Chapter 168: The Thief of the Dao
After some discussion, the two moved on.
Trees that appeared around them were growing in strange shapes as if they had been distorted by a chaotic force field, and the laws of gravity seemed to have lost their effect, each spreading in different directions.
Li Zhen felt the grotesqueness here, and did not forget to identify various subtle changes along the way.
That oppressive feeling was still there, and it was pitch black all around, and the divine consciousness couldn't be far away.
Through the solidification of the dream recipe surging in the dream spirit's body, Li Zhen tried to identify time and direction, and decipher the chaos caused by the yin in the dream.
Mo Qingping said to Li Zhen: "Knowing the time and knowing the land in a dream is an important ability, if you have the Fagang, you can try to simulate the changes of yin and yang, master this spell, and in the long run, you can also learn it in reality, you don't have to build a foundation to learn." ”
Li Zhen said: "Senior, I already know the time and the place, but I can't use it in my dreams. ”
"Oh, is it??Could it be that Zixu's predecessors have already taught you?" Mo Qingping said, "That's fine, using this technique in a dream is more biased towards the change of bardo, and you try to adjust your spiritual power to this." ”
Li Zhen said: "Thank you seniors for your advice, I'll give it a try." ”
Sure enough, not long after, a vague outline of the terrain appeared in Li Zhen's mind, and a huge topographic picture was presented.
This is his mind connecting to the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and by directly accessing the leyline, he can read the information he wants to know as if he were referring to the jade slip of divine consciousness.
The concept of time seemed to be back in sync, and he could sense the change in time and reality at the same time.
The darkness around is still there, but it feels inexplicably ordinary, no longer depressed.
"We are actually on the edge of the forest, and there is still a long way to go!" Li Zhen was taken aback, "This forest is far bigger than I imagined." ”
Mo Qingping said: "The most important thing in the dream world is land, but it is quite easy to use methods such as shrinking the land into inches and moving the gods, if we are not worried about being planted in the black abyss and not being able to get out, we can fly directly over."
If you fly directly like Zixu's predecessors, the space will be compressed accordingly, which is a common law in dreams. ”
Li Zhen remembered the experience of mortal dreams, and indeed many details were abbreviated, and the principle was that the subconscious thinking inspired the change of the next scene.
Mo Qingping followed the initial strategy and planned to take Li Zhen to walk over down-to-earth.
He taught Li Zhen some skills to rush in his dreams, that is, he was engrossed, sensing the means of shrinking the ground into inches, and constantly reducing the distance.
"This is to use one's own spirit to confront the Heaven and Earth Dao on this side, deceiving it to reduce the distance...... It can be regarded as a means of shrinking the land into inches, but in fact the essence is quite different.
You need to keep in mind that this method has the risk of getting lost in a dream, maybe the front foot will step out, still in the original world, and the back foot will run into the void, I don't know the true location of the dream butterfly valley, and I can't take you over, it's best to take your own sense and perception range as the standard. ”
Li Zhen was very amused: "To sum up, is it to take advantage of the fact that Fang Tiandi Avenue is not paying attention and secretly reducing the distance?"
Mo Qingping said: "You summed it up well, that's it, in addition to stealing the distance, there are many things that can also be imitated, but they should all be done in moderation, remember, too much." ”
Li Zhen was sincerely grateful: "Thank you seniors for mentioning it." ”
Mo Qingping smiled: "This is not a big point, it is just a fraud to deceive the Heavenly Dao of the Dream Realm!"
However, after mastering this method, you may also be able to find some laws of heaven and earth in reality, which is conducive to understanding the Dao ......"
Li Zhen understood in an instant.
Enlightenment is to analyze the laws of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
Throughout the ages, so many monks have spoken mysteriously, pretending to be mysterious, and to put it bluntly, there are two words, law.
Learn from things, and unite nature and man.
Those who are transcendent and saintly are all loopholes in the avenue of heaven and earth.
Due to the particularity of the dream itself, let alone the law, even the origin may be revealed, and the lucky ones will get one or two, and the Tao will not know how much it will skyrocket.
However, the reality is more rigorous, and the Dao of Heaven and Earth will gradually improve itself, and even gradually converge on the origin and authority of these Dao Dao.
This is where the end of the law comes from.
But that is only the end of the old era, not the end of the new era, and there may be other Dao Dharma manifestations in the new era, which are suitable for other cultivation systems.
These things that Mo Qingping taught Li Zhen were by no means addicted to things in a dream, but by groping for their laws, finding the direction of their own cultivation, and learning this skill of finding rules and drilling loopholes.
The future may also come in handy in reality.
The wise man is born to know it, the middle character draws inferences from one another, and Li Zhen thinks that he is a middle-aged person, and these truths are still understood.
So I paid attention to the steps under my feet, and simulated shrinking the ground into inches with my mind, and kept walking.
At first, he walked very fast, a few feet between his fingers, and gradually, he slowed down, and he was about to drop to the level of a mortal trot, and then he was not even as good as a mortal.
In the end, Li Zhen was already slowly soaring, like an old man in his seventies and eighties pacing after dinner.
Mo Qingping looked at his performance, smiled, and didn't urge, just left from time to time and went around a few laps on his own.
After waiting for half an hour, he came back for the fifth time to wait for Li Zhan, and saw Li Zhan step out and inexplicably fell more than ten zhang away.
Obviously, he walked leisurely with his hands behind his back, but he crossed to a place where ordinary monks needed to jump hard to reach, and his body was stable in the middle process, and there was no great movement.
This is already a real shrinkage.
In other dream worlds, Li Zhen can do more exaggerated shifting spirits, but in this kind of natural dream world, the laws tend to be real, and the difficulty of realizing them is not the same.
He can do it, and there is already a bit of a basis for cultivating the truth under false pretenses.
The speed at which the two of them moved forward became faster.
I don't know how long it took, Li Zhen suddenly smelled a smell, fresh and cold.
This is a little minty feeling, not fragrant, but also refreshing, and there is a feeling of invigorating spirit.
"What does it smell like?"
Li Zhen couldn't help but follow the trail.
Mo Qingping said: "What's wrong with you?"
Li Zhen said: "Senior, have you noticed anything?"
Mo Qingping was slightly stunned: "Apart from trees or trees, where is there anything?"
Before he finished speaking, he saw that under the col not far away, a nameless grass like a dandelion was lonely and open, and what grew on it was not the fluffy fluffy pompoms, but the fresh flowers like white orchids.
The smell that Li Zhen smelled did not come from the flowers, but on the long jagged leaves of willow leaves, and the fragrant gossamer was like a cyan mist.
Li Qiqi said: "What is this, how does it look a little like gold is not exchanged, but it doesn't seem to be ......"
He naturally turned his gaze to Mo Qingping, hoping that this senior on the path of cultivation would be able to tell the reason.
Mo Qingping shook his head: "I don't know either." ”
Li Zhen said: "Haven't you seen this kind of plant before?"
Mo Qingping said: "Li Zhen, you have to understand one thing, that is, the dream world is bizarre, and all kinds of situations can happen, this kind of plant, in the final analysis, is a combination of all kinds of acquired Yin Qi and the essence Qi containing a little spiritual essence, maybe there is something mixed with spiritual essence."
But ......"
He said a but, in his tone, there was a bit of helplessness.
"This kind of spiritual ...... It's so unstable!"
Li Zhen hesitated: "What does the instability known by the predecessors refer to......"
Mo Qingping said: "Have you noticed that this spiritual plant is not one, but a patchwork of different plants and plants!"
If you know anything about spiritual plants, you should understand that this kind of leaf sequence and this kind of rhizome ...... There are also their colors, which are too incongruous, it is unlikely to be a normal species, and you don't even need to know much about the spirit plant, just by the feeling of the spirit essence, you can also detect the mixing of several yuan qi attributes, and it is very likely that it is the projection of the spirit essence in the dream realm. ”
"Projection?" said Li Zhen.
Mo Qingping said: "Yes, as the saying goes, there are dreams every day and night, under the fluctuation of the spiritual power released by our human thoughts, distracting thoughts circulate and create dreams, which is a way of generation.
In this dream world, the yin qi flows, and it also shows various laws similar to the changes of thoughts and matter.
Some things in the material world are the 'thoughts' of heaven and earth, and the 'thoughts' of heaven and earth!
Although they do not have the participation of thoughts and spirits, this kind of spirituality and spiritual essence has created all kinds of things in the natural dream world, and this is the origin of the dream world!"
Li Zhen suddenly realized: "I understand." ”
It is not impossible to understand the dream world as the "spirit" of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth dreaming.
Since heaven and earth are eternal, the material world is immortal, and the dream world is immortal.
But among them, many things are bizarre and distorted, which is also a major feature.
As human beings with sentient beings, not everyone can dream clearly, let alone the chaotic Dao of Heaven and Earth?
Li Zhen was still pondering here, and Mo Qingping said: "Don't look at it, all kinds of spiritual essences are mixed together, not into species, not into a system, and it is difficult to extract anything beneficial from them." ”
Li Zhen said: "Is there really no way to distinguish and extract?"
Mo Qingping smiled: "You said that if there is reproductive isolation and reproduction inheritance in the material world, this is just enough, useful or useless, you can rely on the experience of predecessors to judge, what use can this kind of deformed thing formed by the mixture of various Yin Qi be used?"
Perhaps, this spiritual plant is the only one in the world, and there is no such thing as a similar plant at all, so what is the use of the research results?"
After hearing this, Li Zhen couldn't help but groan: "It's really ...... like this"
Perhaps someone can taste all kinds of herbs with a fearless spirit...... But it also has to be a fixed species, with the same kind of species to study.
Mo Qingping said: "In the future, if you encounter this kind of thing elsewhere, you must be cautious, maybe many of them contain poison, or acquired turbidity that can blend with each other, and can destroy your dream spirit body!"
Indeed, the fact that these Yin Qi and Jing Qi can be combined and turned into plant projections indicates that they are compatible with each other and can be synthesized into certain finished products.
But this kind of finished product may not necessarily be able to blend with one's own spirit.
If you want to identify and use it, the risk is not small.
Unless it is a specialized Dan Dao monk, or someone who knows a little about the art of immortal medicine, he can reconcile the pharmacology, distinguish the five elements, and use various methods to extract the essence......
But if you have such skills, why do you go so hard to go deep into this place to pick such unknown deformed and strange things?
Wouldn't it be better to harvest those useful things that have a stable shape and have been proven to be useful for a long time?
The discovery of every spiritual material was succeeded by the countless hard efforts of the predecessors, and even at the cost of their lives.
At this time, Mo Qingping mentioned another common sense: "In fact, similar essence or law aggregation things also exist in reality, but they are mostly seen in high-grade spiritual materials, which are more rare and precious!"
The monk has enough motivation and interest to study it, and naturally has the opportunity to understand its physiognomy, but he does not have to waste it on such low-end things. ”
When Li Zhen heard this, he felt that it was reasonable.
But it is reasonable, he still can't help but look at it a few more times: "But...... It smells a little good!"
"Don't be surprised seniors, I still want to take it back and take a look, even if it is really poisonous, it can be mixed into poison, and maybe it can be made to deal with the enemy. ”
What smells good must be good and beneficial.
He has always remembered this simple truth.
Mo Qingping was noncommittal: "If you want to pick it, you can pick it casually, but there are a lot of such deformed things in the dream world, can you pick them all the same?" If you have to pick every thing you see, maybe all your time and energy will be spent on the road, do you want to go to Dream Butterfly Valley to pick rainbow flowers?"
Li Zhen laughed embarrassedly: "Don't take it as an example." ”
So he simply picked up the things in front of him neatly, and followed Mo Qingping to continue to go inside.
On the way, the two really saw all kinds of strange dream things, between the yin and the qi, mixed flavors, and all kinds of evil air flows, showing completely different sexual flavors.
Mo Qingping's ability to perceive these things was a little worse, but even if he saw it, he didn't stop at all, and went straight over.
Li Zhen regretted it, but he was worried about this matter.
He always felt that he might be able to distinguish these sexual smells by smelling incense, collect and simulate different fragrances one by one, and greatly enrich his perception of the various fragrance recipes!
But forget it this time, if you have the opportunity to explore on your own in the future, you can go it alone again.
There is no need to expose this skill in front of Mo Qingping.
"We're here, this should be it, right?"
Suddenly, Mo Qingping's voice interrupted Li Zhen's thoughts, Li Zhen looked up, and saw a stone tablet engraved with the name of Dream Butterfly Valley appearing in front of him.
"Dream Butterfly Valley ......"
Suddenly, Li Zhen's expression changed slightly, and he was secretly surprised in his heart.
"It's true here, but why is there such a fog, it seems to be a little different from last time!"
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