Chapter Twenty-Seven: Cultivating Immortals and Preaching
Long Xiaoyao followed the map and quickly found the place where the Immortal Cultivation Conference preached, which was nothing more than a flat land, with a small platform in front of it and a futon on it. He found a place relatively close to the front, and sat down cross-legged at random, waiting for the cultivation of immortals to begin his sermon.
The preaching hall can seat two or three thousand people, and one after another immortal cultivators are coming, and they are all looking for a place to sit down and wait. As soon as the time came, an immortal cultivator stepped onto the pulpit on time. It was a foundation building period monk of Chaoyang Sect who was responsible for guiding the disciples of the Qi cultivation period, and the content of his lecture was the mutual growth and restraint between the five elements.
It should be said that the monk is a good teacher to teach his disciples, and his explanations are simple and vivid, so that Long Xiaoyao has a deeper understanding of the relationship between the five elements. He spoke for about an hour and a half, and then there was a break.
Chaoyang Sect also sells food and drink, but it is all settled with spirit stones, and each person can eat and drink at will by paying a low-grade spirit stone. Long Xiaoyao prepared his own dry food, and he didn't want to waste spirit stones and time.
As soon as the afternoon arrived, another foundation building monk of the Chaoyang Sect came to the stage and began to preach, and the content was actually the bottleneck of immortal cultivation that Long Xiaoyao wanted to know the most.
The bottleneck of cultivation is that in cultivation, cultivation will stagnate and cannot be promoted. Among them, the simplest is caused by the lack of cultivation, which is mainly manifested in the foundation building, knotting the pill and turning into an infant, due to the lack of true qi, it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough. However, if the level of cultivation is sufficient, this phenomenon should not occur. If the level is low, it will stay in place for a long time, or even never be able to break through.
The remaining bottlenecks can occur at any time, mainly during the Qi training period, which may occur when advancing to level 4 and 7, and entering the high level is even more common. It is mainly divided into: mood bottleneck, comprehension bottleneck, and consciousness bottleneck.
Immortal cultivators need to be detached from the mortal world, and they need to be able to see through all the mundane things such as birth, old age, sickness and death, glory and wealth in the mortal world, and achieve a transcendent state of mind, and the bottleneck of the state of mind refers to the fact that the immortal cultivator has not been able to see through the red dust in his heart and cannot reach the realm of transcendent sanctification, which requires the immortal cultivator to enter the world to experience.
Immortal cultivators themselves are a thing that goes against the sky, and they must understand and master the way of heaven in order to break through the limitations of the mundane. And the comprehension of the Heavenly Dao determines how far an immortal cultivator can go on the path of cultivating immortals. The cultivation of immortals is mainly to absorb the aura of the five elements between heaven and earth, and the comprehension of the way of heaven also starts from the five elements, according to each person's understanding surname, to comprehend the way of heaven. Breaking through this bottleneck mainly depends on the self-realization of immortal cultivators, and immortal cultivators generally strive for the opportunity of epiphany through experience.
The cultivation and improvement of immortal cultivators needs to be matched by divine consciousness, and when cultivating the exercises, while cultivating the exercises, the divine consciousness is naturally improved, as long as the cultivation of advanced exercises, most people can avoid this bottleneck. But after reaching the advanced level, some high-level immortal cultivators will find it difficult to reach a higher level due to the bottleneck of their divine sense.
In the process of cultivating immortals, if you conduct more actual combat trials, it will be helpful to improve your own strength. In actual combat, especially under the pressure of life and death, whether it is the comprehension of the Heavenly Dao, or the promotion of divine consciousness, and the improvement of true qi, it will be of certain help. The path of cultivating immortals, if you only pursue comfort, may stagnate forever at a certain bottleneck.
When Long Xiaoyao advanced to level 4 of the Qi training period, he did not encounter any bottlenecks. In fact, this is mainly because of the effect of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sutra, he has activated the four castes at the same time, and the ability to sense and control the five elements is naturally not the same as other immortal cultivators, which allows him to achieve the promotion of cultivation without hindrance.
The afternoon sermon lasted for two hours, after which all the cultivators were free to move around, that is, they could leave Chaoyang Peak, meditate and rest in place, or visit the trading area of the Immortal Cultivator Conference to buy and sell items.
Long Xiaoyao did not rush to buy immortal cultivation items, but meditated and rested on the spot. Although there were disciples of Chaoyang Sect inspecting and asking not to disturb other immortal cultivators, he still didn't dare to cultivate here, but silently pondered the content of the sermon that day, although he couldn't fully understand it, but he also had some understanding, which was much better than his original aimless solo exploration.
On the second day, the monk of Luoyanmen gave a sermon, and in the morning and afternoon, he talked about the operation of true qi and the techniques of using techniques. These are mainly common sense in the actual combat application, the skills of the operation of the true qi can improve the speed of the technique casting, and the use of the technique is mainly about how to use the divine sense, control the direction of the technique, which is of great help to the improvement of the actual combat ability.
On the third day, the monks of the Jade Maiden Palace preached, and the main lecture was on compression and promotion and foundation building. It mainly tells the story of immortal cultivators when they reach the promotion, suppress the promotion and continue to compress and improve their true qi, so that they can not only improve their own strength, but also avoid failure due to lack of true qi when building the foundation, although it can't be completely compared with the advanced exercises, but as long as you are willing to spend some more time, you can still make up for the difference in strength.
However, most of these scattered cultivators had poor spiritual root qualifications, and they lacked sufficient pill assistance, so they had been cultivating for decades, and they were still struggling to be at the middle and high level of the Qi cultivation period. If they were allowed to consume precious time to compress their True Qi, they would probably not be able to reach level 9 in the Qi cultivation period in this life, let alone build a foundation, so most immortal cultivators were not very interested in this day's sermon.
On the fourth day, the sermon was on the Lotus Danmen, and the main lecture was on how to use the pill to assist in cultivation, among them, the most surprising thing for Long Xiaoyao was that even if the pill was abundant, he should not take the pill for cultivation continuously, and after taking the pill for nine consecutive days of cultivation, he would have to pause once, and return to one every nine. Otherwise, the medicinal power of the pill will be reduced due to the body's ability to resist the pill, and in the long run, it will also cause the body's dependence on the pill and the ability to absorb the aura of the outside world will decrease.
Although these principles are meaningless to ordinary casual cultivation, they are like a thunderbolt from the sky to Long Xiaoyao, he has basically been taking pills for cultivation recently, if he hadn't participated in this immortal cultivation conference, I am afraid that his body would really cause a permanent negative impact.
On the fifth day, the sermon was the Yuntai Array Sect, and the main lecture was the Immortal Cultivation Array. Of course, the monk only talked about the application of several simple magic circles, but did not explain the arrangement of the magic circles, which was the secret of the Yuntai Array Sect.
Among them, there is the Spirit Gathering Array, which can gather spiritual energy and promote cultivation, the Phantom Array, which can be used to hide traces so that outsiders cannot find it, the Defensive Array, which can block all people, beasts, weapons, and techniques outside the Circle from entering the Circle to protect the people in the Circle from outside interference, and the Attack Circle, which can attack all living beings trapped in the Circle.
When Long Xiaoyao heard this, he suddenly felt frightened, and broke out in a cold sweat.