Gongsun Shanqing pondered for a moment and said: "Cultivation is to cultivate immortality, and in order to live forever. One is to practice qi first, collect the spiritual qi of heaven and earth into one's own body and refine it, such a practitioner is also called a qi practitioner. Qi training is divided into nine layers, and when you cultivate to the consummation of the nine layers, you can break through the realm and enter the innate realm, which is also called the foundation building realm, and the foundation building realm can increase your life for a hundred years. The foundation building realm is divided into four realms: the enlightenment period, the fusion period, the heartbeat period, and the spiritual silence period. In the period of spiritual silence, it is the Jindan realm, and when you reach the Jindan realm, you will usher in the heavenly tribulation. Those who succeed in the tribulation are called Jindan Zhenren, and they can increase their life span by 500 years. If you can't get over, you will naturally die. I heard that there is still the Yuanying realm on Jindan, but I have never seen it as a teacher. ”

Gongsun Shanqing paused and said, "There is also the path of refining the body, and the cultivation process is particularly painful. First of all, we must refine the skin to make the body tough, then refine the blood, so that our own qi and blood are vigorous, and finally refine the bones, so that the whole body is indestructible, and finally we can reach the wonderful realm of rebirth, which can also be said to be the innate realm of refining the body, which can also increase life for a hundred years. After entering the congenital, it is necessary to start condensing and refining Gang, and finally cultivate into a golden body, so that the body is not broken, and at this time it can also increase its life for a hundred years. What will happen in the future, it is not very clear if you are shallow and humble for the teacher. ”

Gongsun Shanqing took a puff of cigarette and said: "Cultivation is roughly divided into these two categories, of course, there will be others, such as witch cultivation, corpse cultivation, ghost cultivation, recitation cultivation, etc., as a teacher, I have only heard of one or two, but I have never seen it." The world is so big, there are no surprises, the teacher has never walked out of the Wei country over the years, only knows that there is the Song in the south of the Wei country, the Zhou in the east, the Han in the west, and the snow fields in the north. When I was a teenager in the mountain gate, I also looked through those messy travelogue classics, and there were only fragments of words about the outside world, and maybe there were records in the library of those major sects. Most of these are common knowledge of monasticism, and some of them are just hearsay, so you don't need to take them too seriously.

It's just that I want to make it clear to you that if you embark on the path of cultivating the truth, the first thing you need to do is whether or not you want to cut off the earthly edge. To chop or not to chop is your own choice. Rolling red dust, surging all things, the most dyed Dao heart, the most refined Dao heart. It is said that there is no time for the cultivation in the mountains, and decades have passed in a blink of an eye, which is never empty words. Maybe a long trip, a retreat, decades have passed, and at that time, even if you return, all you can see is the tombs of your relatives and friends. So what does it mean to you that you have relatives? There is a saying in the cultivation realm: "If you don't cut off the dust, you don't cultivate the path of immortality." "Of course, this is not absolute, Master's Mountain Gate is just a small sect, and the knowledge is very ugly, and other sects may have other wonderful methods, and it is not impossible to practice without cutting the dust. Just because they are often lonely in the end on the road to immortality, most of the cultivators pay attention to pure hearts and few desires, and stay away from the red dust. If you don't understand it, if you can't figure it out, you can only cultivate the Wild Fox Zen, and if you take the crooked path, you will lose the path of immortality.

Gongsun Shanqing knocked on the cigarette ash and said: "If you want to live forever, you have to fight with everything in the world, and only after you can continue to move forward, this is a road of no return, and you will understand what this sentence means in the future." Finally, I would like to warn you that cultivators pay the most attention to cause and effect, and they must think about it and make plans before doing things. Master's road ahead has been broken, and I can't accompany you all the way, I just hope that in the future, you can see the great rivers and mountains of this vast world for Master. ”

Zhou Changsheng pondered for a long time and asked, "Do you have to cut the dust?"

Gongsun Shanqing said: "The master leads the door, and the cultivation depends on the individual. To cut or not to cut, save your own body. If you understand it thoroughly, what is the difference between cutting and not beheading? If you don't understand it thoroughly, who can cut it down? Not to mention that Master himself has not done it so far, how can he force you to do it. It's just that Master wants you to understand that cultivating immortals is destined to become more and more distant from your former relatives and friends, and this is a helpless thing. Besides, you are so young, how do you know that the red dust is full of silk, and the troubles of cutting are constantly being chaotic. What's more, cutting the dust is not something that can be done overnight, as you grow up in the future, you will understand the words of the teacher today. ”

Zhou Changsheng said: "Changsheng, who doesn't envy Changsheng? The name my father and mother gave me is to hope that I can live a long time, isn't Changsheng exactly what they want." Since I have chosen to worship you as a teacher and choose to cultivate and live forever, I naturally will not regret it. It doesn't matter if I cut the dust or not, the important thing is that I have a heart that asks for immortality, right, Master. ”

Gongsun Shanqing was very pleased and said: "Good apprentice, Master, I have accepted a good apprentice!"

Zhou Changsheng stopped talking, and couldn't help but say, "Master, do you mind if I worship others as teachers in the future? As for the reason, I can't say clearly for the time being. ”

Gongsun Shanqing looked at Zhou Changsheng with interest and said, "I didn't expect my apprentice to be a sweetheart, and I think you also have your unspeakable secrets." Why should I mind? There is a precedence in learning the Tao, and the master is the teacher. You don't think of Master as a cautious eye, as long as you don't forget that you are a member of the Shending Sect and pass on the incense of the Shending Sect. What's more, in the cultivation realm, this is not a problem at all, because there is a demon in the heart. ”

Zhou Changsheng asked, "What is the Heart Demon Oath?"

Gongsun Shanqing replied: "The heart demon oath is to swear with your own heart demon, if anyone violates the oath, he will definitely fail when crossing the heavenly tribulation." No one is going to joke with their future, so the Demon Oath still works. ”

Zhou Changsheng said indifferently: "Isn't it just an oath, if it worked, I would have let Lei hack to death I don't know how many times!"

Gongsun Shanqing said disdainfully: "You are now a mortal in the flesh, and you haven't started cultivating yet, those oaths are useless! Besides, the power of the Heart Demon Oath can only be manifested in the Heavenly Tribulation, and you are now 108,000 miles away from the Heavenly Tribulation!"

Zhou Changsheng stuck out his tongue and said, "I just asked, the master said, don't be ashamed to ask." ”

Gongsun Shanqing said very seriously: "The heart demon oath is not trivial, you have to remember that if you make the heart demon oath, you must complete the oath." Don't swear lightly until you have to, you may feel that it doesn't matter now, and there will be times when you will suffer in the future. ”

Zhou Changsheng said: "The apprentice obeys the master's orders, so can the apprentice leave now?" After speaking, his stomach began to protest and make a gurgling sound.

Gongsun Shanqing said: "Remember not to say what you and I said today, including your parents, don't care, this is for your own good, if you don't want yourself and your relatives and friends to disappear inexplicably." I memorized the contents of the book early and brought it back to me, and the gentleman was not guilty, but he was guilty. ”

Zhou Changsheng was puzzled and asked, "Is it that serious?"

Gongsun Shanqing said: "It can only be more serious than you think, this world is much more cruel than you think." ”

Zhou Changsheng said secretly in his heart: "How could the master not know that I have also encountered a guy who will kill someone if he disagrees." ”

Waiting for Zhou Changsheng to leave, Gongsun Shanqing came to a remote corner tower in Cold Wind City alone, looked at the bustling crowd, and said:

Everyone says that the gods are good,

But you can live forever and never grow old.

Visiting the immortals in the mountains is tireless,

Tigers, leopards, jackals are hard to stop.

Drinking mountain springs and wading streams at dusk,

Overnight in the cave for a seat.

Just to get the immortals to see,

You have to get three or two words about the Dharma.

Refining clouds and twilight refining mist,

Eliminate the three evils every day.

When it comes to the birthday of the cultivator,

Someone is alone.

Are the gods good or not,

Who in the world really knows!

Zhou Changsheng walked out of the room with two books, in the past few months, Zhou Changsheng has been staying in Gongsun Shanqing's blacksmith shop and is not free, at this time it came out like a fish into the sea, and the bird returned to the mountains and forests. He has been hungry for the radish and lard stuffed buns that his mother has wrapped for a long time.

Back at the inn, after a period of greetings, Zhou Changsheng came to the kitchen with Shui Niang to help make buns together. I learned from Shui Niang's mouth that the master has come back these days to recuperate, and the school hall has already begun to lecture, so if I want to rest at home today, I will have to go to the school tomorrow to take classes. Don't think that if you find a blacksmith master, you won't go to school, Shui Niang said that she has already told the master that as long as the school hall lectures, Zhou Changsheng has to go to class honestly, and when he is not studying, he can go to the blacksmith shop to learn to blacksmith with the old man Gongsun. Shui Niang also said that following the blacksmith is at most the life of a blacksmith for a lifetime, if you read the book well in the school, you will be admitted to the college in the future and study for a few more years, and you will not have to pay taxes in your own inn! If you are a jinshi in the future, then we are not also an official master! Therefore, people must have dreams, and they can't just look at their blacksmith shop and eat it now, and they don't have to bow when they see the official master. In the end, Zhou Changsheng really couldn't stand the nagging of the water lady, and said that I would go to the school tomorrow to study, and I would have to review my homework again, and before he finished speaking, he took a few freshly baked buns and slipped back to his room.

Zhou Changsheng held the bun in one hand, and took out the two books from his arms with the other hand and put them on the table. Both books look a little old, and the whole book exudes an old-fashioned atmosphere. I don't know what kind of paper it is, but it looks very tough. The two books are very similar in terms of shape, material and threading techniques, and it is clear that they were written by the same person. On the cover of one book is written in a small seal to practice the Qi Method, and on the other cover, the key to refining weapons is written in gold script.

Zhou Changsheng opened the Qi Refining Law and read it roughly, probably talking about how to absorb the aura between heaven and earth has been roughly used for these aura, but this book only talks about the content of the qi cultivation period and is gone. The other book is about how to refine weapons and some simple talisman pictures, the content seems a little messy, not so much a book, but a notebook, casually jotted down the author's various thoughts when refining tools. To be precise, these two booklets allowed Zhou Changsheng to open the door to another world, and for the first time he knew what aura was, how to absorb it, how to refine weapons to make weapons sharper and stronger, and so on. It's just that for a teenager who doesn't have the slightest foundation in cultivation, the difficulty of reciting these two books in a short period of time is comparable to ascending to the sky. Although most of the mantras in this booklet or the words and sentences dedicated to refining are difficult to understand, it does not prevent Zhou Changsheng from reading it with relish. For a teenager with a strong desire to learn, what is more shocking than novel knowledge and the world. After Zhou Changsheng finished eating the buns, he immersed himself in the world of the two books until it was dark and could no longer read the words on the books.

The fog that covered the world in front of him was lifted by these two books, and the excitement inside had a fatal temptation for Zhou Changsheng.

I don't know if it's true or false in this book, since I don't know if it's true or false, I won't know if it's true or false if I try it! Zhou Changsheng sat cross-legged on the bed according to the posture said in the book, holding the seal with both hands, his mind slowly sank, his spine was like a bridge between heaven and earth, and he felt the aura between heaven and earth from the Baihui acupoint, and entered the sea of qi through the bridge of heaven and earth.

It's just that Zhou Changsheng pretended to study for a long time, but he didn't feel the existence of aura at all, but made his legs numb and numb and painful, pouted and said: "People's hearts are sinister, and the old man is the best at deceiving people." "After finishing it, I remembered the white-bearded old man's boxing technique, since I learned it inexplicably, I was put on the bed by the old man Gongsun and lay down for a few months before I practiced, isn't this just the right opportunity. As soon as he thought of it, Zhou Changsheng first moved the tables and benches in the room, cleaned up a place and came out, and then went downstairs to fill his stomach and ran back to his room.

Closing his eyes, the figure of the old way automatically appeared in Zhou Changsheng's mind. The first is to stand on the pile, and the old Taoist chief stood in three pile postures before and after. The standing pile is divided into three types, one says: round pile, two says: heart pile, and three says: heaven and earth pile. The round pile pays attention to the whole body is round as one, like a big tree in the sky. The feet are the roots of the tree, and I will not move even if you are stormy. The backbone of the body is the trunk of the tree, even if Mount Tai is overwhelming, I would rather be crushed than bend the slightest backbone. The head is the treetop is the most sunny, seeking hope, no matter what kind of bad situation it is in, never bow its head, and the heart is hopeful. The mind pile pays attention to the mind and body at will, at ease, sitting and lying and walking are all standing piles, and you will naturally understand the mystery of the heart pile after you are completed. The pile of heaven and earth pays attention to itself, such as the pile that supports the heaven and the earth, the heaven and the earth do not fall, and the pile body does not break.

The old Taoist then played another set of punches, a total of six styles. The pile is divided into six types, one said: rushing, two said: collapse, three said: thorough, four said: take, five said: interception, six said: inch. The ultimate goal is to fall on the enemy and defeat the enemy. Therefore, no matter whether the boxing method is fancy or simple, as long as it can defeat people, it is a good boxing method! These six styles are almost the foundation of the world's boxing method, and any boxing method will never deviate from its origin. Some seemingly different punches are just a little more varied, or they are directly rephrased, but the root cause has not changed.

Practicing boxing is the most hard-working but better than not talking about qualifications, whether it is good or bad, but the achievements are different. If it doesn't work once, I'll come a hundred times, if it doesn't work a hundred times, I'll come ten thousand times, practice boxing ten million times, and it's in vain to be a god. Practice boxing and pay the most attention to the foundation, don't be greedy for fast, don't be greedy for more, the foundation is unstable and eventually the wind blows the tree. Don't think about anything at first, practice honestly and steadily for millions of times and then think about breaking the realm, and then it will naturally come to fruition, the realm, that's not the right thing to catch.

When you practice boxing to the realm of God, you will naturally understand that all boxing techniques are just one punch in the final analysis.

The old Taoist figure dissipated, Zhou Changsheng opened his eyes, and stood on a round pile in the room. His legs were slightly bent, his spine was straight, his head was slightly raised, and he changed back and forth many times until he was exactly the same as the old Taoist leader's pile posture. Zhou Changsheng closed his eyes and thought that he was a small sapling that had just been unearthed, bathed in the sun and thriving, the wind blowing, the trunk of the small tree swayed gently but the foundation did not move at all. In the room, Changsheng's body swayed slightly, like a small tree moving with the wind, full of avenue charm.

In less than half an hour, Zhou Changsheng felt that his whole body was beginning to ache, especially his legs, which were more tiring than running for dozens of miles, and he seemed to be able to feel that the muscles in his legs were cracking a little bit. In my mind, my little tree was experiencing a violent storm, and it seemed that it would be blown to the ground by the wind if I was not careful. If it really falls, Zhou Changsheng will be a complete failure this time, Zhou Changsheng himself knows in his heart that he can't hold on at the moment, so don't talk about learning boxing in the future. To practice boxing, what you want is the heart that does not admit defeat!

Zhou Changsheng gritted his teeth, imagining that his feet had grown roots, digging deeper and deeper, firmly grasping the ground, and letting you storm and rain, I would not move. Sweat flowed down from his body little by little, and after a while, his whole body was soaked, but he still didn't move a bit, but his body swayed more and more, as if he was about to fall down in the next second, but he was still standing. At this moment he seemed to have entered a strange realm, and he felt that he had really become the tree, which was swaying from side to side in the storm, and was about to be blown to the ground. The tree could only desperately dig deeper and deeper, firmly grasping every inch of the land. As the roots grew deeper and the trunk grew taller and higher, the storm seemed less terrible than it had been, and the treetops at the top were always holding their heads high.

Zhou Changsheng's body shook less and less, and finally became motionless. If it weren't for the long breath and dull heartbeat, others would still be because this is a vivid statue.

Time passed quickly, and it was already morning. When the first rays of sunlight poured in through the window, Zhou Changsheng slowly opened his eyes, took a long breath, and began to walk the pile, going back and forth exactly nine times, closing his fist and exhaling.

Sleepless all night, at this time, Zhou Changsheng only felt that his whole body was extremely sore, but his spirit was surprisingly good, but his stomach unconsciously began to sing about the empty city plan. When it was time to eat, Zhou Changsheng always felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, and when he finished eating, he found that his meal had more than tripled than usual, and he ate eight bowls of steamed buns, and drank two bowls of porridge plus a salted fish. In the shocked eyes of his parents, Zhou Changsheng touched his stomach and said, "I'm finally full." ”