The people at the foot of the mountain were simmering hot pots, laughing and crying with sadness.
Xiaobai on the mountain cried sadly under Li Ye's bamboo sword.
He never expected that the seemingly effortless swing of the knife would actually make him unable to sustain his strength. He kept shouting: "I am a master in the Nascent Soul Realm!"
Li Ye smiled and said jokingly: "Nascent Soul is nothing, you hurry up and finish today's ten thousand dollars, otherwise there will be no food."
The old ape stood aside and watched the joke, and said with a smile: "Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai, after all, you are a level higher than Li Ye. He can cut ten thousand swords in one and a half hours, but you can do it in two and a half hours." Okay, how can I be so sure that I got five thousand swords?"
Xiaobai, who was like a dead dog, leaned against the cedar tree and howled: "I didn't know. I see my brother swing ten thousand times easily on weekdays, but I didn't know it would be so difficult for me when it's my turn."
Li Ye waved his bamboo sword impatiently, patted Xiao Bai's butt and said: "Stand up quickly and continue practicing. You have been doing this for five days and you haven't made any progress. Isn't it just a simple action? I didn't let you Use force."
Xiaobai reluctantly climbed up, chopped the bamboo knife in his hand feebly, and shouted: Five thousand one hundred and one...six thousand one hundred and one...
Li Ye shook his head and waved the bamboo sword in his hand calmly: Fifteen thousand six hundred and one... Seventeen thousand six hundred and one...
The old ape pursed his lips and smiled, and walked into the house with his hands behind his back. He thought to himself that these two brothers were too happy. It was like a real torture of a dog.
Li Ye looked at the old ape who walked into the room, turned to look at Xiaobai and said: "Xiaobai, don't use force when swinging the knife, and don't make a sound, and don't breathe hard, keep the breathing speed, Keep the speed of swinging the knife and try..."
Xiaobai, who was about to howl again, stopped shouting, put away the knife, paused, and calmed down his breathing.
Then, imitating Li Yeye, he gently swung one knife... fifty knives... one hundred and fifty knives...
"Yes, keep this speed. You can close your eyes, stop thinking about the speed of swinging the knife, and stop thinking about the frequency of breathing. Just swing the knife in your hand out, no matter how it cuts."
Li Ye looked at Xiaobai who was getting better and better, and felt very happy. Don't insist on how each cut will look like, stick to it first, and then correct it later.
Xiao Bai under the tree closed his eyes, slowed down his breathing, and slowed down the speed of swinging the knife. He looked like Li Ye, and swung the bamboo knife in his hand one after another.
Li Ye put away his sword, took out a towel and wiped the sweat off his face, then gently left the tree and walked into the house.
The old ape who was boiling water looked at Li Ye who walked in and said, "Has this little guy found a way?"
"After five days of intensive practice, he finally understood how to breathe and swing a knife. Don't look at him anymore." Li Ye sat opposite the old ape, took out tea leaves and put them into the pot.
"He can get started in five days, so he can endure hardships." The old ape nodded.
"He has too much to learn, and I have to teach him day and night. Otherwise, after I come down from the mountain and follow Master Lao Hexi to practice Buddhism, how can I have time to take care of his practice?" Li Ye watched the mist rising. Said the tea breath.
The old ape was startled, and it took him a while to remember that the little guy opposite him was still an out-and-out Buddhist cultivator.
He sighed softly, and then said: "Shanxia, you still have Mu Mu and Xiao Qing who can take care of him for you. If things go wrong, you still have a husband who can teach him how to practice."
Li Ye poured the brewed tea to the old ape, poured a cup himself, picked it up and blew it gently, then put it to his mouth and took a sip.
He said softly: "I have no choice but to trouble you, sir. Because I still have many questions, and I need the old monks from the Great Buddha Temple to answer them for me. I may have to practice in the temple for a while."
The old ape was stunned and murmured: "Is there anything else you don't understand? You and I can enlighten you, so why can't you enlighten yourself?"
Li Ye put down the tea cup in his hand, looked at the old ape, thought quietly for a moment, and then said: "I practiced some Buddhist Dharma with the great monk before, and I thought I already understood it, including when I was explaining the Dharma to you and Senior Old Lang. , thinking that he has reached a very high level in practice."
"Later, when I read the Lotus Sutra, I felt that I had learned too little, and many principles were suddenly confused. I can't even find the purpose of my practice now? I don't even know the direction of my practice in the future, or even how to treat it. The attitude between you and Xiaobai has become a little more impetuous in recent days."
"Also, half of the exercises I practice are in Fangcun Mountain in Xixuan Territory. It will probably take less than a year after I come down from the mountain. The teacher will take me to where to practice. The direction and principle of where to practice are also what I want to learn from the great master. The old monk in the Buddhist temple wants to ask for advice."
"My husband said that reading thousands of books is worse than walking thousands of miles. I have to read books and walk, and I can't get confused, so it's a bit hard and boring."
This was the first time that Li Ye confided some of his troubles to the old ape. After hearing this, the old ape couldn't help but feel sorry for the little guy in front of him. At such an age, he had to face these countless troubles and long training. This does not include the many dissatisfactions he will face after joining the world.
The cultivation of human beings is indeed much more difficult than the cultivation of spiritual beasts in the Tianshan Mountains. Think about it, although I have been practicing for thousands of years, have I ever faced so many troubles and dissatisfactions?
"We'll talk about the future later. Overthinking will only add to your current troubles. Didn't you tell me that living well in the present is all you want?" The old ape also felt that he was running out of words at this moment.
Li Ye was stunned and thought of what the old monk said: live in the present.
The present is the essence, and everything in the past is an illusory phenomenon. It’s just that I don’t understand this truth.
I just want to find some truths, grasp some truths, understand some more truths, and then find the reason why I feel comfortable.
Looking at the old ape in front of him, Li Ye murmured: "The past cannot be grasped, the present cannot be grasped, and the future cannot be grasped."
The old ape was stunned and didn't understand what Li Ye meant. He repeated it several times before finally getting confused and asked, "What is the past mind and what is the future mind?"
Li Ye was escaping into a state of emptiness and did not listen to the old ape's questions.
He just murmured: "The old monk said that when we talk about the past, it is already the present; when we talk about the present, the present has become the past; when we talk about the future, the future is now, so my heart Photos are impossible to obtain.”
After finishing speaking, Li Ye closed his eyes and entered a state of enlightenment. He murmured twelve words of mantra softly, and a faint Buddha light appeared around him. In a moment, a golden lotus rose above his head, turning gently as he... ...
The old ape was stunned, and quickly put down the tea cup in his hand, clasped his hands together, chanted Li Yejiao's six-character mantra, and melted himself into the spreading Buddha's light.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the entire wooden shed was filled with Buddha's light, and even more Buddha's light shone outside the shed...
Xiaobai, who was standing under the tree, opened his eyes and looked at the Buddha's light in the shed, with a look of joy in his eyes.
The Buddha's light in the shed spread for more than half an hour, and finally converged into a golden light that rose into the sky, instantly piercing the sky of Tianshan Mountain. Even the old wolf on the mountain felt the strange phenomenon, and couldn't help but frowned, looking down at Li Ye Yaping where Xiaobai is.
The golden lotus on Li Ye's head slowly rotated and merged into his body the moment the Buddha's light disappeared.
Li Ye, who was in a state of enlightenment, opened his eyes, looked at the dazed old ape and said, "Senior, what happened just now?"
The old ape pointed at the top of Li Ye's head and murmured: "Check your body first."
Xiao Bai outside the door walked in with square steps and looked at Li Ye with his big eyes.
Stopping his mind and concentrating his mind, Li Ye looked inside his golden elixir and saw that the golden elixir that was originally the size of a pigeon egg had become the size of an egg, with five purple lines and a white inscription on it.
After staying there for a long time, I couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Sir, it took a lot of effort to bring my fifth level back to the first level. Unexpectedly, I returned to the fifth level within a few months."
The little white elephant roared as if he had seen a ghost: "I just learned how to practice swordsmanship, and you have already achieved a breakthrough!?"
The old ape rolled his eyes at Xiaobai and said with a smile: "This is the result of five layers of compression, otherwise he would have almost broken the pill and turned into an infant!"
Li Ye frowned and murmured: "Could it be that the old monk at the Great Buddha Temple had already anticipated my appearance, so he asked me to go to the temple to meet him first after coming down the mountain?"
"I estimate that no matter how hard you try not to break through, by the time you come down the mountain, you will definitely be at the Nascent Soul realm! The wind is about to rise in Fengyun City. There is Xiaobai who is at the Nascent Soul Realm, and now there is another one who is at the Nascent Soul Realm. Little sir."
The old ape picked up the teacup in front of him, looked at Li Ye and said, "Hurry up and boil the water, the tea is already cold!"
Xiaobai came over, circled around Li Ye, and said bitterly: "Brother, are you deliberately trying to make things difficult for me? I still want to have a good time after going down the mountain, but won't I let you snatch me away again?" Steal the limelight!”
Li Ye looked at him with disgust and said angrily: "You think I want to make a breakthrough? My husband has warned me not to rush to a breakthrough level, but to temper my state of mind. It took a lot of effort to take a pill." The medicine suppressed the state, but it didn't take long for it to grow back again. How should I explain it to my husband after I get off the mountain?"
The old ape shook his head, with a confused look on his face, and knocked on the table and said: "Whether it is an animal cultivator or a human cultivator, they are all thinking about breakthroughs and upgrades. They also practice elixirs and take medicine to improve their realm. You'd better be broken. The situation made me sad."
Xiaobai said bitterly: "Brother, just pretend! Be careful if you pretend too much and get struck by lightning!"
The old ape laughed when he heard this, clapped his hands and said, "Little one, have you forgotten that the last time Li Ye broke through to Jindan, he was struck by lightning, and his handsome face turned into this?" appearance."
When Li Ye heard this, he smiled faintly, looked at the sky outside the shed and said, "Maybe when I break the pill and transform into an infant, I will be able to change back to my previous appearance after being struck by a few more lightning strikes?"
Lao Zhu looked at Xiao Bai.
Xiaobai looked at Li Ye.
The old man and the young man shook their heads at the same time, expressing disbelief.
