Chapter 197: The Trouble of Cultivation Lies in Itself

readx;? Xiang Bao's heart was full of determination, and he returned home with vigor and steady steps, and he was like two people yesterday, but fortunately, it was already late at night, otherwise if acquaintances bumped into him, I am afraid that he would think that he had some adventure. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Close the door, take out the "Immortal Star Sword" to Xiang Bao, immerse himself in the spirit, and watch the "Ten Thousand Star Map".

The stars shine brightly, rising and falling with brilliant light, drawing a mysterious and complex trajectory, forming a picture scroll like a reflection of the starry sky, deep and brilliant.

After just one glance, Xiang Bao was dizzy, his temples were swollen, and his ears were buzzing, but after he had the previous epiphany, he did not retreat from the difficulties, but according to his previous thoughts, he focused his spirit on the most eye-catching Beidou, carefully observing and remembering the trajectory of the movement of these seven stars.

After a few breaths, Xiang Bao lay down from the cross-legged seat, his face was pale, his eyes were blank, his mind was almost exhausted, he felt that he was so tired that he could not move a finger, he was so dizzy that he wanted to hit the wall, and it seemed that he would faint soon, but he still held on to himself, and recalled the trajectory of the stars he had just observed in his heart one by one, so as not to forget.

A bright light appeared in his memory, but what he could remember was less than the eleventh or twelve that he had just observed, and when the recollection was over, Xiang Bao finally couldn't support it and fainted.

When he awoke, it was already the end of the day, his head was swollen, and after a little recollection, he found that the movements of the stars he had remembered had not been forgotten, and he immediately jumped up with joy and danced with his hands.

In a happy mood, Xiang Bao took the medicinal soup and began to exercise his body, and suddenly there were strands of heat generated in the bone marrow, breaking through from the peak of forging to the qi cultivation period.

Good things happened one after another, and Xiang Bao was really overjoyed, and in the dead of night, he began to try to visualize.

The idea of the Iron Sword Gate is to visualize a giant sword that stands up to the sky and the earth in the Purple Mansion, which transforms internal qi and exudes a trace of sharp golden qi to nourish the soul.

Xiang Bao finally visualized the giant sword, but suddenly found that there was a hideous and disgusting black centipede, coiled on the giant sword, with teeth and claws, and it retreated from the visualization in an instant.

"Could it be that the ghosts and gods of the outer way invade the soul?" Xiang Bao remembered the record of the exercises, and decided to go to the door tomorrow to ask the elders.

After a few days, Xiang Bao was mixed, happy that he relied on the Beidou to remember, and finally practiced the "Beidou" on the previous move of "Immortal Conferral Star Sword", and the worry was that in the visualization, if there is a calming incense stick, the black centipede will not appear, but once there is not, it will definitely come.

"The money at home is limited, and the food that nourishes the qi alone is a huge expense, and these calming things are not cheap, if you follow what Uncle Wang said, you have been relying on these things until you can get out of your body, you can't afford it, unless you halve the time for practicing swordsmanship and do those high-paying sect tasks. Xiang Bao was walking on the street and pondering, and as he walked, he suddenly found that he had walked near the City God Temple.

Xiang Bao suddenly laughed at himself: "That senior Daoist is a Daoist of Youfang, why do you still stay here, let you ask for advice?" Although he thought so in his heart, Xiang Bao still couldn't help but walk in, even if it was good to take a look.

But as soon as he entered, Xiang Bao found that the young Taoist priest was sitting peacefully under the statue of the city god, and when he saw him come in, he said very wittily: "Poor Taoist Xiaoyou, your Yin Hall is black again, and it seems that you have encountered another disaster." ”

Xiang Bao scratched his head, his face turned red, and he said very embarrassedly: "Dao Chang Mingjian, the kid has some difficulties in cultivation and wants to ask for advice, I don't know if it's okay?"

"Tell me about it. Shi Xuan replied lightly.

Xiang Bao hurriedly said what he had encountered in his visualization of the black centipede, and finally said, "I don't know where the ghosts and gods of the outer Dao are, what can you do to get rid of them?"

"If you want to get rid of it, you need to find the outer ghosts and gods, you take a charcoal stick in your hand, and when you visualize, once the black centipede appears, immediately imagine hitting it with charcoal bars, so that the charcoal bars in your hand will be swung out with it, hit it, and determine where it is. "Old God Shi Xuan is in the tunnel.

Xiang Bao had never heard of such a method of finding ghosts and gods in the outer realm, it was simply mysterious, but with the matter of "Immortal Conferring the Star Sword" in front of him, he trusted this Taoist master very much, and quickly took a charcoal strip left over from burning in his hand, adjusted his mood, and began to visualize.

There was no accident, the black centipede was still entrenched on the giant sword, and Xiang Bao followed the instructions of the Taoist chief, visualized a charcoal bar, and hit it.

As soon as he hit, the world was spinning, and Xiang Bao retreated from his vision.

He hurriedly looked at what the charcoal bar in his hand had hit, but what stunned him was that the charcoal in his right hand only made his left hand and placket full of black marks, and there were no other foreign objects.

"Dao Chief?" Xiang Bao looked at Shi Xuan puzzled.

Shi Xuan smiled lightly: "Don't you understand yet?"

Xiang Bao was at a loss, looked down again, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "That outer ghost and god, is it me?!"

Shi Xuan smiled silently.

Xiang Bao hurriedly visualized again, and this time when the black hideous centipede appeared, it thought that it was himself, so he was not in a hurry, not frightened, and continued to visualize.

In peace, the black centipede gradually became docile, retreated from the greatsword, and then faded and faded until it disappeared completely.

After a while, Xiang Bao opened his eyes, and in his opinion, the young Taoist priest in front of him was really omnipotent, and secretly said in his heart: "Could it be that he is a master of the Divine Soul, or a senior of the level of Grandmaster Jindan?"

thanked him happily, Xiang Bao really couldn't find anything to repay this senior Taoist, so he could only secretly make up his mind that he would take an hour every day to listen to the Taoist's orders and wait for him

After solving the hidden danger of visualization, Xiang Baoxing happily returned to the sect and met Uncle Wang, who had instructed him before.

Uncle Wang saw Xiang Bao's happy appearance, which was really different from Fang Cai's dejected appearance, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Xiang Bao, aren't you worried about that centipede?"

This Uncle Wang is young and elegant, easy-going, many disciples ask him for advice, and he is the most popular elder in the sect, so Xiang Bao will go to ask him for advice before, but now he sees that he is asking, and he is a half-grown child, and he is not very vigilant, so he happily replied: "It has been solved." ”

"How did you do it?" Uncle Wang was very surprised, could it be that Xiang Bao had met some Taoist master, this kind of inexplicable visualization problem was not something that Xiao Yunliu City could solve.

With a bright smile, Xiang Bao explained the process of asking the Daoist seniors this question: "...... The Daoist's method is really mysterious, and it is really unexpected, but the effect is surprisingly good, so that the master and nephew can understand at once that the centipede is the result of his own distracting thoughts. ”

Uncle Wang frowned while listening, and when he heard Xiang Bao finish speaking, he shook his head: "Xiang Bao, you have been deceived, and when you unconsciously wave the charcoal bar in your hand when you are visualizing, more than eighty percent of it may have touched yourself, but you can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, and you have completely solved the big trouble in your heart." ”

Xiang Bao was dumbfounded, thinking back to the posture of holding the charcoal bar at that time, the more he thought about it, the more sure he became, in addition to throwing it forward, no matter how he got it, he would get the black mark on his body.

He couldn't believe it, and muttered to himself in frustration: "The Taoist is actually a liar...... How can it be a lie!"

Uncle Wang looked at Xiang Bao's appearance, sighed, and said secretly in his heart: "How can you casually meet a wandering Daoist, it is a good thing for the senior monks." ”

Xiang Bao walked towards the City God Temple in despair, and the image of the Taoist chief who was extremely tall in his heart collapsed, and he wanted to ask him in person whether the Taoist chief's guidance was a means of the rivers and lakes from beginning to end, and he was deceiving himself.

Seeing this, Uncle Wang was afraid that he had just entered the cultivation of qi and suffered the loss of the Taoist priest, so he quietly followed behind so that he could rescue him at the critical moment.

When he arrived at the City God Temple, Xiang Bao saw that the young Taoist priest was still sitting upright, so he walked in front of him and asked with some trembling and expectation: "Senior Daoist, the charcoal strip just now refers to the law of the outer Dao ghosts and gods, but what do you think about it?

"Don't you understand?" Shi Xuan asked without answering.

Xiang Bao was stunned: "What?"

"In terms of visualization, which one is not in his own?" Shi Xuan got up leisurely.

Xiang Bao and Uncle Wang, who came later, were stunned for a moment, recalling the exercises and classics, which was clearly said, as long as they did not have distracting thoughts and thoughts, the ghosts and gods of the outer ways could not take advantage of the gap at all, but when it came to cultivation, most monks would often forget this, and with the help of things that calmed the mind and calmed the qi, they could cultivate to the point of out-of-body anyway.

"It turns out that what the Taoist chief wants to tell me is that since the charcoal strips will be on the body, the problem of visualization is naturally on oneself. Xiang Bao suddenly realized, and Uncle Wang remembered all the things he had imagined, and began to feel that he was on the wrong path.

Shi Xuan put his hands behind his back and walked towards the gate of the City God Temple, leaving his last words: "Starting from forging the body, all the way to the merger, all kinds of problems in cultivation, in fact, how can this not be the case?"

"The trouble of cultivation lies in oneself!"

Xiang Bao's mind buzzed, as if he had an epiphany, and as if he didn't understand anything, while Uncle Wang was sweating like rain and his face was pale.

The trouble of cultivation lies in oneself, and Shi Xuan's words are just a mention to Xiang Bao and Uncle Wang, but also to himself.

After Shi Xuan left for a long time, Xiang Bao and Uncle Wang came back to their senses, the two looked at each other, and for a while they felt that this sentence was really subtle and meaningful, and for a while they felt that it was simple and easy to understand.

"From forging to merging, it's a big breath. Uncle Wang remembered Shi Xuan's words just now, and said in confusion and shock, "It is ...... who can have such a tone."

"True Immortal, or Heavenly Immortal!" Xiang Bao took over and muttered to himself.

Such a scene happened everywhere in Yu Yutian, sometimes a young Taoist priest, sometimes a white-haired old grandfather......

Inside the Shixuan Cave Mansion.

After three hundred and ninety years of collection, countless "Epiphany Breaths" gathered in Shi Xuan's chest, and one by one the runic characters surrounded them, falling into them from time to time, making them emit a light that seemed black and white.

When the last two Dao characters flew in, the formless and insubstantial aura immediately distorted and changed, gathering and taking shape.

After a stick of incense, the entire quiet room was filled with the light of smart wisdom, and a thin book appeared in Shi Xuan's palm, and the simple patterns on it were combined into three seal characters: "Tao Te Ching".