Chapter 49: The Withered Cultivation Realm
Xiang Yihang's exaggerated reaction made Wu Jin not see anything, and a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes, but this is normal, otherwise, any student is a master of cultivation, wouldn't he have returned to the heyday of earth cultivation!
But it's not right, this guy is not necessarily 20 years old, martial arts are higher than him, if you purely practice internal kung fu, there is no three or five years, no, it took him three or four years to cultivate a trace of true qi, barely able to use the sound transmission into the secret, when the guy transmitted the sound into the secret, almost vibrated my ears, the true qi does not know how many times stronger than me, so it is impossible without ten years of foundation.
But according to the family teacher, this guy didn't have a name before, he was simply a member of all living beings, and if he had cultivated since he was a child, he wouldn't be obscure. There must be something weird, Wu Jin thought quickly in his heart.
"I see that you really haven't been exposed to any of these, so I'll popularize a few more terms. Do you want to hear it?"
"I want to, I think so much, you say!" Xiang Yihang naturally couldn't ask for it.
"The world of martial arts is known as the rivers and lakes, and the world of cultivation is known as the cultivation world, I don't know when you became a member of the cultivation world!" Wu Jin said to the back, his speech quickened, and then stared at Xiang Yihang deadly.
"Me?uh,...... I didn't know about the existence of the cultivation world at all, how could I become a member of the cultivation world!" Xiang Yihang almost blurted out, "I just joined", and only then did he realize that he was almost in the hands of Wu Jin.
You don't say that you joined the rivers and lakes, but directly said that you joined the cultivation world, this is not to probe me to see if I am a cultivator. Xiang Yihang's heartbeat accelerated slightly, and he almost leaked the heavenly secret.
Xiang Yihang thought that he would respond quickly and answer tightly, but his momentary hesitation made Wu Jin's eyelids jump wildly, and his body and mind were shocked, if he were not a cultivator, he would not have hesitated at this moment, although this could not prove that Xiang Yihang was a cultivator, but it did not prevent him from confirming that Xiang Yihang was indeed a cultivator.
When Xiang Yihang saw Wu Jin's eyes, he knew that Wu Jin had found a clue, which was a unilateral thought that he was lying.
"I'm really not a cultivator!" Xiang Yihang didn't know what to think, and the ghost envoy added again. But it is tantamount to three hundred taels of silver in this place.
Wu Jin was only suspicious, but now it was completely confirmed, he picked up the wine glass, raised it to Xiang Yihang, and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, cheers!"
Xiang Yihang knew that he couldn't hide it, so he had to raise his glass and drink it all helplessly.
He was indeed a little helpless, after cultivating the truth, his IQ exploded, but he did not raise his EQ at the same time, but his IQ was higher and his reaction was faster, but once he was a good old bird, he was still not sensitive to words and made mistakes and omissions.
Practicing practice, it seems that emotional intelligence must also be raised, Xiang Yihang secretly made up his mind.
"Do you want to know about the current state of cultivation?" Putting down the wine glass, Wu Jin said. He intended to get acquainted with Xiang Yihang, so he didn't hide his secrets.
"Well, it's idle, you can hear it. Xiang Yihang was a little embarrassed.
"Then let's pick up what I know and talk about it, after all, I've just practiced True Qi and am in the most basic stage of cultivation, so I don't know much. Wu Jin didn't deliberately take it and spoke directly.
According to Wu Jin's account, the heyday of the earth's cultivation was the pre-Qin period, when the cultivation was common, Guangchengzi, Peng Zu, Lao Tzu and so on represented the highest achievement of Xiuzhen, the pre-Qin cultivators, also called Qi practitioners, it was the widespread spread of Xiuzhen civilization that led Qin Shi Huang to send Xu Fu to take five hundred boys and girls across the sea to seek the elixir of life, legend has it that Xu Fu did not return, and Qin Shi Huang did not live forever. But to this day, no one dares to touch the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, and it is unknown whether there is an unknown inside story.
After the Qin Dynasty, the Xiuzhen civilization gradually declined, but it reached a small climax during the Wei and Jin dynasties, with the emergence of alchemists such as Ge Hong.
Since then, it has been inferior to one generation after another, and in the Qing Dynasty, it has been difficult to find the traces of immortals, and the inheritance of cultivation has somehow disappeared overnight.
Nowadays, the cultivation realm has withered to the extreme, although there are still occasional cultivators, but the inheritance is broken, and the cultivation reaches a certain level and comes to an end, and it is difficult to reach the level of soaring in the day.
There is no way to investigate the specific reason, and it seems that the entire cultivation realm has been abandoned, and it is difficult for anyone to attain enlightenment.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there has basically been no fairy legend.
However, although the cultivation world has withered, there are still tall sons among the short ones, and there are many who are stronger than Wu Jin or even surpass his master.
It is said that due to the increasingly escaping aura of the earth and becoming thinner, it is a foundation that few people have succeeded, let alone become a baby.
However, even if it is an introductory cultivator in the Qi Condensation Period, it is not something that a martial artist can look up to, and the gap between the periods is very different. As long as you cultivate your true qi, you can abuse foreign kung fu masters at will.
Therefore, the martial artist pursues the goal of obtaining the inner family exercises, because the inner family exercises are the bridge to the cultivation of the truth, as long as the true qi is practiced, it is equivalent to opening the door to the cultivation of the truth.
Therefore, in the current situation where the cultivation inheritance is almost broken, it is also a major event that can cause bloodshed in the rivers and lakes to have an internal family exercise.
"Can the cultivators of the earth fight against thermal weapons now?" Xiang Yihang is more concerned about this, he can currently defend against pistol bullets at zero distance, but the more powerful machine guns and sniper rifles do not know how to prevent them, and in modern society, thermal weapons are much more powerful, such as artillery missiles, and even atomic bombs.
"As far as I know, during World War II, cultivators were still not afraid of thermal weapons, but human science and technology are developing too fast, and now there are too many high-powered weapons, and some weapons are close to the use of cosmic rays, which is very close to the true qi energy of cultivators, so I personally estimate that cultivators can't fight against thermal weapons now. "After all, Wu Jin has no personal experience, so it is mainly speculation.
"Well, that makes sense. Unless the legend says that the power of flying away from the sky and moving mountains and reclaiming the sea is almost the same. Xiang Yihang also felt the same way.
But Xiang Yihang knew that if he cultivated to the height of a traverser and could do interstellar travel alone, even thermonuclear weapons on Earth were estimated to be able to be dismantled at will.
"There is another question, the former cultivators were powerful, and it stands to reason that they had a very long lifespan, why are they all gone now?" Xiang Yihang asked. Since Qin Shi Huang wanted to find the elixir of life, he should know that there were indeed people who could live forever and had seen the elixir, or a first emperor of the ages would not be stupid enough to be fooled.
"This question is difficult for ordinary people to understand, but for people in the cultivation world, it couldn't be simpler, and these masters who have really achieved cultivation are gone. Lao Tzu sent a letter to Guguan in the west, you know, that is a public record. Wu Jin replied.
"But I often see someone's tomb stolen or discovered, and there are many people who cultivate the Tao and Buddha, how can this be explained?" Xiang Yihang said that he had a lot of questions.
"It's just a mound of clothes, and you have to leave a memory for your children and grandchildren. If there really is a powerful tomb, wouldn't the current cultivators have come to dig for the inheritance long ago, and can it still be left to those tomb robbers with three-legged cats?" Wu Jin said, "Actually, in order to find the inheritance, many cultivators are about to dig three feet into the ground. ”
"Then don't they go out if they don't understand?" asked Xiang Yihang.
"Who doesn't want to go out, but they can't find their way!" Wu Jin said helplessly.
"Can't find the way? Is there really a way out of the earth?" Xiang Yihang just asked casually, but he didn't expect Wu Jin to answer so surely.
"This is an open secret in the cultivation world, there are two ways to leave the earth, one is that you are too awesome, the earth can't accommodate you, force you to go, this kind of shouting is to ascend, that is, to become an immortal. The other is that you can't ascend, so you can only leave this planet along the ancient path and continue cultivating on another planet. Wu Jin said.
"Is that Lao Tzu a soarer or an ancient one?" he is the originator of Taoism, is it awesome enough!" Xiang Yihang asked again.
"If I say that he can come and leave whenever he wants, and he is more awesome than Feisheng, do you believe it or not?" Wu Jin said with a smile.
"Faith!" Xiang Yihang replied affirmatively, if he was not awesome, how could he become the originator of Taoism. Moreover, Lao Tzu publicly sent a letter to Guguan to make it widely known to future generations, is it like today's propaganda gimmick, the purpose is to let the world cultivate the Tao and find quiet inaction, and reduce the disputes in the world?
"So the people in the cultivation realm are really all cultivators in the retreat world?" Xiang Yihang was more concerned about this issue.
"That's not necessarily, in addition to ignoring the world during the retreat, they also have to live a normal life, and they also need to find trading resources. It's just that they have their circles and their needs, and ordinary people can't reach them. ”