Meng Tian and Fusu were both happy and worried.
Immortals first appeared in the Huangdi period.
In ancient times, there was a strange person whose soul could transcend the body. Sitting quietly in a room, his mind could wander around.
If you are free and unrestrained, you will become an immortal.
This is the original intention of immortality, to cultivate the spirit, the body does not help, but instead imprisons.
Cultivation of immortality is about how to shed the physical body, but keep the soul immortal, and gain great freedom.
That is, longevity.
There is no physical body, only the soul remains. Naturally, it cannot be hurt by ordinary soldiers, and it cannot die unless it eats.
As for the rest, that's fine. I haven't heard anything different about it. The ancients still regarded it as a crooked way. It wasn't until Zhuangzi came out and Taoism flourished that it gradually became respected by the world.
As for heavenly beings, they are different from immortals.
Heavenly beings practice the right path, and they are also the Zhengshuo passed down from ancient times.
Ancient gods such as Emperor Wa were gods. If they had luck and merit, they would become saints.
After the gods, there are the heavenly beings.
Heavenly beings have magical powers, and the most basic magical power is the physical power.
As Lieh Zi says, there was a foolish old man in Beishan, who lived in front of Taihang in Wangwu's house. The Taihang of Wangwu is seven hundred miles across and ten thousand ren high.
The foolish old man punished me for going in and out, so he gathered in his room to plan and said: "You and I will try our best to overcome the danger. Although I have the strength in my remaining years, I may not be able to destroy a hair on the two mountains. However, after my death, my son will survive. He will be born again. Grandsons, and grandsons beget sons. Sons have sons, and sons have grandsons. There is no limit to the number of descendants.”
“But if the mountains don’t increase, why bother to keep them level?”
The god of snakes heard this and informed the emperor. The emperor felt his sincerity and ordered the two sons of the Kua'e family to carry two mountains to move it.
The Kua'e family is a god, and his second son is a heavenly being.
The two of them can carry a distance of seven hundred miles and a mountain ten thousand feet high. Although there is a reason why Kua'e is originally a powerful god, it can also be seen that the supernatural powers of heaven and humans are far beyond the comparison of immortals.
Removing a million-jin cauldron is like looking at the lines on the palm of your hand.
However……
Heavenly beings don’t seem to be good at alchemy.
"That's all."
Fusu suddenly burst into laughter and shook his head.
"I am guessing what heaven and man can do here, just like a summer insect talking about ice."
Meng Tian was stunned for a moment and then smiled freely.
Just as Fusu said, their understanding of the so-called heavenly beings and even immortals all came from ancient books or folk rumors.
The two of them have never seen a real deity or immortal, so what's the point of discussing what deities have magical powers?
But now the heavenly being has gone and took away the alchemy furnace, but left his hut behind.
That being the case, if you don't go in and take a look, how can you feel at ease?
The hut is right next to the pine trees, and seems to be made of the wormwood that can be seen everywhere in the mountains. It is small and exquisite, with an antique flavor, and has an indescribable feeling. It seems to be as ethereal as a fairy at a glance.
The door of the hut is made of logs from the mountain. The bark of the tree has not faded away, and there are still young leaves emerging from the seams, swaying in the mountain wind, full of vitality.
Taking a deep breath, Meng Tian took the lead and stood in front of the door.
"Would it be disrespectful for us to go in like this?"
"Salute before entering!"
As he finished speaking, the wooden door suddenly opened without any wind, as if to welcome him.
The two looked at each other with strange expressions on their faces.
Could it be that the gods knew that we would come in?
The supernatural powers of heaven and man are indeed beyond our knowledge!
The hut was very clean, so clean that it was almost out of place.
As far as the eye can see, there is a bed. The bed is bare, without straw or bedding. There was no dust on it, and there was no sign that anyone had slept on it.
Apart from the bed, there were no other furnishings in the hut, not even eating utensils.
There is also a medicine mortar, with a few unknown medicine residues inside, exuding a refreshing fragrance of vegetation.
Don't dare to take the medicine mortar, after all, it is the residence of heaven and man. Meng Tian directly pulled off the cloak from behind, carefully scraped off the remaining medicine residue in the mortar, and wrapped it in the cloak.
Meng Tian was busy, and Fusu was not idle either.
His eyes fell on the bed, where a strange object was placed.
He picked up the object curiously. The object was square and palm-sized. The outer shell seemed to be made of leather, but inside were pages of white inexplicable objects. It was very thin and there were traces on it.
"This may be a heavenly book!"
A surprised voice sounded, it was Meng Tian.
At this time, he had wrapped up all the medicine residue in the medicine mortar, looking at the thing in Fusu's hand with burning eyes, his face full of joy.
Fusu's eyes were also full of joy. He carefully groped for the object in his hand, and found that his tentacles were expanded and there was a strange fragrance.
"This seems to be the fragrance of ink, but there is no such fragrant ink in the world!" Fusu flipped it gently, slightly amazed.
Ink has been around since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even the writing brush has also been invented. The first person to make it was Meng Tian. Although the characters are carved on bamboo slips these days, the murals and painted pottery are already painted in ink.
"There's writing on it!"
Meng Tian had sharp eyes and saw at a glance that there seemed to be writing on a certain page that he had just turned.
Fusu also felt refreshed, and he also agreed with Meng Tian's views.
This must be a heavenly book!
The words in the book may be written by gods. Even if they are bad, they are left by the gods!
And the Book of Heaven should reveal the secrets of the world.
He asked quickly: "Where?"
Meng Tian quickly turned back to the page he had seen before, and the next moment, both of them widened their eyes.
There are indeed words in the Book of Heaven, and there are many of them.
At this time, the page they turned to had seven big characters on it.
But the two of them couldn't understand it.
Since the advent of Chinese writing, it has been pottery inscriptions, then bronze inscriptions, and then Yinqi, which is also Oracle bone inscriptions.
By the Zhou Dynasty, seal script was popular all over the world, and by the Qin Dynasty, official script had emerged.
The seven big characters in front of them are neither gold nor deeds. They have the meaning of seal characters, but they are far different from the official script of Qin Dynasty, which was inherited from seal characters.
"The first word seems to be the word "老"."
Meng Tian carefully studied the words on the heavenly book, and could find that there was a lot of ink in the natural chest of the brush.
Fusu had more ink in his chest. He frowned and made unconscious gestures with his fingers in the air.
And Meng Tian didn't rush him.
After all, this is a heavenly book!
Just by hearing the name, you can tell that this book is anything but ordinary, and I don’t know what kind of secrets are recorded in it!
Meng Tian couldn't help but recall the scene when he first met the heavenly being. He remembered every word the heavenly being said in his heart.
On that day, on the Tianmen platform, the heavenly man once said that the world would undergo great changes!
This matter has been weighing on Meng Tian's mind.
He has been a Qin general for generations, loyal to the First Emperor, and very concerned about the Qin world that he conquered with one sword and one shot.
Perhaps, within this heavenly book, there is information about how the world will change!
He waited quietly on the sidelines. After a full quarter of an hour, relief finally appeared on Fusu's face.
"I know it!"
With a proud smile on his face, he carefully raised his sleeves to wipe away the sweat on his head.
"I refer to seal characters and supplement them with official script..."
"What does the book say?" Meng Tian couldn't wait to interrupt Fusu's words.
But Fusu didn't take it seriously. He took a deep breath and prayed to the sky solemnly.
"We should have been bathing, fasting and praying, but things are urgent and we have to look up to heaven. No wonder. After coming down from the mountain, I will fast and pray for three months!"
"I will also fast and pray for the third month!" Meng Tian also said solemnly.
After praying to heaven, Fusu turned his eyes to the heavenly book again. His eyes flickered, revealing the secrets of heaven and earth, and even his hands holding the book trembled slightly.
