Chapter 9 The Realm of Martial Arts
After completely figuring out the ins and outs of martial arts exercises and pointing out the direction for his next martial arts cultivation, Ye Qiuli really felt that his decision to give up some of his martial arts cheats and steal all these historical materials was really the right choice. On the surface, these things may not seem to be of much use, but upon closer inspection, they are definitely more meaningful than one or two mastery exercises.
Interpreting a civilization from the height of history will naturally enable us to grasp its essence more clearly and learn more beneficial knowledge than ourselves. And although those things can't directly improve one's cultivation strength, they can greatly broaden one's knowledge and horizons, enhance one's cultivation perception, and finally successfully improve one's spiritual realm, laying the most solid foundation for the rapid increase in cultivation strength.
Although Ye Qiuli has already embarked on the road of cultivating to become an immortal, but the realm of cultivation is not very high after all, on the whole, it is not much different from the average martial arts master, these materials are still of great guiding significance to the top masters of the rivers and lakes, and they also have a reference role that cannot be ignored for him. Even compared to the situation he is currently in, these things are more worthy of his study and research.
After all, the ancient martial arts cultivation exercises that are circulating today are the result of the ancient cultivation exercises inherited and improved by the predecessors of the masters from the ancient cultivation circles that once existed on the earth, and are the most suitable cultivation methods for the physical fitness and humanistic thinking of the Chinese.
No, in addition to these secret histories of martial arts and legends of the rivers and lakes, another key information mentioned in these materials aroused Ye Qiuli's great interest, and he couldn't help but devote himself to it. That is, Zhang Sanfeng did not cultivate the true exercises in detail, nor did he have the guidance of the cultivation masters, but only by virtue of the understanding and deduction of martial arts exercises to an extremely high and profound realm, he was called a land immortal, and finally lived for 400 years.
If ordinary people see this information, they will probably only think that this is a great achievement in the development of martial arts, in addition to being envious of Zhang Sanfeng's cultivation strength to the peak, they will naturally be fascinated by the cultivation achievements they can achieve in the future! But this case fell in the eyes of a true cultivator like Ye Qiuli, but it was not extraordinary at all, and it could even be called shocking.
He really couldn't understand how Zhang Sanfeng created such a miracle in the world that had never been seen before or since! Because, according to his research, the realm that Zhang Sanfeng finally reached was not at all an existence that ordinary human beings could touch, and it was almost the same as the achievement of cultivating truth.
When he first read this information, Ye Qiuli was surprised and specially turned out several secret books of internal strength brought out from the Shaolin Temple Scripture Pavilion, and compared them after careful study, so as to determine what kind of realm the land immortals were.
Although these internal martial arts are not as famous as the two legendary masteries of Shaolin Temple, "Yijin Sutra" and "Pulp Washing Sutra", Ye Qiuli still thinks that they can definitely represent the level of the best martial arts in the rivers and lakes, because he has already found in it that "King Kong is not bad body divine skill" is only slightly inferior to those two legendary peerless top-level divine skills.
If you count the other secret martial arts that can be ranked among the seventy-two stunts, these martial arts secret books that he stole after carefully selecting them are definitely the top part of the martial arts, and they can be used as a standard reference for dividing the level of martial arts.
Previously, by reading the historical materials of martial arts brought out from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Shaolin Temple and the cultivation codex of many martial arts masters, Ye Qiuli already knew very clearly that martial arts cultivation can be divided into four realms, namely the acquired qi training stage, the innate heart training stage, the mythological god training stage, and the land immortal stage. There is a well-known saying in the martial arts: Nine grades of qi training, congenital level three, once the gods become arrogant, the land gods enter the green underworld. That's what I'm talking about, these four cultivation realms.
At this time, after discovering that the land immortal realm that Zhang Sanfeng had cultivated to had many similarities with the cultivation realm of the cultivator, Ye Qiuli was naturally more attentive, and immediately spent a lot of energy to put the four realms of martial arts cultivation together with the various stages in the cultivation process, and compared them in detail in order to find out their similarities.
By comparing and analyzing the similarities and differences between the martial arts realms expounded by several internal martial arts methods, Ye Qiuli quickly figured out the iconic characteristics of each realm in martial arts cultivation. After that, he referred to his various feelings in the process of cultivating the "Five Elements True Qi", combined with the brief introduction of the various realms of cultivation that Lu Yan had said, and finally sorted out a rough comparison table of the correspondence between the martial arts realm and the cultivation realm.
And after comparing the differences and similarities between the land immortal realm and the cultivation realm where Zhang Sanfeng is located, Ye Qiuli admires him more and more, this martial arts master is indeed a peerless strange person who rarely appears in thousands of years, and he can't help but be convinced.
Judging from the comparison of the realms sorted out by Ye Qiuli: The acquired realm of martial arts cultivation is roughly equivalent to the foundation building period of cultivation, which belongs to the initial stage of laying the foundation of cultivation. The cultivation of the two cultivation methods at this stage has the effect of eliminating impurities in the body, expanding the meridians and acupoints, and strengthening the bones and body, but the effect of cultivating the true exercises is more significant.
In the cultivation realm, there is no top-level cultivation exercise guidance, no elixir to assist, no blessings from the heavens and blessed lands, and only with the personal efforts of cultivators, it takes about 5-10 years of cultivation to break through during the foundation building period, although the speed is slow, but the success rate of breakthrough is almost 100%. In the cultivation of martial arts, due to the lack of many conditions, the vast majority of martial arts masters will not be able to break through the acquired realm in their lifetime, and they will not be able to enter the innate stage of a higher level, and there will be no one in a hundred who can successfully advance.
The innate realm of martial arts cultivation is roughly equivalent to the enlightenment period of cultivation, which is the stage of opening up the two bridges of heaven and earth, connecting the aura of heaven and earth into the body, and cultivating the innate true qi. At this time, cultivators began to derive divine thoughts, and martial arts masters began to strengthen their intuition, and they all had a clear perception of the power derived from the mind. In the cultivation realm, under normal cultivation conditions, it takes about 20 years of cultivation to break through during the enlightenment period. And in martial arts cultivation, those top masters who were lucky enough to break through to the innate realm basically stopped there without special chances.
The mythical realm of martial arts cultivation is roughly equivalent to the spiritual period of cultivation, when the amount of innate true qi in the cultivator's body increases, the quality sublimates, and gradually compresses and liquefies, transforming into a higher level of spiritual power. At this stage, the effect of simple strength improvement is no longer obvious, and if you want to go further, you must spend a lot of effort on the cultivation of the realm. In martial arts cultivation, the realm of "skill close to the Tao" is the goal pursued by these peerless masters.
In the cultivation realm, under normal cultivation conditions, it takes about 50 years of cultivation to break through during the spirit period. And in martial arts cultivation, even if a few Tianzong wizards can cultivate to this realm, they will not be able to advance after that, and they will no longer be able to find a direction to break through. Before Zhang Sanfeng, this stage was the highest level of martial arts cultivation, like a huge mountain, standing in front of all cultivators for thousands of years.
Finally, the land immortal realm of martial arts cultivation is roughly equivalent to the Jindan period of cultivation, at this time, the spiritual power in the cultivator's body continues to compress, slowly condensing the energy core of the solid state, such as the Jindan cultivated by the cultivator, and the demon seed cultivated by the demon cultivator, all of which are in this situation.
After Jin Dan continues to cultivate, accumulates enough spiritual power, and ensures that the realm meets the requirements, he can shatter Jin Dan, condense the Yuan Infant, and officially step into the hall of cultivation, adding more than a thousand years of life to the pursuit of the Immortal Dao. The Yuan Infant is condensed, and the True Yuan is derived, and then the cultivator's body can be completely transformed, and the goal of not being bad in the flesh can be initially achieved.
In the cultivation realm, under normal cultivation conditions, it takes about 100 years of cultivation to break through to the Jindan stage, and whether or not you can successfully break through to the Yuan Infant Stage in the end depends on your chance. Generally speaking, if 10,000 people cultivate the truth, seven or eight out of ten can open the light, and there are four or five out of ten who can cultivate the primordial infant. Therefore, as long as you make sufficient preparations, coupled with some unpredictable luck, you still have a great confidence in cultivating to the Yuan Infant Stage.
After talking about Xiuzhen, let's talk about ancient martial arts. Because throughout the ages, only Zhang Sanfeng has reached the realm of land immortals equivalent to the Jindan period, and his cultivation process and cultivation experience have not been made public, so there is only such a concept of realm division in the rivers and lakes, and not many people know what kind of situation this land immortal realm is, and there is no written record.
In addition, because Zhang Sanfeng did not make another breakthrough in the end, no one knew whether there was a higher-level realm in martial arts cultivation and how to break through to a higher-level realm, and there was no record in the information obtained by Ye Qiuli.
In addition to comparing the cultivation content and realm characteristics of each realm in the process of martial arts and cultivation, Ye Qiuli also carefully examined the changes in lifespan brought about by the cultivation of two different types of exercises, hoping to find some clues from them.
After all, the reason why cultivators spend countless energy cultivating themselves is that in addition to wanting to gain tremendous strength and survive better, prolonging their life and pursuing immortality is also one of the most basic goals in their cultivation process, and no matter which way, there will be no exception. Therefore, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of various cultivation methods by the degree of increase in lifespan obviously has a very universal significance in some basic standards.