16. The Difference Between Immortals and Immortals (I)
As time passed, the cultivation of Huang Chang and other new disciples gradually entered the right track, and they not only began to transform from a mortal to a true cultivator physically, but also gradually moved closer to the monk class spiritually. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoSpecifically, I learned more and more about the knowledge and rules of the immortal cultivation world.
The first is about the division of the realm of monks - don't look at the world, all monks who are proficient in magic are called "immortal masters", but in fact, within the world of cultivating immortals, the vast majority of people cannot afford the word "immortal".
If you want to say that the real immortals, it should actually refer to those gods who lived in the heavenly immortal realm before the great changes in heaven and earth took place. Occasionally, those who fell into the world passed down all kinds of immortal techniques and Taoism - all the Taoist techniques today are derived from this. However, since the collapse of the Kunlun Heavenly Pillar and the cutting off of the road to heaven, they have never been seen in the world. In the past, the shortcut for mortals to climb to the top of Kunlun Mountain to reach the sky in one step no longer exists, and it is impossible for mortals to fly to the heavenly realm. For more than 100,000 years, countless powerful people have tried their best to search for this, but so far they don't seem to have heard of anyone succeeding.
Therefore, the definition of the word "immortal" in the immortal cultivation world today is much more relaxed than before. To put it simply, as long as you can fly freely in the sky with your own strength, you can be worthy of the title of "immortal master". However, even so, there are not many cultivators who can meet this standard.
For example, Mu Ziqing and Chen Xiangrong can fly, but they can do it not with their own strength, but with the help of magic weapons given by the sect. If they lost the help of utensils and tools, although they could still use many Dao Immortal Techniques, they would not be able to reach the realm of emptiness after all. And if you can't fly out of thin air, you can't be called an "immortal".
With the help of various magic tricks, the monks draw spiritual energy from heaven and earth into themselves, and after practicing and refining, the spiritual energy is transformed into mana in their bodies and can be used. During this period, the monks felt similar to the martial artists in the world when they ran the exercises, and they all had a "sense of qi" flowing in their bodies, which they called mana true qi. And the monks of this period should actually be called Qi Refiners, or Qi Refining Periods.
The vast majority of cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation Realm were only in the Qi Refining Period, and although they could use the Immortal Sect's spells, they were still only mortal in the flesh. Its lifespan may be longer than that of ordinary people, but it is very limited, and if nothing else, it should live to be about 100 years old. The number of spells used is also very limited, often several, at most a dozen spells will deplete the mana in the body, if you can't supplement it with a panacea or the like, you can only rely on meditation and pranayama to slowly recover. Because of the limited mana, some powerful spells cannot be used, and only relatively low-level spells can be used. Of course, people are the smartest, and they can use various tools and talismans to make up for their own shortcomings - for example, Mu Ziqing, Chen Xiangrong and other Qi refining period cultivators can fly, which is because of the use of magic tools.
Later, as the monk's skill deepened, the mana true qi in his body became more and more intense, and in his own senses, these mana that usually flowed in the meridians of his body would slowly condense and stagnate, and finally form a heavy liquid feeling similar to the flow of mercury. This "liquid true qi" is not just a change in sensation - at this time, if the monk is injured, even the blood that flows out will faintly have a golden liquid, which is called "Fa Yuan Golden Liquid". It can completely cleanse the meridians and textures of a cultivator's whole body, completely changing his physique. And the monks of this period are also known as the Fayuan period.
When the monk reached the Fa Yuan period, his whole body was completely transformed by the Fa Yuan gold liquid, and since then he has not been contaminated with filth, dust, water and fire are difficult to invade, and he can recover in a very short time after being injured, and his energy is almost endless. This can be regarded as truly getting rid of the mortal body and achieving the immortal Dao body, that is, the body possessed by the heavenly immortals, also known as the body of the Fa Yuan.
After possessing the body of the Fa Yuan, the monk used the magic method, both the effect and the scale were far stronger than the Qi refining monk, and the Fa Yuan gold liquid in his body could ensure that the monk could use the magic for a long time without the mana running out, and he could also use many powerful spells that the Qi refining stage monk could not support at all, such as flying in the air......
- That's right, only monks who have reached the Fa Yuan stage are truly qualified to be called "immortal masters" in the immortal cultivation world. The previous Qi Refiners were at best just cultivators—this was the reason why Mu Chen and the others could only call themselves senior brothers and sisters in front of their new disciples—they were currently only wandering in the late stage of Qi refining close to the Great Perfection, although their strength was very strong, and if they went down to the human world, they could be called a grandmaster, but they were still just people, not immortals.
However, although the body of the Fa Yuan is strong, it is not immortal. The lifespan of a monk in the Dharma Yuan period is generally about three or four hundred years, and after this time limit, or if they are too seriously injured in a short period of time, they will also grow old and die. It's just that the rate of aging will be relatively slow - starting to age at about 300 years old, and it will not be until nearly 400 years old to almost reach the end of life. And before death, there will be various visions, such as the skin becoming rough and dull, the body will be re-contaminated with dust, and the face will age rapidly. Therefore, the only wish of the vast majority of immortals who have reached the Fa Yuan stage is to reach the next stage of the Jindan stage as soon as possible in order to achieve immortality.
- When the Fa Yuan monk reaches the later stage, the blood of the whole body will be transformed into pure gold. At this time, if you continue to condense the whole body with the Immortal Family Exercises, you will accumulate the essence of these Dharma Yuan gold liquids, and eventually form a golden pill in the body. At this time, the monk has reached the so-called golden pill stage.
The monks of the Jindan period are not much higher than the Fayuan period just by looking at the physical strength, and the Jindan monks usually have a lifespan of more than five hundred years. Because the body of the Fa Yuan itself was already a near-perfect immortal body, it was difficult to improve no matter how much cultivation and enhancement were cultivated. However, once the monk achieves the golden pill, he can place his soul on it, so that even if the body is damaged, the golden pill can escape with the monk's original spirit, and then either find a fetus that is still in the mother's womb to be reborn, or attach to the body of the dying person to take away. If the soul itself is strong enough to survive the mystery in the womb or the soul counterattack of the original owner, he can live again with the original soul and memories - with the ability of the Jindan monk, it is easy to prepare these conditions for transferring souls for themselves in advance, which means that they can live for at least two lifetimes, and if they are lucky, maybe three lifetimes, which can be regarded as an alternative kind of immortality. Therefore, in the world of cultivating immortals, there has always been a saying that "a grain of gold pill is refined into the abdomen, and my life is up to me, not to the sky!"
Of course, the Heavenly Dao has its own fixed number, even if the Jindan monks can change their lives against the sky, there is a limit after all - they can only be reborn once at most and take away once, adding up to the life span of more than a thousand years in the three worlds, if they can't reach a higher level, they can only die with regrets.