Chapter 17: Devouring the Soul
He remembered what Fan Fenghua said to him, his spiritual root is not good, so if I bring Senior Brother Fan here, then he will not be able to enter the Yuan Infant Stage soon.
Well, just do it, and when you see Uncle Ancestor, tell them to call Senior Brother Fan to practice for a few days. What Chen Ping was thinking about now was how to help his senior brother speed up his cultivation.
But what Chen Ping didn't know was that in this cave mansion, even if he was the head of the Yuantian Sect, he could only practice in it for one month a year. Fan Fenghua is an outer disciple, and a person who is not good at spiritual roots, how can he be qualified to enter here to absorb the aura of heaven and earth.
But you must know that the only spiritual vein in the cultivation realm, the Qianyu spiritual vein, is sealed in this cave, and all of these are not clear to Chen Ping. The only thing he wants now is to bring Fan Fenghua in to cultivate for a period of time and cultivate the Yuan Infant, so that Senior Brother Fan's lifespan can become even longer.
Just as Chen Ping was thinking about this, Ben Dezi came to his side and said, "Chen Ping, are you rested? If you are rested, come with me." After speaking, he walked out without waiting for Chen Ping to react.
Chen Ping stood up, followed Bendezi, and came to a room. The furnishings of the room are very simple, there is no bed, only a stone table, two stone benches, an ancient painting hangs on the middle wall, a table is placed in front of the ancient painting, an incense burner is placed on the table, and there is a futon in front of the table.
Ben Dezi looked at the person in the portrait, didn't look back, and said: "Ben Dezi, the sixth generation disciple of Yuantianmen, led Ben Pingzi, the eighth generation disciple of Yuantianmen, to come and offer incense to the ancestor. After speaking, he turned his head to Chen Ping and said, "Come here, kneel." ”
Chen Ping respectfully walked to the futon, knelt down, and looked at the person in the portrait, at this time Chen Ping looked carefully, this old man with crane hair and childish face, his eyes were blazing, and he was dressed in colorful green yarn.
When Chen Ping was watching this portrait there, he only heard Ben Dezi say: "With the grace of the ancestors, there is another genius in this gate, and he is specially brought to recognize the ancestors." This person's original name was Chen Ping, a native of Yuan Tiancheng, and he meditated for the first time for 28 days after entering the house a month ago. ”
Chen Ping was excited after hearing this, it turned out that this was the ancestor of Yuantianmen. I heard Ben Dezi say again: "Yuan Pingzi, you don't kowtow yet, you have to do the great gift of three kneels and nine bows." ”
After listening to Chen Ping, he began to perform the three kneeling and nine bows, and when he was done, Ben Dezi said: "Give incense to the ancestor." "I don't know where Ben Dezi brought three sticks of incense and arrived at Chen Ping.
Just when Chen Ping was about to put on the incense, Ben Dezi said: "How can you make incense without lighting it, you light it with your own mind, and you can't use external objects." ”
Chen Ping asked, "Uncle Shi, I don't know how to use my mind." ”
Ben Dezi looked at Chen Ping and said, "Feel it with your own heart." "After that, I closed my mouth and stopped talking.
Chen Ping helplessly looked at the three unlit incense sticks in his hand, closed his eyes, and felt it with his heart, at the moment when Chen Ping closed his eyes, the three sticks of incense seemed to have entered Chen Ping's mind in an instant, Chen Ping thought in his heart that you would burn it, and sure enough, Chen Ping thought about it, and the incense in his mind instantly ignited.
The moment the three incense sticks were burned, Chen Ping's eyes opened, and he saw the incense in his hand lit, although he felt strange, he didn't think much about it and stood up, and inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner on the table.
It was not strange for Chen Ping to arrive, but it was strange to look at Chen Ping's Bendezi from the sidelines. Why did this kid light the incense so quickly, when other people came in to give incense to the ancestor, it would take at least half an hour to light the incense by his mind, even when I first gave incense to the ancestor, it took an hour. However, in an instant, the boy lit the incense he was holding in his hand.
The more Ben Dezi thinks about it, the more strange it becomes, and the more he thinks about it, the more he can't figure it out.
But Chen Ping didn't care about it, and he didn't know how long it took his seniors. So he thought it was okay when he lit the incense himself, not too fast, not too slow. Whoever thinks about him has broken a record of the sect.
After Chen Ping finished the incense, he stood beside Ben Dezi and waited for Ben Dezi's orders.
Bendezi gave him another strange look, and then said, "Let's go, let's go out first, tell you something, and then you can come here for retreat." ”
After speaking, Ben Dezi bowed to the portrait of the ancestor, turned around and went out. Chen Ping followed Bendezi to the same action, and followed Bendezi to another room.
Entering the room, Chen Ping saw that this room was simpler than the furnishings of the ancestor, a table, four chairs, and a futon, and the rest were gone. Bentoko pointed to a chair and said, "Sit down." With that, he sat down in another chair.
Chen Ping sat down respectfully and heard Ben Dezi say: "You are not wondering, how can the furnishings in the room be so simple." ”
Chen Ping nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Shizu." After saying that, he looked at Bendeko.
Ben Dezi smiled lightly and said, "Our realm has reached the late stage of Mahayana, but I don't want to leave the disciples of the sect behind, so I have been suppressing cultivation here, and everything is already outside the body." So what is outside of the body is no longer so important. Bendezi replied.
Chen Ping opened his mouth wide in surprise and said, "Uncle Shi, you are already in the late stage of Mahayana, I dare not think about it." ”
"Hehe, there's nothing you don't dare to think, I believe that you will be able to reach my realm in less than a hundred years, and even much higher than me, maybe you have broken the void, and you may be able to fly into the immortal realm. Ben Dezi looked at Chen Ping mysteriously and said.
Chen Ping's heart was furious by his eyes, and after hearing him say that he broke the void and flew into the immortal realm, he said: "Actually, Uncle Shi, I don't want to break the void, and I don't want to fly into the immortal realm. I just want to find my beloved and be with her. ”
"Oh, I can't see that your kid is a very affectionate person, but why don't you want to fly into the fairy world? Flying in the fairy world can live forever, don't you want to?" Ben Dezi laughed after listening to Chen Ping's words.
Chen Ping thought for a while and said, "If you can't be with your beloved, what's the use of becoming an immortal?
"Okay, what's the use of being an immortal if you can't be with your beloved, and what's the use of being immortal?"
"Most of the people who cultivate the truth do not care about their family and children, and their wives are separated. Dao Changsheng, but I don't know what is left around me after that immortality? Looking back blankly, all I saw was the incomprehensible gaze of the world. Looking back, all I saw was the white bones of that relative. In the end, I found out that for becoming an immortal and for immortality, it was just a dream. Relatives have died, elders have died of old age, friends have become dry bones, and only one remains in the world. Bendezi said with emotion.
After listening to Ben Dezi's words, Chen Ping said: "Yes, if you can't be with your beloved and your parents, what is the use of becoming an immortal, and you will stay alone in the world." Oh, by the way, Uncle Shi, let me ask you personally, Xiao Qinmiao, the daughter of the Punishment Elder, has she always lived in her own sect?"
"Oh, you mean Qin Miao's little girl, you've only been in retreat for a month, and you've only entered the mountain gate yesterday? Do you know her?"
"I didn't know her before, but I met her yesterday when I was going up the mountain, and I mistook her for my beloved, and her face was the same as my beloved, including the eyes, the form. Chen Ping replied.
"What, you said that Qin Miao's little girl is exactly the same as your beloved, it's impossible, he hasn't left the mountain gate since he was born, how can he be the same as your beloved, and she doesn't have any siblings. Hearing Chen Ping say this, Ben Dezi became even more strange.
"I don't know, when I see her, she gives me the feeling like that, especially the eyes. Chen Ping recalled that when he saw Xiao Qinmiao yesterday, he said.
"Wait, I remember, half a year ago, Qin Miao's personality was not like this, half a year ago she was very lively and cute, but just over half a year ago, she had a serious illness, and then she became silent all day long, and rarely came to visit us, as if she was unfamiliar. You have to know how cute she was in the past, and she would come to the cave to chat with us in two or three days to relieve our stress. Bendeko suddenly thought of something and said.
After Chen Ping heard Ben Dezi's words, he excitedly took Ben Dezi's hand and said: "What, Shi Shuzu, you said that his change happened more than half a year ago, to be precise, it should have happened nine months ago, am I right, Shi Shuzu." ”
"When I think about it," Bentoko replied, fell into deep thought, and thought for a while, "Well, I remember, it did happen nine months ago, and I was still strange at the time. At first, I thought what was wrong with Qin Miao's little girl, why didn't she look at us old men for half a month, but after waiting for a few days, she still didn't come, I thought something happened to her, so I went to look for her, and when I saw her, I realized that she fainted in her room half a month ago and has been unconscious. I checked her body at the time, but I didn't find anything unusual. Bentoko recalled.
Then he thought about it and continued: "It took about half a month before I woke up, and we asked her what happened, and she couldn't, and since then, she rarely came to us, and she has become usually silent, often sitting alone outside the mountain gate in a daze." Hey~ What a lively girl she used to be. ”
Chen Ping had already cried when he heard it, yes, he thought of a possibility, that is, what he saw in the illusion was true, in his original world, Ji Lingruo was really dead, and like herself, she also came here, but she kept her previous memories. And if Ji Ling didn't keep his original memory, he could only remember occasional fragments from time to time.