Chapter 8: Visitors from Heaven
It's just that contrary to his wishes, after hearing Ye Qiuli's inquiry, Lu Yan was silent for a moment, and then sighed again, giving a very unexpected answer: "Alas, immortals, how can immortals be so easy to achieve! There are countless cultivators in the cultivation realm, but in the end, there is only one in ten thousand who can cultivate into immortals, and the vast majority of the remaining people have fallen on the road to becoming immortals......
In fact, whether your master ancestor survived the catastrophe or whether he ascended to immortal status, I don't know if you are a teacher. Not long after I cultivated, he had already disappeared, and I haven't gotten any news yet, so he may have been destroyed by the Heavenly Tribulation or some other accident!"
"Missing, since the master can travel freely between the earth and the moon, his strength is obviously extremely powerful! How big is this earth? With your ability, there should be no place that can stop you from viewing, how can you not find the ancestor?" After hearing Lu Yan personally admit that even he couldn't find the ancestor Zhou Xian, Ye Qiuli was really surprised, he really didn't expect that with the ability of the immortals, there would be people who couldn't be found, and asked with a puzzled face.
"Alas!-" Hearing Ye Qiuli's question, Lu Yan smiled helplessly, and then replied: "If you are only separated on the same planet, it will naturally not be difficult for me, with my Mahayana divine sense, it is easy to cover half a planet at a time, and you can always find it if you look for it a few times." It's a pity that your master has disappeared into the vast and endless starry sky of the cultivation realm, and even a quasi-immortal like me has no way to find him. ”
Obviously, Lu Yan didn't feel any surprise at all when Ye Qiuli had this doubt, a person who had never been in contact with the cultivation world couldn't imagine how huge the entire cultivation world was. It's like a frog in a well, who has never jumped out of the well, has seen the outside world with his own eyes, and will always think that the sky is only as big as the mouth of the well.
After a slight pause and a long sigh, Lu Yan continued: "The cultivation realm is too huge, there are countless life planets in it, there is no accurate number at all, that vast and boundless star field, it will take hundreds of thousands of years just to teleport from one end to the other, not to mention slowly searching for one planet after another. Without an extremely large force, no one can easily find an ordinary cultivator in the cultivation realm, and the probability is countless times lower than the so-called needle in a haystack on your earth, and the difficulties can be imagined!"
Ye Qiuli didn't have any intuitive impression of the vast and boundless cultivation realm described by Lu Yan, and at this time, his interest had all focused on the countless cultivation planets that Lu Yan casually said. Because scientists on the earth have been studying the existence of extraterrestrial life planets, countless human beings on the earth are also eagerly discussing this matter, and often disclose some true or false news for this, he can't pay attention to it if he wants to.
Although everyone is convinced that the Earth is not the only planet suitable for life in the vast universe, there is still no definite planet of life to prove this. At this time, from Lu Yan's mouth, Ye Qiuli actually heard that there were indeed countless planets suitable for human beings in the cultivation realm, how could this not surprise him, and he was surprised. Therefore, after Lu Yan finished speaking, he immediately couldn't wait to ask, "Could it be that there are really other life planets outside the earth that can provide human beings with safe survival?"
"Of course, the earth you live on is just the most ordinary of the countless manned planets in the universe, and in the cultivation realm, there are countless planets that are larger, richer, and more beautiful than it. Let's just talk about the Immortal Yuan Star that I cultivated before, it is far from an existence that can be compared to the earth. In fact, compared to the planet of the cultivation realm, the earth you are on has nothing to say except that it can protect life and survive. It was too barren to be cultivated by cultivators. Hearing Ye Qiuli's question, Lu Yan replied disappreciatively.
There are indeed countless planets of life in the cultivation realm, and there are countless of them that are better than the earth's environment. That kind of scene does sound shocking, and it feels like a fantasy. Lu Yan recalled that when he first knew about this kind of thing, his performance was even worse than Ye Qiuli at this time. At least, before he stepped into the cultivation realm, he had always thought that the universe was the image of a round sky, and he didn't know that he actually lived on a planet!
"Ah, Shizun is not from the earth?!" After hearing Lu Yan say that he came from a living planet called Xianyuan Star in the cultivation realm, and was not a native of the earth, Ye Qiuli was really surprised, and his face couldn't help showing a stunned expression, he didn't expect that he actually worshipped an alien as a master.
Seeing Ye Qiuli's surprised and inexplicable look, Lu Yan couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't help but tease: "It's true that the teacher is not a native of your earth, what's the matter, is this important to you?
"Hehe, Shizun's words are serious, it is already a blessing for a disciple to be able to worship under Shizun and learn the practice of cultivating immortals, how dare you have such an idea. The disciple was just curious about the world beyond the earth, but he didn't expect that the humans on other planets were no different from the earthlings, and they were not at all the strange appearance that those scientists imagined. ”
Hearing Lu Yan say that he would not pass on his immortal cultivation techniques, Ye Qiuli was really startled, and hurriedly and solemnly explained the reason, and briefly described the image of the aliens imagined by the earthlings, explaining that he was just more strange because of the appearance of the alien humans and the earthly humans, for fear of leaving a bad impression on Lu Yan, so as to form a gap between himself and him, and let the teacher who he had so finally worshiped have any accidents again.
"I see, it's human nature to be curious about the unknown. It's just that when you officially enter the cultivation realm in the future and see a lot of aliens of all shapes, you won't be surprised. Although the vast majority of human beings in the universe are like you and me, there are also aliens like you and me, but they are very rare.
Speaking of which, this is also because the location of your earth is too remote, and the distance from the cultivation realm is too far, and if there are no special circumstances, it is impossible for any cultivators to come here, and it is inevitable that it will be rare and strange. After listening to Ye Qiuli's explanation, and thinking about the actual situation of the earth, Lu Yan was quickly relieved, anyone who faced such a thing for the first time, if there was no doubt and strangeness, it would be abnormal.
Seeing that Lu Yan understood his gaffe, Ye Qiuli couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and let go of his previous worries. It's just that he found that Lu Yan seemed to be very disdainful of the earth, and then his heart was still filled with an indescribable depression, and before Lu Yan finished speaking, he couldn't help but mutter: "Is the earth really so unbearable?"
It's no wonder that Ye Qiuli is difficult to accept, no matter how he says that the earth is also the place where he was born and raised, the dog is not too poor, for Lu Yan's opinion, it is indeed difficult for him to agree psychologically. What's more, in the end, the earth is also the only planet with life discovered by human beings so far, and its position in the countless planets in the vast universe is still very important.
"Hehe, boy, your horizons still need to be broadened, and your thinking needs to be changed! You have to keep in mind that cultivators don't have what mortals call home, and the world of cultivation is not something that can be covered by one or two planets, it is an infinite and vast starry sky, and it doesn't matter at all whether it is your birth planet or not, as long as it can help your cultivation. Being too nostalgic for everything in the past will not do your cultivation any good. After finding that Ye Qiuli's gaze was still trapped in such a small part of the earth, although Lu Yan could understand, he couldn't help but teach earnestly. As a master of the Mahayana period, his understanding of this aspect is too profound.
"Cultivating to become an immortal is an adventure that is either born or dead, the requirements for the realm are infinitely harsh, how big the heart is, how big the world can be, if you can't get out of the mortal world, no matter how hard you cultivate, you can't achieve anything too good! The process of cultivating the truth is a process of continuous exploration, don't let your footsteps be bound by your own vision at any time! This can be regarded as the first lesson for the teacher!" This is what Lu Yan painstakingly taught to Ye Qiuli.
"The disciple respectfully obeys the teachings of the master, and never dares to forget half a word!" Hearing Lu Yan's solemn instructions, Ye Qiuli didn't care whether he fully understood it or not, and tried his best to keep everything Lu Yan said firmly in his heart. He believed that as a top master who was about to ascend to immortality, Lu Yan's emotion definitely had a truth worth remembering.
"Well, it's good if you can take it to heart, these truths will naturally be realized slowly after you have been cultivating for a long time, and I am now just letting you have a mental preparation in advance, so that you can always notice this in your future cultivation. In fact, when you really step into the path of cultivation, you will be able to appreciate everything I said, and at that time, I am afraid that you yourself will want to leave the earth early and go to the cultivation realm. ”
Seeing Ye Qiuli accept his teachings so seriously, Lu Yan was really relieved, and couldn't help but nod his head in approval, this young man who accidentally broke into the outer formation of the "Floating Cloud Immortal Mansion" was indeed extraordinary in terms of heart and understanding, and he could be accomplished.