Chapter 100, Zheng Shuang's situation
In the world of Kyushu, there are not only human beings, but there are many other races, and even many inanimate things can become monsters because they are impregnated with aura.
For a period of time, human beings used "little demons", "big demons", "demon kings", and "demon gods" to divide monsters, which creatures that did not know which discipline, which class, order, family, and genus to be counted as "little demons", "big demons", "demon kings", and "demon gods" - regardless of age and species, purely based on strength.
This division was complained about by the monsters - no matter how strong the human race is, it has not been called a king or a god, why is the monster strong, if it is a king or a god?
Gradually, this division was not much mentioned, but this line of thinking is still used today.
Just as human beings have levels such as acquired, congenital, real person, grandmaster, and immortal Buddha, monsters also have three levels: small demons, big demons, and demon gods.
Among these three levels, only the standard of the demon god is very clear - cultivating into a long life, that is, the demon god. The other two levels really don't have many clear standards.
But there is no doubt that the one who is strong or has a long life is the big demon.
In addition, there are often those who occupy the mountain as the king and lead the demons of one side. Generally speaking, the strength must be at least equivalent to the realm of a real person in order to be able to do this kind of thing.
Therefore, there are often people who regard the real human realm as a watershed, hereinafter referred to as a small demon or ordinary monster, and above as a big demon or demon king.
It will make the whole Yangzhou black and white rush to it, and if you want to pick up a cheap one, it will naturally not be a big man in the grandmaster realm, but it will not be an ordinary innate realm, probably at the level between the innate peak and the new real person.
If the strength is low, it is not worth the master's shot; if the strength is high, the ordinary innate past is to die.
Pan Long thought for a while and asked, "Could it be that the defeated and injured demon is a snake?"
The old helmsman nodded: "Exactly." It is said to be a snake demon that has been cultivated for more than 700 years and has almost become a real person. If you can kill it and take its inner pill, it will be one of the main materials of the 'Dragon and Tiger Friendship Pill'. And if you can subdue it and help it change its evil ways and accumulate merits, it will eventually turn into a snake. At that time, it will be a river god, who will be able to shelter his descendants for a long time - so the masters of the black and white realms are all moved, and the nature of the innate realm is not a problem, and even the real realm has gone to more than one. ”
Pan Long nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
Despite this, he was not interested in the big demon.
The Dragon and Tiger Jiaoji Pill can help the master of the innate peak to impact the realm of returning to the basics, and it is indeed a valuable treasure. But Pan Long doesn't know how to refine pills - even if he can refine pills, he won't refine any dragon and tiger intersecting pills, and directly refine the higher-grade Four Elephants True Pill, isn't it good?
If you want to find raw materials, what rare things can't be found in the world of mountains and seas?
What's more, there are a lot of Four Elephant True Pills in the Dragon Slaying Treasure, why does he have to refine it himself?
As for subduing this big demon and helping it become a descendant of the river god's protection - Pan Long himself can cultivate into a long life, and his own descendants can just protect themselves without the help of others.
Compared with this big demon, he cared more about the safety of Qionghua Pavilion and his party.
"Then Qionghua Pavilion and his party...... Did you have a conflict with someone else?" he asked.
The old helmsman shook his head: "The helper is just taking people to join in the fun and see if he can pick up a bargain." It's good to pick it up, but it's okay if you can't pick it up - in fact, the main reason why she went out is that everyone else has gone, and if she doesn't go, she will be suspected of wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to attack other gangs. That's troublesome. ”
Only then did Pan Long fully understand that Qionghua Pavilion was not going to seize the treasure, strictly speaking, it was a situation that was pressing, and it was impossible not to go.
It's like if the unit wants to hold a group activity, and everyone goes, even if you don't want to go, at least you have to show up to prove that you have been here.
"Need help?" he asked.
"The helper explained that if Pan Daxia asked, he said, 'We don't plan to fight with others, and of course there is no contradiction. On the other hand, if you come, you will really have to conflict with others.'" ”
Pan Long smiled: "I understand, I understand." ”
He left the Yitian Courtyard and walked around Guangling City, but he really didn't find anything interesting or worth mentioning, so he simply used stealth to visit his apprentice's family.
Now that Zheng Shuang and his family have lived outside Guangling City, Zheng Shuang is working hard to accumulate and cheer for breaking through the innate realm as soon as possible, and he often needs to retreat for a long time. Although the city is prosperous, there is no suitable place to retreat. So they borrowed to live in a Taoist temple outside the city, trying to be pure.
The Taoist temple is quite remote, and the incense is naturally very ordinary. The main Taoist name of the Taoist temple is called "Changchunzi" - fortunately, the name of the layman is not called Qiu Chuji. When Pan Long first heard about this person's Taoist name, he was shocked, thinking that this old Taoist priest had a master who had cultivated to become an immortal Buddha, called Wang Chongyang or something.
Although Changchunzi is a Taoist, he actually has little interest in Taoism or cultivation. This old man's favorite thing is to plant flowers. There are more than 10 acres of flower fields near Changchun view, divided into four pieces of spring, summer, autumn and winter, there are often flowers open all year round, it is also a famous scene in Yangzhou, and the plum forest called "Xiangxue Sea" outside Gusu City is equally famous, it is called "Four Seasons Flower Garden".
It's a pity that its place is too remote, if it was in the technologically advanced world of Pan Long's previous life, after repairing the road, it would not be a problem to be remote. But for this world, the scenery is too remote, and only a very small number of people who are really interested in tourism will visit it.
But Changchunzi is obviously very satisfied with this - this old way wants to be remote!
Zheng Shuang also wants to be remote, so he will take his family to live here.
When Pan Long came to Changchun Temple, Zheng Shuang was in retreat in the ashram. His wife, with their two sons, went to the flower field to help.
Pan Long took a look from a distance, but saw that the three of them were in good spirits, full of vitality and radiant, obviously this time was good. The work in the flower field is not hard, it is more about being light and careful. This is also quite helpful for honing patience and meticulousness, and Zheng Shuang's wife doesn't practice martial arts, so that's it. The movements of the two sons are light and gentle, and it can be seen that the work during this period has sharpened their temperament and eliminated the frizziness common in young people.
Pan Long looked at it for a while and nodded slightly.
He went to see the situation of Changchunzi again, and only after a look did he know that the old Dao was originally a person who cultivated spells. It's just a peaceful atmosphere mixed with the fragrance of plants and trees, without the slightest bit of gloomy and evil atmosphere, and it is really a master.
He watched from a distance for a while, and was looking at a pot of withered flowers, and suddenly realized something about the jackspring that he was thinking about how to cure it, stood up and looked around for a while, and then went out for a circle, and finally went back in confusion.
Lao Dao was still muttering: "It's strange, I clearly feel that someone is watching me...... Could it be that where did the bee and butterfly goblins come from, and they have fallen in love with the flower beds here, and they can't borrow them here?"
"That's not good! I'm also a Taoist priest, and if I don't kill demons and demons, but allow you to collect nectar and dew, it's enough to save face. If you don't have enough to eat, you have to wrap it, it's too greedy!"
Judging by what he meant, this kind of thing probably happened more than once.
Pan Long couldn't help laughing, looked at it for a while, and saw that Lao Dao cast a spell to completely separate the flower with its roots from the soil of the flower pot, and then cut off some rotten roots, and finally cast a spell to refine the slightly evil soil with real fire, and then replanted the flower back, watered and fertilized, and cast a spell to promote growth.
In less than a quarter of an hour, about a third of the flowers in this pot, which had withered, were back to health, and the branches were luxuriant, and the two flower bones faintly revealed a little red.
Only then did Changchunzi be satisfied, and called a Taoist priest to send this pot of flowers to a certain mansion in Yangzhou - but it turned out that he was still working part-time to see flowers, which could probably be regarded as a "flower and tree doctor".
He is not the only Taoist priest who has magic cultivation in this Taoist temple, except for a few little Taoist children, but all adult Taoist priests have some cultivation. Thinking that this is the way their sect cultivates, they can be regarded as elegant people.
Zheng Shuang can get acquainted with them, and even have a good friendship so good that he can borrow and practice here, which can be regarded as a good fate.
Pan Long naturally went to see Zheng Shuang's situation, and this old apprentice couldn't see half of his old age now. He was naked, breathing pranayama in the ashram. With deep breathing, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is continuously inhaled into the body, and then through the transportation of Zhou Tian, it is transformed into the true Qi in the body - of course, the efficiency of the transformation is not very high, between one breath and one inhalation, more than ninety percent of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is still discharged, and less than one-tenth of it can be turned into true qi.
But his demeanor was calm and stable, and there was a kind of peace and joy between his eyebrows, but he had stabilized his cultivation, and it was from movement to stillness that he had already passed the most important level of entering the Tao with martial arts.
The biggest obstacle for those who embark on the path of cultivation through the martial arts is their impetuousness - they may be able to endure all kinds of suffering, but the slow and ineffective thing of breathing pranayama is contrary to the courage and diligence of the martial arts.
If you can't comprehend the beauty of peace and stability in your meditation, then no matter how hard you try to meditate, you will only accumulate more and more anger, and eventually you can't help but explode.
This process, which is called "convincing the heart and ape and the horse" in Buddhism, and "mixing water and fire from the hurdle" in Taoism, is a difficult but must be crossed.
When Pan Long traveled the world, he visited the Suishan Ren family for the first time, and his grandfather Ren Anmin said that simple martial arts kung fu is not enough, and it is good to practice some superior mental methods, and teach him the ancestral mastery of the Ren family.
This mental method, at the beginning, can convince the mind and overcome the difficulties between this movement and stillness, so it is called superior.
What Pan Long taught to Zheng Shuang was naturally not a Taishang forgetfulness, but a branch of Yunzhou Gu Technique.
The best Gu technique in Yunzhou is to use the body as a vessel to nourish spiritual objects, cultivate Gu gods, and then use the power of Gu gods to gain immortality. Although there are very few people who can do this, in the history of Yunzhou, there has really been more than one Gu God.
It's just that they have cultivated to the end, and the human Gu is one, whether it is a human or a Gu, then it is impossible to tell.
Since Bi Lingkong arrived in Yunzhou, he swept away the murderous and treacherous currents in the Gu arts, which cleared the atmosphere of the cultivation world in Yunzhou. Many people who already had a lot of opinions on traditional Gu techniques took advantage of this shareholder trend to study new Gu techniques.
Their new Gu technique also pursues the principle of "natural selection, the strong are born", but they are cultivating and growing the qi of the five internal organs and five elements in their own bodies, visualizing the five internal organs and five behaviors of the five Gus, and then letting the five Gu invade each other, consume each other, and finally decide the winner.
This winner is the one who best suits his natal vitality. With this vitality as the core, he will continue to cultivate and grow, and eventually he will be able to refine himself into a powerful "Yuan Qi Gu God".
Although the name of the Yuan Qi Gu God is Gu, it is actually not a poisonous insect or even a spiritual object, but a pure vitality. Of course, the Yuan Qi does not have spiritual intelligence, and it needs to merge its own soul with it in order to be extraordinary.
This last hurdle is quite difficult, and very few can succeed. But once successful, it can shed its flesh and blood and transform into a vitality creature.
In the history of Yunzhou, so far, there has only been one such Gu God - or rather, Gu Immortal.
It's just that it's impossible to say whether he is an immortal god in the world, or whether he has cultivated himself from a human to a monster.
Moreover, it is not clear whether this method can achieve immortality.
But in any case, that Gu Immortal can also be regarded as one of the world's great supernatural powers, and he is a person who is qualified to make Bi Lingkong praise a sentence of "ability".
Pan Long actually didn't expect Zheng Shuang to be able to cultivate into a Gu Immortal—there were many people who cultivated the Yuan Qi Gu Dao, but only that one could cultivate into a Gu Immortal. As long as his apprentice can cultivate into a real person, he is already satisfied.
Judging from Zheng Shuang's current situation, the real realm is still far away, but at least the innate realm is within reach.
The five strands of vitality in his body have gradually taken shape, as long as these five strands of vitality are completely formed, it is the time to break through the bottleneck and step into the innate state.
At that time, he would be able to naturally obtain five kinds of divine powers from the five Gu Gods embodied by these five Yuan Qi, but he suddenly became a master of martial arts and spells.
Pan Long observed Zheng Shuang for a long time, and was very satisfied when he saw that his condition was stable and accumulating bit by bit.
Although Zheng Shuang's accumulation speed is not fast—his qualifications are indeed not very good, even after washing the hair and marrow with elixir—as long as the road is right, slowing down is not much of a problem.
Anyway, he's not very old, and it can take ten or eight years to accumulate.
Of course, Pan Long could use the elixir to help him quickly cross the ten or eight years, but the "Yunzhou Young Master White Tiger Star" should not have such an elixir.
If it is exposed that "Zheng Shuang's master is Pan Long", it may not be a good thing for Zheng Shuang.
Unless Pan Longxiu grows up in the future and has the ability to shelter all his relatives and friends, he will not expose his master-apprentice relationship with Zheng Shuang.
Of course, if there is a day...... It is conceivable that Zheng Shuang's expression must have been stunned and surprised at that time...... If that's the case, it seems like a lot of fun......
I just don't know if at that time, he was more surprised or happy?
Thinking of this, Pan Long couldn't help but laugh.