The old ape looked at Li Ye marinating meat and making soup, and couldn't help but sigh: "In this world, most children of other families wouldn't have such hard work at your age. They have to practice in the wind and snow while having to work hard. Cook, drink and wash your own clothes.”
"I think it's okay." Li Ye put down the marinated rabbit meat and looked at him and said, "If this was at the foot of the mountain, I definitely wouldn't want to make food by myself. I followed my husband after we came to Tianshan to practice. Learn trivial matters like grilling meat and cooking rice.”
"But my old monk master at the Great Buddha Temple said that making tea, chopping wood, washing clothes, and cooking are all practices. I regard everything that happens on Tianshan Mountain as a practice in my life."
"Sometimes I get angry, thinking that my Agui is doing all these trivial things at the foot of the mountain. I just think about what the old monk said and I don't feel tired."
"At most, it's like me knitting a bamboo hat. If you can't finish it in one day, it can take a month or even longer to complete this practice. Life is so long, and I'm not in a hurry."
The old ape added a few pieces of pine wood to the furnace, nodded and said: "You have enough energy to study these principles. Being young is something that many people envy. Just like this little ruthless... Hey, why are you again? Asleep? I was just talking about you."
The old ape patted Xiaobai lying next to him.
Xiaobai whimpered twice, but there was no movement again.
Li Ye looked at Xiaobai who was pretending to be asleep, threaded the marinated meat with bamboo skewers, and grilled it on the stove.
He smiled and said, "He is a foodie and a lazy guy. My Xiaoqing is also from that world. He can talk and transform at a young age. This guy only eats and sleeps."
The rabbit meat roasted on the stove made a sizzling sound. Li Ye thought about what happened on the way and frowned. "Senior, you said that all things have the vitality of heaven and earth, so does the rabbit meat I roast also have it?"
The old ape lowered his head and thought for a while before saying: "It stands to reason that everything on Tianshan Mountain contains the vitality of heaven and earth. However, this hare has not practiced cultivation after all, so the amount of vitality contained in heaven and earth is pitiful. Only monsters that have practiced cultivation will have more." The vitality of heaven and earth.”
"So when they died, where did the vitality of heaven and earth go?" Li Ye pondered for a while and asked.
"Well, I heard Monk Poxu say before: No matter it is a human or a monster, the true energy will disappear after death. Only the vitality of heaven and earth in the body will not disappear. They will naturally return to nature with death. , for all things in the world to absorb. Otherwise, over these long years, all the energy in the world would have been absorbed by the practitioners."
Li Ye nodded, he somewhat understood the truth. Looking at the old ape, he said: "The true energy generated by a practitioner through practice is distributed in the Dantian and meridians of the body, and will disappear with the disappearance of the owner's body. Only the energy absorbed from heaven and earth can be retained for a long time until the end." Return to this world one day.”
"Then the reason why the vitality of the world in the five realms is getting less and less is because the great power that has survived the nine tribulations has left and the vitality has also been taken away from this world?"
The old ape sighed, looked at Li Ye and said: "This is something that can't be helped, which is why those who practice to the end want to leave here. Because by then the world here will no longer be able to provide us with more. Vitality, only by going to another world can you have more vitality and better opportunities."
Li Ye fell silent and stopped discussing this issue with Lao Yuan. The rabbit meat on the stove has turned golden and gives off an alluring aroma.
Li Ye took out a jar of burning knives and poured a full bowl for Lao Yuan, while he and Xiao Bai poured half a bowl.
He took the barbecue off the stove and put it on a plate. He carefully cut a piece of meat from the hind leg and handed it to Xiao Bai, who stared at him. He cut another piece and handed it to the old ape.
He raised his glass and said: "Senior, I respect you. Thank you for teaching me and making me understand a lot of truths."
The old ape picked up the cup with a smile, and said with a smile: "To each other, I also learned a lot from you. It's such a pleasure to drink such fine wine in this snowy sky." After speaking, he drank up the cup in one gulp. The burning knife inside.
Xiaobai next to him was startled, jumped up and glanced at the old ape, lowered his head and looked into his wine bowl, stretched out his mouth and took a small sip, then shook his head violently and screamed twice. .
Li Ye didn't have the ability to drink, so he could only take a small sip like Xiao Bai, stretched out his little hand to cut a piece of meat, and put it in his mouth to chew.
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From dusk to late at night, the old ape kept preaching, teaching and solving questions for the seven-year-old Li Ye's practice. The old ape and the young one completely forgot about the passage of time. The old ape, who drank a jar of wine, looked increasingly red in the face. The more energetic.
He spoke very seriously, and Li Ye listened very seriously. Some of the complicated principles on the path of cultivation were explained by the old ape in simple and easy-to-understand explanations, allowing Yao Ye to understand that they were different from what the teacher said but they were the same. the sound of.
He had lived in the academy since he was a child and didn't have to think about anything. After leaving home and coming to Tianshan, he practiced non-stop on the stone wall behind the wooden house on Yaping every day.
I have not cared about worldly affairs for more than a year, and I have no spare time to ask my husband for advice on these principles.
It wasn't until he got seriously ill that he, who was devoted to spiritual practice, had time to calm down and think about these issues.
After the old ape finished drinking with him, the two drank three more courses of tea. It was not until late at night that he left the wooden shed and returned to his own cave...
Li Ye sat alone at the table, listening to the sound of wind and snow outside, thinking about this time last year, he, Mu Mu and his husband were making fire, grilling meat and drinking fruit wine in the wooden house on the mountain.
Watching her husband chop off fifteen snowflakes with one swing of his sword, Mumu's master sat drinking and chatting about life with her husband... But this year, she was the only one guarding the cave with a dumb little white.
Thinking about where the energy of heaven and earth comes from and where it will go is just like when the old monk taught me how to think about life.
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On the second day, because it was snowing heavily outside, Li Ye and Xiao Bai hid in the cave and did not come out.
After eating a lot of meat last night, Xiaobai was very good today and didn't make any noise. He let Li Ye sleep in and lay there in a daze.
Being in a daze is meditation. At this time, he was slowly releasing his consciousness and exploring the wind and snow in the sky outside the cave.
According to the method taught by the old ape last night, keep a quiet heart and follow the breath of your own spiritual consciousness to look for those vague and uncertain traces of the vitality of heaven and earth in the wind and snow.
He was already at the fourth level of the Golden Core, and his consciousness at this moment was no longer as weak as it was in the wooden house on the mountain. Incomparably pure spiritual consciousness emanated from his body.
Like an elf in the snow, you feel the subtle fluctuations between heaven and earth, and feel the snowflakes flying in the sky.
I feel the breath of the wind blowing from the top of the mountain, I feel the crawling of the swarms looking for food in the snow on the mountain, I feel the old ape playing with a group of young apes in the cave under the waterfall, I feel many things , but never felt a response.
The vitality of heaven and earth on Tianshan Mountain exists among all things. According to the teachings of the old ape, the vitality of heaven and earth among all things affects the spiritual consciousness of practitioners.
There is a natural resistance, and they don't want to be easily sucked away and controlled. Only if they can feel the kindness and joy in the spiritual breath of the practitioner, and only if the induction between the two can coexist harmoniously, will they respond.
"Kindness, joy... should I touch them gently with my hands? But the vitality between heaven and earth cannot be seen or touched, so how can I make them feel my kindness and joy?"
Just as he was thinking this, Xiaobai, who was lying next to him, let out a cry, and heard a series of noises from his unsatisfactory belly.
Li Ye sighed. At the critical moment of realization, this unsatisfactory foodie did something bad again.
He got out of the quilt made of animal skins, stretched his waist, pointed his little finger at Xiaobai who was looking at him dreamily, and said with a smile: "Foodie, when will you stop bothering me and cook something for yourself?"
Xiaobai turned his head, looked at the scriptures on the stone wall, and roared a few times to express his inner protest.
Li Yekong put on his clothes, walked out of the cave carrying the bucket and pot, and reached out to push open the small door of the wooden shed.
Making a fire and boiling water is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning.
You can eat porridge slowly, but you have to drink tea first.
Fill the pot with water and put it on the stove to boil.
Li Ye sat at the table with his jaw propped up and looked at the bamboo sword he had whittled yesterday in a daze, wondering if he really had to feel the vitality of heaven and earth in the wind and snow in order to cut the snow with one sword?
Even if he cuts off a snowflake with his bamboo sword, he will still have to use an iron sword or even a Ruoshui sword. In the future, he will make a heavier sword for himself. How can he use it as a weapon to cut snow with one sword?
Thinking about how amazing his husband was at cutting snow with his sword, Li Ye felt that he might not be able to surpass it even after spending a lifetime of effort.
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While thinking about these troublesome things, he watched the knife in his hand gently chip away at the bamboo.
He had only seen his husband sharpen wooden swords, and since wood and bamboo were made of different materials, he had no experience, so he could only sharpen it for a while and then put it on the fire for a while.
Trying to find a suitable force, the blade of the bamboo sword can be cut neatly, as flat as an iron sword.
Hearing that the water in the pot was boiling, Li Ye put the pot with the rice on it, took off the kettle, washed the tea, washed the tea, and warmed the pot.
I made myself a cup of steaming hot tea. Only with tea can there be life.
He blew the hot tea in his hand gently and took a sip. Xiaobai looked straight at him, Li Ye smiled, poured a glass for it, and placed it in front of it.
In the following time, Li Ye continued to search for the clear and kind heart, constantly trying to communicate his spiritual consciousness with all things in the world, and the sword in his hand was slowly polishing the blade that was about to take shape.
He knew that if he could use his spiritual consciousness to communicate with more things in the world, it would mean that he could obtain more vitality from the world, which would be a huge improvement to his practice.
