Seeing Zhao Qing's thoughtful expression, Xiaoyaozi paused and added:
"Only by 'self-forgetting', eliminating the boundaries between heaven and man, and no longer distinguishing oneself, can we achieve true 'unity', see the void with our true self, and let the soul go in and out between existence and non-being, towards the 'harmony' Advance towards the highest ideals.”
"What is forgetting? Why forget? Get rid of the beauty, forget things and myself, and eliminate the dirt, so as to achieve the goal of keeping quiet. The body is the same as the pure and empty of the sky, the virtue is the same as the infinite emptiness of the sky, and the human mind is used to interpret the heaven. Taixu finally merges with Tao to be true.”
Zhao Qing couldn't help but think deeply after listening to it, and vaguely came up with some related insights. "Forget the form to nourish Qi, forget the Qi to nourish the spirit, forget the spirit to nourish the void." The steps of "refining" in practice all correspond to The "forgetfulness" of the soul.
She thought for a moment and then asked: "Buddhism's Mahayana Bodhisattva path is known as 'universal salvation of all living beings'. It is used as a material for spiritual practice to promote each other. Saving others is to save oneself. Punishing evil and promoting good is related to 'forgetfulness' and There is no conflict with spiritual practice, so what’s wrong with it?”
Xiaoyaozi nodded with a smile and said: "You are right. What I mean is that everything needs to be grasped within a certain limit and formed in a state of relative balance with one's own abilities. The best way is to be righteous and peaceful, and where yin and yang grow mutually."
"If Murong Longcheng could have successfully restored his country back then, after the shackles caused by the original deep obsession were released, it might no longer be an obstacle to his cultivation, but would instead bring him an explosion after a round of suppression, entering' The level of refining the void."
"However, if you want to go one step further and pursue the ultimate state of 'attaining the Tao and ascending to heaven', you should also not maintain too deep entanglements with people in the world. As practitioners, we should only pursue the Tao of Heaven and do not need to pay too much attention to worldly affairs. .”
"Anyone who has reached the peak level can sense a certain mysterious power that exists at a higher level, or from then on, he or she will disdain the worldly things and think that there is a difference between immortals and mortals; or they will pursue peace of mind and freedom. Feel free and worry-free.”
"There are also people who set great ambitions and make great aspirations, taking it as the 'Tao' they rely on, and want to cultivate the Tao to perfection. But the 'Tao' here is more of a tool for the soul to achieve perfection."
"The three routes may have different levels of difficulty, but in fact, there should be no distinction between them."
The sleeves of Xiaoyaozi's robe swayed lightly, emitting a soft wind, and the whole person floated towards the distant Mahavira Palace, saying: "These remarks can be regarded as my personal opinions on 'Refining the God to Return to the Void' and 'Refining the Void to Combine the Tao' after many years of practicing Taoism. Speaking from experience may not be accurate..."
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As the sound of the piano dissipated, the hypnotized people on Shaoshi Mountain gradually woke up.
The first ones to wake up are the simple and resolute Qiao Feng and Xiao Yuanshan whose obsession has been dispelled, followed by Xuan Cheng and Xuan Ku deep in the Shaolin Temple, and then Zhiguang, A'Zhu, A Bi and others. The order is related to the character of mind and internal strength. .
Because Xuan Ku did not want to conflict with Qiao Feng as a master at today's denouncement meeting against Xuan Ci, he deliberately stayed in his room in the Zhengdao courtyard to pay tribute to those who had been harmed by Xuan Ci and Ye Erniang over the years. Reciting scriptures and praying to Buddha did not come to the square.
Seeing the people around him gradually waking up, Zhiguang first restrained the bodies of Xuanci and Ye Erniang, then sighed and persuaded everyone not to continue fighting:
"Heroes, you are hostile to the old layman Xiao Yuanshan and regard him as an enemy of the Central Plains martial arts. There is really no reason."
"Thirty years ago, whenever there was any dispute between Song and Liao, the layman Xiao would always advise the emperor and the queen mother of Liao and advise them not to use force."
"Because the Emperor and Queen Mother of the Liao Kingdom loved martial arts at that time, the advice of the old layman Xiao really played a role in making the two countries cease fighting and reconcile, which has great merits that benefit all people."
"Song and Liao did not engage in war, and the lives of the soldiers and civilians of the two countries were unknown. No soldiers were lost, and no more military food was consumed. The people had enough food and clothing, and lived and worked in peace and contentment. What a good thing it was..."
"Is there such a thing?" Most of the people present couldn't help but feel shocked when they heard this. They felt that they had made the wrong enemy by targeting Xiao and his son recklessly.
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Seeing Xiaoyaozi's Qinggong flying dozens of feet, Zhao Qing admired in his heart, and followed behind him, and secretly thought about what the other party had just said.
Looking at the crowd below the main hall, Xiaoyaozi waved his hand to stop the Tianshan Child Elder who suddenly appeared and wanted to communicate with him, and spoke again:
"In my opinion, there are too many people who do evil in the world. There are many bandits and bandits running rampant in every prefecture and county. No one can deal with them all."
"There are millions and tens of millions of people suffering in the world. Even if the kings of all countries in the world suddenly become saints and wise kings, they will not have enough power to save them all."
"Lao Tzu said: 'As you learn more and more, you will lose more and more for the Tao, and you will lose again and again, and you will end up doing nothing, doing nothing and doing everything.' Excessive pursuit of 'doing meritorious deeds' will actually damage human nature."
He turned to look at Zhao Qing and said calmly: "This truth is obvious when it comes to the country and history. Even if thousands of people are saved, in the long history of thousands of years, It’s just a drop in the ocean, not worth mentioning.”
"What's more, 'as long as a saint does not die, thieves will not stop.' If the method of promoting morality is not perfect enough, it will lead to the emergence of many hypocritical people in the world who deceive others and use morality to attack others."
"As the saying goes, 'Knowing that everything that heaven and man do is natural, then let it go internally, and keep it externally in things. Be the same as all the mysteries, and let it happen.' Just do it naturally, and' Doing nothing but doing something is the right principle."
Who says we can’t save thousands of people? Not worth mentioning? Why can’t we establish an organization dedicated to enforcing the law, punishing evil and promoting good? Zhao Qing did not agree with Xiaoyaozi's current statement.
Since he has practiced the martial arts of the Xiaoyao sect, although he has no explanation, he can be regarded as one of the descendants of Xiaoyaozi. It is reasonable for the other party to want to convey his philosophy of cultivating Taoism.
It is estimated that his understanding of himself came almost entirely from the two trials of evildoers in Xingzilin and Shaolin Temple, so he felt that he was too extreme and wanted to return to the path of meditation.
However, what Xiaoyaozi said about "attacking others' hypocrisy through morality" and the people not far away denouncing and attacking Xiao Yuanshan and Qiao Feng do reflect this and are worth thinking about.
Not ready to continue this topic, Zhao Qing glanced at the Tianshan Child Elder who was pretending to be majestic but with a bit of curiosity in her eyes. He noticed that she had the temperament of a nine-year-old and a ninety-year-old at the same time, but she She is worthy of the name "Tong Lao".
Among them, the nine-year-old temperament mainly comes from the child's body; the ninety-year-old temperament comes from her true energy and spirit.
Sensing what was going on with Child Lao, Zhao Qing also gained some understanding of the "Eternal Life Eternal Spring Kung Fu".
As Xiaoyaozi said before, and as Wu Yazi learned from the news, this internal skill majors in "Shaoyang" and is extremely vigorous. Based on the concept of "life is also the beginning of death, and death is also the beginning of life", with " "Spring" is the starting point, the four seasons rotate, the shape and Qi change, and the true Qi bears the aging of the body.
Judging from the extent of Tong Lao's physical maintenance, the life-extending effect of this skill is even higher than that of Mingyu Gong, and there does not seem to be the limit of decline at the age of 100 mentioned by Wu Ming. Even if the age is extremely old, it will not have much impact. A breakthrough in cultivation.
The "Xiaoyao Yufeng" currently practiced by Xiaoyaozi is suspected to be based on the "Eternal Life Changchun Kung Fu" and integrated with the "Beiming Magic Kung Fu" and "Xiao Wuxiang Kung Fu" and other techniques, but he doesn't know, and What special abilities does it have?
When the preparations were complete, Xiaoyaozi no longer continued to talk about the way of "selflessness". Instead, he gently flicked his sleeves, stimulating gentle waves of air downwards, and his body floated into the air.
His whole body stood tall in the strong wind that was flying and swirling wildly. There was an empty space under his feet, and he seemed to have nothing to rely on.
Invisible ripples stirred up around Xiaoyaozi one after another, serving as nodes for the exchange of internal and external spiritual energy between heaven and earth. At the same time, invisible, there was a huge power that seemed to be able to shatter everything.
But seeing Xiaoyaozi's figure moving with the wind, he smiled leisurely and invited Zhao Qing to fight: "Little friend Zhao Qing, I heard that you defeated Li Congqian in five moves. I am very interested and want to communicate with each other. "
"Okay." Zhao Qing sensed Xiaoyaozi's state in the sky and marveled at his ability to control the wind. He flicked the five fingers of his hands and fired out a large area of dense sword energy, hitting the cyclone surrounding the opponent.
With a radius of ten feet, cold light crisscrosses the area, sometimes intertwining, sometimes uniting, changing endlessly, weaving from all directions into a giant connected network, getting denser and heavier, spreading endlessly in all directions.
In the advanced state of "Tai Chi Clutch", although the sword net was interfered by the cyclone, it still maintained balance and continued to shrink inward at a constant speed, aiming to suppress Xiaoyaozi's floating space in the air. , there is no way to dodge.
In an instant, the world seemed to be completely enveloped by the chilling aura. The bright sword light flashed, dazzling, rivaling the brightness of the sun hanging in the sky, and seemed to turn into a long river of sparkling sword aura, moving towards the target. Rushing away.
Twenty or thirty feet away, the heroes who had just woken up in the square felt a strange light suddenly appear in the corner of their eyes. They couldn't help but look up, stunned by the scene in the sky in the distance.
Even Qiao Feng and others who had experienced the Xingzilin incident were amazed when they saw the countless sword energy that seemed to cover the sky again, and sighed for the endless road ahead in martial arts.
Seeing that he was about to be surrounded by thousands of sword energy, Xiaoyaozi just smiled indifferently, and his body began to spin with the surrounding aura, as if it had turned into a huge tornado in an instant;
And in an extremely contradictory way, he achieved both inward and outward rotations at the same time, sucking the external sword energy into the bottom of the tornado, and then spit it out from the top, completely dispelling this sword move. The power.
As if borrowing the power of the sword energy, Xiaoyaozi flew upwards more than ten feet into the sky again, as if he was weightless, and reached an astonishing height. He chanted:
"'Fu Liezi walked against the wind, cold and kind, and after ten days he turned back.' My way is not just the way of Zhuang Zhou, but closer to the integration of Liezi's way and Lao and Zhuang's learning."
The way of Liezi? Zhao Qing was shocked and suddenly understood a lot of content.
In "Xiaoyaoyou", "The perfect person has no self, the god has no merit, and the saint has no name". The three refer to Song Rongzi who does not seek fame and fortune, Liezi who walks on the wind, and the highest one who "takes advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth to control the six evils". The ideal state of "distinguishment of Qi".
No wonder Xiaoyaozi calls his own state "god-man" rather than anything else, because "god-man has no merit" is exactly Zhuangzi's evaluation of "Liezi Yufeng".
She was thinking secretly in her heart, but Zhao Qing's attacks did not slow down at all. She used the "Wanxianghaoxu Gong" to the extreme, and the aura around her body curled into a ball, turning into a strange space that kept collapsing inward, attracting the world between heaven and earth. Spiritual energy everywhere.
The lingering haze quickly turned blue, and in an instant it condensed into a bright blue-white sword light. It dispersed and gathered again in the blink of an eye, turning into a cold air that converged inward and had a radius of half a foot. The sword circle was caught in the air between her hands, ready to be thrown at any time.
Inspired by the Sweeping Monk's five "Seal of Liberation from Troubles", Zhao Qing made some improvements to the "Ice Soul Cold Light" to make its cold energy more restrained and its form more changeable, allowing it to adapt to various combat situations.
Xiaoyaozi's rotating aura has an astonishing suction force. It may be able to easily deflect and swallow small sword auras, but to what extent can it affect a large sword circle with a diameter of three feet?
But Zhao Qing could not take action immediately, because she suddenly discovered that in her mental induction, the entire Shaoshi Mountain seemed to be spinning with Xiaoyaozi, turning into an indivisible whole.
This is of course an illusion, but it also shows that the opponent's momentum has an overwhelming advantage.
In terms of the control of wind and cyclones, Zhao Qing's Ming Yu Gong was at a clear disadvantage for the first time compared to Xiaoyao Zi's Xiaoyao Yufeng, which had been honed over hundreds of years.
However, facing Xiaoyaozi, who has a higher level and has been practicing for more than two hundred years, and can be called an old monster, her ability to use such a skill was completely within her expectations, and it further aroused the fighting spirit in her heart. .
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Xiaoyaozi, who was flying dozens of feet high in the sky, suddenly stopped for a moment through the changes in the cyclone around him. The magically flying bird suddenly stopped in mid-air, still chanting:
"Liezi Huangdi" said: 'The eyes are like ears, the ears are like nose, and the nose is like mouth, there is no difference. The heart is condensed and the shape is released, and the bones and flesh are all melted. Unconsciously, the shape leans on it, the foot walks on it, and the wind moves east and west. Just like the dried shell of a tree leaf. I don’t know that the wind is riding on me. Am I riding on the wind?'"
Liezi studied Taoism with Lao Shang for nine years. He reached a state where the mind and spirit are concentrated and the body and spirit are unified. His body seems to have ceased to exist. He finally mastered the art of "riding the wind".
In Zhao Qing's opinion, this is somewhat similar to the later Taoist inner alchemy practice of "both form and spirit are wonderful, and they are in harmony with the Tao." The form and spirit merge and become formless and formless, which is called "the form and spirit are in harmony with the void."
"The essence of husband's Tao is nothing more than a phantom, which contains all things. The world will be destroyed, but emptiness will not be destroyed. If both form and spirit are wonderful, both form and spirit are imaginary."
The so-called "wonderful form and spirit" is to transform the body into the direction of the spirit, becoming more and more light and illusory, and finally ascending to the sky together with the spirit.
It is "as vast as Feng Xu riding the wind, not knowing where it stops, floating as if left alone in the world, emerging as an immortal."
Obviously, Xiaoyaozi has achieved extremely high attainments in the practice of "beautiful form and spirit". His body is much lighter than ordinary people, so he can float in the air with the help of wind and not fall down for a long time.
Having said that, when the body is so light and weak, although it can easily remove all kinds of external forces and reach a peak in defense, I am afraid there must be something missing in terms of attack.
While Zhao Qing was thinking like this, Xiaoyaozi also finished what he said about Liezi and began to switch from defense to offense.
I saw tens of thousands of tiny wind whirlpools around him. At this moment, they absorbed a huge amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, compressed inward, and seemed to turn into a solid mountain across the air. They became extremely solid, like falling meteorites. Generally, carrying an unstoppable force, he rushed straight down towards Zhao Qing's direction.
