Chapter 36: What Is True?
In the second year, Huan Yin did not continue to obsess over the deeper source power of Yang. Because he can feel that the conditions and opportunities he has now are far from enough, and if he forcibly perceives it, it will only be a waste of time.
This year, Huan Yin chose to walk down from the top of the cloud platform, entered the military pavilion, and followed Wei Bing to learn to forge swords.
Sword forging is a craft for Huan Yin, and it is also an indispensable skill. If Huan Yin didn't know how to forge swords in this life, even if he still had strong means and possessed the "Immeasurable True Scripture", I am afraid that he would have died thousands of times. After all, the magic weapon of the divine weapon is a great help for the monk, and even the existence of the Immeasurable Venerable has to forge the sword himself.
It took a whole year to learn to forge a sword, and it wasn't long for Huan Yin at all. Especially to study with the number one refining master in the human world like Wei Bing, let alone one year, even tens of millions of years is not enough.
This year, Huan Yin studied very seriously, and Wei Bing, the master, also taught very carefully, and even specially introduced a lot of refining materials from the heavenly realm to Huan Yin, who was about to go to the heavenly realm, and some of them even took out real objects.
In the process of learning, it is inseparable from words and deeds, and naturally it is inseparable from practice. So in this year, in addition to listening to Wei Bing's teachings and watching Wei Bing's hands-on exercises, Huan Yin will also start to practice from time to time to make the learning effect better.
And Huan Yin's last practice in this year can also be regarded as a self-test of his study this year, or the last report card he handed over to Wei Bing before leaving the school, that is, he cultivated Xingtian again.
This time Xiuye, perhaps because of Wei Bing's guidance, or maybe Huan Yin's hope to reassure Wei Bing, he did something unprecedentedly bold. He chose to add two attributes to the Punishment Heaven at once, that is, Fire and Yang, which he had already realized the source power but had not yet joined. At the same time, Huan Yin naturally will not forget to deepen the insistence in the sword. After all, this is the essence of the "Infinite Sword", and it is also the key to making the fairy sword truly break through the super eleventh grade and enter the realm of the Instrument Saint's attainment.
The whole process was not simple for Wei Bing. And for Huan Yin, an apprentice, it is naturally difficult. During this period, Huan Yin spent a lot of time and energy, wasted a lot of materials, and experienced many near-failures.
But fortunately, the emperor finally lived up to his wishes. No matter what he went through, Huan Yin finally did it in one fell swoop and handed over a qualified report card to Wei Bing.
After another major revision, Xingtian is different from the past. This time, the edge of the entire five-foot long sword was completely covered with shiny fiery red ripples, as if it had been dyed with a layer of bright color. And if you take Xingtian to the sun to receive irradiation, you will find that the fiery red ripples seem to come to life, and they can flow on their own, and in the flow, they will burst out like sunlight on their own.
Obviously, the fiery red ripples are undoubtedly the appearance of the flame attribute. And the change in the sunlight is the appearance of the attributes of yang. These two appearances actually represent the success of Huan Yin's cultivation this time. And these two appearances are displayed through the fiery red ripples, which can be said to be one, which shows that the flame attribute and the yang attribute in the punishment heaven are perfectly combined. In other words, Huan Yin not only succeeded in adding two attributes for Xingtian at one time, but also made the two attributes that he added echo each other and complement each other.
This result is more ingenious than adding different attributes twice, and the benefits to Xingtian are also more. It can be seen from this that this year, Huan Yin really did not waste time, and his sword-forging attainments crossed again under the guidance of Wei Bing, and climbed up a lot.
However, if Huan Yin's biggest success this year is not his success in adding two attributes at once, but his insistence on adding himself to the Punishment Heaven.
This year, Huan Yin studied the middle volume of "Infinite Sword" in depth, and Wei Bing fully taught his understanding of the meaning of the sword, and Huan Yin benefited a lot from the sword god. And this kind of harvest is naturally directly reflected in Huan Yin's entire sword-casting process, and it is shown to the Punishment Heaven.
The strength of the persistence contained in Xingtian now, although it is far from being a great achievement, is at least ten times stronger than the last time Huan Yin joined the persistence. In this way, even if it wasn't Huan Yin to wave Xingtian now, that insistence could be lightly exerted. This is called the natural presence of God in the sword, and there is no need to deliberately inject it.
Such a change can be regarded as a qualitative change in the realm of sword casting, representing that Huan Yin has really taken a step forward in the direction of that instrument saint. Maybe this step is still a little insignificant, but without this step, Huan Yin is still just an ordinary immortal.
Judging from the current state of Xingtian, if Huan Yin dances the sword, I am afraid that the strength of the persistence contained in his sword can already shake the power and have a terrifying power. In this way, each sword of Huan Yin in the future will not only be as simple as the stamina contained before, but the real one sword is equal to two swords, which makes it impossible to defend against and difficult to defend.
However, although Huan Yin forged the sword this time with great success, there was one thing that surprised him a little. Huan Yin originally thought that after he had successfully added two attributes to Xingtian and greatly increased his sword intent, Xingtian would be able to successfully climb two levels and enter the eleventh rank realm. However, this is not the case.
After Xingtian entered the super ten grades, the ascent of the realm began to become extremely difficult. And in the end, even if Huan Yin succeeded repeatedly, Xingtian seemed to have encountered a bottleneck and could no longer climb.
For this unexpected phenomenon, Wei Bing gave an explanation. That is, sword forging is also like the cultivation of a monk, the more advanced the realm, the more difficult it is to continue to improve. So now, although Xingtian was added with two attributes and a large amount of sword intent at once, he still failed to break through.
However, Huan Yin could feel that Xingtian was not far from a real breakthrough. This success can become the foundation for the next leap in punishment. Maybe the next time Huan Yin adds another attribute, Xingtian will be completely different.
After the second year, Huan Yin's time in the Ziyin Sect was only one year left, or his time in the human world was only one year. This year, Huan Yin did not focus on any single thing anymore, did not seek the improvement of cultivation, nor did he seek the strength of the magic weapon.
Huan Yin knew very well in his heart that his qualifications were the best in the Three Realms, and his comprehension was high, so the speed of cultivation was unusually fast, and even the source power was obtained. But if it's too fast, it will often make your foundation appear unreliable and not solid. And if it goes on like this for a long time, the whole person will become vain, and in the end, even if the cultivation is high, I am afraid that it will become a false appearance.
Therefore, Huan Yin needed to fully settle down, so he spent his time on some seemingly trivial and unrelated things. Sometimes he asked Guang Chengzi for advice on kendo, sometimes he learned magic from Wei Bing, sometimes he learned skills from his peers, and sometimes he was obsessed with classics, as if he had no center of gravity at all.
Huan Yin felt that although he didn't have a special focus on doing these things, and he couldn't bring about an obvious increase in strength, he was able to consolidate his foundation from the details. In other words, seeking the small road, but not the avenue, is the best way to get rid of the vanity and fully precipitate.
However, although on the surface, it seems that Huan Yin's cultivation has no center of gravity at all, but in Huan Yin's own heart, he really has a center of gravity. This focus made Huan Yin spend almost all of his time secretly studying in addition to doing those seemingly trivial things, just to find an answer. And this center of gravity sounds very simple, that is, Huan Yin wants to know what is "true".
This question, in fact, has been thought about many times in his heart since Huan Yin first came into contact with Xuanyuan Sword. And as his own cultivation became higher and higher, and he understood more and more avenues, this problem became more and more prominent. The stronger he found himself, the more he found that this problem was in clear conflict with all his Dao teachings.
Because no matter how advanced the Dao method is, in front of Xuanyuan Sword, it seems to have become a fake, and it can be easily broken by a sword. Only the feeling of holding the Xuanyuan Sword is the greatest reality.
Regarding the real question, there has been an upgrade in Huan Yin's heart, that is, since he met the beast mother and began to cultivate the spirit descent. The séance said, "All animals are vain." Falsehood is falsehood, the opposite of truth. This statement seems to be the opposite of Xuanyuan Sword's truth, but if you analyze it carefully, you find that it is the same way.
If you remove the word "animal", it becomes "the way is false". In this way, isn't it exactly the same as the feeling given by Xuanyuan Sword, as if the avenues in this world are all fake?
Huan has cultivated all his life, and if he wants to say that all the hard-earned things are false, he is the first to not believe it. However, the Xuanyuan Sword and the séance, the two things related to the mysterious and desolate ancients, seemed to be completely opposite to the Tao that Huan Yin had seen, so he had to let Huan Yin have an idea in his heart.
Looking through the classics, in fact, many times Huan Yin is looking for questions about truth and falsehood. Naturally, he also had a lot of thoughts and careful deliberations in private, and at the same time, he did not forget to ask Wei Bing and Guangchengzi for advice, hoping to get an answer.
Speaking of which, even Huan Yin himself didn't know why he was so keen on such a simple question. If it had been someone else, I am afraid that this problem would have been forgotten a long time ago. After all, wouldn't it seem a bit stupid to spend time pondering this question over and over again without cultivating?
Huan Yin knows that he just can't let go, he just has to think, over and over again. It was as if in his subconscious, seeking the answer to this question had become a matter of pursuit, or even a level higher than that. Huan Yin only felt that in this simple question, there seemed to be a huge mystery, or a shocking secret, or even a huge lie.