It’s the apricot blossom season again.
My little friend back then, Li Ye was in Fangcun Mountain in Fangxi Xuan Territory, and the young lady returned to the Royal Academy in the Central Territory.
In the Tang Dynasty, Hu Ge and Xiaoju were practicing in Qingcheng in the Nanxuan Region. They were playmates who were separated from each other and they didn’t know which year they would be able to get together.
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After practicing in Prajna Temple for half a month, I saw that Mr. Mu Mu was about to return to the mountain.
Thinking of going back to the cave to continue forging sword embryos, Li Ye greeted Minghui and Wuyou and set off on the road to Xuantian Temple on the north slope.
At nearly noon, Li Ye returned to the back mountain of Xuantian Temple, and when he opened the door of the bluestone courtyard, there was no one in the house.
I saw a note pressed on the table in the living room, and it read Mu Mu:
"Brother, my husband and wife will go to the cave to wait for you. Come quickly."
Li Ye smiled, took out the dried meat to fill his stomach, closed the door of the Qingshi Courtyard, and headed deep into Fangcun Mountain.
Thinking that his husband was waiting for him in the cave, Li Ye couldn't help but move much faster.
Unknowingly, he used the seventh-level technique of the formless dharma body to the extreme, and saw the bushes on both sides of his body whirring away.
The whole person was like a whirlwind, blowing towards the depths of Fangcun Mountain.
Before Shen Shi arrived at You Shi, he returned to the cave's cliff.
Before he climbed up the stone cliff, a scent of fragrance wafted from a distance. "Master Niang and Mu Mu went to find Toona?" Li Ye quickly climbed up.
I saw Li Hongxiu and Mu Mu taking out the toona buds cooked in the iron pot and drying them on the stone slab outside the wooden house. The husband was making tea and reading a book.
Seeing that Li Ye was back, Mu Mu put down the chopsticks in his hands, ran over and took Li Ye's hand and said, "Brother, you are finally back. Mu Mu has been bored these past two days."
Li Ye took her little hand and smiled: "I bought a few new clothes in Buddha City? Did you listen to the master's wife?"
After speaking, he took her little hand and walked to Li Hongxiu and asked, "Master, do you want to help?"
Li Hongxiu waved her hand and said: "If you haven't come here earlier, you won't come back until this is over. Go ahead and you'll make dinner later."
"No problem!" Li Ye sat opposite the gentleman, picked up the teapot and poured water.
"What did you gain from returning to the temple? Did you ask Master Minghui for advice on everything you didn't understand?"
The gentleman put down the book in his hand and looked at him and asked.
"It's all settled. I have gained a lot from this trip back. In the words of the teacher, I can save myself from reading several large volumes of scriptures. Senior Brother Minghui's wisdom is too profound."
Li Ye picked up the tea cup and blew gently.
"My husband, my wife, and I have been back for two days. Brother, you just came back."
Mu Mu sat down next to him and kept yelling.
"Then what should I do? I went to Prajna Temple to practice, and I have nothing good to bring you." Li Ye patted her little hand and said with a smile.
The teacher nodded and said: "Master Minghui is also a highly enlightened monk. He is naturally as wise as the sea. It is indeed rare for you to practice with him."
Li Ye smiled and stretched out his hand to straighten the messy hair on Mu Mu's face.
Looking at the teacher, he said: "Senior Brother Minghui said that it is good for me to practice on both sides. Sword-making practice and Buddhist practice go hand in hand. The combination is perfect."
"Don't be anxious about making swords. There will be a long time to come. Your main task in the past few years is to practice the physical skills to perfection, so that you can walk in the five realms."
The gentleman replied, neither slowly nor urgently, like spring breeze turning into rain.
"I originally bought you two new robes, but your husband said you had them in the temple. I thought about it. I bought more because you are growing taller, so I only bought you one."
After finishing picking up the chun buds, Li Hongxiu sat down next to her husband, took out a silk scarf to wipe her face, and then took out a set of white linen robes and handed them to Li Ye.
"Thank you, Master." Li Ye took it with both hands and put it away carefully.
Then he replied: "Disciples come to Prajna Temple for practice, not for enjoyment. As long as they have clothes to wear and food to eat, there is no need to be particular."
The gentleman nodded in approval, looked at Li Hongxiu and said, "If you and Mu Mu understand this, you can save a lot of gold coins."
Li Hongxiu's face turned red and she said angrily: "Women are born to spend money. Why would I marry you?"
Mu Mu reached out and grabbed a few melon seeds from the table, put them in her mouth and giggled.
"Don't worry, brother, Mumu bought you some food and I'll give it to you later."
Li Hongxiu looked at Mu Mu being intimate with Li Ye, thinking that he would take her back to the Central Region soon, where Li Ye would be the only one practicing alone, and couldn't help but feel weak.
He looked at Li Ye and asked: "You have been running on the mountain road for a day and are tired. What do you want to eat? My wife will cook it for you in a while."
Li Ye was startled, looked at Li Hongxiu and replied blankly: "As long as it is made by my wife, I like to eat it."
Mu Mu shouted from the side: "Mu Mu wants to eat meat."
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It was getting dark quickly on a spring night. Li Hongxiu made dinner early and urged Mu Mu to finish eating and wash up. The two of them got into the wooden house.
It is said that the spring night wind is cold and soaking.
Li Ye changed a pot of tea and boiled a pot of water again. The master and the apprentice sat on the edge of the stone cliff platform, looking at the vast mountains, and started chatting.
"I see that your complexion has calmed down and you are no longer as arrogant as before. Did you enter the Prajna Temple again?"
The gentleman withdrew his distant gaze and asked quietly.
When Li Ye heard this, he couldn't help but giggle twice, then scratched his head and said, "Guess, sir."
The husband was very happy and said angrily: "You are really as angry as your wife said."
"Where?" Li Ye smiled, walked closer to the teacher and said, "Sir, my Yuanying has been dissolved, but I can't use the true energy of my Dantian. What state am I in now?"
The teacher was shocked and asked: "You have derived the soul and your physical body has broken through?"
Li Ye nodded.
The teacher was stunned for a long time and then said: "I knew something was wrong when I saw you come back. It turns out that your kid has actually perfected the seventh-level mental method."
Seeing his husband's surprised look, Li Ye quickly asked: "Sir, I'm already like this. Can you help me unlock the forbidden area in my dantian so that I can taste this legendary realm earlier?"
Unexpectedly, the husband shook his head and poured cold water on his head. "Don't say it's me, even Minghui can't relieve it for you."
"Why is this happening?" Li Ye was shocked and couldn't help but ask.
"The only way is to wait until you have perfected the eighth level of mental practice and removed your legs from the mortal body, then this restriction will naturally be released."
The husband looked at him, his heart full of joy, but his face didn't show much.
"Sir, you and Lao Geshang are conspiring to plot against me." Li Ye felt bitter and couldn't help but complain.
"Originally, I told you that you need to practice the "Shadowless Dharma Body" technique to the ninth level of perfection before you can release the body's confinement. But since you have derived the soul, I will tell you in advance."
"Then why, I don't quite understand, please sir, please help me clarify my doubts." Li Ye looked at him and asked softly.
"What does it mean to unite Qi and blood to escape from the mortal body? Since you are no longer a mortal body, all the restrictions placed in your body before will disappear the moment you break through."
The husband sighed, thinking that you think of practice as too simple.
"Everyone in the five realms thinks that those who practice to the state of distraction are gods. How is that possible? It can only be said that practitioners after the state of distraction have the opportunity to understand the world and, through practice, cultivate themselves to the state of unity between heaven and earth. "
"Master Minghui should have told you this truth after you broke through, right?" The gentleman smiled and went to pick up the kettle on the fire.
Having said this, the teacher smiled mysteriously at Li Ye, paused for a long time, and then said: "The day your physical body breaks through will be the time when your practice breaks through distractions, and it is more likely that you will not break through to the first level."
"The physical body is broken, and the practice is distracted!" Li Ye was shocked when he heard it, and he was stunned on the spot.
It was only now that he fully understood what Minghui said, and he was shocked in his heart.
After a while, he replied: "Senior Brother Minghui didn't say anything in the first half of what Mr. Ming said, but he talked about the unity of heaven and man very carefully. The disciple should have entered this realm now. As long as the restrictions in the body are removed, he will be able to be more mature." Play well.”
"Very good then. In the next few years, you can settle down and concentrate on practicing this eighth-level mental method, and strive to break through it as soon as possible, so that you can also lift the restriction in your dantian as soon as possible."
Knowing that Li Yesi's physical body skills had reached the seventh level of perfection, I felt happy but even more shocked.
I didn't expect that my disciple could actually practice the highest Buddhist skills to this level.
It seems that even if he returns to the Central Territory, he won't have much impact on him.
Li Ye smiled and said, "Senior Brother Minghui told me not to worry too much about this matter, but to keep it together."
"After the eighth level of mental skills, the understanding of heaven and earth is very important. You can't just immerse yourself in hard work. That's why the disciple thought of coming back to make swords and change his state of mind."
"You can just take care of this matter. It's not your first day of practice. In the future, I will take your wife and Mu Mu to go to the mountains to collect some herbs and let them learn more. Get to know Fangcun Mountain.”
Li Ye was stunned, looked at him and asked, "Do you want the disciples to go together?"
"You should practice well in the cave, and don't be anxious about forging the epee. Just let everything take its course." The gentleman looked at him and shook his head.
Li Ye nodded and replied: "Sir, don't worry, the disciple will prepare dinner, and you, Master Niang and Mu Mu will have a hot meal when you come back."
Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly remembered something. He sat down again and looked at the husband and asked, "Sir, has my wife now reached the state of unity between heaven and man?"
The teacher was stunned, and Sui He replied calmly: "She has only broken through the realm for a long time. It would be good if she could understand the meaning of heaven and earth more. She still has a long way to go to reach that point."
"What about Mr. Tang? She reached the state of distraction many years ago, right?" Li Ye murmured.
The husband shook his head and replied: "This realm is generally only experienced by yourself, and it is difficult for others to feel it. She has never discussed this issue with me, so naturally I can't ask more questions."
"It seems that the disciple can only slowly and carefully understand it. It is already getting late, so the disciple went back to the cave to rest. Sir, you should also rest early."
Li Ye picked up the cup, drank all the tea in it, stood up and said to his husband.
The gentleman waved his hand and said: "Go, go to bed early and get up early."
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Li Ye was lying on the bed that Mu Mu had made for her in the cave, looking up at the dragon skeleton not far away.
Xin Dao had to find time to find the dragon tendon tomorrow. Since he didn't have to train the dragon soul, he could just string up the iron bow and practice archery to kill time.
The sky has the sun and the moon, and humans have two eyes.
The weather is windy and rainy, and people are happy and angry.
The earth has twelve meridians of water, and humans have twelve meridians.
A year has twelve months, and a person has twelve festivals.
Half asleep and half awake, he thought about reading the classics about the unity of heaven and man in the Sutra Pavilion in the middle of Prajna Temple, but a divine soul had already flown into the sky.
