, so he pushed the bookcase on the ground to his side, and cried twice as if to signal that his things had been delivered.
"Thank you, Aunt He..."
Zhang Xiuyuan saw the big white crane's arrogant dots, as if he was about to fly away, and hurriedly called: "Aunt Crane stays, and the poor road is a gift." ”
The big white crane flapped its wings slightly, hooked its slender neck and looked at him, with a bit of humane doubt in his eyes, as if he didn't understand what his 'gift' meant.
"Please wait here for a while..."
Zhang Xiuyuan smiled, and then trotted all the way to the Yisheng Garden in the backyard of Guanzhong, where there was an apricot tree with a vigorous posture and a large crown and weeping branches, and the tree was full of apricots with golden color and full flesh.
This big apricot tree is the same age as the big banyan tree in the front yard, and it was planted when it was too virtual to look at it, and it has been hundreds of years ago.
Although the apricot trees in this Yisheng Garden are not as sweeping as the big banyan trees in the front yard, they will hang fruit around June every year, and the fruits are all fruity and mellow, the flesh is full, and the food is sweet and sweet, and it is very delicious.
Zhang Xiuyuan found a bamboo basket, put the picked apricots into the bamboo basket, and then carried the bamboo basket back to the big white crane.
He took a ripe apricot and broke it open, removed the core, put the soft and sweet flesh in the palm of his hand and handed it to the big white crane, and said with a smile: "The poor Taoist knows that the crane aunt is a fairy spirit beast that does not eat fireworks in the world, but it is rare to come here, why not taste the flavor of this world?" ”
The white crane seemed to be attracted by the rich fruity aroma, stretched out his slender neck, looked left and right at the apricots in his palms, and then opened his beak to take the flesh into his mouth and tasted it.
After eating, its eyes lit up a little, and it seemed to be impressed by the sweet and soft taste of apricots.
Then he looked at the apricots in the bamboo basket, and cried softly twice, as if asking, "Are these for me?" ”
"It's all Aunt He's..."
Zhang Xiuyuan smiled when he saw this, he wanted to break another apricot to feed, but he didn't think that the white crane stretched out his neck and was already in the bamboo basket, picked up the apricot and put it in his mouth, and spit out a kernel like a melon seed.
Maybe it didn't feel like it was enjoyable, but after eating the pulp, it ate an apricot in the same way.
Seeing Zhang Xiuyuan's expression a little weird, Bai He seemed to realize that his 'snorting apricots' was not graceful, and he cried like a tsundere girl at the moment, and then flapped his wings and flew away.
Just as he flew away, Crane Paw grabbed the apricot along with the bamboo basket.
The white crane flapped its wings and went to the White Cloud Temple, glanced back, saw that no one had found it, stretched its slender neck to the bamboo basket to pick up an apricot, and then spit out the kernel......
Seeing that the white crane had gone away, the two little larks flew back from nowhere.
Zhang Xiuyuan moved the bookcase under the big banyan tree, and while he sat under the tree to enjoy the coolness, he also turned out the ancient books in the bookbox and slowly flipped through them...
There are more than 20 ancient books in the bookbox, which not only contain the methods of eating qi needed for cultivation, but also some cultivation experiences, basic knowledge of the cultivation world, anecdotes of the cultivation world, miscellaneous travelogues, and so on.
These ancient books are not from the picture scrolls of mountains and seas, and the contents of the books will not turn into spiritual light and directly drill into his mind, and he needs to study them slowly to understand the true meaning.
After reading an ancient book called "The Theory of Convincing Qi and Essence", he also had a general understanding of the cultivation of qi refiners.
In addition to the realm of 'refining and refining qi', 'refining qi and transforming gods', 'refining gods and returning to emptiness', 'refining void and merging the way' and the legendary 'true immortal' realm, in fact, before cultivating, there must be two small stages that are not considered realms: 'building a foundation in a hundred days' and 'refining grain and refining essence'.
As the name suggests, 100 days of foundation building means 'laying the foundation'...
The key to high-rise buildings is to lay a good foundation, and only when the foundation is laid can the building be built, if the foundation is not solid, even if the building is built, it will fall into place.
The same is true of spiritual practice...
And building the foundation in 100 days is a process of finding the qi machine, and opening up the two veins of Ren and Du, and connecting the hundred veins.
Among them, '100 days' is an empty word, which does not mean that 100 days will definitely be successful, some people may be able to build a foundation in one day, and some people may be trapped for a lifetime and cannot find a qi machine to build a foundation.
The length of time varies from person to person, and is roughly related to factors such as mind, understanding, physical condition, age, etc.
As the name suggests, refining grain and refining essence means to eat a full meal.
During the cultivation period, if you haven't even reached the minimum of 'refining grain and refining essence', and you don't have an experience, what realm can you still hope to reach?
If there is no refinement, or if the refinement is not satisfied, what can be used to complete the next step of 'refining and refining gas'?
Most people who practice martial arts have a large amount of food, and it is also due to this...
As for Bigu, it appears in the stage of 'being full of qi and not thinking about food', that is to say, Bigu is the natural manifestation of the success of 'refining and refining qi'.
Zhang Xiuyuan closed the ancient book thoughtfully, and muttered: "Eat a full meal, look for the qi machine to build the foundation, this matter is easy to ......."