A crane flies above the clouds in the clear sky, and a long wind howls around me.
On the back of the crane, Zhang Zhiwei stood in front with his eyes closed and his hands behind his back.
Behind him, Tian Jinzhong sat cross-legged, his body glowing with golden light, resisting the strong wind coming from all directions and preventing himself from being blown down.
"Senior brother, why don't you speak?" Tian Jinzhong was a little bored.
"I'm in concentration!" When he said this, Zhang Zhiwei still had his eyes closed.
"Enter samadhi?" Tian Jinzhong was a little surprised, "Senior brother, you are still standing and not meditating. And in this situation, the wind is howling, how can you enter samadhi?"
"Why can't you enter samadhi? Xiaotian, the purpose of entering samadhi is to calm down. It doesn't matter what kind of environment or posture you are in, as long as you calm down!"
"Can you enter samadhi without meditating? As expected of my senior brother, how high is the state of Qin Jing Gong?"
Tian Jinzhong sighed, and then said: "Master said before that you and Huaiyi practiced secretly, and Huaiyi practiced secretly. I didn't see it, but I did see you. You were still practicing on the back of the crane. How about doing this? Are you working hard?"
"As a practitioner, you must take your practice seriously." Zhang Zhiwei said, "What state of meditation have you reached?"
"It should be reluctantly in the third realm, Li Xi Ming Le!" Tian Jinzhong said.
"Then work harder and strive to enter the fourth realm. After all, cultivation is about gathering Qi. If there are too many distracting thoughts, Qi will be dispersed, making Qi training inefficient. Only when you truly calm down will Qi be released faster. Gather towards your Dantian."
Zhang Zhiwei said slowly: "The deeper you enter silence, the smoother the circulation and condensation of Qi will be. If you practice meditation to the extreme, you can become stronger even without practicing!"
"It's hard to calm down!" Tian Jinzhong asked, "Brother, how far has your meditation practice reached? Have you reached the advanced stage of the fourth state of pure equanimity?"
"I'm not sure, it's hard to say!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
Hearing this, Tian Jinzhong was very obedient and didn't ask any more questions.
Zhang Zhiwei continued: "It's hard to say this. I don't mean to hide it or hide my clumsiness. It's just that I'm a little hard to describe. I don't have any modest words to say to you."
"Now, as long as I use my Qi to enter samadhi, I can practice samadhi regardless of the occasion or posture, even with my eyes open and walking. In terms of meditation, it should have exceeded the scope of the fourth state of equanimity and purity of thoughts. .”
"But I haven't set foot in a new realm. I always feel that there is a layer of membrane that cannot be penetrated, and there are always some knots in my heart that cannot be resolved, so I cannot be completely quiet. After all, I have not fully understood it!"
As he said that, Zhang Zhiwei slowly opened his eyes. Different from his usual eyes that were as bright as stars and so powerful, in this state of trance, there was no sparkle in his eyes, and they were ordinary. At first glance, he looks like an ordinary person.
However, Tian Jinzhong, who was behind him, had no chance to see this scene. Of course, with Tian Jinzhong's current cultivation level, even if he saw it, he would not be able to see anything else except that his senior brother had a pair of dead fish eyes.
This is the ability that Zhang Zhiwei gained after he got rid of his inner demons and reached the Inner Saint and Outer King realm in his inner alchemy skills. It is not much improved, but it is just more convenient to practice.
However, Zhang Zhiwei feels that this may be the reason why he has not completely broken through. If he can break through the fourth level of Jing Gong, the effectiveness of his practice may be a qualitative leap forward.
The key to breaking through the Jinggong realm may lie in Liaodong... Zhang Zhiwei looked up to the east.
Although he burned away those illusions and delusions with fire during his last trip to the interior, it was still an interior. He needed to go to the exterior to repeat the scene, unite the inside and outside, and completely break everything.
This is also the reason why he is eager to go to Liaodong. It is completely hypocritical to say that it is all for the country and the people. He is also doing it for himself.
"Beyond the fourth realm, but not completely transcended?"
Behind him, Tian Jinzhong stared with a look of disbelief on his face and muttered to himself.
Among the brothers of their generation, no matter how old or young they are, most of the Jing Gong practices are in the second and third realms, and there are very few in the fourth realm. Only some brothers in their thirties and forties have reached it.
Now, Senior Brother Zhiwei, who is less than twenty years old, has actually surpassed the fourth realm and is about to enter a new realm. How scary this is.
"Senior brother, can you give me some advice?" Tian Jinzhong scratched his head and smiled.
In terms of static skills, no matter how much I mention, the master can't even mention anything... Zhang Zhiwei looked at Tian Jinzhong, thought for a moment, and then an idea flashed in his mind and he said:
"I have an idea, but it's a bit painful. Do you want to try it?"
"What do you think?" Tian Jinzhong said quickly: "I'm not afraid of hardship!"
"From today on, you should insist on not sleeping for a while and use meditation instead of sleeping!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
"Ah?!" Tian Jinzhong said, "I have tried using meditation instead of sleeping, and it is indeed feasible. However, without rest for a long time, the brain will be very tired, the state of meditation will be poor, and the efficiency will be very low!"
"That's why you have to exercise restraint. When you achieve the same effect as sleeping when you don't sleep, it means your meditation skills have improved a lot!"
Zhang Zhiwei said that he himself did the same. He had not slept for a long time and spent all his time in meditation. Sleeping or not sleeping did not make much difference to him, even because of his high level of meditation. For the sake of meditation, it is more relaxing than sleeping, but this is still a bit difficult for Tian Jinzhong.
"How about... I go back... and try?" Tian Jinzhong said with some difficulty. He has three hobbies, eating, chatting, and sleeping.
Among these three hobbies, he likes sleeping the most, because when he is asleep, all three hobbies come alive in his dreams.
"You can try it. For example, set a small goal first and insist on not sleeping for a year!" Zhang Zhiwei said.
"One... one year!~" Tian Jinzhong looked dull: "This goal is not small, why don't you try it for a month first... ah no... try it for a week!"
Zhang Zhiwei turned his head and looked at him with empty eyes.
"Senior brother, don't look at me like master!" Tian Jinzhong shrank, "Then let's decide... for a month!"
"Okay, just do it step by step!"
As he spoke, a ray of golden light emerged from Zhang Zhiwei's body, turned into silk thread, and wrapped around Tian Jinzhong's feet, saying: "I'm holding you to prevent you from falling. You remove the golden light and try to enter meditation on the back of the crane."
Tian Jinzhong glanced at the gold thread on his ankle: "Then if I enter samadhi, senior brother, you have to hold on tight!"
Zhang Zhiwei looked serious: "Senior brother, don't worry about doing things!"
"Uh-huh!"
Tian Jinzhong nodded calmly, then removed the golden light that protected his body, and tried to meditate in the strong wind.
Seeing Tian Jinzhong slowly enter the state, Zhang Zhiwei removed the gold thread tied to Tian Jinzhong's ankle.
Many things can actually be done by gritting one's teeth. The reason why you can't do it is because you are not consistent in your heart and need a little help. The same is true for spiritual practice.
Of course, removing the golden thread does not mean that Zhang Zhiwei doesn't care about Tian Jinzhong. If this kid really fails and falls off the back of the crane, he can catch it.
Having deceived the chatterbox into a trance, Zhang Zhiwei also began to calm down and think about the godhead mask.
In the early morning, the "National Master" had already crushed and digested Xia Liuhong's soul, and reported to him all Xia Liuhong's understanding of the divine mask after turning into a ghost.
At this moment, on the back of the crane, Zhang Zhiwei began to think about the details.
If you want to act as a god when practicing the Godhead Mask, you must naturally use gods to act. What is a god does not refer to the human body and the hundreds of gods in the inner alchemy technique, but to the primordial spirit. Only when you use the primordial spirit to act can you perform the divine form, otherwise It's just an appearance!
The first stage of the godhead mask is called borrowing divine power.
In the second stage, it is necessary to steal the world's belief in God and reach the stage of deification, which is called the power of deification.
But to reach this stage, you need to borrow the power of faith to exert your power. After all, no matter how similar you act, you are not a true god. Without the power of faith, isn't it difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice?
In the third stage, the transformation into a god is successful. At this time, you can directly obtain the abilities of the god you are playing. You don't even need to go to various popular places in advance to collect the power of faith and store it, you can directly use the power of the god you are playing. Belief.
But this stage is very dangerous.
Zhang Zhiwei learned from the memories packed by Xin Yuan that Xia Liuhong was not so violent when he first turned into a ghost.
But after she absorbed the power of faith from the people of Huangshi Town, she was affected by the delusions in her life of faith, completely lost, and began to become more and more vicious.
"It is undoubtedly an unwise behavior to use the soul to play the role of others. The soul is the key to sex. The practice of Xinggong is to temper the soul and turn the soul into others. Isn't this abandoning the self? Does this still count as spiritual practice?”
"Cultivation is also called self-cultivation. What is self-cultivation? Learn the Tao and practice to seek the true self. Eliminating the false and preserving the true is called self-cultivation. The name of self-cultivation has been around since ancient times. It is commonly known as cultivating the Tao."
"If I cultivate my soul to look like someone else, can that be considered as cultivating me? This godhead mask is just a heretical means of taking a wrong approach. However, if I go astray again, won't I be on the right track? "
"Cultivation is about cultivating the true self. I don't play other gods. I directly evolve myself. I first observe myself, then reflect myself on the soul, and evolve, so that the form and spirit are unified. Isn't this the true self?"
"If the evolution of the soul is completely consistent with the physical body, blending with each other, regardless of you and me, and going hand in hand, wouldn't it be a further step on the path of dual cultivation of life and life?"
"And you can control the power of faith of all living beings without having to sit high in the Dharma lineage. Isn't this the sanctification of the physical body?"
"As for the influence of the power of faith on oneself, my inner alchemy has reached the level of inner saint and outer king. My consciousness sits high on the spiritual platform and is not affected by my own delusions. My own delusions cannot affect me, let alone Not to mention external thoughts.”
"This is feasible and has no drawbacks."
With this thought, Zhang Zhiwei began to evolve himself on the back of the crane.
(End of chapter)
